The Republic of Heroes

The charge started again. The barrel of the water-cooled heavy machine gun was red and unable to shoot. Yin Chengfu, the battalion commander, shouted anxiously: "Go and carry the water, go and carry the water!".Although there are a large number of Madsen light machine guns on the ground, their firepower is no longer as powerful as before, and misfires have occurred one after another. Even the barrels of the infantry's G98 Mauser rifles are burning hot.

Gui Jun swarmed up, Yin Chengfu took off his hat and threw it on the ground, shouting: "Brothers, shoot me and charge! Drive these sons of bitches into the river and feed them to the bastards."

Yin Chengfu was one of the few Baoding fourth-term students who stayed in the fourth brigade. He thought that staying in the battalion directly under the brigade headquarters would not lead to a tough battle, but the first battle was so fierce.The Gui army was countercharged by the battalion directly under it, and the soldiers were stagnant, and the two sides launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle.

The mg08 heavy machine gun that had been misfired for a long time began to spit out flames again. The soldiers of the [-]th Brigade who fought hand-to-hand scattered to both sides of the position.

In the brigade headquarters, Wu Xiaoliang called back the headquarters of each defense line and stood firm.He intuited that the Gui army would not only attack all the way, and there must be fierce battles on the front line of defense.Sure enough, the front-line artillery rang, but it was not Chen Xiuyan's troops that were attacked, but Dong Haibin's first regiment.At the same time, the first Ping Shoal in the northeast of Pingjiang was also attacked. According to investigations, there was at least one brigade of troops. The Gui army launched an attack on three sides, just to catch Wu Xiaoliang by surprise.

After tossing for more than two hours, it was already dawn, and the Gui army crossing the river made no progress, leaving only a pile of corpses in vain.Tan Haoming was really red-eyed. His entire division was blocked on the south bank of Mishui and could not advance half a step. He ordered two regiments to press up one by one. This was the last chance. The sneak attack also failed.

Wu Xiaoliang personally came to the South Gate to inspect, and encouraged the soldiers who were bloodied in the middle of the night, "It's already dawn, and the artillerymen have already aimed their cannons at the enemy. Their doomsday has come."

"We must win! We must win!"

Everyone cheered excitedly.

"The enemy is rushing up, ready to fight!"

"Ready to fight"

Wu Xiaoliang returned to the brigade headquarters and immediately ordered, "Send a report, half of the artillery in the artillery position is aimed at the south bank of Mishui, fire!"

25 75mm 1897-type field guns were fired at once, and the high-explosive bombs fell on the south bank of Mishui in an instant. Tan Haoming's first division suddenly turned upside down, crying, and a base number of shells hit the south bank of Mishui within 1 minute. Not only caused huge casualties, but also greatly shocked the morale of the Gui army. Tan Haoming closed his eyes and knew that he had to order the withdrawal at this moment, but he was not reconciled.

The two regiments who waded and charged for the second time saw that the division headquarters was bombed behind them, they were panicked and did not dare to charge.All of a sudden, the artillery shells moved northward, sweeping across the ground like a rake plowing the ground. Broken arms and stumps flew across the river.Every time the soldiers were in battle, they were full of energy, then declined again, and were exhausted three times. After several charges were repulsed, they had long since lost the courage to attack. When the cannon plowed, the army's morale completely dissipated and collapsed in an instant, and they began to scramble for their lives.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Tan Haoming gave the order to retreat.Yin Chengfu, the battalion commander directly under the division headquarters, took the opportunity to lead his troops to charge and chase after him.

Compared with the battle at the south gate of Pingjiang City, the battle at Yanjiatan's front line was completely a replica of yesterday's cavalry charge. However, Wei Yongchang learned his lesson and thought that the position defended by Chen Xiuyan's troops was too strong, so the other side should be weaker , In fact, this is indeed the case, but his troops still kicked on the iron plate. The firepower of the infantry regiments of the [-]th Brigade is really powerful, with various light and heavy firepower intertwined. Some people shied away and dared not move forward, but this was not the beginning of the nightmare. The fourth brigade artillery provided fire support and detonated its ammunition box, and the Wei brigade fell into a sea of ​​​​flames.

The reversal of the battle was too fast, Wei Yongchang couldn't accept it, he looked at his subordinates fleeing in all directions, and murmured: "How could this be?"

The broken soldiers who attacked the position fled back like a reverse tide, and the whole situation was in chaos.

Dong Haibin didn't expect that the Gui army was so vulnerable, he ordered the whole regiment to be alert to prevent accidents, and the cavalry company and infantry company reserve team dispatched to chase and kill the enemy's rout.He was still conservative, Chen Xiuyan saw that the credit was taken away by his arch-rival, so he only left a company to garrison the position, led the whole regiment to cover up and kill them, and blocked Wei Yongchang's brigade headquarters and its subordinate troops 5 miles away to stay in Zhongling.

Fighting until night, Wei Yongchang disarmed and surrendered, and his troops scattered and fled.But the Maji brigade sneaked back to Xiangyin early in the afternoon when they saw that the situation was not good, otherwise Wei Yongchang would not know that the whole army would be wiped out if he came to support Wei Yongchang.

Tan Haoming withdrew to Changsha and learned that the entire army of Wei Yongchang's brigade had been covered and had been captured alive. He became furious and scolded Wei Yongchang for being an idiot and an idiot.According to reports, Master Ru Xian, the king of Tongcheng, had already set off to the south, and the situation that was originally good suddenly turned sharply, which became more and more unfavorable for him.

Wu Xiaoliang revoked his position as head of the second regiment because Chen Xiuyan left the position without permission, and continued to be in charge of the whole regiment as acting head. However, he also made contributions to capturing Wei Yongchang alive, so he reported to the Ministry of the Army to ask for credit for him. Dong Haibin, Yin Chengfu and other defensive positions The same heroism is also included in the list of meritorious deeds.

The situation is very good, the news of Duan Qirui's resignation suddenly came, and the leadership core of the fourth regiment was like a bolt from the blue.

When Fu Zuoyi heard the news, he rushed to Wu Xiaoliang to ask for countermeasures. He rarely lost his composure like this.

"Weizhong, Zhishuai's resignation is a good thing." They are based in Beijing, and all the ammunition for foster care is distributed by the Ministry of the Army.Now that Duan Qirui has lost power, the Zhili will definitely not appease the lonely fourth brigade, and the situation immediately turns from good to dangerous.

However, Wu Weizhong knew that history was proceeding according to the memory of his previous life. As expected, Duan Qirui would soon come back to power with a high profile. At this time, what the Fourth Brigade needed to do was to firmly stand by Duan Qirui's side.

"Brother Yisheng, don't worry, send a call immediately to support Zhishuai."

Fu Zuoyi was surprised and said: "How? How?" In his opinion, the Fourth Brigade should not make a statement at this moment, and the best policy is to wait and see what happens.

"Brother Wei Zhong can't, we should express our position slowly, so that even if Zhi Shuai fails, the Fourth Brigade still has room for maneuver."

Fang Qidao had a different opinion, "So we won't be the villains who go around all the time? Zhishuai needs my support right now, and I firmly oppose Yisheng's opinion."

Of course Wu Xiaoliang would be on Duan Qirui's side, so he supported Fang Qidao. He glanced at Fu Zuoyi and said:

"Brother Yisheng, Zhizhi's words are reasonable. Besides, Zhishuai's foundation is still there, and it will only be a matter of time before he recovers. If there are two ends of the head, there will be no place for me to stand in Beiyang from now on."