Chapter 37 Linxi Decisive Battle (1)
"Col. Liu Jingxiao always has a kind of perseverance on his face. Although he didn't say much, he could immediately pluck everyone up the courage. The soldiers calmed down immediately when they saw him, and he always appeared in the most dangerous places. I think this is also a highlight of the Linxi Battle." (Excerpt from Li Jianshuang's "Linxi's Story to Defend the City")
Unlike his former colleagues who were arrogant and prestigious, although the memoirs of Company Li Jianshuang of the First Company are simple and unpretentious, they have a sense of fighting on the battlefield. They have no common problems in the so-called "revolutionary literature" of memoirs, and have always been praised by war history experts.
However, this is also a fact. When the Rouran attacked again, the figure of the emergency commander never disappeared. The entire Linxi City immediately killed the sky, and Liu Jingxiao could be seen riding his ocean horse back and forth.
Liu Jingxiao always ran to the most dangerous city gate to command the battle - except for the Nanguan guarded by Ruijun, this is not because Liu Jingxiao was full of confidence in the two battalions of Ruijun. On the contrary, Liu Jingxiao had little confidence in these old troops, but he was useless when he went there.
Chen Zhenlong came to Nanguan to command, and Liu Jingxiao's status was completely different from him. Although his status exceeded Chen Zhenlong in just less than four years, at this time, in Liu Jingxiao's heart, Chen Zhenlong's status was beyond his reach.
When Chen Zhenlong was imprisoning the formation in the south, the officers of the Rui army would certainly not obey his command, so Liu Jingxiao simply released Nanguan and focused on commanding his Dingbian Army.
We must say a fair word here. During the entire Linxi battle, the Rui army performed quite well. It was not the case that some Dingbian officers recalled that "dirty clothes, old equipment, nepotism, and low combat power". Without their courage and dedication, the strength of the Dingbian army could not defend Linxi at all.
Under Liu Jingxiao's personal supervision, the Dingbian Army can be said to have performed well. After all, Liu Jingxiao is the highest commander of the Dingbian Army in Linxi. He has both come to the front line with serious injuries. Of course, the morale of the officers and soldiers can be said to be good.
Even Bai Siwen Company, who was the most unbearable to fight, did not show that although the performance was not as described in "Bai Siwen's Memoirs", "the entire company was covered in wounds and had no timidity. I was also hit several bullets, covered in blood, and still went straight into the enemy's formation, attacked left and right, and returned several times...", but it was still acceptable, and there was no reason for fleeing without fighting. Of course, another reason was that they did not have to face the Rouran people to fight bayonets, but they only needed to shoot at the figures under the city. Even if a small number of Rouran infantry rushed up the city wall, they had an absolute numerical advantage.
But like the Dingbian Army, the Rourans' performance was also crazy. They first bombarded the city wall with heavy artillery, and the Rourans' heavy artillery seemed to have endless shells. The Dingbian Army could not stand at the city wall, so they had to retreat and leave a small number of infantry to observe.
Then there were the infantry swarming in. Rourans temporarily joined them with two ladders. Although they were not strong, they even had a tragedy that broke up on the spot and killed several people. However, they lost half of the effect of Linxi's originally towering city wall. Looking down from the city, they saw Rouran infantry everywhere, with people surging, and soldiers like ants rushed towards the city desperately.
At this time, the Dingbian Army, who had returned to the city, regardless of the casualties, and under the bombardment of cannons, shot down desperately, threw grenades, and stabbed Rouran soldiers who were about to jump onto the city with bayonets. However, the Rouran infantry was still attacking desperately, regardless of the mess of flesh and blood in front of them.
These Rouran warriors, who are not tall, do not care about casualties, and their fiery eyes are crazy, and they are the bravest warriors.
On the other hand, there were warriors carrying coffins in Rouran's formation. A coffin of the Dingbian Army was slowly moving forward in his eyes. Fortunately, although a coffin filled with fire exploded near the city wall, the city wall was still quite stable. Of course, Liu Jingxiao could not guarantee that it could withstand the next wave of explosions.
Liu Jingxiao looked at this scene at the top of the city wall, holding the command knife tightly with sweat, standing straight at the top of the city wall, cheering the soldiers loudly in her mouth.
In the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion, Liu Jingxiao had enough courage and ability, so of course he had the qualifications to command this battalion and had a harmonious relationship with them. Sometimes, they even said a few jokes to Liu Jingxiao during the intervals of battle.
At this moment, a shell fell on a dirt wall behind the city gate with a roar. The entire earth wall collapsed with smoke and dust, burying more than a dozen officers and soldiers under the wall below. Then several shells fell into the formation of the Dingbian Army one after another, causing considerable casualties. The soft people who rushed to the city watched the situation, all their morale was greatly boosted and they rushed up loudly.
The Rouran who was climbing the city also accelerated his hands and feet when he heard the Rouran's screams above and the Chinese screams. Faced with all this, Liu Jingxiao just stood up straight, but his heart kept beating. Several guards around him were panicked, and there were such panicked eyes in his sight.
At this moment, a man jumped out of the soil of the collapsed wall, without any rest, rushed directly to the enemy with the mud, shouting: "Kill!"
"A good tiger general!" Liu Jingxiao shouted in her heart. After a closer look, it turned out to be Duan Haizhou, another company commander of the Second Battalion.
With Duan Haizhou's suppression of the formation, the Dingbian Army also fought hard and finally defeated Rong Ranren on the city wall.
Liu Jingxiao was a little relieved, and only heard a shocking sound in the north city. The echo buzzed in his ears. When he looked back, he saw that the entire Beiguan was shrouded in smoke and dust, which was so shocked that Liu Jingxiao could not react for a moment.
When he realized that the killing sound of Beiguan stopped, but saw the black smoke covered the sky in Beicheng, and half of the sky was covered by this black smoke. Liu Jingxiao could only show as firm as possible and shouted loudly: "You guys guard! I'll go to Beicheng!"
As he said that, he ran down the city gate and rode a horse to the north city. However, what made him a little more open was that the familiar gunfire and killing sounds sounded again in the north city.
Chapter completed!