"Boom!" Countless shells pierced the sky with a piercing scream, and landed on the positions of the 19th Route Army, exploding with a bang, setting off patches of gunsmoke.

"!" Zhang Junsong couldn't help but scold, "Order the artillery to return fire immediately and suppress the enemy's artillery fire." In order to strengthen the firepower of Zhang Junsong's troops, Jin Zhao added an artillery regiment to Zhang Junsong, and the whole regiment was equipped with 75 mountain guns and 24 guns, which was stronger than Leng Xin's Fourth Division. In addition, the 19th Route Army was supported by the air force, so Zhang Junsong did not hesitate to give the order to fight back.

The artillery fire of the Central Army was quickly suppressed, and Leng Xin jumped to his feet angrily in the back. "What are all this waste for? Even the artillery of a miscellaneous division can't beat it, what's the use of Lao Tzu asking them? ”

"The division is angry!" The chief of staff repeatedly persuaded, "Our army has suffered heavy losses in artillery after the Battle of Yanping, otherwise how can it be allowed to run rampant!" ”

"Humph! It's really a feathered phoenix that's not as good as a chicken! Leng Xin said viciously, "It seems that you can't count on artillery!" Order the regiments to attack at once! ”

"Yes!" The chief of staff answered, then walked to the phone next to him, dialed it and ordered loudly, "Attack immediately!" Break through enemy positions in one fell swoop! ”

"Tick tock!" The loud trumpet of the charge suddenly sounded, followed by the shouting of the mountains and a tsunami, and the yellow-green crowd rushed towards the position of the Nineteenth Route Army like a tide.

Zhang Junsong held the binoculars, looked at the crowd of people who were surging over like ants in his field of vision, turned his head and said to Qiu Guozhen, "Chief of Staff, order all troops on the front line to defend their positions to the death, even if they fight to the point of death, they must not take half a step back!" Those who dare to retreat without authorization and lose their positions will be shot on the spot! ”

"Yes!" Qiu Guozhen replied solemnly, and then turned to leave. Qiu Guozhen had just recently been transferred to the Fifth Army as chief of staff. After the 19th Route Army entered Fujian, Qiu Guozhen successively served as a staff officer of the Fujian Pacification Office, director of the Fujian Youth League Affairs Office, and director of the Cadre Training Institute. After the Min Mutiny, he served as the director of the Fuzhou City Public Security Bureau, and later retreated to Quanzhou with the main force of the 19th Route Army, and was only sent to the Fifth Army as chief of staff a few days ago.

(Note: I always thought that the name of the Public Security Bureau was only after the liberation, but now I know that it had this name as early as the Republic of China!) In 1920, when Sun Kezheng was the director of the Guangzhou Municipal Department, he was ordered to draft municipal regulations, and in one night, he listed the municipal scope, surname, powers, responsibilities, and powers one by one, and completed a "Guangzhou Municipal Organization Regulations"! Among them, the names of the two bureaus of "public security" and "public use" were invented by Sun Ke and are still used today. ）

Dense gunfire rang out one after another from the positions on the front, and the attack of the Central Army was very fierce, but the resistance of the Fifth Army was equally stubborn. Zhang Junsong's brows couldn't help frowning, if it goes on like this, how long can the Fifth Army last, Zhang Junsong really has no idea in his heart, "Have you contacted the flight team?" When will they arrive? ”

"I'll be there in about ten minutes!" The adjutant took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, and replied casually.

"Yes!" Zhang Junsong felt a little relieved, and nodded with satisfaction, with the support of the Air Force, he could hold on for at least one more day. Don't look at the current fierce offensive of the Central Army, but Zhang Junsong has already seen that the Central Army is already at the end of its strength, as long as he holds Shuikou for two days, the enemy army will be exhausted and will collapse without a fight. Now Zhang Junsong is not thinking about how to win this battle, but how to win beautifully, that is, to annihilate the enemy army and preserve his own strength.

Ten minutes later, a violent roar of motors was heard in the sky, and more than 20 warplanes flew over Shuikou and began to bomb and strafe the attacking troops of the Central Army with impunity, and the Central Army, which had been blocked from attacking, was immediately defeated.

"!" Leng Xin saw that the attacking troops were defeated, and angrily threw the telescope in his hand directly to the ground. "Arrest the head of the fourth regiment and kill Lao Tzu!" The reason why the commander of the Fourth Regiment was shot was because the Fourth Regiment was the first to be defeated, and Leng Xin had to make an example of him.

Leng Xin thought about it for a while, and felt that this was not enough, so he then ordered, "Inform the whole division that from now on, the law of joint sitting of revolutionary soldiers will be implemented, and anyone who dares to violate the military law will be shot on the spot!" Never be spared! ”

The so-called law of joint sitting of revolutionary soldiers was formulated by Lao Chiang himself. On January 6, 1926, Lao Chiang announced the "Revolutionary Army Company Sitting Law" drawn up by Lao Jiang at the Whampoa School: the article is as left

Article 1

The purpose of the Party is to complete the national revolution and implement the Three Righteousness, and all officers and men should have the spirit of sacrifice and not retreat from the battle against the enemy, no matter how dangerous it is.

Article 2 The method of sitting in this company is applicable to officers and men who retreat from battle in wartime.

Article 3 The provisions of the joint sitting law are as follows:

1. If the squad leader retires from the class, the squad leader will be killed.

Second, if the platoon commander retreats with the whole platoon, the platoon commander will be killed.

3. If the company commander retreats with the whole company, the company commander will be killed.

Fourth, if the battalion commander retreats with the whole battalion, the battalion commander will be killed.

5. If the regiment commander retreats with the whole regiment, the regiment commander will be killed.

6. If the division commander retreats with the whole division, the division commander will be killed.

7. The same is true of the commander.

8. If the commander does not retreat, but all the officers and men retreat, so that the commander is killed, the commander of the division to which the commander belongs shall be killed.

9. If the division commander does not retreat, but all the officers and men of the division retreat, so that the division commander is killed, the regimental commander to which the division commander belongs shall be killed.

10. If the regimental commander does not retreat, but all the officers and men of the regiment retreat, so that the regimental commander is killed, the battalion commander to which the regiment commander belongs shall be killed.

11. If the battalion commander does not retreat, but all the officers and men of the battalion retreat, and the battalion commander is killed, the company commander to which the battalion commander belongs shall be killed.

12. If the company commander does not retreat, but all the officers and men of the company retreat, so that the company commander is killed, the platoon commander to which the company commander belongs shall be killed.

13. If the platoon commander does not retreat, but the whole platoon retreats, so that the platoon leader dies, the squad leader to which the platoon leader belongs is killed.

14. If the squad leader does not retreat, but the whole class retreats, so that the squad leader dies, the whole squad will be killed.

Article 4: Party representatives at all levels also apply to this joint sitting law.

Article 5

This joint sitting law shall come into force after its promulgation.

As soon as this method was introduced, it immediately frightened the Whampoa student soldiers. In the Battle of Tamsui, he first shot a company commander who had fled on the spot, and after that, no one dared to retreat without permission. In the later Battle of Mianhu, the first regiment of the teaching regiment was almost wiped out, but no one dared to push back, which shows that this method still had some effect on the battlefield.

This method of sitting together is like everyone has a knife on their head and a rope tied to their feet, and everyone is connected, so that people dare not have the idea of retreating in battle. Therefore, in the later Northern Expedition, the Northern Expeditionary Army won a hundred battles and won a hundred battles, which was related to this law.

The Fourth Division is a descendant of the Central Army, and the main officers, including Leng Xin, are all from Huangpu, so they naturally know the way this so-called revolutionary soldier sits together! It can be seen that Leng Xin is really going to work hard. (To be continued.) )