The adjutant's words made Xu Yongchang, who was already a little shaken, fall into deep thought, which is more important than personal grievances and the life and death of tens of thousands of soldiers under his command?

He fell into a violent contradiction, just when Xu Yongchang was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire outside, Xu Yongchang immediately stood up and asked awe-inspiringly, "What's the matter?" ”

The adjutant turned around in a daze, but the gunfire outside became more and more rapid, accompanied by the occasional explosion.

Not long after, a second lieutenant of the Jin Suijun rushed in from outside, and reported to Xu Yongchang with a panicked and frightened face: "Military seat, it's not good, there is an east [pig ^ pig ^ island ^ novel] []. [zhu] [zhudao]. The northern army is coming to the wall, and the brothers will not be able to resist it! ”

"What? Didn't I tell you to take strict precautions against a night attack, how could there be such a big mistake? Xu Yongchang was taken aback, and said angrily with a gloomy face.

The second lieutenant of Jin Suijun didn't know how to answer, and bowed his head for a while.

Listening to the gunfire outside getting more and more intense, the adjutant asked, "What should we do?" Or, take this opportunity to let the brothers give up resistance and let the Northeast Army enter the customs? ”

Xu Yongchang glared at him and said, "Even if we want to let them enter the customs, it must not be in a situation like tonight, we are negotiating peace, not surrendering, and we don't need to disarm, otherwise we would rather fight to the last soldier." ”

After Xu Yongchang finished speaking, he picked up his steel helmet and the submachine gun hanging on the wall, and said, "Order all the guard battalions to assemble and drive the Northeast Army down for me!" ”

"Yes!" Seeing this, the adjutant and the second lieutenant stepped forward and spoke aloud, and walked out together.

On the wall, with the help of the bamboo ladder and zipline prepared by the logistics department long ago, the night attack unit led by Zhang Tingshu, chief of staff of the 3rd Group Army, successfully climbed the city wall while the defenders were paralyzed.

At this time, there was a fierce exchange of fire with the Jin Sui army who had reacted.

The city was ablaze with fires and gunfire. Bullets whizzing back and forth everywhere.

The attacking Northeast Army is all equipped with the most advanced MP38 submachine guns at the moment, and the strength of the assault firepower is self-evident.

A few dozen people knocked down a large number of hundreds of Jin Sui troops on the north wall of Yanmen Pass, which won time for the follow-up troops to successfully climb the wall.

When Xu Yongchang arrived from the pass with his own guard battalion, Zhang Tingshu had already led most of the night raiders to climb the city wall, and was attacking the pass from the steps of the city wall on both sides.

Under the cover of a large number of MP38 submachine gun crossfire, the Jin Sui troops who poured in from the Guannai fell in pieces, suffering heavy casualties.

Xu Yongchang didn't care about his own safety, so with a wave of his hand, he pressed up with the guard battalion. His guard battalion was all armed with Jin imitation MP18 submachine guns, commonly known as flower traps.

In such a close engagement, the firepower was much stronger than that of the ordinary Jin Sui army, and with their joining, the one-sided situation of the Jin Sui army was alleviated.

At the same time, other units of the 3rd Army stationed in the open space in the south of the pass were flocking into the pass and rushing to reinforce them.

Seeing this, Zhang Tingshu immediately ordered the troops to stop the assault and retreat to the wall. At the same time, the signalmen were ordered to fire flares and summon the main army to attack.

Whoosh, three red flares rose into the air, dazzling like three brilliant red roses under the night sky.

miles away. Liu Guodong and Shen Ke, who were anxiously waiting, were attracted by this sudden signal flare that had not been seen for a long time, and the two glanced at each other in surprise, and the latter said excitedly: "General seat, it seems." Lao Zhang, they succeeded, let's hurry up. ”

"Hmm." Liu Guodong was also very excited, and immediately said to the herald on the side: "Order." All regiments immediately attacked and seized Yanmen Pass! After entering the customs, the Jin Sui army will not kill anyone who surrenders with their guns, and those who resist will be killed! ”

"Yes!" The herald was also very excited, and quickly turned around and ran out.

Liu Guodong said to Shen Ke again: "Old Shen, you stay in command, and I will go with the assault force to support Lao Zhang!" ”

"Hey, Commander-in-Chief, you are the commander-in-chief of a group army, how can you leave your post without permission and put yourself in danger, or let me go, you stay." Shen Ke stopped Liu Guodong and said.

Seeing Shen Ke's resolute attitude, Liu Jianguo nodded and said, "Okay, take care of everything!" ”

Shen Ke nodded, signaled Liu Jianguo to rest assured, and walked out of the headquarters with the guards.

The Northeast Army of the 3rd Group Army was already ready and was waiting not far from Yanmen Pass.

As soon as the signal flare was lifted into the air, the officers and men who had been waiting for a long time could not wait to stand up, and they could already faintly hear the deafening gunshots and explosions coming from Yanmen Pass from time to time.

Fortunately, the heralds quickly brought the order of the group army headquarters, and thousands of officers and men of the Northeast Army, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately jumped out of the trenches one after another and swarmed towards Yanmen Pass like a tide.

By the time Shen Ke arrived at the sortie position with his guards, a regiment of the first batch of reinforcements had already rushed up.

Shen Ke scolded the leader of the team for running too fast, and also rushed towards Yanmen Pass with tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army behind him.

The distance of a few miles is just a blink of an eye for the officers and men of the Northeast Army who are in high mood and can't wait.

The reinforcements of the first regiment rushed to the outside of the wall, and at this time the fierce battle on the wall was in full swing, and the guns were loud.

The colonel who led the team, with a wave of his hand, thousands of officers and soldiers under his command climbed the ladder left by Zhang Tingshu's night attack troops.

Seeing that the ladder was too slow, the remaining large group of officers and soldiers fortunately blew up the city gate, although the Jin Sui army had already blocked the Yanmen Pass wall, but not long after, the city gate was still blown into pieces by the Northeast Army's high explosives package.

A large number of infantry of the Northeast Army, who were not afraid of death, swarmed up, climbed the sandbags used by the Jin Sui army to block the city gate, and rushed towards the city while firing at the same time.

In the Guannei, under the personal command and leadership of Xu Yongchang, the Jin Sui army launched wave after wave of fierce counterattacks against the troops led by Zhang Tingshu.

However, due to the constraints of the topography of the wall, the absolute strength advantage of the Jin Sui army could not be brought into play, and it was repeatedly thwarted by the ferocious dense bullet rain of the Northeast Army on the wall.

Just when Xu Yongchang was anxious, a large number of reinforcements from the Northeast Army outside the pass arrived, and they climbed to the top of the city, and the firepower on the wall was quickly strengthened, and the Jin Sui army under the pass felt the pressure increased.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Xu Yongchang decisively ordered the troops to retreat and retreat to the Nanguan Wall.

Seeing this, Zhang Tingshu immediately led his troops to rush down the wall and launch a pursuit.

A large number of Northeast troops have already swarmed into the pass, letting out a forgetful shouting of killing, and rushing towards the pass with a roar.

When Shen Ke arrived with his troops, the Jin Sui army in the pass had been driven to the south gate wall by the Northeast Army, not so much to rush, but to say that the Jin Sui army took the initiative to retreat to the south wall.

In fact, they can't retreat.

Xu Yongchang saw that it was impossible to do anything, so he decisively gave up the counterattack, and the strong man broke his wrist, quickly gathered his troops and retreated to the southern wall, relying on the wall to resist stubbornly.

Zhang Tingshu led thousands of troops from the Northeast Army to launch a tidal assault on the southern wall.

The transition between attack and defense was so fast that many Jin Sui troops were unexpected, and they were not well prepared and were very passive by the Northeast Army, which had superior firepower.

Suppressed on top of the city walls, there were many casualties.

Xu Yongchang did not retreat to the wall with the troops, but was escorted by the adjutants and guards, and withdrew directly from the city gate.

The adjutants knew very well that retreating to the wall was the most dangerous, and it was likely that the whole army would be wiped out, so they directly escorted Xu Yongchang out of Yanmen Pass.

"Immediately send electricity to Taiyuan, the north gate of Yanmen Pass has been broken by the Northeast Army, and the fall of the whole pass is just around the corner, please prepare Mr. Yan early!" After leaving Yanmen Pass, Xu Yongchang looked back at the flames and gunshots in the sky with some sadness, and instructed the adjutant at Yanmen Pass.

A guard had already taken the order, and the adjutant asked: "Military seat, Yanmen Pass is lost, what should we do?" ”

Xu Yongchang sighed and said: "Hey, careless, careless, caused Yanmen to be closed in such a short period of time, what face do I have to go back to Taiyuan to see Mr. Yan!" ”

The adjutant persuaded: "Don't blame yourself, you and the officers and men of the whole army have done their best, the soldiers have fought bloodily, and the dead and wounded have been killed, it's not that we don't contribute, it's really that the Northeast Army is too strong." ”

Xu Yongchang quickly recovered his composure from his self-blame and loss, and said to the adjutant: "Adjutant Liu, you immediately sent our military order, and all divisions immediately took turns to cover the retreat, abandon Yanmen Pass, and retreat to Xinkou." ”

"Yes!" The adjutant immediately stepped forward and took the order.

Xu Yongchang looked back at Yanmen Pass, which was still motivating the war, and sighed in his heart, after tonight, this Jin Sui army may cease to exist!

It's not that he doesn't know how important Yanmen Pass is, and what kind of impact its loss will have on the overall strategic situation.

But Xu Yongchang did not save it at all costs, not only because the opponent was too strong, but mainly because he had some war-weariness in his heart.

Because he saw the strength of the Northeast Army under the command of Zhang Xinghan, and he admired Zhang Xinghan for daring to take action against the now corrupt Nationalist Government.

As an upright soldier with patriotic feelings, Xu Yongchang is also extremely disgusted by the corruption of the Nationalist Government today.

He sincerely hoped that Zhang Xinghan would be successfully reorganized, and that one day, China's armed forces would no longer be divided into the Northeast Army, the Jin Sui Army, and the Shandong Army.

It is a unified National Revolutionary Army, of course, he also hopes to see Zhang Xinghan can lead countless athletes to expedition to foreign countries, raise the prestige of the country in the four seas, and lead the Chinese nation to rise again and stand on top of the world.

Compared with Chairman Jiang, a person of insight like Xu Yongchang is obviously not optimistic about his ability.

Xu Yongchang's military order was issued, and he was already frightened, and the Jin Sui army, which had no intention of fighting, retreated one after another, Zhang Tingshu and Shen Ke led their troops to capture Yanmen Pass, and sent two regiments to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill. (To be continued......)

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