Sixty-six Southwestern War III
This time, Tang Jiyao sent troops to Guangxi, and the troops' march was very slow, because the Yunnan army's food and salary depended on opium to sustain it, and the troops carried a large amount of opium tobacco and soil to sell along the way, and then purchased military supplies after exchanging money. In particular, Tang Jiyu, who supervised the military affairs in Guizhou, had millions of taels of tobacco in his hands, and he had to wait for the drug lords in Shanghai and Hankou to come to trade, so the speed of the march was even slower. Regardless of Tang Jiyao's urging, his elder brother was always indifferent, and led the troops to crawl slowly among the lofty mountains and mountains at the junction of Guizhou and Guizhou.
In contrast, Long Yun on the other side of the army marched significantly faster, he was not Tang Jiyao's brother, when he said that he was gambling on Wuhua Mountain and vowed to pacify Liangguang for the commander, now of course he had to go faster to grab enough territory before Nanning fell.
"Jiegong, now the Yunnan army is coming in two ways, among which the Tang Jiyu Department on the North Road is marching slowly, and it is estimated that it will not be able to arrive in a month. West Road Longyun is a little faster. So they can't go hand in hand, and I think we can give them a break. An Yi's tone was full of relaxation, and this battle seemed to be a game. The opponents of the game, these Dian troops, are not serious at all. More than 50,000 people are divided into two roads, all the way slowly, all the way in a hurry, obviously to let the family break each other! What's even more interesting is that Yang Ximin and Tang Jiyao don't seem to know that Hu Sishun has been wiped out, and now they report the specific locations of Long Yun and Tang Jiyu's armies to "Hu Sishun" on time every day. There is such a careless army in this world!
"Sihua, your suggestion is very good, just what I want." Chiang Kai-shek now feels good about himself, and sure enough, pinching soft persimmons can give people a sense of achievement. Lao Jiang nodded at Anyi with a smile on his face, and ordered: "Order the three divisions of Bai Jiansheng's division to quickly transfer to Baise, where we will join him and defeat Long Yun's troops first." Ordered Zhu Yizhi to continue the siege of the city, not to attack, and to give Tang Jiyao some hope. ”
On November 2, 1923, the two armies of Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek successfully met in Baise County, on the shore of the Youjiang River in Guangxi, and at this time, the 30,000 troops of Long Yun's army had just arrived at Leli Town, Lingyun County, about 50 kilometers northwest of Baixian County.
At this time, the two armies were only 50 kilometers apart, and Long Yun didn't know anything about it! Although he had already sent spies in the direction of Baise, although his spies were very serious and responsible to find the small army in Baise City gathered. However, Long Yun has not been reported yet! Because the roads around Baise City have been completely blocked, and shortwave radio, a high-tech means of communication, is not yet widespread.
At 12 noon, the soldiers of the begging army were setting out in a whole formation outside the city of Baise, and the 50-kilometer journey would take 10 hours, and according to the plan, the battle would begin at 10 o'clock this evening, and the officers and men of eight infantry divisions and two artillery regiments would take part in the battle.
"Third brother, why am I always a little restless today? Nothing is going to happen, is it? Looking at the long and unsightly marching procession, Long Yun suddenly said to his righteous brother Lu Han beside him.
"Second brother, you are too worried, yesterday the spies came back to report that White City is an empty city, let's work hard, we will spend the night in White tonight." Lu Han is now the brigade commander under Long Yun, and he is also his confidant, the two are brothers, and there is a big brother named Zou Ruoheng above them, the three of them are known as the Three Musketeers of Zhaotong, and they all have martial arts that are not weak, but in this era, fighting and martial arts have little to do with martial arts.
"What's going on?" Long Yun's voice was a little worried. He knew that Tang Jiyu was still wandering around in Qiangui and didn't know when he would be able to enter Guangxi. It was supposed to go hand in hand, but now he is alone. In case of......
Lu Han looked at the Lie Yan above his head, wiped his sweat and said, "Second brother, the spies have been dispatched. However, you see that we have been walking all morning, should we let the brothers rest and get over their addiction before leaving? "Guangxi is located in the tropics, although it is already November, but the weather is still hot, which makes the Yunnan army from the cooler Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau not very adaptable.
"Okay. The brothers were ordered to rest for an hour, and the addicted brothers should hurry up and have a good time. When it comes to enjoyment, Long Yun is a little helpless. Since Tang Jiyao supervised Yunnan, Yunnan's opium production has been rising steadily, and what makes him even more speechless is that Tang actually distributes tobacco as a military salary! In fact, there are very many opium smokers in the Yunnan army, and more than 30 percent of them are opium absorbers.
Longyun's 30,000 people started from Leli Town at six o'clock this morning, rested for an hour with lunch at twelve o'clock at noon, and continued on the road at one o'clock. And Chiang Kai-shek's troops were marching from white at twelve o'clock, and the two armies were approaching unconsciously.
In another time and space, the famous "Steel Seventh Army" in the Kuomintang Army has become the first division of the Gui Army directly under the Generalissimo's Mansion at this time! According to the art of war that Chiang Kai-shek learned from his book, the glorious task of taking the lead naturally had to be handed over to the Gui First Division, which was the "vanguard of Guangxi." Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren are now personally commanding the first elite of Mr. Zhongshan. Oh, and there is also an "Iron Fourth Army" that is now the 1st Guangdong Division, which is in Fujian at this time and has not been brought by Chiang Kai-shek.
Following the Gui First Division was Chen Cheng's 11th Guangdong Division, uh, it was really a coincidence, it was probably deliberately arranged by the author. Although the 11th Guangdong Division has the sign of the Guangdong Army, most of its soldiers are Hunanese, and they are well-armed and have good combat effectiveness. The third team is Luo Yaoguo's old Guangdong Eighth Division, and the combat effectiveness of the Guangdong Eighth Division belongs to the middle and upper reaches of Mr. Zhongshan's team, and it cannot be compared with the top brands such as Gui Yi Division and Yue First Division, that is, it is similar to Chen Cheng's civil engineering elite. Behind the Eighth Guangdong Division were the Fourth Guangdong Division, the Fifth Guangdong Division, and the Sixth Guangdong Division, all of which were Xu Chongzhi's troops, and their combat effectiveness was not weak; behind the Sixth Guangdong Division were the two artillery regiments personally commanded by Qian Dajun and Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters, and the last to press the formation were the Guangdong Seventh Division and the Guangdong Ninth Division, which were relatively weak troops.
"Bang, bang, bang......" There was a gunshot in the distance. Then the "click-and-......" machine-gun chorus began.
"There was a fight in front, it seems that it was encountered with the Dian army, and the night attack could not be fought." An Yi shrugged and shook his head, but his expression was still extremely relaxed.
"Order the 11th and 8th Guangdong Divisions to quickly reinforce the Gui 1st Division, and order the artillery to advance as soon as possible to find positions and set up artillery, An Yi will be handed over to you here, I will personally go to the front enemy to command!" Chiang Kai-shek hastily ordered two sentences, and then slapped his horse forward and led the guards to supervise the battle.
He Gui 1st Division met the Second Army of the Founding Alliance Army head-on, and the commander was named Hu Ruoyu, who would become good friends with Li Zongren in another time and space. But now the two of them have a good fight. Well, or maybe he Hu Ruoyu wants to be taught a hard lesson by Li Zongren. Of course, there is absolutely no meaning to look down on the Yunnan compatriots here, but the combat effectiveness of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's Gui army is a bit perverted! Originally, this group of Guangxi Iron and Steel Army was already very good, and that old Jiang didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, so he actually regarded the Gui First Division as his basic army, and made thousands of Mosin from the Shijing Arsenal, which had just completed its technological transformation. The Nagant rifles were all given to them.
Some of the Chinese in this era have strange concepts, such as the officers and soldiers of the Gui 1st Division, and now there seems to be a mood of defending their hometown against the invaders. The Dian army is not a foreign country, how can it be regarded as an aggressor? Well, that's what Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi told their subordinates anyway, and the simple people in the mountainous areas of Guangxi also fully believed it, so the morale of this Gui army was so high, these screaming officers and soldiers were holding up the so-so Mo Xin. Nagant shot his rifle like crazy and killed the Dian army on the opposite side, and rushed up to fight the bayonet after a series of shots. Immediately, the two armies began to fight on the narrow mountain road.
"Tell Hu Zijia that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road!" Long Yun forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart and gave an order to Hu Ruoyu, who was fighting in front.
To tell the truth, it was very advantageous to encounter the Dian army, which was inferior in numbers, in such a narrow environment. Because Chiang Kai-shek has eight divisions plus two artillery regiments of nearly 70,000 people, and Long Yun only has 30,000, if he changes the open terrain and lets Chiang Kai-shek's troops fight in a different way, Long Yun's people will not let people make dumplings?
"Brethren! When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! Rush with me! "There is no need for Long Yun to remind, Hu Ruoyu also knows that he can only fight, and he can't run away, not to mention that there is still Long Yun's main force blocking the road behind, even if there is none, with the marching ability of their Dian army, they are not the master who can run away.
The Dian army is going to fight hard, but can it beat the Gui army? Gui Jun's prestige in another time and space is not blown.
"Second brother, it seems that Lao Hu can't stand it, why don't we withdraw first?" Lu Han pricked up his ears and listened to the shouting and killing for an hour, uh, now the Guangxi dialect is full of neutrality, and the Yunnan dialect seems to be inaudible. Lu Han estimated that Hu Ruoyu had been defeated, and now it was almost time to think about escaping.
"This is defeated?" Long Yun's thin cheeks were now full of tears. "We've been defeated in just an hour! Sun Cannon's soldiers turned out to be so powerful! Alas, are we still able to run? Long Yun looked at the Yunnan officers and soldiers around him who were weak in their legs, shook his head and said, "Sandi, let's fight again, we can't leave now." ”
"But second brother, the brothers are also listening like us!" Lu Han reminded with a dead face. Anyone with a little military knowledge knows how much damage to morale will be to hearing about the abuse of one's brother troops by the enemy.
"That's the win?" Chiang Kai-shek had just climbed a hill with his men, found a good position, and was ready to watch the fight, but the fight below had already been completed. "These Dian troops came all the way and finished in an hour?" Chiang Kai-shek couldn't believe that there was such a soft persimmon in this world.
"Woo, woo, woo, I won't leave, I'm not going anywhere, I'm just sitting here waiting for Sun Cannon's people to kill! They are too bullying, what kind of troops are they sent! "Sitting on the side of the road and crying was Hu Ruoyu, the commander of the Second Army of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, whose troops were completely defeated after just an hour of encounter! The army is gone, what is he, the commander, going back to do? The co-commander is not such a good talker, so he just waits on the side of the road to be a prisoner!
This battle, known as the Lingyun Encounter, was only a little more than an hour from the beginning of the gong to the end of the work, and Long Yun's troops were defeated, and then they fled all the way miserably, and Chiang Kai-shek was a villain this time, how could you escape! As a result, the troops of the eight divisions pursued fiercely all the way behind, and the marching level of the Dian army has always been a weakness, and it is indeed not its forte. The strength of the Dian army is to fight defensive wars, well, the weak brigades all over the world are good at fighting defensive wars, and the strong troops are not very defensive. In the end, of the 30,000 people Long Yun brought, about 20,000 were taken prisoner, and several thousand were killed and wounded, and less than 3,000 followed Long Yun back to Yunnan. Of course, 80% of the 20,000 captives had returned home within a month. Those who were released back basically did not massacre prisoners in the civil war of the Republic of China. However, there was no Hu Ruoyu among the people who came back, and Lao Hu and Li Zongren, who captured him, hit it off at first sight, became friends and got a job as deputy chief of staff in the Gui First Division.
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