On the second day, in Ji'an City in central Gan Province, the provincial governor Cai Chenxun was no longer as high-spirited as before. He sat alone in the room in despair, drinking the peanuts on the table all night long.
A few days ago, he followed the advice of the bastard Sun Chuanfang and deployed his two direct divisions and three garrison brigades in Guangfeng City, Gan Province.
Unexpectedly, under Lu Xiaojia's frenzied artillery fire, his more than 40,000 troops could not hold out for even a day before being beaten to a pulp by the Patriot Army.
In the next few days, he could not control the defeat at all and kept running away.
There is only one Zhi 23rd Division and two garrison brigades left in hand. Originally, there were more than 20,000 people.
As a result, on the way to the defeat, the troops under his command were just like ice cubes under the scorching summer sun. They became less and less slippery. After escaping, he had less than 8,000 remnants left in his hands with low morale.
There is no way this is the current situation of most of China's military today. China's defense industry is too weak, resulting in the equipment and weapons of these warlord troops being outdated.
In addition, these warlords do not know how to do ideological work, and the soldiers do not have strong willpower. It is a dream in itself to resist the attack of the Patriot Army, whose artillery fire is stronger than that of the Fuso Army.
The adjutant hurriedly rushed into the room and said, "Commander, what's wrong, the 106th Regiment defending Jishui County just mutinied. The soldiers directly killed the supervising soldiers as if they had eaten the courage of a bear's heart and a leopard's guts. More than 600 people ran away! "
"Oh!" Cai Chenxun burped and took two more peanuts into his mouth, "Hey hey hey, let them run. We can't beat them. If they follow me and lose their lives, I'm sorry for their parents. ."
"Commander, you..."
Seeing that the adjutant wanted to say more, Cai Chenxun, who looked tired, interrupted him, waved his hand and said, "Adjutant Shi, stop talking, just pick up your luggage and leave."
"Alas." The adjutant said no more, sighed and walked out of the room, closing the wooden door.
At the same time, 2 kilometers outside Yongfeng County, 9 kilometers away from Ji'an City, soldiers of the Second Regiment of the 7th Mountain Division of the National Guard Army were busy queuing up for breakfast.
16 HF-11 field cooking trucks are parked scattered in the forest, and the cooking team has been busy for a long time.
Perhaps soldiers tend to trust and love artillery and armored troops more when fighting, but every time it is meal time, all the soldiers in the army will cast longing eyes on this small tank with a chimney.
Because when its small chimney emits cooking smoke and the stew pot emits hot steam, it always makes every soldier put down the vigilance of being on the battlefield.
"Squad leader Lao Huang, what are we going to eat this morning? Please give us some noodles to eat sometime."
"That's right, Squad Leader Huang, we eat pancakes as the staple food for breakfast every day, or potatoes or sweet potatoes. I'm almost speechless."
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The soldiers held pig kidney lunch boxes and complained about the unchanging menu of the cooking class.
The cooking squad leader was dumbfounded, "I said you guys are so ambitious. It would be great if you have something to eat. We are marching and fighting every day. How can we have time to cook noodles for so many of you?"
In the camp on the side, the regiment leader Meng Deliang was eating steaming pancakes, and he was breathing heavily. He asked the deputy commander Zhao Yunqiang on the side: "Old Zhao, gather the howitzer battalion and field artillery battery of our regiment. Wherever you deploy, don’t exceed the range.”
Zhao Yunqiang pointed to Yatianfang and Chiyang Village on the combat map and said: "I dispersed all the large-caliber artillery in the regiment in the two villages and in the cultivated land between the mountains and fields. Around these two villages, there are generally The relatively wide path can barely pass a small truck, which is convenient for the transportation of artillery ammunition, and there is no problem with the range."
Meng Deliang finished eating the cooking cakes, lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, "Well, okay, our Second Regiment's task is a bit heavy today, and news just came from the division headquarters."
"According to reliable intelligence, Cai Chenxun is hiding in Ji'an City. Our regiment is the closest unit to Ji'an. The commander asked us to capture him alive and end this war as soon as possible."
Zhao Yunqiang smiled and said, "It seems that our second regiment is really lucky. The first and third regiments are currently busy attacking Yongxin and Ningdu. These two cities are far away from Ji'an. It seems that they have won the first prize. It’s out of luck.”
At nine o'clock in the morning that day, 24 75mm howitzers, 18 75mm infantry guns, and 12 120mm mortars, a total of 54 artillery pieces of various types, had already been deployed in the mountains and fields of Yatianfang and Chiyang Village.
"Road 259, datum 57 to the right, high-explosive bomb with instant fuze, No. 3 propellant, ready to load!"
As the order was issued, the artillery began to challenge the elevation and azimuth angles of the artillery in an orderly manner, then loaded the artillery shells and began to bombard the Zhili troops in Yongfeng City.
This is an essential step before an attack for the Patriot Army, which pays great attention to artillery fire. The artillery fire lasts for 10 to 20 minutes, and today is no exception.
You may think that the Patriot Army relied too much on artillery fire, but actual combat has proved that artillery fire is a crucial decisive factor in war.
4 kilometers away in Seyongfeng City, dozens of cannonballs like meteors dragged their tail flames, slid across the skyline, and landed on the city walls and various places in the city.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The Zhijun in the city seemed to have expected it and ran to hide in various houses in the city early. However, there were still unlucky guys who were constantly buried in the light of the fire.
Some people may ask what the people in the city should do. In fact, you can put aside your worries, because the people in the city have actually run away long ago after getting the news.
Fifteen minutes later, the bombardment ended, and the artillerymen stopped what they were doing, only to find that not far from the position, a dozen children in tattered clothes and messy hair had appeared at some point, watching them.
This was naturally a child from a nearby village. The artillerymen seemed to have nothing to do. They just took out the candy in a friendly manner and said, "Child, come here and eat candy."
These strange things brought by the Patriot Army that they had never seen before, such as four-wheeled vehicles that could run without being pulled by horses or oxen, and iron pipes that could spit out flames, naturally made them particularly curious.
Outside Yongfeng City, more than 30 tanks and armored vehicles carrying thousands of infantrymen drove directly to 200 meters outside the city in hundreds of Dodge WC trucks, MB jeeps, and 42 WLA motorcycles.
"boom!"
"boom!"
The tank fired and blasted the decaying wooden city wall to pieces. Then it drove straight in with a convoy full of infantry, and swaggered into Yongfeng City.
From the broken buildings and street corners in the city, many straight soldiers who had no intention of fighting and were ready to surrender emerged one after another. They threw away their weapons and raised their hands high.
The soldiers of the Patriot Army had actually been prepared for this expected situation. The armored soldiers on the tanks held loudspeakers and shouted at the top of their lungs:
"We don't have extra time to capture you now. If you want to choose to surrender, you must put down all your weapons and leave the road so as not to block the way. Our follow-up troops will accept your surrender."
Yes, the armored company was very pressed for time. They had to take these infantrymen along the muddy path and rush as fast as possible to the outside of Ji'an City, 9 kilometers away.
