The second column was responsible for the defense line in Longquan Village. At this time, Lu Ming had already arranged his troops to prepare and was waiting for the enemy's attack.
After Li Qiufan learned the location of the 36th Army, he immediately rushed to the second column position.
After the commander of the 36th Army learned about the situation in Fufeng County, he originally planned to avoid it. After all, supporting Xi'an was the most important thing.
But what they didn't expect was that not long after the 90th Army fled, the Second Column and the Fourth Column arrived, and Li Qiufan also set the Longquan Village area as a defense focus, with the main force of the Second Column here.
Seeing that there was no way around it, the commander of the 36th Army could only give orders to prepare for an attack. After all, it was impossible for them not to go to Xi'an.
During the preparations of the national army, Li Qiufan came to the second column position from the first column, and at the same time sent a telegram to the fourth column to move closer to Longquan Village.
There is a river directly west of Longquan Village between the two armies. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Therefore, the commander of the 36th Army directly gave up the frontal attack and entered from Changyao northwest of Longquan Village.
After the national army was ready, they immediately launched an attack from Changyao toward the north of Longquan Village and toward the Changfeng position.
The old fox gave them all death orders, so the intensity of the attack was very fierce.
Because the defense line was too long, there were not many troops in various positions, and for a while it was somewhat unable to withstand the enemy's attack.
After receiving the news, Li Qiufan immediately ordered two divisions from the third column to rush to Shilipu, northeast of Changfeng, and then transferred a division from the first column to Dongfubo Village, southeast of Changfeng, to form a formation in conjunction with Longquan Village. pocket.
After all the troops were in place, Li Qiufan gave the soldiers on the Changfeng position a retreat order and asked them to lead the enemy in the direction of Dongfubo Village.
After receiving the order, the soldiers on the Changfeng position immediately began to retreat under alternate cover, heading towards Dongfubo Village.
When the national army saw that they had taken the first position so easily, they became a little confused and chased after the retreating soldiers of the second column.
Dongfubo Village is not far from Chang Feng, so the commander of the 36th Army did not feel anything was wrong for a while and did not stop the troops from pursuing.
The soldiers who withdrew from the Changfeng position quickly arrived at Dongfubo Village and joined the troops from the first column of Dongfubo Village.
On Li Qiufan's side, after seeing the enemy catching up, he immediately gave orders to Lu Ming and Li Xiping to tie up the pockets of the troops in Longquan Village and Shilipu, fight in the direction of Changfeng, and carry out the enemy's troops. segmentation.
There were approximately four to five thousand enemies chasing them to Dongfubo Village, and the subsequent enemy troops had just arrived at the Changfeng position.
After receiving Li Qiufan's order, Li Xiping and Lu Ming immediately ordered the troops to dispatch and fight towards the Changfeng position.
The national army that had just arrived at the Changfeng position was caught off guard. They were beaten back before they had time to counterattack, and they retreated directly to Changyao.
At this time, the commander of the 36th Army realized what was going on, but it was already too late.
After the troops in Shilipu and Longquan Village completed the task of dividing the enemy forces, Li Qiufan ordered the heavy artillery division to shell the enemies in the pockets, and at the same time ordered a column of troops blocked in Dongfubo Village to attack.
Hearing the continuous sound of artillery fire from behind Chang Feng's position, the commander of the 36th Army knew that the four to five thousand people had given an account.
But fortunately, they were all miscellaneous troops there, not soldiers of his 36th Army.
With the cooperation of the heavy artillery division's fierce shelling, the division of the first column quickly cleared out the enemies in their pockets, and then replenished them all to the Changfeng position.
In this way, about 40,000 people gathered directly on Changfeng's position, which was not much less than the enemy's strength on the opposite side.
After suffering a big loss, the commander of the 36th Army knew that he would not be able to get through Fufeng County if he did not try his best.
Then he ordered the artillery to bombard Changfeng's position, and at the same time asked the 90th Army to attack.
As the enemy's heavy artillery launched a bombardment, the entire Changfeng position was instantly covered by artillery fire. Li Qiufan frowned at this scene.
"Damn it, how much inventory does the Thirty-sixth Army have? I've captured eighteen of them, why are there still so many!"
Li Qiufan looked at the frequency of shelling and the number of explosions, and started to curse.
The scale of this bombardment is simply not what a dozen heavy artillery can achieve. The 36th Army still has at least twenty or thirty cannons.
"Give the heavy artillery divisions an order. It's disrespectful to come and go. Let them target the enemy's positions and blast them. Let me plow their positions!"
Li Qiufan waved his hand directly and said to the correspondent beside him.
After the two sides experienced their first artillery battle, the artillery positions were chosen far enough away that the opponent's first-line position was the maximum effective firing range.
From this point on, it was impossible to find the opponent's artillery positions for artillery battles, and we could only bombard the first-line positions of both sides.
As Li Qiufan's order was issued, all the heavy artillery of the heavy artillery division began to bombard the enemy positions, including the eighteen 105mm howitzers that had just been captured.
Compared with the shelling suffered by the Changfeng position, the artillery fire coverage of the heavy artillery division was even more shocking. Li Qiufan's eyes widened when he saw it.
Today, the heavy artillery division has forty-seven large-caliber howitzers alone, twelve of which are of 150 mm caliber, and the rest are of 105 mm caliber.
Others include various heavy mortars and mountain artillery with a caliber of 70 or 80 mm. The artillery fire of the 36th Army pales in comparison to that of the heavy artillery division.
Li Qiufan could only think of two words to describe what was happening on the enemy's position, and that was plowing!
Nothing could be seen clearly on the enemy's position at this time. It was all smoke and dust. When it all dissipated, there was a piece of charred black land.
The commander of the 36th Army was also stunned and stared at the scene on the position for a long time.
He was even thinking that now it was not a matter of whether they could fight through, but whether they would face the annihilation of the entire army here.
After calming down a little, the commander of the 36th Army issued the order to charge.
Regardless of whether the entire army will be wiped out and die here, as long as he is still alive, the military order must be carried out.
Seeing the enemy starting to charge, Li Qiufan once again gave the order to the heavy artillery division, asking him to target the charging enemy with artillery fire to help the soldiers on the position suppress the opponent's charge.
For a time, the place between Changyao and Changfeng turned into a Shura field, with countless corpses and broken limbs scattered on the ground.
This place seemed to be a huge meat grinder, devouring lives all the time, which made Li Qiufan feel unbearable.
