Chen Ke looked at a pile of machinery and equipment in the factory of the Anqing Ordnance Institute, and it was rare to fall into a feeling of nostalgia. It must be said that these steam-powered machines are still very different from electric machine tools. Both the volume and the powertrain have a somewhat weird feeling. But after all, this is a relatively complete factory system. Chen Ke himself grew up in a machine factory, and his father was on the railroad. Since he was a child, he has had a very familiar feeling for these steel guys.

But this kind of emotion did not last long, and how to transport these machinery and equipment back to the base area was a very difficult thing for Chen Ke. With a big look, he knew that at least a third of the large items could not be transported at all, and a third of the equipment was difficult to transport. The large fleet is almost gone, and even if it is a collection of local ships, how much can be carried away is a big question.

Chen Ke walked around the factory without saying a word, and the accompanying guards and Tao Chengzhang didn't know what Chen Ke was thinking. They didn't dare to interrupt Chen Ke's train of thought, so they had to follow Chen Ke around. Just then, a correspondent ran in. "Report."

"What's the matter?" Chen Ke's train of thought instantly switched back to the line of the commander-in-chief of the troops.

"Chairman Chen, Brigade Commander Chai requested that the artillery be dragged into the city and the New Army camp should be bombarded with artillery." There was something strange on the correspondent's face when he reported.

"What's going on at the front?" Chen Ke asked bluntly. The siege is now nearing its end. Once the battle is over, a city-wide manhunt ensues. If it weren't for a special problem, Chai Qingguo would never have asked to open the door.

The look on the correspondent's face became even more embarrassed, but in the face of Chen Ke, the correspondent really didn't have the courage to say some nonsense, he straightened his waist and said: "The troops attacked the barracks of the Anhui New Army, but they didn't fight it for a while. After speaking, the correspondent couldn't help but add, "The troops have done their best, and the commandos have suffered heavy casualties." ”

Chen Ke didn't get angry, "You didn't have a hard attack that didn't matter whether you lived or died, right?" ”

"Nope!" The correspondent replied immediately.

"Very well, you can take me to the front command now."

The front-line headquarters was only two miles away from the general headquarters of the Anqingnei Ordnance Institute. The commanders of all three detachments were here. It was a temporary requisitioned restaurant, and the military hospital was located in two inns opposite. The marching cauldron had been set up in the streets, white cloth was boiling in boiling hot water, and the medics and hygienists were helping the wounded upstairs. The gunfire had also stopped for the time being, and if Chen Ke hadn't known about the situation, he would have even suspected that the battle was over.

In the lobby of the restaurant, senior cadres such as Hua Xiongmao, Chai Qingguo, Zhang Yu, Yan Fu, Pu Guanshui, He Zudao, and Li Zhao were among them. The crowd was arguing over whether to climb the roof or bombard.

"The turtle grandsons also have gunners on the roof. Already a dozen fighters have died and wounded a dozen. This is not going to work without a cannon. Chai Qingguo's voice was very loud, and it could be heard that he was now in the realm of renunciation.

"If you go down with this shot, the machine gun will be finished." Hua Xiongmao's voice was not so loud.

"Machine guns are more important than lives?" Chai Qingguo did not agree with Hua Xiongmao's opinion at all.

Regarding Chai Qingguo's accusation, Hua Xiongmao is also arguing with reason, "You can't just look at the present, with machine guns, how many fewer people will die in the future." ”

Chen Ke could hear that Hua Xiongmao didn't have much confidence when he said this. Indeed, exchanging human lives for equipment is inhumane enough.

To Chen Ke's surprise, Chai Qingguo did not continue to oppose this opinion, he just shouted one after another: "But we can't wait." When, until they run out of machine gun bullets? ”

At this moment, everyone saw that Chen Ke had arrived at the door. The crowd immediately greeted them. Hua Xiongmao walked at the forefront, and his face was slightly embarrassed, "Chairman Chen, you are here." ”

Chen Ke smiled and said, "What is the enemy's situation, who will take me to the front line to see." ”

Hearing this, the expression on Hua Xiongmao's face was as if he had been whipped, and he hurriedly stopped: "Don't, the new army is like crazy now, as long as they see our people, they will play machine guns." Chairman Chen, don't go, in case you get hurt, you can't do it. ”

"Then at least let me look at the map." Chen Ke said.

Everyone immediately led Chen Ke to a sketchy map, and Pu Guanshui pointed to the map and said: "Around the barracks of the new army, here, here are all set up machine gun positions. Now they are stubbornly resisting. ”

After reading it, Chen Ke showed a sneer on his face, "Turtle formation." It's also a shame that they have so many bullets. ”

Everyone didn't understand what Chen Ke meant, and they were a little surprised. Chai Qingguo immediately said eagerly: "Chairman Chen, you won't let everyone attract the enemy to release their guns, right?" We've had almost a hundred dead brothers by now, and there are four commissars among them. Almost two hundred people were wounded. In the past six months, we have fought so many fences, and less than 100 people have died. ”

"Brigade Commander Chai, when did I say that I was going to attract the enemy to shoot?" Chen Ke was a little puzzled. But now is not the time to dwell on such things. He pointed to the map, "Since the enemy is defending on the streets. Let's break down the wall. As long as they could cut through here, their turtle formation would immediately open a hole. In close combat, I don't believe they can be better than our grenades. Chen Ke said, as he traced his finger along a row of buildings.

"Breaking the wall?" For a moment, everyone didn't understand what this meant.

"Let's not go to the street, just make holes in the walls of this row of residents, and let's go straight through the house. Here the walls are blown up and the breakthrough is implemented. Chen Ke's finger pointed to a house on the edge of the new army's position, "If you are worried that one direction is not enough, then you can break the wall from here and here at the same time, and finally blast it on all three sides." ”

Everyone thought about it carefully, and then it suddenly dawned on them. Chai Qingguo didn't know what to say anymore, he looked at Chen Ke with a calm expression with his mouth open, and it took a long time to hold back a sentence, "Chairman Chen, I obey you." ”

Chen Ke didn't hear Chai Qingguo's words, he still said calmly: "Everyone take out all the pocket watches for me now, right the watch." After speaking, Chen Ke raised his wrist and revealed his watch, "It's half past seven in the morning." I ask you to give me only one last wall by eight-ten. The middle wall can be smashed with an iron cone, but the last wall must be blown up with explosives. The units were ready to assault and blasted at 10 o'clock. ”

The three commanders all took out the pocket watches assigned by the troops, checked the watches, and then saluted Chen Ke together, waiting for Chen Ke to return the salute. The three of them glanced at each other worriedly, and then strode away with the officers of their own troops.

There were not a few people left in the front command in an instant, Yan Fu was not a subordinate of the three detachment leaders, he was originally responsible for directing the fleet to transport Chai Qingguo's detachment to the west of the city, and now the fleet has been arranged, and now he has followed Chai Qingguo into the city. Now that he met Chen Ke, Yan Fu didn't want to follow Chai Qingguo. Chen Ke, Yan Fu, and Tao Chengzhang simply sat down in the room.

"Brother Wen Qing, your trick is really high." Tao Chengzhang couldn't help but praise. This is the first time he has complimented him. Chen Ke's performance in military command can only amaze Tao Chengzhang. Faced with the enemy blocking the street and breaking through the wall, Tao Chengzhang really couldn't imagine how Chen Ke could get along in such a short time. The enemy blocked the streets, but their bullets could not penetrate the courtyard walls, and their sight could never see through what was going on inside the courtyard walls. Thinking about Chen Ke's whimsical ideas, Tao Chengzhang couldn't help but praise again, "It's really wonderful." ”

Chen Ke naturally couldn't tell Tao Chengzhang that this was the way the German and Soviet armies fought in the fierce street battles of the Battle of Stalingrad "35 years later" in his time and space. He didn't want to be polite. Next, as long as the troops can implement this attack method, they can successfully defeat the enemy's last bastion. The battle was basically over. This also means that Chen Ke has only one last chance to show up and say to Tao Chengzhang. Once they leave Anqing, it is absolutely impossible for the People's Party to provide any substantial support to the Yue Wanghui and the Guangfuhui in the face of the counterattack of the new army in the near future. The more combat knowledge Tao Chengzhang has, the more it will be of great use.

"Brother Huanqing," Chen Ke said, "you think I'm a whimsic. On the surface, this is true, but in reality it is not at all. The enemy blocked the streets, leaving me only a passage. If I have artillery, or machine guns, I can compete with them. But I don't have it now, I only have two paths. The first is to follow the path they left for us. The second is to fight according to what we have at hand. ”

After hearing this, Tao Chengzhang felt that Chen Ke's words were very reasonable, but it was the same as not saying it. However, Yan Fu had a thoughtful look on his face, Yan Fu's military cultivation was much deeper than Tao Chengzhang's, and he already vaguely felt that he had come into contact with what Chen Ke wanted to express.

"Brother Huanqing, there is a saying in my hometown, you have to hold the handle of the knife. That is, you have to take the initiative. I have a teacher surnamed Mao who talks about fighting, and it can be summed up in eight words. You hit yours, I'll hit mine. The Forces nouvelles have machine guns, there are platoon guns. Naturally, they can fight in the streets. If we can win, we will fight them in the streets. Now that we can't fight in the streets, we are free to choose to fight the Forces nouvelles in the streets, or choose to make holes in the walls. Since we can win by playing holes, we naturally choose the way we can win. ”

Hearing this, Yan Fu's face was full of approval, and he couldn't help but nod slightly. Tao Chengzhang suddenly realized, and his face couldn't help but show joy. But the more he thought about Chen Ke's words, the more wrong he felt, the battle of Anqing, Tao Chengzhang had been following Chen Ke, and Chen Ke's calm and commanding performance made Tao Chengzhang extremely admired. When Chen Ke explained to him the real meaning behind the tactics, he felt that he understood a lot of things. For Tao Chengzhang, the military knowledge he learned in most of the days was much more than the military knowledge he had learned in his life. However, Tao Chengzhang reflected on what Chen Ke told in the gap between battles, and felt a great incongruity. And this feeling of incongruity, as the battle progressed step by step, became stronger and stronger in Tao Chengzhang's heart. It wasn't until he listened to the eight words "You hit yours, I hit mine" that Tao Chengzhang suddenly felt that he had finally grasped the reason for this incongruous feeling.

"Brother Wen Qing, I want to ask, how do you know that this method you have adopted is right. Since yesterday, I've been thinking that if I change the way, it may not be unsuccessful. Why did Brother Wen Qing adopt your method of fighting? Tao Chengzhang asked.

Chen Ke didn't expect Tao Chengzhang to ask such a profound question, he thought for a while before saying: "Most people look at the problem and look directly at the result. Then try to come up with a way that seems to get the result. As for whether it will work, they don't really care. But everything has its own laws, and once you deviate from this law, you can't do anything. ”

After hearing this, Tao Chengzhang was even more confused, everything Chen Ke said must have a rule, but what Tao Chengzhang saw was how Chen Ke commanded the war. Just listening to the reports made Tao Chengzhang feel a little confused, and as for the battle plan formulated, it was a more complicated matter. Tao Chengzhang once thought of the revolution as extremely simple, just to occupy a small area, and then there would naturally be comrades in the whole country to respond. It wasn't until he personally participated in the war commanded by the BJP that he really felt that the war was completely different from what he had imagined.

Just as he was about to continue to ask, suddenly the guard outside the door shouted, "What are you doing?" ”

The three people in the room turned their heads to see a group of people wearing New Army uniforms, but with white strips of cloth tied to their left arms. The person at the head was in civilian clothes, and when he saw the three people in the room, the leader had already shouted excitedly: "Mr. Yan Fu, Brother Huanqing, the revolution has succeeded, and we have finally seen this day." ”

Tao Chengzhang hurriedly introduced that the person headed by him was Bai Wenwei of the Yue Wang Society. Chen Ke had heard Yan Fu mention this person, but he had never seen this name in the history books, and he was not a famous figure in history. But out of politeness, he got up to greet him.

"Mr. Chen is really a talent, and he is so young, he is really a hero from ancient times." Bai Wenwei said polite words.

Chen Ke didn't want to make friends with people like Bai Wenwei, so he simply made a false politeness. Everyone said a few boring nonsense, Bai Wenwei finally didn't hold back, and took the lead in asking: "Mr. Chen, I don't know what you mean by putting away all your weapons?" Mr. Yan Fu was also here, and at that time we said that the weapons and equipment would be divided into half. ”

After hearing such truthful words, Chen Ke knew what these people were here for. If you have to say it, Chen Ke doesn't hate this kind of statement. However, Tao Chengzhang's face beside Chen Ke became not very good-looking. When the people behind Bai Wenwei heard Bai Wenwei say this, most of them showed a look of "firm support" for Bai Wenwei.

Chen Ke's curiosity was aroused, these people may be the people who will unite the "united front" in the future? Of course, the premise is that these people can live until Chen Ke has the strength to "unite" them. Anyway, everyone has the nose and eyes that should be, and if you have to say the difference, the members of the People's Party are much more "honest" than the members of the Yue Wang Association. The comrades of the Yue Wang Association had a resolute look on their faces that "the goal must be achieved". This kind of expression existed in the early days when the BJP comrades braved the heavy rain and drove small boats to rescue the victims, but after everyone experienced the test of life and death, this kind of expression gradually disappeared on the faces of the BJP members.

Since the other party was determined, Chen Ke also had to point out his bottom line, and he smiled and said: "First, Mr. Yan Fu is talking about the things in the warehouse after the war. And the seizures of our army on the battlefield are not included at all. Second, our army is at war, and if you want something, you might as well enter the camp of the new army. As long as you can enter the barracks of the new army, we don't want anything in it. ”

From Chen Ke's point of view, there is not the slightest problem in speaking, why should the things that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army have fought down at the risk of death being given to others? The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has so far suffered 300 casualties, a tenth of the combatants. At that time, the Yue Wang Hui agreed to be the internal response, and after the People's Party called, there was no trace of the Yue Wang Hui's internal response. Chen Ke didn't ask the teacher for guilt, which was already very face-saving. But the people of the Yue Wang Society obviously don't see it that way. Someone shouted angrily, "Huh?! You say so, everything you grabbed during the war is yours, so now you have occupied the entire city of Anqing, and this Anqing is yours? It doesn't make sense that you have guns and soldiers. Since you want a revolution, you have to talk about some credit! ”

Chen Ke didn't bother to say anything more, he looked at the man and said coldly, "If you don't have a gun, you can at least watch us fight quietly, and after we leave, you can toss this Anqing as much as you like." ”

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, although the people of Yue Wanghui still wanted to maintain an indifferent expression on their faces, the corners of many people's mouths couldn't help but curl. Chen Ke looked at the rapidly changing faces of these people, and thought to himself that compared to hypocrisy, maybe he, a person in 100 years, would indeed be more hypocritical. Judging from the expressions of the people in King Yue's congregation, it seems that this promise is what they really want to hear. The goal of the Yue Wang Society is to get Anqing.

Bai Wenwei was afraid that Chen Ke would perfunctory himself, so he hurriedly asked, "Then when will Mr. Chen's troops withdraw from Anqing, our Yue Wang Hui can be regarded as a landlord, and we have to hold a farewell party." ”

"Tomorrow at the latest." Chen Ke was too lazy to entangle with Bai Wenwei anymore, "Mr. Bai, we are still fighting now, if you have nothing else to do, go back and rest first." We're just too busy. ”

Seeing that Chen Ke had given the order to expel the guests, Bai Wenwei said eagerly: "Mr. Chen, I have one last thing I want to ask, what are you going to do with this captive of the new army?" ”

Hearing this, Chen Ke was quite happy in his heart, many new officers and soldiers were wounded, and the People's Party did not have so many doctors to deal with the injuries of these people, so he immediately replied: "I will send them all to you." Mr. Bai, you can take your men to receive the captives of the Forces nouvelles now. ”

Watching Bai Wen Wei rush to take the people of the Yue Wang Society to receive the captives, Chen Ke sighed softly. The tricky matter is finally dealt with, and all that remains is the enemy who is holding the camp of the New Army.

While he was talking, three communicators rushed to the front line headquarters. "Chairman Chen, you're ready." Chen Ke raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and it was almost ten past eight. "Ladies and gentlemen of the Yue Wang Society, we are about to attack the camp of the new army, you should go and receive the prisoners of the new army first. Tomorrow we will talk at the out-of-town station. ”

Yu Dahong faced the governor of Anhui with a calm face, Lord Enming. Although his face was polite, Yu Dahong was very anxious in his heart, when organizing the new army to conduct a defensive battle, he was still concentrated, and when the situation was stabilized, he began to look forward to reinforcements again. After losing the ammunition depot, the ammunition of the new army was already very limited, and if the thieves attacked like at night, Yu Dahong didn't know how long they could last. What made him even more irritable was that the governor of Anhui, Lord Enming, seemed to have eased up, and began to send people to invite Yu Dahong over. Yu Dahong couldn't shirk it, so he had to come over to see this top boss.

Enming was like a frightened old lady babbling nonsense for a long time, which was a mixture of fear, anxiety, accusation, and expectation. If it can be summed up in one sentence, it is "I am a good person, I am innocent." ”

Yu Dahong is already annoyed with such nonsense, but the rules of officialdom are rules. It's not that Yu Dahong can't wave his sleeves now, but if he does this, when the reinforcements arrive, then Enming will definitely not be grateful to Yu Dahong for saving his life, but will be angry about Yu Dahong's evil behavior of "disrespecting the official".

The problem is that there is a limit to patience, and when Enming asked whether Yu Dahong could find a way to send Enming out of danger first, Yu Dahong had already scolded in his heart. "If you can go, will Lao Tzu still resist here?" However, in this anger, Yu Dahong's heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly said: "My lord, I will arrange this matter now." What do you think? ”

When Enming heard this, his face immediately showed surprise, "Huh? That's great. Yu Xietong, you go, you go! ”

Then Yu Dahong walked out of the temporary position of the governor of Anhui under the urging of Lord Enming. As soon as they came out, a battalion officer eagerly came up, "Lord Yu, those thieves are doing something strange, and there is a strange noise in the nearby houses." ”

"What's going on? Be clear! Yu Dahong asked puzzled.

The battalion officer hurriedly explained: "The thieves don't attack, they just fire guns indiscriminately. Listen to the sound of them ping-pong smashing things in the house. ”

"Where? Take me to see it. Yu Dahong knew that the thieves on the other side were by no means a rabble, and there was definitely a problem with them engaging in this kind of moth.

Just as Yu Dahong was about to rush to the front line of the barricade, suddenly the sound of an explosion was remembered in all directions, and the billowing smoke and dust mixed with the flying pieces of masonry and stone rushed into the barricade of the New Army. The explosion was caught off guard, and Yu Dahong only felt as if his heart was tightly held by a big hand, shrunk into a ball, and he couldn't open it.

What he could see was that a number of bamboo-like things flew out of the smoke and dust, and then Yu Dahong Xietong's eyes were dark, and he fainted.