Hu Zongduo thought for a while and suggested: "Zi Qin (Tao Jun) has returned to the Jingyi front line to deal with Liu Xiangchuan's army, which is about to move. He can no longer mobilize his troops. Can Brother Xicang mobilize the two divisions from northern Hubei?
Although Chiang Kai-shek appointed Feng Huanzhang's Han Fuqu Department as the Third Route Army, Feng Huanzhang was too cunning to express his position easily, let alone follow Chiang Kai-shek's command to attack me.
, Feng Huanzhang will not go south, so now we can only focus on the overall situation."
Xia Wei looked at Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui who were chatting not far away: "Okay, I will leave a division at Wushengguan to guard the Northwest Army, and let the two of them lead the main force to immediately go to Xiaogan and be on standby. Leave it wherever it is needed."
"Why hasn't Degong come yet? Why hasn't he come yet..." Zhang Huafu, who acted as Li Zongren's government affairs representative, was very anxious.
Hu Zongduo glanced at him disdainfully: "At this time, what's the point of being anxious? It's been raining in Guangdong for days and the plane can't take off. Even if Degong wants to join us, he has to take a detour to Guangxi via Hunan and go north to Wuhan, which takes less than ten and a half days.
You can't see the moon."
"Hey! What should I do..."
"Report: General Ye Qi sent an urgent message. His troops are surrounded by An Yi's troops in the Pingliu area. Liuyang has been lost. The troops are shrinking rapidly and are striving to break out of the encirclement to the west!"
Staff Officer Huang arrived again, and his reporting voice could not help but tremble.
"What--"
Hu Zongduo was so shocked that he was stunned on the spot. After a while, he uttered a series of dejected words to the panicked generals gathered around him: "Brother Cuiwei is finished! As long as he is surrounded by An Yi, how many people can escape? Even if Brother Cuiwei loses his troops and sacrifices his life to break through,
How can I outrun An Yi’s unstoppable troops..."
Hu Zongduo knew An Yi relatively well. Not only could Ye Qi not escape in the rainy night, Ye Qi, who hurriedly ordered to shrink and prepare to gather troops to break through, was surrounded even more tightly. To the north, Yin Jinan's two brigades relied on strong firepower to blockade
There were three retreat routes. With the support of powerful artillery fire, a brigade in the east quickly advanced to the two-kilometer line on the east bank of the Miluo River. Superior mortar and machine gun firepower overwhelmed the enemies who were retreating in the city and on the west bank of the Miluo River.
Zhang Hao's brigade under Xia Jian repulsed three attacks by a regiment in the west of the city, and successfully occupied Liuzhongling and Shuzui on both sides of the Wulipai road. Two companies of engineers under his command retreated while the enemy troops were rampant and had no time to organize.
During the counterattack, 300 landmines were buried in the open spaces on both sides of the avenue.
In the south of Pingjiang City, Yang Bin and Xia Jian stood on the Changchong Ridge three kilometers away from the county seat. Looking at the enemy artillery positions in the south of the city that were ablaze with fire from the mortar battalion, they calmly commanded Zhou Dingcheng's second brigade to enter the southwest along the river and encircle the last line.
A gap was blocked. Min, the colonel commander of the third brigade in reserve, was so anxious that he ran to his old boss Yang Bin several times and asked to join the battlefield.
Yang Bin was so entangled that he could only point to Pingjiang City under the night: "The enemy's artillery is gone, and the firepower of a single regiment is not as strong as our battalion. They were beaten to death, and it was drizzling again. In the dark, all they could do was gather their troops and fight for their lives."
Besides escaping to the west, what else can we do? There are more than 8,000 brothers from the two brigades of Zhang Hao and Yang Lie guarding the west. Faced with the favorable terrain and powerful firepower occupied by the two brigades, how can the enemy escape? You can still show off if you join in the fun.
Don’t open it, save it. Didn’t you enjoy the attack on Liuyang in the afternoon? Are you worried that there will be no more battles now? When we attack Tongcheng, I will let you use the main force."
Min Jing scratched his big head that had just grown some hair and left reluctantly. Xia Jian lit a cigarette and asked Yang Bin: "How did you know that you were going to open up the city next?"
"It's obvious that after this battle, He Jian can no longer wait and see. The commander-in-chief will rush to Changsha when he arrives tomorrow. Changsha and Yueyang have nothing to do without us. Apart from going north to attack Tongcheng, what else can we do? I'm worried now
What's wrong is that the supplementary division of the Twelfth Army stationed in Tongcheng ran away before we arrived." Yang Bin explained easily.
Xia Jian nodded: "It seems that this is the only way... Lao Yang, how should Ye Qi deal with it?"
"Didn't Zongjun's special brigade say that there are two steamboats parked at the docks in the city? Let him run, so as not to catch him and release him. Let him escape to Changsha. What will happen to He Jian? It would be even worse if He Jian catches him and takes credit.
Well, if He Jian lets him go, he will also resent He Jian for not sending troops to support, and the feud between them is settled." Yang Bin said with a smile.
Xia Jian sighed: "Lao Yang, I have discovered that you and the boss are very similar in this respect. You can come up with so many insidious tricks when it comes to anything. It seems that this person is really infuriating. Don't accept it.
ah!"
"Who am I? When Fang Lu (Ye Chengzi) comes back from studying in Germany, you will see how he behaves. I will definitely be a hundred times more vicious than my brother, haha! Okay, the gunfire suddenly became intensive. It seems that Ye Qi
We are almost ready. Send an order to your little brother Zhang Hao to defend the land route. I will also inform Yang Lie and Dingcheng not to sink Ye Qi's two motorboats. If dozens of mortars chase and attack, Ye Qi will not
If we are killed by a bomb, we will also be drowned, and it will be difficult for us to explain to the superiors."
After Yang Bin finished speaking, he walked to the phone and personally gave orders to his two brigade commanders.