Under the fierce gunfire, the enemy in the front row fell down like mowing grass, and in a panic, a small number of people who were alive immediately lay down, and more turned around and ran, and Chang Jianshi's machine gun chased these people and hit.

"Don't run! Rush up! The battalion commander waved his command knife to stop the fleeing soldiers, but as soon as he shouted twice, he was spotted by a company of snipers, who stopped his cry with only one shot.

After the enemy ran out of 300 meters, Chang Jianshi's machine gun stopped shooting, and most of the soldiers also stopped shooting, leaving only a few snipers still shooting one by one, and the rule set by Song Xiongfu was that only snipers were allowed to shoot 300 meters away.

The first attack was easily defeated like this, Zheng Junyan was a little stunned, he had felt that the enemy army at Niuhang Station was not easy to fight, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult to fight.

"Is this still the same force?" Zheng Junyan asked a little bitterly.

Liang Hongen, who was behind him, said: "According to reconnaissance, it is the first regiment of the first division of the first army, the commander Zhuang Jihua, who was born in the first phase of Huangpu. ”

"It seems that we have surrounded Chiang Kai-shek's descendants." Zheng Junyan was thoughtful, and then his face became fierce: "Then eat him, give Chiang Kai-shek a little color, the old rules, organize a team to supervise the war, those who advance will be rewarded, and those who retreat will die, the first army to rush into the Niuhang Station, the officer will be promoted to one level, and the first soldier to rush in will be rewarded with a hundred oceans." ”

Zheng Junyan's order was immediately conveyed to all places, and in the first attack, only Peng Dequan's troops fought for a few more minutes, and the battalion commander of the three regiments and eight battalions defending on the small hill was Cai Yue, a student of the first phase of Whampoa, Cai Yue took the small temple as the main position, and built three lines of defense in the west and north outside the temple, with 22 companies guarding the west, 23 companies guarding the north, and 24 companies guarding the temple. Wu Shengqing, the commander of the 22nd Company, originally wanted to be equipped with echelons, and the first line was only equipped with one platoon, but Cai Yue vetoed it, Cai Yue thought that the battle must be prestigious, so he let the 22nd Company be on the first line, and transferred two platoons from the 24th Company to supplement the second line, and at the same time asked Zhuang Jihua to send an additional company to increase the density of troops.

Fortunately, thanks to Cai Yue's proper command, a battalion that Peng Dequan put into the attack almost broke into the front-line position. After Zhuang Jihua discussed with Xue Yue, he assigned the 27th Company to Cai Yue's command, and Cai Yue used this company as a reserve.

"Convey the principal's telegram, so that every soldier knows that Zhu Peide has already begun to act, don't ask for help at every turn, the battle has just begun, and now the strength is exhausted, what should I do when I break through?" Although Cai Yue's request was reasonable, Zhuang Jihua felt uncomfortable, he asked for help when the battle began, what to do in the future, so he had to find a way to enhance the confidence of the troops, and the best stimulant was to tell them that there was a way out.

Sure enough, after Chiang Kai-shek's telegram was quickly transmitted to each company, the confidence of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and their morale rose sharply.

Zheng Junyan's order was also quickly executed, and the second attack began, this time the difference was that there were machine guns and broadsword teams in the rear of each attacking unit, and the veterans knew that this was the Inspector Brigade. Under the supervision of the supervising team, Liang Hongen's second came up.

It's still the old rule, when entering a hundred meters, Chang Jianshi's machine gun began to roar, and this time he robbed another machine gunner. After the enemy who had been hit retreated slightly, he lay on the ground and opened fire with the company, and the front of the company formed a stalemate.

The heaviest battle took place at the 22nd Company position, where Peng Dequan oversaw a fierce attack and a whole battalion charged at the 22nd Company under the cover of machine guns and mortars.

After repelling the last attack, Wu Shengqing left only one platoon on the first line, and the remaining two platoons retreated to the second-line position, this platoon resisted the enemy with platoon guns under the command of platoon commander Wang Yushan, but the enemy's firepower quickly overwhelmed them, watching the enemy get closer and closer, Wang Yushan hurriedly ordered to throw grenades, dozens of grenades flew towards the enemy group, and the continuous violent explosions forced the enemy to retreat.

"Damn, rush for me." Peng Dequan saw the troops retreating from behind, waved his command knife and shouted: "Shoot." ”

The machine guns of the overseers rang out, and the four or five soldiers running in front of them had blood flowers on their chests, and the soldiers behind were stunned and stood there, at a loss.

"Go back, brothers, and rush in to get the reward!" One of the officers in the rout shouted, and the soldiers turned to attack again.

"Hit!" Wang Yushan roared and pulled the bolt of the gun, aimed at an officer with a command knife, pulled the trigger, and the officer fell on his back.

The pace of the enemy's assault did not slow down by the death of the officer, and still rushed forward with a howl.

"Hit the grenade!" Wang Yushan shouted and threw out the grenade, and the soldiers threw the grenades one after another, and the violent explosion made the enemy calm down, and hurriedly retreated again, and after withdrawing a hundred meters, he formed a confrontation with Wang Yushan's platoon.

Wang Yushan felt a little overwhelmed by this opening of the fire, the enemy had three machine guns, and his platoon did not even have one. The flames from the three machine guns weighed them down, "Knock out the enemy's machine guns." Wang Yushan quickly ran to Ren Shutian, the soldier with the best marksmanship in the whole platoon, and pointed to the enemy machine gun that was shooting wildly on the opposite side.

Ren Shutian bit his lip tightly and raised his hand to shoot, and the enemy's machine gun suddenly became dumb, but after only a while, the machine gun began to sound again.

Under the cover of the machine guns, the enemy began to stand up and rush forward again, and Wang Yushan commanded the soldiers to shoot desperately, but by this time they had already suffered a third of the casualties, and the bullet rain became more and more thin.

"Get on the bayonet!" Wang Yushan shouted, then grabbed a grenade and threw it, and the soldiers in the trench stopped firing and raised their bayonets one after another.

The charging enemy shouted to kill, Wang Yushan roared, jumped out of the trench, and four or five soldiers immediately formed a group with him and threw themselves into the enemy group.

Blocking, dodging, stabbing, a whole scream sounded on the position, Wang Yushan took himself as the leader, he only attacked, the soldiers on both sides provided cover for him, and the people behind had the soldiers on both sides to cover, such a group repeatedly rushed to kill on the position, slashing and killing more than a dozen enemies in a row, but the number of the group was also reduced to three, Wang Yushan himself hung flowers, his right rib was peeled off a layer of skin by the enemy's bayonet, and blood penetrated his military uniform.

"Fence it off! There's an official here! The enemy shouted.

Soon, Wang Yushan and the three of them surrounded a circle of enemies, and the three of them formed a defensive formation back to back, although the enemy did not know how to start.

"Kill!" The enemy didn't attack, but Wang Yushan didn't want to wait, he roared, stepped forward half a step, and commanded the knife to rush to the neck of the enemy in front of him like lightning, the enemy retreated in panic, but he didn't expect the knife light to turn, but it slashed on the chest of the enemy on the left, and the enemy screamed and fell to the ground.

A bayonet swooped straight into Wang Yushan's lower abdomen, and the soldier on the left burst the bayonet with lightning speed, and then took advantage of the situation to collect the gun and set up another bayonet that was ready to pick up the cheap, while the soldier on the other side took the opportunity to jump open his stomach with a knife, but Wang Yushan blocked the enemy's attack for him.

The three of them cycled back and forth, and in a moment six or seven enemies fell around them. , the remaining enemies are already cold in their courage and dare not use their knives casually.

Wu Qingsheng saw that the front-line position was critical, and brought two platoons to reinforce it, and the Wang Yushan platoon that received reinforcements was greatly boosted, and counterattacked violently, and the enemy retreated like a tide. Wu Qingsheng counted the number of people, and Wang Yushan's platoon still had about a dozen soldiers left, so he decided to abandon the first-line position and concentrate the troops on the second-line position, which was only 60 meters apart from the first- and second-line positions.

Zhuang Jihua was very angry when he received the report, Xue Yue was even more angry, he wanted to compare with Zhuang Jihua in his selfish heart, but he didn't expect to start fighting, one regiment did not lose its position, but his three regiments lost their positions, which made him feel disgraced.

"I'll go see what Cai Yue is doing!" After Xue Yue finished speaking, he hurriedly ran out of the station and rushed up the hill without waiting for Zhuang Jihua to speak.

stepped into the gate of the small temple and roared: "Cai Yue, you get out of Lao Tzu, fuck it, how did you lose the position, you make it clear to Lao Tzu." ”

Cai Yue didn't expect Xue Yue to come in person, so he hurriedly greeted him, Xue Yue didn't wait for him to speak, and immediately scolded him: "How did you lose the position?" Take it back for me! Cai Yue, you listen to me clearly, if you want to preserve your strength, I want your head! ,! ”

After Xue Yue's anger passed, Cai Yue explained: "Regiment commander, we have to defend both sides of a battalion, and the strength is not enough. ”

"You fart," Xue Yue saw that Cai Yue was still explaining, and immediately became furious, pointed to his nose and said: "You tell me clearly, how the position was lost, how did you take it back for me, I'm here, watch you take him back, you go in person!" ”

"Yes!" Cai Yue didn't dare to say anything more, and hurriedly went out to organize the troops.

Xue Yue then also went to the front line, looking at the situation at the front line, Wang Yushan was wounded in the ribs, and when he heard that Cai Yue was going to regain the abandoned position, he also followed, and went to the front. Xue Yue looked at his appearance, and drove him back to the small temple without saying a word.

Without artillery preparation, Cai Yue launched an attack with the 22nd and 24th companies, and Wu Shengqing commanded the troops to walk in front, and the distance of sixty meters was quickly halfway away, and the enemy's bullets whizzed through the side.

"Comrades, rush....!" Wu Qingsheng's voice stopped abruptly, a few blood flowers appeared on his chest, and he fell to the ground.

Cai Yue's eyes immediately turned red, and he shouted: "Avenge Company Commander Wu, rush!" ”

The soldiers picked up their guns and rushed over to meet the enemy's bullets, and the sound of the impact of blades and screams sounded again on the position, Peng Dequan put a battalion on this position, and the enemy relied on the numerical advantage to fight with Cai Yue. Xue Yue couldn't help but be a little anxious when he saw that he hadn't been able to suppress the enemy, and hurriedly ordered reinforcements, but there were no troops, and Cai Yue had already transferred all the troops that could be mobilized.

Xue Yue didn't care, and a platoon from the 23rd Company was sent over for reinforcements. This platoon reinforced the enemy only after it went up.

Recovering the forward positions, the two platoons of the 22nd Company lost half, and the 24th Company lost one platoon.

Cai Yue's head was covered with color, and he bandaged it indiscriminately, his face was covered with blood: "Report to the head of the regiment, the position has been recaptured." ”

Xue Yue nodded, didn't speak, threw him a cigarette, and lit it for himself: "I'll transfer troops for you, the position can't be easily lost, I don't know when Zhu Peide will arrive, I want to use these positions to consume a lot of enemies." ”

"Understood." Cai Yue replied expressionlessly.

When Xue Yue returned to the headquarters, he asked Zhuang Jihua for troops: "The position of the eighth battalion is too wide, and the strength is seriously insufficient, so he must be given additional troops." ”

Zhuang Jihua didn't expect Peng Dequan to be so fierce, he realized that there was a problem with the deployment of troops, he nodded: "Okay, you go to the hill in person, that is an important support point for us, I will transfer the ninth battalion to you, you must nail it on the mountain!" ”

"Yes!" Xue Yue didn't talk nonsense and immediately accepted this task.

The blood-red sunset shook the aftermath, dyed the sky into gold, sprinkled a little golden light on the Ganjiang River, the clouds in the sky seemed to be burning, and the fierce battle of the day made the corpses around the Niuhang Station all over the field, surrounded by gunsmoke, blind and desolate.

After the statistics came out at ten o'clock in the evening, Zhuang Jihua couldn't stand it, lost nearly 100 soldiers, and killed one company commander, Zhu Peide didn't know when he would arrive, but if he continued to consume at this rate, I am afraid that in ten days, these two regiments will be gone.

"Power generation, when will Zhu Peide arrive?" Zhuang Jihua couldn't hold back the anxiety in his heart.

Zhuang Jihua counted the losses inside the station, and Zheng Junyan outside the station was also counting the losses, but their inventory was more lively.

"I lost more than 300 people today, two battalion commanders were killed, and five company commanders were killed, and I did my best." Peng Dequan said dejectedly that today he paid a heavy price to capture the defenders' forward positions, but he did not expect to be recaptured in a blink of an eye, and the loss made him even more heartbroken, losing more than 300 dead and wounded in one day, and a little more than two battalion commanders and five company commanders.

"Brother, I will report to Xin Shuai, how much you lose, how much you will make up." Zheng Junyan knew that Peng Dequan was the hardest working today, and he had to appease this eagle dog.

"We launched three attacks, also lost nearly two hundred men, and two company commanders were also killed." Liang Hongen said and squinted at Yang Genghe.

Yang Genghe sighed quietly: "It seems that everyone is almost the same, in the end, it is the Whampoa Party Army, if we really want to capture it, we all have to be prepared to reduce half of the troops." ”

"What is almost the same, I think someone is stealing and slipping, Brigade Commander Yang, let me ask you, I and Brigade Commander Peng are working hard, why are you not moving?" Liang Hongen was angry, Peng Dequan was far away, and he didn't know the situation in the east, but he could see it clearly, Yang Genghe attacked twice, and each time he lay down a hundred meters away and released his gun, and from the frontal situation, the Northern Expeditionary Army didn't fight back at all from a hundred meters away.

"You are blind," Yang Genghe retorted unceremoniously: "Lao Tzu's brother killed and injured more than 100 people, you didn't see it!" ”

"You!" Liang Hongen jumped up and pointed at Yang Genghe and was about to scold, Peng Dequan was also very dissatisfied when he heard this, and glared at Yang Genghe and was about to scold.

Zheng Junyan hurriedly stopped, he stood up first, knocked on the table and shouted, "Shut up!" What have become of you? At present, the great enemy is not serious about the enemy but focuses on the friendly army, I can tell you, we are going to fail in Jiangxi, and everyone has no good time! Save your strength, save your strength, save it to the end, this world is someone else's! ”

Yang Genghe looked at Zheng Junyan and said, "Commander, is there a problem with our playing style?" ”

"What's the problem?" Although Zheng Junyan's words were scolding the three people, Peng Dequan still did not intend to let Yang Genghe go.

"In the art of war, it is said that they will be born after death, and we surround them to death like this, they can't help but fight the trapped beasts, if we give him a way to live, will their resistance be so tenacious?"

"You mean Wai Sanque Yi?" Liang Hongen asked, Yang Genghe nodded: "Then let go of that side?" ”

"Of course it's the west, and only the west will they go." Yang Genghe glanced at Peng Dequan as he spoke, Peng Dequan understood, and at this time he didn't care about what to fight with Yang Genghe, although he had more than 5,000 people, he could reduce his staff by half, and no one could stand it.

"I think it's okay to wait for them to break through and then cover up, so that our casualties will be much smaller." Peng Dequan hurriedly expressed his support.

"No, if you want to let go, you can only let go of the east." Zheng Junyan is very clear about the thoughts of the brigade commanders below, covering up, jokes, I'm afraid it's covering up but not killing.

In the east, Yang Genghe smiled contemptuously in his heart, who will go to the east, that is the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake, what are you going to do, diving? But he didn't speak, and someone naturally spoke at this time.

"East? Will they go? Liang Hongen asked suspiciously: "The east can be separated by the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake." ”

"Then don't worry, people are thirsty, and they even have to drink wine, not to mention that the east side may run out." Zheng Junyan said with confidence: "Well, that's it, Brigade Commander Yang will withdraw the troops tomorrow as a reserve, and vacate the east for them to go." ”

(To be continued)