C63 Anti yang liu(2)

Hearing this, the originally uncomfortable Li Boyang was immediately overjoyed in his heart. So the principal used the three squads as his trump card, how could he not be happy? He immediately said, "Please be at ease Principal. As long as you give the order, I will definitely complete the mission."

"Yes, this is what a student of Whampoa should look like. He won't yield to anyone." Jiang Jieshi laughed heartily, and after laughing, he said with a serious expression: "We previously underestimated Yang Ximin, from the battle situation of the battle, the fighting spirit of the Yunnan Army under his command is extremely strong, worthy of the name of General Cai Dharma Protector, Yuan Tao."

He knew very well that the strength of each group of two groups was not inferior to that of the three groups, and Chen Mingshu's First Brigade was also famous for daring to fight head on, so with three troops surrounding and attacking the longan cave, which was not too dangerous, and with no progress in two hours, it could not help but say that the Yunnan Army was truly as powerful as rumored.

However, only when he met a strong enemy would he be able to arouse his interest. His eyes turned deep as an endless fighting spirit emerged from his body.

The ones defending the longan cave were the First Division's three regiments, and the regiment leader, who had just led the troops to attack the East Expeditionary Force, quickly shouted: "Hurry and give this daddy a taste!"

The Chief of Staff, who was puffing with his pipe, handed it over as soon as he took half a puff. The leader of the team started puffing and his body trembled. His eyes lit up as he shouted, "Comfortable ~ Damn it!"

Not only was he like that, when the East Expeditionary Force retreated, all the Yunnan Army s took out their smoke rifles from their waists and stuffed them into the opium den, letting out a cloud of smoke. The entire longan cave's position started to emit white smoke as if it was on fire.

"He retreated again!"

From the binoculars, He Yingqin saw that the East Expeditionary Force was retreating like a ebbing tide, leaving behind a pile of corpses in his grey military uniform. He Yingqin kicked the ammunition box beside his feet angrily, this was already the fifth time he was repelled by the Yunnan Army, but longan cave's position only had a single regiment, it did not have any cannons, and could not even attack head on.

"Has artillery camp come up?"

He Yingqin asked anxiously. This was already the third time he had urged her to do so.

"Tours, don't be anxious." Wang Jun didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he passed over a cup of water and thought to himself: I asked three times in ten minutes, and artillery camp didn't even have wings, how could he be so fast?

He Yingqin took the cup of water and gulped it down, then placed his hands on his waist and scolded: "I say, teachers are inferior to students and are not convinced. Take a look, there's no progress at all.

When he was in fresh water, his position as the head of 3rd Battalion was snatched away by his students. Now that He Yingqin had mentioned it, he did not have any face left.

Just as the two were getting anxious at the headquarters, Chen Cheng led the artillery camp to the longan cave's position.

When He Yingqin heard that the artillery camp had arrived, he immediately ran out to welcome him. Before he could even walk in front of Chen Cheng, he said out loud: "Rhetoric, you have finally arrived. If you didn't come, I would have led the charge myself."

Chen Cheng laughed and said: "I received your order from Great Brigadier He, and am rushing here. Give me ten minutes, and artillery camp can immediately enter the battle."

He Yingqin was overjoyed, "The faster the better."

Very quickly, ten minutes later, when the enemies had become addicted to cigarettes and were waiting for the Revolutionary Army to charge, artillery camp's fifteen cannons started to attack the enemy's position. Just as the cannons exploded and turned the enemy's head, longan cave blew on three sides with the charge signal, Liu Zhi, Shen Yingshi and Zhang Fakui personally led the charge, and took the longan cave away in one wave.

After snatching the longan cave, the soldiers became even more furious, and after He Yingqin issued his orders, they led the army to attack the Nine Paths Station and the thin dog ridge s which were the main defenses of the Yunnan Army, while the Cantonese Army s and First Brigade Guards held back the enemy troops which were located in the Baiyun Mountain.

With the experience of the longan cave, the stratagem of the army changed. From simple infantry attacks to coordinated attack with cannons, after three hours of hard work, the First Brigade had completely occupied the northern and southern lines of the thin dog ridge.

After snatching the thin dog ridge, the East Expeditionary Force joined forces and charged towards Sha He. Yunnan Army lost two important locations in a row, causing Yang Ximin to become extremely excited.

The news that came from the front line made Jiang Jieshi extremely happy, he turned to Li Boyang and said: "Looks like Yunnan Army only has looks, during the war, I praised Yunnan Army's elites, and looking at them now, they are nothing."

"The principal is right." I have also heard from the retreating wounded soldiers that although the Yunnan Army's military discipline is scattered, their greatest feature on the battlefield is that they have a lot of experience on the battlefield, and are calm on the Fire Line. They would often be able to fight while smoking at the intense battlefield, and once they have smoked enough, they would be able to charge with their lives, and fight with the spirit of a warrior on the battlefield above my army. "

"Oh?" Jiang Jieshi was quite surprised, and asked curiously: "There's such an interesting thing?"

"Yes!" Li Boyang nodded his head and frowned: "Initially, I thought it was a funny story, but after some thought, from a detailed view, Yunnan Army should not be like this. Could it be that they are purposely showing weakness and setting up an ambush in front of us?"

Could it be that Yang Ximin wanted to lure East Expeditionary Force deeper in and then gather a large amount of troops to annihilate him? One must know that the Yunnan Army had a total of over 40,000 troops.

"You think too highly of Yang Ximin." Unknowingly when Jiang Xianyun and Director Zhou had arrived beside the two of them, Director Zhou said to Li Boyang with a smile: "Boyang, even though you only know one thing, you don't know the other."

Jiang Jieshi also curiously looked at the Director Zhou, who explained: "The Yunnan Province is barren, so the Yunnan Army is known for being bitter and tenacious, the name of the elite of the Yang Ximin Yunnan Army, was not something he could brag about.

Everyone listened intently, the Director Zhou continued to speak, "Just now, the Guangzhou Prefectural Committee sent back a report, and the Principal, Bo Yang, all of you understood after hearing it."

Jiang Jieshi and Li Boyang looked at each other and asked curiously: "What information?"

Jiang Xianyun laughed: "Principal, I heard that before Yang Ximin ordered the army to start fighting, the middle and high ranking officers of the Yunnan Army went to the banks in the Guangzhou to take out the money and deposit it there. It is said that a company level officer has around a hundred thousand yuan in total, and the private wealth of the regiment rank officers is worth a million."

Li Boyang was speechless, this Yunnan Army officer was truly rich, as the leader of the army, she only had a salary of 120 yuan per month. If she was as rich as an officer of the same level of Yunnan Army, he might not be able to earn enough money in her lifetime.

Hearing Jiang Xianyun's words, Jiang Jieshi and Li Boyang immediately came to a realization. Since the ancient times, those with a lot of wealth treasured their lives, and the Yunnan Army officers were so wealthy, how could they work for Yang Ximin like a poor man with nothing to lose? The idle Li Boyang understood, that within these two years, the Yunnan Army had completely decayed. Li Boyang could not help but laugh, "So that's how it is, so that's how it is."

Jiang Jieshi shook his head and sighed: "Yang Liu has only been in Guangzhou for two years, and he has actually plundered such a huge sum of money. It is truly terrifying."

Li Boyang laughed and said: "Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan's ways of doing things are not righteous, it is unavoidable that the Yunnan Army will corrupt. Now that we know the background of the Yunnan Army, we should be free to do whatever we want to them."

Jiang Jieshi revealed the look of someone taking an exam, then said to Li Boyang and Jiang Xianyun: "Bo Yang, Chu Yun, the two of you will be my staff officers for today. As for how the rebellion will fight now, it'll be up to you two to decide, this can also be considered as the military academy's graduation examination."

Graduation exam? Li Boyang and Jiang Xianyun looked at each other and laughed. Li Boyang jokingly said: "Principal, do you take us as the chief of staff or as the commander in chief?"

Jiang Jieshi was amused, and said: "What's the difference?"

Jiang Xianyun had always been very open-minded in front of Jiang Jieshi, he casually gestured and said, "Chief of staff, be it the mastermind or the commander. The idea that comes up is naturally different. "

"Haha, that makes sense." Jiang Jieshi smiled and nodded. He looked at the two students in front of him with expectation and muttered to himself: "I'll think in my capacity as commander."

"Yes sir!" Li Boyang and Jiang Xianyun saluted excitedly, the two of them immediately came to the side of the military map, after looking carefully for a while, both of them revealed confident expressions.

"Wu Shan, you go first." Jiang Xianyun nodded and raised his eyebrows as he said in a clear voice: "From what I see now, the main force of the enemy is placed in the Stone Dragon and Rock Beach area, and the goal is to force our troops to take over the high mountain area, and after killing off the spirit of our army, we will then begin the final battle."

Jiang Jieshi nodded his head in satisfaction. This was also the conclusion that Advisor Gallant came up with not long ago, and Jiang Xianyun could accurately judge the enemy's military intentions.

Li Boyang thought to himself: Wu Shan is extremely sharp in his judgement of the situation on the battlefield, Yang Ximin relied on the thin dog ridge's, the defensive advantage that was easy to defend and hard to attack, to wear down the East Expeditionary Force's sharpness which could sweep all the way to Dongjiang River, this is the principle of not attacking when fighting, during the battle of cotton lake, Lin Hu violated this taboo, and thus lost the battle completely.

Jiang Xianyun quickly went into a meditative state, his eyebrows dancing, a mature plan to raze the traitors came out of his mouth: "Against the enemy's heavy and light manpower, the frontal assault will not have much of an effect, thus, the focus of this battle is on avoiding real attacks, and going straight for the empty Guangzhou with the enemy's numbers."

Jiang Jieshi was noncommittal, he turned to Li Boyang and asked: "Boyang, what do you think?"

Li Boyan said, "Wu Shan's proposed plan coincides with the student's proposed plan."

Jiang Jieshi revealed a smile on his face, and said to the two of them earnestly: "Your thoughts are very much in line with adviser Gallen's plan to get rid of the traitors. Now, the two of you can discuss the exact military deployment, and when you agree, report it to the Command Warfare Unit for implementation. "