Chapter 52: The Great Battle of Mianhu (11)

  Sun Xinghua listened to the gunfire behind him, a smile spreading across his face. If Shen Jian's side had not made any moves, he would probably have sacrificed all his troops on the battlefield, after all, Chen Jun's army was at an advantage.

  Suddenly, Sun Xinghua felt a sense of inexplicable crisis, this feeling was very strange, as if something was going to happen. Immediately after that, Sun Xinghua felt a sharp pain in his chest and fell to the ground. No matter how hard he struggled, his body seemed to have lost all its strength and couldn't get up at all. The pain in his chest was even more severe, and when he touched it with his hand, it was sticky, and a bloody smell reached Sun Xinghua's nose.

  Sun Xinghua gradually fell into a coma.

  "Company Commander." Zheng Dongguo, who was beside Sun Xinghua, rushed over after seeing Sun Xinghua fall down.

  Zheng Dongguo looked down and saw that Sun Xinghua's upper garment was all stained with blood, the fresh blood had flowed down his clothes and dripped onto the ground, and Sun Xinghua didn't have any feeling anymore.

  "Chen Shan, the camp commander is injured, come quickly." Zheng Dongguo's mind was a complete blank at this moment, shouting loudly.

  Upon hearing Zheng Dongguo's shout, Chen Shan hastily grabbed his first-aid kit and rushed over, quickly treating Sun Xinghua's wound with a look of anxiety on his face.

  "Zheng, you're in command. Charge." Sun Xinghua slowly opened his eyes and saw Zheng Dongguo in front of him, conveying a sentence of orders, but he said this sentence with great difficulty.

  After finishing speaking, Sun Xinghua closed his eyes again.

  "The party representative, the camp commander is seriously injured and must be sent to Mianhu immediately. Only the medical level there can save the camp commander." Chen Shan helped Sun Xinghua stop the bleeding and said in a low voice.

  Not far from Sun Xinghua, the second company commander Hu Wei and party representative Song Huiwen rushed over. Seeing Sun Xinghua unconscious, both of their eyes became moist.

  "Comrades, our troops will launch a charge immediately. We must fight our way to Mianhu." Hu Wei said seriously, looking at Zheng Dongguo.

  Zheng Dongguo didn't dare to delay, and immediately issued the order: "Leave one platoon behind to cooperate with the machine gun company in defending the village. The rest of the troops will attack towards Mianhu immediately. Assemble the guard platoon at once, with Chen Shan in command. No matter what, we must send the regiment commander to Mianhu."

  "Yes." Hu Weijun bowed respectfully and returned to his own troops.

  The three battalions received orders and began a counterattack against Chen's troops.

  Knowing that they were outnumbered and wounded, the officers and soldiers were like tigers coming down from a mountain, and there was no force that could stop their attack.

  Under the pincer movement of the three battalions, Chen's soldiers began to collapse.

  A large number of Chen's soldiers began to sweep around, and some soldiers who had not had time to escape were either killed or taken prisoner by the three battalions.

  Zengtang Village outskirts, Lin Hu's command post.

  To boost his own morale, Lin Hu set up his command post on the front line and personally commanded an army of over 10,000 men to attack the First Division.

  Under the repeated blows, Lin Hu's troops gradually made progress, especially when a group of soldiers rushed into the village, which made Lin Hu very happy.

  "Commander-in-Chief, before dawn breaks, we will be able to resolve the battle." The Chief of Staff walked over with a smile and said to Lin Hu.

  "Chiang Kai-shek, I underestimated him. I thought these toy soldiers had no fighting power at all. But I didn't expect them to have such strong combat capabilities, even we old veterans almost fell into their hands. Now they are very weak, if they become stronger, I'm afraid Guangdong will fall into Sun's hands in the future." Lin Hu said angrily, but he didn't know that Premier Sun had passed away yesterday.

  "Rumble, rumble", at this moment, a cannon sound came from inside Zengtang Village.

  The Chen Jun soldiers who were originally attacking suffered a barrage of artillery fire and quickly retreated.

  Especially the Chen Jun soldiers who entered the village were subjected to intense artillery fire, and after losing more than 100 men, they hastily withdrew from the village.

  "Commander, we have discovered allied forces on both our flanks."

  "Commander, there is a wave of doll soldiers attacking from behind us. Their attack intensity is very strong and our troops are unable to stop them. They are now less than 1 kilometer away from the command center."

  One by one, the intelligence reports quickly arrived in front of Lin Hu.

  The smile on Lin Hu's face disappeared, his eyebrows tightly furrowed. Just a moment ago, he was still in the advantageous position, but in an instant, he had lost all his advantages.

  "Commander, the enemy troops are now less than 500 meters away from the command center." An officer rushed in from outside, saying anxiously.

  Lin Hu's eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and he reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

  On the night of March 13, 1925, the Seventh Division of the Guangdong Army and the Second Regiment of the Training Corps launched a two-pronged attack on Lin Hu's troops.

  Sun Xinghua's three battalions were like a sharp sword, piercing into Lin Hu's heart. Lin Hu was worried that his troops would be completely annihilated and immediately ordered the troops to retreat across the board.

  But it was this order that caused heavy casualties in Lin Hu's troops.

  The three battalion troops attacked fiercely, but they were short of ammunition and were in the center of Lin Hu's troops. As long as Lin Hu held his position, annihilating the three battalion troops was only a matter of time.

  But Lin Hu was worried about being surrounded and hastily ordered a retreat.

  "Principal, Lin Hu's troops have retreated completely, the 7th Division of the Guangdong Army and the 2nd Instructional Regiment have already joined the battle." Director Zhou excitedly walked over from outside and said to Principal Jiang.

  Principal Chiang nodded his head and a joyful expression appeared on his face.

  "Director, Lin Hu's troops were attacked from behind. Shall our army launch a full-scale counterattack?" He Yingqin ran over from outside and said to Director Chiang.

  Chiang Kai-shek walked to the front of the map, and Lin Hu's troops were attacked from behind. However, this was a great surprise for Chiang Kai-shek. According to his calculations, Chen Ming-shu's division and the guard division's follow-up troops could not have arrived so quickly.

  "The troops counterattacked." Principal Chiang gave the order, gazing at the map and then looking suspiciously at Director Zhou and others beside him.

  "Principal Jiang, could it be that the follow-up troops have arrived?" Director Zhou hastily said a sentence, seemingly unaware of Principal Jiang's confusion.

  Principal Jiang shook his head, and the follow-up troops, unless they were gods from heaven, would not have been able to arrive so quickly to participate in the battle.

  "Principal Chiang, could it be the troops of the Third Regiment?" asked Liao Zhongkai with a delighted expression.

  Principal Jiang's face immediately showed a smile. Liao Zhongkai's words reminded him that the Third Battalion was surrounded by Chen Jun's troops, and it was likely that only this battalion could launch an attack from behind Chen Jun's troops.

  "Hurry up and send someone to investigate this matter clearly." Principal Jiang hastily gave the order.