The brutal battle lasted for two days and two nights, and nearly 20,000 people from the 36th Army had died.
But most of them were still miscellaneous armies. The direct descendants of the 36th Army and the 90th Army only lost a small number of troops.
During the past two days, the old fox continued to send him urging telegrams.
However, facing the defense line under Li Qiufan, the commander of the 36th Army had no way to break through.
Not only Fufeng County, Mei County was also blocked to death by the three columns led by Li Yunlong.
More than 10,000 people in the third column withstood the attack of about 20,000 people, and also inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy.
On Li Qiufan's side, after two days of fighting, he had other ideas when looking at the enemy's position opposite.
"Brother, what are you looking at?"
Seeing Li Qiufan looking at the enemy's position in a daze, Heizi asked him doubtfully.
"I'm wondering if it's almost time for us to attack."
After hearing Heizi's words, Li Qiufan replied calmly.
"attack?"
Heizi's eyes widened immediately. He didn't expect that Li Qiufan wanted to fight back.
"Yeah, there's no rule that we can only let go, right?"
Hearing Heizi's exclamation, Li Qiufan smiled at him and said.
"But the boss's side..."
"What's wrong with the boss? The boss's order is to consume the effective forces that reinforce the enemy. He didn't say that we must defend. Can't I just wipe out the enemy?"
Heizi wanted to bring the boss out to talk, but was interrupted by Li Qiufan.
"The enemy army on the opposite side still has about 40,000 troops. The rabbit bites people when it is anxious. What if something goes wrong!"
Although what Li Qiufan said made sense, Heizi still frowned and said to him.
"What can you do without risk? You might even lose your sleep when you sleep!"
Li Qiufan didn't care about Heizi's concerns and rebutted him directly.
"This matter is too big. Let's report it to the boss before we discuss it."
Heizi felt that he should report this matter to his boss so that even if something unexpected happened after the expiration date, he could be prepared.
"Haha, have you heard of Lao Li's famous saying?"
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Li Qiufan's mind, and he remembered Li Yunlong's words.
"What famous quote? Li Yunlong has a few taels of ink in his belly."
Hearing Li Qiufan say Li Yunlong's famous saying, Heizi rolled his eyes angrily and said.
"Old Li has a saying: You rely on asking for instructions to fight a war. The day lily is cold!"
Li Qiufan shook his head at Heizi, and then said the words he remembered.
"Lao Li also said this?"
Heizi was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then asked Li Qiufan.
"Why do you care about this? What I want to tell you is that the opportunity to fight is fleeting, so you must seize it!"
"Just like your reaction, you are very surprised that I want to counterattack, and the enemy on the opposite side is even less surprised!"
"Furthermore, after two days of fighting, the enemy suffered heavy casualties. This is when morale is at its lowest and when we are most exhausted physically and mentally."
"If we can counterattack this, there will definitely be unexpected results!"
Li Qiufan patiently explained to Heizi, and Heizi suddenly understood, and then understood Li Qiufan's thoughts.
"Then when will we do it?"
After hearing Li Qiufan's explanation, Heizi no longer objected, but instead asked about the time of action.
"It's still early. How can anyone do bad things in broad daylight?"
Li Qiufan raised his head and glanced at the sun, then said to Heizi.
"Ahem, we are not doing anything bad. Brother, please be careful!"
After hearing Li Qiufan's words, Heizi coughed twice in embarrassment and then corrected him.
"How can a good person call his boss Big Brother in the army? You are a conspicuous person!"
After Li Qiufan glanced at Heizi, he turned around and left without saying a word.
Heizi scratched his head after hearing this, and then followed him silently.
After two days of fierce fighting, the enemy on the opposite side also slowed down the pace of their attack. Compared with the first two days, the third day was simply a small fight.
Time soon came to night, when Lu Ming, Li Xiping and Er Hu all came to Li Qiufan.
After receiving Li Qiufan's order, several people were very confused and didn't understand why Li Qiufan asked them to come here.
"Now that everyone is here, I'll get straight to the point."
"I just asked you to come here for one thing. To launch a counterattack tonight!"
Li Qiufan looked around at everyone, and then spoke.
"Counterattack?"
Hearing Li Qiufan say that he would counterattack, the eyes of Erhu and the others suddenly lit up.
"Yes, I want to launch an attack on the enemy. We can't always be beaten!"
Li Qiufan nodded towards everyone and said.
"How to fight? Commander, please tell me!"
After receiving Li Qiufan's confirmation, Erhu, the number one militant under Li Qiufan, asked him.
"At ten o'clock tonight, a column will set off from Wujing Town, rush northwest to the bottom of the cliff, and then cross the river and return to Huangfu Village behind the enemy!"
"The mission of your First Column is to block the enemy's retreat. Erhu, do you think the First Column can complete this mission?"
Upon hearing Erhu's inquiry, Li Qiufan immediately told the first step of the plan, and actually asked Yi Zong to detour from Wujing Town back to the enemy's rear.
"There's absolutely no problem if we do it!"
After hearing the task assigned to Yizong by Li Qiufan, Erhu immediately agreed.
"The enemy still has about 40,000 troops. Your column currently only has about 20,000 troops left. Are you sure you can complete the mission?"
Li Qiufan nodded towards Erhu, and then confirmed again.
"Don't worry, Commander. I can issue a military order. Not to mention 40,000 people, even 80,000 people can withstand it!"
Erhu's expression was very serious. He was very sure that his troops could complete this task.
"Okay, without further ado, hurry back to Wujing Town to prepare and set off on time at ten o'clock!"
Seeing that the two tigers were about to issue a military order, Li Qiufan immediately determined the mission of the column, and then asked the two tigers to return to the army to prepare.
After Erhu left, Li Qiufan looked at Lu Ming, who was waiting with great anticipation for Li Qiufan to assign him a task.
"Commander, don't just look at it. Please tell me what the mission of our second column is!"
Seeing that Li Qiufan could only say nothing, Lu Ming immediately asked anxiously.
"Why are you so anxious? Your second column's mission is to contain them head-on and attract the attention of the enemy on the opposite side!"
Li Qiufan felt a little helpless after hearing Lu Ming's words, and then scolded him, and then told him the arrangements for the second column.
"That's it?"
Lu Ming's expression froze when he heard that his second column was only responsible for containing the enemy.
Li Qiufan had been looking at him for so long that Lu Ming thought there was some important task entrusted to him, but he didn't expect it to be this.
