Chapter 62: Attack on Wuhan (3)

"Wenge, the cannonballs hit a bit too much, I didn't expect it to be so powerful?" Gao Zongbao's uneasy voice interrupted Song Zhewu's thoughts. He knew that Gao Zongbao had misunderstood, so he smiled and said, "It's not much, if you can solve all the problems with only cannonballs, I really hope to fight a few more rounds!" You have to remember that our biggest advantage over the forces of the various factions in the country is that we are much more powerful than them. Of course, it is much worse than the foreign [***] team, that is, compared with the Yu army, we do not have an advantage. But now in the country, in terms of firepower alone, we are first-class. As I said before the war, we want to maximize our strengths and reduce the casualties of our soldiers, and I need them to be not only good veterans, but also good officers in 8 years. Our troops are still too young to allow them to experience setbacks now, they need time to gain experience, so there is no question of whether too many shells are used. ”

"8 years? Why 8 years? As long as they fight a few more battles and have more actual combat experience, these people can be called veterans. Wen Ge, it's not that I praise you, the soldiers trained according to your skills and tactics are definitely first-class in China, at first I thought you studied in Germany to learn, but Chief of Staff Xiao and Chief of Staff Wang both said no, what you said is not the German army! I am a late bloomer, and I really know and see it now. Gao Zongbao's eyes were mixed with doubt and admiration.

Song Zhewu knew that he had missed his words, so he hurriedly covered it up and said: "Eight years later, these people will be twenty-eight to thirty years old, just in the prime of life, and there will be many excellent officers and even generals among these people. Although war is cruel, there is a saying in ancient times that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither. But I've always felt that the phrase "loving soldiers like children" is too simplistic, and those of us in power don't just want to see them as our own children. Think of them as our backbone. To put it mildly, only if our backbone is hard, our waist will be straight; To put it more broadly, a country's backbone will only stand up if the army is strong. ”

The more Song Zhewu spoke, the more excited he became, and even inspired the dreams and wishes that he had been deeply buried in his heart. Song Zhewu grabbed Gao Zongbao's arm and said loudly: "Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, our Chinese nation, the highest and strongest backbone in the world, has been constantly bending, so that even the barbarian state that submitted to our ancestors in the Tang Dynasty has raised their heads higher than us today!" I can tell you that the backbone of our Chinese nation will definitely stand up again, and our security army is the strongest backbone of our Chinese nation, or at least will be part of this strong backbone......

At the same time that Song Zhewu expressed his exciting emotion, upstairs in Xiaogan Dongcheng, Yang Tenghui was blushing, looking at the direction of the small highland, motionless. Although the two places are more than 20 miles apart, this is a plain, there is no obstruction, and with the help of a telescope, he can clearly see what is happening on the small plateau.

Ever since the Fourth Route Army, which did not know how much benefit Lao Chiang had received from Nanjing, began to attack the No. 1 Heights, he had been standing on the tower for several hours. He and his friend Li Mingrui, deputy commander of the Seventh Army, had already made an appointment that the Second Route Army of the Central Army commanded by Liu Zhi would arrive at the evening of 2 days at the latest. At that time, Li Mingrui will suddenly dodge the front of the defensive position on the eastern front of Wuhan, and then he and Li Mingrui will pull the troops away together and send a telegram to support the central government, so that the Gui department will not have time to make up the defense, and let the troops of Liu Zhi, the second route army of the Central Army, break through the defense line in one fell swoop.

Yang Tenghui, as an old subordinate of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the Gui family, has always endured the pain in his heart for the old chief who defected to Chiang Kai-shek to fight back against him. But he was also very helpless, not because of the 300,000 oceans given to him by Chiang Kai-shek, he really couldn't get used to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi reusing Hu Zongduo, Ye Qi, Tao Jun and other Hubei generals, and threw them aside.

In Yang Tenghui's view, Hu Zongduo is not like a soldier, but more like a politician, and officially because of the "Hunan Case" he caused, he also angered Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, so that he found an excuse to use troops against the Gui family, and only then did he recruit these hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege their 100,000 troops in the two lakes.

Don't talk about the garrison Wusheng Pass, the hesitant Han Fuyu's Third Route Army; Even if the Fourth Route Army does not come, they will not be able to resist the two main armies of the central government with their 100,000 people. And he had already received a telegram from Cheng Qian in Hunan in the morning. Yang Tenghui was not surprised that Cheng Qian surrendered to Chiang, after all, with the acquiescence of Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren categorically attacked Cheng Qian. On May 19, 28, Cheng Qian received a notice of a meeting from Li Zongren and rushed to Wuhan with Bai Chongxi. In order to paralyze Cheng Qian, after Bai Chongxi arrived in Wuhan, he made an excuse to go to Henan to meet Feng Yuxiang and get out. On the 21st, Cheng Qian attended the meeting of the Wuhan Political Branch. In the middle of the meeting, Li Zongren suddenly detained Cheng Qian, who was unguarded, and immediately telegraphed to Nanjing Political Axe in the name of the Wuhan Political Branch, saying: "Cheng Qian has always been violent, and he has become a surname in chaos. After the Western Expedition, he was even more arrogant and domineering, controlling the Hunan government, and the special meeting decided to temporarily put Cheng Qian under surveillance, and please immediately order that he be dismissed from his own and other positions. After Chiang Kai-shek received the telegram, he presided over the Central Political Conference on the 23rd, and passed a resolution to remove Cheng Qianben from all his posts, abolish the Provisional Political Affairs Committee of Hunan and Hubei, and appoint Lu Diping to the post of chairman of Hunan Province. After the meeting, Cheng Qian's Sixth Army voluntarily retreated to Jiangxi because of Cheng Qian's detention, and was later either dismissed or absorbed, and soon disappeared into invisibility.

But as soon as Cheng Qian threw himself into Jiang, Wuhan was already over, and the tens of thousands of people in Wuhan who were in their Gui family were also finished. Even if he, Yang Tenghui, fights all his strength, he has no power to return to the sky, and the defeat of the Gui family is decided. He Yang Tenghui can die in the line of duty, but his troops and his old subordinates should not be in this fate. Thinking of this, Yang Tenghui's thoughts of being sorry for Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, the two old chiefs, faded a lot.

To block Han Fuyu's Third Route Army and Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army in the direction of Wusheng Pass, he knew very well that he couldn't do it with his division. That's nearly 200,000 people! With less than 20,000 people, resisting an army of 200,000 is absolutely unimaginable, even if Sun Wu is resurrected, he can't do it. It's just that he knows that various local forces are still waiting, at least Feng Yuxiang is waiting, and they are still waiting for the most favorable time for them to make a move, which is also the opinion of Li Zongren, who is far away in Guangxi. However, Song Zhewu of the Fourth Route Army was very active, according to intelligence, he was still in Zhengzhou the day before yesterday, but today he suddenly ran in front of him.

If he had sent a telegram to Chiang now, his troops would definitely have been able to avoid losses, but in this case, it would have been very difficult for Li Mingrui to withdraw. As soon as he surrendered to Chiang, there was almost no defense in the north of Wuhan, and the defense system of Wuhan immediately collapsed, and the troops defending in the east of Wuhan would immediately abandon their positions, and the whole army would retreat west to Guangxi. In this way, it will be more difficult for Li Mingrui to withdraw his troops from the army, and it will even be very dangerous.

After all the calculations, he still thought that there would be no problem for his brigade to withstand it for a day or two. Although the losses of the troops will be relatively large, as long as they are taken until tomorrow night, everything will be fine. But what he definitely didn't expect was that in just an hour, the No. 1 high ground would be lost. Heavy artillery fire was reported.

He was not very pleased with the loss of the No. 1 Heights, which were too small, and he only put a regimental headquarters and two battalions of troops. After the loss of the No. 1 Heights, for the sake of safety, he had already ordered that the brigade that organized the attack of the Northwest Army of Nanyang west of Xiaogan should shrink Xiaogan and strengthen the defensive force. Although he did not think that this Fourth Route Army would quickly eat his brigade on the second height.

But the sight in the telescope just now shocked him, and the huge smoke and dust that rose in an instant and the faint whistling sound made him feel hopeless and lonely, and he knew that his brigade would not return. He immediately asked people to send a telegram to Li Mingrui, asking for electricity in advance, otherwise he would power it himself. He didn't want his troops to bleed anymore, and he didn't want these old subordinates who came out of Guangxi with him to give their lives in vain!

The artillery fire of the Fourth Route Army was too fierce, and the fierceness made him feel terrified! Such a powerful artillery fire, even the Central Army will not have it.

He decided that as soon as this Fourth Route Army surrounded Xiaogan, he would immediately electrify.

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