Chapter 158: Closing the Net
The people who attacked Zhou Ming and his entourage came and went quickly, and when the officers and soldiers sent by Zhang Xun to meet them arrived, those who were in ambush had already left without a shadow, and when they remembered to look for Li Yan, they could still find it.
At this time, whether it was Zhou Ming's subordinates or the people who answered, they all had claws at this time, this kind of thing was too important, before the big war, the chief of staff was robbed, and when the commander was summoned, everyone felt the coming storm!
Everyone nervously gathered together to think of countermeasures, but they were at a loss.
However, at this time, Zhou Ming, who had been gloomy all the time, suddenly spoke: "What is the origin of these people, why were we kidnapped as soon as we arrived?!" Let's look for it first, if we can find any clues, no matter what, we must give Dashuai an explanation, otherwise none of us will want to end up! ”
When everyone heard this, they suddenly nodded when they had no idea, and then without Zhou Ming saying more, they all rushed into the ambush locations just now, rummaging little by little, almost turning over the ground inch by inch!
Soon after, someone suddenly let out an exclamation that startled everyone, and then hurried to the man's side.
"My lord, what is this?" It turned out that a soldier who came to answer found a piece of burnt cloth with a little black smoke on it, and then hurriedly said to Zhou Ming, who came here.
Zhou Ming's eyes flashed with a gleam, and then his face became gloomy again, he glanced at this piece of fabric, his face changed, and then he grabbed the officer who came to answer, and the two of them came to the front together: "Let's take a closer look, maybe there will be some gains." ”
Then Zhou Ming picked up the fabric, and just turned it to the back, but his face became more and more beautiful, but he was watching around, and he didn't want to take it out: "Let's spread it out first, this piece of fabric is just an ordinary fabric, I don't know whose clothes are scratched, and it falls here, let's look carefully to see if there are any other finds." ”
The surrounding soldiers were amazed, where would anyone come from the barren mountains and mountains here, and everyone saw clearly just now that the cloth had fallen not long ago!
The officer next to him didn't see it clearly just now, and at this time he also glanced at Zhou Ming suspiciously, but when he saw Zhou Ming making a look, he also knew that he must have found something, but he didn't say anything.
When the soldiers dispersed, Zhou Ming grabbed the officer, and then handed over the hidden piece of fabric to the other party, and at the same time, the back side also revealed its true face!
I saw that behind it, it was clearly the words "Northern Anhui Special Group"! Although it was a little distorted by the fire, it could be seen!
The officer's face turned pale for a moment, and then he seemed to remember something, and a look of disbelief flashed in his eyes.
"We can't talk about this, now we have to get out of here as soon as possible and report back to the big boss, this matter is very important, it's not for you and me to interfere with!" A strange color flashed in Zhou Ming's eyes, and then he said solemnly to the officer next to him.
The two looked at each other, then nodded at the same time.
However, not long after, Li Yan communicated with northern Anhui, but the betrayal of Zhang Laoshuai spread under the soldiers
After the two reached an agreement, they didn't dare to delay, and rode back directly, to spread the news to the marshal as soon as possible, waiting for the marshal to make a decision as soon as possible!
When Zhou Ming and his entourage returned to Zhang Xun's army, they told Zhang Shuyuan the news, and handed over the piece of fabric to the other party, Zhang Shuyuan was shocked, but he didn't dare to believe it, called Zhou Ming and the officer who answered, and interrogated him carefully, only then did he feel worried about Zhang Xun's place.
However, when Zhang Xun got the news, he was suddenly struck by lightning, Zhang Xun already had suspicion in his heart before, but at this time, this suspicion was affirmed, and Zhang Xun's intuition rumbled loudly!
"Li Yan has defected!" Zhang Xun is now in his whole mind about this matter!
Zhang Shuyuan saw Zhang Xun like this, but he opened his mouth but didn't dare to speak.
After a long time, Zhang Xun was able to come over in anger, but he didn't want to believe it in his heart, and sent someone to find Zhou Ming and the officer, and even arrested all the two of them, he wanted to find out about this matter!
When Zhou Ming came, he was wounded, and his arm was pierced by a bullet, and at this time, he hung his arm between his neck with a sling.
Then, Zhou Ming and the officer didn't dare to hide it, and told the matter as it was, plus Zhou Ming's men suffered several casualties, which were all witnessed by everyone, so naturally they couldn't fake it, and as for the rag, it was also obtained by accident, and it was even more difficult to suspect.
However, in order to verify the words of the two, Zhang Xun personally interrogated those two subordinates, and the information he got was not wrong with what the two said!
It was only then that Zhang Xun finally believed it
Looking at Zhou Ming and another officer kneeling on the ground, Zhang Xun felt his temples jump suddenly, and without saying a word, he suddenly jumped up and roared: "I asked the two of you to escort him back, you did a good thing!" I can't even complete this task, what else do I want you to do?! Come on, drag the two down and cut them down! ”
These words suddenly shocked Zhou Ming and the officer, and they shouted again and again, it was Zhou Ming, the expression of fear at this time was not pretending, and he even called for my life in his heart.
Zhang Shuyuan and Zhang Xun didn't suspect Zhou Ming, seeing the blood stains on Zhou Ming's shoulder, and this matter was clear, Zhang Xun ordered just hatred in his heart and wanted to vent.
Zhou Ming was picked up by Zhang Shuyuan, seeing the other party kneeling and begging for mercy, and thinking of the other party's merits, it was not good for his subordinates to chill, so he had to stand up and signal the guards to stop doing it for the time being, and then said to the angry Zhang Xun: "Boss, now is not the time to punish, the most important thing now is the more than 1,000 elites in Zhouxing Village." ”
When Zhang Xun heard this, his heart jumped violently, and he suddenly remembered that the soldiers over there, if they didn't know about Li Yan, they would probably be wiped out!
Zhang Shuyuan saw Zhang Xun's face and knew that Zhang Laoshuai had already reflected, and waved his hand to signal Zhou Ming and the two to go down first, at this time Zhang Xun couldn't care about this.
"Dashuai, this matter is too hasty, now is not the time to think about this matter, and we must try not to let our brothers know about this matter, once the news spreads, the blow to morale will be too great, and Zhou Ming and the others will do a good job. And if my expectations are good, Han Zheng will definitely take advantage of the chaos on the front line to capture Zhouxing Village, and even Qiaokou, the strength of the two battalions is the two nails we left on the front line, and now it is very important, we must not debut again, if it is swallowed, the position at Qiaokou will not be guaranteed! ”
Zhang Xun's face changed several times, and then he stood up suddenly, "Yes, there are more important things to do ahead!" ”
Zhang Xun tried his best to ease down his extremely ugly face, forced himself to calm down, and then nodded to Zhang Shuyuan and said, "You're right! I'm fine, I'll give the order now, and the whole army will rush to the position at the mouth of the bridge! ”
On Zhou Xingcun's side, after learning that everything was going well, Han Zheng finally couldn't wait to do it.
Li Yan has been taken away from the enemy army, and now Zhang Xun's department is already leaderless, the reinforcements are too far away, and the army's morale is chaotic, it is the time for him to charge bravely, if he can't seize the opportunity to completely destroy the two main battalions of Zhang Xun's department again, he still returns to Wuyang as soon as possible, and honestly gives Huaibei to Zhang Xun to save trouble!
At this time, the fortifications of the outer positions of Zhouxing Village had already been crippled by the night attack of the Second Brigade before, and Han Zheng had already made a plan later, and there was no reinforcement for the position of Zhouxing Village, and even some positions that were not destroyed were deliberately destroyed!
Zhang Xunbu's pigtail army has been marching non-stop since last night, and then the more than 100 people who are pursuing Han Zheng's army, where do they have the time and energy to build positions and defend together? It was after Han Zheng was surrounded by the army, Li Yan wanted to send people to step up the construction of fortifications, but under Han Zheng's blow, those soldiers did not dare to go out of the position at all, and ran to the front to strengthen the position defense!
With the issuance of the order for Han Zheng's attack, the soldiers of the first division in northern Anhui, who had already wiped their weapons, rubbed their hands and waited patiently, finally burst out with all their combat strength, this attack took Chen Feng's first brigade as the main force, and the artillery had already entered the position, cooperating with the infantry who launched the charge to continue to deepen and advance to the front of the position, and the only more than 500 cavalry in the army was also sprinkled around the battlefield by Han Zheng, and the people's situation department always paid attention to the movement of the enemy's main force.
As for the troop configuration and firepower points of the defenders, they have long been clearly understood by Han Zhengjun's previous temptation, the coordinates of the artillery positions are set up extremely accurately, and there is no great trouble in the fight, and several artillery and heavy machine gun positions that Zhang Xun's troops were still reckless last night were destroyed by Han Zhengjun's more than a dozen cannon apex not long after the battle began!
In the face of this kind of blow, Zhang Xunbu at this time was also unlucky, he marched overnight yesterday, and he didn't eat until now, and he didn't dare to sleep, especially when he was pressed by the enemy army, who knows if he would die in a dream? !
In their hearts, most of them fantasized that the enemy army would not dare to attack their positions, but obviously this idea was pathetic, they didn't even have a defensive position in front of them, how could Han Zheng's Northern Anhui Army give up this opportunity!
When Han Zheng's army began to launch a sudden and strong firepower attack, these people were suddenly caught off guard, and they finally understood that they seemed to be more than lucky this time, and they only hoped that the handsome men and horses would come up quickly!
However, the shortcomings of these people's lack of command also began to appear, and the two battalions fought separately, lacking the necessary coordination, and could not form mutually coordinated firepower points to snipe the offensive line of the Northern Anhui Army.
In addition, it didn't take long for the artillery to be dumb fired, and the temporary heavy machine gun positions were the key targets of the opponent, and the opponent's shells were like eyes, as long as the heavy machine guns showed their heads, they would be shelled in turn!
At this time, there was a burst of artillery, and then dozens of tongues of fire were followed by strafing on the position of the pigtail army, the roar of machine guns was continuous, and the shells continued to explode on the position of the pigtail army, setting off bursts of fire and smoke.
At this time, the pigtail army finally knew about the Northern Anhui Army, which they had never looked down on how powerful the firepower of the troops was, so strong that they couldn't even suppress them to raise their heads, and they were living in a situation of passive beating, unable to form any effective counterattack!
Han Zheng stood at the headquarters behind, looking at the shouts and artillery fire in the distance, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was still a little nervous before the fight, but at this time, he didn't have any nervous thoughts at all.
In order to end this battle before the arrival of Zhang Xunjun, and to take the local positions in the period after Li Yan took them away, he even handed over the artillery battalion directly under him to Chen Feng's first brigade, and Li Feng personally commanded the artillery to suppress the local positions, striving to help the infantry break through the enemy's positions as quickly as possible!
After more than 10 minutes of continuous artillery fire, Cao Debiao and his regiment of more than 1,000 people had already pounced under the enemy's guns, and each team formed a scattered formation and quickly seized the forward position in front of the enemy's position.
The heavy machine-gun position has advanced further, continuing to howl in support of the attacking troops ahead!
Cao Debiao led his subordinates, regardless of the dissuasion of the guards and the deputy commander, directly with a rifle and followed his subordinates forward to attack, in order to boost morale, he has always rushed to the front of the army!
At this time, in Cao Debiao's eyes, there was only the defender's position that was getting closer and closer to him, and he could even see the fear and panic on the defender's face, and couldn't help but smile proudly: "You still want to take advantage of the commander, this time you will definitely fight until your own mother doesn't know you!" ”
At this time, the two battalion commanders of the Whip Army had already greeted Li Yan's relatives in their hearts, but you brought us to this place, and then patted our butts and left, so that we people would have waited here for death as soon as possible!
Seeing that the several heavy machine guns around him were almost all knocked apart, and the few guns over there were even more silent, let alone any support, it would be good to be able to keep themselves at this time!
And Zhang Xun's defenders suffered greater casualties at this time, especially when the other side destroyed their own artillery fire, after the heavy machine gun was knocked out, the opponent's shells had been replaced with scattered shells, and every time they fell, they would take away the lives of a piece of soldiers, and the two companies had no way to contact them now.
The two battalion commanders looked at the approaching enemy troops, and they knew that they were finished, and their only hope in the opponent's powerful firepower and the attack of nearly tens of thousands of people was that there was no shadow of reinforcements so far!
Therefore, the battalion commander who advocated retreating the deserters finally couldn't hold on, yelled, and then broke through to the periphery with dozens of his henchmen.
And the soldiers who were still resisting in the province, when they saw the main general withdrawing, they were immediately in chaos, and they threw down their weapons one after another, either fleeing or surrendering!
Cao Debiao's fierce face, coupled with the scar on his face, looked particularly scary during the day, and at this time, he led his subordinates to follow the potholes made by the shells, and they had already come to the front of the enemy formation.
Cao Debiao was facing the battalion that was still holding on at this time, and looked at the pigtail army with a frightened face not far in front of him, Cao Debiao smiled hideously, and then took the soldiers who came up, jumped directly into Zhang Xun's position, and began to fight in close combat!
However, the defenders were already heartbroken at this time, especially the escape of the other battalion, which slowly spread, and these defenders turned pale at this time, but after all, they were also veterans of battle, but they did not completely collapse, and under the leadership of their respective commanders, they endured their fear. gritted his teeth and stubbornly launched a counterattack!
Cao Debiao didn't expect the other party to be so difficult, and at this time, he could cause a lot of damage to his own people!
Cao Debiao didn't talk about any unruly rules in the rivers and lakes, he directly took out the machete he had installed behind his back with one hand, and took out the self-made pistol on his waist with the other hand, and then shot at several enemy soldiers who were resisting, and after the bullet was fired, he threw the pistol to the ground, and the two big hands raised the thickened machete with all their strength and rushed towards the enemy crowd, cutting down one enemy after another!
Cao Debiao, who was covered in blood, looked like the reincarnation of a fierce god, and a machete brought up a splash of blood from time to time. (To be continued.) )