After four consecutive days, Kang Ze, who was busy on the road, finally fell ill, and there was no way to resolve the contradiction between the new Second Division and the East Road Command in advance.

Seeing that the practical difficulties could not be solved, Wu Ming, who had done what he said, immediately ordered the granaries of more than a dozen rich gentry in Xinfeng to be emptied, and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the shops of the rich gentry were also swept away, and the fifty white strips prepared at the beginning were used up in one day, and Zhang Dongning, the chief of staff, had to write 60 more sheets to be enough.

Fortunately for all the people of Xinfeng, Wu Ming's officers and soldiers did not touch anyone except for a dozen rich gentry, and after all the shops of the rich gentry were forced to close, the officers and soldiers under Wu Ming's command went to any store to buy things, all in cash and a lot of money, which not only relieved the panicked people, but also made the people who had been oppressed by the rich gentry for a long time feel very relieved.

In addition, when the goods of merchants in various counties of Ganzhou were transported to the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong, all were stopped, and the smart businessmen saw that the situation was not good and immediately paid taxes honestly, and then took back the goods and went back, and the arrogant ones were subdued on the spot, and all the goods were confiscated, and the violent resistance with knives and guns hidden in their bodies was even worse, and the officers and soldiers stationed at the checkpoint picked up the butts of their guns and beat them severely, and then tied them into a dumpling and escorted them to the division headquarters to wait for processing.

What is even worse is that the 13th Division of the Guangdong Army and a brigade of the 1st Division of the 1st Division attacked at the same time, beating the new 1st Division that was blocked layer by layer, and then attacked Dayu City in one go, besieging the regiments of Dayu County, and the Guangdong Air Force also frequently bombed the positions of the Dayu defenders and the head of the city, and in only three days of fighting, the new 1st Division was reduced by more than half under the fierce attack of the Guangdong Army, and the officers and men of the four regiments of the Jiangxi Security Force, which had just arrived in Ganzhou, did not even have time to breathe. was ordered to rush to the aid of Dayu City

On 15 June, Xiong Shihui, deputy commander-in-chief of the East Route Command of the Rebel Army, hurried to Ganzhou and immediately sent a telegram to Nanjing, and after receiving the support of He Yingqin, the nominal commander-in-chief of the East Route Army, he immediately ordered Wu Ming to lead the newly formed Second Division to quickly move south and launch an attack on the Second Independent Division of the Guangdong Army in front of him.

Wu Ming called back very happily to say that he had complied with the order, but on the eve of leaving Xinfeng City to take command in person, Wu Ming called the headquarters of the East Route Army in Ganzhou on the grounds that he "could not afford more than 1,400 wounded and sick prisoners of war in the Cantonese army" and requested that people be taken to Ganzhou for treatment.

After waiting all night without seeing Xiong Shihui's reply, Wu Ming entered the prisoner of war camp in the city early the next morning and loudly announced to the more than 500 local rich gentry and their families who had been detained for nearly ten days:

"If any of you are willing to take out his own wagons and ox carts to assist the army in sending more than 1,400 wounded and sick prisoners of the Cantonese army to the field hospital of the Ganzhou headquarters for treatment, it will be a manifestation of atonement for the crime, and all the crimes committed in the past will be written off and released immediately."

Wu Ming's words fell into the ears of more than 500 unlucky people, which was even more inspiring than the gospel of God, and the rich gentry and their families, who had long been unable to endure both physical and mental torture, immediately signed up, and Wu Ming very generously allowed them to go back to prepare, but the stipulation must be completed within three hours, otherwise they will be caught again, and the new and old accounts will be counted together

In less than half a day, more than 300 ox carts and carriages were concentrated at the east end of the small bridge under the Tianxin Temple in the west of the city, and the captain of the Xinfeng security guard and the police chief, who were frightened by Wu Ming, obediently led their subordinates to escort them, and hundreds of officers and soldiers under Wu Ming's command unceremoniously carried more than 1,400 wounded and sick soldiers of the Cantonese army onto the wagon, and regardless of whether the three or five wounded and sick were crowded on one wagon, they clapped their hands and retreated to the side, watching the mighty convoy rush north with great joy.

Sixty-seven kilometers from Xinfeng to Ganzhou, the highway widened by the Kuomintang troops during the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Red Army's Soviet area was still easy to walk, and a huge convoy of more than 300 horse-drawn carriages set off at 2 o'clock at noon on 16 June and arrived at Ganzhou City at about 12 o'clock at noon the next day.

As early as 9 o'clock in the morning, Xiong Shihui, deputy commander-in-chief, received a battle report from the front line from Kang Ze, who was personally in charge of Wu Ming's division, and the staff group of the headquarters:

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the Second Regiment of the New Second Division took the lead in breaking through the enemy's right flank position, and all units launched a charge with all their might, successfully defeating the enemy's first line of defense three kilometers north of Wujing Town.

At present, the units of the New Second Division are seizing the time to rest and replenish, preparing to attack the second strong line of defense set up by the enemy outside the town.

Xiong Shihui, who read the battle report of the new second division, was very satisfied, the reason why he would endure Wu Ming's perverse behavior for many days was for today's opportunity, and now it seems that Wu Ming's courage is not enough to dare to openly disobey military orders, this test result made Xiong Shihui feel good, and then began to plan how to give Wu Ming's new second division a few more difficult new orders, it is best to let him lose face in order to vent the resentment in his heart.

Xiong Shihui's good mood lasted only more than three hours, and he was completely shattered by the sudden arrival of more than 1,400 wounded and sick prisoners of the Cantonese army; when the generals and colonels of various departments of the command heard the news that more than 1,400 wounded and sick prisoners of the Cantonese army had been sent to the south of Ganzhou, they were immediately stunned, and the field hospital, which consisted only of eight military doctors and more than 30 medical nurses, jumped up and down in a hurry.

Xiong Shihui, who rushed to the south gate to check the situation on horseback, no longer had any intention to listen to the report of the captain of the Xinfeng security guard and the chief of police, and stared blankly at the long convoy transporting the wounded and sick prisoners of the Cantonese army.

At 3 p.m. on 17 June, the new 2nd Division, which had captured the first line of defense of the Cantonese army north of Wujing Town, finally waited for eight captured Schneider 75 mountain guns.

The 2nd Independent Division of the Guangdong Army belonged to the second-line troops, and the whole division was basically old equipment, neither equipped with artillery nor a heavy machine gun company, and only one artillery company equipped with 12 British-made 8IN mortars.

As soon as the battle was fought in the afternoon, the 2nd Division, which had not yet stabilized its position, was again shelled by the opponent's eight 75 mountain guns for half an hour.

The two main regiments of the New Second Division occupied Wujing Town without firing a single shot, and immediately set up positions and deployed them in an all-round way.

Although Wu Ming did not wait to see them from beginning to end, the brave and tenacious, powerful strike firepower, and flexible tactics displayed by the officers and men of the New Second Division were all refreshing to them, and the battlefield command of officers at all levels and the coordination between the infantry and artillery opened their eyes and benefited them a lot; no matter how much they had a bad feeling for Wu Ming, they had to secretly sigh that Wu Ming's new Second Division was indeed well-trained, combat-powerful, and had a good life, a weak brigade that is vulnerable to a battle.

Wu Ming rode a zebra and slowly entered the unrecognizable Wujing Town, where there were no more families left, his cold face could not see joy, anger and sorrow, but he was very sad in his heart, and in the face of the ruined scene of people's livelihood, he became more and more determined to be allowed to evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible by any means

Nine days ago, among the 12 truckloads of supplies transported by his car company and the Quzhou military station convoy, all the grain and military supplies were unloaded, and the ammunition was transported back intact at Wu Ming's insistence, so after the capture of Wujing Town, the ammunition left in Wu Ming's division was less than five bases, and most of the remaining ammunition depots in the temporary ammunition depot of the division headquarters in the west of Xinfeng City were empty boxes.

At the beginning of the battle that had just ended, Wu Ming, who had been planning for a long time, ordered a half-hour artillery bombardment, and all the captured shells were all gone, and the eight artillery pieces without shells were now all furnished, so Wu Ming had an excuse to wait for the headquarters to replenish the shells, and there was no need to continue to attack in the south.

Whether it is Kang Ze or the three-person staff team sent by the East Road Command, no one can do anything about him, after all, the facts are in front of him, there are indeed no shells, and the bullets are not enough to support a big battle, even if it is found that Wu Ming is tired of ammunition consumption, he has to make up for the ammunition to Wu Ming's department first.

I have to say that Wu Ming's luck is really good, on the second day of his occupation of Wujing Town, Luo Zhuoying's three divisions of the Eighteenth Army were transferred to the Hunan battlefield by Chiang Kai-shek, and the two divisions of the First Army of the Cantonese Army occupied the first line of Chenzhou and Leiyang.

Bai Chongxi, commander-in-chief of the Gui Army, was very helpless, and took advantage of the fact that the two divisions of the Central Army and the three divisions of the Hunan Army under the command of Liu Jianxu did not have time to mobilize a joint attack, and decisively ordered Liao Lei, commander of the Seventh Army, to quickly retreat and return to the front line of the Huangsha River on the Hunan and Guizhou borders to urgently deploy defenses.

After the main forces of the two directions of the main battlefield in Hunan retreated, the three divisions of the Guangdong Army on the battlefield on the Jiangxi-Guangdong border also quickly retreated, and the 13th Division of the Guangdong Army, which was fighting in the south of Dayu City, quickly broke away from the battlefield and directly retreated to Nanxiong to rest and recuperate.

At this point, the two armies on the battlefield of Jiangxi and Guangdong once again formed a confrontation situation, and Xiong Shihui, who was relieved, did not urge Wu Ming's new second division to attack south.