At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, a yellow-green Ford military truck, escorted by the 12-man Guards of the General Headquarters, arrived at the intersection in front of the Triangle Pond Third Company Camp. An Yi, who had received the report in advance, led a platoon of brothers to do a good job
Carry out safety alert work.
A lieutenant colonel in his mid-thirties from the Munitions Department got off the front of the car, smiled at An Yi who was standing in salute, returned the salute, took out the handover list and handed it to An Yi.
An Yi took the list with both hands and looked at it carefully. He happily pulled out his pen and signed quickly.
After the quartermaster gave an order, the escorting guards lifted off the tarpaulin covering the carriage, picked up five brand-new Browning m1918 light machine guns with tripods and handed them to the brothers of the third company under the car, and then unloaded each one.
An Yi, Hu Zi, Yin Jinan and their brothers were delighted to see the wooden boxes containing flower machine guns and boxes of heavy bullets.
"Xiao An, please do the inventory again." The lieutenant colonel was very kind.
An Yi smiled politely at the lieutenant colonel whom he met for the first time: "The count is over, thank you, sir! Thank you for your hard work, sir and brothers. Come into the camp and have a cup of tea. I just bought half a pound of Junshan Maojian here, and it tastes very good."
The lieutenant colonel, whose nameplate read Yu Jiasheng, pointed at An Yi, laughed, and said in Mandarin with a clear Jiangsu and Zhejiang accent:
"No wonder the principal cares about you so much. You are so smart. You are indeed a hero! An hour and a half ago, our minister received a call from the principal himself. Everyone was wondering who was so proud that he could let the principal pay for five machine guns and five
Ten Flower Machine Guns called me in person? Later it was said that it was issued to the Third Company of the Second Division Engineer Battalion. Only then did we know that it was for you An Yi. The principal is really concerned about you!"
An Yi guessed the origin as soon as he heard this. He smiled at Yu Jiasheng and shook his head humbly:
"It's probably because our third company has just been designated as the army's engineer demonstration company. My subordinates are deeply aware of the principal's expectations and don't dare to be a little disrespectful! Commander Yu, I will pay you back in the future for your continued care."
"No problem, we are all under the command of the principal and serve the party and the state! The 70,000 rounds of ammunition of the two models provided for you this time are already our maximum delivery standard. We can't get you more if we want.
When you run out of supplies, you can call me or go directly to the headquarters to find me, and I will give you priority in delivery. With this signboard of 'All-Army Engineer Demonstration Company', it will be easy for you and me to talk, haha! I'm ready to go on an expedition, and I'm pretty happy with it.
I'm busy, so I won't talk to you today. Let's sit down and have a good time when we are free someday. I'm leaving. Goodbye!"
Yu Jiasheng hurriedly raised his hand to salute and said goodbye, quickly got into the front of the car that had already turned around and left quickly.
Huzi came to An Yi and watched the truck go away: "This Chief Yu is really interesting. It seems that he is also the principal's personal attendant. Otherwise, he would not be so enthusiastic when we first met. The grandsons of the Munitions Department and the Munitions Department are not so easy to talk to. Or
You have so much face!"
"That's wrong, it's because the principal is too proud!"
An Yi gave Huzi a gentle punch: "Go back quickly and take a look at the new treasure, take it to the river beach and try it out, and then we can talk about how to distribute it after you have enjoyed it."
Huzi laughed: "I can't wait any longer. Grandma, I have to have fun shooting this time. I haven't fired this new machine gun before!"
At eight o'clock in the morning on the 17th, the long-awaited marching order was finally issued. The nerves that had been tense with anxiety and waiting before the war finally got some relief. Although the officers and soldiers did not say it, the hard march was better than the long and uneasy wait.
To make people feel more comfortable, at least the physical exertion can alleviate the heavy psychological pressure.
According to the second-phase combat plan formulated by the Northern Expedition Command, the entire Northern Expedition Army was divided into three routes and advanced northward.
The middle route army consists of Deputy Commander Chen Keyu's Fourth Army of the Guangdong Army, General Li Zongren's Seventh Army of the Guangxi Army, and Tang Shengzhi's Eighth Army of the Hunan Army. The middle route army will assume the main attack mission; the right route army is the Second Army of the Hunan Army of General Tan Yankai.
The Third Army of the Yunnan Army, General Zhu Depei's, was assembled on the line from Liling to You County in eastern Hunan. Its main task was to closely monitor Sun Chuanfang's troops in Jiangxi and protect the flanks of the Central Army.
After the Left Route Army responded to the revolutionary Guizhou Army of Yuan Zuming and sent power to support the National Government's Northern Expedition, Yuan Zuming was appointed commander-in-chief of the Guizhou Army, and his troops were immediately given the designations of the Ninth Army and the Tenth Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
The addition of this army greatly alleviated the worries of the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army from looking westward.
I don't know whether he was worried about Yuan Zuming's wavering or the hidden dangers caused by the large number of Guizhou troops entering Hunan. Tang Shengzhi, the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Army, was quite afraid of Yuan Zuming and sent his elite instructors to join the Left Route Army, planning to move out of Changde and Lixian.
, advancing towards Jingzhou and Shashi. However, the Guizhou Army seemed very unwilling to fight side by side with the Hunan Army. It stopped advancing when it reached the Jishou area on the Guizhou-Hunan border, making the Northern Expeditionary Army headquarters very anxious.
An Yi's Second Division of the First Army and Cheng Qian's Sixth Army, as the general reserve of the Central Route Army, received the order to prepare and set off. The First Division led by Deputy Commander Wang Baoling was responsible for protecting the safety of the Northern Expeditionary Army headquarters and various units.
Fang Ce responded.
Due to the wide frontal battlefield, the Central Route Army was divided into two columns: left and right. General Tang Shengzhi, who was full of revolutionary enthusiasm, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy and concurrently as the commander of the left column, commanding his growing Eighth Army.
With a rallying cry, he took the lead in entering Hunan. The command post defeated the commander-in-chief of the Zhili Hunan Army, Ye Kaixin, and stabilized the position of Tang Shengzhi, who had been defeated all the way. General Li Zongren, who occupied Hengyang in one fell swoop, served as the commander-in-chief of the right column and commanded the Fourth Army and the Seventh Army.
For Tang Shengzhi's title as the Commander-in-Chief of the Central Route Army and the Former Enemy, the generals of the Guangxi Army were very uncomfortable. They all said that if our Seventh Army Zhongzongpei Brigade and the follow-up troops had not crossed the Huangsha River into Hunan to provide support at Tang Shengzhi's repeated entreaties, they would have arrived in Hunan.
How could Tang Shengzhi, who was beaten so badly by Ye Kaixin and fled all the way to Yongzhou, stop his decline? How could he regain Hengyang? How could he have such a good situation like today?
The generous Li Zongren patiently persuaded his generals, asking them to put the revolutionary cause first and aim at the victory of the Northern Expedition. General Li Zongren also revealed to his generals that he had made a bet with General Galen, the head of the advisory group.
General Galen said that conquering Wuhan in forty days would be considered successful, while he believed that the problem could be solved in twenty days, so the two of them each placed a bet of two dozen brandy.
General Li Zongren said meaningfully to his generals: This is not a problem of two dozen brandies, but a problem of the military prestige of our Seventh Army! As a result, all dissatisfaction was immediately subsided, and the generals immediately returned to camp to prepare for the day.
, vowing to earn this face for the commander and the Gui army.
At noon on the 18th, the main forces of the Central Route Army successfully arrived at the front line of the Miluo River, confronted the enemy across the river, and prepared to launch a general offensive.
However, the reserves of the left and right columns were divided into three by the Laodao River in the north of Changsha City. The Sixth Army rushed eastward to Liuyang to assist the Fourth Army. An Yi's Second Division followed the Eighth Army to attack Yuezhou, while the First Division escorted
Headquarters, slowly advancing north.
Zeng Kuanqing from the headquarters, Hu Zongnan, Sun Yuanliang and other seven or eight battalion commanders from the first phase of the first division, and six or seven brothers from the first two phases of the second division gathered together for a rare occasion. The brothers rode their horses up the gentle hill.
Looking down at the long queues on both sides of the river, I feel a heroic spirit of climbing high and looking far into the distance. I am born with talent.
"Look, who is that if it's not Xiao Yi? This kid is doing well! The dark horse under his crotch is so handsome, even the horses the two deputies ride are better than ours. This guy is really rich!"
Li Shaoliang, the commander of the First Division's special agent company, looked at An Yi, who was riding a horse a hundred meters away and watching his unit crossing the river, and sighed greatly for a moment.
The brothers opened their mouths and shouted. An Yi turned around and was overjoyed to see so many bosses on the slope. He told Huzi and Yin Jinan to turn the horse's head, clamped his legs on the black horse, and immediately jumped up the mountain with all four hooves.
post.
With a thought in his mind, Hu Zongnan got off his horse and called all the brothers to get off their horses and meet him. Everyone dismounted and shouted hello to An Yi who was approaching quickly.
An Yi said softly, "Oh!", flew off his horse, and came forward to meet the brothers enthusiastically. He looked at this and hammered at that. He was very happy. After asking everyone about their different directions, he felt very regretful.
An Yi saw Hu Zongnan striding up to meet him, and punched the colonel nameplate on his chest: "It's amazing! After this battle, I don't know how many generals will come out among our brothers.
My little brother is so envious!"
Sun Yuanliang pointed to the K98 rifle on An Yi's back and asked curiously: "Why are you still carrying the rifle?"
Zeng Kuangqing saw An Yi cheerfully not answering, so he told everyone the truth: "Xiao Yi's marksmanship is very good. I guess none of our brothers can be as good as him. This kid always carries a long gun whenever he goes on a mission. The Second Division
The brothers who led the troops were not convinced at first. After several competitions, they lost to Xiao Yi by almost a thousand oceans, but now no one dares to speak loudly."
"Where is it? The elder brothers are taking care of it, hehe! I still have to learn from the elders and try to become a school official as soon as possible..."
An Yi started a fight, causing his brothers to laugh and scold him.
"Come on, you are not satisfied with being a captain just a few months after you came out? You have to eat your food in stutter, you know...Give me the telescope, I want to see where the principal and the others are? Don't delay the business."
Hu Zongnan put up a pergola with his hands and looked to the south. His brothers also looked over. Hu Zongnan saw An Yi slowly opening the lid of the telescope box, grabbed it impatiently, and even snatched the box over: "Slowly, swallow."
Yes, how can I become a general in the future? Really!"
An Yi laughed and looked south, but he didn't see the big flag of the headquarters.
The brothers looked and looked and turned around when they saw nothing. Suddenly they found that Hu Zongnan had grabbed the reins of An Yi's black horse. His short and sturdy body jumped up very nimbly, and he stepped on the beautiful stirrups at high speed.
He turned over, clamped his legs together and rushed down the hillside. After running a few meters, he turned back and laughed loudly:
"Xiao Yi, big brother, thank you for the telescope and BMW, haha..."
An Yi finally came to his senses and quickly took off his rifle in desperation.
When the brothers saw that this was okay, they all persuaded An Yi to curse Lao Hu as a bandit.
An Yi watched Hu Zongnan fly dozens of meters below and startled two egrets. The hearty laughter was still coming. He couldn't help but beat his chest and lungs. He regretted that he had caused a burst of laughter from his brothers.
An Yi was so angry that when the two brothers who were stopping him relaxed their vigilance, he suddenly pulled the bolt of the gun and raised the rifle. There was a gunshot, and the egret fluttering in the sky in the distance fell to the ground, almost falling.
On Hu Zongnan's head, Hu Zongnan was not surprised at all. Instead, he looked up to the sky and howled before riding away.
The brothers around An Yi looked at the body of the egret on the path more than a hundred meters away, and then looked at An Yi who was cursing and putting away his gun. They all applauded his accurate shooting skills.
An Yi walked step by step towards the short yellow horse left by Hu Zongnan. Angrily, he smiled, raised his legs and stepped on the yellow horse and said to his brothers:
"Brothers, have you all seen it today? Lao Hu's grandson is so unkind! But he is older than his younger brother, and he is my eldest brother. There is no way to avenge this hatred in this life. Alas... the three major hatreds in life,
The last thing I hate is making careless friends! Goodbye, brothers, you must learn from the lessons of my younger brothers!"
The brothers laughed, but An Yi on the horse leaned down, gently stroked the yellow horse's head, and said to the horse affectionately in front of everyone:
"Huang Ma, Huang Ma, I know you are happy to finally get rid of that scoundrel named Hu, but I am not in your good mood! Well, in order to leave some thoughts, from now on, I will simply leave you
Call him Lao Hu! Drive——"
The yellow horse docilely carried An Yi down the hillside, but the brothers on the hillside were laughing so much that they could no longer stand.