On August 2, 1919, the first battle of the Battle of Hunan began!

It is said that the first to do it was Zhang Xiaohuai, who took the initiative from Zhuzhou to attack Sun Chuanfang's troops of the Hubei army.

Sun Chuanfang's troops held their positions and only returned fire with heavy firepower, and Zhang Xiaohuai quickly withdrew to Zhuzhou after a short attack.

This extremely brief contact is known as the "First Battle of Hunan".

On the afternoon of 2 August, shortly after the first battle in Hunan, shelling began between the north and the south.

But both sides seem to be trying to restrain themselves, and the scale of the shelling is no less significant!

3. The two sides continued to conduct exploration, and the scale was still controlled within a certain range.

On August 4th, the two sides finally lost patience, and the war broke out completely!

At 10 o'clock in the morning on the 4th, the two sides concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces and intensively bombarded each other's positions, and the "Battle of Hunan" finally officially began on this day!

The decisive battle between Liu Zhaocheng and Wu Peifu kicked off in Hunan!

Tons of shells smashed into each other's positions, and the positions of both sides were plunged into a cloud of smoke.

Those students who came to the Hunan battlefield from all over the country to cheer for the Northern Expeditionary Army saw such a real battlefield for the first time, and they were completely shocked by this scene.

This is not at all the same as imaginary war.

The shells almost lifted the ground, the sky was completely obscured by the smoke, and the pungent smell hit the nose one after another.

The students' bodies were trembling, their feet were trembling, but the soldiers were calmly hiding in their trenches, motionless, and had long been accustomed to all this.

"Wow", a female student who was still laughing and laughing before finally couldn't stand such a stimulation and actually cried in front of everyone.

The male student on the side wanted to say a few words of comfort, but suddenly found that his legs couldn't move

War, terrible war, shocking, terrifying war!

Liu Zhaocheng put down the binoculars in his hand, handed a handkerchief to the female student, and said with a smile: "It's different from what you imagined, right?" This is just the beginning, and there will be death and bloodshed in the future. ”

The female student took the handkerchief, wiped the tears from her face, and tried to straighten her chest, first of all, to make herself look brave, so that others could forget her timidity and gaffe just now.

Then, with admiration, he looked at the young and heroic commander-in-chief Liu Zhaocheng.

Her heart was very strange, could it be that the young commander-in-chief was iron-clad in his heart? Why is the artillery fire so intense, and he is not afraid at all?

At 2 p.m. on August 4, Yiyang, Henglong Bridge.

The general attack of the Left Wing Army on Yiyang began with the artillery battle!

"Attack!" Li Zongren put away his pocket watch and gave an order with a blank face.

The first battle of the Battle of Hunan began, and the attack on Henglong Bridge began!

Rushing to the front was the assault battalion of the 6th Brigade of the 3rd Division commanded by Xu Mu, the commander of the 2nd Army!

It was Zhu Zaiming, the battalion commander, a native of Tao's hometown in Ba County, Sichuan, who had joined the army at the age of sixteen and was only twenty-three years old!

The battalion commander took the lead, led the whole battalion of soldiers, and rushed towards the Henglong Bridge with a roar.

The defense at the forefront of Henglong Bridge was the Cai Juguang battalion of Zhang Jingyao's department.

Cai Juguang is nicknamed "Cai Erno", he doesn't want to die in a war, and he is shameless to rob money!

Shamelessness in robbing money is secondary, and fighting is what Cai Juguang is most famous for.

At the beginning of the attack on Henglong Bridge, Cai Juguang personally picked up a machine gun, and screamed a string of bullets pouring down into the attacking Northern Expeditionary Army.

The momentum of the charge was suppressed at once. The assault battalion lay on its stomach on the ground, unable to raise its head at all after being hit by countless dense bullets.

The soldiers of the Cai battalion were also excited by the fierceness of the battalion commander, and while screaming like the battalion commander, they desperately spilled the bullets in the guns to the opposite side!

The first attack forced Zhu Zaiming's assault battalion to return in vain.

On the front position of Henglong Bridge opposite, there was a burst of laughter, and several brave soldiers even stood up on the position and made a provocative gesture to the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Zhu Zaiming was not angry because of this, but forced himself to calm down.

Seeing that the attack was unfavorable, a machine gun company quickly reinforced it, which made Zhu Zaiming feel confident.

"Machine gun cover, and fire at these dogs." Zhu Zaiming gritted his teeth: "A company commander Duan Hailong!" ”

"Here!"

Zhu Zaiming pointed to the opposite position: "See, the enemy there is the most fierce, you gather all the grenades for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will help you open a road, you take your company, and use the grenades to destroy those dogs for Lao Tzu!" ”

"Yes!"

The second assault of the assault battalion began!

At this time, Zhu Zaiming, who had received reinforcements, readjusted the formation, and all the light and heavy machine guns of the whole battalion's machine guns and machine gun companies were concentrated and used together.

The machine-gun fire began!

Cai Ying's machine gun soon became mute under the blow of the fierce fire of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Cai Juguang was almost hit by a bullet, so he was so frightened that he quickly hid behind the position, and did not dare to raise his head for a long time.

Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent's machine gun was dumbfounded, the second charge of Zhu Zaiming's assault battalion began!

At this time, without the suppression of the opponent's firepower, the assault battalion rushed forward with a charge, and then all kinds of weapons in their hands opened fire together, and dense bullets were splashed overwhelmingly on the opponent's position!

Duan Hailong came up in a row!

"Throw!"

With this roar, the black-pressed grenades rained out!

The "booming" explosions continued to sound on the enemy position, and the cries of panic and mournful cries made the entire enemy position a mess!

"The Northern Expedition will win, rush!" Zhu Zaiming was the first to stand up and shouted loudly.

"The Northern Expedition will win, rush!"

All the soldiers stood up.

The assault battalion rushed up, Zhang's position was already in chaos, rows of dead bodies were lying in all directions, and those who were lucky enough not to die hurriedly raised their hands when they saw countless bright bayonets appear in front of them.

Almost half of the Cai battalion was destroyed under the blows of bullets and grenades, and the rest of the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and surrender became their best choice.

At 3 o'clock, all the forward positions of Henglong Bridge fell into the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

While Zhu Zaiming ordered to consolidate the position and strictly prevent the enemy from counterattacking, he ordered people to clean up the battlefield and escort those prisoners away.

A blown up heavy machine gun fell there, and a bloodied officer fell underneath the heavy machine gun.

"I, our battalion commander Cai Juguang," one of the prisoners said cautiously.

Zhu Zaiming glanced at the corpse, the flesh and blood were blurred, and he couldn't distinguish the original appearance.

A few pieces of the ocean were scattered around Cai Juguang's corpse, Zhu Zaiming picked them up, put them to his mouth and blew them, put them to his ears and listened to them, then laughed and threw the ocean to the captive:

"Who is your leader?"

"Report, yes, it's Basilin."

Zhu Zaiming nodded: "This piece of ocean is rewarded to you, now go and tell your regiment commander that Cai Juguang is dead, let him hand over the Henglong Bridge position as soon as possible, and don't be Cai Juguang's second." ”

"Yes!"

Henglong Bridge is the gateway of Cangshui, and Cangshui is the gateway of Yiyang.

Zhang Jingyao's two younger brothers were defeated in the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army, among which his fourth brother, who called himself "Little Zhuge ", is still a prisoner in the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Zhang Jingyao himself was driven to Yiyang by Wu Peifu. wants to make a comeback, and Yiyang has become his only hope.

Once Yiyang is lost again, Zhang Jingyao will really become a lost dog.

Now that he has no one in his hands, he can only count on cronies who are not cronies, including Baxilin.

But these officers may not be reliable.

An invincible figure like Zhang Jingtang was beaten by the Northern Expeditionary Army, with his own strength, how could he be the opponent of the Northern Expeditionary Army?

It has nothing to do with them who wins Hunan, the only thing they care about is whether they can keep their jobs in the future!

Ba Xilin was originally still holding a fluke mentality, Cai Juguang, who he placed in the front position, has always been known for fighting and not wanting to die, and he may be able to hold it with him.

But then that illusion was shattered. In just an hour after the incident, the forward position of Henglong Bridge fell into the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which made Ba Xilin suddenly flustered.

Immediately, the captives brought the "advice" of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which also made Ba Xilin, who had no intention of defending to the end, make up his mind:

Surrender!

Lao Tzu doesn't care about the Northern Expeditionary Army, whether it's Zhang Jingyao, anyway, how to save Lao Tzu's life is the most important thing!

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of August 4, after the Left Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Hunan launched an attack on Henglong Bridge, Zhang Junzhi's Ba Xilin Regiment, which was responsible for defending Henglong Bridge, handed over the title of Henglong Bridge to the Northern Expeditionary Army under the leadership of the regiment commander Ba Xilin.

The battle went smoothly, which was much more than Li Zongren expected.

In his consideration, he thought that Yiyang was already Zhang Jingyao's last territory, and he would definitely defend it to the end no matter what, but he didn't expect that his subordinates had long lost their fighting spirit.

Wu Peifu's order was to let Zhang Jingyao stay in Yiyang for ten days to buy as much time as possible for his overall plan, but now it seems that Wu Peifu really miscalculated.

Li Zongren, who had obtained the Henglong Bridge, was concerned about the frontal battlefield commanded by Liu Zhaocheng, and did not make any more stops at the Henglong Bridge, and immediately launched an attack on Cangshui with the strength of two brigades.

At this time, Zhang Jingyao, who was supervising the battle in Yiyang, fell down like five thunderbolts after hearing the news that the Henglong Bridge had fallen into the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army so quickly.

How can it be? How could it be possible to lose the Henglong Bridge so quickly? Yiyang's eyes will be directly attacked first, once he loses Yiyang, where can he run again?

Changsha? There is no more Wu Peifu's territory there! Surrender the Northern Expeditionary Army? I'm afraid that people may not want themselves. So, where else can you go?

Although the world is very big, at this moment, Zhang Jingyao feels that there is no place for himself!

(To be continued)