Chapter 251 Han Hezhuang's Bloody Battle 1

At the headquarters of Tangshan's 7th Mixed Brigade, Li Chun and a large group of officers surrounded the large military map of Tangshan on the table and listened to the military situation report of the combat staff officers in the rumble of cannons from afar.

Captain Zhou Bianlong, the combat staff officer of the 7th Mixed Brigade, pointed to the map with the baton in his hand and continued: "At present, the situation of the 4th Battalion is relatively stable, but it is worth noting that in the evening, the front-line troops have found signs of enemy reinforcement in the area.

The second battalion on the flank of the 4th Battalion was the most intense area before our army. From 2 p.m., the enemy's accumulated strength to attack the defense line of the 2nd Battalion, and conservatively assessed that the enemy had invested at least two artillery battalions in this area for shelling support.

According to the report of Major An Yilan of the 2nd Battalion, the enemy has launched six consecutive attacks in the past four hours, and the 2nd Battalion was forced to evacuate the first line of defense at 5 p.m. and has now retreated to the second line of defense.

Today, the situation on the 2nd Battalion is relatively bad. Among them, Captain Zhao Bilian, the commander of the 3rd Company, was seriously injured. More than 20 people have been killed in the company. In addition, the battalion has lost three heavy machine guns and an 80mm mortar!

The two fronts of the 3rd Battalion and the 1st Battalion have not been attacked by the main force of the enemy, and the current situation is stable!"

After Zhou Bianlong said, Lieutenant Colonel Xue Yiping, chief of staff of the 7th Mixed Brigade, said, "At present, our army's defense line is still relatively stable. As long as we wait for the third division to arrive, most of the current difficulties can be solved!"

Li Chun frowned: "When will the troops of the Third Division arrive?"

Xue Yiping said: "The 9th Regiment of the leading force of the Third Division has arrived 15 kilometers away from Tangshan and is currently arriving with a light foottroops. It is expected to arrive in the early morning."

"Go and tell the Third Division that they must reinforce our department by tomorrow!" Li Chun was quite dissatisfied with the slow action of the Third Division.

The troops of the Third Division have taken the train from Shanhaiguan in the early morning of this morning. According to normal formation, they can arrive at most this evening, but the third division said that they encountered a train failure, resulting in a greatly slow westward speed, but these reasons are what Li Chun doesn't care about and what he cares about. Yes, now his seventh mixed brigade is facing the attack of tens of thousands of main enemy troops, and it is expected that more direct troops will attack Tangshan by tomorrow. If the third division does not arrive tomorrow, even if his seventh mixed brigade can block the enemy, it must pay a huge price for casualties, which is for Li Chunlai. It is unbearable.

Wars are always full of accidents. Various plans before the war are often not implemented. The leading troops of the Third Division of the Feng Army's staff are scheduled to arrive in Tangshan for reinforcements in one day, but in fact, a regiment of the leading troops of the Third Division is now more than ten kilometers away from Tangshan, and due to train failure As a result, they have to march at night on foot, and even if they are optimistic, they will not be able to enter the front line until early tomorrow morning.

The night of June 12 was doomed to be unquiet. When the Tangshan front-line direct army and the Feng army were fighting for life and death, Zhao Dongyun also had a fierce scolding battle with Wang Yingkai.

That night, Zhao Dongyun first issued a telegram, accusing Wang Yingkai of tearing up the Tianjin agreement and attacking the Feng army stationed in Tangshan without authorization. This move completely undermined the unity of the republic and the Beiyang regiment. At the same time, he also said that Wang Yingkai had many times in the past month, violating * and the Constitution. The law directly appointed many important government officials to the dictatorship of warlords in the name of the president.

Then Wang Yingkai also rudely issued a telegram to refute, saying that Zhao Dongyun first violated the Tianjin agreement and mobilized the third division to enter the customs without authorization. At the same time, the Feng army stationed in Tangshan launched an unauthorized attack on the direct army in Baodi, Ninghe and other places a few days ago. The intention of his rebellion is already known by passers-by, and once again asked Zhao Dongyun to stop it. The move to increase troops in the customs and hand over the Tangshan area to the troops under the Army Department for defense.

With the official outbreak of the war between Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai on this day, the domestic situation has also caused great turmoil. Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui, who fought in the southern and the southern federation, successively issued a telegram, asking Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun to calm down and maintain restraint, saying that the southern pseudo-federal has not been completely defeated. After annihilation, the two were also asked to take the republican as the basis.

While he has a close relationship with Wang Yingkai, Wang Ruxian and Zhang Huaizhi, who is next to Wang Yingkai, is fiercely phrasing, obviously favoring Wang Yingkai, and accusing Zhao Dongyun of leading the army into the customs without authorization to destroy the Beiyang regiment level and the unity of the republic. Of course, they did not say in the telegram that they were urgently stopping the war in the south and preparing to transfer troops to Zhili north.

Wu Fengling's reaction, the remaining Beiyang main warlord, was as plain as ever. Wu Fengling just issued a letter to keep everyone restrained, and then continued to lead the troops on his way. He still had to rush to Shijiazhuang quickly. Can he stop Wang Ruxian and the subsequent Wang Shizhen from going north to reinforce Wang Yingkai? It depends on whether Wu Fengling can defend Shijiazhuang.

Compared with the different voices of the warlords in Beiyang, the provinces of the Southern Federation are quite excited. Zhang Zhidong of the Southern Federation also published a telegram, saying that Beiyang, a group of thieves, have fallen into civil strife, and the federal Northern Expedition Force has completely gone north to defeat the North Sea and welcome the Holy Drive. The day can wait for the clouds.

According to the statistics, in the three days of June 12, 13 and 14, Chinese forces issued 17 telegrams, which also became the most obvious feature of the outbreak of the second Beiyang Civil War.

If the previous Beiyang civil war was just a small fight, and the subsequent North-South civil war was one-sided. The southern federation, especially the southern federal forces in the direction of the two rivers, could not bear the blow of Beiyang. The total of more than 200,000 troops under Duanfang and Yangchang were completely defeated by Duan Qirui's Beiyang army of less than 50,000. This kind of Naturally, the war does not reflect the cruelty of contemporary war, but the current second Beiyang Civil War truly reflects the cruelty of contemporary war.

In the first 12 hours of the outbreak of the war, the direct army successively put into four artillery battalions in Tangshan, fired more than 5,000 shells, and participated in the attack with more than 15,000 troops.

The defense's Feng army has only more than ten barreled artillery. Although there are dozens of mortars as a supplement, there are many reasons why mortars have not been able to replace barrel artillery since they were invented. Whether in later generations or now, this mortar cannot replace barreled artillery in war. It plays a huge role, because the Feng army has been suppressed in the artillery battle.

In addition, there is a huge disadvantage of military strength. The seventh mixed brigade is full of only 5,000 people. Even if it is temporarily recruited, there are more than 500 temporary militia composed of workers from Fuyuan Machinery Factory, but the strength of the front-line troops is still very different.

From the afternoon to now, it is often the direct army to attack the positions of a battalion of the Feng army.

In this case, the Feng army is not an invincible iron army. It is impossible to continue to hold on to the position even if it is dead. Therefore, in order to reduce the casualties of the troops and win more time to wait for the reinforcements of the Third Division, Li Chun ordered the troops to gradually resist. In the evening, some troops on the front line have After giving up the first line of defense, Li Chun continued to shrink the defense line and ordered other departments to retreat to the second line of defense.

At nine o'clock in the evening, at Han Hezhuang on the front line, Li Cungao looked at the still fiery position not far away and said solemnly, "It seems that the direct army opposite is still unwilling to continue to attack at night!"

"Brother Li, the direct army on the opposite side has increased at least 1,000 troops. I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to defend it later!" Lieutenant Chen beside him also looked solemn: "Why hasn't the reserve team from the battalion come up yet?"

"I'm afraid there are not many reserves in the camp!" Li Cung-gu said, "Today, our second battalion has fought for so long, with nearly 100 casualties. As the fourth company of the reserve team, it has already entered the battle. Now the reserve team that can be organized is at most dozens of people in the battalion headquarters, which is useless at all!"

"In this way, we can only wait, but I guess Company Leader Han will come back soon. As long as he can come back with two heavy machine guns, there is still hope to hold on next!" When Lieutenant Chen said, he suddenly said, "Look, the direct army is coming up again!"

A large number of torches were lit in the direct position on the opposite side of the torch, and a large number of figures swayed in the firelight!

At the same time, the sound of sparse shelling also became dense, and the direct army on the opposite side began to shell again.

In the sound of the rumbling gunfire, Li Cungao said loudly, "I'll go ahead and have a look. Brother Chen, you can arrange mortars here. When the direct troops opposite come up, I will give them a cruel one!"

Lieutenant Chen said, "Don't worry!"

Li Cungao immediately passed through the trench with the messenger cat and went to the first formation in front of him.

The shelling of the direct army this time was obviously not as fierce as the several shellings in the afternoon. After all, the ammunition carried by the direct army on the opposite side, especially the shells, is also limited. The fierce shelling in the afternoon also consumed a lot of the shells of the direct army. It is not easy to continue to organize large-scale shelling this night. Naturally, it is not as fierce as the fire in the afternoon.

Li Cung-gao quickly stepped forward, first in the remaining heavy machine gun position of the second company: "There is no need to fight closely. As long as there is a shooting world, they can't suppress shooting. Don't let them rush up!"

The leading heavy machine gun shooter, a sergeant with a bearded voice said, "Li Toou Anxin, brother, I have practiced my hand feeling today, and I will never let those bastards rush over!"

Li Cungai nodded and continued to move forward. It didn't take long for him to reach the first line. At this time, he saw a middle-aged man who was motivating the soldiers before the war: "Brothers, take the guns, and when the enemy comes up, we will fight hard. We will wait to eat the marshal's food and take the marshal's pay, such as It's time to work for the general!"

"As long as this fight is won, everyone will kill all the way to the capital, kill his mother, rob his mother, silver and women are all available!"

Li Cung-g Gao listened to these strong banditrous encouraging words and subconsciously frowned. As a professional officer, he was very uncomfortable with these behaviors, but he also knew that the chief secretary under him was a bandit. In these words, the banditry was also acceptable. In addition, in the current war, it was not easy for him to care about this. Something.

"What's the situation, Sergeant Lin?" Li Cun Gao continued to come forward and said to the middle-aged man.

Sergeant Lin, a middle-aged man, smiled twice: "Everyone is doing well, just waiting for those bastards of the straight army to rush up!"

Just as the two were talking, the direct army opposite was already climbing out of the trenches one after another, and then rushed towards them!