Be the advance team again, "capture Hesheng Bridge, and go to lead Wu Dashuai's bull's nose".

In August, the second gateway of southern Hunan, Hesheng Bridge, was as hot as blazing, splashing a basin of water on the ground, there was a sound, a wisp of white smoke was raised, and in an instant there was no drop of water on the ground, and the feet were still burned like salty salt sprinkled on the wound, and it was hot and stinging. The heat and no wind make people sweat like rain when they move a little, their chests are stuffy, and their hearts are restless.

For several days, Wu Peifu, a generation of warlords of the direct line of the heroes, was like a huge trapped beast in the Dashuai special train not far from the Hesheng Bridge, pacing back and forth, his face full of horizontal flesh and fierce faces, two leopard eyes like a fierce vulture, sometimes looking at the military map hanging in the special train, sometimes looking at the fortifications built in depth of the Hesheng Bridge through the window, the corners of the mouth with two thick lips pressing drooping from time to time flashed with ferocity. Judging from Wu Peifu's size, he looks like a Shandong man born in Penglai, Shandong. Although he was a talented man in the late Qing Dynasty and proficient in poetry and writing, he had been wandering in the military circles for a long time. At first, he was the pipe band of the Beiyang warlord Cao Kun, and then he was promoted to the commander of the Third Division of the Army; After the Zhifeng War, he successively served as the patrol envoy of the two lakes and the deputy envoy of the three provinces of Zhilu and Henan; Later, he brutally suppressed the Jinghan Railway Workers' Movement and bloodily massacred the striking workers and the Communist Party, and was the main culprit of the "February 7 Massacre" and an extremely heinous executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of workers and Communists. Two years ago, he lost the battle with the Feng warlord Zhang Zuolin, and soon Wu and Zhang shook hands and made peace under the persuasion and lure of the imperialist invading forces, originally he sat in Changxindian, North China, to crusade against Feng Yuxiang's national army, and did not put the Northern Expeditionary Army in his eyes at all, who knew that since Ye Ting's independent regiment entered Hunan, the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Anyu, broke Liling, captured Pingjiang, and just ended his birthplace Tingsi Bridge, which can be described as attacking the city and pulling out the village, such as destroying the withered and decaying, and even the battle is victorious, unstoppable. This frightened him from the big handsome chair to jump three feet high, the cold sweat on his head burst out layer by layer, desperate to "drive the handsome expedition in person", with the momentum of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, he personally went to Hesheng Bridge to arrange troops, and wanted to fight to the death with the Northern Expeditionary Army.

This Kakatsu Hashimoto is a small town, but its strategic location makes it a battleground for soldiers. It is only more than 100 miles from here to Wuchang in the north, and it is all hilly plains, which is difficult to form a strong barrier. In this way, He Shengqiao became the only pass to prevent the loss of Wuchang. Judging from the topography of Hesheng Bridge, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. The east and west of the town are Liangzi Lake and Huangtang Lake, a vast ocean; The river in front of the town is criss-crossed, and now it is flooded, and the surging water is connected with the two great lakes on the left and right, and only a railway can pass it; Behind the town are rolling hills and tea trees, and from above, the Hesheng Bridge is a bird's-eye view.

Wu Peifu went to Heshengqiao with great momentum and brought the elite of his descendants, such as the 3rd Mixed Brigade, the 8th Division, and the 12th Mixed Brigade, with a total of 40,000 people. In the construction of fortifications, Wu Peifu built three defensive engineering systems from the depth of Taolinpu, Yindoushan and Hesheng Bridge, and built strong ring fortifications on every hilly hill that could monitor Hesheng Bridge, and placed artillery and heavy machine guns here, which could not only deter the front but also take into account the left and right, and set up obstacles and buried ** in any place where he thought the Northern Expeditionary Army could pass, and attached defensive troops.

Wu Peifu knew that his troops had begun to permeate the Northern Expeditionary Army with fear of the defeat of the Pingjiang and Tingsi Bridges at the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which if not immediately contained, would be more terrible than the destruction of the fortifications. Therefore, he came up with a "killing one to make an example", and the commander of the 21st Brigade and the other two regiment commanders who had retreated from the Miluo River had an arrow mark on their stripped backs that had been shot for the crime of escaping, and they paraded the streets in the middle of the troops, and then shot them. Wu Peifu sent a message to the whole army: Anyone who escapes from the rout will be decided according to this and will not be tolerated. It's him Wu Peifu, if he retreats from the battle, military law will not tolerate it.

Wu Peifu can be described as well-intentioned!

"Mother, ×, Lao Tzu must build the He Sheng Bridge into an indestructible Jincheng soup pool, and call this He Sheng Bridge to celebrate the victory for me Wu!" Wu Peifu finished inspecting the defense system that he personally surveyed and designed at the end, and got carried away and boasted about Haikou, "The battle of Hesheng Bridge will establish the world for me Wu!" ”

This time, it was the Fourth Army and the Second Route Army of the Seventh Army that were tasked with attacking the Hesheng Bridge. The total attack was scheduled for 5 o'clock on 30 August.

The task given to Ye Ting's Independent Regiment by the Fourth Army was to attack the Hesheng Bridge along the railway from the vicinity of Taolinpu from the front.

The time when the Ye Ting Independent Regiment received the combat mission of frontal assault on Hesheng Bridge was August 29. The total attack time is less than a day.

This is another hard bone to gnaw!

This must be a tough battle and a bad battle!

Ye Ting knows the arduousness and severity of this battle!

Ye Ting knows more that the reason why the independent regiment can win this honor is that the independent regiment has the spirit and glory of daring to fight tough battles and being invincible!

"We must tell every officer and soldier in the regiment to understand not only the cruelty of this battle, but also our glory and pride!" At the branch meeting, Ye Ting proposed to do a good job in political mobilization for every soldier in the regiment and fully arouse the high morale of the officers and men of the regiment.

The party branch agreed with Ye Ting's suggestion. As a result, a short-lived but effective political mobilization was launched throughout the regiment.

In the political mobilization, the independent regiment is most proud of the sacred experience of daring to be the advance team again in the battle of the Tingsi Bridge after the capture of Pingjiang......

After Ye Ting's independent regiment conquered Pingjiang, it pursued all the way through the starry night, and entered Hubei in one day and occupied Tongcheng. At the same time, the Seventh Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the left flank crossed the Miluo River and occupied Changle Street; The Eighth Army also crossed the Miluo River and advanced to Yueyang. Wu Peifu's fleeing troops rolled down like a flood of mud and sand after the breach of a levee, scrambling to flee to Hubei.

The Northern Expeditionary Army had formed a large corps to advance. So far, the mission of the advance team of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment has been honorably completed.

Unexpectedly, just before the independent regiment was in Tongcheng, Ye Ting received a notice to immediately go to the military headquarters to attend an emergency meeting.

The emergency meeting, attended by cadres at and above the regimental level, was presided over by Chen Keyu, deputy army commander, and Liao Qianwu, a party representative. The urgent proposition discussed was that the Fourth Army had just intercepted a secret telegram from Wu Peifu and General Chen Jiamo, the overseer of Hubei, who had "personally led the army south" and ordered the troops around the Miluo River to "drive to the Tingsi Bridge." At the same time, intelligence officers reported that Wu Peifu's troops had begun to move south.

So, why did Wu Peifu send heavy troops to guard the Tingsi Bridge?

Originally, Tingsi Bridge was the first pass to guard Wuhan, and was known as "the first gateway to southern Hunan". It is surrounded by water on three sides to the northwest and south, and overlapping mountains to the east. The river that traverses the east and west is rapid and deep, only the Guangdong-Hanzhou railway bridge can pass through the north and south, the railway bridge is covered by layers of barbed wire, the north of the bridge is hilly and undulating, each hill has been fortified, although the terrain in the south of the bridge is flat, but at the upper end is a small highland of Zhumugang, and there are heavy soldiers, quite like a Zhou Cang with horizontal eyebrows and standing eyes holding the Qinglong Yanyue knife, if you want to pass this person's Hubei to rush, it is more difficult!

Therefore, in order to ensure that Wuhan is free of qiang, it is first necessary to build the Tingsi Bridge into an iron and copper wall that the Northern Expeditionary Army cannot cross.

Tingsi Hashimoto already had four brigades under the command of Song Dapei, the commander of the First Division who had retreated from the Miluo River, and held it to the death. Now, in order to be foolproof, Wu Peifu personally led his descendants Liu Yuchun and other troops to Hankou on the one hand, and prepared to lead the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Guards to the front line by train the next day; On the other hand, he urgently selected more than 6,000 officers of the rank of captain who had gone through the war from the Luoyang Military Academy, formed two officer corps with dozens of artillery pieces and more than 60 machine guns, and went to Tingsi Bridge to guard the Baidun Heights and Zhumugang Heights, which were the most important geographical locations. At the same time, Wu Peifu also ordered Song Dapei, commander of the First Division, to set up a pistol team and a broadsword team to supervise the battle, and all those who escaped were killed.

Therefore, it is urgent to take the Tingsi Bridge before Wu Peifu leads his troops south.

However, judging from the offensive route, in order to conquer the Tingsi Bridge within a limited time, it is necessary for a unit to march 1670 miles on foot after a day's rapid march, climb several mountains, cross several rivers, march 1670 miles, occupy Zhonggangpu, and then launch a general attack after the brigade arrives immediately.

So, which army is willing to play the bitter role of this continuous rush?

Deputy Army Commander Chen Keyu asked twice in a row, but none of the division and regiment commanders who attended the emergency meeting said a word.

Chen Keyu saw that the division commander pretended to be thinking about the problem and squinted his eyes, and the regiment commander pretended to be too tired and yawned, so anxious that he gently tapped the table with his fingers: "Be more energetic, concentrate your thoughts, there are so many senior cadres above the regiment level, don't any of us dare to stand up and pat their chests?!" ”

"Well, why is Ye Ting, who is usually brave and brave, also sullen and silent this time?" When Chen Keyu's gaze fell on Ye Ting's head who was looking out of the house with a sideways face like a stream of water, he couldn't help but become more and more suspicious.

However, Liao Qianwu, the party representative sitting next to Chen Keyu, had a knowing smile on his face. He knew that the troops had been very tired from fighting for several days in a row, and they needed to do some rest and recuperation, and they would immediately go to carry out such an arduous task of the advance team, and their superiors were generally afraid that their subordinates would not be able to bear it and would not be able to rush forward if they started fighting again. Therefore, it is understandable that everyone is reluctant to take this point. However, Ye Ting not only thought so, he was mainly dissatisfied with the "little ninety-nine" of the "old robes" who came over during the Guangdong Army period, and did not proceed from the interests of the overall revolutionary situation at all.

"Xiyi, is your independent regiment an advance team again? However, there are difficulties, but the military department believes that you can conquer them and complete the task! Liao Qianwu spoke.

"The superior told us to go, and we went!" Ye Ting, who had a strong temperament, stood up open-mindedly and bowed his hand to the "old robes" in a friendly manner, "Tomorrow we will be waiting for you in the middle shop!" ”

Sure enough, after a night of rapid marching, Ye Ting's independent regiment arrived at Zhonggangpu before dawn. When the officers and men heard the order to "rest in place," they threw themselves down to the ground and snored like thunder. When the cooking squad of each company boiled the water, and told the soldiers to scald their feet with blisters like silver bells, Hugh shouted that he could not wake up even if he pushed.

However, when the officers and men of the regiment heard that they would be tasked with attacking the Tingsi Bridge head-on at 1 a.m. tomorrow, they were immediately full of energy, and their bodies were like clockwork with full strength, ready to give an order to attack, and pounced on the enemy's position like vigorous eagles.

"Bring the 'red, blue and white' three-color identification belt and the brass drum hat (bamboo hat and rain hat) on your back, and go!" Ye Ting looked around at the high-spirited officers and soldiers of the regiment with blazing eyes, and confidently gave the order. There was a sudden sound of rustling in the ranks of the whole regiment, and this was the last time the officers and men checked the armbands on their arms and the bamboo hat mark on their backs, so as to prevent negligence from causing cannibalism in the beginning of a battle because it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe.

When Ye Ting's Independent Regiment entered the position of preparing for attack at dusk, the enemy may have discovered some clues, or perhaps they were strong and majestic, and began to violently fire artillery in the area where they thought there might be a Northern Expeditionary Army. One shell after another threw the dirt and gravel into the air and pressed down hard, crackling and smashing on the heads and bodies of the officers and men of the Independent Regiment, but none of them cried out in pain and evaded, and remained motionless at all times, giving the enemy no sign of an ambush.

The 35th Regiment of the 12th Division first attacked the high mountain position southeast of Tingsi Bridge from the right flank. The two sides are in a stalemate, the attacker cannot attack, and the defender cannot repel the attacker. Then, the separate regiment charged. However, due to the enemy's carpet bombardment of artillery fire to control the narrow passage in front of the Tingsi Bridge, coupled with the raging floods, the independent regiment was also temporarily blocked.

What to do? Such a protracted battle is not good for our army! So, through calm thinking, Ye Ting felt that he should find another way, ask the local people for advice, and ask if there is a road that can be detoured back to the side of Tingsi Bridge. It didn't matter if he asked, he really asked about a path around the mountain that the wood-gatherers climbed.

"Yay!" Ye Tingfei got on his horse and came to the military headquarters, and reported to the deputy army commander Chen Keyu and party representative Liao Qianwu about the winding mountain path provided by the local masses and his determination to lead the independent regiment to outflank the Tingsi Bridge along the path, and after receiving the clap of Chen Keyu and Liao Qianwu, he immediately ordered the independent regiment to quickly withdraw from the offensive position, quietly evade the enemy's surveillance, take advantage of the cover of night, climb the mountain and cross the post like an ape, and unknowingly insert it into the high post northeast of the Tingsi Bridge before dawn.

"According to the original system, it will be carried out on the spot, first eliminating the officer corps on the Baidun Heights, and then going to Tingsi Bridge...... Line Attack! Ye Ting stood tall, and when he saw that the enemy troops in all parts were unobstructed, his two thick eyebrows jumped high happily, and with a wave of his fist, he decisively gave an order.

One by one, the officers and men of the Independent Regiment rushed towards the enemy position with a hissing voice, which immediately dizzy the unprepared enemy troops, and those who were killed were killed, those who were disarmed were disarmed, and the enemy's defensive line at the Tingsi Bridge completely collapsed......

"Today, we attack Hesheng Bridge is different from Tingsi Bridge, the Beiyang warlord Wu Peifu in order to save his fate of defeat, has gone to Hesheng Bridge to supervise the battle, he also threatened that He Shengqiao is impregnable, and the Northern Expeditionary Army will not return! We want to take Hesheng Bridge, and we have to take the bull's nose of this Wu Dashuai! At the political mobilization meeting of the whole regiment, Ye Ting burned another fire in the hearts of all officers and soldiers with his oath-like determination.

"We want to capture Hesheng Bridge and lead Wu Dashuai's bull's nose!" The officers and men of the whole regiment raised their arms and shouted, and the low and majestic voice seemed to be running like a fire on the ground, like magma rolling.

The two armies faced each other, and the brave won.

The officers and men of the Independent Regiment are gearing up and will want to capture Wu Peifu as soon as possible.

Combat effectiveness is a comprehensive embodiment of political and military strength.

As soon as it got dark, the officers and men of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment either crawled forward or in an evacuated formation to engage the enemy in the gaps of the enemy's artillery shells.

The fiery red cannonballs draw beautiful arcs in the night sky, like dancing in the air; The flash of light, the rise of fire, the long tongue of fire licked the night sky like day; The leap of the human figure and the impact of the force are like clip paintings superimposed in the changing time and space. This man and fire, light and night, life and death, fighting and resisting, are intertwined into a magnificent battle picture.

The rising heat wave is rolling, rising, exploding, burning, diffuse.

Suddenly, in the fission of the firelight, a behemoth roared in.

"Enemy Ironclad Train!" Xu Jishen's second battalion, which was interspersed with the Taolinpu area, encountered an unexpected situation.

"Hit!" With a command, the tracer lights intertwined into a net of fire, and suddenly covered the ironclad train. However, like an invulnerable monster, the ironclad train still rushed towards it with great vigour.

"Remove the rails!"

"No tools!"

"Grab some straw and fill it on the rails, and it won't be able to run!" An unknown local crowd shouted anxiously to the soldiers of the Independence Regiment.

"Good!" A dozen soldiers turned around and brought a few bundles of straw from a rice field, and desperately faced the ironclad train that drove over and stacked it on the tracks.

Sure enough, the ironclad train, which had just been invincible, was afraid that the wheels would roll on the straw and cause the wheels to overturn, so he hurriedly snorted and fell back unconvinced.

The night sky was like a lacquer, and it was foggy again, slippery and sticky, like the heavens and the earth were filled with inferior ink, and the mouth, nostrils, and body were all mushy, making the chest stuffy and nauseous.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, the shrill sound of the trumpet slashed through the foggy clothes and the chest of the night, and the officers and men of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Independent Regiment, which had been lurking 100 meters from the Hesheng Bridge, struggled to charge the enemy troops in the vicinity of the Hesheng Bridge.

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire and bullets in the storm was like the tide of the sea, sending out a deafening ferocity, which is a deterrent only by landslides and earth cracks.

"Rush, kill, kill, ——!"

The sound of shouts, military trumpets, gunshots, and cannonballs seems to overturn the river and the sea, like the beating of thousands of drums, which is a terrifying shock created by man.

War, like a meat grinder, destroys the body.

War, like a catalyst, spreads the soul.

Several close-quarters fights between Firelight and Firelight.

Several flash-to-flash bayonet fights.

Several blood-to-blood beatings.

The 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Independent Regiment broke through the enemy's first line of defense at Taolinpu and entered the depth of the enemy's position.

"Commander, we have been attacked on three sides!" Xu Jishen, commander of the second battalion, reported to Ye Ting. Because the Independent Regiment was too advanced, the 2nd and 35th Regiments of the Seventh Army, which were in line with the two sides, did not defeat the frontal enemy, but dragged behind, causing the Independent Regiment to penetrate deep alone, and was flanked and blocked by the enemy's positions on both sides and on the left and right.

"Straight into the enemy's forward position!" Ye Ting ordered the officers and men to attack with all their might.

"Yes!" Xu Jishen led the officers and men of the second battalion to rush to the forefront of the enemy in a 100-meter sprint.

Suddenly, Xu Jishen felt that his chest was hot, and when he looked down, it turned out that his chest was pierced by the enemy's bullets, blood was like a spring, and the hem of his shirt and pants were all soaked. He endured severe pain, raised his gun and shouted: "Rush forward, leave me alone, only forward, not backward!" With that, he staggered and continued to pounce.

"Reserves, Battalion Commander Xu must be rescued!" Seeing this, Ye Ting hurriedly gave a death order to the first battalion and the special brigade of the reserve.

As a result, the 1st Battalion and the Special Brigade of the Reserve Corps fired fiercely at the enemy position and took the opportunity to rescue Xu Jishen to safety.

"The Art of War: Fiction and Reality" cloud: "Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, and those who can win due to changes in the enemy are called gods." ”

Twelve years ago, when Ye Ting was a student at the Army Primary School in Guangzhou, he taught himself "The Art of War" and "Political Leaders on the Essentials of Soldiers" and other military books, and he knew some strategies by heart. Now, in this special situation in actual combat, the motto "the impermanence of soldiers" has turned into a dominant force that dominates his nerve center.

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In order to break through the enemy's forward position, Ye Ting did not hesitate to change the deployment of troops, and concentrated the regimental machine gun company that was alerting the enemy's ironclad train, the first battalion to the left flank of the second battalion, and the first company attack team of the first battalion to form a heavy fist, forming a heavy fist, and ordered the regimental chief of staff Zhou Shidi to command, strive to seize the commanding heights of Yindoushan, make a breakthrough, and drive the whole situation.

Ye Ting's change made the enemy scratch his head for a while.

Zhou Shidi, chief of staff of the regiment, led the officers and men to charge and kill at close range, and swept the stubborn enemy of Yindou Mountain to the bottom of the mountain.

Then, the independent regiment, which occupied the commanding heights of Indosh, fired fiercely at the enemy positions on the left and right flanks, and immediately disrupted the enemy's position. At this time, other attacking troops also rushed up one after another, and under the guidance of the independent regiment, they launched a thunderous bombardment of thousands of enemy positions from Yindou Mountain in the east, Hesheng Bridge in the middle, and west to the west of the railway. More than 1,000 soldiers stabbed their snowy bayonets in the chest of the enemy, and in an instant the enemy's fortified position rumbled and collapsed like a landslide, and tens of thousands of enemy troops ran and rolled, forming a huge torrent that rolled down.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! At this time, at the junction of the road leading to the north of the Hesheng Bridge, a bloody massacre was being carried out within the enemy army.

The fierce and vicious warlords tried in vain to stop a large number of enemy troops fleeing without a fight. Each member of the overseer was armed with a pistol and a large knife, and if he came to retreat, he would kill one of them, and his head would fall to the ground, whether it was a soldier, a company commander, a regiment commander or a brigade commander. Before the mass of fleeing enemy troops could rush in, the heads of several regiment commanders and hundreds of soldiers had been cut off and hung on trees at the intersection. However, the extremes of things must be reversed. Seeing that the Overseer was so inhumane, the fleeing enemy army held the idea of "running is death, and if you don't run, you will die", while shouting and scolding frantically, while firing at the Overseer, trying to make a bloody way and continue to flee for their lives.

"Mother, ×, set up a machine gun for me, and kill them all at the bridge!" Wu Peifu, who was cowering in a shelter to supervise the battle, roared like crazy, his face was blue with anger, his eyes were blood-red as if he had rabies, and the stars were flying all over the sky, barking like an angry.

In a short time, the overseers set up several machine guns at both ends of the Hesheng Bridge railway, and the black muzzles of the guns sprayed fire snakes, piling up layer after layer of enemy corpses that were pouring towards the bridgehead, and in less than half an hour they were half a man high. Under the Hesheng Bridge, there were dead bodies floating all over the place, but the floating corpses were not in the water, and the water surface a hundred meters away was blood red.

Taking advantage of victory to pursue is Ye Ting's way of using troops. The pursuer is like an eagle pounces on food, and the fleeer is like a lost dog, and it is easiest to expand the results of the battle if they are poor and chase them.

After the Independent Regiment occupied the Hesheng Bridge, Ye Ting immediately ordered Chengsheng to pursue.

"Go and lead Wu Dashuai's bull's nose!" The officers and men of the Independent Regiment rushed down the Hesheng Bridge shouting, and in the misty smoke of gunpowder, they suddenly found an ironclad train with the "Wu" flag hanging on the side 300 meters in front of them fleeing in a hurry, and its body was crooked, like a donkey with a broken leg.

This ironclad train, which was hit by artillery fire, was the command vehicle of Wu Peifu who came to Hesheng Bridge to supervise the battle. Wu Peifu, who was yelling "drive quickly" in the car, was so frightened that his face was like ashes, and he collapsed on the tiger skin sofa, like an old dog who was still breathing.

Seeing that Wu Peifu's ironclad train could no longer catch up, the Independent Regiment pursued the defeated enemy army for more than 30 miles in one go, killing and capturing countless enemy troops.

Liu Yuchun, a descendant of Wu Peifu, described the battle of He Shengqiao in the "Record of Returning to the Field from a Hundred Battles" written later: "The bridge was covered with dead bodies, and the corpses floated under the bridge until they were out of sight. After the war, the division counted 5,000 men from the 15th Brigade and its supplementary regiment, artillery company, engineer company, baggage company, and sanitary company, with 3,000 casualties. The three regiment commanders, Chen Xianbin was killed, Bai Wei was severely injured, and Zhou Ji was captured. Nine battalion commanders were killed in battle and seven were unknown to the dead or dead. Forty-two company commanders were killed in battle, and twenty-five were unknown to the dead or dead. It cannot be enumerated below the platoon commander. Among the other divisions, Chen Jiamo's 1st Division had more than 3,000 troops, his 1st Guard Regiment had more than 1,200 troops, Song Dapei's 1st Division had 2,000 troops, Sun Jianye's 1st Brigade had 400 troops, Zhang Zhanao's 1st Brigade had 300 troops, Yu Yinsen's 1st Brigade had 2,000 troops, and the 1st Brigade of Fuwei's Guards had only 1,005 troops......"

This unmistakably shows that in the battle of He Shengqiao, Wu Peifu's tens of thousands of descendants lost more than half. He Sheng Bridge became Wu Peifu's Broken Soul Bridge.