"The straw that broke the camel's back!"

There is a proverb in the West that things have reached a critical point and if any additional factor is added, it will collapse. Quan\ben\xiao\shuo\net\

On the battlefield, the final straw often determines the outcome of the war, and this straw often refers to the sudden addition of a new force.

Nearly four hundred thieves suddenly joined the battlefield. At this time, they became a new force that determined the outcome. No matter for Liang Laosi or Ma Weijun, it was something they had never imagined. It was also for the people standing several kilometers away.

Outside the bridge, Osako Shoudou and others were observing the battlefield situation with telescopes, but this was something they had never expected.

When the cavalry appeared in the telescope, Akashi Genjiro said "cavalry" in surprise, Osako Shoudou, who had combat experience in Manchuria, said with a livid face.

"It's a Chinese bandit!"

That pony, that attire, who else could he be other than a Chinese bandit? When he was in Manchuria, he had used bandits and chased bandits. He had a certain understanding of the Chinese bandits.

People who have money but no country are like most Chinese people. But now, this group of bandits suddenly joined the battlefield and rushed into the camp to kill Japanese soldiers at will. "Could it be that we...were defeated!"

The tragic sight of the infantry on the coast being hacked to pieces by the cavalry, and the sight of those cavalry continuously expanding their gains to the left wing, only made Deputy Chief of Staff Yamada Ryuichi murmur. It could be seen from the telescope that even though the second batch of landing troops tried to

They used machine guns to attack the cavalry on the shore, but they suffered from the scarcity of machine guns.

For the Japanese Army, machine guns are a luxury product. A division is only equipped with dozens of heavy machine guns, and a regiment is only equipped with less than ten heavy machine guns. The few heavy machine guns equipped by the second batch of landing troops are basically useless.

It does not have the desired suppressive effect.

"defeat?"

Osako Shoudou's brows jumped.

"The Imperial Japanese Army will never fail! Contact the Navy immediately and let them concentrate their firepower on attacking the Chinese Army's cavalry ashore!"

"Your Excellency, there are still our soldiers on the beach!"

Akashi Genjiro reminded him repeatedly.

"Japanese Army soldiers will continue to attack as long as they have a breath left. Even if they are at a disadvantage, they still hope to become loyal souls serving the country and loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!"

At this time, Osako Shangdou's expression was indifferent, not caring that hundreds or nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers might lose their lives in the bombardment because of his order. In his opinion, as long as the Chinese horse bandits on the coast were eliminated, then this

The coast can be captured quickly, and then troops can continuously land on the land of China from here.

Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were repelled by the sudden addition of thieves, Xiao Keyuan, whose eyes were red, had calmed down. He looked at the corpses of brothers and Japanese on the battlefield, and then looked at the brothers around him who could still stand up.

There were only five or six brothers who could stand up. When they saw that they were covered in blood, they couldn't tell whether it belonged to the enemy or their own commander. The commander stood there, motionless.

"Sir, sir, we won..."

Win?

Opening his heavy eyelids, Ma Weijun glanced at the thieves. Are these his only reinforcements? Did they defeat the Japanese?

No, everything has just begun!

There were more Japanese soldiers on the sea. As he shook his head slightly, Ma Weijun, whose last strength was slowly disappearing from his body, fell down.

"Sir..."

After rushing to the officer's side, Xiao Keyuan saw that the officer's lower abdomen, chest, and arms were covered in blood. There were knife wounds everywhere, all caused by bayonets.

"Quick, bandage, bandage..."

When Xiao Keyuan shouted loudly,

"We, we... are not... not ashamed..."

Lying in the arms of his subordinates, Ma Weijun asked his brother in a difficult tone.

"Sir, we are not embarrassed, and none of our brothers have been embarrassed by the Hunan people!"

"No... no shame... good... good..."

With the brightness in his eyes slowly dissipating, Ma Weijun looked at the bright sunset through a wisp of gunpowder smoke. A smile appeared on his face covered with blood, sweat and mud, and that smile was very bright.

"Sir..."

When the officer's body slowly stiffened in his arms, tears flowed from Xiao Keyuan's eyes. He held the officer's body and listened to the gunshots in his ears, guarding the officer, and those few could still stand up.

Brothers, they have already raised their rifles or machine guns, supporting the group of uninvited guests entering the battlefield from a distance.

A dense and harsh whistling sound came from the air. In the next moment, artillery shells fell like raindrops on the coast. The thieves on horseback and the Japanese soldiers who were trying to organize a defense rolled in the gunfire. War horses and people were

It was thrown into the sky in the smoke and torn into pieces.

After a few minutes of shelling, on the nearly kilometer coastline, as far as the naked eye could see, the bodies of countless people and horses were scattered around the dense craters, and some were injured among them.

There were mournful cries among the dead bodies, and the wounded soldiers also let out painful cries for help. Thick black smoke rose straight into the air.

"it's over……"

While shaking his head, Akashi Genjiro looked towards the battlefield where the smoke slowly dissipated. The Chinese bandits who had been galloping around disappeared, and the Chinese soldiers who tried to use their mantis arms as chariots also disappeared. However, these Chinese soldiers who used their mantis arms as chariots also disappeared.

He was shocked by the behavior of the Chinese bandits. They were nothing. They were incompetent soldiers who immediately ran away as soon as they were shelled and charged with a bayonet. At this time, the once extremely incompetent Chinese soldiers actually

Showing such courage, during the short but breathtaking desperate resistance, not a single soldier escaped, and even the bandits were thrown into the battlefield. If the citizens of this country are like this, then...

Suddenly, the uneasiness that had been hidden in Akashi Genjiro's heart became stronger. He suddenly realized that not only might the incident not go very smoothly, but that sending troops to China might even have been a mistake from the beginning!

Pingshang Town is not a big town. This small town in southern Luna has no roads, let alone railways. At most, there is only a dirt road for carriages. The newly formed Fifth Mixed Brigade of the First Army and the directly affiliated

As early as early in the morning, the artillery battalion, engineer battalion, supply camp, communications battalion, cavalry company, and heavy mortar company divided into four groups in an orderly manner, marched to Pingshang Town, assembled there, and began to

Build defense here.

Although the newly formed First Army is not the main force of the Central Army's Five Towns, it can be described as a miscellaneous army among the Beiyang Army. However, after the reinforcement of Lianyungang, the newly formed First Army, which has replaced its guns with cannons, is not inferior to the Central Army's Five Towns in terms of equipment.

The main force and even the military discipline and appearance are unambiguous.

The most impressive thing was that a dozen large trucks carrying baggage drove majestically, raising wind and sand all over the sky. Although the local villagers had never seen soldiers, when they first heard that soldiers were going to be stationed in Pingshang Town, they even

Some young widows chose to leave their hometowns. In extreme cases, they even chose to hang themselves and drink medicine to escape the disaster of being exposed to the military. Because previous military operations were often accompanied by robbery, rape and other acts, people often could only

Choose to flee home.

But when the common people looked at the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade with fearful eyes, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the soldiers in this unit were quite disciplined. They paid for everything they bought, and they were not even allowed to go out to buy food or water privately during the march.

, This kind of Qiu Wufang made them raise their thumbs and praise each other. In fact, the New Army in the late Qing Dynasty was the first truly modern army in Chinese history. Without the constraints of military discipline, the same

There are also changes in logistics and military depots. All these make it unnecessary to rely on "local food collection" to solve logistical problems like the previous army. This naturally avoids robbery, rape and the like that occur due to "food collection".

offense.

Wu Peifu, who was riding on horseback, looked towards the fields. At this time, the march was like a long gray dragon, dancing with amazing vitality under the rays of the setting sun. But the quiet scenery in the fields beside it set off

Looking at this giant dragon, it seems so uncoordinated. When will the ancestral car of suffering end the war and the suffering of the people?

Thinking of this, Wu Peifu couldn't help but feel confused. In the past period of time, he could feel some changes. When he came to Jiangsu, according to the division commander's wishes, he and Wan Er brothers from the fifth brigade came to die, but the Jiangsu Army gave them

After replenishing the weapons and equipment, the division commander over there sent several secret messages, praising, promoting, showing off his love, and rewarding him with silver. In addition to overtly reminding the division commander of his favor to him, there was also a faint hint of it.

One idea is to make him cherish his weapons and weapons.

But in this kind of national war, how can we spare soldiers and weapons?

But over there, the meaning of the army commander was very clear. The Jiangsu people gave them the weapons made with the blood and sweat of the people, just to let them defend their homes and the country.

No matter how high the rank, everyone was punished as a deserter. Commander Xu even promulgated military law.

"The platoon leader withdraws, the soldiers kill him, he is promoted to platoon commander, the company commander withdraws, the platoon leader kills him, he is promoted to company commander, the battalion commander withdraws, the company commander kills him, he is promoted to battalion commander... The unit as a whole is good at withdrawing, the soldiers kill the officers,

Can be exempted from guilt!"

The cold military law was without a trace of empathy. Even the "little fan" came up with a way to borrow the help of lower-level officials to kill the superiors in order to be promoted to maintain the front line. Or maybe Wu Peifu wanted to withdraw, I'm afraid...

…

But doesn’t Xu Shuzheng have selfish motives?

While he issued such an order, on the other hand, he sent troops to recruit troops in Shandong and Hebei. The Ministry of War even prepared hundreds of officers, ready to be added to the First Army at any time. Xu Shuzheng "served his country with all his life"

Behind the scenes, what they are doing is killing people with a borrowed knife, in order to swallow up the first army for their own use.

All of them have selfish motives, and a few of them are sincerely waiting for the country... While sighing, the man he met at the train station when he left Haizhou County came to mind.

, the Huaihai economic strategist Li Zicheng who stirred up this storm.

That day, Jiangsu Army Deputy Chief of Staff General Jiang Zuobin and others saw him and his colleagues off at the train station. Later, Chief of Staff Jiang took him into a reception room, and Li Zhiyuan immediately came over and patted him affectionately.

shoulder, pulled him to the sofa and sat down.

"Ziyu, both myself and the Army Staff attach great importance to your brigade. Your brigade is the front line. If the front line collapses, the whole line will collapse."

And when Wu Peifu's answer was very simple.

"Please rest assured, Commander-in-Chief, Peifu's troops will defend the defense line to the death and will not retreat even half a step as long as they have a breath!"

At that time, Li Zhiyuan just smiled slightly, nodded lightly, and then spoke slowly.

"When I was fighting this war, many people didn't understand why I had to fight this war. How could I, a small local manager, have the virtue and ability to go beyond the central government and the president?

"

Wu Peifu remembered that he still didn't quite understand it at the time, but then the manager continued.

"But there are some things that people have to do. Some people can say that it is not their responsibility, but they can't avoid things that are related to the country. As long as they are Chinese, they should do something for China. As long as they are Chinese, they should do something for China.
To be continued...