"What's going on? What is this bastard doing in Wang Yongzhong? Is he crazy? Lao Xiao, you quickly send someone to the artillery position to see, why do the shells fall on your own heads? Lu Jianzhang saw that his artillery regiment smashed shells on his own position and caused huge casualties to his own side, and he immediately jumped like thunder, pointing at a chief of staff, Xiao Yaonan, and said loudly.

"Okay, Commander!" After Xiao Yaonan agreed, he immediately arranged for a staff officer to go to the artillery position to check the situation.

The commander of the artillery regiment of the Third Division turned out to be Wu Peifu, and after Wu Peifu was transferred to the commander of the 17th Division, Wang Yongzhong, the deputy commander, was promoted to be the commander of the regiment, and the time was only a few months.

Although people had been sent to check the situation, the shells did not immediately stop falling on the positions of the Beiyang Army, in addition to their own shells, the shells of the Northern Expeditionary Army also fell on the positions of the Beiyang Army, which was equivalent to hundreds of artillery firing together, causing extremely heavy casualties to the second and third lines of defense of the Beiyang Army.

The trench defensive positions of the 3rd and 4th Beiyang Divisions were mainly built against the Northern Expeditionary Army on the opposite side, and the defense was also against the Northern Expeditionary Army, but there was no defensive force against the rear, and the lethality of the shells smashed from behind against the defenders on the ground was not at all comparable to the shells from the frontal Northern Expeditionary Army.

Lu Jianzhang saw one shell after another falling on the position, not only from the Northern Expeditionary Army, but also from his own side, these shells continued to explode, and the soldiers under his command were overturned to the ground one by one, and some people were directly dismembered by the explosion, and many people were blown up into the sky and fell like a rag.

Lu Jianzhang's eyes were red. Jumping to his feet in a hurry: "It's over, it's over, my third division is finished." In the king of this dog day, I will rub your ancestors for eighteen generations! ”

Chief of Staff Xiao Yaonan said quietly beside him: "I'm afraid it's not just our third division, the fourth division is also finished, there must have been something wrong with the rear artillery position, Wang Yongzhong I still believe that he will not be rebellious, if it is not for him to have a problem, then there is only one possibility." The artillery positions were raided, and someone used our artillery to hit us! ”

When Lu Jianzhang heard this, his face suddenly turned extremely pale. He muttered to himself, "How can this be? We have not received any news about the infiltration of the Northern Expeditionary Army into our rear, the front line is so well guarded, it is impossible for them to penetrate deep into our rear through the blockade line! ”

At this time, the staff officer who had just gone out ran in and said, "Division commander, division commander." Chief of Staff, no, our artillery positions are occupied by the Northern Expeditionary Army, their artillery is firing at our positions, and there are large forces of the Northern Expeditionary Army rushing towards our rear! ”

When the two of them heard this, their faces changed drastically at the same time, and Xiao Yaonan hurriedly said, "How can this be?" Our rear is completely defenseless, there are no defenses, no troops are deployed, and there is basically no defense. If we let them rush over, we're all done! ”

Lu Jianzhang's face was so pale that he thought of the cavalry regiment. Immediately said: "Quick, immediately order the cavalry regiment to intercept them and scatter them!" ”

But the staff officer said: "Division commander, it's too late, the cavalry regiment has been entangled by the opponent's cavalry troops, and it can't be separated at all." Commander Li Dianrong was leading his subordinates to kill the enemy, but unfortunately the number of cavalry on the other side was too large. It's too late to divide your forces to intercept the opposing side's infantry! ”

Lu Jianzhang was stunned when he heard this, his body shook a few times and fell to the ground, Xiao Yaonan hurriedly supported him, and hurriedly said: "Division Commander, you can't have an accident at this time, otherwise the third division will really be finished!" ”

Lu Jianzhang settled down, thinking that there was still a force that had not been used, and immediately said, "What about the engineer battalion?" Hurry up and order the engineer battalion to stop the Northern Expeditionary Army from the rear, and buy time for us to make corresponding deployments! ”

"Yes, Commander!"

After the staff officer left, another staff officer came over with a telegram and said: "Report to the division commander, the headquarters has called, saying that the 29th Division of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which attacked Zaozhuang a few days ago, has suddenly disappeared in the past two days, and the headquarters estimates that the enemy's 29th Division is likely to attack the south behind our department, so let us immediately take corresponding precautions!" ”

After listening to the report, Lu Jianzhang grabbed the newspaper and read it in a hurry, suddenly fell to the ground, stepped on it with his foot a few times, and scolded: "Damn, those wine bags and rice bags in the headquarters, everyone has disappeared for two days, and they only find out now, it's late, it's late, everyone has already stabbed their butts!" ”

Xiao Yaonan was also cold in his heart, as the chief of staff, he knew very well that the defeat was now decided, basically he was powerless, even if the Da Luo Immortal came over, he couldn't save the defeat, the front itself suffered heavy casualties, plus the rear was stabbed, where did the soldiers in front still have the courage to continue to resist, and they would soon be defeated.

As expected, when there was a deafening shout of killing from the rear, the officers and men of the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Beiyang Army on the positions of the second and third lines of defense in front were completely chaotic, and they no longer had the intention of resisting the attacking Northern Expeditionary Army.

At the front-line headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Army Commander Chen Jizu took off the binoculars and said: "Division Commander Liu, Division Commander Zhu, immediately order the 21st and 23rd Divisions to conduct in-depth interspersed assaults with teams as combat units, and disintegrate the enemy's defense in the shortest possible time. ”

Liu Zhijie and Zhu Xi looked at each other as if they heard this, and then stood up and saluted at the same time: "Yes, military seat!" ”

"Wait, after solving the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Beiyang Army, the 23rd and 29th Divisions will go north to attack Zaozhuang, and the 21st Division will move eastward to attack the right flank of the Beiyang Army in Yancheng, and the 24th Division will cooperate at that time!"

Liu Zhijie said: "Yes, I understand my humble duties!" ”

Lu Jianzhang's headquarters, Tang Tianxi, commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Third Beiyang Division, came to the headquarters with a pistol and a large group of soldiers panting: "Division commander, chief of staff, it's chaos outside, it's all chaos!" The lowly position is no longer able to restrain the subordinates, and now that this place is very dangerous, it is better to let the lowly position escort you out, right? ”

Lu Jianzhang and Xiao Yaonan glanced at each other, both of them saw helplessness and frustration in each other's eyes, Lu Jianzhang waved his hand and said: "The matter has come to this point, only by preserving a useful body can we continue to serve the president, let's go!" ”

"Yes, come on, escort the division commander and chief of staff away!"

The 29th Division came from the northwest, and it was definitely not possible to flee to the north, Lu Jianzhang and others could only flee to the northeast, and the fourth division was in the east of Taierzhuang, and there was no attack behind it, and there were more chaotic soldiers, and almost all the deserters fled to the northeast, and they were about to flee to Lanling in the northeast.

"Tang Tianxi, have you seen Zhang Hongkui?" Lu Jianzhang asked on a war horse.

Tang Tianxi shook his head and said: "Division Commander, I didn't see Lao Zhang, he was in the west at the time, and he was attacked the most, I guess he may have fallen there!" ”

"Hey!" Lu Jianzhang sighed, urging the war horse to speed up and flee in the direction of Lanling.

At this moment, a large number of horses' hooves were heard behind him, and the ground began to shake, which was a call for the arrival of a large force of cavalry. Lu Jianzhang and the others turned their heads to look, only to see a black oppressive cavalry appear a few miles behind, and these cavalry ran and kicked up huge puffs of smoke and dust, heading straight into the sky.

Just when everyone was stunned, a rout first reacted and let out a terrible shout: "Ah, the cavalry regiment of the Northern Expeditionary Army has caught up, run for your life!" ”

Hundreds of routs heard this sound and became even more frightened, and immediately lost their rifles and all the burdens on their bodies, and then scattered and fled, and everywhere on this flat land were routs running in groups of three or five.

Zhang Bingchen, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the 23rd Division, brandished a cavalry knife and slapped the horse's buttocks, and led the cavalry behind him to chase after a large area of the Beiyang Army in front of him.

"Got it!" Zhang Bingchen agreed, and immediately shouted: "Herald, convey the order of the division headquarters, and you can't kill the rout soldiers who lay down their arms and no longer resist, and inform everyone to shout 'surrender the gun and don't kill' when pursuing."

"Yes, Tuanza!"

A large number of routs were quickly caught up by the men of the 23rd Division Cavalry Regiment, and the soldiers shouted: "Surrender your guns and don't kill!" ”

When the routs heard this, they all threw their guns on the ground, and some of them knelt down to wait for disposal, and the soldiers of the cavalry regiment began to gather the captives and gather them together and send them back with escorts.

"Regiment commander, look over there, there seems to be a senior officer of the Beiyang Army among those people!" A cavalryman pointed to a group of Beiyang troops who were still galloping a few hundred meters away and shouted to Zhang Bingchen.

When Zhang Bingchen heard this, he found that the group of Beiyang Army were all riding horses, and there were several people wearing Beiyang Army officer uniforms, so he immediately said: "Come and catch some people with me and catch a few big fish back!" ”

This chase chased dozens of miles and was about to catch up with a group of Beiyang Army cavalry, watching these Beiyang Army soldiers were on guard after being surrounded, Zhang Bingchen found that there were two lieutenant generals, and in the Beiyang Army near Taierzhuang, only Lu Jianzhang and Yang Shande were lieutenant generals.

Zhang Bingchen was immediately overjoyed and laughed: "Hahaha, the two are Lu Jianzhang and Yang Shande, right?" It's all come to this point, what's the use of resisting again? You think you alone can outdo so many of my men? I advise you to give the order to all lay down their arms and surrender, so as not to hurt the peace!" ”

Lu Jianzhang and Yang Shande both knew that they couldn't escape when they heard this, and it was difficult to say whether they could save their lives, but as long as they didn't resist fiercely, the other party shouldn't abuse them, so they waved their hands and asked the soldiers around them to put down their guns and surrender. (To be continued) R580