Chapter 22 Bloody Battle at Rain Flower Terrace (2)
Chen Shanhe pressed his body low, and ran away with two companies, lay down and waited for a while. Four treasure machine guns were protected in the middle. The 60.2 position and the surrounding bullets came endlessly. The Jiang defense battalion burst out with amazing tenacity and combat effectiveness today. The entire line entered a tough battle. If the 60.2 position was taken, it would be completely defeated by the defenders of Yuhuatai.
Zhang Tao and the newly joined Fourth Company launched another unsuccessful attack and were quickly beaten down. More than a dozen soldiers were knocked down on the hillside. The bodies of several soldiers were dragged in by Jiang Fangjun soldiers, stripped their clothes and chopped off their heads and threw them out. Zhang Tao lay on the ground and beat the ground in pain. His left hand was injured and he hurriedly bandaged it. Today, from five o'clock, his company had not rushed to the 60.2 position, but it was still firmly nailed here.
He had no intention of retreating. The company commander of the fourth company was seriously injured, and all the company was injured. Now the two companies had only more than a hundred combat power. Although he was unwilling to give up, he could not come up with a solution. The soldiers were just firing against the enemy in vain, and the twenty rows of bullets each carried were almost exhausted. When they were so anxious that they were smoking and angry, the soldiers shouted: "The deputy regiment commander is here, the deputy regiment commander is here!"
Zhang Tao looked back and found that it was Chen Shanhe who rushed up quickly and lay beside Zhang Tao. Zhang Tao had red eyes: "Deputy Commander, why are you here too? Even if I, Zhang Tao, only one person, I, Zhang Tao, will take down this position!" Chen Shanhe spitted the dust in his mouth: "Company Commander Zhang, this is not the time to be a hero. I bring you a machine gun. You organize your formation and try to rush again and take it down!"
The four machine guns moved to the shooting position, and more than ten shooters were in their positions. Several fell down in the enemy's guns, and the substitute shooters quickly made up. With Chen Shanhe's order, the four machine guns immediately made a daunting copper sound. Four fire snakes shot out from the two oblique rears. The old shooters who fired thousands of bullets in Shanghai controlled the range of firepower concentration very well, and immediately hit the launch positions of the two machine guns of the Jiang Fangjun, and the several Jiang Fangjun archers were beaten into sieves. Even the thin shields of the two Five Seven Mountain Cannons were torn apart by the bullets, and the back of the gun position was smashed into pieces.
It was at this moment that Zhang Tao was waiting for, and with a whistle, he took the lead and rushed up. Unexpectedly, someone ran faster than him, that boy Chen Shanhe. The soldiers behind them barely formed three or four wave-shaped fronts and rushed up together.
He Shiqiao had been injured in his right chest, and he could not stop the blood when pressed on the wound. He barely straightened up: "Everyone fight!" Unfortunately, after such a long battle and fighting, the soldiers of the Jiangfang Army were hit by such a strong firepower, and almost all the heavy firearms were destroyed. They had no courage to resist. They retreated from the position one after another. Sa Yazi retreated towards the Qilin Sect.
He Shiqiao reluctantly raised his body and threw the knife hard at a soldier rushing up. But it fell into vain. He shouted: "I am Batulu of the Qing Dynasty, He, the general of Qingjiang..." He only shouted halfway, but the rest of the words could never be said. At least three or four bayonets stabbed into his body at the same time. Zhang Tao, whose eyes were red, rushed over and smashed the rifle hard on his head.
60.2 The position was occupied by the Chinese Suzhou-Shanghai Revolutionary Army. The general of the Jiang Defense Army and the Hongziying Division were killed in battle. The Yuhuatai defense line collapsed.
The blood-red flag of the Shanghai Pioneer was flying on the 60.2 position. Yuchen walked on the scorched earth where there was still heat, and his horse boots were covered with dark red soil. He Shiqiao's body had been placed. The short team of the Third Battalion and the Company of the First Regiment stood on the hillside, waiting for his inspection. This company with a total of 126 people now has at most fifty or sixty complete figures. Zhang Tao was covered in blood and had a ragged military uniform. He stood in front of the team and saluted him. Yuchen silently patted his shoulders, looking at the outline of the Nanjing city wall in the distance, with a deep gaze.
Zhang Tao took a step forward: "Commander, it's better to use my company to conquer Tianbao City! So many loyal and brave brothers died here in battle. We will be sorry for them if we don't take Tianbao City!"
Yuchen turned around and explained to Wu Cai: "I asked someone to send Company Commander Zhang to the bandage station." Zhang Tao struggled and was taken down. Yuchen saluted the company silently: "I did a very good job and disband."
The soldiers dispersed silently. He Sui came over to look at the soldiers with me. He was still young at that time and had tears in his eyes: "Commander, the casualties this time are too great. I blame me for not commanding well, but none of my brothers are cowards today, I..."
Yuchen didn't say anything, and after a while, he said, "You know that the best reflection is, these are human lives! Give them the heaviest pension. If you want to raise the disabled, I will find a place to run a farm of the army...... The root of this time is still with me! The brothers have only received twenty days of training and pulled them to the battlefield... He Sui, I tell you, if there are still such serious casualties in Tianbao City, you should know what to do!"
In this service, 223 officers and soldiers of the Chinese Suzhou-Shanghai Revolutionary Army were killed and 397 were injured. Six infantry and battalions of the Jiang Defense Army were annihilated, with more than 2,000 people.
The city of Nanjing was also filled with sorrow. Zhang Xun walked around in his ceremonial hall. He was a purple-faced man in his forties. Although he was short, he looked very imposing. He first worked under the Guangxi Admiral Su Yuanchun. Su Yuanchun had a bad job, and he defected to Yuan Shikai. In the Gengzi year, Yuan Shikai transferred him 3,000 people to Xi'an to welcome the two palaces, and he became popular since then. He became the admiral of Jiangnan and led 20,000 troops to guard Jiangnan.
Now he had almost no idea. The Jiang Fangjun suppressed the 9th Town Uprising very successfully, but he also fell into Nanjing, a Jedi. The Democratic Party fleet blocked the Yangtze River, and his way from Pukou to Lao Wu Xuzhou was cut off. He had to make up his mind to defend Nanjing. The Nanjing vassal treasury had more than 2 million yuan in reserve, and the arms were enough to be used, thinking that they could last for the overall situation. Unexpectedly, in the battle of Yuhuatai, he destroyed his six most elite battalions, and the entire army was scared.
He looked at Wang Shihong crying there and wondering about He Shiqiao, and he felt even more irritable: "You cry! Shiqiao is loyal and can't cry back even if he cries. Where did you go in your previous majesty? You are the number one general under my command. You will urinate here!"
Wang Shihong stood up suddenly, and tears were wiped off his face: "Master, I have more than ten camps in Hongzi Camp. I will lead the team to take back Yuhuatai tonight! Kill more Democratic Party and offer sacrifices to Brother Shiqiao!"
Zhang Xun waved his hand irritably: "The battle situation is still long, we have no reinforcements, and the Democratic Party still doesn't know how many threats it will be! It's important that you keep Tianbao City honestly for me. If Tianbao City is lost, you don't have to come back to see me. Go quickly!"
Chapter completed!