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Chapter 533 The Wounded South China Tiger

After the chain of sudden changes, the originally planned big battle did not happen, and the officers and men of the Red Second Army, who were notified in time, wiped off their sweat and stopped advancing, rested on the spot and closely monitored; Fan Shisheng's brigade suddenly received an urgent order, and also stopped the pursuit, and turned quietly to the direction of Liling in the southeast. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The officers and men of the Fourth Division of the Fourth Division were stationed in Cili without firing a single shot, and the officers and men of the Third Division of the 44th Army left a company to politely welcome Zhang Fakui and others into the city, and explained to the generals of the Fourth Division, who were full of doubts, that because Hunan Provincial Chairman He Jian had redivided the administrative regions of the entire province, Shimen, Cili, and Liling had been assigned to northern Hunan Province, and that the 44th Army had been ordered to cede the territory of Shimen, Cili, and Liling counties, and that the defense handover would be completed in the next two days, so only one company was left to maintain order. After completing the mission, he also had to return to Dayong County (now Zhangjiajie City) to the west and station.

After the new administrative division, Cili did not receive the task of rehousing the disaster victims, and the Third Division of the 44th Army, which was waiting for the central government, remained the same, and did not build infrastructure in Cili.

Because of the backing of the increasingly wealthy Xiangxi base area, the treatment of officers and soldiers with strict military discipline has also improved in a straight line, so Cili, like all counties in Xiangxi, is exempt from tax for one year, and the common people are happy and strongly supportive, but they suffer He Jian and the fourth division of Zhang Fakui who has just arrived: there is no grain in the granary of the county government except dust particles, and the common people who are still living a miserable life after the war has stopped for a while, and the grain of more than a dozen large landlords in the city and counties and towns has been purchased by the 44th Army for disaster relief. The remaining seeds have been turned into seedlings in the field. The period before the autumn harvest was the time of the year when there was a shortage of green and yellow, and the officers and men of the Fourth Division had no chance to grab some rice to plant in the pot.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Fakui drank three bowls of sweet potato gruel that could almost illuminate the shadow of a person, sprinkled urine soaked for more than a minute, and ordered the whole army to set off and continue to the south with a black face.

Just an hour after the army was launched, more than 4,000 soldiers of the Red Second Army suddenly attacked the county seat, and soon captured all the defenders of a company and occupied it.

The main force of the 12th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the 44th Army returned again, performed its defensive duties, and got a report from a soldier who had escaped back by luck halfway, and could not help but be furious, and the officers and men of the whole regiment rushed to Cili under the leadership of the regiment commander, but the Red Army went completely, and more than 100 brothers who had been disarmed saw the arrival of the main force, and cried sadly: The Red Army was so poor that it not only snatched all the guns and ammunition of a company, but also took away all the clothes, pants and newly issued rubber-soled military shoes of the brothers!

Zhang Hongluan was annoyed after receiving the urgent report, the third division commander Zhang Shaodong immediately roared, the deputy division commander Tan Liangde and the chief of staff Liu Hanhua gritted their teeth, extremely angry, if it wasn't for Zhang Hongluan's stern reprimand, the three of them would probably let Zhang Fakui go to He Huzi for revenge if he didn't fight.

Zhang Fakui led the Fourth Division on a continuous march of 23 kilometers to the calamus in the middle of the triangle of Cili, Liling, and Changde, and was just about to rest, when he was immediately subjected to fierce artillery bombardment by three divisions of the 44 th Army.

The panicked Zhang Fakui risked the danger and personally climbed the high ground in the south of the town to lookout, and suddenly gasped, the black pressure of the constantly flying 75 field artillery and mortar shells ruthlessly destroyed the empty houses and grass huts, the red light in the south of the town was flying red and flesh and blood flew everywhere, but the east was relatively calm without encirclement.

Zhang Fakui resolutely ordered the whole army to retreat to the east, and fled five kilometers to get rid of the frenzied pursuers with strong firepower, and after a rough inventory, it was found that the artillery regiment was gone, the engineer battalion, the baggage battalion, and the communications company were all gone, and only 13,000 of the 20,000 officers and men remained, and there were still groups of stragglers rushing to the scene, and the vast majority of them were scattered and ragged, not to mention whether they had weapons in their hands.

Zhang Fakui kicked off the trunk of a tree with thick arms on the side of the road, and yelled at the west: "I lost your mother Zhang Hongluan-"

"Boom, boom—"

A burst of mortar roar sounded again, dozens of shells whistling from the rear of the northern highlands in a blink of an eye, the officers and soldiers of Fan Shisheng, who had been in ambush for half a night and were bitten by mosquitoes, had a blue nose and swollen face, and also gritted their teeth, and the officers and soldiers of the Fan Shisheng Department who had been bitten by mosquitoes opened fire, and Zhang Fakui, who was pushed into the dry ditch on the side of the road, overturned the guards on his body and climbed up, shook off the dust all over his head, shouted to seize the high ground on the mountain and quickly counterattacked, the words did not fall, and there was a shocking shout of killing from the west, and more than 20,000 Xiangxi troops were surging with murderous spirit, Zhang Fakui pulled out his pistol and rushed to the small dirt bag in front, Through the smoke of gunfire, he saw that all the soldiers under his command were flying eastward without their lives, and the sound of screams, shell explosions, and wails came and went, and no one heard his orders.

Zhang Fakui looked up to the sky and sighed, and was suddenly set up by the adjutant and a group of personal guards, rushed down the dirt bag and rushed eastward, Zhang Fakui was just about to scold, and then saw that the mountain bag he was standing on just now was blown up by a flying cannonball, and the fireworks were soaring, and Zhang Fakui, whose feet did not touch the ground, turned his head desperately to look back, and painfully found that the small mountain bag had been flattened after the smoke had dissipated.

In this battle, the 44th Army and Fan Shisheng's troops won a complete victory, and Zhang Shaodong, the commander of the 3rd Division, was overjoyed with the 16 new guns, piles of mortars, long and short guns, and light and heavy machine guns that had been captured.

The officers and men of Fan Shisheng's department carried more than 50 captured machine guns, distributed the hundreds of catties of opium that had been lost and recovered, returned with a full load, and handed over the corpses and more than 2,000 prisoners to the brothers of the 44th Army to deal with the aftermath.

Fan Shi was angry and felt much more comfortable, and at the suggestion of the chief of staff, he immediately sent a telegram to Commander-in-Chief Chiang to convey the great victory of the rebellion against the enemy, which was closely coordinated with the friendly forces with one heart and one mind, and was ordered to annihilate nearly 10,000 enemies.

Commander-in-Chief Jiang really lived up to Fan Shisheng's ardent hopes, and quickly replied to the telegram to encourage Fan Shisheng, rewarded Fan Shisheng with 50,000 yuan, crowned Fan Shisheng as the commander of the Jingxiang Garrison Command, and promised to give Fan Shisheng a new Central Army number as soon as possible, and replenish Qi recruits within a month.

Zhang Fakui, who fled east after the defeat, dared to stop and gasp after crossing the mouth of the Black Mountain, and less than half of the remaining soldiers around him, nearly thirty percent of them lost their weapons and equipment, and their expressions were sluggish and their eyes showed panic, and a group of generals gasped for breath, gritting their teeth with hatred for Zhang Hongluan and the 44th Army, and swore to remember the deep hatred of the sea of blood, and he would definitely return it one day.

The tenacious Zhang Fakui buried his hatred deep in his heart, and gathered all the generals under his command to discuss the future urgently, while all the soldiers sorted out their bags, shared weapons and ammunition, and cheered up and prepared to fight at any time.

The generals learned from the pain and summed up the lessons and lessons, and unanimously agreed that the reason why Zhang Hongluan's sneak attack was successful this time was entirely because they were deceived by Zhang Hongluan's despicable appearance, so they felt safe marching along the edge of his territory, and they did not follow the requirements of the drill code when they were tired, and the sporadic reconnaissance teams sent out were all out of three or five miles and hurriedly returned, and this profound lesson in exchange for blood has since been engraved in the hearts of the generals of the Fourth Division. In the rest of their military careers, no matter where these generals went or what faction of the army they joined, they never made the same mistake again.

As night fell, the reconnaissance team reported quickly, and He Jian sent two major generals to contact.

Zhang Fakui and the generals discussed for a moment to meet together, Wu Qiwei and Huang Zhenqiu found out that the person who came was the senior brother who graduated from Baoding, and then they quietly lowered their vigilance.

The bell conveyed He Jian's greetings and sincerity in a low voice, saying that he was unwilling to be an enemy of the Fourth Division, and was willing to provide all conveniences to quietly accept the Fourth Division's southward movement through Miluo. With Wei Su Zhong's sincere invitation and thoughtful arrangements, Zhang Fakui, who had no way out, finally led his more than 9,000 brothers to the east, and arrived at Huangsha Town in the north of Miluo City at noon the next day to settle down.

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What does He Jian want to do?

An Yi and the generals around him have been analyzing this problem, judging from the information constantly reported by the 44th Army, as well as the secret telegrams sent by his own intelligence network from Yueyang and Couch, He Jian really did the righteousness and righteousness this time, not only generously replenished food, clothing and other materials for Zhang Fakui's Fourth Division, but also thoughtfully designed a marching route for the Fourth Division, and the 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division, who had rested for three days in Miluo Town, changed into brand-new military uniforms, carried enough ammunition and quietly went south, and bypassed Changsha in a week in the way of day and night, Zhuzhou drove to Hengdong, and the journey was smooth and smooth.

Regarding the inquiries of the Central Committee and Commander-in-Chief Chiang, An Yi and Zhang Hongluan, who fought a battle to annihilate nearly half of the Fourth Division, did not have any responsibility, and everything was pushed to He Jian, and successively reported that after the Fourth Division was defeated, its remnants had retreated into He Jian's territory. How He Jian replied to the Central Committee and Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek is unknown to outsiders, but An Yi was able to learn about He Jian's two ends through Chiang Kai-shek's two phone calls asking for assistance in investigating the whereabouts of the Fourth Army.

After repeated analysis, An Yi and the generals all believed that the reason why He Jian would come forward to help Zhang Fakui was nothing more than the following reasons: Zhang Fakui had led the Guangdong army and Li Zongren's Gui army to fight to the death, and the hatred between them was difficult to resolve. In line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, it is understandable for He Jian to help Zhang Fakui, the former sworn enemy of the Gui family.

As for why He Jian dared to deceive the Central Committee to deceive Chiang Kai-shek, the question is easy to understand, and in today's chaotic situation, how many local warlords will be frank with the Central Committee? Not to mention the growing anti-Chiang forces in the entire north, not to mention that Wang Jingwei, Xu Chongzhi, Ju Zheng and other veterans kept attacking Lao Chiang for bombarding the central government, but only to say that Guangxi, which was closest to He Jian, Yu Zuobai and Li Mingrui, had openly rebelled, and the central government had no ability to quell it, and finally had to rely on the rapidly growing He Jian to exert military pressure on Guangxi, in such a delicate situation, even if the central government learned that He Jian had let Zhang Fakui and the Fourth Division go, it would not make any accusations against He Jian, after all, At this time, it is impossible for the Central Committee and Commander-in-Chief Chiang to push He Jian, who has four divisions, into the ** camp because of the remnants of the fourth division.

Thinking about the mystery clearly, An Yi put the matter aside, completed the review of the troop allocation of the Shizhen Department in Qianxi, made necessary additions and suggestions, and began to discuss the situation in the Central Plains and his own interests with Yin Jinan, Ding Zhicheng and other henchmen.

The most important issue is how to obtain one or two official numbers in the upcoming readjustment of the armed forces by the Central Military Commission, and make use of the military salaries allocated by the central authorities to strengthen oneself in the name of justice.

Just when An Yi and others were racking their brains and determined to develop, news suddenly came from Hunan:

Zhang Fakui suddenly attacked a brigade of Zhou Lan's division stationed in Hengyang in a fit of anger because of the sudden conflict between his subordinates and He Jian's soldiers.

He Jian, who was furious, immediately mobilized more than 30,000 people from Zhou Lan and Liu Jianxu's troops to launch a pursuit of Zhang Fakui's fourth division, which fled southward, who knew that Zhang Fakui, known as the Ten Tigers of Guangdong, was even more angry and fierce, and led his headquarters to defeat the three lines of defense of the Hunan army in a row, and under the response of Li Zongren's department in northern Guangxi, he quickly crossed the Huangsha River into Guangxi, carried away the equipment and materials of He Jian's three regiments, and retreated!

When the news came, An Yi was shocked, he never imagined that Li Zongren, who quietly returned to Guangxi and successfully turned the tables, would be so generous, regardless of his previous suspicions, he readily accepted his former sworn enemy Zhang Fakui.

The sudden occurrence of this incident once again subverted the values and morals that An Yi had already adjusted countless times in his heart to adapt to this troubled world.