The beauty of the accompaniment naturally made Wang Jundao full of fun in the rapid march, and the two days passed in a hurry like flowing water.

On October 23, Wang Jundao rushed to the east of the river, and at this time, there were more than 10 large ferries in the east of the river, and the ferries, rafts, and bamboo rafts had already been prepared by the troops of the engineering corps, and the soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army who crossed the river had already learned to cross the water by boat.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Jundao gathered at the temporary headquarters Lin Zhengnan, chief of the General Staff, Nie Yuanzheng, commander of the Third Army Corps, Sun Chuanfang, deputy commander of the Third Army Corps, Xiao Changcheng, chief of staff, Pang Wei, commander of the Fourth Army Corps, Li Jinglin, deputy commander of the Fifth Army Corps, Chen Shan, chief of staff, Xiang Zilong, commander of the Fifth Army Corps, Kang Dingbei, deputy commander of the Fifth Army Corps, and Li Chun, chief of staff, and other high-level commanders of the South Route Army, to hold a military meeting.

As the commander-in-chief of the South Route Army, Nie Yuanzheng first summarized and analyzed the current situation between the enemy and us: "The enemy situation investigated by the investigators of the special operations brigade shows that Songfan, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, has mobilized 100,000 troops from Shaanxi to the west bank of the Yellow River, and he has deployed the main force of the 100,000 troops in Tongguan Road.

The main forces of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Army Corps of our Dragon and Tiger Army have been deployed along the Yellow River, across the river from the Shaanxi Army.

After nearly half a month of preparation, all kinds of boats, rafts, and bamboo rafts have been prepared, which can ensure that 50,000 people can cross the river at a time, and as long as the commander gives an order, the army will launch an attack on crossing the river. ”

Wang Jundao nodded and said: "In order to break the defense of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu against us, I decided to let the North Road Army with the Second Army and the Sixth Army as the main force take the lead in launching the battle of crossing the river, and capture Yulin Mansion and Yan'an Mansion in the shortest possible time. If we do not resist the Dragon and Tiger Army, we can survive and have a way out, and when the Shaanxi army in Tongguan is panicked and demoralized, we will launch a campaign to cross the river, and then we will be able to fight down and reduce casualties. ”

When the words fell, Nie Yuanzheng and everyone thought so, Nie Yuanzheng nodded and said: "The commander's plan is very good, if you can defeat the defense of the Shaanxi army in a battle, and break the military prestige and morale of the Shaanxi army, then the future battle will be much easier, so as to reduce the casualties of the other party, and reduce our casualties, it will be the final result, but I think there should also be a deadline, you can't wait for a long time, now it is late autumn, about to enter winter, the weather will be colder and colder, the sooner the battle to unify Shaanxi and Gansu, the better, the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it is for us." ”

Wang Jundao nodded and said: "That's right, after the North Road army launches an attack, no matter whether the rumors spread work or not, after the fifth day, the South Road army will launch a river crossing campaign, if the Shaanxi army knows the current affairs and chooses to surrender, then the same Chinese, we will accept them like the soldiers of the Jin army, if we choose to resist, then we will do whatever it takes, resolutely annihilate, no one can stop us from unifying China!" ”

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Liu Lin County, Deputy Chief of General Staff Li Jing, Deputy Chief of General Staff, handed a telegram just sent from Hedong to Xu Zhengrong, Chief of General Staff.

After quickly scanning the contents of the telegram, while handing the telegram to the commander-in-chief Xu Jian and the deputy commander-in-chief Tang Jian, he said: "The commander asked us to cross the river at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, at all costs, and capture the county town of Wubao on the west bank of the Yellow River as quickly as possible. ”

Tang Jian said: "A mere Wubao county, even if it is an important town in the northwest of Shaanxi that has entered the boundary of Shanxi, it has been increased by the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, but the number of troops is only 10,000 so far, and the states and counties of Yulin Mansion and Yan'an Mansion are combined, and the standing army will not exceed 30,000, and we have a full 100,000 army, and it is a bit overkill to clean up one by one, and it is too late in time." ”

Xu Zhengrong said with a smile: "This is simple, in order not to delay the commander's military order, after the successful crossing of the river, we divided two divisions to the north to occupy Yulin Mansion, and the main force of the army went directly south to attack Yan'an Mansion, after capturing Yan'an Mansion, there is no need to wait for the two divisions to go north, only a small army is left to occupy all prefectures and counties in Yan'an Prefecture, and the main force will go directly south, without putting on a posture, and take Yaozhou in the north of Xi'an Mansion as quickly as possible, and the power will come out." ”

Tang Jian nodded and said, "This is a good plan. ”

Xu Jian thought about it, then adopted Xu Zhengrong's proposal, and immediately made a final decision: "Okay, let's do it, when the time comes, the army of the North Road will be in Guanzhong, and the army of the South Road will be in the east of Guandong, under the threat of both sides, there is no way for Songbo not to surrender or escape." ”

Li Jing said: "Then the commander-in-chief will give the order directly." ”

Tang Jian and Xu Zhengrong also nodded and said, "Give the order." ”

When the three of them fell, Xu Jian began to order: "Record the order!" ”

"At eight o'clock tomorrow morning, the Fourth Division will cross the river at Shixi Ferry, and after successfully crossing the river, it will launch an attack on Wubao County from the south, the Eighteenth Division will cross the river at Mengmen Ferry, and after crossing the river, it will launch an attack from the north of Wubao County, and the main forces of the Fifth, Sixth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Divisions will cross the river at Qinglong Ferry and directly attack Wubao County from the front, and order all units to take Wubao County before twelve o'clock at noon tomorrow!"

Tang Jian, Xu Zhengrong, and Li Jing responded in unison: "Yes!" ”

At 8 o'clock in the morning of October 24, the battle of the North Route Army to cross the Yellow River to the west was in full swing, and under the cover of 36 mortars, the Fourth Division and the Eighteenth Division forcibly crossed the Yellow River from the two ferries of Shixi and Mengmen respectively.

In the middle of the road, Cao Futian personally commanded the former enemy, and the vanguard composed of one regiment each under the command of the fifth, sixth, sixteenth, and seventeenth divisions crossed the Yellow River under the cover of 36 heavy artillery pieces on the east bank.

Almost every raft had a light machine gun on it, and on the larger wooden boats, there was a heavy machine gun, and under such a powerful fire assault, the defense of the Yellow River of the Shaanxi army, which was extremely weak, became a decoration at all.

In just over half an hour, the vanguard troops who crossed the river from the front landed on the west bank of the Yellow River.

At this time, the battle to attack the county seat of Wubao from the north and south had also begun.

The county town of Wubao, a small county town located on the edge of the Yellow River, was simultaneously attacked from the east, south, and north directions, and the outer defense had already fallen, and the city wall, which was neither strong nor tall, lasted only ten minutes before it was blown up by artillery fire and smashed into a thousand holes by bullets.

Many people in the Shaanxi army, who had never experienced such a large formation, were crying for their fathers and mothers, and most of them directly abandoned their positions and fled to the county town in the west one after another.

At 9:10, Wu Peifu, commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 5th Division, personally led more than 1,000 warriors of the 3rd Regiment to take the lead in attacking Wubao County.

At 9:35, Wu Peifu led the soldiers of the third regiment to directly capture the headquarters of the Shaanxi Army in Wubao County, and captured Yan Pingkun, the deputy general of Yan'an.

At 10:15 a.m., the North Route Army completely occupied the county town of Wubao, annihilating more than 1,500 enemies, capturing more than 6,700 Shaanxi troops, and more than 1,700 fleeing westward.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, Xu Jian and other commanders of the North Road Army entered Wubao County and moved the temporary headquarters to the headquarters of the former Shaanxi Army.

Wu Peifu, the first hero, naturally escorted Yan Pingkun into the command headquarters and was personally summoned by Xu Jian and others.

Wu Peifu was originally a showman, because of the overturning of the opium station, and accused men and women of acting, scolded him for not being honest, was dismissed from the fame of Xiucai, he fled to write Spring Festival couplets, divination for a living, in 1898 from literature to martial arts, joined the left army of Wuwei.

After Nie Shicheng's army defeated Tianjin, Wu Peifu retreated to Yanjing with the Wuwei Army, Wang Jundao entered Yanjing, and after absorbing the remaining Wuwei Army, Wu Peifu became a member of the Dragon and Tiger Army.

After the reconquest of Tianjin, Wu Peifu was admitted to the Infantry Department of the Army Academy of the Chinese Military Academy by virtue of his outstanding knowledge and experience, and was influenced by Wang Jundao's military thinking and military theory.

At the time of graduation, Wu Peifu ranked third in the infantry department, because every graduate of the Chinese Military Academy will get the opportunity to study as long as the total score ranks in the top 15 in each subject.

This opportunity is to gather all together and accept Wang Jundao's personal teaching of the most advanced military strategy and tactics for half a month, and Wu Peifu is naturally no exception.

After completing the military academy training, Wu Peifu and many people who were personally taught by Wang Jundao for half a month mostly served as company commanders and above, officers below the deputy brigade commander, Wu Peifu was a company commander before entering the school, and he was a real officer, and when he left the school, he was naturally appointed as the regiment commander.

Although Wang Jundao knew that Wu Peifu's military ability was not the top in history, at least not as good as Sun Chuanfang, Zhang Zuolin and others, it was no problem to be a division commander and army commander, so Wang Jundao chose to reuse him.

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