At night, the mountains were quietly enveloped, the choking smoke was blown away by the mountain wind, and the air was only mixed with the faint smell of wild flowers, this serenity and tranquility made the nerves of the soldiers fighting between life and death slightly relaxed.

Compared with the soldiers on the front line, the soldiers of Nodaguchi are happy, they don't have to go to the battlefield to fight, and there are huts that can shelter from the wind and rain, and a few soldiers standing guard at the intersection are bored leaning together, muttering the news from the battlefield today, and there is a machine gun on the fortifications.

The low house emitted a faint light, a low voice came from the room, and several officers were still talking about this unfortunate Huili war, the rapid advance at the beginning, and the current desire to retreat, the change was unacceptable, and these low-level officers were not even mentally prepared.

The sentinels did not notice that in the woods not far away, there were dozens of figures carefully shuttling through the woods, they stopped at the edge of the woods and looked cautiously towards the town, and after a while three figures quietly reached out of the woods and towards the entrance of the town.

"Smack." A crisp gunshot pierced the silent night sky, "Damn it! Zhang Lihui punched the trunk of the tree, which must have alarmed the opponent's secret whistle: "The first team is on the left, the second team follows me, and the third team follows up and orders the artillery to fire!" Come on! ”

After saying that, Zhang Lihui put his pistol and walked forward, and the others quickly followed, Zhang Lihui walked out of the woods, and the avant-garde company had already exchanged fire with the enemy in the town.

"Boom," "Boom," the cannonballs fell into the town with a sharp whistling, splashing sparks, and the defenders' machine guns quickly became dumb, and a large group of black shadows rushed out of the flames and struck into the town.

The fierce gunfire pierced far away in the empty night, and An Enpu, who was five or six miles away, woke up from his sleep, he hurriedly got up and rushed outside the house: "Where to shoot?" ”

"Report sir, it seems to be Nodaguchi." The staff officer replied hesitantly, although the gunfire was crisp at night, the direction was not easy to judge.

Nodakou, An Enpu's head suddenly buzzed, it was their main transportation route to the Jinsha River, and it must not be lost.

"Reinforcements to Nodaguchi immediately." An Enpu shouted loudly: "Order the special battalion to immediately reinforce Nodaguchi!" ”

An Enpu's heart was numb, did the other party really want to eat him? Where did the troops that attacked Nodaguchi come from? While pondering, there was another rumbling sound of artillery on the ridge on the left, followed by the sound of artillery from the frontal position.

"Okay, it's coming for me." An Enpu scolded in a hateful whisper, now that the situation is obvious, the other party wants to eat him first, and then deal with Sun Du.

"Order the front-line positions to resist, and whoever loses the position will be punished by military law!" An Enpu shouted that in the few days of fighting, his loss of personnel without water was very large, and the number of people who could participate in the battle was less than 5,000, and the troops assigned to him also lost more than 2,000 in the past two days. However, he believed that the losses of the enemy on the opposite side in the past few days were not light, at least nearly a thousand people.

Like An Enpu, Fan Hanjie and Wang Guobin also came to the front line to supervise the battle. Night combat is an important subject in the training of the escort team, especially those old subordinates of Zhuang Jihua who came out of the bloody battle of Niuxing, they are still admired for their fabulous night battle in the bloody battle of Niuxing, and the great function to this day, so whether they are in the first division or in the escort team, night combat is the key subject of their troops. In this attack, the escort team clearly showed that they were better at night combat than the other side.

The soldiers of both the Model Brigade and the Liu Zhengfu Brigade were crushed by the swift offensive of the guards, and in the dark night there were countless figures rushing towards the position, the trumpets of the charge, the whistle sounded in the valley, the bullets pierced the dark curtain of the night sky, burning the air, dragging long tails, with a sharp whistle, rushing towards them. When the convoy rushed into position, the Dian soldiers immediately collapsed.

Charge, break, follow-up, the convoy persevered and continued to attack, and the reacting Model Brigade officers began to try to launch a counterattack against them, but soon they found out that in the dark of night they were no match for the convoy at all. The convoy is more savvy in group combat than them, and the soldiers are more tactically aware than they are.

The sound of artillery continued all night, An Enpu was tortured all night, reports of defeat were frequent everywhere, Nodaguchi was lost, the commander of the defending company was killed, and the counterattack of the guard battalion was crushed; The troops who came up from the right side were found to be Fan Hanjie's troops, and they were quietly transferred to this side by Fan Hanjie from the side facing Sun Du, An Enpu secretly scolded Sun Du for being incompetent, and the enemy calmly moved under his nose, but he didn't find out.

An Enpu was in a hurry all night, defending, counterattacking, counterattacking, defending; When it was dawn he found that he had been busy all night and that the enemy had surrounded him.

After a night of hard fighting, Zhang Lihui, who fought from right to left, and Fan Hanjie, who fought from left and right, met at Monkey Ridge on the west side of Nodakou, and so far they held An Enpu in the palm of their hands.

After An Enpu found that he was surrounded, he did not panic, but quickly organized a circular defense line centered on Xiangu Peak, and then he began to ask Long Yun and Sun Du for help.

Long Yun was shocked when he received the report, and immediately ordered Sun Du to immediately relieve An Enpu from the siege, and at the same time reprimanded Sun Du for wandering to avoid the battle, "The number of enemy troops is several times different from mine, but our army has been defeated repeatedly, and the battlefield situation is passive," He asked Sun Du to immediately reverse the situation, and defeat the Sichuan army and escort troops stationed in the Huili area with a resolute attack, so as not to embarrass the Dian army.

Sun Du was ashamed and frustrated when he received the telegram, he knew that he had been deceived by Fan Hanjie yesterday, and he did not find out about his troop movement in time, resulting in a surprise attack on An Enpu.

Sun Du, who came to his senses, immediately commanded the troops to attack, this time it was no longer swallowing slowly, but in a stormy style.

When Long Yun and Sun Du were in mourning, Dechang's Zhuang Jihua, Du Yuming, and Yang Yongtai were overjoyed.

"Now it's up to the follow-up troops, order Gao Kuiyuan and Situ Fei to speed up their pace, and tell them that every minute now is what the brothers in the Huili region have exchanged for their lives."

Long Yun now feels that the development of the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable, Zhuang Jihua seems to want to apportionment with him in the Huili area, and the blow to him from the siege of the Model Brigade can be said to be devastating.

When Tang Jiyao was in power, the Dian army still had an advantage in Sichuan, and the main factor that was later beaten out was internal division, so the Dian army was very arrogant, thinking that although the central army was strong, the combat effectiveness of the Dian army was by no means weaker than theirs. Moreover, after Long Yun took power, a large number of weapons and ammunition were imported from France, and the equipment of the Dian army was among the top few in the whole [***] team.

But this battle made Long Yun understand that the combat effectiveness of the Dian army was not so reliable, and Zhuang Jihua had not even used the troops in Yucheng, so he fell into passivity on the battlefield of Huili, and now he had to spend his time to save the main force trapped in Huili.

"Telegraphed to the chairman of the committee and asked him to stop Zhuang Jihua's actions." Hu Ying suggested: "At the same time, I declare that I accept Zhuang Jihua's conditions. ”

"Telegraphed to the whole country, accusing Zhuang Jihua of provoking the dispute between the two provinces, and instead of attacking us, they came to beat us." Zhang Chong's face had a hint of weirdness.

"I'm afraid this won't work, the current battlefield is in Huili, and that is in Sichuan." Hu Ying retorted, and Zhang Chong was speechless for a moment.

"I think so, wait and see if Sun Du can relieve An Enpu." Long Yun waved them away in distraught.

Although Zhang Chong's suggestion is good, the fatal point is inexplicable; Hu Ying's opinion made it difficult for him to accept, not only to punish those Yi heads, but also to pay compensation, which was simply a shame.

However, two days later, news came from the meeting, to be precise, from Kyaukpyeongdu, that the pontoon bridge had been bombed, and the logistical supply of the troops at the front had been completely interrupted. Long Yun had to seriously consider Hu Ying's suggestion now.

The pontoon bridge was blown up by the Xiaobailong detachment, and after they ambushed the Yunnan army's transport team, the Dian army strengthened its transport force, and each time the escort force reached a battalion, so that they had no idea where to start, and Xiaobailong simply smuggled people into Yunnan.

Sure enough, as he expected, the defense of the Dian army in Yunnan was very lax, and they attacked two transport teams and a military station in succession, forcing the Dian army to strengthen its defense in Yunnan, but the main force of the Dian army was sent to Huili, and only one regiment was drawn from the garrison brigade of Kyaukpingdu, plus several security regiments to protect this line of communication.

After receiving the order to blow up the pontoon bridge, Xiao Bailong led the team to move to the vicinity of Kyaukpyeongdu, where they lurked for two days before dawn before dawn to break into the ferry and blow up the pontoon.

However, this battle caused him to lose two team members, and Xiao Bailong felt very angry. In a fit of rage, he led his team to retaliate and attacked a transport team, but this time he encountered a hard stubble, and there was a battalion of troops in charge of the escort, they disguised themselves as security regiments, and the little white dragon was fooled, and fought hard for three hours, losing nine members before escaping.

Long Yun delayed for four days before sending a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, but his tone was still very hard, saying that if Zhuang Jihua did not stop the military operation, he would mobilize the forces of the whole province of Yunnan to fight him to the end, and at the same time he also hinted in the telegram that if it was forced to make him urgent, he would join forces with Liangguang.

This time Chiang Kai-shek was not fooled, Zhuang Jihua did not respond, but Long Yun took the initiative to call, which already explains the problem. However, Chiang Kai-shek still didn't want to force Long Yun to the side of Liangguang, he wanted Long Yun to make another step, so he waited for two days.

Two days is enough, enough to decide the outcome of a war, enough to decide the final outcome of the battlefield.

Situ Fei arrived at the border of Huili in Huidong three days earlier than originally planned, strictly speaking, not all of his troops, only one-third of the troops of 5,000 people arrived at the border of Huili in Huidong.

Zhuang Jihua, who was anxious, couldn't help but be overjoyed after receiving the telegram, the telegram sent back by the front line of Huili in the past few days became more and more urgent, Sun Du attacked the Sichuan army position like crazy, Yang Yinglong's department finally collapsed after two days of hard topping, and the remnants fled into Huili City. Subsequently, Sun Du used part of his troops to contain Liu Yuantang, and the main force launched an attack on Fan Hanjie's department, and another brigade was sent to make a detour to attack Zhang Lihui's department.

An Enpu was experienced in a hundred battles, and of course understood that this was the only chance to escape, or even turn defeat into victory, so he desperately mobilized 2,000 men to attack Zhang Lihui.

Zhang Lihui was fearless in the pincer attack of the Yunnan army, and used one detachment to block An Enpu who broke through, another detachment and two companies to block Sun Dubu, and the rest served as reserves.

But after the fight, he found that the deployment was wrong, the breakthrough to survive far exceeded the fighting spirit of the siege, the model brigade in a desperate situation and sent out amazing combat effectiveness, in one day to conquer three small hills, and then launched an attack on the main position, that afternoon rushed to the position and the escort team to start hand-to-hand combat, at the end of the day, the blocking detachment suffered one-third casualties, and at noon the next day, Zhang Lihui had to transfer the reserves in his hand to suppress An Enpu's offensive.

In order to alleviate Zhang Lihui's pressure, Wang Guobin launched an attack on An Enpu in the front, approaching the periphery of Xiangu Peak, An Enpu's main defensive support point, and An Enpu was forced to deploy troops to counterattack, which greatly relieved Zhang Lihui's pressure, but Wang Guobin's strength was getting weaker and weaker.

(To be continued)