Chapter 4: Xie Wenbing Flees

  Wu Peifu had the ambition to conquer the world, so his soldiers were mostly brave and good at fighting. Xie Wenbing found that in the face of unfamiliar tactics, his own soldiers had no resistance at all, and he decisively chose to retreat.

  Although I am honored to replace Generalissimo to command 30,000 troops and fight against Tang Shengzhi, at this moment there are not so many people here. From the enemy's gunfire, he can feel that there are at least **thousand people on the opposite side.

  Tang Shengzhi gritted his teeth and said, "Yuhu, come here for a moment."

  Dong Yuhu was a man in his thirties from Anhui, with a pair of sword-like eyebrows that made him look very spirited, and the smell of gunpowder had not yet dissipated from his body.

  "It seems that we will have to lose face for the general this time. I, your brother, have decided to lead a team to intercept this suddenly appearing army. You take the remaining brothers and go meet up with the other brothers, wait for the general to send a commanding officer or go to Tingxi Bridge, where the terrain is treacherous and very important for our direct line, we can't afford to lose it." Xie Wenhui said with tears in his eyes, sentence by sentence, instructing, before he had even finished speaking, Dong Yuhu knelt on the ground.

  "General, brother was pulled out from the pile of dead bodies by you back then. Now that you're in trouble, I'm willing to die for you." After saying this, he knocked his head against Xie Wenbing's feet with a thud.

  "Yu Hu, you're confused, I've made such a big mistake, can the general forgive me? If I die in battle, my brothers will not be able to hold their heads up." Looking at the increasingly approaching soldiers outside, Xie Wenbing was extremely anxious and helped Dong Yuhu get up.

  "General, what are you hesitating for? If our 30,000 men are lost, Hunan will be finished. Look at the enemy's strength, can I lead my brothers to retreat? At that time, so-called sacrifice would be worthless. But if you survive, you can rally the 30,000 men and still have a chance to fight against the enemy. General, let me, Yutou, die in your place." Dong Yutou stomped his foot loudly, but Xie Wenyin still couldn't make up his mind.

  At this time, a bloody guard rushed in and said, "The commander is not good, those revolutionary troops are about to rush up, brothers can't hold on, let's withdraw." After finishing speaking, he didn't catch his breath, and his head fell to one side and died.

  Xie Wenbing was also a man, and with a loud "thud" he knelt down in front of Dong Yuhu, knocking his head three times on the ground. "Brother, I'll leave first, after defeating those revolutionary troops over there, brother will retire and take care of your whole family." After saying that, he left more than a thousand elite soldiers with Dong Yuhu, took the remaining few thousand people, and quietly disappeared into the night.

  Since the use of artillery coordination, the pressure on the three divisions has been greatly reduced. Liu Yuan couldn't help but smile, and sat with Nie Rongzhen and a few others in the command center, chatting about some funny things from their military school days. At this time, Li Erniu stood up.

  At this moment, Liu Yuan is telling the remaining people in the command center about the story of himself and Director Zhou competing on the playground years ago. At this moment, Liu Yuan's mouth is the incarnation of Huo Yuanjia, while Director Zhou is like Su Queer, a match made in heaven.

  Nie Rongzhen was very clear about Liu Yuan being bullied by Director Zhou back then, but with so many subordinates present, he didn't want to expose him.

  "Master Liu, don't you feel like there's something different on the battlefield?" Li Er Niu pushed Liu Yuan.

  Liu Yuan was never ambiguous when it came to fighting, but this time he really didn't feel anything out of the ordinary. He shook his head and said, "What's changed? Their firepower has decreased a lot, you know our infantry-artillery coordination is very strong, I estimate many soldiers are intimidated, hiding in their nests and not daring to move."

  "No way, I think they're going to run, the direct descendants are old warlords, the quality of their soldiers is very high, even if they were suppressed, it wouldn't drop so sharply, I heard the gunfire and there are only over a thousand people." Li Erniu said anxiously, on the battlefield, brothers are sacrificing so much, can't let the enemy run away because of a momentary negligence of the command center.

  Li Er Niu said that, Liu Yuan only truly put his heart into it. As the saying goes, a family with an elder is like having a treasure, and the army is the same. Although old soldiers may not necessarily have inferior command abilities compared to military academy graduates, when it comes to experience, they are absolutely extremely rich.

  Liu Yuan looked at Nie Rongzhen and Nie Rongzhen nodded, "The Second Bull's guess is not far off. I feel that the enemy also wants to run."

  "Well, whether it's true or not, let's try and see. Order the signal corps to give Hu Zongnan an order, telling him to disregard the danger to his brothers and launch a full-scale attack on my behalf, just once, to see how many people are on the other side." Although Liu Yuan's method was not the best, it was the most effective in this dark night.

  The flares were limited, it was impossible to bring so many flares, so at this time we had to rely on our eyes. Although Hu Zongnan was very puzzled by the order he received, as a soldier, obeying orders is his duty and he knew that.

  "Sound the bugle for me." Hu Zongnan said with a pat on the back of his orderly.

  "Alright, comrades, brothers have been waiting for this moment!" The bugler excitedly picked up the bugle and blew it with all his might, the sound was very sharp, instantly spreading throughout the entire battlefield.

  Many frontline soldiers were perplexed by the sudden order, but they still stood up and bravely charged forward.

  The big guns ceased after the last round of covering fire had been delivered, and the soldiers of the three regiments surged forward like a tidal wave against the enemy's position.

  Almost all the fortifications had been swept away by artillery fire, and all the hidden bunkers no longer existed. Dong Yuhu stood on a pile of corpses, holding a gun in his hand, "Brothers, Generalissimo has always treated us kindly, now it's time to die for him, are you afraid?"

  "They're all cowards, the southerners. They rely on the firepower of their cannons to rush forward. If they really dare to come over, I'll crush their soft eggs." A soldier with a bandage wrapped around his head shouted loudly.

  "Good, worthy of being my brother Dong Yutou. Today, even if we sacrifice ourselves, in the next life, we will still be brothers. However, even in death, we cannot let the Southern Army have their way." Dong Yutou's voice was not loud, but it was filled with infinite killing intent.

  "Alright, big brother, what's the plan? We're all ears," the soldiers chimed in unison.

  "Alright, aren't the Southern Army pointing their big guns at us? When they come up later, don't fire your guns. If you do, they'll probably use their cannons to greet us again. Wait until they get close, everyone listen to my orders, charge forward and mix with them, let's have a fight to the death." Dong Yutou was giving orders here when Hu Zongnan had already led his troops to charge to within less than 100 meters of the enemy position.

  Wang Yaowu killed just as he was getting excited, seeing that the opponent didn't fire a single shot, extremely happy, holding his gun and rushing forward, "Brothers, follow me in the charge, those guys on the opposite side are scared."

  Hu Zongnan also didn't notice anything wrong with the enemy and followed to charge forward, almost in the blink of an eye they charged into the enemy's position.

  Nie Rongzhen looked far away at the soldiers rushing to the front, nodded and praised, "The third phase of Wang Yaowu is indeed a brave general, I said Liu Yuan, your ability to identify people is really good."

  Nian Yongzhong was praising Wang Yaowu while also keeping an eye on Liu Yuan, but when he turned his head back, he found that Liu Yuan's face looked terrible.

  "Liu Yuan, what's wrong with you? Is there something uncomfortable?" Nie Rongzhen hurried over to ask.

  "Paralyzed, I don't even know how they graduated, Old Nai took the thing, and gave me a walk." After finishing speaking, he took the gun in his hand and walked out of the command center.