Because the difference in the quality of the artillery was too great, the firing range of the defenders' artillery could not reach the range of the heavy artillery of the Red Army, and their artillery could only find the medium-caliber mortar positions and mountain artillery positions of the Red Army at most. But as soon as these guns fired, they would immediately attract ten times as many large-caliber artillery in return, and the artillery positions would not be ploughed again by the shells of the Red Army in a few minutes, and the precious artillery would soon be turned into scrap metal under the bombardment of the opponent, or into parts in the detonation of one's own shells.

The most pitiful thing is, of course, the artillery of the defenders, who have not fired a few shells themselves, and have not even destroyed the mortar positions on the front line of the Red Army, and they are already either dead or wounded, how can they fight?

Feng Yuxiang and other high-ranking officers also knew that the artillery of the Red Army was fierce, and they also knew that they would definitely not be able to take advantage of how they fired at each other, so they did not want to fight the Red Army in the shelling at all, and their plan was to hide first, survive the shelling of the Red Army, and then enter the position, relying on the defenders to block them and kill them by virtue of the fact that the defenders were several times larger than the Red Army.

In their minds, the artillery of the Red Army was very good, which had been proven by countless battles, and even Jiang Jieshi's last trump card, the Tax Police Corps, could not take advantage of the enemy's artillery bombardment, and they did not want to. However, no matter how powerful the artillery of the Red Army is, it can only wreak havoc for a while, after all, this thing needs artillery shells, and one shell is dozens of catties, and the Red Army has transported it over the mountains and mountains from the side of Sichuan, no matter how much they have produced and how much they have in reserve, it is impossible to talk about the factor of transportation alone.

Since there are not many, let them finish first, and the harder the fight, the shorter the time. As long as their artillery fire stops. That's when the defenders wield.

They didn't know that their waiting was exactly what Guo was doing. Because Feng Yuxiang and they simply misestimated the shape, they didn't know that Guo Zhuocheng was a super fraudster, and the Red Army artillery didn't need to be transported from Sichuan at all, even simpler than Lin Zong's and Peng's troops, and they also needed to be transported from Yichang, while Guo Zhuocheng's Third Army didn't have a transportation problem at all, as long as he arranged for someone to blockade a place, he could bring as many shells as he wanted from that time and space in 1993. At the same time, a large number of barrels or a whole whole cannon with good performance were transported.

The hiding of the defenders just gave the artillery a chance to exert their presumptuousness, and they shelled all day long, shelling in different ways, and they could even play a barrage without the command of Luo Xi, Liu Xiangyang and others.

The continuous time they fired shells was not determined by the number of shells, nor whether the barrels were red or not, because the shells could be increased if there were fewer shells, and the barrels could be replaced when they were red, and it was the soldiers who carried the shells that determined the shelling time.

As Feng Yuxiang guessed, each shell is dozens of catties, and it is nothing to carry ten or dozens of shells. The body can still eat, but it has to be carried hundreds or hundreds of rounds. Even the iron body can't bear it. After more than an hour of shelling, the artillery commander had to ask the infantry commander for help and asked them to send some able-bodied soldiers to carry the shells. The real artillery is only responsible for firing according to the fuse, maneuvering the ......

The defenders were quite calm at the beginning, waiting for the Red Army to stop firing, waiting for the shelling to stop and then move into the fortifications, positions, and trenches. However, they did not wait for the shelling to stop, and the right waited for the shelling to stop, and the deafening explosions were still in their ears, and the earth was still shaking.

After five minutes, the shelling did not stop; Ten minutes later, the shelling did not stop; Thirty minutes later, the shelling did not stop; An hour later, the shelling was still ongoing; An hour and a half later, the earth was still shaking......

Five minutes, ten minutes, half an hour, an hour ......, it is easy to say, but in that explosive environment, even the best people in psychology began to slowly become collapsed, and under the intensive and long-term shelling here, countless soldiers were vomiting, countless soldiers' ears and noses were shocked out of blood, one by one became irritable, irritable, and one by one began to become neurotic......

These people are still lucky, after all, no shells fell directly on them, they were not shredded by shrapnel, they were not killed directly by explosions, they are still alive.

But the others must have been so lucky, after all, there were too many shells, dense shells bombarded back and forth, ploughed over and over again, and there were few places where they could hide and be safe, even the craters mentioned by the veterans would be blown up several times, and it was not safe to hide in them at all.

"Deputy Commander-in-Chief, what to do, what should we do? The artillery of the communists and bandits will not stop at all. Our troops are already on the verge of collapse, let them blow up for a few more minutes and the troops will be finished. A senior officer said with a pale face.

Although they hid in the basement more than 20 meters above the ground, they still felt like they were sitting in a cradle, and none of them did not feel sick, and none of them did not feel dizzy. If this staff officer had said this half an hour ago, the grumpy Feng Yuxiang might have immediately drawn his pistol and shot him dead, wouldn't this shake the morale of the army?

But now he can't hold on to it anymore.

He looked at the officers around him, and saw that everyone was ashen and unbearable, so he said: "Then revolt, immediately send a telegram to the communists and bandits, and telegraph the whole country, even if our Hefei garrison revolts under my orders, and are willing to obey the communists, no, now it is time to call them the Red Army, and obey the command of the Red Army." ”

In fact, even if he didn't correct this sentence, the staff officers wouldn't have sent out the word "communist" and "bandit", isn't this looking for death?

After listening to Feng Yuxiang's words, the officers of the command, including those guards, breathed a sigh of relief. Even before the war, the gendarmes who were given a special mission to shoot officers and soldiers who surrendered, slacked off the battle, and did not carry out orders were relieved.

After all, they are also human beings, and they also cherish their own lives, and who will obey those cruel orders when they know that they are hopeless?

The officer who reported just now said to Feng Yuxiang: "Sir, in this case, the communist ...... Do the Red-Army still recognize our uprising? We don't have the power to resist at all, we have no choice but to surrender. Besides, if you declare an uprising, will they target your family? ”

Surrender is generally a desperate act taken in a desperate situation, which is somewhat forgivable. Uprisings, on the other hand, are carried out when they are still capable of resisting or retreating, and can be said to be active actions, but the nature is still different.

Feng Yuxiang waved his hand and said, "Just send a telegram like this, I believe that the communists and bandits will approve of my uprising." Yan Xishan, Zhang Xueliang, they don't dare to do anything to my family. You say, we are all like this, the largest number of military forces around Nanjing have been collected by the communists, how many days can they hold out? Can you ignore the back road? ”

It has to be said that Feng Yuxiang is Feng Yuxiang after all, and his prediction is still very accurate, when his telegram was sent, Guo Zhuocheng immediately ordered the shelling to be stopped, and the top leaders of the Red Army in Chongqing and Guo Zhuocheng at the front sent a telegram to welcome General Feng Yuxiang to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and welcome him to lead his troops to revolt.

As the third-in-command of the Nanjing government and the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army, his uprising is not only how many officers and soldiers he can bring, but more importantly, the impact he has on the situation in the whole country.

If they did not admit his uprising, the other Northwest Army might not be the first to surrender, and they probably did not need to be wary of Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang not taking measures against them, but if they recognized his uprising, the Northwest Army would have to worry day and night whether Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang would send troops to disarm them.

When the artillery battle stopped, countless defenders came out of the mud and staggered to the Red Army positions, shouting that we would not do it anymore, that we would no longer be soldiers, that he would surrender even if he was shot. Because many wired telephone lines in the position were interrupted, Feng Yuxiang's order did not and could not be given to every combat unit, but these troops who did not receive the order surrendered as soon as possible.

They don't care whether you Feng Yuxiang surrenders or revolts, as long as they don't suffer such a terrible shelling, even if they are safe, it is extremely uncomfortable to hide underground, it is really better to live than to die.

So much so that after the artillery fire of the Red Army had stopped, when Feng Yuxiang ordered his troops to assemble and march to the designated place of the Red Army, he was embarrassed to find that there were only a few thousand officers and men under his command, and even 10,000 people could not be gathered, and the other officers and men had already surrendered to the Red Army on their own, and of course, more than 20,000 unlucky officers and soldiers were killed by the artillery, and now they could not even find their bodies.

The soldiers who surrendered looked at Hefeicheng in despair, and they saw that the Red Army was still merciful, because most of the objects of their shelling were streets, fortifications, and positions, although these places were bombed back and forth ten times, these places could not be seen at all, even the stones became dust, a crater was carried by a crater, and there were craters on the craters, layer upon layer, if the efficiency of the shelling was evaluated, I am afraid that the efficiency of this bombing was not high, after all, the defenders were also people, not machines, No officers and men stupidly run to these places that have been bombed continuously, that is to say, it is basically okay to bomb these places three or four times, there is no need to bomb back and forth ten times, and the subsequent bombardment is purely a waste of shells.

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