Chapter 75: Frontal Encounter

Chi Fengcheng thought that he had galloped on the field for more than ten years, and he had never seen any kind of wind and waves, so he naturally ignored Niu Dagen's intimidation, and opened fire on Niu Dagen's cavalry with a pistol, and the two soldiers were unfortunately shot and fell off their horses. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing this, Niu Dagen and Guo Xiaoliu were furious, and immediately ordered their subordinates to fire with all their might, leaving no one alive.

The cavalry already had an advantage in strength, with more than five to one, so Chi Fengcheng and his guards were outnumbered at all.

Originally, Niu Dagen still had the idea of capturing him alive, so he didn't fight him to the death as soon as he came up.

But Chi Fengcheng didn't appreciate it, so they naturally wouldn't be polite.

After a firefight, the guards around Chi Fengcheng were killed and wounded, and only four or five people remained, but fortunately, at this time, about two or three hundred infantry escaped from the side of the pine forest valley.

Their sudden joining, Chi Feng Cheng and his subordinates, who supported them in time, gave them a glimmer of life.

"Brothers, rush out with me!" Chi Fengcheng saw a glimmer of life and immediately commanded the troops to start breaking through.

In the end, with the cover of the infantry, Chi Feng Cheng successfully escaped on horseback with two guards. However, the more than 300 infantry who escaped from the Songlin Valley were blocked by the cavalry led by Guo Xiaoliu and Niu Dagen.

Until the ambush battle in the pine forest valley ended, it was not able to break through.

Not long after Chifeng City fled, in the pine forest valley, Xu Guoren ordered the whole army to charge, and thousands of soldiers of the independent division swarmed from the mountains and forests on both sides, and the second regiment also rushed in from the west of the valley under the leadership of Guo Hu.

Under the encirclement on three sides, the Northwest Army, which had already been killed and wounded by intensive firepower, was cut into several sections in an instant.

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through and the general trend was gone, the remaining more than 2,000 Northwest Army threw down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender.

The battle ended with a complete victory for the independent division, and soon, as a part of the troops rushed out of the valley and joined up with the cavalry, flanking the front and rear, the infantry of the Northwest Army outside the valley who had not been able to break through was also forced to disarm and surrender.

In this ambush battle, Xu Guoren completely destroyed the entire 31st Division, annihilated more than 2,000 enemies, captured more than 2,000 people, and captured thousands of weapons and a large amount of ammunition.

Of the entire 31st Division, only Chi Fengcheng and two guards escaped by chance and were spared.

After eliminating the 31st Division of Chifeng City, Xu Guoren left the artillery battalion to clean up the battlefield and watch over the prisoners, and at the same time sent someone to inform Chen Zhiyuan to organize the people to come here to help carry the loot and other materials, and he led the independent division to advance eastward.

At this time, a division of the Jin Sui Army had already advanced to Thirty Lipu and was also advancing rapidly in the direction of Pingyang.

In order to make a war success in the war to exterminate the 88th Independent Brigade, the Jin Sui army, which was also vengeful, worked hard.

In particular, when they learned that the Northwest Army had eliminated the Pingyang nest of the 88th Independent Brigade, they no longer planned to continue to wait and see, and they were unable to move forward.

The C division, which was closest to Pingyang, left the Zhengtai line and traveled all the way, rushing ahead of the other division and arriving in the area of Thirty Miles.

And non-stop towards Pingyang. Coincidentally, because Chi Fengcheng was in a hurry to flee for his life, after leaving the battle, he took the only two remaining guards into the field path, so he passed by the Jin Sui army of this division and did not encounter it.

Therefore, nearly 5,000 Jin Sui troops were still advancing westward, and Xu Guoren kept in touch with Chen Zhiyuan through the radio at any time, and basically had already mastered that there was a division of the Jin Sui army leaving the Zhengtai line and marching towards this side.

Therefore, he sent Guo Xiaoliu to bring a group of capable cavalry scouts to the front to reconnoitre.

At a distance of thirty miles and twenty-five miles, the scouts of the independent division were the first to discover the enemy, quickly hid and secretly observed.

After initially grasping the enemy's situation, Guo Xiaoliu quickly withdrew and reported to Xu Guoren.

After Guo Hu on the side heard the news, he asked Xu Guoren: "Division commander, are we going to ambush again?" ”

Xu Guoren shook his head and said: "No, according to intelligence, this division of the Jin Sui Army is a local C division, with less than 5,000 people, and the weapons and equipment cannot be compared with ours."

Now, our independent division has an advantage in personnel and equipment, and has just won a big victory, morale is like a rainbow, and the combat effectiveness is a few streets away from them, so I decided not to fight an ambush, but to fight a dignified encounter! Defeat them head-on, and let the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army take a good look at the strength of our independent division! Let them no longer dare to despise us! ”

Guo Danian suddenly became energetic when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Brother Guoren said it well, I like this kind of happy fighting, although it was very cool to fight in ambushes before, but when it was ambushed, it was very painful!" ”

At that moment, Xu Guoren ordered Guo Hu to lead the second regiment, the cavalry reconnaissance company, and the guard company to divide into two routes and outflank the enemy's rear.

He led the main forces of the 1st and 3rd regiments and launched an attack on the Jin Sui army from the front.

The distance between the two sides was not far from all, and by the time Xu Guoren arranged the deployment, the Jin Sui army was already less than a mile away from Xu Guoren's headquarters.

Xu Guoren took the lead and led more than 3,000 officers and men of the independent division to charge bravely, and immediately rushed towards the enemy.

At this time, the local warlords, except for a very few elite ace troops, the vast majority of the troops were a rabble that were stronger than the bandits and robbers, and this was still with the advantage of weapons and equipment.

Therefore, there is a huge gap between them and a well-trained and modern army.

As we all know, the Japanese army and navy in World War II were an army with very strong combat effectiveness, and objectively speaking, the Japanese army during World War II can already be called a modern army.

It is precisely because of this that in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, except for the Battle of Songhu, the Nationalist Government invested two-thirds of the elite of the Central Army plus hundreds of thousands of local troops to fight with the Japanese army in full firepower for more than three months.

In the battles between China and Japan on the battlefield in North China, the Chinese defenders were often crushed at the first touch.

The devil is powerful on the one hand, but the main thing is that the local army such as the Jin Sui Army is too scum. This kind of scum is not purely embodied in weapons and equipment.

In terms of disparity, the gap between the Volunteer Army and the U.S. Army during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea far exceeded the level of the gap between the northern warlord troops and the Japanese army invading China during the War of Resistance Against Japan.

It can be seen from this that the main thing is to lose in the will to fight and faith.

Most of the officers and soldiers who were born as warlords are veterans, and they are capable people who eat and wait for death, but they lack the determination and courage to die for anyone.

When the war is unfavorable, they flee faster than anyone else.

Of course, the reasons for this are too complicated, it is really difficult to describe, the same army, in the civil war was repeatedly defeated, and later after the uprising was transferred to the People's Liberation Army, it was stunned on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea and armed to the teeth, at that time the world's most powerful and powerful US military fought evenly and played the military might of the Chinese army.

This is the difference between having faith and not believing.

Of course, whether the officers love the people like sons and are supported is also a very important factor.

The miscellaneous division of the Jin Sui Army that was targeted by Xu Guoren was obviously one of the many old-style warlord armies.

On weekdays, the officers withheld military salaries, ate and took cards to do bad things, and the soldiers were separated from morality, and the results of such troops in the face of independent divisions with high morale can be imagined.

"Is it the Northwest Army in front?" When Xu Guoren rode his horse and galloped wildly, leading three thousand soldiers to rush over, a soldier of the Jin Sui Army who took the lead couldn't help but wonder.

Another officer of the Jin Sui Army looked at it for a while, and slapped his subordinates on the head: "What Northwest Army, you are fucking blind, this is obviously the 88th Independent Brigade, I didn't look at their fierce faces!" ”

"What then!" The soldier and several companions around him were a little frightened: "Didn't the Northwest Army already finish off their lair, how could they appear here?" ”

The officers were no better than them, and they were a little uncomfortable to speak, and looking at the officers and men of the independent division who were coming all over the mountains, his first thought was to escape.

"What else can I do, run!" With that, the officer took the lead and ran back.

When the other soldiers saw that the commander had run away, they spread the girls one by one and followed Queen Cang to withdraw, at this moment, they really only hated their parents for having two legs.