Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Under the city of Jingzhou, Zhao Dongsheng, the commander of the Fifth Division and the former commander of the enemy, is waiting for the reply from Xia Douyin, the guardian of Western Hubei.At dawn, the defenders found the youth army, and Xia Douyin was stunned immediately, but this kid is indeed a famous general with a leather bag in history (yes, it is a leather bag, not a foreskin. In history, this kid picked it up on the way to escape) A big leather box, and then raised the flag to recruit troops and became a general), the first reaction was to send negotiators out before the youth army attacked the city, expressing their willingness to cooperate, but it took time to convince their subordinates.Zhao Dongsheng also seldom went into battle, he believed it was true, and thought it would be best not to fight, so he ordered the siege to be suspended.

Next, Xia Douyin quickly mobilized his troops and entered the fighting state.

Zhao Dongsheng waited for four hours at a stretch. Seeing that it was approaching noon, even the Sixth Division had rushed to the city of Jingzhou, and Xia Douyin hadn't responded yet, so he had to send a staff officer to ask, but the staff officer was shot dead before he entered the city wall. .This incident later made Zhao Dongsheng feel guilty all his life. He was furious on the spot and ordered to open fire.

Fifty divisional heavy artillery pieces, thirty regimental artillery pieces, and a total of five hundred mortars were thrown down towards Jingzhou City unceremoniously.The city wall of Jingzhou City has a long history. Although it is not tall, it has a high cultural value.As a result, Zhao Dongsheng was so chaotic that more than a dozen places collapsed in just a few minutes. Both sides were dumbfounded.

The youth army was dumbfounded because the attacking troops had already made preparations, and they just waited for a gap in the artillery strike and rushed forward according to the training requirements.But the problem now is that Jingzhou's city wall is obviously unqualified (Wang Zhenya broke through it once during the [-] Revolution), and there are more than a dozen gaps popping up at once. Now the company platoon leaders who were ordered to lead the charge Dumbfounded, which one should we go for?

Xia Douyin's dumbfoundedness is even simpler. Although he has been wearing military uniform for some years, it is really the first time he has seen such ferocious firepower. several places.Many firepower points and soldiers whom Xia Douyin regarded as the elite all collapsed along with the city wall, dead or alive.The morale of the officers and soldiers of Xia Douyin's troops dropped to the lowest point after these few minutes of shelling.

After such a ferocious shelling, the battlefield entered a strange atmosphere, and both sides chose to be in a daze. . .

In the end, the reaction of the youth army was quicker. Seeing that the assault troops they had organized did not charge as agreed, the battalion leaders suddenly ran away, almost punching and kicking, yelling and forcing the company to charge.

At this time, the young army officers and soldiers in charge of the charge also reacted to the scolding of the chief. It is unknown who was the first to shout out the charge slogan: "Long live the youth army, long live Wang Shuai", and the attack began.

Jingzhou City is a typical city surrounded by water. To hit the city wall, you must pass through the artificially dug moat. This is a very difficult thing for the attacker.But this can't stop our youth army. The brothers of the engineering corps have already carried the assault canoe and the door panel, and the ladder rushed in front of the infantry, and then rushed into the moat with the canoe, and their feet were still out of reach. end.It didn't matter, soon the door panels and ladders were laid on the surface of the boat, and the soldiers with good water skills were connected by the small wooden boats with iron cables.The whole process didn't even exceed 3 minutes, and the defenders on the top of the city were still in shock at this moment, and they didn't even have the idea of ​​firing bullets to interfere.

When the brigade of youths in blue-gray uniforms poured in from the gap, the defenders realized that they should stop them, but it was too late to open fire at this time.

It stands to reason that Xia Douyin has at least [-] horses, so if he really wanted to fight, it would not be a big problem if it took a few days.Another way of thinking, even if you have to kill [-] pigs for a while, you won't be able to kill them all.

But at this moment, the performance of Xia Douyin's troops really complied with the sentence that the army was defeated like a mountain. Based on the principle of honesty and trustworthiness, Xia Douyin put his most capable troops on the front line of the city, pointing to their ability to hold on for a while , to boost morale.

Most of the other troops were newly recruited, and Xia Douyin knew how much he had.But I didn't expect that the youth army was so rich, and the shells were thrown down like they didn't need money. My dear, even if they took this Jingzhou City, their tax revenue for a year would not be able to buy so many shells just now.

In fact, Zhao Dongsheng was also reprimanded by Xu Yuanquan after the incident. No matter how angry he was, he would not be such a prodigal. Half of the base was thrown out, and Zhao Dongsheng was ordered to write a [-]-word self-criticism on the spot.

However, the effect of such a ferocious firepower strike was astonishing. In the entire city of Jingzhou, more than 1 officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the Hubei Army all grew their mouths, and then made the same choice, fleeing.

The quality of an army is most easily reflected in the process of escaping. At this moment, all the people have forgotten the theory of the establishment, and are running towards the direction they think is safe. When they bump into each other, they will decide that this direction is not safe, then turn around and continue running like headless chickens.As a result, the entire Jingzhou city was in chaos. Some rebels who could not find their way out broke into the people's homes with weapons to grab some first. The Chinese are the group that lacks the love of their compatriots the most.

However, the chaos only lasted less than an hour. When the youth army entered the city, Zhao Dongsheng saw the chaos and immediately sent out the troops. He searched for the rioters block by block, and shot those who raped and looted immediately.At this moment, the person Zhao Dongsheng most wanted to catch was none other than Xia Douyin who had teased him.Thinking about myself being a prominent figure in the youth army system, if I let everyone know that I actually believed in such a rascal, it wouldn't be a joke if it got out.

The division commander gave an order, and naturally there was a full-scale search, but he still failed to catch this Xia Douyin.

Where did Xia Douyin go?It turned out that at the moment the city was broken, Xia Douyin suddenly felt that all his previous glory and wealth had turned into clouds at this moment.He knew what the general situation was all over, even if he fled back to Yichang, he was just dying.So instead of fleeing back to the city to gather up the remnants, he chose to run away alone without even bringing his guards.He ran to the pier ten miles outside the city in one breath, rented a small fishing boat and went to Wuhan.Originally, he had thought of going to Wang Zhanyuan to make a comeback, but when he arrived in Wuhan, he found that Wang Zhanyuan was about to run away. With no hope of refuge, he simply hid in the British Concession in Hankou, earning a living by carrying bags on the wharf and selling coolies (see Wang Zhenyu forced people to do so), and later the concession was taken back by the Chinese government. Xia Douyin, who was afraid of being discovered, got on the train again, fled south to Hong Kong, and eventually died of illness in Indonesia. "Don't lie, my whole life is..."

Compared with Wang Zhenya's seven-hour bloody attack last time, this time Jingzhou's offensive and defensive battle basically consisted of offense and no defense.Although the battle took more than five hours to end, the whole battle was actually only a few minutes. Simply put, the fifth division had a firepower display, and it was over.As for the Fifth Brigade of the Hubei Army, it was really a raging army of soldiers, and there was not even a decent resistance.In the team of 5000 people, in addition to more than 1000 casualties in the shelling, more than 3000 people escaped, and more than 1000 people were executed by the Youth Army, the remaining more than 9000 people were incorporated into labor camps.As for this labor camp, it was an order issued by the Supreme Command that all captured combatants who had not lost their labor force and had non-military supplementary needs were incorporated into the labor camp and served hard labor for three years, specializing in railway, road and urban construction.The monthly salary ranges from one to three yuan, and if they leave without reason, they will be executed immediately.

The existence of this labor camp has also become an important reason for later generations to criticize Wang Zhenyu, but at that time, this labor camp did relieve the huge pressure of labor shortage brought about by large-scale public infrastructure construction and military construction.This labor camp existed throughout the Civil War, reaching a population of 30 at its peak.However, the highest peak occurred during the war against Japan and the Soviet Union, and this number directly exceeded 500 million.And all the files related to the labor camps were later set as the top secret of the Chinese Federation. It was not until WikiLeaks successfully declassified that later people discovered that the labor camps were still very humane compared to the concentration and reform camps of Wang Zhenyu's era. As for the concentration and reform camps What it is, everyone will know in the future.

On February 2, Wang Zhanyuan received three telegrams.

The first letter is the announcement of the results of the youth army. Yesterday, the loyal and brave soldiers of our army fought bloody for an hour to conquer Jingzhou, the important town of Yuan Zejun's army, and wiped out 5000 defenders. It was a great victory in Jingzhou.

One hour?Wang Zhanyuan frowned subconsciously. Although he knew that Xia Douyin was no match for the Youth Army anyway, but he had more than 1 horses in his hands, and he couldn't even defend for a day.

The second telegram, Wang Zhanyuan, made his head twitch when he saw it. It was President Yuan Da of Beijing who telegraphed personally, saying that Li Yuanhong had fled south and asked to set up defenses in Wuhan and wait for an opportunity to arrest him.Wang Zhanyuan was sweating when he saw this, the old man was confused, the Hubei army was almost all Li Fatty's soldiers, if he really dared to arrest them openly, the consequences would be unpredictable.

The third telegram is what Wang Zhanyuan wants to see most now. Feng Guozhang, the inspector of the five provinces of the Yangtze River, replied, ordering the Second Division to withdraw from Hubei Province immediately, and the whole division moved to Wuhu.It's still my elder brother's heartache, it's not in vain for me to follow him for many years, and I don't forget to help my brother at critical times.

Since Wang Zhanyuan made up his mind to escape, he naturally would not carry out the order to arrest Li Yuanhong. On the contrary, he gave a generous gift to each of the generals of the Hubei Army (no one dared to see anyone at this time) , are afraid of black guns).It means that mountains and rivers meet each other, and there is a line of life.The generals of the Hubei Army were also unwilling to fight with the Second Beiyang Division, so they naturally sent him out of the country as a gift.

On February 2, the Second Beiyang Division under Wang Zhanyuan evacuated from Wuhan, Hubei. At this time, Xu Yuanquan's first assault group arrived in Caidian, and Wan Yaohuang's second assault group arrived less than 23 miles away from Wuhan. of Jiang Xia.

The next day, with the support of the former Hubei army, Li Yuanhong sent a telegram to the whole country, announcing Hubei's independence and rebellion against Yuan.