District 9

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

The remnants of Gu Taixian's Second Garrison Brigade have withdrawn across the board outside Qufu City, while Yang Liandong's large forces are hot in pursuit, settling in an area less than 20 kilometers southwest of Qufu City. To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to an indirect siege.

The First Garrison Brigade under Gu Taixian was almost completely wiped out by Daya's four regiments. Both sides suffered heavy losses in this battle, but fortunately, the center line of the battlefield was controlled by the Da Ya Department. The Sichuan Army's follow-up troops could pass through the blocking line and continue to increase troops here. Even Li Shihong's artillery brigade soldiers came from the rear with guns in hand. Supported.

Outside Qufu City, in the First Brigade defense area about 20 kilometers northeast, the large-scale battle has ended.

Daya ordered the security company and Li Shihong's additional troops to launch a three-foot manhunt in the nearby defense area. Finally, at around seven o'clock in the morning, the brigade commander of the First Guard Brigade, Gu Shen, was captured alive.

Gu Shen is Gu Taixian's son and Gu Yan's cousin. He... He was originally a passionate young man who supported unification and fought on the battlefield in the Old Triangle, and was the leader of the new generation in the Eighth District.

But in the final decision, he and Chen Jun chose different paths. He does not have Chen Jun's age and experience, and his personality is not that independent. He is Gu Taixian's only son and admires his father very much, so he finally stood with the Tongmenghui and opposed Lin Yaozong's appearance on the stage.

After Gu Shen was arrested, he looked lonely and was handcuffed in the trench without saying a word.

Daya walked over and said after a long silence, "If you weren't a member of the Gu family, I wouldn't hate you so much."

Gu Shen slowly raised his head to look at him and replied in a low voice: "Even now, it's not what I want to see... Forget it, let's not fight. I lost. I will accept any result."

Daya hated the people from the Alliance very much, but Qin Yu had promised Gu Yan that this person would be handed over to the latter, so he was silent for a while before waving his hand and saying, "Send him back to Yanbei."

"Yes!" the guard company replied.

Daya ordered again: "Send a message to Yang Liandong's division to prepare to attack Qufu City."

"yes!"

…

The two garrison brigades were disabled directly outside the city, and the troops on the northeastern and northwest fronts were unable to immediately return for reinforcements. Therefore, the current battlefield situation was already an irreversible disadvantage for Gu Taixian's troops.

But Gu Taixian's headquarters still has capital. They still have at least 60,000 troops on the northeast and northwest fronts, and it will take a long time for Qin Yu to quickly quell this force, so... things There is also a chance of turning around.

A brief video conference was held within the Alliance, and then the Chief of General Staff sent an e-mail directly to Gu Yan on behalf of everyone.

The content of the e-mail is roughly as follows.

Gu Taixian's troops can abandon Qufu City, but the prerequisite is that Qin Yu must allow them to unite and retreat to the Xinjiang border.

If Qin Yu agrees, Gu Taixian's troops will immediately cease fire and support Qin Yu and Lin Yaozong in reinforcing Beifengkou to defend against foreign enemies.

He also promised that as long as the Alliance is given a certain area for military activities, the two sides will never go to war.

Otherwise, all the troops of the Alliance will fight to the death to defend the last honor of the soldiers.

In the content of the e-mail, the Chief of General Staff included many personal emotional factors. For example, he told Gu Yan that the Gu family was originally a family, and they were undoubtedly fighting each other until now during the war. He hoped that Gu Yan would remember the feelings of being from the same family, remember the friendship between uncle and nephew, and try his best to promote a truce.

This move was indeed fatal to Gu Yan, because his second uncle had never been sorry to him at the family level, and even his teachings were, in a sense, higher than those of his father.

But Gu Yan also knew that his second uncle was a very proud man, and he would never send him this letter at this time, admitting failure, or even begging for mercy.

This is a threat from the Alliance. The meaning is very simple. If you let us have a way to survive, then we will not fight, so that you can have troops to reinforce the Beifengkou battlefield.

And if you insist on fighting to the end, then these more than 60,000 people will definitely resist desperately when they have no way to retreat. By then you will have missed the opportunity to support Beifengkou, and the country will be lost.

Gu Yan was angry at this threat, and also felt ashamed for these generals of the Gu family who had contributed to the region.

He didn't know why these people became like this, giving up their bottom line again and again.

Gu Yan felt that he had no right to make any peace talks decisions, so he directly sent this letter to Lin Yaozong, Qin Yu, and Daya.

At the border, Qin Yu, who was commanding troops to attack the enemy's 935th Division and the Third Division, received a call from his father-in-law: "Hello? Dad!"

"What do you think?" Lin Yaozong asked.

"This is a delaying plan. Once we let them retreat to the border and wait for all our troops to rush to the north wind outlet, once these people attack Yanbei, Xinyang, and Qufu, how will we defend ourselves?" Qin Yu gritted his teeth and replied: "Snake the snake." If you don’t die, you will be bitten by a snake!”

"I have the same view as you." Lin Yaozong nodded.

Outside Qufu.

Daya, who was preparing to attack the city, saw the letter printed by the signal corps and tore it up: "Talk about fucking talk! Only when the troops came to the city did they think of the armistice. Why did they go there? How many people have died in Beifengkou? How many people have died in my army?! Talk? I will use cannons and gun barrels to talk to him!"

After finishing speaking, Daya called Yang Liandong directly and said concisely: "Attack the city at ten o'clock in the morning, warm up first."

Yang Liandong heard this and advised: "Assaulting the city in daylight, the deployment of our troops will be fully visible to the enemy. This will cause great damage."

Da Ya immediately expressed his opinion: "They have their last breath left. Many neutral troops have not moved. We just want to exert a winning momentum and break the last straw of the Alliance. Tell them, At this point, they have no luck left. Only by reaching the city as soon as possible and turning the tide of the battle can we reinforce Beifengkou."

Yang Liandong felt that what Daya said made sense, and immediately agreed to the siege plan.

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

Yang Liandong's division began to attack from the southwest side of Qufu, and Daya immediately entered an offensive position on the northeast side after waiting for the support troops from the center line.

Sure enough, as soon as the battle in Toucheng began, the neutral troops entrenched around Gu Taixian's troops all changed their banners and sent reinforcements to Qufu under the slogan of supporting unification.

Some of these troops are battalions, some are regiments, and there are not many people in total, but they represent an attitude.

Since Yang Liandong raised the flag, the Tongmenghui has come to an end!

…

Yanbei, District Eight.

After Gu Shen was escorted off the plane, he saw Gu Yan.

After the cousins ​​looked at each other, Gu Shen said in a trembling voice: "...my uncle has passed away and I haven't paid my respects yet...I'll kneel here and kowtow to him!"

After saying that, Gu Shen knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of Gu Tai'an's grave.