In the main hall of the Taoist temple, Zhang Shaozong, the second head of the regiment, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, thought about it and looked at Bao Jiqing, and asked worriedly: "Chief of Staff, the situation is critical, what should I do next?" ”

Bao Jiqing nodded, threw down the charcoal, and calmly ordered:

"Send a reconnaissance platoon, hurry to the east of Yibin City, the assembly site of Malan Pass, inform Brigade Commander Wang Jian that Yibin County is only guarded by two infantry companies of the Yunnan Army and a baggage battalion, and the strength of the troops is insufficient, so let him lead the first and third regiments to attack immediately, must be fast, accurate, and ruthless, and after taking Yibin County, he only needs to advance to the north of Syria, and slowly press the battalion step by step. After we finish this unexpected pistol regiment, we immediately go to rendezvous with him! ”

"Yes! Subordinates will do it! ”

Zhang Shaozong was just about to turn around, but was stopped by Bao Jiqing:

"Just let your adjutant go to the arrangement, you need to immediately send a few small teams of elites to Gaochang Town to investigate, and the rest of the departments will gather immediately, the strength of one regiment plus two battalions is basically enough, we will quietly turn around and go back, and strive to rush to Gaochang Town at dinner time, and take this Yunnan army pistol regiment by surprise."

"Yes!"

The rain was lighter, but it was still falling, and the gray sky darkened quickly.

When Bao Jiqing and Zhang Shaozong led their troops to form a semi-encirclement of Gaochang Town, more than 2,000 people of the Yunnan Army's pistol regiment were still crowded under the narrow market shed to eat, and the French heavy machine guns equipped with the regiment were neatly lined up, and there were two or three boxes of ammunition behind each machine gun.

Almost all the officials of the Yunnan army occupied the magpie's nest, like bandits entering the village, broke into the homes of the people in the town, and all the chickens, ducks, fish and meat in the whole town were searched out by them and feasted, and the sound of women crying in pain and men's whimpering were heard everywhere in the wind and rain.

"Smack-"

Hearing only a crisp gunshot, the 3,000 border soldiers who successfully killed the two heavy posts outside the town rushed into the town from two directions, and nearly 2,000 Yunnan soldiers under the long and narrow shed had not had time to put down their rice bowls, hundreds of grenades had already flown over like hailstones, and after a violent explosion, the long and short guns in the hands of the border soldiers opened fire in unison, and the soldiers of the Yunnan army who could still stand up were shot and fell to the ground.

In less than two minutes, the officers and men of the border army, who had successfully formed a superior force due to the sudden attack, began to encircle and suppress the surviving Dian troops in the town.

Officers and men of the machine gun company directly under the border army were in groups of five, holding heavy water-cooled machine guns with their tripods removed, mounted on piles of bloody corpses, and fiercely strafed the stubbornly resisting Yunnan troops.

Groups of officers and men took up rifles and pistols with bayonets, rushed into the houses, opened fire when they saw people wearing Yunnan army uniforms, and stabbed those who were not completely dead, and eliminated the Yunnan army officers scattered all over the town one by one with small casualties, and even those officers who were so frightened that they surrendered on their knees were not spared.

At the east and west exits of the town, the Yunnan officers and soldiers who escaped by luck did not run a few steps, but were strewn with corpses under the precise blows of the five sniper squads, and the red-eyed border soldiers did not let a single Yunnan soldier escape from the town, and more than a dozen Yunnan officers and soldiers who had hid in the houses were quickly searched out, and died in a blink of an eye under the sticks and knives and axes of the people's anger.

The fire that ignited in the market shed illuminated the town unusually brightly.

When Bao Jiqing gave the order to clean up the battlefield, it was already completely dark, and he didn't have time to say a few more words to the hundreds of fathers and villagers in the grateful and painful town, and ordered a company to be left to take care of the dead and wounded brothers, and bury the corpses of the enemy with the people, and the rest of the officers and soldiers immediately took all the captured Hatch Chase heavy machine guns and ammunition, and rushed to the aid of Wang Jian's department at a rapid marching speed.

Because Xie Ruyi, the general of the Yunnan Army, hurriedly transferred a battalion of the garrison regiment, Yibin County, which was empty of troops, could not withstand the sudden attack of a regiment led by Wang Jian, and the rapid attack launched from dusk was extremely smooth, and the veteran soldiers, mostly the well-trained border army, easily broke the desperate resistance of the enemy's two companies in just over 20 minutes, rushed into the large camp in the city, and opened a killing spree.

A battalion of heavy soldiers guarding the warehouse in the south of the city was even less worth mentioning, and in the face of the wolf-like soldiers of the three regiments of the border army, they did not dare to shoot at all, except for a dozen or so brave Yunnan officers and soldiers who rose up to resist and were beaten into a honeycomb, the rest all raised their hands and knelt down to surrender.

Wang Jian hit his horse and came to the baggage camp, and was just about to give the order to assemble the team, when the brigade chief of staff, He Qiwufei, also seemed to come, pulled Wang Jian off his horse, and rushed into the solid warehouse together.

Entering the huge warehouse, when Wang Jian saw the boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, and boxes of antique calligraphy and paintings that had been pried open, the whole person almost fell to the ground, and his lips trembled for a long time before he made a trembling voice: "Look at it, look at it, the chief of staff will come soon, and when the two directly subordinate battalions come, move back immediately, and all move back......

"Brother Jiu, it is estimated that the Dian army is worried that it will not be safe to be placed in the front, so they gathered here, and it seems that they want to transport it back to Yunnan, right...... If Xie Ruyi learns that we occupy Yibin County, he will definitely rush over like crazy, he will definitely be! Look, look, there are no less than a hundred chests of gold and silver alone! It's all looted from all over our Sichuan, and the Dian army knows that it's gone, so they can't find us to fight hard? He Qiwu blushed and said anxiously.

Wang Jian, who came back to his senses, gritted his teeth:

"You personally led all the brothers of the three regiments and one battalion, pulled all the carriages in the camp, loaded them all, and immediately transported them to the east of the city, and then immediately transported them to the east of the city, Lao Tzu led a regiment to attack Syria slowly, it is estimated that in two more hours, the chief of staff will lead the brothers to arrive, and at that time, we are not afraid of the arrival of the king of heaven!"

"Good! I'll do it. ”

At eight o'clock in the evening, north of Xufu City, Zhenjiang Tower Wharf upstream of Sanjiangkou.

The fierce battle had been going on for two and a half hours, and after the three failed attempts to force the crossing, Zhou Jun, who had killed the red eye, pulled all his artillery to the river, braved the fierce artillery fire of the Yunnan army on the opposite bank, and launched a fierce fire against him fearlessly, and at the same time ordered the first division and three regiments as reserves to rush down the river embankment and launch a forced crossing again with the officers and men of the fifth regiment who had retreated.

Half an hour later, Zhou Junbu, who was desperate and fearless of death, with the support of the artillery of the North Fort captured at the base of Wang Ling, successfully crossed the river and launched a fierce attack on the city of Syria at the heavy cost of more than 2,200 officers and soldiers killed and wounded, and seven artillery pieces destroyed.

Six kilometers downstream of Syria, the border guard regiment, which had suddenly launched a smuggling on the frontal battlefield, successfully landed on the south bank at the cost of more than 300 officers and men killed and wounded, and quickly routed the defenders on the south bank, occupied the position, and then set fire to the barracks to send a signal.

The raging fire on the south bank greatly boosted the morale of the officers of the 2nd Brigade in the middle lane.

When brigade commander Wang Lingji saw that the attack on both flanks had been successful, he knew that the enemy troops on the other side were at the end of their crossbows, so he immediately seized the opportunity and braved the rain of bullets to cross the river in person.

The flames in the city of Syria were blazing, and the horse sheds, barracks, government offices and other buildings that had been set on fire one after another since the exchange of fire between the two armies were already full of smoke at this time, and the flames were soaring into the sky.

Inside and outside the city, there were people hiding in the dark and shooting cold guns, and as long as the number of tired Yunnan officers and soldiers was slightly smaller, a bullet would come to them, and no less than 300 Yunnan officers and soldiers died in the popular riot in the city.

The Yunnan army fell into a situation of internal and external difficulties, the officers and soldiers of various departments were in a hurry, and their morale plummeted, and what was even worse was that the Yibin county town behind them was also on fire, and the border guards of the Sichuan army who appeared at some point forcibly occupied it, and they were pressing towards the city of Syria step by step.

The morale of the officers and men of the Yunnan Army, who had lost their way out, was completely demoralized, and the three regiments of the Yunnan Army, which had been exposed to natural dangers, withstood only three and a half hours under the fierce blows from many sides and points.

Seeing that the various units of the Sichuan army continued to come from both sides, and the main force of the Sichuan army on the front also successfully crossed, a group of staff officers and guards of the Yunnan army no longer cared about any superiority and inferiority, and Xie Ruyi, who was red-eyed and shouting that he would not retreat, ran out of the headquarters and pushed him onto the war horse.

More than 200 officers and guards of the Yunnan army protected Xie Ruyi in the middle, beat the horses and rushed out of the east city, breaking through the barrage composed of seven heavy machine guns of the Sichuan army, and finally desperately escorted Xie Ruyi to escape from the city of Syria with the tragic sacrifice of most of the casualties.

Li Hanxiang, the general of the Yunnan Army in Luzhou, said that he was not having a good time, because he had the strength of three regiments in vain, but he could not advance or retreat, and he was unable to move, and was dragged by the second division of the Sichuan Army on the other side of the river on the south bank of more than 10 kilometers.

Peng Guanglie, commander of the brave Second Division of the Sichuan Army, went into battle shirtless and personally commanded the artillery company and machine gun company to strike head-on, and the shells and bullets were smashed on the south bank as if they were not paying for money.

Chen Jing, chief of staff of the Second Division, in accordance with the strategy formulated by Xiao Yimin, did not leave a single reserve unit, and sent all three regiments to hold high the battle flag at seven wharves 15 kilometers long, and bluffed again and again to forcibly cross the river.

The telegraph lines and telephone lines of the Yunnan army had already been cut off by the task forces that had infiltrated in advance, and the commander-in-chief, Li Hongxiang, was blind, deaf, and anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and could not recruit a battalion of reinforcements from the east, so where would he have the energy to take care of the progress of the war situation in Syria?

At two o'clock in the morning, the artillery fire on the north bank of Luzhou roared again, and Xie Ruyi, who was stationed in Syria, also fled to Luzhou at this moment.

Li Hongxiang, who received the news, ran out to greet him, and was surprised to see Xie Ruyi, who was covered in blood, and more than 40 remnants of the remnants around him.

Xie Ruyi, who was shot in the shoulder, grabbed Li Hongxiang's hand, and only said the words "retreat eastward" before his head tilted and fainted.

Li Hongxiang hurriedly inquired about several scarred and exhausted lieutenants, and learned that Syria had been lost, and the main forces of the two divisions of the Sichuan army were pursuing along both sides of the strait.

There was no time to remove all the items in the headquarters, Li Hongxiang hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat to the east, and finally in the sound of artillery bombardment that was getting closer and closer, he was forced to abandon a regiment and two companies to run wildly, and Luzhou City returned to the hands of the Sichuan army.

(To be continued)