super god warlord

"Yes, we must let Lu Rongting know how powerful he is." Bai Chongxi nodded.

Zhou Jianping's Tenth Division had its own staff, and these high-quality staff quickly drew up a battle plan.In fact, the communication between the two sides will not be very smooth during joint operations, and the plan cannot be made too complicated. It is only necessary to roughly divide their respective combat areas. As for how to command on the spot, it is a matter of their respective headquarters.

According to the plan, Zhou Jianping left an infantry battalion and a divisional howitzer regiment stationed in Fangchenggang, and the other troops marched towards Wuzhou in two routes.Among them, the two main regiments of the [-]th Division marched northward towards Guigang, and the two battalions of the other infantry regiment, together with the garrison regiment, advanced towards Yulin. Their goal was to outflank the logistics line of the old Gui army in Teng County.

Zhou Jianping's troops have not yet arrived in Guigang, and fierce fighting has already broken out in Pingnan, which is located to the east of Guigang.The sixth regiment of the second division of the first army of the old Guangxi army under Lu Rongting's chief think tank, Ma Ji, first launched an attack on Pingnan County, which kicked off the prelude to the Western Guangdong War.

There is only one battalion of the Xingui Army stationed in Pingnan County. Despite the huge difference between the enemy and ourselves, the soldiers are still firmly engaged in the defensive battle.Lu Rongting has searched heavily in western Guangdong for many years, and the local people are full of resentment.Now that the New Guangxi Clan is expelling Lu Rongting, it is in line with public opinion, and they have won the support of the majority of the people at the bottom.

Although the defenders have only more than 300 people and their weapons are quite inferior, they have strong support from the local people.The folk customs in western Guangdong are tough, martial arts are strong, and there are many heroes among the people.Relying on the city wall, the army desperately blocked the attack of the old Guangxi army.The local people braved the hail of bullets to deliver ammunition for the troops to rescue the wounded, and even sent food to the city wall. Some even took up weapons to defend the city together.

With the support of the people in the city, the Xingui Army's resistance lasted for five days, inflicting heavy damage on the Ma Ji Department.Because most of the western Guangdong province is mountainous, the army did not have many artillery pieces, so the new Guangxi army relied on ancient fortifications such as city walls, but the old Guangxi army could not do anything about them.

In five days, the new Gui army leaned against the city wall and killed more than 50 old Gui army at the cost of losing more than 400 people.It's a pity that the various units of the Xingui Army were newly created, and ammunition was quite scarce. Although the fighting intensity was not high, their stocks were exhausted in five days.In the end, as long as the Xingui army retreated after covering the retreat of the people in the city, they also evacuated from Pingnan County.

This battle was just a skirmish. Although the two sides were extremely brave, the number of casualties was surprisingly small, which also revealed the problem of the low shooting accuracy of the domestic army.This result is mainly due to the backwardness of the domestic military industry, and the troops are usually reluctant to use bullets for shooting practice.In fact, if you compare the shooting ability of soldiers alone, all the warlords in the country will be thrown out by the West Special Army, even the Northern Territory Army is no exception.

Due to the shortage of troops, the newly recruited troops were still unusable, and the Xingui Army could only retreat steadily.Ma Ji's troops marched forward triumphantly all the way, conquering more than a dozen county towns, and the troops were directly approaching the city of Guigang.

As the gateway to Nanning, Li Zongren personally commanded the two main regiments of the New Gui Army to stay in Guigang City, intending to block the attack of the old Gui Army here and buy time for the training and integration of recruits and the assistance of the West Army.Li Zongren was also a graduate of the Zhongchuan Army University. The zigzag trench was dug neatly. In the six-story trench, machine gun positions, dressing stations, ammunition depots, command posts, and artillery holes are densely covered. There are three layers of barbed wire outside. The three-meter blockade ditch is completely a standard textbook-style positional warfare configuration.

Looking at such a strict and orderly position, Ma Zi kept feeling stupid.This officer who had only attended private school for three years and was born in Yeluzi was fine if he let him play tricks and tricks, but asking him to fight positional warfare with people who were born in a professional class was like killing him.

In any case, Guigang must be captured. If Guigang cannot be occupied, there will be no way to attack Nanning.If he can't occupy the central city of Western Guangdong Province, it will be impossible to talk about restoring the rule of the province, so even if there is a sea of ​​swords and flames ahead, he must make a breakthrough.

Pulling the few dilapidated cannons of the First Army to the front, Mazi gave them the order to concentrate on bombardment, even if all the shells were used up, a passage should be opened.The artilleryman still gave him a face, but after exhausting all the ammunition, he tore a big hole in the barbed wire.

Mazi concentrated all the Mark machine guns to cover the infantry's charge.The soldiers in western Guangdong were not afraid of death. Under the leadership of the junior officers, the soldiers rushed towards the gap with their rifles in hand.The soldiers of the Xingui Army were not to be outdone. They used the crude weapons in their hands to shoot at each other, desperately blocking the gap opened by the artillery.

Li Zongren personally led the most elite pistol battalion to stand at the gap, blocking the successive attacks of the old Guangxi army.Among the various weapons sold in the Western District, the Mauser pistol, which can be used by one person in bursts, is the most popular because of its powerful firepower. Although it has a short range, it can almost match the firepower of a machine gun at close range.Therefore, every warlord in the country will form a pistol team. As the most elite sharp knife unit, it will have miraculous effects when used in key places.

When countries in the Western Continent generally did not pay attention to individual rapid-fire firepower, this approach of domestic warlords can be said to be ahead of the times. This is also the experience gained through bloody lessons in long-term battles.Generally, wealthy warlords in the country will set up pistol brigades as the closest backbone force. For example, Duan Ruiquan has set up three pistol brigades in the Anhui Clan as the personal guards stationed in Beihua City.

The impoverished Western Guangdong Province only had money to organize a pistol battalion. It was such a pistol battalion that Lu Rongting dared not use lightly.Now this elite pistol battalion has become Li Zongren's biggest reliance in defending Guigang.

One party desperately attacked and vowed to capture the gate of Nanning, and the other party vowed to stick to its position to prevent the other party from invading. The small place of Guigang City turned out to be a battlefield meat grinder in the Western Guangdong War.Both sides continued to invest in this place, and Lu Rongting also knew the criticality of this battle. He spared no expense to invest in the Second Army and the Fourth Army, and the offensive force quickly reached more than 6.

Chapter 856 Air Assault

Li Zongren also knew that this place could not be ignored. After discovering that Lu Rongting had decided to go all out and dispatch all the ace troops, he was also forced to transfer the few defenders in Nanning and the recruits who had not yet completed training to join the defensive battle.Knowing the urgency of the situation, Zhao Shouhong personally contacted Cai Songpo. After getting his approval, the SAR Air Force borrowed the airport in Cochin Province to airdrop a large amount of weapons and ammunition to Nanning.

Zhao Shouhong didn't want to intervene too much in the civil war, and let the warlords misunderstand that he planned to unify the country.What's more, apart from passing through the territory of Cochin Province, the army of the Western Special Zone is only in Hainan Province that is relatively close to Western Guangdong Province.If you send a large army to fight, it will be difficult to provide logistics for the war, so you can only intervene in a limited way.After dispatching [-] troops and an air division, the West Army no longer deployed troops, but weapons and equipment could indeed be supplied openly.

These weapons are equipped with a large number of new troops, so that Li Zongren can continuously mobilize manpower to support the front line of Guigang.It's just that the troops of the Xingui Army are all recruits, and although there are defensive advantages, excessive losses are still inevitable.In just three days, the loss of troops on both sides exceeded 1, and the ratio of battle losses between the two sides was almost one to one.

However, this battle loss ratio has changed a lot since the fourth day. It turned out that Gao Zhihang's 3000th Division of the Air Force arrived in Heng County.At the request of the West Special Army, the Xingui Army mobilized [-] people and built an airstrip as quickly as possible, allowing Gao Zhihang's aircraft with insufficient range to station there, so that their combat radius could include Guigang City.

In the early morning of the fourth day, when Lu Rongting started to organize a new attack, there was a rumbling sound in the distant sky.The sky had just turned white, and the light was still a little dim. Lu Rongting narrowed his eyes slightly and looked towards the western sky.Dense black dots suddenly appeared in the blue sky, and these black dots became bigger and bigger, gradually turning into black birds.

"Ma Ji, what are those things you're talking about?" Lu Rongting was a little puzzled, he had been in the traffic-blocked Western Guangdong Province, and he never knew what the battle in the air was all about.

Ma Zi is just an old-fashioned intellectual from a private school, how could he know the use of aircraft in war.Two old-fashioned soldiers from Yeluzi looked at the sky in bewilderment, wondering what was getting closer.

Sooner or later, a flock of big black birds quickly covered the sky, instantly covering the sky that had just been brightened.In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, this time Gao Zhihang used his best troops, and all [-] fighters of the division were dispatched.

Today, the fighter jets of the SAR Air Force have become J-2 fighter jets. This kind of fighter jet with an upper-wing all-metal structure has a faster speed. The 7kg bomb is like hell urging death.

"Take the squadron as a unit to fight each other. Remember not to waste fuel. It will cost a lot of money for us to go out once. Don't bring back the ammunition, whether it's bombs or bullets." Gao Zhihang gave the order with a smile.

"Understood, Master." The boys cheered loudly.In the new unit of the [-]th Division of the Air Force, most of the pilots are young men who have just graduated from aviation school, and they have no actual combat experience.Today is the first time to go to the battlefield, not to mention being led by their idol, the division commander Gao Zhihang who defeated the world's number one ace Red Baron, which made them even more excited.

The captain of the first squadron whistled, lowered the nose and rushed towards the old Gui army who was about to charge.Before the officers and soldiers of the old Guangxi army could react, the four machine guns sprayed streams of fire at the same time, plowing four bloody trenches in the dense crowd.When they saw the old robe Ze being hit by bullets and blood spattered everywhere, and the stumps and broken arms were everywhere, everyone was frightened and dumbfounded.

The officers and soldiers of the old Guangxi army ran away one after another, but human legs could not compete with the speed of the plane after all. The squadron leader turned the steering column, and the monoplane fighter, which was quite flexible in turning, began to turn left.While turning, he pressed the bomb-throwing button, and the bomb thrown by inertia flew obliquely for more than 20 meters before falling to the ground. The huge explosion overturned more than 20 soldiers.

Under his leadership, planes swooped down one after another, and the low-altitude strafing and bombing greatly disrupted the formation of the old Gui army. Even Lu Rongting's scolding was useless.

The officers and soldiers of the old Guangxi army who had never conducted air defense training did not know how to dodge when encountering a plane. They just instinctively fled to a place they thought was safe.However, running around made oneself an obvious target. The pilots strafed at low altitude one by one, shooting down the soldiers scurrying around one after another.

When the new weapons were put into battle for the first time, they could always exert their maximum combat effectiveness. When Gao Zhihang's pilots ran out of bullets and bombs and had to return, the starting position of the old Gui army had become a slaughterhouse.

Large swaths of blood were mixed with internal organs, and wounded soldiers with broken limbs groaned in the firelight. The entire battlefield was filled with a suffocating spicy smell, which was the smell of gunpowder smoke left in the air after the bomb exploded.With great difficulty, Lu Rongting crawled out from under the dead guard, touched the blood on his neck, and barely opened his eyes to look at the miserable scene around him.

A division of the old Guangxi army that was about to launch an attack was completely disabled. Seeing that his elite subordinates were slaughtered in just half an hour, Lu Rongting felt a tearing pain in his heart. "Overseer, how are you doing?" Ma Zi ran over at this time, he dared to get up to see the situation when he saw the plane leaving.At this time, talking about Lu Rongting's blood all over his body, he immediately asked worriedly.

"It's okay." Lu Rongting waved his hands and said, "It's all the blood of the guards, I'm not injured."

"Overseer, are you okay?" Shen Hongying also ran over, the Nanning garrison who was arrested by Li Zongren was rescued by several cronies, and then he ran to Lu Rongting's camp and continued to fight with the old Guangxi faction.At this time, seeing the air raid passing by, he also ran over.

"I survived by luck. I didn't expect Li Zongren to have such strength and money to support such a sharp army. If we also have such an army, why worry about the world being injustice." Lu Rongting sighed.

"Overseer, this thing is called an airplane, and the price is ridiculously expensive. Not every country in the Western Continent has it. In Hualan, there is only one company that can form such a large-scale air force." Shen Hongying is obviously well-informed. Guang, unexpectedly knew that the weapon he fought just now was called an airplane.

What he said made Lu Rongting startled. He and Ma Ji looked at each other, and they both exclaimed at the same time: "It's the West Army."

Chapter 857 Special Zone Reinforcements

"This time there is no hope at all. The West Special Army intervened in the war in western Guangdong, and they supported Li Zongren's rebels. We are all doomed." Lu Rongting couldn't help but sighed.

Ma Ji rolled his eyes and said, "The warlord doesn't have to be so pessimistic. I don't think the situation is that serious yet."

"Oh? Ma Ji, what do you mean?" Hearing Ma Ji's words, Lu Rongting seemed to grasp the last straw. After all, he still had great trust in his chief think tank.

Ma Ji smiled slightly: "Western Guangdong does not border the Western Special Zone. It took a long time for the West Special Army to send troops. I don't think their infantry has arrived yet, otherwise these planes would not be the only ones to fight."

Lu Rongting nodded again and again when he was told, he accepted Ma Ji's hypothesis.Ma Ji continued: "I think the most important thing for us now is to intensify our attack and occupy Nanning as soon as possible. Nanning is the heart of western Guangdong. As long as we occupy this place, the entire western Guangdong province can be recovered quickly. It will be gone by then." It will be impossible for Li Zongren's rebel army, the West Special Army, to invade western Guangdong."

"That's not necessarily the case. The West Special Army is powerful. The mountains in western Guangdong are hard to fight against the powerful West Special Army." Shen Hongying shook his head.

Ma Ji smiled coldly: "I'm not talking about the difficulty of being able to use the terrain to resist, but because of the existence of the Northern Territory Army and the great powers. The West Special Army has always ignored the domestic battlefield, otherwise it would not allow the Northern Territory Army to dominate. If Li Zongren’s invitation is to find another excuse, it is reasonable for the West Special Army to attack western Guangdong. If we have quelled the rebellion and the West Special Army attacks Western Guangdong again, it will be tantamount to declaring that the West Special Army has officially intervened in the domestic battlefield, which will cause The vigilance of the Northern Territory Army. In addition, the big powers are eyeing the country. As far as I know, there are several big warlords with the support of the big powers behind them. They cannot tolerate the continued expansion of the Western Special Zone."

"It's a good one to alert the Northern Territory Army, and a great power to support it." Lu Rongting slapped his thigh, and at this time he also understood what Ma Ji was going to say: "As long as the West Special Army attacks Western Guangdong Province for no reason, the Northern Territory Army will also Everyone will be in danger, so they will take the initiative to contact us to help the Guangxi Army resist the West Special Army. At that time, the major warlords in the country will unite against the West Special Army. With the support of many great powers, I believe that Zhao Shouhong's ability will not be able to bear it of."

"That's right." Ma Ji nodded and said, "Zhao Shouhong will not miss this point, so as long as the rebels are eliminated in advance, Western Guangdong Province will be as stable as Mount Tai."

"Alright, order all the remaining troops in Wuzhou to move out, detour from the south, and conquer Nanning." Lu Rongting issued the order. The bones of the frontal battlefield were too hard, and it took him a lot of trouble to gnaw.To be on the safe side, he wanted another troop to carry out a sneak attack. Even if he couldn't break through Li Zongren's line of defense, another troop could attack Nanning, creating an established fact.

The old Gui army immediately assembled a larger army and launched a round of charges towards the new Gui army's defense line. Under the non-stop attack, the new Gui army's defense line was in jeopardy.However, the two sides fought again, and the fighting will of the Xingui Army seemed to be much stronger.After seeing the power of the plane, the morale of the new Gui army was high, and the recruits also forgot their fear, and desperately blocked the soldiers of the old Gui army who were getting more and more desperate.

With a smile on his face, Li Zongren commanded the troops flexibly, and held his position with a mobile defense to block the enemy's way forward.In the next few days, Li Zongren changed his tactics to extend the defense time by fighting for the defense line. Every time a defense line was lost during the day, the pistol battalion would regain the position at night.After repeated see-saw battles, the Xingui Army has always firmly grasped the four lines of defense. However, the Pistol Battalion has experienced continuous night battles, with almost half of the casualties, and it is difficult to launch an offensive again.

Unable to use the Pistol Battalion to make raids at night, Li Zongren did not dare to lose the line of defense easily, but today's old Guangxi army attacked extremely fiercely. Although Gao Zhihang's air force came several times, the effect was not obvious.Those old Guangxi army officers and soldiers finally knew how to avoid the plane after experiencing the bloody lesson.The flexible evasion reduced the casualties of the old Gui army a lot, and the role of the air force was greatly reduced.

After all, Gao Zhihang's air force is a fighter division. Their main task is to seize air supremacy, and bombing is just a side job.A small bomb of only [-] kilograms is difficult to penetrate dense branches and give concentrated bombing to the target.

If you want to bomb the officers and soldiers of the old Guangxi army in the dense forest, you must use larger bombs.It's a pity that Gao Zhihang didn't have bombers under his command, otherwise he would definitely have a blast.Although the actions of the air force limited the offensive rhythm of the old Gui army to a certain extent, they could not fundamentally assist the new Gui army in defense.

Lu Rongting also learned to skate. He found that it took more than an hour for the plane to go back and forth, so he ordered the troops to hide in the woods and wait until Gao Zhihang returned to launch the attack, so as to avoid the interference of the air force and launch the attack wholeheartedly. attack.