Sixty-five Southwestern War II

Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Province in the 20s of the last century, is very close to Guangdong Province, about only a few tens of kilometers, that is, a day's journey! At that time, Qinzhou was under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, and the Generalissimo's Office deployed the First Army and the Second Army directly under the Yunnan Army here, and General Zhu Peide, Vice Minister of Military Affairs, personally went to Qinzhou in early October to take charge of the two armies to prepare for an attack on Guangxi.

"Jiegong, General Zhu Yizhi is in an emergency." An Yi, who temporarily served as chief of staff of the Guangxi Thief Army, handed the telegram he had just received to Chiang Kai-shek.

This time, Lao Jiang commanded eight divisions and two armies of nearly 90,000 troops to attack Guangxi, and the battle plan was formulated by An Yi, a Chinese-German military strategist. According to An Yi's plan, the target of this crusade against Guangxi is not Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, but the self-righteous soft persimmon Tang Jiyao. Therefore, on the surface, there were only two ways to fight against thieves, Zhu Peide and Bai Chongxi, and the five divisions and two artillery regiments led by Chiang Kai-shek were secretly opened, and the news was blocked very well, and the outside world basically did not know.

"Hehe, Yang Ximin, a thing that doesn't know life or death, actually sent an army to attack Guilin, it seems that Hu Sishun can almost be written off." Chiang Kai-shek shook his head contemptuously and returned the telegram to An Yi. "Sihua, your newlywed Yan'er will go out with me, it's really hard."

Thinking of the wedding night, An Yi's white face was slightly red. "As a soldier, the battlefield is the real home, and I go home like this when I go to the battlefield, so what's the hard work?"

"Well, Fuwen really has a good brother-in-law!" Chiang Kai-shek also has a younger sister, but unfortunately he either got married or died young, otherwise...... Thinking of this, Lao Jiang shook his head with some regret and didn't say anything more.

An Yi saw that Lao Jiang's expression was a little sad, thinking that he was worried about the battle situation, and hurriedly comforted: "Jiegong doesn't have to worry about the battle situation, we will definitely win this battle, with Liu and Yang less than 30,000 people, how can we be the opponent of our 90,000 army?" Even if Tang Jiyao doesn't come out, we will be a big victory. ”

Chiang Kai-shek smiled and said, "Tang Jiyao will not let go of this opportunity, otherwise he would not be Tang Jiyao." ”

Indeed, Tang Jiyao is not Yan Xishan, he is not so cautious in his use of troops, and even a little rash. After receiving the news that Yang Ximin agreed to defect, Tang Lianshuai didn't think much about it at all, and decided to send troops. In fact, this situation is also related to the provincial situation of Yunnan, Jiyao's Yunnan tax revenue is only 7 million a year, most of which is tobacco tax, and the number of Yunnan troops under his subordinates is as high as 70,000 or 80,000. With a poor province in Yunnan raising so many soldiers, coupled with Tang's greed, a considerable amount of taxes had to flow into his pocket, so the only way out was to transfer military expenses to neighboring provinces with foreign troops.

"Please rest assured, the commander will go to Guangxi to kill the Cantonese soldiers without leaving a single piece of armor! So that the two Guangzhous are all under the banner of the joint commander. In the hall of the Supervision Office of Wuhua Mountain in Kunming, Long Yun, the general of the Yunnan Army, was confidently expressing his determination in front of his master at this time. This time the troops to Guangxi will be led by Long Yun and Tang Jiyu, and the troops will be divided into two routes, Long Yun will lead 30,000 troops to advance from western Yunnan and western Guangxi, and Tang Jiyu's 25,000 troops will go south from Guizhou. The whole army is 55,000, known as the 100,000 army.

Tang Jiyao sat high in the center of the hall on a chair carved with dragons and gold, and his style was completely emperor's style, and the guards beside him were called "Tong Fei Army", Long Yun was born in the Tong Fei Army, and belonged to Tang's henchmen.

Seeing that his henchmen were full of confidence, Tang Jiyao also felt that Guangdong was in sight. "Well, Zhizhou will definitely live up to the trust, this battle of Guangxi is related to the rise and fall of our Yunnan army, Zhizhou, you have to cooperate sincerely with Jiyu and fight hard!"

"Humble duty is not dishonored!" Long Yun stood upright and gave a beautiful military salute to Tang Jiyao on the throne.

Unlike Chiang Kai-shek's sneaky dispatch of troops, Long Yun held a swearing-in meeting with pride, and then led the three armies to march to Guangxi under the welcome of his hometown fathers. Of course, there are also Kuomintang spies among Long Yun's hometown fathers. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek received the report as soon as possible.

"Jiegong, can you order General Zhu Yizhi to move? Let his two armies surround Nanning first? After confirming the news of Long Yun's expedition, An Yi planned to urge these Yunnan soldiers.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded and said, "It's okay, let Zhu Yizhi compete with Yang Ximin first." Look at their fellow Dian army, who is more capable of fighting? ”

Of course, Zhu Peide is better than Yang Ximin, and the training and management of Zhu's troops are already stricter than Yang Ximin's, but after they are under the direct jurisdiction of the General Staff Department and the Ministry of Military Affairs, their management and training will be even stricter. For example, the payment of military salaries must be jointly managed by the Finance Bureau of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the army, brigade, and regiment. Although there is still a gap compared to the registration of every soldier by the Guangdong army's ID card, it is always much stricter than Yang Ximin's management of not knowing the number of soldiers. In addition, under the supervision of the General Staff, the training level of the Dian army directly under the central government has also been raised to a higher level, and at least they have learned to put their guns at the correct distance. The action of fighting bayonets is also a lot more standardized, of course, these alone cannot guarantee that Zhu Peide will be able to defeat Yang Ximin, Zhu Peide's greater advantage is that his army has two armies, nearly 20,000 people, while Yang Ximin only has an army of 7,000 people. Therefore, the result of the contest between Zhu Peide and Yang Ximin was that Yang Ximin was firmly surrounded in Nanning City, wiping tears all night and night, and at the same time the distress telegram floated to Wuhua Mountain in Kunming like snowflakes.

At the same time that Nanning was surrounded by Zhu Peide, Hu Sishun's army sent by Yang Ximin to attack Guilin had just arrived in Zhongdu County, and an army of more than 7,000 people had set up camp in Luzhai, a small town by the Luoqing River, that night. Well, to be precise, it's not camping, it's driving people out of their homes and living in them themselves. At that time, both the Yunnan and Guizhou armies were more popular in this time-saving and labor-saving method of camping.

Commander Hu Sishun himself lived in the most luxurious private residence in Luzhai Town, the home of the president of a chamber of commerce, and the dinner will be carefully cooked by Chinese and Western chefs who accompany the army, but it is not bothering the president of the chamber of commerce, but the daughter of the president's family looks lovely, so he was called to accompany the wine, uh, may have to sleep with him, and a seventeen-year-old girl's family became Captain Hu's nth concubine.

That night, just after a round of fighting, Commander Hu, who was enjoying the concubine's massage, suddenly heard the faint sound of "da-da-da".

"It's so late, why are there still people setting off firecrackers?" The little concubine hugged Hu Junchang's broad and sturdy back and whispered softly in the commander's ear, and there seemed to be no complaint in the voice.

"Firecrackers?" Hu Sishun was reminded by the concubine, and then he found out that something was wrong! Where is this sound of firecrackers! Rather, the alert troops are exchanging fire with the enemy!

"Army, army, commander! Big things are wrong! Big things are wrong! "The chief of staff who reported the news was always late to know it, hehe, who made them villains?

This battle, known as the Luzhai Night Raid, was commanded by Bai Chongxi, who is still a positive figure. Since taking refuge in Mr. Zhongshan, Bai Chongxi's official fortunes have begun to prosper. At this time, he had climbed to the head of Li Zongren, the boss of the new Gui family in history, and served as the commander-in-chief of the North Route Army of the Guangxi Thief Army, commanding Li Zongren's Gui 1st Division, Wang Bao's Guangdong 8th Division, and Chen Cheng's Guangdong 11th Division. Bai Chongxi's original task was to go to Guilin to solve Liu Zhenhuan's, and then mix Liu's Gui army with the three divisions he brought, and newly form two divisions, the Second Gui Division and the Third Gui Division. However, halfway through, he received an order from Chiang Kai-shek to find a way to intercept Hu Sishun's troops on the Xianggui Pass. So he led his troops to the direction of Luzhai and arrived one day before Hu Sishun. With Bai Chongxi's ruthlessness in using soldiers, he naturally would not dig a trench in the middle of the road, and lay out a division to finish the matter.

When Commander Hu shivered and put on his military uniform amid the cry of his concubine and came to his temporary command post, he had nothing to command, all the troops could not be contacted, and outside the courtyard were shouts of killing with Guangdong and Guangxi accents, and occasionally there were some Hunan dialects, but Yunnan dialect could not be heard.

"Commander, let the brothers protect you and kill you?" The only commander of the military guard battalion, Qu, who was still organizing resistance, already knew that the general trend was gone, so he hurriedly reminded Hu Sishun to run away.

"Nope! No way! I'm a soldier! Soldiers can't run away, I'm going to kill myself! Hu Sishun's head straightened, and he actually looked like a martyr. After speaking, Commander Hu slowly pulled out his pistol and loaded it to his temple, as if he was about to commit suicide. Uh, I didn't expect this master to be really a man! However, of course, someone who was the commander of the guard battalion couldn't watch the boss commit suicide, so as soon as he made a look, several big men rushed up, easily grabbed the commander's gun, and then pulled Hu Sishun and slipped out of the back door of the house......

Bai Chongxi's night attack with several times the enemy's strength was naturally surprisingly smooth, and in history, the Dian army had attacked Guangxi several times the strength of the Gui army, and in the end it was broken by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, and he was defeated and returned, causing Tang Jiyao to go into the field for the second time, and finally died inexplicably. Now Hu Sishun's 7,000 people were attacked by Bai Chongxi's 24,000 men at night without warning, and the whole army was naturally wiped out, and the whole battle lasted for about two hours, and the Dian army gave up resistance. The army commander Hu Sishun didn't run away in the end, and after hiding in the nearby mountains for a few days, he was caught by the militia and sent his surname to death, to be honest, it was better to let Bai Chongxi's troops arrest him.

What is even more interesting is that this operation was deliberately concealed by Chiang Kai-shek and was not publicized. Moreover, Bai Chongxi's night attack also successfully captured the radio station and password of the Yunnan army, and also captured a large number of confidential personnel such as the chief of staff and the director of the radio station of the Yunnan army. So at An Yi's suggestion, the radio station of the Dian army continued to report safety to Nanning on time, and at the same time asked Tang Jiyao about the specific location of the reinforcements, hoping to join them.

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