43 days the door is open

In the vast snowfield, you can see the white hats worn by the Hui soldiers of the Western army who have been pulled into the scattered army line. They slowly oppressed from the edge of the frozen river bank, and the attack of the Western Army of the Ma family began.

For a while, bullets and shrapnel flew across the forest. The battle was extremely fierce from the beginning. In the face of the overwhelming crazy attack of the Majiaxi Army, the Ezhou Revolutionary Army showed no weakness and resisted tenaciously.

The offensive and defensive sides form a fragile confrontation and fight endlessly. The soldiers on both sides have a steel-like will and try their best to fight desperately here, almost using flesh and blood and steel to pave a dark red carpet for Xianyang. Every minute and every second, people die. The whole Xianyang is full of fireworks.

In the command post of the Revolutionary Army in Xianyang City Tower, Lin Tie, who was covered with smoke, frowned. Another attack of the Western army was repulsed, but the revolutionary army lost another batch of officers and soldiers. It was also this way to resist the crazy attack of the Western army again and again, and countless hot-blooded men sprinkled blood on the battlefield like this. The two regiments of the revolutionary army guarding Xianyang suffered great casualties in this fierce battle. The progress of the war is almost like a repeated seesaw fight, which is extremely tragic.

Although the attack of the Western army was hit again, there were more and more casualties in the whole position. It is hard to imagine that the defense line of Xianyang City can still resist such crazy attacks by the Western army.

Lin Tiechang looked back at the East, which was Xi'an. The last batch of Anxi army led by Li Shuai should have arrived today. Now I only hope that Li Shuai will step up the defense of Xi'an in time. As long as he can defend Xi'an after the destruction of Xianyang City, the Anxi army can return and eat the Ma's Western Army after solving the other two Qing army threats. Now the longer he persists in Xianyang, the more time Li Shuai has to deploy defense in Xi'an.

At the same time, the last batch of Anxi army led by Li Xiang himself had just entered Xi'an and had not been deployed. After hearing about the Xianyang police, they did not stick to Xi'an as Lin Tiechang hoped, but drove an armored chariot and led a cavalry straight to Xianyang.

In Li Xiang's words, "The fundamental purpose of combat guidance is to take an offensive to quickly annihilate the enemy. Attack is the only means to destroy the enemy's combat effectiveness and annihilate the enemy. Except for forced occasions, they should dare to attack. Even if the initiative is grasped for a while, they should do everything possible to decisively take offensive actions to save the situation.

The theoretical view and tendency of "offensive, attack supremacy" is the common understanding of the whole Ezhou Revolutionary Army. This is why on the Hubei battlefield, although the Ezhou Revolutionary Army is at a disadvantage in terms of the number of soldiers and even weapons, it tries its best to organize attacks again and again.

Li Xiang has always emphasized the invisible power of spiritual factors when he formed the Ezhou Revolutionary Army, believing that spiritual factors are the main factors that determine the outcome of the war. Only when the officers and soldiers are united, promote the integrity of martyrdom, and their morale is so high that the enemy has the fear of destruction, can they achieve the ultimate goal of the battle. Therefore, without knowing the safety of Xianyang at all, they still did not hesitate to rush to Xianyang without hesitation.

But Li Xiang also frowned when he saw the war situation in Xianyang.

The barbed wire in front of the Xianyang defense line has long been rotten, and the blocking piles and deer forts that are obliquely inserted in the soil have also been burned black. Except for the large and small craters all over the position, they are the trenches that have long been blown into half.

"The door of heaven is open!" In the wild shouts, groups of return soldiers of the Western army with white hats, under the pressure of the superintendent officers at all levels waving sabres, made a final impact on the position of the revolutionary army at a distance of less than 100 meters. ( The author's note: They shouted "The Heavenly Gate Opens", just like the "divine power protection" shouted by the Boxers.)

"All ready!" At the same time, the officers in the revolutionary army also shouted at the soldiers on both sides: "Go up the bayonet!"

Li Xiang couldn't help frowning more tightly. It seemed that there was a big trouble this time. In this battle, the casualties of the revolutionary army were almost shocking. The whole ancient city of Xianyang has almost become a pot of boiling magma, swallowing the lives of enemy and our soldiers in batches. The whole ancient city of Xianyang was caught in smoke and fire. This was a cruel and bloody battle that no one could imagine.

Li Xiang was indeed shocked by the madness of the Western Army of the Ma family, and it was just a moment. This is the end of the year of 1911. What's the concept? The Nanjing Provisional Government has been established, and Yuan Shikai has also abandoned the Mancourt and is planning to abdicate the Qing Emperor. Even the Empress Dowager Longyu is also convening a meeting to discuss the abdication. At this time, this group of lunatics actually want to "go up against the trend", counterattack Xi'an, send troops to the king, and take an exclusive strategic offensive, which can be called unique. If Beijing's Liangbi is a tragic role of "knowing that it can't be done", then these crazy people, at this time, still think that "in the northwest, and then the Central Plains" have a lot to do, it is full of the smell of ugly people who don't know themselves and don't know the historical trend.

Therefore, in the face of the fierce Ma Tingqi, Li wants to command Ruo, and there is no need to be careful, but to drive the horsepower of the iron-clad chariot forward without hesitation.

In order to achieve the purpose of the war, the Ezhou Revolutionary Army has always believed that the only way is to take offensive operations and further attack. Even if the initiative is in the hands of the enemy for a while, it is required to regain the initiative with excellent command and salvage the situation with a bold offensive. Further lead the war to victory. The victory of the war depends on many aspects such as firm belief, pre-emptive fast attack, insight to capture and use of fighters, mutual trust between the top and bottom, the coordinated action of various corps, and the concentrated use of troops. The reasonable use of combat forces is the focus of the whole battle, especially the initial battle must be won. Therefore, as soon as the Ezhou Revolutionary Army throws into the battlefield, it will immediately launch an attack!

"Forward, forward."

As sung in the March of the Revolutionary Army, "Attack!" It will always be the main theme of the battle of the Ezhou Revolutionary Army.

The Western army is forcibly rushing to Xianyang City against the firepower of the revolutionary army, climbing a large number of Western troops to the head of Xianyang City, and at the same time, the cruel battle of the city with white blades. In the rough scolding of the officers, the returning soldiers of the Western Army stumbled on the turbidity, floating broken ice slag, and the cold moat water. In the most ancient way of siege, they climbed like ant colonies and attached the wall. At the head of the city, there were full of people and screams during the bloody fight.

At the head of Xianyang City, the dilapidated five-star red flag is still stretching under the sky, crackling with the cold wind.

Lin Tiechang kept waving his sword at the head of the city and bathed in blood all over. The sword in his hand seemed to weigh ten thousand catties and exhaled out a mass of white fog. It seemed that this life was about to be cut off here, but his heart was full of his ideals for the future and the desire to revitalize the country and the nation, and he would never be cut off because of his death.

After cutting to death and returning, Lin Tiechang looked east with a smile. In that direction, there was such a person who would continue his ideals and wishes.

Lin Tiechang looked at it, and on the vast snowfield, a bloody flag suddenly jumped into his sight. It seems to be a ship standing on the coast and looking at the sea with the pointed head of the mast, as if standing on the top of a mountain and looking at the east from afar, it is a round of sunrise that is about to shine.

The iron armored chariot that rushed in with all its strength under Li Xiang's feet suddenly trembled. Li Xiang's face almost hit Mark Qin's handle. The small-caliber howitzer on the iron armored chariot flashed orange fire. The smoke was quickly shredded and dispersed by the night wind. The cannonballs buzzed across a death arc and swept across the sky, and returned to the soldiers in piles of the Western army. A pillar of fire was blown up in the middle.

The wave team impact of the Western Army is like a turbid river wave, hitting its head and face, just like hitting the mainstay. Groups of figures were surging, and the cannonballs from the armored chariots from time to time hit the dense crowd, and under the bursting firelight, there were bursting out bursts of pleated colors and the sound of death.

"Fight!" With Li Xiang's roar, the four Maxim heavy machine guns on the armored chariot that had entered the range suddenly roared.

Da! Da! Da! A gorgeous fire chain suddenly bloomed like fireworks at the festival, splashing blood marks in the crowd of the Western army, which was only 500 meters away.

The iron armored chariot entered the sheep like a tiger, breaking through the western army's mountain torrents like tofu, and was crushed by blood all the way.

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Beat these dogs to death. In Lin Tie's rude scolding, the revolutionary soldiers on the building of Xianyang City also saw this scene. They were shocked, and then in the way of burning life, they suddenly burst out horrible combat effectiveness and drove the crazy Western army back to the city wall in one breath.

Behind the armored chariot, followed by the charge launched by more than a thousand cavalry, the horse's hoofs sounded like thunder, rolling up the snow and dust all over the sky. More than a thousand Hanyang rifles emit flying bullets at the same time. The revolutionary soldiers on horseback scrambled to scream and came with a terrible death.

"The dog said, take me to say hello to your ancestors." Lin Tiechang still shouted and scolded rudely, throwing the grenade in his hand down the tower. Boom! Between the explosion of broken earth and snow powder, several soldiers who returned from the Western army were immediately blown down, but did not die immediately, but howled.

"Attack!" Ma Tingyu, who was naked and waving his saber, had red eyes. Seeing the iron armored chariots of the revolutionary army rampaging in the Western army, he still ordered the supervision team to supervise the army to press forward and command their respective troops to attack the revolutionary army.

The only Maxim heavy machine gun of the Western Army was also quickly set up in the charging queue, splashing bullets on the armored chariot of the revolutionary army at the front. The return soldiers of the Western army lying on the ground crawled forward under the cover of the fierce rain of machine gun bullets, and at the same time hit the wild firepower of the four Maxim heavy machine guns on the iron armored chariot. On the whole front, bullets flew across the battlefield for a while.

The rain of the Western Army's bullets spilled on the thick armor of the armored chariot, and there was not even a bullet mark left. The armored chariot had rolled forward. Instead, the return soldiers of the Western Army were knocked down by flying bullets one after another. Such a scene was like a joint tractor harvesting wheat! The firepower of the small-caliber short-bend howitzer and the four Maxim heavy machine guns on the armored chariot were so fierce that they almost swept over against the ground, and many of the return soldiers of the Western army were killed in this way.

If the revolutionary army didn't have such an iron armored chariot, it would have killed and injured more. Compared with firepower, the firepower of the revolutionary army was far stronger than that of the Western Ma army. Li can't understand this.

"The door of heaven is open!" Ma Tingqi was like a red-eyed gambler. He knelt on one knee and held his hands to the sky. As the son of the great Hui imam Ma Anliang, he will naturally know this set of tricks.

The general of the Western army behind Ma Tingyu suddenly jumped up, waved his sabre forward, and then shouted: "The gate is open!"

"The door of heaven is open!" Perhaps it was the reason why he was infected by Ma Tinh, his generals, and such a brave move by the imami of the army. The soldiers who had just been suppressed, howled strangely and got up, as if they really had divine power to protect the body, which could not be invable. In this way, they launched a new round of desperate attacks in the frant shouting.

Ma Tingqi was naked and took the lead. The saber on his shoulder suddenly waved forward: "Shoot!"

His only Maxim heavy machine gun is the most direct fire support in the whole central position. Without the fire support of this Maxim heavy machine gun, perhaps the army will be suppressed by the firepower of the revolutionary army. Since Ma Tinxu arranges himself in the central position, it also shows that this will be the key position of the attack. Ma Tingyi, who is fearless, wants to tear away the offensive direction of the revolutionary army from here. It is absolutely commendable courage to dare to hit the armored chariot with cavalry.

The bullets were full of bullets, and the explosions of grenades continued one after another, and the artillery on the building of Xianyang City also rushed to hit the shells. Booming, the explosive smoke clouds rose one after another, the broken earth and snow powder splashed everywhere, and the air waves and fire light mixed with fragments of shells were flying everywhere.

Under the fierce fire of the revolutionary army, Western soldiers constantly fell.

The armored chariot rushed into the position of the Western army. At the time of the collision, that is, between the electric stone sparks, hundreds of Western soldiers were killed in an instant.

Because the soldiers of the Western Army dare to fight in close combat, their sharp weapon is the saber. The absolute superiority of attack has always been strictly required in combat, so commanders at all levels are on the front line, and they also emphasize this point. Officers have always demanded that the attack should be decisive.

No matter what level of officers in the Western Army, when carrying out any attack, the purpose of all operations is to approach the enemy as soon as possible and charge desperately, so as to reach the so-called superior white-edge melee ability of the Western Army. It is also because of this that Ma Tingqi will launch a series of wave attacks at all costs at this time.

This is not because the Western army officers such as Ma Tingwei are crazy, but that the Western Army of the Ma family has always thought so, not only in the so-called offensive battle, but even when the enemy's power is obviously dominant, or when the combat task is defense, West Military officers also believe that they should do their best to attack and regain the initiative on the battlefield. According to the author: The Western Army of the Ma family, which plays the role of family control and religious consciousness, can not be crazy.)

The will to fight in the Western Army is comparable to that of the Ezhou Revolutionary Army. Similarly, the attack is always the first, and defense is regarded as a negative way that is only forced to be taken in the face of superior enemies. Even in the defensive battle, the idea of attack is also emphasized. Only attack is correct.

The two armies with the same will to fight collide. As a result, the revolutionary army is above the firepower and forms an overwhelming advantage over the Ma family's West Army. The only thing the Ma's West Army can get under the control of this offensive ideology is the terrible number of casualties. However, the revolutionary army is facing the Western Army of the Ma family, which is relatively backward in equipment and tactical literacy. It is precisely because of this that Li Xiang, who is sitting in a sultry iron armored chariot like a steamer, and those revolutionary officers who waved sabers and commanded the army's attack, were simply fearless.

The powerful firepower of the revolutionary army brought extremely terrible casualties to the Western army of the Ma family. The bullets flying from the bee-like nest flew around, knocking down the pieces of Western soldiers like mowing grass.

Such heavy casualties will naturally make Ma Tingyu feel furious. What he needs is a brilliant victory, although in order to get such a victory, he will do whatever it takes. However, he did not want to send hundreds of children of the Western army into the arms of Allah without any progress.

"Withdraw!" Ma Tingyu spit out this word, I don't know how difficult it is. Seeing that Xianyang was about to get it and counterattacking Xi'an, who knew that in an instant, the situation reversed.

The superior firepower of the reinforcements led by Li Xiang gave huge casualties to the Western Army of the Ma family in the battle, and then the revolutionary army's reinforcements came from the source. The Xianyang Revolutionary Army opened the whole line of counterattack, and Ma Tingqi had no choice but to escape.

After the war, Xianyang City was still a tense and busy atmosphere. The sunset gradually faded away in the sky, leaving only a pale yellow and red color on the horizon, and the blurred smoke gradually drifted away in the wind.

Li wanted to get out of the armored chariot, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air was gradually blown away by the wind, but he still really felt the strong smell of blood in the breeze that scattered the smoke.

The medical team led by Huang Xing's wife Xu Zonghan, who came later, carried the injured soldiers down, and some lightly injured people wrapped in bandages endured the pain and smoked in twos and threes on the position.

On the battlefield, there are 900 abandoned corpses and 400 horse corpses of the Western Army of the Ma family. Lin Tiechang is directing the citizens of the city to bury them all.

In this battle, all the troops of the Anxi Army were united and ready to stand ready. With the help of Li Xiang, who had just arrived in Xi'an, after ten hours of fierce fighting, it defeated the crazy attack of the Ma Xi Army against Xianyang, won the victory of Xianyang's blocking battle, and smashed the dream of the Ma Xi Army's "counterattacking Xi'an" in one fell swoop.