Chapter 43: The Great Battle on the Southern Front
Towards the end of the decisive battle in the north, the revolutionary army launched a full-scale attack on the East China Army, and the 250,000 revolutionary troops in Yingshan County were the first to attack, and both sides had a large number of recruits, and the recruits of the East China Army were systematically trained to be a little stronger than the revolutionary army, but their weapons were more than a little more advanced than the revolutionary army.
The East China Army built a defensive line with the trenches and dense heavy machine guns, and the revolutionary army rushed up desperately, falling one after another, and the revolutionary army attacked for several hours without making any progress, leaving behind a corpse and then retreating, losing a full 30,000 people and not making progress, while the East China Army looked as if it had lost less than 3,000, which made them how to fight.
The revolutionary army in Shangcheng County also attacked the East China Army fiercely, but they left more than 50,000 corpses and retreated, which was very unfavorable for them to lose so many troops in the first attack.
Sun Cannon and others in the rear were discussing such a big loss, Sun Cannon: "Everyone, the front line was unfavorable on the first day, is the East China Army so difficult to fight, I don't know what happened to Yuan Shikai?" ”
Huang Xing shook his head and said: "No matter what, now that the arrow is on the bow, the whole world knows that our Xingshi attack on the East China Army must achieve good results, otherwise we will become the laughing stock of the world." ”
"We must kill the East China Army to avenge our comrades who sacrificed before, I can't imagine that the Qin dog thief will not die, it is really blind to God's eyes." Chen Qimei said fiercely.
Song Jiaoren: "In my opinion, there is nothing bad about Chairman Qin, you can see the support of the people of East China for the East China government, let's withdraw the army as soon as possible, don't make any more stalemate, you have no desire for peaceful reunification at all, and they have all deteriorated." In Song Jiaoren's eyes, Sun Dacang was no longer a pure person for the country and the people, and he decided to reorganize the alliance as much as possible to build a stronger party.
Chen Qimei and they were all very surprised when they heard Song Jiaoren's words, they didn't expect that someone would praise Qin Yu and be one of the leaders of the Alliance, these words made Chen Qimei and Huang Xing's faces very gloomy, only Sun Dacang's face was as usual.
Chen Qimei roared at Song Jiaoren: "What are you talking about, do you know that the soldiers of our revolutionary army were brutally killed by the East China Army in Shanghai and other places, are you worthy of them?" ”
Tao Chengzhang stood up and pointed at Chen Qimei: "It's not your turn to speak now, why do you say that you are at the beginning, what you did in Shanghai do you think no one knows, the East China Army is ready to control Shanghai, you actually ran out to snatch the fruits of others, and cheekily said that those green skins are the revolutionary army, aren't you ashamed, this assassination of Qin Yu must be indispensable to you." At that time, Sun Cannon decided to send someone to assassinate Qin Yu, Song Jiaoren and Tao Chengzhang were not present, so they didn't know that this was Sun Cannon's order.
Chen Qimei just wanted to say something, but when Sun Cannon saw it, he scolded loudly: "Enough, now is not the time to quarrel, this is a meeting, what should you do, the matter of attacking East China will not stop because of these setbacks, that's it, the meeting is dismissed." ”
Sun Dacang glanced at Song Jiaoren and Tao Chengzhang fiercely after saying that the meeting was dismissed, and the two of them did not notice Sun Dacang's gaze because they had been looking at Chen Qimei and the others.
After Song Tao and the others left, Chen Qimei said to Sun Dacang: "Why should Mr. put up with them, it's better to be like this." Saying that, he gestured his hand to his neck, Sun Dacang shook his head silently, while Huang Xing did not speak on the side, and Chen Qimei didn't dare to say anything when he saw that the two of them didn't express their position.
Suddenly, Sun Cannon spoke: "You send people to watch them, don't let them ruin our big things, and don't let them make any moves, go ahead." ”
Due to the large number of revolutionary troops and the fact that they are not concentrated, the use of tank troops will not have much effect, and the East China Army has always wanted to concentrate these revolutionary troops, and after Jiang Fangzhen's consent to eliminate a certain number of revolutionary troops in the two major battlefields, it deliberately opened a gap for the revolutionary army to concentrate on attacking.
In the past few days, the East China Army has used the defense line to fight back against the revolutionary army, and the defense is more than the attack, and the casualties on both sides are rising, and the 250,000 revolutionary army in Yingshan County is now less than 180,000, while the East China Army still has more than 130,000 troops; There were still 250,000 left in the revolutionary army in Shangcheng County and 160,000 in the East China army, and the war was very fierce.
And the victory of the Eastern Chinese Army on the northern front, 100,000 East China troops began to go south to participate in the decisive battle on the southern front, and the revolutionary army did not know anything about the end of the East China Army and the Beiyang Army, and they did not know the East China Army going south, and they did not know that their end was coming.
Just when the revolutionary army suffered heavy losses, they all suddenly found that the East China Army seemed to be starting to be a little unable to hold on, especially the East China Army in a certain place was very weak, so they were ready to concentrate their forces to attack that point, preparing to break the face with points. But Xiong Kewu in Shangcheng County thought that this might be a trap for the East China Army, but these people were all people who were eager for quick success and quick profit, and did not listen to Xiong Kewu's admonition, and also criticized Xiong Kewu for not knowing how to grasp the opportunity, which would make this rare opportunity lost, Xiong Kewu knew that he could not stop them, so he had to order his Sichuan army to follow behind, not to go deeper, and to cover the retreat of the revolutionary army once there was a change.
The revolutionary army concentrated its forces to attack the weak point, and the East China army here retreated one after another, and soon collapsed and fled in all directions, and the revolutionary army was ecstatic and kept advancing, which was the happiest time for them.
Just when their army almost entered the gap, those revolutionary troops heard the sound of "boom", they saw one after another iron boxes moving rapidly, there was a soldier of the East China Army holding a machine gun on it, those iron boxes rushed towards them, the revolutionary army was stunned and did not know how to deal with these iron boxes, some soldiers who were not stunned shot at the iron boxes, but only a few sparks were sparked, and suddenly the soldiers on those iron boxes took machine guns and began to shoot, The stunned revolutionary soldiers fell one by one, more than a hundred iron boxes were in full swing, shells were fired from the barrels, and many of the revolutionary troops in front were blown up.
This scene made those officers open their mouths wide, but they quickly called the artillery to shell these iron boxes, but because these iron boxes are fast and the movement is not regular, so the artillery can't do anything, once the artillery shells these tanks will point their muzzles wherever they are, and many revolutionary artillery artillery have been bombed off by the tanks, and the artillery losses are very large. The soldiers of the East China Army followed closely behind the tanks, and they frantically launched an attack on the panicked revolutionary army, and the casualties of the revolutionary army increased significantly.
This was a naked massacre, Xiong Kewu in the back was very shocked, his premonition came true, the East China Army actually had this kind of killing machine, fortunately his Sichuan army was not in front, otherwise he would have died of heartache. Xiong Kewu hurriedly asked these officers to let the soldiers retreat, but soon they found that their soldiers didn't know where they were, there were scattered revolutionary troops everywhere, and the undisciplined revolutionary army was very chaotic at this time, and only the soldiers close to these officers could hear their orders, so they had to call the soldiers around them while walking, and they really gathered a lot of soldiers. In the end, the Sichuan army escaped under the cushion, the Sichuan army behind the cushion was basically wiped out, and only less than 70,000 people came back from the 200,000 revolutionary army, and there were 40,000 Sichuan troops among the 70,000.
There were less than 110,000 left in the revolutionary army in Shangcheng County, while the East China Army still had as many as 140,000, and the revolutionary army could only telegraph Sun Cannon for help.
This scene was also staged in Yingshan County, but they did not have talents like Xiong Kewu, so after the original 180,000, only less than 40,000 people were left to flee from Yingshan County and flee in the direction of Luotian County, while the East China Army followed closely behind.
The Armageddon on the Southern Front is almost complete, as long as those who escaped are killed.
After receiving the request for help from Yingshan County and Shangcheng County, Sun Dacang and others in the rear thought that today was April Fool's Day, and hundreds of thousands of troops actually said that they were defeated, and the East China Army didn't seem to be so powerful, it must be that the telegraph operator on the front line was mistaken. But soon they were sure that it was true, and then they were very shocked, how could the East China Army be so strong. But now they don't have any troops to help them, and Sichuan is being attacked by the Southwest Army, their first reaction is to withdraw their troops quickly, and they themselves should move out of here quickly, otherwise the East China Army will soon kill here.
The fleeing revolutionary troops in Yingshan County began to surrender on the third day after receiving no assistance, and the surrendered revolutionary army numbered less than 30,000 people, many of whom fled with guns in all directions halfway through. The revolutionary army in Shangcheng County was surrounded by regiments, and Xiong Kewu and his soldiers tried to break through again and again, but it didn't work at all, but they lost another 20,000 people. All the revolutionary armies were very afraid, they were waiting for reinforcements, but unfortunately they didn't wait for the so-called reinforcements of the East China Army to start the attack, the East China Army did not want money to smash shells into the revolutionary army, those revolutionary troops who lost their morale surrendered to the East China Army in formations, only Xiong Kewu's Sichuan Army was frantically breaking through, and finally only Xiong Kewu successfully broke through with less than 10,000 Sichuan Army, but they did not get relieved, because the East China Army was still constantly pursuing them.
Sun Cannon suddenly fainted when he heard that his army had been defeated at the front line and that his army was basically wiped out, and those core figures of the revolutionary army were also miserable, because the great losses of the revolutionary army did not know how long it would take to recover.
The defeat of the revolutionary army brought the decisive battle on the southern front to a perfect end, and the battle of the defensive line was basically completed.