In July, Ye Ting's advance group entered Hunan and the Northern Expedition began. He Long successively captured Cili, Shimen, Lizhou, and Jinshi in the name of the envoy of Lizhou Town and the commander of the Fifth Route of the Sichuan-Guizhou Frontier Army. Xia Douyin soldiers Lin Xianning, He Jian, Chen Bing Ruichang.

The 1st KPA Army disappeared at the station.

In Xinyuan, the cadets of the command department of the Military Academy have completed the production of a giant sand table. Zhang Chun asked them to keep in mind all the mountains and rivers in the war zone. Beginning in April, the Outreach Department and the Action Group, including some from Dark Moon, had crossed the river, using new radio stations and multi-encryption ciphers, using special frequency bands. The intelligence from all over the country was constantly gathered to the military headquarters, and except for the Dark Moon Society, which arrived in Xinyuan, the other information was sorted out and sent by the military headquarters in Wuhan. So it's a lot more efficient.

Among the several armies of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the fastest were He Long and Xia Douyin.

Xia Douyin went all the way down the river from Yueyang, wanting to take Xianning, and then outflank Daye. Take Daye, and the Hanyang Machinery Factory will be half dead.

Zhang Linyue did not have a hard encounter with this unit, and only one regiment stared at Xia Douyin. The other two regiments rushed straight to Yueyang. It's exactly you who hit yours, and I hit my way of playing. It's just that Zhang Lin attacked earlier.

"Fight on the enemy's turf."

"There is no way, our army is an offensive force, and strict defense is not our specialty, now it depends on how long this regiment can hold Xia Douyin."

"Our army's semi-automatic rifles and sniper rifles have a longer range than the enemy's and can be hung at a certain speed. The enemy was threatened by the artillery regiment, but it could not keep up with the pace. But if the enemy forces follow the action of the artillery regiment. He's done. As soon as Yue Yang arrived, he was surrounded. ”

"Can you eat the artillery regiment in the back?"

"If the distance between the artillery regiment and the infantry regiment is widened, it is possible."

"I think it's definitely going to be pulled away. The enemy army was in a hurry to capture Xianning. ”

Watching the cadets lay the flags marking the location of the troops, the cadets were gossiping about the trainees. Zhang Chun's mood was much lighter.

"You can calculate when the artillery regiment will be destroyed in the current situation." Zhang Chun said with a smile.

"Xia Douyin is too anxious, I can't estimate Jiayu. He had to stop, because the artillery regiment was gone. Ma Jun glanced at Xia Douyin's long snake formation. He was actually very dissatisfied, he and Guo Longzhen were originally staff officers under Li Tiancai. Just because I was about to graduate and missed a battle.

Guo Longzhen pointed to a position preset by the Red Flag: "Not surprisingly, Commander Sun Yan wants to fight the artillery regiment here." If the prepared rocket artillery is enough. There was nothing left of the artillery regiment. ”

"If the enemy really hits Jiayu, as soon as the war starts, Jiayu will lose a lot of money." Another academy named Miao Peng'an frowned.

"You really can't hit the block?" Another trainee asked.

"There is no place in the enemy's route to block the attack." Someone answered right away.

"It should be possible to fight with the trenches, but the casualties will not be small. Our army is characterized by strong athleticism. The enemy cannot catch up with us. ”

A female student measured the distance with a ruler: "I shouldn't be able to hit Jiayu." The artillery regiment was annihilated, and Xia Douyin should hesitate. At this time, the battle of Yueyang should have begun. I hope our people don't beat Ha Doo-in's radio. ”

Zhang Chun smiled: "Xia Douyin has suffered our losses, and as soon as the artillery regiment is destroyed, he will have to withdraw." Without a radio, he would have to retreat, but if Yue Yang was gone, he might still fight hard. ”

"As soon as he withdraws, he will be finished. A long snake formation, which cannot be removed. I think he's going to stop and focus on finding a way. ”

"Not true. I don't think Division Commander Zhang will really fight Yueyang, because the rocket regiment didn't make it. Instead, it stopped at this place, and Xia Douyin was finished. ”

On July 17, Zhang Linyue's two regiments attacked Tongshan County, and after controlling the defenders, they connected Chongyang and Tongcheng to Yueyang.

As soon as Xia Douyin's 14th Independent Division came out of Yueyang, it was constantly blocked sporadically. When Xia Douyin organized a counterattack, the enemy fought while retreating. The marksmanship is frighteningly accurate. As soon as the small forces go out, they will soon be annihilated. The big army just shoots cold.

This has been the case all the way. Because these enemy soldiers are accurate in marksmanship, they run fast. Xia Douyin can't catch up, can't fight. Xia Douyin had no choice but to order the whole army to concentrate and advance in a surprise attack.

Along the way, people were shot and killed. Even Ha Doo-in had to hide in the center of the troops. The soldiers grew panicked and began to run. I hope to be able to take Jiayu as soon as possible and escape from this group of blockers.

But because of this, the slow-moving artillery regiment was left behind.

Xia Douyin reacted and asked the troops to stop and wait for the artillery regiment. The artillery regiment was already covered with dense artillery fire. The ammunition carried was detonated, and there were heavy casualties.

When the troops returned to the rescue of the artillery regiment, they were subjected to a dense fire of gunfire. Xia Douyin saw that the artillery regiment was gone, so he had to organize a defense on the spot. Because of his caution, the troops were slower than the cadets expected, and they were not a fragile long snake formation.

Xia Douyin originally wanted to ask Yue Yang for help. But Yue Yang said that Yue Yang had been attacked and refused to come to the rescue.

Immediately, the defensive positions were covered with artillery fire.

Ha Doo-in, who suffered heavy casualties, wanted to surrender. But the other party will not fight, and will not surrender.

Xia Douyin was also smart enough to know that this was the People's Army to bargain with the Guangzhou government. Simply let the soldier put down his gun and wait.

He Long's goal was clear: to cross the river and take Jingzhou, which was once the capital of the autonomous government of central Hubei. He took the action of a raid. From Chengde, a rapid march was taken. However, the city of Kazutsu was also constantly attacked by small forces. He told the troops to leave the attackers alone, because they didn't have enough time and had to look for ferries when they got to the Yangtze River.

But when he arrived in Songzi, the staff officer told him that hundreds of people had been killed and wounded along the way, and the soldiers of the unit were very panicked, and the attackers could not hear the gunshots, but the dead were all killed by guns, and many of them were shot in the eyebrows.

He Long asked, "Both?" ”

"Yes, all the units have it, the situation is about the same, there are no wounded. The fighters were angry at first, but now they are afraid. ”

The troops did not enter Songzi, but sent a liaison to contact the local militia group, after all, although this militia known as the Songzi Garrison Regiment was a direct warlord, it was not the Hubei People's Army.

He Long lowered his troops to look at the soldiers who were attacked. The more I look at it, the more chilling my heart becomes. Because the person who was hit by a long-range sniper bullet was very miserable.

"How far away is the enemy, have you fought back?"

"It's a long way, it's two miles away, some are even farther. The fighters also fought back, but our guns were not so far. We also couldn't see the enemy, their guns had scopes, and when they fired, they reflected the light. A company commander wept with a sad face.

"They were all machine gunners, telegraph men. No one took a machine gun and a telegram. The mules and horses with machine guns either ran away or died. The soldiers who died were shot for these two things. ”

He Long asked, "What about the machine gun?" ”

"The troops marched in a hurry and lost. Heavy machine guns and machine guns were lost. ”

"Report." A communications soldier ran over.

"Speak." He Long already had a premonition that it was not good news.

"Songzi, Songzi has no people, no people, only enemies. The enemy made us surrender. ”

He Long ordered the soldiers to attack and advance, and the merit occupied Songzi.

He Long personally went to the front line. The enemy's marksmanship was indeed terrifying, but there were no heavy weapons and the defense was not resolute. The price paid by the attacking troops was very large, but they made their way into the city. Before He Long could give the order, the troops followed in a swarm.

He Long's scalp went numb when he saw the patches of low houses and the corpses lying on the ground.

But when you think about it, outside the city, it's easier to be attacked. So gritted his teeth and went into the city.

Along the way, there were fallen soldiers from their own side. There is not a single local soldier.

"Don't move after taking Songzi, let the troops report the casualty figures and results."

As a result, there was no result in the war, and Songzi was an empty city, and even food could not be found. But more than half of the soldiers have died.

"There were no wounded, some units bit the enemy, and a melee battle broke out. Some were wiped by the enemy with daggers, and some were shot in multiple places. However, the bullet is relatively small. There may have been casualties, but no bodies or wounded soldiers were left behind. ”

He Long slapped the table.

The staff officer said: "After entering the city, many cadres at the platoon level were sacrificed, and many troops did not have machine guns. And the machine gunner also died during the assault. ”

"How many sharpshooters do they have?"

The staff officer hesitated for a moment: "I heard from the soldiers of the army that this is a very famous ghost army. If you want to get the troops out of the city to attack, you must regroup, otherwise there will be deserters. When we get to the river, I'm afraid we won't be able to complete the task of searching for the ferry. ”

The same battle report flew in front of Chiang Kai-shek, and the attack was smooth at first, but there began to be some explanation for the casualty data. The opponent is strong, and the number of telegrams requesting a postponement of the attack increases. Finally, the telegram that Xia Douyin and He Long were besieged arrived.

What dealt Chiang Kai-shek a painful blow was that on July 18, Ye Tingbu, who was ordered to rescue, declared an uprising under the city of Yueyang, and Yueyang had no way to retreat and chose to surrender.

However, the KPA was not surrendered either.

Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly sent a report to He Jian: "Let He Jian not move in Ruichang, and the advance team will withdraw as soon as possible." ”

He Jian was so frightened in Ruichang that he didn't dare to move, but fortunately he didn't fall into the pocket that Li Tiancai had made for him. But Li Tiancai ate the two advance regiments in Yangxin and Wuxue. It's really eaten, and it's not polite at all. Li Tiancai's soldiers came to the city of Ruichang.

"The Hubei side is going to negotiate, eat my three divisions, and negotiate with me with the prisoners of these three divisions and Yueyang." Chiang Kai-shek slapped the table.

The Northern Expeditionary Army suffered heavy losses, and in the battle reports ahead, except for Xia Douyin, the enemy did not use heavy artillery. But the enemy had heavy artillery, and the artillery fire was fierce. Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to order the attack to be temporarily stopped, and He Long, Xia Douyin, and He Jian stood by and waited for reinforcements. At the same time, Song Qingling was invited to Wuhan to re-discuss the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and persuade Zhang Chun to go on the Northern Expedition. (To be continued......)