The Republic of Heroes

Luoyang, Henan Province, this ancient capital of thousands of years has experienced artillery fire. Since the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it has suffered repeated military disasters. It has not been quiet for a few years, and the common people have long been accustomed to the sound of war.No, it has only been calm for a few days, and what should come has come again.

After the rumble of cannons in the distance, the ground trembled slightly.The city was busy, but there was no panic. Various transportation vehicles drove in and out of the city gate in an orderly manner. A jeep slowly drove out of the inner city, and soldiers on both sides followed closely behind in uniform steps.

The officer in the jeep took the folder from the soldier beside him with a serious face, opened it, glanced at it for a few times, closed it again, and then threw it back.Command the driver in the driver's seat.

"Hurry up, Feng Yuxiang doesn't know how to stop, let's show him this time."

The officer is Li Youting, who is currently in charge of Henan's military affairs. Originally, Wu Xiaoliang's plan was to transfer him back to Shandong.Li Youting was really exhausted these days. If it weren't for the huge backing of the Shandong Army, he and his army, who had been struggling to maintain in Henan, would collapse.Yan Xishan from the north, Feng Yuxiang from the west, and Chiang Kai-shek from the south were all ineffective. Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek in particular cooperated with each other and attacked from all sides. Fortunately, they survived and even defeated Feng Yuxiang's main force. There was a sputtering.

Because Lao Jiang had to deal with the Jiangsu battlefield, he naturally shrunk his troops in the direction of Hubei, and the pressure in the south suddenly decreased. The main force of Li Youting's troops on the south bank of the Yellow River made an all-out attack to drive Feng Yuxiang out of Henan. At the same time, he defeated Tongguan and occupied Guanzhong in one fell swoop. posture.

But who knows that people are not as good as heaven, and the Japanese became noisy again. The armored brigade and cavalry brigade were ordered to evacuate from Henan. In order to focus on defending the south, Li Youting had to mobilize elite troops to go south along the Beijing-Han line and deploy defenses along the way.As a result, the force to attack Shaanxi Guanzhong became weak, and the forces to fight Feng Yuxiang began to be stretched.As a last resort, Li Youting had no choice but to give up his intention to completely occupy Guanzhong, and ordered the troops to withdraw from Tongguan.

With the further deterioration of the situation in North China, several brigades of Li Youting's department were transferred to Shandong to increase defense forces.Henan had to shrink the line of defense from the west again.Unexpectedly, Feng Yuxiang was like an old cat that smelled fishy, ​​and stuck to it like maggots on the tarsus bone. He led the Northwest Army beggar army out of Tongguan in a swarm, and the soldiers pointed directly at Luoyang again.Opportunities are rare and fleeting. How could Lao Feng, who is good at grasping opportunities, let go of this chance to make a comeback?

Although Feng Yuxiang's decision to step down and go abroad was confirmed at the Nanjing Conference, Lao Feng Lai still did not leave. This time Chiang Kai-shek suddenly stepped down, and the Japanese army in North China suddenly launched an attack. The originally unsolvable situation was unexpectedly reversed.

On the night when Feng Yuxiang decided to send troops, he looked up to the sky and sighed. It was God who created an opportunity for him, so he immediately raised the banner of the National Revolutionary Army, sent telegrams across the country to fight against Japan, and strongly condemned Wu Xiaoliang, the warlord who occupied Henan, and warned him not to stop In the anti-Japanese patriotic action of the Northwest Army, every soldier of his was ready to fight the devils and die for the country.

What Li Youting just saw was the content of Feng Yuxiang's telegram condemning him for powering on. A rare smile appeared on his serious face that could freeze, and he was laughed out of anger.

Amidst the roaring and trembling of the car engine and the huge noise produced by the bumping of the jeep body, Li Youting sneered and shouted to the adjutant: "Feng Yuxiang should really be an actor. If his beggars want to fight against Japan, they don't have to leave." Henan and Shandong routes. Crossing the Yellow River from the north and entering Inner Mongolia, it is the first choice for the strange soldiers to stab the little devil's ass."

"It's not that I'm not reconciled to rolling around in the dirt in Guanzhong, but the Northwest Army is really poor. It is said that even the officers are often unable to pay their salaries, and desertions and mutinies are very serious!"

The adjutant followed suit.

But Li Youting scolded: "Don't follow others' opinions. Until now, Feng Yuxiang's soldiers are all direct descendants. Although they can't get paid, there are not many real rebels. Even a general like Han Fuju who surrendered is as determined as he is. Following behind his ass, this old boy is really good at winning people's hearts. Have you forgotten the incident of false surrender last month? Even we almost fell into his mother's way, false and true, true and false, remember Send power to the commanders on the front line, if there are any surrenders in the Northwest Army after the war is reversed, the officers will stay, and the soldiers will be sent to Shandong and Shanxi on the spot, and they will not be allowed to return to Shaanxi!"

The adjutant seemed to be taught, nodded and said: "Remember the humble position, but we are short of troops, and the commander-in-chief is planning to deploy troops to deploy along the Yellow River. There are not many people who can spare to deal with Feng Yuxiang."

Li Youting smiled coldly again: "Although Feng Yuxiang's nerves are strong, his subordinates have already become frightened birds. After several defeats in Shandong, they have completely formed a problem of fear of Lu in their hearts. As long as we bluff a little, their Offensive momentum can be broken in half."

Fifty miles west of Luoyang City, Han Fuju rushed over from Tongguan with the forward main force of the Northwest Army. He never expected that he could come to Luoyang City again so smoothly. For two years, he felt like a dream. Originally, the chairman of Shandong Province The position has already been obtained, and suddenly it is taken away by Wu Xiaoliang who has no foundation at all. The one surnamed Wu was snatched away.However, because he had taken concrete actions to betray his master Feng Yuxiang, he was severely suppressed by Feng Yuxiang in the Northwest Army. Even if he was not dealt with, his life in the Northwest Army would not be easy.

As long as he fights tough battles, Han Fuju's troops are the forwards, and he has won no less than ten of them just because of the short rewards, but Dayang didn't send out half of them.Han Fuju knew well that Feng Yuxiang was using a knife to kill people, even if it wasn't killing people, he was using Wu Xiaoliang's knife to weaken his own strength, so that he wouldn't have a second heart.

Up to now, although Han Fuju has been victorious all the way to Luoyang, his centrifugal tendency has never been higher. If the envoy sent to secretly talk about defection brought back bad news, he might have turned his gun to beat Lao Feng at this moment. I can't bear this bird breath anymore.

"Commander, that Li Youting kid is too deceitful. He pretends to say that surrender is okay, but the troops will be disbanded on the spot. Only officers can stay, and there will be other appointments at that time. In fact, he is thinking about that..."

After Han Fuju got the reply from his subordinates, his brows loosened instead, which cut off his idea of ​​defecting, and instead made him determined to fight the Shandong army to the death.Shaanxi is sparsely populated and poor, and it is absolutely impossible to support so many people in the Northwest Army. Only by taking down Henan, Han Fuju, will he have a chance to survive, otherwise he will have to be tortured to death by Feng Yuxiang.

This time, both the Japanese and Lao Jiang helped a lot. If we fight to the death, we may have a chance!Han Fuju got on his horse and waved his whip, "Listen up, if you don't succeed in this battle, you will be benevolent. All the kings are of one mind and defeat the Wu thief!"

"Let's unite and defeat the Wu thief!"

"Defeat Wu Bandit..."

The soldiers followed the commander Han Fuju and shouted vigorously, pulling their necks.

The army accelerated, but the rumbling artillery sounded again. The soldiers who were impassioned just a second ago immediately scattered. The horror of the Shandong Army's artillery fire was still fresh in their memory.It's like a rake for plowing the ground. As long as the shells come over, it's like water splashing hail. The shells were frightened mad.

It is not that the Northwest Army does not have this cannon, but its usage is completely different from that of the Shandong Army. In field battles on weekdays, the cannons are fired at most casually to boost morale. Come in handy.But the artillery shells of the Shandong Army seem to cost nothing. Whenever, before the general offensive is launched, uninterrupted shelling for an hour or two is unavoidable.After several confrontations, Han Fuju's troops, as the vanguard of the conflict with the Shandong Army, are already familiar with this kind of dispatch, but there is no way to break it. If they want to win, this first round of bombardment has to grit their teeth no matter what. come over.

Therefore, the Northwest Army scattered around, not to flee, but to respond to the shelling of the Shandong Army as much as possible in the form of scattered troops to reduce casualties.

Han Fuju was shaken from the horseback, fell to the ground and splashed a burst of dust and smoke, choking him to cough repeatedly, even ignoring the pain as if his bones were broken. Face full of flowers.

The combat effectiveness of the Shandong Army's peripheral security forces in Henan is not strong, and it is generally the same as that of other domestic warlords, but the main force is completely different, but no one can survive this shelling, and his subordinates of Han Fuju can hold on It's really not easy.

The bombardment lasted for half an hour, and bullets poured down like pouring rain. Han Fuju could clearly feel that the density of this bombardment was much greater than any previous one.The originally firm will to fight was destroyed little by little.He didn't understand what Li Youting was going to do. If he accepted his surrender, he would turn his gun and be the forward of the Shandong Army, which would be beneficial and harmless to the Shandong Army. He didn't understand why he made such a stupid decision?Even if you are afraid of your own rebellion, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages after all!

While cursing secretly, the sound of the cannon suddenly stopped, but Han Fuju's body lying on the ground clearly felt that the ground was still trembling, and the tremor became more and more obvious, but he saw smoke and dust billowing from the east.His pupils suddenly searched, it was cavalry!

In a short time, the dense sound of horseshoes stamping on the ground was like thunder, wrapped in huge smoke and dust from far to near. Didn't the Shandong Army's cavalry and armored brigade withdraw?Han Fuju only felt that his brain was blank!