"What's your name? Where are the people? Gu Mazi's face sank like a waterway.

"Helian Gang, a native of Anqing, is from Luoyang, Henan." The artillery company commander said solemnly.

"You ordered the artillery to cover it?"

"Yes!"

Gu Mazi slapped the table and roared angrily: "You are so bold? Do you know how many people you killed that night? ”

Two kilometers around the west gate of Fengtian were bombed to the ground, and it was almost impossible to find a few intact buildings, and the people of Fengtian suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the loss of public and private property was even more difficult to calculate.

Helian Gang said expressionlessly: "The vision at night is very poor, and our army cannot accurately strike, in order to ensure the safety of the follow-up troops, I must do this??? If the deputy commander thinks I'm wrong, he can shoot me. ”

Gu Mazi didn't expect a small company commander to dare to talk to him like this, his angry lips trembled a few times, and finally he just sighed: "You are right, this is the war cannot be without casualties, this revenge must be remembered to Xiao Yue himself!" I will ask Chai Dudu to give you merit, your Lian Ji collective second-class merit once, you are personally a first-class merit, go down. ”

After Helian Gang went out, Yu Xiaobao said in a speech: "This kid is really ruthless. ”

Gu Mazi smiled bitterly: "The surname is Helian? The ancestors must have Hu blood, either the Xiongnu or the Xianbei! Damn, and his ancestor Helian Bo is like a bird, ruthless. ”

Yu Xiaobao said: "However, if he is soft-hearted and says that he occupies the West Gate first, then we will be reimbursed for everything!" My goodness, those cannons on the fort are so ruthless, our mountain artillery and field artillery are simply grandchildren's! If Xiao Yueben turns over and uses them to beat our advance army, then the fun will be great! ”

"Now the people of Fengtian are miserable, I don't know if they will hate us? The governor demanded that we must gain a foothold in Manchuria, and this time tens of thousands of people were injured by mistake, which is enough! Gu Mazi's face was longer than a horse.

Yu Xiaobao was silent, he had seen the tragic situation near the West Gate with his own eyes, and the continuous covering shelling killed and injured nearly 1,000 soldiers, but it made the people pay tens of thousands of dead and wounded.

"It's useless to say this now, it's a serious matter to quickly purge the Yue army in Fengtian City."

"That's all there is to it!"

In Mukden City, the advance army, led by the local patrol police, launched street battles street by street. The grenade exerted great power in street fighting, while the bayonet that the army excelled at had little effect. Even in close combat, there is rarely a chance for the blades to intersect, and the houses occupied by the army, the advance army generally throws two grenades first, and even if it is not killed, it is dizzy and dizzy, and then it is quickly solved by the advance army soldiers with rifles. The patrol police, tax police, and security forces who were hiding in Fengtian City and spontaneously launched guerrilla attacks also intensified their crackdowns on the Yue army. Originally, the army had entered Mukden with forged orders, and several reinforced troops were not subordinate to each other, and there was no unified command, and they crashed around the city like headless flies, and were broken one by one by the search teams of the advance army in companies. The South Manchurian Railway has also been blown up by Zhang Zuolin, and it is impossible for the reinforcements of the Yue army to enter Mukden in a short time.

Morita Osa gathered the remnants of the defeated army, and the brigade of more than 2,000 people was left in the early 1,000s, and the rest were either killed by artillery or lost in the city and annihilated by the search party. Seeing that the general situation was gone, Morita Dazuo escaped from Fengtian City with the remaining more than 1,000 people, and Gu Mazi did not dare to pursue it due to insufficient troops, but only ordered the troops to do a good job of defense to ensure the safety of Fengtian City.

After a day of fighting, the Yue army in Fengtian City was basically wiped out, except for a few search teams in companies that continued to search for the stragglers of the Yue army, the other soldiers began to light fires and cook. Most of the Yue army escaped from Mukden, and those who were unlucky enough to stay in the city hid in the province in a net composed of the advance army, the patrol police, and the people of Mukden. After a simple dinner, none of the soldiers of the advance army stayed in the homes of the common people, and they set up field tents one after another, as if they were mushrooms growing after the rain in Changbai Mountain for a while. Medical officers and health soldiers took to the streets to bandage and treat the injured civilians. The people near the west gate wiped away their tears and boiled a few eggs that were ready to be exchanged for oil and salt at home and gave them to the soldiers of the advance army. They were extremely ashamed.

As soldiers, they could not guarantee the safety of the people and make them suffer so much loss, but they did not complain in the slightest, but gently comforted the guilty advance army, which made them feel even more heavy on their shoulders.

Gu Mazi couldn't help but feel sour in his heart, this is the best people in the world! They have fewer requirements for the rulers than any other nation, and more feelings for the country than any other nation, if they can make such people chill their hearts, as rulers except to commit suicide to thank the world, they can only say that their faces are thicker than the walls of Mukden!

Morita Osa's mood was a hundred times heavier than theirs, and after he escaped from Mukden with the remnants of his defeated army, he ran for hundreds of miles in one breath before stopping, and heavy weapons such as artillery and machine guns were either blown up by the artillery fire of the advance army or abandoned on the way to escape. Morita tried to commit suicide several times, but was desperately stopped by his subordinates. In desperation, he sent a telegram to the commander of the Fifth Division in Kanto Prefecture, Kitani Kikuzo, and reported what happened in Mukden as it was.

When Otani Kikuzo received the message, he fainted almost on the spot, and he never dreamed that the fully loaded Morita Brigade would be crippled overnight! Before that, he received a telegram from the 2nd Railway Garrison Brigade that the Kawamoto Brigade had been reduced by a third, which was already surprising to him, and now Morita Brigade had suffered more than half of the casualties! The army usually has only 100 people in a brigade, but the Morita brigade is a super brigade of more than 2,000 people, and there are 12 artillery pieces and more than 10 heavy machine guns, and it has lost its combat effectiveness overnight.

Morita Brigade suffered more than 1,000 casualties, Kawamoto Brigade also suffered hundreds of casualties, plus several other small troops, and around Mukden City, the army lost more than 2,000 people!

It is said that this political axe has not yet expressed its position on the Mukden incident, and this is still peacetime, and at such a time, hundreds of casualties are a huge problem, let alone 2,000 people!

In this Mukden incident, the commander of the Otani Division sent troops without authorization under the tremendous pressure of the political axe and the military department. Although he really didn't know it beforehand, he recognized it afterwards. Once the political axe and the military department are held accountable, he will definitely not be able to escape the involvement. If you are not willing to cut your stomach yourself, just wait to be killed by military law!

The bad news came one after another, and several small units of Saburo Kuroda and Captain Matsui who spontaneously responded to the Mukden Incident were all annihilated in Mukden Castle. The South Manchurian Railway was also blown up by the Chinese army, and the reinforcements had to go to Mukden on two legs! And Kuroda Saburo, the initiator, had been slaughtered by the assassins sent by Mitsuru Toyama, and many of Mitsui's semicolons were bombed, and even the main number in Tokyo was hit by two bombs.

Maintaining the status quo in Manchuria was the established policy of the dead Ito Hirobumi, as was the attitude of the current Prime Minister, Saionji Konobo, and now the advance army has reoccupied Mukden. Since they can defeat Morita Brigade overnight, then it is not one or two thousand people who can solve the problem. The commander of the Otani Division needed to send out the entire Fifth Division in order to be able to defeat the [***] team in Mukden Castle in a short period of time.

The war must be allowed to continue, and it must be expanded, otherwise the head of the head of the commander of the Otani Kikuzo division will definitely be cut off and used to warn the three armies!

"Your Excellency Division Commander, the Fourth Railway Garrison Brigade is in an emergency, request for support!" A staff officer handed him a telegram.

Otani Kikuzo gasped: "Baga, the Gong Qi brigade can't stand it?" How did the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army improve so quickly? ”

In the open field outside Jinzhou, the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Beiyang Division was engaged in a tragic battle with the 4th Railway Garrison Brigade of the Yue Army. The third division is the most elite unit in Beiyang, and the first regiment is the elite of the elite, and the commander of the regiment is the unruly Wu Peifu. The three divisions were equipped with a total of 36 75-mm mountain guns and 12 75-mm field guns, and Makqin had 36 guns, and the firepower was definitely the most powerful in the entire Beiyang. The regiment alone had 24 mountain artillery and field artillery, 16 Makqin, and heavy weapons accounted for more than half of the division.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, this is the best time of the day for visibility. Wu Peifu built a simple position with sandbags and ordered his soldiers to prepare for the attack. Wu Peifu is a die-hard attacker who has a strong aversion to passive defense. His soldiers were also infected by him, and the three divisions and one regiment had always only liked to attack and attack. All three of his battalions held their breath in the departure positions. Waiting for the sudden roar of the cannons. Gong Qi's brigade also didn't pay attention to the Beiyang Army in front of them, and in their propaganda, the army in China was all garbage that would run around when they heard the gunshots. Gong Qi's brigade only dug two shallow trenches symbolically and then built the breast wall with sand.

Although the soldiers of the first regiment had already prepared, when the thirty-six mountain field cannons roared at the same time, everyone was still shaken by the violent sound of this continuous and close to the ground. The sound of the cannons was like a drum beating in their ears. The whole world, there is nothing but roaring.

A round of 75 mm caliber shells with different fuses in wicker boxes was pushed into the chamber. And then with a pull of the fire rope, these blasting shells, shrapnel ......... They all fell towards the position of the army. The artillery regiment is all equipped with new cannons of the tube-retreat type. The firing was fast, and in five minutes of rapid fire, these artillerymen played to a superhuman level. Almost a thousand shells were poured on the army!

The position of the Fourth Railway Garrison Brigade of the Yue Army, known as the Gong Qi Brigade, has been completely shrouded in smoke and dust. The shrapnel that exploded cut down a small forest outside the Japanese army's position. In the sound of explosions, from time to time, the limbs of people in the military position were lifted high, and then they fell heavily on the frozen solid black soil.

Wu Peifu was smiling, and the heart-rending sound of cannons and the trembling of the earth made his mood particularly comfortable. The Beiyang Army started from the small station of the new army, and was later organized by the Manchu Qing court as the Wuwei Right Army, when the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Qing court's Wuwei front army, rear army, left army, and Chinese army were all crippled, but the best equipped and best trained Wuwei Right Army did not participate in the battle unscathed, and Yuan Shikai gradually stepped onto the throne of the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang by virtue of this. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, during the New Deal, more than 20 towns were organized and trained in the country, and there were six towns in Beiyang alone. This army was established for national defense, but I did not expect that except for the revolutionary party that suppressed the Wuchang uprising, it had never experienced any decent battles, especially the battles to defend the homeland and the country.

Wu Peifu has always been haunted in his heart, and today he finally let out a bad breath. He wants to use the Gong Qi Brigade to train his hands, so that these soldiers can see the light of blood and prepare for larger-scale battles in the future. To be honest, Wu Peifu didn't take the Gong Qi Brigade in his eyes at all. The first regiment is a super-large regiment, with more than 1,300 soldiers, and heavy weapons account for more than half of the division, while the Gongqi brigade has only more than 600 people, and the heavy weapons are only a pitiful four 75-barreled mountain guns and six old-fashioned Hatch Chase machine guns. No matter how you compare the Golden Hook rifles, they are not as good as the Mauser Baba and Manlixia equipped with in Beiyang.

In Wu Peifu's heart, the Gongqi brigade, which was inferior to his own in terms of strength and firepower, made him feel very bored, and fighting this kind of local garrison unit was a bit of a knife and a chicken, if it was a brigade of the Hiroshima Fifth Division or even a wing, then he could raise his strength??? Today is just a small test.

As the artillery fire gradually stopped, the sound of military trumpets sounded on the starting position. The heavy machine guns attached to the positions of the assault companies suddenly opened fire on all cylinders after the artillery fire stopped. Dozens of fiery snakes spat out the army's position. Layers of dirt smoke stirred up by bullets in the low sand fortress. Just now, these improvised fortifications have been cut short by artillery fire, and the fortifications have been cut down by one layer due to such fierce machine gun fire.

The infantrymen put their rifles on bayonets and were led by the officers. In a dense line of stragglers, they first walked briskly, and when they reached the distance of the charge, they increased their speed and ran quickly. Each company also carried two ladders, which were ready to be used to climb over the trenches. The soldiers rushed faster and faster, and they all let out a shout. Several layers of blue-gray waves of people rushed towards the army position, as if they were about to drown them!

"Da da da", the Hatch Kess machine gun threw a fan-like rain of bullets. Although the Gong Qi brigade was arrogant, its combat quality was not bad, and the machine-gun fire was very reasonable, and the artillery bombardment of the Beiyang Army did not destroy them. The wave of people who charged suddenly fell. But the charge of the first regiment also seems to have made the greatest determination. The waves of people behind are still surging forward. And he was constantly knocked down. The bodies that had fallen outside the trench had been piled up, and finally several ladders had been erected on top of the trench. The charging company was now huddled in front of the trench. After finding the exit, they all rushed to the ladder. The machine guns of the Yue army rang out, and the Beiyang Army fell one by one.

Wu Peifu's face did not change, and he waved his hand lightly: "It seems that the artillery fire just now is not fierce enough, inform the artillery to sell some strength??? Reserves, ready to attack! ”

(To be continued)