After receiving the order, Li Qiufan immediately set off with his troops.
Today, there are only two reorganized divisions of the National Army in the Yan'an area. One of them is deployed at Hezhuangping in the northwest, and the other is deployed in Liqu to guard the gateway to the east of Yan'an.
The boss' intention is to let Li Qiufan pull out this nail on the outside first, otherwise it will be much more difficult to defeat after retreating to Yan'an.
Li Qiufan understood the boss's intention in an instant, and headed towards Li Qu in a hurry with his troops.
Since Li Qiufan led his troops all day and night and only followed small roads, the national army did not detect his whereabouts at all.
Only after Li Qiufan arrived at Li Qu with his troops did the old fox get the news about him.
When he heard that tens of thousands of people had penetrated under his nose, the old fox became furious.
Then Dang even sent a telegram to Qingjian, asking them why the People's Liberation Army troops appeared in Yan'an.
On the other hand, Qingjian looked confused and had no idea what was going on.
Since the three and four column fronts were stretched long enough, and the heavy artillery division remained there to bombard them all day long, they did not even notice that there were two missing columns on the opposite side.
After all, they have been defending and have never attacked at all. If they counterattack, they will definitely find clues.
It was too late to say anything now. The old fox could only hope that Li Qu's organizer could block Li Qiufan's attack.
After arriving in Li Qu, Li Qiufan immediately ordered his troops to attack the national army's defense line.
At the same time, the boss' side also arrived at Yanhewan and started a fierce battle with another reorganization division stationed there.
As a result, the situation of a two-sided attack was officially formed, which made the old fox in Yan'an unable to sit still.
Then he sent a telegram to the newly formed army that went to Qingjian to support, asking if the other party had arrived in Qingjian.
According to common sense, this new formation should have arrived at Qingjian a long time ago. If it had been faster, it might have already entered the battle.
But after hearing about the battle with Li Qiufan's tribe and the destruction of the 17th Army, the army commander couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
Then, because the commander of the new army was afraid of death, he deliberately slowed down the march. So at this moment, they had just arrived in Yanchuan and were still some distance away from Qingjian.
After learning the news, the old fox was overjoyed and immediately praised him verbally, and then asked the other party to return to Yan'an immediately.
After hearing the old fox's praise, the military commander thought he had heard wrongly.
He was originally very anxious when he received the telegram from the old fox, fearing that he would be punished for delaying the fighter plane, but he did not expect to be praised for his slow departure.
Then, as if he had a sense of mission, the army commander led his troops back to Yan'an for reinforcements, and marched back in a hurry.
Li Qiufan didn't know this. At this time, he was commanding the troops to attack Li Qu.
What Li Qiufan faced was the 13th Division reorganized under the command of Old Fox. This division had two brigades and only had more than 10,000 troops.
Facing the attack of Li Qiufan's two columns of more than 40,000 people, they were beaten back again and again not long after.
After the reorganized 13th Division resisted hard for a day and night, it was about to break through the defense line. Suddenly, Li Qiufan's rear position came under artillery fire.
Seeing this, Li Qiufan's expression changed drastically, and he immediately ordered the rear army to launch a defensive counterattack. At the same time, he wondered where the sudden appearance of the troops came from.
But he could never have imagined that this army was actually greedy for life and afraid of death, so it gave the old fox a glimmer of hope.
In an instant, Li Qiufan was faced with a situation of attack from two sides. The tactics he originally planned to implement against Yan'an unexpectedly appeared on his own body.
Fortunately, the reorganized 13th Division had been crippled by him, and the remaining troops could not put much pressure on them.
"Tell Lu Ming to have his second column attack directly from the two wings towards the reorganized 13th Division!"
"Erhu, let the troops of the first column spread out quickly after the second column withdraws from their positions, and I will knock out the troops behind them!"
Li Qiufan had been directing the battle from Zongzong's side since the beginning of Li Qu's battle. When he saw the enemy behind him, he immediately thought of a way to deal with it.
The Second Column had previously left a division to guard the prisoners and weapons and equipment of the 17th Army. Later, it was not returned to the army because it left too quickly. As a result, the Second Column currently only has two divisions.
Then Li Qiufan immediately let it deal with the relatively weak 13th Reorganized Division, and then spread out the entire column to fight with the enemy forces behind him.
Relying on the experience accumulated in the past, Li Qiufan roughly guessed the strength of the enemy troops in the rear based on the intensity of gunfire, which was probably not much different from that of the first column.
With the strength of the two armies being evenly matched, Li Qiufan was confident that he would not be weaker than any other army, not even the old man's direct troops.
Therefore, Li Qiufan planned to fight on both sides, facing the more than 20,000 people behind him from one side.
After observing the battlefield situation for a while, Li Qiufan found that this unit was fighting without any structure and was very chaotic. He immediately understood that this was a patchwork unit.
"Erhu, this army seems to be just a bunch of rabble, do you dare to counterattack?"
Li Qiufan put down the telescope in his hand and asked Erhu beside him.
"Why don't you dare to do this? What we are best at is attacking! This defensive battle is really unpleasant!"
Erhu's eyes lit up instantly when he heard Li Qiufan ask him if he dared to counterattack.
As Erhu said, what the First Column is best at is indeed attacking, because most of the First Column are veterans with rich combat experience, and they also have the best weapons and equipment in the entire First Corps.
"Let the artillerymen bring up all the mortars and notify the frontline troops to prepare for a counterattack!"
After hearing Erhu's words, Li Qiufan first smiled, and then issued an order to prepare for a counterattack.
Erhu immediately agreed after hearing the order, and then asked the correspondent to notify the artillery in the rear and the troops in the front line.
It didn't take long for the artillery to be in place, and mortars were neatly placed on the ground, waiting for Li Qiufan's order.
"First, let me push back the attacking enemy troops and fire!"
Seeing that everything was ready, Li Qiufan immediately gave the order to fire.
As the order was issued, the artillerymen put their mortar shells into the barrels, and fired them at the attacking national soldiers with a muffled sound.
The charging National Army soldiers were instantly baptized by mortar shells and were directly suppressed by them.
"Each artillery is adjusted to shoot at Zhu Yuan, target the enemy's front line position, and give me a life-threatening hit!"
Li Qiufan saw through the telescope that the enemy troops had retreated to their positions, and then immediately ordered the artillery to start adjusting the elements and start shelling towards the enemy's first-line positions.
