Chapter 259: Deadly Assault (3)
When the news of Wan Muzhong and Wang Jinjing's death reached Feng Guozhang's hands, Lao Feng completely went berserk, and he frantically reprimanded everyone standing in front of him, even Guo Songling was not spared. Everyone understands this very well, the battle has not yet started, and the troops in charge of the attack are still in the process of marching, and as a result, the two generals have been damaged, and no one will feel that this is a sign of great luck, let alone Feng Guozhang, who is under great pressure from the gamble? Gambling people are very taboo about some things, don't touch your head, don't pat your shoulder, don't see books, bald heads and nuns. And Zhao Zhao killed the two generals in one go, this is not a matter of touching the head, it is simply touching the tiger's buttocks.
Feng Guozhang became very out of shape because of this, and he roared angrily: "Tell Wang Zhanyuan that all the officers of the Second Division will be demoted, let them be guilty and make meritorious contributions, and they must completely annihilate this rebel army......"
In fact, without waiting for Feng Guozhang to speak, in the eyes of ten thousand eyes, the moment Wang Jinjing's sedan chair was hit by mortar artillery, Zhang Jiarui, the commander of the Sixth Regiment of the Beiyang Infantry who was riding on a horse, was heartbroken. The division chief of staff and the brigade commander were easily killed by the enemy under his own heavy protection, and he Zhang Jiarui would not be mixed up in the circle in Beiyang in the future, so he was crazy at that time.
Zhang Jiarui didn't care about the bullets fired by the Youth Army at all, he jumped off his horse, pointed to the ambush point of the Youth Army and yelled at his adjutant: "You, bring the guards to Lao Tzu, no matter what, take the commanding heights." ”
Then he shouted at the battalion and company-level officers he could find: "Lao Tzu is finished, you are also finished, I don't care how much you pay, organize people, bypass from the two sides, this youth army must be eliminated, quickly!" Damn, Shi Zhensheng, how did you open the road to reconnoitre, this can make me miserable. ”
It should be said that Zhao Zhao's thinking is still very accurate, and after the first round of strikes, he organized everyone to retreat. So the officers and men of the Youth Army took up their weapons one after another, turned around and ran towards the top of the hill, as long as they ran over the ridge line, it would be safe.
However, the Beiyang soldiers were obviously very experienced, and they did not break up after being ambushed, but organized fire and slashed at the mountain. All of a sudden, more than a dozen soldiers who were trying to climb up were hit by flying bullets, and their lives and deaths were unknown.
As soon as Zhao Zhao saw this situation, he immediately organized seven or eight soldiers who had not yet evacuated, and used a heavy machine gun to frantically strafe at the fire point of the Beiyang Army, knocking over four or five people in one shuttle, and the firepower of the Beiyang Army suddenly decreased.
Zhao Zhao immediately got up and ran towards the ridge, when a vicious stray bullet hit him in the back impartially, and the bullet entered through the back and exited the chest. Zhao Zhao immediately felt a chill all over his body, and the warm current of life was lost from his body.
Clerk Li Weidong was by Zhao Zhao's side at the moment, he hurriedly picked up Company Commander Zhao and ran, and Company Commander Zhao's blood kept gushing out like tap water in the Anjiang collective dormitory.
Seeing this, Wang Shuaiyu hurriedly rushed here, shouting as he hurried: "What's wrong with Company Commander Zhao?" What happened to Company Commander Zhao? ”
Li Weidong touched his nose and ran out of breath, he sadly shook his head and told Wang Shuaiyu, who was standing in the distance: Company Commander Zhao has gone.
Wang Shuaiyu was immediately stunned, and at this moment, boom, boom, boom, boom, the artillery of the Beiyang Army opened fire. A shell was falling less than a meter beside Wang Shuaiyu, and Wang Shuaiyu and three soldiers were killed on the spot.
Li Weidong saw this scene happen with his own eyes, his heart couldn't help but hurt, his brain went blank, and then he shouted hoarsely: "Party representative!! ”
Then the whole person pounced, hugging Wang Shuaiyu's bloody body and couldn't help but howl and cry.
At this time, the Beiyang soldiers had already begun to charge, but Li Weidong didn't know it, he just blindly hugged Wang Shuaiyu and cried, and his life for more than a year appeared in his mind, as if it was yesterday.
At this time, Zhao Yong, the second platoon commander who looked back to check the situation, rushed back, and when he felt the pulse on the company commander's neck, it had stopped beating. Zhao Yong sighed, bent down and rushed to Li Weidong's side, and shouted urgently: "Li Wenwen, how is the party representative?" ”
Li Weidong didn't speak, still holding Wang Shuaiyu and crying. When Zhao Yong saw the situation, he reached out to touch Wang Shuaiyu's neck, alas, it was gone. He glanced at the Beiyang soldiers who began to charge in the distance, and hurriedly patted Li Weidong on the shoulder and said, "Li Wenwen, go quickly!" ”
Li Weidong ignored him at all, Zhao Yong pulled a few times without pulling, and in a hurry, he directly knocked Li Weidong unconscious with a pistol, and then dragged Li Weidong across the ridge line with Cui Fei, the platoon commander and others who rushed over.
A week later, the youth army returned to this place again, but the corpses had been collectively disposed of by the Beiyang soldiers, and Li Weidong and others could not find the bodies of Zhao Zhao and Wang Shuaiyu, so they could only use the clothes in front of them to build a tomb for them in their hometown. And this battle was later reported to the General Staff and the Attendants by the comrades of the Political Department of the regimental headquarters. And after Wang Zhenyu learned of this story, he waved his pen to establish the Martyrs' Shrine, and Zhao Zhao, Wang Shuaiyu and other tens of thousands of martyrs who died in battle were the first batch of martyrs to stay in the Martyrs' Shrine, and the second batch was Yue Fei.
The Xiaotuanshan ambush was later proudly included in the history of the First Division, which killed 121 Beiyang Army, including one lieutenant general and one major general; More than 40 officers and men of the 5th Company of the 103rd Regiment who participated in the ambush were killed, among which company commander Zhao Zhao and party representative Wang Shuaiyu unfortunately died during the retreat.
At this moment, the officers and men of the Fifth Company did not know that they had killed two generals of the Beiyang Army, and they became demoralized because of the loss of the company commander and the party representatives. Several major officers and soldiers got together for a small meeting, and in accordance with military regulations, Cui Fei was elected as the acting party representative, and Zhao Yong was the acting company commander, that is, the next team will be led by Zhao Yong.
Just when the Youth Army was fighting happily with the Beiyang Army at the front, the Sichuan Beiyang Army, which had lost its support, made Cai Yi defeat the army, and the remnants of the Beiyang Army such as Cao Kunshuai's Third Division retreated to Hanzhong. On March 23, the Protector Army led by Cai Yi Shuai attacked Longquanyi, which was not far from Chengdu, and Chen Eun, the overseer of Sichuan, saw that the general trend had gone, and announced the **** by telegram, and asked Yuan Shikai to cancel the imperial system and go to the field as soon as possible. According to reliable rumors, Yuan Shikai vomited blood and fainted after hearing the electricity, and finally came back to life, but it was also two lines of old tears, and he was silent.
At this time, there were two more surprise incidents, one was the Kuomintang and the other was Beiyang.
First of all, in Shanghai, Zheng Rucheng, the commander of the Yangtze River Fleet, was not assassinated in November 1915 because of historical deviations. As a result, this old boy commanded the Yangtze River Fleet to attack the water supply line of the Youth Army for the second time, sinking ten large ships at one time and severely damaging the logistics supply of the Youth Army. On the other occasion, he was unlucky and was intervened by the British Yangtze River Fleet, so he had to go home to Shanghai to rest and recuperate, and then choose a day to attack.
Recently, the Tongling front line has begun, and Feng Guozhang has issued the latest order, asking Zheng Rucheng to attack again and cut off the water supply of the youth army.
At this time, Zheng Rucheng, who was worried about how to deal with the intervention of the British, did not know that he had been targeted by Chen Qimei, the assassination king.
On March 24, 1916, the Waibaidu Bridge across the Suzhou Creek on the Bund in Shanghai was bustling with people and cars, and a limousine was honking its horn incessantly, separating the crowd and rushing towards the bridge. Zheng Rucheng was wearing a white feather gold hat and a straight military dress with many medals on his chest, and the officer-like person sitting on the left said something to Zheng Rucheng, and he breathed a long sigh of relief and was quite proud. There were many people on the bridge, and the cars slowed down and slowed down on the bridge. Suddenly, a bomb flew in the middle of the sky, and with a loud bang, it blew up the rear wheel of the car, and the car came to an abrupt stop. When it was too late, a young man separated from the crowd, grabbed the window of the car with his left hand, and fired several shots at Zheng Rucheng, who was knocked down in the car with a gun in his right hand, and his brain burst out. Another officer in the car was also shot twice. After a brief commotion, several bodyguards jumped out of the car following the sedan, only to be quickly stopped by another young assassin and quickly retreated.
The two Assassins did not flee immediately after their success. The young man who shot Zheng Rucheng did not hurry to inspect the body of the white feather golden hat, regardless of the groans of the other seriously injured person, turned to stand on the head of the Waibaidu Bridge, and arched his hand to the crowd of onlookers: "Under Wang Xiaofeng." Yuan Shikai usurped power and stole the country, and made himself an emperor, Zheng Rucheng helped Yuan to do evil, and frantically hunted and killed our party, and killed him now to eliminate harm for the country. When the masses heard this, they understood that the deceased in the car was Zheng Rucheng, the highest military and political governor of Shanghai at that time, the envoy of Shanghai Town, the admiral and lieutenant general of the army. Just as Wang Xiaofeng scolded Yuan Shikai and Zheng Rucheng for their traitorous crimes, the Yinghua patrols on both sides of the bridge swarmed and surrounded the two assassins. Wang Xiaofeng said suddenly: "The business we have to do is over, if we want to escape, we will leave a long time ago, now we are waiting for you to come, why don't you come up and arrest us soon!" After saying that, the two threw away their pistols and calmly arrested.
After Zheng Rucheng's assassination, the situation in Shanghai became more volatile, and the greatest benefit for the Youth Army was that a few days later, the Beiyang Yangtze River Fleet collectively announced its defection to Sun Yat-sen's Chinese revolutionary government.
Although Zheng Rucheng was only a naval general, his death deeply shocked the Beiyang generals, especially Feng Guozhang and others in the south, who actually felt lonely. Chen Qimei's action dealt a severe blow to the morale of the Beiyang Army.
After Lei Zhenchun got the news, he decided to take revenge, and the first step of this revenge was to order the Beijing Military and Political Law Enforcement Department to unconditionally start the assassination of Wang Zhenyu, the supreme commander of the Tiger Youth Army, and immediately execute it......