Chapter 146 begins

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Regardless of whether the remaining more than 1,000 Guizhou troops of the Autonomous Society wanted to fight or not, the battle was fought with the west gate of Guiyang City after the two sides had dinner early. The National Defense Force and the Dian Army, Yang Qiu and Cai Yi, had already begun to eradicate the great southwest plan secretly put forward by Liang Qichao, a veteran of the three provinces and constitutionalists who had paved the way for the new political ideology, and at this moment they were condensed and impacted, and a battle broke out for Guizhou and the initiative in the entire southwest.

The first to attack in the sunset was the third mixed artillery of the Yunnan army led by Tang Jiyao, eight Hanyang imitation of the five lives and seven cannons kept firing at the city tower and the city, the brilliant smoke ball extended inward from Ximen Street, the rumbling explosion made the soldiers of the Guizhou army very nervous, but they did not dare to go now, the national defense army is already the last straw, if they can't catch it, not only Guizhou will be finished, they will also become rogue bandits ().

For the Guizhou army, which lacked heavy weapons and only had four old-fashioned mountain guns, the Yunnan army took out eight cannons at once, which was already at the level of insolvability, but for the officers and men of the Wehrmacht who had experienced the shelling of hundreds of Beiyang 75-millimeter tube guns and were rapidly changing their own equipment, the power of this kind of artillery shell explosion was not as powerful as that of hand grenades.

Tie Sheng squatted in the makeshift bunker, smoking vigorously in the face of the map of Guiyang City that he turned out of the Governor's Palace, but turned a deaf ear to the sound of artillery outside, he really didn't look at this level of shelling, what made him really worry was the disadvantage in numbers.

After investigation, it was found that the Yunnan army was quite well prepared to enter Guizhou this time, not only bringing an artillery battalion, but also an infantry association, with a total strength of about 3,000 people. Coupled with more than 1,000 people when Liu Xianshi, Dai Huan and others fled, more than 5,000 people surrounded Guiyang City. If any brigade of the Fifth Division is here, let alone this little bit of manpower, even if the Dian army is pulled over, they may not be able to gnaw it down by relying on the city. But now he only has one battalion in his hands, and the total number of Qiu Wenbin and them is less than seven hundred, it is too difficult to hold such a big city, and as for the more than 1,000 remnants of the Guizhou Army in the Autonomous Society, he has not counted them in the plan at all.

"Wen Bin, you go first! Lao Tzu is here tonight with these Yunnan army pups! Tie Sheng launched a ruthless attack to prepare for his life, but Qiu Wenbin was unwilling, and said: "The Yunnan army has a large number of people, and it will definitely attack the four gates at the same time, and the vision is poor when it is dark at night, and it is impossible for us to hold the four directions!" My opinion is to first frustrate the spirit of the Yunnan army, and then pretend to be invincible and retreat to the north gate to hold on, if the north gate can not be defended, then simply retreat to the ancient city of Zhuchang, and blow up a few big gaps in the south gate and the north gate with explosives bags before leaving, so that the Yunnan army will not be able to repair it in a short time, and it will be convenient to attack when the commander of the Su division arrives tomorrow. ”

Tie Sheng thought for a while and nodded: "It's okay." However, those floating fortunes must be sent away first, and they can't be cheapened. The floating wealth he said was naturally the income that Liu Xianshi and others didn't have time to take away and raid their homes during the day. Although Guizhou is poor, unlike Chengdu, where a feudal treasury copied out 8 million, there are hundreds of thousands of money, which can feed a division for two or three months, so he immediately called Ming Zhao and asked him to take two squads and add 100 Guizhou troops, and escort the money to the north to meet the main force.

Although Ming Zhao is young, he is well aware of the overall situation, don't look at the small amount of money, but it is enough to support the food and drink expenses of the five divisions and two brigades in Guizhou for half a year, and the safe delivery to the division commander is equivalent to reducing the dependence on logistics, so there is no ambiguity at all when he gets the order, and he turns around and leaves.

"This kid is capable." As soon as Qiu Wenbin praised Ming Zhao's back, there was a dense sound of gunfire from the west. When the Dian army broke out of the bunker, the first wave of attacks had already been launched, and it was strange that there were many similar Madsen machine guns in the binoculars, and Tie Sheng immediately asked: "Where did they get the Madsen light machine guns?" ”

Qiu Wenbin was not surprised, and said: "This is not the Madsen we use, it is a light machine fast gun imitated by the Guangzhou Manufacturing Bureau, and Guangdong is also called a 24-round Cantonese-made horn-type dry machine gun." Master Su Hongsheng said to the commander that the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau began to imitate light machine fast guns three years ago, and probably imitated more than 80 pieces. Except for a few guns taken by Beiyang, they were handed over to the Guangdong New Army, and after the Guangdong New Army was dismissed due to the uprising, most of them were distributed to Guangxi and Yunnan. I heard Master Su say that their Hanyang factory also sent a master to Kunming last year to teach the maintenance methods of the Dian Army. ”

"***, it can't be all brought, right?" Seeing that the light machine fast cannon jumped out on the left again, Tie Sheng scolded while suppressing his light machine gun firepower.

Su Hongsheng was right, the Dian army did have more than 30 light machine guns, which is also the basis for why Song Ziqing said that the Dian army had a lot of machine guns. But historically, they did not play a role until the Protectorate War, mainly because the bullet consumption was too great and the Dian army could not afford to raise it. But now it is different, after the Hubei War, especially the battle of Xiaocang Mountain, the light machine guns made great contributions, first the wealthy Beiyang placed an order for several hundred, Cai Ye also immediately distributed the batch of guns sleeping in the warehouse to the troops, and also gritted his teeth and purchased a batch of pointed bullets from Vietnamese French merchants at a high price.

Tang Jiyao, who was riding on a short Dian horse in the distance, touched his bald head, and it had been three months since he cut off his braids, and the soldiers had all grown short hair, but he had always maintained a bald image, so everyone called him Tang Bald Head in private. Liu Xianshi, who was still embarrassed just now, saw that the Dian army actually had so many light machine guns, and deliberately patted Dai Huan and others next to him: "It is worthy of being a strong army in my southwest, and the attack is neat and relaxed, and in my opinion, Beiyang is not successful." ”

Liu Xianshi finally said "more" before he could speak, his eyes bulged out and he couldn't go on. Because he saw that the machine gunner of the Yunnan army holding the light machine gun had not yet heated the barrel, he was pressed to the ground by a series of bullets on the opposite side and couldn't raise his head, this scene also made Tang Jiyao very angry, and scolded and said angrily: "What are you doing with it?" Did Lao Tzu give you a machine gun as a toy? Call me back ()! Tell the front, whoever rushed into the city first rewarded him with five hundred oceans! Whoever goes first in the camp will be rewarded with 10,000! ”

Tang Guangtou firmly believed that there must be brave men under the heavy reward, in fact, the heavy reward did have an effect, hundreds of Dian troops stripped off their shirts under the stimulation of money, and rushed towards the city gate like crazy, but when they were still a few hundred meters away from the city gate, a long and even dazzling flame suddenly drilled out, and even the sunset in the sky was dwarfed.

The Makqin machine gunners of the training battalion were transferred from the Second Division after the war, and participated in the bloody battle of Wushengguan and the siege and annihilation of Kokura Mountain, firing nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition before and after. So the best way to face this kind of charge is to hold the trigger tightly, and then press hard against the trembling machine gun and shake the muzzle from side to side. When the fast and slow machine was dialed to the 100-round burst Makqin is synonymous with death, especially this kind of defensive warfare, in just ten minutes, two ammunition boxes of 500 rounds were swept away, and the circulating water tank connected by the leather pipe was even hotter, and when the new machine gun squad soldier swept the pure copper bullet shells into the cloth bag one by one and prepared to take them back to the furnace for reuse, hundreds of Dian troops who were charging frantically had become corpses that began to get cold, and there were even many bodies that were directly torn apart by bullets, and blood was sprinkled all over the open space outside the west gate of the old city.

This scene is too exciting for the Dian army! No one expected that more than 300 stormtroopers would be beaten into a sieve without even resisting a cup of tea, Liu Xianshi and others couldn't stop trembling their feet, and many of the constitutional gentry who were ready to take advantage of the victory of the Yunnan army to kill back to Guiyang City simply found an excuse to flee quietly.

Tang Jiyao had a cold face, and finally understood why even Beiyang and Nanjing Zhengfu had such a headache when they saw Yang Qiu, dozens of such heavy machine guns didn't need to be fired, as long as they openly waved to the camp gate, it was estimated that there would be no one in the whole country who was not afraid! The excitement and excitement before the expedition were all extinguished by this fierce sweep, and some regretted that because of transportation restrictions, in order to bring cannons and enough shells, he did not bring a few French-made Habegs heavy machine guns that he thought were too bullet-consuming.

But he still didn't understand that even if they brought heavy machine guns, the Dian Army might not be able to break through the defense line of the veteran machine gunners of the Wehrmacht, to put it bluntly, in addition to the specially trained machine gunners in Beiyang, there is only the Wehrmacht, a group of actual combat factions that rely entirely on bullets. Therefore, at present, the only countries that can raise crane gunners in China are the National Defense Force, which has the largest Hanyang Arsenal, and the Beiyang Army, which has the convenience of outsourcing and the Dagu Arsenal. Even the Nanjing Zhengfu, who owns the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, can't afford to raise so many machine gunners, because this is completely an act of burning silver, just take the sweep just now, the cost of bullets alone will cost a hundred yuan, and for a machine gunner to steadily control a monster like Makqin, it will take several months, and the cost of consuming at least 3,000 rounds of bullets will be consumed.

The same is true for light machine guns, the Wehrmacht machine gunners with actual combat experience are already highly skilled, and they are all equipped with original Madsen and better Han-1 light machine guns, so the Dian army attacking head-on has no chance at all.

Fortunately, Tang Jiyao had eight 57mm mountain guns in his hand, and he also had a huge advantage in numbers, and when he saw that it was dark, he immediately ordered the troops to make a detour and attack from the other three city gates at the same time.

The Dian army, which suffered a loss and grew wise, began not to fight with the Wehrmacht, the direction of the west gate was just constantly bombarded with artillery, the infantry made a detour to attack from the other three gates, and all the light machine fast guns were sent to support the infantry to fight, in order to strengthen the firepower, Tang Jiyao even brought two Jinling imitation six-barreled machine guns also pulled out.

Although the Dian army had twice as many machine guns as the Wehrmacht, the quality of the machine gunners was too poor, and they did not dare to shoot easily when they lacked sight at night, so that the troops could not expand the results of the battle. The battalions directly under the Fifth Division of the Wehrmacht, which had too few troops, were also unable to attack, so they could only rely on the walls, corners, steps, and even tables, chairs, and quilts of the houses to build simple bunkers and organize fire and hostile fire.

The battle outside the governor's palace was the most intense, a company of national defense troops and more than 500 Guizhou troops held three intersections, using grenades and light machine guns to blockade and defend, sandbag bunkers were already lying full of corpses, such a large consumption under the teaching battalion was also a little unbearable, as the casualties began to expand, the Dian army gradually took the initiative, and the whole night in Guiyang City was fierce gunfire.

In the early hours of the morning, after the Governor's Mansion and the Consultative Bureau were lost one after another, Tie Sheng had no choice but to order to withdraw to the north gate to wait for reinforcements......

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