At dawn, Kuaima sent a report on the battle of Wangjiadian (). In the rush of the first division and two regiments, the Beiyang Army stationed there was a mess, in addition to an ammunition depot was blown up, the fire caused also burned most of the grain, but at the most critical moment Beiyang also showed a slightly higher strength, stubbornly defending the northwest corner of the town, seeing that the sneak attack army had to withdraw from the battle with the captured two heavy machine guns and some guns and ammunition after dawn, and turned back to Jingshan.

Considering that most of the recruits who joined the night attack were new recruits, coupled with the obvious strengthening of Beiyang's defense with the experience of Chen Jiaao's previous experience, this result was already very good, and the most important thing was that after this battle, Feng Guozhang would definitely feel that the thorn in Jingshan was getting deeper and deeper, and it was imperative to divide the troops.

Soon after the war report arrived, Huang Keqiang and Wang Longzhong also arrived at Xiaogan Station, and to Yang Qiu's surprise, Li Shucheng actually served as the chief adviser of the Xiangyi Association.

Wang Longzhong is in his thirties, he was a consultant of the 49th standard of the Hunan New Army, followed Jiao Dafeng's uprising and took the lead in laying the foundation for the victory of Changsha, and Gan Xingdian was a ruffian who patrolled the city, he also had a Japanese army non-commissioned officer school, and he was also a classmate of Cheng Qian, and the relationship between the two was extraordinary. However, this guy's face is not good now, and it should be the Changsha incident that makes him feel a little guilty.

Wang Long received the star in Chinese, but he liked others to call him Wenwei, so Yang Qiu saluted and thanked: "Thank you Brother Wenwei and Hunan brothers for helping me in Hubei!" Yang Qiu led tens of thousands of soldiers of the National Defense Force, thank you. ”

"Commander Yang is polite, Wen Wei is a rough man, I just hope that someone won't be stabbed in the back." Wang Longzhong relied on Huang Keqiang's support and spoke unceremoniously to Yang Qiu, a "junior", which made He Xi and others secretly angry, but Yang Qiu didn't seem to hear this, and swept him coldly and said: "Since you are here, you are all revolutionary brothers!" Hunan Yixie lacks machine guns, Qing, you will instigate two machine gun squads to cooperate with them. "Huang Keqiang didn't expect that as soon as Xiang Yixie came, Yang Qiu would be assigned to two machine gun squads to obey the dispatch, and just wanted to thank Yang Qiu, but he had already taken the lead and walked towards the command ().

Cai Jimin and others still have opinions about Huang Keqiang personally leading the Hunan Association to come, and with his fame, he actually came to be the co-ordinator, obviously with the intention of competing for merit! If Yang Qiu is not a true revolutionary, it will be forgotten, but he has personally commanded the troops since Wusheng Pass, and now he has been carrying Beiyang here for so many days, and there is no merit and hard work. In addition, the dispute between the two about compromise has caused a storm in the city, and now this is happening, which makes many officers, especially those from Hubei, feel very uncomfortable. So after sitting down, Deng Yulin was the first to stand up: "Commander, Mr. Keqiang is a revolutionary predecessor, everyone in the world knows it, and personally coming to Xiaogan to supervise the battle will definitely boost morale, I think the title of overseer should be awarded." ”

The officers also echoed one after another, and the national defense force has now shared honor and disgrace, so even Jin Zhaolong, these grassroots officers, are not satisfied with his appointment as co-commander, which makes Huang Keqiang and others change their faces slightly, he has heard the dissatisfaction of these Hubei generals, and knows that if he does not promise, he will be stiff, and said: "Why should the revolution care about the position, since everyone is recommended, then Keqiang is disrespectful." ”

The Overseer is simply a good position to expound his "fame", not to mention that he can also command the army as an Overseer, so Yang Qiu nodded happily, from an outsider's point of view, the two armies seem to be very friendly, but a position has already shown a deep rift.

"Commander, urgent report!"

When Song Qinggang wanted to tell Huang Keqiang and others about the current situation, Chen Guofu ran in with a communication cavalry and saluted: "Tell me Commander, Beiyang has divided its troops!" Yang Qiu and Song Qing glanced at each other, saw the smile in each other's eyes, and asked, "How many centaurs are there?" Where did it go? ”

"Look at the number is the fourth town, judging by the number of people and the number of heavy weapons...... It should be the full Fourth Town! The striker has already headed for Jingshan. ”

"The Complete Fourth Town!"

Yang Qiu suddenly got up and rushed to the map in front of everyone's surprised gaze. The fish finally caught, but it was too big! Master Feng actually directly divided his troops into a town and marched into Jingshan, obviously to forcibly buy Hanchuan, and then flank Hankou.

A town ()! That's a town with nearly 9,000 infantry, three artillery barracks, 54 seven-life and five field guns, fifteen Makqin heavy machine guns, and complete engineering! Yang Qiu was really moved by scolding his mother, and he couldn't help but rush to Feng Huafu and ask him if he thought too highly of himself, and actually sent a town!

Song Qing's face also changed suddenly, when he discussed with Yang Qiu before, he had always thought that Feng Guozhang would send at most one assistant to flank to contain him, but as a result, there were not many troops in front of him, but he didn't think that it would be the military strength of an entire town as soon as he was dispatched! Now there are two brigades of the 1st Jingshan Division, and the two regiments that attacked Wangjiadian will be able to return at least one day later than the 4th Town. The number of people is comparable in military strength, but because the artillery is on Xiaogan's side, the first division has only one and a half artillery battalions, all of which are old-fashioned five-life and seven-mountain guns, and there are only twelve heavy machine guns, but there are twenty-four light machine guns, but nearly half of the soldiers are recruits, and it is almost impossible to eat a town in this case.

The first brigade of the second division is responsible for diagonally inserting and blocking the two battlefields, the second brigade can be withdrawn, the third brigade and the three brigades of the third division were originally prepared to defend the front, and only the Hunan First Association can come in handy, relying only on five dissatisfied brigades, among which there is also an obviously resentful Hunan army brigade, but it has to cover Feng Guozhang's three elite Beiyang Association, maybe the Henan 29th Association will simply abandon Wangjiadian and Weidian and go south directly to help in the war, which is not enough at all.

It is already dangerous for five brigades to cover four associations, the problem is that there is still at least one brigade on the Jingshan side that is barely enough!

What to do? From there?

Many people in history said that Feng Guozhang was old and spicy in his use of soldiers, and this time Yang Qiu really realized that he was powerful. Spicy, safe, and fierce! A simple division of troops has forced all the Wehrmacht's family funds out, and now the plan can't be changed! Because once Jingshan is lost, Hanchuan will be completely broken, and even Hanyang will be in danger.

Looking at his stern expression, even Huang Keqiang felt that something was wrong, and asked Li Shucheng beside him: "Xiaoyuan, Feng Huafu divided his troops, and the front-line military strength was reduced by nearly half, isn't it a good thing?" ”

Li Shucheng was also worried about Jingshan, and suddenly heard this kind of question and wanted to curse, but fortunately he stopped his mouth in time and explained in a low voice: "The Overseer doesn't know that Jingshan is a barrier against Hanchuan (). For Hanchuan, crossing Jingshan and Tianmen is like crossing Wusheng Pass and entering Hubei, and now Feng Huafu is sending a town to buy this line! Once Jingshan and Tianmen are broken, Hanchuan will definitely not be able to hold it, so that Beiyang can bypass Xiaogan's troops and point directly at the flank of Yangxia, even if our side covers the main force, that side will ....... ”

With his explanation, Huang Keqiang finally understood why Yang Qiu and the officers looked so serious, and unconsciously, his heartbeat began to accelerate, and said, "Isn't there a division in Jingshan?" They should be ordered to take advantage of the terrain to delay for a few days, and it is really impossible to immediately let the Hunan Fourth Division come to help. Our side took the initiative and tried to force the Fourth Town to return to the ....... ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a whisper sounded in the conference room, and Yang Qiu looked at it directly and shook his head: "Forget the Fourth Division!" They can't come up at all without ten days, and even if they do, it's useless! Offense and defense are completely different things, if Feng Huafu wants to defend, our current strength is far from enough! ”

"How is that possible! There were more than 20,000 in the Fourth Division, and there were 5,000 recruits in Hankou, all of whom were brought over with three times the strength of the enemy, so how could they not be attacked? Huang Keqiang was a little displeased, seeing that Yang Qiu hadn't moved the Fourth Division at this time, he got up and was about to say more, but Li Shucheng pulled him to sit down: Overseer, Commander Yang is right, don't say that the Fourth Division has not yet arrived in Yuezhou, even if it arrives in Hanyang, it will take three days, and then it will be another day to rush from Hanyang to Jingshan, and Jingshan may have been broken at that time!"

"I'll take Xiang Yixie to support Jingshan." Wang Longzhong got up and said: "It will take half a day at most to untie the cable from here, and it will be blocked in time." ”

The corners of Yang Qiu's mouth were a little bitter, he cast his net, put down the bait, and when he was about to tremble, he attracted a nest of big fish! Now there are only two ways in front of him, one is to immediately pull the Hanyang recruits up and fight the first division, and attack Feng Huafu's main force here to see if he can bite it down. The second is to forcibly close the net and swear to the death! Thinking of this, he looked at Song Qing next to him, who saw his gaze and firmly bowed his head.

Syllable!

The pen in Yang Qiu's hand broke into two, took a deep breath and sat down, he was thinking about holding a meeting to study the plan before, but now he simply omitted this pace, and Qiangang arbitrarily ordered directly: "Guofu, you immediately call the Hotline to Minister Zhang, and immediately let Bingwen move!" Qin Zhangshu. ”

"To ()!" Qin Zhangshu is twenty-six years old this year, he is a young officer who was promoted by Yue Peng, short and strong, because he was born in the Right Route Army, so he is not so pretentious, and when he heard the call, he immediately stood up.

"The 1st Brigade will set out immediately, and must be diagonally inserted into the partition next to the Dafu Water and set up a defensive front before sunset tomorrow." Yang Qiu was afraid that he wouldn't understand the brutality, so he said heavily: "I'm telling you, once you open this place, you are likely to be attacked from both sides by Feng Huafu's Ministry and the Fourth Town!" I don't have too many troops for you, the two thousand veterans brought back from Sichuan by Advisor Song were originally made up for the Third Division, and now I will hand it over to you, within five days! Even if you fight it out, you can't resist taking half a step back! ”

"Yes! If you fight it out, you won't retreat half a step! ”

"Zhang Tingfu and He Xifan, you two will immediately set off with the second and third brigades and retreat, take Xingou, and support Jingshan at the Yangtze River port. Remember! The external task is to withdraw to the new ditch to rest! Whoever shows his army a little bit, you will not come back! Seeing that Yang Qiu said so solemnly, the two immediately assured that they would not leak the news.

After transferring the three brigades of the second division away, Cai Jimin got up anxiously and said: "Commander, the first division and the second division are gone, and only the three brigades of the third division and the Hunan First Association are left on our side, if Feng Huafu's main force attacks, ......." ”

"Tomorrow afternoon at the latest, the 1st Division and 3rd Brigade of Qingshan will cross the river to support you, and the recruits from Hanyang have been organized into two brigades, and I will also transfer all of them to Sandaoqiao as a reserve." Yang Qiu got up and walked in front of Huang Keqiang and said solemnly: "Mr. Keqiang, no matter what disputes we had before, now it has reached the moment of life and death, so I hope everyone will forget about these tools for the time being!" I will personally lead two divisions to cut off Jingshan, and I will leave it to you here! Anyway....... I need five days! ”

Huang Keqiang didn't expect that he would hand over this important task to himself as soon as he arrived in Yang Qiu, which is equivalent to handing over the five brigades on the front line and the two recruit brigades in the back to him for command, what a good opportunity! So before Li Shucheng could pull him, he got up and held Yang Qiu's hand: "Chenhua can rest assured, I will personally block Feng Huafu here for five days!" ”

Yang Qiu nodded, and the corner of his eye secretly glanced at Song Qing, who was still in front of the map, and after quickly exchanging a look, he walked out of the conference room with the officers of the Second Division with firm steps, and with his departure, the final battle of the Xiaogan Defense War slowly kicked off.