Chapter 025: Occupation of Laos (Clicking over 10,000 adds more)

  February 5th, 1925, Dongguan County Town.

  He Yingqin's First Division has been stationed here, and the original headquarters in Taipingzhen also rushed to this place overnight. A new command center was established inside the county government office.

  Principal Jiang's face was full of triumphant smiles, because the late-arriving Wang Ruo Zhou's troops were now stationed on the outskirts of Dongguan. By the time they arrived, the First Division's troops had already been stationed in Dongguan for some time.

  The Guangdong Army did not believe it at the time, and after conducting a detailed investigation several times, they thought that the Huangpu troops who had just come out of their shells had actually occupied Dongguan.

  "Headmaster, the Third Battalion has annihilated over a hundred of Chen's troops. Yuan Yexiu led his troops and merged with Chen's troops at Chashan, but they immediately abandoned Chashan and retreated to Liaobu direction with over a thousand troops." He Yingqin walked in and reported the situation.

  Chiang's excited smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and the occupation of Dongguan did not annihilate Chen's troops. Such a record was not what Chiang wanted to see.

  "Incompetent." Principal Jiang said angrily.

  He Yingqin lowered his head and didn't dare respond with anything.

  "Where are the three regiments? Where is Sun Fuquan?" Principal Jiang walked up to the map and asked He Yingqin.

  "Principal, Sun Yingchang has already marched to the Liubozhen town yesterday. Sun Yingchang seriously violated military discipline, he arbitrarily issued combat orders, almost causing Dongguan to fall into Yuan Kewu's hands again." He Yingqin said with some indignation, when he learned that Sun Xinghua rushed to Liubozhen town, he smashed a cup on the spot.

  This time he reported to Principal Jiang, intending to let Principal Jiang handle Sun Xinghua.

  Galitzine, the Soviet adviser standing beside him, frowned and walked up to Chiang, whispering something in his ear for half a day, but Chiang did not understand Russian.

  "Principal Chiang, and advisor Galen think that Sun Xinghua has seriously violated military discipline. This is something that the party's army cannot tolerate. An elite troop cannot tolerate such an officer existing." The translator hastily said.

  Principal Jiang looked at Director Zhou beside him with a questioning expression.

  "Principal, Sun Xinghua's victory in Dongguan is a great achievement. Now that he has rushed to the Liubao step, it is equivalent to cutting off Yuan Shuojiu's retreat route. Our communication facilities are poor now. If we can't give frontline commanders absolute freedom and just mechanically execute orders, I'm afraid we will miss many opportunities. I think Captain Sun also sees this point clearly, that's why he rushed to Liubao step." Director Zhou said slowly.

  He is such a clever man, if Principal Jiang wanted to punish Sun Xinghua, he wouldn't have asked for his opinion. What's called asking for his opinion was just giving him an excuse, and Principal Jiang went along with it.

  "Director Zhou is right, let's not pursue Sun Xinghua's responsibility for the time being. Immediately contact the Guangdong Army and instruct our instructional team to quickly counterattack Yuan Jiuguang's troops, hoping that the Guangdong Army will provide assistance. To Auxiliary General, the pressure in Fuxing is great, you immediately lead your troops over there, and at the same time notify the Second Instructional Team to have their troops quickly bypass from the flank to support the battle in Liaobu Town." Principal Chiang swiftly gave the order.

  Sun Xinghua's move made Principal Jiang very happy, because once Chen Jun's troops gathered in one place, wanting to annihilate Chen Jun's troops would likely require a great cost. Sun Xinghua occupying Lao Bu Town could block this batch of defeated soldiers, and he wouldn't have to worry about them joining forces either.

  Thinking of having such a talented person under his command, Principal Jiang was very pleased and smiled on his face, completely gone was the annoyed look from earlier.

  Liangbu Town, Garrison Command Center.

  Due to Chen Jiongming's intention to attack Guangzhou, the troops stationed here were not many, only more than 200 people, and a battalion commander was in charge of commanding these. The good equipment had all been sent to the front line, they only had one heavy machine gun, and the rest of the troops were rifles.

  "I heard that the battle was fierce earlier, but I don't know what the situation is like now. We've also lost contact with Commander Yuan, has his unit been wiped out?" The regiment commander sat in a chair, looking puzzled at the map.

  The regular army officers on the side shook their heads, and the front-line troops had more than 2,000 soldiers. Even if the Guangdong Army and the Huangpu School Army joined forces to fight together, it would take several days to defeat these 2,000-plus soldiers, which was absolutely impossible.

  "The commander-in-chief is confused, now the troops are scattered like sand, aren't we waiting for others to collect us one by one? It's better to concentrate our forces together as Vice Commander Hong said, and then heavily attack the Guangdong Army, annihilate their troops. Those Whampoa military brats are still in our hands. Now it's good, here there are 300 people, there are 200 people there, waiting for them to come and fight." The battalion commander said with a displeased face.

  The regular army officers heard their superiors complaining about Chen Jiongming and didn't dare say anything more.

  Outside the county town, troops wearing Chen Jiyuan's military uniforms have arrived here.

  However, according to the Chen army soldiers guarding the city gate, they did not dare to open the door rashly, but instead carefully inquired and only opened the city gate after everything was clear.

  "You transportation troops are always a nuisance. Don't you know to buy more food when you're on the move?" A man who looked like an officer said with a displeased face as he opened the city gate.

  "That's not what Officer Su wants, he wants to smoke a big cigarette. If you don't give him a big cigarette to smoke, he'll take the lives of our brothers. We only found out halfway that there was no more big cigarette, so we had to come back and buy some." A soldier said helplessly.

  Twenty-five soldiers all entered into the city gate, while a dozen or so soldiers guarding the city gate were listlessly watching these transport troops.

  "Fire." With one of the soldiers' voices.

  Twenty-five soldiers simultaneously pulled out their own Thompson submachine guns and opened fire on the soldiers beside them.

  In less than two minutes, more than a dozen soldiers at the city gate all fell to the ground.

  Twenty-five soldiers quickly tied red scarves around their arms and launched an attack on the city gate.

  Three trucks sped towards the city gate and entered the town before Chen Jun's soldiers could react.

  A group of officers and soldiers quickly jumped down from the truck and cleared the defenders on the city wall.

  The infantrymen who followed up then quickly entered the town and searched for Chen's soldiers to fight.

  "Machine gun squad, second squad, quickly occupy the city wall, third squad clean up the remaining enemy forces inside the city." Sun Xinghua held a Mauser military pistol and gave orders quickly.

  The three companies then launched a swift attack under the leadership of Company Commander Dong Tianyong.

  Chen Junying's troops were just about to retreat when they were discovered by the 3rd Battalion, and both sides immediately engaged in fierce combat. However, under the attack of Browning automatic rifles, Chen Junying's troops did not gain any advantage.

  By noon at 12 o'clock, the Liubo Town fell into the hands of the First Regiment of the Third Battalion of the Guidance. Sun Xinghua hastily issued orders to start building fortifications and made preparations for the defeat of the defeated soldiers.

  It's said that collecting up to 300 is only short of 30 more... Also heard that, after collecting up to 300, there will be an update.