District 9

Outside Qufu, Gu Taixian's First Garrison Brigade was ready for battle, and the four regiments commanded by Daya himself had also opened up their positions in the attack area.

After the two sides came into contact, there was no probing attack at all. The four main regiments of the Sichuan Army's Northeast Theater pounced directly on them and began to tear apart the defense line of the opponent's garrison at close range.

This battle can reverse the situation on the battlefield in the Eighth District. Therefore, Daya's four regiments did not care about battle losses and firepower consumption at all. They only pushed forward crazily and squeezed the opponent's defense zone.

At the same time, Yang Liandong's troops exchanged fire with the opponent's Second Garrison Brigade on the southwest side of Qufu. Their current situation is 12,000 against 6,000, giving them an absolute advantage in terms of strength.

Yang Liandong is an academic officer. Different from Da Ya's radical command style, although he is not good at using surprise moves to win during wartime, he can fight steadily without making big mistakes.

The offensive tactics adopted by the New Fifth Division are mainly battalion-level combat units, with two battalions forming an offensive echelon. After entering the battlefield, they will outflank one of the enemy's defense areas and use left and right attacks to draw out the opponent's firepower.

In this way, although the advancement speed of the New Fifth Division is slow, the advantage of the force can be fully reflected, and the battle damage can be effectively controlled.

After all the two defense zones outside Qufu were attacked, Gu Taixian's troops wanted to evacuate the main city, but it was a dream.

Big Ya arrived too quickly and sealed the gate outside Qufu immediately, and the Second Qufu Garrison Brigade was also restrained by Yang Liandong. If they abandoned the city at this time to reinforce the Northeast Front, they would encounter the enemy in the wild, and this was obviously It's irrational.

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District 7, Nanhu.

Chen Zhongren sat in the command room, watching the latest battle report from the Eighth District, and was speechless for a long time.

"Yang Liandong's rebellion has had a great impact on the war situation in the Eighth District." Chen Zhongqi said in a low voice: "...our troops supporting the Tongmenghui were all held back by the War Department...and Chen Jun was still defending Nanhu on the periphery. The city...the battle situation is somewhat unfavorable to our army."

"A neutral Yang Liandong is not scary. What is scary is how many Yang Liandongs are left watching in the dark." Chen Zhongren stood up tiredly, looked out the window deeply, and said nothing.

Chen Zhongqi thought about it for a long time and immediately said: "The Wu troops in Lu District have withdrawn. We can call Zhou Xingli again and ask them to concentrate their forces to support us."

Chen Zhongren did not say that this decision was right or wrong. He only paused and replied: "Okay, you go ahead and do it."

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Luhuai, inside the Zhou Clan headquarters.

Zhou Xingli was cursing loudly at this moment: "Damn it, the officers of the Eighth District Party and Government faction are all weak! As soon as Qin Yu stepped up his attack, one division immediately rebelled. How can we fight this battle? How many more people are there over there? Yang Liandong didn't move? Was he just watching the fun?"

Everyone in the war room was silent when they heard this.

Currently, the Zhou Clan's military strength is ahead of the Chen Clan and the Tongmenghui, but their internal situation is equally worrying. Similar to the Feng Ji Corps, this kind of later-recruited combat unit no longer wants to be cannon fodder at this moment. Although there are only more than 50,000 Sichuan troops blocking the road outside the Lu District, their combat power and determination to defend are obvious to all. Now any regiment that rushes forward to fight with them will have their skin peeled off.

Zhou Xingli's headquarters did not expect that Yang Liandong in the Eighth District battlefield would rebel, nor did he expect that Gu Taixian's headquarters, which had been able to confront Qin Gulin's regiment before, would fall into a comprehensive disadvantage in less than a day.

This change was so sudden that Zhou Xingli was completely unprepared. Because according to his previous assumptions, after Free Chan marched into Beifengkou and Xiang Zehao's troops withdrew, the pressure on Lu District would be reduced.

As for the Qinlin Gu Corps, after being distracted by Beifengkou, Gu Taixian could at least get a lot of advantages in the battle situation in the eighth district. At this time, as long as the Zhou Clan troops leave the Lu District and slowly eat away at the Qilin Department, slowly consuming them, the war situation in the entire three major districts will be reversed.

But now that Gu Taixian's side is in a hurry, the civil war in the Eighth District may end at any time, which makes Zhou Xingli dare not easily send troops to the Lu District. Because once a stalemate occurs and Qin Yu's side wins in the Eighth District, the other side will allocate a lot of troops to other battlefields in a short period of time.

Based on the above reasons, Zhou Xingli could only temporarily adjust his thinking and find ways to restore the decline of the Chen clique and the Tongmenghui. Only if these two comrades who are not comrades in arms can survive can the whole family be safe.

In the war room, after Zhou Xingli thought for a long time, he immediately issued an order: "Let the main force of the Xu Clan in Jiujiang send troops. First, relieve the siege of Nanhu and let the Chen Clan take a breather."

"Yes, I'll call right away!" The staff officer nodded.

Zhou Xingli's decision was purely helpless. He originally had no interest in the Nanhu battlefield, and he was eager for a father-son fight between the Chen family and the Chen family to consume a large amount of the Chen family's military power. As long as the Chen faction does not die and is not too strong, the Zhou faction can sit firmly in the seventh district.

This kind of thinking is an authentic politician's thinking, but at this moment, the politician's thinking is useless, because Gu Taixian is too far away and Zhou Xingli cannot save him, so it can only ensure that Chen Xi can still breathe and recover from the bleeding.

This complex military secret struggle is full of political darkness and human evil. It is precisely because the Zhou clique and Chen clique have always been at odds that Qin Yu got many opportunities in the Eighth District.

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On the battlefield outside Qufu.

Daya stood in the observation position with a telescope and asked expressionlessly: "How many people are left in the third regiment and second battalion?"

"More than half have been damaged in the battle, and there are still more than 200 left."

"One more wave of attacks, switch to the third battalion."

"Yes!" The staff officer nodded.

After Da Ya put down the telescope, his heart was bleeding. Every wounded soldier and sacrificed person on the front line is the absolute elite of the Sichuan Army. However, these elites did not have the opportunity to enter the Beifengkou battlefield, but fell in the civil war.

This feeling of resentment has been lingering in Daya's heart for the past few days, and it is getting stronger.

Twenty minutes later, the third battalion was crippled and retreated, followed by Daya waving his hands and shouting: "Second regiment and one battalion are coming!"

In this way, after the Sichuan army continued to fill the defense area of ​​the opponent's 1st Garrison Brigade with troops, the enemy's front line finally collapsed in this fierce attack.

In the command room of the first brigade, a young brigade commander held a phone and said to Gu Taixian: "Commander... our brigade... may not be able to defend the defense zone."

"You withdraw immediately!"

"Commander, the evacuation route has long been sealed. The other party is here to capture me alive."

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It's about three o'clock in the morning.

The commander of the first forward regiment sent a report back to Daya: "The enemy's outer defense area has been cleared by our side, and only a small number of troops have returned to garrison around the brigade headquarters."

"We will launch a general attack on the enemy's first garrison brigade," Da Ya said through gritted teeth, "I want to capture the enemy's brigade commander alive!"

at the same time.

Yang Liandong's step-by-step cannibalization tactics also achieved great results. The defenders in the central area of ​​the enemy's Second Garrison Brigade died in the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water... Unknowingly, the defense area had been completely lost. There was no other way but to Evacuate backwards.