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In the hazy night of the mountain shadows, the maroon fire continued to rise from the city pass, under the cover of artillery, a standard of more than 2,000 Henan patrol battalion infantry poured towards the city pass, this army adapted from the early Yi army Although the river is declining, but under the clamor of the Beiyang horse team behind them, the officers can only charge hard.

"Hold on! To defend here is to guard the hometown behind us! In the smoke of artillery fire, the young Shi Xiaolou pressed down on his military hat and kept cheering up the soldiers while trotting along the battlements.

Suddenly, a five-life and seven-shell fell beside him, and the scorching air wave knocked him to the ground, rolled a few times and then slid behind the battlements next to him, and several soldiers hurriedly supported him and shouted: "Team Zheng, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, Lao Tzu won't die before you!"

Seeing that he was fine, everyone immediately turned around and hid behind the battlements and kept shooting out, and the bullets kept chirping through their ears, and from time to time soldiers were hit and fell.

Shi Xiaolou took a breath and climbed to the gap between the battlements and looked out, the dense enemy army made him a little worried.

The Wusheng Pass under his feet is the world's nine major Xiongguan, the south locks Ezhou, the hinterland of the Central Plains in the north, plus the Jiuli Pass in the east and the Pingjing Pass in the southwest are collectively called the Xinyang Three Passes, the nearby mountains are staggered, the peaks are ringed, the Guancheng takes the mountain as a barrier, chiseles the mountain into a pass, and a Jinghan line is directly crossed from the pass, it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, so since Zhang Zhidong founded the new army, it has been in charge of the Hubei army.

But no matter how dangerous the Xiongguan is, soldiers will have to guard it ()! He is only a team leader of the 15th Association of Eight Towns, and he has studied command in the Japanese non-commissioned officer school for two years, because the 42nd Standard Third Battalion originally stationed here was ordered to be stationed here because the new Standard Commander returned to Hanyang for training, so he was ordered to be stationed here, seeing that there is only one team of less than 200 people in such a big pass, and there are only two five-life and seven-mountain guns with heavy weapons, how can he not be in a hurry!

What's more serious is that because the news of the Wuchang Incident came here early the next morning, the sudden great change in his hometown made him and the soldiers a little overwhelmed, and no one knew whether to continue to guard this Xiongguan that held Hubei, or give up here and go home.

As an officer, because he knew better than the soldiers, if the Qing army was allowed to seize the pass and move south, it would definitely be difficult to keep the three towns of Wuchang, which was flat and undefendable. So in the end, he gritted his teeth and ordered to continue the garrison. Originally, he thought that even if he couldn't hold it, he could delay it, and the brother troops would definitely arrive, but he didn't expect that this was the fourth night, but he couldn't see the support troops, and his heart gradually became gloomy, knowing that his team might have been completely forgotten.

No one likes the feeling of being forgotten, especially the soldiers who are on duty in a different place, which makes everyone very sad, but just when he and the soldiers were planning to go next, the patrol battalion from Henan arrived at the pass, perhaps because of the duty of soldiers for many years, and the battle broke out in such a hurry.

If in the past, he would not have looked at a garbage unit like the patrol battalion at all, but at this moment he has few soldiers in his hands and lacks heavy weapons, as his partners fell, the expected reinforcements did not appear at all, and the resentment of being abandoned in his heart gradually erupted, and the soldier's battle ** began to decline rapidly.

Should we continue to hold on? Shi Xiaolou was unwilling to let Beiyang occupy this place in vain, but his eyes swept over the soldiers who were resisting, and when he saw that they would look at him every time he shot, he suddenly shouted in his heart, because this was a harbinger of the collapse of the troops! Hurriedly raised his gun and shouted: "Brothers! Wushengguan is the soul of our Hubei, without the soul, how can we save our lives! These are just patrol camps, and as long as we stay through tonight, we can go back tomorrow morning to ask for help!" ”

"Team up, brothers I'm afraid." The deputy officer rushed to Shi Xiaolou's side and said in a panic: "It's not worth it!" If we can't hold it alone, it is better to withdraw to Wuchang and cooperate with the large army to defend Hankou. ”

"If you don't have Wushengguan, what will you get?" Shi Xiaolou looked at the deputy officer coldly, and said firmly: "I can't hold the Wusheng Pass, I can't stop the train that is full of Tartars going south, and I still have a fart ()!" ”

"If I want to beat you, I won't fight." The deputy officer gathered a dozen soldiers and prepared to leave without saying a word.

Shi Xiaolou was so angry that he kicked away the deputy officer who was blind, and shouted at his back: "Go to Nima, don't think that Lao Tzu doesn't know what you think!" I don't care who you are, since I was ordered to garrison Wusheng Pass, I can't lose it! Whoever wants to go, as long as I live for one day, Wushengguan can't be thrown from me! ”

After speaking, he turned his head and lay on the ground, aimed at a Qing soldier and knocked the trigger.

The crisp sound of shooting was lonely and fierce, each bullet could take away a Qing soldier who rushed up, looking at his young and resolute face in the light of the explosion, some soldiers hesitated for a moment and then threw themselves into the battle, but some of them evacuated the pass with the deputy officer.

"Full of Tartars, Lao Tzu fought with you!"

After walking so many soldiers, the defensive strength on the pass suddenly dropped a lot, and many enemy troops had already climbed up from the low slopes on both sides, Shi Xiaolou's eyes were red, and he shouted: "Brothers, horizontal and vertical is a death, fight!" ”

"Get on the bayonet!"

Xueliang's bayonet quickly stuck in the muzzle of the gun, and less than a hundred soldiers rushed to the low slopes on both sides along with Shi Xiaolou, and before a Qing soldier who had just come up could react, he was pierced through the chest by the bayonet and fell down, and smashed down his partner behind him.

"Wusheng Pass can't be lost! Don't lose it! ”

Shi Xiaolou kept shouting, leading the few soldiers to fight the enemy's flesh and blood, and just as he had just stabbed to death a Beiyang cavalry who had left his horse to become an infantryman, a snowy saber next to him had already swung at him.

"It's worth it!" Glancing at the dense corpses of the enemy soldiers around him, he was already weak, and he subconsciously blocked it. Seeing that the saber was added, there was a sudden sound of dense gunfire in his ears, and then ().

"It's reinforcements, it's our reinforcements!"

A soldier next to him was already crying and screaming, and following his fingers, countless soldiers in new yellow military uniforms began to pounce past him, and the Beiyang cavalry who dismounted and followed the infantry to fight and was about to cut him down had already been shot through the head.

"Rush!"

"Machine guns, machine guns mounted."

At the most critical moment, He Xi finally arrived, and the light machine gun once again showed the lethality and good mobility in the chaotic scene, even a novice who has just used it can quickly deploy, and the Madsen M50 uses German-made pointed bullets, which are more lethal!

The morale of the Qing army patrolling the city camp was not high, and if it weren't for the Beiyang pressure formation behind them, they would have run away a long time ago, but now when they saw that there were suddenly several more machine guns on the city pass, they were so frightened that they spread their feet and ran back.

A moment later, the Makqin heavy machine gun squad also followed breathlessly, and as soon as the machine gun squad set up the tripod, the machine gunner pulled the bolt and pulled the trigger, and the long canvas cartridge belt was rapidly shortened, and a terrible metal storm began. When the first Makqin machine gun opened fire at full speed, tens of thousands of flashing fireflies were suddenly sprinkled in front of Wusheng Pass in the night, and countless sparks formed a beautiful and terrifying line of fire, rushing towards the Qing army that began to retreat.

The power of the heavy machine gun is really terrifying, and Wusheng Pass is a necessary place for the Hanjing Railway, the railway crosses through the tunnel in the middle of the pass, and there are slopes more than ten meters high on both sides that cannot escape, and the environment that is almost a shooting range below allows Makqin to exert the greatest destructive power.

The 7.92mm bullets kept shuttling through the mass of flesh, stirring up a puddle of flesh and blood, connecting into pieces and sprinkling into rain. The light machine guns also took advantage of the momentum to chase and fight, and together they formed more than a dozen death cross lines in the blink of an eye, covering all the area in front of the pass, and those who were shouting just now and thought they had grabbed the first merit The infantry of the patrol battalion could only run back desperately, only hating that they had lost a pair of wings, and only the Beiyang cavalry who supervised the battle at the back saw that the situation was not good and ran away.

The battle did not last long, and the patrol battalion from Henan, which had brought a large number of weapons overnight to support the remnants of Zhang Biao in Liujiamiao, had already been frightened by machine guns (). So much so that the infantry that came to support did not look at the trembling survivors in the pile of corpses, and pounced on the Qing army train and artillery positions farther away. By the time the tanks connected to the machine guns began to steam outward, the inexperienced machine gunners realized that they had already fired two boxes of bullets under their nerves, and the area they had been swept through was even more devastated on the ground.

Shi Xiaolou was also completely stunned, it may not be surprising that such firepower is in Europe, but at this moment in the country, equipping each battalion with three Maxim machine gun squads is already luxurious! Not to mention the light machine guns! No wonder he and the surviving soldiers looked at the flesh and blood all over the ground that had been completely petrified, and they didn't even notice He Xi when he walked to his side.

"This brother, I am He Xi, the commander of the First Regiment of the Right Route Army, and I was ordered to come to support you, you have worked hard! Thank you for holding the martial victory pass! After He Xi finished speaking, he took all the officers and nearby soldiers to salute the garrison soldiers.

The etiquette and warm words of the soldiers made Shi Xiaolou and everyone red-eyed, and before they could react, a box full of silver dollars was stuffed into their palms: "This is Zhang Biao's dog thief who deducted everyone's salary last month, Commander Yang knew that all the brothers were tight, and said that no matter how hard they were, they couldn't bitter the soldiers who fought bloodily, so I asked me to bring the arrears with this month's, five yuan for each soldier, ten yuan for officers, and twenty yuan for the dead soldiers to their families." ”

Just encountered some soldiers fleeing, seeing that they were going to die but suddenly turned over, and then there was a gorgeous and cruel almost one-sided massacre, and before he woke up from all this, he was stuffed with a box of warm ocean in his hand, which made Shi Xiaolou and all the soldiers who stayed behind to garrison have blank brains, and they didn't even notice the words of the right army and the regiment commander, and they all hugged their heads and wept when they looked at the silver shining ocean.

Looking at the firelight that was still fighting in the distance, He Xi smiled and patted Shi Xiaolou on the shoulder: "Get up, we haven't finished fighting yet!" Jiuli Pass and Pingjing Pass must also be recaptured as soon as possible. ”

Shi Xiaolou slowly stood up, wiped away his tears, and nodded vigorously with his red eyes