After seeing that Li Qiufan agreed to his proposal, Wang Huzi immediately arranged for someone to go and persuade him to surrender.
Unexpectedly, the commander of the enemy's 18th Corps turned out to be a tough guy, and he fired a hail of bullets in the direction of the voice urging surrender.
"Damn it, you're already a turtle in a urn and you still dare to jump around. It seems like you won't give up until you see the Yellow River!"
After seeing the enemy's reaction, Wang Huzi cursed angrily with an ugly face.
We and the enemy don't know how many more people will be sacrificed in this fight. This is completely avoidable. After all, the outcome will not change.
"It seems that persuading them to surrender is not going to work. Even if they were given a chance, it would be useless!"
Li Qiufan also shook his head helplessly and said to the dark-faced Wang Huzi.
"Oh, let's fight, there is no other way!"
Wang Huzi adjusted and sighed, then looked at Li Qiufan and said.
"Order the First Army and the Second Army to attack the enemy troops in the encirclement. In addition, let the artillery provide artillery support. Don't save me the artillery shells!"
Li Qiufan nodded towards Wang Huzi, and then issued the order to attack.
Wang Huzi also issued an order to his troops to cooperate with the troops of the First Corps to attack the enemy.
With the sound of explosions, the final battle began.
With the cover of mortar fire, the troops of the First and Second Corps and the Second Corps launched an attack on the enemy's 18th Corps.
At first, the 18th Corps was able to put up some decent resistance, but as time went by, the 18th Corps' defense line continued to shrink, and it didn't take long for the 18th Corps to retreat.
Moreover, the casualties of the 18th Corps were also very high, with nearly 20,000 people lost in a short period of time.
In the end, several senior officials really didn't want to fight, because no matter how they fought, there was only one outcome.
So after some discussion, several senior officials took their own soldiers to disarm the commander of the 18th Corps and forced him to surrender.
Li Qiufan and Wang Huzi were quite satisfied with this result. After all, they avoided more sacrifices of soldiers.
At the same time, the battle on the Qishu Slope side also came to an end, and the enemy's fifth corps was constantly being consumed by the third and fourth corps.
After losing nearly 10,000 troops, the commander of the Fifth Corps wisely chose to surrender because he knew that he could not escape.
At this point, the battle in Chengkou County was completely over, and the three regiments under Old Fox were completely destroyed.
"Report to the commander, the deputy commander sent a telegram!"
Just when Li Qiufan received the telegram from Zhao Gang and learned about the surrender of the Fifth Corps, a telegram was also sent from Heizi.
After Li Qiufan heard the telegram from Heizi, he immediately reached out and took it.
The content of the telegram was about the situation in Zhenping County. The battle there was also over, but the enemy's 14th Corps and 16th Corps were not left behind.
These two corps also received the retreat order from the old fox. Since the strength of the enemy and ours was not much different, the two corps retreated from Zhenping County.
Li Qiufan didn't care that these two regiments ran away, because these 60,000 to 70,000 people couldn't stir up any trouble at all.
Now there are no national troops in the entire northern Sichuan area, and the enemy has no ability to recapture it.
After Li Qiufan reported the situation to his boss, he stationed himself on the front line of Daba Mountain, waiting for his boss's reply.
Li Qiufan's First Corps and Wang Huzi's Second Corps were stationed in Chengkou County and Zhenping County respectively. Both troops captured a lot of money in this battle. Li Qiufan did not let go of the prisoners like before, but kept them to supplement. force.
After receiving Li Qiufan's telegram, the boss immediately reported it to the Military Commission and eliminated hundreds of thousands of enemy troops and captured the entire northern Sichuan area. This was no small matter.
Moreover, follow-up arrangements also need to be made by the Military Commission. After all, Ye Si cannot make decisions about the entire southwest.
It didn't take long for the Military Commission to reply, commending the First Field Army for its achievements in the southwest region, and then made arrangements for the troops in the southwest region.
Nowadays, there are only Li Qiufan's First Corps and Wang Huzi's Second Corps in the southwest. Although there are only two regiments, they have more than 200,000 troops.
However, the Military Commission did not let the two troops continue to move south. Instead, they were stationed in northern Sichuan to consolidate the defense line and avoid enemy counterattacks.
After receiving the reply from the Military Commission, the boss frowned and remained silent for a long time, and then issued the order to Li Qiufan and Wang Huzi.
After receiving the telegram, the two reacted exactly the same as the boss, and then they began to work on the affairs of the army.
Afterwards, Li Qiufan redeployed the defense line in northern Sichuan. Wang Huzi's Second Corps was responsible for the Daba Mountain area, stretching from Dazhou in the west to Wushan in the east.
Li Qiufan's Corps moved to the west and was responsible for Bazhong, Guangyuan, and Longnan.
Moreover, Li Qiufan also asked the armored division in Baoji to make a large circle and enter the southwest area from the northeast, and was arranged by Li Qiufan to the Bazhong area.
The two regiments of Li Qiufan and Wang Huzi stayed here for nearly four months, during which time their troops expanded after replenishing their original structures.
Wang Huzi's original army of about 70,000 people has expanded to about 100,000, and Li Qiufan is even more exaggerated. The total strength of the army has exceeded 200,000.
In addition to the original five armies and armored divisions, Li Qiufan's troops established an independent mountain division.
This mountain division is mainly composed of light infantry and is not equipped with any heavy machine guns or large-caliber artillery. The firepower is mainly rifles, light machine guns and mortars.
Because Li Qiufan knew that his troops would continue to move south, he specially trained a mountain combat unit.
Although it is organized at the division level, its strength reaches 20,000.
In addition, a garrison force was also established. Since the entire western defense line was too long, the deployment of the troops could not be too scattered.
Therefore, Li Qiufan established a garrison division to guard the entire west side of northern Sichuan. This division also had about 20,000 people.
In this way, the total strength of the troops in northern Sichuan has reached about 300,000, which is not much less than the remaining enemy troops in the entire Sichuan.
This day King Huzi had nothing to do, so he went from Dazhou to the Bazhong area to find Li Qiufan. In the past four months, the two of them often visited each other.
"Brother, I'm here to see your armored division again!"
After arriving at Li Qiufan's headquarters in Bazhong, Wang Huzi shouted at the top of his lungs before entering the room.
Since the first time he saw Li Qiufan's armored division, Wang Huzi was completely obsessed with it, and he would look for Li Qiufan every once in a while.
"Old Wang, why haven't you seen enough? I told you not to take advantage of my armored division. This would be worse than killing me!"
After hearing Wang Huzi's voice, Li Qiufan walked out of the headquarters directly, and then said to him with a smile.
