Chapter 33: Taking down Guangxi and attacking Nanning (Seeking Recommendations)

  "Bastard, what's this Chinese People's Army coming from? I've never heard of it before. You want me to surrender? No way." Li Zongren cursed and was about to walk towards the city wall when a staff officer grabbed his hand and said: "Commander, it's dangerous up there. If anything happens to you, we'll be like a dragon without a head."

  The advisor's words calmed Li Zongren down, his own life was the most important. He turned to face the division commander beside him and said: 'You go ask which army they are from and why they have come to invade our GX province?'

  "Yes." The commander finished speaking and ran up onto the city wall, opening his mouth to shout loudly: "Which region's army are you from? Why have you come to attack us?"

  Upon hearing the rumors spreading in Nanning City, Kong Wenhong took over the loudspeaker from the soldier and said: 'We are troops from Huashi County, why have we come here? Go ask Li Zongren and you'll understand.'

  Li Zongren in the city heard that the other side said it was Huashi County, and his first thought was not to believe it. How could a county like Huashi have so many troops, let alone heavy artillery? It's simply impossible. Moreover, he had sent three divisions to Huashi County, how did they know about it? Even if they knew, how could the news spread so quickly that they arrived in Nanning now? At this time, Li Zongren thought of what the Garrison Commander said, that they all came by truck, and previously the intelligence report mentioned that there were many trucks in Huashi County. Only then did Li Zongren slowly start to believe it a little.

  He didn't care about the attendants by his side, and directly ran up to the city wall, shouting outwards: 'You are under Chen Shao's command, where is Chen Shao? I have something to say.'

  "Our superior is not here, I am the highest officer in this place, Kong Wenhong, commander of the First Division of the Chinese People's Army. Who are you and what business do you have to discuss with me?"

  "I am Li Zongren, the Commander-in-Chief of Guangxi Province. Why have you come to attack Nanning? Are you trying to rebel?"

  The people's soldiers outside the city heard that the person on the city wall was Li Zongren and many soldiers directly raised their rifles at Li Zongren's head, their fingers slowly moving towards the trigger. Just as Kong Wenhong was about to say something, a communication officer came over with a telegram and handed it to Kong Wenhong. After reading the telegram, Kong Wenhong burst out laughing and said: "Li Zongren, I just received a telegram, I don't know if you're interested in knowing? It's related to you, and after hearing the telegram, you'll also understand why we came to attack Nanning." Without waiting for the other party to respond, he read from the telegram: "Telegram of the Third Division of the Chinese People's Army, today at noon, our army defeated more than 20,000 bandits in the battle of Yangjiao Slope, and three bandit division commanders were killed by our army during the attack. In this battle, the bandits suffered over 10,000 casualties and more than 10,000 were captured by our army. Our Third Division had only a few dozen soldiers injured, with no deaths. The Republic of China..."

  When Li Zongren heard Kong Wenhong's words, he immediately sat on the ground. As for Kong Wenhong's words, Li Zongren did not have any doubts. However, what he didn't expect was that the three divisions that had just gone out in the morning were annihilated in less than a few hours, and it seemed that the opponent knew their own movements, ridiculing themselves for being complacent earlier.

  Upon hearing the news outside the city, the crowd on the city wall was in an uproar. No one had expected that three entire infantry divisions would be wiped out like this. How could Nanjing City be defended? Thinking of this, they all looked to their superior, Li Zongren, hoping he would come up with a plan.

  "Li Du-jun, you have ten minutes to consider, whether to fight or surrender is up to you." Kong Wen-hong issued the final ultimatum.

  "Deputy officer, send a telegram to Bai Chongxi immediately and ask him to dispatch troops for reinforcement." Li Zongren said to the deputy officer beside him, then turned to the surrounding generals and soldiers: "Everyone, the enemy has only over 10,000 men, as long as we can hold on, our reinforcements will arrive soon. At that time, let's break out of the city together and completely eliminate the enemy." How could Li Zongren surrender at this moment? He still had one or two million troops in the city defense forces under his command.

  Yes.

  "Alright, after we've defended the city, I'll host a celebratory feast for everyone and let you all drink to your heart's content." After saying that, he led his staff down from the city wall and headed towards the Military Governor's Mansion.

  Kong Wenhong saw that the time had arrived, but the other side did not surrender. He nodded to Wang Yunshan, who directly shouted: "Heavy artillery regiment, open fire and knock down the city wall for me."

  The words had barely fallen when a shrill whistling sound of artillery shells pierced the air.

  Only saw a dazzling light dragging a long tail flame rising into the night sky, and whizzing away to the distance, just looking at this momentum, it can be known that the field howitzer group is conducting artillery fire strikes.

  "Good grief, a mortar battery in the open field! This commotion is getting out of hand." A soldier said with his eyes wide with astonishment.

  "Our People's Liberation Army is really powerful! To attack a single Nanning city, they mobilized an entire heavy artillery division."

  "Orders!" Kong Wenhong suddenly walked out of the command vehicle and shouted loudly to the outside, "The special squadron will ambush according to plan, the tank regiment and infantry regiment will immediately enter their respective attack positions. As soon as the artillery fire is over, they will launch an attack on Nanning City. The tank regiment will only start attacking after the city wall has fallen. Remember, there will be no feint or probing attacks, each regiment will be a main attack, a decisive attack. We must annihilate the enemy garrison in one battle and show off the might of our Chinese People's Army!"

  "Yes!" The three battalion commanders and a tank battalion commander stood up straight and responded in unison.

  The next moment, several regimental commanders under the command of the division commander turned around and hastily left the division headquarters. In less than ten minutes, they returned to their respective troops and immediately led them into attacking positions under the cover of artillery fire.

  Nanning City Governor's Mansion.

  The Chief of Staff walked into the combat room with a solemn expression and said to Li Zongren: "Director, the enemy's firepower is too strong. In the defending city, more than half of the soldiers in over a dozen infantry companies have been killed, and most of the remaining are seriously injured. All officers from the regimental commander down have been killed!"

  "What!" Li Zongren's facial muscles suddenly contracted violently.

  Li Zongren had known that this battle would be extremely arduous and had made preparations for major sacrifices. However, he still hadn't expected that after just one round of artillery fire, an entire regiment would already be almost completely wiped out! It wasn't until now that Li Zongren finally understood why his three divisions were so quickly annihilated, and that relying solely on fearless bravery was no longer enough to win the war.

  "Change to another unit!" After a moment, Li Zongren said, "Tell the brothers to change tactics, don't rush to climb the city wall, first go up one row, when the opponent attacks, the artillery will stop, at that time, climb the city wall again, tell the Chengri Artillery Camp to counterattack for me and knock out the enemy's artillery."

  "The Chief of Staff stood at attention with a loud 'crack', and immediately led the order away."

  Before long, the sound of gunfire also rang out in Nanning City, but it was far inferior to the People's Army's field howitzer, with only a few dozen 75mm field guns, mostly old ones.

  Seeing the enemy's artillery starting to counterattack, Wang Yunshan said, "Determine the position of the enemy's artillery and take it out for me."

  Yes.

  After answering, a soldier began to fiddle with the optical rangefinder in front of him and soon got an accurate data. The measured data was handed over to the artillery position, where dozens of 105mm field guns on the artillery position began to adjust their shooting elements.

  Suddenly, a series of explosions rang out in Nanning City. Li Zongren was about to go out and see what's going on, had the other side entered Nanning so quickly? At this time, the chief of staff pushed open the door and walked in saying: "Director, it's not good, our artillery is finished, the other side is shelling our artillery positions."

  "What!!" Li Zongren suddenly slumped into his chair and remained silent for a long time.

  Report. At this time a soldier covered in dust rushed in and said to Li Zongren sitting on the chair: "Director, the city wall has collapsed, the enemy has entered the city, and the enemy also has an iron-clad body that can fire shells, a steel monster, now the brothers can't hold it anymore. They are fleeing into the city.

  "Bastard, come out with me and take a look, I don't believe it, even if he's made of iron, I'll still bite off a piece, I don't believe my great hero from the Guangxi clique can't even withstand a small fart from the People's Army." Li Zongren stood up, took out his pistol and walked out. The several staff officers around him had no choice but to follow.

  "Commander, it's no good, retreat quickly! The enemy army has entered the city and is pressing in this direction, they're almost at the Commander's Mansion!"

  Li Zongren had just walked out of the Commander's Mansion when he saw the Garrison Commander rushing over from a distance, his face flustered. The sound of gunfire could be heard in the distance, and indeed it was already very close to here. He didn't expect that within less than an hour, the entire Nanning City would fall into enemy hands, and what's more, the opponent was the "mud-legged" troops he had always looked down upon. Thinking of this, Li Zongren raised his gun and shot at the head of a staff officer standing beside him. This staff officer had been enthusiastically introducing the situation in Huashi County to him just that morning. It turned out that everything they said was nonsense - "not many people", "no combat effectiveness"... How could he have lost so badly if they didn't have combat effectiveness?

  Li Zongren's actions startled everyone around him, and as he looked at his fallen comrade with a gaping hole in his head still bleeding, everyone felt endangered.

  At this time, the city defense general hastily said: 'Director, as long as there are green mountains, we don't have to worry about having no firewood to burn, I'll block here, you all quickly leave.'

  Li Zongren looked at the several combat staff officers beside him and the more than ten bodyguards behind him, and slowly said: "I, Li Zongren, will be back, let's go." After finishing speaking, he led several staff officers and more than ten bodyguards to run towards another city gate.

  After Li Zongren's men fled, the city's garrison was captured by the People's Army under a strong tank offensive. The entire battle lasted only two hours.

  An hour later, Kong Wenhong and Wang Yunshan were already seated inside the Nanning Military Governor's Office, looking at the chaotic scene before them. Wang Yunshan couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy as he said: "Now that Guangxi Province is about to change its surname to Chen, I don't know if the Special Forces can complete their mission. If not, releasing the tiger back into the mountains will lead to endless troubles."

  "No problem, there are only a few dozen people around Li Zongren, and I've already sent a company to pick them up in trucks. They should be back soon." Kong Wenhong was full of confidence, because he knew the ferocity of the special forces.

  Li Zongren and his entourage ran out of Nanning City and rushed towards Guilin. When they reached a forest, a burst of gunfire rang out, and more than a dozen people fell to the ground. Upon hearing the gunshots, Li Zongren immediately dropped to the ground. At that moment, another burst of gunfire erupted, and over a dozen more people fell. In an instant, nearly half of this fleeing troop had fallen.

  "Who dares to come out and sneak around?" Li Zongren shouted loudly, but no one dared to move. At this moment, a guard beside him was about to turn over and grab his gun, another gunshot rang out, the guard's head was hit, and he died instantly.

  At this time, a voice slowly came out from the woods: 'Put down your guns, stand up, put your hands on your head, or you will all die.'

  Looking at the eyes staring at him one by one, Li Zongren knew that their lives were all in his thoughts, looking at the dozens of people who died on the side of the road, Li Zongren could only helplessly raise his hands and surrender.

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