"Four days and three battles, more than 2,000 people were eliminated, more than 2,000 guns were seized, six guns, nearly ten light and heavy machine guns were killed or killed, and less than 300 of them were killed or killed. Considering his troops, this is a rare victory." Yang Jie lies on the map without raising his head. His words made everyone gasp.

"It's worth it to be able to produce such a person in two years." Tang Mang has always looked down on the Whampoa Military Academy, believing that the Whampoa Military Academy trained not officers but sergeants. Today, he made an exception and praised him.

"Well, I think so. Look, this is his route of action for several days." Yang Jie drew a group of routes for these days on the map. After a while of fun, he said in admiration: "This Zhuang Jihua is amazing. Look at these three battles, the attack on Phoenix Mountain, the night attack of Laofen Mountain, and the encirclement and annihilation of Niuti Valley. That battle is not easy to fight, but he fought all of them, and he won cleanly. Especially the night attack of Laofen Mountain, which is wonderful."

"One soldier is a soldier, and a nest of generals is a tiger and wolf army; Zhuang Jihua's first division is a tiger and wolf army, and Wang Bailing is a monk who eats vegetarian food and chants Buddha's name. Why didn't Commander-in-Chief Jiang hand over the first division to Zhuang Jihua?" Deng Yanhua, commander of the 17th Division, did not forget Wang Bailing's performance at Tonggu City, and couldn't help but make a joke again. Zhuang Jihua's three battles are all clear about the contents of the generals. The generals must make accurate judgments and the troops must have the ability to marches continuously and fight continuously. The first regiment has done this, which means that the training of the first regiment is extremely strict, so that the troops can only be called the tiger and wolf army.

"Who knows. His man's ideas are always strange." Everyone knows the meaning of Cheng Qian's words. Since the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek first hid his own troops and asked other troops to charge. When he arrived in Wuchang, he wanted to pick peaches but lost his face, which became a joke for other generals. Now Zhuang Jihua captured Yang Zhendong, which was considered to save some face for Chiang Kai-shek.

"The Whampoa Military Academy has produced many talents. Zhuang Wenjie is one of the best. I thought Commander-in-Chief Chiang would hand over the First Division to him sooner or later." The topic involved Chiang Kai-shek. Party representative Lin Zuhan couldn't say anything. After the Zhongshan ship, the relationship between ** and Chiang Kai-shek was subtle. At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, the Central Committee held a meeting in Shanghai and officially listed Chiang Kai-shek as the leader of the new right. However, according to the opinions of the Communist International, he was still listed as the object of unity.

"Forget it, let's not talk about him, let's wait for Monk Wang. When he arrives, we will hold a meeting to study the combat deployment of the attack on Xiushui." Cheng Qian waved his hand to stop everyone's words. But the dissatisfaction in his words was very obvious. The 179th Division had arrived long ago, but the 1st Division led by Wang Boling was slow to move and has not arrived yet.

"Did this monk Wang come out to beg for alms or fight?" Tang Mang muttered without hesitation.

It was finally dark. Wang Bailing came late, but Cheng Qian didn't care about the blame and immediately held a combat meeting. Cheng Qian learned the lesson of the bronze drum. He still used the tactic of surrounding three quads and one, and used the 17th Division to attack the Jiugong Mountain area of ​​Xiushui East Gate, the 17th Division to attack the North Gate and the Fenghuang Mountain line, and the 17th Division to attack the South Gate of Xiushui.

Zhuang Jihua came forward to express his objection again, and no one questioned his qualifications again this time.

"If you encircle three palaces and one, Xie Hongxun will inevitably escape from the east gate. There are two roads from the east gate, one to Wuning and the other to Jing'an. No matter where he fled, he had to pass through. Nanya and Wei's area, so Beizhi suggested sending an ambush in this area. Even if he could not completely annihilate Xie Hongxun, he could annihilate his main force. This would be extremely beneficial to our future De'an battle."

Zhuang Jihua's opinion was accepted by Cheng Qian. However, this time he did not send Zhuang Jihua to fight the ambush, but instead sent Yang Yuanjun to lead two regiments of the 19th Division to set up an ambush. The siege deployment was also adjusted. The 17th Division remained unchanged, and a regiment was drawn from the 1st Division. This regiment plus the regiment of the 19th Division was led by Zhuang Jihua to attack Fenghuang Mountain.

Xie Hongxun had already noticed the actions of the Northern Expedition Army. He judged that the main attack direction of the Northern Expedition Army was Ximen. Therefore, he placed a whole reinforcement regiment on Jiugong Mountain, a regiment on Fenghuang Mountain, and two other regiments were responsible for the water city defense.

The battle started first at Jiugong Mountain. The terrain of Jiugong Mountain was dangerous, with the main peak reaching more than 200 meters. The 17th Division launched a fierce attack on Jiugong Mountain with the 50th Regiment as the front, the 51st Regiment as the flank. Xie Jun was very tenacious in defense and repelled the 50th Regiment twice in succession. Deng Yanhua drew a battalion from the 49th Regiment of the Reserve Team to support. After receiving reinforcements, the 50th Regiment attacked Jiugong Mountain again and took two hills in a row, but Huangmuling was stopped in front of the main peak, and the battle was in a stalemate.

The first division also launched an attack at the South Gate. The hills of Xiushui South Gate were undulating, but there were no dangerous mountains like Jiugong Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain. How did Xiushui outside the city provide a natural barrier for Xiushui City?

Wang Bailing used Xue Yuedi's third regiment as the right wing and Sun Yuanliang's second regiment as the left wing. The two regiments advanced side by side, swept across Xiushui River and quickly reached the edge of Xiushui River. However, the ships crossing the river had been searched by Xie Hongxun to the north shore. Wang Bailing had to stop and search for ships everywhere to build floating bridges, preparing to cross Xiushui River.

Phoenix Mountain was the last to start. Zhuang Jihua's road was the farthest. It was already past ten o'clock when he arrived at the foot of Phoenix Mountain. Zhuang Jihua used the first regiment to attack Phoenix Mountain, the 1st battalion of the 56th regiment to monitor the direction of Jiugong Mountain, the 2nd battalion was responsible for attacking two highlands northeast of Xiushui City. After succeeding, he attacked from the flank to Phoenix Mountain, and the 3rd battalion was the reserve team.

The first regiment was still the brave Song Xiongfu as the vanguard. After the battle in Niutigu, Song Xiongfu was severely criticized by Zhuang Jihua. This time, Song Xiongfu began to organize the attack troops carefully. He organized an assault group, support group, and cover group in a straightforward manner. Three battles and three victories greatly improved the equipment of the first regiment. Each company of the first battalion added a machine gun. Song Xiongfu gathered all these machine guns together and concentrated the sharpshooters of each company to draw out the ground as a cover group, led by the company commander of the third company. The assault group was led by the company commander of the first company, and the support group was led by the company commander of the second company Geng Changzhi.

Zhang Zhen, the leader of the 56th Regiment, was originally a tactical instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy, but he had never taught students in the first and second class, so he did not dare to be a teacher in front of Zhuang Jihua. However, with Huangpu relationship, Zhuang Jihua was also polite to him. Zhang Zhen watched the attack group cover group and cover group of the battalions of the first regiment, so he asked people privately. It happened that the person he was inquiring was from the third class. He had heard of his local class, so he told him honestly what the assault group cover group support group and the role of each group, and how to cooperate on the battlefield.

Who is Zhang Zhen? A talented student from Baoding Military Academy, who went to Japan to study, immediately realized the value, so he took out his teacher's style and asked Zhuang Jihua for those booklets. Zhuang Jihua gave it to him without asking any questions, without hiding his own personal information.

The attack finally began. Zhang Zhen witnessed a group of tactical abilities in the command post. Six artillery pieces concentrated on bombarding the target. The assault group and the cover group secretly moved to the foot of the mountain. As soon as the cannon stopped, seven or eight light and heavy machine guns fired at the same time, like seven or eight fire dragons swept up the mountain and charged bravely. As soon as the machine guns on the mountain sounded, they were immediately killed by the sharpshooters in the cover group. The assault group blew into the enemy's position like a whirlwind. When the assault group approached the enemy's position, the support group immediately dispatched, and the first pass was taken down like this.

The first regiment encountered fierce resistance at the second pass, and the first battalion's first charge was knocked down. Song Xiong's husband was immediately furious and cursed and wanted to lead the team to charge in person. The party representative pulled him away: "You forgot what the deputy commander said." A sentence made Song Xiong's footsteps stop. "Continue attack, Chao Guojun, listen, I will take down Phoenix Mountain and I will remember the merits for you. If you can't take it down, don't blame me for being rude! Do you understand?"

Chao Guojun is also a hot temper. After being beaten down, he was furious. After hearing Song Xiongfu's words, he saluted without saying a word, turned around and left.

Another shelling was bombardment. This time the shelling time was longer than last time, and the mountain was suddenly shrouded in smoke and fire. Chao Guojun led the assault team to attack again. When he rushed to the middle of the mountain, the enemies on the mountain began to shoot, and the assault team was forced to shoot against the enemy. The enemy was condescending and took a lot of advantages. After finally waiting for the several heavy machine guns of the cover group to move into place to suppress the enemy's firepower, Song Xiongfu immediately ordered the charge. With the clamor, the assault team got up from the hillside. He shouted and charged upwards. Xie Jun threw grenades one after another. A series of explosions rose up a burst of smoke on the hillside, and the smoke blocked the sight of the defenders on the mountain. They reacted until a group of people rushed out of the smoke, but they had been here for a while.

The Northern Expedition Army, which rushed out of the smoke, responded to a group of grenades and rushed into the trenches in the face of the explosion. Fierce hand-to-hand combat was unfolding at the top of the mountain. The sound of weapons, curses, and screams sounded everywhere on the top of the mountain. As the support team rushed to the top of the mountain, the defenders either surrendered or fled to the back mountain.

"Good example! Chao Guojun is good example! I want to ask him for credit!" Song Xiongfu was so happy that he danced with joy.

"Report, the assault team leader Chao Guojun was killed in the battle, and suddenly became irritable: "Don't you be so damn fart, I'll kill you!" As he said that, he reached out to pull out the gun. The party representative next to him immediately hugged him, turned to shout at the dazed soldier, "You go down first."

"I'll kill you!" Song Xiongfu struggled, screamed, and tears flowed down his eyes.

From the Northern Expedition to the present, the First Regiment has never killed a company-level cadre. Unexpectedly, the first one was Chao Guojun, the subordinate that Song Xiongfu trusted the most.

Phoenix Mountain is in a hurry, and the situation in Jiugong Mountain is not good. Deng Yanhua asked to supervise the battle under Huangmuling. The 17th Division restored its morale and launched three consecutive attacks. Finally conquered Huangmuling and approached the main peak of Jiugong Mountain.

The first division collected more than a dozen wooden boats at the south gate, took Xue Yue as the vanguard, and forced the Xiushui River to cross the Xiushui City.

The gunshots at the south gate made Xie Hongxun panic. After fighting for so many years, he broke through the life and death barrier several times. He had never been as panic as he is today.

According to his estimate, Xiushui County could be guarded for a month. Xiushui City has Fenghuang Mountain in the north and Jiugong Mountain in the east. Both mountains are steep and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is Xiushui River in the south. Although Xiushui River is not a turbulent river, it also provides defense guarantees for Xiushui County from the south.

But after only one day of battle, Fenghuang Mountain and Jiugong Mountain were in a hurry. The Northern Expedition Army in the south had already arrived at the city wall and launched a fierce attack towards the south gate.

"Master, I think we still withdraw from Xiushui. It's still time to leave now." Gan Shijun saw Xie Hongxun's expression and knew that he was a little shaken.

"But Shuai Xin and Commander Lu..." Xie Hongxun said hesitantly.

"Oh, if we continue like this, even if we keep the water repair, the troops will be exhausted." Gan Shijun said bitterly. What does it mean for them, the officers, have had countless role models since the Republic of China.

Xie Hongxun was still hesitating, and at this moment the adjutant came to report that Fenghuang Mountain was lost and the guard commander was killed.

Chao Guojun's sacrifice made Song Xiongfu angry with a storm. He personally led the assault team to launch round after round of attacks on the main peak of Phoenix Mountain. A regiment of soldiers also seemed crazy, becoming more and more crazy, and finally killed the main peak.

The commander of the defender knew what the gains and losses of Phoenix Mountain meant to Xiushui, so he personally led the guards to counterattack wildly. The two sides fought fiercely on the mountain. After Zhuang Jihua supported the last reserve team, the defender's counterattack was suppressed. When Song Xiongfu cut off the head of the defender's commander with a knife, the enemy on the mountain fled.

The loss of Phoenix Mountain became the last straw that crushed Xie Hongxun’s heart. He quickly ordered to withdraw from Xiushui, the enemies on Jiugong Mountain retreated to the county town, and then retreated to Wuning through the east gate.

Xie Hongxun made a mistake and issued the retreat order too early. Jiugongshan could have been at least safe to defend until evening, and retreating at night. As a result, after receiving the order, the Jiugongshan defenders almost immediately gave up their positions and retreated all the way under the pursuit of the Northern Expedition Army. The Northern Expedition Army took the opportunity to rush into the city. The enemy troops at the South Gate were also shaken. Under the strong attack of the First Division, they abandoned the South Gate and retreated to the East Gate. After the First Division entered the city, the troops were divided into two groups. Xue Yue's regiment went straight to the center of the city, and Sun Yuanliang rushed to the west gate along the city wall; Xue Yue cut off some of the enemy troops retreating from Jiugongshan.

After Xie Hongxun, who left the city, gathered the troops on the other side of Xiushui River and counted the number of troops, there were only less than 4,000 left for nearly 7,000 people.

Xie Hongxun retreated to Wuning along the right bank of Xiushui River. When passing Zhuping Mountain, he was attacked by the 55th Regiment of the 19th Division. Xie Hongxun relied on more people to repel the attack of the 55th Regiment, and then quickly retreated to Wuning. When the 57th Regiment who received the news came, he could only look at Xie Hongxun's back and sigh.
Chapter completed!