157 breath-holding nights

Zeng Gao stood in front of his temporary command post. He silently looked at the fire on the horizon and dyed the night.

It was also when Li Xiang launched a crazy attack in the direction of Huaxi. Just broke through Sun Chuanfang's wall fortifications, a new round of fierce battles broke out in the other two directions. The revolutionary army besieged Song Que in Xiaochang and attacked the second regiment of the first division in Xiajia Village. At the same time, it launched a new round of attack on the targets of the left and right wings. The flames of war burned fiercely under the dark night sky.

The First Division, which is responsible for the whole Xiaochang Theater, has never been able to make progress, which makes the general of the famous family of traditional Confucianism feel very anxious. Although all the offensive combat plans of the Xiaochang war zone were arranged by themselves, even including the choice of attack points, the deployment of a limited number of artillery firepower, and how to make use of the terrain, these were discussed by himself and Li Xiang's staff officers. Lixiang has no team, and their staff has had any blind command.

Sun Zi's Art of War: Therefore, the reason why you are worried about the army is that you don't know that the army can't advance, and you don't know that the army can't retreat, which is called "the army"; if you don't know the affairs of the three armies, and those who are in the same three armies, the sergeants are confused; if you don't know the power of the three armies, and the responsibilities of the same three armies, the sergeants are suspicious. Since the three armies are confused and suspicious, it will be difficult for the princes, which is called "the victory of the chaotic army". Therefore, there are five wins: those who know that they can fight and those who can't fight will win, those who know the use of the people will win, those who have the same desire will win, those who treat the same will win, and those who can win. These five are also the way to know victory... In addition to "knowing that you can fight and can't fight", these five can win four, but Zeng Gao did not have a trace of "knowing the way to win" in his heart at this time, because the resistance of the Beiyang army was too fierce. The attack was difficult, and the sky began to fight again. The sky is drizzling and continuous. When the night wind blows, it is boundless cold.

In such a difficult battlefield, under the pressure of hunger and cold, even if there is a steel will, there is no steel body to support!

Zeng Gao sat in the temporary shed, and his mood was as gloomy as the ** rain outside. According to the reconnaissance, there are two barbed wire meshes in the enemy's main position of Xiajia Village in front of them, steel-bone cement bunkers in key areas, and several strong positions. Even if it is attacked on a sunny day, it will be several times more difficult than the current one, let alone in this kind of ghost weather.

The rain on the roof of the shed is leaking more and more, and it has become a small water curtain. The feet are muddy, and the rain is flowing around like a river.

Zeng sighed loudly and said to himself, "In such a weather attack, it will be difficult for artillery cooperation and ammunition delivery. The artillery support is already small. Can't you really count on it more now?"

Zeng Gao was waiting for the weather to clear up, but he didn't wait for me!

Suddenly I remembered that Li wanted to say goodbye and said, "Zeng Gao, please. We fought desperately for the ideal of carrying out the revolution to the end, and the result depends on tonight's battle.

At that time, the look of trust on Li's face was still vivid, but there was a feeling of a tight spell in his heart. Li wants to have no trust in himself, and there is nothing to say. Isn't such trust a heavy responsibility?

Zeng Gao subconsciously pinched his finger and took out a broken watch and looked at it: "The attack started at eight o'clock sharp is now three o'clock in the morning. No matter the weather is good or bad, the combat mission must be completed on time and cannot be postponed."

From officers to soldiers, the determination to fight to the end of the revolutionary army's combat troops, and their absolute obedience to orders are the only things that they don't have to worry about. However, the stalemate war on the front line made Zeng Gao always feel headache and had to worry about the development of the next war. Because this station is responsible for the combat task of attacking the front-line railway through Xiaochang to Xiaogan, they actually bear the heavy responsibility of infiltration operations similar to the infiltration of small troops. Once a breakthrough is made, they are equivalent to a sharp blade, cutting the long traffic line of the Beiyang Army. Then the railway traffic line from Xiaochang to Dawu and to Wushengguan will be interrupted, and the Beiyang army in Xiaogan and Hankou will completely collapse.

Throughout the ages, the wars have been fought in traffic warfare and supply wars. No matter how powerful the army is, once it loses supplies, it will become a soft tofu. The second regiment attacking from Xiajia Village and the third regiment attacking Huaxi Town are undoubtedly the most important response forces of the revolutionary army. The third regiment, under the personal command of Marshal Li, was formed from the elite of the first division, and also transferred Marshal Li's guard secret service battalion. It is said that the combat strength is not small, but in Huaxi Town, Li Xiang is difficult to walk, because the resistance of the Beiyang army in front of him is too fierce, and the fortifications built is also perfect. The troops that attacked the Xia family also made no progress in repeated attacks. The first division was formed with the Wuchang New Army as the backbone. Unexpectedly, they were fiercely resisted by the Beiyang Army everywhere, and they could not take a step forward. So much so that from Huaxizhen to Xiaochang City, there are fierce battles everywhere.

Huaxi Town and Xiajia Village can't make progress everywhere. How could Zeng Gao not be anxious? At this time, he had no way. Because in Xiaochang City, Song Quezheng, the regimental commander, was commanding a regiment to launch a fierce battle. The siege there was also extremely fierce. In order to trap the enemy in Xiaochang City, he could not give the other two additional reinforcements at all. " Sitting, Li Shuai broke through the defense line of Huaxi, but encountered a fierce counterattack by the enemy in the streets and alleys, showing a defensive battle situation!" A staff officer reported in a panic.

Zeng Gao was stunned. What's going on now? It seems that the enemy situation in Huaxi is more serious than expected. Zeng Gao shook his head fiercely and tried his best to clear his chaotic mind. "Order, Song Que's regimental headquarters will withdraw from the third brigade from the attack, help the second regiment, strengthen the attack on Xiajia Village, and the rest of the troops will continue to monitor the enemy in Xiaochang City. In the name of the staff, Zhou Wu, the commander of the second regiment, was instructed to deploy the first and second echelons to be prepared to concentrate the support firepower on the weak part of the enemy, and then the assault troops would secretly gather to this part and attack under the cover of fire. In response to the battlefield situation at this time, Zeng Gao had a bold new idea for combat deployment. The combat deployment must be changed, otherwise it is impossible to break the deadlock in this battlefield. The time was too tight. It was only three hours away from six o'clock in the morning. He didn't even need to exchange opinions with the staff officer simply and carefully, and directly issued an order.

The combat deployment is suddenly changed in the battle. Not to mention the generals on the front line who are directly responsible for commanding the battle, even the staff in front of them are difficult to accept.

"How can it be! If the Xiaochang garrison breaks through the defense line of Commander Song and sends support troops, we are likely to fall into a passive situation of besieged. The whole battle plan is ruined!"

"Xiaochang's Beiyang Army may not have such insight and courage."

"It is a big fallacy to place hope on the plane and the stupid mistakes of the enemy. The Beiyang Army has become an army much longer than us, and the combat experience will only be richer than us; the Beiyang Army is much better equipped than us, and its combat effectiveness will only be stronger than us. We have seen the fierceness of the Beiyang Army. They have the courage to lose to us, and they are completely different from the Qing army we met before. Xiaochang's Beiyang army may not have the courage to launch a counterattack.

............

The staff door exploded and made a lot of noise.

For the current situation, the senior management of the entire staff is in a dilemma. The tenacious resistance of the Beiyang Army is almost unbearable. Li Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Huaxi, thought that Zeng Gao, the chief of staff here, had to worry about the next bitter battle. Li wanted to go to the front line to command the battle because he was worried about the battle before the war, and even risked his life to lead the commando team to charge on the front. And the only little guard troops in his hands of the staff, Zeng Gao, are now completely scattered and divided into various combat points. And the direction of the second regiment is not much better. The regiment of Zhou Wu's regiment is all infantry. Since the battle, it has been seriously damaged one after another, especially the sixth assault infantry regiment under the brigade. Under the fierce attack of the Beiyang Army, the sixth assault infantry team not only suffered heavy casualties, but even the captain was killed in the battle. It was also because of such a cruel price that the enemy's bunker was pulled out! The attack on Xiajia Village could no longer move forward, because the Beiyang Army in Xiajia Village resisted extremely fiercely. Zhou Wu's regiment, which paid the cost of heavy casualties, could not capture the Xia family village. And Song Que's first regiment also paid a heavy price, and the infantry cooperated with the only artillery of the division until the early morning of tonight to force the enemy of Xiaochang into the city to complete the encirclement. If it hadn't been for Li Xiang's request for artillery assistance at the beginning, it is estimated that in that case, the Xiaochang Revolutionary Army would have been compressed to the direction of Xiajia Village under the offensive of the Beiyang Army, and may even be surrounded.

Nowadays, this delicate balance can be broken by the revolutionary army holding the initiative of the battlefield at will. But no one can predict whether the balance wants to tilt to victory or defeat. Zeng Gao wanted to draw troops from Song's regimental headquarters and increase fire support for Zhou Wu regimental headquarters. The chance of success of such an adventurous move is very small. With a little carelessness, the revolutionary army will fall into a very passive situation. Be quiet!" Zeng Gao suddenly roared, and the little thatch that was leaking everywhere immediately became quiet. It was even more terrible for him to get angry when the clouds were usually light and the wind was clear.

"I am the highest officer here, and I will bear all the responsibility!" Zeng Gao said in an unquestionable tone, "Execute it immediately!"

How many opportunities has the arrogant Beiyang Army provided to the revolutionary army, but how many can be grasped? How many people dare to take the unknown risks of their mission? The war itself is less than who can catch the opponent's mistakes. Now Zeng Gao is forced to be desperate by his opponent, which creates an opportunity. What's more convincing is that he also seized the opportunity, which can only be given to those who are prepared. Who can say clearly, is this transportation or manpower?

It is not easy to modify the previous deployment on the battlefield. Because the battlefield is ever-changing, sometimes the victory lies in the efforts of persevering, and sometimes, you retreat from the difficulties and find another way, and the sea and the sky are wide. How to grasp it depends on accurately grasping the battlefield situation.

A few days ago, the troops of the revolutionary army were so scattered that the attack was frustrated. In accordance with the policy of concentrating troops and annihilating the enemy, we should monitor the enemy in the city with one force, concentrate on sweeping the surrounding strongholds first, and then attack Xiaochang City.

"Tell Song Que that even if the rest of the people are dead, they will resist me at all costs." In addition to giving Song Que a dead order that could not take a step back, Zeng Gao had no other way at this time. There is no need to imagine how difficult it will be to transfer a camp.

"Tell Chief Zhou Wu that he must occupy the base of Xiajia Beiyang Military Station before dawn." Zeng Gao ordered the adjutant behind him one after another. Zhou Wu waited for a long time for the mountain cannon to be delivered. He touched his face, mixed with rain, sweat and blood. Shoot the rabbits to death."

Several of his students from Wuchang Surveying and Mapping School knew how to play with this thing, so they rushed up without waiting for him to give orders. Pushing and pulling in the muddy water, he dragged the stupid guy straight to the bunker building captured by the revolutionary army in front of him.

"With this guy, why don't you kill their little mother?"

In the night of hard fighting and fatigue, their spirits came back again.

"You bastards, you won't be tired!" Zhou Wu couldn't help laughing and scolding, and then shouted at them, "This cannon was captured from the Beiyang Army. There is no scope, and there are very few shells. It used to sit and tell, and it can only be fired three shots at most!" You aimed at me, and a shell should not be wasted! If you are deflected, slanted, and didn't kill the enemy, you are not allowed to eat meat for a month! I have to remember you more than once."

The cannon was quickly carried to the bunker, and these students of the surveying and mapping school could aim from the barrel even if they did not have a scope. Through the dark and round gun barrel, he circled the Dongshan bunker occupied by the Beiyang Army on the opposite side. The machine gun fire snake spewing from the Dongshan bunker is really a dazzling target in the dark, and the wind, rain and night can't be covered.

Zhou Wu's open skirt revealed the sexy chest muscles that could clamp the pencil, and a few dark and dirty chest hairs trembled in the cold wind and rain. His thick lips had cracked because of the fire, and he roared excitedly, "My dear Krup, shout!" Use your anger to burn the enemy's body; use your gentleness to call for the arrival of death; use your enthusiasm to ignite the light of the earth; use your roar to disperse the darkness of the world..."

In this rough embryo, the poet's feelings broke out and he improvised oil poems in the bloody battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke. A group of students from the Surveying and Mapping School were neurotic and recited loudly. At this moment, their faces were indescenable solemn.

Boom! Just as they were carrying out this solemn recitation like a religious ceremony, a wave of air with a loud explosion, and the Kerber Mountain cannon roared!

In the distance, several Beiyang army soldiers who were afraid of the trenches splashed flesh and blood in the flying fragments, and the diluted mud and water were lifted everywhere.

The shell did not hit the bunker. Unexpectedly, the enemy in the bunker ran out in fear and fled in the direction of the village.

Several soldiers in the surveying and mapping school were dumbfounded and didn't care to read poems with the head of the regiment. They all looked at Zhou Wu. The regimental commander asked him to hit the target, but they didn't hit the target, but scared the target away.

"Dear commander, have I reached your standard?"

"The son of a bitch didn't even fight. Did he run away like this?" Some revolutionary soldiers scolded.

Zhou Wu opened his mouth and said very dryly, "You bastards are lucky!"

Zhou Wu immediately took people to occupy the Dongshan bunker.

At the same time, the third battalion of Song's regimental headquarters is quietly leaving Xiaochang City Pass at night, rushing straight to Xiajia Village, and together with Zhou Wu, encircling the Beiyang Legion of Xiajia Village.

Three companies of the third battalion of a regiment surrounded a hill.

In the dark night, the revolutionary army rushed bravely against the rain-like bullets. Call me, call me!" The company, platoons and squad leaders fought back fiercely against those who rushed to the rain of bullets. The grenades with white smoke flew down like hail in summer.

The strong sweat in the front waved the guve knife hard, and the cold light flashed and split the barbed wire. The torrent of the revolutionary army immediately rushed up and threw hundreds of grenades at a bunker.

Boom, the sound of explosions one after another, the scattered bricks were lifted everywhere, blowing up the bunker. The Beiyang Army was dying and shot all kinds of guns out of the gun. A fierce brother of the revolutionary army rushed up and pulled out a 79 Mauser originally imported from Germany of the Beiyang Army.

Under the fierce attack of the revolutionary army, the Beiyang Army in Xiajia Village suffered heavy casualties. There are incomplete corpses everywhere, as well as the squirming and moaning wounded.

At this time, Zeng Gao was looking into the place where the war was everywhere, where there was a thick fire. Zhou Wu's attack was in full swing, and he seemed to have seen the goddess of victory raise her skirt. The excited Zeng Gao opened his blood-stained eyes.

At dawn, the sky gradually dawned. At this time, the gunfire in the north of Xiajia Village became more and more dense. The third battalions of Song's regiment had appeared behind the enemy, and the enemy could not retreat and fell into a heavy siege. A few miles inside and outside the Xia family's village, the sound of killing was shocking for a moment. When the enemy fought blood for a long time, it has become the end of a strong crossbow at this moment. The ammunition has been used up. In the face of the internal and external attacks of the revolutionary army, the Beiyang army is full of courage. It is embarrassed to break through the siege and escape. The revolutionary army has won a complete victory and its morale is extremely strong. The whole army chases after the enemy, like the wind sweeping the fallen leaves, which is not sharp.

The remains of the Beiyang Army are everywhere, and the corpses of guns, ammunition and horses are everywhere.

At this time, Zeng Gao finally breathed a sigh of relief: "The battle in Xiajia Village is almost over. Let's go down and have a look!"

They stepped on the war horse, galloped to the hill next to Xiajia Village, and quietly came to the battlefield of Xiajia Village.

The gunpowder smoke on the battlefield has not yet dissipated, and the air is filled with a choking smell, but the charred earth mixed with flesh and blood, the smoke floating around and the bones of soldiers' mules all over the mountains, and everywhere is the enemy's corpses, guns and ammunition, and boxes of cans, biscuits and wine. Zhou Wu's troops are busy cleaning the battlefield.

The fire of war was extinguished, which still made the General Zhumen sad and happy, and the love came from it. Since then, Xiajia Village has been uninhabited and has become a haunted place for thousands of officers and soldiers.

A year later, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the country, visited Hubei Province with Ms. Song 'Qing' Ling and came to Xiajia Village. He witnessed the scene left after a bloody war. Many years later, Ms. Song 'Qing' Ling wrote in the memoirs of the father of the country:

After the Battle of Xiajia Village, our revolutionary army and Beiyang army withdrew from the area, and the local people

They have all fled, and the battlefield is a bleak scene. The battlefield is full of dead bones and broken military supplies

Items, the atmosphere of the battlefield is very strong and tragic.

Li Shuai and the revolutionary army led by him, with their unrepentant loyalty to the revolution, on such a murderous, dangerous, exciting and breath-taking night, in the great revolution, the fearless revolutionary impulse without fear of sacrifice and setbacks, and then rekindled the flames of revolution and independence across the country.

Carry out the revolution to the end!