There are always accidents in the war, and the Whampoa artillery on the Flying Eagle perfectly replicated the off-target shell in the Battle of Verdun, which deviated from the target, but inadvertently hit the German ammunition depot, triggering tens of thousands of shells, resulting in the defeat of the German army on the Verdun battlefield. Firing a cannon on a warship is completely different from firing a cannon on land, every cannon fired on a warship will cause fluctuations in the hull, and each gun needs to be readjusted, which even Chezibanzhov did not understand, so although the artillery on the Flying Eagle ship worked hard, their chaotic bullet impact points forced Chen Geng back, and also accidentally sent a cannonball into the former enemy headquarters of the Shipai Yunnan Army, and more coincidentally, the shrapnel after the explosion just killed the former enemy commander-in-chief Zhao Chengliang, and the two officers who fell beside him were only seriously injured, and the others in the room were unharmed.

But the panic and chaos caused quickly spread, and after Yang Ximin was taken out of the headquarters, the wind at sea made his mind clear, and he struggled violently, "Let go of me!" Let me go! Let go! ”

The guards let go of their hands, and then guarded around vigilantly, Yang Ximin knew that he couldn't just leave, so that as soon as he left, the people below would be scattered with a bang, and the general headquarters would collapse, so the fate of Longyan Cave could be imagined.

"Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff!" Yang Ximin shook his head and expelled some distracting thoughts from his mind, he felt a little tired, but he still tried to cheer up and make himself look more energetic.

The chief of staff slapped the dust on his body as he ran, his hat had been thrown off, revealing a slightly bald head, Yang Ximin waited for him to come over, and he didn't care about his etiquette, so he said in a hurried tone: "Defend Longyan Cave, at worst, guard Slender Dog Ridge, you must keep it." I'll go back to the city and send you reinforcements. ”

"Yes."

After Yang Ximin finished speaking, he turned around and got into the sedan chair, and hurriedly walked towards Guangzhou surrounded by the guards. After taking two steps, the team stopped again, and Yang Ximin ordered the guards to take Zhao Chengliang's body with him.

The chief of staff looked at Yang Ximin who was far away, turned around and saw the chaotic command in his heart, a little desperate in his heart, hold on, how to guard, his mind was chaotic again.

Yang Ximin returned to Guangzhou, he did not go back to the Eight Banners Hall of the General Headquarters, but first went to the provincial assembly to decorate Zhao Chengliang's body, and left in a hurry without waiting for the coffin to be sealed.

Occasionally, you can see 3355 soldiers on the street, these soldiers are obviously defeated soldiers who have retreated from the front, their faces are panicked, their hands are empty, their eyes are nervous to look around, and when they see Yang Ximin's guards, they quickly hide in the alley.

The people in the General Headquarters were panicked, and what made him even more disappointed was that the chief of staff who stayed behind in the headquarters had no idea about the situation at the front, all the telephones were not connected, the power and water were cut off, the trains were stopped, the cars were stopped, and the people who had been sent out to contact him had not yet returned.

After listening to the report of the chief of staff, Yang Ximin was angry and anxious, he kicked away the chair in front of him, and roared like thunder: "Arrest them, arrest them, shoot them, shoot them, these red bandits, Diao people." "No one in the house moved, and they had already gone into hiding and went up there to arrest them.

"What about Zhou Zide? Where is Zhou Zide? Where did he go? Yang Ximin turned around a few times and asked again, Zhou Zide was his cronie and the commander of the Guangzhou garrison appointed by him. Now he didn't see this garrison commander in the commander.

The chief of staff was embarrassed and said: "I don't know where he went, but when he left, he said that he had gone to inspect the city defenses." I sent someone to look for it, but I didn't find it. ”

Yang Ximin's heart cooled down little by little, Zhou Zide is very likely to have escaped, judging from the gunshots, the battle has approached Guangzhou City, there is Liao Xingchao in Xiguan, Liu Zhenhuan in the north, and the cannon sound in the east sounded in the area of Slender Dog Ridge, Zhou Zide was originally the principal of the Dian Army Cadre School, although he was the commander of the garrison, there were no soldiers under him, only more than 1,000 students of the cadre school, students? Yang Ximin suddenly had a glimmer of hope, and organized these more than 1,000 students, which was also a fighting force, and could reinforce Slender Dog Ridge at a critical moment, and in his heart, the Longyan Cave could not be defended.

Yang Ximin didn't expect these students to go to the front, only hoped that they could maintain law and order in Guangzhou during the war, but now they have become his last strength.

"What about the students in the cadre school? They didn't run. Yang Ximin asked with hope.

"No, they are still in the school," Yang Ximin's face just showed a hint of joy, and the chief of staff's next words immediately made him fall into an ice cave: "However, they issued a statement expressing support for the base camp and against the commander-in-chief; The same is true for the students at Commander Liu's Guijun Military Academy. ”

"What?" Yang Ximin's eyes couldn't help but widen, he didn't understand that he was not thin on these students, and his treatment was much better than that of the students of the Whampoa Military Academy, why would they oppose him at such a critical moment, and his anger immediately annihilated his reason: "We raised a group of white-eyed wolves!" White-eyed wolf! The brain transferred a regiment back and killed them first. These white-eyed wolves. Yang Ximin was furious, and now not only can he not become his strength, but he also has to transfer troops to defend them, so that they will not cooperate with the base camp.

"Commander, calm down, calm down, they are all members of the Youth Army. Commander-in-Chief, we fell for someone else's job. "When the Young Soldiers' Federation came to the Yunnan Army Cadre School to develop members, they didn't know, but they didn't care, thinking that it was just a group of dolls to join in the fun, but they didn't expect it..., and now it's too late to regret it.

"Commander, if we don't transfer troops, they may only stay in verbal support, at most it is armed neutrality, and then we can transfer troops from that line."

Yang Ximin sighed helplessly, he knew that what the chief of staff said was right, let alone a regiment, it was impossible to transfer a battalion or a company.

Failure, Shimono, alternately appeared in his mind, Shimono was hopeless, and a voice seemed to say in his head. But when he thought of the feeling after going into the wilderness, he was unwilling, from Xinhai to the present, more than ten years of southern and northern wars, all his hard work, now all in vain, and he was deeply unwilling.

Yang Ximin raised his head and said to the chief of staff: "It can't be over like this, I estimate that Longyan Cave can't be defended, you organize forces to reinforce Slender Dog Ridge, you must defend Slender Dog Ridge and Baiyun Mountain." I went to Xiguan to find Liao Xingchao and see what was going on there, I didn't believe that a group of student babies could knock me down. ”

"Yes." The chief of staff agreed, but his tone and demeanor indicated that he had no confidence.

Yang Ximin boarded his Citroen sedan and rushed to Xiguan under the escort of the guards, losing more and more soldiers along the way, and found that the headquarters of Liao Xingchao in Xiguan was empty, documents and maps were thrown all over the ground, and the tables and chairs were overturned and in a mess.

Yang Ximin sighed when he saw this, the tree fell and scattered, and before my tree fell, the monkey had already dispersed. Suddenly, as if he had been ten years old, he staggered back to the car, and the captain of the guard asked him where he was going. Yang Ximin was confused for a while, where else could he go? Shamian, he muttered.

Soon after Yang Ximin left, Longyan Cave was lost, and the assault corps that landed almost at the same time also attacked Shipai, and the enemy army in Shipai immediately retreated to Shahe. Chiang Kai-shek immediately entered Shahe, the Dian army failed to organize an effective defense line in Shahe, and after half an hour of fighting, the rebel army broke through the Shahe River on all fronts, and the Dian army retreated to the last line of defense at Slender Dog Ridge.

Chiang Kai-shek attacked Slender Dog Ridge in three ways, the northern route was the Guangdong Army's Chen Mingshu Division, and the middle route was the Wu Tiecheng Department of the Guard Army, but the main force was the party army and commando team placed on the southern road. However, Chiang Kai-shek's hard work was in vain, the Dian army had completely collapsed, the resistance of Slender Dog Ridge was only symbolic, the senior officers rushed to flee into the Shamian Concession, the junior officers could not find the situation of the senior officers, and quickly fended for themselves, and the soldiers left their heavy guns and ammunition and fled into the city of Guangzhou, and then they ran around in the city of Guangzhou, and the party army followed and pursued, from the Huiai East Road into Guangzhou, and went straight to the headquarters of Yang Ximin of the Eight Banners Guild.

No one expected that the Yunnan Gui Army, which once dominated Guangdong, would be completely finished in only three days after the start of the war, and all the remaining nearly 30,000 horses and horses were captured, except for the high-ranking officers who fled into the Shamian Concession, including Hu Sishun, the commander of the Third Army. Hu Sishun's capture is like a comedy full of unexpected elements.

Hu Sishun was indeed as greedy for Huizhou's finance and taxation as Yang Ximin thought, and did not return to Guangzhou in time, but it should be said that he did not mean it, according to his calculations, if the party army returned to the division, he still had enough time to evacuate from Huizhou, because Huizhou was much farther away than Chaozhou, but he did not expect that the party army secretly returned to the division, and it was not discovered until Tamsui, and then his withdrawal was delayed by the strike, the railway was not passed, the ship was not passed, and he could only go slowly all the way, and when he arrived in Guangzhou, the gunfire in Guangzhou had subsided for a whole day, but he didn't know, no one informed him.

When Hu Sishun's troops descended from Baiyun Mountain without making any preparations for battle, the counter-insurgency troops in Guangzhou were resting, except for the managers of the prisoner camps, almost the whole army was on holiday, and some of the officers and soldiers bathed in the river and some wandered in the streets; But there is one person who has not left the camp gate, he is Chen Cheng who has made meritorious contributions in the Battle of Mianhu, Chen Cheng has developed a habit of looking out from the barracks and looking at the people walking by the camp gate near and the mountains in the distance, which makes him very satisfied.

But on this day he found that there was a flag shaking on Baiyun Mountain, as if there were troops on the march, so he sent someone to see, if it was a big man, he would go to meet it, but he did not expect that the person sent would soon come back and report that it was the rebels, and they were heading towards Guangzhou, he gasped, it was too late to report, he only ordered his subordinates to prepare for battle, and then he personally shot the cannon, the first shot hit the enemy's flag, and then the shells fired by the gunners exploded in the enemy ranks.

Hu Sishun was a little confused, why did his own people also fire artillery, he ordered the liaison soldiers to send flags to the mountain, telling them that they were their own people, but the answer under the mountain was cannonballs.

Then the gunfire was loud, and the resting counterinsurgency army did not assemble, but automatically launched an attack on Hu Sishun's steps, the number of people was either two or three people, or fifty or sixty people, rushing towards Baiyun Mountain from all directions, Hu Sishun's troops quickly collapsed, and the whole army was captured.

After quelling the rebellion of Liu Yang, the Military Commission appointed Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Guangzhou garrison, Chiang Kai-shek established the garrison headquarters in Guangzhou, appointed Zhang Zhizhong as the chief of staff, and Zhuang Jihua was also transferred to the commander adjutant.

What Zhuang Jihua didn't know was that Liu Yang's rebellion was pacified more than ten days earlier than the historical records of his previous life, and the wind fanned by butterflies on the Amazon River was getting stronger and stronger.

(To be continued)