Chapter 149: Nameless Heights (2)
After taking the Nameless Mountain, Lu Rongting made the latest misjudgment under the previous series of miscalculations, the Xiangxi Army had no combat effectiveness, and the resistance on the Nameless Mountain was their Zuihou's Liliang.
Since that's the case, then move on.
Sure enough, in the following day, there was no such stubborn and strong resistance as the Nameless Mountain. In just one day's effort, Grand Overseer Lu Rongting's army commanded an army that had lost about 4,000 to reach the exit controlled by Baipeng Town.
Now even fools from the Gui army know that as long as this Baipeng Town is laid, the door of the entire Liuzhou will be completely opened.
Victory was just around the corner, and the already low morale of the Gui army was once again boosted to the top, and the officers and soldiers were gearing up, determined to complete this damn Zuihou battle.
At this time, the first division was responsible for the defense of Baipeng Town was Zhang Xuguang of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, this unit did not participate in the mountain echelon blockade, the whole unit was in a state of recuperation, and through the division's subordinate engineer regiment to build fortifications in Baipeng Town for almost seven or eight days. The whole town has made him run a solid business, and now he is waiting for Gui Jun to bump into him headlong without knowing whether he is alive or dead.
The plan agreed upon by Xu Yuanquan and Wan Yaohuang was to use the 102nd Regiment to effectively kill the Gui army in Baipeng Town, and then put the Gui army, which was unable to continue to advance, into the plains, and then counterattack on the whole front. Liao Lei of the 303rd Infantry Regiment and Li Pinxian of the 304th Infantry Regiment had already built strong fortifications about five miles from Baipeng Town as a blocking line for Zuihou before the counterattack. The more favorable news is that the two regiments of the Third Division led by Li Zongren have already arrived in Liujiang, and by tomorrow morning at the latest, they will be able to enter this Zuihou blocking line and become the backbone of the entire counterattack operation......
Bai Chongxi, on the other hand, was a little depressed, he got the same job as in the last battle of Changde, and took the other two regiments of the Third Division to work tirelessly, over the mountains and mountains, all the way to the guests of the Gui Army's baggage supply station.
This is a very dangerous interspersed operation, and in an era when there is no radio link, daring to carry out such a large-scale long-distance interspersion requires a high degree of trust in friendly and neighboring forces.
First, your friendly troops must have the ability and determination to overcome all hardships and accidents and unswervingly complete the original battle plan. Taking this interspersing as an example, if the First Division was defeated and retreated in the face of the Gui army's offensive, and the entire 26-kilometer straight-line mountain road distance could not be held for even a day, then Bai Chongxi's interspersed would turn into suicide.
Second, your friendly troops must be worthy of your trust, otherwise it will affect your determination and will, after all, things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, and the slightest hesitation will lead to a completely different outcome.
Bai Chongxi didn't trust Xu Yuanquan very much, because his perception told him that he was not a kind and upright person. But he still believes that the First Division will do the first point mentioned above, because Wang Zhenyu must be on the front line at this moment.
"Hurry up, let the follow-up troops move faster, gather in the town in front, we are only thirty miles away from the guests, and the next is the plains, we must capture the guests before the enemy finds us, I don't want to shed too much blood." , Bai Chongxi told the officers beside him: "The war should end here, we have to bring the brothers home safely, so the guest battle should be a night attack, the people of the military intelligence department will open the city gate, you must move quickly, and you must be civilized, the Gui army in Chengli has only 2,000 combat troops, but there are more than 10,000 people." If it weren't for luring the enemy to go deeper, Lu Rongting, the ** lake, would have retired. ”
It's a pity that this is really not a lure for the enemy to go deeper, but a complete old horse stumbling, because of the appearance of Wang Zhenyu's big butterfly, Lu Rongting began to decline six years in advance.
Lu Rongting's mentality at the moment is more like a gambler who has already lost half of his family property, eager to use the remaining half of his family property to win back what he lost, without thinking about whether he will lose the remaining half.
The lessons of history are incomparably precious and profound, small gambling is pleasant, big gambling hurts the body, that is nonsense, every gambling must lose is the correct solution.
On the night of October 14, Bai Chongxi, chief of staff of the Third Division of the Xiangxi Army, personally commanded the 303rd Infantry Regiment Liao Lei and the 304th Infantry Regiment Li Pinxian to attack the guests at night. Lu Rongting's first gamble of life and death was completely lost, and Bai Chongxi's name began to become famous all over the world with the series of victories of rushing to Changde, outwitting Liuzhou, and attacking guests at night.
It was already the afternoon of October 15 when Lu Rongting received the news that the guests were lost, and the Gui army had already bled in Baipeng Town.
The battle of Baipeng Town started in the early morning of October 15th, and according to the wishful thinking of Lu Rongting and other Gui generals, it would be best to concentrate all their firepower to take down this damn Baipeng Town.
The Gui army smashed the extra shells that had been brought up by saving the military ration capacity one by one to the small town of Baipeng Town, and suddenly the town was filled with gunsmoke, and the broken bricks and stumps were blown into the sky. Even relying on strong fortifications, in the face of the artillery attack of the Gui army, the defenders still suffered certain casualties.
Guarding Baipeng Town was Zhang Xuguang, the commander of the 102nd Regiment of the First Division, who was born in the second battalion teaching team and belonged to a group of people who were promoted quickly in the Xiangxi military system. It was only in the future that he had to end his military career because he mistakenly sided in the political struggle. However, on October 15, the second year of the Republic of China, Zhang Xuguang's name was forever engraved in the history of the First Division. The 22-year-old regiment commander commanded nearly 3,000 officers and men of the 102nd Regiment in a fierce battle for a full day against the nearly 20,000 Gui troops who came to attack.
In Nanning, Guangxi, Gong Peng received the news of the success of the guests through the radio, and he handed it over to Wei Changrong and Chen Chaozheng, who were preparing to make up their minds, without delay.
"The two commanders, don't miss the opportunity and don't come again, you pay attention to doing business early, not late, after this village, there will be no such shop. You can wait for our army to defeat the Overseer, but at that time, it won't be the price it is today. Gong Peng's words were big and pulling, coaxing and threatening.
Wei Changrong was silent for a long time, then suddenly stood up, and said as if he had made up his mind: "What is the destruction of the overseer Wei Mou, as long as Wang Dashuai is willing to give Wei a chance to continue to lead the troops, Wei Mou will do it today." From the Guangxu year to the present, the emperor and the president have changed three dynasties, I can't let Lu Lao Song (Lu Rongting's real name before his career) this old bastard step under his feet for the rest of his life. ”
Chen Chaozheng's eyes circled and said: "Stationmaster Gong, Chen is a timid person, he doesn't dare to do such a big thing without gritting his teeth." For the provincial civil affairs chief, Chen knew that he was shallow in his talent and couldn't do it, so he naturally didn't dare to think about anything, and the future of Guangxi would be Wang Dashuai's world. But Chen had a worry, and asked him to risk death to understand, but he didn't know ......"
Gong Peng said with a smile: "Commander Chen, it's all come to this point, what do you have to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”
Chen Chaozheng glanced at Wei Changrong and said in a low voice: "Then Chen asked disrespectfully, will Wang Dashuai pick up the grass and beat the rabbit, and pick me up with Wei Shuai afterwards." ”
Gong Peng already knew what the two of them were worried about, so he didn't answer immediately, and said in silence for a while: "If the two of you really follow my family's marshal, there is naturally no problem, but if you still want to continue to meddle in local civil affairs with Lu Overseer, then I can only leave, and the future will depend on the two of you's own creation." ”
After finishing speaking, he was about to get up, so Wei Changrong and Chen Chaozheng hurriedly got up and persuaded each other: "Mr. is angry, Mr. is angry." ”
Gong Peng sat down with Shi Ran at this time, and what he wanted was such an effect.
After Wei Changrong and Chen Chaozheng whispered for a while, Wei Changrong made a very unexpected request to Gong Peng: "Stationmaster Gong, Brother Chen and I are also people on the scene, and we are used to the ups and downs of the tide after so many years of ups and downs. Lord Feng back then, and later Lord Su, don't look at the scenery of holding military power, but the end is not as good as one. To be honest, at first we didn't know Wang Dashuai's ability, and we still had the idea of being an overseer and a provincial civil governor. But the country has talents, and a generation of new people is better than the old, and now it seems that I, Wei Changrong, am indeed old, and it is not appropriate to continue to lead troops. So I think that if Wang Dashuai can give me and Brother Chen some pension and don't let the two of us do this errand in vain, I will be content. As for the army, what was not said, we handed it over, whether it was reorganization or dismissal, all of them were subject to Wang Dashuai's disposal. We have been worried about the issue of military salaries for more than a year, don't you know, a month's salary of 30%, that is, we are poor in Guangxi, and we are left in other provinces, and the soldiers have run out early. I don't want to live this day anymore, so Mr. Gong, you see ......"
As a result of the bargaining between the two sides, in addition to the benefits of 200,000 yuan per person originally promised, Wei Rongchang and Chen Chaozheng took another 100,000 oceans, while the original cost of the activities of the MI Jihua was 1 million......
In the middle of the night of October 15, the Gui army governor of the First Army and the Sixth Army suddenly returned to Nanning, and under the response of Neiying, they quickly drove into the city and quietly surrounded the 2,000 men and horses of Lu Yuguang's department. controlled the Provincial Governor's Office, the Provincial People's Government, and the Provincial Post Office, and occupied the entire Nanning City almost bloodlessly, and then telegraphed the whole country, declaring the independence of Guangxi, Wei Rongchang served as the overseer, Chen Chaozheng served as the civil chief, and offered a reward of 100,000 yuan for the wanted traitor Lu Rongting......