At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th, the Nanjing Central News Agency released major news to the whole country through radio:

"At 10:30 a.m. today, the newly formed 10th Brigade of the Central Army's rebellious troops completely annihilated the 14th Division, the main force of the Guangdong Army, which had unscrupulously invaded Jiangxi, on the line from Xinfeng to Nanxiong on the Guangdong-Jiangxi border, and captured more than 6,000 Guangdong officers and men, including its division commander Chen Zhang, chief of staff Deng Bohan, and brigade commander Ye Jinhua, which dealt a heavy blow to the separatist forces of the Liangguang conspiracy and boosted the ......morale of the army and the people."

Immediately after the broadcast of this important news, the radio broadcast a documentary of the war interview by the frontline reporters of the Central News Agency, which immediately caused a sensation in all circles throughout the country, and the organs of various countries in China quickly realized that the war between the central government in Nanjing and the two Guangxi provinces was inevitable, and they went to the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs one after another to seek confirmation, and hundreds of Chinese and foreign reporters hurried to southern Gannan to cover the news.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, south of Guilin, Guangxi, at the southern foot of Xiangshan, the headquarters of the Gui Army.

Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were worried in the face of Chen Jitang's telegram from Guangzhou, because they never expected that the 14th Division, the main force of the Guangdong Army, which was well-equipped, would be completely annihilated by a newly organized brigade of the Central Army, and not only were all the division commanders and brigade commanders captured, but all the equipment and the newly formed artillery company were also disarmed, and this was no longer just a matter of partial defeat.

Li Zongren shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed: "Alas, I remember that before leaving Guangzhou, you also specially reminded Chen Bonan and asked him to be careful of Wu Ming on the Eastern Front, otherwise he would probably suffer a big loss, and you were really unfortunate to be right." ”

Bai Chongxi looked bitter, waved his hand and said: "I still underestimated this Wu Ming before, and I never expected this person to be so cunning, from the time he raided a regiment in the forward position of the 14th Division, to the end of the entire 14th Division, the entire 14th Division was wiped out, and it only took thirty hours to add up to the front and back, what kind of means and courage did it take to achieve?" ”

"Again, judging from Chen Bonan's few words of battle report, I am afraid that the 14th Division was not only taken to Nanxiong's lair, but there must be a series of situations that we have not yet understood, and I even suspect that it is closely related to the previous crash of the Guangdong Air Force reconnaissance plane

Li Zongren very much agreed with Bai Chongxi's judgment: "It's a pity that the broadcast of the Central News Agency did not mention the specific combat process, and Chen Bonan seems to have no face to say it, it is estimated that it will be very difficult to find out the course of this battle, why don't you send a telegram to Liu Fei and ask, let him inquire by the way, how is Chen Bonan going to deal with the more than 6,000 captured officers and soldiers?" Whether to put it aside for the time being or send someone to negotiate is a major matter involving the political level, and we will be quite passive if we don't do it. ”

Bai Chongxi immediately took out his pen: "Okay, I'll prepare a telegram, and I'll see if there is anything to add, it is estimated that at this time, Chen Bonan is already in a hurry." ”

When the outside world was overwhelmed by the reports of the "battle of the boundary site," Wu Ming's unit had already taken the initiative to abandon all positions in Guangdong, and the officers and men of the brigade had already escorted prisoners and captured a large number of them and returned to Xinfeng County, except for the wolf-like spy company, which was still wandering around in the border area between the two provinces.

The brothers of the engineer battalion, who returned a day late, not only cleaned up every battlefield, but also buried all the bodies of the Cantonese officers and soldiers who could be found, together with the representatives of the officers and soldiers sent by the Cantonese prisoners.

On the morning of the next day, the Second Independent Division of the Guangdong Army, which had rushed from Shaoshan, hurried to Wujing Town, and soon found the stone monuments erected under the hill in the south of the town and rows of simple but very neat cemeteries.

Seeing that the fight could not start for a while, the officers and soldiers under Wu Ming's command were given three days of rest, at this time, Wu Ming no longer needed to continue to conceal the true combat strength of his headquarters, and generously issued a two-month military rank, allowing the officers and soldiers to change into brand-new and straight central army uniforms, and go out of the camp in a rotational way, as long as they did not violate military regulations and did not bully the people, the brothers did not care about Wu Ming, and almost all the brothers in the brigade shouted long live.

Only Stevie, the director of the field hospital, kept complaining, and privately warned Wu Ming several times: "If the willow disease spreads, don't blame the brothers in my field hospital for their poor medical skills." ”

Wu Ming threw down his sentence irresponsibly, so angry that Steve scolded his mother, but he felt deeply reasonable, so he did it.

The whole sentence is like this: "Didn't you confiscate several large bags of potassium permanganate in that trading house?" They are all divided into small bags and sent to the brothers, let them boil hot water by themselves, put potassium permanganate in it and mix well, each person makes a bamboo tube full of potion and ties it to his waist, and puts the second child into the bamboo tube to bubble when he is done, which is estimated to reduce a lot of trouble for you. ”

Beginning on 5 June, more and more Chinese and foreign reporters rushed to Xinfeng City, and each of them asked to interview Wu Ming, an outstanding general of the Central Army who commanded the "Battle of the Boundary Site." At the very end, the vast majority of reporters were blocked outside the small bridge leading to Tianxinguan in the west of the city, and the military barracks in the city where the prisoners were held also urgently increased sentry posts, prohibiting anyone from entering to cover news.

With the exception of the two Central News Agency writers and a photojournalist who were familiar with Wu Ming, the three of them could not only see Wu Ming every day, freely enter and leave the prisoner of war camp in the city and the backyard of Tianxinguan, where the officers above the battalion commander of the Guangdong Army were imprisoned, but also drink and chat with Wu Ming, whether it was work or life, they were very comfortable and comfortable.

On 7 June, after reading the investigation report on the collaboration with the enemy submitted by Zhang Dongning, Wu Ming agreed to release the deputy county magistrate and police chief of Xinfeng, who had paid a ransom of more than 300,000 yuan in exchange for a future.

Zhang Dongning understood that in the past few days, he had confiscated more than 900,000 yuan in cash from two Guangdong businessmen's two major trading houses and a money bank, and if two Guangdong businessmen with a net worth of millions wanted to survive, I am afraid that they would have to pay 500,000 ransoms each Zhang Dongning would have to release them, otherwise he and Wu Ming would rather shoot people to death than give face to anyone.

As for the other seven accomplices, there are only two ways to go, one is to be killed as a substitute for the dead, and the other is that their two big bosses are willing to pay a huge ransom for them.

By two o'clock in the afternoon of 7 July, Wu Ming's negotiators of the Guangdong Army, who had been waiting for him for a long time, did not have the slightest news, but Kang Ze, who had hurried from Nanjing, had returned again with his people in two small cars and escorted by two troop carriers, and he was accompanied by Lieutenant General Guo Erzhen, deputy director of the Army Consolidation Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Lieutenant General Liu Zushun, chief of the First Section of the Quanxu Department of the Military Commission, and their adjutants.

Seeing the gathering of bigwigs, Wu Ming respectfully stepped forward to salute the report, and Guo Erzhen, who was not smiling, returned the salute and told Wu Ming that he had come to announce the latest orders of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Military Committee on the orders of Minister He Yingqin of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and that he would return to Ganzhou immediately after the incident and take a special plane back to Nanchang.

Wu Ming didn't say a word, and immediately led the group into the cool Tianxin Pavilion to sit.