At dawn on October 1, a series of explosions that shook the world broke the tranquility of the blocking position on the north bank of the Laodao River. The direct reinforcements commanded by Xiao Yaonan finally arrived. Nearly 300 artillery pieces of various kinds suddenly opened fire in unison, and the continuous 20 minutes of non-stop shelling shook the ground and shook the sky, and the thick smoke of gunpowder shrouded the entire front line of the Laodao River, completely obscuring a glimmer of light brought by the morning light, and the battlefield within a radius of more than 10 kilometers returned to suffocating darkness.

The sound of artillery did not stop, and tens of thousands of direct elites seemed to be desperate to launch a fierce attack on the Kuomintang positions in the hilly areas on the north bank of the Laodao River. The number of troops invested, and the decisive results of the battle greatly exceeded the expectations of Luo Yaoguo, An Sihua and others.

Fortunately, the powerful and rapid artillery bombardment of the direct army did not bring too many casualties to the officers and men of the 8th and 25th Divisions of the defending Kuomintang Army. From September 26, the two elite divisions were transferred to the hilly area on the north bank of the Laodao River, and began to build fortifications on dozens of small hills in this area. A large part of Luo Yaoguo's courses at West Point are about fortifications and engineering, and An Sihua is also an officer who participated in World War I, so he is naturally familiar with positional warfare. According to the deployment of the two, the Eighth Division and the 25th Division adopted the so-called "anti-slope operation", which was the first time that this kind of combat deployment appeared in the Chinese battlefield and even in the Asian theater, and it was very rare even in Europe, so Yu Xuezhong, who was in charge of the artillery command of the direct army, was naturally unheard of. The positions of the Kuomintang troops were cleverly arranged on the backs of the various heights, except for the trenches with strong anti-artillery bunkers built on the tops of the heights. All trees and weeds on the high ground fronts were cleared to clear the shooting boundary. The essence of anti-slope operations is to avoid the enemy's superior firepower, and the positions of our troops deployed on the back of the mountains are the dead ends of the enemy's artillery bombardment, so no amount of artillery shells wasted by the direct army will achieve little results.

Although the artillery bombardment did not achieve the expected results, the benefits of their first offensive were also beyond the expectations of the Kuomintang. 40,000 direct troops, including 10,000 officers and soldiers of the 3rd Division of the Central Army of the Beiyang Political Axe, were thrown into the battlefield in the first wave of assaults! That's right, it's the third division! The essence of the Beiyang direct line was also the first elite in China at that time. Unlike history, Wu Peifu abandoned the plan of landing and sneak attack at the beginning and used the Third Division as a reserve. And after the Kuomintang began its large-scale Northern Expedition, Wu Peifu decisively sent the third division to Xiao Yaonan. He asked Xiao Yaonan to concentrate his main forces to defeat the Kuomintang troops in Hunan, and then move to Jiangxi to fight. After the Kuomintang in Jiangxi was also repulsed, he led the whole army north to reinforce it, and repeatedly instructed Xiao Yaonan to be fast, and the enemy on all sides of his direct line must be fast and slow, otherwise there was a danger of annihilation. Therefore, Xiao Yaonan didn't care that the third division was Wu Peifu's heart, and sacrificed his trump card at the beginning.

In this way, an unprecedentedly tragic battle of decision and surname, which had a bearing on the old and new groups, and on the fate of nearly 30,000 people in the entire South and Central China, began!

At the beginning of the battle, it entered a white-hot state, the guns and artillery roared and the smoke was rolling, the whole battlefield was like a sea of fire, tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides of the war began to fight for the tragic battle on the ten-kilometer life and death line, and the fierce battle lasted for a whole day, with heavy casualties on both sides, but no one refused to take a step back, because taking a step back is a hell!

As the sun slowly rose, the sun illuminated the battlefield, and more and more troops were invested by both sides. The fighting is also getting more and more fierce. The battlering positions were strewn with corpses, flames erupted, and the blood mist stirred up by the rain of bullets flew all over the sky, and the entire front was filled with the stench of charred corpses and the spicy smoke of gunpowder.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo and An Sihua were like two cold-blooded butchers without sympathy, one order after another, one instruction after another, and thousands of soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army were sent by the two of them to the flesh mill on the north bank of the Laodao River. Because they knew that the battle at this time had reached the most critical moment, and that the slightest hesitation and retreat could lead to the collapse of the entire front, and the consequences would be even greater casualties, and the entire national revolution would sink from now on, with no chance of turning over.

In the former enemy headquarters of the Kuomintang Second Front Army on the south bank of the Laodao River, Luo Yaoguo, the former enemy commander-in-chief who was only 25 years old, was angrily reprimanding Wang Bailing, who had just come down from the front line. Wang Bailing's Ninth Division had returned to Changsha two days earlier and was serving as the general reserve of the whole army. At noon today, after repelling four fierce attacks on all fronts by the direct army, Luo Yaoguo and An Sihua decided to launch a counterattack to try to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy and restore part of the position previously captured by the direct army. At this time, Wang Bailing, who has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, only knows the beauty of alcohol, actually found out in conscience that he decided to contribute to the party-state, Luo Yaoguo felt that he should give his good friend a chance to make contributions, well, it is better to pull him to the General Staff to serve, saving the Ninth Division from being at the bottom of the Kuomintang army, making Chiang Kai-shek very faceless. However, some things don't always go as planned.

"Shoot! Someone's coming! Drag Wang Bailing out and shoot him! Luo Yaoguo slapped the table while shouting that he wanted to shoot Wang Bailing.

The attack commanded by Wang Bailing was completely defeated by the direct army, and the Ninth Division also suffered losses of thousands of men, but these were not problems. Victory and defeat are commonplace, and there are no immortals in battle. However, a certain timid division commander hit the guards around him because of a stinky bullet, splashing his whole body with broken meat, and then cried and ordered the entire line to retreat, so that all the positions that had just been captured were lost, and he was chased by the direct army, almost shaking the whole line! In the end, An Sihua personally went into battle, took out the momentum of An Laomo of the Whampoa Military Academy, and led the front army guard regiment to the front line to supervise the battle, and shot three commanders of the Ninth Division in a row, and Miao Bin, a party representative who yelled and disturbed the morale of the army, stabilized his position. As for Wang Bailing, who was already a little deranged, he was knocked unconscious by the second lieutenant staff officer Cen Biqing and dragged back to the former enemy headquarters.

"I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead, you, you, what are you going to do? Where are you going to drag me to? I'm not going anywhere, I'm not going anywhere, I want a nanmu coffin, a golden silk nanmu, a good nanmu coffin! "I don't know if I was stupid by the blood on the battlefield, or if I was smashed by Cen Biqing's bricks, now Wang Bailing is full of nonsense, and resolutely believes that he is dead. The staff officers in the command tried to keep their faces strained so that they would not laugh out loud.

"Oh my God! How could I make such a friend? Luo Yaoguo saw the stupid and stupid Wang Bailing, and most of his anger disappeared, after all, Luo Yaoguo and Wang Bailing have a good relationship, and their interests and hobbies are also very close, uh, they are both beauties and talk on paper.

"Okay, okay, Wang Bailing escaped from the battle because he suddenly went crazy, so he won't be shot, he will be removed from his post for investigation and handed over to Commander-in-Chief Tan for discipline." Luo Yaoguo shook his head and sent the guards to drag the "living dead" Wang Bailing out of the headquarters. It's strange to say, this crazy Wang Bailing heard that he didn't shoot but handed over to the kind-hearted Granny Tan, and he didn't make any noise and became obedient. Seems like this madness is pretending, right? However, Luo Yaoguo is not interested in pursuing this kind of thing now. Due to Wang Bailing's clumsy performance, the Kuomintang army is now passive again. Taking advantage of the opportunity of [***] shaking the whole front, Xiao Yaonan invested in the 25th Division of the Central Army of his descendant and launched another round of onslaught.

"Order An Sihua to take over the Ninth Division, and order the Twelfth Division to send reinforcements." Luo Yaoguo pondered slightly in front of the map for a while, and then ordered the Twelfth Division, the only trump card in his hand, to be thrown in. Now Luo Yaoguo is like a red-eyed gambler, and there is no better way than to bet the last dollar on his body. After committing the 12th Division, except for the defeated 9th Division and the four Hunan Divisions responsible for encircling Changsha, Luo Yaoguo no longer had any troops available.

After sending the 12th Division to the front line, Luo Yaoguo pondered in front of the huge combat map. He couldn't tell how many troops the enemy had. Originally, it was estimated that the direct army had seven to eight divisions, but among the prisoners captured by the direct army this morning, the famous officers and men of the third division were discovered. Now Luo Yaoguo even suspects that it is Wu Peifu himself who commands the direct army to fight! Although Wu Peifu was defeated by the Kuomintang's Seventh Army, Fourth Army, and Ye Ting's Reading Regiment in another time and space. However, it was Wu Peifu who did not have the Third Division, and the Third Division was disbanded after the Second Zhifeng War, and the establishment was abolished. And the Third Division, which was supposed to be fighting in the north in this time and space, actually came to Hunan, so what other army would come to Hunan? Will Feng Yuxiang come?

"Order the two division commanders Zhang Huizan and Lu Diping to prepare to withdraw the troops from Changsha City." Luo Yaoguo looked at the generals in the command. "Ladies and gentlemen, the moment of decisive battle is approaching, and the enemy is desperate to attack so fiercely, and its momentum will inevitably gradually decay, and we will fight back in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Tonight, our headquarters crossed the Laodao River, and Qian Muyi's artillery also crossed the river, and we were going to fight against the water. ”

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