Chapter 418 The decisive battle of the Hunan battle!
August 7, 1919 AD.
Wu Peifu, who was desperate, with the absolutely superior strength of six divisions and eight mixed brigades, wanted to fight the Northern Expedition in a decisive battle!
Wu Peifu finally took the risk and took out his third division and used it as the main force.
"Looking north to Manchuria, there are strong winds and waves in the Bohai Sea! In those days, the people in Jijiang and Liaoshen were happy. There were fences in front of Changbai Mountain and city walls on the banks of Heilongjiang. Nowadays, the Japanese pirates are roaming freely and the situation is bad. During the Sino-Japanese War, the land was reduced, the ministers were enslaved, and the sovereignty was degraded. , the country remains as it was before, and the Yi people are still there. When was the Tirui Brigade ordered to fight to restore the old mountains and rivers? But he came back and traveled to Pengshan forever, remembering Amitabha."
The military song written by Wu Peifu himself was sung over and over again by the officers and soldiers of the Third Division.
The supervising team has also arrived at the battlefield, and the heavy machine guns have been set up.
In this battle, only advancement is allowed, no retreat is allowed! Only victory is allowed, no defeat is allowed!
The commanders of each brigade and regiment all appeared at the front of the team. Zhang Xueyan, Dong Zhengguo, Zhang Fu
All of them were murderous.
The Third Division always only wins, never loses!
"Zhang Fulai!"
"arrive!"
"Your Sixth Infantry Brigade will act as the vanguard of the entire army, defeat the rebels, and show off the prestige of our Third Division!"
"yes!"
Zhang Fulai turned around, pulled out his command sword, and said with a ferocious face: "Brothers, please serve me.
The time has come to be handsome! There is no retreat, no life! Anyone who takes a step back will be killed! My sixth brigade is the vanguard of the entire army. It is a great honor. Brothers, charge with me!"
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the decisive battle broke out!
More than 100,000 Beiyang soldiers, stretching as far as the eye can see, launched the most violent and crazy attack on the Northern Expeditionary Army positions!
The 6th Brigade of the Beiyang Army rushed to the forefront of the entire army.
Wu Peifu is the most powerful general in the Beiyang Army, and Zhang Fulai is the most powerful general under Wu Peifu!
Moreover, this person's loyalty and trust in Wu Peifu are difficult for outsiders to understand!
Wu Peifu entered Hunan for the first time to fight. When he was commanding a battle, he ordered Zhang Fulai, who was still the commander of the regiment at the time, to lead a regiment of troops to occupy a hilltop. He drew the terrain with a pen and ordered: "The troops must advance along this route.
Zhang Fulai acted as ordered, but when he reached the foot of the mountain, the road up the mountain was circuitous, and the route drawn by Wu Peifu pointed directly to the top of the mountain. Therefore, he kept shouting that he was in trouble, and his subordinates suggested that they follow the road: "We can't let us go up the mountain." Cling to the vines and climb up."
Zhang Fulai was stubborn and shook his head: "We have to walk in a straight line. The division commander said it exactly. If you disobey his order, your head will move."
So he gritted his teeth and led the team up the hill. Before he could catch his breath, the Hunan Army came from the side and wanted to seize the high ground. However, they saw the Wu Army's flag and thought that the opportunity had been lost, so they had to lead the troops away. Here are two It was a dangerous situation for the army to fight. If Zhang Fulai walked around the mountain road, the Hunan army would be the first to reach it. Therefore, Zhang Fulai later said to everyone when he met: "The general is as clever as a god."
After this incident, Zhang Fulai had no reason to admire and believe in Wu Peifu. As long as Wu Peifu said it, he thought it must be right.
At this time, Wu Peifu took him as the vanguard of the entire army. He was the right person!
Braving the intensive artillery fire of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Sixth Brigade charged desperately again and again. Once it was beaten down, without any adjustment at all, Zhang Fulai would quickly reorganize his troops and launch a new attack regardless of all costs.
This is the first time since the Northern Expeditionary Army went out to see such desperate soldiers.
They completely ignored the intensity of the opponent's firepower and completely ignored their own casualties. They blindly and mechanically launched desperate charges.
Those officers all rushed to the front of the team like madmen, shouting "ouch", risking bullets and bombs, and commanded their subordinates without fear of death.
The barrel of the machine gun was red and his arms were swollen from throwing grenades, but Beiyang showed no intention of retreating.
The team commanded by "Victorious General" Wu Peifu finally exposed his ferocious minions on the battlefield in Hunan.
The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army cheered up, gritted their teeth, concentrated on resisting every attack of the Beiyang Army.
This is a contest between two iron armies!
It's a battle between willpower and mental strength!
You can die and you can be defeated, but you can never lose to the enemy in terms of spiritual momentum!
At the forefront was Rao Guohua's 1st Brigade. This unit had made many achievements on the Hunan battlefield. When it faced Wu Peifu's ace 6th Brigade, Zhang Fulai was also surprised by the combat effectiveness it displayed.
Tit for tat, never retreat even half a step!
Bullets flew across the air, and bombs blew everything up into the sky. The sun and moon lost their light, and the mountains and rivers lost their color.
The Sixth Brigade retreated again. Zhang Fulai, with bloodshot eyes, called Yin Benhao, the leader of the Tenth Regiment, to his side. Without saying anything more, he just thrust his command sword in front of him: "This sword is the boundary, take a step back."
Whoever, kill!"
"yes!"
Yin Benhao stared with the same blood-red eyes and snatched a machine gun from his subordinates: "If you take a sword as a boundary and take a step back, kill him!" The tenth regiment roared forward again.
Yin Benhao did not want his life, and so did the officers and soldiers of the 10th Regiment.
One row of soldiers fell down, and soon another row of soldiers stepped on the corpses of their companions and rushed forward.
The layers of corpses on the ground numb people's souls and spirits.
Here you either rush to the position or die under the guns of the enemy or the supervising team. There is no third option!
The hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army soldiers who were defending their positions were already stiff.
Rao Guohua's voice was hoarse, but he still continued to direct the battle with his hoarse voice.
All the reserves in hand have been deployed on the battlefield, and there is really no soldier left in hand. Fortunately, the position is still firmly in his hands.
"Brigade commander, the commander-in-chief asked us how the situation is here!"
"Tell the commander-in-chief that the position is still in our hands!"
Rao Guohua’s answer was without hesitation or hesitation!
Both sides invested a total of ten divisions and eleven brigades on this battlefield. More than 200,000 people fought in a battle, making the earth dyed red with blood, and the sun could not bear to see what was happening below.
At the same time as the decisive battle was taking place on the [Central] battlefield, the left and right wings also launched a decisive battle at the same time!
Li Zongren and Zhang Xiaohuai's troops have simultaneously launched a fierce attack on the Beiyang Army in front!
Whoever completes the breakthrough first will gain the initiative on the battlefield. Whoever wants to achieve a breakthrough will have the balance of victory tilted towards their side!
Everyone is working hard.
Liu Zhaocheng, Wu Peifu, Zhang Xiaohuai, Li Zongren, Rao Guohua, Xu Shuzheng, Sun Chuanfang, Zhang Fucheng
For each other's different beliefs, but also for a common goal: victory!
Soldiers die every minute and every second, and a life is taken away every minute and every second.
Liu Zhaocheng in the headquarters watched all this calmly, but his heart was in turmoil.
Once this battle is over, there will no longer be a big war in [China]. This is the last battle to determine the fate of [China]. It is not necessary to win for the sake of victory, but for the future destiny of [China].
Go and win!
In fact, when Wu Peifu concentrated his forces on his front and launched a decisive battle, Liu Zhaocheng knew that he could win.
The most capable of fighting in the Beiyang Army, and the one who truly dared to risk their lives to fight, was only the Third Division. They were well-equipped, united as one, and their officers and soldiers fought to the death. But they only had one Third Division.
It seems that the strength of the Beiyang Army far exceeds their own, but in fact they are just using a third division and the entire Beiyang Army to fight on the battlefield!
There will be no surprises in this decisive battle...
As time passed, the Beiyang Third Division attacked again and again, but all suffered ruthless defeats. Their morale was gradually losing as the battle continued, and they gradually discovered that the opposite position was made of iron.
As Liu Zhaocheng expected, the 3rd Beiyang Division was fighting tooth and nail, but other troops were not fighting there.
They were all waiting and watching. If the Third Division could make a breakthrough, they would definitely rush to the front and risk their lives. But now the Third Division had attacked more than a dozen times in one day, but could not occupy an inch of the position, which made them feel chilled.
Things that were not high in the first place became even more depressed.
Finally, the last attack came to an abrupt end...
The attack is over.
The Third Division got nothing but corpses on the ground. Even the Third Division was exhausted and disabled. It was not that the number of soldiers died, but that their confidence was destroyed.
The "victorious" Third Division suffered the most disastrous defeat in the history of the army. "Victorious General" Wu Peifu also faced a position helpless for the first time.
The military song of the Third Division disappeared, but on the opposite position, the military song of the Northern Expeditionary Army was ringing: "A man rides the wind and travels thousands of miles. It is best to die on the battlefield. How can one become famous before the country has been humiliated? Go out with a sword and fight against power.
Eliminate the national traitors, sweep away the barbarian atmosphere and conquer the Yu territory, the vast Great Wall, come and go freely, broadcast the voice of heroes across the land!
Happy to have died in a hundred battles on the frontier, and the bones of chivalrous people are fragrant for thousands of years. By the side of Meihua Mountain and the West Lake, Yan City is restored to Suiyang.
Resist power, eliminate national traitors, the spirit of a martyr shines brightly, the head can be lost, the body cannot be surrendered, and the green blood becomes a general!
The Opium War started with great disgrace, the Yuan Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and the Sino-Japanese War of 1899-1898 was a sad time for the Gengzi War, which greatly damaged our country. We resisted power, eliminated national traitors, and washed away all the national humiliation. We sharpened our edge, worked hard to be heroic, and succeeded in ten years!"
The song was loud and clear, echoing on the battlefield over and over again. It was the most high-pitched song of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and it was also their loudest declaration!
The attack of the Third Division failed, but on the left and right flanks, the Northern Expeditionary Army's attack was in full swing.
Wu Peifu's hundreds of thousands of troops have not achieved anything, and the Beiyang soldiers are disheartened and have no fighting spirit. What is particularly alarming is that once the left and right wings are broken through by the Northern Expeditionary Army, then the fate of hundreds of thousands of Beiyang troops may fall into a terrible situation.
Destiny. Once the Hunan battlefield is lost and the battle fails, everyone knows what it means.
But now, Liu Zhaocheng and the Hunan Northern Expeditionary Army commanded by him are about to launch a major counterattack!!