Chapter 22: The Ninth Company of Heroes
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In the first year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1912, an ordinary day in May, at least, for Baoding, it was peaceful.
At five o'clock in the morning, the sky was just gray. Jiang Baili, principal of the Baoding Military Academy, summoned more than 2,000 teachers and students from the school to give an emergency lecture at the drill ground. I saw Jiang Baili wearing a yellow tweed military uniform, a long-handled saber hanging from his waist, and a pair of Cheng Liang's riding boots on his feet, standing on the stone steps of Shangwutang with a sad face.
When I first arrived at the school, I swore that you must do what I want you to do. What you want me to do, I have to do. If you can't do it, I'll chastise you. If I can't, I'll punish myself. Jiang Baili's face was sad, his tone was heavy, and the two thousand people under him, regardless of teachers and students, had admired and respected Jiang Baili in the past three months, and they were very convinced. At this time, when they heard Jiang Baili say this, they were all shocked, and at the same time, they were also sad and indignant, and they hated the oppression of the Baoding Military Academy by the War Department.
Bottom like this, his orderlies not far from Jiang Baili were even more shocked, what is the principal going to do, and he couldn't help but get nervous.
Jiang Baili's words kept on: "Now it seems that I have failed to fulfill my responsibilities, and it is not your fault. You must muster up the courage to take on the great responsibility of China's future, and you must not move............ the orderly soldiers were shocked, and when they saw Jiang Baili take out a pistol, they were about to go to his chest. The orderly rushed over and shouted, 'No, Headmaster.' 'Jiang Baili wants to commit suicide.
Pop - a crisp gunshot, a few quick ones have rushed up from the ground, and the others are in chaos. But after all, it is far away, and only the orderly soldiers have a chance to be in time.
There was blood, and I saw that both of them fell to the ground, and the orderly ran into Jiang Baili because he ran fast, and he couldn't tell whose blood it was.
Jiang Baili was shocked, because this shot did not hit him, he hugged the orderly with a look of self-blame, and hurriedly checked. I saw that the orderlies saw that Jiang Baili was fine, and smiled bitterly, "Principal, don't die." ''Doctor, doctor, Afu has a shoulder injury, quick, quick. "Baili, you are messing around, how can you die, what do you do with more than a thousand students in the whole school..."All kinds of chaos.
Anhui Guzhen, Jiulian. One of the machine guns of the Sudden Pigtails spewed a fire dragon, shouting at the Braided Army, who pounced like a cultist, and was greatly encouraged, "Rush, the enemy is a grandson, rush." 'A battalion of men and horses rushed up along the position that had been bombarded by shells, and it was bound to take the position of the Ninth Company in one fell swoop.
A young man in his early twenties from the commander of the Ninth Company spat on his hand, pulled up his spear and fired another shot, hitting a pigtailed army fifty meters away.
'I want to eat Lao Tzu in one bite, Lao Tzu Jiulian is not a white-flour steamed bun, give me a beat, beat. The commander of the Ninth Company roared angrily and spewed saliva, just now the first round of more than 30 grenades of the Ninth Company made the careless pigtail army suffer a big loss, and in a few seconds, the pigtail army fell more than fifty people, which greatly boosted the morale of the Ninth Company, but in the blink of an eye, the enemy was like a hornet out of the nest, swarming, swarming.
Puff - the company deputy cried and crawled over and spit out two mouthfuls of mud 'Company commander, company commander, reinforcements, reinforcements, we want reinforcements, if we continue to fight like this, the Ninth Company will be over.' The company commander was furious, "If you bombard again, Lao Tzu will kill you." Before the battle had reached half an hour, they cried for reinforcements. You listen, you listen. The company commander grabbed the company deputy by the neck and raised it a foot, but saw the shootout here.
'Did you hear that, where is there no fighting, now is the time to play with your life, you don't give Lao Tzu a strain, even if there are only two of you and me left in the Ninth Company, you can't move, do you hear? It was a pair of bloody eyes, and no one doubted that as long as the company deputy was a little cowardly, the company commander would definitely shoot the company and the first officer.
The people around him also roared, the company commander was usually kind and kind to his brothers, but at this time he looked like a murderer. They knew that this company commander was really not joking, this was a battlefield.
'Report the number of people, report the loss. He kicked the deputy away, and after seeing that the deputy was also aroused, the company leader yelled. You can't beat like this, damn it, it's completely pressed and beaten, this is not Lao Tzu's style.
'Report to the company commander, the whole company has 300 men, and so far in the battle, there are only about 140 left, and there are more than a dozen seriously wounded. The commander of the company was shocked, although he knew that the attack just now was very fierce, and the gunfire in the position of the ninth company was much denser than in other places. But half of them went all at once, which also made the little company commander frightened.
This made the company commander know even more strongly that he couldn't fight like this, it would be too much of a loss.
"Pick thirty people, charge with Lao Tzu, didn't there be four grenades just now that are useless, give them all to me." 'Charge? Thirty people? Charge? There was a moment of surprise in the trenches, and everyone looked at the company commander in horror.
The company commander was furious, "Look at what, the enemy temporarily retreats, it does not mean that he will never come up." Damn, when has Lao Tzu been bullied like this, a battalion, a whole battalion to fight Lao Tzu, okay guy, look up to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu can't be weak. Thirty gentlemen, with a handle, is there one who is brave enough to come out, Lao Tzu rushed to the front. The reason why the Ninth Company is the company that Liu Rongguang remembers is not because of his large number, but because the men of the Ninth Company are all fucking brutal. At this time, when he heard that the company commander was not afraid of death, he suddenly jumped out of a group, and shouted one by one, "Company commander, you kid didn't have me in front, you died early, count me as one." 'The barracks will always be a place where you scold your mother. Don't come here to talk about Sven, but such a group of people is a solid wall. Vigorous, tragic, and passionate. It is these people who, in every great calamity, defend the continuation of the nation with their savagery.
"Haha-" The company commander selected thirty-four who could run and jump, "Check your equipment, how many bullets are left, if there are not enough for ten rounds, replenish them all." At this moment, the position of the Eighth Company, which was less than fifty meters away from the Ninth Company. The commander of the eighth company did not dare to raise his head, so he could only glance slightly, but saw several shouts on the position of the ninth company.
'What did these boys eat, and at least four hundred people over there bombarded them just now, will there be a chance to laugh?' You can't be stupid, right? It's still the commander of the ninth company, that kid has a way. If we had been replaced by the Eighth Company, we would have died a long time ago. Tang Zhou, looking at the pitch-black battalion commander with a cold face, no one dared to speak.
'One battalion, four hundred men. The emotionless tone made the battalion commander's legs tremble constantly, he was the real battalion commander who attacked the Ninth Company just now.
......Seeing that the battalion commander was afraid of this, Tang Zhou was even more angry, and no one could see the speed clearly, so he drew his pistol and raised his hand to shoot a shot, directly killing the battalion commander.
Everyone unconsciously retreated, and the timid ones hurriedly gagged their mouths with their hands, for fear that they would scream.
Tang Zhou's waste, the battalion deputy was directly promoted to the battalion commander, and he attacked in ten minutes, if he couldn't get a single slippery stone, you wouldn't come back. A mustache with a crooked hat, a contraction in his heart, he could not feel the joy of promotion, but on the contrary, there was a trace of fear. Seeing Tang Zhou turn around, the people around him looked at him with sympathetic eyes one by one, and he who was promoted to battalion commander hurriedly pounced and grabbed a fat middle-aged man.
'Charge Lee, you have to save me.' The fat man was also stunned, and looked up suspiciously in the direction of Tang Zhou first, and saw that Tang Zhou didn't pay attention to this side. I hurriedly wanted to shake off the battalion commander's hand, but I held on to it with the strength to hold on, 'I'll save you?' I'm not a big soldier, how can I save you? ''Charge Lee, our battalion has been wiped out by this fool, and now there are only two hundred frightened boys left, and you are in charge of the munitions, and you must give me ten machine guns, two hundred rounds of ammunition each. ''Ten... Ten? Two hundred rounds? Are you the president? There is no machine gun, look at you poor boy, give you twenty rounds of ammunition, love or not. ''Cross the river, they don't attack us from the other side of the river, we go over and surprise him, hee-hee. On the position, on the bank of the river, the commander of the ninth company, with thirty-four warriors, and thirty-five men, including himself, quietly left his position and went up to the river.
Behind him, a 'company commander, this, we left the position without authorization, there are only one hundred people in the company, if this is discovered by the upper peak-'The company commander gritted his teeth and was not afraid, as long as there was merit, as long as we got those few cannons, even the regiment commander couldn't do anything to me, go. Liu Fang is now desperately scolding, scolding the commander of the pigtail army opposite.
'What the hell, damn it, Lao Tzu has a battalion position, I see that there is at least one regiment on the other side, there are not 16 or 700 people, Lao Tzu himself screwed his head off. Damn, why do you specialize in beating Lao Tzu. Li Daodao, this kid is next to him, and now he can sleep well - ''Liu Fang, are you scolding the street again?'' A majestic voice came in from outside. Liu Fang, who was scolding happily, immediately replied, "Lao Tzu will scold, that Wang Ba - the head of the regiment, Lizheng, the head of the regiment has arrived." When I looked back, I saw that Li Daodao, the kid, was following Liu Rongguang with a smile.
Liu Rongguang looked at it, and as soon as he took off his hat, he knew that you kid must be scolding the street again. Liu Fang hurriedly laughed, "Leader, leader, isn't it-'Liu Rongguang' Don't say it, I don't know what you're doing here?" Don't talk nonsense, give you 20,000 bullets, it can be regarded as a supplement, this battle, you must go down. "No one has too many things, Liu Fang hurriedly, "Commander, you can't do this, 20,000 is not good, or else, look at the grenade over there-" As Liu Rongguang's old subordinates, these people all know that Liu Rongguang seems to have a little 'private goods', and Liu Fang is the most greedy.
Liu Rongguang glared, "Damn, Lao Tzu opened a factory?" I know that I am worried about Lao Tzu, no, not one, 20,000 bullets, if you don't want me, I will give it to Li Daodao. "Li Dao hee" Okay, good, good, then I'll thank you, Lao Liu." Li Daodao didn't think much of a thing, so he gave up his hand at Liu Fang, and Liu Fang was about to kick it over.
Liu Rongguang can ignore these two old subordinates, these two people have never competed.
On the opposite side is Zhang Xun's subordinate generals, Li Qiguang, and the Tang butcher specially sent by Zhang Xun, and what your battalion encounters is the Tang butcher's men and horses, known as the elite of Zhang Xunyu's Lin army. 'Liu Fang salivated for a while' Tang Zhou? Speaking of Tang Zhou, no one is more qualified than Liu Fang to comment that when he fought in Nanjing, he fought with the soldiers and horses under Zhang Xun, and it was this Tang Zhou.
Liu Rongguang nodded, "Yes, it's Tang Zhou, I conclude that your side will become Tang Zhou's breakthrough, so let's take a look." The division commander arrived, and everyone including Liu Rongguang was startled and hurriedly turned around, and Liu Rongguang led the way and hurriedly came out.
Yang Shuai went through every battalion, and the first battalion of Hu Damin in Jiulian was no exception. In the blink of an eye, the artillery roared, and when I stood at the division headquarters and looked up, I saw that eighty percent of the shells had fallen on the east side. In the next half hour, the gunfire in the east was so dense that Yang Shuai was surprised. hurriedly rushed over, pitiful, a complete division, not to mention more than 10,000 people, but Yang Shuai now has only such a small number of people. It's almost impossible for him to carry the gun himself, and it's okay to run.
Yang Shuai stepped in, but was a little surprised to see the commander of the second regiment and the battalion commander there. However, at this time, a regiment only occupies a position of 200 meters, and it is not surprising that Yang Shuai is not surprised.
'How's it going, Captain Liu?' Liu Rongguang's performance made Yang Shuai very pleased, it stands to reason that the backbone of the current second regiment can be regarded as Liu Rongguang's person. If Liu Rongguang and Yang Shuai are grinding foreign workers, I am afraid that Yang Shuai will not be able to do anything. At this time, the determination of the second regiment to resist the enemy had not yet played tricks on Yang Shuai, and it was a real fight.
Yang Shuai is very satisfied with Liu Rongguang, I will have a relationship with you if you come, and Yang Shuai is very polite to Liu Rongguang.
Liu Rongguang's division commander, Li Qiguang has two thousand main forces, and now another Tang Zhou has brought a very elite army of soldiers and horses under Zhang Xun, it seems that Zhang Xun wants to open a break in Guzhen. Yang Shuai lowered his head and nodded, "When I was in Bengbu, I didn't expect the battle to be so fierce, and now it seems that what the Anhui army said about Zhang Xun's main attack direction is Buyang, which is not necessarily correct." Zhang Xun was in Mengcheng and was in opposition to Buyang, but he put Tang Zhou's troops to strengthen the town. Bai Wenwei was frightened by Zhang Xun's name, thinking that Zhang Xun was in Mengcheng, and the main attack must be Buyang. If Guzhen falls at this time, Bengbu is estimated to be unable to hold it. At that time, Zhang Xunnan can go straight to Hefei, the west can threaten Nanjing, and the main force of Anhui in Buyang in the east can only become a turtle in the urn, and Zhang Xun's 10,000 horses can turn Anhui upside down. Yang Shuai just briefly said some of the opinions in his heart, and Liu Rongguang and the others were already shocked. Yang Shuai sighed in his heart, Chinese soldiers still need to learn more.
Yang Shuai'hehe, but don't worry, I have already told Bai Dudu my opinion, and I believe that Anhui will arrange it accordingly." For now, we just need to fight the battle in front of us. As soon as Yang Shuai finished speaking, a lost soul outside ran in and crashed in. Yang Huadu was so nervous that he pressed his hand on his waist and put his gun on guard.
Liu Rongguang saw that this was Liu Fang's place. Liu Fang was also shocked, it was not good to collide with Yang Shuai, and he hurriedly became angry, "What are you doing?" 'The little soldier is the battalion commander of the third battalion, no, the commander of the ninth company rushed through the enemy's position with his people, but he couldn't find it, and the position of the ninth company was attacked fiercely, and he couldn't stand it. ''What .........'