Under the command of Xie Niancheng, the revolutionary army on the west mountain cremated the bodies of the fallen soldiers, packed their ashes and nameplates one by one, and sent them to the ship to be transferred back to Meiling together with the seriously wounded.

While doing these things, only those lightly wounded were left on the West Mountain.

No one was worried about the Rescue Army on the other side of Tamsui, and the bloody battle during the day had mentally defeated the "Rescue Army".

Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju placed the four regiments that did not participate in the battle outside the city, and the other troops were gathered into Tamsui City.

If it weren't for the roars of the seriously injured outside before they died from time to time, Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju would have thought that they were just having a nightmare.

After so many years of hard work, half of the family was directly defeated in one day, and anyone would have a heartache.

Hong Zhaolin looked to the west: "Brother Lin, I have broken my old book today, brother, my seven regiments are all disabled, more than 1,000 brothers died, and more than 4,000 were injured." ”

Lin Ju was also annoyed: "Brother Hong, I'm not much better, I have more than 5,000 casualties on my side, and the most distressing thing is the artillery and heavy machine guns, the dog's artillery is too accurate." ”

At present, the Hong and Lin divisions have almost no heavy firepower, and there are more than 1,000 seriously wounded in the troops, except for the four regiments outside the city, which actually have no combat effectiveness.

"Fortunately, there are not many student soldiers on the West Mountain, let's fight again tomorrow, if we can fight down, we can make up for the losses a little."

"That's all there is to it."

Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju secretly regretted in their hearts, they knew that Xishan was so hard, it was better to delay for one more day and take a detour to Guangzhou.

There were not many people and heavy weapons on the western mountain, so they absolutely did not dare to go down the mountain to fight in the field.

That night, the revolutionary army on the west mountain slept well, and most of the Guangdong Salvation Army in Tamsui City had nightmares.

And the four regiments outside the city made the nightmare come true!

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During the bloody battle in Xishan during the day, Zhang Linfu led his troops to ambush in a valley more than ten miles away, climbed to a high tree, and Zhang Linfu watched the whole battle with a high-powered telescope.

When he saw that the Guangdong Salvation Army launched a group charge with the strength of eight regiments, Zhang Linfu's heart jumped to his throat, if Xishan was lost, his approach of leading troops to ambush would be stupid.

Zhang Linfu almost cheered when he saw the Xishan Revolutionary Army launch a white-edged charge, and a mixed cavalry consisting of horses, mules and donkeys completely crushed the Guangdong Salvation Army.

Fifteen thousand people broke fifteen thousand!

Xie Niancheng and Chen Qin did it!

After the retreat of the Guangdong Salvation Army, Zhang Linfu slipped down from the tree, and his officers surrounded him.

"Tuanza, how's the situation over there?" Du Qingquan, who is now a company commander under Zhang Linfu, asked anxiously, he was very concerned about Xie Niancheng and the others on the West Mountain.

"Battalion Commander Xie and they won a complete victory, and the Guangdong Army left at least 3,000 corpses at the foot of the West Mountain!"

"Buzz ......"

The officers could not hide their shock.

Du Qingquan muttered: "There are more than 3,000 corpses, and the total casualties are almost tens of thousands." ”

Zhang Linfu nodded: "I think, it's only a little more." ”

Seeing the looks of the officers, Zhang Linfu said proudly: "What's wrong with you?" They are all members of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, what Battalion Commander Xie can do, can't we do? ”

The young officers, who were all a little arrogant in their bones, roared one by one: "Yes! ”

"Okay, this is like I taught the people of the second regiment, listen, now start resting, and start acting at twelve o'clock at midnight."

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Zhang Linfu was a bold and careful man, and before dark, he had already been optimistic about the deployment of the Guangdong Salvation Army outside the city: there were only a small number of guard troops in the east, south, and north directions, and the Guangdong Rescue Army outside the city was divided into two camps and arranged in two small villages at the west gate of the city.

Regarding the question of how to distinguish between friend and foe in the melee at night, in addition to preparing white towels for everyone, Zhang Linfu also ordered Du Qingquan to get some bamboo and made hundreds of bamboo whistles, so that they could use the whistle to distinguish friend from foe after the fight.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Zhang Linfu led his troops to set off.

They set out from a small valley on the west side of Beishan, and according to the enemy's alert observed during the day, Zhang Linfu led the team around and avoided the mobile and fixed posts they might encounter.

Luck was on the side of the revolutionary army, there were no clouds in the sky, and by the moonlight, Zhang Linfu led the team to speed up. Along the way, many people were cut in the face by thorns, their feet were broken by the rough and undulating ground, and a few even fell into the ravine, but none of them made a sound.

After touching out of the north mountain, the troops walked more cautiously, and when they reached two hundred meters from one of the villages, they could already see the figure of the enemy sentry in the moonlight.

According to the afternoon's arrangement, the three company commanders each took their own companies and set up battle formations.

The two sentries who were guarding began to think that they were dazzled, and rubbed their eyes to make sure that the soldiers who were pressed by the black pressure were all soldiers of the revolutionary army!

The two sentries had been chatting about the bloody battle during the day, and when they saw the revolutionary army coming, they didn't fire their guns, so they turned around and ran into the barracks, shouting all the way: "The revolutionary army is coming, run, run......"

Zhang Linfu raised his arms and shouted: "Rush! ”

The fighters with the flower traps rushed to the front, and the officers and soldiers behind all took out grenades.

The troops rushed into the village like a whirlwind, striking people at sight and dropping bombs on houses and courtyards.

Two regiments of Lin Ju were stationed in this small village, and the weather was hot, so many people were sleeping on the streets.

The black light was suddenly attacked, and the whole village was in chaos.

The firepower of Zhang Linfu's troops was very fierce, and the instinctive reaction of Lin Ju's soldiers was to flee and flee in all directions where there were no gunshots.

"Quick, hit the village in front!" Zhang Linfu ordered.

When the revolutionary soldiers next to them heard this, they all blew the bamboo whistle, which was also agreed before departure, "I don't know where to fight at night, so I follow the bamboo whistle." ”

Like a quick knife cutting butter, Zhang Linfu's department quickly rushed out of the village, and the entire village was already in flames.

More than 2,000 defeated soldiers fled anywhere, and the most were scattered to Tamsui City and another village.

chased out of the village, Zhang Linfu immediately decided: "Du Qingquan, take your people to the city...... For the rest, follow me to the village over there. ”

Where can the soldiers of the revolutionary army in the dark find the formation? followed the bamboo whistle soldiers in two ways.

As soon as the gunshots and explosions rang out, Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju, who had not slept well, woke up, and their orders were surprisingly consistent: "Close the city gate tightly, and fight anyone you see!" ”

Poor Lin Ju's defeated soldiers, as soon as they arrived in the city, they were knocked over a large area, and the rest begged the city to open the door to no avail, so they had to continue to flee in all directions.

After the soldiers of Hong Zhaolin's two regiments in the village woke up in their sleep, they were forced to get up by the commander and fired their guns at the figures outside the village.

Later, Zhang Linfu made a quick decision and ordered the soldiers to use firepower to drive the rout and continue to flee to the village of Hongbu.

Lin Jubu's defeated soldiers fled and begged: "Brothers, our own people, let us enter the village!" ”

The defeated army was outnumbered and invincible, and the defense line of Hong Zhaolin's troops was quickly overwhelmed. Zhang Linfu led the team to mix with the rout, and the defensive firepower in the village immediately weakened.

The commanders of these two regiments were all relatives of Hong Zhaolin, and they ran away from the other side of the village as soon as the fight started, and no one was in charge of the overall situation, so naturally they could not organize a decent defense.

The soldiers of the revolutionary army rushed into the village with the rout, and after entering, it was naturally a set of strafing and grenades.

Soon, the two regiments of Hongbu were also defeated, and the soldiers of the revolutionary army used the bamboo whistle as a signal, and several or a dozen people chased the routed soldiers in all directions.

The defeated soldiers couldn't enter the city, and some of them threw down their weapons and ran around, and those who didn't have the body found a place to hide and pretend to be dead, but no one dared to turn back and exchange fire with the revolutionary soldiers.

The so-called defeat is like a mountain, and that's it.

The movement under the mountain, Xie Niancheng and others on the mountain naturally saw it.

Xu Geng ran over and said: "Battalion commander, Regiment Commander Zhang, they have made a move, as soon as they make a move, the enemy sentries guarding the mountain will definitely not be there, or let's go to help the field?" ”

Xie Niancheng had this intention: "Order, the artillery set off, advance to the firing range, and then shell Tamsui City!" ”

In the first half of the night, after transporting the ashes of the martyrs and the seriously wounded, and a lot of supplies were transported from the ship, all the 80 mortars were able to fire normally.

With Xie Niancheng's order, the artillerymen quickly disassembled the mortars, and carried their own share to the bottom of the mountain, and many infantry, even the lightly wounded, also helped carry the shells and follow down the mountain.

The special artillery unit was carrying torches, and went down the mountain in a daze, and as expected, they walked all the way to a place four miles away from Tamsui City, and did not encounter any enemy situation.

The routs are not stupid, they are all fleeing to the south, and no one will go to the west.

The artillerymen found a flat ground and quickly assembled the mortar again.

After setting the ruler, twelve mortars cheerfully launched a chorus.

"Boom, boom—"

Shells fell into Tamsui City in droves.

"Bastard! It was so dark, how did they get the cannon down the mountain? Hong Zhaolin was furious.

The adjutant led the horse: "Commander, let's go, the guards have been assembled, if you go down like this, the city will be in chaos, but it will be difficult to leave." ”

Hong Zhaolin turned over his horse, took dozens of personal guards, and fled to the east gate with dozens of scurrying soldiers along the way.

At the gate of the East Gate, Hong Zhaolin was meeting Lin Ju, who was also fleeing with dozens of guards.

What else is there to say when the two meet in such a situation? He took his own people, whipped his whip and ran wildly, went out of the east gate, and walked away along the main road.

The more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in the city were leaderless, and they also swarmed out from the east and south gates, except for the seriously wounded who could not run.

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On the morning of 9 July, Wang Zhongzheng, who was in a hurry in the city of Guangzhou, Jiang Wei, who was rushing to Guangzhou with the Second Division of the Guangdong Army and the officers and men of the instructor, and Xu Chongzhi, who led the troops to dig trenches to block the enemy in the north of Guangzhou, all received this exciting battle report:

"On July 8, our army fought with more than 20,000 people from 18 regiments of Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju's department in Tamsui, and fought fiercely until the early morning of the 9th, breaking it, killing 6,000 enemies, wounding countless people, and defeating the rest; The two armies of Hong and Lin are no longer to be worried, and now the two divisions of Zhang and Chen have returned to Guangzhou, leaving Xie to guard the freshwater. ”

"Xie Niancheng, Zhang Linfu, Chen Qin, Han Calendar, July 10, 2013"

Several bigwigs who got the telegram immediately spread the news everywhere, and for a while, cheers resounded in the sky.