At four o'clock in the afternoon, after receiving Gao Zhihua's urgent report anyway, Jiang Zhenchen and other generals were taken aback.

At this time, more than 7,000 officers and men of the two main regiments of the First Army and the Second Division were still struggling to catch up, and the dust stirred up by the sky soared into the sky, and they were in sight.

The more than 23,000 officers and men of the Anhui system, who were cornered by the enemy on their backs, were terrified, and under the resolute command of division commander Jiang Zhenchen, they finally launched a large-scale group charge in two directions, in an attempt to escape back to Zhejiang.

Chen Xiujue personally led two regiments of the mixed brigade of the headquarters and Jiang Zhenchen's department to attack the frontal position, and Xie Bingwen led the remnants and entangled more than 7,000 officers and soldiers who fled from various departments to storm the right flank position of the model battalion.

An Yi and Cai Zhonghu at the Wuling observation post were shocked when they saw the enemy troops surging in like a tide, although the enemy soldiers threw away all the heavy firepower such as artillery and heavy machine guns when they fled from Nanchang in panic, but the dense charge of tens of thousands of people was a spectacle that the two of them had only seen in their lives.

An Yi quickly calculated in his heart whether the firepower on Gao Zhihua's middle road position could be handled, and Cai Zhongwat lamented loudly on the side, saying that it would be good if he brought his own artillery.

The enemy's charging surface, which was more than two kilometers wide, had quickly entered within 300 meters of the forward position, and the sound of sparse shooting gradually became louder, and Gao Zhihua on the position raised his hand and fired a shot into the sky, and the three-kilometer-long defensive position immediately burst into gunfire and filled the air with gunsmoke.

The 12 heavy machine guns of Gao Zhihua's department and the eight heavy machine guns of Lu Mingdi's two companies roared in unison, and the dense rain of bullets smashed the dense enemy troops into a bloody mist, and fell in pieces, and the ups and downs of the human waves were like hitting a solid invisible wall, which disappeared in an instant.

Nearly 1,000 enemy troops rushed to the front of the position more than 20 meters between the gaps in the dense rain of bullets, and were then torn apart by grenades flying out like locusts, and the survivors were soon beaten into a sieve by the twelve light machine guns of the machine gun company of the 2nd Battalion of Lu Mingdi, who were urgently reinforced, and fell to the ground one by one waving their hands in vain.

More than 3,000 officers and men again raised their long and short guns and fired fiercely after two rounds of bombing, and the black-pressed enemy was finally successfully suppressed about 80 meters in front of the position, and the courage that had just been summoned disappeared in the face of merciless death.

The first wave of the enemy's onslaught ended under the heavy blows of more than 3,000 heroic coalition officers and men, and the 300 meters in front of the position were covered with densely packed corpses, and hundreds of dying enemy soldiers rolled and wailed among the corpses, and the sound shook all over the field.

"Boom-boom-boom-"

On the right flank position, after the fierce light and heavy machine-gun fire, the mortar company commanded by Hu Zi finally fired in unison, and the shells exploded in bursts of fire and smoke in the black pressure of the enemy group, and the violent explosion carried countless fragments of the enemy's limbs into the air, together with the stirred up earth and gravel, flying all over the sky.

Five volleys in one minute exploded the charging enemy, which was more than 1 kilometer wide and more than 800 meters thick, into irregular and distorted patterns, leaving behind thousands of corpses of the dazed enemy and quickly retreating.

The gunfire gradually stopped, and Cai Zhonghu held up the binoculars and exclaimed: "It's so smart! How could they have thought of digging a wide trench about 100 meters in front of the position? Each section is at least three meters wide and two meters deep, no wonder I say how the enemy can't approach his position within eighty meters, it's amazing! ”

An Yi turned around and raised his binoculars, looked at it for a while and explained carefully: "Since the model battalion led by Hu Zi distributed almost all the grenades to the friendly troops in the central position, they came up with this ingenious method when they arrived a day and a half in advance, digging a wide and deep ditch horizontally in the ninety meter section in front of the position, and then covering it with branches and dead grass and sprinkling mud, leaving a five-meter passage in the middle of each such trench that is wide in front and narrow in the back to facilitate their own attack, and the charging enemy troops swarm up without knowing the benefits. After stepping on it, he naturally fell into the deep trench like a trap, and the enemies behind him surged like ants, unable to stop at all, and soon filled the deep trenches one by one...... You see, outsiders only pay attention to the thousands of corpses and wounded soldiers within 300 meters of the front of the position, and do not see the layers of enemy corpses and wounded soldiers in a deep trench with a total length of more than 1,000 meters, and the corpses on more than a dozen of the deep trenches have actually formed a low wall, and many enemy soldiers who have just been arched out of the corpses after picking up their lives do not know what is going on, and immediately become the living targets of the brothers, in my estimation, at least more than 2,000 enemies have been annihilated in that area, and such a tragic scene has appeared under the powerful fire of the model battalion. The enemy troops on the right flank also did not have the courage to charge anymore...... Heralds! ”

"Here!"

The second platoon of the communications company ran into the observation post.

An Yi didn't look back, and continued to observe the frontal position with a telescope: "Immediately use a fast horse to copy the southern path to give Instructor Yin an order: the third and fourth battalions will come out of the position, slowly advance forward layer by layer according to the predetermined plan, and press the remnants of the enemy on the battlefield in the north." ”

"Yes!"

Fifteen minutes later, Cai Zhonghu looked at the gray sky, and then looked at the watch on his wrist: "This round of firefighting took twenty-eight minutes to end, and the enemy's escape and sporadic shooting took fifteen minutes. I don't know if the 2nd Division has caught up with the enemy's rear, but once the enemy's rear is in disarray, we can attack on all fronts. ”

"The right flank of the beard could no longer bear it, you see, there was not half a shadow of the enemy within a kilometer of them, and the brethren of about two companies had already gone out of their positions and began to sweep the battlefield and capture the surviving prisoners. If Brother Cai wants to train the team, he will transfer the brothers of the company under his command to the beard side, and the old brothers of the model battalion will lead the security, they are all old oilmen who have experienced several wars, and they are very smart whether they are fighting or cleaning the battlefield, and they will not suffer losses if they follow them. An Yi didn't know when to look to the right again.

Cai Zhongwat raised the binoculars to observe carefully, and saw that the veterans were mercilessly replenishing the guns of the remnants of the enemy who were seriously injured but not dead, and then picked up the weapons on the ground and searched the pockets on the enemy's corpses.

"Deputy Chen Tuan, you immediately lead our brothers to drive to the right flank position in a truck, and report to Deputy Hu Tuan, and then obey his command."

"Yes!"

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy's rear and south side of the gunfire was loud, countless panicked enemy troops quickly fled north, An Yi knew that the two main regiments of the division had been pursued, and the third and fourth battalions led by Yin Jinan smoothly joined the division, and began to launch a fierce attack on the remnants of the enemy, he happily ordered the signal soldiers to climb high and wave the flag, and ordered all units to attack.

Cai Zhongwat laughed, walked out of the observation post with An Yi, and before he reached the foot of the ridge, he saw Gao Zhihua, Yang Bin, and Lu Mingdi had already turned over and mounted their horses, and each led the officers and soldiers of the headquarters to charge forward with shouts.

After the main force, Tan Bin, commander of the third company of the second battalion, led more than 100 officers and soldiers to happily clean up the battlefield, and without exception, they searched the corpses of enemy officers and soldiers, even the officers' suede shoes and belts; More than 100 surviving captives were used as pack horses, covered with various guns and bullet belts, and escorted one by one by a dozen brothers armed with machine guns to the front, and overnight returned to the preset camp on the shore of Chengbi Lake, 28 kilometers northwest.

The spectacle in front of him made Cai Zhongwat sigh and cry frequently, but An Yi laughed happily, got on the horse and explained to Cai Zhonghu:

"Don't worry, the bolts of the rifles on the prisoners have been removed and put into thick cloth bags, which are specially carried by other prisoners, and it is normal to search their bodies, if not, what will the younger brother take to reward the brothers? What will be used to give home to the disabled and dead brothers? The whole army knew that our model battalion had the best food, but these food expenses were all scavenged by the brothers little by little. ”

Cai Zhonghu thought for a moment after hearing this, and deeply thought that the current disability pension of the revolutionary army is indeed too low, and there are still a large number of warlords in many armies who are greedy for the salary and food expenses of the soldiers, and there are not many teams like An Yi and his brothers who have done so well, in order to improve the lives of officers and soldiers and improve the welfare of officers and soldiers, they can only think of ways from all aspects, otherwise where will there be so much money to spend, and what methods will be used to make their brothers work hard?

More than 18,000 remnants of the enemy who were scattered were surrounded by various units of the revolutionary army on three sides, striking fiercely, squeezing into a narrow area of three kilometers near Junshan Lake, the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and the stubborn enemy who was still fighting soon turned into a bloody corpse in the rain of bullets that flew in, and the vast majority of enemy officers and soldiers threw down their weapons, raised their hands and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy loudly, and were soon escorted to the rear by groups of revolutionary troops who swarmed in.

At six o'clock in the evening, the Central Route Coalition led by Gao Zhihua finally joined forces with the brothers of the two battalions of the model battalion of Hu Zi and Yin Jinan on the left flank, and more than 5,000 officers and men worked together to narrow the encirclement again facing Junshan Lake, and squeezed the enemy troops from three directions with the brothers of the 5th and 6th regiments of the 2nd Division to the tidal flat 1 kilometer square.

"Bang-"

Just when the sound of the firefight became thinner and thinner, and most of the enemy troops laid down their weapons and surrendered, a stray bullet suddenly passed through the middle of the two horseback guards in front of him, hitting Gao Zhihua's chest, this twenty-nine-year-old and promising handsome man's body trembled suddenly, and he planted his head on the war horse, which frightened Yang Bin beside him, quickly dismounted, and helped Gao Zhihua to call loudly.

General Gao Zhihua, whose blood gushed out of his mouth, smiled slightly, said "Send me home", and closed his eyes forever.

Fast horses spread the news to the ears of An Yi and Cai Zhonghu in the rear, their faces changed greatly, and they rushed straight to the north, Gu Lao Er and other more than 30 adjutant guards waved horsewhips and chased after them, and a group of captains full of pain rode their horses to the entrance of Waigang Village on the south side of Junshan Lake.

Outside the crowd, An Yi and Cai Zhonghu dismounted, forcefully separated the layers of tearful coalition officers and soldiers, and pounced in front of Gao Zhihua's body.

Cai Zhonghu grabbed Gao Zhihua's cold hand, howled and cried, tears rained down, he never thought that on the first day of meeting after eight years of separation, the two brothers would be separated by yin and yang.

An Yi, who was hazy with tears in his eyes, knelt on one leg, took off the military hat on his head, lowered his arrogant head, and the relatives behind him knelt neatly together, Gao Zhihua's adjutant led more than 300 personal soldiers, and could no longer bear the pain in his heart, so he knelt down and cried loudly......

(To be continued)