In the ranks of the Second Regiment of the First Division of the Guangxi Army, there was a trainee officer named Huang Xuchu. Although he is thin, he has a wide nose and sharp ears, and his eyes are bright, he is twenty years old and a native of Rong County, Guangxi. Not long ago, he graduated from the first infantry section of the Guangxi Army Accelerated School, and was just assigned to the first division as a trainee officer with the rank of second lieutenant.

If human beings really have a sixth sense, Huang Xuchu may be a real case.

Today's march was indeed fortunate, everyone stepped on the cobblestone river beach, one foot deep and one foot shallow, walked all morning, because the division commander was not allowed to bury the pot to make rice, so they could only starve and wait until they left the river valley to eat.

However, the law that the human body must rest after a long period of exercise will never fail to take effect because of an order from the division commander.

The soldiers complained about the order to delay their meals, and the negative emotions caused everyone's bodies to be further fatigued.

But only Huang Xuchu maintained a trace of vigilance, and he felt the thick murderous aura on both sides of the river valley. But when he looked up, there were scouts on the hills on both sides, and if there was really an enemy attack or something, they should have fired a warning shot. Most people think the same way, but Huang Xu still feels uneasy at the beginning.

He was very bold to find his regiment commander: "Regimental commander, I feel that there is something wrong with this place!" ”

The bearded regiment commander glanced at the young trainee officer with disdain: "Da Xiucai, what's wrong with this place?" Is it fairy or demonic? ”

After saying that, the bearded regiment commander laughed himself, and the officers who followed him also laughed in unison. Huang Xuchu did not give up his judgment because he was ridiculed: "Regiment commander, the number of our vigilant troops on the hills on both sides is too small, and we are easily ambushed in this situation." ”

The bearded head of the regiment said even more contemptuously: "Do you know who is guarding the mountain? It's our old Guijun's scouts, all of whom have fought in battles, not poor and sour talents like you. ”

Since Huang Xu was first assigned to this unit, those officers from the old army have consciously attacked and rejected these student officers who have graduated from military academies.

Huang Xuchu naturally knew this, he could only shake his head, and then go to his classmate Tao Jun. This kid was luckier than himself, he was assigned to be a trainee staff officer at the regiment headquarters, and he went directly to be a platoon commander.

"Tao Jun, you just believe my old classmate once, if I were the enemy's commander, I would definitely ambush our army in this river valley. If you look at the terrain on both sides, is there a better place to do it? Take your people with you right away, and follow me to the top of the mountain to seize a vantage point. Huang Xuchu shouted to Tao Jun quickly and urgently.

Tao Jun shook his head and said, "There is no order, if I do this, I will be ordered to be shot by the bearded regiment leader." Besides, old classmate, it's not that I don't believe you, but you just let me lead troops to seize a commanding height, and others will think that you are crazy, but I am crazy. Besides, as you can see, the hill is full of our patrols, and even if the enemy really wants to ambush us in this valley, this time it should be discovered. ”

Huang Xuchu is also very conflicted, but he shouldn't lie to himself in his heart, but what is the problem?

"Alright, we're almost exhausted, so we'll trust those patrols once. Now, even if I am willing to help you, an old classmate, my brothers below will definitely not listen to me, and it is very hard to climb the mountain. ”

"Patrol posts" by the way, Huang Xuchu suddenly knew where the key to his inner turmoil was, it was these patrols.

His eyes immediately turned to the patrolmen who were standing on the top of the hill as guards, and as a result, he saw a scene that stunned the entire First Division of the Guangxi Army.

A white tiger flag with a red background appeared on the top of the mountain, followed by the sound of gunfire, and one after another cannonballs followed the obvious trajectory, whistling towards their side......

The famous Bangou ambush in history was fought at 2:45 p.m. on 2 October, and the order for the attack was issued from Pioneer Ridge, a few hills away from the ambush site.

At the beginning of the battle, the 3rd Division of the Xiangxi Garrison Tiger did not hesitate to smash the shells in his hand towards the 1st Division of the Gui Army.

The width of the river valley was only 300 meters, and from the very beginning, the 1st Division of the Gui Army was in a very disadvantageous position.

Although Chen Bingkun fell off his horse in embarrassment due to the fright of his mount, he was lucky to avoid the sniping of the Tigers sharpshooters and the first round of shelling.

Even more fortunately, this fall did not hurt half a penny. Afterwards, Li Zongren, the commander of the Third Division of the Xiangxi Army, sighed: "If this Chen Bingkun had been killed at the beginning, the Battle of Bangou would definitely not have been so difficult to fight!" ”

But this Chen Bingkun, like Xiaoqiang, not only did not die, but was resurrected on the spot immediately after falling from the horse. Now he is vigorously commanding his subordinates, and immediately launched a counterattack on the spot.

But some things can't be changed through individual efforts, for example, Gui Jun's current position is really not a little bad, but very bad.

The entire force was pressed against the wide, unsheltered beachhead and enjoyed the fire from the hills on both sides, the casualties continued to grow, and the morale quickly fell.

Relative to the entire army, the 2nd Regiment of the Gui Army was in a good position. They happened to be near some huge rocks, so the losses in the first blow were not great.

It stands to reason that the best way to face an ambush should be to immediately organize troops to attack the mountains on both sides, seize favorable terrain and then successfully break through the siege. But the 2nd Regiment was completely in disarray and was simply unable to organize any effective counterattack.

Huang Xuchu patted Tao Jun on the shoulder: "Gather the people you can still gather, follow me to find the head of the regiment." ”

Tao Jun now regrets that he didn't listen to Huang Xuchu's advice, so now Huang Xuchu's requirements are naturally implemented to the letter.

Huang Xuchu bravely picked up the military flag and rushed all the way to the regiment headquarters, and many Guijun soldiers who had lost their command immediately followed the military flag towards the regiment headquarters as if they had found the backbone.

The most amazing thing is not the military flag, but the blessing of God in the dark, responsible for ambushing the second regiment of the Gui Army is the newly formed Liao Lei Department of the 303rd Infantry Regiment of the Third Division of the Xiangxi Army. Liao Lei, who is good at grasping the situation on the battlefield, also noticed that the Gui army, which was originally suppressed by his own side and could not move, suddenly moved, not only with high morale, but also began to follow the moving military flag to do a centripetal movement.

Yes, it was that red flag, Liao Lei suddenly grasped the key point where the entire battlefield moved. He turned his head and shouted, "Sharpshooter, knock down that flag." ”

The commander of the regiment gave an order, and the three sharpshooters who followed the regiment commander immediately loaded their bullets and aimed at the target and fired "righteous bullets".

The first righteous bullet hit a Gui soldier next to Huang Xuchu who suddenly caught up quickly, and this brave soldier was shot in the neck and hung up on the spot. The other Gui soldiers had no time to pay attention to the dead comrade, and they strode over the corpse and continued to chase the banner.

The bullet fired by the second shot was comparable to Huang Xuchu's eyes, which made Huang Xuchu startled, and his steps suddenly slowed down, but the third bullet that originally went straight to Huang Xuchu's head hit Huang Xuchu's left forearm.

As a result, these three bullets not only did not knock off the military flag, but made the injured Huang Xuchu brutal. The little man roared and took a few steps before rushing into the hiding place of the regimental headquarters......

Liao Lei saw the scene that happened just now through the telescope, and in addition to scolding the sharpshooters around him, he could only sigh that the kid who raised the flag just now was too lucky.

Huang Xuchu ran into the regiment headquarters to find out the source of the chaos, the damn bearded regiment commander actually sat behind the stone like a coward and did not move. It is said that in the first round of shelling that just ended, the wife and brother of the bearded regiment commander and several of his main henchmen were mercilessly killed by a damn mortar. died in front of the bearded regiment commander, and this bloody scene actually scared this regiment commander who usually brags about how brave he is and how he doesn't shoot to death. Huang Xuchu clearly remembered that when he first arrived at the Second Regiment, in order to scare himself into these non-commissioned officers assigned by the military academy, the bearded regiment commander actually cut off the brains of more than 20 imprisoned bandits at one time, and he did it himself, and he was hahadaxiao after killing people.

I really can't imagine that the extremely cruel person at the beginning would be so afraid of death. Huang Xuchu couldn't help but shake his head and think: "It seems that the so-called courage and cruelty are not the same thing at all. ”

Huang Xuchu secretly despised this cowardly leader, his behavior was humiliating his beard.

"If you want to live, listen to me" This was Huang Xuchu's first roar.

It was this roar that made the officers of the Second Regiment of the Gui Army, who had never suffered such a large-scale armed attack, all sober up. They immediately threw away all their qualifications, foundations, and backers, and all of them asked, "What do you do?" You said! ”

Huang Xu, who was about twenty years old, saw that everyone could really listen to him, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The establishment has been messed up, but now we still have soldiers, although there is no heavy weapon support, but we have bayonets, there are a total of twenty-two officers here, each of them went out to organize twenty soldiers for me, don't care about anything, give me a countercharge towards the opposite mountain, Tao Jun, you are responsible for taking your platoon to collect stragglers for me as a supplement, and if you don't want to die, act immediately." In addition, everyone take off their coats and identify them by their white shirts, otherwise the sharpshooters on the other side will greet you personally. ”

The officers of the regimental headquarters, as if they had a backer at the moment they received the order, all rushed out, gathered the soldiers who were hiding behind the stones and did not dare to show their heads, and then launched a counter-charge.

Huang Xuchu breathed a long sigh of relief, only to find that his left forearm was so painful, Tao Jun hurriedly gave him medicine: "Brother Xuchu, how is this good?" What are our chances of winning? ”

Huang Xuchu shook his head and said: "I don't know, now that the enemy situation is unknown, we don't know how many chances we can have, but if we don't resist, then we really don't even have a chance to win......