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Chapter Twenty-Four Eight Days of Hardship (8)

Although the war on the front line was urgent, it was not as fatal as Wanyan Yuzhuo's urgent telegram. First, he reported that Cheng Yune's brigade arrived in the Han Dynasty, and his troops began to occupy all key points in Wuhan City. Then Wanyan Yuzhuo reported that Cheng Lu had automatically entered various military camps in Wuhan City. In order to prevent accidents, Wanyan Yuzhuo sent a batch of arms and some personnel to the front line.

The troops in Wuhan were not strong enough. Cheng Lu had any abnormal movements, and these troops could not resist them at all. Liu Jingxiao quickly urged Wanyan Yuzhuo to step up inquiries about the news.

Then Wanyan Yuzhuo sent another urgent call to report that Cheng Lu had occupied the Hanyang Arsenal and the whole city was under Cheng Lu's control.

In less than half an hour, Wanyan Yuzhuo called again and said that Hankou Railway Station would come to drive several trains, and there were about one division on the train.

Wang Zichun sent a comforting telegram saying that he was urging Cheng Lu to support him and asked Liu Jingxiao to hold on for another two days.

Wang Zichun's telegram just arrived, and Wanyan Yuzhuo's telegram said that although Cheng Lu arrived in Wuhan, there was no trend that was not conducive to Wang Zichun for the time being.

Liu Jingxiao was temporarily at ease. The Hunan Army also received news of reinforcements. The attack was particularly crazy, so Liu Jingxiao then focused on command.

This is the first time that the Hunan Army used large troops to attack at night. The artillery fire made the night sky red. Liu Jingxiao could clearly see the entire outline of the entire mountain in the headquarters.

However, the Hubei army received news of the arrival of reinforcements, and the morale was also greatly boosted. In addition, the Hunan Army suddenly launched an attack, and many troops were not familiar with night combat, and some troops accidentally entered the minefield. The Hubei army forced the Hunan Army to repel the attack.

After the fierce battle in the middle of the night, when the sun shone on the ground, there were already hundreds of cold corpses on the ground.

Liu Jingxiao rode a horse back and forth between Zhao Liqiao and Yangloudong, and had almost no free time.

Thousands of Hunan troops rushed to the mountain bravely. The warriors in the straw shoes and hats seemed to have no idea what they had sacrificed. Even if the entire mountain corpse was surrounded, they rushed directly along the path of scattered corpses and into the rain of bullets.

The artillery of the Hunan Army was also very terrifying. As soon as they opened fire, everyone felt that this artillery was completely different the day before yesterday.

A twelve-pound artillery regiment of the Hunan Army, with a total of 36 heavy field artillery pieces, has arrived on the battlefield. In addition to the two artillery battalions that arrived temporarily, the Hunan Army has concentrated nearly a hundred artillery pieces to bombard the enemy indiscriminately.

Every moment, you can hear the familiar sound of fire popping out of the chamber, and soon you can hear the sound of shells explode.

The Hunan Army's shelling was endless. Almost every two or three bills, a shell fell to the ground, and the entire position was filled with deafening explosions.

Xiao Rulang moaned and repeatedly sent troops to ask Liu Jingxiao for help. Several positions on the front line changed hands repeatedly, so Liu Jingxiao had to ask the reserve cavalry battalion to launch a counterattack again.

Although the counterattack was quite effective, the cavalry battalion was also seriously injured and suffered heavy casualties. In order to save troops, the Hubei army was forced to shrink its defense line and abandon four hills. However, the Hunan Army's offensive continued to increase and impacted the fragile and strong defense line like a tide.

However, the telegram from Wanyan Yuzhuo said that Cheng Lu was still staying in Wuhan. Wang Zichun asked them to support the Yangloudong front several times, but they all refused.

At this time, Xiao Rulang Camp had been beaten to no strength, and he once again asked Liu Jingxiao that there was no complete company in the Cavalry Battalion, so Liu Jingxiao had to use Murong Xuehai's first regiment.

Murong Xuehai worked very hard because he had just expanded into a group. Several counterattacks caused heavy casualties and injuries on both sides. No one could bear the fatal intensive impact. The bodies of both sides were stacked higher and higher on several small hills. The northern man who fought to the death was unparalleled, holding a bayonet that shone cold and cold, causing the blood of the Southern athletes to flow.

However, after this assault, Murong Xuehai Regiment also suffered heavy casualties. The entire regiment originally had two battalions and sixth companies, but the current troops could only barely be organized into one battalion.

However, the troops were insufficient and there was no need to defend these positions, so the Dingbian Army once again shrank its defense line.

After this setback, the Hunan Army only stopped its attack slightly. After temporary adjustments, the Hunan Army soldiers once again made a frenzy of fighting shouts, accompanied by gunfire, cannons, and grenade explosions, mixed together.

The sound did not only sound for a while, but Yangloudong resounded throughout the day.

Although the Hunan Army paid unprecedentedly, the results of the battle were indeed fruitful. They captured more than a dozen hills in one morning, and the artillery of Mengding Kingdom was forced to transfer positions twice. As for the reinforcements that Liu Jingxiao wanted was still far away.

It was only noon that Wanyan Yuzhuo said that after Cheng Yune's brigade received a large sum of military pay and weapons and ammunition, he was satisfied with the intention of moving south along the Hunan-Europe Railway, but Wuhan City was still under their control.

As for the subsequent troops, they were clearly the most basic direct troops of the direct line: the Third Division of the CSKA. Wanyan Yuzhuo said in the telegram: "Like such strict military discipline, the military posture is like iron... Only the Third Division..." By the way, she mentioned that Cheng Lu blackmailed Wang Zichun, which was so heartbroken that Wang Zichun was so sad that Wang Zichun was so angry that she was now ready to go to the Supervisor's Office.

Liu Jingxiao quickly sent someone to inform the front line of the news that "reinforcements have set off". The morale of the Yangloudong defenders suddenly increased. The remaining troops of the Zhou regiment fought two consecutive counterattacks, and the Hunan Army was defeated.

However, the battle in Yangloudong was a little rested, and the Zhaoliqiao area was in a hurry again. The Hunan Army infiltrated a large number of infantry from both wings and gathered into three battalions to start attacking Zhaoliqiao Station.

Liu Jingxiao can't even transfer a row of soldiers now, and all she can use is the seventy or eighty cavalrymen of the cavalry company.

It turned out that almost all the troops stationed in Zhao Liqiao were transferred to the Yangloudong line to maintain the almost broken front. Chen Fangren's troops on the Xindi line also fought very hard. The Hunan Army used the powerful forces of two regiments this time to attack. Although they fought bloody battles, they could not hold on and could only fight and retreat.

Only the cavalry company was full of veteran cavalrymen who had been through military formations, Liu Jingxiao did not want to waste this precious combat power in the war of attrition, so she was temporarily left at Zhao Liqiao.

The cavalry company was indeed able to fight. It maneuvered several times and turned several times in front of the formation, causing great casualties to the attacking Hunan Army. Once, it even directly pierced the formation of a company of the Hunan Army. After a storm of silence, most of the soldiers of the company fell into a pool of blood.

But that's all. The Hunan Army has an absolute advantage in terms of military strength, and these casualties are completely possible.

The cavalry company suffered more than 20 casualties, which can be said to be very hurtful. Now that the Hunan Army is approaching Zhaoliqiao Station, it is ready to take Liu Jingxiao's headquarters in one fell swoop.

However, Liu Jingxiao was really calm. She looked at the Hunan Army's army in the telescope, and looked very calm and began to arrange defense.

Now we cannot draw one soldier and one soldier from the front line. If we transfer troops, we may collapse, but we cannot retreat. Once we retreat, the entire front line will be over.

Now I can only rely on dozens of comrades and some minor wounded personnel from Zhao Liqiao Command. However, Liu Jingxiao was completely unsure and could only say that she had tried her best. She hoped that the Hunan Army's offensive would end as soon as possible and that the front line could mobilize troops to remove the siege in the rear.

Just as the Hunan Army was about to win, the goddess of victory regained the Hubei Army.

A train roared into Zhaoliqiao Station at the highest speed. When the Hunan Army saw the train arrive, they also launched a desperate attack.

But before the train could stop, a snow-white military horse jumped out of the carriage. With a wave of his sword, he ran towards the Hunan Army's attacking master. With his handsome cavalry uniform and the handsomeness of his master, he was really indescribable heroic. He followed more than twenty cavalry and jumped out of the carriage directly. The neat voice of "The Rule of the Rule" overshadowed everything on the battlefield.

Liu Jingxiao looked at all this and was stunned. At this time, the carriages were all opened, and a large number of infantrymen came out to join the battle. The small team of light cavalry did not attack the front of the Hunan Army, but cleverly attacked the side under the leadership of the leader's cavalry. The Hunan Army quickly changed its formation.

Seeing that the cavalry returned in vain, they turned back one after another. Liu Jingxiao looked carefully at the beautiful face of the leading knight. It was Ding Ning. She was shocked. At this time, a familiar voice shouted: "Jingxiao!"

Liu Jingxiao looked back and found that it was his old comrade Duan Zhijie. Liu Jingxiao immediately pointed to the leader of the knight and said, "Is that really Ding Ning?"

Duan Zhijie nodded: "Yes! She is the most talented cavalry officer I have ever met!"

This is completely different from what Duan Zhijie said a few days ago. Duan Zhijie was so angry that she wanted to quit her position as deputy battalion commander of the replenishment camp.

I didn't expect that this sentence came today, which really tasted like "I will fight with me yesterday." However, this team of cavalry is already quite skilled in riding skills. I don't know if it is Duan Zhijie who can really teach it or because of Ding Ning's extremely talented personality.

Ding Ning's riding skills can be said to be quite good. It takes no effort to control the military horse. He rode in front of Liu Jingxiao and stopped the horse, restored the sword, and handed a military salute to report, saying, "Ding Ning, the commander of the cavalry company of the training camp, took the entire company to report!"

After standing there for a long time, Liu Jingxiao returned the military salute and said, "Very good!"

Ding Ning raised his chest and raised his head immediately, his heroic posture was not diminished, which really made many beards ashamed. Liu Jingxiao saw that she had a shiny military emblem on her military cap and turned around and said to Duan Zhijie: "Okay! With this kind of demeanor, I really deserve your military emblem!"

Most of the Ding Ning's entire company are still wearing infantry uniforms, only Ding Ning wears a cavalry uniform. The iron-blooded Eighteen-Star military emblem on the hat is also Duan Zhijie's beloved thing.

At this time, both sides were still in the process of resumption, but the Hunan Army discovered that a large number of reinforcements had come from the Hubei army, and immediately stopped the attack, reorganized the troops outside the Zhaoliqiao Station, and was ready to go.

However, with such a new force, Liu Jingxiao's headquarters can rest assured for the time being. Seeing that Duan Zhijie brought a large number of troops, Liu Jingxiao asked: "Zhijie, how many troops have you brought here?"

Duan Zhijie replied: "There are 460 people in total, 26 military horses, 200 tons of weapons and ammunition, and 40,000 yuan in cash."

Liu Jingxiao was shocked. Unexpectedly, Wanyan Yuzhuo actually sent so much baggage.

It turned out that Wanyan Yuzhuo went to the Governor's Office to wander around every day in the past few days, either asking for military pay or requesting supplies of food and ammunition. As long as Wang Zichun said a little, Wanyan Yuzhuo said: "The front line can't stand it anymore, and it seems that he has to go back to Wuchang and make plans..."

Wang Zichun had no choice but to pull his hair down. He thought that after Cheng Lu arrived in Wuhan, he could kick Liu Jingxiao away. Unexpectedly, all the crows in the world were white, and Commander Cheng opened his mouth wider than Mrs. Liu.

Seeing that Cheng Lu was in a strange way, Wanyan Yuzhuo took the lead in sending the arms accumulated over the past few days to the front line together with Duan Zhijie's retraining camp.

When Liu Jingxiao left Wuhan, there were only more than 200 training camps. However, these days, exiled warriors in society came to surrender, thus reaching their current scale.

However, then there was a telegram proving that the woman was not a slight belly. Wanyan Yuzhuo sent a telegram saying that she had tried to send a truck of supplies to Liu Jingxiao, but Zhijun controlled the train station and refused to send it.

Liu Jingxiao was very angry, so she first called Wang Zichun to ask him for justice.

When they learned that the Hubei army had reinforcements, the battle on the front line only stopped for a while and started the battle again. That afternoon, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and Liu Jingxiao's troops could no longer find a complete company.

Even after repelling three attacks, the three infantry companies suffered more than 30% casualties. The battle situation in Yangloudong became even more intense. Liu Jingxiao's troops gave up more than a dozen hills in succession, and most of the front line in Yangloudong was occupied by the Hunan Army.

The Hunan Army continued to attack until the evening, and the front-line troops could only barely maintain a fragile line of defense.

At this time, the rear reported that the reinforcements had arrived at the Cha'anling line. Liu Jingxiao quickly asked someone to shout in front of the formation: "Our reinforcements have arrived... Don't fight anymore... It's useless to fight again..."

The Hunan Army was still continuing to attack at first, but after confirming the news, it stopped its large-scale attack and began to shout for Dingbian Army to surrender. Liu Jingxiao quickly sent people to ask reinforcements to come up to help the war.

The reinforcements replied very late that they had sent troops to attack on the left wing. Liu Jingxiao was very happy and the cadres were also very excited. They felt that the opportunity for counterattack had been reached. Ding Ning and Guo Junqing were careful and the two took Ding Ning's cavalry company to run around the left wing.

"There is not even a rabbit..." When Liu Jingxiao heard this news, she became anxious and sent someone to urge reinforcements to attack quickly.

As a result, the reinforcements said that they had indeed sent troops to attack on the left wing. This time, Liu Jingxiao went to the left wing to observe it personally, and the result confirmed that Ding Ning was very brave and dared to lie about the military newspaper. There were indeed a few rabbits on the mountain, but there were only rabbits - the reinforcements were not one soldier or one soldier.

"You guys send troops up..."

"Our troops are in the process of fighting with the Hunan Army..."

"We really can't stand it..."

"Our troops have arrived..."

The negotiations were repeated overnight, but there was no result. The next day, the Hunan Army saw that the reinforcements had no movement and did not dare to fight, so they attacked them with small troops. However, at this time, the Dingbian Army had already suffered losses and suffered too much loss. When the troops saw that the situation was wrong, they gave up the mountain. As a result, four or five more mountain peaks were lost in the morning.

"Our forward has arrived in Hunan..."

"Our troops set out right away..."

"My journey came because of a long journey and needed some rest..."

"Come up and support immediately, please rest assured brothers from Hubei!"
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