Chapter 264: Escape on All Fronts (2)

The second platoon led by Zhao Yong showed a different quality from the fifth company at this time, and the performance of these soldiers in the night battle was very good. Almost a few steps, four sturdy soldiers pressed their bodies against the low wall of the village. Then more than forty officers and men, in groups of four, rushed forward, and as they stood by the wall, they stepped on the hands of the four able-bodied soldiers in front of them. The four soldiers were so skillful at sending their hands upwards that the soldiers who stepped on their hands easily climbed over the low wall with their weapons, and immediately went into a state of alert on the other side of the low wall.

In less than two minutes, Zhao Yong and all fifty of them entered Doosan Village.

Feng Guozhang still attaches great importance to his own defense, but he pays more attention to quality than quantity. His 200 guards were all 20 shell guns, and if it was really a close combat, this firepower alone would probably not take much advantage of the strength of a regiment. In history, Feng Guozhang had such a brigade of pistol guards by his side, but unfortunately he didn't play any role. This expensive pistol brigade Zuihou once appeared in the official history record, when Ni Sichong blocked the train carriage with a heavy machine gun and disarmed, and then disappeared in the long river of history.

This history is destined not to appear in this time and space, because Ni Sichong will soon become history in advance, even if he doesn't take the army to Pukou, with his current strength, he is destined to have nothing to do in this long river of history. And Feng Guozhang's pistol brigade may not appear, because Zhao Yong has now appeared less than two hundred meters away from Feng Guozhang.

It turns out that people like Feng Guozhang are destined to be blessed by the gods, and just when Zhao Yong and the others quietly advanced towards the brightest place in the entire village, a Beiyang soldier who temporarily got up to pee at night discovered the abnormality.

This Beiyang soldier didn't dare to believe his eyes at first, because this was Feng Dashuai's headquarters, how could there be an enemy here. But after all, he was a professionally trained elite guard, and he quickly made a judgment that there was an enemy in front of him, and he had no weapons, so his professional qualities made him choose to tear his throat and shout: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy attack." ”

Zhao Yong felt that victory was a little bit close to him, but he was ruined by this lazy man with a lot of and urine, and he raised his hand to kill this guy who was shouting and screaming, but this shot that pierced the night sky woke up the entire Doosan Village.

Then Zhao Yong seemed to have identified the target, and led the officers and soldiers of the second platoon to rush towards the direction where Feng Guozhang was.

The guards guarding the gate of Feng Guozhang's headquarters obviously hadn't figured out the situation yet, and the gunfire just now was taken as misfire by them, and when a large group of black shadows rushed over, they didn't choose to fire, but asked who was very calmly.

The people who want your life, Zhao Yong and the others quickly rushed into the headquarters, and the battle began immediately.

Feng Guozhang's command headquarters is the most staff, the most lacking is the guards, although these staff officers quickly took out their guns, but they do not know the basic tactical movements, they are often knocked to the ground without firing a few shots.

Feng Guozhang's guards reacted quickly, and they quickly rushed towards Feng Guozhang's headquarters, the twenty rings in their hands were not vegetarian, and the crazy firepower quickly overwhelmed Zhao Yong and them. Al-Shabaab's casualties are inevitable and rising.

Zhao Yong saw this situation and shouted loudly to his soldiers: "Use grenades, use grenades!" ”

Now it was the turn of the Beiyang soldiers to be dumbfounded, and just a few grenades made these Beiyang soldiers who had hardly experienced any battles on weekdays collapse. At this time, Feng Guozhang's personal guards rushed in frantically, picked up Feng Dashuai and ran to the backyard, and several other major generals also ran out.

At this time, Cui Fei and his troops also launched an attack on Doosan Village, Feng Guozhang's guards couldn't figure out the situation at all in this dark night when they couldn't see their fingers, they felt that they had encountered a large army, so they didn't say a word and protected the big marshal to retreat.

In this hectic situation, Yang Shande, the commander of the Fourth Division, was accidentally hit in the leg by a stray bullet when he fled with Feng Guozhang, and immediately fell to the side, and his guards were killed in the battle just now, and no one cared about him now.

And Zhao Yong, who was chasing Feng Guozhang and the others, rushed to Yang Shande's side impartially, and shouted at his soldiers: "Chase, chase." Don't let them run......"

Yang Shande didn't wear a gun on him, otherwise he would have to shoot whether he committed suicide or killed this Zhao Yong to show the dignity of a Beiyang veteran. However, the severe pain in his leg made him very eager to be found, and the gunshot wound would become very serious if not treated in time.

Zhao Yuan stomped his feet on the spot in annoyance, damn, he lost more than a dozen brothers, but he didn't even catch a single hair, and he had to hurry up and withdraw. habitually shook his head, and as a result, he saw a living Beiyang officer, and he was still a lieutenant general in military uniform.

Zhao Yong wiped his eyes violently, and then looked at Yang Shande, who was full of unconvinced face, he was really a lieutenant general, hahaha, he caught a big fish. Zhao Yong's feeling was that a person suddenly won the five million jackpot after being extremely depressed, he mentioned Yang Shande and asked: "I am conscious, my number, my position, and my name." ”

Yang Shande glanced at Zhao Yong coldly: "Let go of your dirty hands, I am Yang Shande, the lieutenant general of the Fourth Division of the Central Army." ”

When Zhao Yong heard this reply, he immediately understood that the big man who escaped under the protection of a group of guards just now was Feng Guozhang. But then he understood that his current actions were undoubtedly a hornet's nest, retreat, retreat immediately.

Zhao Yong immediately asked his subordinates to carry Yang Shande on their backs, and then immediately retreated towards the mountains. Sure enough, soon, a regiment of Beiyang soldiers pounced, but fortunately, Zhao Yong and the others escaped.

In the next day or so, Zhao Yong and others worked hard to get rid of the pursuit of the Beiyang Army, successfully brought Yang Shande back to the headquarters of the First Division of Tongling, and made a miraculous feat that surprised Li Zongren and many other generals......

The most immediate effect was that Feng Guozhang collapsed, he really couldn't accept that he was so old, he was actually kicked out of the nest by a group of boys, and almost fell into the enemy's hands. At the same time, Yang Shande, the commander of the Fourth Division, was obviously with him at the time, but he disappeared after encountering the enemy, and he didn't even find his body, so he was probably captured.

"Bastards, bastards, you are all shit, shit, shoot all the officers who were in charge of patrolling the perimeter that night, they are dereliction of duty, serious dereliction of duty. Shoot them, shoot them immediately, the shame of this group of Beiyang. ”

After a while, Feng Guozhang spoke again: "Pass my order, and the whole army will immediately retreat to Wuhu, immediately." ”

The immediate result was chaos, and the first reaction of all the troops when they received such an order was that something big would happen, and it was good that the second division had division commander Wang Zhanyuan here. The Fourth Division was not even a division commander, and as a result, they took the lead in chaos before the first and second divisions of the Jiangsu Army.

All the armies were clueless, and the retreat began without Jihua. Large quantities of baggage were also discarded and left unattended, and there were not even officers to organize personnel to burn them. On the road from Tongling to Wuhu, all the combat units were huddled together, and if it were not for senior staff officer Guo Songling returning from the front line in time and immediately organizing a law enforcement team of 400 people to try to maintain order on the road, the situation would have been completely out of control, and it is estimated that even the establishment would not exist.

As a result, military historians of later generations gave Zhao Yong's heroic night raid battle that was almost a big luck.

In any case, the courageous actions of Zhao Yong and the officers and men of the 5th Company of the 111th Infantry Regiment ultimately laid the foundation for the victory of the Southeast Front, although we have no direct evidence of how much this raid affected Feng Guozhang's subsequent misdemeanor. But no one can deny that this attack made a great contribution to the victory of Zuihou in the entire Southeast Battle.

"Battle of the Southeast", author Yi Zhongdi, published by the Federal Publishing House Tao Zhiyue in the face of the retreat of the Beiyang Army in addition to breathing a sigh of relief, is still considering whether to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but after three or four days of fierce fighting, the first division suffered more than 5,000 casualties, which is the largest loss since the founding of the army. This is also secondly, the weapons and ammunition have been depleted by one and a half bases, and the existing supplies are simply not enough to launch a large-scale operation, unless there are reinforcements.

At this time, Wang Zhenyu had already arrived in Wuhan, and on the way to Wuhan, he personally issued an order that Zeng Jiwu's 10th Division would provide reinforcements to Tao Zhiyue's Right Route Army by water.

So Feng Guozhang's disaster was about to begin, relying on the powerful transport tonnage of the Yuanjiang Shipping Company, almost on the afternoon of the day Wang Zhenyu's order was issued, the equipment and personnel of the 10th Division boarded the ship in Yueyang.

And just when Feng Guozhang's army was still in chaos on the road from Tongling to Wuhu, on April 1, April Fool's Day, Zeng Jiwu arrived in Tongling and personally reported to Li Zongren, commander of the Southeast Front.

At this point, Li Zongren's army reached an astonishing 7 divisions, and the goddess of victory naturally waved at him unceremoniously.

On April 2, Li Zongren, commander of the Southeast Front, issued an order for a general attack on the whole front, Bai Chongxi commanded three divisions of the Left Route Army to pounce ferociously on Pukou, while the 1st and 10th divisions under the command of Tao Zhiyue began to follow Feng Guozhang's troops.

At this moment, Lu Diping reported that Lu Yongxiang's division of the 10th Beiyang Division in front of him had fled, and Tao Zhiyue returned to the cable without thinking, and the 11th Division immediately attacked, doing its best to cut off the road between Wuhu and Nanjing, and making sure not to let the main force of the Beiyang Army escape.