Tong Baoxuan's mood is extremely bad!

In order to boost morale, he even gave up his cousin, how could he explain to his father when the war ended?

The National Revolutionary Army was really too steady, they were well-armed, their fighting spirit was high, and in a day's battle, the 17th Division had not built an inch, and in the direction of Xiamen, the enemy army already had an offensive posture.

As time drags on, the situation will become more and more unfavorable.

"Night Attack!" Tong Baoxuan gritted his teeth and said.

Dead horses should be treated as live horse doctors. If the night attack still can't be successful, then maybe it is fate to end the battle of Fujian.

What is hateful is that the situation in Fujian is so critical, but Li Chun, the overseer of Jiangsu, refuses to send a single soldier, doesn't he know that Fujian is lost, followed by Zhejiang, and then it will be Jiangsu's turn?

Thinking of this, Tong Baoxuan sighed a little helplessly

Night battles were extremely unsuitable for both the National Revolutionary Army and the Beiyang Army, and they had very little experience in this area before.

At the beginning of the battle, both sides were very nervous. After only a short period of preparation, the 17th Division rushed forward in a hurry. In their opinion, there is actually no difference between fighting at night and fighting during the day, anyway, as soon as the trumpet sounds, everyone rushes forward without dying.

In fact, they didn't know that night battles were not like this at all

And most of the [***] soldiers are also in contact with night battles for the first time, and the night should have been a tacit ceasefire and rest, but why did those Fujian soldiers fight at night like they took the wrong medicine?

There was fire everywhere, and it was a disaster for the attacking side.

The torches held by those Fujian soldiers became the best targets for the defending side. At the beginning of the night battle, a large part of the Min army had already fallen in a few moments, and the casualties far exceeded the battle in the middle of the day.

Seeing such a scene, Liu Xiang immediately pulled a machine gun battalion to the front line, and this firepower killed and wounded, turning the battlefield into a terrifying hell.

The Fujian army, which rushed up with Hulala, retreated again after suffering serious casualties.

Tong Baoxuan, who was watching the battle from behind, shook his head helplessly, the last move had failed, the battle situation could not be reversed, and the rest of the matter was just to fulfill his duties as a commander

The gunfire rang out intermittently for a night, and the 17th Division got nothing but corpses in one place.

The morning air is no longer fresh, the smell of the air makes people feel sad, and even when the sun rises, the sunlight that shines on the earth is bloody

I thought that there would be an even more crazy attack, but I didn't expect that the 17th Division was digging trenches on the spot, and it actually switched from offensive to defensive.

Tong Baoxuan is still very smart, he has clearly seen that with his current strength, it is impossible to capture Longhai, and the enemy's reinforcements will arrive soon, and the offensive and defensive sides will turn the order. It is better to dig fortifications now and prepare for defense. If you can hold this and Xiamen can hold it, then maybe the situation of the battle will change.

But things were far from what Tong Baoxuan thought, just when he was preparing to defend on the spot and block the Northern Expeditionary Army, Li Houji's thinking in Xiamen began to change significantly.

The Northern Expeditionary Army's division of troops to attack Xiamen surprised Li Houji, and the news of the loss of Yunxiao and Pinghe also came one after another, which gave Li Houji's first instinct:

Fujian can't hold it!

He now has three choices, the first is to defend Fujian, so judging from the comparison of forces between the two sides, the possibility of success is very small; The second is to surrender to the Nationalist Axe, but it is difficult to say what position he can achieve in the National Revolutionary Army, which is full of talents.

The first two paths don't work, and only the third path remains:

Give up Fujian and withdraw to Zhejiang!

This is the safest and most effective way!

Yang Shande, the governor of Zhejiang, was seriously ill, and the dragons of Zhejiang were leaderless. The Songhu garrison made Lu Yongxiang stare at this position for too long, too long, if it wasn't for the heavy losses he suffered in the stock market some time ago, maybe he would have done it now.

Yang Shande is seriously ill, if he can take advantage of this opportunity to lead the main force to evacuate Fujian and enter Zhejiang, he will see the opportunity to seize the position of Zhejiang overseer in one fell swoop.

Now the Yanjing side is too busy to take care of itself, and what they urgently need most is that their local warlords block the fierce offensive of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and they don't care at all about who is in charge.

"Then, do you want to inform the deputy commander-in-chief?" His subordinate Li Saiyuan asked cautiously.

Li Houji shook his head: "I can't tell him, once the 17th Division knows the news, it will immediately fall into chaos, and I still need them to help me block the Northern Expeditionary Army." Sai Yuan, put on a decisive battle posture in Xiamen, and then secretly retreated in the direction of Zhejiang, and at the same time sent someone to inform Tong Baoxuan, saying that I had mobilized the 18th Division to reinforce him, so that he would hold Longwen no matter what! ”

"Yes, understood!" Li Saiyuan replied loudly.

At this time, Tong Baoxuan, who was still supervising the battle on the front line, would never have thought that he would be ruthlessly betrayed at the critical moment when he was preparing to defend Fujian.

And Li Houji's escape also sent a great credit to Yang Sen, the commander-in-chief of the hussar regiment

With the seizure of Yunxiao and Pinghe, the western part of Fujian has been pacified. Yang Sen immediately ordered the avant-garde brigade to move rapidly in the direction of Longhai, and ordered Wang Zhanxu's sixth division to launch a tentative attack on Xiamen.

The confrontation between the two armies of Longhai and Longwen showed a strange calm, and Liu Xiang and Tong Baoxuan were unwilling to take the initiative to attack each other.

On the third day of Liu Xiang's insistence on Longhai, reinforcements arrived.

The 11th Brigade held this for three days, and except for the first day, when the fighting was extremely fierce, the other two brigades had only sporadic contact and no major battles.

However, Liu Xiang won a British name for this: "The gecko fought in the dragon sea, and did not move for three days and nights"!

Many legends on the battlefield actually came about this way.

Liu Xiang became famous in a fight!

Immediately, Yang Sen sent an order that the two brigades in Longhai should be under the unified command of Liu Xiang, and immediately launch an attack on Longwen, seize Longwen, and encircle Xiamen.

At this time, no one thought that Li Houji was ready to give up Fujian!

Only one person seemed to faintly feel that something was wrong: Yang Jie!

"Chief of Staff, Liu Xiang is guarding beautifully, he has launched a general attack on Longwen, and at the same time, Wang Zhanxu has also captured Baishui, and launched an attack on Haicang, capturing Haicang in an hour. Xiamen is already within the direct attack range of the 6th Division! ”

"Oh." Yang Jie nodded, was suddenly stunned, and asked, "You just said that when did Wang Zhanxu capture Haicang?" ”

"An hour." Janssen was a little strange.

Yang Jie frowned: "Is the battle fierce?" ”

Yang Sen shook his head: "The resistance is very weak, but after capturing Haicang, Li Houji opened a decisive battle, and it seems that a fierce battle in Xiamen is inevitable." ”

Yang Jie didn't speak, stood in front of the map and looked motionless for a few minutes, then suddenly turned around and said, "Li Houji wants to escape!" ”

"Escape?" Janssen seemed a little unconvinced.

Yang Jie pointed to the map and said: "Come and see, if Li Houji really wants to defend Xiamen, then Haicang must be the place he must hold." If Haicang is lost, Xiamen will be under the direct range of artillery fire, and it will not be able to hold it no matter what. Moreover, the loss of Haicang also broke the connection between Xiamen and Longwen, and both sides became lone soldiers, which Li Houji would never see! ”

Yang Sen stared at the map for a long time, and slapped his thigh: "Fuck, that's really the case, I immediately ordered, Wang Zhanxu's whole division attacked Xiamen!" ”

"No!" Yang Jie waved his hand: "Let him run!" ”

"Let him run?" Yang Sen frowned and thought for a while, and understood what the chief of staff meant: "You mean to let Li Houji leave Fujian?" ”

Yang Jie was confident: "Xiamen is still lost, where else can Li Houji go?" Only Zhejiang! Zhejiang overseer Yang Shande is seriously ill, many people are staring at this position, the most promising is the Songhu garrison envoy Lu Yongxiang, now he is waiting for Yang Shande to die, at this time Li Houji suddenly intervened, Lu Yongxiang is willing to give up? ”

Yang Sen laughed: "What does the chief of staff mean is to let Lu Yongxiang and Li Houji kill each other, and then we will take Zhejiang lightly?" ”

"Exactly." Yang Jie threw the pen in his hand on the table: "In the rich land of Zhejiang, everyone's eyes are on it, and everyone wants to take a bite." Let them fight first, we will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, wait for the opportunity, and seize Zhejiang in one fell swoop! ”

"Someone!" Yang Sen said loudly: "Order, Wang Zhanxu's Sixth Division, temporarily stop attacking Xiamen, concentrate all forces, and launch an attack on Longwen." Order, my divisions to speed up! ”

Yang Jie sighed softly: "You can send a message to the president, Fujian is already my country's civil affairs axe!" ”

"Let the brothers resist, the 18th Division will be here soon!" On the front line of Longwen, Tong Bao hissed.

At this time, Tong Baoxuan was very moved in his heart. Xiamen was also attacked, but Commander-in-Chief Li pulled out his elite 18th Division to reinforce the Longwen garrison.

With the arrival of the main force of the National Revolutionary Army, the opponent suddenly turned from defense to attack and launched a large-scale attack on Longwen.

Whether the 17th Division can successfully hold Longwen, Tong Baoxuan has no bottom in his heart, but with the imminent arrival of the 18th Division, the war may change.

It's just that Tong Baoxuan never dreamed that he had been ruthlessly abandoned by Li Houji. He and the 17th Division became completely alone.

No reinforcements, nothing.

Once the National Revolutionary Army completed the encirclement, the fate of the 17th Division would be irreversible.

As Yang Jie said, Fujian is about to enter the jurisdiction of the national revolutionary political axe!

(To be continued)