August 7, 1919.

Wu Peifu, who was desperate, with the absolute superiority of six divisions and eight mixed brigades, wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Northern Expeditionary Army!

Wu Peifu finally let it go, and his third division was taken out and used as the main force.

"Looking north at Manchuria, the waves in the Bohai Sea are blowing! Quite a year, Jijiang, Liaoshen, and the people are happy. Changbai Mountain's former battle fence, Leh Guo on the bank of the Heilongjiang River. Up to now, the Japanese are in charge of the situation and evil. Jiawu service, land cutting, Jiachen service, sovereignty falls, the country is the same, and the Yi people are borrowed. He said that he was ordered to raise the brigade and restore the old mountains and rivers in World War I! But he returned, forever as a Pengshan tour, reciting the Mida. ”

The military song written by Wu Peifu himself was sung over and over again in the mouths of the officers and men of the Third Division.

The Warlords had also arrived on the battlefield, and the heavy machine guns had been mounted.

This battle is only allowed to advance, not retreat! Only win, not lose!

The brigade and regiment commanders all appeared at the forefront of the ranks. Zhang Xueyan, Dong Zhengguo, and Zhang Fulai are murderous one by one.

The Third Division has always only won, not lost!

"Zhang Fulai!"

"Here!"

"Your Sixth Infantry Brigade acts as the vanguard of the whole army, defeats the rebels, and raises the prestige of our Third Division!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Fulai turned around, pulled out his command knife, and his face was hideous: "Brothers, the time has come to serve Yushuai!" There is advance and no retreat, there is death and no life! Those who take a step back will be killed! It is a great honor for my 6th Brigade to be the vanguard of the whole army, brothers, and I will rush with you! ”

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the decisive battle broke out!

More than 100,000 Beiyang soldiers, as far as the eye can see, launched the most fierce and crazy attack on the position of the Northern Expeditionary Army!

The 6th Brigade of the Beiyang Army rushed to the front of the whole army.

Wu Peifu is the first fierce general in the Beiyang Army, and Zhang Fulai is the first fierce general under Wu Peifu! And this person's loyalty and superstition to Wu Peifu are incomprehensible to outsiders!

Wu Peifu fought in Hunan for the first time, and when he commanded a certain operation, he ordered Zhang Fulai, who was still the commander of the regiment at the time, to lead a regiment of troops to occupy a mountain. ”

Zhang Fulai acted according to the order, but when he arrived at the foot of the mountain, the road up the mountain was tortuous, and the route drawn by Wu Peifu pointed to the top of the mountain, so he even shouted badly, and his subordinates suggested following the road: "You can't let us climb the vines and go up." ”

Zhang Fulai was a dead brain, he shook his head: "We have to go in a straight line, the division commander says the same, if you violate his order, your head will move." ”

So he gritted his teeth and led the team to climb the mountain. Before the breath was even, the Hunan army came from the side, and also wanted to seize the high ground, but when they saw the banner of the Wu army, they thought that the opportunity had been lost, so they had to lead the troops away. This is the danger of the battle between the two armies, if Zhang Fulai walks around the mountain road, the Hunan army will be the first. Therefore, Zhang Fulai later said when he met people: "The Lord will be as clever as God." ”

After this incident, Zhang Fulai has no reason to worship Wu Peifu, as long as Wu Peifu said it, he thinks it must be right.

At this time, Wu Peifu regarded him as the vanguard of the whole army, and he could be regarded as using the right person!

Braving the intensive artillery fire of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Sixth Brigade rushed again and again. Once defeated, there was no adjustment at all, and Zhang Fulai would soon reorganize his forces and launch a new offensive desperately.

Since the Northern Expeditionary Army set out, it was the first time that they had seen such a desperate soldier.

They completely ignored how fierce the opponent's firepower was, completely ignored their own casualties, and kept launching a decisive charge blindly and mechanically.

Those officers also rushed to the front of the team like madmen, screaming "whooping" in their mouths, braving bullets and bombs, commanding their subordinates, and fearless of death.

The barrel of the machine gun was red, and the grenades thrown by the arms were swollen, but Beiyang had no intention of retreating.

The team commanded by Wu Peifu, the "victorious general", still showed his hideous minions on the Hunan battlefield.

The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army cheered up, gritted their teeth, and concentrated on resisting every attack of the Beiyang Army.

It's a contest between two iron armies!

It's a contest between willpower and mental power!

You can die, you can lose, but you must not lose to the enemy in terms of spiritual momentum!

At the forefront was Rao Guohua's 1st Brigade, a unit that had repeatedly made meritorious contributions on the Hunan battlefield, and when faced with Wu Peifu's ace Sixth Brigade, the combat effectiveness it showed also surprised Zhang Fulai.

-for-tat, half a step back!

Bullets flew through the air, and bombs blasted everything into the sky. The moon is dark, and the mountains and rivers are discolored.

The Sixth Brigade was defeated again, and Zhang Fulai, whose eyes were bloodshot, called Yin Benhao, the commander of the Tenth Regiment, to his side, and didn't say anything, just thrust his command knife in front of him:

"With this knife as the boundary, those who take a step back, kill!"

"Yes!"

Yin Benhao glared at the same blood-red eyes, and snatched a machine gun in the hands of his subordinates: "Use this knife as the boundary, those who take a step back, kill!" ”

The 10th Regiment roared again and rushed forward.

Yin Benhao died, and the officers and soldiers of the 10th Regiment also died.

A platoon of soldiers fell, and soon another platoon of soldiers rushed forward with the corpses of their companions. The layers of corpses on the ground numb people's souls and spirits.

Rush to the ground or die at the guns of the enemy or the Warlords, there is no third option!

The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army who were defending their positions were already stiff in their hands.

Rao Guohua's voice was hoarse, but he was still constantly directing the battle with a hoarse voice.

All the reserves in his hands have been put on the battlefield, and there is really no one in his hands to move, but fortunately, the position is still firmly in his hands.

"Brigade commander, the commander-in-chief asked us how the situation is here!"

"Tell the commander-in-chief that the position is still in our hands!"

Rao Guohua's answer did not hesitate, did not hesitate!

In total, ten divisions and eleven brigades were committed to this battlefield. The battle of more than 200,000 people made the earth red with blood, and the sun could not bear to see what was happening below.

At the same time as the decisive battle was fought in the central battlefield, the left and right wings also launched a decisive battle at the same time!

The troops of Li Zongren and Zhang Xiaohuai have launched a fierce attack on the Beiyang Army in front at the same time!

Whoever completes the breakthrough first will gain the initiative on the battlefield, and whoever wants to make a breakthrough will tilt the balance of victory in favor of his side!

All the people are desperate.

Liu Zhaocheng, Wu Peifu, Zhang Xiaohuai, Li Zongren, Rao Guohua, Xu Shuzheng, Sun Chuanfang, Zhang Fulai

For the sake of different beliefs, and for a common goal:

Victory!

Every minute and every second a soldier dies, and every second a life is taken away.

Liu Zhaocheng, who was in the command headquarters, watched all this calmly, but his heart was fluctuating.

Once this battle is over, there will be no more major wars in China, and this will be the last battle that will determine China's fate. It is not for the sake of victory, but for the sake of China's future destiny!

In fact, when Wu Peifu concentrated his forces on launching a decisive battle head-on, Liu Zhaocheng knew that he had been able to achieve victory.

There is only one third division in the Beiyang Army that can fight the most, and who really dares to give up his surname. They were well-equipped, united in their hearts, and the officers and men fought to the death. But they had only one third division.

It seems that the strength of the Beiyang Army far surpasses their own, but in fact, they are just fighting on the battlefield with a third division and the entire Northern Expeditionary Army!

There will be no surprises in this decisive battle

Time passed minute by minute, and the Beiyang Third Division attacked again and again, but they were all ruthlessly defeated. As their morale continued to erode as the battle continued, they gradually discovered:

The opposite position was iron-clad.

As Liu Zhaocheng expected, the Beiyang Third Division was desperate, but the other troops were not desperate there.

They are all waiting and seeing, if the third division can make a breakthrough, then they will definitely rush to be the first and fight for themselves. But now the 3rd Division has attacked more than a dozen times in a day, but it has not captured an inch of position, which chills their hearts. Things that weren't going to be high in the first place became more and more depressed.

Finally, the last assault came to an abrupt halt

The offensive is over.

The Third Division received nothing but corpses in one place, and even the Third Division was exhausted and disabled. It's not how many soldiers die, it's that their confidence is knocked out.

The Third Division, which had won all battles, suffered the heaviest defeat in the history of the army, and Wu Peifu, the "victorious general," was helpless in the face of a position for the first time.

The military song of the Third Division was gone, but on the opposite position, the military song of the Northern Expeditionary Army was sounding:

"A man rides the wind to break thousands of miles, it is best to die on the battlefield, how to become famous before the national humiliation, and the sword is carried out on the expedition. Resist power, remove national thieves, sweep away the atmosphere and conquer the Yu domain, reckless Great Wall, go in and out, and broadcast the sound of heroes on the earth!

Hurry up and die in a hundred battles on the frontier, the bones of the thousand autumns are fragrant, next to the West Lake on the bank of the Plum Blossom Ridge, and the Yan City is restored to Suiyang. Resist power, remove national thieves, the spirit of martyrs is shining brightly, the head can be lost, the body cannot be surrendered, and the blood will turn into a cadre!

The Opium War was a shame, the Yuanming Xuan was destroyed, and the sadness of Jiawu was restored, which greatly damaged our country's body. Resist power, remove national thieves, wash the national shame in a hurry, sharpen my edge, be angry and heroic, and succeed in ten years! ”

The song was loud and echoed over and over again. It was the highest song of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and it was also their loudest declaration!

The attack of the 3rd Division failed, while on the left and right flanks, the offensive of the Northern Expeditionary Army was in full swing.

Wu Peifu's hundreds of thousands of troops have not been built an inch, the Beiyang army is disheartened, and the morale is not fighting, and what is particularly alarming is that once the left and right flanks are broken through by the Northern Expeditionary Army, then perhaps the fate of hundreds of thousands of Beiyang troops will fall into a terrible fate. Once the Hunan battlefield is lost and the battle is lost, everyone knows what it means.

And now, Liu Zhaocheng and the Hunan Northern Expeditionary Army under his command are about to start a big counterattack!

(To be continued)