Under the blood-red sunset, the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield of Yaoji still remained, and the dust was flying, and more than 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Zhilu Alliance who came from the north, west, and south arrived one after another.

Wang Dong, commander of the Fifth Army, Bian Changhui, commander of the New Third Army, and Lu Ling, commander of the Sixth Provisional Division, greeted each other and climbed the high ground on the left side together, overlooking the battlefield strewn with corpses, sighing.

Wang Dong pointed to the corpses of the revolutionary army neatly stacked in the trenches at the foot of the slope, and said to the two old men beside him:

"From here, we can see the combat effectiveness of An Yi's division, not a single of the 726 corpses of the revolutionary army was thrown outside, they dared to collect the corpses and put them in the trench in the emergency situation of our three-way encirclement, and did not leave a single gun, if there is enough time, it is estimated that they will be buried, such a team is really terrible!"

Lu Ling, the commander of the Sixth Division, took off his hat and scratched his bare head: "He dared to leave an elite army to ambush in the small forest in the northeast, and killed most of a cavalry company sent by his junior brother to pursue, and his marksmanship was extremely accurate, he didn't hurt the horse, and he snatched more than sixty horses at once, and there was no shadow in a blink of an eye, damn it!" ”

"Sun Dashuai's more than 10,000 rice buckets occupy favorable terrain, and they can't stop it for eight hours, and they boast of a hundred battle divisions, Lao Tzu can't get used to the Anhui army that the dogs say, and they will play tricks."

Bian Changhui, the commander of the New Third Army, scolded in annoyance.

Wang Dong politely persuaded: "Brother Ziming, don't underestimate the enemy!" After you went south to my division, it may not be clear that the main division of the younger brother was severely damaged by them within two and a half hours, and An Yi's division harassed day and night for five consecutive days, so that Yu Shuai lost his temper, and shrank three times more troops inside and outside Pixian County and did not dare to move, which shows the strength of An Yi's division.

In the face of such an enemy, what did Sun Dashuai's division and brigade count? It's elite to be able to withstand it for so long, alas! If only I could withstand it for 40 more minutes, it will be a failure! ”

"The younger brother can't stay, he wants to go south to continue attacking Bengbu, what should the two of you do next? Take a break and go after it? Lu Ling asked.

Wang Dong nodded: "Pursuit!" Yushuai strictly ordered, never leave a moment of respite for the stubborn enemy, the younger brother and the Ziming brother soldiers divided into two roads, one south and one north to the east, the reading division and the temporary fifth division from the Pixian line to the south, the east is Luoma Lake, the south is the three thousand iron cavalry of the Zhenbei brother, An Yi division can not escape. It's just that Yushuai reminded all the troops to move forward carefully and not to be broken by the cunning enemy individually. ”

"Fuck, thinking of this 'flying fox', the little brother panicked in his heart, this dog is really fucking able to train soldiers, up and down are hard stubble, in the morning the two regiments under the command of the little brother surrounded and annihilated more than 300 wounded soldiers and a logistics company in Wangji, and actually lost almost a considerable number of troops, and later the two hundred elites who received him broke through the encirclement, and a charge killed almost half of my battalion of brothers, almost allowing the remnants of the enemy to break through successfully.

The group of grandsons are really accurate marksmanship, and they are good at street fighting, so that the officers and soldiers under the command of the younger brother were stunned, and two battalion commanders and a regiment commander were killed. ”

After Lu Ling, the commander of the Sixth Division, finished speaking, he shook his head frequently.

Wang Dong was taken aback, and then reminded: "Brother Shou Nian (Lu Lingzi), you have to pay attention, as far as the younger brother knows, An Yi is kind and ruthless, and he is like a brother with his corporals, and he is extremely protective of his shortcomings, but one thing is very rare, that is, this guy is quite good to the captives, every time he captures our people, they are injured and treated, and those who are not injured are sent to the two oceans to be dismissed, so our soldiers are both respectful and afraid of him, and he has also won the respect of many of our colleagues."

It is estimated that it will be okay for you to win against him openly, but you openly killed his wounded soldiers today, this feud is considered to be great, I hope it can be eliminated this time, otherwise there will be endless troubles. ”

Lu Ling suddenly felt frightened in his heart, but he squeezed out a smile on his face, pretended to be fearless, laughed and said goodbye and left.

In the evening, Chu Yupu and the full hall of generals in the headquarters of Nian Zhuang were busy and busy, after An Yi's division evacuated to the east, it suddenly disappeared, Wang Dong's Fifth Army and Bian Changhui's New Third Army buried the pot and ate enough, immediately launched a pursuit, seven kilometers eastward, and still did not find any enemy. The generals and colonels of the headquarters of the Seventh Army Corps couldn't help but think of the strange tactics and unexpected night attacks of the An Yi Division before, and they all realized that they could not compete with the ghostly and tireless officers and soldiers of An Yi Division in the night battle.

Chu Yupu did not dare to advance too tightly, the relatively complex terrain and criss-crossing water network in the south of Pixian County are really not conducive to the march of large troops, if they are forcibly forced, it is likely to be difficult to take care of the end, and the stubborn enemy who is trapped in the beast can take advantage of it, but it will ruin the current good situation.

After some deliberation, Chu Yupu urgently ordered all the troops to be stationed in place, closely monitored, and besiege An Yi's division in an area within a radius of 20 kilometers, and then reduce the encirclement step by step after dawn tomorrow with the help of aircraft.

At midnight, the southern flank position of Wang Dongjun's army stationed in Chezhuang suddenly suffered a fierce blow from the officers and soldiers of the Reading Division, the Reading Division first attacked through a sneak attack, killed the patrols, approached Chezhuang, and was discovered by the secret sentry and fired a warning immediately after launching a strong attack, and several shells flew from time to time in the dense gunfire and roar, causing the houses on the east and north sides of Chezhuang to collapse, the flames were blazing, and the defenders of the two regiments hurriedly met the battle, and the situation was extremely chaotic.

Wang Dong, located six kilometers north of Chezhuang, received an urgent report and immediately waved his army south to help, and at the same time reported the situation to Chu Yupu.

Chu Yupu hurriedly got up from the bed, and after several studies and judgments with his senior staff, he concluded that the main force of the Reading Division tried in vain to take advantage of the familiar terrain and suddenly turn around and break through the southwest direction, so he instructed Wang Dong to resolutely block the attack at the same time, and urgently dispatched the New Third Army from the front line of Lizhuang to rush south to help, striving to drag An Yi's division to death, and then ordered the new Fifth Division stationed in Huangdun Town to rush to the battlefield and attack back and forth.

On the line of the Yan River, six kilometers southwest of Huangdun Town, thousands of officers and soldiers of An Yi's division were crawling in the dense grass on the bank, and within three kilometers of the shore and in the reeds, all the brothers of the Reading Division were in ambush.

An Yi half-lay on his beloved horse Little Black Pony, gently stroked the horse's neck, was silent, looked at the stars in the sky and waited for the enemy's main force to cross the three improvised bridges one mile downstream.

An hour later, the regiments and battalions received a secret signal from the special detachment to lift the alarm, and they all drilled out of the low dense forests, dirt slopes, and even shallow water bays, quickly passed through the three small bridges that the enemy had just left and passed, and marched rapidly in the direction of Pixian County.

The battalion commanders of the regiments who were walking with horses in the team wondered in their hearts, they didn't know what An Yi thought about the division, and they actually drove to the county town in the second half of the night, which was only four hours away from dawn.

Thinking of the main force of the enemy army gathered in the county town, the brothers were extremely worried, but the military order was like a mountain, even if they died at this time, no one would disobey An Yi's order, nor would they raise doubts in their hearts.

At the beginning of the morning, thousands of officers and soldiers who were crawling within two kilometers of the west bank of Chaoyang Bridge in the south of the city were nervous, and many officers and soldiers quietly put their heads out of the dense grass and looked up at the city tower of Pixian County.

Most of the main forces were transferred to the southwest to encircle and suppress the county seat of the Reading Division, leaving only one regiment of defenders, and he never dreamed that the Reading Division, which was still under siege more than 30 kilometers away last night, would appear in front of him, and the defenders above and below the city were shot and killed by a dense rain of bullets before they could stop the attack.

Thousands of officers and men of the revolutionary army frantically rushed into the city gate that had just been opened, and the commander of the defending regiment received an urgent report, and was so frightened that he fled out of the north gate surrounded by the captain and more than ten guards around him, and threw down three battalions of officers and soldiers who had not yet woken up for the wolf-like soldiers of the An Yi Division to be eliminated, and in less than ten minutes, the entire county town was easily occupied by more than 4,000 soldiers of the Reading Division.

The officers and men of the Second Regiment used their rifle butts and bayonets to drive the disheveled thousands of prisoners out of the north gate, and the prisoners fled with a cry of life under the intimidation of the dense gunfire behind them, and fled three miles away to stop one after another, only to know that the officers and men of the revolutionary army were shooting at the sky, not killing any officers and soldiers, and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers who did not have shoes.

Outside the south gate, it was dusty, people shouted and neighed, the officers and men of each regiment and battalion quickly gathered in the whistle of the chief officer, An Yi rode on the little black horse, his expression was grim, and he loudly issued an order to the generals around him:

"All regiments must rush to Shawan in the southwest within three hours, in the past week, the enemy has collected all the fishing boats of more than a dozen villages and towns on the shore of Luoma Lake and parked them there, we will rely on these more than 300 wooden boats to escape, we can sleep and eat as much as we get on the boat, these three hours are to grit the big teeth, and we must rush there for Lao Tzu!"

"Yes!"

The regimental commanders and battalion commanders agreed in unison to ride their horses away.

An Yi called the head of the Reading Force, Lu Guang: "Cheng Guang, you have to work hard, Lao Ding's guard battalion with two brothers from the engineer company has already arrived in Shawan in advance, you hand over your brothers to Ji Nan, and immediately ride to Shawan, and lead the fleet to the mouth of the Fangting River to meet Xia Jian's group."

You are familiar with the terrain and the fishermen and villagers, they listen to you, and when they receive Xia Jian and the brothers, they have been rowing 14 kilometers to the east, and every other kilometer on the lake will be met by local brothers and fishermen. ”

"Subordinates obey!"

The distance is light and fast, and the horse is gone.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Chu Yupu was furious at not seeing a single soldier of An Yi's division after the siege, and suddenly received the news that the county seat of Pixian County was occupied by An Yi's division, and that he quickly fled south after looting all the weapons, ammunition and supplies.

Chu Yupu slammed the delicate teacup in his hand to the ground: "Rice buckets, a group of rice buckets!" Immediately telegraphed to the Marshal of Jining that I needed planes to reconnoiter and bomb Luoma Lake, and never let An Yi's division escape easily, and blow them up; At the same time, he ordered Wang Dong, Bian Changhui, and Xu Yaoxian to quickly move eastward to block all the west bank of Luoma Lake, and ordered Zhang Chengzhu to lead his troops to the north and strictly guard the area along the lake at the mouth of the Soohe River; Another: Give me an urgent telegram to Sun Dashuai, asking the Suqian garrison and the Xindian garrison on the east bank of Luoma Lake to strictly guard the coast of Luoma Lake and block the way for An Yi's division to flee eastward! ”

"Yes!"

"Mountain Tiger!"

"The subordinates are here!" Qin Shanhu stepped forward quickly.

Chu Yupu stretched out his big hand wearing a jade wrench, and pointed to the guide like a halberd: "You personally led the guard brigade to Pi County, arrested the villagers of Shawan Village on the north bank, and beheaded them all!" ”

"Yes!"

Qin Shanhu rushed out of the lobby at a trot, and couldn't help but shiver when he came to Lie Yu.

(To be continued)