Chapter 145: Change of King Flag at the City

"Quick! Keep up!"

When a wisp of fish white floated from behind the mountains to the east, the black, thin and short battalion commander of the Fifth Division, Tie Sheng, with the cold dew on his shoulders, urging the soldiers to speed up. Don’t think that Tie Sheng feels tall and burly, in fact, he is less than 1.6 meters tall. Just like everyone else, he is carrying a Mauser 98 on his back, a pistol in his belt, 150 bullets and 4 grenades straddled his waist, and there are bulging marching bags on his back, which really makes people wonder if he will be crushed.

He was a veteran of the Uprising Night** Camp. He received Yang Qiu's training camp, participated in the Uprising and Liu Jiamiao battle, and fought northward. Later, when he formed the Pioneer Brigade into Sichuan, he was promoted to the battalion commander of the teaching battalion because of his outstanding performance. He also clearly remembered that Yang Qiu said that the teaching battalion should be the tip of a knife, go to the most difficult places, chew the hardest tasks, and be the most loyal soldier. Therefore, since he took office, he has always kept these four sentences on his lips. His biggest regret was that he missed the Battle of Xiaocang Mountain and missed the feat of encircling and annihilation of a town in Beiyang.

Like him, every soldier of the teaching camp who ran past him also remembered these four sentences in his heart. Everyone was well equipped. Although he ran out of breath, his eyes were filled with the desire to fight. He wished he could fly to Guiyang City immediately and teach those rebels a lesson.

"Ming Zhao (without the word Liu, everyone understands it) bring the guide here." Tie Sheng shouted. Ming Zhao, a corporal of the teaching camp who was about twenty years old and wearing glasses, and two scattered autonomous academic club guides ran over. Before he could ask questions, he saluted: "Report to the battalion commander, the guide said that the ancient city of Zhuchang was ahead, and it was not far from Guiyang City after passing here. Should you prepare everyone?"

"Boy, you're very smart. You know what I'm going to ask." Tie Sheng patted Ming Zhao's head. He liked this young man from Sichuan who joined the direct camp because of his good performance. He said, "Work hard! I heard from the division commander that the commander is about to select non-commissioned officers from each division to study abroad at the German Army School. If you can go out, I can speak louder."

Ming Zhao nodded excitedly. What an honor it would be to study in a world-class strong military country! Even the guide of the Autonomous Academic Society who escaped from Guiyang and met on the way was bright and he wished he could replace this young boy.

Tiesheng turned his head and asked the guide: "Is there any troops stationed in Zhuchang Ancient City? Do you know the situation in Guiyang?"

The wizard came back to his senses and shook his head: "I had a logo before, but now... I don't know."

"I don't know when I ask, I really don't know how you manage it!" Tiesheng was a little angry. These two stray dogs could not even provide anything valuable. They didn't know how many rebels were, their stationed locations and equipment. If they had known this, they would have found two mountain doors to lead the way. The guide also blushed slightly. They escaped. When they met the teaching battalion, they learned that the National Defense Force was coming to help them, they mustered up the courage to lead the way. Then they knew what arrangements were now.

Tiesheng took out ten dollars from his pocket and found oceans. Since the banknotes of the Southwest Bank are only implemented in three provinces for the time being, many places still need oceans to be managed. Therefore, every time the mission troops go out, they will find oceans for the officers to spare, and hand them to them and say, "This is the hard work for both of you. I guess I will fight before, you..."

Although the two guides didn't help, they still had a strong backbone. They pushed the silver dollar away and said with red eyes: "Who do Battalion Commander Tie is us?! Liu Xianshi's grandson, I don't know how many brothers we have killed! I just hope that the battalion commander will give him two guns, and we will not regret it even if we die."

"Good man!" Tie Sheng patted the two of them and turned around and asked the soldiers to take two teams of length from the pack horse to the two. Along the way from Zunyi, they encountered many defeated soldiers and bandits. In addition to seizing a lot of guns and ammunition, they also pulled up more than 300 Guizhou Revolutionary Army who escaped. Tie Sheng looked down on these soldiers and simply handed them over to the two to be responsible for logistics support.

Although there was no useful information, I didn't believe that the ancient city of Zhuchang was not stationed. This is the northern gate of Guiyang. The terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Just when troops were about to send troops to investigate, gunfire sounded.

"Hoho...Hohoho." The unique three-length and two-shortness of the Han-type machine gun are no longer unfamiliar with the teaching battalion. In the past two months, the Hanyang Factory has increased its output to twenty per month, so several divisions' teaching battalions have obtained such machine guns, but how could this sound appear here? Even the third division from Hunan should have attacked from the east.

When Tiesheng arrived outside Zhuchang ancient city, he found that Qiu Wenbin had actually gone back here with his guard squad. It turned out that they tried to escape from Guiyang City on the second day of the rebellion, escorted the two clerks to Shi Bing, and contacted the headquarters again via telegram. After learning that the fifth division teaching camp stationed in Yibin went south from Zunyi, he had been waiting near Guiyang for information in the past few days. Unexpectedly, he was discovered to have exchanged fire just now, which attracted Tiesheng.

Tiesheng and Qiu Wenbin are old acquaintances. They were trained together at the Hanyang 42 Boutique Camp. When they saw him, they immediately asked: "How is the situation in Guiyang? Are the Dian Army coming?"

"I haven't seen the shadow of the Yunnan Army yet." Qiu Wenbin said quickly: "There are about four or five thousand rebels in Guiyang City now, but many of them were forced to join. The rest are the green camps and patrol battalions of the former Qing Dynasty, a group of mobs. The ordnances include about four mountain cannons. The machine guns have not been discovered yet, but many French rifles have been found."

Qiu Wenbin looked behind him, except for a Maxim machine gun carrying a war horse, he could not see any other heavy firepower. He scratched his head and said, "Why don't there be cannons? Grenades can't blow up the city gate."

Tiesheng smiled bitterly: "My Squad Leader Qiu, do you think this is our three provinces? You can also get cannons. For this heavy machine gun, I changed two horses along the way, but don't worry, I can even open the city gate without cannons."

"What are you going to use if you don't have a cannon?"

Tiesheng blinked his eyes and pretended to be mysterious: "You wait for a good show." After saying that, he waved his hand, and the two companies immediately launched an attack on Zhuchang Ancient City.

Compared with the first Liujiamiao battle, the National Defense Forces, which had experienced many wars, are no longer the same as before. Although the Fifth Division did not participate in the subsequent war, after the end of the Hubei Defense War, a group of veterans and promoted officers rushed to various divisions and brigades to teach their experience. Therefore, after the two companies were deployed, the infantry line was very wide and the level was more reasonable. In addition to the heavy machine guns who were reluctant to use them because they were afraid of excessive consumption, all six light machine guns in the battalion were pulled to cover with oblique shots.

After two months of hard work and hard training, the teaching camp finally showed superior strength. It used obstacles and grenades to alternately cover it, and quickly broke the enemy's defense line.

The rebel battalion deployed here did not expect that the National Defense Army was so powerful that it was suppressed by machine guns, but was broken by grenades that fell from time to time. The battle ended in just over ten minutes. The miscellaneous army following behind did not even open its guns. After the baptism of several grenades in Zhuchang Ancient City, it announced that it had changed hands.

"Not energetic..." After a brief test made Tiesheng realize the combat power of the Guiyang Army like sheep, he immediately decided to continue to attack the north gate of Guiyang.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the battle started at the north gate of Guiyang.

The news that the "strong" National Defense Forces rushed to the North Gate immediately made Liu Xianshi and others panic. They never expected that the first one was Yang Qiu's army. When they saw Qiu Wenbin that day, they realized that the National Defense Forces' hand was about to reach Guizhou, so they discussed with Dai Kan and others and decided to take action in advance, first control Guiyang, then lead the Yunnan army into Guizhou to compete, and at the same time expand their power.

But first, the opposition force in Guiyang City was too strong, which forced him to stabilize Guiyang first, arrest people from the Autonomous Academic Society and resisting soldiers. Then he found that the telegram station was bombed, and it was a few days late to send a telegram to Kunming for help. However, the delay of these three days made him realize the cost of negligence.

"Boom, bomb for me, boom!"

Behind the battlements at the north gate, Dai Kan was frightened by a string of bullets and immediately scattered all his anger on the artillery. Several gunmen of the patrol camp quickly used 57mm mountain cannons to suppress the enemy's machine gun fire. But when the shells flew over, they found that several light machine guns of the National Defense Force had already been transferred to their positions. Not only wasted shells, they also attracted more violent bullets to themselves.

When Liu Xianshi hurried to the north gate, the place was already full of fire, with dense bullets constantly scattering on the city wall. After finally finding Dai Kan, he asked anxiously: "Xunruo (Dai Kan), what's the situation? How many people are there?"

Dai Kan always looked down on Liu Xianshi and thought that he knew how to play mahjong and drink wine. When he saw him coming, he said angrily: "It's only 500 people, and there are no cannons, so don't worry too much."

Liu Xianshi certainly knew that Dai Kan looked down on him, but now the two sides are still in the cooperation period. The enemy outside was a big enemy, so he could only bear this tone and pretended to be calm and said: "Xunruo, don't worry, I'll bring all my people here. As long as I can guard until the evening, the Yunnan Army will definitely arrive."

Dai Kan turned his head and saw that more than 2,000 people from Liu Xianshi's Eastern Patrol Army had arrived. All the French m1886 rifles made him envious. Before he could speak, he heard the little officer next to him exclaim: "Look, what are they doing?"

Following the little officer's finger, both of them saw two groups of people suddenly coming out of the National Defense Forces position in the distance, in groups of two, neither shooting or raising their heads, just keep running, and sometimes lying down and running wildly. There was something like a marching bag under his ribs, with obvious wooden feet. Although he didn't understand what it was, Dai Kan always felt frightened and waved his pistol and shouted: "Call me quickly, get up and fight, don't let them get close to the city gate!"

The soldiers heard his screams so anxiously that they looked at the two groups of National Defense Army soldiers. However, at this moment, the Maxim heavy machine gun that had not fired suddenly neighed violently, and 7.92 mm pointed bullets swept across the city wall like rainstorms, and all the rebels retreated back.

Zhaoming was the first to rush to the city gate. After the second group of comrades arrived, he immediately lit the leads with two ** bags, one left and one right, and then the four of them started running backwards as if they were dead.

The Fifth Division Teaching Battalion was the first unit to be equipped with a ** bag. When he entered Sichuan, Yang Qiu was worried that Su Xiaohu would lack the attacking power when attacking Chengdu, so he urgently asked Su Hongsheng to make ten for them and taught them how to use it. However, because Yin Changheng's cooperation did not have the opportunity to use it, he kept it in the teaching battalion.

The terrifying heavy machine gun was not something that the rebels who had never seen a machine gun could resist. While hiding in the corner, the leads of the two ** bags became shorter and shorter. Before Zhaoming and everyone could run to the predetermined hiding position, a shocking loud noise suddenly rang behind him. Before he could turn his head and look, a heat wave retreated several meters and almost made a dog eat shit.

"***, the leads are too short! Record them and go back and improve!"

Tie Sheng shouted in a furious voice, not to mention the defeated troops of the included autonomous academy, even the guards and soldiers widened their eyes. They saw that the north gate of Guiyang City had been completely covered with dust and smoke, including two bags filled with four kilograms of yellow **, showing terrible power. When the smoke gradually dissipated, even the gunshots stopped on the battlefield.

Everyone was stunned. The north gate, which was a headache for the soldiers of the teaching battalion, had been completely exploded. Even the city tower collapsed halfway, dozens of Guizhou army's remaining limbs were thrown dozens of meters away, and blood was flowing from the mouth and nose.

"The city is broken! The city is broken! Crash, kill all the rebels!" I don't know that the remnants of the autonomous academic club shouted first, and more than 300 Guizhou soldiers who escaped from the gun rushed towards the north gate with red eyes.

On one side, there was a sudden charge, but on the other side, Liu Xianshi and Dai Kan could no longer control the army. The rebel soldiers who had been scared by the explosion had their feet and fled into the city. Some even threw away their guns, took off their military uniforms and put on makeup to hide.

The soldiers who were forced to join the rebels mutinied again and pointed their guns at their companions who had just fought together. In just a few minutes, when the teaching camp rushed into the city, Guiyang City, which had just turmoiled six days ago, had already planted the flying tiger flag, and the bloody storm once again enveloped the entire city.

Only a few officers from the Autonomous Society took the lead and quickly gathered the rebel troops. They cleared out the red-eyed ones from house to house. All the constitutionalists and rebels who were caught were killed without any distinction. Tiesheng and Qiu Wenbin did not stop this retaliatory massacre. They focused on leading the troops to confiscate supplies and snatched the money and equipment that Liu Xianshi and others had no time to take away.

In the past, such behavior would definitely cause protests and even riots, but now the Autonomous Academic Society has no strength to challenge the teaching battalion. Anyway, Guizhou is sooner or later, the National Defense Forces belong to the National Defense Forces, so it simply sent some people to help, and even the proceeds from the house search were moved to the Governor's Office to hand over to the National Defense Forces for custody, while the remaining majority continued to pursue the constitutionalists.

When the afternoon reported that the Yunnan Army appeared dozens of kilometers away, the city of Guiyang was already full of corpses. The constitutional party, which had only been proud for a few days, and the rebels who had no time to escape, were killed. More than 3,000 people were beaten to death on the same day, and more than 100 households were confiscated! In just six days, the total population of Guiyang City dropped directly by more than 10,000.

In the evening, a mixed brigade of the Yunnan Army arrived at Ximen.

The autonomous academic society, which was so proud just now, was stunned again. Is it going to change the banner again?

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