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There was chaos inside and outside the Hou family ancestral hall, with desperate figures running everywhere, reprimands and insults could be heard everywhere, and the ground was full of abandoned confetti. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jiang Jicheng, commander of the 9th Division, saw that the situation was not right, and heard the sound of fierce firefighting from the rear, and finally issued an order to retreat on the whole line five minutes ago, at this time the 2nd Battalion of the Guard Regiment had been sent to the small bridge to the west, in an attempt to aid the attacked 109th Regiment, and firmly control the bridge, and strive to ensure that this was the only retreat of the whole division.

More than 500 meters away from the small bridge, the 450 officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Guard Regiment who were in a hurry suddenly encountered an attack, and the battalion commander and battalion deputy who were in the front on horseback did not have time to snort and fell under the horse, and then a dense rain of machine gun bullets shot out of the groves on both sides, and the hundreds of officers and soldiers who lost their command were frightened and no longer had the courage to advance, and threw down dozens of corpses and turned around to flee for their lives, but unfortunately before they could escape to the Hou family ancestral hall, a dense cannonball crossed the sky above their heads and fell around the ancestral hall. One of the shells just overturned the simple and elegant painted archway of the courtyard gate, and the heavy stone beams flew towards the ancestral hall like a spinning windmill, smashing the head of a sentry standing guard at the door, and the stumps that were blown up by the shells were shot everywhere, and the whole courtyard and the left and right hillsides were full of smoke.

Jiang Jicheng and more than ten other generals in the ancestral hall were scattered, snatching the door out, at this time another round of shells whistled, Jiang Jicheng and the four guards who ran to the courtyard did not have time to lie down, just after a burst of red light, they all flew into the sky, frightened the chief of staff who was a little slower behind him staggered and fell on the threshold of the gate, looking at the stumps and broken arms flying in the sky in the smoke of gunpowder and screaming wildly, and his whole body was soft.

The Hou family ancestral hall within a radius of 100 meters is full of fire, shrouded in gunsmoke, more than a dozen towering trees are blown up by the waist, mutilated hideous corpses can be seen everywhere, in the wailing everywhere, another round of shells are flying, the tall ancestral hall and the wing room in the backyard are finally incapacitated, the beams and bricks are flying all over the sky, one wall after another collapses, and the raging fire caused by the violent explosion is mixed with thick smoke rising up, which is clearly visible ten miles away.

More than 200 people of the Ninth Division of the Anhui Army. The ministry was wiped out under the baptism of powerful artillery fire that originally belonged to him, and not even a single intact corpse was left.

More than 400 guards scattered around the periphery of the ancestral hall. After the ancestral hall was bombed, the rest fled in all directions, but the east was the main battlefield with the rumbling of artillery, the west was a small bridge that had been tightly controlled by the revolutionary army, the north was a river more than 40 meters wide, and the south was firmly blocked by thousands of officers and soldiers wearing the special military uniforms of the An Yi Division After the gunshots, there was not a single living person on the surface of the river, except for the continuous flow of blood and the sinking corpses.

The remnants of the guard regiment saw that the situation was not good, and they were unwilling. Hiding in the village surrounded on three sides and waiting to be killed, he could only grit his teeth and rush to the main battlefield in the east, where the main force is located.

More than 300 remnants of the defeated army will rush all the way through the flames and unrecognizable. The ancestral hall didn't even have the courage to take a second look, so he buried his head and rushed onto the road.

At this time, the 1st Regiment of the Independent Division and nearly 3,000 brothers from various logistics units had already put together . The gap in the encirclement was closed, and the banner of the model battalion that was entering the position was particularly conspicuous, and the more than 300 chaotic remnants saw the fluttering flag from a distance, and they were so frightened that they quickly stopped and turned around and ran backwards, not even having the courage to fight.

However, I didn't wait for these unlucky people who were running for their lives to come up with it. In the direction of the breakthrough, dense machine gun fire sounded from the north, and in the blink of an eye, more than 300 panicked people were knocked down.

East Model Camp Brother. When the brother heard the gunshots, he was taken aback, and Liu Qi, the 27-year-old battalion commander from Tongbai, personally led a company under his command to rush over, and after a fierce exchange of fire, the remnants of the soldiers threw down more than 100 corpses and fled frantically to the west.

Liu Qi was just about to give the order to pursue, when he saw the grass shaking 100 meters away in the north, he was so frightened that he hurriedly led people to hide and dodge, at this time the "Flying Fox Flag" stretched out diagonally, Liu Qi shook his head and smiled when he saw this, jumped out of the roadside behind the big tree, and led the brothers to get up and return to the main battlefield in the east.

An Jin, the leader of the special brigade, ordered the flag to be put away and led his thirty-six brothers to the corpses of the enemy soldiers.

"How did you treat our wounded brothers in the Independent Division? I didn't think you would have it today! An Jin's eyes erupted with fire, and he smiled coldly, and ordered to stab the enemy soldiers who were still moaning and struggling one by one, and after checking that there were no live mouths, he ordered the brothers to leave the road and disperse, and slowly pressed westward in a straggler search formation.

An Jin clearly knew that this remnant enemy had no way out under the strong machine-gun fire at the bridgehead, and there was only one way to escape anywhere, as long as the remnants of the enemy in the east of the bridge were cleared, he could lead his brothers to the main battlefield to participate in the battle. Just now he didn't feel comfortable killing the commander of the enemy's artillery regiment across the river, and he wanted to kill a few high-ranking officers to feel comfortable, how did he know that the enemy's two highest-ranking lieutenant generals and five major generals were already lying in the fiery ancestral hall area at this time, and there was not even a single corpse left under the repeated ravages of more than a dozen rounds of artillery fire.

At 1:40 p.m., 2.8 kilometers northwest of Fengxian County, Luzhuang.

When Chief of Staff Lu Guang received a telephone call from Huang Yingwu, a party representative who participated in the joint command of the 72 nd Division, he very resolutely declined the 72 nd Division's request to charge, and in the name of An Yi, deputy commander of the Third Army Corps and acting commander of the 33 rd Army, ordered Huang Yingwu and Pan Shanzhai to hold their positions on the southern front and prevent not a single enemy army from crossing the river and escaping.

After Lu Guang finished speaking, no matter how he pleaded on the other side of the phone, he put down the phone and walked out of the gate, quickly climbed the mountain bag in front, and came to An Yi and Hu Jialin, who were standing at the top to observe the enemy's situation, and took the telescope handed by the adjutant to quietly check the battlefield.

The fierce exchange of fire had stopped for ten minutes, and under the scorching sun, the corpses of the main battlefield, which was five kilometers wide from north to south and four kilometers long from east to west, were strewn all over the ground, the smoke of gunpowder was billowing out, the dense craters were steaming in the heat wave, and the rich smell of blood was permeating everywhere in the chaotic air current, blowing along the river breeze, the original green turned into black and yellow scorched earth, and patches of bushes and wild grasses that had been dried by the blazing air flow were still burning.

One point and seven kilometers to the southwest, two towering trees on the shore are like blazing torches at this moment, and the sound of "crackling" burning is endless.

Smoke was still billowing from the saddle-shaped mountain in the west of the center of the battlefield, and more than 6,000 enemy officers and men in ragged clothes and with no morale were huddled around the mountain. At this moment, they have no flags, no trench fortifications, no food and no bullets, the spicy sun and the hot ground have long dried up any low-lying pool, drinking saliva to moisten their throats has become a great luxury, except for fear and despair, except for the hatred and murderous aura that is constantly surging from all sides, they have nothing left, as if staying in purgatory obey the arrangement of death.

At this time, all the remaining officers and soldiers already knew that they were surrounded by the An Yi Division that was almost completely annihilated by them nine months ago, when the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment slaughtered more than 600 wounded soldiers of the independent division who had lost their ability to resist at Litouzui, and the 2nd Brigade and 1st Regiment took the lead in boarding Bagua Continent and killed even deeper, the then commander of the 1st Regiment and the current deputy brigade commander personally cut off the head of the last wounded soldier in front of An Yi, who fled by boat, and this grudge could not be resolved, and could only end in the complete destruction of one side.

"Smack-"

A faint gunshot came, Cheng Guang raised his binoculars to observe for a moment, and said in a low voice: "The sound of the Browning pistol, it is estimated that one of the officers can't stand the pressure and cuts himself." ”

"Coward!"

An Yi scolded, then put down the binoculars and turned his head and asked, "Cheng Guang, how is the progress of the mess in the west?" ”

"The regiment has pressed a kilometer and is currently about one and a half kilometers from the central area of the enemy. After Li Yuanjiang led the brothers of the infantry battalion of the artillery regiment to clean up the battlefield, he left a company in Zhaozhuang to guard the ammunition and supplies of the enemy, and the 24 artillery pieces, 12 mortars and more than 300 horses captured in this battle had been pulled to a place 800 meters behind the regiment. Lao Li's special brigade guarded the west, and three of the detachments were clearing the remnants of the enemy in several woods. Cheng Hikari replied.

An Yi's eyes shot a crazy light, and he nodded coldly: "Order, ten minutes later, take that saddle-shaped mountain bag as the center, launch a ten-minute non-stop artillery bombardment, and carry out another covering shot, and start to close and clear when it is over." ”

"Yes!"

Cheng Guang turned and ran down the hill.

In the main artillery position in the south of the city, the brothers under the command of Liao Minlin, the commander of the artillery regiment, took off their shirts one by one, their sturdy bodies and faces were full of gunsmoke, boxes of grenade shotguns with fuses installed were moved to the loading position, and a flashing golden shell was stuffed into the barrel, and with the whistle of the deputy regiment commander Shi Junren, the 30 artillery pieces roared in unison again, and the artillery position within a radius of 800 meters was again full of gunsmoke.

In the observation post on the south bank of the Baiyi River, Pan Shanzhai, the commander of the 72nd Division, who was restless, and seven or eight generals and colonels around him heard the sound of artillery again, and immediately rushed to the observation port, holding up the telescope to carefully observe the center of the battlefield where the mud and rocks were splashing and the fire was bursting.

Five minutes after the shelling, the entire battlefield was shrouded in gunsmoke, and the fire of the shell explosion became like the light of fireflies in the thick dust and billowing smoke.

Pan Shanzhai shook his head involuntarily, his heart was surging with emotion, the battle in the past two days left him with an unforgettable impression, especially the brutal slaughter after the successful luring of the enemy by the independent division today, which deeply shocked Pan Shanzhai and his soldiers, they have never seen any unit with such strong combat effectiveness and cohesion, never seen which unit has such a consistent bitter hatred, and the retaliation is so bloody and cruel, desperate, Thinking of the happy smile on the corner of Huang Yingwu's mouth when he saw the enemy troops falling in rows, Pan Shanzhai felt a sense of creepy.

"Listen, the cannon stops, and the enemy's destruction is just a snap of a finger! However, it is time for the battle to end now, and the grievances between the 72nd Division and the 72nd Division have finally come to an end...... Brother Pan, how many casualties in your department have been recorded for me, you fought for our independent division in this battle, so the pension should be released by our independent division. ”

After Huang Yingwu finished speaking, he put down the binoculars with a spring breeze, walked to the outpost, picked up the tea that was already full of dust on the surface, blew away the dust from the cup, and drank it indifferently.

Pan Shanzhai observed for a while, and now there was no more cannon sound, turned around and said with a smile: "This battle is easy, across the river to clean up those enemies who rushed up in a hurry, just like shooting a target, the casualties of the entire division are estimated to be less than two hundred and fifty people." ”

"No matter how much, this money will be paid by our independent division, the wounded brothers sent back to the camp in the north of Xuzhou City, where our health team set up a field hospital, the conditions are very good, several foreign doctors from the old Nanchang Hospital volunteered to lead more than 100 of our trainees to come together, and the stay is more comfortable than the headquarters hospital.

For the brothers who died in battle, each soldier had 300 yuan in cash, 500 yuan for the lieutenant, and 1,000 yuan for the colonel. Huang Yingwu reported in detail.

Hearing this, Pan Shanzhai and the generals around him all looked at Huang Yingwu in surprise, and the dozen or so staff officers around him also stopped what they were doing and looked over, they really couldn't believe that the pension of the independent division was set so high.

"No wonder so many people are willing to come to your independent division, I'm really envious! The independent division is not only rich, but also absolutely righteous from top to bottom, and it is our honor to fight side by side with the independent division! From Liuquan to Fengxian, and then to the battle fought today, as long as you follow the footsteps of the independent division, you can win the battle, and it is easy to fight, without much effort, comfortable! Deputy division commander Lu Quanzhong was very emotional.

"Look, there's a fight, it's a massacre......"

The operational staff officer in charge of the observation exclaimed.

As soon as everyone heard this, they hurriedly rushed to the observation port, held up their binoculars and carefully observed, and the scene on the battlefield was shocking: thousands of independent brothers and brothers wearing steel helmets were lined up in a neat formation, slowly pressing towards the center of the battlefield from the west, north, and east, aiming at any moving object in front of them and firing freely, and more than 20 enemy officers and soldiers who fled to this side were shot down in a blink of an eye, and in the smaller and smaller encirclement, thousands of remnants of the enemy were kneeling or lying, one by one extremely desperate, In the face of the merciless slaughter of the officers and men of the independent division, no one could resist......