An Yi looked at Xu Tingyao and Tan Fulie fighting horses to the north surrounded by a group of captains, smiled slightly, turned to Shen Feng beside him, and said, "Three hundred war horses and pack horses in exchange for reading power to occupy Kunshan, do you think it's worth it?" ”

Shen Fengdao smiled slightly: "Do you need to say this?" What age are they now, and do you still believe in those slips? Kunshan is located between Suzhou and Shanghai, north and Changshu, Taicang two places connected, south to southeast and Shanghai Jiading, Qingpu two districts border, west with Wujiang, Suzhou junction, holding the throat of the east-west highway and railway, more than ten years has become a place where businessmen from all over the world gather, will only be richer than Taicang and will not be subordinate.

More importantly, just by cutting off the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, the whole country can be shaken, and the huge blow to the morale of the defending enemy in Shanghai, Suzhou, and Nanjing is immeasurable.

If my estimate is correct, we can make at least a million profits in this battle. Today, you only use a few hundred inferior horses in exchange for a complete battle feat, and you no longer need to endure others to share the war exploits and divide the seizures, where in the world is there a more satisfactory exchange than this? ”

An Yi laughed when he heard this, flew on his horse and said loudly: "Crazy, you have a good brain!" Looks like you should be promoted to captain after this battle, haha...... Walk! I'm afraid they're in a hurry, let's go fuck the fuck, ......"

…… Two large carriages full of goods chirped crookedly through the alleys of Shiloujing, slowly moving forward dozens of meters from west to east, folding to the north on the edge of the tall and thick stone wall of the Huangyishan military camp, and slowly advancing along the deserted ancient city street outside the stone wall.

After a while, three ox carts of all kinds pulled high piles of forage into the ancient city street at the west corner of the military camp, and then saw some men wearing robes and carrying wood or farm tools into the ancient city street, passing through the west wall of the military camp for more than 300 meters, and went straight to the west of Huangyi Mountain.

"Lao Dong, it's no wonder that it's snowing so hard, and it's just time to eat, why are there so many ox carts and carriages rushing into the ancient city street? It can't be a situation, right? ”

The sturdy sentry with a machine gun on his back in front of the barracks door walked out of the wooden sentry box, glanced at several figures at the corner of fifty meters to the west, and asked with some confusion.

The tall man known as Lao Dong walked out of the opposite sentry box and came to his partner when he heard the voice, looked at the trembling figures carrying farm tools at the entrance of the ancient city street for a while, spit out the toothpick in his mouth, and said indifferently:

"It's okay, it is estimated that it is the next person hired by a rich man in the west of Tanjiabang, and he returned to the city to eat after finishing work, and recently Tanjiabang intersection is building an inn and a few warehouses on the lake side, and when there is time for Lao Tzu to take a look with you, you have to ask the shopkeeper about the cigarette money...... Don't look at it, it snows so much, most of the revolutionary army are southerners, and they are naturally afraid of the cold, so they will not come to trouble us in such harsh climatic conditions. Let's go into the pavilion and smoke. ”

The sturdy sentry shook his head with some doubts, turned around and squeezed into the sentry box on the left side of the gate with the veteran ruffian Lao Dong, took the cigarette handed by Lao Dong and lit it, spit out the smoke and muttered complaining about the ghost weather, and then whispered that his right eyelid was jumping, would there be any trouble? His worried appearance of gains and losses caused a burst of ridicule from Lao Dong.

Behind a broken wall 200 meters away from the right front of the barracks gate, more than 50 brothers of the special detachment wearing An-style tactical vests were checking the ammunition and ammunition magazines of machine guns and flower machine guns, and Ding Zhicheng, who was fully armed, was half-kneeling on the snow, holding a telescope and looking at Huangyi Mountain behind the barracks from behind the gap in the broken wall more than one meter high, silently calculating in his heart the position of a company of sniper gunners led by shooting instructor Li Fuqiang, and finally turning the camera to the mud hill on the east side of the barracks, and seeing that the assault team led by Dou Fang had lurked in place, Then I was relieved.

Ding Zhicheng was busy in front of a row of houses more than 400 meters behind, and the 12 mortars behind the fence wall were erected one after another, and under the low command of Major Company Commander Shi Junren, the ammunition man opened one box after another and skillfully installed fuses on the shells.

At this time, a cute child about five years old came to Shi Junren's side at some point, hugged Shi Junren's leg and asked Uncle angrily What is this? Shi Junren smiled slightly, picked up the child and walked to the open door of the house, handed the child into the hands of the panicked man, and told him to go south quickly, otherwise the noise would be too loud and scare the child when the fight started later.

The man hugged his son and nodded, quickly escaped through the back door of the house, and ran into the land temple dozens of meters to the south to stay with the extremely nervous neighbors. There are many people talking, and everyone is idle and naturally discuss, this one said that he didn't expect the Northern Expeditionary Army to come so quickly, and that one said that it was good, it was best to kill all the officers and soldiers in Kunshan City, so that those bad ruffians who had lost their conscience could no longer oppress and exploit the people.

At the halfway point of Huangyi Mountain, 138 outstanding shooters selected from the whole regiment took off their civilian clothes and opened a line, prostrate in groups of two on various firing positions more than 300 meters long, and picked up their rifles to prepare for shooting at the barracks about 250 meters below.

Li Fuqiang, dressed in a white robe, squatted under the snow-covered tree, and through the cold-resistant messy thorn bushes, he observed one by one the glazed tile roofs crawling on the rooftops of the two three-story buildings in the west of the barracks.

Li Fuqiang put down the binoculars and smiled slightly, he wanted to know how his four apprentices had entered the two courtyards with their companions, and they had gone so smoothly without alarming anyone.

In the freight yard, about eight kilometers southeast of the barracks, An Yi smiled apologetically at the hundreds of railway workers and stevedores squatting in the wide warehouse, and reassured loudly:

"Masters, I'm sorry, we have to take Kunshan down, wait for the cannon to sound in a while, don't mess up, it is estimated that all the battles will end in less than two hours."

Because they knew that the team in front of them was the Northern Expeditionary Army, the workers looked at the young An Yi and did not appear panicked, but were very excited and curious, especially when they heard that so many officers called An Yi the regiment commander, they were very surprised, but when they saw a group of heavily armed fierce guards around An Yi, no one dared to take the initiative to come forward to talk, and they all exchanged their heads and whispered about how the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army was so young? It looks like he is only twenty-three or fourteen years old, but he leads so many fierce people, it's amazing!

"Report to the regiment leader: The model battalion and the second battalion marched to the predetermined position in the east of the city."

"Report to the regiment leader: The first and fourth battalions are approaching the south of the city and are ready to charge."

"The third battalion has arrived at the predetermined position in the west of the city and has made contact with the headquarters of the commander of the guard company."

“…… The four companies of the teaching team successfully approached within 100 meters on both sides of the station, and all of them lurked under the roadbed on the south side......"

An Yi nodded, looked at the watch on his wrist and ordered loudly: "Send a signal to the artillery company, prepare in three minutes!" ”

"Yes!"

After the herald saluted, he quickly rushed to the stairs and climbed to the top, pulled out the two red and yellow signal flags behind his waist to play the flag, and gave orders to the signal soldiers on the water tower more than 300 meters to the south.

An Yi and his entourage also climbed the stairs to the ceiling of the wide flat-topped warehouse, took out the telescope and looked at Kunshan City two kilometers to the north, the outline of the city was vaguely visible in the flying snowflakes, and the night was about to fall so that the whole city was shrouded in a gloom and emptiness, and a passenger train appeared about three kilometers to the east under the traction of the round and dark steam engine, and was slowly driving towards Kunshan Station with thick smoke.

An Yi looked at his watch again, took a deep breath and ordered in a deep voice: "Fight!" ”

"Bang-Bang-"

Three red signal flares flew into the sky, reflecting the snowflakes in the sky into a brilliant red glow, the artillery position one kilometer behind the gun smoke rose, and the shells fired by the twelve artillery pieces at the same time emitted a terrible scream, crossing the four kilometers of the sky and accurately falling into the military camp in the city, earth-shattering explosions rang out one after another, and the rows of barracks disappeared in a blink of an eye.

More than 3,000 soldiers from the four battalions of the Reading Regiment shouted in unison and launched a fierce charge against the Kunshan defenders from the east, south, and west.

More than 480 outstanding soldiers jumped up from under the embankment of the railway, crossed the railway in the sound of the whistle of the incoming train, and rushed into the platform, the cargo warehouse, and the garrison barracks on the east side. The frightened passengers on the slowly stopped train were forbidden to get off, and the train driver was ordered to turn off the engine and stop and leave the front of the train.

In the east of the city, the 600 soldiers of the model battalion rushed into the streets and alleys under the leadership of Yin Jinan, and soon rushed into the Tongfeng battalion, where Duan Chenghuai's mixed brigade was bombarded by artillery fire, and the soldiers of the second battalion led by Ye Cheng also quickly arrived, rushing into the barracks and the county government from the southwest, the dense gunfire was non-stop, and the screams of being hit by bullets came and went, and the surviving nearly 1,000 enemy troops panicked and surrendered on their knees in the deafening shouts of killing, and the camp covering an area of more than 60 acres was immediately occupied by the unstoppable soldiers of the Reading Force.

The quadrangle-style enemy brigade headquarters in the battalion was very lucky to avoid twelve rounds of artillery salvos, and more than 100 of the enemy soldiers became prisoners of the revolutionary army officers and men before they had time to escape, and when the tall and majestic Duan Chenghuai and six deputies were brought to Yin Jinan, they looked at the young colonel of the revolutionary army in astonishment, as if all this had happened in a dream.

Yin Jinan saluted very politely: "General Duan, I'm sorry, the aggrieved general will stay in this place for the time being, waiting for the handling opinions of the General Headquarters of our National Revolutionary Army, during the waiting period, the general can see his family, and can also make other reasonable requests to our army in addition to release, our army will ensure the safety of the lives of the general and the surrendered officers and soldiers, and implement management and give preferential treatment in accordance with the policy of our army." ”

Duan Chenghuai couldn't believe his eyes, and stared at Yin Jinan for a long time, then he sighed faintly, and the five-inch thick hair on his chin trembled frequently: "You...... What do you call it? Which part of the Revolutionary Army was it? ”

"I, Yin Jinan, am an instructor of the Reading Force Regiment of the Second Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and concurrently serve as the commander of the model battalion." Yin Jinan replied politely.

Lu Yuelie, the deputy brigade commander beside Duan Chenghuai, roared angrily: "You dare to go deep into the depth of our army's defense area alone, aren't you afraid of being surrounded and annihilated by our army?" ”

Yin Jinan smiled slightly, waved his hand and said: "General Lu, don't be angry, you should know the current situation, the Songjiang and Jiading lines in the southeast have been besieged by three divisions of our First Army, and Suzhou City in your west is also attacked by the 26th Army and two divisions of our First Army led by General He Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the East Road of our Revolutionary Army. Tell General Lu another unfortunate news, more than 5,000 soldiers of the Sixth Regiment of our division have successfully occupied Lujiabang Station, and then the main force will attack in the direction of Taicang, and it is estimated that it should also be taken down at this time. So, in reality, most of your mixed brigades have disappeared. ”

Deputy Brigade Commander Major General Lu Yuelie's face was like ashes after hearing Yin Jinan's words, but the forty-year-old Duan Chenghuai quickly regained his composure, whispered the address of his mansion to Yin Jinan, and begged Yin Jinan not to hurt his family.

Yin Jinan immediately agreed, and ordered his adjutant to lead a platoon of brothers to rush to Duan's mansion on the edge of the county government to protect Duan Chenghuai's family and property. Duan Chenghuai and his subordinates were very moved by this move, and in front of Yin Jinan, who was polite and respectful of his opponent, Lu Yuelie, who was hot, could only obediently bow his head and cooperate honestly.

Duan Chenghuai and the six senior generals were led to the hall west of the main hall to sit down, and Yin Jinan's adjutant soon came back to reply:

"General Duan's mansion has been heavily guarded; The first battalion of Chief Xia and the fourth battalion of Chief Gu were launching martial law and searching the whole city; The training team and the machine gun company of the regimental headquarters have successfully taken over the station, and the second battalion of Commander Ye has withdrawn from the main battalion and headed for Shipai Town in the north, closely monitoring the possible movements of the enemy troops in the direction of Changshu. One passenger car and three trains full of goods from Shanghai were all controlled on the platform, and the stationmaster obeyed the orders of our army and sent telegrams to Shanghai, Nanjing, and Suzhou demanding that all passenger and freight trains be stopped. The regiment commander had verified the news of the occupation of Taicang County by the Sixth Regiment, reported the victory to the division headquarters and the general headquarters, and, in accordance with the instructions of Commander-in-Chief Chiang, sent a telegram to the whole country, announcing that our army had successfully occupied Kunshan and Taicang counties. ”

"Excellent! What is the situation in the west of the city? Yin Jinan asked with concern.

Adjutant Li Tong looked at Duan Chenghuai and the others, and said apologetically: "Only sporadic gunfire came from the Huangyishan military camp in the west of the city, and the regiment commander has already come to command in person, and with the thunderbolt of the regiment commander, it is estimated that ...... It is estimated that the company that was praised by General Sun Chuanfang as the 'Tiger Ben Company' will soon be finished. ”

Duan Chenghuai and the others looked at each other, and Duan Chenghuai asked who the head of your department was? After learning that the head of the regiment was An Yi, the famous and well-known Northern Expedition general in just a few months, everyone felt extremely desperate.

Duan Chenghuai only then remembered Yin Jinan, the model battalion commander who was called a model of the revolutionary army, and looked at Yin Jinan in shock, unable to speak.

(To be continued)