Chapter 327: The End (1)

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"Chirp ()."

The sound of stray bullets and shuttles passed by his ears from time to time, and Liao Zhongqiu was wearing a steel helmet, holding a gun and lying in the grass with red eyes.

He is a native of Guizhou and is of Miao nationality. During the Xinhai period, after hearing about the anti-Qing Dynasty, he killed several Manchu dog officials in the horizontal township, and then took dozens of Miao brothers to defect to the Governor's Mansion, but he came back after he went, because the Governor's Mansion claimed to be the Han government, and they were all robes who had a bad relationship with the Miao family.

After retreating to the mountains, he began to work day after day, until one day when the banner of Guiyang was rotated, and the Wehrmacht from Hunan took charge of Guizhou, and learned that he was good at climbing and walking on the mountains as if he were walking on the ground, he invited him to join the Wehrmacht with hundreds of selected friends of the same clan, and began to receive a six-month mountain training ().

Originally, I just wanted to eat with a mouthful of food, but with the new government banning opium in Guizhou, teaching everyone to plant sugarcane and tobacco leaves, and introducing piglets from Hunan to breed for everyone, life has improved little by little, and sugarcane and tobacco are purchased at a guaranteed price, that is, even if you plant more, the government will also buy at this price, so you don't have to worry about not making money at all.

Now the people of Guizhou are slowly beginning to support the new government, and there are more and more men like him who are soldiers, and ten yuan a month is simply immeasurable wealth for him and his family in the mountains.

But the training is also extremely hard, every day is either out of exercises, shooting or climbing training, thousands of people first after half a year of military and mountain training, and then went south to Guangxi to do peripheral work, and then went east to Hubei to Wudang Mountain, and from Shiyan into the vast mountains, under the leadership of the short and thin brigade commander, who is said to have been the commander-in-chief's own soldiers, carrying dozens of pounds of equipment to climb mountains and mountains, all for the sake of this pass in front of him.

Tongguan is not much steep than the high mountains and deep gorges of Guizhou, but in order to take this pass, his 18th Mountain Brigade has paid the price of more than 600 casualties, and many of them are brothers of the same clan who served as soldiers with him, but such a large casualty has not been shaken so far.

The brass whistle for the retreat had already sounded, but a cannonball fell on the side and the ringing of his ears made him miss the retreat, and now there was only one man left on the hillside. During the training, the officers were temporarily unable to move after missing the retreat, and without the cover of machine guns and artillery, they were very likely to be found and killed by the locality, so they either hid until the night, or waited for their comrades to come up again. It's still early in the dark, so I'll have to lie here and wait for the next group of attacking partners to arrive.

"Boom."

On the pass, several fireballs and gravel were raised, and when he turned his head to see that the artillerymen at the foot of the mountain were firing here, it must be a twelve-life small steel cannon, and only this kind of steel cannon like an iron pipe can hit high, and it has such a terrifying power.

Since the artillery opened fire, it meant that the next round of attack was not far away, and thinking that his partner would be able to come up later, he breathed a sigh of relief and moved his body to hide more secretly, and then looked lively.

The 18th Brigade was a mountain brigade armed only with 70-mm infantry guns and mortars, and although the 70-mm infantry guns were not equipped when they set off, the unit was the first to be equipped with new projectile kits (). The new pack doubles the range of the mortar, taking the 120 mm caliber as an example, the new pack can ensure a distance of 2000 meters, and the actual effective range also reaches 1700 meters, which is enough to ensure that the artillery is suppressed outside the enemy's machine-gun fire.

The 120mm mortar shells were heavier than the 105mm howitzers, and each powerful shell could blow up the rubble on the pass, making the Beiyang soldiers hiding behind the battlements miserable.

Although the mountain brigade is a lightly armed unit, it does not mean that there are not enough shells, for this mission, almost every soldier has a few shells stuffed into his bag, more than 5,000 people, a full seven or eight thousand shells, enough to consume once.

Probably the previous successive attacks aroused the anger of the brigade commander, this artillery bombardment preparation time was extraordinarily long, a full twenty minutes of artillery shelling did not stop, the continuous shelling made the entire Tongguan seem to have been cut off a layer, several times rolled down the gravel and almost hit Liao Zhongqiu, fortunately the artillery suppressed the enemy could not shoot, so he quickly moved away dozens of meters.

In the bunker wrapped in thick bluestone slabs, Wu Peifu took a sip fiercely, and in the rumbling explosion and tremor, rubble and dust kept falling from the top of his head, and after a while, the table and the map were covered with a layer of floating ash, and even the officers' hair and clothes were covered with dust, looking embarrassed.

"Damn, I'm afraid I'll hit a little two thousand this time, right? These guys are really willing, so they are not afraid of running out of shells? ”

"Hehe, that's not right, when they run out of shells, we'll stop."

"If you want me to say, it's still our Master Wu who is very powerful, and he will block Tongguan with a false shot, so that they can't go south, and Henan doesn't know how to thank us."

Most of the officers are henchmen who came out of the 11th standard with Wu Peifu, and they are extremely impressed by him for blocking more than 20,000 people from the four brigades of the National Defense Army outside Shaanxi at once when he stuck Tongguan, without the 20,000 people here, there will be five brigades left in Henan, and Chen Huan can hold on for three or five months no matter how incompetent he is, and when the National Defense Army is exhausted, Beiyang will be able to carry out a major counteroffensive.

Wu Peifu was also secretly proud, the more shells fell, the more anxious the other party was, indicating that his move hit them seven inches ().

The whistle sounded from behind the battlements, reminding everyone that the enemy infantry was coming up, and Wu Peifu hurriedly grabbed the command knife and pistol beside him and ran along the wall to the city tower.

"Get up, get up!"

"Aim and shoot!"

"Bullets can't penetrate slates, so don't be afraid."

Running up the wall, there was rubble and holes all over the eyes, and the thick battlements had fallen a lot, but fortunately the main fortifications were still there, and the soldiers of the walls and stone slabs, which could not be penetrated by bullets, were still quickly prepared.

The rifles poked out of the firing holes, and from a distance the battlements seemed to have countless sharp thorns, several heavy machine guns were deployed in the strongest places, and there were several thick layers of sandbags on the outside, and the cannons had long since run out of ammunition and were abandoned.

Wu Peifu is very satisfied with this deployment, under his strict training, after the baptism of war, although the Eighth Division has lost more than fifty percent, most of which are deserters who have quietly slipped away, but the remaining soldiers have finally survived the most difficult recruit years and fought a little bit, as long as Henan can hold and can open the road to this side of the Yan Division to send supplies, this army will one day be able to conquer the tiger division.

But before that, you have to get through the current level!

Looking at the Wehrmacht who bent over and ran here after the dense dispersion, Wu Peifu also had to admire their solid basic skills, only an officer like him knew that the basic skills were the most testing for soldiers, and they needed long-term training day after day, so the group of soldiers in front of them had at least undergone about a year of uninterrupted training.

"800 meters, ready!"

The sound of the clattering bolt had just sounded, and when another round of tragedy was about to begin, Peng Shouxin suddenly ran up, shouting as he ran: "Stop!" Stop it! Don't fight, don't fight! ”

This shouting made the soldiers and officers turn their heads in surprise, not understanding what the hell this big-mouthed stabbing head was doing, Wu Peifu was even more annoyed and shouted: "Shut up ()!" Zigeng, what the hell are you doing? ”

Peng Shouxin lowered his body and ran in front of him, clenched his fists and shouted, "Ziyu! It's useless, the Zhengzhou Bridge is gone! We worked hard and worked hard, *** Zhang Zhenfang actually lost the bridge under his nose! Now the Jin army has also begun to move south! ”

"What!"

Not to mention Wu Peifu, the officers and soldiers around him also widened their eyes, no matter how stupid people are, they know that after the Zhengzhou Bridge on the Jinghan Line is lost, their way home will be completely gone! There is no need to fight at all on the opposite side, as long as it is surrounded for a few months, it will consume an army with no ammunition and no supplies.

"How is that possible?"

"I'm afraid it's fake news, right?"

"That's right, didn't you say that Luohe and Xuchang held on? Could it be that the Wehrmacht could fly? Even if Yanshi is lost, Zhengzhou can hold it for at least a few months? ”

"It's not Yanshi, it's Ningling and Shangqiu!" Peng Shouxin glanced at the Wehrmacht that began to pour outside, and hurriedly said again, when he heard that it was Wang Zhanyuan who lost Ningling, causing the official road from Shangqiu to Zhengzhou to be undefended all the way, and after the 103 Brigade truck ran more than 100 kilometers overnight to sneak attack the bridge, Wu Peifu couldn't help but stomp his feet fiercely: "Wang Zhanyuan, I am a grass and mud horse!" ”

This shouting and scolding was so loud that even Liao Zhongqiu, who was climbing up, heard it. He didn't have the heart to study who Wang Zhanyuan was, so he rushed up to the pass a little bit by looking for cover from left to right, but what made him strange was that he had entered 200 meters, why hadn't there been any movement on it? All blown up?

No, with so many barrels sticking out, there's always one that can hit, right?

The closer he got to him, the more strange he felt, which made him more cautious, and the comrades behind him were all staring at him, what was going on? After half a ring, a few soldiers finally stood up with courage, but the gun array on the opposite side still didn't fire at all, and after everyone rushed into the pass along the gap that was blown up, the scene in front of them suddenly made everyone stupid ().

I saw that thousands of Beiyang soldiers were sitting in the open space behind the battlements with their heads hanging down, silent, and the Chengguan Colonel's field behind was even more black and crowded with soldiers who were supposed to serve as reserves, which made everyone grit their teeth with hatred before, and the Beiyang soldiers who hated to eat the flesh and dismantle their bones seemed to have been drained of their souls, and they just watched the soldiers of the 18th Brigade rush in frantically from the gap.

On April 17, 1913, the Wehrmacht occupied Xi'an, Shi Congbin and Zhang Fenghui were killed for their stubborn resistance, and the remaining less than 5,000 men of the Beiyang Seventh Division were disarmed. Before the telegram of victory could be sent, Baoji, Weinan, Tongzhou, and Yan'an were also recaptured by the separate sorties of several companies of the Fourth Division. At the same time, the Beiyang 8th Division in Tongguan surrendered after resisting for five days, and Wu Peifu laid down his arms with the remaining officers and soldiers of the 8th Division and three Yijun infantry battalions, totaling more than 8,000 people.

On April 20, after a three-day rest, the 18th Mountain Brigade of the National Defense Forces joined the 12th Brigade from Weinan and escorted nearly 14,000 prisoners across Tongguan into Henan, announcing not only the recovery of Shaanxi, but also the final connection between Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan.

Before this news was absorbed, on April 22, there was also heavy news from the south, after learning that Long Jiguang began to loot the wealth of Guangdong and was preparing to flee Luzon, the National Security Bureau started early, and after plotting against several Guangxi officers in the Guangdong army, he opened the city gate that night and led the two regiments of the Eighth Infantry Brigade that arrived in the early stage into the city. Fortunately, at this time, the navy heard the news and urgently used naval gun support to reluctantly take the Governor's Palace.

It was not until the early morning of the next day that the four regiments of the 7th Brigade and the 16th Brigade arrived that the situation in Guangzhou was finally stabilized, and the remaining Cantonese troops surrendered one after another when they saw that the general situation had gone, Long Jiguang and his diehards were killed on the spot at the dock, and the two tons of gold, 30 million worth of silver, and a large amount of jewelry that he was going to transport to Luzon were seized, and tens of millions of various silver bills and checks were confiscated.

After Chen Jiongming and others were rescued, they still wanted to regain the civil rights of Guangdong, but in the end, seeing that the general trend had gone, they had to pack their bags and learn from Huang Keqiang and others to cross the ocean.

When the news reached Beijing, Yuan Shikai was silent for three days.

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