"Three battles in four days, more than 2,000 people were eliminated, more than 2,000 guns were surrendered, six cannons, nearly ten light and heavy machine guns, and his own casualties were less than 300 people. Yang Jie didn't raise his head on the map, and his words made everyone gasp.

"Huangpu has been open for two years, and it is worth it to produce such a character." Tang Python has always looked down on the Whampoa Military Academy, believing that the Whampoa Military Academy does not train officers but sergeants, and today he also made an exception and praised it.

"Well, I think it's the same, you see, this is his course of action for a few days." Yang Jie drew a group of action routes on the map on the map, and after a while, he said with admiration: "This Zhuang Jihua is amazing, you look at these three battles, the storming of Phoenix Mountain, the night attack of Laofen Mountain, and the siege and annihilation of Niuhoi Valley, that battle is not easy to fight, but he fought them all, and he won cleanly." In particular, the night attack on the old tomb mountain is wonderful. ”

"A soldier bears a nest of bears; Zhuang Jihua's first division is the division of tigers and wolves, and Wang Bailing is a monk who eats fasting and recites Buddha, why didn't Commander-in-Chief Jiang hand over the first division to Zhuang Jihua? Deng Yanhua, the commander of the 17th Division, did not forget the performance of Wang Bailing under the Tonggu City, and couldn't help but ridicule again. The contents of Zhuang Jihua's three battles are clear to all of you, the generals must make accurate judgments, and the troops must have the ability to march and fight continuously, and the fact that a regiment has done it shows that the training of a regiment in peacetime is extremely strict, so that the troops can only be called a division of tigers and wolves.

"Who knows. His man's ideas were always peculiar. The meaning of Cheng Qian's words is very clear to everyone, since the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek first hid his own descendant troops, let other troops to charge into battle, and when he arrived in Wuchang, he wanted to pick peaches but lost his face, which became a joke of other generals, and now Zhuang Jihua caught Yang Zhendong to save some face for Chiang Kai-shek.

"The Whampoa Military Academy has produced many talents, and Zhuang Wenge is the best among them, and I thought that Commander-in-Chief Jiang would hand over the first division to him sooner or later." At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, the Central Committee held a meeting in Shanghai and officially listed Chiang Kai-shek as the leader of the New Right, but according to the opinion of the Comintern, he was still listed as the object of unity.

"Forget it, don't talk about him, let's wait for Monk Wang, and when he arrives, we'll have a meeting to study the combat deployment of attacking Xiushui." Cheng Qian waved his hand to stop everyone's words. But the dissatisfaction in his words was very obvious, the 17th and 19th divisions had already arrived, but the first division led by Wang Bailing was slow to move and had not yet arrived.

"Is this monk Wang coming out to make a fortune or fighting?" Tang Python muttered without concealment.

When it was about to get dark, Wang Bailing was late, and Cheng Qian didn't care about the blame, and immediately convened a combat meeting. Cheng Qian learned the lesson of the bronze drum, and still adopted the tactics of encircling three queyi, attacking the area of Jiugong Mountain at the east gate of Xiushui with the 17th Division, attacking the north gate and the first line of Phoenix Mountain with the 17th Division, and attacking the south gate of Xiushui with the 1st Division.

Zhuang Jihua stood up again to express his dissent, and this time no one questioned his qualifications anymore.

"Surrounding the three que, Xie Hongxun will inevitably escape from the east gate, there are two ways to walk from the east gate, one to Wuning, and the other to Jing'an. No matter where he fled, he had to pass through, the South Cliff, and the area of Wei Jiayan, so he suggested sending an army to set up an ambush in this area, even if he could not completely annihilate Xie Hongxun, he could also annihilate his main force. This will be extremely beneficial to our future De'an operations. ”

Zhuang Jihua's opinion was accepted by Cheng Qian, but this time he did not send Zhuang Jihua to ambush, but sent Yang Yuanjun to set up an ambush with two regiments of the 19th Division, and the siege deployment was also adjusted, and the 17th Division remained unchanged, drawing a regiment from the 1st Division, this regiment plus the regiment of the 19th Division, led by Zhuang Jihua to attack Phoenix Mountain.

Xie Hongxun had already noticed the actions of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and he judged that the main attack direction of the Northern Expeditionary Army was the West Gate, so he put a whole reinforced regiment on Jiugong Mountain, a regiment on Phoenix Mountain, and the other two regiments were responsible for repairing the water city defense.

The battle first started in Jiugong Mountain, the terrain of Jiugong Mountain is dangerous, the main peak is as high as more than 200 meters, the 17th Division launched a fierce attack on Jiugong Mountain with the 50th Regiment as the front and the 51st Regiment as the flank, the Xie Army defended very tenaciously, and repelled the 50th Regiment two attacks in succession, Deng Yanhua transferred a battalion from the 49th Regiment of the reserve to support, and the 50th Regiment attacked Jiugong Mountain again after receiving reinforcements, and even went down two hills, but was stopped in front of the main peak in Huangmuling, and the battle fell into a stalemate.

The first division also launched an attack at the south gate, Xiushui South Gate is hilly and undulating, but there are no dangerous mountains like Jiugong Mountain and Phoenix Mountain.

Wang Bailing took Xue Yue's third regiment as the right flank and Sun Yuanliang's second regiment as the left flank, and the two regiments marched hand in hand, swept the south of the Xiushui River, and soon hit the Xiushui River.

Phoenix Mountain was the last to start, Zhuang Jihua's road was the farthest, and it was already more than ten o'clock when he arrived at the foot of Phoenix Mountain. Zhuang Jihua was responsible for attacking Phoenix Mountain with the first regiment, the first battalion of the 56th regiment was responsible for monitoring the direction of Jiugong Mountain, and the second battalion was responsible for attacking the two highlands northeast of Xiushui City.

A regiment is still by the brave Song Xiongfu as the vanguard, after the battle of Niuhoi Valley, Song Xiongfu was severely criticized by Zhuang Jihua, this time Song Xiongfu began to carefully organize the attack troops, he organized the assault group, support group, cover group at a glance, three battles and three victories made the equipment of a regiment have been greatly improved, each company of a battalion added a machine gun, Song Xiongfu gathered all these machine guns together, and the sharpshooters drawn out by each company were concentrated as a cover group, led by the commander of the third company. The assault group was led by Chao Guo Jun, the commander of the first company, and the support group was led by Geng Changzhi, the commander of the second company.

Zhang Zhen, the commander of the 56th Regiment, was originally a tactical instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy, but he had never taught students in the first and second phases, so he didn't dare to be a teacher in front of Zhuang Jihua; However, with the relationship of Whampoa, Zhuang Jihua was also more polite to him, Zhang Zhen looked at what assault group cover group or something was being organized by each battalion of a regiment, so he asked people in private, and it happened that the person he inquired about was a graduate of the third term, and he had listened to his class, so he told him honestly what the assault group cover group support group and the role of each group, and how to cooperate on the battlefield.

What kind of person is Zhang Zhen, a highly talented student of Baoding Military Academy, who studied in Yueben, he immediately realized the value, so he cheekily took out the teacher's style and asked Zhuang Jihua for those pamphlets, Zhuang Jihua gave them to him without asking, and he didn't hide his personal interests at all.

The attack finally began, and Zhang Zhen witnessed the tactical capabilities of a regiment in the command post. As soon as the sound of the artillery stopped, seven or eight light and heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time, like seven or eight fire dragons swept towards the mountain, charging bravely, and as soon as the machine guns on the mountain sounded, they were immediately killed by the sharpshooters in the covering group, and the assault group was like a whirlwind blowing into the enemy's position, and when the assault group approached the enemy's position, the support group immediately dispatched, and the first pass was taken down in this way.

The first regiment encountered fierce resistance at the second pass, and the first charge of the first battalion was defeated, and Song Xiongfu immediately became angry and scolded and wanted to lead the charge in person. The party representative pulled him back: "You forgot what the deputy division commander said. One sentence made Song Xiongfu's footsteps stop.

"Keep attacking, Chao Guojun, you kid listen well, I'll give you credit for taking Phoenix Mountain, don't blame me for being unkind if you can't take it! Do you understand! ”

Chao Guojun is also a fiery temper, after being beaten down, he was also furious, after listening to Song Xiongfu's words, he saluted without saying a word, turned around and left.

There was another round of shelling, this time longer than the last, and the hill was suddenly shrouded in smoke and fire. Chao Guojun attacked again with the assault group, and when he rushed to the halfway up the mountain, the enemy on the mountain began to shoot, and the assault group was forced to shoot at the enemy, the enemy was condescending and took a lot of advantage, and it was easy to wait for several heavy machine guns of the covering group to move into place to suppress the enemy's firepower, Song Xiongfu immediately ordered to blow the trumpet of the charge, and in the passionate trumpet, the assault group got up from the hillside, shouting and charging upward, the Xie army on the mountain threw grenades one after another, and a series of explosions raised a burst of smoke in the middle of the mountain, and the smoke blocked the sight of the defenders on the mountain, It wasn't until a group of people rushed out of the smoke that they reacted, but it wasn't long in coming.

The Northern Expeditionary Army, which rushed out of the smoke, returned a batch of grenades and rushed into the trenches in the face of the explosions, and fierce white-knuckle battles unfolded on the top of the mountain. The sound of strishing, cursing, and screaming rang out all over the mountaintop. As the support group reached the top of the hill, the defenders either surrendered or fled back the hill.

"Well done! Chao Guojun is good! I'm going to give him credit! Lianke two passes, Song Xiongfu danced happily.

"Report, the leader of the assault team, Chao Guojun, was killed."

Song Xiongfu was stunned, and suddenly became irritable: "Let go of your mother's fart, Lao Tzu will kill you!" As he spoke, he reached out and pulled out his gun, and the party representative next to him immediately hugged him, turned his head and shouted to the stunned soldiers: "You go down first." ”

"Lao Tzu will kill you!" Song Xiongfu struggled, screaming, screaming, and two lines of tears flowed down.

From the Northern Expedition to the present, a regiment has not killed a company-level cadre, but I didn't expect that the first one was Chao Guojun, Song Xiongfu's most trusted subordinate.

Phoenix Mountain is in an emergency, Jiugong Mountain is also in a bad situation, Deng Yanhua please supervise the battle under Huangmu Ridge, the 17th Division recovered its morale, launched three attacks in a row, and finally conquered Huangmu Ridge, approaching the main peak of Jiugong Mountain.

The first division collected more than a dozen wooden boats at the south gate, and with Xue Yue as the vanguard, they forcibly crossed the Xiushui River and approached the city of Xiushui.

The gunfire at the south gate made Xie Hongxun flustered, after so many years of fighting, he had broken through the threshold of life and death several times, and he had never been so flustered as he was today.

According to his estimate, Xiushui County can be defended for a month, there is Phoenix Mountain in the north of Xiushui City, Jiugong Mountain in the east, both mountains are the kind of majestic and dangerous passes, easy to defend and difficult to attack; There is the Xiushui River in the south, although the Xiushui River is not a river with a turbulent flow, but it also provides a defense guarantee for Xiushui County from the south.

But after only one day of fighting, Phoenix Mountain and Jiugong Mountain were in an emergency, and the Northern Expeditionary Army in the south had already entered the city wall and launched a fierce attack on the south gate.

"Master, I think we should withdraw from the water repair, it's still too late to leave." Gan Shijun saw Xie Hongxun's expression and knew that he was a little shaken.

"But Xin Shuai and Commander Lu ......... there." Xie Hongxun said hesitantly.

"Alas, if this continues, even if we hold the water repair, the troops will be gone." Gan Shijun said bitterly that there have been countless examples of what it means for them officers to run out of troops since the Republic of China.

Xie Hongxun was still hesitating, and at this moment, the adjutant ran to report that Phoenix Mountain was lost and the head of the guard regiment was killed.

Chao Guojun's sacrifice made Song Xiongfu an angry lion, and he personally led the assault team to launch round after round of attacks on the main peak of Phoenix Mountain, and a group of soldiers also seemed to be crazy, crazy every time, and finally killed the main peak.

The commander of the defending corps knew what the gains and losses of Phoenix Mountain meant to Xiushui, and personally led the guards to fight back wildly, and the two sides launched a fierce battle on the mountain, after Zhuang Jihua supported the last reserves, the defenders' counterattack was suppressed, and when Song Xiongfu cut off the head of the defending corps commander with a knife, the living enemy on the mountain fled.

The loss of Phoenix Mountain became the last straw that crushed Xie Hongxun's inner defense line, and he quickly ordered to withdraw from Xiushui, and the enemy on Jiugong Mountain withdrew to the county seat, and then retreated to Wuning through the east gate.

Xie Hongxun made a mistake, the retreat order was issued too early, Jiugongshan could have been at least kept until night, and it would have been safer to retreat at night. As a result, after receiving the order, the defenders of Jiugongshan almost immediately abandoned their positions, and under the pursuit of the Northern Expeditionary Army, they retreated all the way, and the Northern Expeditionary Army took the opportunity to rush into the city.

The enemy army at the south gate was also shaken, and under the strong attack of the first division, they abandoned the south gate and withdrew to the east gate. After the first division entered the city, the soldiers were divided into two roads, Xue Yue's regiment went straight to the center of the city, and Sun Yuanliang killed along the city wall to the west gate; Xue Yue cut off part of the enemy forces that had retreated from Jiugong Mountain.

After Xie Hongxun, who had left the city, gathered his troops on the other side of the Xiushui River, after counting the number of people, there were less than 4,000 remaining of the nearly 7,000-strong troops.

Xie Hongxun retreated to Wuning along the right bank of the Xiushui River, and when he passed through Zhuping Mountain, he was attacked by the 55th Regiment of the 19th Division, Xie Hongxun relied on more people to repel the attack of the 55th Regiment, and then quickly retreated to Wuning.

(To be continued)