"Lao Dong, this Zhang Zuolin is not small, dare to fight with us in the field, is he not afraid of my artillery battalion?" Le Fei sat in the jeep and said to Dong Dashan beside him, handing over the information sent back by the reconnaissance company, Le Fei looked into the distance, stretched out his tongue and licked the corners of his mouth that were a little chapped.

"Then let's fight in a dignified manner to see if the world-famous Beiyang Army is not worthy of its name." Dong Dashan briefly looked at the information and waited for Le Fei to give an order. According to him, his brain was not enough, so he still followed Le Fei, just listened to the pleasure of the order, and finally served as the deputy commander of the first regiment and the commander of the first infantry battalion with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Le Fei nodded, and said to the herald: "The second infantry battalion detours to the right flank to protect the main force, and the rest of the troops are deployed directly in front to capture Dongshuanghe, the first infantry battalion takes the initiative, and the artillery battalion covers with firepower." Let's have a head-to-head showdown with the Beiyang Army! ”

Dong Dashan, who got the main attack task, ran to the first battalion in a hurry, and he couldn't say anything about the other battalion commanders who made his military rank high and close to the regiment commander, and the second and third battalions could only be helplessly reduced to reserve troops.

Dongshuanghe is located about 20 kilometers south of Xinyang, one side is a vast puddle area, the geographical location is important, it can be called the south gate of Xinyang, Zhang Zuolin decided to take this place as the main battlefield, let the Chinese army see their own strength, and then take refuge in the Chinese army.

Therefore, he arranged two infantry regiments and an artillery regiment here, and the baby-like cavalry regiment stayed in Xinyang, which was his last family background, and it was easy not to show it to others.

Before the engineering battalion had built its fortifications, the Chinese army was already approaching the starting distance of about 2,000 meters. Ten minutes later, the artillery fire of the Chinese army smashed on the head of the infantry regiment at the front, and the regimental commander Zhang Zuoxiang, who had just been in high spirits, immediately turned into a duck, and they had not yet experienced professional military education. There were no earthworks or anti-artillery potholes, not to mention the barbed wire fence, which was standard in World War I and has now been popularized by the Chinese army, and the simple fortifications collapsed under the powerful artillery bombardment of the Chinese army, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

"Artillery counterattack, Zhang Zongchang, you fucking shoot me!" Zhang Zuolin lay on the position of the Second Regiment and yelled at Zhang Zongchang, the commander of the artillery regiment behind.

"Brother. People's artillery positions are outside the range of our mountain artillery, so they can't reach it! Zhang Zongchang cried with a sad face, after becoming the commander of the artillery regiment, he also worked hard to study the artillery, and when he heard the sound, he knew that the caliber of the Chinese army's cannon was very large, so he relied on his own twenty mountain cannons, what to fight with others! Besides, I don't know where the artillery positions of the Chinese army are!

Looking at the position shrouded in the artillery fire of the Chinese army, Zhang Zuolin, who was about to surrender, gritted his teeth fiercely, the Chinese army was too ruthless. If the bombardment continues like this, I am afraid that I will not be able to find a living person, and I pity my eldest brother Zhang Zuoxiang is still on the battlefield. I knew that the Chinese army was so powerful, so I surrendered directly, what kind of strength show was it?

Within fifteen minutes, an artillery battalion of three hundred and fifty shells had been tilted, which was ordered to stop because it was not easy to cause too many casualties in the civil war. Under the cover of artillery fire, Dong Dashan's battalion was already about 300 meters close to the enemy's position, and after the artillery fire stopped, Zhang Zuoxiang's regiment had not yet reacted, and most of the soldiers lay in the tunnel and did not dare to raise their heads. In the midst of the chaos, an officer finally reacted and entered the position with a loud shout. Check the ammunition and meet the Chinese attack.

The first battalion did not give the enemy much time to prepare, and quickly entered 200 meters after the battalion opened fire with heavy firepower, and the mortar bombardment made a regiment mistakenly believe that the Chinese army was shelling again, and immediately entered a state of lying down, and the only Beiyang army that was shooting at the Chinese army under artillery fire was suppressed by a fire network composed of heavy machine guns and light machine guns. Under the precision of mortars. The exposed firepower points of the Beiyang Army were blown up into the sky one after another, seeing that the Chinese army was about to rush to the position, and his own people had not yet organized an effective counterattack, Zhang Zuoxiang looked at the rear in pain, Yuting. Now is the time to surrender, do you want to watch me bleed to death?

Zhang Zuolin did not know that Zhang Zuoxiang had been injured, he was also in a predicament now, the Chinese army stopped for ten minutes after shelling a regiment position, and then extended to the depth of the Beiyang Army's position, and soon, the second regiment of the Beiyang Army and the mountain artillery regiment behind also fell into an explosion, especially the artillery regiment behind, only 20 mountain artillery just wanted to fire at the charging Chinese army, they were hit hard by the Chinese army's large-caliber artillery, and the unreasonable artillery position setting made the mountain artillery regiment be destroyed more than ten in a short time.

"Brother, hurry up and surrender with a white flag, if it goes on like this, none of us want to live, it's not that the brothers don't care, but the Chinese army's firepower is too fierce, they are simply bullying people, bullying people with shells!" Zhang Zongchang was about to cry, and the brothers were lying in a bunker, waiting for Zhang Zuolin to make a decision with the sound of rumbling cannons.

"Division commander, the intelligence from the rear, Wu Changchun and Cao Kun, the two buyers, ran away with all the troops, and even our cavalry regiment in Zaixinyang was taken away by their false orders, and we were sold!"

"I*&......*&!" In the midst of everyone's scolding, Zhang Zuolin shouted a popular swear word in the north, and then said: "Surrender!" As soon as Zhang Zuolin's words came out, Zhang Zongchang put up the white flag that had already been prepared, and the timing was just right, Dong Dashan's battalion just rushed to a position, and Dong Dashan, who was holding a submachine gun, had not finished sweeping a shuttle bullet, and several enemies who wanted to resist were hit, and seeing that the melee battle was about to begin, the shouts of surrender spread throughout the entire position.

The second battalion outflanked from the right flank did not catch up with the battle, looking at the white flag erected high, Le Fei spat out a mouthful of saliva, the name is not true, why is the Beiyang Army in front of him so unbeaten? Could it be that all the Beiyang Army is this virtue? Then without other troops, the Sixth Army alone can sweep the north!

It cannot be said that the combat effectiveness of the 21st Division is not strong, and from the perspective of the quality of individual soldiers, these Beiyang Army are still remarkable, but it is only due to multi-level reasons that the battle ended quickly.

Judging from the confessions of Zhang Zuolin and other senior officers who surrendered, the 21st Division is a new unit that has been formed for less than two years, and the training time for soldiers is relatively short, and the quality of officers is low. In addition, there was a fierce factional struggle within Beiyang, and Zhang Zuolin and his 21st Division were squeezed out, and the salaries, materials, weapons, equipment, and ammunition obtained were much worse than those of other divisions, and the loans and materials provided by the British hardly benefited the 21st Division.

In addition, Wu Changchun's Third Army deliberately put the 21st Division at the forefront and used it as cannon fodder, but he fled with the rest of the troops, which became the direct reason for the surrender of the 21st Division.

In other words, the Beiyang Army of the 21st Division was not representative, and from the confession, it was learned that the equipment of the rest of the Beiyang Army was obviously one level higher than that of the 21st Division, and that the artillery regiment of the 20th Division was equipped with 35 Krupp mountain guns, 10 75-mm cannons, and 3 105-mm guns, which was much more wealthy than the 21st Division. From this, we can see how much effort the British put into arming the Beiyang Army, the 200,000 troops of the Beiyang Army, the newly formed 200,000 troops, plus the total of 200,000 troops of Japan and Russia, nearly 600,000 troops, how much real money did the British have to come up with to meet the needs of those troops? The sun never sets on the empire is really not called in vain, at least people can plunder resources and wealth from all over the world, and a little bit from the cracks of their fingers can support a large-scale regional war, no wonder it can hold out for so long in the tragic World War, and consume Germany to death, and then can barely maintain the status of world hegemon, until after World War II, it was replaced by the United States!

Zhang Zuolin and other senior officers were uncomfortably staying in the temporary hospital in the field, and several doctors were bandaging themselves. As a person who was forced to surrender, he and others were actually treated as prisoners, which was really a big shame, and there were more than a dozen wounded Chinese soldiers in the temporary hospital in the field, and they were wearing Beiyang military uniforms, which was really eye-catching. Zhang Zuolin was afraid that those injured Chinese soldiers would be impulsive and correct his people on the spot!

Fortunately, the Chinese army was strictly disciplined, and although it was hostile, no one went up to entangle. Moreover, there was not much hatred between the two sides, and the Chinese army was not very hostile to the Beiyang Army because the casualties were very light, only twelve soldiers were killed and thirty-five soldiers were wounded. Although the Beiyang Army suffered heavy casualties, it was very honest in the face of Chinese soldiers, this is the general attitude of the weak in the face of the strong, even if they are bullied, they can't raise the slightest idea of resistance.

The curtain was lifted, and an officer-like man walked in, carrying a submachine gun. From the outside, it was not obvious that he was dressed as an ordinary soldier, and he did not see anything that could prove his identity, such as epaulettes and sabers, and the smoke on his face showed that he was very close to the battlefield, and his whole body exuded the aura of fighting. Knowing that it was an officer, he was followed by two guards standing straight, and the soldiers in the field hospital were all showing respect.

"Hello, I am Le Fei, the commander of the First Infantry Regiment of the First Division of the Sixth Army of the Chinese Army, what do you call you?" Le Fei simply saluted, made a chair, put down his weapon, and picked up a glass of warm water - the wounded man next to him was embarrassed to say that this was for me.

Zhang Zuolin and the others, who stood in a row, hurriedly returned the salute, even if the military rank was higher than that of the regiment commander, but now it is a surrender, there is no need to engage in those false traps, and Zhang Zuolin and others can get to this position, and being thick-skinned is a skill that must be mastered. (To be continued.) )