Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Zhao Hengti happened to be there too, but he didn't express his opinion lightly.From an emotional point of view, he and Wang Zhenyu are sworn brothers, so it is certain to help speak at this time.But it shouldn't be too obvious. If it arouses Tan Dudu's suspicion and rejection, it will not be worth the loss. After all, I am now living under Tan Dudu's banner.It is not advisable to smash your job just to beg for mercy.

However, Zhao Hengti is indeed a character. In the face of Cheng Qian's anger, he solved a big problem for Wang Zhenyu with a single sentence: "Tan Dudu, we are planning to abolish all divisions, especially this Wang Longzhong. The Baoqing Mansion is very big. A piece of land must be taken back safely. As for now, I personally feel that I should not make a big mistake because of a small mistake, and startle the snake, and mess myself up."

When Tan Yankai heard it, he immediately took it seriously, and then he said a word of comfort to Cheng Qian, and he was perfunctory.

So the provincial military government only issued a non-painful truce order, requiring both parties to return to their respective camps and not to cause trouble.I will no longer express any opinions and opinions on Hongjiang's affairs, as if it is very harmonious and healthy there, and nothing has happened.

In fact, neither of the warring parties took the order of the provincial government seriously, and various military deployments continued as usual. . .

Zhou Zefan soon received the news that the invading Ninth Brigade had only two regiments of more than 800 people.He was immediately laughed out of anger. Is the Tiger Brigade awesome?How dare you look down on people like this?In addition to the 6000 regular troops, there are [-] militiamen under my command. You must know that Hongjiang's militias are no better than the rogue militias in other places.And more importantly, because of the support of the merchants, the equipment of these militias is no less than that of the regular army.In this way, I have an advantage in terms of military strength, and I can do four against one. I am a serious non-commissioned officer student studying in Japan. If I can't win in this case, I should commit seppuku. .

Thinking of this, Zhou Zefan couldn't help but burst out laughing. Chief of Staff Yang Yusheng was very surprised: "Why is the commander laughing?"

Zhou Zefan laughed for a while, and replied very complacently: "I laugh that Wang Zhensheng doesn't know the art of war, and he doesn't know how to be a general. He dared to hold back in this kind of battle, and the 4000 troops were less than half. , It's ridiculous."

Yang Yusheng thought about it, yes, so he nodded in agreement.

At this time, Liu Qishan asked to see him, saying that he wanted to subsidize Commander Zhou Zefan Zhou's 50 yuan for the expedition. Of course, the reason was very good, Hongjiang City could not be a battlefield.Everyone's property is here, Commander Zhou, you are the patron saint of Hongjiang, and it is only reasonable to defend the enemy from outside the country.

Zhou Zefan thought about it too. He led Cai Juxian and Liu Xuyi's two regiments, six battalions, 800 people, plus 600 elites drawn from the regiment training office, and marched in the direction of the Ninth Brigade.And Yang Yusheng led three battalions of [-] people and [-] militia groups to stay behind in Hongjiang.

In fact, the news sent back by Zhou Zefan's scouts was correct. It was Hao Bing and Song Xianfu who were attacking Hongjiang along the official road. They each brought a regiment and three battalions. One thousand eight hundred people.What's more serious is the current state of the two colonel heads, a serious lack of confidence.However, Wang Zhenyu seems to have great confidence in them. In order to coordinate the relationship between the two departments, Wang Zhenyu appointed Wan Yaohuang as the war supervisor this time. As for whether this lieutenant colonel can supervise the battle between the two colonels, only God knows.

And Wang Zhenyu personally led the guard team, the teaching team, the secret service team, the reconnaissance team, and the advance team of the first battalion, under the leadership of the guide sent by the Hongjiang merchant gang, took a small road and ran all the way to Hongjiang across the mountains.

Zhou Zefan naturally didn't know this, although he was worried, but since Hongjiang had left three battalions and three thousand regiments to practice, even if Wang Zhenyu, a lunatic, really climbed the mountain, he didn't need to worry.

So his plan is to lead nearly 5000 people to fight in a mighty manner, and first defeat Wang Zhenyu, the main force of 800 people.As long as he defeated Wang Zhenyu, he would have one more Jingzhou Prefecture under his control, and Zhou Zefan's ambition to rule the roost was suddenly ignited.

According to this idea, the two armies started to move in the same direction, and encounters were inevitable.

The encounter took place in Ma'an Town, Huitong County, which is a full forty miles away from Hongjiang.

Since the scouts discovered the enemy's situation before the opponent and reported back in time, the Tiger Brigade took the lead and grabbed a favorable terrain.

By the time Zhou Zefan's men and horses arrived in mighty force, the Tiger Brigade had already completed their positioning.

Song Xianfu and Hao Bing didn't even need to think about it, they knew that there must be more people on the opposite side than their own.So when the scouts reported, they ordered all the ministries to form a defensive formation relying on Ma'an Town without saying a word.

The plan of these two people is very simple, that is to rely on the mountain to protect Ma'an Town, and drag Zhou Zefan here to complete the project.Wan Yaohuang shook his head dissatisfied with this, but he was just a war supervisor, not a commander in chief.Therefore, the only thing he could do was to insist that the second and third regiments deploy their defenses in a V-shape as usual. Li Hongkui's fourth battalion went out to the left to ambush, and Zhou Zhengming's seventh battalion went to the right to go out to ambush.Song Xianfu and Hao Bing agreed, it doesn't matter.

Even so, Wan Yaohuang was not at ease. He repeatedly told Li Hongkui and Zhou Zhengming: "No matter how many casualties you have suffered or how the battle situation is, you must firmly stay in your position. If you don't have a charge number, you are not allowed to attack. Listen! do you understand?"

Li Hongkui and Zhou Zhengming looked at each other, then saluted and replied: "Yes."

The other four battalions were responsible for guarding the bottom of the V-shape in Ma'an Town. Wan Yaohuang took a closer look. Although Song Xianfu and Hao Bing's combat command capabilities were terrible, they still had a good way of leading troops.The second and fourth regiments were quite capable of civil engineering work. In just half an hour, the second simple blocking position was completed.

But when Zhou Zefan took a look through the binoculars, he immediately burst out laughing. Cai Juxian, who was following him, was very puzzled: "The enemy is at hand, why is the commander laughing?"

Zhou Zefan withdrew his smile and looked back to Cai Juxian and said, "When I was studying in a military academy in Japan, the instructors told me that the most important thing for this army is its morale. But look, the Tiger Brigade on the opposite side only saw it." When they arrived at our army, they immediately put on a posture of defense and attack. What kind of tiger is this? It is clearly a paper tiger! Commander Cai, bring your brothers to charge and defeat them."

This Cai Juxian is not tall, but he has a tiger's aura on his body, he looks like an extremely fierce person.It can also be regarded as the number one general under Zhou Zefan's banner, and his qualifications are even higher than Zhou Zefan's airborne cadre.It's just a pity that Cai Juxian was from the old army. After being assigned to the new army, he was able to lead troops in western Hunan only by relying on the care of his old superior, Huang Zhonghao from Qianyang.In the previous campaigns to suppress the bandits in Western Hunan, this person was brave and brave, and made many military exploits. He is also a well-known character in the local area. The bandits in Guizhou have not dared to invade Hongjiang for ten years because of Cai Juxian.

As a result, Cai Juxian climbed to the position of standard authority. Unexpectedly, when the Revolution of [-] broke out, his biggest backer Huang Zhonghao was actually revolutionized.Losing his backer, Cai Juxian, who has a bleak future, had to choose to attach himself to Zhou Zefan, an officer who was sent to Japan who was seven years younger than himself, in order to make a living.

In the process of Zhou Zefan's taking over Hongjiang, Cai Juxian made the first contribution. He defeated the coalition composed of two bandit forces, the Yao family and the Tan family, who took advantage of the chaos to attack Hongjiang with 800 people. I had to escape from Xiangxi overnight to avoid the limelight.

Zhou Zefan also trusted and reused Cai Juxian very much, so this time the vanguard job was naturally given to him again.

The charging whistle was blown, and more than 200 Hongjiang garrison officers and soldiers launched the first wave of attacks on the Tiger Brigade.

If Wang Zhenyu was there, he would definitely feel that the scene in front of him is very familiar, because the fighting style of Cai Juxian's troops is very similar to the battle scene of the later American movie "Patriot".All the soldiers lined up and stepped on the drums, but it was a little different from the movie when they were less than 80 meters away from each other.Stepping in unison turned into a gallop, and the Hongjiang defense team pressed down very aggressively.

"Fire" Song Xianfu shot first after he finished speaking. After the Ninth Brigade went through Hanyang training and Nanjing reorganization, the biggest improvement was that the soldiers would no longer shoot indiscriminately.

In this era, due to the constraints of various factors such as cultural education and productivity levels, soldiers' shooting training is a mere formality.It is often impossible to get a live ammunition shooting training once a year, which also leads to inexperienced soldiers often shooting indiscriminately before the enemy has entered the effective range.Fortunately, the soldiers of the Ninth Brigade, relying on Wang Zhenyu's money and through sufficient training, have overcome this stubborn illness.

Neither Song Xianfu nor Hao Bing chose to throw grenades or use mortars at the first moment, because the brigade commander said that those are the bottom of the box, and they cannot be used casually until the last moment (Use it at the last moment, suicide? ).

However, under Wan Yaohuang's insistence, they all strictly implemented Wang Zhenyu's tactical training requirements during the training period in Nanjing, and arranged the entire defense line in a V-shape, or reversed character, relying on the favorable terrain of the mountains to face, Arrange the six battalions in your hands into three positions, forming an angle of fire, and opened fire on the enemy's attacking troops.

This tactic was repeatedly discussed by Wang Zhenyu and Wan Yaohuang, and combined with an article on the German tactics of World War I that I read on the Internet.At that time, the German army took advantage of the bush terrain to line up a company of German troops in reverse order. As a result, the French army of the same company suffered a devastating blow when they attacked. They felt that bullets were shot from all directions. There was no way to hide himself, and the casualties soared.What's more terrible is that the French army could not cause effective damage to the German army at all because they could not find the key attack point.

During the Nanjing reorganization period, Yang Wangui, Song Xianfu, Hao Bing and others did not take this tactic seriously at first, and even challenged it at one point.However, after three simulations, all ended in failure, and everyone finally accepted this defensive tactic.

This incident also made Wang Zhenyu sigh, the soldiers really deserve to be the most conservative group in the world, bar none.

Chapter 089 Hongjiang strategy (nine)

At the beginning, Cai Juxian laughed at the commander of the tiger brigade on the opposite side because he didn't know how to defend.But soon he couldn't laugh anymore. Hong Jiang's fierce attacking arrows were quickly hit by firepower from the front, left and right directions. They squatted down to fight back according to the code of practice, but they often fired only one shot, and they were shot. After firing several shots, the soldiers suddenly became confused.Someone shouted: "There are also enemies shooting from the back and sides..."

Cai Juxian is not a fool, he is a veteran who has been in the army for nearly 20 years.Immediately saw that there was something wrong with the Tiger Brigade's defensive formation, and they had to stop attacking immediately, otherwise the consequences would be very serious if their side collapsed.

As a result of this wave of attacks, the defense team was defeated in an ugly manner, with a lot of casualties, more than 70 people were killed in battle, and hundreds of people were injured.The casualties on the opposite side are not clear, but they are not estimated to be large. After all, how many casualties can be caused by hiding behind obstacles and firing?

Zhou Zefan was very angry when he saw that Cai Juxian retreated in defeat.Although Cai Juxian was quite a bit older than himself, Zhou Zefan, who became angry from embarrassment, still reprimanded him angrily, and then ordered him to continue attacking.

Cai Juxian had no choice but to go back and regroup his team, preparing to attack again.But although Cai Juxian has a wild temper, it doesn't mean that others are stupid.After thinking about it carefully, he ordered the regiment to be divided into three, and the two battalions attacked the two wings of the Tiger Brigade's V-shaped defensive position.

Cai Juxian also had foresight, and quickly saw the strength and flaws of this defensive tactic, and decisively divided his troops in response to this flaw.His idea is very simple, commanding an army to go straight to the point. As long as he can penetrate the bottom, this tactic will be cracked, and the triangle defense will directly become a separate battle. Bravery, it is not easy to eliminate these sick cat army.

If the commander of this battle is Xu Yuanquan or Yang Wangui, he will definitely make adjustments immediately in the face of Cai Juxian's desperate style of play.It's a pity that Song Xianfu and Hao Bing are fierce generals, and they didn't make timely adjustments according to the changes on the battlefield, so the Tiger Brigade couldn't hold it anymore, and the entire defensive position began to loosen.

The frontal position, which lost the support of firepower on both sides, did not form a concentrated firepower itself, and the distance from the enemy was quickly shortened. The soldiers began to feel nervous, but the long-term training made them choose to continue to reload and shoot.

However, the officers and soldiers of the Hongjiang garrison were obviously not bandits from Guizhou. Their tactical level was not low, and they quickly dispersed, constantly adjusting the impact point, and shooting against the Tiger Brigade according to the terrain.

The Tiger Brigade began to suffer casualties. Some Hongjiang garrison officers and soldiers broke through some areas and started hand-to-hand combat with the Tiger Brigade officers and soldiers guarding these areas. This is precisely the weakness of the Tiger Brigade. It was a disadvantage, and the entire front became precarious. Wake up, the battle has reached a critical moment.

Wan Yaohuang, who was standing in the rear and supervised the battle, saw the situation and was immediately annoyed. He found Song Xianfu and Hao Bing in three steps at a time: "Immediately counterattack across the board, or we will collapse across the board, hurry up!"

Song Xianfu and Hao Bing were also a little dazed at the moment, they were accustomed to obey when someone gave an order, regardless of the age of the other party?Job geometry?He picked up the shell gun and the big knife, and led the people to kill.

Fortunately, the trained soldiers didn't follow them to be stupid. Li Dachao, the first company commander of Hao Bing's Eighth Battalion, and Shi Yong, the squad leader of the sharp knife squad, nicknamed Shi Daudao, took the lead in throwing grenades at the garrison. The soldiers suddenly woke up and followed suit. . .

Cai Juxian was having a good time killing, and he was only tens of meters away from the bottom of the V-shape. He was about to muster his last breath and rush in, when he suddenly saw dozens of people jumping out from the opposite side, followed by dozens of small black trees. The handle flew over.Although he didn't know what these things were, Cai Juxian clearly felt a strong danger, his breathing became short of breath, and his heartbeat stopped suddenly.

Then there was the sound of bang, bang and continuous explosions. The [-] elite guards who were trying to attack this area were hit hard. Cai Ju sacrificed his life, and he was lucky enough not to be killed by the grenade when several guards pinned him down. .But he was also dizzy from the shock, so he naturally became a prisoner.

Zhou Zefan saw the situation ahead with a telescope, and before he had time to speak, Wan Yaohuang from the Tiger Brigade kicked the leader of the mortar platoon after driving Song Xianfu and the others out to fight back: "Fire right away, and shoot at the enemy in the distance." Fire at the military center, hurry up."

So the first test projectile landed less than 20 meters away from Zhou Zefan, immediately blowing up five or six soldiers.

Zhou Zefan suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He had seen this thing in Japan, a mortar. He didn't expect the Tiger Brigade to have this thing.

I was careless, I was careless, I obviously underestimated the enemy, and before I figured out the strength of the opponent, I recklessly pulled the team into the wild to fight, this time it was hard not to lose.

After all, Zhou Zefan was a regular military officer who stayed in Japan. His first reaction was to order his subordinates to fight back on the spot. At this juncture, he ordered to retreat. Waiting for his side will definitely be an unmanageable defeat. It is better to fight on the spot and see the opportunity again Retreat, after all, the power of mortars is limited.