"Report to General, look," the adjutant pointed to the direction of the arsenal in the east, and saw a large amount of black smoke rising from the direction of the arsenal, and the thick smoke covered nearly half of Jingzhou City.

"Oh no, the arsenal has been lost!" Wang Shizhen said hatefully. He really didn't expect that the arsenal guarded by two regiments would be lost so quickly. There were more than two thousand people!

Wang Shizhen's heart is bleeding. Once the arsenal is lost, the local defenders in Jingzhou will be short of ammunition soon. With the ammunition brought by the defenders, they can support them for at most three days. After three days, all the ammunition of the defenders will be unsustainable!

Wang Shizhen began to doubt the enemy's troops again. Perhaps there were more than a thousand people on the other side, and there might be more!

Before Wang Shizhen could think about it, a loud "boom" sounded loudly, and a huge explosion broke out in the direction of the arsenal! A huge cloud of mushrooms soared into the sky, and the arsenal was blown up! It was filled with bullets and shells, as well as some semi-finished black gunpowder.

This explosion was basically the entire arsenal!

Wang Shizhen gritted his teeth against the shock wave generated by the explosion and cursed: "Damn, don't live, you can't run away! They just retreated from the arsenal and are still not far away! Surround them immediately!"

After saying that, Wang Shizhen began to actively deploy new tactics. The two regiments detoured from East Street to encircle the enemy in the direction of the arsenal. He himself led a main regiment to encircle the enemy from the front, and two other regiments of troops were rushing towards this side from the South Gate.

Wang Shizhen made up his mind to die this time. There were only eleven regiments of troops in the entire Jingzhou City, and two regiments had been eliminated. Now he has even drawn five regiments of troops to encircle and suppress the enemy troops who were hiding into the city. At this time, there were only less than five thousand defenders who actually guarded more than a dozen city gates!

Wang Shizhen hated the enemy troops who were hiding into the city at this time, so he had to wipe them out at all costs. He wanted to see if these enemy troops really had three heads and six arms? How many people had turned the huge Jingzhou City upside down? In addition, he had to catch a few survivors. He believed that the officers in the city must have the support of the southern rebels, and he must also find out the support.

After a certain plan, the forces of the three regiments immediately dispersed, invisibly surrounding the entire arsenal area, and the other two supporting regiments would arrive in half an hour.

...

North bank river defense position.

At this time, the Beiyang New Army's river defense position on the north bank was in a mess. Within a few steps, you could see dense craters. There were countless broken limbs and broken arms and black meat pieces around the craters, all of which were the New Army's corpses that were bombarded into pieces by the Beiyang Fleet's ship gun.

As long as the remaining defenders huddled in the bunker, this night will become their most sad and unforgettable memory, because they have seen what it means to bomb like rain and what it means to be overwhelming fire, and understand the true meaning behind the powerful firepower!

At this time, the dark shadows on the river surface were burning. After each volley of naval guns, the firelight burst out of the shelling instantly brightened the entire river surface. I saw dense warships, including cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, and even sampans. It can be said that all the ships of the Beiyang Fleet have occupied the entire Yangtze River surface, and even the flow of the river water was affected.

The generals of the Beiyang New Army guarding the Bei'an River Defense Position were already scared to death when they saw this scene. Looking at the Beiyang Fleet's formation and having deeply experienced the bombing as if it was raining, they had already cursed in their hearts: "Damn, this is not a war, it is obviously abusing people!"

Just as most of the soldiers on the Jiang defense position were about to retreat, the troops of the two divisions on the left and right wings of the Jingzhou defense ground, ordered by Wang Shizhen, immediately replenished their troops and replaced the original defenders who had been reduced by more than half.

Cheng Biguang saw the situation on the North Bank. Cheng Biguang said to Tang Jian: "Commander, is this Wang Shizhen crazy? Look, he pushed all the troops on the left and right wings!"

Tang Jian smiled: "He is not crazy. He is a dangerous move to death. Wang Shizhen is also a talented person, but he actually predicted that our troops are insufficient!"

At this time, Tang Jian and Cheng Biguang were riding on the flagship Haiqi cruiser that was fighting this time. In this battle of crossing the river, Tang Jian mobilized five first-class armored cruisers, six third-class protective cruisers, eleven destroyers, and other small crossing river ships! This time, Tang Jian also invested a lot of money. Half of the Beiyang Fleet's troops in the Yangtze River defense line were transferred to the Jingzhou River at the same time.

Cheng Biguang asked, "The commander, what should we do now?"

Tang Jian sneered: "He Wang Shizhen knows how to use this dangerous move to put him to death, but this does not mean that I will not use the ruthless move to burn my boat!"

In the bridge command room, several combat staff were paying close attention to the situation. Tang Jian walked over and slightly adjusted the deployment of the original troops on the sand table.

When Cheng Biguang saw the latest deployment of troops, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It turned out that the three divisions guarding the south bank of Wuhan had all transferred their forces to the south bank of Jingzhou. At this time, Wuhan had only one regiment of troops, and the huge defense line was only one regiment there! Is the commander crazy? This was the first thought flashing in Cheng Biguang's mind.

Tang Jian seemed to see Cheng Biguang's thoughts, and explained: "Haha, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road, and the wise will win when they meet! He, Wang Shizhen, did guess that my troops were insufficient in attacking Jingzhou this time, because in order to be good in Anqing, I could only spend a lot of money if I wanted to trick Duan Qirui. To be honest, there were only 20,000 troops in this attack on Jingzhou, but what Wang Shizhen could not think of was that I was even more bold than him. He actually dispatched the permanent troops stationed in Wuhan, leaving only one regiment of troops in Wuhan. You must know that there are two divisions of the Beiyang New Army opposite Wuhan!"

Cheng Biguang was already frightened when he heard this. If the Beiyang New Army on the north bank of Wuhan suddenly attacked Wuhan, the strength of a regiment of the Revolutionary Army would not be stopped at all. Once Wuhan was lost, the rear of the National Revolutionary Army would be in danger.

Tang Jian lit a cigarette and said slowly: "The two armies often need to take dangerous moves in chess. Although there is only one regiment of troops on the south bank of Wuhan, I have asked that regiment to remove all sentries on the south bank and make a look unguarded!"

Hearing this, Cheng Biguang said in surprise: "If you look unguarded, what if the Beiyang New Army in Beiyang..."

Tang Jian smiled confidently and said, "The soldiers are never tired of cheating. Sometimes the more you act like this unguarded look, the less you dare to act rashly in the Beiyang New Army on the north bank."

Cheng Biguang nodded thoughtfully, as if something was right!

Tang Jian raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist and said, "Okay, the time is over. I'll pass the order. I'll immediately ask General Nie Shicheng to lead the First Division, Second Division, and Third Division to cross the river immediately to launch a main attack on the Beiyang New Army's Jiang defense position on the other side. In addition, Feng Guozhang, the commander of the new 13th Division, attacked the right wing of the Jiang defense position. What needs to be added is Jie Jiajun, the main regiment of the Seventh Division, and Yuan Jingxiang of the New 1st Regiment, and the two regiments must obey Feng Guozhang's order at the same time. The two regiments will attack the enemy's right wing together with the new 13th Division."

After Tang Jian's latest round of combat orders was issued, the troops of the four divisions on the south bank began to board the boat one after another, and launched a general attack on the Beiyang New Army's river defense position on the other side under the cover of the Beiyang Fleet's naval guns.

That night, the sound of cannons roared on the Yangtze River near Jingzhou, and countless artillery shells flew to the north shore in the flash of fire. The small landing boats like ants tides rushed towards the other shore in the terrifying shouts of killing.

The soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army on the boat were in a state of great enthusiasm and were suppressed by the Beiyang New Army in the north for so long. Now they are finally about to launch the largest round of counterattack. Everyone held the gun handle tightly. After the boat landed, they rushed towards the other side with a rain of bullets from the enemy.

At the same time, Feng Guozhang secretly started to land secretly from the right wing with five regiments...

In the city of Jingzhou.

When Wang Shizhen brought a regiment to the arsenal, the fire in the arsenal had already reddened most of the night sky of Jingzhou City. The beating flames seemed to constantly stir the angry fire in Wang Shizhen's heart.

Wang Shizhen stared at her red eyes and gritted her teeth, "Let me find the spies who have been confused into the city immediately, and I will definitely tear them to pieces!"

Before Wang Shizhen could finish his words, a bullet rubbed past his scalp with a whistling sound, and just hit the temple of the adjutant next to him.

The adjutant didn't even have time to scream and lay straight on the ground. Wang Shizhen touched his painful scalp and saw that it was bleeding! It was estimated that the bullet that had just shot at high speed had broken his scalp. After careful smell, there was a faint smell of scorching hair.

Wang Shizhen immediately realized that there was an enemy sharpshooter hiding in the dark, and quickly ordered everyone to look for cover on the spot.

Then Wang Shizhen's orders never came as fast as bullets. Countless deadly bullets were shot from all directions in an instant, and soldiers kept getting shot down, but most of them were officers above the regiment headquarters, and some were machine gunners carrying Maxim machine guns.

Because Wang Shizhen reacted quickly, when the second bullet was shot at him, he rolled behind a low wall and avoided at least a dozen bullets shot at him.

Wang Shizhen glanced at the eaves on his shoulders and knew that the sharpshooters relied on the eaves on his shoulders to shoot and kill the officers.

In just five minutes, the regiment led by Wang Shizhen himself dropped at least forty bodies on the street. Most of them were shot in the head, and few people were shot twice.

At this time, Wang Shizhen was shocked. He remembered some of the words Yuan Shikai had said to him before going to the expedition: "Pinqing (Wang Shizhen's name), this time you go south, you must pay attention to the sharpshooters under Tang Jian from the south. They all hit every shot!"

Thinking about it now, what Yuan Shikai said to him is not an exaggeration at all. He just heard the gunshot and knew that only five sharpshooters fired at the same time (in fact, many people did not shoot). He killed more than 40 people in just five minutes. On average, each person killed eight people in five minutes, and the gun was fatal!

Thinking of this, Wang Shizhen quickly dragged the body of an ordinary soldier and changed into the soldier's clothes.

"Ding, ding" sounded a few crisp sounds. Wang Shizhen looked up and saw that a dozen iron bumps suddenly popped up in the middle of the street. Wang Shizhen's pupils shrank. He knew what this was, it was a grenade!

"Boom..." A series of loud noises rang out on the streets!
Chapter completed!