Chapter 52: Republic of China: Starting from Whampoa Phase 1 Chapter 52: Fierce Brave Death Squad

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

Inside Danshui City at six in the morning, over four thousand rebel soldiers were either on alert or resting.

These four thousand-plus men belonged to rebel Commander Xiong Lve; at this moment, Xiong Lve stood on the city wall of Danshui City, patrolling back and forth.

For a whole night, rebel leader Xiong Lve had not slept a wink, for he was truly too worried that the Whampoa Cadet Army would take advantage of the darkness to launch a surprise attack.

Therefore, the lights on the walls of Danshui City burned all night, with torches placed at every other battlement, and the rebels kept throwing torches down below the wall to illuminate it, observing whether any enemy was approaching.

"Half an hour until dawn, everyone hold on! Hong Zhaolin of Huizhou has already sent reinforcements; at the latest they'll arrive by eight-thirty, and then we'll charge out of the city, twist off the heads of those student-army men, and use them as chamber pots!" Xiong Lve was very arrogant; the Whampoa Cadet Army could not move an inch beneath the walls of Danshui City, which gave him immense confidence.

"General Xiong, why do I see someone vaguely on the south side?" said a rebel rifleman.

By now a glimmer of dawn had appeared on the horizon, and rebels with keen eyesight saw some unnatural contours appearing in the distance—contours that mountains, rocks, grass, and trees could never produce.

"Where?" Xiong Lve asked, raising his binoculars.

Boom boom boom~

"General, be careful!"

"Damn it! Those are cannons!"

"Enemy attack!"

"The enemy is coming up!"

Xiong Lve's rebels were immediately jolted awake, climbing onto the city wall to begin fighting back.

On the artillery position of the Whampoa Cadet Army, General Galun organized artillery fire to directly target the city gate and city wall.

"Company Commander Chen, it's less than eight hundred meters away—fire at my command!"

Since torches were lit on the walls of Danshui City, they happened to provide target guidance for the artillerymen, and with dawn arriving, the close-range direct fire of the cannons achieved excellent results.

Crash crash crash~

The city gate of Danshui City was blown into four divisions and five splits, and the sandbags behind the gate were thrown everywhere.

At the ground subsidence point mentioned by Lv Muzhi, on the city wall to the right side of the city gate, it also suffered direct artillery fire; the wall there collapsed with a boom, exposing a gap.

"Young men, charge at my command! Urra!"

General Galun shouted, and the Storming Brave Team lying prone behind the artillery position stood up like ghosts, carrying long bamboo ladders, holding rifles and submachine guns, and launching an attack on the city wall.

Lv Muzhi, as one of the team leaders of the ten Storming Brave Teams, had under him ten Whampoa Class 1 graduates and over twenty soldiers coordinating in combat; the other Storming Brave Teams had the same configuration.

Rat-tat-tat~ tat-tat-tat~

The heavy machine gun fire of both sides began shooting at each other, and General Galun ordered the artillery to fire another round of shells to cover the Storming Brave Team.

"General Galun! The enemy's heavy machine guns are strafing!" Chen Cheng shouted.

"Listen to me, fire another round! Those charging ahead are your students!"

"Yes!"

The artillery company of the Whampoa Cadet Army began switching targets, bombarding the battlements.

Boom boom boom!

Immediately, many rebels were overturned from the city wall.

The artillery company relentlessly bombarded, soon attracting the attention of rebel leader Xiong Lve: "Concentrate heavy machine gun fire on their artillery! They actually pushed the cannons right under my nose—seeking death!"

The rebels' heavy machine guns turned to attack the artillery position, reducing the pressure on the Storming Brave Team.

Lv Muzhi held his flower mechanism and strafed the battlements, covering his comrades' advance.

Clap clap clap, three Storming Brave Teams leaned the cloud ladders they had brought against the city wall, while other Storming Brave Teams began assaulting the city gate and the gap in the wall.

"Charge to the right side! Rush into that gap!" Lv Muzhi shouted, and over thirty men of the Storming Brave Team advanced through a hail of bullets.

Lv Muzhi's Storming Brave Team had two flower mechanisms, one belonging to Lv Muzhi and the other to Song Xilian.

Although Song Xilian had not been selected as a Storming Brave Team leader, he still signed up as a team member; as a platoon leader, Song Xilian carried his own flower mechanism and joined Lv Muzhi's Storming Brave Team along with other unselected Class 1 graduates.

The main force of this Storming Brave Team was drawn from Lv Muzhi's Guard Platoon.

Bang~ bang!

Rebels appeared near the gap in the city wall and fired at the approaching Storming Brave Team members.

"Scatter to both sides!"

At Lv Muzhi's command, the Storming Brave Team split into two groups, with him and Song Xilian each leading one group, approaching the gap from the left and right.

As they reached the foot of the city wall braving a hail of bullets, four Storming Brave Team members had already been killed and five wounded, including one Whampoa Class 1 graduate.

The rebels reacted quickly; even though nearly three hundred men of the Storming Brave Team had moved to the south city wall, the rebels' combat effectiveness remained intact.

The rebels sent out a pistol squad to attack the Storming Brave Team members climbing the cloud ladders, and placed a heavy machine gun twenty meters behind the city gate to directly blockade the gate with firepower.

As for the gap in the city wall, over a hundred rebels had already been deployed nearby to defend it.

Chen Cheng's artillery was threatened by the rebels' heavy machine gun fire; after opening the gap, they had no choice but to temporarily retreat and fall back.

A Storming Brave Team led by Chen Geng also moved to Lv Muzhi's location; at the gap in the city wall, over a hundred rebels and two Storming Brave Teams of the Whampoa Cadet Army totaling over sixty men were separated by only a wall.

The rebels were guarding the gap, waiting for the Storming Brave Team members to charge in!

Lv Muzhi leaned against the city wall, exposed a small position to look, then immediately shrank his head back; the rebels' bullets came accordingly, sending bricks and stones flying at the gap, and one Storming Brave Team member was wounded by a ricocheting bullet.

"What's the situation?" Chen Geng asked.

"There are a lot of people inside, waiting for us to go in and die!" Lv Muzhi shouted loudly, making sure Song Xilian on the opposite side of the gap could hear.

"Damn it, aren't we here to die anyway!" Saying this, his squad leader Zhang Fei was about to charge in.

"Get back!" Lv Muzhi yanked Zhang Fei back and took the four hand grenades hanging from Zhang Fei's chest.

Hand grenades had not yet been widely used at this time; Lv Muzhi only had Zhang Fei carrying four on his person.

"Muzi, our two Fierce Brave Teams have three Flower Mechanisms; let's rush straight in under covering fire!" Chen Geng said, removing his magazine to weigh it and check how many bullets were left inside. "Damn, there are fewer than ten bullets left!"

After hearing this, Lv Muzhi called over a soldier from his own platoon.

The soldier carried an ammunition box on his back, filled with submachine gun bullets for the Flower Mechanism, allocated by Liu Zhi for Lv Muzhi's exclusive use.

"Get a few more people to help load, press the bullets inside the magazines full, and prepare to rush into the breach!"

Chen Geng stared dumbfounded; he had emptied four of his five magazines, with fewer than ten bullets left in the last one, while Lv Muzhi had an entire ammunition box of submachine gun bullets—loading dozens of magazines was no problem at all.

Fortunately Chen Geng hadn't thrown away his empty magazines; this time he could reload bullets into them again.

Song Xilian's Flower Mechanism had only one magazine of bullets left; he also rolled over, forcibly crossing from the right side of the wall breach to the left side, and began pressing bullets.

The soldiers of the Fierce Brave Team would from time to time turn sideways to shoot into the breach as a feint, preventing the Rebel Commander from rushing out from inside.

At this time, the main force of the First Regiment, serving as the Second Echelon, launched a second wave of attack behind the Storming Brave Team.

The morale of the Storming Brave Team, suppressed beneath the city wall, soared; they began waving the Red Flag and launching another assault, but when the Red Flag reached the city gate, they were struck down by the heavy machine gun positioned inside the gate.

"Don't fill them completely; watch out for jams, hurry up!"

Lv Muzhi urged, then immediately took off his bolt-action rifle and gave it to a squad leader under his command, Zhang Fei. "Fight well, lead the brothers to survive!"