Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 419 The life or death of the troublemakers is none of my concern.
After careful observation, Yang Xianming did not consider breaking through to Yingcun or Mazhuang.

After all, there are G-forces fighting in both of these places.

Yang Xianming chose to break through to the west first, and then turn south.

At that time, you can go to either Pucheng or Chenqiao.

Having made the decision, Yang Xianming immediately ordered the troops to speed up preparations.

Leave everything that might hinder the operation behind; leave it all to the G army, just enough to slow them down.

After half an hour of emergency preparations, Yang Xianming ordered the various miscellaneous artillery pieces of the brigade's artillery battalion to bombard the G Army's position at the west gate with shells.

The troops then launched a frenzied assault.

In order to survive, the 275th Regiment of the Kuomintang army unleashed its strongest fighting power.

Meanwhile, the artillerymen were firing rapidly until the cannon barrels overheated, at which point they stopped, threw down their cannons and shells, and immediately followed suit.

As for Yang Xianming's request to blow up the cannons, the soldiers in the artillery battalion pretended not to hear it.

Even if a few people wanted to blow it up, seeing that everyone else had run far away, they couldn't hold back anymore and ran away as fast as they could.

"Speed ​​up! Speed ​​up!" Yang Xianming shouted all the way.

However, when the 125th Brigade headquarters and the 275th Regiment broke through and left Anzhen, their ranks were still somewhat orderly.

However, after running less than two miles, the companies and platoons started competing with each other, all wanting to get ahead of the others.

However, they changed their minds half an hour later.

The initial rush to be first has instantly turned into a rush to be last.

"Beep beep beep beep."

As the bugle sounded, the sounds of battle erupted all around.

"G Army! The G Army is attacking!"

Before the soldiers of the Second Detachment even arrived, the Kuomintang troops of the 275th Regiment were already in disarray.

Of course, the soldiers of the 275th Regiment cannot be entirely blamed for this.

Given Yang Xianming's trembling reaction to the mention of "two branches," the others felt even more uncertain.

The chaotic 275th Regiment was no match for the 201st and 203rd Regiments attacking from both flanks.

The 201st and 203rd Regiments immediately launched a barrage of fire.

Then, accompanied by the sound of bugles, they charged in.

In the darkness, faced with the overwhelming shouts of battle, some of the Guo army soldiers had already wet their pants.

When it comes to real hand-to-hand combat, these people are naturally powerless to resist.

The 201st and 203rd Regiments wiped out the elite KMT troops who dared to resist in just over twenty minutes.

As for the rest, including Yang Xianming, they were all kneeling on the ground.

"Quickly clean up the battlefield! The prisoners should take off all their belts and pull up their own trousers. We're going back to Anzhen!" Li Chishui shouted.

It's already November, and the weather is quite cold.

If someone were willing to run away with a bird in the dead of winter, Li Chishui would respect him as a man of honor and let it go.

The troops charged in very quickly, but it took much longer to clear the battlefield and take control of the prisoners.

By the time Team 1 and Team 2 finished cleaning up Anzhen and arrived at Yingcun or Mazhuang respectively, it was already 4 a.m.

Even with his artillery battalion at his disposal, Yang Xianming dared not resist, let alone the remaining two regiments.

The battle ended at seven o'clock in the morning.

The second force, with fewer than 300 casualties, wiped out the 125th Brigade, which had a strength of 8,000.

"Commander, the 125th Brigade has been completely annihilated, and more than 7,000 people have been captured," Xu Wu reported.

As for the captured supplies, although they have been roughly cataloged, Xu Wu did not specifically mention them.

The two branches no longer value these miscellaneous weapons.

"Old Chen, our battle is over. Should we ask the D column if they need any help?" Luo Ping asked.

Noji set a timeframe of 48 hours, and there are only 12 hours left. There's still a day and a half to go.

The two teams can't just sit here and wait.

"Help? Forget it." Chen Chengxing shook his head.

We all came from northwestern Shanxi; everyone knows each other.

From the sergeant to the brigade commander and regimental commander, the D-rank troops would never allow the second detachment to split the soup.

“But we’re just killing time anyway, let’s go and take on the second security team,” Chen Chengxing said.

"After we finish dealing with the Second Security Team, we'll disperse and clear out the small strongholds of the Kuomintang army in this area."

“A piece of meat is still a piece of meat, no matter how big or small,” Chen Chengxing said.

The Second Security Team of the Guo Army is a division-level unit with a total strength of more than 3,000 men.

Let the four teams, who have been idle all night, go by themselves.

"Alright, it's settled then." Luo Ping nodded.

"What the hell did I do to deserve this? What are the G Army doing in Guanjia Town?"

Ma Shouyi, the commander of the Second Security Team, felt like crying.

He was living a life of luxury in Baima County, but after the arrival of the 41st and 47th Divisions, his security team was driven all the way to Guanjia Town.

Now, the G army is coming to attack him again.

"Commander, should we ask our superiors for help? We can't handle the G army," suggested Hong Cheng, the adjutant beside him.

The Second Security Team was incorporated from the puppet army. They couldn't even beat the Eighth Route Army guerrillas before, let alone the KMT field troops with their big guns and cannons.

"Are you blind? Didn't you see which way the G army came from?"

"The west? You mean the 125th Brigade was attacked?!" Hong Cheng exclaimed in shock. "What do we do then?!"

"How the hell am I supposed to know what to do?!" Ma Shouyi roared.

"Make phone calls immediately! Contact whoever you can! Request immediate backup!"

If he could, Ma Shouyi would never want to surrender to the G army.

The things he did during the War of Resistance Against Japan were insignificant in the Kuomintang army, but if he were in the Communist army, he might be skinned alive.

"I'll call right now!" Hong Cheng immediately started shaking the phone.

He and Ma Shouyi were in the same boat; if Ma Shouyi didn't succeed, he definitely wouldn't either. However, to Hong Cheng's despair, although he made many phone calls and various surrounding units offered to provide support,...

However, there was no definite answer as to when they would arrive; the security team was left to keep watch.

If the second security team were capable of this, why would they need to call for help?
Upon learning that there was no possibility of support in the short term, Ma Shouyi slumped into his chair.

He could almost foresee his future.

"Boom!" "Boom!"
Just as Ma Shouyi was deep in thought, a sudden burst of intense artillery fire came from outside.

Immediately afterwards, the phone on the table rang.

"I am Ma Shouyi! What's going on?!"

"Commander, the G army's firepower is too intense! The brothers can't hold on! Requesting reinforcements! Requesting immediate reinforcements!"

"Damn it, the G army hasn't even started their attack yet! They're just firing cannons!" Ma Shouyi cursed.

"Commander, even if we fire artillery, we can't withstand it! The G army is using heavy artillery!" The officers at the front were almost in tears.

The walls of Guanjia Town were made of earth and could not stop artillery fire at all.

Even if a single shot from this heavy mortar doesn't hit directly, it can still blast a section of the earthen wall down.

The soldiers at the firing positions around the city wall didn't even need graves.

"Hold on! We must hold on! I will send troops to support you immediately!" Ma Shouyi said urgently.

After hanging up the phone, Ma Shouyi immediately gathered all available troops and personally led them to the front line.

However, even if all the available members of the Second Security Team were sent to the front line, it was no match for the speed of the retreat.

After probing several times, the 210th Regiment launched a rapid barrage of fire and then charged onto the position.

"Trash! They're all trash!"

"Twenty thousand men! In just two days, twenty thousand men were wiped out!"

"The G army is moving through my territory like it's their own backyard! They've completely humiliated me!"

Chiang Kai-shek wanted nothing more than to smash the table in front of him.

He originally intended to show off at the National Assembly, but ended up being slapped in the face.

"The G Army definitely chose this time on purpose. This matter cannot be left like this!" Chiang Kai-shek said through gritted teeth.

He had just started a meeting in Nanjing when the G army launched a surprise attack. He would never believe it was unrelated.

“Chairman, the G Army broke through before we could encircle them from the east and west. According to intelligence, they should still be in the Diqiu area,” Chen Chengbo said.

Upon receiving news of the attack on Baima, the 85th Reorganized Division and the Fifth Army immediately began to encircle it.

However, the enemy reacted too quickly; half a day before the main force was to encircle them, the G army broke out of the encirclement.

"The troops are advancing and assembling in the Diqiu and Chaoge area, preparing to attack Wulu City. If the G army does not engage in a decisive battle with us, then we will launch a flanking attack on Ye City!"

"I refuse to believe that the G Army will just watch Yecheng fall to us!" Chiang Kai-shek said through gritted teeth.

“Ye City is the G Army’s vital point. As long as we adopt an offensive posture, the G Army will definitely be anxious,” Chen Chengbo said.

Although the G army frequently launched attacks along the Pinghan and Longhai railway lines, the KMT army still held the advantage on the battlefield.

As long as the main force keeps pressing forward, there's no need to worry about the G army not showing up.

Even if the G army doesn't actually appear, the Guo army can seize Yecheng and open up the Pinghan Railway.

This is extremely beneficial to the battlefield situation.

"By the way, there's no need to discuss Huayuankou anymore. We should prepare to block it immediately and let the Yellow River return to its natural course," Chiang Kai-shek suddenly added.

As long as the Yellow River returns to its original course, the G Army's Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region can be cut in two without losing a single soldier.

“Chairman, should we return to our original homes now? There are still a large number of people living along the Yellow River. If we force them to return, it could very likely create a second Yellow River flood zone,” Guo Gui said hurriedly from the side.

After the Yellow River dike at Huayuankou was bombed, northern Henan, northern Anhui, and northwestern Jiangsu were submerged in a vast expanse of water.

The direct deaths caused by the breach of the dikes amounted to 900,000, and more than 10 million people were affected by the disaster.

After the breach at Huayuankou, the old course of the Yellow River in Shandong gradually dried up, and the dike is now abandoned.

In recent years, many people have moved to the riverside to live and have started growing crops.

If the river is forcibly returned to its original course before preparations are completed, the long-neglected riverbanks will become a second Yellow River flood zone.

“Those people occupied the riverbank land without permission, and that’s why they damaged the dike.”

"If this incident results in death, it's their own fault," Chiang Kai-shek emphasized.

As long as he could eliminate the CCP, Chiang Kai-shek didn't care about the lives of those troublemakers.

"Chairman," Guo Gui still wanted to try, as the impact of this matter was simply too great.

"Alright, that's enough, it's settled then!" Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand to stop Guo Gui.

"Order the Shangdu Pacification Headquarters to mobilize the engineering corps and quickly plug the breach!"

In December, the first gust of Yellow River water rushed towards Shandong.

Along with the flood, the Kuomintang army also arrived in force.

Chiang Kai-shek concentrated his forces in the area of ​​Diqiu, Yincheng, and Chaoge, aiming directly at Wulu, intending to launch a flanking attack on Yecheng.

Under the unified command of the field headquarters, several columns moved back and forth around Diqiu, trying to take the opportunity to wipe out the 5th Army.

Despite Chiang Kai-shek mobilizing 200,000 troops this time, once the 5th Army is defeated, the remaining troops will be hesitant to act.

However, Qiu Feng relied on his methodical approach and managed to leave no loopholes.

"If this drags on any longer, it might turn into a stalemate." Looking at the enemy and friendly forces on the map, Luo Ping was somewhat worried.

Building strongholds and fighting protracted battles were the forte of the Guo army.

If the Chinese army continues to confront the Kuomintang army, it simply cannot afford the losses.

"The Kuomintang army is gathering in large numbers, and a direct confrontation would be disadvantageous for our army. I estimate that the Field Army Command is already considering countermeasures."

"If we launch another attack from outside, we should be able to draw the enemy back," Chen Chengxing said.

The Guo army excels at building fortified camps, while the G army excels at mobile warfare.

A superior would never do something as foolish as using one's weaknesses to attack another's strengths.

Just as Chen Chengxing and Luo Ping were discussing, Xu Wu walked in.

"Brigade Commander, Political Commissar, the Field Army Headquarters called. There's a meeting at the General Headquarters tomorrow."

Chen Chengxing and Luo Ping exchanged a glance and immediately realized that action was about to be taken.

(End of this chapter)