As Bai Wenwei expected, when the news of Yan Shao's victory came out, some officers who were still eyebrow with Li Guoyun suddenly cut off all contact with him, which also made Yan Shao, who had been monitoring the army, relieved.

Yan Shao never thought that the people under him would be 100% loyal to him, especially after the incident of Li Guoyun.

What's more, now, Bai Wenwei brought almost 90,000 people over and wanted to drive himself out of Anhui.

Of course, Yan Shao was sure to win, but not everyone under his command thought so, after all, not everyone knew the power of machine guns and grenades like Yan Shao, and all they could see was a huge difference in numbers.

This is just like the battle of Guandu, although there are ten victories and ten defeats, but in the face of the menacing Yuan Shao, there are still many civil officials and military generals who secretly wrote a lot of letters to Yuan Shao.

You must know that the charm value of Lu Dao's wife Cao is much higher than Yan Shao's, and his wife Cao is still like this, how dare Yan Shao ask for 100% loyalty.

So before the war, Yan Shao had asked Katerina to send people to monitor the military government, especially those who were very close to Li Guoyun in the past, and if anyone dared to act rashly, they would be taken down immediately...

Just by doing this, it is easy to cause a riot within the military government, and now that it is during the war, even a little riot can lead to many problems, so unless it has been determined that they really want to collude with Li Guoyun against themselves, Yan Shao is not willing to do it directly, and now these people know each other so well. Yan Shao was naturally very happy...

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If someone is happy, someone will definitely cry.

Since it is Yan Shao who is happy now, it can only be Bai Wenwei who is crying.

I'm afraid it's an exaggeration to say that crying. But Bai Wenwei's mood is really irritable now.

"What now, you say?" Sitting in the headquarters, Bai Wenwei looked at Hang Zhengwen and the others.

Now the First Army, the 13th and 15th Army, and the 2nd, 11th, and 12th Divisions that came from Nanjing, have all arrived. Although the loss of the Fourth Division caused a lot of losses, the troops under Bai Wenwei were still able to reach 80,000, which was equivalent to four times the number of the Anhui Revolutionary Army on the other side of the Cihu River.

Therefore, although the 4th Division was defeated, the impact on morale was not very great.

"Let's go straight to the general attack...", sitting next to the left-hand side. The commander of the 13th Division, Bi Gao, said in a rough voice.

The Thirteenth Division was made up of countless miscellaneous cards, and Bi Gao was the most powerful of them, with a regiment of more than 1,500 people. That's why he can be promoted to the division commander.

"We are more than four times more numerous, and we can drown them even with flooded ones..."

"You can't say that..."As soon as Bi Gao's voice fell, a slender voice had already sounded, and then a somewhat feminine middle-aged man on the right side spoke. Have you forgotten about the 4th Division? Xing Jian'an's troops were more than twice as strong as his opponents. It's not like he's been defeated in the end..."When he said this, Ying Shan's voice was full of schadenfreude...

Ying Shan is the commander of the 11th Division, and he is also a regiment commander like Bi Gao, with more than 1,000 people in his hands, which is the strongest one in the division. Originally, there was no contradiction between him and Bai Wenwei, but the problem was that when the 11th Division was formed, Bai Wenwei was more inclined to let someone who was familiar with him serve as the division commander, and Ying Shan's past did not have much communication with Bai Wenwei. That slightly feminine style of acting is not liked by Bai Wenwei, and Bai Wenwei wants to let his acquaintance be in the position of the teacher. It can be said that Ying Shan's process of being promoted to division commander is full of twists and turns.

So as long as there is an opportunity, Ying Shan always likes to hit Bai Wenwei with words.

Hearing Ying Shan's words, although he was the one who took Bi Gao's stubble, Bi Gao didn't mean to answer at all, but fell silent. Although Bi Gao is relatively reckless, this is not to say that he can't understand the situation, now everyone can see it, Ying Shan's words are aimed at Bai Wenwei, how dare he come out, his thirteenth division is not as strong as Ying Shan's eleventh division. At the same time, Bai Wenwei, who heard the meaning of Ying Shan's words, his face sank.

Seeing Bai Wenwei's face cold, Xu Baoshan smiled bitterly in his heart.

"Really, this hasn't officially started yet, and it's already about to be infighting." Thinking like this, Xu Baoshan somewhat regretted that he wanted to get involved, but anyway, since he had been involved, he had to think about the overall situation, so just when Bai Wenwei seemed to want to turn his face, Xu Baoshan stood up and said first.

"The people under my hand have always said that the firepower on the other side is very strong, but how strong it is, a few of us here have never seen it so far, I think, should we find a way to test it first, and then come up with a way to deal with it..."

The strength of Xu Baoshan's Second Army was originally second only to Bai Wenwei's First Army, especially after the Fourth Division was almost wiped out, Xu Baoshan's strength was not much worse than Bai Wenwei's. Therefore, Xu Baoshan's words are quite influential in the ears of everyone.

"That's right!" Bi Gao nodded in agreement. "There's always going to be some tentative attack..."

With Bi Gao taking the lead, several other people quickly nodded in agreement.

"It's just that which unit should be the test..."Seeing that the atmosphere in the headquarters was heated again, this sentence suddenly knocked it back to its original form.

If it was the original, forget it, the morale of the Yan army was at the height of the army at that time, but now that the fate of the Fourth Division is in front of them, who would dare to act without permission? This time it was a battle across the river, and if you didn't get it right, maybe even one wouldn't be able to escape.

Now the people here are more or less aware of the role of the barrel of the gun, and naturally they are not willing to use the troops in their hands to send them to death for no reason.

Seeing that the meeting was about to fall into a stalemate again, Bai Wenwei coughed lightly at this time and spoke.

"Let the Independent Brigade go, it can be regarded as a meritorious service..."

The Separate Brigade, that is, the original Fourth Division.

This time in the battle with the 1st Brigade. The losses of the Fourth Division have exceeded half, and there are only more than 3,000 people left, and it is obvious that there is no way to restore the original strength. Therefore, after arriving in Mulong Town, Bai Wenwei simply reorganized the remnants of the Fourth Division into a brigade. Separate Brigade.

Originally, Bai Wenwei planned to make this brigade cannon fodder, but now that the meeting has reached a stalemate, he, as the commander-in-chief of the Yan Army, can naturally only make some sacrifices.

Hearing Bai Wenwei say this, everyone present was also overjoyed.

"Okay, since Commander Bai has already said so, then let's make up our minds." listened to Bai Wenwei's words. Xu Baoshan said happily.

Except for him, the faces of the others were also full of joy.

However, looking at everyone's elated appearance, a trace of coldness flashed in Bai Wenwei's eyes.

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Day 2. After some temporary corrections and reorganization, the original Fourth Division, now the Independent Brigade, boarded the fishing boats and ferries that had just been collected by the Cihu River.

It's just that when they boarded the ship, the faces of these soldiers were as dead as ashes. Even the officers.

The impact of the last encounter was just too great for these people. So after learning that they were going to take the lead this time, many officers ran to Bai Wenwei to hope that he would take back his order—————— orders had already been issued, how could they take it back.

Generally speaking, at this time, it is necessary to do something smart, such as looking for connections, and spending some money to transfer yourself out of the independent brigade. In fact, there were a few officers who did this, and they did succeed.

The problem is that officers can do this, and it is obviously impossible for them to become soldiers.

So on the night of the order. Many soldiers took the lead in making trouble, but perhaps they were prepared. Therefore, the soldiers who made trouble had just come out, and they had already been suppressed by Bai Wenwei's first division.

Until now, they can only bring enough weapons and supplies, board the ship and prepare to be their cannon fodder...

Standing at the bow of the ship, almost every officer and soldier who boarded the ship had a very ugly face, but Bai Wenwei had already made it very clear that if he was unwilling to participate in this operation, everyone would be regarded as a deserter, and a deserter usually had only one end, death.

"Let's go, who told us to eat this bowl of rice...", pulling the next soldier who did not want to get on the boat, an officer smiled bitterly.

After more than 3,000 officers and men of the Fourth Division boarded the ships one after another, the ships slowly sailed off the shore and rowed in the direction of the opposite shore. In a temporary headquarters on the shore, Bai Wenwei, Xu Baoshan and others stood inside and stared at the opposite bank with binoculars, wanting to see what method the Fourth Division was used to defeat the opposite side and what method they planned to use to deal with the more than 3,000 people.

A few minutes later, the boat carrying more than 3,000 officers and soldiers finally crossed the river, only when the soldiers on it had just disembarked from the boat, the guns on the opposite side rang out.

Almost visible to the naked eye, tongues of fire flew out from the positions on the opposite bank, sweeping down the soldiers who had just jumped off the boat, but in a few moments, one or two hundred people had fallen on the beachhead.

"Hell, there are so many machine guns..."Looking at the tongue of fire coming out of the opposite position, Hang Zhengwen couldn't help but curse.

He still knows a lot about machine guns, which are weapons that are in the limelight in the defense of Yangxia, because there are now some troops in the south that are also equipped with this kind of weapon, but the number is very small (the light machine fast gun of the Guangdong Arsenal is actually the Chinese version of Madsen).

Now seeing that so many machine guns appeared on the opposite side at once, Hang Zhengwen was suddenly a little surprised.

In fact, it was not only him, but even the other people in the command headquarters, almost everyone was thinking, if it was under this kind of firepower, how many people would die before they could rush to the opposite position?

On the other hand, the more than 3,000 people who crossed the river, after getting off the boat, were almost all pressed to the beachhead by machine guns, and they didn't even dare to move, for fear that if they did, they would go up to the west like those who had just fallen...

It's just that after all, it is impossible to hide on the beachhead all the time, so after the firepower of the opposite position is slightly weakened, a few officers began to organize their men to try to launch an attack on the enemy's beachhead...

Led by a few officers, about a thousand soldiers with rifles of various colors launched a charge towards the position...

However, they had only just launched a charge. I saw that the machine guns on the position, which had been slightly stopped, rang out again, but in an instant, the more than 1,000 soldiers who had launched the charge had been swept away. The rest also fell to the ground again, not even daring to move...

Seeing that his troops were so sloppy, Bai Wenwei was naturally very angry, but now he couldn't do anything. And if you think about it carefully, if it was Bai Wenwei on that beachhead, I'm afraid he wouldn't have much to do, and naturally there would be no reason to blame those people on the beachhead.

"Sir. What do you say now? "On the beachhead, a lying soldier crawled forward, after crawling to the side of a battalion commander. shouted at the battalion commander in a very loud voice.

Just as he was shouting, a series of machine-gun bullets shot over his head, and he quickly shrank his head in fright, almost peeing his pants in fright.

"What else can I do..."Adventure looked up at the surroundings. Seeing that almost all of them were pressed down in the position of the beachhead. Unable to move, the battalion commander smiled bitterly. "Now we only have two ways to choose, either rush forward until we are all killed by the people on the other side, or..."

There was no need for the battalion commander to continue, the soldier already understood what he meant...

"Is this really good?" said hesitantly, and the soldier leaned over to the battalion commander's side again.

"What's wrong with it, the one surnamed Bai uses us as cannon fodder. Why should we die for him! Gritting his teeth, the battalion commander said.

Now the situation is rushing. In the absence of heavy firepower, it is almost a suicidal act to attack a position composed of a considerable number of machine guns with a rifle alone, which has become a consensus in later generations, although the battalion commander does not know this, but his instinct has clearly told him this, and if he withdraws, it is estimated that half of them will die, not to mention anything else, the boat they are coming on is almost destroyed by machine guns, so the rest of the way is obvious.

A few minutes later, while the machine gunners on the beachhead were still pouring almost endless ammunition, several white flags suddenly rose on the beachhead, to put it simply, white flags...

Seeing this white flag, not only the soldiers on the beachhead, but even Bai Wenwei and others in the rear were stunned, but in any case, since the white flag had been erected on the opposite side, it was not easy for the defenders on the beachhead to kill them all.

After making contact with the above, the defenders of the position sent several officers to the beachhead to accept the surrender of the soldiers.

Seeing the officers who came forward, they seemed to be quite kind, and the officers and soldiers of the independent brigade on the beachhead breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they also threw their weapons on the ground one by one—————— now is not the time of the Xinhai Revolution, at that time, many revolutionary young people were sacrificing their lives to overthrow the Manchu Qing, and now, to put it mildly, it is a conflict between two powerful forces, and to put it mildly, it is actually two warlords fighting for territory, this kind of war, if it is fought smoothly, then it is better to say, But now this kind of war that is clearly sent to death, these people who are just taking military salaries and eating are not interested in fighting, especially when Bai Wenwei has clearly used them as cannon fodder...

"Hell, those bastards." Looking at the soldiers who were originally under his command, obviously waving white flags one by one, throwing down their weapons and walking into the opposite side, Bai Wenwei suddenly became furious.

But at this time, Ying Shan's yin and yang weird voice rang out. "Isn't it strange, it was originally a war to grab territory for you, and now you are using others as cannon fodder, how can others work for you?!"

Bai Wenwei was already very annoyed, but now when she heard Ying Shan say this, she immediately pressed her hand on her waist. If it weren't for Hang Zhengwen and Xu Baoshan next to him stepping forward to stop him, I'm afraid he would have taken out his gun and wanted to teach Ying Shan some lessons.

Standing opposite him, Ying Shan looked indifferent, which naturally increased Bai Wenwei's anger a lot.

"Okay, don't make trouble yet, let's think about how to fight..."Hold Bai Wenwei down, and at the same time signal Ying Shan not to cause trouble, Hang Zhengwen said distressedly. Although what happened just now was a bit unexpected, but we also knew a lot of information, I didn't expect those guys to have so many machine guns, it seems that the Fourth Division is defeated, but what is in front of us now is, how on earth should we cross this damn river in front of us and take the opposite position?! ”

Listening to Hang Zhengwen's words, even Hang Zhengwen, who was still angry with Bai Wenwei just now, lowered his head and pondered.

They had seen the firepower on the beachhead just now, and the density was very large, and if a strong attack was taken, the casualties would definitely not be very low.

Originally, there were only two ways to deal with machine guns, one was to open the way for armored troops, but they didn't have this, and they couldn't have it, because tanks and something only appeared in World War I, and now there is still some time before World War I.

Since the tanks are not good, then they can only choose another way, bombarded with heavy artillery, and flattened the positions, so naturally there is no need to worry about machine guns.

The problem is that Bai Wenwei and they are all poor and clanging masters, not to mention heavy artillery, there are not even a few 75mm small cannons, and it is obviously impossible to capture the opposite position with artillery...

"There are only two ways in front of us now, either retreat, or we will fill it with human lives..."Speaking of this, Hang Zhengwen's mouth was full of bitterness. Judging from the firepower just opened, if you really want to fill in human lives, I don't know how many human lives you have to fill in the road...

Compared with him, Bai Wenwei is much more decisive, because compared with others, he has no way out at all. Either move forward and become the mainstay of the Anhui Governor and the Alliance, or retreat, lose your reputation and lose everything...

Like everyone in the room, he only had these two options... (To be continued......)