Not long after Li Yunlong withdrew his troops from the position, the 38th Army on the north side of the Wei River rushed here and began to cross the river.
After some observation, he found that there was no People's Liberation Army blocking the attack here. The commander of the 38th Army was very confused.
He was already prepared to forcefully cross the river, but he never imagined that everything would go so smoothly.
Just as the 38th Army was crossing the river, the positions on the Fourth Column's side had been built.
Now Yi Zong is no longer attacking the enemy, but is waiting for the arrival of the 38th Army.
The 65th Army on the opposite side also tacitly agreed not to take action, and was also waiting for the 38th Army.
After about half a day, the figure of the 38th Army finally appeared on the distant horizon.
"Order the troops to prepare for battle and pull all the flying thunder cannons brought over to the front line!"
After seeing the appearance of the 38th Army, Li Qiufan immediately prepared all the troops for the battle.
They also took out the thunder cannons brought from Lanzhou and deployed them on the front line.
Li Qiufan didn't plan to bring these thunder cannons with him at first, thinking of leaving them behind when he arrived in Lanzhou City.
Unexpectedly, he received a telegram from his boss before he returned to Lanzhou City and changed his route directly to Tianshui.
At that time, Li Qiufan was still thinking about throwing it away, but after thinking about it, it would be a pity to throw it away, and then he threw it to the heavy artillery division.
Unexpectedly, it would come in handy again now. The flying thunder cannon is a magical weapon for defensive warfare!
The Sixty-fifth Army also discovered the approaching Thirty-eighth Army, and immediately made contact with the other party, and then issued an order to prepare for the attack.
Both sides were making pre-war preparations. As the artillery regiment under the 65th Army began to bombard the first column position, the second battle officially started.
As soon as the 65th Army took action, the 38th Army followed closely and launched an attack on the four vertical positions.
"Tell Lao Ma to let his heavy artillery divisions work freely. I will attack wherever there are many enemies!"
Li Qiufan looked at the battlefields on both sides, and then gave Lao Ma an order.
The first and fourth columns have independent artillery regiments, including the second and third columns, which were specially assigned to them by Li Qiufan.
Facing the artillery bombardment of the 65th Army and the 38th Army, the artillery regiments under their jurisdiction were fully capable of handling it, so Li Qiufan allowed the heavy artillery divisions to perform freely.
In fact, Li Qiufan's side still has the advantage in terms of military strength on both sides. Even without the heavy artillery division, which is just an infantry combat unit, the first and fourth columns combined have about 60,000 people.
The total strength of the 65th Army and the 38th Army is only more than 53,000. However, due to terrain reasons, the situation has been delayed. In addition, the positions of Li Yunlong's three columns were relatively awkward before. This has led to the current situation.
Although the previous attack failed, facing the attacks of the 65th Army and the 38th Army, the First Column and the Fourth Column fought very easily and did not feel any pressure.
Soon the Sixty-fifth Army and the Thirty-eighth Army also discovered this, but their helplessness had reached this point, and they had no choice but to fight.
The most important thing is that the 36th Army is on its way. As long as they can keep the People's Liberation Army in front of them, the dust will settle when the 36th Army arrives.
Now it is Li Yunlong who is racing against the 36th Army to see which side can reach Zhangjiashan first.
The battle in Zhangjiashan continued, and the two sides fought in a stalemate. The 65th Army and the 38th Army launched more than a dozen charges against the first and fourth column positions respectively, but they were all repelled. .
Especially those flying thunder cannons caused very heavy casualties to the national army.
The battle lasted until night, and there was a brief truce between the enemy and ourselves.
"Send a telegram to the boss to report our situation and ask them how they are doing over there."
Li Qiufan broke off a dry and hard piece of steamed bun and rubbed it in his mouth. While eating, he said to Heizi next to him.
"We have contained so many troops of the old fox here, so the boss's side should go smoothly."
Heizi nodded towards Li Qiufan, then called the correspondent to send a telegram to the boss, then returned to Li Qiufan and said.
"I hope so. The boss and the others have to face a lot of enemies. The old fox has been developing in the northwest for so many years and has some background!"
Li Qiufan didn't quite agree with Heizi's words. The old fox could be called the Northwest King, but he didn't do it himself.
Without the corresponding strength, the old fox would never have controlled the northwest for so many years.
Although he is now forced to retreat to Xi'an, this is also because most of his troops have been deployed on other battlefields.
You must know that Old Fox had nearly 600,000 troops at his peak. If they were all in the northwest, it would be hard to say what the situation would be like now.
"By the way, brother, where's that bitch you brought back from the headquarters? Isn't that your communications soldier?"
Heizi suddenly remembered Bao'er. He had not seen Bao'er since Li Qiufan entrusted Bao'er to Zhao Gang in Qingjian and asked him to take him to Suide.
"Bao'er? Who knows where Lao Zhao has arranged for him? It just so happens that I can be happy and free!"
Li Qiufan didn't know Bao'er's whereabouts. After entrusting him to Zhao Gang, he was either fighting or on the way to the battle. He had no time to think about anything else.
"Hey, sister-in-law has been gone for a long time, why haven't she come back yet?"
Speaking of Baoer Heizi, he thought of Tian Yu again. Although he was not in front of her, he still called her sister-in-law.
"Yeah, it's been a long time since I left!"
Hearing Heizi talk about Tian Yu, Li Qiufan had a lot of thoughts in his heart.
"boom!"
Just as Li Qiufan looked up at the stars and sighed, an explosion suddenly sounded not far from him, and then the splashing soil directly covered him and Heizi.
"Bah! Can't these idiots take a break for a while?"
Heizi reached out and dusted off the dirt on his body, spit a few mouthfuls to the side and then cursed.
"Damn it! You buried all my nests, how can you bear it?"
Li Qiufan also cursed and stood up, but the wotou he originally held in his hand disappeared.
"Tell Lao Ma to cover the enemy's positions for me! If you don't let me eat, then don't eat at all!"
Li Qiufan called the correspondent and angrily asked him to give orders to the heavy artillery division.
After receiving the order, Lao Ma immediately made adjustments according to the shooting elements recorded during the day, and then began the bombardment.
The Chinese army only fired that one shell just now. The reason is unknown, but the troops did not launch an attack.
But what a coincidence that the shell hit Li Qiufan and Heizi, and the most important thing was that it also buried Li Qiufan's dinner.
This directly ushered in a barrage of artillery fire from the heavy artillery division, which directly buried all the rice bowls and pots of the national army.
Seeing that there was no dinner left, the national army once again launched an attack on the positions of the first and fourth columns, and the two sides directly began a night battle.
