On the north bank of the Laodao River in the north of Changsha City, the brutal fighting continues, with gunshots, cannons, shouts, and screams intertwined, playing the most exciting and bloody movement in the world. The direct army was still on the verge of collapse, but it did not finally collapse, and the Kuomintang army, under the cover of artillery, mortars, and machine guns, launched round after round of fierce attacks on the 10-kilometer-wide front, forcing the direct army to retreat. The key now is to cut into the enemy's flank and rear the two Hunan divisions, they are like two daggers inserted into the enemy's chest, as long as they are working harder, they can kill the enemy.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo's headquarters had moved forward to a mansion in Laodaohe Town. The hall of the mansion is now converted into a headquarters, and a huge combat map is hung on the wall, where Luo Yaoguo, Deputy Chief of Staff Fang Dingying, and a cadre of staff are studying the changes in the battlefield on the map.

"What's going on with Zhang Huizan! How to make the enemy's left flank retreat in the direction of Pingjiang! How did he not entangle the enemy! Luo Yaoguo read the latest battle report and couldn't help but be angry again. Who are Granny Tan's subordinates! No wonder in history he was caught by Mao ZD and cut off his braincase, which is too far behind those in the Gui family!

"General Fuwen should not be anxious, even if they reach Pingjiang, they will not be able to hold it, I think Zhang Huizan can be in charge of the pursuit," Fang Dingying and Zhang Huizan have always had a close relationship, and when they saw that the deputy chief of general staff was angry, they hurriedly came out to help exonerate. At the same time, he advised: "We should move the rest of the forces to the enemy's right flank, where the enemy's main force is strong." ”

In the raid in the early hours of this morning, another commando team broke into the headquarters of the enemy's 25th Division and seized the enemy's defense map, compilation table and code book, and this time the great contribution was also a student of the first phase of Huangpu, named Guo Shuzi Shizhen, a Shanxi man in the same year as Luo Yaoguo, and this time he was also promoted to battalion commander exceptionally. So now Luo Yaoguo knows the detailed deployment of the enemy, on the left flank of the enemy are five Hubei local brigades and three Anhui local brigades, a total of eight brigades, and now they are actually about to escape and ascend to heaven!

"Okay, let Zhang Huizan continue the pursuit, uh, plus the 25th Division and the 10th Division, I must wipe out these enemies for me, General Boxiong, you work hard and personally command them." Luo Yaoguo transferred two more divisions and Zhang Huizan's 22nd Division to let Fang Dingying lead them to chase and annihilate the eight brigades of the direct line, hum, how can such a fish belly unit have a face if it can't be eaten!

After sending Fang Dingying away, Luo Yaoguo organized the assault team, the 9th Division, the 12th Division, and the 8th Division into an assault column, and transferred it to the front of the enemy's right flank under the same command of An Sihua to be responsible for the attack. At the same time, Gu Zhutong's seventh division was dispatched to go to the west bank of the Xiangjiang River to attack Xiangyin. Chen Cheng's 11th Division went to reinforce Lu Diping's 21st Division and continued to attack the flanks of the direct army.

Lu Diping's 21st Division is now blocked in a small town called Shaping, about 5 kilometers northwest of Laodaohe Town. This place has naturally become the focus of the entire battlefield, and it is also the lifeblood of the four divisions on Xiao Yaonan's right flank.

The battle for Shaping Town had been going on for a whole morning, and the 21st Division had launched six rounds of offensives, all of which had left the enemy in vain. Now, Lu Diping has stubbornly organized the seventh round of attack.

"Boom ———" a round of intensive shelling plowed the town that had been reduced to ruins and the surrounding highlands again, and dozens of fireballs that rushed into the sky rolled up countless gravel and dust and swept across the ground, mercilessly shattering all the lives that dared to show the ground.

"Kill, ———" accompanied by an earth-shattering shout of killing, the officers and men of the entire battalion launched another round of charges under the guidance of the military flag. However, although Lu Diping's soldiers roared and sounded quite imposing, the speed of the charge was indeed super slow, and it was a bit of a turtle style, hundreds of soldiers cautiously pushed forward, and began to crack their guns to give themselves courage. And the enemy who was holding on to Shaping did not seem to react at all, could it be that they were killed by the fierce shelling just now? Well, that would be easier.

"Alas, he's X, the turtle crawls, why is it so slow?" Lu Diping saw through the telescope that his soldiers were so virtuous, and he couldn't help but scold. However, scolding and scolding, there is no way for Division Commander Lu to fight, and as soon as he exchanged fire with this enemy army today, Lu Diping knew that he was going to be unlucky.

"Bang Bang ———" At this time, a burst of gunfire came from the enemy position. Although the gunfire was sparse, it sounded like a life-urging charm to Lu Diping, and I don't know how many of the 21st Division's surnames were taken away by these sparse gunshots this morning. This is the sharpshooter of the direct army shooting, the accuracy of these guys' marksmanship is outrageous, every two or three gunshots, one of the Kuomintang troops must fall here. What's even more odious is that they especially like to shoot officers of the Kuomintang army! Any unlucky guy with a pistol or wielding a command knife will get a damn bullet in no time!

"Smack!" With a crisp and somewhat pleasant gunshot, the skull of a Kuomintang battalion commander with a command knife was cut off in half, and Bai Huahua's brain splattered to the ground. Seeing the battalion commander killed, what fighting spirit do the other soldiers have? They all turned around and ran, and Lu Diping's round of attack was disintegrated in this way.

"Artillery! Artillery boom for me! Throwing down the binoculars, Lu Diping angrily ordered his artillery regiment to punish those damned direct troops.

The artillerymen who received the order immediately fired another inefficient artillery bombardment, and a hundred shells dragged a long flame down from the sky, and the exploding fireballs set off a wave of fierce air, sweeping everything on the positions of the direct army. However, those cunning officers and men of the immediate line had already taken refuge in the carefully dug anti-artillery holes, and unless the openings of the anti-artillery holes were directly hit by shells, this level of shelling would not hurt them at all.

"63rd Regiment!" Lu Diping gritted his teeth and shouted out the next charging troops, this time he decided to throw in a group of people at once! A regiment should be able to defeat the enemy, right?

"For the sake of the National Revolution, rush!" Amid the shouts of a certain young regimental party representative, the Kuomintang officers and men of a regiment trembled and began a doomed charge.

However, the officers of the 63rd Regiment obviously learned their lesson, they threw away their command knives early, shouldered their rifles, changed into shabby soldiers' uniforms, and mixed in among the soldiers, so that the enemy's snipers naturally did not focus on them.

———Seeing that the Kuomintang officers had learned to be well-behaved, and the sharpshooters of the direct army were too lazy to kill the soldiers, this time it was machine guns that entertained the Kuomintang soldiers, and the hateful sound of machine guns was heard at a distance of about 300 meters. As soon as the machine guns rang out, more than 1,000 officers and men of the 63rd Regiment actually fell to the ground in unison, not moving. Oh, except for the party representative who was so enthusiastic about the revolution that he suspected of being a GCD person. He was the only one standing on the battlefield, continuing to shout and encourage the soldiers to charge.

"Boom, boom, boom———" A series of mortar shells flew out of nowhere at this time, and rushed straight at the Kuomintang officers and soldiers who were lying on the ground hiding from machine guns. Well, this method that made the direct army suffer so much in yesterday's offensive was learned by them so quickly, and it was used on the Kuomintang army itself. Dozens of mortar shells accurately landed among the officers and men of the 63rd Kuomintang Regiment, turning into a group of deadly fireballs, and powerful waves of air and flying shrapnel swept over the bodies of hundreds of Kuomintang officers and men, bringing up pieces of blood mist and taking away lives, including the brave party representative.

"Alas, we've got a strong enemy!" Lu Diping let out a long sigh. Judging by the performance of the opponent, this is definitely not an ordinary direct army, but a real powerhouse. The one that can be called elite in the Beiyang direct line is probably the damned Third Division of the Central Army. Lu Diping had fought with the Second and Third Divisions of the Central Army in the Hunan-Hubei War and knew the difference between them. Lu Diping shook his head and ordered: "Send a telegram to Commander-in-Chief Tan and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Luo, just say that we are blocked by the Third Division of the Direct Army in Shaping and ask for reinforcements." ”

"Third Division?" After receiving Lu Diping's report, Luo Yaoguo secretly scolded in his heart: "Damn coward! If it's really the third division, where is there still you, Lu Diping? "With the combat effectiveness of Lu Diping's 21st Division, if he really met Wu Peifu's 3rd Division, it would have been defeated. And Luo Yaoguo also knew that the Third Division had suffered heavy losses in yesterday's attack, and this time it was estimated that a part of the Third Division was blocking the attack in Shaping, right?

"Tell Lu Diping to stop the offensive for the time being, defend on the spot, and the 11th Division will arrive soon. The 11th and 21st Divisions were ordered to form a right flank column, under the unified command of Chen Cheng. Ordered Chen Cheng to take Shaping before five o'clock this afternoon! "This is the last effort to completely annihilate the enemy army, if Shaping is still in the hands of the enemy after five o'clock, Xiao Yaonan will use the cover of night to disengage with the Kuomintang army. They could then use the Guangdong-Hankou Railway to quickly retreat back to Wuhan. This Northern Expedition was different from the historical one, because without the full participation and leadership of the GCD, the peasants and workers in Hunan were basically in a wait-and-see state, so the Hubei-Han Railway was still operating normally, but it was temporarily suspended in the war zone, and the peasants in Hunan would not form a peasant army to find trouble with the retreating Beiyang Army.

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