These days, Zhuang Jihua was trying to understand the soldiers and boost morale along the way, but to his disappointment, the soldiers' reaction was obviously not good. Zhuang Jihua understood that the third battalion had to win a battle to save morale, but he didn't want to fight, if he needed to, he was willing to walk the rest of the expedition like this, as for morale, he would naturally have a chance in the future.

At the beginning of the battle at Lihuxu, Zhuang Jihua was still somewhat satisfied, but as time went by, the battle situation in front was unfavorable, and he felt that it was a matter of time before the three battalions participated in the battle, so he gathered the whole battalion. Looking at the more than 300 people standing in front of him, Zhuang Jihua said loudly with a cold expression: "I know that our battalion did not fight well in Tamsui, and Battalion Commander Wang was transferred away because of this, and the friendly troops also laughed at us, and everyone felt aggrieved, which I understand; But after all, we lost the battle, and we deserved to be scolded, so what should we do if we don't want to be scolded!? Zhuang Jihua asked loudly: "That is to win the battle, fight a beautiful battle to show them, all the people in our three battalions are men, all of them are men who have grown xx, touch your bottom, have you grown?" ”

No one spoke, there was silence all over again, Zheng Dongguo and the two company commanders looked at each other, and were a little surprised why Zhuang Jihua asked so vulgarly. Before Zheng Dongguo could interject, Zhuang Jihua asked sternly, "Have you grown up?" Are all fucking pussies? ”

"It's long!" Qilian replied violently, Hu Zongnan was not dissatisfied, and Zhuang Jihua asked loudly again: "I didn't hear it!" ”

"It's long!" This time it's the voice of the whole battalion.

"Like a, I didn't hear it!"

"It's long." The roar was like thunder.

"Okay, it's a man, whether it's a real man or a fake man, you have to go to the battlefield to test it, if you don't fight well, don't mix under me if you're afraid of death, my subordinates only need real men, don't fake men." Do you understand? ”

"Understand, be a real man, not a fake man."

"Be louder, I haven't eaten." Zhuang Jihua's voice became more and more stern.

"Be a real man, not a fake man." More than 300 people roared.

The southern mountain bell is more than delicate, tall and majestic is insufficient, Yudong Ridge is such a typical southern hill, the mountains are undulating, composed of a series of hills, the shape is a lying carp. The attack of the second regiment began smoothly, after eating the fish tail, when attacking the fish spine, encountered the enemy's strong resistance, the first battalion launched several attacks in a row were beaten down by the enemy, Zhuang Jihua led the troops to arrive, Qian Dajun was at the front of the fish tail to observe the enemy's situation, he very much wanted to fight this battle, hoping to take this opportunity to take the name in front of the regiment commander to take off.

Seeing Zhuang Jihua coming to report, Qian Dajun felt a little more relaxed, handed the telescope in his hand to Zhuang Jihua, and asked him to observe the enemy situation first.

The men of the first battalion were shooting at the enemy on the mountainside, but due to the unfavorable terrain, they suffered a great loss, and the second battalion was attacking the fish head, but the enemy also took advantage of the terrain to suppress it.

"Look at that little dirt bag on the left side of the first battalion." Zhuang Jihua turned the telescope in the direction that Qian Dajun pointed to. It was a small bulge on the mountainside, like a small thorn sticking diagonally out of the ridge of a fish, about sixty meters away from the enemy's position, and on this small thorn was about a squad of the enemy and a machine gun, which did not seem like much, but you could only attack him frontally, and the left and right sides would be protected from the front and flanks. If it is left alone, then the troops attacking from the front will receive a flank blow from him.

"If we can take this mountain bag, we will have a foothold, and we will be able to shake the enemy's position."

"Yes, guaranteed to take it." Zhuang Jihua put down the binoculars and said to Qian Dajun.

"How are you going to fight there?"

"With two companies to carry out a frontal attack and contain the enemy's firepower, I led two platoons of seven companies to attack the front of the small mound, and one platoon attacked from the flank."

"Okay, the morale of the first battalion has declined, I will let them retire and recuperate, you guys, whether you can achieve it depends on you. I'll let the artillery company cover you. "Qian Dajun thinks it's good.

"Yes."

Zhuang Jihua returned to the camp and ordered Zheng Dongguo to lead the 8th and 9th companies to attack head-on to contain the enemy's fire, and he personally led the 7th company to attack the small mound. According to the old method, the excellent marksmen in the company were drawn out to form a shooting team to provide fire cover, and Song Xilian led the second platoon to mix in the frontal attacking troops and attack the small mound from the flank.

During the shelling, Zhuang Jihua moved the troops to a distance of 200 meters from the enemy's position, which was a very bold move, according to the teaching materials of the military academy, the attack was launched at a distance of about 1,000 meters from the local position, but Zhuang Jihua found that Chen Jun's weapons were very poor at a distance of 200 meters when he was fighting in Zhangmutou, so he boldly advanced the attack to a distance of 200 meters, of course, this was also risky, and the nearest shell exploded at a distance of more than 10 meters from them during the shelling.

After a short artillery bombardment, the three battalions launched an attack, the company commanders and party representatives of each company rushed to the front, Hu Zongnan took the seven companies straight to the small hill, and soon reached a place 70 meters away from the hill, at this time the enemy's shooting was fierce, the troops were forced to lie down and shoot at the enemy, Zhuang Jihua did not charge in front, should press the formation in the back, the enemy's bullets stirred up a burst of dust from time to time, and several soldiers were injured, but the wounded soldiers did not gnaw, bandaged the wounds and continued to fight.

After the sharpshooter knocked the enemy's machine gun dumb, Hu Zongnan set up the machine gun and fired a fierce shot at the hill, suppressing the enemy's firepower, and Cao Yuan shouted: "Rush! "Lead the charge. After running some distance, the enemy's machine guns rang out again, and the troops fell down again, and several soldiers who could not dodge were killed on the spot. In this way, the rush stopped, and after half an hour, it rushed to a place forty meters from the hill.

This shows that the Seventh Company is different from other companies, the closer the other companies are, the more cautious they are, and the more cautious they are when there are casualties, once a company has more than a dozen casualties, the troops almost completely stop charging; The Seventh Company is not like this, the Seventh Company is the closer it gets, the more daring it becomes, not to mention the more than a dozen casualties, and half of the casualties of the Zhangmutou troops still did not flinch at all.

Hu Zongnan ordered loudly: "Grenades." "Even though a grenade exploded up and down the mound left and right, the soldiers of the 7th Company jumped up and quickly rushed through the smoke of the explosion to capture the mound.

Qian Dajun danced happily in the back, and shouted in his mouth: "Okay, attack it, attack it." ”

In the telescope, after the seventh company occupied the territory mound, it did not pause and continued to attack. At the same time, the success of the Seventh Company also boosted the morale of the Eighth and Ninth Companies, and both companies rushed forward.

At this time, there were bursts of violent explosions behind the enemy's positions, and occasionally shouts were heard. There was a panic in the enemy position in Yudongling, Zhuang Jihua discovered the enemy's panic in time, and ordered to blow the trumpet of the charge, and the soldiers of the third battalion roared and rushed into the enemy's position and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, but the enemy seemed to have no fighting spirit and was quickly defeated.

Zhuang Jihua did not understand the reason for the explosion behind the enemy, so he did not order the pursuit, but stopped to hold the existing position, after a while, Fang Jin led a thin, dark-skinned, barefoot young man, before Fang Jin could speak, the young man introduced himself: "Comrade, my name is Peng Fentian, I am the person in charge of the Lihu Peasant Association, and I led the peasant army to assist the revolutionary army." Zhuang Jihua understood now.

"You were the one who launched the attack in the rear of the enemy?"

"Yes."

When Zhuang Jihua heard this, he punched the wall of the trench and cursed loudly: "Damn it." Fuck it, stupid, stupid pig. Seeing that Peng Fentian looked at him a little blankly, he explained angrily: "It's not about you, it's about me, I'm fucking damned." ”

Turned to Zhao Hanjie and said, "You send Comrade Peng to the regiment headquarters and tell the regiment commander that I am chasing the enemy." ”

Then he gave another order: "The whole battalion pursues immediately, immediately, and move quickly." ”

Zhuang Jihua regretted it very much, he was too cautious, he had known that the people of the peasant association were attacking from behind, and he should have pursued it with all his might, and it was entirely possible for this enemy to be annihilated here.

The Lihu peasant association organized nearly 10,000 people to come to participate in the battle, although the weapons were backward, but the momentum was huge, causing the enemy's panic, the first line of Yudongling abandoned the position and retreated, Qian Dajun led the second regiment to the side of Huaguyan, Hong Zhaolin of Huaguyan was shocked and abandoned the troops and ran, there is a way to learn, Hong Zhaolin is like this, and the senior officers below will do the same. According to the history of the war, all the officers above the division level fled, and the troops collapsed, and they became rogues. Later, Hong Zhaolin collected part of the remnants in Meixian County and retreated to Fujian.

The Weng Tenghui detachment of Li Yunfu's division on the right wing surrendered to the school army, Zhong Shaobin retreated to the ash pit and was caught up by Zhuang Jihua, Zhong Shaobin only fled with more than 100 people, and the rest of the nearly 1,000 people were captured.

The result of this battle caused a mutiny of the enemy army in Chaoshan, Zhou Qian, the commander of the first detachment of Chaomei, announced that the Chen army that had retreated from Jieyang was disarmed, and Chaoshan almost became an empty city, Chen Jiongming desolate after inspecting the urban area of Shantou, boarded a ship and withdrew to Xiamen, less than a day after he left, the second division of the Guangdong Army landed in Shantou and occupied Shantou.

Subsequently, Zhang Mingda, the second division of the Guangdong Army, was stationed in Shantou, and the Xu Ji Brigade occupied Chao'an. Chiang Kai-shek led the school army to stay in Jieyang.