The calendar of this world turned to the end of October 1924, and the Jiangnan battlefield, which had been quiet for a while, was filled with gunpowder again. The Kuomintang front-line army, urged by Mr. Zhongshan's telegram, once again acted with swift hands and feet. It turned out that Zhang Feng was blocked on the front line of Shanhaiguan and seemed to be a little defeated, and the veteran Zhang felt that things were not good, on the one hand, he raised the price of Feng Yuxiang and asked him to quickly turn against him, and on the other hand, he asked his ally the Kuomintang to restart the offensive in Jiangnan as soon as possible.

Mr. Zhongshan was naturally very anxious when he saw that the battle at Shanhaiguan was stalemate, after all, the victory of the Kuomintang in the south had not yet been finalized, and at least the provinces south of the Yangtze River had to be taken to ensure that the Kuomintang would divide half of the country. With the current distribution of the Kuomintang and its direct line in Jiangnan, it may be very unfavorable if Wu Peifu defeats Zhang Feng and makes a comeback. After carefully studying the map of China, Mr. Zhongshan decisively rejected the Military Commission's recommendation for a decisive battle and ordered the Kuomintang army to step up its attack.

Although he knew that Feng Yuxiang would rebel and Wu Peifu would be defeated, Luo Yaoguo could only obey orders, he was not a warlord now! If Mr. Nakayama is displeased, this deputy chief of general staff will be gone. On the day after receiving the order, Luo Yaoguo went down to Yuelu Mountain and took a train from Changsha to Wuchang City to supervise the battle. In this time and space, the battle of Tingsi Bridge and Hesheng Bridge did not happen. Xiao Yaonan, who had just suffered a fiasco, couldn't do anything but stick to Wuchang and prepare to run away.

When Luo Yaoguo arrived at the city of Wuchang, the attack organized by An Sihua and Qian Dajun had already begun. Five artillery regiments and 120 75mm mountain guns were pushed under the city of Wuchang to concentrate on bombarding the city wall. Hundreds of shells exploded almost at the same time, in the same place, at the same time. One fireball after another released a powerful shock wave, testing the ancient city wall near the small east gate of Wuchang again and again.

Defending Wuchang City was Liu Zuolong, the commander of the Fourth Mixed Brigade in Hubei, who was born in the Hubei New Army and was strictly speaking Li Yuanhong's man. Later, Wang Zhanyuan took refuge in Beiyang when he was governor of Hubei, and Xiao Yaonan replaced Wang Zhanyuan and then joined Xiao. In the battle of the Laodao River some time ago, because he ran fast, he was not completely annihilated, so he was sent by Xiao Yaonan to defend the city.

As a matter of fact, this Liu Zuolong has already sent people to contact the Kuomintang to discuss the issue of defection, and the condition he put forward is the chairman of Hubei Province, which is too demanding. And An Sihua, who is in charge of fighting Wuchang, has a stubborn Prussian brain, although this period of time has changed a little, but he is still very repulsive to the defective soldiers or something, and directly asked Liu Zuolong to disarm and surrender, and don't dream of what the chairman is. So Liu Zuolong has no choice but to fight hard.

"How's it going?" As soon as he walked into An Sihua's command post at the forefront, Luo Yaoguo went straight to the point without caring about greetings. "Sihua, can you beat it?" It is now October 22, 1924, and according to Luo Yaoguo's memories of his previous life, it was in these days that Feng Yuxiang launched the Yanjing coup. If Wuchang can be defeated before this, it can give people the illusion that Feng Yuxiang's revolutionary determination was strengthened because the Kuomintang captured Wuchang.

An Sihua seemed to have just returned from the artillery position, and he smelled of gunsmoke. He frowned and said, "There are not many defenders in Wuchang City, only about one mixed brigade. However, the city wall of Wuchang is indeed very strong, and we are now concentrating all the artillery bombardment a little, if we can blast the city wall, with our superiority in troops, we can take the city in one day, otherwise it will inevitably become a war of attrition. ”

At this time, Xiao Yaonan was in secret contact with He Chengjun in the Hankou Concession, and He Chengjun, on behalf of the Kuomintang, asked Xiao Bu to leave Hubei and go north to Henan, and was willing to provide 2 million yuan for the journey. Xiao Yaonan, on the other hand, concentrated his main forces along the Jinghan Railway, making a posture of being ready to go north at any time, and the defenders in Wuchang and Hanyang City had only one brigade.

"It's just a pity that we don't have heavy artillery." Luo Yaoguo shook his head helplessly and ordered: "Sihua, you continue to implement the predetermined plan, I am just here to watch the battle." If Wuchang can fight the best, if it really can't be done, don't rush for a while, so as not to lose too much of the troops. I estimate that there will be changes in the direction of Yanjing in the next few days, and Wuchang will naturally be able to get it then. ”

"Oh, do you have any news?" An Sihua was taken aback, he came to China for more than a year, and he also despised the "cannonball, silver bullet, and meat bullet" style of play in the Chinese civil war to the point of gradually accepting it. At the very least, this kind of fight can minimize the losses of the people.

Luo Yaoguo hurriedly shook his head and said, "How can there be, don't you know that the GCD's Northwest New Army has entered Chahar?" "This is the news that Luo Yaoguo just got. GCD's 22,000-strong army really borrowed from Suiyuan, secretly passed through Suiyuan, and suddenly attacked Chahar, and captured the important town of Jining in Chahar on October 21, and the fire behind Wu Peifu was finally ignited.

"Boom---" At this moment, a dull sound came from outside the headquarters, followed by earth-shattering cheers.

"It worked!" Hearing the sound outside, Luo Yaoguo and An Sihua both shouted in unison. It must have collapsed the city wall of Wuchang just now, and it seems that the ancient strong city wall could not stop the modern artillery after all.

"Comrades! Come on! "The Kuomintang army's signature submachine gun tactics of crowds have been sacrificed again. 3,500 daredevils armed with submachine guns, under the cover of more than 200 desperately firing mortars, shouted and swarmed towards the collapse of the wall. At this time, the direct army was not equipped with any automatic firearms except for heavy machine guns, and the few machine guns that were only under the suppression of more than 200 mortars did not have a chance to fire at all.

Defending the city is the city wall, and once the city wall collapses, where do the officers and soldiers who have long been demoralized still have any fighting spirit, no matter how Liu Zuolong urges, even if he personally picks up the ghost head and cuts a few soldiers who escaped from the battle, he can't stop the collapse of the army. His brigade suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Laodao River 20 days ago, and after fleeing back in embarrassment, Xiao Yaonan had to temporarily recruit some ruffians and unemployed vagrants to make up the numbers. At that time, there was a consensus among the military leaders in China that the good source of soldiers was simple peasants, preferably mountain people, and the poor source of soldiers was the ruffians and hooligans in the cities. Although these people have no ability, they are well-informed, very difficult to fool, and their minds are also flexible, and they can run faster than rabbits when they see the signs are wrong, just like now.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, Liu Zuolong still refused to give up, uh, he still didn't know that the reasonable and good man Luo Yaoguo had arrived at the front line, and he thought that the Kuomintang army was the "half-foreigner" who was rigid and bent on capturing him. "Brothers, follow me back to the Overseer's Office." Liu Zuolong threw away the big knife in his hand, stomped his feet, and returned to the Hubei Overseer's Office with the guards. This was originally the Yamen of the Huguang Governor of the Qing Dynasty. After entering the Republic of China, it was expanded, and Xiao Yaonan repaired it since he was in charge of Hubei, especially a solid office building. This modern building of reinforced concrete became the last stronghold of the Wuchang Direct Army.

A burst of flames erupted from a window on the third floor of the Overseer's office building, knocking down several soldiers who were about to attack the building, blocking the route of the Kuomintang army's attack. There are four such firing points in this square East-meets-West building, and four water-cooled machine guns are erected at the four corners of the building, from which the surrounding open space can be cordoned off.

However, for attacking such a sturdy building, there is a special course in the Whampoa Military Academy in this time and space. Therefore, Ouyang Tong, the company commander of the Ninth Division who participated in the attack on the office building of the Supervision Office, is confident, he is also a graduate of the first phase of Whampoa, a student of Luo Yaoguo and An Sihua, and he is only 22 years old this year. He gathered all the veterans of the company with excellent shooting skills and asked them to concentrate their fire on one firing point. More than a dozen rifles "snapped" in a flurry, and dozens of 7.62mm rifle rounds were quickly sent into one of the windows where the machine gun was mounted. The machine guns of the direct army were extinguished four or five times, apparently the machine gunner was killed, and then the others came to the bench.

"Smoke canisters ready, projected." With Ouyang Tong's order, more than a dozen smoke canisters processed by the Ishii Arsenal with Soviet raw materials were thrown into the open space in front of the Superintendent's Building. "Brothers, follow me!" Seeing that the thick smoke gradually covered the entire open space, Ouyang Tong felt that it was time, picked up his rifle and shouted, and led a platoon of soldiers to attack the corner of the building. More than 30 warriors rushed through the open area at a speed of 100 meters, except for two who were swept down by intermittent machine guns, and everyone else got in through the doors and windows on the first floor. The ensuing battle is much simpler, basically kicking the door and throwing a grenade. Almost every room threw one, and then occupied layer by layer, until the entire building was completely controlled, and the last blue sky and white flag slowly rose on the roof of the superintendent's office, marking that Wuchang City had changed to a new owner.

At this time, on the top floor of a British-funded hotel in Hankou, two middle-aged men in exquisite silk robes each held a telescope to watch the battle on the other side of the river, and when they saw the Kuomintang flag raised, one of them put down the telescope in his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Lanling, our flag has been raised in the building of the Supervision Office. How's it going, how have you considered our conditions? ”

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