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Section 18 Bloody Battle in Huizhou (3)

As the flag fell, the morale of the Eastern Expedition Army under the city seemed to have also fallen. Despite the military agitation, the sound of capturing Yang Kunru alive gradually lowered, and all that was left was the sound of explosions, gunshots, and heavy breathing of soldiers.

The military flag fell from the top of the city, and the observation center also recalled a few sighs. Liu Yaochen slapped the wall, turned around and rushed out the door and shouted, "Get the knife. Guard, follow me."

Qian Dajun did not stop him this time. Now the morale of the troops under the city is frustrated and we need to cheer up our morale. Liu Yaochen will be able to cheer up his morale in person.

"Come here." Qian Dajun called Liu Chen to his side, pointed to a gap on the city wall and said to him: "Look at that, rush in from there."

Liu Yaochen dipped and was about to go out, Jiang Xianyun called him: "Braft Commander Qian, let me go. Commander Liu wants to command the entire regiment."

Before Qian Dajun spoke, Liu Yaochen spoke first: "Jiang Wushan, what do you want to do? The party representative is only responsible for ideological work, and I am responsible for military work. If you want to go, you will talk about it after you become the regiment commander."

After saying that, before Qian Dajun spoke, he rushed out of the observation room like a whirlwind, leaving only his voice in the room: "Guard Company, gather."

"Captain, Commander." Jiang Xianyun was about to chase him out, but Qian Dajun called him: "Wushan, stop chasing him. If you can pull Liu Dadao back, I will give it to you."

Jiang Xianyun couldn't help but stop in shock.

Liu Yaochen and his guard were blocked by enemy machine guns 300 places below the city. Qian Dajun was furious: "What are Liang Ganqiao doing? Why don't you organize cover?" Liang Ganqiao was the company commander of the machine gun company of the Second Regiment.

"I'll go and see." Jiang Xianyun was also very anxious. He rushed to the machine gun company's position, but saw six machine guns of the second regiment spraying violent flames against the city wall. The company commander Liang Ganqiao took off his shirt and was wearing only a jacket. He was holding a heavy machine gun and shooting happily.

Jiang Xianyun rushed to him, pointed to the enemy's machine gun position and shouted: "Company Commander Liang, over there." Liang Ganqiao saw that it was Jiang Xianyun in a blink of an eye, then looked at the direction of Jiang Xianyun's finger, turned the gun and shot at it. Six machine guns aimed at one point and beat them hard. The gravel splashed on the city wall, and the enemy's firepower suddenly weakened.

Liu Yaochen took the opportunity to rush to the foot of the city wall. When the soldiers at the corner of the wall saw the regiment commander coming in person, their morale was immediately boosted. Qian Dajun ordered his good players to speed up the trumpet. Amid the roar of the trumpet, dozens of ladders of the Eastern Expedition Army boarded the city again.

"Hold it down." Yang Kunru didn't expect that the Eastern Expedition Army was so tenacious. He had been attacking fiercely for more than two hours in a row. The city walls were everywhere. Hearing the roar outside the city, a new round of offensive of the Eastern Expedition Army was launched again.

"Those who kill the enemy will reward, and those who retreat will kill." Yang Kunru's face turned pale, and he also went to the front line in person. Seeing that the soldiers were shaken again, he quickly announced the military discipline first and ordered the adjutant to bring two boxes of oceans. He put them in a large dustpan and placed them behind the front line. The guards shouted in unison: "The commander-in-chief has an order to kill the enemy and reward ten yuan. Kill the enemy officer and reward fifty oceans. Brothers, kill the enemy and receive rewards!"

Then he deliberately made the ocean jingle. Chen Jun soldiers were itchy by the sound of the ocean. A veteran with an unshaven beard looked at the ocean greedily and spat hard: "Go ahead, brothers." A group of soldiers rushed to the city with blood red eyes.

Liu Yaochen, who was also under the city, was also shouting: "Brothers, get on." After that, he was about to climb up the ladder, and the guards beside him grabbed him: "Captain, I'll get on first."

The guards stepped up the cloud ladder, and then two more guards climbed up the cloud ladder in front of Liu Yaochen. First, the guards stepped up the cloud ladder. As soon as half of their body was exposed, they were stabbed and fell down obliquely. The guards behind did not show their heads easily, but threw out two grenades and jumped onto the city wall in the smoke of the grenade explosion.

When Liu Yaochen climbed up the city wall, there were already seven or eight soldiers from the Eastern Expedition Army on the city, hiding behind the sandbags and shooting against the enemy. Liu Yaochen looked around and saw four or five more soldiers climbing up the city wall. The enemy seemed to be gathering to fight back. The enemy under the city was climbing up the roof, and knew that they could not stay here for a long time, so he made a quick decision: "Crash, kill down the city and capture Yang Kunru alive."

Before he finished speaking, a Chen Jun rushed out from near the city tower. Liu Yaochen roared, picked up his sword and rushed towards the enemy, and the two sides collided head-on.

Liu Yaochen quickly rushed over the two enemies in front. The enemy suddenly became panicked and turned around and ran away. Liu Yaochen took the lead and chased the enemy to approach the machine gun position of the city gate tower. Zhang Xiaoming, who was commanding the machine gun position of the city gate tower, saw something was wrong, hurriedly transferred two machine guns and fired at Liu Chen and the soldiers on the escape. Liu Yaochen was caught off guard and got several bullets and was killed immediately. The angry guards faced the rain of bullets and charged unafraid of death. As a result, they all fell on the way to charge. Chen Jun took the opportunity to launch a counter-charge and pressed the Eastern Expedition Army down the city wall.

When Chiang Kai-shek heard the news that Liu Yaochen was killed, he almost cried when he was heartbroken. Director Zhou was speechless. Liu Yaochen was a member of the ** party, and the Second Regiment was nominally the Kuomintang army. In fact, 90% of the local officers were from top to bottom were members of the ** or members of the Communist Youth League, and they were their own armed forces.

"Principal, it's too late and morale has been drained. Let's stop the attack for the time being." Chen suggested to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek nodded silently. He was full of resentment towards Luo Jiajuefu at this time. If he hadn't insisted on attacking Huizhou, Liu

As for the death.

As the night gradually fell, the sun seemed to be frightened by this fierce battle. It hurriedly hid in the night. Huizhou City was quiet all over the city, leaving only the scattered smoke accompanying the corpses inside and outside the city.

The atmosphere was depressing at the combat meeting held in the General Command in the evening. Chiang Kai-shek, Luo Jiajuefu, Director Zhou, He Yingqin, Chen, Tan Shuqing and others gathered in the temporary conference room.

Chiang Kai-shek's face turned ashen and suppressed the anger in his heart: "Tell me, do you want to give up attacking Huizhou, first eliminate Huang Renhuan from Zijin, practice Xiong, and then detour from the north."

"No, Jiang, Huizhou is the key point. Only by taking Huizhou can the enemy be completely destroyed." Luo Jiajuefu first objected, and he insisted on his strategy of the point of the knife to the point of the knife.

"In today's attack, the commander of the Second Regiment, Liu Yaochen, was killed in the battle. The deputy captain of the stormtrooper Tan Luming was killed in the battle. The commander of the stormtrooper Du Congrong was seriously injured. The three battalion commanders of the Second Regiment were injured, and the company commanders were seven casualties. The platoon leader was not counted as 300 officers and soldiers. The cost was too high." He Yingqin slowly reported the number of casualties to Chiang Kai-shek and Luo Jiajuefu. Every time he said a name, Chiang Kai-shek's face twitched, and Director Zhou's heart ached.

"No, no, we should not be intimidated by temporary casualties. This is the price that victory must be paid." Luo Jiajueff insisted on his combat plan. He really did not understand why these Chinese generals paid such a small price and had to modify the combat plan, which was never allowed in the Soviet Red Army. Such commanders would be regarded as people with serious defeatist tendencies and would be transferred from the command post.

"Now it will be a serious blow to morale. When we first went to the expedition to formally be full of morale, we would give up if we encountered a little setback. The impact on morale will be huge." Director Zhou saw that Chiang Kai-shek did not want to attack Huizhou again, but Luo Jiajuefu would never give in. If the two clashed, the consequences would be very serious. But he also knew that he was not proficient in military affairs. It should be said that he was still in the learning stage and could not tell the pros and cons of attacking and not attacking. Therefore, he explained the harm of not attacking from the perspective of ideological work.

Sure enough, Director Zhou's local words aroused deep thoughts from Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin. Leaving like this is undoubtedly a failure. This will be a great blow to the originally high morale, and it will be even more unfavorable to future local operations. Although Luo Jiajuefu was a general trained by Soviet military theory, he also understood the meaning of morale. He said happily:

"Zhou, you are right. If you leave Huizhou in a failed manner, the soldiers' emotions will be hit, so we must conquer Huizhou. Let the soldiers believe that we are invincible and that there is no wall that can stop us from moving forward."

Although Chiang Kai-shek did not want to attack Huizhou again, he understood that Director Zhou's words were right and he could not leave Huizhou in a failed manner: "Okay, we will continue to attack tomorrow."

He Yingqin nodded, and after thinking about it, he said: "From today's offensive effect, the support for artillery fire is not enough and the intensity is not enough. Should the navy be drawn to participate in the war?"

"Okay, send a report to Guangzhou and let the Zhongshan ship arrive in Huizhou overnight. What are you going to fight tomorrow?" Chiang Kai-shek asked.

"The Second Regiment suffered a great loss today. Tomorrow I will transfer the Third Regiment to join the siege sequence. I will personally go to the front line to command." He Yingqin thought for a moment and replied.

"Okay, the artillery fire must be strengthened. Today, the enemy's machine gun caused us a lot of losses. Tell Chen Cheng to find a way to knock the enemy's machine gun off!" Chiang Kai-shek's tone was angry.

The next day, the sun was bright and blue, as pure as a picture. The wind on the sea still had a slight fishy smell, but a suffocating tranquility was condensed in the air inside and outside Huizhou.

He Yingqin, Qian Dajun, Hu Zongnan, Jiang Xianyun and others were all in the observation center, calmly observing Huizhou opposite. Hu Zongnan led his troops into the attack position this morning. At this moment, he was as deep as water, but he was very excited. Two days ago, Qian Dajun asked the Second Regiment to serve as the main attacker, and he was not convinced, but he was a junior among the regiment commanders and did not dare to complain at all, so he could only stay behind to sulk. Yesterday, the second regiment suffered a bloody battle and the regiment commander was killed. He received an order in the evening. Today, their regiment was the main attacker and the second regiment assisted. Now he was immediately energetic and convened the battalion company commander overnight to discuss the attack plan. Finally, the company commander Chen Mingren was the captain of the stormtrooper, and led his troops to break forward. The seventh battalion followed, the eighth battalion was on the left and the ninth battalion was on the right. After reporting to the brigade headquarters, Qian Dajun adjusted the plan to the second regiment on the right and the ninth battalion was the reserve team.

In the house five hundred meters away from the north gate, Chen Cheng was also nervously waiting for the order. When Chiang Kai-shek's words reached his ears yesterday, he felt very aggrieved. However, after several hours of artillery bombardment failed to destroy the enemy's machine gun position. Strictly speaking, it did not cause much damage to the city wall. This fact made him feel ashamed. He gritted his teeth and found He Yingqin and proposed an extremely risky plan, transported it to the enemy's nose, and carried it close-range shooting. The specific plan was to use the house outside the city to transport the cannons to hide it. When attacking, the cannons suddenly fired to destroy the enemy's firepower point. He Yingqin highly praised this plan. That night, five cannons were quietly transported into the house outside the north gate.

At 10 o'clock, with a cannon sound on Feieling, the second attack on Huizhou began. The Zhongshan ship and Baobi ship also bombarded the south gate on the sea. Today's attack was exactly the same as yesterday, with a four-hour shelling that allowed the city to defend.

The people felt suffocated, and the artillery fire of the warship was even more powerful. A shell was felt. While shocking the will of the defenders, it also misled the judgment of the defenders' territories. Yang Kunru and Mo Xiong agreed that the attack direction of the Eastern Expedition Army turned to the South Gate, and then decided to lead the last reserve team to reinforce the South Gate.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the charge roar shook the sky, and the infantry began to attack the city wall. Chen Mingren led the stormtrooper to charge forward. He looked a little weak, but in fact he was as fierce as a fire and as strong as a knife. Otherwise, Hu Zongnan would not have let him lead the stormtrooper.

Chen Mingren jumped into the trench without any concealment at all. He pointed at Huizhou City and shouted at the gathered stormtroopers: "Brothers! Either die or enter the city! Go!"

Then Chen Mingren rushed towards the city wall without looking back, and the flag-holding soldiers followed closely behind, and behind the military flag was a gray crowd, rushing fiercely towards Huizhou.

As soon as the charge outside the city sounded, Zhang Xiaoming climbed to the machine gun position on the city tower and used the same trick again. When the Eastern Expedition Army rushed to about 300, the Eastern Expedition Army was as powerful as a rainbow, and seemed to turn a blind eye to the fierce firepower on the flanks and fell down. A group of them rushed up behind, and those who did not fall continued to pounce under the city.

The momentum of the Eastern Expedition Army made Zhang Xiaoming feel that it would be difficult to be good today. If yesterday's siege troops were still not afraid of death, today the enemy did not care about life and death and regarded death as if they were home. He looked at the tall and humble city walls. This gave him some confidence, and he loudly ordered: "Everyone goes to the city. Go to the city, everyone goes to the city."

A short scream came to the air, "Captain, be careful." The guard suddenly pounced on him, "Boom", a shell exploded not far from him, and a strong shock wave slid through him, and then some gravel and soil crackled down from the air. "Why is it so accurate?" Zhang Xiaoming pushed away the first thought flashing in the mind of the guard who was covering him.

"Okay," Chen Cheng shouted after seeing the explosion of fire. He stood up from behind the cannon and shouted: "Rules xx, xx,

Five cannons spewed out flames at the same time, and the city wall immediately turned over and over, rocks broke, and the enemy's machine gun fire immediately silenced. The city wall that had lost its cover was like a woman, completely exposed to the impact of the Eastern Expedition Army. After destroying the machine gun position, Chen Cheng turned the artillery fire again, and the enemy blocked fiercely, and the shells flew there.

Chen Chengdi's cannon strongly covered the impact of the infantry, and soon dozens of ladders were mounted on the north gate wall. Chen Mingren held the command knife in one hand and the wrench gun in the other hand, and was the first to climb to the top of Huizhou city. The Chen army soldiers on the city immediately rushed towards him. He cut the gun and killed the enemy in an instant. In just two minutes, several stormtroopers climbed up the top of the city. They formed a combat team and firmly guarded this breakthrough.

After Hu Zongnan became the regiment commander, he moved his team battles in the 7th Company to the 3rd Company. He deliberately cultivated team consciousness in his training life. Even Zhuang Jihua's fight was not wrong. Therefore, the combat method of the 3rd Company was exactly the same as that of the 7th Company. The soldiers were fierce and tenacious, but the training time was short, and the team cooperation was relatively unfamiliar.

"What did you say? They rushed in?" Yang Kunru looked at Adjutant Zhang Xiaoming who came to report the message in disbelief, and shouted: "Where is Zhang Xiaoming? Why didn't he come?"

"The regiment commander was killed by a shell." The adjutant said stammeringly. Yang Kunru had a irritable personality, and people who came to report such evil news generally had bad consequences.

"Where is Deputy Commander Wang?" Hearing that Zhang Xiaoming was killed, Yang Kunru calmed down a little: "Why don't you defeat them?"

"Deputy Commander Wang was shot three times. The brothers finally snatched it. Commander-in-chief, send reinforcements quickly, otherwise the North Gate would not be able to defend it." The adjutant asked anxiously.

"***, Chiang Kai-shek, I'm not finished with you!" Hearing that two loving generals were killed and injured, Yang Kun was furious and thunderous: "The guards gathered and followed me to the north gate."

Before he could walk out of the command center, a soldier hurried in: "The north gate was opened and the student army is attacking the city."

The officers in the command center immediately looked dissatisfied. They had never expected that Huizhou, which was known as the impregnable, had never been broken for three hundred years, was declared to be lost in just two days.

Yang Kunru could not accept this result anyway: "The guards gathered together and follow me to beat them out."

The Chief of Staff hurriedly hugged him and said hurriedly: "Commander-in-chief, keep the green mountains there, don't be afraid of burning firewood; while the east gate is still in our hands, retreat there and go to Haifeng. Commander Hong still has people, so we can make a comeback."

I'm afraid no one believes this in normal times, but now I can only deceive myself. If you lose the natural danger of the city defense, the Chen army has a huge gap. If you add the will to combat, the gap will be even bigger.

Yang Kunru sighed, he knew that everything was over. Seeing that Yang Kunru had not spoken, the Chief of Staff quickly ordered the guards to set up Yang Kunru and run towards the east gate. When they approached the east gate, they met Mo Xiong again. It turned out that Mo Xiong had received a notice from his confidant who was staying in the command center. When he heard that the north gate was defending, he knew that the situation was going to go. He immediately left the troops and ran to the east gate.
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