Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju sat in the headquarters of Tamsui City and began to discuss their next move.

Now the situation is favorable to the "Guangdong Army".

After Liu Ximin and Yang Zhenhuan defected on the northern front, the "Guangdong Salvation Army" claimed that it had 100,000 horses, and it was organized into Liu Ximin's First Army, Yang Zhenhuan's Second Army, Lin Hu's Third Army, Hong Zhaolin's Fourth Army, and Lin Ju's Fifth Army.

In fact, the total number of troops on the front line has reached more than 60,000, while the Chinese Revolutionary Army has only more than 20,000 troops.

"Brother Lin, what do you think is the next step?" Hong Zhaolin asked.

They are all old foxes, Lin Ju naturally knows that when to enter Guangzhou is a question worth thinking about, he didn't pay attention to the thousands of people lying across the West Mountain in front of him.

You can only eat fat meat when you enter Guangzhou, so you must go to Guangzhou, the problem is that there are still more than 20,000 people in the Chinese Revolutionary Army, and there must be a bloody battle in Guangzhou.

It's too early to go, and the losses of your own troops are too great to be cost-effective; But if the Chinese Revolutionary Army is not angry, it will be defeated by the Northern Route Army in a few days, and he will only have to drink soup.

"Brother Hong, I won't tell you anything, I originally wanted to wait for you in Tamsui, but I didn't expect the combat effectiveness of the revolutionary army to be amazing...... How can the general of the defeated army be brave, how to act, I only look forward to Brother Hong! ”

The nominal leader of the "Guangdong Salvation Army" was Chen Tongming, but Lin Hu and Lin Ju's troops were only sidelines, and their descendants were Hong Zhaolin.

"Damn, Lin Ju, you old fox."

Hong Zhaolin didn't believe what Lin Ju said about the fierce artillery fire and strong combat effectiveness of the revolutionary army, and secretly said: "Don't you just want to preserve your strength? What else do you say because the student soldiers over there are strong combat effectiveness? But his face remained silent, and he said loudly:

"I'll send someone to talk to the mountain keeper later, it is estimated that the mountain guard is also angry over there, otherwise how could he leave so many thousand people? If I can surrender, it is best, if I don't, I will send troops to defeat Xishan first...... We have just joined forces, how about we rest in Tamsui for two days before we set off? ”

Two days is a very good time, when he is just on the road, no matter how slow the Northern Route Army goes, it will almost be on the outskirts of Guangzhou in three days, and a bloody battle will be inevitable at that time. When the two sides are exhausted, it will be the turn of the two to pick the fruit.

"Okay, okay, just Brother Yihong."

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The defensive line on the hill has been laid out.

Xu Geng's first company guarded the core position on the top of the mountain, the second company Pengde defended the first line at the foot of the mountain, the third company Su Huaiyu was scattered in the bunkers and trenches on the mountain, the artillery company was on the anti-slope, and the Chen Qin artillery battalion was in the artillery position on the top of the mountain. Other units were concealed in the anticline, acting as a general reserve.

The officers were in shelter at the top of the hill, using binoculars to observe the movement of enemy troops in the direction of Tamsui City.

In the distance, a horse carrying a strip of white cloth came to the bottom of the mountain, and the people who came shouted: "Listen to the mountain guards, Commander Hong has an order, give you thirty minutes, if you don't surrender with a white flag, you will attack the mountain!" ”

"Hmph, try his shot."

In the shelter department of the core position, Xie Niancheng ordered.

The artillery shooting has already been calibrated, but a lone shell wants to hit this person who came to persuade him to surrender, it is really difficult, and a shot of 80 mm ** flies over, more than 200 meters away from that person.

The officer who had come to persuade him to surrender was startled, turned his horse's head and ran away.

Not long after, there was movement in the direction of Tamsui City, and about 1,000 people left the camp in the north of the city in a neat manner, and stopped when they walked about a kilometer away from Xishan.

Xie Niancheng said angrily: "Arrogance! It's so arrogant! ”

Xu Geng shook his head: "This group was raised by the stepmother, right?" Are they here to attack the mountains? There is not even artillery cover, what is it if you don't send it to death? ”

The officers could clearly see that this regiment was full of rifles and pistols except for four heavy machine guns.

The regiment that came to attack the mountain arranged an attack formation according to the company platoon, and dozens of officers of the overseer team followed the rear of the line with their pistols raised, and dozens of people surrounded them under the battle flag, presumably the regiment commander and his personal entourage.

Xie Niancheng picked up the phone and sent the order to each company and platoon: "Order, without reservation, the infantry will start shooting when the enemy enters the range of 400 meters, don't worry about wasting bullets!" ”

The men of this regiment of the enemy began to advance slowly in a wavy array on a one-kilometer front, in company units.

Looking at their tactical movements, it doesn't look like they are strong in combat.

After advancing to about 400 meters, the overseers began to shoot at the sky, and the soldiers of the "Guangdong Salvation Army" began to shoot while rushing forward and launched a charge.

Xie Niancheng picked up the phone: "Mortar fire covers, mountain artillery knocks out the enemy's heavy machine guns." ”

Wen Deyun received the call and immediately ordered: "Twenty rapid fire, 200 to 400 meters, put!" ”

The deputy company commander holding the phone next to him gave an order to the artillery position: "20 rapid fire, 200 to 400 meters, put!" ”

Grenades from the 80 mortars began to rise into the air in droves, and with a terrifying howl of death, they exploded in the charging stragglers.

A grenade with a killing range of 30 meters, for every one exploded, took several lives.

"It's all about—"

"Da Da Da-"

"Bang Bang Bang-"

Light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and 60 guns also shouted happily, and Xu Geng's carefully woven fire net mercilessly knocked the charging soldiers of the Guangdong Salvation Army to the ground.

The enemy regiment was not an elite in the first place, in their imagination, they could encounter the sparse sound of rifles, but they did not expect to encounter such fierce fire, they all lay down and began to fire at the opposite side.

The soldiers of the revolutionary army on the hill fought very well, and the probability of the opponent's scattered rifle bullets hitting them was very small, and he calmly shot from behind the standard shooting hole.

From time to time, some of the enemy troops at the foot of the mountain could not stand the bombardment of the shells and jumped up from the ground in an attempt to flee backwards, and they naturally became the best targets for the revolutionary army on the mountain.

The unit with the greatest casualties in the regiment of the "Guangdong Salvation Army" was the heavy machine gun company, and the four heavy machine guns combined did not hit 100 rounds of ammunition, and the entire position was plowed by the 75 mountain guns and 60 mortars, and soon no intact person could be found.

"This is not a war, this is clearly a massacre."

Xu Geng let go of the trigger of the heavy machine gun, and this kind of one-sided battle made him, a militant, a little unhappy.

"The real battle is in the back, now it's just a matter of warming everyone up."

Xie Niancheng also put down the rifle in his hand, if he was not mistaken, he knocked over a total of three enemy soldiers, this record is not bad, you know, the distance is about four hundred meters.

In order to prevent the barrels from overheating, dozens of mortars began to fire slowly, and the soldiers of the "Guangdong Salvation Army" who were lying on their stomachs felt that the artillery fire had become sparse, and those who were not dead quickly got up and fled backwards.

After replenishment, the only thing that the revolutionary army did not lack now was ammunition, so the light and heavy machine guns did not stop firing until a thousand meters.

Upstairs in Tamsui City, Hong Zhaolin, who saw this scene with a telescope, was furious: "Fuck, who is guarding the mountain, is it all killed?" Lao Tzu took down the mountain and left no prisoners! ”

The routs fled all the way, Xishan was six or seven miles away from Tamsui City, and the routs fled until they were near the city wall before stopping, most of them lay on the spot, gasping for breath, and some began to cry.

Hong Zhaolin shouted: "Call Li Laosan!" ”

The adjutant next to him hurriedly went down the city wall and went out of the city to find Li Laosan, the head of this regiment.

"Our regiment commander was beaten into three, miserable."

Li Laosan stood a kilometer away from the foot of the mountain, thinking that he was very safe, who knew that he was targeted by Su Huaiyu, and more than a dozen 60-gun shells hit him, saying that he was cut into three, but in fact, he was referring to three relatively large pieces, and I don't know how many other small pieces of flesh and blood were missing.

The adjutant shook his head, "You count the number of people, and after you finish the number, send someone to report to the commander." ”

Hearing that Li Laosan was killed, Hong Zhaolin looked at Xishan hatefully, at this time, Xishan was filled with gunsmoke, and in Hong Zhaolin's eyes, it was like a huge monster.

The statistics soon came out, and only about 600 people of this reinforced regiment, which was more than 1,500 people, have now run back. That is, in less than twenty minutes, almost nine hundred people were killed and wounded!

Lin Ju is an old soldier, and he can see the firepower on the mountain clearly, "Commander Hong, I see that there are thirty or forty cannons on the mountain alone, and there are almost thirty or forty machine guns." ”

"Damn, so many cannons, so many machine guns, doesn't Jiang Guangtou want Guangzhou anymore?"

"I see that the fire on the mountain is very fierce, but there are not many people, it is estimated that there are less than 1,000 people."

"Less than a thousand? This is too ignorant of us, we have more than 20,000 horses, and we have trampled them to death. Summons, the whole army assembles! ”

The adjutant next to him looked at his watch: "Commander, it's past three o'clock now, why don't we continue tomorrow morning?" ”

Hong Zhaolin was also angry, and as soon as someone next to him handed the ladder, he naturally went down, and said hatefully in the direction of Xishan: "Tomorrow Lao Tzu will take Xishan, and there will be no one left alive!" ”

At this time, a horse came from the mountain, and shouted from afar: "Hey, listen to the other side, you quickly send someone to collect the corpse, carry the wounded away, and we promise not to open fire!" ”

Without waiting for the person here's reaction, the man went back to his horse and left.

Hong Zhaolin had no choice but to send another regiment to clean up the battlefield.

Lin Ju was a little puzzled by the side, how much ammunition did the people on the mountain have for such a fight?

By the time the battlefield under the mountain was cleaned up, it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, Xie Niancheng ordered that the reconnaissance platoon and the cavalry platoon should be responsible for the vigilance, and the others would have a good rest after dinner to wait for the coming day.

After Zhang Linfu learned of today's battle situation, he ordered his troops to rest in concealment and find a suitable time to carry out a night attack.

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In Tamsui City at night, Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju began to discuss the next day's tactics.

To march into Guangzhou, this West Mountain can not be bypassed, the two discussed and discussed, there is no way to take a trick, to pass by from now on only hard fighting.

"Commander Lin, you say, how to fight, I'll listen to you." Hong Zhaolin is quite self-aware of his military command ability.

"Commander Hong, what do you think of this? Tomorrow, without waiting for dawn, we will push all the artillery of the two armies to a distance of two kilometers from the western mountain, and as soon as the morning dawns, we will use the artillery to suppress the artillery and machine-gun fire on the mountain...... We sent six infantry regiments on one side, and two regiments attacked in waves, consuming them and killing them! ”

Lin and Hong have a total of eight mountain guns and 12 guns, which can be regarded as some firepower.

Lin Ju said reasonably, and Hong Zhaolin naturally had no reason to refuse.

"Okay, Commander Lin, I listen to you, tomorrow we will fight continuously while attacking a wave, no matter who fights this Xishan in the end, the captured weapons will be divided equally, how about it?"

"Okay, that's it, tomorrow at four o'clock in the morning, start at six o'clock!"