Han Baihang's guess was correct. Qu Tongfeng was indeed on the top of the mountain. Although he retreated immediately at Liulician Station, he was still a step too late. A battalion of the 15th Division occupied the road pass first, blocking the Anhui army's retreat.
, this pass is narrow and dangerous, and it is the terrain where one man can block the pass and ten thousand people can't pass it. The troops of the 15th Division deployed dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the hills on both sides of the pass to form a crossfire. The Anhui army failed to break through several times.
He was shot back by a machine gun and suffered heavy casualties.
At this moment, Qu Tongfeng lost all his demeanor as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy of the West Route Army. His face was haggard and his eyes were bloodshot. He seemed to have aged dozens of years overnight. He held a telescope and watched the soldiers attacking the pass like a rising tide. He could not hold on.
The crossfire of the 15th Division was raining down bullets, and it withdrew like an ebbing tide, leaving behind corpses strewn on the ground and covering dozens of meters of road. Some of the corpses were still covered with bullets.
The smoke of gunfire, the wounds dripping with blood, dyed the loess road brown.
"well!"
Qu Tongfeng lamented. He couldn't remember how many times his attack had failed. There were interceptions in the front and pursuers in the rear. It was almost at the end of the rope.
"Commander, it can't be done. The firepower of the 15th Division is too fierce, and the brothers can't rush forward." A colonel officer covered in blood stumbled over and said out of breath.
Qu Tongfeng's lips twitched, and he gritted his teeth and said to the colonel: "If you can't charge, you have to charge. You personally lead the charge, and I will send the supervising team to press back. Anyone who dares to take a step back will be killed without mercy."
The colonel officer shrank back when he heard this. How could a mid-level officer like him be willing to rush to the front and die? He just shouted from behind the soldiers: "Brothers, come on," and then the soldiers attacked and took credit for his contribution.
The soldiers were not captured, so they tried to get some blood on their bodies and pretended to be fighting bravely for Shangfeng to see. Shangfeng had nothing to say, but now Qu Tongfeng asked him to lead the charge by name, thinking about the situation in front of the pass.
The body was so frightened that my legs were weak.
"Coward!"
When Qu Tongfeng saw the colonel officer's cowering look, the evil fire in his heart started to surge. Murderous intent suddenly appeared in his eyes. He raised a gun and hit the colonel officer in the chest. The colonel officer staggered and fell to the ground.
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Qu Tongfeng pointed at the corpse of the colonel with a livid face and said sternly: "This is the fate of those who retreat because of fear!"
When the generals saw this scene, they were all trembling with fear. Qu Tongfeng glanced around and fixed his eyes on a colonel officer. This colonel officer was his student in Baoding. He was usually highly cultivated and was worthy of life and death.
At the critical moment, I could only let him open up the situation, so I pointed at him and said: "You come to lead the charge. The safety of the entire army depends on you. Don't let me down."
With lessons learned from the past, even if the colonel officer was no longer willing to go, he did not dare to say anything in front of Qu Tongfeng. He immediately took off his hat and threw it to the ground, shouting: "Principal, I'm going, there's no way to kill me."
, I will never come back alive to see you."
Qu Tongfeng picked up the telescope and looked again. This colonel officer also risked his life and charged at the front. With him taking the lead, the officers and soldiers of the first division took courage. Hundreds of them charged like crazy. Machine guns on both sides of the pass fired intensively.
, people fell one after another, but they finally rushed to the pass. The surrounding generals shouted with joy: "We are attacking, we are attacking."
Qu Tongfeng's arm holding the telescope couldn't help but tremble with excitement, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. As long as he rushed out of the pass, he would find a smooth plain, and he would be able to return to his hometown with a high probability, and his life would be saved. He felt again
I was thinking about how to reward my student when he returned to his hometown. After making such great contributions, it was time to promote him to a major general.
Before Qu Tongfeng could be happy for too long, the troops of the 15th Division at the pass began to counterattack. Hundreds of people with bayonets poured out from the pass and huddled with the soldiers of the First Division. At the same time, the machine guns on both sides of the pass were turned around.
The muzzle of the gun fired fiercely and intercepted the men and horses of the 1st Division rushing from behind. The men behind were blocked by machine guns. Several charges failed to break through the machine gun fire blockade. The soldiers who rushed into the pass were killed by the soldiers of the 15th Division.
During the charge, with fewer and fewer kills being seen, the colonel officer was considered a man, and he fell down on the road of the charge with multiple bayonets in his body during the hand-to-hand fight. This was regarded as fulfilling his promise to Qu Tongfeng.
The soldiers of the First Division in the pass were wiped out, and the soldiers behind them lost all morale. They retreated with a roar, leaving corpses on the ground. The soldiers of the 15th Division burst into cheers, forming a formation with the mourning First Division.
A sharp contrast.
"well!"
The generals of the first division were dejected, and Qu Tongfeng's vision went dark. A sweetness surged into his throat, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Who will continue the charge?"
The generals bowed their heads like ostriches, and no one answered.
Qu Tongfeng secretly thought that he must not fall into the hands of the Zhili Army or the 15th Division. If he could not rush out, he would rather kill himself. But before that, he still had to make a final effort. He had a sullen face and a stern look in his eyes.
He glanced at the generals and said: "Since no one of you has come forward, I will order someone."
As he spoke, he casually named two generals. The two generals almost fainted and cried: "Commander-in-Chief, I - we can't do it!"
"Then what's the use of you?"
Qu Tongfeng was on the verge of a desperate situation, and he was not weak in his attack. He shot the two generals to death with two shots, and then ordered two more generals. He said in a cold voice: "If you are willing to risk your life, you still have to have this commander-in-chief enforce military law."
The two of them nodded like chickens eating rice, and their voices changed their tone: "We are willing to fight hard..."
"Okay, again, as long as you break out of the encirclement, I will reward you generously. But if anyone is as timid as a mouse, don't blame me for being ruthless." Qu Tongfeng's face was ferocious, and the Nine Lions Saber in his hand was drawn out with a swipe.
He made a beheading gesture.
The two generals left without tears. The remaining generals looked at Qu Tongfeng's appearance and couldn't help looking at each other. In their impression, Qu Tongfeng, the commander-in-chief, always showed a Confucian general's demeanor.
They were all friendly towards each other, especially the generals of the First Division who all came from Baoding Military Academy and had a teacher-student relationship with him. No one expected that he would be so ruthless in killing at this time. In this period of time, three people
A number of middle and high-ranking generals died at his hands, and the remaining people felt as if a rabbit had died and a fox had died.
The offensive on the other side of the pass was launched again, and Qu Tongfeng had no time to take care of the generals' thoughts. He was just about to wait and see the battle situation when he heard a cry from the mountains behind him.
"Capture Qu Tongfeng alive!"
"Hand in the gun and don't kill!"
"..."
He couldn't hear clearly for a while, so he asked Ma Bian beside him urgently: "What is the enemy shouting?"
Ma Bian said bravely: "Commander-in-Chief, they are calling for Qu Tongfeng to be captured alive!"
Qu Tongfeng was silent. He held a telescope and looked at the enemies on the rear road. However, he saw that the enemies on the rear road were all over the mountains and fields, surrounding the foot of the mountain. At this time, the breakthrough on the front road was not smooth, and the pursuers on the rear road were also coming fiercely.