Chapter 67: Defense of the Yangtze River (2)
Under the reflection of the setting sun, Zhang Yuanzheng looked at the Yangtze River and sighed at the many tribulations of current affairs, so many years have passed in a blink of an eye, time is fleeting, and his great cause has not been completed, and time waits for no one. The pen and the fun and the pavilion www.biquge.info praise song is long, the geometry of life, in the wind and clouds, the mountain is still there, but it is no longer a thing.
As early as when Zhang Yuanzheng decided to fight for the country and the nation, Zhang Yuanzheng had already foreseen today's difficulties in his heart, but when everything to be faced came, he was still a little caught off guard, looking at the sky, Zhang Yuanzheng thought in his heart: "When will the suffering of this calamitous nation end, and in what way will the Chinese nation stand among the nations of the world."
The fighting continues, and the blood of the nation is still flowing. Report to the commander-in-chief: "The Qing army and the allied forces of the countries have stopped attacking. Zhang Yuanzheng picked up the telescope and looked at the Yangtze River, the warships of the coalition army were retreating, Zhang Yuanzheng said to the officers beside him: "Although we have now repelled the enemy's attack, but the enemy's next attack will definitely be very sharp, the war is not over, this is just the beginning, from the time we swore in the GD, it was already destined that we and the Qing army can only have one side of the war standing on the land of China, as the so-called one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and in the end there can only be one person standing." “
"Let people report the casualties and see how we lost in the first battle." Zhang Yuanzheng turned back to the staff officer and said. "Yes, I'll go down and do it immediately" After the staff officer walked out, Zhang Yuanzheng said to the people around him: "The situation is changing at any time, and we must be prepared to meet the difficulties next." Zhang Yuanzheng walked around with a pencil, then turned his head and said to the guard: "You go immediately, Chief of General Staff Nie Shicheng called, oh yes, and Director Yang Huaifang also called." Zhang Yuanzheng sat quietly at the table and thought.
After a while, Nie Shicheng and Yang Huaifang came to the command headquarters, and the staff officer immediately said to him: "Commander-in-chief, chief of general staff, they have arrived." "Oh, please" Zhang Yuanzheng immediately said to Nie Shicheng: "Shicheng, the affairs of the front line will be handed over to you, I want to go back to Guangzhou to deal with affairs, since the formation of the southern government, I have been busy with the war, many affairs have not been dealt with, the formation of the government has not been completed, many departments are still an empty shell, everything on the front line will be handed over to you to deal with, Huai Fang, you will also go back to Guangzhou with me to participate in the formation of the government." “
Nie Shicheng officially took over as the commander-in-chief of the front, and Zhang Yuanzheng returned to Guangzhou with Yang Huaifang the next day. "Chief of the General Staff, the enemy is about to attack again," the staff officer reported. Nie Shicheng took the telescope and looked at the meeting, the enemy's firepower has been greatly strengthened, the number of warships has also increased, the Qing army and the foreign army can be said to be determined to break through the Yangtze River defense line, Nie Shicheng said to the staff officer: "Let the troops on the front line strengthen their defense, resolutely hold their positions, and never give up any position, now we and the enemy will see who can drag it to the end, the commander-in-chief said, as long as we can drag it out for a few months, then the situation will change, this is an opportunity for us, and it is also a huge test, If we can overcome this difficulty, then the future destiny of the Chinese nation will be in our hands, and if we fail, then we will all turn into a pile of loess. “
War is always cruel and ruthless, it destroys the happy life of I don't know how many people, but if you want to break the oppression of the old society, you must go through the baptism of blood.
On the beachhead, "Brothers, the general command has given a death order, defend the position, even if we all sacrifice, we must not let the enemy take a step forward, the battalion commander is dead, the company commander is dead, the company commander is dead, the platoon commander is on top, if you all sacrifice, then my regiment commander should have died a long time ago, brothers, behind us are our relatives, as soldiers, we can't even protect our own relatives, so are we worthy of this military uniform on our body, are we worthy of paying food and taxes every day to support our fathers and fellow villagers, As dignified seven-foot men, we only have ......"
The soldiers shouted in unison: "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill..."Shouting and killing seemed to resound throughout the world, the Qing army launched a charge towards the beachhead under the cover of the artillery fire of the coalition warships, and the soldiers of the Wehrmacht lay in the trenches, aiming at the Qing army rushing to the position, although the Qing army purchased weapons and equipment from Britain and France, but it is impossible to equip all the soldiers, after all, the number of Qing troops is still very large, and some soldiers still use cold weapons, bows and arrows, broadswords, these weapons, and the Wehrmacht after these years of development, weapons have long been able to be self-sufficient, and bring forth the new, The performance of weapons has been improved on the basis of the existing ones, and now the weapons of the Wehrmacht have surpassed those of Britain, France and other countries in the vast majority of respects.
The Wehrmacht soldiers shot and killed the Qing soldiers who rushed over, and the Qing soldiers' will to fight should not be underestimated, they fearlessly rushed towards the beachhead, and at the same time, the naval guns on the warships of the British and French coalition forces were also bombarding our beachhead, Nie Shicheng looked at all this in the command center, and then asked the staff officer: "Do our heavy artillery units still have shells?" "Chief of the General Staff, in the first round of fighting, in order to destroy the enemy's warships close to the beachhead, the shells of the heavy artillery units have long been exhausted, this kind of shells are difficult to manufacture, the output of the arsenal is not very high, and a batch of shells is also very difficult to transport because of the road and weather, and it takes at least ten days to reach the front line.
Hurry up and tell them to speed up the transport, since our heavy artillery is not available, then the troops will attack with the conventional artillery they carry. Commanders at all levels were told that they must carry forward the fearless spirit of our army and resolutely resist all enemy attacks. Nie Shicheng said to the staff officer.
"Damn, this battle is really not easy to fight, our losses were very large at the beginning of the battle, and our warships are all deployed along the coast." "Chief of the General Staff, even if all our warships are here, we may not be able to take advantage of anything, our navy has few warships, and we are seriously lacking in combat experience, so if we ask them to come here, we will add a lot of unnecessary losses." "Alas, yes, our development time is still too short, although we have been trying to catch up, but we have fallen behind since the Qing Dynasty closed the country, and hundreds of years of time is not to say that we can catch up."
On the position of the first division of the first group army, the officers and men have resisted the many attacks of the Qing army, the commander of the first division and several regiment commanders are discussing the development of the war situation, the division commander said: "Now each regiment reports the battle damage," the division chief of staff said: "Division commander, the situation is okay I counted the attrition of each regiment is not very serious, but we don't have much ammunition, although our weapons are better than the Qing army, but in the past few days, the Qing army has attacked like crazy, the consumption of ammunition is huge, and the ammunition reserves of each regiment are not much." "The chief of staff immediately reported the situation to the front command."
"Report, Chief of the General Staff, the troops report that the troops are running out of ammunition." Well, Nie Shicheng took the report and said: "Why is the ammunition consumed so quickly, immediately notify the logistics, let them transport the ammunition needed by the troops as soon as possible." By the way, send a telegram to the commander-in-chief to report the situation. ”