Signing in the Republic of China: starting from a foot patrol

Chapter 388

鄂省

Xianning

Tingsi Bridge

As a natural gateway to the southern part of Hubei Province, Tingsi Bridge is a key passage into Hubei Province and has always been a battleground for military strategists!

Wu Ziyu, who has been in the battlefield for a long time and has worked in Hubei Province for a long time, naturally understands the importance of this bridge!

Therefore, when he regained the control of Hubei Province from Xiao Yaonan, in order to prevent foreign troops from attacking in the south, he made great efforts to build fortifications near Tingsi Bridge.

Not only that, Wu Ziyu also specially dispatched his capable general Song Dapei to lead more than [-] people to garrison in the small town of Tingsi Town.

Wu Ziyu's painstaking efforts were not in vain. When the Northern Expedition began, Tingsi Bridge, as the gateway to southern Hubei Province, immediately became the key target of the Northern Expedition!

Liu Qizi

No, he should be called Liu Qizi now.

Lin Hongfei was the one who gave him this name!

Liu Qizi's experience can be called ups and downs.

Back then, he was a small long-term worker in a landlord's family. He barely survived by herding cattle and doing farm work for the landlord's family.

Later, his master, Hong Tianwu, was deceived by lard for a while, and even gathered a group of people to attack Jiangdu County.

At that time, Lin Hongfei had just gained a foothold in Jiangdu County, and was worried about where to find a ruthless character to stand up!

As a result, Hong Tianwu took the initiative to send it to his door.

And Liu Qizi was also captured by Lin Hongfei's Jiangbei Army, becoming the youngest among the prisoners.

Later, Liu Qizi was first escorted to work on the construction site.

Immediately afterwards, he was arranged to dig coal in a coal mine.

Because the young man behaved well, and he was not lazy or slippery at ordinary times, he gradually gained the favor of the coal mine boss.

After going back and forth, Liu Qizi turned out to be a serious worker in the coal mine.

Originally, Liu Qizi thought that life would be like this, and being a coal miner was not bad. After all, the wages in the mines were high.

Later, by chance, Liu Qizi met Chen Jiaming, an overseas student.

Liu Qizi was five or six years younger than Chen Jiaming, and he envied and admired this eldest brother who could speak foreign languages ​​fluently.

And Chen Jiaming did not dislike Liu Qizi's humble background, but patiently taught Liu Qizi how to read and write.

The relationship between the two became more and more intimate. Even Lin Hongfei knew that Chen Jiaming had a little brother who was mining coal.

Later, Chen Jiaming was transferred to the army by Lin Hongfei as the engineer battalion commander, and Liu Qizi was also taken to the engineer battalion by Chen Jiaming.

It was also in the engineer battalion that Liu Qizi met Lin Hongfei, the king of Shanling, who was in charge of the military and political power of the three provinces.

For Liu Qizi, Marshal Lin is his eternal god!

After all, without Marshal Lin's series of orders, Liu Qizi would have probably starved to death in the landlord's house.

Therefore, Liu Qizi only had two words for Marshal Lin.

loyalty!

And when Lin Hongfei learned that Liu Qizi was actually a prisoner of the battle with Hong Tianwu, he also felt that the world was impermanent.

Unexpectedly, the prisoner back then has now become a loyal member of the Shaoling Army!

Lin Hongfei was filled with emotions, and on a whim, he changed Liu Qizi's name to something more serious—Liu Qizi.

"Wonderful ones are also surprising!"

"Azusa, Qiao Mu also!"

"I am amazed by your experience, and I hope that you will grow into a towering tree of the Shanling Army."

"From now on, please call me Qizi!"

Liu Qizi liked this name very much, because it was given to him by the commander-in-chief!

Liu Qizi did well in the engineering camp, and was later selected as the second batch of grassroots officers of the Shaanling Army to study at Huangpu Military Academy.

He is a student of the seventh class of the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. After graduation, he entered the Guangdong and Guangxi Army as a platoon leader.

Because Lin Hongfei had placed many cronies in the Guangdong and Guangxi armies in advance, Liu Qizi's promotion was very smooth.

When the Northern Expedition started, he was already a deputy battalion commander of the Fourth Army of the Northern Expedition!

This time the attack on Tingsi Bridge in Hubei Province, Liu Qizi's Fourth Army unit is responsible for the main attack task this time!

"Boom boom boom!"

On the battlefield, there were repeated explosions.

Wu Ziyu's troops, who were stationed in the Tingsi Bridge fortifications, relied on the fortifications and the Tingsi River to desperately resist the offensive of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Although the soldiers of the Northern Expedition rushed up as if they were desperate, they were still pushed back in the end, and hundreds of corpses of Northern Expedition soldiers were scattered on the battlefield.

However, in the face of such a difficult bone, the Fourth Army, which was the main attacker, still did not give up.

After waves of attacks, it was finally the turn of Liu Qizi's battalion.

"Qi Zi!"

"You lead the second company and the third company to launch an attack!"

"This time, we must capture the forward position of Tingsi Bridge!"

Amidst the bangs of explosions, the battalion commander shouted orders to Liu Qizi at the top of his voice.

As an unspoken rule on the battlefield, once encountering a difficult bone and a difficult offensive, the attacker will often send a death squad to charge.

And those who lead the death squads are usually the deputy chiefs of the troops.

After all, the full-time chief needs to be in command, and it is difficult to convince the public to send other grassroots officers.

Therefore, when two companies of death squads were formed, Liu Qizi, the deputy battalion commander, naturally became the captain of the death squads.

He wants to lead this army that is about to die, and then take the lead in charging!

After Liu Qizi received the order, he didn't hesitate at all.

Now that he was promoted to deputy battalion commander, he had to shoulder the corresponding responsibilities.

As for whether he will die on the battlefield.

never mind!

Bullets don't have eyes anyway.

It will not choose to avoid you or kill you because you are afraid or brave.

In a word, if you are dead, go to Tingsi Bridge!

"Second Company, Third Company!"

"Follow me!"

After years of experience, Liu Qizi is no longer the timid and weak long-term worker he was back then.

The tall and straight figure and the serious and determined face all show that Liu Qizi is already an excellent grassroots officer!

Accompanied by bursts of hurried footsteps, Liu Qizi led two companies of troops to the scheduled attack location.

At this time, several artillery shells flew from the sky, blowing up clouds of smoke and dust from the Wu army's position in the distance, and there seemed to be a faint heart-rending wail coming from it.

This is the artillery unit of the Northern Expeditionary Army doing fire suppression before the infantry charge.

Once the three rounds of artillery fire ceased, Liu Qizi and the others would face Wu Jun's guns and launch a death charge.

On both sides of Liu Qizi, Xu Guang, the commander of the second company, and Ni Dakun, the commander of the third company, were lying on the ground, their eyes fixed on the distant position.

At this time, Xu Guang, the second company commander, suddenly said: "To be honest, I'm a bit scared right now!"

"We have never been so desperate in wars before!"

Liu Qizi glanced at him and said, "It's normal to be afraid. If you lose your courage, you can yell a few words when you charge. This will strengthen your courage!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Guang's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Deputy Battalion Commander Liu, what do you think I should shout?"

Liu Qizi didn't turn his head and said, "You can shout whatever you want!"

Xu Guang nodded: "Then, how about you say I call Long Live the Northern Expedition?"

"Yes you can!"

"Long live the Northern Expedition, long live the Northern Expedition..."

"It's a bit short, can I add another sentence?" Xu Guang asked.

"You can add whatever you want!"

Xu Guang rolled his eyes, and suddenly he said with a flash of inspiration: "Then I will add another sentence, in order to save the commander-in-chief, go!"

Hearing this, Liu Qizi was a little speechless, while Ni Dakun on the side was more direct: "A flatterer!"

"Ni Dakun, what are you talking about!" Xu Guang's ears are quite sharp!

"Calling you a flatterer!" Ni Dakun made no secret of his disdain for Xu Guang.

"you..."

Xu Guanggang wanted to reply.

Liu Qizi immediately said: "Okay, everyone, shut up. If you keep quarreling at any time, let the brothers below hear it, how can we fight?"

As I said before, in addition to being the deputy battalion commander, Liu Qizi is also a second-term student of Whampoa.

Xu Guang and Ni Dakun are both in the third period, so they can be regarded as juniors.

Therefore, when Liu Qizi put on a sullen face and scolded them, no matter how much anger the two of them had in their hearts, they could only hold it back, and wait for opportunities to find each other later.

At this time, the artillery fire of the Northern Expedition stopped, and it was time to launch an attack!

Liu Qizi raised his pistol, fired it into the sky, and then shouted:

"Come with me!"

Immediately, Liu Qizi turned over and jumped out of the trench, striding towards the opposite Wu army's position!

Behind him, the soldiers of the second and third companies also formed several skirmish lines, and under the leadership of their respective company commanders, platoon leaders, and squad leaders, they launched a charge!

At this time, Wu Jun on the opposite side saw this and immediately used most of his firepower to stop Liu Qizi and others.

For a moment, the continuous rain of bullets caused Liu Qizi and others to fall to the ground one after another, looking for cover as much as possible, and then covering each other to shoot and move.

When the firepower of the Wu Army's position was attracted by Liu Qizi and others, they did not notice that a surprise attack force composed of soldiers of the Northern Expedition who were proficient in water was quietly swimming across the Tingsi River.

When this surprise soldier came out of the river and suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Wu army's position, the entire Wu army's position immediately fell into chaos!

Wu Jun soldiers don't know where this group of Northern Expeditionary troops came from. Aren't they suppressed on the other side of the river?

Why did you cross the river all of a sudden!

Lure the enemy from the front and attack from the flanks.

This was originally Wu Ziyu's specialty. He used to rely on this skill to be invincible on the battlefield!

But now, he was also sent by the Northern Expeditionary Army to remember his ways and return them to him.

With the chaos in the Wu army's position, Liu Qizi, who was attacking from the front, immediately felt less pressure.

With a keen sense of smell, he immediately realized that there must be something wrong with Wu Jun's position, and now is a good time to charge!

"rush!"

Liu Qizi roared, and the two companies under his command strode forward in unison.

Without the full resistance of the Wu army's position, the second and third companies' offensives were very fierce.

It's just that within a short period of time, the Wu army, which was still able to hold on, was completely defeated, and the entire Tingsi Bridge position fell into the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The southern portal of Hubei Province was also completely opened to the Northern Expeditionary Army.

It is only a matter of time before Wu Ziyu steps down!

"go!"

"Be honest!"

"If you dare to move around, I will shoot you dead!"

As the battle ended, Liu Qizi was cleaning the battlefield with the remaining personnel of the second and third companies.

At this time, several soldiers from the Second Company came over escorting four prisoners.

When passing by Liu Qizi, he just glanced at the four captives inadvertently.

But immediately, he raised his head suddenly and said immediately:

"Wait a moment!"

"What's wrong, deputy battalion commander?" The soldiers were a little puzzled.

Liu Qizi walked up to the prisoners and his eyes fell on one of them, a veteran in his fifties.

When the veteran in his fifties saw Liu Qizi staring at him, he suddenly laughed a little guiltily, then shrank his neck and lowered his head, not daring to look at Liu Qizi.

The soldier in charge of the escort explained: "Deputy battalion commander, this is a cook in the Wu Army's position. We just interrogated him!"

When Liu Qizi heard this, he couldn't help but sneered, then he looked at the fifty-year-old veteran and said:

"Really, are you really Wu Junli's cook?"

The Pentecostal veteran hurriedly said: "Yes, I am a cook, and I have been a cook for many years!"

"wrong!"

As soon as the veteran finished speaking, Liu Qizi yelled loudly, which made the veteran tremble!

"You have deceived others by saying this!"

"But you can't fool me!"

"You are not a cook, you are the Major General Commander of the Wu Army Officer Corps, Li Jibei!"

"what!"

Hearing this, the Pentecostal veteran trembled all over, and there was a hint of panic in his eyes.

But he still quibbled and said: "No, no, sir, you have misunderstood the person. I am really a cook. How can I be the head of an officer corps!"

Listening to this person's sophistry, Liu Qizi directly exposed:

"Okay, Li Jibei, stop acting!"

"Do you know who I am?"

"You are..." Li Jibei still had the last trace of luck left.

"My name is Liu Qizi, and I was originally the engineer company commander under General Lin of the Shanling Army."

"Back when you accompanied Wu Ziyu to Hubei Province, when you inspected the troops, I was in the inspection team!"

"At that time, I saw with my own eyes that you stopped in front of my company and played with the guys from our engineering company!"

"I remember your appearance clearly!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Jibei's face turned pale, and the breath in his heart immediately escaped. His whole body went limp, and he sat on the ground with a look of death on his face.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers next to them were overjoyed, and they all admired each other:

"Hahaha!"

"Major General, we caught a big fish!"

"Thanks to the deputy battalion commander's good eyesight!"

"Yes, otherwise we will be deceived by this old guy!"

"Deputy Battalion Commander, tell me how to deal with this person!"

When Liu Qizi heard this, he laughed and said: "How else can we deal with it."

"Of course it was sent to the headquarters and captured a major general officer. This is a great achievement."

"We brothers can drink wine and eat meat tonight!"

Hearing this, everyone was overjoyed!

"Okay, stop having fun."

"You guys, watch him carefully!"

"You must send it all to the battalion headquarters."

"Whether the brothers can drink the celebration wine tonight depends entirely on you."

Several soldiers immediately patted their chests and said:

"Don't worry, deputy battalion commander!"

"Leave this to us!"

"We won't let him lose the hair!"

"I'll just serve my own father and send him back to the battalion!"

Listening to these people talking more and more shameless, Liu Qizi laughed and scolded:

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and do something!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, several soldiers immediately escorted Li Jibei toward the camp headquarters.

Throughout the whole process, their eyes never left Li Jibei.

It seemed that Li Jibei would run away if he missed one glance.