In March, the wild flowers in the mountains and forests in eastern Yunnan were blooming, and the colorful flowers under the green mountains and white clouds were beautiful. However, Major General Jiang Zhiqing, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Second Army of the Law Guardian Army, regarded it as nothing. Yang Nizhi's Fuxing Army had a rapid offensive. If his army was defeated and lost, Qu Jing could not defend it. Then Ma Long would not defend it, then...

The brigade commander frowned and memorized that the local juren Liu Yucun was introducing him to the Battle of Shiraishi River six hundred years ago.

"In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang personally deployed and mobilized 300,000 troops, with Fu Youde as general, Lan Yu and Mu Ying as deputy general, and led his troops to Yunnan. When he was out, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted Fu Youde to give him a message in person and said, "Qujing, the throat of Yunnan, immediately descended to Qujing, and the army directly attacked Yunnan, and it was bound to be defeated!" In December of that year, the Ming army captured Puding and Pu'an and advanced to Qujing. The Yuan army general Dalimaze quickly led more than 100,000 troops to guard Qujing.

At that time, the Yuan army set up defense along the south bank of Baishi River, built a camp to rush to Meijiayuan area; the Ming army stationed in Fengdeng to Dapo Temple on the north bank of Baishi River. On the day of the decisive battle, the Ming army pretended to cross the Baishi River from the garrison, luring Dalima to dispatch elite troops to defend. General Fu Youde personally led the main force to smuggle across the river from the upper reaches and to the rear of the Yuan army, forming an encirclement of the Yuan army. During the general attack, Mu Ying tied the iron cavalry to directly attack the base camp of Dalima. The Yuan army responded to the battle in a panic, but the entire army was wiped out. In this battle, tens of thousands of Yuan army were captured, and the general Dalima was captured alive..."

I thought the literati could say some strategies, but what he didn't want to say was that the entire Yuan army was wiped out. Thinking about the current strategic situation of the Law Guardian Army and the Fuxing Army, Deputy Brigade Commander Wu Zhongxin's eyes were cold, just like whipping Liu Yucun with a horse whip. However, he was stopped by Jiang Zhiqing as soon as he whipped his whip. "Liqing, why should I have a sour Confucian experience? The battle between the Ming and Yuan armies is historical fact. If he didn't say that, can he still say that the Yuan army was defeated by the Ming and the Ming army? My original intention was to use Baishijiang as a barrier to establish a defense line here after Zhanyi was lost. However, judging from the Ming and Yuan battles, it may not be possible to defend here."

Jiang Zhiqing didn't study much. It seemed that the scholar went to the military academy before he passed the exam, so he respected the learned people. Wu Zhongxin knew that this younger brother was like this, so he had to glar at Liu Yucun and said to him: "Where is he guarding? Should he be guarding in Qujing City? If so, the Liaokou Mountain in the city is a major land. Once this mountain is lost, the cannon machine guns of the Fuxing Army can sweep the city."

"Hey! What's the point of defending Liaogushan?" Jiang Zhiqing understood the fierce artillery of the Fuxing Army, and knew that their advancement this time had even brought more than 200 millimetres of heavy artillery in the siege field. He really didn't know how these heavy artillery were transported here. "Just defend here to resist the enemy with Baishijiang. If you retreat to the city, then many people would die when the heavy artillery came."

Jiang Zhiqing decided to set up a second line of defense in Baishijiang. He even looked at everything north of Baishijiang in his telescope. When he saw a large tomb bulge in the north, he wanted to flatten it. He was worried that the big tomb was from the local clan, so he had to ask the cold and arrogant Liu Yucun around him, "Mr. Liu, who is the Feng Shui of that family?"

"Where?" Liu Yucun was fifty years old. After passing the imperial examination in the year of Guisi (1893), he served as the magistrate of Annan County, Guizhou. He was angry about the corruption of the government and was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895. After the post was over, he would work as a farmer. The new dynasty began to have a new atmosphere. He did not expect that Yunnan would suddenly rebel. He said that he was protecting the law and secretly treasoned the country. He took even more rubles from the Russians. Although the old man was a remnant of the Qing Dynasty, he was Chinese, so he despised Jiang Zhiqing and others at present.

Not very happy. Liu Yucun followed the direction that Jiang Zhiqing pointed. Although he did not have a telescope, he saw that it was the direction of Mahuang Village and said proudly: "This is the tomb of Ying and Tang Duke Tang Shi, the former deputy chief censor of Ming Dynasty."

Of course, I don’t know who Tang Shiying is Jiang Zhiqing, a semi-illiterate. Liu Yucun once again despised: “Duke Tang is the ancestor of Tang Ligeng who you harmed in Kunming City. He has been buried by the villagers near his ancestors. The dynasty has risen and reincarnated in the world, but the heart of the king will always flow into the world. The general is handsome. As a Han, why are the lackeys of the Russians?”

"Random!" Liu Yucun was sarcastic. Not only Wu Zhongxin was so harsh that he could not listen, but even Jiang Zhiqing couldn't bear to listen. After he drank, he said to the adjutant: "Take Mr. Liu down." After he left, Jiang Zhiqing smiled bitterly: "Mom Xipi! The whole country is denying us rubles, but don't they know that the Revival Society also took rubles back then. Why did the Revival Party get rubles, but our Chinese Revolutionary Party can't take it? If you don't take rubles, how can China be democratic and how can it be republic?"

"Brother, you shouldn't be too polite to these foolish people!" Wu Zhongxin grabbed the whip and waved it hard to vent his dissatisfaction. "It's still the sir who is right. The feudal legacy of our people is too deep, so they must force them to accept the democratic republic. They should kill these foolish people!"

Wu Zhongxin's word "kill" reminded Jiang Zhiqing of the Lantern Festival night. At that time, Tang Jiyao hurried to the French hospital to visit Cai E, but he did not want to be intercepted by the Guangdong army who had been ambushed for a long time. At that time, his guards of more than 100 were strangled by the Maxim machine guns that were placed on both ends of the street. For a moment, the entire Luofeng Street was bleeding, and only a few people escaped, but the escape was only a moment. The entire Kunming city was blocked by the Guangdong army. The seriously injured Tang Jiyao was barely carried to the Dadong Gate by his guards and discovered by the patrol again. After a bloody battle, the only one among the guards was Long Yun, who could fight Baguazhang, escaped, and the others were all on the spot.

Jiang Zhiqing was thinking about that bloody night, and suddenly felt a chill in the sun. At this time, in the Fuxing Army that had been more than ten miles east of Zhanyi, the Long Yun he was thinking about was sitting in front of Tang Jiyu. After escaping from Kunming, he relied on being a local, and he stayed in the day and walked for more than 20 days and finally found the organization. After staying in the Political Department for three days, the first person he came out to see was Tang Jiyu, who was Tang Jiyao's younger brother.

"You don't have to say what it is." In the green military tent of the Fuxing Army, Tang Jiyu's voice was cold, and this indifference was suppressed by anger and grief. He had long known what happened in Kunming City. In Tang Jiyu's opinion, the first sinner of the eldest brother's death was Cai E. He was his ambition to death and led the wolf into the house to cause the eldest brother to suffer such a disaster; and in addition, traitors such as Sun Wen and Chen Qimei, who poisoned Cai E to blame others in order to occupy Yunnan.

As the chief guard, Long Yun should have protected Tang Jiyao for all, but now Tang Jiyao died but he survived alone. In terms of benevolence and righteousness, he would be condemned privately, but he fled privately after Tang Jiyao was exterminated, so the Political Department did not criticize his behavior. But he was ashamed of Tang Jiyu. Seeing that he didn't want to speak by himself, he said in a deep voice: "Yun Zhidi is to avenge the commander. This time, he advances to the army and is willing to be the vanguard. Kill all the Guangdong bandits!"

Seeing that Long Yun obviously misunderstood his meaning, Tang Jiyu said: "Brother's hatred, the Yunnan army, and the Yunnan people are not only your hatred, but also my hatred. It is also everyone's hatred. The Guangdong bandits are vicious. If you can escape from Kunming after your death, it should be a life-threatening death. I have no intention of blaming you. You can go down and have a good rest first."

"When will we be able to attack in the general?" Long Yun breathed a sigh of relief. However, his fighting spirit became more and more intense, and he wished he could kill Zhanyi City now.

"It's within these two or three days." Tang Jiyu was just a battalion commander, and only the regiment commander in the army held a meeting at the division headquarters.

The troops stationed at Pinghekou, northeast of Zhanyi City were Li Liejun's troops of the First Guardian Army. The entire army was more than 8,000. In addition to most of the elite Guangdong Army, there were also many Yunnan soldiers who were determined to devote themselves to the democratic republic. Pinghekou is more than 30 miles west of Zhanyi County, and sixteen miles to Baishui Town. It was originally a mountain avenue. To the north is the Jinshanfang with an altitude of 2,265.4 meters, and to the south is Changchongji Mountains. These mountains are located in the north and south of the post road. They are mutually supportive and blocked the entire post road.

The mountain peaks on both sides of the post road are high and low, and the mountain is steep. Because of the existence of the fortifications on the back slope, the artillery can play a very limited role. If you really attack hard, whether you can capture it or not, even if you can capture it, it will be a heavy casualty. If you want to advance from the ridge according to the practice of mountain warfare, the mountainside will not be connected to Longzhao Mountain in the east, and the troops will be transported here. You have to go down the mountain first and then up the mountain, but the result will be to attack from the foot of the mountain. Changchong on the south side of the post road is a lonely hill, not even connected to any peak.

It is not possible to walk down the mountain. It is not easy to walk on the ridge. It seems that it can only be a detour, but Zhanyi is southwest of Pinghekou. He can only go further and further north, but to go south, the mountains are piled up and down. Even if there are planes to explore, the staff members in front also believe that except for small troops, it is indeed difficult for large troops to pass. Besides, large detours in unfamiliar mountains are very easy to lose their direction. Once they lose their direction, they will return in vain.

The most important thing is that the rainy season is coming soon. Once the heavy rain is pouring, then not to mention attack, the army's self-protection is a big problem. In addition, there are wind disasters in the broken place in Qujing, and the records of strong winds and trees are common in the State Chronicles. Who doesn't know what the climate will be like this year, but it is justified to seize the time to capture Qujing and then threaten Kunming. If the guardian army flees in a hurry, it's fine, but if they resist stubbornly, the subsequent battle will have to be delayed until after the rainy season. By then, the situation will no longer be so optimistic.

In the 15th Division Command, staring at the huge sand table in the military tent, the more he looked, the more annoyed the division commander Xu Ma'er became, and he didn't know how to fight. The 15th Division is an old army in Yanzhou, and soldiers, officers, are all treasures. Besides, under the name of the 15th Army, there will be heavy casualties, which is not only for face or emotional reasons. Moreover, if the attack is not successful and time is allowed to be delayed, the losses in the future will be greater, and that is the real loss.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Sparrows..." The call of the communication class next door was in the Yanzhou mountainous area one after another. The inherent attenuation of radio was about 40%. When it came here, it was difficult to attenuate to 100%, so the communication between the troops was extremely difficult. Although the front point was on Longzhao Mountain, which was more than 2,200 meters above sea level, the signal attenuation was still 60%.

"Mom, I'm selling so many things to Russian Russians, and Russian Russians gave them to Sun Wen's rebel party. This is simply because we have to fight ourselves! Division commander, do we want us to do a lurking battle?" Looking at Xu Shunda's worried face, the first brigade commander Ni Jinlian suggested that the lurking battle he said was that the troops sneaked into the enemy's formation hundreds of meters in the middle of the night and launched a sudden attack at dusk the next day. Such an attack was the most sudden, and the soldiers were under the enemy's nose, with a very short impact range, which greatly reduced casualties.

"Is there a good place?" Xu Shunda is also a veteran in the lurking battle. This tactic was summarized when he was the brigade commander of the 30th Brigade. He also thought about launching a lurking battle against the mountain highlands, but the problem was that the mountain was too steep and it was difficult to find a suitable place to settle down. If it was exposed, the lurking soldiers would be sacrificed in vain.

"How is this?" Ni Jinlian pointed to a place in the sand table and said. "There are also here, here, and here... As the saying goes, there are many small roads, we can rank as a squad, accumulate small amounts, as long as we rush into the enemy's formation at dusk the next day and shake it. I think as long as we kill in front of us, the fighting will of the Dharma Protector will not be too strong."

"Who will send?" There is no place to lurk in the large army, so there are only small groups of troops. When Xu Shunda thought of this, and then the Revival Army-style mines used by the Law Guardian Army, he cursed in his heart and said: "It is necessary to let them be careful of mines. Don't expose them."

"This..." Ni Jinlian's mind was a little twisted. He wanted to recommend Lu Arong's regiment, but Lu Arong was from the 30th Brigade, and he and his division commanders were from the 30th Brigade, so he had to change his words: "Let Ying Wei Dao's regiment go. That guy likes night battles the most, and no one can say anything about him."

"Then call him over immediately!" Ying Weijiu is from Shengzhou, Xu Shunda is from Jinhua. In these two places, plus Liaodong, the basic officers of the Fuxing Army were all. Xu Shunda was very satisfied with Weijiu. This is a brainy and dared to fight desperately.

The 29th Brigade was stationed on the south side of Longzhao Mountain. He pointed at the front and called him. Ying Wei came after attacking. He was all acquaintances, and Xu Shunda was not polite. When he met, he said, "How about you let your people go into the mountain to fight a lurking battle?"

"Report to the division commander and ensure that the task is completed!" The headquarters was so anxious to find him. Ying Weijiu was mentally prepared. When he heard the task, he immediately jumped up like a spring.

"Sit down!" Xu Shunda was happy, but his expression was serious. "The staff officers have calculated that the slope of the mountain is between 30 and 60 degrees, which means that the impact distance must be about 80 meters above the enemy's front. Otherwise, you cannot rush in within two minutes after the shelling..."

Artillery fire is ready to open up channels to break through the frontier and fight against counterattack. This is the five-part attack of the Fuxing Army infantry. Artillery fire preparation is not difficult, and it is also appropriate to open up channels, but breaking through the frontier of the enemy and winning the battle is the most critical. Generally speaking, the defender is in a coma for about two minutes after being accurately affected by the opponent's artillery. On flat grounds and hills, the impact speed is generally 150 meters per minute. In this way, the attacking infantry can reach the frontier of the enemy within one and a half minutes, and then take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy being in a daze to break through.

The impact speed in mountainous and jungle areas is only one-third of the flat ground or slower, and it is impossible to reach the enemy from the starting position of the conventional impact within two minutes. This gives the defending enemy time to revive firepower, resulting in the attacking side that will confront the enemy as soon as it reaches the front, or it will be blocked by the enemy's firepower before it reaches the front, and the impact will likely be set aside. Therefore, like artillery fire tables, infantry also has impact parameters, and the optimal impact distance under various terrain is obtained based on slope, soil quality, vegetation and other factors.

However, the impact parameters are easy to calculate, but the shorter the impact distance, the closer the infantry is to the barrage of the artillery. Generally, placing the starting position of the impact two hundred meters in front of the enemy is to prevent the accidental injury of the artillery, and the shortest impact distance is 150 meters. This is the current limit of howitzers fire between 75, and it is impossible to shorten the safety boundary of the barrage to 80 meters.

"Teacher Commander, Jiong Wu needs to fire the artillery himself." Ying Weijiu was not afraid of death, but it would be a pity to die with his own shells.

"Okay! I'll tell him personally if someone else arrives." Xu Shunda knew that eighty meters were too dangerous, so he nodded and replied.

Wang Jiongwu, who participated in the Sino-Japanese War, is now a lieutenant colonel. He has been transferred from the 142nd Division to the deputy of the artillery regiment of the 15th Division of the old army. Compared with the old commander, his artillery was more accurate and tricky. He was stunned when he received the order. Even gods could not do this eighty-meter security world. The real way was to aim straight and shoot, but this was not the Zhili plain. With the ups and downs of the mountains, the artillery could only aim and shoot indirectly. As for accidental injury, he could only ask God for blessing.

On the tenth day of March 10th of the fourth year of Shenwu, it was a rare sunny day. At 7 o'clock in the evening, the gunman of the artillery regiment stood quietly on the artillery position, waiting for the command of the command post in front. Although the enemy's positions had been bombarded many times in the past three days, this time was the real general attack.

At 7:30, not long after the red Sun Harbor set, the command from the Front Observatory came. So, after repeating various commands, the cannons heading west finally roared, and the shells seemed to ignite the sky on the west side, and a fire broke out into the mountainside.

Li Liejun, the commander-in-chief of the First Army who was forced by the fierce artillery fire of the Fuxing Army, had already arranged the positions into two lines, at the front of which were trenches on the ridge, and secondly, the reverse inclined fortifications 34 meters below the mountain edge. This place was actually a hidden military cave to avoid the artillery fire of the Fuxing Army. He heard the sound of the Fuxing Army's artillery sounds and remembered again. When he entered the military command post five miles away from the mountain, Fang Shengtao couldn't help but look east, but he had become accustomed to the irregular artillery fire of the Fuxing Army in the past few days.

"Didn't it mean that the price of shells has increased by more than ten times? Why do their shells look like they don't have money when they are fired?" Fang Shengtao couldn't help but sigh.

"Where is Yang Jingcheng short of money?" Li Liejun said helplessly. He knew that compared with the Fuxing Army, the guardian army was just a beggar. Even if the cannons were dragged here with great difficulty, he was reluctant to order the artillery fire because of the limited shells. "The explosives from the Fuxing Army's factory flatten Yunnan are left. This battle depends on whether it can hold on. As long as it can hold on for a month, when the rainy season comes, their attack is blocked, and the rear troops are trained and sent to us, we have a glimmer of hope."

"Vision..." Fang Shengtao recited these two words, although he didn't say anything, but the meaning was self-evident. "Our army has many new recruits, and the new recruits are the most ammunition-consuming. Those soldiers may not be able to hurt a Fuxing Army even if they can't solve the ammunition supply. If we can't solve the problem, this vitality will still be hopeless."

"The arms have been ordered in the United States." Li Liejun said lightly. This was what Sun Wen told him personally when he came to the front line to replace Hu Yisheng, saying that the United States had ordered ammunition and was waiting to be shipped to the Far East. However, he himself did not believe this. Not to mention that the last ammunition was destroyed by the Fuxing Army halfway, and one of the ten that really arrived in Kunming was not destroyed. It would take a month to transport it from the United States to Annan, and then transport it from Annan to Kunming and finally transfer to Qujing. In this month, anything could happen on the front line. With the fierce attack of the Fuxing Army, he probably probably wouldn't be able to withstand that time.

Thinking of this messy situation, Li Liejun was helpless. He didn't know how the revolutionary situation would become like this? Is this because Chen Qimei was not able to deal with it effectively, or is Yang Jingcheng infiltrated Yunnan so strongly? Since Yang Jingcheng infiltrated Yunnan so strongly, why didn't he launch an attack when his people entered Yunnan? Is it true that Mr. Sun was letting him into Yunnan as they guessed to find an excuse to expel the Russians? If all this had been planned by Yang Jingcheng, what would the outcome of these people?

Thinking about the ending of these people, Fang Shengtao said something later, Li Liejun didn't hear it at all, so when Fang Shengtao shouted in his ear, "What the hell is going on?" He came to his senses and looked at him and said, "What the hell is going on?"

"Xiong Kewu can't defend it anymore!" Fang Shengtao's face turned pale, and it seemed that he was frightened by the urgent news on the phone. His words also followed Xiong Kewu's words: "The Fuxing Army suddenly rushed into our formation, and our army was unable to defend, and the defenders were defeated!"

"He..." Li Liejun's face also began to turn white and black. He started to say something but didn't know how to end. After a while, he said: "Appoint him to keep it even if he dies!"

It was useless to give orders. Xiong Kewu was already dead at this time. The camp where he lived was too conspicuous. The lantern was light, so he was aimed at by the Fuxing Army mortar group that had just crossed the ridge. After two shells were gone, he died tragically in the command center. The position of the First Army's First Ladder Regiment was panicked by the Fuxing Army's out of thin air. Now that the regiment commander died again, the situation became even more chaotic. Later, the second ladder composed of the Yunnan Army saw the enemy breaking through the defense line, the soldiers of the First Ladder Regiment rushed back. They had no intention of fighting. At the beginning, the regiment commander Zhao Youxin could still hold back, but after being rushed from the defeated soldiers of the First Ladder Regiment, he had no intention of fighting and retreated quickly with his guards.

I thought that the iron walls of the mountain highlands were taken with just one charge. The main attacking regiment commander Ying Weijiu was both funny and angry. He laughed so hard that he was so stupid, for fear that the other party would resist stubbornly and prepared so well that he didn't want to fight. The fighting spirit of the guardian army was much weaker than the previous two battles.

Without time to think about why the enemy suddenly became so unstoppable, Ying Weijiu said to the adjutant: "Immediately report forward, our troops have taken down the mountain highlands, and the two regiments arranged by the enemy were retreating in panic. Our troops are planning to launch a pursuit." (To be continued.)
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