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Yang Shande also nodded and said: "The commander-in-chief is right. Let's fight down these few days. If nothing else, the enemy in front of us will definitely not exceed 3 people. This is before the war. And we will deduct this amount here." After three days of losses, there are still more than 8 people in four divisions, so we have to turn around, and they have nothing to do."

The more Wang Zhanyuan thought about it, the more he felt suspenseful. He boldly said: "But if we withdraw in this way now, what if Pukou is still lost? We can't make a reverse assault and use our superior force to go to Jiangxi and Hubei? Take Wuhan, and we will Can we still get supplies through the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway?"

Feng Guozhang shook his head and said: "But our supplies can't support Wuhan at all, and you have seen it yourself that the youth army is not as easy to deal with as you think. So..."

"Who?...ah...boom...boom...da da da"

Suddenly there was intense gunfire outside the room, which made Feng Guozhang and the three of them look at each other in surprise. What's going on?

At this time, an adjutant opened the door in a panic and said: "It's not good, Commander, a unit of the Youth Army came up for some reason, there are still a lot of people, and the guards are fighting fiercely with them, please Commander!" Get away quickly with all the officers."

The youth army actually found their own headquarters. This is Fan County, which is forty or fifty miles away from the front line. How is this possible?

But the fierce battle outside told Feng Guozhang unmistakably that all of this was true.

The troops that raided Feng Guozhang's headquarters in Fan County were none other than more than 103 warriors from the 5th Company of the 150rd Regiment. Under the agency of the acting company commander Zhao Yong, they did not return to Tongling, but insisted on fighting in the Fanxian area.Zhao Yong is indeed a good player. Under his leadership, the entire company not only did not collapse, but became stronger as the battle progressed, taking down several small supply points of the Beiyang Army in succession.It's just that because there is no radio station, there is no way to get in touch with the division headquarters.

On March 3th, Li Weidong and others in charge of reconnaissance observed the enemy's situation near Shuikou Village, a dozen miles away from Fan County, to see if there were any Beiyang Army supply troops with weak defense forces. , not only can replenish ammunition, but also delicious.Unknowingly, the entire company has taken a big step towards the direction of the bandits, but there is still a difference between them and the bandits, that is, they do not forget to kill the enemy.

Li Weidong and the others discovered the anomaly today. This village with less than 200 households has only less than [-] Beiyang soldiers guarding it. What is even more unusual is that there are civilian personnel coming in and out from time to time, but no supply vehicles are seen.Li Weidong observed for several hours, and could only sigh. His luck was really bad. The village he found was not a supply point for the Beiyang Army. It seemed that everyone was going to eat dry food and canned food tonight.Speaking of canned food, there have been no supplies for several days after leaving the main force, and there is not much canned food in stock now.

Back at the hidden spot of the 5th company, Li Weidong truthfully reported his work to his taciturn company commander, while the party representative Cui Fei was counting how many cigarettes he had left.

Li Weidong, who originally thought he could rest after the report, saw that the company commander Zhao Yong didn't say anything, so he naturally got up and planned to leave and go to the cave where he was to rest.In the end, the company commander Zhao Yong shouted excitedly: "Assemble the team and prepare to attack."

Now Li Weidong was stunned, while Cui Fei asked in surprise: "What's the situation? Why did you attack?"

Zhao Yong danced and gestured: "If my analysis is not wrong, the small village that Li Weidong and the others discovered is at least a division-level headquarters. There is no material to guard, and so many guards and weapons are used. Grandma's, big fish ah!"

Everyone suddenly realized, everyone immediately flew to inform the troops to join forces, and followed the company commander to catch big fish!So Feng Guozhang was in tragedy. . .

Zhao Yong and the others reached Shuikou Village quietly, and escaped at least two Beiyang patrols composed of cavalry.

When approaching the village, the sky has gradually darkened, and the curling smoke is slowly rising from the village, reflecting the last afterglow of the setting sun.

Zhao Yong didn't say anything, but told everyone to hide in the woods and wait for it to get dark.

After a while, Zhao Yong called all the main officers over: "After the battle, I will lead the second platoon to touch it in first, and then we will stir up chaos inside. The remaining brothers are under the command of Cui Dang's representative, and attack when they see the opportunity. Everyone saw the patrol on the way here, so the battle is only allowed to last for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, we don’t want anything and retreat at full speed. I guess this battle is over, we can go back to Tongling to rest instead of guerrilla here .”

Cui Fei, Li Weidong and others looked at Zhao Yong in surprise. This was the longest sentence Zhao Yong said in their memory.

Chapter 264

The second platoon led by Zhao Yong showed a different quality from the fifth company at this time, and these soldiers performed very well in night combat.After a few strides, the four strong soldiers stuck their bodies against the low wall of the village.Then more than 40 officers and soldiers sprinted forward in groups of four, and stepped on the folded hands of the previous four strong soldiers when they were by the wall.And these four soldiers were very skilled in sending their hands up, and the soldiers who stepped on their hands easily climbed over the low wall with their weapons, and immediately entered a state of alert on the other side of the low wall.

In less than two minutes, all fifty of Zhao Yong and the others entered Doosan Village.

Feng Guozhang still attaches great importance to his own defense, but he pays more attention to quality than quantity.His [-] personal guards all had [-]-shot shelling guns. If it was really close combat, with this firepower alone, I am afraid that even a regiment of troops would not be able to take advantage of it.In history, Feng Guozhang had such a brigade of pistol guards by his side, but it was a pity that it failed to play any role.The last time this expensive pistol brigade appeared in the official history, it was blocked by Ni Sichong in a train carriage with a heavy machine gun and disarmed, and then disappeared in the long river of history.

This period of history is destined not to appear in this time and space, because Ni Sichong will soon become history in advance, even if he does not bring the army to Pukou, with his current strength, he is destined to be able to do nothing in this long river of history lang spent.And Feng Guozhang's pistol brigade may not appear, because Zhao Yong is now less than 200 meters away from Feng Guozhang.

Facts have proved that people like Feng Guozhang are destined to be blessed by the gods. Just as Zhao Yong and the others quietly advanced towards the brightest place in the whole village, a Beiyang soldier who had to urinate at night suddenly discovered something unusual.

The Beiyang soldier couldn't believe his eyes at first, because this was Marshal Feng's headquarters, how could there be enemies here.But he is a professionally trained elite guard after all, he quickly made a judgment, the enemy in front of him, he has no weapons, so his professional quality made him choose to shout loudly: "Enemy attack, Enemy attack, enemy attack."

Zhao Yong felt that victory was just a little bit closer to him, but he was ruined by this lazy man with a lot of shit. He raised his hand and shot, killing this yelling guy, but the shot that pierced the night sky The whole Doosan Village woke up.

Then Zhao Yong seemed to have identified the target, and led the officers and soldiers in the second row to rush towards Feng Guozhang fiercely.

The guards guarding the entrance of Feng Guozhang's command department obviously haven't figured out the situation yet. The gunshot just now was regarded as a misfire by them. When a large group of black shadows rushed over, they didn't choose to fire, but asked someone very calmly. .

Those who want your life, Zhao Yong and the others rushed into the headquarters quickly, and the battle began immediately.

In Feng Guozhang's headquarters, staff officers are the most numerous, and guards are the most lacking. Although these staff officers quickly took out their guns, they are often knocked to the ground without firing a few shots because they don't understand basic tactical movements.

Feng Guozhang's guards reacted quickly, and they rushed towards Feng Guozhang's headquarters. The twenty rings in their hands were not vegetarians, and the crazy firepower quickly beat Zhao Yong and the others out of breath. Come.The casualties of the youth army inevitably appeared and continued to rise.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Yong yelled at his soldiers: "Use grenades, use grenades!"

Now it was the turn of the Beiyang soldiers to be dumbfounded. Just a few grenades collapsed these Beiyang soldiers who had hardly experienced any battles on weekdays.At this time, Feng Guozhang's bodyguard rushed in frantically, picked up Marshal Feng and ran to the backyard, and several other major generals also ran out.

At this time, Cui Fei led his troops to attack Doosan Village. Feng Guozhang's guards couldn't figure out the situation in this dark night. They felt that they had encountered a large army, so without further ado, Protect the commander and withdraw.

In the midst of this turmoil, Yang Shande, the commander of the Fourth Division, was accidentally hit in the leg by a stray bullet while fleeing with Feng Guozhang, and fell to the side immediately, while his guard was killed in the battle just now. No one cares about him anymore.

And Zhao Yong, who was chasing Feng Guozhang and others, rushed to Yang Shande's side impartially, and shouted to his soldiers: "Chasing, chasing quickly. Don't let them run away..."

Yang Shande didn't have a gun on his body, otherwise he would have to shoot whether he committed suicide or killed Zhao Yong, to show the dignity of an old Beiyang soldier.However, the severe pain in his leg made him very eager to be discovered. If the gunshot wound was not treated in time, it would become very serious.

Zhao Yong stomped his feet on the spot angrily. Damn it, he lost more than a dozen brothers, but in the end he didn't even get a hair, so he had to hurry up and retreat.Habitually shaking his head, he saw a living Beiyang officer, and he was actually a lieutenant general in military uniform.

Zhao Yong wiped his eyes violently, and then glanced at Yang Shande who was full of disbelief. He was really a lieutenant general, hahaha, he caught a big fish.Zhao Yong's feeling was that he suddenly won a 500 million grand prize after being extremely depressed. He mentioned Yang Shande and asked: "Be more conscious, designation, position, and name."

Yang Shande gave Zhao Yong a cold look: "Let go of your dirty hands, I am Yang Shande, Lieutenant General and Commander of the Fourth Division of the Central Army."

Hearing this reply, Zhao Yong immediately understood that the big man who escaped under the protection of a group of guards just now was most likely Feng Guozhang, oops, he missed an unrivaled feat.But soon after he realized that his current actions were undoubtedly stabbing a hornet's nest, he retreated, and retreated immediately.

Zhao Yong immediately asked his subordinates to carry Yang Shande on their backs, and then immediately retreated towards the mountains.Sure enough, a regiment of Beiyang soldiers rushed over, but fortunately Zhao Yong and others escaped.

In the next day or so, Zhao Yong and others worked hard to get rid of the pursuit of the Beiyang Army, and successfully brought Yang Shande back to the headquarters of the Tongling First Division. talk. . .

The most immediate effect was that Feng Guozhang collapsed. He really couldn't accept that he was kicked out of the nest by a group of boys at such an old age, and he almost fell into the enemy's hands.At the same time, Yang Shande, the commander of the Fourth Division, was obviously with him at the time, but disappeared after encountering the enemy. He didn't even find his body, so he was probably captured.

"Bastards, you bastards, you are all waste, waste, shoot all the officers who were in charge of patrolling the periphery that night, they are dereliction of duty, serious dereliction of duty. Shoot them, immediately, it is a shame for this group of Beiyang."

After a while, Feng Guozhang spoke again: "Give me an order, and the whole army will immediately retreat to Wuhu, immediately."

The immediate result was chaos. The first reaction of all the troops when they received such an order was that something serious was going to happen. It was good that the Second Division had the commander Wang Zhanyuan around.The Fourth Division lost even its commander, and they took the lead in chaos before the First and Second Divisions of the Jiangsu Army.

All the armies were clueless and retreated without a plan.A large amount of luggage was also discarded without anyone caring about it, and no military officer even organized personnel to burn these supplies.On the road from Tongling to Wuhu, all the combat units were crowded together. If the senior staff officer Guo Songling hadn't returned from the front line in time and immediately organized a 400-member law enforcement team to try to maintain order on the road, the situation would have been much worse. It was completely out of control, and it is estimated that even the establishment did not exist.

Therefore, military historians of later generations gave high praise to Zhao Yong's heroic night attack that was almost lucky.

No matter from which point of view, the brave actions of Zhao Yong and the officers and men of the 111th Company of the [-] Infantry Regiment finally laid the foundation for the victory of the Southeast Front Army. Although we have no direct evidence to prove how much impact this raid had on Feng Guozhang's subsequent behavior .But no one can deny that this attack made a huge contribution to the final victory of the entire southeast battle.

------ "Battle in the Southeast", author Yi Zhongdi, published by United Press In the fierce battle of the day, the first division suffered more than 5000 casualties, which was the biggest loss since the founding of the army.The second thing is that the weapons and ammunition have been exhausted, and the existing materials are not enough to launch a large-scale battle unless there are reinforcements.

At this time, Wang Zhenyu had already arrived in Wuhan. On the way to Wuhan, he personally issued an order that Zeng Jiwu's Tenth Division would provide reinforcements to Tao Zhiyue's right army by water.

So Feng Guozhang's disaster was about to begin. Relying on the strong transportation tonnage of Yuanjiang Shipping Company, the equipment and personnel of the Tenth Division boarded the ship in Yueyang almost in the afternoon when Wang Zhenyu's order was issued.

While Feng Guozhang's army was still in chaos on the road from Tongling to Wuhu, Zeng Jiwu arrived in Tongling on April 4, April Fool's Day, and personally reported to Li Zongren, commander of the Southeast Front Army.

So far, Li Zongren's army has reached an astonishing 7 divisions, and the goddess of victory naturally waved at him unceremoniously.

On April 4, Li Zongren, the commander of the Southeast Front Army, issued an order for a general offensive across the board. Bai Chongxi commanded three divisions of the Left Army to rush towards Pukou fiercely, while the first and tenth divisions commanded by Tao Zhiyue began to follow Feng Guozhang's troops (so wretched) word).

At this moment, Lu Diping reported that Lu Yongxiang, the 11th Beiyang Division in front of him, had run away. Tao Zhiyue replied without hesitation. The No. [-] Division immediately attacked and tried his best to cut off the road between Wuhu and Nanjing. Be sure not to let the main force of the Beiyang Army get away.