Chapter 145 The head of the city changes the banner of the king

"Hurry ()! Come on! ”

When a touch of fish white floated from behind the mountains in the east, Tie Sheng, the commander of the black, thin and short Fifth Division Teaching Battalion, urged the soldiers to speed up their pace with the cold dew on his shoulders. Don't think that being called Tie Sheng makes him feel tall and burly, in fact, he is less than one meter six tall. At this moment, like everyone else, carrying a Mauser 98, a pistol on his belt, 150 rounds of ammunition and 4 grenades straddled his waist, and a bulging marching bag on his back, it really makes people wonder if they will be crushed.

He was a veteran of the independent battalion on the night of the uprising, received intensive training from Yang Qiu, and also participated in the uprising and the battle of Liujiamiao, and also fought in the north, and later was promoted to the commander of the teaching battalion because of his outstanding performance when the Sichuan Pioneer Brigade was formed. He still clearly remembered that Yang Qiu said that the training battalion should be the tip of a knife, go to the most difficult places, gnaw the most difficult tasks, and be the most loyal soldiers. So since he took office, he has been hanging these four sentences on his lips, and his biggest regret is that he missed the battle of Kokura Mountain and the feat of encircling and annihilating a town in Beiyang.

Like him, every soldier in the training battalion who ran by his side also kept these four sentences in mind, everyone was well-equipped, although he was out of breath, but his eyes were full of ** for war, and he couldn't wait to fly to Guiyang City immediately to teach those rebels a lesson.

"Ming Zhao (one less Liu character, everyone understands) brought the guide over." In Tie Sheng's shouting, Ming Zhao, a corporal of the training camp who was about twenty years old and wearing glasses, and two disheveled guides of the Autonomous Society, ran over, and before he could ask questions, he saluted: "Report to the battalion commander, the guide said that the front is the ancient city of Zhuchang, and it is not far from Guiyang City after here, do you want everyone to prepare?" ”

"Boy, you're clever enough to know what I'm going to ask." Tie Sheng patted Ming Zhao's head, he liked this Sichuan young man who joined the direct battalion after Chengdu because of his good performance, and said: "Work hard!" I heard from the division commander that the commander was about to select non-commissioned officers from each division to study at the German Army School. ”

Ming Zhao nodded excitedly, what an honor it was to study in a world-class country! Even the guide of the Autonomous Society who escaped from Guiyang and met halfway was bright-eyed, and he hated to replace this hairy boy.

Tie Sheng turned his head and asked the guide: "Is there a garrison in the ancient city of Zhuchang?" Do you know the situation in Guiyang? ”

The guide came back to his senses and shook his head: "There was a mark before, but now I don't know ()." ”

"I don't know, I really don't know how you manage it!" Tie Sheng was a little angry, these two lost dogs couldn't even provide anything of value, they didn't know how many rebels there were, where they were stationed, and what their equipment was, so it was better to find two mountain households to lead the way. The guide was also slightly red, they fled out, and when they met the training camp and learned that it was the Wehrmacht who came to help them, they mustered up the courage to lead the way, so they knew what the deployment was now.

Tie Sheng took out ten pieces of cash ocean from his pocket, because the banknotes of the Southwest Bank are only implemented in the three provinces for the time being, and many places still need to be dotted with the ocean, so every time the mission force will issue some cash ocean to the officers for backup, hand them to them and say: "This is the hard work of the two, I estimate that I will fight before, you." ”

Although the two guides didn't help much, they still had the backbone, and they pushed away Yinyuan and said with red eyes: "Who are we the Iron Battalion Commander?!" Liu Xianshi's turtle grandson, I don't know how many brothers we have killed! I only hope that the battalion commander will give us two guns, and we will not regret it even if we die. ”

"Good man!" Tie Sheng patted the two of them, turned around and asked the soldier to fetch two long and two short from the pack horses and give them to the two. On the way from Zunyi, he encountered a lot of defeated soldiers and bandits, seized a lot of guns and ammunition, and pulled up more than 300 escaped Guizhou Revolutionary Army.

Although I didn't get useful information, Tie Sheng didn't believe that there was no garrison in the ancient city of Zhuchang, this is the north gate of Guiyang, the terrain is undulating, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and when he was about to send troops out to investigate, gunshots rang out.

"Ho ho." The Han-1 machine gun is no longer unfamiliar to the training battalion in its unique three lengths and two shorts, and in the past two months, the Hanyang factory has increased its output to twenty units per month, so the training battalions of several divisions have obtained this machine gun, but how can this sound appear here? Even the Third Division from Hunan should have attacked from the east.

When Tie Sheng arrived outside the ancient city of Zhuchang, he found that Qiu Wenbin had actually returned here with the guard squad. It turned out that on the second day of the rebellion, they managed to escape from Guiyang City, escorted the two clerks to Shi Bing, and contacted the headquarters again by telegram, and learned that the Fifth Division Teaching Battalion stationed in Yibin would go south from Zunyi.

Tie Sheng and Qiu Wenbin are old acquaintances, and when they were trained together in the 42nd Standard Camp in Hanyang, they immediately asked when they saw him: "How is the situation in Guiyang?" Is the Dian army coming? ”

"I haven't seen the shadow of the Dian army yet." Qiu Wenbin said quickly: "There are about four or five thousand rebels in Guiyang City now, but many of them were coerced to join, and the rest are all the green battalions and patrol battalions of the former Qing Dynasty, a group of rabble. The ordnance consisted of about four mountain guns, and the machine guns had not yet been found, but quite a few French rifles had been found. ”

Qiu Wenbin looked behind him, except for a Makqin machine gun carried on a war horse, he couldn't see any other heavy firepower, scratched his head and said, "Why don't you have a cannon?" Grenades can't blow up city gates. ”

Tie Sheng smiled bitterly: "My senior squad leader Qiu, do you think this is our three provinces?" Also artillery, for this heavy machine gun, the brother changed two horses along the way, but don't worry, Lao Tzu can blast open the city gate without a cannon. ”

"What are you going to do without a cannon?"

Tie Sheng blinked his eyes and pretended to be mysterious: "You wait for the show." With a wave of his hand, the two companies immediately launched an attack on the ancient city of Zhuchang.

Although the Fifth Division did not participate in the later wars, after the end of the Hubei Defense War, a group of veterans and officers who were promoted went to the divisions and brigades to impart experience, so after the two companies were deployed, the infantry line was very open, and the level was more reasonable.

After two months of hard training, the training battalion finally showed its superior strength, using obstacles and grenades to alternately cover and quickly break down the enemy's defenses.

A battalion of the rebels deployed here did not expect the Wehrmacht firepower to be so strong, it was not that it was pressed by the machine gun and could not raise its head, but it was blown up by the grenades that fell from time to time, and the battle was over in just ten minutes, and the ragtag army that followed behind did not even fire a gun, and the ancient city of Zhuchang announced that it had changed hands after the baptism of a few grenades.

"It's boring ()." After a short temptation, Tie Sheng experienced the sheep-like combat effectiveness of the Guizhou army, and immediately decided to attack the north gate of Guiyang without rest.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the battle began at the north gate of Guiyang.

The news that the "tough" national defense army killed the north gate suddenly made Liu Xianshi and others panic, how did they not expect that the first to come was actually Yang Qiu's troops, that day when he saw Qiu Wenbin, he realized that the hand of the national defense army was about to reach into Guizhou, so after discussing with Dai Jian and others, he decided to start in advance, first control Guiyang, and then lead the Yunnan army into Guizhou to contend with it, and at the same time expand his own power.

But first, the opposition in Guiyang City was too great, so he had to stabilize Guiyang first, wantonly arrest the people of the Autonomous Society and the rebel soldiers, and then found that the telegraph station had been bombed, and it was a few days late to send a telegram to Kunming asking for help. But it was the three-day delay that made him realize the cost of negligence.

"Cannon, boom, boom!"

Behind the battlements at the north gate, after Dai Jian was frightened by a string of bullets, he immediately poured all his anger on the artillery, and several gunners of the patrol battalion hurriedly suppressed the enemy's machine gun fire with 57mm mountain guns. But when the shells flew over, they found that several of the Wehrmacht's light machine guns had already shifted their positions, and not to mention wasting shells in vain, they also attracted more violent bullets to themselves.

When Liu Xianshi hurried to the north gate, the battle was already in full swing, and dense bullets kept scattering on the city wall. How many people are there? ”

Dai Jian has always looked down on Liu Xianshi, thinking that he knows how to play mahjong and drink a little wine, and when he saw that he was late, he said angrily: "There are only about 500 people, and there are no cannons, so don't worry too much." ”

Of course, Liu Xianshi knew that Dai Jian looked down on him, but now the two sides are still in the cooperation period, and the enemy outside can only endure this breath, so he pretended to be calm and said: "If you don't worry, I have brought all my people here, as long as I can hold it until night, the Dian army will arrive." ”

Dai Huan turned his head to look, only to see Liu Xianshi's East Road Patrol Force more than 2,000 people coming, all the French M1886 rifles made him envious, and before he could speak, he heard the small officer next to him exclaim: "Look, what are they doing?" ”

Following the fingers of the petty officer, both of them saw two groups of men suddenly coming out of the Wehrmacht position in the distance, two by two, neither firing nor looking up, just running with their heads down, suddenly lying down and running wildly, and under the ribs there was something like a marching bag with obvious wooden feet. Although he didn't understand what it was, Dai Jian always felt frightened, brandished his pistol and shouted: "Fight, get up and fight me, don't let them get near the city gate!" ”

The soldiers listened to his cry and aimed at the two groups of Wehrmacht soldiers, but at this moment, the Maxim heavy machine gun, which had not fired, suddenly neighed violently, and the 7.92 mm pointed bullets swept along the city wall like a rainstorm, and all the rebels who had hit them retreated.

Zhaoming was the first to rush to the city gate, and when the second group of comrades also arrived, he immediately set up two explosive packs on the left and the right and lit the fuses, and then the four of them began to run backwards as if they were dead.

The Fifth Division Teaching Battalion was the first unit to be equipped with explosives packs, because when he first entered Sichuan, Yang Qiu was worried that Su Xiaohu would lack the strength to attack Chengdu when he attacked Chengdu, so he urgently asked Su Hongsheng to make ten for them, and also taught them how to use them, but due to Yin Changheng's cooperation, he had no chance to use them, so he kept them in the training camp.

The terrible heavy machine gun is not at all something that the rebels who have never even seen a machine gun can resist, when hiding in the corner and shivering, the leads of the two explosive packs are getting shorter and shorter, and before Zhaoming and everyone can run to the predetermined hiding position, an earth-shattering loud bang suddenly sounded from behind him, and before he had time to turn his head to look, he was almost eaten by a heat wave that retreated several meters in a row.

"***, the lead is too short! Record it and go back and improve! ”

In the midst of the angry shouts of Tie Yan, not to mention the defeated army of the Autonomous Society that had been absorbed, even Qiu Wenbin and the other guards and even the soldiers were all wide-eyed. I saw that the north gate of Guiyang City had been completely covered by dust and smoke, and the two explosive bags each filled with four kilograms of yellow explosives showed terrible power, and when the smoke gradually dissipated, even the gunfire on the battlefield stopped.

Everyone was dumbfounded, the north gate that was still standing majestically just now and giving the soldiers of the teaching battalion a headache has been completely blown open, even the city tower has collapsed in half, dozens of stumps of the Qian army have been thrown dozens of meters away, and the mouth and nose are all covered with blood.

"The city is broken! The city is broken! Rush, kill all the rebels! I don't know that the remnants of the Autonomous School Society shouted first, and more than 300 soldiers of the Qianjun Army who escaped from the guns rushed to the north gate with red eyes.

On one side was a sudden charge, but on the other side, Liu Xianshi and Dai Huan could no longer control the army, and the rebel soldiers, who had already been frightened by the explosion, spread their feet and fled into the city, and even more simply threw away their guns, took off their military uniforms and put on makeup as civilians to hide.

Those soldiers who had been forced to join the rebels mutinied again, and pointed their guns at their comrades who had been fighting together just now, and in just a few minutes, when the training battalion rushed into the city, Guiyang City, which had just been in turmoil six days ago, had already planted the Flying Tiger Flag, and the bloody storm once again enveloped the entire city.

Only a few officers of the Autonomous Society who escaped the massacre took the lead, quickly incorporated those defective troops, and went door-to-door to sweep them out, and all the constitutionalists and rebels who were caught could not be separated at all and killed them directly, and Tie Sheng and Qiu Wenbin did not prevent this kind of retaliatory massacre, and concentrated on leading the troops to collect materials, and snatched the money and equipment that Liu Xianshi and others had no time to take away.

In the past, this kind of behavior would definitely lead to protests and even riots, but now the Autonomous Society does not have the strength to compete with the teaching camp, anyway, Guizhou will sooner or later belong to the national defense army, so it simply sent some people to help, and even all the income from the seizure of the family was moved to the Governor's Mansion and handed over to the national defense army for management, and most of the remaining people continued to hunt down the constitutionalists.

By the time it was reported in the afternoon that the Dian army had appeared dozens of kilometers away, the city of Guiyang was already full of corpses, and the Constitutional Party, which had only been proud for a few days, and the rebels who had not had time to flee had been killed, and more than 3,000 people were directly killed on the same day, and more than 100 households were raided! In just six days, the total population of Guiyang City dropped by more than 10,000.

In the evening, a mixed brigade of the Dian army arrived at the West Gate.

The Autonomous Society, which was still proud just now, was dumbfounded again, is it going to change the banner again?

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