Lacey County!
7th Corps Headquarters.
Li Kong held the telegram with a face full of surprise.
"Commander, what's wrong?" asked the chief of staff next to him.
"The Twelfth Corps was destroyed and Zhang Xun committed suicide, which means we are the only one left with the Seventh Corps." Li Kong said calmly.
"What? Destroyed?"
"One hundred thousand troops of the Twelve Corps were wiped out?" the chief of staff asked again in disbelief.
"The news came from the commander-in-chief, I guess it's not wrong."
"How long did it take for the Twelve Corps to be destroyed?"
"Huh~" Li Kong let out a long breath. He was not worried about the life and death of the Twelve Corps at all. What he cared about was whether he could capture Laixi County or Tianfu.
At this time, the foothills of Laixi County were littered with corpses and rivers of blood.
Their mortar positions were lined up, and the soldiers were loading shells into the muzzles.
"put!"
"Bang bang bang~"
"Bang bang bang~"
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"Dong dong dong~"
"Dong dong dong~"
Lacey County Forward Position.
"Regiment commander, regiment commander, the division headquarters said that the 1st Armored Division is ready and can act as planned!" the communications soldier shouted with a telegram.
"Okay! Reply to the division commander and tell us to retreat after we repulse this attack!"
"yes!"
"Brothers, fight me. If we fight them off this time, we will withdraw!" Hu Ying shouted.
"Yes, leader!"
"Da da da~"
"Da da da~"
"Bang~bang~bang~"
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how many hours
"Commander, the soldiers are all too tired. Let's retreat and take a rest!"
The chief of staff and several military commanders and division commanders in the headquarters said to Li Kong.
Li Kong looked at the battlefield in the distance with his hands behind his back, wondering what he was thinking.
He knew that his troops were too tired to attack, and the reason why they did not retreat was because he felt that they could attack at once, but he didn't know that there was no sign of it until now.
He raised his hand and looked at his watch. It had been six hours.
He then waved his hand and said, "Let's withdraw first and let the troops rest for a while."
Everyone present laughed when they heard this order.
And even such a retreat gave the soldiers of the 28th Regiment of the Shu Army time to retreat.
"Captain, they withdrew..."
"Order the troops to retreat!"
"Yes, Commander, retreat..."
"retreat!"
"Pack up your equipment and retreat!"
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On the Laixi County position, the soldiers of the 28th Regiment retreated sneakily.
As for the 20th Regiment, because the two armies of the Jiangnan Army did not attack at all, they chose to retreat part by part in a staircase shape.
"Commander, we've captured it!"
A soldier ran to the headquarters and saluted the two commanders Wu Yi and Wen Bo.
"We captured it?" The two people stood up and asked in disbelief.
"How did you capture it?"
"Commander, they ran away, and our regiment couldn't capture it." The soldier said with a smile.
The two looked at each other, and Wu Yi was the first to speak: "It seems that the commander has captured Laixi County, and our Shu army here is here to support them. There were at least two brigades here with their firepower just now!" "
"I think so, so now we..."
"Pursue the victory and send a report to the commander that we have captured Longqing County and are pursuing the victory!"
"Okay! I agree," Wen Bo said.
Lacey County!
Li Kong didn't know how he felt when he heard that his two armies had taken Longqing County.
He led three armies but could not capture a county, while others captured a county with two armies.
"Order the troops not to rest, and immediately assemble the troops to launch a general attack on Laixi County!"
"General... general attack?" The chief of staff's eyes widened.
"Yes, Longqing County has been taken. If you can't take Laixi County, you will be useless!" Li Kong said in a serious tone.
"Yes, Commander!" The Chief of Staff had no choice but to give the order.
But what they didn't expect was that they took the position easily.
"It seems that because Longqing County was captured, the enemies here want to join forces with Longqing County troops to defend the next position." Li Kong said.
"In that case..."
Li Kong immediately turned around and said: "Order the troops to gather in front with the 82nd Army and the 42nd Army to launch a general attack on Tianfu!"
"Yes, Commander!" The chief of staff said nothing more, because this order seemed normal to him.
…
The people of the two groups have arrived at the place as planned.
When they got here, their brigade was adjusting its howitzers!
The place where the muzzle pointed was exactly where they came from!
Of course, this is also the only way for the Jiangnan Army to attack Tianfu.
This plain will be their burial place!
"Brigadier, I'm back." Hu Ying smiled and saluted a middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man is Jiang Qiqiang, the commander of the Fourth Brigade.
"It'll be nice to come back. You've worked hard." Jiang Qiqiang patted Hu Ying on the shoulder and said.
"It's okay, Brigadier." Hu Ying shook his head and said with a smile, "It's just that none of the cannons were bombed. Now, let them have a taste of being bombed!"
"Hahaha, just watch. The 1st Armored Division is also on standby. As long as our thirty rounds are completed, the 1st Armored Division will crush them until not even a scrap is left." Jiang Qiqiang said with a smile.
Wenbo, the two regiments led by Wu Yi arrived at the encirclement first, but did not order the artillery fire until the three armies led by Li Kong arrived, and the artillery of the three brigades opened fire at the same time.
The loud sound resounded throughout the earth.
"Dong...dong...dong..."
The Shu army's cannons are not the 75mm mountain cannons made in Modu, but theirs are 100mm caliber howitzers, and their power is incomparable!
There were a lot of five soldiers, and if the shells fell into the crowd, more than a dozen people would be killed.
"What's going on? What's going on behind the scenes?" Li Kong was sitting in a jeep on the front wing of the army. When he heard the sound of artillery, he immediately turned his head and looked.
"Go and see what's going on?" the chief of staff also said.
Before the soldier could go down, someone came.
"Commander, the Chief of Staff is in trouble. Our cannons were blown up, our baggage was also blown up, and our ammunition is gone..."
"What..." When Li Kong heard the soldier's report, he couldn't sit still and fell out of the car.
"Commander." The chief of staff immediately blocked Li Kong.
"Commander, our baggage was bombed and we are no longer suitable for attacking again. Let's report to the commander immediately and let's withdraw."
"Commander, we have discovered enemy troops on both flanks of our army!"
"Commander...a large number of Shu Army mechanical troops appear in front of us!"
"Mechanical troops?"
"What kind of mechanical force?" the chief of staff asked quickly.
"Tanks, there are so many tanks that we can't even count them." The soldier said breathlessly.
"Tank...tank?"
"How could they have tanks!!!" Li Kong roared loudly.
"Commander, we can't wait any longer. Let's withdraw quickly. In this plain area, our troops will be living targets when they encounter tanks."
"Yes, withdraw! Withdraw!"
"Quickly retreat!" Li Kong could be said to have lost the ability to think now and could only issue a retreat order.
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