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Ningdu County Ya, Teaching Instructor Headquarters.

Zhao Jingting looked at the sky outside, then at the division commander Zheng Yi, and said with some hesitation: "Anyway, the enemy will not launch a river crossing until the rain stops." ”

Zheng Yi thought for a moment: "Antai, order a company of spies, all of them are withdrawn to rest...... Lao Zhao, send out a platoon of your police communication company, and after the enemy learns that his reconnaissance team has gone and has not returned, he will definitely send more reconnaissance teams to cross the river to investigate and get a glimpse of what is going on. ”

"Lao Zhao, you instructed Brother Jingtonglian to keep investigating to the north and east, and immediately open fire when encountering the enemy, and then show the enemy to be weak and quickly retreat."

Zhao Jingting understood Zheng Yi's meaning very well: "I'll go and arrange it." ”

"I'm going to go to the top of the city to see the fortifications." Gao Cheng's mind turned quickly, and he knew that after luring the enemy to attack, it was likely that he would have to fight a tough battle to defend the city.

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Two o'clock in the afternoon, Shishang Town.

Before the banquet hosted by the local wealthy gentry was over, it was interrupted by the faint sound of gunfire faintly coming from the west bank of the Meijiang River.

After half an hour of repeated deliberations, they resolutely ordered the First Regiment under their command to cross the west bank, completely control the crossings on both sides of the strait, cut off all the passages north of Ningdu, and search for and eliminate the small reconnaissance units of the communist army.

Yang Yuhan, who is nearly forty years old, also came from Kunming Lecture Hall, and graduated at the same time as his current boss, Zhu Shigui, a lieutenant general of the 39th Army. In the early days of the Northern Expedition, when Zhu Shigui was the commander of the Eighth Division of the Third Army, Yang Yuhan, who was deeply trusted by Zhu Shigui, served as the chief of staff of the division.

After the end of the Longtan War last year, the Nanjing government, which was controlled by the Gui faction and the Xishan Conference faction, vigorously suppressed Zhu Peide, the commander of the Yunnan Army, who was swaying from side to side and watching the fire from the other side, and revoked the number of the Ninth Army owned by the Yunnan Army, and Yang Yuhan also lost the opportunity to be promoted to the commander of the Ninth Army.

In March this year, Zhu Peide officially took refuge in President Jiang, who had made a comeback, but the number of the Ninth Army had been taken away by Gu Zhu of the Whampoa Army.

After Zhu Peide promised to send troops to the Northern Expedition, President Jiang gave Zhu Peide a new name for the 31st Army, and Jin Handing, the former commander of the Ninth Army, served as the commander of the 31st Army, and crossed the river north with Wang Jun's Third Army to participate in the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Shigui, the former lieutenant general of the Eighth Division, was transferred to the post of deputy commander of the Jiangxi Provincial Garrison Command, leading all units of the Yunnan Army to stay in Nanchang, and Yang Yuhan, chief of staff of the division, was immediately transferred to the post of chief of staff of the garrison headquarters.

In order to keep the hard-won territory of Jiangxi Province, Zhu Peide secretly expanded the army in the name of reorganization, and the number of remaining Yunnan troops soared from more than 20,000 to more than 45,000.

In May this year, because several counties in southern Jiangxi were occupied by the communist army one after another, President Chiang and the Nanjing government generously gave the number of the 39th Army of the Yunnan Army in order to drive the remaining Yunnan troops to exterminate the communist forces.

Zhu Peide, commander of the Yunnan Army, was in great spirits and quickly signed an order appointing his confidant General Zhu Shigui as the commander of the 39th Army, and ordering Zhu Shigui to transfer the remaining troops to form three main divisions.

Due to the lack of intelligence and the long-standing contradictions between the various factions of the Yunnan Army, Zhu Shigui, the commander of the 39th Army and deputy commander of the garrison who stayed in Nanchang, looked down on Yang Chisheng, who had been defeated repeatedly and retreated to Ganzhou, and Yang Ruxuan, who took the initiative to retreat to a corner of Anfu County.

Zhu Shigui's greatest purpose in dispatching two divisions and two independent brigades southward this time was to take advantage of the opportunity of encircling and suppressing the communist forces to squeeze out Yang Chisheng's troops, who had long been entrenched in Ganzhou, and completely occupy Ganzhou City, which connected the three provinces on trade routes.

Ganzhou's annual mining tax and tobacco tax of more than 2 million oceans have long made Zhu Peide and Zhu Shigui and other generals of the Yunnan army salivate.

Although Yang Yuhan did not believe that the communist armed forces in southern Jiangxi were as high as 30,000, he attached great importance to Zheng Yi, the instructor and division commander who was brave and good at fighting and had a good reputation, and he was convinced that Zheng Yi was in Ningdu in the south, and there would be no more than two regiments of instructors and soldiers in Ningdu City.

Secondly, Yang Yuhan, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, made an accurate judgment, believing that the focus of the entire battlefield in southern Jiangxi is Ningdu, as long as Ningdu is defeated, the rejuvenation of the country in the west will be surrounded on all sides, and the communist army that has gathered in the north and south of the rejuvenation country and resisted stubbornly will surely become a turtle in the urn.

Therefore, Yang Yuhan did not hesitate because Ruijin was captured by the communist army, but unswervingly waved his army south and approached Ningdu.

If it weren't for the bad weather and continuous rain, Yang Yuhan's first division would have already fallen into the capital of Ning.

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At dusk, the light rain that had been falling for a day and night slowly stopped, and the clouds gradually faded, and the western sky showed a brilliant sunset.

Inside and outside Guanchao Town, 17 kilometers south of Taihe County, there is one post in three steps, one post in five steps, and one sentry in five steps, and the smoke rises in the town where there are only more than 700 households and more than 3,600 people, and people shout and neigh, and the Yunnan officers and men can be seen everywhere inside and outside the town, talking and laughing loudly, and the transport team that had delivered supplies to the two main regiments in front a day ago had just returned, and on the dozen or so carriages walking in front lay more than 30 unlucky officers and men who had been attacked by cold guns.

At the foot of the hill two kilometers south of the town, 65 officers and soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the Instructor Police Company were crawling in the damp grass, and the company commander Feng Yuansi put away the binoculars, quietly turned his body, took out a piece of dried sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it slowly: "Changzhi, how are the brothers?" ”

Fan Changzhi, the commander of the assault platoon, turned his wet body, turned to Feng Yuansi, and replied in a low voice: "The first and second shifts are lying in the grass shed behind the forest, and all the explosives bags are well preserved, don't worry." Three shifts and two observation teams were behind the ditch to the west, on strict alert, and rotated after dark. ”

Feng Yuansi lazily closed his eyes: "Now it can be made clear that above the white house in the east of the town is the antenna of the radio station, and the yard across the road to the south of the white house should be the place where the enemy stores ammunition. ”

"The enemy wounded who were brought back must have been attacked by the second platoon, but I don't know if it was the enemy transport team or the main regiment of the Dian army that was attacked?"

"According to my observations, there are more than two regiments of enemy troops stationed in the town, and inside the White House must be the enemy's divisional headquarters, and if we are lucky, we may be able to blow him up." Fan Changzhi said with a smile.

Feng Yuansi opened his eyes and stared at the town again: "Don't be reluctant, didn't you see that the six three-seven cannons and the four seven-five mountain cannons were placed on the sundeck outside the courtyard?" ”

"Just blow up those guns and the ammunition depot in the yard, and you'll be there. The white house is heavily guarded, and the houses on both sides are the enemy's barracks, and even if you can get close to the white house, you may not be able to touch it and plant explosives, and if you attack it, I am afraid that none of our 60-odd brothers will survive. ”

Fan Changzhi sighed: "Listen to you, wait slowly, the Dian army of the dog has arranged so many sentry posts, and I don't know if it can be mixed in after dark......" (To be continued.) )