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Section 77 Suppressing the rebellion (5)

There are always accidents in the battle. The Huangpu artillery on the Flying Eagle ship perfectly copied the shell that deviated from the target. The shell deviated from the target, but accidentally hit the German ammunition storage warehouse, causing tens of thousands of shells to storm, resulting in the failure of the German army on the Verdun battlefield. Fired on the warship is completely different from firing on the warship. Every shot on the warship will cause fluctuations in the hull, and each gun needs to be re-tuned. Even Qiqi Banruov didn't understand this. Therefore, although the artillery on the Flying Eagle ship was very hard, they forced Chen back in a mess, and accidentally sent a shell to the front enemy commander-in-chief of the Shipai Army. What's more coincidentally, the shrapnel after the explosion killed Zhao Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of the front, and the two officers who fell beside him were only seriously injured, and the others in the room were unscathed.

But the panic and chaos caused quickly spread. After Yang Ximin was taken out of the command center, the wind on the sea made his mind clear. He suddenly struggled, "Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!"

The guard let go of his hands and then warned around him vigilantly. Yang Ximin knew that he could not just leave like this, and the people below would scatter as soon as they walked, and the headquarters collapsed, so the fate of Longyan Cave could be imagined.

"Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff!" Yang Ximin shook his head and let some distracting thoughts go out of his mind. He felt a little tired, but he still tried hard to cheer up and make himself look more energetic.

The Chief of Staff ran and slapped the dust on his body. His hat had been thrown away, revealing his slightly bald head. Yang Ximin waited for him to come over, but he ignored his etiquette. Then he said in a hurry: "Preserve the Longyan Cave, at least you must guard the Shougouling, and you must guard it. I will go back to the city to dispatch reinforcements for you."

"yes."

After Yang Ximin said that, he turned around and hurried towards Guangzhou surrounded by the guards. Without taking two steps, the team stopped again. Yang Ximin ordered the guards to take Zhao Chengliang's body with him.

The Chief of Staff looked at Yang Ximin who was leaving, turned around and saw the chaotic command center, and felt a little desperate. How to defend it? His mind was confused.

Yang Ximin returned to Guangzhou. He did not return to the Eight Banners Hall of the General Headquarters, but went to the provincial council to bury Zhao Chengliang's body. He hurriedly left without waiting for the coffin to be sealed. It was almost dusk and there were no people along the way. Guangzhou citizens hid at home, waiting for the end of the war.

On the street, you can occasionally see soldiers from 3355. These soldiers were obviously defeated soldiers from the front line. They looked panicked, their hands were empty, and their eyes were nervous. When they saw Yang Ximin's guards quickly hid in the alley.

The people in the headquarters were panic, and what disappointed him even more was that the chief of staff who stayed behind the headquarters was unaware of the situation on the front line, all the phones were not connected, power and water were cut off, the train stopped, the car stopped, and the people sent out to contact had not come back yet.

After listening to the Chief of Staff’s report, Yang Ximin was angry and anxious. He kicked the chair in front of him and shouted furiously: "Catch them up, arrest them, shoot them, shoot them, these red bandits and troublemakers." No one moved in the house, and they had already hidden themselves, so they went there to catch them.

"Where is Zhou Zide? Where is Zhou Zide? Where did he run?" Yang Ximin asked after a few rounds. Zhou Zide was his confidant and the Guangzhou garrison commander appointed by him. Now he has not seen the garrison commander in the commander.

The Chief of Staff said in embarrassment: "I don't know where he went. Before leaving, he said he was going to check the city defense. I sent someone to search, but I couldn't find it."

Yang Ximin's heart was cold little by little. Zhou Zide was likely to have escaped. Judging from the gunshots, the battle was approaching Guangzhou City. Liao Xingchao was in the west gate, Liu Zhenhuan was in the north, and the cannon sounded in the area of ​​Shugouling. Zhou Zide was originally the principal of the military cadre school. Although he was the commander of the garrison, he had no soldiers under his command, only more than a thousand students and students in the cadre school. Yang Ximin immediately had a glimmer of hope. Organizing these more than a thousand students is also a combat force. He can reinforce Shugouling in times of crisis. In his heart, the longan hole cannot be defended.

Yang Ximinyuan did not expect these students to go to the front line, but just hoped that they could maintain the orders in Guangzhou during the war, but now they have become his last force.

"Where are the students and children in the cadre school? They didn't run away." Yang Ximin asked in hope.

"No, they are still in the school," Yang Ximin's face showed a hint of joy. The Chief of Staff's next words immediately made him fall into an ice cave: "However, they issued a statement expressing their support for the base camp and oppose the commander-in-chief; the same is true for the students in Commander Liu's Gui Army Officer's School."

"What?" Yang Ximin couldn't help but widen his eyes. He didn't understand that he was good at these students and was much better than those of the Whampoa Military Academy. Why did they oppose him at such a critical moment? His anger then destroyed his reason: "We raised a group of ungrateful wolves! ungrateful wolves! I'll send a group of ungrateful wolves back and suppress them first. These ungrateful wolves." Yang Ximin was furious. Not only could he not become his power now, but he also had to mobilize troops to defend them, so as not to cooperate with the base camp.

"Commander, calm, calm, they are all members of the Youth Army Association. Commander-in-Chief, we were fooled by others." When the Youth Military Federation came to the Military Cadre School to develop members, they didn't know, but they didn't care.

A group of dolls were just joining in the fun, but I didn't expect... I regret it now.

"If the commander doesn't transfer troops, they may just stay verbally support, at most, that is, armed neutrality, and we can transfer troops from that line."

Yang Ximin sighed helplessly. He knew that the Chief of Staff was right. Not to mention a regiment, it was impossible to transfer one battalion and one company.

Failure, stepping down from the world appeared alternately in his mind. There was no hope for him to leave the world. A voice seemed to say in his mind. But when he thought of the feeling of leaving the world, he was unwilling to accept it. From Xinhai to the present, the more than ten years of fighting in the south and north were all over the country, and he was deeply unwilling to accept it.

In the Silence Meeting, Yang Ximin looked up and said to the Chief of Staff: "It can't be done like this. I guess Longyan Cave can't be defended anymore. If you organize forces to reinforce Shougouling, you must defend Shougouling and Baiyun Mountain. I will go to Xiguan to find Liao Xingchao and see what's going on there. I don't believe that a group of students can knock me down."

"Yes." The Chief of Staff agreed, but his tone and expression showed that he had no confidence.

Yang Ximin boarded his Citroen sedan and ran towards Xiguan under the escort of the guards. There were more and more defeats along the way. When he arrived at Liao Xingchao's command center in Xiguan, he found that the command center was empty, and the file map was thrown all over the ground, and the tables and chairs were turned over and over.

Seeing this, Yang Ximin sighed, the tree fell and the money scattered. Before my tree fell, the money scattered had already scattered. Suddenly, he seemed to have been aged for ten years and staggered back to the car. The captain of the guard asked him where he went. Yang Ximin was confused, where else could he go? Shamian, he murmured.

Shortly after Yang Ximin left, Longyan Cave was lost, and the assault corps that landed almost at the same time also attacked Shipai. The enemy troops of Shipai immediately retreated to Shahe. Chiang Kai-shek immediately entered Shahe. The army failed to organize an effective defense line in Shahe. After half an hour of battle, the rebels broke through Shahe and retreated to the last line of defense in Shugouling.

Chiang Kai-shek attacked Shougouling in three ways, with Chen Mingshu's troops on the northern route and Wu Tiecheng's troops on the central route, while the main force was the party and commando team on the southern route. However, Chiang Kai-shek's efforts were wasted, and the army had completely collapsed. Shougouling resistance was only symbolic. Senior officers rushed to escape into the Shamian Concession. The low-level officers could not find the situation of the senior officers and quickly made a living. The soldiers left their bulky swarms and fled into Guangzhou City, and then ran around in Guangzhou City. The party army followed and chased, rushed into Guangzhou from Huiai East Road, and headed straight to Yang Ximin General Headquarters of the Eight Banners Hall.

No one expected that the Gui army, which once dominated Guangdong, was completely destroyed in just three days after the war started. Except for the senior officers who fled into the Shamian Concession, all the other nearly 30,000 people were captured, including the commander of the Third Army, Hu Sishun. Hu Sishun's capture was like a comedy full of unexpected elements.

Hu Sishun was indeed as greedy for Huizhou's finances and taxes as Yang Ximin thought, and did not return to Guangzhou in time. However, it should be said that he did not intentionally. According to his calculations, if the party and army returned, he would still have enough time to evacuate from Huizhou, because Huizhou was much farther away than Chaozhou. But he did not expect that the party and army secretly returned to the army and were not discovered until Tamsui. Then his withdrawal was delayed by strikes, the railway was blocked and the ships were blocked, so he could only walk slowly. By the time of Guangzhou, the gunfire in Guangzhou had been calmed for a whole day, but he didn't know, and no one informed him.

When Hu Sishun's troops went down from Baiyun Mountain without any preparation for combat, the rebels in Guangzhou were resting. Except for the managers of the prison camp, almost the entire army was on holiday. Some of the officers and soldiers took baths in the river and some went out to stroll on the streets. However, there was one person who did not go out of the camp. He was Chen Cheng, who had made contributions in the Mianhu Battle. Chen Cheng developed a habit of looking out from the barracks and looking at the people walking by the nearby camp gate and the mountains in the distance, which made him feel very satisfied.

But on that day he found that there were flags shaking on Baiyun Mountain, as if there were troops marching, so he sent someone to see them. If it were a big shot, he would go and greet them. Unexpectedly, the sent people came back soon and reported that they were rebels and were coming to Guangzhou. He took a breath and reported that it was too late. He had to order his subordinates to prepare for the battle. Then he personally urged the artillery, and the first shot hit the enemy's military flag. Then the shells fired by the gunners exploded in the enemy's queue.

Hu Sishun was a little confused. Why did his own people fire the artillery? He ordered the contact soldiers to send flags to the foot of the mountain, telling them that they were his own people, but the answer at the foot of the mountain was a shell.

Then the gunfire sounded loudly, and the rebels who were resting did not assemble, but automatically launched an attack on Hu Sishun. The number of people was two or three, or fifty or sixty, and rushed from Baiyun Mountain from all directions. Hu Sishun's troops quickly collapsed and the entire army was captured.

After quelling the Liu Yang rebellion, the Military Commission appointed Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Guangzhou garrison. Chiang Kai-shek established a garrison headquarters in Guangzhou and appointed Zhang Zhizhong as the chief of staff. Zhuang Jihua was then transferred to the commander and adjutant. Then Chiang Kai-shek transferred Chen, who had performed outstandingly in the quelling rebellion, to serve as the commander's staff.

What Zhuang Jihua didn't know was that the Liu Yang rebellion was pacified more than ten days earlier than the historical records of his previous life, and the winds stirring up by butterflies on the Amazon River were getting stronger and stronger.
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