Guo Zhuocheng continued to write in a telegram to Bai Chongxi: "If General Bai is willing to bow down and hand over to Guo and listen to Guo's opinion, Guo will immediately release Wang Zanbin and other generals, so that General Bai can reorganize the tiger and wolf division of the Gui army." At the same time, our troops will also give up attacking Gui-Lin and instead give the Central Army a blow to the head, and take advantage of the chaos of the Central Army, Guo and I will wave our troops across the river again, chase after our main force, or turn back to kill our original base area. In any case, Guo didn't dare to talk about the general and the military and civilians of your province anymore,......"

At the end of the writing, Guo Zhuocheng also gave the other party a deadline: reply within fifteen hours, otherwise the Red Army would set off from Baimangying Town and move south to fight Bai Chongxi to the death.

Previously, Guo Zhuocheng sent someone to send a letter to Bai Chongxi, telling him the frequency of the telegram that the two sides could contact, and this time he asked Sheng Guozhen to still send it according to the agreed frequency.

Last time, Bai Chongxi asked people to send a half-literate telegram to Guo Zhuocheng at that frequency, although the text rejected Guo Zhuocheng's negotiation proposal, in fact, it also told Guo Zhuocheng in disguise that the two sides could still get in touch.

Soon, the contents of this telegram were sent to Bai Chongxi's desk. Although it was still early at this time, Bai Chongxi, who was a soldier, had already gotten up and had breakfast. Unexpectedly, as soon as I was ready to work, I received this telegram like bad news.

After reading this telegram, Bai Chongxi, who was originally refreshed, only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and he almost fell to the ground, he gritted his teeth and waved away the people around him with a cold face.

"Horn! ――”

At the moment when the staff officers closed the door, there was a crisp sound of breaking porcelain cups from inside, which made everyone in the corridor tremble with fright, and they didn't dare to come out.

The angry Bai Chongxi's face was blue at this time, and he sat weakly on the Taishi chair. A high-end teacup that was replaced only yesterday has been broken into countless pieces and is lying on the ground. Tea and tea leaves made the floor wet and a mess.

No wonder Bai Chongxi was so angry, how could a good thing that seemed to him be stable like this. In his mind, Guo Zhuocheng, who came out of nowhere, must be a very smart person, and he must have seen that there was a contradiction between Gui Jun and the Central Army. He will definitely take advantage of this contradiction.

Bai Chongxi concluded from this that Guo Zhuocheng would only arrange a small number of troops to resist the Central Army, which was only testing and would not attack with all its might, and would send the main force to bluff and attack the county seat of Guanyang County in order to force himself to agree to his negotiation terms.

Therefore, Bai Chongxi quietly mobilized the army to encircle the Red Army below the county seat of Guanyang County, and on the one hand, he made every effort to eliminate this sudden Red Army. On the one hand, the central army's possible plan to enter the territory of the Gui army was dismissed.

The development of things was indeed as Bai Chongxi thought, the Red Army really sent some troops to block the Central Army, and most of the troops attacked under Guanyang County.

However, why did they suddenly seize the county seat of Jianghua County? His own plan has long been in the other party's calculations, and it has become a joke.

Where did they get their troops? How dare they go into such a dangerous place where enemies are on all sides? They should wait in Guanyang County to resume negotiations, and they should concentrate on forming a fist to break through the Xiangjiang River to catch up with the main force of the Red Army. How can anyone be so afraid to play cards? How can there be such a risk? Isn't it better for the thief to be found and get into the master's bedroom? Still not caught in the urn?

Bai Chongxi couldn't figure out why this happened, but he didn't understand the reason, but he knew how much passivity the Red Army's unexpected action brought to him. This Red Army is indeed like a thief who sneaks into the master's bedroom after being discovered, on the one hand, he will indeed be surrounded on all sides and become a turtle in the urn, but on the other hand, it will also make the owner a mouse, he can put a fire in the bedroom, burn himself and ruin the master at the same time.

The consequences of the Red Army's occupation of Jianghua County at this time were very severe. It was far greater than the loss of a division by the Gui army before. If the previous loss of a division was to cut off Bai Chongxi's outstretched hand, which made Bai Chongxi cut off the attempt to occupy southern Hunan and southern Jiangxi to expand his territory and the dream of establishing a powerful force across Guangzhou-west, Guangzhou-east, Hu-south, Jiang-west and other regions, then the capture of Jianghua County this time can be described as being held to the chest by the enemy with a sword.

If the Red Army exerts its strength again, they can use Jianghua County as a pedal and directly attack Guilin, the hometown of their Gui Army.

Guo Zhuocheng's occupation of Jianghua County this time was completely different from the occupation of Jianghua County by the Red Army 12 days ago. At the same time, the county seat of Jianghua County was occupied, but the danger of being occupied this time was much greater than the last time:

The last time the Red Army occupied Jianghua County, the main forces of the Gui Army were still in Guangxi and were moving north. The main forces of the two sides could only be regarded as on the top of Jianghua County, and the vanguard of the Gui Army and the vanguard of the Red Army collided in Jianghua County. Although this kind of collision was very intense, the Gui army still had the main force behind it as a backing, and Gui-Lin and the whole of Guangxi-West were naturally safe and sound.

At that time, Bai Chongxi was not at all worried about what the Red Army would do to the Gui Army, and even if an extreme situation occurred -- the Red Army occupied Jianghua County and did not leave, it was only the Red Army that stifled the Gui Army's attempt to go north to seize the territory of southern Hunan and southern Jiangnan. It's just that the two sides are facing each other in Jianghua County.

What's more, at that time, the Gui army could still go north through Guanyang County, and the Red Army had no way to stay in Jianghua County for a long time, because once they stayed for a long time, the Central Army that was chasing the Red Army behind them would happily surround them and swallow them.

But now the situation is completely different, and now the Gui army is pouring out in order to avenge the elimination of their four regiments by Guo Shucheng, and wants to annihilate Guo Shucheng and his troops under the county town of Guanyang. It is precisely because the main force is concentrated in Guanyang County that not only is Jianghua County empty, but Gui-Lin's troops are also insufficient.

Now Gui-Lin is like a girl who has taken off cleanly, without a strand of clothes on her body, how can she stop the insult of the hooligan with only a thin layer of virgin-hymen?

If Guo Zhuocheng really broke the jar and broke it, or if he really made a desperate bet as he said in his telegram, regardless of the Qiē wave of his army from Baimangying Town, and kill Gui-Lin with all his might, then it would really be like a thief putting a big fire in the master bedroom.

Even if Gui-Lin is not eventually occupied by the Red Army, Gui-Lin and the area around Gui-Lin will be reduced to rubble. The main force concentrated in Guanyang City will be cut off from the rear, the army will lose its logistical supplies, and the entire Guangxi and the entire Gui army will suddenly become extremely dangerous.

What worries Bai Chongxi the most is that if the Central Army falls into the ground at this time, or if Jiang Jieshi uses his most skillful means to buy and coerce the senior generals of the Gui Army with a huge amount of money, just as he used to divide and disintegrate other warlords, then the day when the Gui Army will fall apart is not far away.

Guijun would soon become a historical term like other local warlords. How is this called Bai Chongxi not to be anxious? How not as good as ants on a hot pan?

However, Bai Chongxi was not an ordinary person, and he quickly forced himself to calm down, because he saw an opportunity from Guo Zhuocheng's telegram, a glimmer of life, an opportunity that Guo Choucheng took the initiative to give, and a glimmer of life that Guo Choucheng was willing to leave him.

"It seems that this guy doesn't want to break the jar, but still wants to take advantage of the contradiction between us and Jiang to fish in troubled waters." Bai Chongxi said to himself.

After calming down, he arranged for the orderly to clean up the fragments of the white porcelain teacup and let Hai Jingqiang, who had been waiting outside, come in.

Hai Jingqiang is his nephew, seeing that Bai Chongxi was not as angry as he imagined, there was even a smile on his face, and he felt very strange in his heart, and said: "Uncle, this guy is a braggart guy, and he also opens his mouth, which is really self-conscious." ”

Bai Chongxi frowned and asked a little dissatisfied, "How do you know that he braggs?" Jianghua County, have you been contacted? ”

Hai Jingqiang shook his head awkwardly: "No." But how did they ...... so quickly"

Bai Chongxi said: "People have already allowed us to do this, and we will do it one step in advance. Besides, the troops they occupied Jianghua County were not necessarily the troops attacking our Guanyang County seat, and the size of their troops was likely to be much larger than we imagined. Maybe there are really nearly 10,000 people he said. ”

Hai Jingqiang originally wanted to refute, because he didn't believe that Guo Zhuocheng could pull up 10,000 people on such a chaotic battlefield, but when he saw Bai Chongxi's tired look, he didn't stimulate him anymore, but asked: "Uncle, so this surnamed Guo is very smart?" Not only did they calculate us, but they were able to pull up such a large force in the face of enemies on all sides. However, why did he turn back to Jianghua County? With his 10,000 troops, it may not be impossible to break through the defense line of the Xiangjiang River, at least a few of their leaders can escape. ”

Bai Chongxi nodded and said, "You finally got to the point, why did he turn around and kill back?" Is he sure enough to kill again? Since you can kill it later, wouldn't it be better to kill it now or before? That would have a better chance, and although there were heavy casualties, there was always hope of a breakthrough. He returned like this, completely cutting himself off. ”

Hai Jingqiang said: "They put a lot of emphasis on sacrifice, maybe he just wanted their main force to escape farther." Uncle, you see, he also said here that their main force will not go to the Hunan and Hubei borders to join He-Long's troops, but will kill Guizhou-Zhou and Sichuan, is this true? Didn't he leak their military secrets by saying that? ”

Bai Chongxi glared at this nephew and said, "He can think of a young man who is just in his early teens, can't I think of it Bai?" Since I can think of it, what does it matter if he says it to me now or not? Besides, the military facts are true and false, false and real, who knows whether what he said is true or false, maybe he deliberately said this to divert Jiang from the heavy troops deployed on the Hunan and Hubei borders? ……”

(To be continued)