At the moment when the first division of the Gui Army was completely annihilated, and the tiger general Chen Bingkun became a prisoner. Our Guangxi overseer Lu Rongting is still whipping in Wei Wu, looking at the world?

"Haoming, this time after we crossed the Youjiang River, we defeated the Xiangxi Army, and then further attacked the Hongjiang River!" Lu Rongting gave his jihua and pan out.

Tan Haoming asked puzzledly: "Dashuai, aren't we going to fight Guangzhou?" weishenme has become to fight the Hongjiang again? ”

Lu Rongting said with a smile: "Everyone in the world knows that Guangzhou is rich, but they don't know how strong the Guangdong army is, and in my Guangxi, it's not my Lu Rongting's family who says it, if you really go to Guangzhou, how can you connect with Nanning, so it is untenable to occupy Guangzhou." On the contrary, Hongjiang is different, although the mountain road is rugged and difficult, but Guilin and Liuzhou are in our hands, and it is really connected. As far as I know, Hongjiang is also a rich place, with tung oil, pig sideburns, and big tobacco all coming in for money. Otherwise, why did he, Wang Zhenyu, a child, raise such an army? ”

Tan Haoming felt justified when he heard it: "Dashuai, then I will be the pioneer for you and take this Hongjiang." ”

After hearing this, Lu Rongting hahadaxiao: "According to my meaning, we Guangxi people want to take Hunan and Guangdong provinces, you go to defend Hunan, Bingkun to guard Guangdong, and then we are qualified to ask how much the tripod that represents the world weighs?" ”

"The tripod that represents the world? Dashuai, which tripod is that? Tan Haoming asked in confusion.

Lu Rongting's face turned cold and said: "How many times have you said that when you are usually fine, you play less cards and read more books, but you don't even understand Ding." This is taught by Mr. Teaching, that Ding, that Ding...... Anyway, that's the Ding......"

Just when Lu Rongting was looking at the world, all the captured officers and soldiers of the First Division of the Gui Army such as Huang Xu were beaten by the Xiangxi Army and were forced to squat on the ground with their heads in their hands.

"Liao Lei, what's going on?" Li Zongren took out the style of a big brother, and what he did was a roar, so that Liao Lei, who has always been known for being rude, was as helpless as a child.

Bai Chongxi then arrived and said to Liao Lei with a pleasant face: "How can you have a conflict with a prisoner of war?" Don't you know the rules of Wang Dashuai? Have you memorized all the military orders? Do you want to eat a military stick? Explain it clearly to the teacher, otherwise you will never be spared. ”

The meaning of the chief of staff's words is that as long as he explains, he can be spared, and Liao Lei said boldly: "Report to the division commander, chief of staff, it's really infuriating to be humiliating, I just found out, it is this trainee officer named Huang Xuchu, who actually carried the military flag to organize the whole regiment to counterattack when the first division and the second regiment of their Gui Army were in chaos." The shot in his arm was fired by the sharpshooter next to me, and it was absolutely true, such a reactionary officer should be shot immediately, but these soldiers did not have the slightest sense of prisoners of war and dared to stop it, so they were humiliated and ......."

Li Zongren immediately understood that Liao Lei's regiment had suffered more than 300 casualties at once, and after being trained by himself, he naturally wanted to find someone to vent his anger, so he tossed such a big move.

He leaned down and looked at Huang Xuchu, who was bloodstained with blurred blood on his forehead, stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder lightly and said, "He is a talent who leads soldiers, don't follow Lu Dashuai and them to harm our people in Guangxi in the future, just follow me steadfastly, is it okay?" ”

Huang Xuchu looked at this officer with a generous face in a daze: "Are you really General Li Zongren, the commander of the Third Division of the Xiangxi Army?" ”

Li Zongren hahadaxiao said: "If it's fake, what's the matter, you know me?" ”

Huang Xuchu stood up and saluted: "Hello senior, I also graduated from Guangxi Army Primary School, two levels lower senior, and I have heard the story of the seniors participating in the Xinhai Revolution." ”

Li Zongren hurriedly waved his hand: "Haha, what kind of story, it's all a story called Huazi, I don't believe you ask your senior Bai Jiansheng, by the way, there is also the rude Liao Lei head just now, he is also your senior, but he didn't study well when he was in school, so he didn't look like a senior at all." ”

Bai Chongxi could only hide his hahadaxiao after hearing this, and Liao Lei, who was causing trouble, could only be extremely embarrassed, so he could only twist and pat Huang Xuchu's shoulder: "This, that, you are so good, you don't know each other." ”

The captured soldiers suddenly discovered that the enemy's commander was also from Guangxi, and the hostility immediately dissipated.

The crisis of a prisoner of war disturbance was invisibly resolved in the words of this brother and sister......

On October 3, Xu Yuanquan arrived at Baipeng Town, where the headquarters of the First Division was located, and from here it was almost 25 kilometers in a straight line to Fenghuang Town, which was at the forefront. The route was mostly mountainous and hilly, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the first division's original operational policy was to send small units to take advantage of the terrain to constantly delay the attack speed of the Gui army and effectively deplete the enemy's morale. Then wait for Bai Chongxi to lead the 3rd Division to cross the Youjiang River, occupy the south bank of Laibin, and completely cut off the retreat of the 3rd Division. At this time, it is estimated that Li Zongren, who occupied Guilin, led another part of the Third Division to Liujiang, and everyone launched a counterattack from Liujiang to defeat the Gui army in one fell swoop.

But with the annihilation of the 1st Division of the Gui Army, this Jihua made a simple fine-tuning, and the 1st Division was asked to put the location of the decisive battle in Baipeng, for the simple reason:

First, the terrain in the Liujiang area is flat and it is not easy to defend, and the consequences of really putting the Gui army here are unpredictable;

The second is that Lu Rongting is also a fool, how far can he come from Luzhai, and he hasn't been able to get in touch with Chen Bingkun when he arrives in Liujiang, will he not run?

Combining the above two points, the decisive battle was moved forward by a full 14 kilometers, just to the town of Baipeng, which was stuck at the exit of the entire mountainous area, which was the current headquarters of the 1st Division.

Tao Zhiyue, the commander of the 101st Regiment of the First Division, was the commander's favorite general, and his battalion commanders Cai Juxian and Liu Xuyi were also demoted generals.

Xu Yuanquan summoned all the officers above the platoon level of the division to speak: "From Fenghuang Town to Baipeng Town, there are hundreds of hills, large and small, and I ask you to desperately defend each hill, constantly delay the attack of the enemy's superior forces, and lay the foundation for a comprehensive counteroffensive of the large army...... This is the first time that such a large-scale battle has been fought, and if it is fought well, it will give the big marshal a long face, and if it stinks, everyone will lose face together. Therefore, I demand that all officers and men carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of death and not afraid of hardship; Each hill must hold on for no less than 24 hours, and unless the troops guarding the hill are exhausted, they are never allowed to take half a step backward. Do you understand? ”

The fighting on the battlefield is only the appearance of war, and the real war actually begins with logistics supply......

The officers of the logistics room of the Armament Department did their best, using oxen, horses, donkeys, and even civilian men to pull boxes of bullets, shells, and grenades from the military factory in Anjiang to Baipeng Town. Then it was sent to all the participating units through the temporary transit depot in Baipeng Town, and the officers and soldiers in charge of the transportation work were busy almost day and night, even so, Xu Yuanquan was still not satisfied, and he hoped that the combat units could get more adequate supplies, which was the basic guarantee for his own combat Jihua.

On October 4, the 301st and 302nd regiments led by Li Zongren finally succeeded in defrauding Guilin City, and the 2,000 Gui troops guarding the city surrendered to the Xiangxi Army without firing a single shot. Bai Chongxi led his troops to complete the rest and recuperation, and Liu Zhenhuan, the deputy division commander, led the 303 and 304 regiments to start an extremely difficult interspersed operation......

On October 5, the 101st Regiment successfully formed the first line of defense near the town of Phoenix. Tao Zhiyue ordered the sappers to shovel the hillside to 90 degrees as much as possible, and at the same time skillfully use the terrain to set up fire points. Often, the fire points on the two hills can form a fire angle near the post road, so as to achieve the purpose of successfully blocking the traffic.

The 102nd Regiment and the 103rd Regiment were used as counterattack troops Shi Yong, and the 104th Regiment was nervously carrying out civil engineering operations behind the 101st Regiment. Wang Zhenyu didn't care much about this, after all, the so-called level of engineering operations depended to a certain extent on the level of industrial jishu, and it could not be finalized by one or two trainings.

Wang Zhenyu, accompanied by Xu Yuanquan and Tao Zhiyue, inspected the front-line positions, and Cai Juxian, commander of the first battalion, was cordially received by Wang Zhenyu.

"Lao Cai, how is this front line?" Wang Zhenyu asked seemingly casually.

Cai Juxian had to reply respectfully: "Returning to the commander, my subordinates have built a lot of fortifications on various hills, and my Jihua is to put a platoon on each hill, and other troops will respond in a mobile manner, and carry out multi-level blocking through firepower superiority." ”

Wang Zhenyu nodded, in fact, he didn't have a specific idea of how to play this, and he also had a vague concept of Cai Juxian's professional terms.

He was very concerned about another question: "Lao Cai, I heard that your family has moved to Anjiang. ”

"Yes, handsome," Cai Juxian replied.

Wang Zhenyu made a downward gesture: "If others want to be like this, you Lao Cai don't have to be so polite, when it comes to seniority in the new army, I am not as good as Lao Cai." When you are fighting, you should use your brain more and don't blindly emphasize the fierce and hard rush. In many cases, it is necessary to use your brain, to think of ways, to be flexible, and to be changeable. The most important thing is to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible at the minimum cost, and you should pay special attention to this, not only do you have to go back to Anjiang to reunite with your family, in fact, all the soldiers are raised by your parents. ”

Cai Juxian nodded and agreed......

The various fortifications were completed very quickly, but the enemy did not appear for a long time, and everyone was inevitably a little anxious.

On October 6, the Gui Army, which had been seen through the autumn water by various units of the Xiangxi Army, finally drove out of Laibin City......