At the same time that the telegram order was issued, the battle of the Huangjiang River, eight kilometers south of Guangchang City, officially began, and the two regiments of the newly formed First Division, under the personal command of division commander Cai Shengxi, concentrated all light and heavy machine guns and mortars and launched a fierce attack on the instructor's position on the north bank. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The two regiments of Yang Chisheng of the Dian Army were distributed around and were ready to forcibly cross the Yangtze River.

The officers and men of the 1st Regiment of Li Lianshan, the instructor stationed at the position on the north bank, were pinned down in the trenches and could not raise their heads, and on several occasions they took advantage of the enemy's artillery fire to launch fire counterattacks, but they were all forced to interrupt under the enemy's resolute artillery fire.

In less than 10 minutes of fighting, the first regiment, which lacked actual combat experience, paid a heavy price of more than 100 dead and wounded.

At the same time, Lai Shicong and Yang Ruxuan, who occupied Ganzhu Town in the north of Guangchang City, frequently sent company-sized troops to harass and probe them.

Such a kraft-like way of engaging in battles that had never been seen before made the instructor's officers and men very annoying, and they were unable to organize their troops to launch a resolute counterattack when they were attacked by the enemy on their backs.

Zheng Yiming knew that the purpose of Lai Shicong and Yang Ruxuan was to entangle himself to the death, and cooperate with the newly formed First Division and Yang Chisheng's division in the south to continuously consume his own troops, so that he could not concentrate his limited forces to make a breakthrough in a certain direction, but he did not have any way to deal with it, and he did not have the slightest confidence that while withstanding the superior enemy in the south, he would defeat Lai Shicong and Yang Ruxuan's two divisions in one go.

After weighing it hard, Zheng Yi chose to rush to the battlefield in the south of the city to see what was going on......

Taking advantage of the lack of battlefield experience of Li Lianshan's regiment, and using artillery fire to cover and feign the means of forcibly crossing the army, Cai Shengxi, the commander of the new division of the enemy's new division, lured the officers and men of Li Lianshan's regiment out of the trenches dug deeply, and then dozens of light and heavy machine guns and 24 French 81mm mortars roared in unison, and tried and tested three times in a row, causing heavy losses to Li Lianshan's regiment, which made Zheng Yi hate Cai Shengxi, who graduated from the sixth artillery department of the Baoding Military Academy, but he was helpless.

Zheng Yi arrived at the position on the north bank of the Huangjiang River and finished observing, raised his head to look at the scorching sun in the sky that was gradually moving westward, and then looked at the topography on both sides of the Huangjiang River, pondered for a moment, and quietly transferred Zhao Jingting's mortar company.

Zheng Yi ordered Zhao Jingting to personally lead a mortar company to bypass a hill behind the rear of the position, move to the rear of a mountain col with thorns and weeds two kilometers in front of the right side of the position, determine the direction and distance, and use 12 mortars to fire ten rounds at the mortar position behind the enemy's position, and then quickly withdraw and return to the rear of the first regiment of positions.

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In the headquarters four kilometers behind the position of the enemy's new first division, Cai Shengxi put down his binoculars, tightened his snow-white yarn gloves, pointed to the position of the instructor who had been silent for a long time, laughed proudly, turned his head sideways and said disapprovingly to the chief of staff and adjutant beside him:

"I don't know why the military seat attaches so much importance to this Zheng Yi, and even asked me to come here in person, now it seems that this Zheng Yi is just a vain person, not as good as a regiment commander under me, a straw bag!"

The tall adjutant laughed in a low voice: "I heard that this Zheng Yi plays basketball well, and his singing level is even more first-class......

Cai Shengxi smiled again and said disdainfully: "Grandstanding, opportunistic, just a play, haha!" ”

The thirty-odd thin chief of staff carefully reminded: "The division must not underestimate the enemy, there is a way to be a vain man under the fame!" After hearing that the news of Zheng Yi's rebellion and defection to the enemy reached the front line in Bengbu, Commander-in-Chief Chiang stayed awake all night, and the next day he still did not eat or drink, and refused to see guests, General Zhou Junyan was even more ill, and General Yu Feipeng's eyes were red and swollen for two consecutive days, and he asked for punishment. I heard that Commander-in-Chief Chiang later went into the field in anger, which was related to Zheng Yi's rebellion. ”

"So many important members of the party-state value Zheng Yi so much, presumably this person has his own merits, not to mention that the military seat repeatedly reminded us before leaving, asking us to consume Zheng Yi's vital strength as much as possible, and provoke him to break through to the south by any means, and let him break through and join up with Ruijin's communist army to achieve the goal of catching them all."

"At best, it's just a Zhao Kuo who talks on paper......"

Cai Shengxi shook his head when he said this, and was about to say a few more words when the whistling sound of dense shells suddenly came.

"Boom-"

Almost in the blink of an eye, the mortar position more than 500 meters to the left of the headquarters was in a series of violent explosions, flames were everywhere, thick smoke was billowing out, and the mortars and stumps and severed arms were flying all over the sky, and the screams and cries were instantly drowned out by the incessant explosions.

A few minutes later, the entire mortar position was in shambles, and twenty-four mortars and a battalion of valuable artillery disappeared into the billowing smoke.

Cai Shengxi and all the generals and colonels in the headquarters of the newly formed First Division turned pale and stunned, and more than 7,000 people from the five regiments looked at the smoke-filled mortar positions together, their eyes full of irrepressible shock and horror.

At this time, Cai Shengxi, who was annoyed and angry, finally reacted: "What's the matter? Who is responsible for the vigilance on the flanks of the position? Lao Tzu is going to kill him! ”

"Report to the division, the enemy launched an artillery attack from behind the col 2.8 kilometers in front of the left of our army's position, that direction is full of rocks, thorns, there is no way to go, the division seat has also been surveyed before, I feel that there is no need to set up a guard, plus the sun is shooting from the direction of the col, our guard post cannot be observed with binoculars, so ......"

The deputy division commander, who had just arrived, was full of grievances.

Cai Shengxi had no choice but to suppress his anger, and after a while, the regiment commander of the forward position called, reporting that all the instructors and officers and soldiers on the north bank had withdrawn from the position, and there was no shadow, and asked whether to launch a forced crossing to lure the enemy to attack?

Cai Shengxi, who gritted his teeth and was about to redouble his revenge, was speechless, and finally calmed down under the repeated persuasion of the chief of staff, raised the telescope to observe for a long time, and angrily pointed to the position on the north bank and shouted: "Say...... What the hell is going on? When did that Zheng Yi withdraw? What does he want to do? ”

The chief of staff shook his head and smiled bitterly: "We don't have mortars, he can do whatever he wants, if we launch a forced crossing in a fit of anger, that Zheng Yi is likely to come out immediately and give us a half-crossing to attack...... Alas! Now it's passive, it's not attacking, it's not defending, it's too passive. ”

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At six o'clock in the evening, three kilometers south of Huichang, the headquarters of the 32nd Army of the Kuomintang.

After reading the battle report sent by the new First Division and Cai Shengxi's telegram asking for punishment, Qian Dajun couldn't help but let out a faint sigh:

"This Zheng Yi is really a rare general! Why did they go to the side of the Communist Party? It's all right now, all the plans that I worked so hard to make are in vain......."

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PS: The fifth update is here!

This chapter is a big update for the "ruthlessness" of the alliance leader! I have to say that the reward is a shot in the arm, and Xiaohuo's spirit suddenly fell into a state of extreme excitement......

There are still two chapters to code today, Xiaohuo continues to work hard!

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