readx; Changsha No. 14 War Zone, because this area is the key area in the battle for Changsha, this area between the No. 10 area and the No. 15 area was originally a commercial street with dense merchants and shops in Changsha City, and the buildings are mainly blue bricks, and there is even a Catholic church made of cement and stone, although the Catholic clergy strongly opposed, but the national army still occupied this small church when it entered the No. 14, The only concrete building in Area 14 was used as the core of Area 14's defense, and more than a battalion of Nationalist troops were deployed along the perimeter of the church. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The church had already been converted into a military fortress, with two heavy machine guns deployed on both sides of the church, and an infantry company stationed in the church, which together with three other infantry companies around the church formed this line of church defense. On their west side, there were more than 2,000 guards [***] attacking them day and night.

The front-line headquarters of the 13th Regiment was set up in an inconspicuous stone blue-brick building 300 meters behind the church, and the commander of the 13th Regiment, Colonel Kong Zhen, was giving a combat order: "Let the machine gun company readjust its deployment, the number of heavy machine guns on the right flank of the church is currently only one and seriously insufficient, let the machine gun company be transferred from the left flank!" ”

As far as the 10th Division, which was still in existence in 1914, only nine heavy machine guns per regiment, so heavy machine guns and 80-millimeter mortars were generally deployed and commanded by the regimental headquarters.

The regimental staff officer next to him was worried at this time: "Although there are three heavy machine guns on the left flank now, the left flank is now facing the attack of the enemy's main force, and it is not appropriate to deploy heavy machine guns to support the right flank when the situation is tense?" ”

Kong Zhen said: "The enemy has been attacking on the left flank for more than twelve hours in a row, and there have been three or four hundred casualties, if I am the commander of the other side, then I will definitely not attack hard but choose other breakthrough directions!" ”

The regimental staff officer said: "The regimental seat thinks that the next main attack of the enemy army will be on the right flank?" ”

Kong Zhen pointed to the map and said: "You see, because of the fierce battle between our army and the enemy on the left flank, not only the enemy army has successively increased troops to the left flank, but our army has also increased troops to the left flank one after another. In this case, there is a weakness of the right wing, and it is impossible that they will not find out! ”

Kong Zhen's prediction was not wrong, at eleven o'clock in the morning of the 15th, the 14th area had been launched for nearly 30 hours to protect [***] and launched an attack on the 14th area again, as the core of the defense of the entire 14th area, the church line is still the main direction of the enemy's attack.

The difference is that the previous times the main attack direction of the protector [***] on the front line of the church was placed on the left flank that seemed to be the easiest to break through, but in fact both sides had deployed heavy troops, and this time the main attack direction of the previous [***] changed the direction of the main attack several times before, but the main attack direction was the right flank, which was considered more difficult to overcome before the war. In fact, there is only one infantry company left in the right flank, and the strength is far inferior to that of the left flank.

At this time, it was noon, Sergeant Li observed the guards not far away with good light, and then turned back to Kunzi and said, "There are at least three guards in the south corner, and there are three or five people in the pile of broken walls behind the corner!" ”

Kunzi looked at what Sergeant Li said from the scope on the rifle, and several guards [***] clearly appeared on the scope, but what made Kunzi excited was that he saw several people guarding [***] in the broken wall carrying a heavy machine gun, which seemed to be the transfer and deployment of heavy machine guns.

Seeing this, he did not hesitate to shoot, and after the crisp sound of the gunshot, he did not shrink back as usual, but quickly pulled the bolt, only to fire another shot a few seconds later. Two gunshots in a row, so that the four heavy machine guns were moving [***] soldiers fell down at once, and the other two also threw down the heavy machine guns and retracted into the corner, a few seconds later, more than a dozen rifles rose from the broken wall and the corner of the wall and began to shoot, but looking at the muzzle of the gun, and even shooting without aiming, it is obvious that Kunzi has not been found.

In this case, according to the usual experience, Kunzi knows that he should transfer, and if he shoots again, he will be exposed, and it will not be such a cool thing at that time.

However, just when Kunzi was about to transfer, he saw a few guards [***] rushing out of the corner, and then trying to pull back the heavy machine gun under the cover of a gunfire of guarding [***], and Kunzi who saw this moment did not hesitate to look at another shot, and several guards [***] who rushed out immediately fell down again, and the others immediately ran back.

"Kunzi, this is the eighteenth!" Sergeant Li does not have Kunzi's marksmanship, this kind of shooting at a distance of more than 300 meters is not something that ordinary ordinary soldiers can accomplish, and in the past day of the battle, Sergeant Li has basically served as Kunzi's observer, looking for targets for Kunzi and providing cover for him. The combination of the two of them actually shot more than a dozen people in just over a day, and there was even a guard [***] officer, and Kunzi, who was the main marksman, was once again promoted to the line of fire in just over a day and was awarded the rank of corporal.

Kunzi withdrew the gun, then trotted to the other side, and said as he trotted, "It's nineteen!" ”

As soon as Kunzi arrived at the predetermined position, he once again couldn't wait to set up the 1912-style rifle in his hand, and a few seconds later another gunshot rang out, this time not a single shot was killed, only hit the thigh of the [***] soldier, and the guard [***] immediately went to the end and then cried out in pain.

The battle is not over yet, for the lost heavy machine gun, the guard [***] is bound to be snatched back, so it is to fill it with life, you must know that the first division of the Yunnan army does not have more than a dozen heavy machine guns. The officer on the opposite side of the guard [***] obviously also knew that it would not work to go to three or four people at once, and sure enough, after a minute, the corner and the broken wall rushed out of a dozen people, Kunzi shot quickly, pulled the bolt and then shot, although it successfully hit the two, but the heavy machine gun was still pulled back by the guard [***].

"It's a pity, I was thinking of using it as bait!" Kunzi also knew the huge role of the heavy machine gun on the protection of [***], and he knew that the protection [***] would not give up easily, so he fired five or six shots in a row without making a large-scale transfer, and at this time, his continuous shooting had already made the protection [***] aware of his position.

He knew that it was time to transfer, and it would be too late to leave.

Sure enough, when he and Sergeant Li had just walked a few meters, the two of them hid and took out the wall to usher in a field of machine-gun strafing bullets, followed by a mortar bomb falling on the wall, if they hadn't left just now, I am afraid they would have been unable to stand up and walk.

On the other side of Changsha, in the joint headquarters of the Yunnan Army and the Gui Army, the so-called Protector First Army Headquarters, many senior generals of the Dian Army and the Gui Army sat together.

"It has been more than a day since the 5,000 soldiers of our escort [***] attacked the Shatou Street Church, why didn't they take it down?" Xie Ruyi looked at the group of people below with an angry face, as the supreme commander of the [***] protector in Changsha, he had the power and reason to be angry with the group of [***] generals under the hall.

Although Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting have not officially announced the formation of the political axe and the protection of the army on October 15, the joint operation of the two armies has already been planned, and the name of the protection of the army has been formalized yesterday, and after the union of the two armies is determined, in order to better integrate the war in Hunan, Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting have negotiated with each other and appointed Xie Ruyi of the Yunnan Army as the commander of the First Army of the Protector [***], commanding all the armies of the Dian Army and the Gui Army on the front line of Changsha. Of course, Xie Ruyi was nominally the commander of the First Army and the supreme commander of the Battle of Changsha, but the Gui Army was not a subordinate of the Dian Army, and the Gui Army and the Dian Army could only cooperate in combat, and definitely did not follow Xie Ruyi's orders to fight.

And Xie Ruyi was not scolding the generals of the Gui Army at this time, but the generals of the Dian Army. Because the first brigade and two regiments responsible for attacking the front line of the church were subordinate units of the 15th Division of the Dian Army. At present, the establishment of many warlord troops in China is not the same, the national army is its own improved three-regiment establishment, and although the Gui army is also a three-regiment system, but the Gui army in the later expansion of the army is not to increase the number of divisions and brigades, but directly expand each regiment, which leads to each regiment of the Gui army more than 4,000 people, basically a brigade establishment, if you really want to classify, the Gui army should be a division and three brigades. Except for the artillery regiment and other subsidiary units, the infantry units all adopted the standard Beiyang establishment, and continued to use the system of one division, two brigades and four regiments.

Therefore, they are all the same division, but the division of the Nationalist Army is different from the division of the Gui Army and even the division of the Dian Army. However, whether it is the Dian army or the Gui army, due to their serious lack of heavy firepower, they are extremely lacking in artillery and machine gun firepower in this kind of organization, and there are infantry who can raise enough numbers.

A brigade under the 15th Division could not attack the church for a long time, which naturally made Xie Ruyi depressed, and after being angry, he felt more powerless.

Not only did he quickly concentrate three divisions of troops before the war, but he also successfully mobilized two divisions in the rear to rush to Changsha for reinforcements within one day of the outbreak of the war, and he also succeeded in containing the 4th Mixed Brigade of more than 6,000 people in Zhuzhou with less than 10,000 Gui troops. It can be said that in all respects, protection [***] has already occupied an absolute strategic advantage.

But the only thing that surprised him was the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army, 5,000 [***] attacked a Nationalist position with only 1,000 men under the cover of artillery and heavy machine guns, and even failed to take it for a day of fierce fighting, not only that, but also suffered as many as 500 casualties.

In the past, he just knew that the Nationalist Army could fight, after all, the Nationalist Army that could defeat the Beiyang Army was no worse, and when he drew up the battle plan earlier, he calmly arranged his troops, preparing to concentrate at least 60,000 troops in Changsha, and quickly defeated the 10th Division of the Nationalist Army with a sixfold superiority in troops, so as to gain the strategic initiative after occupying Changsha.

But he never thought that the Nationalist Army would be so able to fight, although a 10th Division was suppressed by its own side and slowly retreated, a day after the start of the war, the Protector [***] had captured half of the Changsha urban area controlled by the Nationalist Army, plus the urban area controlled by the original Protector [***] It can be said that 80% of Changsha has fallen into the hands of the Protector, and now the 11th Division of the Nationalist Army can only rely on the church and the railway station to resist stubbornly in the northeast corner of Changsha, and in order to encircle and eliminate the 10th Division, Protect [***] It had already captured the northern and eastern suburbs of Changsha and tried to carry out an annihilation attack on the 10th Division.

However, while achieving these results, it also brought heavy casualties to Hu [***], the Dian army alone suffered more than 2,000 casualties in the fierce battle of Zuotian, if he continued to fight, Xie Ruyi had to wonder whether his troops fought first or the 10th Division of the Nationalist Army was defeated first.

"It's only been a day and a half since the war started, we still have time, as long as we can swallow up the 10th Division before the reinforcements of the national army on Yueyang's side, we are still the winners!" Fang Shengtao next to him said.

"The fifteenth division will reinforce the front line of the church here, and we must conquer the front line of the church before tomorrow!" After Xie Ruyi said that, he waved his hand and asked the other generals to go back.

Changsha on the 15th is more fierce than yesterday's battle, at present the Nationalist Army has launched a tragic offensive and defensive battle with Hu [***] in the church area and the railway station area, the 10th Division of the National Army wants to hold on and wait for reinforcements, and the Hu [***] wants to dare to defeat the 10th Division before the arrival of the National Army reinforcements, even if it cannot be encircled and annihilated, at least the 10th Division must be driven out of Changsha, control the first line of the church and the railway station, and gain the initiative in the Changsha campaign.

On the 16th, Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting jointly established the new Republic of China's political axe and protector, Tang Jiyao appointed himself as the prime minister of the cabinet and concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of the protector, Lu Rongting served as the commander-in-chief of the army and concurrently served as the deputy commander of the protector, and invited Sun Wen, who was far away, to return to China and take up the post of president of the new Republic of China. Immediately after receiving this news, Sun Wen, who had been far away, issued a telegram severely condemning the erroneous decision of Nanjing Reading Cai Zheng Axe in handling the affairs of Qingdao and Mongolia and the issue of Shanxi, claiming that Chen Jingyun had continuously launched internal and external wars for the sake of one person's preferences and disregarded the life and death of the people. At the same time, he severely condemned the terrorist [***] politics practiced by the Kuomintang in China, and scolded Chen Cai, the director of the Investigation Bureau, for being a peerless demon king who eats and drinks flesh and blood. was scolded by Sun Wen on the call, in addition to Chen Jingyun, he Chen Cai was the second, and even Yuan Shikai couldn't enjoy this honor back then!

That is, on the same day, Sun Wen boarded the ship from Ben to Hanoi, French Vietnam, prepared to change trains, and arrived in Kunming, Yunnan Province to take office as the president of the new The Republic of China. Today, I will return to China and vow to bring the republic to China and freedom to the people! ”

After speaking, he bowed down and said this sentence again: "The revolution has not yet succeeded, and you must work hard!" ”