This time, Yang Sen dispatched two more divisions than originally planned, these two divisions were Yang Hanyu's Eighth Division and Xiang Shurong's Eleventh Division, and these two divisions were assigned to the First and Third Routes by Yang Sen respectively.

Just when Yang Sen's Second Route Army stormed Tongliang and the 26th Division of the Kuomintang defenders were in a stalemate, the offensive of the first road against Wusheng and the offensive on Yongchuan on the third road also started almost at the same time. The entire battle of Pyongchon was in a state of white-hot heat from the very beginning.

At this time, the Yucheng camp of the National Political Axe Military Committee near the Chuqi Gate in Yucheng was also in a very busy atmosphere. Luo Yaoguo is now sitting here, mentioning all the mental processing of the battle reports that have come one after another.

"Report, receive the latest battle report of the 26th Division." A young lieutenant hurried into the barracks' operations command room with a document in his hand.

Luo Yaoguo, Jiang Baili, He Guoguang, and Dan Nu Steelman were sitting around a huge military map studying the battle situation, and when they heard the latest battle report, Luo Yaoguo didn't look up and just said softly: "Read." ”

"From 12 o'clock today, the enemy's troops of about three divisions attacked the Tu'eryan position and the northern position of Tongliang County in two ways. Under the cover of eight mountain guns, the enemy attacked our two main positions with about one brigade at a time. By the time of the power generation, our division had repelled six onslaught attacks by the enemy, and the corpses in the north of our Tongliang City and in front of the Tu'er Rock position were piled up like mountains, and it was estimated that more than 3,000 enemies had been killed. At present, the enemy forces used corpses as a base to advance the front line 100 meters away from our forward position, and used machine rifles and mortars to engage in close fire with our troops, and our division suffered about 500 casualties. ”

"Good!" Luo Yaoguo slapped the table and laughed: "General Yu won the first battle, I want to ask the Military Commission for his credit!" ”

However, Luo Yaoguo was still a little surprised by the performance of the Sichuan Army this time, and he actually built a fortification with corpses, and it was still such a hot day. It seems that you really can't underestimate the enemy! I don't know what happened to An Sihua's side now?

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The opponent of the Northern Route Army commanded by An Sihua was another of Yang Sen's main generals, Wang Zhangxu, who had the nickname "Wang Lao Chao". However, this time, Wang Lao sent troops to fight in a chaotic manner, and it was not chaotic at all, at least at the beginning. The four divisions under his command of nearly 50,000 troops, with Yang Hanyu's Eighth Division as the vanguard, advanced mightily along the highway on the east bank of the Jialing River towards the territory of Wusheng County. Along the way, he won many towns and villages, and walked more than 100 miles without encountering opponents, until he reached a small town called Taipingpu.

Defending this small town on the banks of the Jialing River was the 40th Regiment of the 14th Division of the Kuomintang, and the regiment commander Wei Yunsong was an old man of the Gui family, who graduated from the Xijiang Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, and served as the deputy commander and battalion commander of the engineer battalion in the former Guangxi First Division. Probably because he was born as an engineer, Wei Yunsong still has a lot of experience in fighting positional defensive warfare. As soon as the 40th Regiment entered Taipingpu, it began to work non-stop day and night, digging the ring fortifications that lay in the middle of the main road. The whole fortification was networked with trenches and communication trenches, supported by a large number of machine-gun bunkers, plus dozens of solid anti-artillery holes, and finally with the artillery bunkers of the regimental mortar company as the core. On the periphery of the ring fortifications, the engineer company of the 40th Regiment also laid a large number of mines, laid barbed wire and dug hundreds of traps. The whole ring of fortifications is like a porcupine with sharp spikes, quietly crawling in the middle of the road, waiting for an unknown opponent to come to the door to send him to death.

At 1 p.m. on June 1, the vanguard regiment of Yang Hanyu's Eighth Division was the first to collide head-on. This unit was obviously inexperienced, and the Eighth Division of the Sichuan Army was based on a cavalry regiment and some miscellaneous scraps and militia regiments. Now he has been sent out to take the lead by Wang Laochao, so it is destined to be a tragedy.

"Click--" This is the sound of a machine gun, what should I do when I hear the sound of a machine gun? Get down and don't move! Well, that's probably the case, so the battalion that walked at the forefront of the vanguard regiment of the Eighth Division of the Sichuan Army, except for their battalion commanders, all fell to the ground with brushes and brushes, not moving, and they were really afraid of death.

"Get up! Get up for me! Their machine guns are still far away! Get up and spread out for me. A small Sichuanese, who was probably the battalion commander, howled at the top of his voice, he was a platoon commander not long ago, and he had no formal military education, but he had been fighting for life and death for many years, and he still had a lot of experience. As soon as he heard it with his ears, the machine gun was four or five hundred meters away, and it couldn't hit them at all.

Still far away? So you have to lie on your stomach! If you don't get up on your stomach, don't you have to keep going? So that damn machine gun is close to us. That's a machine gun that is known as a gunshot and raised by my father and mother for nothing! Ge Laozi, whoever stands up is stupid!

The brothers of the Sichuan Army all mean this in their hearts, and they were all mixed food. I don't know if he didn't do good deeds and accumulate virtue in Pingyue, and he did too many things to bully the people, and he was caught on the battlefield by that Yang Dashuai and sent to death after getting retribution. But these people don't know that they are dead, and they still fantasize that they can survive the battlefield and go back to make out with their mothers-in-law again!

The battlefield should be full of artillery fire, so at the moment when the brothers of the Sichuan army were lying on their stomachs and dodging the machine guns, huge fires suddenly rose among them, followed by a loud "boom-" sound. Suddenly, sparks flew everywhere, smoke and dust were chaotic, and from time to time, broken limbs were blown apart and flew in all directions. This is the mortars of the 40th Regiment in power, first use machine guns to scare the enemy, let the enemy lie down and not move, and then a company of mortars waiting, this is one of the standard tactics of the Kuomintang army now, it is ineffective to deal with experienced opponents, and it is just right to bully new recruits.

This burst of mortars brought a catastrophe to the officers and men of this battalion, and most of them were blown away by mortar shells falling from the sky before they could stand up, except for the clever battalion commander, who was standing and was swept up in the air by the shock wave that burst out of the shells, and then smashed down and died on the spot.

"What?" Yang Hanyu's face was calm, and after listening to the staff officer's report, he already knew that something was wrong. Of course he'd seen mortars or something, but he'd never even heard of a mortar that hit so accurately, isn't this thing a lively thing to listen to? How could you knock down most of the battalion at once?

"Pass my orders." Yang Hanyu had been waiting for Yang Sen to give him an order in the past, and now he was going to give the order himself, but what kind of order? He thought for a while, learned the tone of Yang Sen's order, and said, "Order the 23rd Brigade to take down the Taiping before today's fall, and violate military law!" ”

I know that the boss wants to march the law! Brigade Commander Wang of the 23rd Brigade did not dare to slack off, so he had to stubbornly start organizing the next battalion of his subordinates to send them to death, and when the troops would be finished.

The Battle of Taipingpu was unusually bloody and fierce from the beginning, of course, this was all for Yang Hanyu's Eighth Division. There were so many recruits in this army that there was no other tactic than a group charge of the whole regiment and battalion. The first wave of the charge was a battalion of about 400 men forming a not very neat phalanx, holding shoddy Sichuan-made rifles, and walking slowly towards the impregnable ring fortifications, as if it was an execution ground rather than a battlefield.

"Bang Bang - "

The sparse gunshots began to sound, and Yang Hanyu, who was supervising the battle in the back, was shocked again, hearing this sound, he knew that it was a good gun, and he didn't know how much stronger than the Sichuan-made guns of his own troops, even if it was made in Hanyang by Wu Dashuai, it was definitely inferior, I don't know where these Cantonese Yankees got it?

At this time, this battalion of the Sichuan Army was still four or five hundred meters away from the position of the [***] 40th Regiment. So it was the snipers who were loitering in the forward positions who opened fire, and these insidious guys were holding specially selected Min-13 rifles with high accuracy equipped with scopes. It can accurately hit the enemy at a distance of about 1,000 meters, and at a distance of less than 500 meters, it is almost a deadly killer with a gunshot. Their target was not the poor shivering recruits, but the officers of the Sichuan Army in beautiful uniforms with short guns. As long as these people are brought down, the remaining recruits will probably be scattered.

However, it backfired, although these Sichuan troops lacked training and experience, it did not mean that they were stupid and knew the danger ahead and rushed vigorously. As soon as the snipers opened fire, the Sichuan military camp immediately dispersed, and the officers and men each looked for concealment to hide, and then they also "crackled" and fired back, and the battlefield was suddenly filled with gunsmoke. And listening to the scene, it was actually the Sichuan army that had the upper hand, because on the side of the National Revolutionary Army, only a few snipers were firing, and everyone else was squinting in the trenches. It's so far away, if it's not a sniper, it's definitely a waste of bullets. And the Sichuan army doesn't care so much, and they don't consider that the rifles and bullets given to them by Yang Dashuai have a limited range and a small number, anyway, where they hit! Besides, if the bullets run out, you can probably change someone else to rush it, right?