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The artillery company commanded by Qiu Qingquan also opened fire. Under Qiu Qingquan's precise measurement, these cannons deployed on the back of the mountain accurately smashed the shells onto the enemy's wavy formation. Pieces of bombardment.However, under the strenuous control of the junior officers of the Sichuan Army, they still maintained the formation of skirmishers.Press down at a brisk walk.

There are still some tricks, Chen Mingren admired in his heart.Deng Xihou was indeed a veteran of the Baoding Military Academy, and the soldiers he brought out were much better than those long-clothed soldiers.The quality of these troops was quite good, and they fought very tenaciously. After being shot by the heavy machine guns of the national army, they did not retreat, but each found a terrain to lie down.Slowly creeping forward, their machine guns also supported their progress with side fire.When the Sichuan army crawled within the range of the rifle fire, the rifles of the two sides began to shoot at each other again.

In this way, the battle at Gongjiashan gradually became a stalemate in the cycle of the Sichuan army's waves of charges, crawling, machine guns, and then being suppressed by the superior firepower of the national army, leaving corpses all over the place to retreat.It seems that Huang Yin wants to use this tactic to slowly consume the strength of the 68th regiment.After a day of attrition, when the casualties were calculated at night, the 68st Battalion of the 1th Regiment had more than 50 casualties, and the 30nd Battalion defending the Longwanggou position also suffered more than 500 casualties. Only the 2000rd Battalion guarding the front line of the Jialing River had no casualties.As for the more than [-] corpses left by the enemy at the foot of Gongjia Mountain and in front of Longwanggou, the exchange ratio is about one to ten. If Huang Yin wanted to exhaust Chen Mingren's more than [-] people in this way, he might even take part in it himself.

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Behind the Sichuan Army's position, a clean-shaven middle-aged man in his 40s frowned and looked at the opposite line.He is quite thin, his eyes are drooping, and there is a vigor between his brows.He cursed at the people around him: "Fuck me, what kind of fight is this? I ran hundreds of miles here to hit the iron wall of others! Who came up with this bad idea?"

Several young officers of the Sichuan Army surrounded him, yelling and cursing as well.

"Master, this bastard bastard is probably that consultant Bao. I don't know what kind of magic he has used to confuse our Jin commander. He wants to meet the Kuomintang in a whimsical way! That's someone from Sun Dapao! The whole southern country Who dares to provoke? Even Beiyang's Marshals Wu Ziyu and Zhang Yuting don't dare to stroke Dapao Sun's beard, so let's rush here to die!"

"That's right, those people hide behind and don't show up, let us rush to the front, what is this called! Besides, Yang Zihui is going to the northwest to drink the northwest wind, so let him go! Why do we bother to die here for the surnamed Ma? Carry it? If you die, they won't say anything nice about us."

The bald commander turned out to be Deng Xihou's general Huang Yin. He looked at several subordinates around him and scolded with a smile: "It's fine to say this in front of me, but you can't spread it outside, you know? The military pay is for others, we eat Deng’s family food and wear Deng’s family’s clothes, now is the time to serve. You go back and encourage your brothers and tell them that the first person who rushes to Gong’s family mountain tomorrow will be rewarded with five hundred dollars and a promotion Level [-]. We must always be worthy of Jin Shuai's cultivation, so let's leave like this."

He glanced at the opposite hilltop again, thinking that he would do his best tomorrow, and if he couldn't do it, he would withdraw. At that time, they might not have a foothold in Sichuan for their Marshal Deng, and they would go to the north to wander.

Chapter 0200 Lingjiang Street or Siping Street? (two)

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the artillery shells of the Sichuan Army exploded in the front line of Gongjiashan.The shelling density this time was much higher than yesterday's. Seeing that the first battalion was blown up, sparks flew everywhere, and the smoke and dust were chaotic.From time to time, broken limbs were exploded and flew around.

Chen Mingren knew immediately that the enemy was going to fight desperately.It seems that the enemy has no way out, and now they have provoked a war against the Kuomintang. If they are defeated by the Kuomintang at their own gates, they will never have a foothold in Sichuan from now on.The intensity of the enemy's attack this time must be much higher than yesterday's. Thinking of this, he quickly sent an order: "Order Huang Jingfei (Deputy Commander Huang Guyu) to organize the engineering company, the supply company, and the regiment staff, and prepare to reinforce the front line at any time."

Before the smoke of the gunfire had cleared, the gray Sichuan Army brigade rushed over.Today's charge is indeed significantly different from yesterday's charge. From the very beginning, I charged with a dull head.But the formation is still maintained well, forming waves in teams.They didn't shoot randomly, only six heavy machine guns fired sideways to support them.Those who led the charge were all junior officers in woolen uniforms, with Western-style sabers drawn, and rushed to the front of the queue.

Qiu Qingquan also entered his artillery observation post at this time. This solid anti-aircraft bunker was hit by a 75mm shell in the shelling just now, but it was not serious, but a lot of dust was shaken off.Qiu Qingquan patted the dirt off his body lightly, set up the artillery glasses, and began to carefully search the enemy's artillery positions. He did not believe that the Sichuan Army's artillery now adopted indirect combat methods.Their artillery positions should be hidden somewhere in the woods below the mountain. As long as they are found, Qiu Qingquan is confident that they will be blown up to the sky, so that the pressure on the 68th regiment's positions can be greatly relieved.

The machine guns on the ground opened fire at the same time, and the sound of salvos sounded like a strong wind blowing on the battlefield. The 68 machine guns of the 1st Battalion of the 6th Regiment did not lose any of them in yesterday's battle. These machine guns imitating the Russian-made Maxim M1910 are indeed very sturdy, especially the front baffle and the two wheels below. It's genius design.It is difficult for the enemy's sharpshooter to injure the machine gunner through the baffle, and the two wheels greatly enhance the mobility of the machine gun, which can be transferred at the fastest speed to avoid shelling. The 6 heavy machine guns were like six devils spraying flames, sweeping away the swarming Sichuan army row by row.

The blocked Sichuan army's assault team did not retreat, but lay down on the ground one after another, using the terrain and features to keep crawling forward, and did not open fire until they entered the range of the rifles.The dense rain of bullets stirred up small columns of smoke on several machine gun positions.But that solid steel baffle was like a god of protection, tightly protecting the machine gunners behind it. The Sichuan army fired for a long time, and the six heavy machine guns did not stop roaring.The Sichuan army's first onslaught was once again blocked.

This battle has been fought from early morning to noon, and there is no sign of stopping.The Sichuan army's offensive wave after wave, even rushed into the position of the first battalion several times, but they were all driven out by the officers and soldiers of the 68th regiment with hand-to-hand combat.Every time when the Sichuan army rushed into the position, Qiu Qingquan would command the artillery to shoot continuously, blocking the troops that the Sichuan army followed.The reserve team organized by Huang Guyu also continued to provide reinforcements, and the wounded were also sent down continuously.At this time, the frontier of the position had long been piled up with corpses, but the Sichuan Army's battle today was also surprisingly tenacious. It charged eight times in one morning, and each time it was full of energy, screaming.

"How many shells are there?" Chen Mingren's peaceful voice came from behind, Qiu Qingquan looked back, and it turned out that the head of the regiment had entered the artillery observation post and was standing behind him.

Qiu Qingquan's face was covered with beads of sweat, and his military uniform was soaked through. He took out a handkerchief and wiped his face indiscriminately: "Originally, we brought two base numbers of shells, but now each cannon has destroyed 60 rounds. There are 20 rounds left, and I don’t know when the supplement will arrive.”

Chen Mingren went to the artillery mirror to look at the situation on the opposite side, and asked again: "Have you found the enemy's artillery positions? If we can destroy them, the battle will be assured. Commander Wu has sent an infantry battalion and division The supply battalion has brought us ammunition, and we will be there before dinner."

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At this time, on the top of the mountain opposite Gongjiashan, two blond and blue-eyed Russian guests were standing on a high place, observing the battlefield filled with gunpowder through binoculars.Another attack by the Sichuan army was repulsed by the opponent, and now it was pouring down like an ebb tide, and from time to time, the opponent's mortar shells exploded in the retreating crowd, creating gaps one by one.

"Comrade Brucher, how do you think the Kuomintang is fighting today?" The person who asked the question was tall and thin, his eyes were sunken in his eye sockets, and his face was a little pale. He was General Pavlov, the military advisor sent by the Communist International. .The burly Russian in his thirties standing beside him was the famous General Galen, whose real name was Vasily Konstantinovich Brucher.

General Galen nodded and said with a smile: "It's much better than I imagined. Their positions are very standard and German-style. It seems that the mixed-race general (An Sihua) has spent a lot of effort to teach them. Students. The shelling also uses indirect aiming, and it works very well. There seems to be an artillery observation post on the top of the mountain. They should be there to direct the shelling. They seem to have snipers in the army. Every time the Sichuan army attacks They retreated after all the junior officers in charge of the battle were killed."

"It's just a bit conservative, it seems that the willingness to attack is not strong enough." General Pavlov smiled, and said again: "They didn't adopt counter-attack tactics to expand the results after the opponent was repelled, they just sat in the position Shoot with a rifle. If this army wants to fight defensively, it should be no worse than our Red Army (Soviet Union), but if it wants to fight offensively, it may be far behind." Out of the weakness of the Kuomintang army, in these few wars, the national army always fought defensively and counterattacked, consuming most of the opponent's strength in the defense, and then fought back to decide the victory. It has never launched an offensive battle against an evenly matched opponent. .

General Galen sighed softly: "They are just the opposite of China's Red Army. One is good at fighting conservative defenses, while the other is bold and decisive in attacking. If the two are added together, they should be able to conquer the whole of China very quickly. Even if Japan wants to Intervention should have a good chance of winning, but it's a pity—" Galen shook his head and didn't continue.

Suddenly, groups of huge fireballs rose from the trees opposite Gongjiashan, and then the ground trembled slightly, and thunderous roars resounded throughout the battlefield.

"Damn it! They hit the artillery position of the Sichuan army!" Pavlov put down the binoculars in his hand, his face was a little ugly. He chose the hidden artillery position for Deng Xihou, but he didn't expect it to be knocked down by the KMT's cannon up.The weapons of the Sichuan army are very poor. The Bamen Mountain Cannon is Deng Xihou's heart and soul. It is estimated that it is a pile of scrap iron. The huge response just now should be the ammunition piled up on the artillery position.

"Look, their counter-assault has also begun." General Galen observed carefully through the binoculars. Hundreds of national army officers and soldiers jumped out of the position, quickly formed a charge formation, and moved towards the people who were stunned by the explosion just now. The Sichuan army swooped over.The two sides quickly twisted together and began a brutal hand-to-hand combat.The Sichuan army was obviously stunned by the condescending rush towards the enemy, and they only resisted weakly for a while, then dropped the corpses on the ground and retreated across the board.

The Sichuan Army, which had lost artillery support, seemed to have lost the courage to attack. After the ninth attack was repelled by a counterattack led by Chen Mingren himself, it was too late to organize the tenth attack.In the headquarters of the Sichuan Army, Huang Yin was pacing non-stop, his eyebrows were tightly knit together, and he cursed: "Ge Laozi! This is going to cost me money! Even the cannons are gone, How do you mess around in the future?" He knew that he would go to the north to wander in the future, and lived a miserable life with no money and no territory. Now that the only mountain cannon is gone, can it be that he can only rely on a few broken guns to find food? ?

"Urgent telegram! Commander, urgent telegram! It's from Commander Jin." A young staff officer ran into the headquarters in a panic, holding a copy of the telegram in his trembling hand, and murmured: "An accident happened in Mianyang, The troops in Mianyang are all gone, and now we are the only ones left, Commander Jin told us to retreat to Guangyuan as soon as possible."

Chapter 0201 way out?dead end? (one)

The Battle of Cangxi County made two people famous all over the world. One was Chen Mingren, the commander of the 68th Regiment of the National Army, and one regiment broke the Second Division!Defeated ten times the enemy.Immediately after the war, he was awarded the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal and promoted to Major General Commander. Wu Jianxue, the former commander of the 23rd Division, was also promoted to Hunan Security Commander because of his subordinates' contributions.

Another well-known woman is a famous woman, Ms. Sun Cen Biqing (Sun Shifu’s surname), a war reporter from the Central Daily of the Kuomintang. The film battled on the battlefield filled with gunpowder, recording the whole process of the rebel attack and the national army's heroic counterattack.The video materials she took will not only serve as valuable teaching materials for the Central Military Academy, but also serve as ironclad evidence for the investigation into the truth of the northern Sichuan incident!These film reels were quickly copied into dozens of copies, and they were screened in movie theaters in all big cities in the southern country. Hehe, that was a real war!Much more enjoyable than watching a drama.The so-called deception is false, and seeing is believing. The vivid images are placed in front of the people of the whole country. It is indeed Deng Xihou's Sichuan Army that is attacking the national army's positions!It is clear who is the chief culprit who ignored the severe drought in Sichuan, caused the people to live in dire straits, provoked the civil war, and even hindered disaster relief.

Since the evidence is conclusive and cannot be denied, the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee immediately made the punishment of permanently expelling Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Huang Yin and others from the party.On the same day, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government also issued a crusade order, ordering the Chongqing camp to send troops immediately to destroy the Deng and Tian rebels, recover Beichuan, and arrest the culprit!

At the same time, the major newspapers in the Kuomintang-ruled area also appeared on the stage one after another, published comments, and aimed all their firepower at Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao and other heroes in Sichuan.It is believed that they were the ones who provoked the successive years of war in Sichuan. In order to raise military expenses, these lawless warlords disregarded the life and death of Sichuan people and extorted money.What is even more hateful is that these people are not enough to harm the elders in their hometown. They actually plant poppies and sell opium. In order to obtain huge profits, they do not hesitate to poison the entire Chinese nation.Call on the national government to investigate these people to the end and punish them severely!Especially for the severe drought in central Sichuan and the period when the people are struggling to survive, the warlords who interfered with disaster relief must be arrested as soon as possible and handed over to the people of Sichuan for public trial!Give justice to 3000 million Sichuan people!

For a time, all the heroes of the Sichuan Army became rats crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat them.Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao and others who stood on the cusp of the storm became even more ants on the hot pot.At this time, almost all of their large territories in northern and northwestern Sichuan had been lost.In most places, basically as soon as the Kuomintang army arrived, the local people spontaneously swarmed up to drive out the bureaucrats sent by the warlords without starting a fight.In fact, these Sichuan warlords have indeed harmed the people of Sichuan over the years.Most of the land taxes on the territory of the Sichuan Army warlords have been collected for more than 100 years in the Republic of China, and many such as Liu Cunhou have been collected for [-] years in the Republic of China!

Guangyuan, an important town in northern Sichuan, is now the last site of Deng Xihou. The blue sky and white sun flag that has been hoisted for more than a month is slowly lowering. Now the North China and Northeast Political Branches of the Kuomintang have issued a statement, saying that they have never approved the applications of Deng Xihou and others to join the party.Accepting these Sichuan warlords into the party was entirely the initiative of the Hanzhong Party Headquarters and Yang Huchen, and now all those responsible have been punished.Therefore, this flag can no longer be hung up. Now Deng Xihou is discussing with Yang Angong and Zheng Youzhi who just arrived.

Guangyuan's headquarters is now gloomy. The warlords of the Sichuan Army who stabbed the hornet's nest are gathering in the conference room, looking at Yang Angong, Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, with expectant eyes.

"Secretary Yang." Huang Muyan was the first to stand up and speak. He said, "Now they don't recognize us as the Kuomintang. We are not surprised! In my opinion, it's better to simply raise the red flag and reorganize the army into the Red Army, so that they don't dare We are attacking Guangyuan!"

is this okay?Several Sichuan army chiefs looked at Yang Angong with eager anticipation in their eyes.This way is the best way out after repeated consideration by several people.Moreover, the Communist Party and the Red Army are so full of vigor and vitality. Presumably, as long as the red flag is raised, their army will soon be able to glow with new life, and the people will soon stand by their side.

Yang Angong sat on a grand teacher's chair, gently waving the folding fan in his hand, and complaining to Huang Muyan in his heart, as a member of the Communist Party, how could he be so disorganized, undisciplined, and talk nonsense?Let a few Sichuan warlords become the Red Army!It was whimsical to the extreme.Based on what they have done over the years, they can become the Red Army. What has this Red Army become in the eyes of the people of the whole country?

"This matter must be reported to the Central Committee and the Communist International for approval. We have no right to decide." Zheng Youzhi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "In fact, reorganizing into the Red Army is not the best way out. The discipline and rules of the Red Army are very strict. For example, the treatment of officers and soldiers, no matter how big the officer is, the monthly salary is only a few dollars, and the officer is not allowed to do business, nor can he buy land and collect rent, oh, even the concubine is not allowed to ask for it—” In short, Zheng Youzhi babbled I said a lot of "bad things" about the Red Army. Basically, the Red Army is extremely disciplined, unkind, and bitter.

It turns out that being a member of the Red Army is hard work!A few warlords thought that they were really blind this time, they just wanted to live a good life, but they chose to confront the Kuomintang head-on.If Yang Sen is going to the northwest to drink the northwest wind, let him go!Why bother blocking people's way?As a result, Dashuai Zhang in Beijing now flatly refused to appoint them officials.After some inquiries, they found out that Zhang Zuolin's General Counselor Yang Yuting was fooled by Zeng Qi into becoming a member of the Youth Party, and now he is an executive member of the Youth Party Central Committee!The leader of the youth party named Zeng is now the head of the newly established propaganda department of the Beijing government!

What should I do this time?The Kuomintang fired them, Beiyang didn't want them, and it was so hard to be a Red Army!Do you want to turn grass into bandits?

"Why don't we go to the wild!" Tian Songyao sighed softly. His army has been wiped out in Mianyang, and all the land has been lost. One has become a proletariat.He looked at Yang Angong again, and said: "I have no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth. Can your party let me go to Yan'an to escape?" He didn't want to be captured by the Kuomintang, if he really fell into their hands, Maybe I want to eat peanuts.

"No problem, please rest assured, General Tian, ​​we will guarantee your safety." Yang Angong sighed softly, and it was the result that the Central Committee hoped for this person to go to Yan'an to be a committee member. The important people brought out of the city have also become members of the Political Council of the Northwest Soviet Revolutionary Government, and it doesn't matter if there is one more Tian Songyao.Tian Songyao's problem is solved, and the next step is Deng Xihou's way out.

"The most difficult thing for us now is the funds!" Deng Xihou stood up, went to the table next to him, picked up the map, and spread it out in front of everyone.It was only then that everyone discovered that this was a military map of the Hanzhong area: "Sichuan will definitely not be able to stay there any longer. After thinking about it, I have to go out of Sichuan to develop in Hanzhong. I still have three divisions with 5000 troops. It takes 30 yuan to get through the border. To raise these funds, I need at least half of the land in Hanzhong, how about giving me 12 counties with Ankang as the center? I wonder if General Yang Huchen can agree?"

Deng Xihou didn't care what name he was playing for. What mattered to the survival of the army was military expenditure and territory. As long as there was land to scrape, the army could be maintained. Sooner or later, there would be a name.Now the territory can only be taken from Hanzhong, where Wu Xintian and Yang Huchen are now fighting. Wu Xintian has many soldiers and Yang Huchen is good at fighting, so the fight became a stalemate for a while.If Yang can get the help of Deng Xihou's Chuan army, he should be able to occupy Hanzhong, and then give half of the territory to Deng Xihou to raise troops.This is the only way out right now.

Chapter 0202 way out?dead end? (two)

But Nugang is sitting in a brand new car, on the way from Chongqing to Luzhou.Along the way, the field was completely dry, most of the seedlings were dead, and the rest were hanging half dead, only pieces of poppies were swaying in the wind.I don’t know when the army in Central Sichuan began to use the sale of drug ointment as an important source of military salary. The taxes extracted from opium and the huge profits obtained from the direct opium trade add up to no less than 3000 million a year. It has surpassed the salt tax and land tax and has become a veritable "economic pillar" of the Sichuan Army. At the same time, it has also filled the pockets of the generals of the Sichuan Army.But now, their good days will soon come to an end, because he Dan Nugang has been appointed by the Chongqing camp as the supervisor of Sichuan's smoking ban.

Seeing his thoughtful look, Chen Guzhi, the deputy sitting next to Dan Nugang, smiled and said, "Mr. Nu, the national government's ban on smoking is probably a serious move. Yunnan and Guizhou started to ban smoking last year." , Tobacco taxes and fines for tobacco seedlings have also been abolished, and now it is no longer a ban on taxation, but a strict ban on actual actions, and these rightists have finally done a good thing.”

No smoking is always a good thing, who dares to say otherwise?But Nu Gang sighed softly: "Rui Lin, this is their conspiracy to drive our people to a dead end with tax exemption and smoking ban!"

In addition to the ban on smoking, land tax was exempted for three years. The pretext was that there was a severe drought in Sichuan, and the warlords were in conflict with the people. In order to recuperate with the people, the national government decided to exempt the land tax for three years in Sichuan. The corresponding financial gap of the Sichuan local government will be subsidized by the Ministry of Finance.As soon as these two news came out, the whole Sichuan was naturally full of joy. The Sichuan people who had been exploited by the warlords immediately regarded Sun Yat-sen as the great savior and the red sun, and almost every household offered Sun Yat-sen's longevity tablet.Even the public opinion in the whole of China is applauded. In the troubled times of the Republic of China, we only heard of tax increases. How often have we heard of tax exemptions?

"There is a severe drought in central Sichuan, and the Sichuan army has sent more pre-conscripts year after year. Many such as Liu Cunhou have been conscripted for 100 years, and even Liu Ziqian and Lai Dexiang have been conscripted for 40 years since the Republic of China. Now the national government has exempted them for three years. Good governance for the sake of the Sichuan people? How did it drive us to a dead end?" Chen Guzhi still had a convincing expression, and he smiled again: "Our provincial financial gap will be subsidized by the Ministry of Finance. In fact, there are nearly 2000 million salt Taxes, as well as the commercial tax of the whole Sichuan, are almost enough for the post-training expenses and six years of free education."

"But what about the military expenses?" But Nu Gang frowned tightly, and he sighed: "Now Lai Dexiang has [-] soldiers, Liu Ziqian's army has expanded to [-], and the two together have [-] troops to support. The territory is just Chuanbian, Luzhou, and Fushun, so what is left now? There is no more opium, the land tax is exempted, and the salt tax is returned to the central government, so there is only a little commercial tax left, how much can there be?"

"This——" Chen Guzhi frowned, thought for a while, and then said: "Didn't it mean that the financial gap will be subsidized by the Ministry of Finance? Their army—" At this point, Chen Guzhi also shook his head. Pay Lai Cannon and Liu Wenhui?It's funny to think about it.

"Then Lai Dexiang and Liu Zigan won't ignore them?" Chen Guzhi immediately laughed again: "I don't think this conspiracy is very good. Now the territory is in the hands of our people. If our people don't listen to them, what can we do?" How about it?"

"How is it? Deng Jinkang and Tian Songyao will be kicked out of Sichuan?" But Nu Gang shook his head and said with a wry smile: "This time, Luo Yaoguo is probably hoping that Lai Dexiang and Liu Zigan will make mistakes, and he will have an excuse to use weapons .Now the Fifth Army, Seventh Army, and Eighth Army are all approaching Sichuan and Luzhou."