auspicious baby

The day is long and the night is long, and in a blink of an eye, it is another year of hot summer.

The military and political situation is very tense.

The pre-station meeting was held every day and night, and the air was full of smoke.

Between the Beiyang Army and the National Army, World War I was inevitable.

General Tang and Gu Zhang had a big festival, since his daughter divorced, he suppressed Gu Zhang everywhere.General Tang vetoed the strategic deployment proposed by Gu Zhang, and the two quarreled fiercely in the conference hall.

General Tang, who had not uttered dirty words for 800 years, was forced to break his precept by this former son-in-law.

So from the meeting hall, Gu Zhang was bitten like a mad dog, and in the market, he yelled at Gu Zhang. It probably boiled down to him being an armchair strategist, which was unrealistic.

Of course, personal emotions also account for the majority.

Of course, Gu Zhang would not be courteous, and he fought tit-for-tat with tongue-in-cheek rhetoric, which made General Tang furious. If he could see his anger, the city tower would probably burn down.

Whether it is tolerable or unbearable, besides, General Tang didn't intend to bear it at all. It would be no good for Xie to fight with him, so he simply fired his gun and put a cold cock on Gu Zhang's forehead.

General Tang was so focused on how to collapse Gu Zhang without leaving any future troubles, he didn't pay attention to what was behind him, when he suddenly felt that his trousers were being torn, he instinctively kicked back, when his feet touched, there was a soft ball, at that moment, kicked The foot that went out turned a corner and withdrew its strength, so the old man seemed to be twitching and had a leg spasm, he couldn't control his balance well, and in front of his subordinates, in front of the crowd watching the crowd eating melons, he fell like a bastard , on all fours.

Just when the old man was about to turn into a rage, his neck was wrapped in a ball of flesh, and a drop of halazi dripped on General Tang's forehead. He couldn't express his temper, like a firecracker soaked in water, smoking, but his voice was hoarse.

With a snap, Gu Bei kissed General Tang's face, the saliva imprinted on his face, the wrinkles carved by the knife instantly opened his eyes and smiled, hugged Gu Bei and kissed him again, Gu Zhe also moved closer, General Tang kindly kissed him. He pushed it away. According to General Tang, although Gu Zhe is also his grandson and loves her very much, he looks too much like his father, and he can't accept a reduced version of Gu Zhang to act like a baby to him.

Gu Zhe kept fighting against General Tang's hand, insisting on sticking it up, pushing and shoving him a few times like playing Tai Chi, Gu Zhe sat on the ground with his buttocks flattened in aggrieved manner, Gu Zhang saw that he was about to cry rhythm, scolded, "Don't cry!"

"Can you control it?!" General Tang hugged Gu Bei, patted the dust off his body, and said to Gu Zhang coldly.

At the beginning, General Tang was stubborn and refused to take these two little guys, but his heart ached terribly, so he sent people to take the children to the mansion every now and then.

As a result, the two little brats didn't learn anything else, and were spoiled by him with a bad temper.

Gu Zhang said silently in his heart, don't get angry, don't get angry.

But General Tang still insisted, "Zhe'er, cry!"

Gu Zhang gave Gu Zhe a warning look.

For a little boy who is just learning to speak, the set of observing the words and watching the mood is completely playing the piano to the cow. Gu Zhe can't understand it or understand it, but he knows that these two people have murderous looks on their faces, and they are so fierce that they are going to die. It's good, I already forgot to cry Gu Zhe, standing in front of the two of them, was crying so loudly that a child's voice was clear.

While crying, Gu Zhe clumsily rushed towards the crowd, running so small that his body twisted and twisted. He hugged the man's calf and called uncle, uncle vaguely.

Baoxiang, who was hiding in the crowd, looked at Gu Zhang, then at General Tang, smiled awkwardly, and got up to Gu Zhe, coaxing him.

General Tang actually didn't have much hostility towards Baoxiang, nor did he have much affection for him. As a man, he also knew that it was okay to be sneaky once in a while. For someone who came here, he would throw away his wife directly like Gu Zhang, and when he threw away his favorite jewel, Then Gu Zhang can't forgive, so the fault is on Gu Zhang, the so-called wronged has a head and a debt, if you want to vent your anger, of course you have to find your enemy Gu Zhang.

But he has to admit that Gu Zhang is capable, but people are contradictory. On the one hand, he hates him, but on the other hand, he appreciates his talent.

However, after all, there is a knife and a fire, and he, Tang, still has a little heart, so for a while, he just controlled the strength to suppress, and he hasn't really done anything.

Gu Bei in his arms twisted a few times, and spat out each word in a childish voice, "Hungry, hungry."

General Tang lifted her up a few times, "Let's go, let's eat rice noodles, okay, sweetie."

Gu Zhang had never heard this man over half a century speak in such a tone, so he was not frightened, and his heart ran a few horses.

General Tang carried Gu Bei away, then remembered that there was another Gu Zhe, pointed to the guards beside him, and didn't care that Gu Zhe was pulling Baoxiang's clothes, crying like he was dying, and refused to leave, so he just hugged him .

That night, General Tang rode a wooden horse with his two little grandsons all night. He was in a good mood. He picked up Gu Zhang's combat strategy and read it. Consent passed.Gu Zhang is probably the only time he entrusted his child's blessing, and was nominated by General Tang as his division commander to participate in the battle.

After repeated discussions at the pre-war meeting, it was decided to form eight armies, and General Tang personally served as the commander of the Eighth Army, and Gu Zhang was appointed as the first division commander of the Eighth Army.

Gu Zhang received an urgent military order to go north to attack Wuhan, so he only asked someone to send a message to Baoxiang, and then hurriedly embarked on the expedition.

Hongqiao Town was a small town on the Guangdong-Han Railway line at that time. Hongqiao Town was bounded by the Red River. It was the southern gate of Beining and the key pass to Wuhan.

In the town, people went to nothing, and it became an empty city.The wind is blowing, blowing the broken window leaves, crying like a ghost.

In the east of the town, there are relatively steep and undulating hills, the highest of which is called Leigong Mountain, and the enemy's position is located on this hill.

The Red River twists and turns from southwest to north across Hongqiao Town, and flows along the west foot of the hill. Whenever there is a flood, the whole town is surrounded by floods on three sides. The water is deep and the harbor is wide. Even part of the street is flooded. People have to pass through Still need to wade through the water.

A vast expanse of ocean.

The geographical advantage is fully occupied, thus forming a natural barrier to the west of the enemy's position.

The only thing that can lead to the enemy's position is an iron bridge on the Guangdong-Han Railway from west to northeast, but it is tightly blocked by the enemy's firepower and is difficult to cross.

However, on the southeast sides of the enemy's position, the terrain is relatively high and has not been flooded.

Although the enemy has the advantage of being condescending, the Northern Expeditionary Army needs to take the risk of attacking from above, but after all, there is no difficulty in blocking the water, and Gu Zhang feels that it is possible to form a formation here to attack the enemy.

In order to prevent the Northern Expedition from advancing northward, the enemy concentrated [-] troops in the Hongqiao area, including the remnants who fled from the Miluo and Yueyang lines in Hunan, as well as the enemy troops who fled from the Pingjiang and Tongcheng lines, as well as reinforcements from Wuhan. coming enemies.

In terms of strategic layout, take the No.15 Division of the Sixth Army and the Third Division of the Fourth Army as the right wing, and attack the enemy from the east to the south-central line; take the No.12 Division and the 25th Division of the Seventh Army as the left wing, from the south-central to the railway Attack the enemy on the front line.Taking General Tang's Eighth Army as the general reserve, before attacking Hongqiao, the Eighth Army intercepted the second regiment of the enemy retreating to Hongqiao at Guan Zonggang on the seventh day of August, and captured more than 400 officers and soldiers below the regiment commander. People, the first to make military exploits.

In the early morning of the 26th, the No.15 Division of the Northern Expedition Army took the No.30 Fifth Regiment as the vanguard, followed by the Eighth Army, Artillery Battalion and Division Headquarters, and set off from Guan Zonggang to attack Hongqiao.At the same time, the No.12 Division of the Northern Expedition Army, with the No.30 Regiment as the vanguard, the No.20 Ninth Regiment as the middle road, the 28th Regiment Artillery Battalion and the reserve team, set off from the mountain gorge in turn and marched southwest of Hongqiao. The No.30 Sixth Regiment Starting from Shikengdu, with its first battalion as the forward, advance to the right wing of Hongqiao.

The top soldiers of the No.12 Division No.30 Fifth Regiment of the Northern Expedition Army arrived at the enemy's outpost Gaozhushan. The two sides exchanged fire, and the Battle of Hongqiao officially started.

At this time, the enemy wanted to retreat to the east of the railway bridge. The No. 30 Fifth Regiment was blocked by the enemy's machine guns and could not cross the railway. The two armies faced each other across the river.

Seeing the situation, General Tang decided to change the deployment of the army. The No. 30 Fifth Regiment was replaced by the No. [-] Fifth Regiment with Gu Zhang's First Division as the vanguard and stormed with firepower.

At noon, Gu Zhang led the 12st Division across the Red River from the upper reaches and arrived at the area near the highland southeast of Hongqiao. Advance quickly, and extend to the right wing of the 30th Regiment with the No.20 Eighth Regiment and No.12 Seventh Regiment. It turned out that the No.[-] Division was difficult to advance because the enemy was condescending and strafing vigorously. Reinforcements arrive, and then the two go hand in hand.

So, in just one day, after forming a half-moon encirclement of the enemy's position, the attack began, and the artillery also began to attack the enemy in the front. After a fierce battle all night, the army made no progress, and the two armies formed a stalemate for a while.

Gu Zhang wiped his face with dust, leaned on the ground in the twigs, put on a binoculars, lowered his voice and said to Qian Yin, "Notify Li Chuan to send a telegram requesting a night attack across the board to break through the enemy's high ground."

Enemy reinforcements are entering Wuhan, and they are coming soon. Although the National Revolutionary Army has strong morale, it is poorly equipped;At this time, if the enemy's reinforcements arrive, the Northern Expeditionary Army will inevitably fall into a passive position, and the battle can only be resolved quickly.

At twelve o'clock in the night, several divisions approached the enemy's position in the dark, and the enemy's guns continued. The central position of the army occupied several enemy positions and won several favorable strongholds for the general offensive.

In the early morning, the Northern Expeditionary Army launched an offensive across the board, and the third division joined the battle.

At this time, the enemy organized counterattacks several times in an attempt to regain the lost ground, but the first division fought back bravely, but failed.

After two hours of fierce fighting, Leigong Mountain and Hongqiao Town were successively occupied by the Northern Expeditionary Army. The enemy line broke up and began to retreat towards the southwest Chengguan. Some of the enemy troops were intercepted and disarmed by the 28th Regiment.

At [-] o'clock in the morning, the [-]th Division of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the left faced the enemy across the railway bridge and implemented a plan to attack the enemy's back.Under the guidance of the local people, when Gu Zhang arrived at the railway in the southwest corner, the enemy army was retreating in an orderly manner. After a sudden attack by the first division, it suddenly turned into a rout, and part of the enemy army was disarmed.

In the Battle of Hongqiao, the Northern Expedition Army captured 250 seven enemy officers and 290 soldiers, and seized a large number of guns and ammunition.