Warlords: Conquer the world from the county magistrate

"What? The central position was breached?" Wang Rong exclaimed after receiving the report.

He did not dare to neglect it and immediately ordered: "Let the withdrawn personnel from the Guard Battalion, the Fourth Regiment, and the First Regiment come together with me to retake the central position."

After the position was lost, it was impossible for Wang Rong to retreat at night, so he had no choice but to lead his men to retake the position.

Zhang Sheng, leading the Third Battalion and its subordinate troops, ran head-on into the reinforcements led by Wang Rong and immediately engaged in a firefight.

Under Zhang Sheng's bravery, his subordinates showed no fear of death.

Because the two troops were not far apart and Zhang Sheng's troops had sufficient automatic firepower, Wang Rongdai's troops suffered heavy losses and were quickly defeated.

"Find cover and organize a second line of defense." Wang Rong did not lead his troops to retreat far. He gathered his troops and began to organize a defense line.

Zhang Sheng did not lead his troops to chase after them immediately. Although he had killed many enemies in the previous exchange of fire, his own troops also suffered heavy losses. "Brothers, take a break for now, hold on to the enemy on the opposite side, and continue the attack later."

At the same time, the two battalions sent by Zhang Sheng broke into the battlefields on both wings respectively, and the originally shaky defense line was immediately broken.

The 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Division and the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division took the opportunity to break into the enemy's position.

"Brothers, launch a grenade launcher attack. One group of people should prepare submachine guns and follow me. Another group of people should prepare grenades to provide cover." After resting for more than ten minutes, Zhang Sheng's troops were ready to launch another attack.

At this time, a soldier came to report to Wang Rong: "Division Commander, the other two wings have been breached by the enemy."

"What?" Wang Rong was really anxious now.

Of the four regiments on our side, the regiment in the middle was severely damaged, and the other two regiments were trapped in their positions by the enemy.

Even if we want to retreat now, some of our troops will be caught by the enemy troops.

"boom."

"boom."

While Wang Rong was thinking, grenade launcher shells exploded around him, and Wang Rong's troops were blown to pieces.

While Wang Rong was looking for a shelter, he said to the soldiers beside him: "Tell the troops to take shelter."

"Get out of the way..." The soldier received the order and was about to shout when he was blown away by a shell. This scared Wang Rong who was standing next to him, and made him shrink even tighter.

As soon as the mortar shelling stopped, Zhang Sheng led his troops to rush forward.

There was a minute without any shelling. Wang Rong stood up and observed, then shouted, "Prepare for a counterattack."

Just as his troops stood up and prepared to attack, grenades were thrown at them and bursts of loud noises were heard.

When the smoke from the grenade cleared, the soldiers led by Zhang Sheng fired a burst of submachine gun fire at Wang Rong's troops.

Although Wang Rong had one and a half regiments and one battalion, because the Fourth Regiment was in the rear and the front-line units suffered heavy losses, the Fourth Regiment supported two battalions to the front line.

Therefore, Wang Rong actually only brought more than 2,000 people, which was not much advantage compared to Zhang Sheng's more than 1,000 people.

His troops suffered heavy losses from grenade launchers, grenades and submachine guns.

Wang Rong gritted his teeth and made a difficult decision: "One group will stay, and the rest will follow me to set up the third line of defense."

After he finished speaking, Wang Rong led the guard battalion and the remaining thousand people from the Fourth Regiment to retreat quickly.

"Division Commander, where should we set up the defense line?" asked the commander of the Fourth Regiment after retreating for a distance.

Glancing coldly at the fourth regiment commander, Wang Rong led his troops to withdraw from Pingshan Temple without saying a word. During the process, he asked a soldier to pass on the order for the remaining people in the division headquarters to retreat together.

After Wang Rong led his men to retreat, the remnants of the regiment were unable to resist Zhang Sheng for long and were defeated. Most of the remaining people surrendered.

At the same time, the stubborn elements on both wings of the battlefield were eliminated and most of them laid down their arms and surrendered.

When Zhang Sheng led his soldiers into the former division headquarters, it was empty, with no one left.

Zhang Sheng said in dissatisfaction: "Is this a loach? It runs so fast."

"Commander Zhang, take my Second Regiment with you and attack Fengxian County." Seeing that all the enemies resisting on the battlefield had been eliminated, Zhang Wei and Li Zhongwu discussed it, and Li Zhongwu took the initiative to speak.

"I will lead the troops directly under the division headquarters to collect prisoners and clean up the battlefield."

Zhang Wei didn't hesitate and said directly: "Okay, thank you very much, Commander Li."

Afterwards, Zhang Wei gathered his troops and marched towards Fengxian County with the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 2nd Division and the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Division. Li Zhongwu, with 3,000 men directly under the division headquarters, stayed behind to clean up the battlefield.

At Zhang Guilin's command center, Zhang Guilin read the telegram solemnly and handed it to Zhu Yaoxiang.

"How is it possible that we were defeated on the front battlefield?" Zhu Yaoxiang took the telegram and was shocked after reading it.

Zhang Guilin said expressionlessly: "Commander Zhu, Ma Jincen has already failed in this battle. What do you think we should do?"

"Commander Zhang, this is an opportunity. Fang Jian's main forces are dealing with Ma Jincen. Now is the chance to capture Qingshan." Zhu Yaoxiang said excitedly after thinking for a moment.

Zhang Guilin couldn't help but sneer, and at the same time cursed Zhu Yaoxiang in his heart as a good-for-nothing.

Is it so easy to go to Qingshan City? Even if Qingshan can be captured, what happens next? Fang Jian will turn around and the troops will be directed at him.

Moreover, Qingshan was Zhu Yaoxiang's territory. Even if he occupied it, Zhu Yaoxiang would be willing to give Qingshan to him.

Even if he was willing to give Qingshan to himself, there was still Huai Chong between Nanyun City and Qingshan.

Zhang Guilin shook his head and said, "Commander Zhu, I am going to withdraw my troops back to Nanyun. Will you come with me?"

Zhu Yaoxiang wanted to persuade him again, but was stopped by him. For Zhang Guilin, not only did he lose soldiers and generals in this expedition, but he was also fighting for Ma Jincen.

Even if Fang Jian would attack himself after defeating Ma Jincen, not only would his strength be consumed by Ma Jincen, but his soldiers would also fight harder to defend their homeland.

Even before this battle was over, the soldiers were already very tired of war.

A total of 13,000 soldiers were sent out, more than 3,000 of whom were killed in the battle and many were injured. It would be strange if the soldiers were willing to continue fighting.

Zhang Guilin's troops took advantage of the night to retreat from the front line towards Nanyun. Zhu Yaoxiang had no choice but to retreat with them.

The next morning, the Guard Division and the Second Division arrived at the city of Fengxian.

In Fengxian City, Ma Jincen looked at Liu Minggong and Wang Rong with a dark face.

Liu Minggong only returned with a few hundred soldiers in a panic, and Wang Rong was not much better, bringing back less than 1,500 people.

Ma Jincen asked Xu Yunhua, "Where is Cao Bingshen?"

"Cao Bingshen has returned to Huai Chong." Xu Yunhua said helplessly.

Ma Jincen threw the teacup beside him to the ground and cursed, "Asshole."

"General, now is not the time to worry about these things. The most urgent task is to quickly withdraw our troops back to Nanling." Xu Yunhua advised with gritted teeth.

Ma Jincen sighed, waved his hand and said, "You go and make the arrangements."

After the Guard Division joined forces with the Second Division, they did not dare to delay and immediately launched an attack on Fengxian City.

"Commander Fang, Commander Zhang, Ma Jincen's troops have escaped and Fengxian has been captured." After a while, an officer came to report.

Fang Guoxuan and Zhang Wei looked at each other, and Fang Guoxuan said, "Leave one company behind, and the rest of the troops will continue the pursuit."

Zhang Wei had no objection to this, and the troops quickly took action.