Chapter 594: The Dian Army's turmoil

A group of figures suddenly appeared on a small road to the west, and bent down and quickly groped towards Chengguan. From a distance, these people discovered the flames of the hidden strongholds of the Yunnan Army, and quickly spread out and touched these strongholds.

In one of the outermost strongholds, five soldiers were betting on dice. When they were in a hurry, a handle-like object was stuck in the gap in the wooden board. The five soldiers were stunned. When they looked at it, they suddenly found that it was a grenade that had already pulled out the fuse. They quickly stood up and ran outside. Before they could stand firm, the explosion overturned the entire wooden house.

With this violent explosion, the entire quiet night in Meishan was broken.

The gunshots, explosions, and shouts of killing followed closely, surrounded by Chengguan from all directions.

Ropekin woke up from his sleep, and didn't even bother to wear his shoes. He touched his pistol bag and pulled out his pistol, stepped on the cold floor and ran out of the barracks. A gust of cold wind outside the house made him shudder, and he suddenly became energetic. He saw many torches, bullets, grenades, and explosion smoke appearing everywhere in the area hundreds of meters around his camp.

The soldiers in the camp were in chaos, and they hadn't figured out what was going on, and they couldn't tell where the enemy was, or there were enemies everywhere!

"Fuck, what's going on, what's going on?" Ropekin shouted at the panicked crowd.

"Sir, there are... there are enemies, sneak attacks, sneak attacks." A voice in the chaos replied.

"What? Farting, how could the enemy touch here!" Ropekin widened his eyes and couldn't believe it.

At this time, a team of guards gathered together, and an officer led them to Ropekin's side. Ropekin saw that it was Zhao Wenchen, who was in charge, and immediately grabbed him and asked again: "What the hell is going on!"

Zhao Wenchen looked panicked and said quickly: "I don't know. I heard that it was the Beiyang Army's sneak attack. The guards on the periphery were all finished. The enemy was rushing towards the camp. Sir, don't worry about anything else for now. Let's retreat quickly. The Second Regiment is on the Gaotai Bridge outside the city. Retreat there first to avoid it, and then mobilize the troops of the Second Regiment and then fight back."

Luo Peijin was unwilling to accept it, but the camp was too chaotic, with only seven or eight hundred troops. Of course, I don’t know how many are left now. He gritted his teeth and had to say, “Let’s go find a few war horses. I can’t run to Gaotai Bridge barefoot.”

Zhao Wenchen sent several guards to find the war horses, and found an officer who appointed him as the temporary commander of the camp, responsible for organizing the entire battalion to fight. Ten minutes later, the war horses were brought over. Luo Peijin and Zhao Wenchen rode one on each, rushed out of the camp from the south with one of the few guards, and ran directly outside Meishan County.

Finally, he came out of the rain of bullets and came to the suburbs from the city gate. A group of people appeared on the mountain road ahead. It was vaguely seen that these people were holding rifles in their hands.

Ropekin thought that these people were troops who came to support when the Second Regiment heard the movement, so he tied the reins to slow down the horses. But at this moment, the people on the other side of the mountain road also slowed down, but did not go to greet Ropekin, but instead squatted one by one to prepare for shooting.

"Sir, be careful!" Zhao Wenchen shouted immediately from behind.

Ropekin was shocked and accidentally kicked the Spurs. The slowed down horse speed suddenly started to gallop again, and rushed directly towards the mountain road ahead.

The gunshots on the opposite side suddenly rang out, and Ropekin only felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat, but it was absolutely impossible to turn around at this time. Otherwise, when the speed slowed down, he and the war horse would soon turn into a hornet's nest. Helplessly, he could only bite the bullet and whip hard, so that the war horse would run faster and break out from the group of unidentified enemy troops.

The bullets roared in the ears, and the pain came from the shoulders and thighs one after another, as if they were hit by the bullets. Not long after, the war horse suddenly screamed, and was obviously hit.

He didn't dare to stop and gritted his teeth and continued to rush forward!

I don't know how long I ran, but the horse staggered and fell to the ground with a sudden fall. Ropekin fell to the ground by inertia. He climbed up from the ground with difficulty, with blood everywhere in his hands and legs, and he was still barefoot. He groped on the ground for a long time, but he couldn't even find his pistol. He looked back at the horse, and saw that the horse was struggling constantly, panting and breathing heavily, but he could no longer stand up.

He looked around and found that this was a strange forest. The staff officer Zhao Wenchen and the guard were missing, leaving only one person alone. He knew that he must have been separated when he met the enemy just now. Perhaps Zhao Wenchen and the guard did not rush out, or perhaps he ran from another direction. He didn't have so much time to think about these things now, and the only thing he was thinking about was the pursuit and his life. Fortunately, the forest was quiet and the enemy seemed to have not chased him.

How could this happen? What happened? The Beiyang Army launched a sneak attack like this, with no signs or intelligence at all alert!! He had a lot of doubts in his heart, and at this moment he couldn't help but burst out all of them.

It was five o'clock in the morning at the second floor of Wuzhou Government Hall, and the sky was still in the dark.

"What? The 27th Mixed Brigade was sneaked out in Meishan last night?" After receiving the emergency notice, He Fuguang rushed here and said in surprise after listening to the report.

"That's right. It seems that the Third Central Division sent a battalion to marches to Meishan to launch a sneak attack, but it will take some time to prove it!" Wang Changling, who was in charge of intelligence, said seriously.

"What is the current situation of the Yunnan Army?" He Fuguang asked calmly.

"The Brigade Headquarters Base Camp suffered heavy casualties, and the enemy was once occupied by the enemy, but later the Yunnan Army gathered the rear troops and took them back. There is no specific casualties yet, only a little... The whereabouts of the brigade commander Luo Peijin were unknown!" Wang Changling said a little heavy.

"Is it life or death?" He Fuguang asked, this news was crucial.

"I don't know. According to the brigade guard, Brigade Commander Luo was ambushed while retreating, and the war horses were separated in panic. However, the guard finally saw Brigade Commander Jianluo, which was not seriously injured. The ambushed enemy did not hit him, and the possibility of survival should be quite high." Wang Changling continued.

He Fuguang fell into silence. The 27th Mixed Brigade was attacked by a sneak attack, which was originally a bad news that would damage the morale of the army. If even Ropekin was killed, this would be a big bad news. He sighed in his heart: The Chengdu battle has not started yet!

"Doesn't the Central Third Division have only one vanguard in Ziyang? They just started such an unexpected sneak attack in less than two days after they went from Chongqing to Ziyang?" After a while, he spoke again.

He was a little unbelievable. Even though the Central Army's number was the elite troops of the Beiyang Army, there were not necessarily any powerful people in the entire Beiyang Army, especially the quality of soldiers was already at a point where they were difficult to change. "Who is the person in charge of the vanguard? Lin Changzeng?"

Wang Changling nodded and said, "It's him, the leader of the Pioneer Regiment. There are almost 1,300 troops in Ziyang."

Lin Changzeng was mentioned in the earlier information, but He Fuguang didn't know the details of this person at all, and just thought it was a small character in the Beiyang Army. Now it seems that Lin Changzeng is very capable and has a very good grasp of the battle situation.

Wang Changling waited for a while, and saw He Fuguang pondering and asked further: "Chief Staff, what should I do now? Mianyang is still waiting for support. The news of the 27th Mixed Brigade will probably hurt the morale of the Sichuan Army."

Before He Fuguang could speak, a sound of footsteps came downstairs. Not long after, Wu Shaoting and a group of entourage walked in with heavy steps. The few people in the lobby all looked at each other. It was early morning, and the senators of various provinces were not present, and there were only some clerks and correspondents. However, the news received an hour ago made all of them feel nervous. At this moment, a leader was needed to stand up and stabilize the situation.

He Fuguang and Wang Changling greeted him, and Deng Keng just finished introducing the news about Meishan to Wu Shaoting.

"Ship Ting, it's not easy to fight in Chengdu." He Fuguang sighed and said.

"After such a big incident, no senators from all provinces arrived?" Wu Shaoting did not directly answer He Fuguang's words. He glanced at the lobby first and said coldly.

"It's early morning, maybe the liaison officers of the senators of various provinces have suppressed the telegram." Wang Changling said.

"There is no time to wait for dawn. I will send me a telegram to Zunyi immediately, contact General Songpo, and ask what the 7th Division is now? When will it be possible to enter Sichuan?" Wu Shaoting said in an orderly manner. He had known that the two troops from Yunnan and Guizhou were unreliable, and he only hoped that these two brigades could help the rise in the front. Now, not only did the rise in the momentum, but bad things that affected the morale of the army have occurred one after another.

A clerk quickly wrote the text and then ran to the communication room next door to arrange the telegram.

Wu Shaoting didn't say anything more and walked quickly towards the internal office. He Fuguang and Wang Changling followed closely behind.

When he arrived at the map table in the inner office, Wu Shaoting looked carefully at the current deployment of enemy and us troops near Chengdu. His face gradually became solemn, and there was a clear frown between his eyebrows.
Chapter completed!