Liu Xuyi stood up and saluted: "Please rest assured, even if you fight to the point of being a lowly person, you will resolutely defend the Zhujia Bridge, and you will definitely not discredit the flag of our Second Army." ”

Liu Xing shouted with satisfaction: "Okay, worthy of being a good man of our Second Army, Zhujiaqiao will ask your brothers in the whole regiment, after this battle, I will personally ask the commander for your credit." ”

"Xiexie Throne!"

In Anjiang, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the nominally supreme command organ of the Youth Army, has remained on paper until now. Wang Zhenyu, who is chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, has two other vice chairmen for himself, Tian Yingzhao and Lu Rongting, but one of them is engaged in diplomatic activities in the Tianjin concession, and the other is simply under a name. I honestly stayed in my hometown of Wuming, and basically no longer attended any political activities except for the annual party congress.

In this way, Wang Zhenyu is the sole leader of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, which also leads to the Secretariat and the attendant office of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission becoming two sets of teams and one set of personnel. Under Wang Zhenyu's deliberate arrangement, from last year, all orders involving the Youth Army were no longer issued in the name of the commander. Instead, it was transformed and issued in the name of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. Although this is a bit of a suspicion of taking off his pants and farting, Wang Zhenyu deliberately announced that all his orders were legal and collective decisions, and his youth army became an SS army, not the private army of warlord Wang Zhenyu.

The Central Revolutionary Military Commission was actually set up in the Patrol Embassy's Palace, well, but at present, the post of Patrol Envoy no longer exists. From the moment Wang Zhenyu issued the telegram, the patrol envoy appointed by Yuan Shikai was automatically dismissed.

The legal system that Wang Zhenyu had been worried about was also completely solved at this moment, and at this moment he was waiting at his desk for the latest telegram received by Wang Huaishi.

The Changde battlefield is destined to affect the nerves of the top commanders of the warring sides, whether it is Wang Zhenyu or Yuan Shikai, they all know that this is the first battle between the two sides, and whoever wins means that whoever can get the first opportunity.

Wang Zhenyu read the latest information and flicked a bullet report: "Ma Jizeng Zuihou still chooses to take the waterway, and this battle has begun to enter our rhythm." Wang Hu, you go and bring my quilt over, I will sleep here tonight, and report any news immediately! ”

Ma Jizeng finally got on the boat, and the banner embroidered with the words "Ma, the commander of the First Route Army of the Crusading Army", was very majesticly inserted in the bow of the ship, fluttering in the wind.

The entire Beiyang Sixth Division swept upstreams along the Yuan River, covering the sky and the sun, and the momentum is amazing.

On the night of January 14, the Sixth Division led by Marshal Ma Jizeng entered the tributaries of the Yuan River as originally planned and went straight to Changde, but an accident happened at this time.

In the middle of the night, Zhujiaqiao was quiet, and a fleet of seven or eight fishing boats came from far and near, trying to pass through here quietly. Behind the boardboat, a tall northerner was standing on a boardboat, staring ahead and rubbing his cold hands against the cold of the winter night. I couldn't help but scold in my heart: "Damn old man, you won't be called emperor sooner, you won't be emperor later, but you will be called emperor in this winter, and you still have to send troops to fight on such a cold day, I hope this surprise attack can be successful, otherwise it will be difficult to fight." ”

This tall soldier was none other than Huang Zhenkui, the commander of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 11th Brigade of the Sixth Division of the Beiyang Army, and the vanguard task of this operation was entrusted to him. Huang Zhenkui is a veteran soldier, known as a brave name in the Sixth Division, in Hankou in the Xinhai year, it was this unit in Hankou that defeated the main force of the People's Army commanded by Huang Xing in one fell swoop, the Eighth Division of the former New Army, it stands to reason that this person should have a bright future. However, in the ensuing street fighting, Huang Zhenkui did something that everyone was angry about, and in the face of the elusiveness of the Kuomintang guerrillas, Huang Zhenkui directly ordered to set fire to Hankou. This is good, there is no need to fight street battles, Huang Zhenkui also has a bright future because of this atrocity, and no leader will like to act like his subordinates. However, this person's personality is very eccentric, and he is not very interested in getting promoted and making a fortune, but he has a soft spot for fighting in battle formations. Therefore, every time the vanguard task of the Sixth Division is taken, he will take it over, and no one is allowed to rob him, and this time is naturally no exception.

Huang Zhenkui's Jihua was even bolder than Ma Baochen's original goods, and he directly selected eighty of the most elite soldiers from the regiment and asked them to take seven fishing boats to Changde.

This section of the river in Zhujiaqiao is relatively narrow, according to Huang Zhenkui's inertial thinking, if there is any ambush, it is here.

After watching a fishing boat enter the narrow river, Huang Zhenkui's heart finally settled down, but almost at the moment of peace of mind, something terrible happened.

"Da ......" sparks suddenly flew around and gunshots rang out. As soon as Huang Zhenkui heard it, he knew that it was the sound of Makqin restarting the machine, such a fierce firepower, not an ambush.

The flotilla of fishing boats was hit by frantic fire on both sides of the riverbank, and the Beiyang soldiers on the fishing boats looked in horror at the bullets that rained down, and there was nowhere to hide.

A fishing boat was hit by thousands of bullets in an instant, and it was directly broken up. The other fishing boats were no better, and the Beiyang soldiers standing outside tried to raise their guns to resist, but they couldn't find a chance to shoot at all, and they were mercilessly hit by fierce bullets, and their bodies involuntarily fell into the river. The Beiyang soldiers hiding in the inner compartment did not even know that a bullet had occurred, and they were pierced through their bodies by the bullets fired through the cover......

The whole process lasted less than a minute, and the fire came to an abrupt halt, and the seven fishing boats were suddenly lifeless, and they came to a quiet stop in the river. If it weren't for the oozing crimson of the river and the corpses floating on the river, who would have thought that a bloody killing had taken place in this narrow river just a minute earlier.

Huang Zhenkui stomped his feet angrily and said, "Withdraw, damn, there is an ambush in this ghost place, it's a pity that Lao Tzu's gang of good soldiers." ”

The 22nd Infantry Regiment was ambushed, and the news of the loss of nearly 100 was soon reported to Ma Jizeng. Ma Jizeng glanced at the panicked Ma Baochen and said: "Chief of Staff, marching and fighting, it is common to be ambushed, don't be too nervous." ”

As soon as these words came out, Ma Baochen naturally blushed, after all, it was his suggestion to take the waterway, and now it seems that the youth army is obviously on guard. Ma Baochen asked softly: "Zeng Shuai, since the other party has a defense, what should we do next?" ”

Ma Jizeng shaved the beard on his upper lip with his hand, and seemed to be very satisfied with the appearance of Ma Baochen, the chief of staff who usually doesn't deal with him well, at the moment, he said with a slight sarcasm: "What are you afraid of, if the sneak attack fails, let's play the attack." Lao Tzu is not a nerd from the school, Lao Tzu is rolled out of the sea of corpses and blood, Chief of Staff, although you have read more books than my old horse, but to say that this is leading troops to fight, you pony still have to learn from my old horse, haha. ”

Ma Baochen was so angry that Ma Jizeng's face was red and white for a while, but he knew that Ma Jizeng was such a rough embryo, so it was not easy to have a seizure, and let him go: "What Zeng Shuai said is very true, and then I will listen to Zeng Shuai's orders." ”

Ma Jizeng took a smug look at this time, walked to the map with a solemn face and said: "Put the division headquarters in Wenjiaping, it is only forty miles away from Changde City, and it is a plain all the way. Let Zhou Wenbing of the 11th Brigade organize them, Lao Tzu will kill all the way to Changde this time, and let these rebellious ministers and thieves take a good look at the prestige of our Sixth Division. ”

After everyone left, Ma Jizeng's smug face was completely gone, and he looked at the map with a frown and said: "Wang Zhenyu, Wang Zhenyu, I know that you are not a fuel-efficient lamp, but no matter what tricks you play, Lao Tzu will do everything possible to catch you this time, wash away the stigma of the jade belt door, and you kid will wash your neck and wait for death." ”

The curtain of the Battle of Changde was finally opened with an ambush battle in the waters of Zhujiaqiao on the Yuanjiang River, and the Beiyang Sixth Division also changed the surprise attack to a strong attack. But what they didn't know was that what was in front of them was not a rabble of 120,000, but a youth army of five divisions that Wang Zhenyu had painstakingly managed, spent two years and spent a lot of money to arm, and the 120,000 youth army was waiting for the combat order of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission of the National Socialist Party. In the eyes of many senior generals of the Youth Army, as long as such a well-equipped and large number of youth troops are covered like a tide, the Beiyang Sixth Division will become without a trace.

Wang Zhenyu didn't think so, of course he wanted to annihilate the Sixth Division, but he was not here, for long-term consideration, now is not the time to expose his strength all at once, and when Lao Yuan's main force all enters Sichuan and Beiyang falls apart, he can show the world the amazing shili of the youth army. At the same time, for the Youth Army, Wang Zhenyu is still a little bottomless in his heart, after all, the Beiyang Army is now famous for its murder (the Chinese Revolutionary Party is doing free propaganda everywhere), and I don't know if this gang of monkey cubs of the Youth Army can be suppressed?

In short, the plan given by Wang Zhenyu is to block on the spot. And Wan Yaohuang, who is the actual person in charge of the entire Hunan Theater this time, also holds the same view, so now Liu Xuyi is tragic, the troops under his command are required to put on a passive posture of being beaten at Zhujiaqiao, and behind him, there are three young army comrades of the full division clapping their hands and cheering, which is really to show that the enemy is weak.

Almost at the same time as the Zhujia Bridge started, Xu Yuanquan led a division of troops to set off towards Ma Jizeng's Laochao Li County.

January 15, the day after the Zhujiaqiao ambush began, was destined to be a day that attracted national attention because of the Battle of Changde......