Chapter 77: The Northeast Army Moves South

After Chen Zhiyuan led the troops to escort the captives away, Xu Guoren ordered the troops to temporarily rest and stand by in Thirty Lipu, and sent cavalry scouts to search for the enemy's movements. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Not long after, a scout came back and reported: "Division commander, I have found the enemy's traces, and we are in the southeast direction of Thirty Miles, and we are advancing towards Thirty Miles!" The strength of the army is about two or three regiments, judging from the military uniforms and equipment, it should be the Jin Sui Army! ”

Xu Guoren, who was resting on a long wooden bench, immediately heard the sound and said, "Is the news accurate?" ”

"I saw it with my own eyes, and there will be no mistake!" The scout replied, "Our company commander is keeping a close eye on the enemy's movements with the rest of his brothers." ”

"Great, it seems that this enemy army does not know that their friendly forces have been wiped out by us, and I have ordered all troops to hide immediately, one regiment is ambushed in the town of Thirty Miles, the second regiment and the third regiment are ambushed separately, and the cavalry is detouring outside, ready to outflank at any time! The artillery battalion is deployed in the open space in the center of the town, waiting for my order to open fire! Xu Guoren was overjoyed and immediately made arrangements.

However, Xu Guoren's leisure and hard work this time did not yield anything in the end. Because Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division, happened to meet the 58th Division of the Jin Sui Army who came to support on the way to escape, and learned that the 31st Division of the Northwest Army was completely annihilated, Chi Fengcheng was only spared, and the 61st Division may have suffered.

The commander of the 58th Division was suddenly frightened and led his troops to retreat to the Lingshou area, and after Xu Guoren learned the news, he led his troops to take the initiative to attack and pursued for a long time, but he did not catch up, so he had to give up.

Although the combat effectiveness of this Jin Sui army is not good, the kung fu of escaping is not bad.

Moreover, the suddenness of the surprise tactics had been lost, and no matter how forcefully pursued, it would be difficult to achieve the same brilliant results as in the vicinity of Songlin Valley and Thirty Lipu.

Because, the enemy's prepared and unprepared, the combat effectiveness he showed, the difficulty of defeating the besieging troops is very different.

Unless your own troops have the weaponry and combat experience that is an era ahead of the opponent.

Otherwise, it is likely to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800.

Although the battle against encirclement and suppression was not perfect, the independent division annihilated one division of the Northwest Army and one division of the Jinsui Army, captured nearly 8,000 prisoners, and captured tens of thousands of weapons and a large number of ammunition and other materials.

In particular, after the victory in this battle, Xu Guoren had sufficient soldiers and weapons and ammunition to expand his troops, and only by strengthening his strength could Xu Guoren have the opportunity to lead them north, otherwise he might not even be able to jump from the enemy's blockade area.

When the news of the Battle of Pingyang spread, the warlords throughout North China were shocked and in an uproar.

The first to get the news was Wu Zhen and others in the provincial capital, who learned that the encirclement and suppression troops had failed again and were beaten by Xu Guoren's subordinates, Wu Zhen, Ma Yunfeng and others were frightened, and hurriedly reported the matter to the Nanjing Nationalist Government.

And to add fuel and vinegar, he almost exaggerated the threat of Xu Guoren's department to threaten the entire Hebei.

At this time, Chairman Chiang was busy encircling and suppressing the Red Army, so naturally he had no time to deal with this trivial matter.

In contrast, the Red Army was the main problem of Chairman Chiang.

Some of the remaining high-ranking officials of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government did not attach too much importance to this matter. The main reason is that Xu Guoren did not make an independent statement at this time, that is, on the bright side, whether the independent 88th Brigade is a rebel is still to be determined, at most it is an internal issue of the Northeast Army.

In fact, senior officials also understand that most of this is due to local warlords and officials trying to eradicate dissidents in the name of the Communist Party.

Therefore, after a brief discussion, they sent a telegram to Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army in the name of the Military Committee, asking him to send troops to quell the rebellion, and the Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army fought together.

As for whether it is a bloodless disarmament of the 88th Independent Brigade or a real fight, they don't care.

Beiping, the temporary residence of the young marshal.

After listening to the report of the chief of the guard, Li Yingyi, Zhang Xueliang, who was listening to the record in the living room, couldn't help but be taken aback, and asked sideways: "What did you say?" The Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army failed again? ”

"Yes, even the headquarters of Chifeng City was lured deep by Xu Guoren and annihilated in the area east of Pingyang! After that, Xu Guoren ambushed the 61st Division of the Jin Sui Army, and annihilated them all, capturing his division commander Zong Changyi alive! Li Yingyi nodded and replied.

Zhang Xueliang got the news a little later than the gang in the provincial capital, after all, there was no Northeast Army in the troops participating in the war.

"It's amazing, this Xu Guoren is really a talent, why did he get involved with the Communists?" Zhang Xueliang groaned with regret on his face, raised his head and asked, "Adjutant Li, where is Yu Xuezhong now?" ”

Li Yingyi replied: "According to the itinerary, I should have led two divisions to Baoding City." ”

"Let him contact Xu Guoren again, as long as Xu Guoren is willing, I can send him abroad first, Europe, the United States. When the time is ripe, give him a new identity, and promise to make him the commander of at least one division, so that his military talents can be useful! Zhang Xueliang commanded.

Li Yingyi nodded in agreement, and just as he wanted to leave, a communications adjutant from the confidential room hurriedly came to the door of the study, and almost collided with Li Yingyi.

"What's the matter, so flustered?" Li Yingyi frowned and asked.

"Chief Li, Nanjing Emergency." The communications staff officer's face was a little nervous, and he handed over a telegram with both hands.

Li Yingyi took it and opened it and took a look, his face suddenly became solemn, and he waved his hand and said, "You go back first." ”

"Yes!" The communications adjutant bowed his head in response and turned to leave.

Li Yingyi turned around and walked into the study, and Zhang Shaoshuai had already heard the voice outside, and opened his mouth to ask, "Adjutant Li, what's the matter?" ”

"Young marshal, call from Nanjing!" Li Yingyi stepped forward respectfully and presented the telegram to Zhang Xueliang.

Zhang Xueliang took the message and opened it and read it, and his face became calm.

"Young Marshal, are we really going to encircle and suppress the 88th Independent Brigade?" Li Yingyi understood that the 88th Independent Brigade could have today, all of which was supplied by the young marshal, and he also understood how much Zhang Xueliang valued Xu Guoren, so he asked tentatively with some embarrassment.

Zhang Xueliang did not answer, but fell into deep thought, obviously he was also entangled and hesitant at the moment.

After a long time, Zhang Xueliang weighed the pros and cons, and finally sighed and gritted his teeth and decided: "Give Yu Xuezhong, Wang Shuchang sends electricity, if Xu Guoren refuses to accept my kindness, then send troops to exterminate his troops, but you must try to capture them alive!" ”

Li Yingyi saw that Zhang Shaoshuai had made up his mind, and he didn't dare to persuade more, so he saluted and took the order.

After Yu Xuezhong received Zhang Shaoshuai's telegram, he immediately contacted Xu Guoren by telegram.

At this time, Xu Guoren had already led the main force to withdraw to Pingyang City, and was busy with Chen Zhiyuan to do the ideological work of the captured soldiers, recruit those who were willing to join, and expand the strength of the independent division.

The radio station was left to Guo Shiyin, who ran half the city with the telegram before finding Xu Guoren in a prisoner of war camp in the east of the city and reporting the contents of Yu Xuezhong's telegram to him.

After Xu Guoren heard it, he said with a smile: "Call back to Chief Yu Xuezhong, just say that the young marshal and his kindness Xu Mou understand, or that sentence, I will never be the enemy of the Northeast Army, please rest assured, but let me hand over the troops, forgive me!" ”

Guo Shiyin wanted to say something, but seeing Xu Guoren's resolute face, the words came to his mouth and swallowed back.

In fact, Guo Shiyin really wants to stay away from the war with Xu Guoren and go abroad to avoid danger, as long as she can be with him, even if she wanders the world, what's the matter?

But she also understands that this can only be an extravagant hope, because Xu Guoren has a lot of responsibilities on his shoulders at this time, as Xu Guoren said before, his life is not all his own.

So many people followed him to throw their heads and spill their blood to raise troops, if Xu Guoren left at this time, then everyone else would definitely suffer.

Xu Guoren would definitely not do such an act, and it was precisely because of his understanding that Guo Shiyin did not persuade him much.

After Xu Guoren refused again, Yu Xuezhong also felt faceless, of course, he felt more sorry for Xu Guoren.

Wang Shuchang was also very indignant on the side: "Xu Guoren, this kid really doesn't know how to lift, I think he has won a few battles and doesn't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is, send troops, teach him a lesson, let him know that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people."

This kind of person, only by convincing him, can he listen to persuasion! ”

Yu Xuezhong was silent for a moment, and finally nodded and accepted Wang Shuchang's suggestion, but in his heart, he just wanted to give Xu Guoren a little color, so that he could "retreat in the face of difficulties" and obey the young marshal's arrangement.

And not really want to eliminate Xu Guoren and his independent 88th Brigade.

After all, the young marshal also needs to give an explanation to Nanjing.

Therefore, even if Yu Xuezhong did not want the Northeast Army to fight in the same room, he had to grit his teeth and carry out the order to send troops.

Because the 88th Independent Brigade has won many battles and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated, so at the suggestion of Wang Shuchang, Yu Xuezhong brought all the two elite infantry divisions he brought out from the northeast and rushed south along the Pinghan Railway to take Pingyang.

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