"Why are you panic? It's only a matter of time before the Gui army crosses the river. Is it necessary to shout like this?" Liu Zhenhuan turned around and shouted sharply.

"No...No, Commander, this time... this time the entire army attacked, with more than 200 ships, which opened up about eighteen or nine miles apart. The Gui army launched a general attack." The soldier quickly explained.

Liu Zhenhuan's face changed drastically, and his eyes became wide open. He knew that today would be the saddest day in Liuzhou. The crossing of more than 200 ships was ten times the scale of the previous four crossings. The crossing of the Liuzhou River defense line could only extend to at most seven or eight miles, but the Gui army expanded the attack to more than ten miles, and was afraid that it would not take long for the Gui army to land from the left and right wings, and then detoured to Liuzhou and launched a pincer attack.

Now all the defenders of Liuzhou are pressing on the Jiang defense line. Once the Gui army successfully detours, Liuzhou has no extra troops to separate and defend against the enemy! The situation has reached a very critical moment!

He took a deep breath, calmed himself down, then strode to the staff room and ordered the staff officers to adjust their defensive strategies as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the time left for them is too short, and Liuzhou has only so many troops. Even if the staff officer has the power to reach the sky, the situation in front of him will be powerless to turn the sky.

Li Wenbo, deputy chief of staff of the military, looked melancholy. After remarking the Gui army's offensive route on the map, he sighed a long sigh and said helplessly: "Commander, if the Gui army does not move, it will be amazing. Even if we divide troops to defend the east and west, it will be useless. More than 200 ships are at least 5,000 people, and there is also a full artillery regiment on the front. Drawing troops from the Jiang defense line will inevitably lead to the relaxation of the Jiang defense line. In the end, all three directions are weak in defense, and at the fastest few hours, and at the latest, it will not be able to resist Liuzhou tomorrow night."

Liu Zhenhuan was furious and slapped him hard on the map table, pointing at Li Wenbo and cursing: "Are you fucking disrupting our morale? Believe it or not, I will take you out to rectify the Dharma now."

Li Wenbo was frightened and quickly explained: "Commander, even if you kill Beiyi, you cannot change the situation! If the commander trusts Beiyi, please listen to the words of Beiyi."

Liu Zhenhuan asked loudly in anger: "You said!"

"Commander, Liuzhou has not been able to hold on for the past few days. Although the Li River is a natural defense line, we do not have cannons and enough heavy machine guns, so we are not enough to give full play to the advantages of this natural defense line. In contrast, the Gui army has many soldiers and a wide range of generals, and with the weapons support of the Nanning Arsenal, the offensive will be much more fierce. Instead of setting up a decisive battlefield in Liuzhou, it is better to preserve our strength and retreat to Guilin to find another way out. Otherwise, if our army is defeated in Liuzhou, it will be a complete loss." Li Wenbo described conscientiously.

"Hmph, after all, you still have nothing good to say!! I'm so angry!" Liu Zhenhuan's anger erupted again.

"Commander, what I just talked about is the overall situation. Since a head-on battle will suffer losses, we will take another step and make up for our shortcomings with wisdom." Li Wenbo quickly continued his previous words.

"Use wisdom to make up for your weakness? What do you mean is to take advantage of wisdom?" Liu Zhenhuan seemed to see a glimmer of hope and quickly asked.

"It is. The Gui army attacked Liuzhou with several times its strength this time, but it was still steadily. It can be seen that it was fully prepared for the battle of Liuzhou. Our army had weak troops and lacked weapons in Liuzhou, which was really difficult to resist the Gui army's offensive. So he deliberately let him take a step in Liuzhou and pretended to be defeated and fled, so that the Gui army would be careless after winning, relax his spirit, avoid his sharpness, and preserve his strength. Only then would he have the best strategy." Li Wenbo said in a leisurely manner.

Liu Zhenhuan fell into deep thought. He was not a person who was persistent in a tiny of land. The style of leadership was to put the overall situation first in everything. Since the situation in Liuzhou was not optimistic, he would have vainly broken the main force here, which has accelerated the pace of failure.

"Commander, after we retreat from Liuzhou, we can set up an ambush in the mountains and forests near Yongfu County, and use a small group of defeated troops to lure the enemy into the depths. Taking advantage of the victory of the Gui army's flag, we can kill a backlash inside and outside Yongfu County, which will surely damage the Gui army and regain some momentum advantages. Then gather troops in Guilin and discuss with Lord Liu for a long-term plan. Or send someone to Guangdong for help, so as to truly avoid a catastrophe." Li Wenbo saw Liu Zhenhuan thinking and said further while the iron was hot.

"From the long-term plan, I just ask for help from Guangdong... Alas... I won't say so much, it's important to overcome the difficulties in front of me. There is no other way at the moment. You can't hang yourself on a tree. Just follow your plan. The defense line in the river will fight and retreat. The Third Regiment and the Reserve will first move to Yongfu County, and the headquarters will follow. The First Regiment will cover the city in World War II, and then retreat to Yongfu County one after another. Let's fight an ambush in Yongfu County." Liu Zhenhuan made a decision quickly. When he said the last sentence, he focused on knocking on the map table with his hands. It can be seen that even if it is to fight this ambush, it is very difficult.

At five o'clock the next morning, the offensive and defensive battle in Liuzhou, which lasted for more than ten hours, gradually disappeared. The Gui army crossed the river and crossed the north shore from three directions, and the left and right wings detoured to a long distance to get ashore, and then launched an encirclement to the eastern and western suburbs of Liuzhou. The frontal troops exchanged fire with the Liuzhou River defense line for only a few hours. The Bei'an River defense line was defeated under the bombardment of artillery fire and retreated directly to Chengnei of Liuzhou.

Although Liu Zhenhuan's army resisted stubbornly in Liuzhou City for a period of time, it eventually lost its city defense under three attacks.

Fortunately, I had already made preparations before, and the Shengli troops had already moved to Yongfu County. The defeated remnants, led by officers at all levels, gradually met with the troops behind the palace and pretended to be defeated and retreated northward.

After occupying Liuzhou, Li Hanzhang, the commander of the Third Army of the Gui Army, did not rush to pursue the victory. When the commander of the First Army, Lu Yuguang, crossed the Li River to Liuzhou City, met Lin Junting, and saw that the Third Army was still holding its troops, he suddenly had some atmosphere and shouted at Li Hanzhang and urged him to pursue the victory as soon as possible.

Li Hanzhang is a top student who graduated from the Army University. He has always been the chief of staff of the General Staff of the Guangxi Military Government. His military strategy is much better than that of Lu Yuguang, who has learned no skills. Even Lu Rongting himself has treated him as the Chief of Staff in recent years, how could he be afraid of Lu Yuguang?

Lu Yuguang has always been offensive in military affairs. Even though this style led to the failure of the Guangdong-Guangdong War last year, he has not changed now. After all, the country is easy to change and his nature is difficult to change, and the impulse in his personality cannot be easily changed.

Li Hanzhang would not have the same knowledge as Lu Yuguang, but for the sake of taking care of Lu Dashen's face, he still gave a few high-sounding reasons to deal with it.

"Young marshal, although the battle in the past five days was not fierce and the brothers were not tired, it was not easy to take down Liuzhou. It would be difficult to replenish logistics supplies across the Li River. Of course, it should be a firm foothold in Liuzhou. It is not too late to attack after the materials are prepared. Our artillery regiment has not been transported yet." He was neither arrogant nor humble, and his tone and expression seemed very relaxed.

Seeing Li Hanzhang's attitude of being calm and composed, Lu Yuguang immediately became angry.

"Before, artillery troops were transferred to assist in the attack because they were separated by the Li River. Now the Li River has been left behind. Are we still afraid of these mobs in front of the battle? Li Hanzhang, don't ask these excuses to speak. Take Guilin as soon as possible and be the commander of the commander. How can you let you delay the fighter jet?" He shouted fiercely.

"Young Marshal, since you said that Liu Zhenhuan, Liu Guxiang and others are just mobs, then we should not be anxious. The Marshal is still negotiating with the Beiyang government. President Yuan has only received 500,000 yuan in one million funds. If we have stolen the mobs in Guilin, wouldn't the remaining 500,000 yuan be wasted? We are slowing down a little, not delaying the fighter plane, but mastering the fighter plane!" Li Hanzhang showed a calm smile and said deliberately.

When Lu Yuguang heard this, he thought that this was the same. The reason why the father and commander mobilized troops to fight this war was not only because he was eager to recover the north bank of the Li River, but more importantly, he could achieve this goal for free. Although he was very dissatisfied with Li Hanzhang's attitude, he had to do so first. After a cold snort, he shook his sleeves and turned around and walked out.

Li Hanzhang looked at Lu Yuguang's back and only smiled coldly. He really couldn't understand why the Grand Marshal valued such a young man.
Chapter completed!