Luo Yaoguo, who received the task, naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly led the seventh and eighth divisions across the Beijiang River with Gu Zhutong, the commander of the seventh division, to occupy Zhangshi Town. As soon as the army entered Zhangshi, Zhang Hu, the commander of the special service battalion, sent an urgent report that about a division of Shen's army had appeared 5 kilometers north of Zhangshi.

"Mo San, it seems that this Shen thief has the same idea as Jiegong, he wants to copy our back road." Luo Yaoguo was very excited when he saw the enemy.

Gu Zhutong had the same idea, for fear that he would not be able to get any credit for this journey. "Fuwen, our army has two divisions, and the strength is twice as large as theirs, I think this battle will be won, and the problem now is not to let Shen Thief's people escape."

"It's okay, how many soldiers does Shen Hongying have? There is an army in Zhaoqing, there are two armies in Dakengkou, and there is a division here, Qujiang, Shaoguan, and Xinjie will inevitably be empty, and if this army wants to run, it will not be too late to cross the river and return to Qujiang. In this way, we got Qujiang and Shaoguan, and surrounded the two divisions at Dakengkou, is Shen Hongying willing to do it? Okay, get ready for war, right? How about you and I each keep one regiment as a reserve, and the other four regiments are thrown in at once? ”

"Okay, but Fuwen, let me command the main attack of these four regiments, you are the commander-in-chief along the way, and you always have the first credit, you can't let my brother work in vain, right?" Gu Zhutong was a native of northern Jiangsu, and because he was earlier with Chiang Kai-shek, he was reused by Chiang Kai-shek and became the commander of the Seventh Division, but his foundation was always unstable in the Guangdong army, and he urgently needed a big victory to consolidate the position of division commander.

Luo Yaoguo's situation is just the opposite, he is a native of Guangdong, and he is the nephew of Luo Yiqun, a good person in the Cantonese family, and he also holds a diploma from West Point, and the Eighth Division was pulled out by him, so his position is solid, and this victory is dispensable. Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo responded very happily. "Third Brother Mo, I'll hand over the two machine gun battalions and the two spy battalions to you together, you are more sure to bring the four regiments and four battalions, after all, our troops have many recruits, and the enemy also has a division, and I asked the deputy division commander Wang Bao to help you, Wang Zhongyi is a strong general who charges into battle, and we will definitely win a big victory in this battle with him to help you."

After the two discussed, Luo Yaoguo stayed in Zhangshi Town to take command, and Gu Zhutong took four regiments and four other battalions, and more than 9,000 people went out of the town to meet the enemy. At this time, Shen Hongying also urged the army to go south to the north of Zhangshi Town and opened a front, and the opening of this battle was an extremely rare offensive battle in the Chinese Civil War!

The warlords of the Republic of China often have chaotic troop formations, and the same regiment, Luo Yaoguo, is the standard of 2,000 people, with three infantry battalions of 500 people, plus five companies of special, engineer, baggage, machine gun, and regimental headquarters. The situation with Shen Hongying is not necessarily, some regiments can have 1,000 people, and some regiments are only 7 or 800. This time, Shen Hongying brought a pro-soldier brigade, with four pistol battalions and one 1,600 people, which was Shen's elite backbone and had very strong combat effectiveness, so he knew that the enemy was numerous, and he dared to take the initiative to attack.

However, to Shen Hongying's surprise, the number of enemies was actually like that! When the two came into contact, Shen Hongying, who had rich combat experience, knew that it was bad! He put his surname into three pistol battalions with 1,200 people at a time, each with a German Mauser box gun, which is by no means a domestic copycat, this army is Shen Hongying's old book across the rivers and lakes, all of them are veterans of the war, and they are equipped with good guns, if the enemy is only twice as much, it is really not a problem, even if it is against three times the enemy, it will not fail, but no one thought that this time it will be against seven times the enemy!

Seven to fight one is no longer what heroes do, but Gu Zhutong still has to shoot! After the reorganization, the Guangdong army division had a machine gun battalion with two companies of water machine guns and one company of mortars! Gu Zhutong ordered two mortar companies to fire at the Shen army first, then fire with water machine guns, and finally four regiments plus two special service battalions rushed up to fight the sea of people. Therefore, the heroes of the miserable Shen Hongying pistol brigade were bombarded by more than 20 60mm mortars when they were just rushing forward to kill and injure the Cantonese army with the powerful firepower of the Mauser submachine pistol.

As soon as he heard this kind of dense artillery sound, the people with a little experience knew that the general trend was gone, and Shen Hongying could roughly hear that it was more than twenty mortars. More than twenty mortars should be the total number of mortars owned by two divisions in Sun Artillery's Guangdong army! Shen Hongying knew about this situation, he was still eating Sun Yat-sen's meal two days ago, of course he didn't know nothing. In other words, one of his brigades is now fighting a bloody battle with two divisions of the enemy!

"Withdraw! Evacuate! Shen Hongying gritted his teeth and spit out three words, and then without a little hesitation, he turned his horse's head and fled to the mountains to the north with the remaining battalion of men and horses, regardless of the more than 1,000 brothers who were still fighting for him.

Shen Hongying found that something was wrong, and Gu Zhutong also found a problem, he found that the number of enemies was not much! There was about less than a regiment, and all of them were troops with Mauser pistols! Obviously, this is Shen Hongying's personal soldiers, and there are many pro-soldiers equipped with pistols among the people's [***] valves, and they are pulled out to help the boss fight a tough battle or protect the boss to escape at a critical time. At that time, pistols were not used by infantry in other countries in the world, except for the United States, but American infantrymen used their own pistols as bayonets. Only in China, which is backward in weaponry and extremely lacking in heavy weapons, does it use such units as elite pistol brigades and pistol battalions.

"Brother Zhongyi, the enemy seems to be Shen Hongying's personal soldiers! It seems that Shen Shun is nearby, why don't we assault with the whole army and see if we can catch Shen Shun? Gu Zhutong also knew that his surname might not be big, Shen Hongying was born as a habitual bandit, it was easy to defeat him, but it was difficult to catch him, but he always had to try his luck.

Wang Bao also has this idea, this Shandong man, and he doesn't have a reliable diploma, and he has a deputy division commander because of Luo Yaoguo's promotion, so he is naturally eager to show himself, so that everyone is saying behind his back that he is relying on sycophants. "What Third Brother Mo said is very true, I will lead the troops to assault, and Third Brother Mo will take a look." After saying that, Wang Leopard ran to the infantry starting line like a gust of wind and began to organize an attack.

After this period of training, the combat effectiveness of the 7th and 8th divisions of the Guangdong army has been improved, and the soldiers have learned to shoot at the correct distance. In addition, the skill of fighting bayonets has also improved, and even before throwing grenades, they know that they have to pull the strings first, and they will not rush to throw grenades into their own team. This level is basically regarded as elite soldiers in today's China, and now nearly 8,000 elite soldiers in four regiments are shouting Chiang Kai-shek's stipulation of "Long live the premier, rush!" According to the art of war that Chiang Kai-shek learned from the book, the slogan before the "White Soldier Assault" can bring strength to the soldiers! He said that he was shouting "Long live the emperor", and Chiang Kai-shek asked his subordinates to shout "Long live the prime minister".

8,000 people shouted the slogan "Long live the prime minister" in Hokkien, Cantonese, and Jiangxi dialects, and rushed at Shen Hongying's own soldiers, who were staggered by more than 1,000 mortars and machine guns. Now Shen Hongying's three battalions of pistol teams can move about seven or eight hundred, and there are more than four hundred who have returned to the sky upright, and this kind of casualty level is simply unbearable in the middle [***] team at that time, so the morale of these pro-soldiers has dropped to zero, and when they saw the boundless enemy screaming and rushing over, they collapsed at that time, and they all rushed to the mountains to the north in a hurry.

In this way, Luo Yaoguo's temporary headquarters in the mansion of a large landowner in Zhangshi Town has not yet been established, and he is about to open again, and before leaving, he sent a good news to Chiang Kai-shek, telling him that he had just defeated the pistol brigade led by Shen Hongying himself, killed and wounded 600, and captured more than 500.

The encounter on the afternoon of March 18 was whitewashed by Chiang Kai-shek as a great victory in Zhangshi, and then he doubled the number of enemies destroyed by Luo Yaoguo and multiplied it by two to report it to Sun Yat-sen.

Luo Yaoguo and Gu Zhutong still had tasks to do, so naturally they couldn't stay in Zhangshi for a long time, so they left Wang Bao and Gao Shaojie to take the militia of Zhangshi Town to search the mountains to see if they could catch some remnants. The rest of the troops continued to go north to fight Qujiang and Shaoguan.

After receiving the good news from Zhangshi, Chiang Kai-shek knew that the plan to attack Qujiang had been exposed, so he immediately changed the deployment and threw the entire army into the attack, and at the same time ordered Qian Dajun to command two artillery regiments to open artillery to bombard the Shen army.

Li Yibiao and He Caijie, two stupid geese, attacked on the front line of Dakengkou for several days in a daze, and the soldiers in their hands became fewer and fewer, and the enemy seemed to be unable to fight no matter how they fought. The two of them were wondering when they heard the rumbling sound of cannon in their ears.

"This, this, this is a field artillery! A lot of guns! Li Yibiao's ears were full of cannon sounds, and the surroundings were blown into a sea of fire, and he couldn't tell how many cannons were bombing, anyway, there were a lot. Li and He were lucky enough to hide behind a big rock and survived the artillery raid commanded by Qian Dajun. However, the troops around them were miserable, lying all over the mountains, looking as if there were thousands of dead, and many of the rest were running around at a loss.

"Wow! Ooh! Ooh! "This is the sound of footsteps, and it is earth-shattering and passes through from the south. Li Yibiao peeked out of the distance from behind the big rock, and immediately felt as if he had entered an ice cellar. There were at least tens of thousands of people in a large area of black pressure that could not be seen at all, and they were rushing towards him from the east, south, and west.

"Brother, run, let's run." Li Yibiao shouted for a long time He Caijie didn't move at all, and Li Yibiao, who felt strange, looked back, where is the shadow of He Caijie?

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