Across the river from Pukou, Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf. Ferries between the two sides of the strait have long since ceased to operate, and the entire terminal has long since been converted into a military location. There were trenches everywhere, piles of sandbags, snatched door panels, gray-faced and decadent soldiers of the 1st Jiangsu Division, and bomb craters everywhere.

Wang Dashan is now a squad leader, and several months have passed since he first joined the war on September 3. Wang Dashan has grown from a rookie to a veteran, and he is the only one in his squad who has survived until now before the war.

Kicking the recruits who had just been assigned to the squad, urging these lazy people to finish dinner quickly. The experience of leaving the battlefield alive several times made Wang Dashan have an almost intuitive sense of danger, and he always felt restless tonight when he looked at the faint other side of the river.

Although the chiefs kept saying that the other side didn't dare to call, Wang Dashan didn't believe their words at all. Two months ago, in a village near Jiading, the chiefs said that the Zhejiang army had run into the village and robbed it casually, and everyone rushed out of the village with a roar, only Wang Dashan and the old squad leader slowly followed. The hundreds of brothers who rushed into the village first were ambushed and killed in the village, and Wang Dashan did not believe anything the governors said after that.

The sky slowly darkened, and Wang Dashan hid in the anti-artillery hole he dug and waited quietly for the cannonballs coming from the opposite side.

Since he was transferred to Shimonoseki, he had to experience a very rhythmic shelling from the opposite side every night.

I heard the remnants of the 3rd Mixed Brigade in Jiangsu say that at the beginning, the artillery on our side was still firing at the opposite bank, but the large-caliber artillery on the opposite side was far away, and the artillery on their side was too small to reach others and could only be beaten, and it was blown up in two days. Later, it was a one-sided bombing, and the troops squatting here had already lost their temper.

As soon as it gets dark, they hide in the anti-artillery holes, and the opposite side usually plays a round every half an hour every night, and the fire ceases at dawn. Sometimes, though, it doesn't take half an hour to get a few shots. The old squad leader said that this was taking us to train artillery. The old squad leader went to the tuba during the interval between the shelling and was blown up.

Wang Dashan felt very wrong tonight, and there was no cannon fire on the opposite side until more than 9 o'clock, only the sound of the river lapping on the shore, and the surrounding silence was terrible. Wang Dashan still couldn't settle down, left the anti-artillery hole and came to the observation post, and then looked at the river in the moonlight.

Ten minutes later, the river was still calm, and just as Wang Dashan was about to go back, a faint sudden sound came. Lying on the ground and trying to open his eyes to look at the river, countless small black dots were slowly approaching the dock. The sound of the sudden thud is also getting louder.

Just as Wang Dashan hurriedly got up and was about to report to the chiefs, three red signal flares suddenly rose in the night sky across the river.

"Oh no" Wang Dashan ran towards his anti-artillery hole, and before he could run back to his anti-artillery hole, there was already a huge whistling sound in the air, and then the entire Xiaguan position instantly boiled. The artillery roared, shrapnel was fired in all directions, and the huge flames continued to rise, and the entire position was as bright as day.

At 9:30 p.m. on January 7, 1925, Gao Yang commanded the First Division of the Anhui Army to launch a battle to cross the river and attack Nanjing. MORE THAN 200 CANNONS WITH A CALIBER OF 75 MM OR MORE VIOLENTLY BOMBARDED THE SHORE DEFENSE POSITIONS AND ARTILLERY POSITIONS ON THE OTHER SIDE, AND THE DENSE ARTILLERY SOUND WAS ENDLESS, AND THE SHELLS SMASHED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER LIKE RAINDROPS, SETTING OFF COUNTLESS BRIGHT FIRES.

Thousands of soldiers of the first attack wave rushed towards the Shimonoseki pier on the opposite shore on river boats, fishing boats, and naval warships. After Duan Dashuai became the provisional ruler, the navy, which had been staying near Yangzhou, was bought by Gao Yang. Whether in name or in actual benefits, Gao Yang had the advantage, and the navy immediately gave up Qi Xieyuan and threw himself into Gao Yang's arms. At this time, except for foreign warships, there was no one who could stop Gaoyang from crossing the river.

At the forefront were three ferrying river ferries, and the order given by Gao Yang was to run aground directly on the beach. Just before it ran aground, several flares rose from the river, and a moment later the heavy artillery fire began to extend backwards to block the road to the Shimonoseki dock for reinforcements.

As soon as the river ship rushed to the riverbank, hundreds of elite commandos wearing German-style military uniforms, steel helmets, grenades and sapper shovels on their backs, and armed with MP18s rushed to the position. While strafing, he yelled, "Surrender the gun, don't kill." ”

Stunned by the continuous shelling for more than 20 minutes, the Soviet troops, who had long been demoralized, did little resistance in the face of these carefully selected soldiers, and basically became prisoners who were still alive.

The captives, who were gathered together and squatted with their heads in their hands, watched one ship after another approach to the dock, and a large number of soldiers armed to the teeth drove in pairs towards the city of Nanjing, all relatively silent. Wang Dashan looked up at the sky, both sides of the Yangtze River were reflected in the firelight red, and the dense rain of bullets crossed the sky like meteors, smashing heavily on the ground, setting off clusters of firelight. "Now I finally don't have to fight anymore." Wang Dashan sighed deeply.

He Chengen, the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Jiangsu Army, who was stationed at Hailingmen and the Lion Rock Fort, was frowning in his regimental command post, and Yang Dong, who was sitting with a leisurely face drinking tea, sat opposite him.

"Commander He, the gunfire is getting closer and closer, if you don't make up your mind, then you won't have a chance." Yang Dong said lightly.

Regiment Commander He was a native of Nanjing, and was originally the brigade commander of the 1st Jiangsu Division. It's just that the first division has been defeated in every battle since it entered the war, and every defeat must be broken, Qi Xieyuan angrily called the first division a women's army, and the division commander to the regiment commander were all dismissed. However, the wife of the head of the regiment had a good relationship with Qi Xieyuan's adjutant, and the adjutant helped him speak after accepting 50,000 yuan, so he barely retained the position of the head of the regiment.

Nanjing's walls are thick and high, and cars can run side by side on them. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese bombed for half a month but failed to enter the city. Gao Yang didn't plan to attack the fortifications slowly in Nanjing, and the best way to break through was to break through internally. Yang Dong entered Nanjing City more than half a month ago, and after searching around, he chose the head of the regiment, who is known for corruption, as the target.

"Chief Qi treats me well" Before He Chengen's words were finished, Yang Dong got up and said, "Commander He, don't talk nonsense, as long as you open the city gate and let our people in, the hard work of 600,000 oceans will be sent immediately." After a pause, he said with a smile, "I heard that your lady and Chief Qi's adjutant have been playing mahjong for two days and two nights, hehe, Commander He doesn't want to talk to the adjutant about it?" Hey, hey, hey."

"I want 800,000." He Chengen, whose face was black like the bottom of a pot, gritted his teeth and said.

"Happy, a word is a certainty." Yang Dong stretched out his hand and said.

Qi Xieyuan, who was in Zhenjiang, received the telegram at more than 2 o'clock in the morning on the 8th, and looked at the telegram with shaking hands, his teeth were about to crush. "This gang of bitches, rubbish, rubbish, ahhhh In just a few hours, Nanjing was almost completely lost, which made Qi Xieyuan completely unbelievable, "Could it be that the Anhui army is all divine soldiers?" You TMD can't beat it, can't you hide in the city wall and guard it for hours? ”

Qi Xieyuan gathered troops overnight and hurriedly reinforced, but as for the Zhejiang army on the opposite side, it was no longer able to take care of it.

In his sleep, he was called to assemble, and then marched along the river overnight, and by the time dawn the tired and hungry Soviet troops were already full of dissatisfaction. The anxious Qi Xieyuan couldn't care about these things at all, and now he only had the matter of retaking Nanjing in his mind, and it was no longer something he thought about when the soldiers didn't have breakfast.

At dawn, the Soviet troops, who were on the verge of mutiny, suddenly found dozens of warships slowly approaching the river! This was the Beiyang Navy carrying the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Anhui Army to Yangzhou, and at dawn it was found that there was a large group of Soviet troops on the riverside.

Li Junxi immediately ordered to lean over and shoot a few cannons, since he received Gao Yang's money, he had to say that he could go back to Gao Yang to reimburse the cannonball money after the fight, not to mention that there were many Gao Yang's soldiers on the ship watching it.

The dense cannon sound on the warship rang out, and the cannonballs rained down on the marching columns, bringing countless stumps and broken arms. The Soviet troops, who were already full of anger, directly bombed the camp and fled in all directions.

Qi Xieyuan rode on a tall horse and waved his whip vigorously to prevent the soldiers from escaping, but who could stop him in this situation. AT THIS TIME, A 127MM SHELL EXPLODED NEXT TO QI XIEYUAN, AND AFTER THE SMOKE DISSIPATED, QI XIEYUAN AND THE HORSE WERE GONE, AND THE SUPREME COMMANDER HUNG UP.

More than 10,000 troops were scattered by several rounds of naval artillery, which is really rare. Qi Xieyuan is dead, and this traitor who defected to the Japanese in the original time and space to kill his compatriots with blood on his hands has withdrawn!

After the navy finished firing the artillery, they continued to drive towards Yangzhou, not knowing that these few rounds of artillery would end the war that had swept most of the country for several months. Initiated by Qi Xieyuan and ended by Qi Xieyuan.

Gao Yang learned the news of Qi Xieyuan's death in the mouth of the defeated soldiers who were caught the next day, "I still want to give this traitor a public trial or something, it's cheap for him." Gao Yang said indignantly.

Now is not the time to talk about this, Lu Yongxiang's army has already begun to grab territory. Gao Yang ordered the navy to blockade the Yangtze River and first encircle the northern part of the Yangtze River. After that, it was a running race with Lu Yongxiang.

Obviously, Lu Yongxiang's Zhejiang Military No. 11 Road can't outrun Gaoyang's car wheels. A few days later, the two sides met on the Yixing, Wuxi, and Jiangyin lines, and the two sides agreed to take the Line of Actual Control as the demarcation line and not disturb each other.

Wang Dashan's wish to no longer be a soldier could not be realized, and Gao Yang combined a large number of prisoners and recruits with mercenaries and newly trained non-commissioned officers to form more than a dozen security regiments and stationed them in various places. The main force of the first division was assembled and quickly sailed to Xuzhou, and the navy also carried a regiment of soldiers and horses and heavy weapons to Lianyungang. The bandit legion Zhang Zongchang has entered Shandong!

Zhang Dashuai's hundreds of thousands of troops entered the pass, and General Feng could not resist the defeat and retreated to the northwest. Zhang Zongchang, a big bandit leader from Shandong, did not stop after occupying Shandong all the way south, but continued to march in the direction of Xuzhou, Jiangsu.

Although Duan Dashuai immediately appointed Gao Yang as the patrol envoy of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, he supervised Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. It's just that Zhang Zongchang, who was born as a bandit, only replied to Duan Dashuai's order to prohibit him from going south to Jiangsu: "I don't know how to read." ”

Gao Yang, who received the news, smiled and said to the origin: "It doesn't matter if you don't know words, just know the shells." ”