Chapter 155: Defeat is like a mountain
The defeat was like a mountain
Although Liu Yuan's team was led by young people, many people still had very opinions about letting Hu Lian and Zhang Lingfu, two young generals, lead more than 10,000 newly formed troops to garrison strategic places.
The deputy commander-in-chief even told Liu Yuan more than once that Zhang Lingfu has strategy, bravery, Hu Lian's wisdom and cunning like a fox, and he does have the potential to grow into a general.
But they are still too young after all, especially how long these two people have only been out of military school. They don't even have the ability to figure out how much food their men need.
But Liu Yuan insisted that although everyone was against it, there was no way, after all, the military power was in Liu Yuan's hands, so he let the two young guys take the soldiers away.
Facts have proved that Liu Yuan's view is very correct, and the two young guys who are young in the military beat Zhang Fakui like a grandson.
The small Banbi Mountain and Tianjia Town are like moats, firmly guarding Liu Yuan's rear. Let Liu Yuan have enough time to go down to Jiujiang and Kenanchang, and the 100,000-strong army opened a huge net and quickly replaced Jiangxi with a new banner.
Zhang Fakui knew very well that the reason why he became a guest of Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei was because he had an army and territory in his hands, and no matter who he was, he had time to ask for himself.
But he has already lost half of his territory, and the army has been wiped out by Liu Yuan and the Red Party at once, if he doesn't show anything in the future.
Then the warlord who has neither territory nor army must have ended up miserable, so Tianjia Town, which could have been attacked, was delayed for a long time.
What will Zhang Fakui do at this time, he is doing his best to expand the army, because the small Tianjia Town has taken the lives of his 30,000 veterans, and at this time Zhang Fakui has clearly known that if he does not do anything, then China will become a third-rate snobbery.
Therefore, Zhang Fakui took advantage of the opportunity of Liu Yuan to establish the Nanchang Revolutionary Government, and with the support of Wang Jingwei, he desperately expanded, and finally mastered 100,000 troops again, but these 100,000 people only had 30,000 or 40,000 trained soldiers, and most of the others were just temporary strong men.
Although Zhang Fakui had 100,000 troops, he no longer had the mind to fight hard with Liu Yuan, because he received the troops under Liu Yuan, and under the leadership of Du Yuming, he actually won three battles and three victories, and swept away all Zhu Peide's strength in Jiangxi with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves.
Zhu Peide's Third Army, which was respected by the world, was even more of a 30,000-strong army commanded by Du Yuming, together with He Long and Cai Tingkai, surrounded Zhu Peide's last elite on a hill of less than 500 meters, ran out of food and water, and only lasted for five days before surrendering, and the famous Zhu Peide has since become a memory in the history of Chinese warlords.
Zhu Peide's subordinates can fight more than himself, and the two young people under Shi Liu Yuan alone can't handle it himself, which makes Zhang Fakui give up his views on Jiangxi a long time ago, and he only wants to protect his strength now.
However, the day before yesterday, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly telegraphed to himself, asking him to launch an attack on Jiangxi no matter what, even if he was dragging Liu Yuan in the rear, and Chiang Kai-shek told Zhang Fakui on the telegram that Liu Yuan was seriously ill and probably would not survive this July.
Liu Yuan has a lot of injuries, and this year's physical condition is definitely not news for the top level of the Kuomintang, especially Liu Yuan vomited blood several times, and it is widely spread among the people, even the children on the street know that Liu Yuan vomited blood several times for the Republic of China.
Zhang Fakui knew very well that the core of the Tenth Army was Liu Yuan, once Liu Yuan died, then the Tenth Army would collapse in the shortest possible time, and Jiangxi would become a place for the heroes to fight again.
Moreover, Jiangxi was taken back from the "rebels" by himself, and no matter who Chiang Kai-shek or Wang Jingwei would be in charge of in the future, he could not take Jiangxi from his own hands.
Thinking of this, Zhang Fakui secretly made up his mind to use Jiangxi as a battlefield and have a good fight with the most popular general of the party-state.
Anyway, Chiang Kai-shek's telegram had already told himself that Liu Yuan was very ill and needed a special doctor to treat him at night, and even during the day, there were officials from the General Staff and the Provisional Government to support the new government, and Liu Yuan could not personally participate at all, which proved that Liu Yuan's physical condition was no longer enough to support a big war.
Thinking of this, Zhang Fakui was extremely excited, but then he thought of Zhu Peide again, a generation of heroes ended like this, what should Liu Yuan do if he worked hard with himself, if he was desperate and desperate with himself, would he lose all the capital he had just saved.
For a while, Zhang Fakui hesitated again, this is the hesitation of the warlords in this era, they are more eager for territory than anyone else, but they attach more importance to their army than anyone else, because this is their capital to survive in troubled times.
And at this time, his undercover agent sent him the news that he had gained the trust of one of the two young generals stationed in Tianjia Town, a young general named Zhang Lingfu, and had thoroughly figured out their fortifications, with a map attached.
And told Zhang Fakui about this team, there are only about 5,000 soldiers left, although they are all elite soldiers, but they lack ammunition, and they are very tired, and there is also a problem with the supply of food, as long as one of his regiments and 1,000 people cooperates, this army will definitely collapse.
Zhang Fakui admitted that he was tempted, as long as he took Tianjia Town, then the gate of Jiangxi would be half opened, if he took Tianjia Town, he could attack and retreat, and even if he didn't fight hard with Liu Yuan, he could be regarded as having an explanation to Chiang Kai-shek, all at this time, Zhang Fakui decided to fight, that is, to launch a general attack on Tianjia Town.
The overwhelming army of 100,000 was like a flood rushing to the position of Tianjia Town, and the position of Banbishan was immediately lost, and more than 2,000 elite soldiers were nowhere to be found, even the commander of the Hu Chain Brigade was nowhere to be found.
When Zhang Lingfu heard that Hu Lian was missing, he suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, so he hung on the ground and fell to the ground, and lost half of the mountain position, so his Tianjia Town position was completely exposed to the enemy's sight.
Just when Zhang Lingfu was most anxious, the troops who had surrendered from Zhang Fakui earlier suddenly turned against him and launched a fierce attack on his headquarters, and Zhang Lingfu's 3,000 men were caught off guard, losing more than 500 people, and the flood of enemy troops had already poured into Tianjia Town.
Looking at the collapsed defense line, Zhang Lingfu suddenly found that he didn't know what to do, retreat, can he go?