"One-two, up, one-two, up" With the trumpet one by one, a dozen sturdy men were trying to push out a heavy cannon stuck in the mud, and the military horse in charge of leading the cannon was also whipped by the groom with a whip. But the damn cannon still doesn't move, no matter how hard everyone tries and how they want it, it just doesn't move. The road in the mountains was not wide, and such a big guy blocked the road and did not move, and as a result, naturally even the march of the infantry was greatly affected.

General Xu Yuanquan, commander of the First Army of the Youth Army and in charge of operations on the Hubei side, looked at the incomparably chaotic scene in front of him, and his brows wrinkled unconsciously. As a bigwig-level figure who followed the commander to participate in the Battle of Yudaimen, Xu Yuanquan still has some opinions about his combat mission. His main force the first division was transferred to participate in the Battle of Baoqing, and he took the remaining two divisions to run here to drill the ravine, waiting for the Beiyang Sixth Division to attack without knowing whether to live or die, and even if it was the so-called Hubei side operation, it was also an auxiliary action, Xu Yuanquan only needed to take the elite of the two divisions to take Jingzhou City, which was not guarded by the Beiyang lineage, and then he was to stay there, waiting for the Third Army responsible for the Guangdong side and the Second Army responsible for the Hunan side to go north to attack Wuhan. Xu Yuanquan was very dissatisfied with the deployment of the General Staff Department, which was obviously a cannon to fight mosquitoes. Because this kind of low-risk combat means that the probability of meritorious service will also be greatly reduced, and military merit is precisely what soldiers value most. Although Xu Yuanquan and Yang Wangui and Wan Yaohuang are known as the three big bosses under Wang Zhenyu, in the face of the steady progress of Hunan Shili led by Yang Wangui and Liu Xing, as well as the rapid rise of Guangxi Shili represented by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, and the development and growth of the entire Xianggui Group or Youth Army Shili. Xu Yuanquan, who regarded himself as the boss of Hubei Shili, was no longer the simple revolutionary youth in Hankou at the beginning, his desire began to rise steadily with his status, and he hoped that one day the youth army would dominate the country, and he was one of the most core of those people.

didn't succeed and backfired, and finally the handsome decided to start fighting for the world, but he didn't catch up, which made Xu Yuanquan not depressed. Naturally, he was about to spill his anger, Xu Yuanquan looked at the chaotic scene and said angrily: "What's the matter, didn't Bai Chongxi take the Second Mountain Brigade to walk on this road back then?" weishenme It's so difficult for our first army to go? ”

The officers around him naturally knew that their generals were in a bad mood, so they didn't dare to make a sound when they yelled like this, for fear of touching their brows. is still Xu Yuanquan's adjutant, who has just been assigned from the crash course of the Army University, and is the son of Wang Zhenya, the former envoy of Lizhou Town and the current director of the Xiangxi Administrative Office, Lieutenant Colonel Wang Yuyin, is bold enough.

I saw that he replied without fear, humility or arrogance: "Report to the master's seat, as far as I know, it was summer when Master Bai passed through this place before, the weather was dry, and the road was not as muddy as it is now. At the same time, the mountain guns they carried at that time were not as heavy as those we carried, and they marched in a broken up way, so we were not in a different situation from them. ”

Xu Yuanquan was furious when he heard this, but when he saw that it was his adjutant Wang Yuyin who was contradicting him, he could only suppress his anger. Don't look at the narrowness of other people's fathers recently, he is a nominal official like Lu Rongting. But his uncle Qing Heng is now doing very well in the National Socialist Party, and he has just served as the director of the Hunan Provincial Party Department, and he is already a member of the Central Committee of the National Socialist Party. And Wang Yuyin is also very appreciated by Wan Yaohuang, although he and Wan Yaohuang do not deal with it, but they also regard it as a Hubei series, and they still have to be wooed if they can be wooed.

No one knew that in such a moment, Xu Yuanquan actually thought about so many things. But no matter how scrupulous you are, you still can't lose face.

Xu Yuanquan said with full authority: "Then Adjutant Wang, tell me, what should I do?" The order of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission is to take Li County by January 5, but with our marching speed, we can arrive before this time and Amitabha Buddha will burn high incense. ”

Wang Yuyin was really lacking in heart, he didn't hear the dissatisfaction contained in Adjutant Wang, he still replied with the old god: "Master, for today's plan, I can only drop the cannon and move forward lightly." ”

Xu Yuanquan frowned, thought for a while, and asked, "Can we take Li County with light weapons alone?" ”

Wang Yuyin immediately replied: "If all Ma Jizeng's men and horses go to fight Changde, we can take Li County without shooting, otherwise, if we bring heavy weapons, I'm afraid we will have to wait for Commander Liu and them to attack the city together." ”

Xu Yuanquan nodded appreciatively and said: "Well, it makes sense, pass on my military order, each of the two divisions will leave an infantry regiment to help escort the division's heavy artillery regiment, get out of the way, and the other troops will immediately advance in the direction of Li County......"

The same tragedy occurred with the troops of Tao Zhiyue, who also belonged to the 1st Army, but were assigned to the direction of Baoqing. The towering Snow Peak Mountain is really the existence that tests the fighting spirit of the First Division. Tao Zhiyue half-jokingly said to his subordinates: "It is estimated that even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu would not have guessed that we would cross the Xuefeng Mountain and enter Baoqing, everyone can go with peace of mind, it is estimated that there is no battle in Baoqing, everyone should treat this as a field training, remember not to fall behind." ”

At this moment, Tao Zhiyue's heart was thinking about another thing, before setting out on the expedition, the marshal had summoned him alone. In this summons, the marshal clearly told himself that this dispatch of troops to Baoqing was strictly a political battle, and the most important tasks were two, the first was to receive Wang Longzhong, and the second was to force Lin Xiumei, Cheng Qian, and others to choose one of the two, either to accept the reorganization and join the Youth Army, or to honestly lead the team into Jiangxi, and be called the vanguard of the Youth Army attacking Jiangxi. In order to ensure this, Secretary-General Yang Yongtai will then follow the 1st Division to act.

Thinking of this, Tao Zhiyue took a deep breath, looked at the stars in the sky, and suddenly felt a chill. As an officer of the Youth Army, I have always subconsciously aimed at leading good soldiers. Now I find that with the continuous rise of my status, the situation of political struggle has begun to appear in front of me consciously or unconsciously, and it seems that I still have to continue to study hard to improve my level.

Just when the young Tao Zhiyue was secretly cheering himself up, Liu Xing, the commander of the Second Army in Changde, was inspecting the positions of his army. It stands to reason that Liu Xing has such a rich army and absolutely superior firepower that he can attack Ma Jizeng. But the commander went to order the defense on the spot, and it was not allowed to question. Liu Xing, who had a hard life, could only hold the golden rice bowl and ask for food, and urged the group of big-headed soldiers under him to build fortifications desperately every day......