Huang Baitao's corps finally fell under siege in Nianzhuang. Around Nian Zhuang, millions of troops on both sides of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought fiercely, and several corps of the Kuomintang army were anxious and moved closer to Nian Zhuang at all costs, trying to rescue Huang Baitao's corps from the encirclement. The two major field armies of the People's Liberation Army, Zhongye and Huaye, fought side by side and set up a blocking line around Nianzhuang. The Huaihai Great Plain was full of artillery fire, and the unprecedented Armageddon began.

The Kuomintang army attacked and advanced, trying to move closer to Nianzhuang, but the People's Liberation Army stubbornly held the blocking line and refused to give in for half a step. After a few days of fierce fighting, no one could help the other party for a while. The generals of the Kuomintang army believed that the frontal attack had little effect, and it seemed that they should consider a detour on the flank, bypass the PLA's blocking line, and stab the PLA in the flank and back to cut off the retreat of the PLA's blocking troops, so that they would be exposed to the enemy on their backs and collapse without a fight.

Coincidentally, the brains of the PLA generals are not idle, and the frontal blocking consumes a lot, Lao Tzu can't just stay here and be beaten, offense has always been the most effective defense, you attack, I will attack. Fighting sports warfare is originally Huaye's strong point, you attack from the front, I want to bypass you from the flanks and copy your back road, so that it will look west to Xuzhou.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and at this time, the intelligence departments of both sides were somewhat unable to keep up, and the generals on both sides were staring at the map and making decisions quickly, and Su Yu, the acting commander of Huaye, and the commander of the Second Corps of the Kuomintang Army, Lieutenant General Qiu Qingquan, were both staring at the same place on the map: Pantang.

This is a small town, located more than ten kilometers southeast of Xuzhou. At this time, the town smells chickens and dogs in the afterglow of the sunset, and the smoke curls up, making it a quiet and peaceful scene. No one would have imagined that a great catastrophe was about to befall and the town would soon be reduced to rubble.

On a cold night in the early winter of that year, on the road that passed through the town, a mighty army drove from the east and west ends, both lightly armed, marching quietly, both sides from generals to soldiers, who would have thought that two trains on the opposite side would collide here and cause an earth-shattering roar......

At three o'clock in the morning, the two armies collided suddenly, the sharp soldiers of both sides opened fire almost at the same time, machine guns, *** explosions, the vanguard of the two armies quickly twisted together, the sound of stabbing in close combat, the screams of the dying people, resounded. In the dark, the hand ** swished around, exploding orange-red sparks, and the sweet dream of the town was broken.

The commanders of both sides gave orders at the same time: do not entangle, pass quickly. No one took the other party seriously, and they all thought that the other party was a small army, but when they were fighting, they found that something was wrong. The large armies of the two sides staggered by, and both found that the other party's ranks had no head and no tail, and they were actually two mighty armies......

At dawn, a reconnaissance plane of the Kuomintang army flew in, and the startled pilots found that the two armies on the ground had twisted into a huge vortex more than 10 kilometers long and horizontal with the town as the center. At this time, it is impossible for anyone to withdraw from the battle. The generals on both sides understood that they had run into a stubble, and each sent reinforcement telegrams. The five whole armies under the Second Corps of the Kuomintang Army pressed up on all fronts, and the five columns of Huaye also attacked head-on, and under the fierce artillery fire from both sides, corpses and bones flew everywhere, and the town was reduced to ruins under the attack of two huge waves.

Li Yunlong's second division was also swept into this huge whirlpool. When the encounter just started, Li Yunlong became excited, the cold day threw off the hat, the clothes were unbuttoned, he judged by the experience of a veteran, the scale of this encounter is not small, within a radius of dozens of miles there are bean-like gunshots, from the intensity of firepower and all directions of the fierce battle, this encounter is a bit rare in the world. He estimated it a little smaller, thinking that there were tens of thousands of troops on both sides participating in the battle, but in fact, the two sides actually invested hundreds of thousands of troops in this fierce battle.

At the beginning, Li Yunlong also gave a clear battle order, several regiments to seize the left flank position, several regiments to seize the right flank, and several regiments to serve as reserves. After the order was issued, he felt that something was wrong, and none of the messengers who gave the order came back, and there were fierce battles everywhere, and several regiments of the Second Division did not know where they were, except for the division headquarters guard company, which was the division headquarters staff officers, officers, and miscellaneous personnel, and this non-combat unit was also surrounded by the enemy's heavy troops. After the guard company was deployed, the division headquarters was surrounded in the center to resist the enemy approaching from all sides. Li Yunlong was a little caught off guard for a while, he had fought a war for more than 20 years, and he had never seen such a chaotic battle. He picked up a *** and threw it into the melee.

By the flash of the explosion of his hand, he saw a little way, the Kuomintang soldiers were wearing steel helmets, and the PLA soldiers were wearing cotton hats made of homespun. That's easy, when he saw the man in the steel helmet, he hugged the fire, and as he shot, he said to the reconnaissance staff officer beside him, "Go get a prisoner who can breathe." ”

The reconnaissance staff officer asked: "Division commander, what's the use of taking prisoners at this time?" ”

"Just ask the number of this enemy."

The reconnaissance staff officer was very neat, and he came back after a while to report: "It is the enemy's 74th Division of the 96th Army." ”

Li Yunlong said: "Fuck, who should I be, isn't it the 74th Division that our Huaye cleaned up in Menglianggu, the number hasn't changed, but it's not the 74th Division for a long time, this is a rebuilt, papier-mâché tiger." Pass my orders to collect the steel helmets from the corpses of the enemy, preferably one for each person. ”

He gave the order to stop shooting. Seeing that the Kuomintang army was fighting lively, and the bullets were coming like splashing water, he lay on the ground and said, "Don't shoot anyone, lie down." ”

After fighting there for a long time and not seeing any movement here, he became confused, and the gunfire became sparse. The reconnaissance staff officer shouted: "We are from the 74th Army of the 'National Army', which part are you?" ”

There was also a message over there: "We are also from the 74th Army, which part are you?" ”

"The 96th Division, the enemy forces here have already asked us to clean up, why are you firing at us?" As soon as Li Yunlong waved his hand, the troops all stood up and slowly moved forward.

The soldiers of the 74th Army vaguely saw a group of soldiers wearing steel helmets walking towards them, so they did not have doubts, and shouted apologetically: "I'm sorry, brothers, I misunderstood." ”

Li Yunlong had already approached the enemy, and he opened fire without saying a word, and the enemy fell one by one, and the guards behind him swarmed up, and the fierce fire showed great power in the close firing, and wherever he swept, there were pieces of the enemy being swept down.

Li Yunlong won't let people get cheap, and he will fight wherever the enemy is secret. On a dirt slope not far from Li Yunlong, is the division headquarters of the 89th Division of the Kuomintang Army, and the commander of the Major General Chu Yunfei is not much stronger than Li Yunlong at this time, and his troops are also scattered, leaving only a guard platoon and an 82 mortar around him. Chu Yunfei also put on a Stern-style *** and threw himself into the fight. He found that not far away, a small unit wearing a Kuomintang army steel helmet was rushing in his direction, and when he fixed his eyes, the earthy yellow military uniform on the other party was exposed: Damn, it's the People's Liberation Army! He found that the combat mode of this PLA is not ordinary, the front is composed of machine guns and automatic firearms such as *** to form a commando, and the people in the back just throw their hands over the heads of the people in front of them and keep throwing them out, this kind of orderly division of labor is very effective, and the Kuomintang army suffers a lot.

Chu Yunfei has excellent eyes, and when he found Li Yunlong who was rushing to the front of the team, he chuckled in his heart: Damn, the road is narrow, and I met this old acquaintance again. But this time it's not good, with his own platoon of troops, don't want to stop Li Yunlong. Chu Yunfei is Chu Yunfei after all, in the face of Li Yunlong's attack, he will not retreat, he calmly ordered the mortar man: "The inclination of the cannon body is 85, quickly, hit the crowd in front." The gunner quickly loaded the ammunition, and with a "bang", the cannonball flew out, Chu Yunfei looked coldly ahead, and said in his heart, I'm sorry, Brother Yunlong.

At this time, Li Yunlong also found Chu Yunfei standing on the dirt slope, but his eyesight was not as good as Chu Yunfei, he only found a senior officer wearing a yellow tweed military uniform, and he didn't recognize who it was, so he ordered the machine gunner next to him: "Quick, hit that official." The machine gunner held the machine gun flat and fired a long shot, Chu Yunfei was like a hammer, fell on his back, and two red flowers bloomed on his chest...... At the same time, the **** launched from the almost vertical barrel landed beside Li Yunlong from a height of fifty or sixty meters with a sharp whistling sound. At the moment of the explosion, he felt as if he had turned into a fluttering feather and rose up, and boundless darkness surged up like a tide......