Chapter 246: The Battle of Purgatory (4)
Since the battle of Zhujiaqiao, Wang Kewen has become the pride of the entire Fourth Division, which has made him a lot more arrogant, but today's bullshit law enforcement team of the Seventh Division is even more arrogant than him, so the next thing is lively.
Wang Kewen didn't have many people around him, so he didn't have an attack immediately, but asked people to go back and transfer a platoon of manpower over, on the battlefield where the sound of artillery shook the sky, the soldiers of the first battalion of the 401st Regiment were numerous, and soon disarmed the nine members of the law enforcement team of the Seventh Division and knocked them to the ground, Wang Kewen kicked the arrogant leading officer a few times, and did not forget to assume a light machine gun on each side: "This bridge belongs to our Fourth Division, and if the other troops do not obey the order and have to take over, they will shoot Lao Tzu for a sudden attack." Damn, I actually dare to shake my majesty in front of Lao Tzu, and I don't ask around to ask who Lao Tzu is, let them go. β
The law enforcement team of the Seventh Division was beaten by a battalion commander of the Fourth Division and quickly reported to Bai Chongxi. Bai Chongxi didn't make any reply, but frowned unconsciously, and told Liao Lei about another thing: "The news from the big brother of the German neighbor just now said that the military attachΓ©s of the British, French, Japanese and Russian consulates in Shanghai had organized a military observation group to supervise the combat behavior of our warring parties. Liao Lei, tell me if these foreign adults are a little too lenient. β
Liao Lei didn't answer, he knew that Bai Chongxi was actually a very thoughtful person, and he didn't need to express his opinion at all. And just now he also heard about the law enforcement team being beaten, although his character is fierce enough, but in the face of Bai Chongxi's abnormal silence, he was still scared into a cold sweat, Bai Chongxi's character He knows too well, this is a lord who will be revenged. It depends on the owner to beat the dog, and if he doesn't speak now, I'm afraid it's more because of the war, once it stops, this account will definitely have to be settled. Sure enough, after taking Nanjing, Bai Chongxi sent people to arrest Wang Kewen, but it was only because Wang Zhenyu named Wang Kewen, Zhang Zizhong and others to award medals that he had to release people in a hurry, which is the story behind it.
As for the Military Observer Mission, it was a product of compromise, and strictly speaking, the British were not satisfied with Wang Zhenyu's attack on the southeast, because it was part of the traditional British Shili range. But with Whitehall's current guidelines of everything revolving around the European war, British diplomats in China have little to offer to deal with the newly rising Chinese warlord. What is even more tricky is that from the French friends and Belgian friends, the British got the Chinese warlord in the hands of two steel mills with an annual output of one million tons, three million tons of steel in the warehouse, as well as a large number of strategic materials such as tung oil, pig sideburns, and various non-ferrous metal mines, which the French are secretly negotiating with this damned Chinese warlord, and are currently in a stalemate over the price issue. And after this Chinese warlord seized the four provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guangdong at lightning speed, and mastered the military industry of Hubei, and the rare metal mining areas of Hunan and Jiangxi, the British now do not dare to interfere openly.
So the British Consul General in Shanghai immediately sent a telegram to Minister Zhu Erdian in Beijing, and the result of Zhu Erdian's repeated thinking was to intervene to a limited extent in order to protect the interests of the British Empire in the Yangtze River Valley, and at the same time try not to fall out with this damn Chinese warlord, after all, the supplies needed for the European war can be replenished from this guy's hands.
So this so-called four-nation joint military observer mission came out, and as for the addition of the Japanese and Russians, in the words of the British, it was to show liliang and exert pressure. Obviously, however, the entire Southeastern Front Army was not at all interested in this so-called four-nation joint military observer group, and Li Zongren did not even see him in person, and directly arranged for a colonel officer to come forward to receive him. This attitude greatly angered the foreigners who had been playing the role of the emperor in China all these years, and the Japanese military attache Keiji Tamada Nakasa was even more angry that he would start a war and teach the Chinese a good lesson in their rudeness.
And the French military attache Rebella, who has never been very interested in the Japanese, sneered: "Then may I ask Keiji Tamada Nakasa, under the current situation, are you and your Empire of Japan preparing to attack Beijing to help these impudent Chinese warlords at the moment, or are you ready to help Beijing attack these impudent Chinese warlords?" Declaring war, I'm afraid we have to figure out who to declare it on, right? β
Keiji Tamada was immediately dumbfounded, yes, this is a civil war, who are you going to fight? He was just roaring just now, and such a major matter as who the empire declared war on was not something that his small navy lieutenant could decide. In fact, he has also seen the empire's latest China policy, which is to maintain the chaotic and divided situation in China for a long time. The upper echelons of the empire also pointed to fishing in the troubled waters, and wading into troubled waters was not what they wanted. So as soon as Rebella was sarcastic, Keiji Tamada stupidly chose to shut up.
These foreigners are also pragmatic, knowing that this youth army does not wait to see them, and they don't care, anyway, the symbolic significance of their appearance is greater than the actual significance, so they can enjoy the hospitality of the youth army with peace of mind. The same military observation group still has one with Feng Guozhang, but the performance is much better than that of the youth army, and they directly entered Feng Guozhang's headquarters, so Feng Guozhang was tragic.
Still looking back at Anqing, Ni Min's confidence increased greatly after successfully placing the youth army together, and after looking at the corpses of the youth army in one place, he decisively ordered the organization of an attack, recaptured the first-line position, and drove the youth army into the river.
An Wujun took out all his family funds at this time, and the shells smashed at the front-line positions guarded by Liu Xuyi and Lin Hu without money, and the infantry also launched a charge in turn, and bullets and grenades flew around.
Liu Xuyi was scolding his mother in the temporary headquarters that had just been repaired at the moment, there was no way, Bai Chongxi, the commander-in-chief, said a word, and everyone was pushed into this narrow area less than 200 meters long and less than 800 meters wide. Now the Anwu army is cool, just concentrate firepower to smash it. Moreover, the defensive position built by the Anwu Army is itself substandard and substandard, which is even more obvious after being cordially greeted by the Youth Army's own artillery unit, and the problem now is that it is himself who is squatting in this tofu scum project. It would feel uncomfortable, and it would be too late to build it.
At this time, the Youth Army was almost using its own flesh and blood to resist the attack of the Anwu Army.
At this moment, Wang Kewen, who was guarding the front-line position, remembered the scene at Zhujiaqiao again, his eyes immediately turned red, and he yelled: "Hit, hit hard, brothers!" β
With Wang Kewen's order, the light and heavy weapons of the first battalion all smashed like raindrops towards the Anwu army that had rushed into the 30-meter range, plus grenades, the Anwu army suffered nearly 100 casualties in an instant, but even so, the Anwu army still fought hard, they chose to lie on the spot and raise their guns to shoot, and then continued to crawl forward, trying to shorten the distance meter by meter. You must know that Ni Min has opened the reward of the first formation breaker with a thousand oceans, so the whole An Wu army is now red-eyed. The two sides are biting meter by meter, and no one will let anyone take half a step.
Ni Min, the general of the Anwu Army, looked at the binoculars for a while, and said angrily: "Damn, I originally wanted to drive them Hunan barbarians into the river in one go, but I didn't expect them to be so tough, okay, then let's see who is more ruthless." Passed on our military order to organize a death squad of 500 people, the artillery immediately opened fire, and the death squad charged at the same time. β
Ni Min's adjutant hesitated for a moment, but still mustered up the courage to ask, "But general, firing at such a close distance will accidentally injure our own brothers?" β
Ni Minhu glanced at the adjutant with a smile and said, "How can there be immortals in a war?" Well! Let's do it! β
The offensive began again, and the youth army once struggled to block the Anwu army, and was about to take a breath, when suddenly a sharp whistling sound came, Liu Xuyi looked at it, it was not good, it was a cannonball! How can it be? Their own troops are still here, so they dare to open fire?
The truth is so cruel, Ni Min has never been a person who fights according to the rules.
There was no time to evacuate the young officers and soldiers who were hiding, the tragedy, the metal storm frantically harvested the lives on the battlefield, and countless lives that were incomparably fresh a second ago lost their vitality in an instant.
Wang Kewen was pressed by the guards, and he escaped by luck, he lay in the trench and scolded angrily: "Where did the brute come from, he actually fired a cannon at this time, this is a game to kill!" β
More than 200 young soldiers who had not had time to hide turned to dust, more than 600 were wounded, and half of them were permanently incapacitated. But this was only the beginning, less than ten seconds after the end of the shelling, more than 500 Anhui men rushed in with rifles, these tall and mighty men were all the elite selected by Ni Min from the army, and all of them were brave and ruthless. As soon as they rushed into the position, they launched an attack, the youth army was in a state of confusion at the moment, sporadic resistance could not resist such a fierce charge, and it was immediately broken through the second line of defense, the death squad of the Anwu army was very experienced, and was trying to expand this breakthrough, and the follow-up Anwu army also began to prepare to rush towards this breakthrough.
Wang Kewen decisively led a company of soldiers to bravely meet him, and the two sides encountered in the third line of defense and started a desperate struggle. The rifle fired frantically, and when the bullets ran out, he stabbed people with bayonets. Although Wang Kewen is also a master of stabbing, but with the consumption of physical strength, the frequency of action is getting slower and slower, and he accidentally took a beat, and blood flowed out of his waist, Wang Kewen shouted and stabbed the opponent to death......
At this extremely dangerous moment, a scene that shocked both sides of the war occurred, an officer of the Youth Army actually grabbed two grenades with a lead and threw himself into the crowd of the Anwu Army's death squad, and died together in the huge explosion.
After all, the death squad is not a death squad, and in just such a moment, the situation on the entire battlefield was immediately reversed. At this time, Liu Xuyi came over with two companies to reinforce him, and the Anwu army once again left hundreds of corpses and was driven out of the position.