This time, the attack was launched simultaneously on and under the bridge, and the soldiers of the 60th Brigade, under the urging of the military horn, rushed out of their positions with shouts, some rushed onto the iron bridge, and most of them overflowed the river beach and waded across the river.

The water in this section of the river in Luoshui is not very deep, only waist-deep, but because the river is narrow and the water flow is very fast, as soon as the people of the 60th Brigade rushed into the river, they were immediately disrupted in formation, and the people of Pang Bingxun's 14th Provisional Division were condescending, and the machine guns and rifles were beaten fiercely, and the soldiers of the 60th Brigade who were wading in the river not only did not cover up, but in order to resist the impact of the current, they moved very slowly, almost trying to be a fixed target with Pang Bingxun's troops, and people were constantly knocked down in the river.

The threat of mortars, in particular, was even greater, and every time a shell exploded in the water, not only did the flying shrapnel take the lives of many nearby soldiers, but the explosion caused the water to stir up and knock down many soldiers around them, making the situation in the river even more chaotic. Blood and corpses are constantly washed downstream.

This kind of battle is almost a one-sided slaughter, and even a fierce general like Han Fuyu was a little unbearable, put down the binoculars, and sighed helplessly. Li Shuchun knew Han Fuyu's thoughts, and ordered the staff officers behind him: "Order the 60th Brigade to stop the attack." ”

Li Shuchun looked at Heishi Pass and said anxiously: "Commander-in-chief, the terrain here is dangerous, and if you want to capture Heishi Pass, you can't do it without a bloody battle." ”

After a pause, seeing that Han Fuyu was also a little hesitant, he looked at Han Fuyu and said tentatively: "There is no news of Song Zhewu yet, we have time to go to the Eling Pass now, isn't it ......?"

Without waiting for Han Fuyu to answer, Wan Guozhen ran back angrily and said loudly: "Chief of Staff, why did you stop the attack? My troops are almost ashore. Seeing Han Fuyu's glare, Wan Guozhen swallowed back the words that he was going to question Li Shuchun immediately.

Wan Guozhen also knew the order just now, if Han Fuyu didn't agree, Li Shuchun would not give this order. Of course, Wan Guozhen didn't dare to accuse Han Fuyu, but just used this introduction to express his dissatisfaction.

Han Fuyu said with a dark face: "Your mistake is to rush over, how many people can get ashore?" Those hundreds of people are not going to die! ”

Wan Guozhen said with red eyes: "Commander-in-chief, let me personally lead people to rush again, I don't believe that our 20th Division will not be able to defeat the old bastard Pang Cripple." ”

Han Fuyu looked at Heishi Pass, and then looked at the gray corpse on the iron bridge, and quickly weighed the pros and cons of walking to the Eeling Pass in his mind, but he always thought that Song Zhewu would definitely come to pick him up, so he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

At this moment, a signal soldier quickly ran to Han Fuyu's side, jumped off his horse and reported loudly: "Sun Liangcheng and Zheng Dazhang's cavalry unit have arrived at the Yan Division, and they have exchanged fire with our 59th Brigade. Division Commander Sun suggested that if the Heishi Pass has not been taken now, the commander-in-chief should be asked to lead his troops to go to the Eling Pass immediately. He suspected that the cavalry brought by Sun Liangcheng was only the vanguard of the pursuing troops. ”

Although the pursuers had already been expected by Han Fuyu, Li Shuchun and others, the words of the herald still surprised them! They didn't expect Sun Liangcheng to come so quickly.

"Sun Liangcheng came so fast! Commander-in-Chief, can no longer hesitate. Once their large forces arrive, bypassing the Yanshi and touching us, we will not be able to go! Li Shuchun said anxiously.

Wan Guozhen gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Commander-in-chief, I will organize the troops to rush again, if you still can't take the Black Stone Pass, you and the chief of staff will take the troops to the Eeling Pass, and I will block Pang Bingxun here." After saying that, he turned around and left.

"Come back." Han Fuyu shouted loudly.

Although the situation was critical, Han Fuyu calmed down at this time. He knew that it was impossible for him to take Heishi Pass in a short period of time, not to mention that the large army of chasing soldiers would catch up, even if Sun Liangcheng sent cavalry to take a detour, as long as they were touched, it would be impossible to retreat from the Eling Pass. I thought to myself: "Song Zhewu! Song Zhewu! It's really a person who knows his face but doesn't know his heart, I, Han Fuyu, am planted in your hands today. We'll settle this account later. ”

Han Fuyu ordered loudly: "Brigade Commander Wan, the 60th Brigade will defend on the spot and block Pang Bingxun's troops from crossing Luoshui." Send an ironclad car back to the Yanshi to support the 59th Brigade, and tell Xu Guilin that you are absolutely not allowed to take a step back without my order. Order Sun Tongxuan to come here immediately, I have an important task to him. Chief of Staff, immediately organize the rest of the troops, abandon all baggage, and make a detour to the mouth of Eling. ”

Li Shuchun and Wan Guozhen both understood in their hearts that Han Fuyu's so-called important task was handed over to Sun Tongxuan, which was actually an excuse, that is, he wanted to kill Sun Tongxuan.

As soon as Han Fuyu's words fell, a violent and dense explosion suddenly sounded, such a violent and dense explosion was not something that his twelve 75mm mountain guns could reach. And there are a lot of muffled explosions mixed in, such a sound is definitely caused by larger caliber artillery, where did Pang Cripple come from? Although he was puzzled, Han Fuyu reflexively hurriedly hid behind the rocks. Everyone else in the vicinity also hurriedly lay down and took cover.

After waiting for a while, although the explosion was endless, there was no shell falling nearby, and Wan Guozhen, who was puzzled, got up and probed to observe, suddenly jumped up and shouted excitedly: "Commander-in-chief, look, our reinforcements have arrived." ”

Han Fuyu and the others hurriedly stood up to check. I saw a dense and tall smoke and dust rising from the Black Stone Pass, and with the artillery salvo fire again and again, the smoke and dust on the pass rose higher and higher, and the smoke and dust almost enveloped the Black Stone Pass in its entirety, such a scene not only surprised Han Fuyu, but also all the officers and soldiers of the 20th and 29th Divisions who could see this scene on the west bank of the river were stunned. They had never seen such a heavy shelling!

The shelling behind the Blackstone Pass did not last long, and it stopped after only five rounds. As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the Black Stone Pass gradually re-revealed. It's just that the Black Stone Pass is no longer the Black Stone Pass just now, the west side of the hill is fine, the top of the mountain is already unrecognizable at this time, the original various trees and vegetation have disappeared, only the bare mountain top with bare rocks, and burning trees.

It was Han Fuyu who reacted first, and suddenly jumped on the ridge and shouted: "Brothers, we are saved, our reinforcements have arrived!" The Fourth Route Army has come to our rescue! ”

With Han Fuyu's shout, the people around him understood and cheered happily. Wan Guozhen said loudly: "Commander-in-chief, I will organize the troops and take advantage of the situation to attack the mountain." With that, he turned around and ran.

"Brigadier Wan, come back." Li Shuchun hurriedly called out to Wan Guozhen. Wan Guozhen looked at Li Shuchun and Han Fuyu in confusion.

Han Fuyu was in a very good mood, and said with a smile: "You also want to go up and taste the taste of Wenge's cannonballs?" ”

Wan Guozhen thought about it, he appeared on the top of the mountain at this time, and they and Pang Bingxun's military uniforms were the same gray, so it would be strange if they weren't bombed. He was suddenly overjoyed in the midst of great sorrow, and he was a little too excited. Wan Guozhen smiled embarrassedly and said, "Commander-in-chief, how do you know that the reinforcements coming are the Fourth Route Army?" ”

Han Fuyu smiled and said, "In Wusheng Pass, you have all seen the equipment of the Fourth Route Army, apart from them, have you seen that army have so many cannons from them?" Pang Cripple was unlucky when he met Wen Ge, it is estimated that he will not be killed this time, and whether that good leg can be saved is also a question. Ha, ha, ha......" The excited Han Fuyu thought of Pang Bingxun's embarrassment on the top of the mountain, and Han Fuyu couldn't help laughing happily.

"Commander-in-chief, look." Li Shuchun pointed to Heishiguan and said excitedly.

Following the direction of Li Shuchun's finger, I saw Pang Bingxun's troops on the black stone and fled south along the ridge in embarrassment, and then the retreating military horn sounded on the top of the mountain, and with the sound of the trumpet, the troops of Pang Bingxun's 14th Provisional Division in the position on the western slope also ran out of the position and fled south without a life.

The machine guns of the 60th Brigade, which had suffered heavy losses in the attack just now, also had small guns on ironclad vehicles. Immediately, without hesitation, he violently strafed and bombarded these soldiers of Pang Bingxun's troops who ran out of the position, and let out a vicious breath.

Han Fuyu ordered Wan Guozhen: "Send people across the river immediately to contact the Fourth Route Army and tell them that we will cross the river soon." ”

Wan Guozhen happily ran to arrange.

Li Shuchun knew that their danger had passed, but the Yan Division still had the 59th Brigade there to resist Sun Liangcheng's attack, and reminded Han Fuyu: "Commander-in-chief, we are no longer in danger, do you see if you send troops to support Yinting." ”

Han Fuyu, who was calmer, nodded and said, "I want to send troops to Yanshi, but not only to support Yin Ting, but I also want to bite Sun Liangcheng, a wolf cub who has not talked about brotherhood for many years." Ordered Qiao Lizhi to take his brigade to Yanshi with me immediately, and bring the two ironclad cars with him. I want Yinting to stabilize the position first, and as soon as I arrive with my troops, he will withdraw from the Yan Division. You stay, and when Wengo's troops arrive, let Wengo send troops to assist us. ”

Li Shuchun went to give an order, Han Fuyu glanced at Wang Chenghua, Wang Chenghua immediately understood Han Fuyu's thoughts, and with a wave of his hand, someone immediately took out a new military uniform, Han Fuyu changed out of the military uniform that was already full of mud, and took the wet towel handed by the guard and carefully wiped his face, then straightened his clothes and strode towards the bridge.

It was Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army that shelled Heishi Pass in the Kwantung region. Yesterday afternoon, as soon as he received Han Fuyu's telegram, Song Zhewu immediately ordered Zhang Yafei to rush to Zhengzhou to sit in battle, and arranged for the Second Regiment, the Guard Brigade, and the Cavalry Brigade to immediately replenish ammunition and bring enough food rations for three days. He and Tao Rong were going to lead the troops to Heishi Pass to meet Han Fuyu.

Zhang Yafei, who rushed to Zhengzhou from the entrance of the garden, immediately smiled as soon as he heard that there might be a battle to be fought, and argued with Song Zhewu for a long time, and finally Song Zhewu told him that he had to go to meet Han Fuyu in person. In this way, Zhang Yafei is not good at fighting, he knows that Song Zhewu has put a lot of thought into Han Fuyu, and if Song Zhewu personally goes to answer Han Fuyu this time, the relationship between the two will definitely be closer. In particular, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram later, asking Song Zhewu to personally lead a powerful force to meet Han Fuyu.

Before leaving, Song Zhewu explained to Zhang Yafei that if Han Fuyu called to urge rescue, he would call back in the name of Chief of Staff Tao, saying that he would set off with the scriptures and could not be contacted.

Song Zhewu's purpose in doing this was because he knew that in history, Yan Xishan had now deciphered the codes of many troops of the Northwest Army, and he was not afraid that Yan Xishan would leak secrets, but that the codes at this time were too simple, as long as there were enough references, they were easy to decipher. In case the telegram was intercepted by Pang Bingxun, it would not be fun for him to be prepared.

Song Zhewu ordered Ye Changgui to send two squadrons of special combat personnel to set off in advance, one squadron was aimed at the Gongxian Arsenal, and the other squadron was aimed at the headquarters of Pang Bingxun in Gongxian County. After they arrived, they were asked to reconnoitre, report the situation, and then take action according to the order, and he and Tao Rong led the rest of the troops to set off overnight.

Regarding Song Zhewu's order, Tao Rong was a little puzzled. Han Fuyu's telegram has Pang Bingxun's name on it, that is to say, Pang Bingxun also betrayed Feng and surrendered to Jiang with Han Fuyu, but looking at Song Zhewu's arrangement, this is to deal with Pang Bingxun!

If he said that he sent someone to the Gongxian Arsenal, he could still understand that although there would not be any weapons and equipment that Song Zhewu could look at, even if there were not many, the weapons and ammunition there must have been moved by the Northwest Army. But there are military talents that Song Zhewu likes.

But when he sent someone to Pang Bingxun's headquarters in Gong County, he was a little puzzled. The training of these special operations brigades is not open to the public, and the whole picture can be seen in the 70,000-strong troops in Zhengzhou, that is, Song Zhewu, him, and Zhang Yafei. Through what he saw with his own eyes and Song Zhewu's introduction, Tao Rong admired Song Zhewu's idea of establishing a special combat brigade, in his opinion, such a squadron's special combat team, if it was a street battle or a night attack, was a battalion, or even a regiment was not necessarily their opponent. Looking at Song Zhewu's posture, he wants to end Pang Bingxun's nest!

Regarding Tao Rong's incomprehension, Song Zhewu naturally couldn't say that he knew that Pang Bingxun would definitely block Han Fuyu. I had to explain to Tao Rong with a smile: "Pang Bingxun first voted for Sun Yue, and then joined the National Army with Sun Yue, and then took refuge in Wu Peifu, seeing that Wu Peifu was defeated during the Northern Expedition, and then refuge in Jin Yunpeng, then Tang Shengzhi, and then in 27 years and then to Feng Yuxiang, this person is capricious, you must not be gullible, I am just doing this to take precautions, prepare first, once Pang Bingxun harbors evil intentions, we will not suffer his loss."

Regarding Song Zhewu's explanation, Tao Rong thinks it is reasonable. During this period, there were frequent wars in the country, there were many factions, and it was nothing to change the court, but it was still rare to see someone like Pang Bingxun so frequent. Doing more precautions will do you no good.

Although Tao Rong thought that it was good for Song Zhewu to be careful, she still felt that just suspicion, the idea of attacking the Gongxian Arsenal and Pang Bingxun's headquarters was not good. I just told the two squadron leaders that they must first find out the situation and report before acting according to the order.

Song Zhewu led his troops from Zhengzhou to the east of Xushui thirty miles, then got off the train and walked, and the railway was destroyed by Pang Bingxun. The location and number of the small vigilance troops arranged by Pang Bingxun on this road, as well as the location of the sentry posts, had already been clearly understood by the attentive Song Zhewu Order Second Regiment and the special combat team, and the reconnaissance battalion of the Second Regiment and a special combat team of Ye Changgui cooperated with each other, and before Song Zhewu's large army arrived, they all pulled out these obstacles one by one without danger. Therefore, Song Zhewu's main force marched very smoothly all the way.

Although a few shots were fired when dealing with the alert troops, first, the distance was long, and second, only a few shots were not enough to attract the attention of Pang Bingxun's troops. So when it was more than 3 o'clock in the morning, Song Zhewu's troops had quietly surrounded Gongxian, and the people of the 14th Provisional Division in the county town still didn't know at all.

In a farmhouse five miles away from Gong County, Luo Hu, the leader of the special combat squadron who first arrived in Gong County, reported: "We arrived in the middle of the night and captured a prisoner, and according to the prisoner's confession, Pang Bingxun took the main force to Heishi Pass last night to intercept Han Fuyu." At present, Gong County has only a soil engineering regiment and medical team of less than 1,000 people, as well as a small number of baggage personnel. ”

Due to the lack of heavy weapons and insufficient firepower when attacking cities, the Northwest Army had no choice but to adopt the method of digging tunnels and blasting.

Tao Rong looked at Song Zhewu with admiration and said, "The commander-in-chief is wise!" This Pang Bingxun really went to Heishi Pass to intercept Han Fuyu as expected by the commander-in-chief. ”

Song Zhewu thought to himself, I knew about this decades ago. Said to Luo Hu: "Give you an hour, can you open the city gate?" ”

Luo Hu nodded and said, "No problem, they defend very loosely." An hour is enough. ”

In this way, Song Zhewu easily solved the remaining troops of Pang Bingxun guarding Gong County. Now that Pang Bingxun has gone to intercept Han Fuyu, there is no need to be polite to Pang Bingxun. Later, Song Zhewu sent people to find Wang Xinggang and Sun Sihua, who were wearing military uniforms and holding the rank of major.

Sun Sihua and several of their ordnance experts were forcibly given the rank of major by Song Zhewu. The reason why this is so is that they saw the telegram from the Nanjing Ordnance Industry Bureau, asking them to earn a job in the Fourth Route Army, and they had no objection to this, but they were all resistant to asking them to wear military uniforms as soldiers, and it was Sun Sirong who did a lot of work that they agreed.

Song Zhewu told Wang Xinggang and Sun Sihua that the two of them should immediately rush to the Gongxian Arsenal with a cavalry company, not only to transport the weapons and ammunition there back to Zhengzhou, but also to do everything possible to recruit as many engineers and skilled workers in the arsenal as possible to the Fourth Route Army. In the end, Song Zhewu told the two: "You can tell them that Henan will soon become a battlefield, and it is not only dangerous for them to continue to stay here, but once the Northwest Army reoccupies the arsenal, they will also produce weapons and ammunition for the Northwest Army, which is an act of financing the enemy." However, recruiting them must be voluntary, and must not be forced. ”

Wang Xinggang has now fallen deeply in love with this young unit, and the harmonious atmosphere between the upper and lower levels in the army and the vigorous and upward vitality have deeply infected him, and he also deeply admires the commander of this unit, Song Zhewu. Although he was rich and financially backed, it was not possible to grow a very young army to the point where it is today in just a few years.

However, Wang Xinggang also became more and more unable to understand the person of Song Zhewu, who obviously obeyed the command of Chiang Kai-shek, a great counter-revolutionary warlord, and helped Chiang Kai-shek to crack down on dissidents, but he secretly recruited talents on a large scale, and he was a talent in all aspects, especially the technical personnel, the more the better, which was clearly to form a system of his own and strengthen his own strength. Although he still nests in the Taihang Mountains, he does not participate in the struggle between warlords for territory. Song Zhewu's personality and courage deeply attracted Wang Xinggang, and even he couldn't bear to do anything sorry for him, if such a person ......

Song Zhewu coughed lightly, waking up Wang Xinggang who was thinking, and seeing that Song Zhewu was looking at him with interest, Wang Xinggang covered up and said: "Commander, I am still the director of the Political Training Division there, and I have become the director of the Recruitment Division." ”

Wang Xinggang's words made Song Zhewu and Tao Rong laugh, Tao Rong said: "Director Wang, don't complain, the commander-in-chief has no choice, now there are not many high-achieving students like you who graduated from Yenching University in the army, who will you go if you don't go?" If others go, not only will they not be able to recruit people, but they will also scare people away. If you don't want to go, I'll have to go myself. ”

Wang Xinggang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Then I'll go, how dare you work for your master!" After speaking, he pulled Sun Sihua away.

According to reconnaissance, Pang Bingxun left two regiments and an artillery battalion behind Heishi Pass. One regiment was in reserve, and a regiment and artillery battalion had set up a blocking position next to the railway line behind the foot of the mountain, apparently to prevent Han Fuyu's men from rushing along the railway line.

Tao Rong meant that when Han Fuyu and Pang Bingxun were about the same fight, the Fourth Route Army suddenly attacked from behind Pang Bingxun, attacking from both sides, and completely killed Pang Bingxun's provisional 14th Division. Although Song Zhewu felt that by doing so, his troops could achieve unexpected results without paying a great price. However, Song Zhewu felt that this method was a bit unauthentic, but he did not want his soldiers to storm the mountain and suffer completely unnecessary casualties in his opinion.

After weighing it, Song Zhewu decided to move the troops to Heishi Pass first, and then shoot when Han Fuyu and Pang Bingxun were almost fighting, so that Han Fuyu's feeling of survival would be stronger! As for Tao Rong's idea of eliminating Pang Bingxun, Song Zhewu would not consider it.

Song Zhewu still remembers the most glorious sentence in his life when Pang Bingxun, who insisted on fighting hard in Linyi during the Battle of Taierzhuang in 38 years: "I am about to be 60 years old, my leg is still lame, and I have no worries, and I am fortunate to be able to participate in the war of resistance to defend the country!" It is certainly my wish to add a glorious page to the history of China's rejuvenation; Even if we write a line of our heroic sacrifice in the history of the country, we are worthy of our ancestors! ”

Pang Bingxun of Taierzhuang stubbornly held the battle of Linyi, Pang Bingxun's troops fought very hard and heroically, and Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, wrote in his memoirs: "The enemy army has been repeatedly rushing and killing for several days, and the casualties are pillowed, and they cannot even take a step beyond the thunder pool. At that time, there were no less than dozens of Chinese and foreign journalists and military attachés of friendly countries who accompanied the army to watch the battle in the Xuzhou area, and no one could have imagined that the best 'imperial army' would be frustrated by a little-known 'miscellaneous' army in China. For a while, there was a rumor at home and abroad, and the sound of color was everywhere. ”

On Pang Bingxun's words, Song Zhewu also decided to let Pang Bingxun go. Song Zhewu also wanted to see Pang Bingxun beat Yue Kou in the national war again, and of course, he also wanted to see if he had the ability to save Pang Bingxun.

The area from Gongxian to Luoyang is already a mountainous area, to be precise, a semi-hilly area, and the mountains here are not very high, and the mountains are not very dangerous. However, it is still easy to hide about 20,000 people in such an area. Because Song Zhewu didn't want to kill Pang Bingxun, he just took cover and waited in the mountains 5 kilometers behind Heishi Pass. According to Song Zhewu's meaning, the artillery battalion opened up the twenty-four French-made Schneider 75mm mountain guns in one line and aimed them at Heishi Pass.

Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army's mountain artillery only a small part of the initial purchase was produced by German Krupp, but Song Zhewu knew that the French Schneider 75mm was better, in terms of range alone, Schneider mountain artillery fired grenades, the maximum range was 9600 meters (40 degrees); Fired a shrapnel with a maximum range of 7850 meters (40 degrees). These two figures are far higher than the Krupp mountain gun. In Song Zhewu's view, the 41 mountain artillery of the Yue Army is garbage, and his firing range is not even higher than that of mortars with a caliber of more than 60 in the later period. At present, many of the mountain artillery pieces equipped by various units in China are the 41-type mountain artillery of the Chinese army.

After the second attack of the 6th-60th Brigades of Han Fuyu's 20th Division was repulsed, Song Zhewu, who had wanted to wait a little longer, received a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek himself. Although Chiang Kai-shek's tone in the telegram was very gentle, Song Zhewu could still feel Chiang Kai-shek's anxiety between the lines, first asked him where he had gone, and then told him that as long as Han Fuyu could be rescued, it would have a huge dividing effect on the Northwest Army and be of great significance to the central division and disintegration of the Northwest Army. He must do whatever it takes to compete for the party-state for this feat. Finally, it is particularly emphasized that according to intelligence, Sun Liangcheng had led his cavalry out of Tongguan yesterday to pursue Han Fuyu.

Looking at the telegram, Song Zhewu smiled bitterly and said to Tao Rong: "Our Chairman Jiang is really discerning!" He was afraid that we would not do our best to rescue Han Fuyu. ”

Tao Rong thought about it after reading the telegram and said: "Commander-in-chief, I think it's almost the same, if Sun Liangcheng had led his troops out of Tongguan yesterday, he must have passed Luoyang by now, and now Han Fuyu is probably about to despair!" At this time, we made a good shot. ”

Song Zhewu nodded and said, "Okay, if Han Fuyu really has a good deal, we will offend Chairman Jiang." If the chairman of the committee blames it, it will be a big mistake! ”

Tao Rong smiled and went to convey the order.

With the order issued, twenty-four 75mm mountain guns, twelve 120mm heavy mortars, plus 82mm mortars and 60mm mortars of the second regiment, guard brigade, and cavalry brigade, these guns added up to more than 300 guns, and the salvo of so many guns of various calibers was of course amazing. After five volleys, Song Zhewu immediately ordered to stop shooting. He didn't want to blow up Pang Bingxun, and he didn't want to blow up Pang Bingxun's troops too badly.

It was the first time Tao Rong had seen such a dense volley of artillery fire, which was much denser than the shelling of the three regiments of Zhujiahe, and he truly understood the power and role of artillery fire.

When Han Fuyu walked to the bridge, there were already many people in grass-green military uniforms on the Black Stone Pass who were clearing the remnants of the enemy and cleaning up the battlefield. Soon, Wan Guozhen led a staff officer of the Fourth Route Army to Han Fuyu, and the staff officer saluted and said: "Commander-in-Chief Han, our Commander Song wants me to report first, please get out of the way, let our cavalry brigade cross the river, and cover your retreat." ”

Han Fuyu had a smile on his face, and said in his heart: "I Han Fuyu has made a deal with a friend like Song Zhewu, and at this time I am still thinking of sending his own troops to cover the retreat of my troops. ”

Han Fuyu nodded and said: "Please go back and tell you the commander-in-chief, the 59th Brigade of our department has already connected the fire with Sun Liangcheng in the Yan Division, and if you don't give Sun Liangcheng's troops a hard blow, the 59th Brigade will not be able to withdraw from the position, I have sent Qiao Lizhi Brigade to reinforce the Yan Division, and ask him to send troops to assist me." ”

The staff officer saluted and turned to leave, but Han Fuyu stopped him again and said, "Tell you commander-in-chief, I went to the front line of the Yan Division, and I will thank him when the battle is over." After saying that, he got into the ironclad train and headed for Yanshi.

Before Han Fuyu could reach the Yan Division, he saw a cavalry rushing over from a distance, and Han Fuyu did not see the men of his 59th Brigade retreating, which showed that the Yan Division was still in their hands, and these cavalry were all bypassing the Yan Division to attack his troops attacking Heishi Pass. Han Fuyu immediately ordered Qiao Lizhi to immediately organize troops and defend with two ironclad trains as the center.

Without these two ironclad trains, the cavalry troops would definitely rush through immediately, and against the marching troops, the cavalry would not be in any danger at all. But with these two ironclad carts, the cavalry did not dare to rush over easily, and their sabers had no effect on the ironclad carts. On the contrary, the machine guns and small guns in the car will never show any mercy to them.

Sun Liangcheng ordered the cavalry to stop from afar, he was secretly happy in his heart, since Han Fuyu sent troops back to reinforce Yanshi, this means that they did not break through Pang Bingxun's defense line in Heishi Pass, otherwise, Han Fuyu would not send troops to Yanshi again. Any unit here, as long as his cavalry is touched, don't think about running anymore. Han Fuyu would not know this, and he used troops to fill it. After a long time, his infantry will definitely be able to catch up, and then it will be time for him to capture Han Fuyu, a bastard, alive.

Sun Liangcheng said to Zheng Dazhang: "Han Fuyu, this ungrateful bastard, can't run away this time, Pang Bingxun must have blocked Heishi Pass, he was afraid that we would copy his back road, so he sent troops to reinforce Yanshi." You are very good at cavalry, and my cavalry brigade is also under your command, don't fight with them, just stick to them, and my large army will arrive in the evening. ”

Zheng Dazhang, who joined Feng Yuxiang's department as a soldier in his early years, has served as a platoon, company, battalion, and regiment commander. In 1926, he served as the commander of the Second Cavalry Brigade of the Northwest Army, and later participated in the Wuyuan Pledge and the Northern Expedition. In 1928, he served as the commander of the First Cavalry Army of the Second Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army. His cavalry corps had two divisions, one of the division commanders was Xi Lichi and the other was Liu Fengke. Due to Xi Lichi's rebellion against Feng with Han Fuyu this time, he now has only one Liu Fengke division left in his hands.

Zheng Dazhang also held his breath a long time ago, and said fiercely: "You can rest assured!" Xi Lichi was abducted by this bastard, and as long as he dares to retreat in such a terrain, I will kill him. ”

Han Fuyu saw that Sun Liangcheng's cavalry did not attack in the ironclad car, leaned out from the roof of the car, and after a careful observation, he understood Sun Liangcheng's intentions. With Song Zhewu as his backing, he was naturally not afraid, and immediately ordered, and the troops kept the formation and slowly marched towards the Yan Division. At the same time, he ordered someone to give Sun Tongxuan of Yanshi, an order to him to withdraw from Yanshi and move closer to his troops.

Less than a kilometer away from Yanshi, Han Fuyu took Sun Tongxuan and Xu Guilin, and then slowly retreated. Tricycle Zheng Dazhang is not in a hurry, they have already received a report, and in two hours, the large army will arrive. They were now waiting for Han Fuyu's troops to speed up their retreat, and his cavalry would go up to charge.

Sun Liangcheng, who was holding a telescope, saw a cavalryman galloping all the way to an ironclad train in the camera, and after getting into the car, he quickly came out again, got on his horse and ran back in the direction of Heishiguan.

Sun Liangcheng put down the binoculars and said: "This must be Han Fuyu is in a hurry, he can't pass the Heishi Pass, only a detour to the Erling Pass, as long as he is out of the protection of the ironclad train, without infantry, we can also fill his brother." ”

Looking at the ironclad train, he really accelerated the speed of retreat, and Sun Liangcheng said to Zheng Dazhang: "Brother, it's up to you." ”

Zheng Dazhang smiled indifferently and said, "Chairman Sun, you just wait here and see!" After saying that, the cavalry slowly followed.

The Yanshi was only more than twenty miles to the Black Stone Pass, and when it was still five miles away from the Black Stone Pass, Han Fuyu's troops suddenly accelerated and retreated in the direction of the Black Stone Pass. Zheng Dazhang thought that Han Fuyu's troops could not withstand their psychological pressure and began to flee. Drawing his saber, he raised it and played a knife flower beautifully, and then pointed forward, his cavalry division and the cavalry of Sun Liangcheng's cavalry brigade on tens of thousands of horses urged the mount together, and began to accelerate towards Han Fuyu's troops.

Looking at the spectacular scene of thousands of horses galloping, Sun Liangcheng not only smiled, he seemed to see that Han Fuyu's troops were about to begin to rout, and then he was chased by his cavalry, slashing and trampling.

Suddenly, a faint whistling sound came, Sun Liangcheng was not only excited, this kind of sound was too familiar to him, this was the sound of the cannonball flying, and his heart couldn't help sinking. Before he could give the order, he saw that in the charging cavalry ranks, there were suddenly waves of mud and dirt, and then a deafening explosion came, and the forward of the charging cavalry team was immediately shrouded in smoke and dust. The cavalry behind couldn't stand the horses for a while, and many cavalrymen and horses crashed into the smoke and dust. As the shells continued to fall, a high wall of dirt and smoke seemed to be erected on the route of the cavalry's assault, and his cavalry kept crashing into it and disappearing.

Sun Liangcheng knew that he had fallen for Han Fuyu, and hurriedly ordered the trumpet to retreat. His cavalry managed to rein in their horses and turned back and retreated, but the shells blew up in pursuit of their buttocks.

Sun Liangcheng knew that the most running in China was ** kilometers now, so he didn't move. Zheng Dazhang rushed to Sun Liangcheng on his horse, and he didn't know where the hat went, so he said angrily: "Chairman Sun, we fell for Han Fuyu, I don't know where this bastard got so many cannons." ”

Sun Liangcheng didn't answer, just listened intently. Seeing Sun Liangcheng like this, Zheng Dazhang hurriedly listened, and a dull burst of drumsticks in his ears was like thousands of heavy drumsticks, beating in unison. Zheng Dazhang was startled and shouted loudly: "It's not good." Han Fuyu had cavalry. As soon as he finished speaking, a group of cavalry rushed out of the smoke and dust that had gradually dissipated, all of them dressed in grass-green uniforms, riding tall horses higher than the usual Mongolian horses, and holding high their sabers with long blades and thin backs, and pounced fiercely on them. It was the Fourth Route Army, Sun Liangcheng cried out in surprise.

At this time, Zheng Dazhang and Sun Liangcheng's cavalry had just withdrawn, not to mention the formation of the formation, and many of them had not even had time to turn their horses' heads. Zheng Dazhang, who has many years of cavalry experience, saw that it was not good, hurriedly ordered a retreat, pulled Sun Liangcheng's horse head again, and whipped Sun Liangcheng's horse buttocks......

Early the next morning, on the platform of Zhengzhou Railway Station, Song Zhewu led the officers of the Fourth Route Army to see off Han Fuyu and his troops.

Han Fuyu only stayed in Zhengzhou for one night, and originally said that he would give Han Fuyu and others a drink to suppress the shock the next day, but the next day Han Fuyu said that he would not stay in Zhengzhou anymore, but he hurriedly appointed the mayor of Zhengzhou and left Zhengzhou with his troops. The reason why Han Fuyu was in such a hurry to return to Kaifeng was because he felt that the big war between the Central Army and the Northwest Army would break out soon, and his troops urgently needed to rest and replenish now, otherwise he would have no strength to protect himself after the big war. Another reason is that Han Fuyu is unwilling to fight with the ordinary old brothers of the Northwest Army, Zhengzhou is the front line, and he doesn't want to fight others here, and the Northwest Army will not let him go.

Li Wentian was also in the procession to see off Han Fuyu, looking at Li Wentian, who was holding the rank of major general, Li Hanzhang, Wan Guozhen and others all showed envious eyes. Han Fuyu saw it in his eyes, and he didn't say anything, but thanked Song Zhewu again and again, and took the trouble to shake hands with the officers of the Fourth Route Army who came to see him off, and thanked him.

Although Han Fuyu experienced a big war, when he left Zhengzhou this time, the materials and grain collected all the way from Shaanzhou and Luoyang not only did not decrease, but on the contrary, there were a lot more. Song Zhewu gave Han Fuyu all the materials and ammunition of Pang Bingxun's provisional 14th Division that he had captured at Heishi Pass.

The day after sending Han Fuyu away, Tang Shengzhi's Fifth Route Army came to Zhengzhou, but Tang Shengzhi's Fifth Route Army was not stationed in Zhengzhou, he only passed through Zhengzhou, and his troops were stationed in Luohe and other places.

Tang Shengzhi graduated from the first infantry department of the Baoding Army Military Academy in 1914, and he participated in the Xinhai Revolution, the Patriotic War, the Protectorate War and the Northern Expedition and other important wars in the early days of the founding of the Republic of China.

After the Beiyang warlords withdrew from Hunan, Tang Shengzhi served as the commander of the Fourth Division of Hunan Province, and was at odds with Zhao Hengti, the governor of Hunan Province at that time, and launched a mutiny, expelled Zhao from Changsha, took the post of governor, and attempted to annex other forces. Tang Shengzhi's opponent, Ye Kaixin, commander of the Third Division of Hunan Province, asked for help from Wu Peifu, who was preparing to make a comeback in Wuhan at that time. Tang Shengzhi was defeated and forced to withdraw from Changsha and decided to join the Northern Expeditionary Army. On June 2, 1926, he officially led his troops to join the National Revolutionary Army, and was appointed commander of the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In 1927, he served as a member of the Political Committee of the Central Committee of the Wuhan Kuomintang, a member of the seven-member Presidium of the Military Commission, a member of the Wuhan National Political Axe, and the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Group Army.

Although Song Zhewu was very disgusted with Tang Shengzhi because of his unfavorable command in the battle to defend Nanjing. But Tang Shengzhi is very old after all, and his qualifications can be said to be about the same as Li Zongren and Feng Yuxiang, for such a person, no matter how unhappy Song Zhewu is, he has to come to the station to greet him politely.

But what he never expected was that Tang Shengzhi's train did not stop in Zhengzhou at all, and Song Zhewu ate a mouthful of dust, and Song Zhewu, who was angry, immediately ordered to remove all the refreshments placed on the platform, even boiling water.

In the days that followed, history stubbornly followed its own pace. On May 23, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang decided to dismiss Feng Yuxiang from all posts and expel him from the party forever. At the same time, it was announced that all the senior generals under Feng were removed from their posts and investigated. On the 25th, the State Council of Nanjing Political Axe decided to order the investigation and prosecution of Feng Yuxiang. Calling Feng Yuxiang a 'stalk of reunification', 'sabotage of the revolution', 'insidious surname', 'capriciousness', 'collusion with Soviet Russia', 'betrayal of the party-state', and 'moving from a fake revolution to a counter-revolution' is a heinous 'evil fang'.

In this way, Chiang Kai-shek had the intention of sleeping on his skin, eating his flesh and then being happy. The frontal attack and internal disintegration pressed against Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, putting Feng Yuxiang in a very difficult situation.

In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's strong pressure, Feng Yuxiang did not dare to rush into battle, and adopted a defensive strategy of avoiding war and defending himself. On May 27, he published a telegram from Shimono, claiming that he would "clean his body and retire to thank the countrymen." It was announced: 'As of May 27, all telegrams will be denied. Since then, I have been studying in the mountains, and I have fulfilled my original intention'.

Of course, Feng Yuxiang's true intention to go to the field was not to study, but to use the strategy of announcing his retreat to make Chiang Kai-shek lose the target of his attack, so as to preserve his strength, and to dispel Yan Xishan's suspicion of him, so as to draw Yan against Chiang Kai-shek and fight with Chiang Kai-shek again. Feng Yuxiang's move really had some effect, and Chiang Kai-shek's armed offensive had to be temporarily stopped.

Song Zhewu knew that although the clouds of the great war had dissipated, it was only the calm before the storm, and a larger civil war was brewing. Song Zhewu knew that he needed to leave the main battlefield of the next war for the time being, and he wanted to return to Laiyuan to reorganize his troops and prepare for the realization of his grand plan.

(To be continued)