Under the cover of night, fierce fighting continued five kilometers north of Ningdu City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After Zhao Jingting led the main force of the Second Regiment to occupy the western position, he immediately blocked the only road leading to the western mountain pass, and then sent two companies of fresh troops to gallop north along the edge of the battlefield, rushing to join Wang Huchen's troops before the chaotic 700 remnants of the enemy broke through, completely locking the passage for the enemy to break through to the north.

In the south, two battalions of Li Lianshan's regiment took advantage of their strong firepower to launch attacks alternately, pressing forward step by step, pressing the remnants of the chaotic enemy army in a narrow strip two kilometers wide from east to west and three kilometers long from north to south.

After Wang Huchen's troops in the north were supported by two companies sent by Zhao Jingting, their morale was greatly boosted. Unwilling to delay any longer, Wang Huchen sent a platoon to quietly touch the west bank in front of the left, igniting the dense weeds and bushes that stretched for two miles in the wilderness.

More than a dozen flames blew under the north wind, burning more and more, and the raging flames hundreds of meters long and wide quickly spread to the south, illuminating most of the battlefield.

The 700 remnants of the enemy were under the light of the fire, and there was nothing to hide, and the dense rain of bullets hit the scattered enemy troops to flee for their lives, and the already extremely chaotic formation was completely out of control.

The instructor soldiers who were surrounded on three sides seized the opportunity and pressed forward step by step, and in only 20 minutes, they drove the remnants of the encircled enemy to the west bank of the Meijiang River, which was blazing.

In the face of the wide and icy river and the dense rain of bullets flying from three sides, the surviving 400-odd enemy officers and men were completely desperate, and their morale fell to freezing point.

The good news quickly spread to the bonfire in Ningdu City, and Zheng Yi, the instructor and teacher, exhaled with relief, and the battle lasted for five hours, which brought Zheng Yi an extraordinary deep feeling.

Before that, Zheng Yi thought about it and thought about it, and calculated it again and again, thinking that the victory or defeat was only among five or five, and even if he succeeded in capturing Ningdu City in the end, it would be a tragic ending of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred!

For this reason, Zheng Yi was mentally prepared to lose 1,000 brothers, but he never expected that this battle would be fought so smoothly and beautifully, not only annihilating more than 2,300 people from two regiments of the enemy army in one go, occupying Ningdu City in one fell swoop, and obtaining a huge amount of weapons, ammunition and food supplies, but so far, the total number of dead and wounded soldiers reported by various departments is less than 500.

It can be said that the Battle of Ningdu was an unprecedented huge victory since the founding of the army, and it is not an exaggeration to summarize it with the word "great victory".

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The two radio stations in the west side hall of the county government are still working intensively "ticking and ticking," and the staff officers of the division headquarters have been assigned to various departments outside the city, and there is silence in the wide and bright hall of the county office.

A platoon of guards stood guard outside the door and in front of and behind the courtyard, and only Zheng Yi sat alone at the long table that was spliced and smoked quietly, thinking silently.

At this time, Zheng Yi did not have any joy, his expression was unusually calm, and his thinking became clearer and clearer.

Zheng Yi has always given people a calm and confident, tenacious and decisive tall image, few people really understand that Zheng Yi has always maintained a thoughtful, cautious character, has always had the habit of anticipating the enemy and being lenient, to put it mildly, he is very afraid of death, this character can be summed up in a sentence in the art of war: in order to win, think about defeat first!

Before every battle, Zheng Yi always weighed it repeatedly, from the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy's forces to the terrain and weather, and even how much ammunition the officers and soldiers carried, how much weight they carried, how much distance they traveled per kilometer, and the firepower density and suppression effect of the different companies and platoons of each regiment under his command, he had to repeatedly calculate and compare them with the enemy.

Zheng Yi thinks most about not whether he can win, but what to do if he can't win? All the time, he left himself a way out, and never pulled the bowstring full.

Because of this, the army led by Zheng Yi can always win battles, and can always exchange the greatest results at the minimum cost.

Today's Zheng Yi knows very well that the army he leads is a strong army with firm beliefs, strict training, and extremely distinctive combat style, and both the level of training and the quantity and quality of weapons and equipment are far superior to the vast majority of contemporary warlord troops, and they are far ahead of the forefront of the times.

However, this battle of Ningdu brought Zheng Yi an unusual touch! He wondered if he was too cautious, if he had wrongly overestimated the enemy's combat effectiveness and fighting spirit.

There is nothing wrong with being cautious, but will being overly cautious and overly cautious have a negative impact?

Will there be hesitation and delay in future battles?

As the results of the front-line combat units continued to be summed up, Zheng Yi had no time to continue to ponder.

The outstanding achievements of destroying more than 1,200 enemies and capturing more than 800 enemies need to be vigorously commended, and the remains of more than 230 soldiers killed in battle and more than 200 wounded brothers need to be visited!

In addition, he also had to command the officers and men of the two main regiments who returned victoriously to launch a large-scale search and arrest inside and outside the city of Ningdu overnight, clear out the fleeing enemies hiding in the houses, capture more than 500 remnants of the Ningdu Security Regiment hiding at home, and collect all weapons and ammunition!

In the end, he also commanded his troops to block the mansions of the three local wealthy families in Ningdu overnight, and wiped out all the local tyrants and inferior gentry who had been committing crimes and tyrannical for many years.

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Zheng Yi's order has been carried out to the letter!

Thousands of soldiers were still in the extreme excitement after the victory, under the leadership of their respective battalion and company commanders, they launched separate operations, and the "crackling" gunfire accompanied by bursts of angry roars broke the calm of the night, and the whole Ningdu City soon jumped and cried, until the sky was bright and gradually stopped.

At this time, the two hundred elites of the spy company had already driven out of Ningdu City to carry out reconnaissance and vigilance in the north and south directions.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, dozens of men who rang the gong led a group of officers and soldiers around the city, loudly preaching the slogan of "fighting local tyrants, dividing the fields, and distributing the grain."

The political work cadres of the instructors' divisions and various regiments and battalions all went out to put up slogans and publicize policies, and finally put up eye-catching notices announcing the shooting of 13 local tyrants, shoddy gentry, and hooligans and bullies. (To be continued.) )