Perhaps they were frightened by the night battle of the Baishui Pass of the Fuxing Society, and after losing the north side of the mountain, the rebels on the Changchong Mountains on the south side of the post road were extremely worried that they would be surrounded after dawn, and they also began to retreat quietly amid the shouting and killing of the guns and cannons that spread all over the mountains but could not distinguish between the enemy and me. Even though Xu Shunda, the commander of the 11th Division, considered that it was easy to be ambushed in the pursuit at night, and asked to suspend the pursuit in response to the guard, the First Army of the Protectorate still fled to Zhanyi County, 30 miles away, to stabilize its position.

The first army Li Liejun and the second army were in the main department, and the result of the all-night discussion was to withdraw from Zhanyi, leaving only a small part of the troops to guard again, and the main force was all stationed on the south bank of the Baishi River, where the second army had dug trench fortifications, and only one division of the Fuxing Army plus some remnants of the Yunnan army were attacked, and everyone thought that they might be able to use the river as a barrier to defend it. The discussion was discussed like this, but everyone knew in their hearts that Baishijiang still couldn't hold it, but because of the order of the Kunming General Headquarters to fight for every inch of land, they could only make a show.

The Protector Army was defeated at the first touch, and in the early morning of the second day, the Yunnan Army led by Xie Ruyi took the lead, and the Fuxing Army accepted the entire Zhanyi County without a single shot, and for the position of the Protector Army on the other side of the Baishi River, after the whole army set up the position the next day, the artillery fired rapidly, and before the Fuxing Army charged, the defense line of the Protector Army began to waver again, and when the revolutionary aspirants found that the enemy army had crossed the river from the upper reaches of the Baishi River, because they were worried that the Renaissance Army would take the back road, Li Liejun and others hurriedly retreated.

The Protector Army was dressed in the gray uniforms of the Russian army, and saw a large group of 'gray livestock' on the other side of the river swarming back like ants, from the division commander Xu Shun to the soldiers at the bottom. They all began to despise the Protector Army, just such a guts. Dare to rebel too. This time, the generals did not hesitate any longer, and the large army followed closely behind. In one go, they chased to the county seat of Malong, twenty kilometers away. Ma Long's key pass is in Changlongpu, and the Protector Army has dug fortifications in Changlongpu in advance, preparing to defend this place, not wanting the Dian army Xie Ru's wing to launch a surprise attack overnight, and finally occupied this important place after several hours of bloody fighting, completely opening the last pass of the westward march into Kunming.

Changlongpu is only 140 kilometers away from Kunming City, and the provincial capital has been threatened by the Fuxing Army, and on the day the news reached Kunming, the people in the eight provincial halls were gloomy. Sun Wen was the most dissatisfied one. In addition, he had just been reprimanded and ridiculed by the Russian Madahan, so he was particularly angry. Looking at the anxious people, he said angrily: "Didn't you say that Pinghekou can be guarded for three months? Why was it lost in a day? I think this Kunming City is estimated to be lost in a few days. I'll just ask: You! Finally! Do you have! Way! Fight with the Baath Army?! ”

Sun Wen looked at Chen Qimei, then at Hu Hanmin, and even at Hu Yisheng, who was ineffective in command and lost the leveling of Baishui Pass, his gaze also stayed on his face for a long time, and when he saw that everyone did not dare to answer, he seemed to know the answer in his heart.

In silence, Chen Qimei stood up and said, "Sir." The Baath Army has heavy artillery fire and is very good at night battles and flank attacks, so our army, which lacks artillery, cannot compete with it in the front, and it is difficult for the flanks to resist it. The night battle is a subject that our army has not trained, and the soldiers of the First World War of Baishuiguan are already afraid of night fighting, so they only need to hear the attack of the revival army at night. Most of the soldiers have no intention of fighting, they just want to retreat quickly......"

Chen Qimei did not study military affairs. But his younger brother Chen Qicai graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school. Although Chen Qicai had never been to the front line, he knew from reading the detailed military reports sent from the front line that the tactics of the revival army were irresistible to his own army. During the Russo-Japanese War. The white-knuckle night attack tactics and the flank detour tactics are also two tactics often used by the Japanese army. It can even be said that the Japanese army won the Russo-Japanese War precisely with flank attack tactics, and the white-knuckle night attack tactics were only the product of frontal pressure. Now the Renaissance Army's frontal artillery and bayonets can't stand it, let alone flank detour tactics.

Under the persuasion of Chen Qicai, Chen Qimei also gradually realized that Kunming could not be defended, and the only feasible way at the moment was to pull the remaining team and go to Mengzi to establish a revolutionary base, which was on the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and the logistics supply was also very convenient. It's just that this solution is something that Sun Wen, who is very happy about, said that he is not willing to choose, and Chen Qimei had tried to defend Chen Yunnan before, and now he wants to withdraw from Kunming, which is not correct in politics. As a result, Chen Qimei, who stood up, said a lot about the difference in strength and tactics between the two armies of the enemy and us, but he didn't say that he should withdraw from Kunming, which made everyone who was anxiously watching him very disappointed.

"The revolutionary will is better than a qiē!" Hearing that Chen Qimei said so many words that fell into his own prestige, Sun Wen, who was in a state of excitement, said 10,000 sentences a sentence. "The Renaissance Army sees that it can attack at night, why can't we attack at night? The Baath Army has death squads, why can't we use death squads? Sun Wen questioned the generals loudly, as if he was judging.

The blazing gaze of the great leader swept over the faces of the participants, and they all looked down one by one, and he suddenly thought of Huang Xing who died at the hands of Chen Qimei, Huang Xing has the style of a general, if Huang Xing was here at this time, it would be great!

Sun Wen didn't speak, the meeting fell silent for a while, everyone held their breath, and suddenly heard a gong outside, and someone shouted: "The plane is coming!" The plane is coming......"

After the last air raid on the ammunition depot, Cai Yi arranged for special people to watch the wind from the tower of Dadongmen City, in case the aircraft of the Fuxing Army attacked the eight provincial capitals. Although others are dead now, the system has been preserved, so now when they see the plane coming, the lookout on the castle tower rings the gong and shouts that the plane is coming.

The north end of Kunming City is square, and the south side is round, but no matter what Kunming looks like on the ground, it is extremely ugly to look down at Kunming City in the sky. After firing a few bullets at the Dadongmen Tower with a gong struck, the eight bombers that entered the city and lined up to fly began to drop leaflets and other propaganda materials, which was the purpose of the air force's visit to Kunming.

The Protector Army knew the power of the plane, and when they heard the gong, they hid underground like mice, while the people in the city involuntarily came out of the house and looked up at the plane flying in the sky, not fear. Rather, rejoicing, to something left off the plane. They were also anxious to pick it up, wanting to know what it said. When will Wang Shi come.

"The Revival Army captured Qujing and Malong the day before yesterday, killed and captured nearly 10,000 rebels, and the recovery of Kunming is just around the corner!" The leaflets are full of big letters, the first line is the latest war report, the citizens are happy to see it, and the other thing is a deck of playing card wanted warrants, and the first one after opening is the clown version of the Russian Madahan, who is a big ghost, and the poker book 'Tsar's lackeys.' Sun Wen's godfather; Regardless of life or death, the bounty of 100,000 '16 small words seems to be like attracting a hot-blooded and loyal person to do a big vote;

The big ghost has seen it, and the next one is the clown version of Sun Wen, this is the little ghost, on the book 'Chinese national thief, Tsarist Russian puppet.' Regardless of life or death, the bounty is 50,000 yuan'; and then there are Chen Qimei, Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai, Li Liejun and others, each of whom has a brief review and a bounty amount. The entire playing card is beautifully printed. It's just that people can't put it down, so that the person who chooses one pair wants a second one.

The people can pick up the pass and poker, and Sun Wen and others can also pick it up. Looking at the clown-like portrait of himself on the poker and the comments of the national thief and puppet, Sun Wen's lungs were about to explode. He tore up the playing cards and scolded Yang for being shameless. The anger of the leader is always understood by his subordinates, and on the same day, Chen Qimei ordered all departments to confiscate the leaflets and pokers in the city, and for a while, the whole Kunming City began to jump again. I can't live in fear.

The things in the city are not visible to them, and even if they do, they ignore them. Wait until the plane is gone. The cadres sat down again to discuss the current war, and Sun Wen, who felt insulted at this time, slapped the table and asked the front-line protectors to counterattack at night. In this way, a big victory will boost morale. On the same day, his order left Kunming and went to the position of Liangjiatian Village, 16 kilometers west of Changlong Town.

The Liangjiatian defense line is already the penultimate position from Qujing to Kunming that is worth garrisoning, if it is lost here, there are two dangerous passes of Changlingge position and Yingpanshan twelve kilometers to the west, but with the current morale of the protectors, if it is really defeated again, the Dian army will collapse; Even if it does not collapse, the rear lines of the two armies will collapse at the touch of a button. Li Liejun, commander of the First Army, and Ju Zheng, commander of the Second Army, both meant to defend Liangjiatian, and because a few days ago, many machine guns and artillery were lost on the front line of Pinghekou, so while the troops were fortifying Liangjiatian, the two urged the rear to urgently send all the remaining artillery and machine gun ammunition to the rear. I didn't want the two of them to ask for machine guns and cannons, but what they sent was an order for a night attack.

"Our army has lived in this land for two lives, and it has never fought a night battle, if you really want to attack at night, if one is not good, the whole army will be wiped out!" Li Liejun held the order printed with 'Commander-in-Chief Sun', and scolded in his heart for the person who instigated Sun Wen to give this order, and at the same time, his mouth was complaining slightly. In his mind, it was better to treat this command as if he had not seen it.

"It is estimated that the international situation was taken into account, and Mr. Takayama did not have to give such an order." Ju Zheng is a native of Hubei, the first batch of members of the League, although he has never attended a military school, but his temperament is very resolute. He saw that Li Liejun's face was embarrassed, so he took the initiative to say, "Xia Ru, otherwise the task of the night attack will be handed over to the Second Army, and your First Army will concentrate on garrisoning the defense line." ”

"Second Army ......" Li Liejun smiled bitterly. The second army is all half-hearted Yunnan army and some miscellaneous cards of non-Yunnan army and non-Guangdong army, and this kind of army goes to attack at night, which is tantamount to death. "Juesheng, if you go, it's better for me to go, your people just don't fight, and the march will be lost."

"Where, there are still some revolutionaries in the first echelon of Jiang Zhiqing's brigade, and if you organize them, you can fight a dozen." Ju Zhengdao, he said that he didn't wait for Li Liejun to answer and passed on the order of the night attack.

The order was from Kunming to the army headquarters, and then to the hands of Jiang Zhiqing of the First Brigade of the Second Army, and to the hands of Deng Keng, the first echelon of the regiment, and the revival army had been killed in front of them. Deng Keng, who received the order for the night attack, was also a veteran of the revolution of the League, and the first echelon regiment he led was not inferior to the troops of the First Army at all, and the key reason for this was that there were many graduates of the Guangzhou Army Primary School in the regiment, such as Chen Mingshu, Chen Jitang, Deng Yanda, Zhang Fakui, Xue Yue, and so on. Originally, most of these people were in the local troops in Guangdong, but in the middle of last year, after the Fuxing Army took advantage of disaster relief to control the whole of Guangdong, these people left Guangdong under his mobilization and finally joined the Protector Army in Yunnan. After Tang Jiyao poisoned Commander-in-Chief Cai and was killed, the Yunnan army was in turmoil, and these company platoon commanders were raised to a higher level to accept the soldiers of the Yunnan army who were disrupted and reorganized.

With the order above, Deng Keng didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered Chen Jiongming to organize a death squad to prepare for a night attack. At nine o'clock that night, a death squad of more than 400 people drank strong liquor and set out from Liangjiatian to march and attack the position of the Fuxing Army at the foot of the mountain.

Since they often attack the enemy at night, it is natural for them to be careful to guard against the enemy's night attack. To prevent night attacks, the outermost part of the Ba'ath Army's forward position was a small minefield, behind which were two layers of barbed wire, and then the first trench. Under normal circumstances, the first trench has only a small number of soldiers as outposts, and then machine gun fire points are arranged to prevent the enemy from attacking, and the rest of the large troops are in the Tibetan trenches one hundred and fifty meters behind. It's just that how the position of the Baxing Army is set up, how does the Protector Army know? In addition, the night raids of the Baath Army are generally forced, or artillery fire clears mines and barbed wire barricades; Or use blasters and mortars to open the way, and rarely touch it directly like a thief.

But the artillery fire of the Protector Army is limited, and the blasting canister is not used on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, so the Russian Maozi themselves do not have it, let alone give it to them; The most important thing is that they only know a little about the standard mines of the Baxing Army, and they do not know anything about the use, arrangement and disposal of mines because they are not taught by veterans, so when the death squad is still clearing mines on the periphery that night, the mines suddenly explode, and the explosion of peripheral mines is also a common thing in field battles, but when the soldiers of the Renaissance Army fire reconnoiter the mine explosion point, the inexperienced team members thought that they had been discovered, so they immediately opened fire and prepared to retreat.

If the night attack on other armies exposed the original route to withdraw, it is still possible, but the firepower of the revival army is three-dimensional, and before the defense line is established, the firepower points and artillery are well aware of the forward positions, and after a few incendiary bombs are used to make the retreating death squad clear, the artillery of the division headquarters will open fire, and after three minutes of rapid fire, hundreds of living death squads immediately become stumps and broken arms, wild ghosts and ghosts, and the night attack death squads are as Li Liejun said, and the whole army is exhausted.

When the artillery regiment opened fire, the soldiers of the 15th Division were sleeping and were not moved at all, while Xie Ruyi's Dian troops all stood up and looked in the direction of the firefight, thinking that they were going to attack, and only after Xie Ruyi asked the command to make sure that they did not attack, these soldiers were driven back to sleep.

The revival army is like this, and the Protector Army is restless all night, Ju Zheng, Jiang Zhiqing, Deng Keng and others are waiting for the death squad to come back to report the enemy situation; However, Li Liejun, Fang Shengtao, Lin Hu, Dan Maoxin and others ordered all units to strictly guard against death, in case the revival army used its own way to govern others, and also launched a night attack on themselves.

After a difficult night, it was not until dawn that more than a dozen drowsy and wounded death squad members returned to their positions, telling them that the night attack had failed last night and that all the death squad members had died. Li Liejun and Ju Zheng had already guessed this result, but before they had time to grieve, the artillery fire of the Revival Army seemed to be chasing the daredevils. Because the terrain to the east of Jiangjiatian is relatively open, the 280mm heavy artillery that has not shown its face for a long time has also begun to bombard, and this kind of cannonball, which flies up and sounds like a train, falls wherever it falls is a large pit of tens of meters, and the barricades originally arranged, the trenches dug up, and the soldiers stationed there, all turned into powder and disappeared without a trace.

Field artillery is like beating gongs, and heavy artillery is like beating drums, and they are constantly beating and breaking the will of the defenders to fight. After two and a half hours of continuous shelling, when the enemy barrage began to extend behind their trenches, and the people who did not know whether this was a trick of the artillery of the Renaissance Army were hesitating whether to go to the first line of trenches, the shouts of the Renaissance Army were heard all over the mountains, and at this time it was too late for the defenders to come up with a second-line trench. Grenades, shotguns, bayonets, these things came in a tidal wave, and all the soldiers could do was surrender.

On the 20th day of March in the fourth year of Shenwu, the Fuxing Army broke the Yunnan rebels in Liangjiatian, killed and wounded more than 1,300 enemies, and captured more than 4,000 people under Li Liejun, commander of the First Army of the rebels. After this battle, the rebels no longer had the fighting spirit and retreated to Kunming without any formation.

(End of the Geng volume) (To be continued......)