Chapter 22: Reminder

"High machine guns come forward, pay attention to the surroundings at any time. The artillery carried out propulsion bombing within 100 meters of the breakthrough in the city." There was sufficient ammunition, and Tian Ding didn't care about these few shells. There were many houses behind the collapse of the city wall. Many revolutionary soldiers were lying on their houses waiting to shoot the Iron Blood Army soldiers who were climbing the breakthrough at any time.

"Each machine gun team is on standby." Wearing black steel helmets, four heavy machine guns arrived at the collapse of the city wall one after another, quickly placed the heavy machine guns at the highest point of the ruins, and glanced at the peaceful houses ahead.

"Aim at the enemy commander who is observing." A few revolutionary soldiers held rifles at the Iron Blood Army machine gun team leader who was poking their heads out to observe the battlefield.

"Bang..." A revolutionary soldier quickly fired a shot, and the Iron Blood Army squad leader responded and fell to the back.

"Squad Leader..." The soldiers of the machine gun team saw their squad leader fall down suddenly and hurriedly helped him up from the pile of rocks.

"Damn it! I almost killed my life!" The squad leader of the machine gun squad was lucky. The bullet just hit the upper part of the steel helmet. Although the violent impact made the squad leader faint for a moment, it did not cause any fatal damage. However, he did not dare to go up and observe again.

"Send people back and report to the battalion commander. The enemy is waiting for an opportunity to shoot us in the residential houses and requesting artillery support." The Iron Blood Army is now extremely dependent on artillery fire, because artillery has always been the most powerful weapon in the Iron Blood Army.

"Fire the gun!" In less than ten minutes, the artillery team began to fire. The first one was a 120 mm heavy howitzer. The shells dragged with long tail fell into the house not far ahead of the breakthrough.

"Boom..." A violent explosion sounded, and several houses around the shell collapsed, and the fierce light instantly ignited to cover it. The enemy here did not even scream when he was dying. The artillery fire came too suddenly.

"Boom..." Immediately afterwards, heavy artillery shells, two other 88mm and two mountain artillery shells also fell. For a moment, the artillery fire broke out in front of the breakthrough, and more than a dozen houses collapsed instantly. Many revolutionary parties and Zhao Yan's armed forces rushed out, of course, more of whom were sleeping forever.

"Stop them and don't let them clean up any more." Zhao Yan, who was secretly watching the situation at the breakthrough in the distance, looked anxiously at County Mayor Cheng and Wang Maogong beside him.

"The opponent's artillery fire is too fierce, we have no chance at all. Do you see the enemy machine gunners who are defending on the ruins? How many people do you think we will kill and injure us if we want to break through the opponent's four heavy machine guns? What's more, even if we break through the opponent's machine gun, the people behind the enemy are not something we can defeat!" Wang Maogong ignored Zhao Yan, who was greedy, selfish, flattering, and of course he still had a little appreciation for his talents.

"Demolition of houses, building fortifications in the northeast, and making final resistance, surrender is absolutely not allowed, and the revolutionary backbone cannot be defiled." Wang Maogong dared and could not hold the remaining more than a thousand revolutionary soldiers in his hand to die. In fact, what he is holding now is the rescuers of the Huaian Division and the pressure on Deng Sen by the Nanjing Party Government.

"Report to the brigade commander, the head of state sent an order. If there are many people in Sishui City, after breaking into the city, they can send people to negotiate with the revolutionary party, either surrender, or send the people out of the city." According to Dengsen's idea, the people in the city will either be sent out of the city or buried all with the revolutionaries under the city, because if the casualties of the people in the city are too great, the remaining people will definitely spread rumors and ruin the reputation of the Iron Blood Army. And Dengsen is not a rude person. If the people suffer too many casualties in artillery or battles, then everyone, including the revolutionary army, must be buried with him, and he can push the responsibility for this matter to the revolutionary party as soon as possible.

Tian Ding looked at the telegram in his hand and his hands were trembling slightly. It is roughly estimated that there were at least 5,000 people in Sishui City. If the revolutionary party was unwilling to send the people out, then the bullets were not the eyes of the elders, and deaths and injuries in the battle were inevitable. The reason for his trembling was Deng Sen's last words, that is, if the people were too injured and injured, Sishui would be slaughtered. The reason was to prevent the incident from leaking. However, the real commander Tian Ding may not have made up this determination. The soldiers who died and injured in the war were because both sides were soldiers, and the death of the people on a large scale in the war was a shame for a soldier.

"How was the breakthrough cleanup? Are there any casualties?" Put the files into the brazier and let them burn. Such files cannot be known to more people.

"The Brigade Commander, now it is progressing smoothly. In addition to the more than a dozen casualties, the cleaning is almost over." Zhao Dahai has been waiting in front of the door. At this time, he hurriedly walked in when he heard Tian Ding's question.

"Very good, the working ability of the engineer troops is worth commending, but Dahai, you have to control your mouth when you just happened." Tian Ding said a few words lightly, but Zhao Dahai's heart was filled with huge waves. He knew that such things were usually secrets. Since he knew, if they were leaked, it would be a disaster for the head of state. The reputation of the head of state cannot be defiled by anyone. Of course, for a rough man like Zhao Dahai, massacres are very normal. In the past few decades, whether it is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or the various bandit suppressions of the Qing court, there have been endless massacres.

"But worry, the brigade commander, the vocational department will ruin this matter in its stomach." Zhao Dahai said solemnly with his legs and saluted straight.

"That's good!" Tian Ding nodded. He believed that Zhao Dahai was a smart person.

"Sentencer!"

"arrive……"

"The brigade department ordered that after the breakout cleaning was completed, the steel-armor truck company of the mechanical regiment was used as the vanguard, and the infantry then promoted and cleared the Xicheng District. Even if all the houses in Xicheng were demolished, the enemy's remaining soldiers must be cleaned up."

The clearance of the breakthrough was very smooth. Under the suppression of artillery fire, the revolutionary army in the city had little blocking effect. Every time a shot was fired, the baptism of the Iron Blood Army's artillery shells was received. They secretly scolded the Iron Blood Army for being shameless.

"Dadadada..." The breakthrough was almost wiped out, and there were only two heavy machine gun groups on the gravel. The two heavy machine guns fired all suspicious areas to prevent the cleaning personnel below from being shot by the enemy.

Three steel armored heavy machine gun trucks outside the breakthrough entrance were slowly moving, and the engineers who were cleaning the gravel hurriedly retreated to both sides for the truck to enter.

The breakthrough has cleared the passage about four meters wide, and three or four trucks pass here one by one, stopping on a small open space in front of the residential area. The machine gunners on the front of the vehicle are ready to fire the enemy at any time. They come here to cover the engineers in the rear.

About half an hour later, the collapsed area had been almost cleaned, and a passage of more than 20 meters wide was swept out. Under the leadership of thirteen armed trucks, a team of soldiers entered the city from the passage and waited for orders from the superiors at any time.

"Send two officers to the Revolutionary Party Office to convey to its commander the intention of our people to withdraw." Tian Ding came to the breakthrough in a truck and ordered two staff members to go to the place where Wang Maogong was, hoping to persuade the Revolutionary Party to withdraw from the people in the city to prevent casualties in the battle. But I don't know if Wang Maogong agrees, let alone Wang Maogong, as an intellectual, agrees to this request, so Zhao Yan and County Magistrate Cheng may still have objections.

"Just treat it as your last effort! If not, everyone will go with you."

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Chapter completed!