Chapter 50: The Battle of Pingjiang (1)
Tan Haoming sent two brigades to attack Pingjiang City, and when the news came, the morale in the city, which had been high, plummeted, and some of the defeated troops who had just been gathered were already shaken and ready to slip away.
On the first day, 600 people ran, Fang Qi jumped straight to his feet, he couldn't learn to scold his mother, but he also said: "Is this still our Beiyang soldier?" No integrity, coward! Scum! After coming to Pingjiang, he ran back and forth, busy with the ideological work of these defeated soldiers, and now he ran several battalions without waiting for a battle, and he felt a deep sense of frustration.
"Run clean, stay here and waste food."
Fu Zuoyi didn't care about these fleeing routs, he had to rely on the Fourth Mixed Brigade to fight a tough battle, those routs could only be used as cannon fodder at best to make his deployment less dead, and coming to Pingjiang completely changed his previous relaxed thoughts, the elite was as miserable as the 20th Division of Beiyang, and the rout fled like a mouse, and he was shocked to see it, realizing that Tan Haoming's Gui army was not Zhang Xun's pigtail army, and the enemy in front of them was unprecedentedly strong.
Fang Qidao complained and began to worry again, although he had strong firepower as a backing, he still had no bottom in his heart about the army that had just experienced the battle formation. However, he did not say that it was taboo that the war was imminent, affecting the morale of the army.
At the same time, the commanders of the regiments arrived, and Wu Xiaoliang prepared to hold a pre-war meeting to clarify the tasks of each department. Pingjiang is surrounded by Mishui on three sides, Yanjiatan in the west of Pingjiang has become the necessary place for the army to attack, this is located on the north bank of Mishui, Wu Xiaoliang ordered the defeated soldiers to build fortifications, arranged two lines of defense, and then made a big fanfare to attract Tan Haoming to attack. The confrontation between the two armies has always been easy to defend and difficult to attack, and his fourth mixed brigade is a new army, and a rash attack on Changsha will definitely win less and lose more, so it is better to wait for the rabbit. Now, Tan Haoming sent troops to attack Pingjiang as expected, the pit had been dug, just waiting for Wei and the 2nd Brigade of Ma to jump, in the face of the powerful firepower of light and heavy machine guns and artillery, any attack would be self-defeating. At this time, the Chinese warlords did not know the horror of positional warfare, and all kinds of meat grinders were frantically harvesting lives in the European Big 6, and the more tenacious the attacking troops, the more heavy the casualties.
Dong Haibin has returned from injury, he has lost a lot of weight, and his temperament is more deep, sitting at the conference table without saying a word, this time the first infantry regiment led by him will be ordered to defend the flank of the first line of defense, and the main force of the front line of defense is the second infantry regiment led by Chen Xiuyan. This made him very unhappy, the unique pride of the model regiment made him look down on this second generation of officials, thinking that this was a contempt for his first regiment with the model regiment as the backbone, but he couldn't fight, and he secretly plotted that Chen Xiuyan had always been hated by him in the horse factory, and he wanted to atone for his sins.
Chen Xiuyan stopped, "No, I don't feel at ease to let the first regiment defend the flank of the second regiment, who knows if he will plot again?" He has always been obsessed with that incident, although he promised not to pursue it on the surface, but the open and secret battle in the secret has never stopped.
Wu Xiaoliang's decision to let the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment serve as the front and flank defense of the first line of defense was deliberate, and only Chen Xiuyan's 2nd Regiment and Dong Haibin's 1st Regiment had experienced battle formations in the whole brigade, and the 2nd Regiment led by Chen Xiuyan was still a cadet detachment, so he had high hopes for the 1st Regiment. In addition, Chen Xiuyan has a sharp temperament, domineering and not open-minded enough, if he is not good enough to let Dong Haibin defend the front, he will be self-defeating and drag his feet, but let Dong Haibin serve as a cover, it is just the opposite.
"Commander Chen, Commander Dong, the brigade commander's order has been given, and at the moment of the war, I hope you two will cooperate sincerely and serve the country." Fang Qidao was dissatisfied with the two of them bringing their personal grievances to the meeting, and knocked on the table with a teacup.
Chen Xiuyan stopped speaking angrily, Dong Haibin had to speak, he looked around at everyone, and then promised:
"Brigade Commander and Regiment Commander Chen, please rest assured that Dong will fully cooperate and live and die with the position."
Wu Xiaoliang saw that the two subordinates would be unhappy and come to the table but couldn't reconcile, if he suppressed people with power, the two might be more and more rift if they were actually on the surface. He stood up, "The whole brigade is below me, going to trouble for the country, and dying will not be whirled!" This is one of the slogans that he made Fang Qidao.
"Go to trouble for the country, and die without turning your heels!"
Everyone stood up and shouted slogans, Chen Xiuyan's face was pale, secretly regretting the fierce expression just now, and after shouting, he glared at Dong Haibin fiercely.
An internal disagreement was made invisible by Wu Xiaoliang's understatement.
Wei Yongchang's brigade did not cross Mishui at Mugongpo as planned at this moment, but extended the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway to the north to cross Mishui, and then along the north bank of the mighty Benping River. Brigade Commander Wei Yongchang has been in battle for a long time, and he didn't take that baby brigade commander in his eyes at all.
"Duan Qirui is really old and confused, he sent a doll, isn't he looking for death?" Wei Yongchang laughed unscrupulously.
The chief of staff echoed on the side: "The brigade seat is wise, our army has not yet arrived, and the doll's soldiers have already scattered and fled." ”
Wei Yongchang restrained his smile, "Well, very good." Fewer prisoners, less food. ”
After that, he pointed to everyone in the venue, "I heard that the baby brigade commander has a rich family background, and there are all kinds of machine guns and cannons, and it will be beneficial for you to kill them earlier." ”
A regiment commander received: "Brigade seat, then let's move quickly, otherwise we will be rushed to the front by Brigade Commander Ma, and we will only have to drink soup." ”
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Wu Xiaoliang was not at ease and took people to inspect the fortifications. The soldiers pressed the border, the people were panicked, today there were hundreds of remnants, the progress of the project has also slowed down significantly, the trenches of the frontal defense line are basically completed, and when he came to the fortifications where Dong Haibin regiment was located, he couldn't help frowning, the combat soldiers were shirtless, wielding shovels, the trenches were not deep enough, and they were digging them.
"What's going on?" Wu Xiaoliang turned his head and asked sharply, Tan Haoming's attacking troops are about to arrive, and his combat soldiers are still wasting their bodies, where did the auxiliary troops formed by a large number of defeated troops go?
"There are not enough people in the north, and all the people who can be transferred are transferred there." Dong Haibin wiped his sweat and made a big face with mud on his hands.
"Immediately enter the combat position, the enemy has already crossed the water, and be ready for battle at any time." Wu Xiaoliang ordered sharply.
Suddenly, a flare rose into the air in the distance, one, two, three...... Enemy attack, enemy attack-
The battle started without warning, Wei Yongchang's two cavalry companies opened the battle line and rushed directly into the firing range of Chen Xiuyan's regiment, and 6O MGO8 heavy machine guns fired in unison along the battle line, and 7.92 mm caliber bullets poured out like a torrential rain of hail. The enemy cavalry suddenly turned on their backs as if they had crashed into a transparent wall, the bullets pierced through the flesh, broke the bones of the horses, blood splattered, neighing and screaming, and in an instant the first group of cavalry was annihilated, and the cavalry that came after did not turn around, but continued to charge forward over the criss-crossed corpses.
Chen Xiuyan sneered at the corner of his mouth and ordered all the soldiers to shoot. The barrage woven by the Madsen light machine gun and the G98 Mauser rifle filled the firepower gap of the MGO8 heavy machine gun, turning the first kilometer of the position into a hell of steel bullets, and the cavalry of Wei Yongchang's brigade finally collapsed, but it was too late, like a crop was swept by the rain of bullets and harvested, and the third wave of cavalry saw that the situation was not good, and the horse swept in front of the formation and fled, leaving the ground full of stumps and broken arms.
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