Chapter XXXV. Negotiations

It was already noon, and the focus of the combat meeting was still on the artillery of the Dian army in the city, and it was very difficult to cut it off. First, it is difficult to find the exact location, and second, it is inevitable to hurt the innocent.

A fierce dispute broke out between the commanders of the two infantry regiments and the battalion commanders of the artillery battalions. One side argues that the lives of soldiers are more important and that innocent injuries are inevitable, so the artillery battalion must play a comprehensive role in suppressing the opponent's artillery. Otherwise, this new 75 mountain cannon is just a decoration. On the other hand, the other side insisted that a densely populated place like a county town was not suitable for artillery suppression, and that the purpose of the Wehrmacht was to fight for the people.

Gao Sheng didn't speak, listening to the two sides arguing. Turning his head to look at the two captives who had been escorted, he didn't pay attention to them immediately, and continued to look at the two sides of the spray. After some disputes, the former compromised and decided to take Yongchuan County in spite of casualties.

The two Yunnan army captives were somewhat delirious, and a few green-skinned officers quarreled over whether to bombard the city defense with artillery, this is too fake, right? What's worse is that in the end, there is a result that does not use cannons!

Gao Sheng waited for them to finish arguing, and then let the captives come over, and said with a murderous face: "Say it, you know what to say." ”

The two captives looked at each other, and the older one stepped forward, knelt down habitually and spoke: "Sir......." ”

"Stop, stand up first, then speak. We don't have a rule of kneeling and talking! Gao Sheng opened his mouth to interrupt, and the veteran who knelt down looked confused, and saw that several officers were all stern, and subconsciously stood up and said, "Chiefs." We are the big soldiers, sent out by the officials to investigate, and we don't know much. ”

"Know as much as you want, say as much as you want."

"Oh, there is a ladder regiment in the city, a battalion of machine guns, 57 guns and 12 machine guns. Full of money. There were three thousand people. The biggest commander is Li Hongxiang, the head of the ladder regiment, and there is also a ladder regiment in Luzhou, with similar numbers and equipment. The head of the ladder is called Xie Ruyi. "This veteran is quite an expert and knows what to say.

Gao Sheng waved his hand and sent someone to bring the captives down. turned back to a group of subordinates and said, "Everyone has heard it, let's talk about it, how to fight?" ”

Gao Sheng's partner is Yang Rui, the chief of staff, and he is also a graduate of the teaching team, and the two get along well. It is certainly not advisable to take people to build the city wall. A reconnaissance squad of the Yunnan Army fought for 10 minutes against a platoon of the special operations brigade. One dead and three wounded. The gun is very accurate, Wang Mazi is jumping his feet, which shows that the training level of the Dian army is very high. ”

Gao Shengdao: "Let me interject, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Yunnan Lecture Hall opened very early. The scale is large and the shifts are many, and a large number of officers have been trained. Don't think that we can easily defeat any opponent if we once defeated Beiyang, and we will suffer a loss if we underestimate the enemy, Wang Mazi is a lesson. ”

Well, the people of the special operations brigade suffered. The people in the other troops did not say that they were happy, but at least they must have balanced their hearts.

Li Hongxiang took the two detachment commanders to find a hidden place on the city wall and also held a small meeting, and various intelligence reactions, the national defense force on the opposite side was not ordinarily difficult. Three groups of people were sent out to investigate, and less than ten people returned. In other words, the opposite side has already seen the outside of Yongchuan County to death.

If you can't get information, this battle will be difficult to fight. Judging from the information currently available, the most fatal is the 75 artillery battalion, and judging from the layout of the position, the firing range is at least 7 kilometers or more. That is to say, the 57 guns to which the ladder regiment belonged could not be exposed casually at all, and suppressing the artillery on the opposite side was even more of a dream, and only the share of being beaten.

"Why don't you send someone to make contact with the other side?" A detachment leader cautiously proposed to build a project, and Li Hongxiang couldn't help frowning when he heard it: "Both sides are on fire, can contact be useful?" ”

"It doesn't work, at least you can see something, don't you? It's better than being blind or deaf now. ”

The battle meeting on Gao Sheng's side continued, and Yang Rui proposed a plan to simply encircle Yongchuan without fighting, leaving a regiment and artillery battalion to contain the opponent, and the main force quietly went to Luzhou, striving to catch Luzhou by surprise. Luzhou is taken, and the retreat of the enemy of Yongchuan will be gone, and it is estimated that there is no need to fight, and persuasion can be persuaded to surrender.

This building aroused everyone's interest, and when the feasibility was being discussed, news came from the front that someone from Yongchuan County was coming, holding a white flag and riding a short horse, and was coming this way.

Gao Sheng announced that the meeting was temporarily terminated, and first saw what the Dian army was doing.

It was a lieutenant of the Dian Army who came, and this person came on his own initiative. This person's name is Fan Shisheng, and he is also very famous in parallel history, he studied medicine as a teenager, and he was a showman, and he entered the martial arts hall in 1909. There was a well-known brother who later became the commander-in-chief. After the reorganization of the Yunnan Army, he was promoted to lieutenant staff officer, and followed Li Hongxiang to Sichuan to support the revolution of the Sichuan people.

After the Yunnan army entered Sichuan, Fan Shisheng looked very unpleasant, and obviously said that he would not interfere in local government affairs, but when he saw that Sichuan Yanzheng was very fat, he moved his mind. In order to seize the interests of the salt administration, he did not hesitate to kill.

As a member of the Dian army, Fan Shisheng was confused. After following Li Hongxiang to Yongchuan, the other officers were still busy making money while walking. It can be said that the rapid decline of the Dian army is eye-popping. What is the purpose of the revolution? This question made Fan Shisheng very confused and couldn't find the answer.

As for the National Defense Forces, it was not uncommon to see them in the newspapers, and some newspapers also focused on the deeds of the National Defense Forces on the Shanghai-Nanjing Line. Among them, in order not to disturb the people, the paragraph of sleeping on the road at night as a soldier was copied by various newspapers. When he saw these reports in the newspapers, Fan Shisheng was quite yearning and felt that this was what the revolutionary army should look like.

Therefore, after encountering the Wehrmacht in Yongchuan today and suffering a big loss, the commanders said that they would send people to negotiate, but no one dared to stand up. Fan Shisheng took the initiative to stand up and expressed his willingness to take this trip. In fact, he wanted to see for himself what the Wehrmacht was like.

Riding out of the city, Fan Shisheng has been observing curiously along the way. When a man stood up in the grass on the side of the road, Fan Shisheng was startled, because this person's face was messed up and he was holding a very ugly-looking gun in his hand.

Fan Shisheng stopped and stared blankly at the soldier not far behind him, and another soldier appeared. The two seemed to blend in with their surroundings, and this discovery made Fan Shisheng feel creepy. It's still daylight, but what if it's night?

"Dismount and follow!" When the soldier dropped a sentence, Fan Shi gave birth to the horse and said, "Do you want to hand over the gun?" ”

The soldier crooked his mouth disdainfully: "You have the ability to give it a try, and you are guaranteed that when you pull out your gun, your head will bloom." ”

After following the soldier for a while, after turning a small hill in front of him, Fan Shisheng finally saw more Wehrmacht. They were having lunch on the edge of the trenches they had dug, each carrying a jar and sitting around in squads. The guns were placed not far behind him, set up together. There is also a kind of gun with a bracket, which is directly on the ground, Fan Shisheng saw this kind of gun for the first time, and he looked at it with some curiosity.

The soldier leading the way in front seemed to notice his eyes, and said lightly: "Don't look at it, that thing is not new, it's just a light machine gun." ”

Seeing that the soldier spoke, Fan Shisheng took the opportunity to ask, "What gun do you use?" ”

The head of the soldier did not reply: "Submachine gun, this thing is actually not good, it eats too many bullets, I prefer to use it myself." ”

Fan Shisheng was a little lacking in his brain, so he simply didn't think about it, his eyes kept looking around, and the soldier in front of him didn't mean to let go, but slowed down. Turning around inadvertently, Fan Shisheng found that there were two ghost-like soldiers behind him, just five steps away.

When passing through this camp, there was a new thing, and Fan Shisheng didn't mean to ask, knowing that this kind of iron pipe must be a small cannon, and the specific power or something, I don't know.

Finally came to some of the officers, and the soldiers in front of them reported and dodged aside. A mighty officer with a group of officers stood five steps away from Fan Shisheng.

"I am the commander of the 7th Mixed Brigade of the Wehrmacht! I'm in charge here, so tell me something. Gao Sheng was also curious, this lieutenant looked too calm, and there was no malice in his eyes.

"Fan Shisheng, a staff officer of the lieutenant of the second echelon regiment of the Yunnan army, was ordered to come to negotiate."

"Negotiations? Negotiate what? Isn't the Dian army going back to Yunnan? Why did you run Yongchuan here? Do you think our army is easier to bully than the Sichuan army? Gao Sheng's words were very polite, and Fan Shisheng couldn't answer the questions he asked.

"I came here on the orders of the commander, and the task is to inform your army that the Dian army does not want to fight with your army, let alone plot against Chongqing, and please don't misunderstand your army." Fan Shisheng had no choice but to convey the original words, Gao Sheng sneered when he heard it, took a map, walked up to Fan Shisheng, raised it and said angrily: "Look at this map yourself, Yongchuan is only one hundred and ten miles away from Chongqing, and our army's normal march is only a day's time." You are a soldier, do you think it is normal for the Dian army to appear in Yongchuan? ”

"The lowly position is only by order, and I don't know what it means." Fan Shisheng snapped and replied loudly.

Gao Sheng handed the map to Yang Rui beside him, turned around and walked two steps, turned around and said: "Come and don't be rude, you go and tell Li Hongxiang, within 12 hours, withdraw from Yongchuan, otherwise our army will attack." This is an ultimatum. ”

Fan Shisheng had no choice but to turn around, and when he was leaving, he saw two Yunnan prisoners squatting under a tree to eat on the side of the road. Two captives, one with a bandage on his head, and both holding an enamel jar in his hand.

"What do they eat?" Fan Shisheng asked casually, and the soldiers who sent him out replied impatiently: "What do we eat, what do they eat." At this time, a high voice came from behind him: "You can bring them back, so as not to waste our food here." ”

In this way, Fan Shisheng went back with two soldiers, Li Hongxiang didn't expect this to be the result, and hurriedly asked the process. (Site. Your support is my biggest motivation. )