After Luo Yaoguo and Jiang Baili discussed, they issued a new order to An Sihua and Li Zongren, and the order was very simple, that is, to completely annihilate the first road of the Sichuan army commanded by Wang Zhangxu.

After receiving the order, Li Zongren made contact with the Fifth Army, which was rapidly approaching the eastern side of the battlefield, through the radio, and then made the decision to immediately launch a counteroffensive. Now the tens of thousands of people in Wang Laochao have already lost the situation, and even some of them have been messed up, so the current problem is not to let Wang Lao run away, so as not to make the Fifth Army and the Seventh Army work in vain.

At 11 p.m., there was only a crescent moon and faint stars in the sky, and the visibility was less than 100 meters. Before the officers and men of the First Route of the Sichuan Army, who had just retreated from the attack, had time to catch their breath and calm down, the overwhelming shells dragged the fiery red trajectory towards their position, bringing a hell of a nose to the world in an instant. The Sichuan army, which was beaten by the sudden artillery fire, scattered in all directions, looking for all the places that could be sheltered to hide, but they couldn't find it, so they had to crawl on the ground, chanting the Buddha's name and the Taoist name in their mouths, begging for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas in the sky, so that they could avoid these damn shells.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, and the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, the officers and men of the brigade rushed towards the three divisions of the Sichuan Army in three directions under the cover of night. The position of the Sichuan army was built opposite [***], along the line of Guba, Tianjintang, and Lion Rock, about 5 kilometers. However, due to the rush of time and the fact that the Sichuan army was on the offensive, they did not build a strong position, but only dug some trenches and promenade pits symbolically.

"Ge Laozi, fight with these turtle sons!" A red-eyed bearded battalion commander was the first to react from the panic, shouted, and crawled to a heavy machine gun lying on the ground, lifted the machine gun up, pulled the trigger at the vast dark night, and fired wildly, splashing a dense rain of bullets on the attacking [***].

"That's right! Fight! "Fight with these turtle sons!" After being bullied for a day and demoralized to the extreme, the Sichuan army brothers actually gained a little courage to fight because of the brave actions of a battalion commander before they collapsed. "Crackling" gunfire came and went, and countless bullets rained down like rain on [***] under the cover of the night, although in this visibility, no one knew that the enemy was not within range, but this increasingly dense gunfire undoubtedly played a role in boosting morale.

The dense rain of bullets on the Sichuan army's position still caused certain casualties, and the officers and soldiers who rushed to the front were cut down like wheat, but their charging formation was very scattered, and as soon as the officers and soldiers in front were knocked down, the ones behind immediately lay down, and the borrowed terrain features were still constantly moving forward. At the same time, [***] also opened fire, and the flames bursting from the muzzles of the Nakagawa army in the dark night pointed out the direction of their opponents' shots, and the dense rain of bullets first pounced on the machine gun positions with long tongues of fire, and the bearded battalion commander who was the first to resist was also the first to be beaten into a sieve. The machine gun shooters of the Sichuan army were constantly hit and replaced. Officers and soldiers always take advantage of this to get up and rush a few steps, and then lie down again. No matter what, they always don't retreat, and the battle lines of the two sides are getting closer and closer.

In the face of the decisive battle of life and death, Wang Laoran, Yuan Bao'er and Xiang Chengjie and other generals of the Sichuan army also hardened their heads and ran to the front line with their guards to supervise the battle. The Kuomintang artillery had stopped firing, and only the mortars were carried to the rear of the [***] battle line and used to bombard the machine-gun positions of the Sichuan army.

The battle lasted from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next morning, and lasted for three hours. The Guangxi soldiers of the Seventh Army relied on their bravery, good fighting and firepower superiority to force the Sichuan army back continuously, but the Sichuan army, which was superior in numbers, actually carried it under the supervision of Wang Laoran and other generals.

Li Zongren gritted his teeth and stood on the Taipingpu position to supervise the battle, watching his Guangxi athletes continue to force the enemy back, but the enemy retreated without crushing.

"Where is Liao Yannong?" Li Zongren walked around the position, and suddenly asked Huang Xuchu, the chief of staff beside him.

"The 35th Division will arrive in about half an hour." Huang Xuchu was also a little anxious at this time, he looked up at the vast dark night in the northeast, and said: "An Sihua's Fifth Army will almost arrive in half an hour, and it will take another half an hour to deploy, and in an hour we will be able to encircle and annihilate Wang Laochao's First Route Army." ”

Li Zongren glanced at the front line emitting bursts of fire, where his two Guijun divisions were fighting, and the victory in this battle was completely fought by his Guangxi soldiers, and now it is always a little unwilling to let others share the credit.

"Junza, the reputation of our Guangxi soldiers of the Seventh Army after this war has begun, and Junzao, you are also expected to overshadow Na An Sihua to become the number one general of the party-state." Huang Xuchu probably saw the thoughts of his old boss, and quickly wiped some honey on his mouth, and said with a smile: "Now our Kuomintang generals are almost two Guangdong, Zhejiang and three parts of the world, if you want to say that the qualifications are old, those who are Cantonese are Cantonese, if you want to say that they are obedient and well-behaved, they are from Zhejiang, and if you want to say that they are still our old brothers in Guangxi." ”

Li Zongren snorted: "Xu Chu, as soon as Liao Yannong's 35th Division arrives, let them immediately attack, this Wang Lao Chao must be defeated in the hands of our Seventh Army!" Thinking of being on an equal footing with the Cantonese faction in the Kuomintang, Li Zongren couldn't help but be excited, and now there is not a single Guangxi person in the Kuomintang Military Commission! There is the real core of power, and I have to sit on that chair with my military exploits!

Half an hour passed quickly, and the general offensive of the Seventh Army of the Kuomintang began.

Before the general attack, the officers and men of the Seventh Army had withdrawn a few hundred meters from the front line to make room for the heaviest artillery bombardment of the evening. This time, Li Wenhua's artillery position had already concentrated 72 guns and 13 mountain guns, and according to Li Zongren's order, a 10-minute rapid fire was to be carried out before the general attack, and a total of 10,000 shells were to be poured into the enemy's position. This round of shelling was about to deplete almost half of the Seventh Army's stock of shells.

"Boom---"

The shelling, the overwhelming shelling, the earth began to tremble, and the air was filled with the piercing sound of cannonballs streaking across the ears. Countless fire regiments rose over the Sichuan army's position, and in an instant, a fiery wave of air carried dust and shrapnel to flood the entire five-kilometer-long battle line. This scene is undoubtedly the most magnificent scene for the officers and men of the Seventh Army who are waiting for the general attack order hundreds of meters away!

After ten minutes of heavy shelling, the entire Sichuan army's position was plowed over and over again by the huge wave of fire brought about by the explosion of tens of thousands of shells, and it was a miracle in itself that any life to survive in that overwhelming artillery fire. The 20,000 Sichuan officers and soldiers who created the miracle of life have not yet recovered from the fear that has been numb. A voice seemed to tear through his throat, and the sound of the password squeezed out of his chest came faintly from a distance.

This is the password for the Kuomintang Seventh Army to attack! More than 20,000 officers and men all stood up in an uproar, and the officers with submachine guns jumped out of the trenches first. Immediately afterwards, nearly 20,000 [***] infantry followed without hesitation, as if a huge wave rushed towards the precarious defense line of the Sichuan army. Now that the artillery task has been accomplished, it is up to Li Zongren's Guangxi athletes to make meritorious contributions. 20,000 infantry, deployed on a front of only five kilometers, an average of nearly 4,000 people per kilometer! This is a fairly dense formation, if the opponent also has strong artillery, it is almost a catastrophic suicide attack, but now the Sichuan army has no artillery, even the machine guns have been destroyed in the two rounds of heavy artillery bombardment just now, and all that is left is the same number of flesh and blood as the opponent, now it depends on who can survive to the end.