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    In the hazy night with mountain shadows, brown-red fires continued to rise from the city gate. Under the cover of artillery, more than two thousand Henan patrol battalion infantrymen rushed towards the city gate. Although this unit was adapted from the early Yi Army,  The situation was declining, but under the clamor of the Beiyang cavalry behind them, the officers could only bite the bullet and launch a charge.

    "Hold! Holding here means guarding our hometown behind us!" In the smoke of artillery fire, young Shi Xiaolou held down his military cap and trotted along the battlements while constantly cheering for the soldiers.

    With a bang, a five-year-old cannonball fell next to him. The hot air wave knocked him to the ground. After rolling a few times, he slid behind the nearby battlement. Several soldiers quickly supported him and shouted: "Team!"  Zheng, are you okay?"

    "It's okay, I won't die before you!"

    Seeing that he was fine, everyone immediately turned around and hid behind the battlements and kept shooting. The bullets that came back and forth kept passing by their ears. From time to time, soldiers were hit and fell down.

    Shi Xiaolou took a breath, climbed to the gap between the battlements and looked out. The densely packed enemy troops made him a little worried.

    The Wusheng Pass under his feet is one of the nine great passes in the world. It locks Ezhou in the south and the hinterland of the Central Plains in the north. Together with Jiuli Pass in the east and Pingjing Pass in the southwest, they are collectively known as the Xinyang Three Passes. The nearby mountains are crisscrossed and surrounded by peaks. The city of Guan is surrounded by mountains.  As a barrier, the mountain was cut into a pass, and a Beijing-Hankou Line passed directly under the pass. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, so since Lord Zhang Zhidong founded the New Army, this place has been under the control of the Hubei Army.

    But no matter how dangerous the pass is, it still needs soldiers to guard it!  He is just a captain of the 15th Association of Eight Towns. He studied command at the Japanese Military Academy for two years. Since the 42nd Biao 3rd Battalion originally stationed here returned to Hanyang for training because of the new Biaotong, he was ordered to be stationed here.  , seeing that there is only one team of less than 200 people in such a big pass, and the heavy weapons only have two five-year-old seven-mountain cannons, how can we not be anxious!

    What's more serious is that because the news of the Wuchang Incident reached here early the next morning, he and the soldiers were a little overwhelmed by the sudden changes in his hometown. No one knew whether to continue guarding this important pass guarding Hubei.  It's better to give up here and go home.

    As an officer, he knew better than the soldiers that if the Qing army was allowed to seize the pass and move south, it would be difficult to save the three towns of Wuchang, which were flat and undefeable.  So in the end, he gritted his teeth and ordered to continue garrisoning.  Originally, he thought that even if he couldn't hold on, he could delay it for a while, and the brothers' troops would definitely arrive soon. Unexpectedly, this was already the fourth night, and there was still no support troops in sight. A haze gradually formed in his heart, knowing that his team  The team was probably completely forgotten.

    No one likes the feeling of being forgotten, especially the soldiers who are on duty in other places. This makes everyone very sad. But just when he and the soldiers were planning their next move, the patrol battalion from Henan arrived at the pass at a sign. It may have been many years.  As a soldier's duty, the battle broke out in such a hurry.

    In the past, he would not have even looked at rubbish troops like the city patrol battalion, but now he had few soldiers and lacked heavy weapons. As each of his comrades fell, the expected reinforcements did not appear at all.  The resentment of being abandoned in his heart gradually erupted, and the soldier's fighting spirit began to decline rapidly.

    Should you continue to hold on?  Shi Xiaolou was not willing to let Beiyang occupy this place in vain, but when he glanced at the resisting soldiers, he saw that they would look at him every time they fired, and he immediately cried out in his heart, because this was a precursor to the collapse of the army!  He quickly raised his gun and shouted: "Brothers! Wusheng Pass is the soul of Hubei. Without the soul, how can we save our lives! There are just some patrol camps below. As long as we guard the city tonight, we can go back and ask for help tomorrow morning!"

    "Team leader, brothers, I'm afraid" The deputy team officer rushed to Shi Xiaolou and said in a panic: "It's not worth it! If we can't defend it alone, it's better to withdraw."  Wuchang cooperates with large forces to protect Hankou to the death."

    "If we don't have Wusheng Pass, how can we protect it?" Shi Xiaolou looked at the deputy officer coldly and said firmly: "If we can't defend Wusheng Pass, we can't stop the train full of Tatars going south. What a fart!"

    ¡°I won¡¯t fight you if I want to.¡± The deputy officer gathered a dozen soldiers and prepared to leave without saying a word.

    Shi Xiaolou was so angry that he kicked his short-sighted deputy officer away and shouted at his back: "Fuck you, don't think I don't know what you think! I don't care who you are, since I was ordered to garrison the military  Shengguan cannot be thrown away! Whoever wants to leave can leave. As long as I live for one day, Wushengguan cannot be thrown away from my hands!"

    After saying that, he turned around and lay on the ground, pointed at a Qing soldier and pulled the trigger.

    The crisp sound of shooting was lonely and fierce. Each bullet could take away a Qing soldier who rushed up. Looking at his young and resolute face in the explosion flames, some soldiers hesitated.After falling, they went into battle again, but some of them evacuated the pass together with the deputy commander.

    "Full of Tatars, I will fight with you!"

    After leaving so many soldiers, the defensive strength on the pass suddenly dropped a lot. Many enemy troops had climbed up from the short slopes on both sides. Shi Xiaolou's eyes were red and he shouted: "Brothers, we are going to die anyway. Fight hard."  !¡±

    "Fire the bayonet!"

    The sharp bayonet quickly jammed into the muzzle of the gun, and less than a hundred soldiers were left rushing toward the short slopes on both sides with the stone building. A Qing soldier who had just come up was stabbed through the chest by a bayonet and fell down before he could react.  He also knocked down his partner behind him.

    ¡°We can¡¯t lose Wusheng Pass! We must never lose it!¡±

    Shi Xiaolou kept shouting and led a few soldiers to fight the enemy. Just when he stabbed to death a Beiyang cavalry who had abandoned his horse to become an infantryman, a sharp saber next to him was already swung at him.  Come over.

    "It's worth it!" Glancing at the densely packed enemy corpses around him, he subconsciously blocked them as he was already weak.  Just as the saber was approaching, intensive gunshots suddenly came to my ears, and then

    "It's reinforcements, it's our reinforcements!"

    A soldier next to him was already crying and shouting. Following his fingers, countless soldiers in new yellow military uniforms began to rush past him. The Beiyang cavalry who dismounted to follow the infantry and was about to chop him had already been killed.  The bullet penetrated the head.

    "Go!"

    "Machine gun, set up the machine gun"

    He Xi finally arrived at the most critical moment. The light machine gun once again showed its lethality and good mobility in chaotic scenes. Even a novice who has just learned how to use it can deploy it quickly. The Madsen M50 is all made in Germany.  Pointed bullets are more lethal!

    The morale of the Qing army patrolling the city was not high. If it weren't for the Beiyang pressure formation behind them, they would have run away. Now when they saw several machine guns suddenly appearing at the gate of the city, they were so frightened that they ran back.

    A moment later, the Maxim heavy machine gun squad followed up panting. As soon as the machine gun squad set up the tripod, the machine gunner pulled the bolt and pulled the trigger. The long canvas belt shortened rapidly, creating a terrifying metal storm.  This is where it unfolds.  When the first Maxim machine gun opened fire at full speed, the front of Wusheng Pass in the night seemed to be suddenly sprinkled with tens of thousands of flickering fireflies, and countless sparks formed beautiful and terrifying lines of fire, rushing towards  Toward the Qing army which began to retreat.

    The power of the heavy machine gun is really terrifying. In addition, Wusheng Pass is a must-pass for the Hankook-Beijing Railway. The railway passes through the tunnel in the middle of the pass. There are slopes more than ten meters high on both sides, making it impossible to escape. It is almost impossible to escape from the top.  The environment of the shooting range allowed Maxim to exert his maximum destructive power.

    The 7.92mm bullets kept shuttling through the meat, stirring up a cloud of flesh and blood, connecting into pieces and raining down.  The light machine guns also took advantage of the momentum to pursue and attack fiercely. In the blink of an eye, the area in front of the pass was covered by more than a dozen death-crossing lines. The infantrymen of the city patrol battalion who were shouting just now, thinking that they had won the first victory, could only  He ran backwards with all his strength, only regretting that he had lost a pair of wings. Only the Beiyang cavalry at the back who was supervising the battle moved away when he saw that the situation was not going well.

    The battle did not last long. The city patrol battalion that brought a large number of weapons from Henan to prepare to support the remnants of Zhang Biao in Liujiamiao overnight was already scared to the ground by machine guns.  So much so that the supporting infantry group rushed towards the Qing army trains and artillery positions further away without even looking at the shivering survivors among the corpses.  When the water tank connected to the machine gun began to emit steam, the inexperienced machine gunners discovered that they had actually fired two boxes of bullets under their nervousness, and the area they had swept was covered in devastation.

    Shi Xiaolou was also completely stunned. Such firepower may not be surprising in Europe, but in China at this moment, equipping each battalion with three Maxim machine gun squads is already a luxury!  What's more, there are light machine guns to help!  No wonder he and the surviving soldiers looked at the flesh and blood on the ground that was completely petrified, and didn't even notice when He Xi walked up to them.

    "Brother, I am He Xi, commander of the First Regiment of the Right Route Army. I have been ordered to come to support you. Thank you for your hard work! Thank you for guarding Wusheng Pass!" After He Xi finished speaking, he led all the officers and nearby soldiers to the garrison.  The soldier saluted.

    The soldier's courtesy and warm words made Shi Xiaolou and everyone else's eyes red. Before they could react, another box full of silver coins was stuffed into their hands: "This was stolen by the dog thief Zhang Biao last month."  Everyone¡¯s salary, Commander Yang knows that all the brothers are short of money, and he said that no matter how hard it is, he can¡¯t bear the pain of the soldiers who fought bloody battles, so he asked me to bring the arrears with this month¡¯s salary. Each soldier is five yuan and the officer is ten yuan.  , the dead soldiers sent twenty yuan to their families.¡±

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??Suddenly Comeback when they were about to die, and then there was a gorgeous, cruel and almost massacre, and I haven't woken up from all this,A box of heart-warming ocean was stuffed into his hand, which made Shi Xiaolou and all the soldiers who stayed behind go blank. They didn't even notice the words "Right Route Army" and "Regiment Commander". They looked at the shining silver ocean.  He held his head and burst into tears.

    Looking at the fire that was still fighting in the distance, He Xi chuckled and patted Shi Xiaolou on the shoulder: "Get up, we haven't finished the fight yet! Jiuli Pass and Pingjing Pass must be recaptured as soon as possible."

    Shi Xiaolou stood up slowly, wiped away his tears, and nodded vigorously with his red eyes

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