The first battle went well, and Huang Xing was naturally in a good mood. He immediately issued an order to the three commanders who were the main force of the counteroffensive to aid the Hunan-Hunan Army, asking all units not to stop and restraining their units to advance rapidly in the direction of Yudaimen. Then he himself took the troops directly under the headquarters and the armed Liliang composed of nearly 4,000 members of the Hui Party and also drove in the direction of Yudaimen.

At about 3 p.m., the advancing Nationalist Army and small groups of Qing troops engaged in several skirmishes one after another, and the Qing troops were not outnumbered and had no clear desire to fight, so they were quickly routed by the Nationalist Army. Although the officers of the infantry battalion in charge of the defense in the direction of Zongguan in the sixth town of the Beiyang Army did not receive a clear report, the clear and audible gunfire still made them make a clear judgment that the civilian army was coming from their flank. The battalion immediately decided to take the Bo'ai Academy, where the battalion headquarters was located, as the core, and concentrate the four or five hundred people that the battalion headquarters could still assemble to block the civilian army on the spot, and at the same time send people to report to the Ma Xietong of Yudaimen.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, when the news of the People's Army appeared on the Hankou side, it was finally passed layer by layer to Feng Guozhang, the president of the First Army of the Qing Army. After reading the report, he only frowned slightly: These rebels, I won't go to your trouble, but you will take the initiative to find the door and send you to death. Since you are bent on death, then my old Feng will fulfill your thoughts. Kill you and don't leave a piece of armor, see what else can he Yuan Gongbao say about me.

Feng Guozhang called the adjutant: "Send a telegram to Beijing immediately, let Premier Yuan know our situation, and give an order to Li Chun of the Six Towns and Eleventh Association, and let him take his group of monkey cubs to go diagonally towards Zongguan." If the rebel party continues to attack without knowing whether they are alive or dead, he will exterminate them, and if the chaotic party withdraws, he will not turn back, just say that he will pursue the chaotic party and move to Xiaogan, and wait for my order when he gets there! ”

"Yes," the adjutant saluted, turning to go on errands.

Sending an army to Xiaogan to capture Hanyang under Caidian is Feng Guozhang's long-term desire to make a move. But because Lao Yuan had a different idea from the imperial court, he blindly ordered Feng Guozhang to stop in Hankou and not act rashly, so this jihua has never been adopted.

This time, it happened to take the opportunity of the revolutionary party's attack to send Li Chun's men to Xiaogan. In this way, when Lao Yuan agrees to fight Hanyang, it will be much easier to do it on his side. Feng Guozhang touched his mustache and thought very proudly.

Then he shook his head and walked a few steps, sat down, and lay on the Taishi chair and hummed the famous Peking Opera passage "Catch and Release Cao": "Listening to his words scared me......

On the side of the People's Army, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Bo'ai Academy, because of the lack of artillery and other heavy weapons to support it. The People's Army troops were stubbornly blocked by the Qing army. The Beiyang battalion pipe belt carried out the three Makqin heavy machine guns and placed them in a row at the main entrance of the academy. The attacking people's army couldn't raise its head at all, and the First Association of the Hunan-Hunan Army, which was responsible for attacking the academy, barely launched several charges, but they were easily repulsed by the Qing army.

Huang Xing had already rushed to the position where the civilian army attacked outside the Bo'ai Academy at this moment, and Wang Longzhong was holding a telescope to look at the situation opposite. The 1st Battalion had just attacked again, but it still had to lose dozens of brothers and retreated, not even reaching the enemy's position. Qi Wang Longzhong slapped the sandbag and scolded Liang Xiqiu for being a foodie, and he was strained at the critical moment when the cattle were coaxed on weekdays.

As soon as Huang Xing came over, he shouted: "Wang Xietong, you have to organize people to take this academy immediately, you can't drag it out any longer, and when the Beiyang Army is on guard, Yudaimen Station will not be easy to fight." ”

Wang Longzhong also lost his temper: "Do you think I don't know, I have attacked TMD several times, and the losses of my brothers have exceeded 100, or Commander Huang, you will bring people up yourself?" ”

Huang Xing was choked but not angry, but stood beside Wang Longzhong and looked ahead with a telescope, without walking or talking, just standing with this. After a while, Wang Longzhong couldn't hang up first: "Okay, okay, Lu Diping, you bring the third battalion to Lao Tzu, if you can't get in, don't come back, Wang Zhenyu, your battalion is a reserve." ”

"Yes."

Lu Diping and Wang Zhenyu had been standing nearby, and when they heard the order, they immediately responded, and then trotted back to their respective units.

Lu Diping is a clever person, he is not as rigid as Liang Xiqiu, more than 700 people are beating the military music and rushing towards the opponent's firepower. That style of play is indeed in line with the military textbooks compiled by German instructors, but it seems that the defenders in the textbooks do not have such a big killer weapon as a heavy machine gun in their firepower.

He is also a ghost, he saw the position of the Qing army's heavy machine gun clearly, and felt that the firepower was more fierce, and it did not form an angle, and the radiation surface was obviously insufficient. Lu Diping led the team to the left side of the academy for 200 meters, but Kankan avoided the front and launched an attack from the dead corner of the Qing army's heavy machine gun position. Barely encountering effective resistance, they leaned against the side walls of the academy, and the soldiers pushed directly to the walls of the academy with force together (this quality?). And then just kill it. This can make Wang Zhenyu, who was left behind as a reserve, look straight at his eyes, this TM can also be, it's too tricky. also saw that Wang Longzhong was good, and Huang Xing also breathed a long sigh of relief.

The Qing army guarding the academy obviously didn't expect the civilian army to fight according to the rules, and in a panic, they failed to organize an absolute force to drive Lu Diping's people out of the academy. Lu Diping relied on his large number of people, and quickly defeated the four or five hundred Qing troops and took the entire academy. The Qing military commander who guarded the academy was a man who told his brothers to surrender to the Nationalist army, and then committed suicide himself.

Although Ma Jizeng lost a battalion in the formation of the Bo'ai Academy, it effectively delayed the attack speed of the people's army. At the same time, the troops he transferred to Yudaimen for reinforcement were already in place, and the weakness had become a hard bone.

At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Huang Xing stood behind a small mound less than 400 meters away from the Qing army's position in Yudaimen, holding a telescope and looking at the Qing army that was already in battle in the distance, and his brows were tightly locked.

Because the officers and soldiers of the First Association of the Hunan Army had just experienced hard fighting and paid a lot of casualties in the battle to take the Bo'ai Academy, Huang Xingjihua asked the officers and soldiers of the First Association to rest on the spot in the Bo'ai Academy and serve as the reserve of the whole army. He personally led the Second Association, the Third Association, and the Hubei Hui Party armed forces plus the military cadet army to attack Yudaimen, and the time was pressing, and he must take Yudaimen Station before dark.

Wang Longzhong didn't buy Huang Xing's account at all, he asked Wang Zhenyu to take the second battalion to guard the Bo'ai Academy, and then he took Lu Diping and Liang Xiqiu two battalions to participate in the attack on Yudaimen. His old Wang is also a person who knows the soldiers, and he can understand Huang Xing's idea at a glance now, the key to this battle is at Yudaimen Station, take this station, destroy the supplies of the Qing army, and cut off their back roads and supplies in order to save the entire war. And these must be done before dark, otherwise you can use your pig brain to think about how the Qing army will react tomorrow, and there will be no hope at all when you really wait for the Tartar reinforcements. Therefore, Wang Longzhong thought, such a huge risky action, how long will it take to work hard without taking a single step to this zuihou?

"Commander Huang, please rest assured, my old Liu will definitely take the brothers of the Second Association to take the position of the Tartar Army, you just wait for the good news!" Liu Yutang, the co-commander of the Second Association of the Hunan Army, immediately organized his headquarters to launch a decisive attack after saluting Huang Xing.

Strictly speaking, there is no city wall anymore, because when the railway was built, this city gate and city wall were demolished. It is just that the name of this place is retained, and Ma Ji, the assistant commander of the fourth town of Beiyang of the Qing army, who is responsible for guarding this key point, has carefully inspected the terrain of this area after receiving the order of Yudaimen Station. Although he did not think that the people's army would kill here, from the cautious point of punishment of an old soldier, he still ordered a battalion under his command to build the most basic fortifications and garrison firepower points on the basis of the railway in this place only three miles away from the Yudaimen station, and usually stationed two teams of Beiyang soldiers to guard this defensive position 300 meters wide and 50 meters deep.

This position makes full use of the characteristics of the railway roadbed being higher than the flat ground, below the railway line baseline is the trench for infantry firing, and above is the heavy machine gun position, forming a three-dimensional radiation surface, which can completely effectively control the vast plains on both sides of the railway line. It is impossible for the people's army to bypass this position and directly attack Yudaimen, because the detour will delay the attack time for several miles, not to mention, the result of forcibly overtaking will only expose their own flanks and backs, and the speed of the detour is definitely not as fast as the speed of the Qing army's on-the-spot reinforcement.

Huang Xing thought for a while, his steel teeth were sharp, and there was no hope of detouring, so he could only kill him. We must strive to take Yudaimen Station before the entire Qing army in Hankou can respond with reinforcements.

Ma Jizeng was in the temporary headquarters at the back of this position at the moment, and the main forces of his association were still on the way to arrive one after another. Now guarding here is not only the standing group of Beiyang soldiers, but also a battalion of infantry who temporarily followed Ma Jizeng. However, what he could rely on was not only the nearly 1,000 Beiyang soldiers, but also a few Makqin heavy machine guns, as well as the sufficient ammunition stored at the Yudaimen Station not far behind. In order to strengthen the firepower, Ma Jizeng also forcibly sent people to forcibly take out the thirty Makqin from the arsenal at Yudaimen Station, although the staff officers stationed here by the military department in charge of material distribution were very dissatisfied with this. But the old horse doesn't care so much, in his opinion, this thing is not used now, is it waiting for the rebels to come in and use them as trophies.

More than 60 temporarily converted infantry were familiar with the newly arrived machine guns under the greeting of the old machine gunners, and this scene also gave Ma Jizeng some confidence to a large extent.

Ma Jizeng looked at the people's army on the opposite side who were forming an attack formation, and he was even more relieved, he looked at the people's army with great contempt and then said to himself: "It seems that these bandits are also a bunch of waste. ”

Ma Jizeng's adjutant was his brother-in-law, and this brother-in-law was stunned for a moment when he heard his brother-in-law's words: "Brother-in-law, I see that they are in a very neat queue, they don't look like a temporary army, they are very regular." Don't you see any weaknesses? ”

"Hehe, you, you just won't let you read more books on a regular basis. What kind of queue are there in this group of people's troops, their brains are all broken, Lao Tzu has more than 30 German heavy machine guns here, and the denser the people, the more people die. You know? ”

When the brother-in-law's adjutant heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "Congratulations to my brother-in-law, this is a great achievement, my brother-in-law will definitely be promoted and make a fortune after this battle." ”

Ma Jizeng, who said this, was also comfortable for a while, but his face was still straight and said: "Go, tell the brothers, don't shoot indiscriminately, and wait for the people's army to get close before firing." In addition, destroy this gang of bandits, and each person will be rewarded with five pieces of the ocean. ”