80,000 people fight 10,000 people, no matter how you fight, you can win this battle!

Liu Sen, Yang E, and Tian Geyao were full of confidence in the next battle, and in their hearts, most of the revolutionary troops occupying Chengdu would abandon the city like Yang Yuan.

Yes, Chengdu is surrounded by a large plain, 10,000 people defend the city, 80,000 people attack the city, if it is in the period of cold weapons, maybe it can still fight a dozen, in the era of hot weapons, is there still the meaning of stubborn resistance?

In the hearts of the officers and men of the 17th Rank, there was no suspense about the outcome of this battle.

"Our regiment, in Xishan, Guangdong, defeated 30,000 people with 1,000 men; Now, we have 5,000 people in one regiment, and the 3515, and 80,000 Sichuan troops are not enough for us to fight! ”，

"Our Su family army, in the old Sichuan army, it is one of the best elites, and now it has been equipped with new weapons to fight the old Sichuan army, do you need to say the victory or defeat?"

"Haha, those turtle sons of the Sichuan army, when the old men were on the mountain, dozens of people could play with thousands of them, and now that the gentlemen are together, how can these eggless things be the opponents of our heroes?"

The Great War was approaching, and all the officers and men of the 17th Army were excited.

In the early morning of October 21, the sky was very overcast, and the camps of the various troops were filled with smoke, Ye Xiaoqiu's ability was really not covered, and there were large pieces of pork stewed in each pot, and there was a fine wine in a high-quality jar on the side of each pot.

In Xie Niancheng's tent, the officers gathered together, all with smiles on their faces.

Although Xie Niancheng did not have the ability to read minds, he saw from the faces of the officers the belief that everyone would win. This also made the tone of his order even firmer: "I order, the whole army will be dispatched." Hit Tian Geyao in Deyang first! ”

After the fighters finished their breakfast, a drizzle began to fall in the sky. This added a bit of poetry to the dispatch of the 17th Army.

The military headquarters issued an order that, in addition to the artillery battalion and the newly established supplementary regiment, the other ten infantry battalions and one special service battalion would all be dispatched to Deyang to fight Tian Geyao.

Xie Niancheng rode a car, took Yang Yuwei and Fang Caiyun, and behind him were dozens of staff officers from the military headquarters, and rushed out of the camp first.

As a military commander, Xie Niancheng took the lead, and his actions. Everywhere I passed, there was cheering. The soldiers naturally sincerely supported such a leader.

After galloping for more than ten miles in the rain, Xie Niancheng found a hill and led everyone to climb it.

"Yuwei, are you tired?"

Yang Yuwei smiled and shook her head, "I'm not tired." ”

The guards in the back were busy, setting up tents and radio stations. This was the marching headquarters of the 17th Army.

Fang Caiyun took out a small notebook and began to write articles, after setting off from Guangzhou, no one in the organization contacted her, which made her temporarily forget that she was a spy. Conscientiously devote himself to the work of military correspondents.

Chengdu to Deyang, is a Pingchuan.

Soon, hundreds of knights in civilian clothes were heading north from the various roads below the mountain. These are the scouts and signal corps of the battalions, and their task is to provide intelligence cover for the advance of the large army.

A little longer. Dark green human dragons appeared in the south, and the warriors who formed the human dragons carried various weapons. Wearing a steel helmet, it winds its way through the rain.

All the departments hurried north at the speed of a rapid march, and they couldn't see the end at a glance, and the scale of such a march made Xie Niancheng and Yang Yuwei on the mountain look at it, and they were full of pride.

This kind of marching army shape is actually unreasonable, but each unit is reluctant to walk behind others, and the battalion commanders simply take their own troops, each take a small road, and come in unison.

It had been more than ten miles since they came out of the barracks, and these long human dragons were almost in a parallel state, and it was obvious that this march had become part of the competition between the battalions.

From the marching movements of each battalion, we can also see the difference in the temperament of the troops.

Several battalions from a regiment, the soldiers were all in a neat formation, and the female soldiers assigned to each battalion were all riding horses, and when they reached the front of the team, the female soldiers came down under the leadership of the propaganda team members and began to cheer up the soldiers.

Zhang Chengyue, Peng De, and Su Huaiyu took the lead in walking at the forefront of the team and set the best example for the soldiers.

The several battalions from the second regiment looked like they were about to be difficult, and the morale of the soldiers was also very high, but many of them were unable to do what they could do, and they had begun to pant and puff, and their three battalion commanders, Su Xiangzhi, Su Chaoming, and Su Wanyun, all looked not very good-looking, and they all turned over and dismounted, and took the lead in walking in the mud.

The platoon commanders of each company also shouted the names of their relatives and friends as they walked, trying to catch up with the footsteps of other units.

The soldiers from the third regiment walked the most briskly, not only because most of them were used to walking and climbing mountains, but also because they were not equipped with heavy machine guns and mortars.

Time was limited, and Fan Pengju, Li Xiaohai, and Zhou Shisheng were only equipped with submachine guns and light machine guns.

While walking, these men from the green forest also sang various mountain songs, and this march was more like an outing for them.

Xie Niancheng laughed, took the small military headquarters, and continued north.

The rain was getting heavier, but the pace of the march did not decrease in the slightest, and the warriors walked all the way, eating dry food all the way. At this time, the fifth, sixth, and seventh battalions of the second regiment gradually fell behind.

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th battalions from the 1st Regiment and the 8th, 9th, and 10th battalions from the 3rd Regiment competed more fiercely.

At noon, a burst of gunfire rang out from the north.

The cavalry scouts and the enemy are fired!

The sound of gunfire was an order, and all the troops sped up, and the flow of people rolled north.

Tian Geyao never expected that the revolutionary army would attack him in the north on such a rainy day, so his main force was in Deyang City, and only a regiment was placed three miles south of the city.

The several outposts placed by this regiment outside were all touched by the cavalry of the revolutionary army in an instant.

When the large army of the revolutionary army advanced to a distance of three miles from this regiment, it stopped and began to rest.

This regiment in the south of the city is not an old regiment, it is a new unit organized by Tian Geyao, and it is a merger of the militia regiments of the four counties, and the weapons and equipment are not good.

The head of the regiment saw a large number of people pressed by the black pressure on the opposite side from a distance, and his heart panicked, and he wanted to retreat but did not dare, so he hurriedly sent someone back to the city to report the news.

The herald rode back to the city and saw Tian Geyao: "Commander, there are people from the south, it is estimated that there are several thousand." ”

Although the revolutionary army occupied Chengdu in one day, several leaders knew that it was because Yang Yuan fled without a fight, and the number of the revolutionary army was only about 10,000, which can also be determined.

Tian Geyao smiled at the officers next to him: "I heard that the one who led the troops on the other side came over, it was a kid named Xie Niancheng, who was only eighteen years old this year, I don't know what he was anxious about, so he didn't stay honest in Chengdu, and sent someone to come here to die on such a rainy day." ”

"Haha-"

The officers laughed along.

Everyone laughed for a while, Tian Geyao looked at his watch and said: "It's two o'clock in the afternoon, these idiots came from Chengdu so quickly, it is estimated that they are too tired to do it, give an order to Commander Li, let him stand by in place, and the team will leave the city immediately." ”

Tian Geyao didn't ask the herald soldiers how many people there were in the revolutionary army, in his heart, the total strength of the revolutionary army was 10,000, and the most people who could come to Deyang were 5,000.

Chengdu is so big, there are not a few thousands of people, can it be controlled? This revolutionary army came to Deyang, and it is estimated that it is a suspicious soldier.

Tian Geyao said to the officers: "This surnamed Xie must have sent a partial division to set up a suspicious formation, if we defend the city, then it will fall into his plan, it is better to take advantage of their unstable foothold and attack the whole army...... We have many of us, but we have few of them, and we will surely destroy them if we are at ease. Hurry up and prepare, within half an hour, the whole army will attack! ”

"Commander Wise!"

The officers had no doubts about Tian Geyao's judgment.

Shouts and whistles sounded everywhere in Deyang City, the whole town was in chaos, and the soldiers scattered in various houses were shouted by the officers to go to the streets to form a team, but the equipment of Tian Geyao's department was really poor, there were more than 10,000 people in two divisions, there were only ten heavy machine guns in total, and there were only four old-fashioned small-caliber infantry guns with a range of less than one kilometer, and rifles of all models.

If he knew the firepower of the revolutionary army opposite, he would never dare to go out of the city to fight.

In the midst of the chaos of the officers and soldiers on the street, no one noticed that in a private house, a transmitter began to send out a report.

In the military headquarters, Yang Yuwei handed the telegram to Xie Niancheng, "The enemy is assembling and wants to leave the city." ”

Xie Niancheng smiled: "It saves us a lot of things." ”

Walking out of the tent, Xie Niancheng ordered the signal corpsmen who were waiting for orders outside: "The enemy wants to go out of the city to fight with us in the field, order all departments, quickly arrange artillery and heavy machine gun fire, the infantry prepare to charge, and have dinner in Deyang City." ”

"Arrange firepower, prepare for the charge, and have dinner in Deyang City......"

The signal corps conveyed orders to each battalion commander.

Soon, the order to "have dinner in Deyang City" reached the ears of every soldier.

At this point, Tian Geyao thought of it with Xie Niancheng, "Brothers, go out of the city to defeat the chaotic party over there who don't know whether to live or die, and bring the head of the person surnamed Xie to serve wine for dinner!" ”

The eleven battalions of the Seventeenth Army, all of whom did not want to be left behind, formed a battle line side by side.

Xie Niancheng and Huang Xue saw the chaotic formation of Tian Geyao's troops, so they acquiesced to such arrangements of the battalions of the 17th Army.

Since it's an encounter, let's have a complete chaos!

Tian Geyao walked to the front of the position and used a telescope to observe the front of the revolutionary army, although he had not fought any battles, but his eyesight was still there, and he could see at a glance that the revolutionary army on the opposite side was lined up in eleven small ranks.

"Hmph, there are fewer soldiers than me, and you dare to play together?"

Tian Geyao ordered the troops to be divided into three routes, three old regiments on the left, one new regiment on the middle and one on the right, and he led all the way to the formation.

If the combat effectiveness of the revolutionary army is similar to that of the Tian army, then Tian Geyao's deployment is quite decent, but the combat effectiveness of the revolutionary army is obviously much higher than that of the Tian army.

Tian Geyao soon understood that it was a mistake for him to let his troops go out of the city to fight, and it was even more wrong to discharge such a formation! (To be continued......)