Three hundred and ninetieth eight chapters Tongguan
Fujian has basically fallen into the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the battle in Shaanxi has begun to proceed according to the designs of Wang Mingzhang and Bai Chongxi!
Chen Shufan was in a bitter confrontation with the Northern Expeditionary Army on the front line, while Liu Zhenhua commanded his Suppression Army and the 37th Division into a stalemate on the Sanyuan front line.
At this time, the 82nd Regiment commanded by Sun Lianzhong was also racing against time in the direction of Tongguan.
Sun Lianzhong and his brothers ran down the 800-mile road on their own feet.
"Report, Tongguan is ahead." Shi Zheqian, commander of the second company of the first battalion, panted.
Sun Lianzhong picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of Tongguan for a while, and then said: "Captain Shi, according to the previous discussion, separate a platoon, all put on the uniforms of the Shaanxi Army, and control the Tongguan city gate!"
"yes!"
A platoon put on the uniforms of the Shaanxi Army, led by Mr. and Mrs. Shi Zhe, and swaggered towards Tongguan. The defenders of Tongguan would never have thought that the front line was more than 800 miles away from them, and a group of
The Northern Expeditionary Army actually appeared here!
A regiment of the Henan Army guarding Tongguan. A Henan Army platoon leader at the city gate saw a Shaanxi Army suddenly appear and shouted, "Hey, you are not fighting the Revolutionary Party out front, what are you doing here?"
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Mr. and Mrs. Shi Zhe, who were walking in the opposite direction, said loudly: "***, I'm fighting the revolutionary party in front. You are free and happy here. The revolutionary party is not willing to die. I don't want to lose my head."
Throw it there."
With a "boom", the Henan troops at the city gate burst into laughter.
The platoon leader of the Henan Army didn't take it seriously at all. The battlefield was so far away from here, and the war would never happen here.
Shi Zhe and his wife staggered to the front of the pass: "Brother, do you have any cigarettes?"
"Yes, we have all the cigarettes here." The platoon leader of the Henan Army took out the cigarette with a smile and gloated: "Brother, it's not like that. You are in such a mess that you don't even have a cigarette?"
Lighting a cigarette by the fire, Shi Zhe and his wife took a look to the side. There were only seven or eight Henan soldiers, and their brothers had quietly approached behind them. They took two puffs and sighed: "Isn't that right? Where can I find it?"
Comparable to you, you are free and at ease here."
The platoon leader of the Henan Army wanted to make a joke again, but suddenly he saw Shi Zhe and his wife throw away the cigarette in their hands, and those "Shaanxi Army" cheered and raised their guns.
"Don't be kidding, don't be kidding, brother."
Before the Henan platoon leader finished speaking, all his men had been disarmed.
"Brother, I'm sorry, let me lend you the city gate!" Mr. and Mrs. Shi Zhe said, raising their guns and firing three shots into the sky. Then, the entire platoon of soldiers quickly took control of the city gate.
The gunshot alerted Tongguan!
Ma Liansheng, the commander of Tongguan's garrison, never dreamed that the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was completely out of touch with the front line, would actually descend from the sky and appear in Tongguan!
Ma Liansheng, who was smoking a heavy cigarette, reacted slowly. At first, he thought that his subordinates' guns had misfired. Then, as the gunfire erupted, he ran out of his regiment headquarters in a panic: "What's going on?"
?what happened?"
"Commander, the Northern Expeditionary Army has entered the city!"
"What? The Northern Expeditionary Army? Fuck you!" Ma Liansheng yelled: "The Northern Expeditionary Army is a thousand miles away, and they have wings and are flying over?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the gunshots became more intense.
Ma Liansheng stood there stunned for a long time before he finally realized that the Northern Expeditionary Army had really come here!
"Hold it, hold it!" Ma Liansheng shouted at the top of his lungs.
The 82nd Regiment, which controlled the city gate, began to enter Tongguan in large numbers. Gunshots rang out everywhere in Tongguan, and no one knew how many Northern Expeditionary troops had entered.
The Tongguan garrison was in chaos!
Since entering Shaanxi, the Henan Army of this regiment has been pampered and has hardly encountered any fighting. At this time, the battle has just begun, and the Henan Army in chaos has no idea how to fight.
And that commander Ma Liansheng was extremely incompetent. At this critical moment, the most important thing to do was to stabilize the morale of the army, rally the troops, and hold on while waiting for opportunities to counterattack. But Ma Liansheng was at a loss and had no ability to respond.
The 82nd Regiment quickly took control of the upper and lower south gates and began to advance into the interior of Tongguan.
Tongguan is known in history as "the first danger in Ji Nei" and "the key to the three Qin towns". The "throat of the four towns" has a history of more than 2,000 years since it was established as a county at the end of the Han Dynasty. It occupies the intersection of Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi, and has always been a battleground for military strategists.
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And Liu Zhenhua put his crony Ma Liansheng in this position, which was undoubtedly his biggest failure.
Sun Lianzhong, who followed the troops into Tongguan, ordered the troops to continue their advance while bluffing and shouting everywhere that the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army had arrived.
As a result, the already chaotic situation became even more chaotic.
When he learned that the "main force" of the Northern Expeditionary Army had arrived, Ma Liansheng made a "decision-making" decision: Surrender!
The main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army has arrived, what role can one regiment play? It is better to simply surrender. Anyway, we will have the same food wherever we go.
An hour after the 82nd Regiment invaded Tongguan, Ma Liansheng, the commander of the Zhensong Regiment responsible for guarding Tongguan, surrendered to the Northern Expedition.
The fierce battle that I thought would happen did not happen.
Sun Lianzhong was also a little surprised that the war ended so smoothly. While ordering people to reorganize the fortifications to deal with Liu Zhenhua's possible counterattack after learning that Tongguan was lost, he entered the city under the leadership of Ma Liansheng.
Ma Liansheng was not good at fighting, but his knowledge was good. After learning that the opponent actually only had one regiment of troops, he did not regret or feel ashamed at all. Instead, he took the initiative to become Sun Lianzhong's guide: "This Tongguan is very famous in history. Cao Cao once said
Ma Chao was defeated here. The most famous one was the large-scale war between the intruder Li Zicheng and the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty. In this battle, Li Zicheng almost wiped out his entire army."
"Oh, really?" Sun Lianzhong asked curiously as he had not read many books.
This question immediately made Ma Liansheng energetic: "In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Ministry of War still had a plan for Piao Tianwen//'. In September of that year, Li Zicheng was ambushed by Cao Bianjiao in Hanzhong and had to retreat to Sichuan. Later he went to Zitong and Jianzhou areas
Activity. Hong Chengchou analyzed that Li Zicheng was weak and must leave Tongguan east and go to Henan. Hong Chengchou ordered Sun Chuanting to set up a triple ambush in the south of Tongguan. In the spring and February of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Cao Bianjiao and others forced Li Zicheng into Tongguan. In this battle, Li Zicheng's corpses piled up like a mountain, almost
The whole army was wiped out, and the local residents 'killed them with sticks when they encountered them, and the Qin thieves were wiped out'. In the end, only eighteen cavalry broke out and fled into the Shangluo Mountains."
Sun Lianzhong listened with great interest, and after listening he sighed: "Captain Ma, I think it may not be suitable for you to be an officer. You can't go wrong to be a teacher."
Ma Liansheng actually blushed: "Brother, my original ambition was to be a teacher, but who would have thought that I ended up with this bowl of rice by accident. Captain Sun, I can't fight, but if Captain Sun lacks a clerk by his side,
, brother, that’s what you do.”
Sun Lianzhong didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Ma Liansheng was the leader of the group after all, but he actually said such unambitious words.
Tongguan changed hands, causing a sudden change in the entire battlefield situation in Shaanxi.
The Northern Expeditionary Army, which had been dormant for many days, resumed its offensive after Sun Lianzhong took control of Tongguan.
The biggest impact of Tongguan's change of hands was undoubtedly Liu Zhenhua and his Song Suppression Army. Once Tongguan was lost, his Song Suppression Army lost the only way to withdraw from Henan.
Liu Zhenhua finally understood why the Northern Expeditionary Army suddenly stopped fighting before, but now it was too late.
The Thirty-seventh Division of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Sanyuan were all excited after hearing that the 82nd Regiment had successfully attacked Tongguan. Zhang Fang took advantage of the situation and commanded the entire army to launch a massive counterattack against the Song Army in front.
As for those Zhensong troops who had their retreat route cut off, they were in panic, their officers had no intention of commanding, and their soldiers had no intention of fighting. The road back to their hometowns had been cut off by the enemy, so why were they still fighting here?
Once the morale of the military was in chaos, it would become very passive as the battle continued. Under such a situation, Liu Zhenhua had to order his troops to temporarily withdraw from the front line. While mobilizing troops to move in the direction of Tongguan, he attempted to retake Tongguan.
Send people to start peace talks with the Northern Expedition again.
But now the initiative is in the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
The conditions proposed by Wang Mingzhang are very simple: Liu Zhenhua can continue to serve as the governor of Shaanxi for one year, but he is not allowed to continue to lead the army, and the military and political affairs must be separated!
On this basis, everything is easy to discuss.
But giving up the army is what Liu Zhenhua is most afraid of. In these troubled times, you can have nothing, but you can't live without the army!
Continue to serve as provincial governor for one year? What should I do after that year?
The people of Shaanxi hate Chen Shufan, but the people of Shaanxi also hate themselves! The governor, who has no soldiers and no power, is simply a puppet. He may be kicked out at any time and at any time, and then he will really become a lost dog!
But now, according to the current situation, it may be difficult to continue fighting.
"Tongguan must be recaptured, Tongguan must be recaptured!" Liu Zhenhua kept murmuring.
If Tongguan is returned to its own hands, even if it can no longer support itself in Shaanxi, it can at least be returned to Henan in order to make a comeback.
Liu Zhenhua decided to make a desperate move. He used his main force to suppress Chai Yunsheng's troops in the First Division of the Song Army, and rushed towards Tongguan with all his strength. He had only one purpose: to open an escape path for himself.
For this reason, he took out a lot of money and handed it into the hands of Chai Yunsheng. He did not forget to hold Chai Yunsheng's hand: "Commander Chai, whether or not Tongguan can be recaptured is related to the fate of tens of thousands of soldiers of our Song Army.
Oh my god, please!"
Chai Yunsheng also solemnly agreed: "Don't worry, Governor Liu. I will personally supervise the officers and soldiers of the division to return Tongguan to Governor Liu's hands. There is only one regiment of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Tongguan, so I expect it will be easy."
Take it!"
Liu Zhenhua nodded gratefully.
But what they have to face is a general known for his ability to defend well: Sun Lianzhong!!.