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More than 5,000 officers and men of the three regiments, under the command of brigade commander Chi Buhuai, waded across the river and rushed wet to the county town of Fengxian County, where gunfire was loud and gunpowder was billowing out, and it took only 20 minutes to cross a barren area of two and a half kilometers

Many soldiers of the Anhui army threw away the straw sandals that were soaked and loose by the river under their feet, took up their weapons and fearlessly rushed into the battlefield, and one by one the captains followed the fine tradition of the Anhui army, brandishing their swords and rushing in front, until they rushed to a place two kilometers away from the blazing city wall, the forward troops were blocked by the fire of a small group of revolutionary troops, and the two sides immediately entered a fierce battle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chi Buhuai, the commander of the 1st brigade, received the report that the 2nd Forward Regiment had engaged in contact with the enemy, and his spirits were greatly lifted, and with a wave of the horsewhip in his hand, he hurriedly issued an order:

"All charge, defeat this revolutionary army that dares to block the advance of our army, and let Lao Tzu rush into the city!"

As soon as the order was issued, dust immediately flew, gunshots rang out, and shouts of killing erupted. Qi Xiuping, commander of the special service battalion of the independent division, who was tasked with luring the enemy, saw the enemy's main force surging like a tide, and after three minutes of strong fire resistance, he decisively issued an order to retreat.

More than 400 soldiers dressed in old-fashioned gray cloth uniforms carried the wounded brothers around them, turned around and fled eastward without their lives, and the courageous Qi Xiuping led the adjutant and two guards to retreat, he grabbed the machine gunner who ran past him, grabbed the Czech light machine gun, shouted "run", turned around and fired wildly at the pursuing enemy, and only then did he carry the machine gun to his shoulder after firing a magazine, and threw off his two long legs and fled for his life.

Qi Xiuping, who was in the rain of bullets, crossed the first trench filled with prisoners who was half frightened, jumped into the second trench guarded by the teaching regiment, and immediately turned around, seeing that there were still more than 100 brothers under his command left behind, and they staggered one by one, and couldn't help but curse loudly: "*** Don't hurry up!" It's so hard to even run for your life, can you still hang yourself......

The enemy's bullets crossed the sky over the trench in pieces, and there was a "fluttering" sound of breaking the air, and Zhao Rui, the head of the teaching regiment, who was more than ten meters away from Qi Xiuping, had been carefully observing the battlefield situation.

In the past two hours, the teaching regiment fired tens of thousands of machine-gun rifle bullets and threw out more than 500 grenades at the flat area of three kilometers behind, except for making a mess of mud and wild grass, it did not destroy a single enemy

When everything was ready for the teaching group, the sound of gunfire and shouting was gradually approaching, Qi Xiuping also led the special agent battalion that went out to lure the enemy and fled back in embarrassment, and there were at least more than 2,000 enemies behind them who were chasing after them five or six hundred meters away, Zhao Rui and the surrounding soldiers heard Qi Xiuping tearing his throat and talking nonsense, and they had no time to laugh, and immediately entered a tense state of imminent battle.

Hearing the shouting of the battalion commander, the brothers who were behind and were climbing the first trench turned red, and no longer paid attention to the pig-killing howls coming out of the trench, they almost stepped on the body of the captive and rushed through the trench, and then jumped into the second trench with a few arrows.

The swarming pursuers finally saw clearly the two trenches in front of them and the dozen or so battle flags of the teaching regiment, and the company and battalion commanders who rushed to the front could not decide whether to charge to the death or lie down on the spot and wait for the next order, and the 120 light and heavy machine guns on the position of the teaching regiment spewed angry tongues of fire almost simultaneously, and in the blink of an eye, a large area of the enemy who was more than 300 meters away and could not lie down was swept down, forcing the enemy to urgently lie down and shoot back.

The fierce exchange of fire was deafening, and the strong smell of gunpowder diffused everywhere, which made it bitter for more than 4,000 prisoners lying in the first trench, and the bullets flew over their heads like a storm, and the counterattack bullets of the officers and men of the Ninth Division in front of them were fired into the mud in front of the trench from time to time, making a "chirping" sound, but the prisoners could only hold their heads helplessly, lying in the shallow trenches and resigning themselves to their fate.

On the southern front, more than 5,000 officers and men of the 72nd Division on the south bank of the Baiyi River finally received an order from division commander Pan Shanzhai to shake off the camouflaged weeds and branches on their bodies and rush to the 4.5-kilometer-long riverbank

On both sides of the small wooden bridge four kilometers west of the city, hundreds of sappers of the engineer battalion of the Ninth Division of the Anhui Army are erecting the long tree trunks that have been cut down to the fracture, and the bridge deck in the water is full of calls and scolding, and it is not easy to connect the seven-meter-wide fracture with dozens of large logs, and a platoon of sappers immediately rushed to the bridge deck with cloth bags and hammers, and fixed the logs one by one with horse nails, and the officers and soldiers of a company of Shangfeng under the bridge were making the final reinforcement of the support beams.

The fighting in the east became more and more intense, and 11,000 officers and men of the two infantry brigades of the Ninth Division were fully engaged in the battle, and one after another battle reports were sent to the land temple west of the bridgehead.

"Shouldn't the enemy's main force engage in a fierce battle with my main force defending the city at the other end of Fengcheng? And what is the matter with this enemy that has suddenly appeared in front of us now? Jiang Jicheng frowned tightly and muttered to himself.

One cadre general and colonel were gossiping, this analysis "Could it be that Fengcheng has been taken by the revolutionary army", and the other said, "Maybe this enemy in front of you is the enemy's reinforcements," that is, no one thought that An Yi was designing calculations from beginning to end.

At this time, a mortar shell broke through the air and roared, and landed five meters behind the side of the land temple to produce a violent explosion, the shock wave lifted a large piece of the old tile roof of the small temple, the cracked tiles mixed with the old rotten leaves and dust, fell like a torrential rain, the rotten beams shook violently, and there were bursts of "chirping" piercing sounds, gradually tilting to the left

Jiang Jicheng's chief guard saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly picked up Jiang Jicheng and rushed out of the temple gate, and came to the courtyard to lie in the nephew.

At the same time, near the newly erected small bridge not far away, two mortar shells also fell, one blew up the pack horses of the engineer battalion at the head of the bridge, dozens of frightened tall pack horses screamed sharply and galloped wildly, and one fell on the river surface to stir up a column of water several meters high, and two of the six lieutenants who inspected the bridge deck were shaken into the river, and the entire bridge head was in chaos.

The gray-faced Jiang Jicheng got up from the ground, highlighted the bloody sand in his mouth, looked around, and shouted at the commander of the guard regiment who rushed to hear the news: "What's the matter? What are your officers and soldiers doing? Why was even the division almost served in a pot? ”

The commander of the guard regiment lowered his head and was speechless, and the chief of staff who had no hat saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to comfort: "Division, it is estimated that it is a small group of sneak attack troops sent by the enemy, limited by the strength of the troops, the warning range of the guard regiment is usually within two kilometers, and the mortar can easily hit three or four kilometers away, and after shooting one or two shells, it will run away, which makes people unguardable!"

It seems that the enemy is far more familiar with the terrain than us, and it must be calculated that we will enter the small temple to be like this, it is obviously not safe here, I suggest that the division cross the bridge as soon as possible, one and a half kilometers ahead is a low slope and woods, there is a Hou family ancestral hall in the low slope, and the subordinates have asked the deputy of the guard regiment to lead a company to clean up, where it is about three kilometers away from the battlefield, the concealment is good, and it is also convenient to command nearby.

Jiang Jicheng looked at the radio station dug out of the rubble by a group of officers and soldiers and the two dying communication staff officers, took off his military hat in annoyance, and slapped it vigorously: "Then let's move quickly!" Passing on my order, immediately set up a telephone line, and when I arrived at the ancestral hall of the Hou family, I must be able to wait to talk to the two brigade commanders in front. ”

"Yes!"

Under the step-by-step pressure of the elite of the special brigade of the independent division, the headquarters of the Ninth Division crossed the wooden bridge that had just been repaired and drove mightily to the Hou family ancestral hall, which was 1.6 kilometers to the east.

As soon as the division headquarters had been settled down, and before any further discussion on the battle had begun, an earth-shattering sound of artillery bombardment suddenly sounded on the battlefield in the east, which immediately stunned Jiang Jicheng and his deputies. Judging from the analysis of the intensity of the shelling, the artillery of the revolutionary army that suddenly appeared at present was by no means less than the establishment of four battalions, otherwise there would definitely not be such a fierce bombing effect.

Jiang Jicheng, who had always been calm and calm, still looked unchanged even before the landslide, finally panicked, and suddenly realized that he was very likely to have fallen into a big trap, and the surrounding more than ten generals looked at each other, one by one, their faces were dull, and the panic caused by the sudden dense cannon sound was pervasive everywhere.

As soon as the front foot of the 9th Division had crossed the bridge, the long line of the 109th Regiment of the enemy artillery regiment finally drove to the bridgehead, because one of the several mortar shells that flew again ten minutes earlier fell on the junction between the stone pier and the log bridge deck, the bridge deck was shaken loosely, and the 24 horse-drawn Gram guns could not pass through the bridge deck, and all of them were crowded on the wide flat ground at the head of the west bridge, waiting anxiously.

The fierce gunfire in the east became more and more intense, and the commander of the 109th Regiment, surrounded by several adjutants' guards, rode at a gallop, flew off his horse and rushed to the head of the small bridge.

The commander of the engineer battalion, who was accustomed to being powerful, opened his mouth and just wanted to curse loudly, his body shook suddenly, and then he fell backwards into the sky. The adjutant and guards beside him were taken aback when they saw this, and hurriedly knelt down to help, only to see that black and red blood was coming out of the gun on the regiment commander's eyebrows, and a pair of eyes were open in shock, and the pupils had been dilated, so frightened that the adjutant fell to the ground, and his mind was in chaos.

The commander of the engineer battalion and a few guards who had just arrived immediately shouted for an enemy attack, and the officers and men of the entire bridgehead were running in all directions, in confusion, and before anyone else could react, a rain of bullets poured in, and the shouts of killing from all directions rang out, and more than 1,000 officers and men of the 109th Regiment who took off their hats, took off their rifles, sat down, rested, and gasped for breath fell in an instant.

The captains who jumped up and waved their guns and shouted in an attempt to defend themselves were all shot in the head by the accurately flying bullets, and the hundreds of remnants of the army screamed and wailed in surprise, and took refuge in all directions, most of them lying around the artillery and beside the wagons carrying the shells.

The gunfire was getting closer and closer, the rain of bullets was raging, and grenades flew towards the dense areas of officers and men and exploded with a bang; within a few minutes, more than half of the 109th Regiment's 1,000 artillery pieces and more than 400 engineers were killed or wounded, and they completely lost their ability to resist; nearly 1,000 officers and men of the Independent Division, wearing strange camouflage uniforms and steel helmets, rushed into the enemy group from three directions, and the new machine guns in their hands kept firing one after another, and any enemy who was stubbornly resisting with weapons in his hands was beaten into a sieve in the blink of an eye.

Li Yuanjiang, commander of the infantry battalion of the artillery regiment, rushed to the bridgehead with a machine gun, and saw the three enemy troops under the bridge swimming desperately downstream.

"Move that pile of logs over and set up six machine-gun fire points along the 30 meters on both sides of the bridge to prevent the enemy from escaping!"

"Yes!"

"Third Company Commander—"

"Here!"

The commander of the third company came quickly.

Li Yuanjiang pointed to the high ground on both sides: "Your third company will take charge of the two flanks to guard the two flanks, protect the brothers of the first and second companies, and force the enemy artillery to launch artillery bombardments. ”

"Yes!"

Wearing a special forces special combat uniform and a face full of oil paint, the deputy Zong Xingzhen of the special brigade strode over under the escort of two brothers under his command:

"Yuanjiang, this is the shooting coordinates sent by Lao Li urgently, the Hou family ancestral hall is one point and six kilometers to the east, hurry up and start preparing, I will take a detachment of brothers to serve as a guard for you, you just have to order the cannon, and I will solve it for you."

"Great......"

Five minutes later, Li Yuanjiang, who was standing on the carriage, held high two small red and green flags, and shouted out one parameter after another in his mouth; 24 artillery pieces and eight mortars were disorderly arranged in an open area more than 60 meters away from the bridgehead, and on the side of each artillery piece lay one or two corpses of enemy artillerymen who were still twitching, and the more than 300 captured enemy artillerymen all lost their shirts, and they obeyed the orders in horror and slowly adjusted their firing.

With a sharp long sound from the whistle in Li Yuanjiang's mouth, twenty shells filled the barrel in a metallic crash and entered the firing state.

Seeing that the preparations were completed, Li Yuanjiang waved the signal flag held high in his hand suddenly, and roared hoarsely in his mouth: "Fight-"

"Boom, boom, boom......"