Thank you for your tips from 'Water no Cadiz, Shocking, Flying Fool, Enlightenment Mountaineer, Winxin, Ambiguous and You 12, Shindou121, Alex, Camellia Beauty' and other students! Bowing ———— the Battle of Hanyang began, the Fourth Reading Regiment showed strong combat effectiveness in this battle, although the troops were only more than 1,900 people, but they stopped the offensive of the First Army of Beiyang to death.

On the morning of the 14th, the First Beiyang Army invaded Hanyang, and in the brutal street fighting, it was soon hit hard by the 4th Reading Regiment, whose machine guns blocked the streets and alleys, and snipers were all over the commanding heights.

The soldiers of the 1st Beiyang Army, who rushed into the street, were quickly swept away by ferocious machine-gun fire.

"Machine guns, where are our machine guns?" A Beiyang Army officer lay on the ground and screamed, and soon several Beiyang Army soldiers moved their heavy machine guns up.

"Call me." The Beiyang officer drew his saber and shouted in the direction of the Fourth Reading Force Regiment opposite.

"Da ......" heavy machine gun fired instantly.

The fourth reading regiment on the opposite side was swept down by this sudden machine gun fire, and the rest of the personnel hurriedly retracted their heads into the fortifications, I don't know whether it was luck or technology, the shooter of the heavy machine gun on the position was shot in the forehead by the Beiyang Army on the opposite side and fell to the ground, and the fire on this section of the road suddenly stopped.

"Company commander, they also have heavy machine guns, what should I do?" The soldier of the 4th Reading Regiment asked the company commander who was responsible for defending the street, hunching his head.

"The heavy machine gun is afraid of a fart, the machine gunner makes up for it, and I will continue to suppress the firepower." The company commander scolded, took out a grenadier, loaded a grenade into it, and shot it at the Beiyang Army machine gun in the distance.

'Boom'

After an explosion, the machine gun of the Beiyang Army immediately stopped, and the soldiers of the company looked at the company commander and couldn't help but cast a look of admiration.

"What are you doing slowly, don't repair the fortifications quickly, and the heavy artillery will fall down in a while, but there will be no chance to repair it for you." The company commander hurriedly urged the soldiers.

For the officers transferred to these reading regiments, their combat skills are very strong, and the soldiers of these reading regiments are unprofessional, but the officers are definitely professional.

After a while, the heavy machine guns of the Beiyang Army on the opposite side opened fire again!

However, at this moment, the forehead of the Beiyang Army soldier with the machine gun suddenly shot a bloody splash, and then he crawled on the machine gun.

It's a sniper!

Although the Beiyang Army also had machine guns, once these heavy machine guns were fired, they were either shot out with grenadiers by officers of the 4th Reading Regiment or killed by snipers.

This caused the Beiyang First Army to suffer a heavy blow in the process of fighting for Hanyang, and it was not only the Fourth Reading Force Regiment that defended Hanyang, but also nearly 20,000 revolutionary troops.

In this defensive battle, the well-equipped 4th Reading Force Regiment immediately became the core of the operation, and the 4th Reading Force Regiment was present on every defensive front, and the heavy machine guns, light machine guns, grenadiers and snipers of the 4th Reading Force Regiment became the big killers of the front-line defense. At the same time, the 4th Reading Regiment began to direct the revolutionary army to build fortifications in the city to prevent artillery attacks.

The rapid-fire guns of the dumb fire were adjusted at this time and began to return fire on the heavy artillery of the Beiyang Army.

The sudden return fire blew up more than a dozen heavy artillery pieces of the Beiyang Army, and when the artillery of the Beiyang Army returned fire, those rapid-fire guns had already been transferred.

Although the heavy artillery of the Beiyang Army is farther than the rapid-fire guns in terms of range, it is not all farther than the rapid-fire guns, and at the same time, the Beiyang Army does not place the heavy artillery in the farthest place, so the rapid-fire guns can be completely hit.

The advantage of the rapid-fire cannon is the burst block, which fires 15 shells in a minute and then moves immediately. The heavy artillery of the Beiyang Army takes more than two minutes just to aim and calculate.

The heavy artillery of the Beiyang Army gradually weakened its firepower under the disturbing fire of the rapid-fire artillery battalion.

Under the coordinated defense of Hanyang by the 4th Reading Regiment, the revolutionary army turned Hanyang into a meat grinder, and the attack launched by the 1st Beiyang Army on the morning of the 14th was repulsed several times.

Feng Guozhang jumped to his feet and scolded his mother when he found out, and a standard commander of the First Army said to him: "My lord, the firepower of the revolutionary army is too fierce, and the brothers really can't rush over!" ”

"If you can't rush over, you have to rush, the little revolutionary army can't be even, will we still have face in the future?" Feng Guozhang said angrily and whipped it directly.

The standard commander was twitched and didn't dare to squeak, Feng Guozhang said angrily: "Launch a full-scale attack for me and drive the revolutionary army to Xiajiang." ”

"Yes, sir."

…… The second wave of the Beiyang Army's offensive began at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 14th, and the Beiyang First Army and the Second Army participated in the battle for Hankou this time.

Feng Guozhang basically threw all the troops at his disposal into this brutal street battle, and the two armies launched an attack on Hanyang, which soon put tremendous pressure on the 3rd Reading Force Regiment and the revolutionary army.

The Beiyang Army began to break through the carefully constructed defensive line, and although it paid a great price under the blows of the 4th Reading Regiment, the number of Beiyang Army was simply too large.

Fighting and fighting, the 4th Reading Force had already consumed two-thirds of its ammunition, and once it ran out of ammunition, it would be difficult for this line of defense to sustain itself.

Chen Xuantao, head of the Fourth Reading Force, hurriedly called the operational command center of the military headquarters.

"Report to the command center that the 4th Reading Force Regiment has depleted two-thirds of its ammunition, request ammunition support." Chen Xuantao reported to the command center.

"Hey, how long can the Fourth Reading Force last?" Xia Jun picked up the phone and asked Chen Xuantao.

Chen Xuantao heard Xia Jun's voice, and said excitedly: "Report to the principal, we can only support three days at most, the Beiyang Army seems to be crazy, attacking Hanyang Town at any cost, and our ammunition is consumed very quickly." ”

"Okay, you hold on, I'll send you ammunition in two days." Xia Jun hung up the phone directly as he spoke, and immediately ordered the general staff: "Immediately order the Second Division to transfer a regiment to support Hanyang, and transport the ammunition of five combat bases of a regiment over." ”

"Yes."

The General Staff immediately called out, the Second Division was the closest unit to Wuhan, and the Second Division carried a lot of ammunition, and there were also division sappers and transport teams.

"Call Yuan Shikai again and order him to stop all attacks, otherwise he will bear all the consequences." Xia Jun walked back and forth a few steps and said to the staff officer.

Xia Jun is not worried about anything else at the moment, the only thing he is worried about is the Fourth Reading Force.

The Second Infantry Division received the order, and Lin Chenggui checked the distribution of the regiments, and at this time he was attacking the county seats, so the troops were scattered.

After checking, Lin Chenggui found that the closest to Wuchang was the 011th Regiment, and immediately ordered the 011th Regiment to go to Wuchang, and then support Hanyang.

Immediately, Lin Chenggui asked the baggage battalion to transport ammunition and supplies, and went to Wuchang along the route opened up by the Fourth Reading Force Regiment when it went to Hanyang.

Previously, when the 4th Reading Force Regiment went to Hanyang, it had already built a temporary route from Jiujiang to Wuchang with the assistance of sappers.

…… The battle for the defense of Hanyang was extremely fierce, the revolutionary army and the Beiyang army were fighting in the streets and alleys, and there was a problem with the ammunition of the 4th Reading Regiment, although it was said that a third of the ammunition was still there, but they had to plan to use it for three days. If there was enough ammunition supply, those Beiyang troops would not be able to get close to them.

In this fierce street battle, the 4th Reading Force Regiment did not need to rush to the front, because they were already the main force in this defensive battle, and a large number of revolutionary troops rushed first.

Although the ammunition of the 4th Reading Regiment was somewhat scarce, the snipers still fired unrestricted in the street fighting, and these snipers either hit the machine gunners of the Beiyang Army or specifically looked for Beiyang officers wearing officer uniforms.

Once a Beiyang officer is killed, it means that the offensive of the unit will stop.

The Beiyang Army basically has no awareness of guarding against snipers, and those officers don't know what snipers are, which makes the snipers of the Fourth Reading Force Regiment succeed repeatedly.

With the heroic combat cooperation of the rest of the revolutionary army, Hanyang was successfully held on the 14th, while the Beiyang Army left at least 4,000 corpses, and the revolutionary army also lost nearly 2,000 people.

In the battle, the people on the riverbank were killed and wounded, and corpses could be seen everywhere.

Yuan Shikai was thinking about the artillery bombardment before luring the revolutionary army to surrender, but he didn't expect to suddenly receive the following report, Feng Guozhang not only launched an artillery bombardment on Hanyang, but also launched an attack on Hanyang. 0 "This Feng Manzi, what does he want to do? Yuan Shikai slapped the table angrily, the teacup was clicked, and soon Xia Jun's telegram also arrived, and Yuan Shikai couldn't help but be surprised.

Feng Guozhang's attack had already angered the East China Provisional Political Axe, and Yuan Shikai couldn't help but feel more and more that leaving Feng Guozhang on the front line was a huge hidden danger.

On the same day, Yuan Shikai hurriedly ordered to appoint Feng Guozhang as the governor of Chahar and take office immediately! and appointed Duan Qirui as the commander of the First Army and the Second Army.

Feng Guozhang's side directly disobeyed after receiving Yuan Shikai's appointment, because at this time the Qing court's reward also came down, and after learning that Feng Guozhang launched an offensive on the front line, the Qing court immediately named Feng Guozhang a second-class baron.

Feng Guozhang shed tears and said excitedly: "I didn't expect that my son of a commoner could also be knighted, and he would definitely go to the soup for the Qing Dynasty." ”

The title, which represents status, has a fatal attraction for some people in this era, and at the same time, Feng Guozhang's sworn brother Liangbi encouraged him that as long as he can save the Qing room from fire and water like Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, he can be crowned a marquis.

Feng Guozhang, who was encouraged, was transferred because Yuan Shikai asked him to be transferred, so he immediately went to Yanjing to meet the Empress Dowager Longyu for support.

Feng Guozhang met with the Empress Dowager Longyu and asked for 4 million silver, so that he could put down the rebellion in Wuchang, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

The Empress Dowager Longyu pondered for a moment and said that 4 million taels would be difficult to raise for a while, but he could be paid 3 months' salary in advance, Feng Guozhang was overjoyed, thinking that he had a relationship with the Empress Dowager Longyu, and his future was limitless.

At this time, Feng Guozhang had already set aside Yuan Shikai, and fame and fortune made him fall to the Qing court.

Just when Feng Guozhang ran back to Beijing to ask for salary, Xia Jun's side also successfully supported the Hanyang Revolutionary Army, not only the ammunition needed by the Fourth Revolutionary Army was replenished, but Xia Jun also transported 50,000 rifles to the Revolutionary Army from the Jian'an Arsenal and sold them to the Revolutionary Army at a 'preferential price'.

The price is indeed very favorable, a rifle only costs 5 silver dollars, but it is a 5 yuan to earn, after all, these rifles are stamped, the cost is very low, of course, the appearance is not very good, but the quality is still okay.

And Yuan Shikai also sent a telegram to Xia Jun, explaining to him that it was not his intention to attack Hanyang, but Feng Guozhang's own initiative, and threatened to transfer Feng Guozhang away.

However, Feng Guozhang soon returned to the front line in Hankou, and this time Feng Guozhang, who returned to Hankou, was full of fighting spirit and vowed to take Hanyang and save the Qing room from fire and water......————

(To be continued)