At 5:30 a.m., three red signal flares pierced the silent night sky, and blood-red light shrouded the land in a two-kilometer radius north of Ningdu City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Knock-"

"Woo-"

The eight mortars that quietly moved to the rear of the heights in the west-west of the city roared in unison, and the whistling shells with dazzling tail flames streaked across the silent night sky and landed accurately on the artillery positions behind the position of the 1st Division of the 39th Army of the Yunnan Army.

"Boom—"

Several shells whizzed, and one of them happened to land on the shell box, exploding violently and causing the ammunition to detonate.

A few flashes of white light flashed, one after another shells exploded, and the steel shrapnel and gravel and mud that flew out covered the sky in all directions, and many of the Yunnan officers and men who were camped behind the artillery positions became confused in their sleep.

There was also a cannonball that blew up the branches of the tall camphor tree near the only room where the artillery position was located, and the broken joints "crackled" and flew one after another, and one of the one-meter-long broken branches flew out with a huge whistling sound to the gate of the temporary company headquarters of the artillery company, and the commander of the artillery company of the Yunnan army, who had just rushed out to watch, instantly penetrated through it, and with a "tom" sound, even the people were nailed to the door panel behind him, and then the huge inertia overturned the entire door panel to the ground.

The commander of the artillery company, who was nailed to the door panel, looked at the long broken branch that suddenly appeared on his chest in astonishment, and could hardly believe that the scene in front of him was real, but in the blink of an eye, blood gushed out of his mouth along with broken organs, and then his head tilted, his eyes were open, and he never moved again.

Amid the violent explosions that sounded one after another on the artillery position of the Yunnan army, the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment of the Instructor, who took the lead in the attack, rushed to the enemy's position with indomitable indignation.

"Tick-tock-"

The loud sound of the trumpet resounded across the land, and the dense gunfire and roar were extremely agitated in the night sky!

"Enemy attack—"

"Hurry up—"

"Hold your ground—"

In the forward position, the officers and men of the 1st Division of the Yunnan Army, who were panicked, launched sporadic counterattacks in an unorganized manner. In the next few trenches, the sleepy-eyed officers hurriedly got up and shouted, but the Yunnan officers and soldiers who slept in their clothes still scurried around like headless flies, looking for their guns and commanders.

On the defense line with a radius of two kilometers, it became a pot of porridge in an instant.

In less than three minutes, the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment and the 2nd Battalion of the Instructor had successfully rushed into the first line of trenches built by the Yunnan army with great effort.

The company platoon commanders who took the lead raised their machine guns, shouted loudly, and fired non-stop at all moving targets.

On the deep positions in the front, a large number of newly recruited soldiers of the Dian Army, who were soon pushed onto the battlefield, were frightened by the dense gunfire and the sound of explosions in the rear, and before they came to their senses, they were attacked by a rain of grenades thrown densely in the sky.

The officers and men of the 1st and 3rd Battalions on both sides of the position advanced one after another, making rapid progress, and soon broke through the defensive line of more than 800 meters on the east side and penetrated into the depth of the enemy's position.

In the eyes of the officers and men of the Yunnan Army, who seriously lacked combat experience, the figures of the communist troops were everywhere in front and behind, on the left and right, and the air and ground were full of grenades and bullets that were flying with fuses torn off, and bullets like rain, and the sound of wailing and screaming was endless.

Where could the chaotic officers and soldiers of Yunnan withstand such a swift blow? In the blink of an eye, they fell in pieces, and the officers and men of the Dian who hurriedly got up and rushed to the forward positions behind them were so frightened that they turned around and fled, and the positions that nearly 2,000 officers and men of the two brigades and four regiments had worked so hard to set up were declared to have fallen in the blink of an eye.

Immediately afterwards, dense gunfire and overwhelming shouts of killing came from the northwest direction where the defense was empty, and more than 1,600 soldiers of the four regiments, under the leadership of the regiment commander Chen Minxian, easily defeated the two patrols that were stunned by the huge movement in the south.

The three machine-gun fortifications set up on the edge of the position could not fire a single bullet before they were torn apart by the grenades that flew one after another.

At the same time, the officers and men of the 3rd and 5th Regiments, who were lurking directly behind the position of the 1st Division, also launched a resolute charge.

"Tick-tock-"

Hundreds of machine guns and light machine guns were concentrated in front of the charging team, and the officers and men of the Yunnan who were hit hard and hurriedly met the battle in front of the front and rear suffered heavy casualties under the dense rain of bullets.

The heavy machine guns set up by the Dian army on the high ground on the east side of the official road had just spat out two fire snakes, and they were covered by a hail-like rain of bullets.

With the rapid advance of the four regiments of the instructor on three sides, the two lines of defense in front and rear of the Yunnan army were lost, and the soldiers of the Yunnan army, who had no combat experience, rushed to the left and right like headless flies, and there was no organized resistance on the position.

At this moment, Zheng Yi's strict training has finally shown its power.

Prior to this, many generals and colonels had complained about Zheng Yi's insistence that officers and men must undergo six months of military training before they could go to the battlefield, especially the officers engaged in political work, who believed that soldiers could grow up gradually in battle, but facts have proved that officers and men who have not undergone strict military training will not only fail to promote the battle, but will make themselves confused.

The current poor performance of the Dian army is the best proof of this!

The hundreds of Dian troops who had narrowly escaped from the gap in the west had already thrown away their weapons at this moment and rushed to the dark foot of the mountain regardless of the situation.

In the encirclement, the completely collapsed Yunnan officers and soldiers did not hesitate, crossed Yang Yuhan's division headquarters, and fled frantically along the road they came from amid the shouts of the officers, but soon fell again in pieces in the dense rain of bullets fired directly in front of them.

The headquarters of the First Division of the Yunnan Army under Niujiaoling also fell into a huge chaos, and the division commander Yang Yuhan suddenly encountered an accident, his face was flushed, his breath was short, and he couldn't speak.

The officers and men of the guard battalion, who were hastily arranged on the periphery of the division headquarters, set up their machine guns and fired fiercely at the front, and they could not distinguish at all whether the figures running in dense circles and fast in front of the front and left and right were friends or foes.

The sound of charging horns, the dense sound of gunfire, and the shouts of "shoot or kill" got closer and closer, and the whistling grenade fragments "crackled" on the brick walls on both sides of the headquarters, and the broken tiles continued to fall.

Li Sisu, chief of staff of the First Division of the Yunnan Army, who was pale, hugged Yang Yuhan, who had taken out a pistol and shouted "organize resistance", and shouted at the guard commander and guard battalion commander who were arranging troops outside the gate in vain to resist stubbornly:

"Quick...... Go and lead the horse, and move quickly...... Idiot! Come and help me, immediately take the master's seat to the east to break through, as long as you rush to the dock to escape, hurry-"

The chief of the guard, who finally came to his senses, immediately rushed to Yang Yuhan, who was shouting excitedly, and the chief of staff left and right, set up his division commander and rushed out of the courtyard quickly.

The commander of the guard battalion and several guards hurriedly brought the war horses, sent Yang Yuhan and the chief of staff on horseback, and then jumped on the war horses quickly, surrounded Yang Yuhan and the chief of staff, and galloped wildly towards the temporary wharf 1.5 kilometers to the east.

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