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  Lu Rongting, with a pair of tiger eyebrows, looked at the twenty or so Guangxi soldiers who were tied up with an evil gaze. He spat viciously at them and then gave the order: "Kill them."

  Ten bare-armed soldiers carrying ghost-headed knives walked past the tied-up Guangxi army soldiers, who hurriedly shouted: "General, spare our lives! We won't dare again next time!"

  One slash and the head rolled to the ground, the Guizhou soldiers standing five meters away watching the execution were suddenly frightened and collectively retreated half a step, the crowd was in an uproar.

  Twenty-seven bloody heads fell to the ground in three successive groups

  At this moment, Lu Rongting became as terrifying as Yanluo Wang in front of his soldiers. Everyone strongly controlled the vomiting sensation in their hearts, held their breath and silently stared at the governor on stage.

  "You think you're so brave just because you've got a few more troops? Do you know what's going on here? I'm Lu Rongting, not some dead man! All of you listen up: if you want to get promoted or rich, then just be honest and loyal to me. Don't try to stir up rebellion here. Whoever dares to disobey me again will have their head chopped off. Don't believe me? You can try it out!"

  After finishing this speech, Lu Rongting paused for a moment and swept his gaze across the entire scene. The eyes of all the officials and soldiers were filled with terror as they lowered their heads. This effect made Lu Rongting feel very satisfied - it was meant to make you know fear.

  Those who are not afraid of me should not enter my door is a creed or principle for Lu Rongting to lead his troops.

  "This time, the expedition concerns the future of our Guangxi Army. No matter who it is, even if he's my own son, if he dares to acknowledge surrender like Old Bear, I'll behead him. Remember: those who fear the enemy and do not advance will be killed; those who disobey orders will be killed; those who flee in battle will be killed; those who are weak in combat will be killed. You must understand that except for killing your enemies, you have no way to survive. If a soldier escapes, shoot him; if a squad leader escapes, shoot him; if a platoon leader escapes, shoot him... and so on. If the whole army flees, kill all their families."

  Lu Rongting's loud voice was enough to make every officer and soldier in the First Division hear clearly without the aid of a microphone, and even tremble with fear. But among this group of people, there was a young officer who didn't have any expression at all. He just sank into deep thought silently. This person was Huang Shaohong, that student soldier who refused to join the Ferocious Tiger Brigade in Nanjing.

  But what Wang Zhenyu did not expect was that after Lu Rongting's cruel tactics, the soldiers' fear of Lu Rongting exceeded their fear of death itself. As a result, the originally fierce and brave Guangxi army burst out with astonishing combat power in front of the fierce tiger-like army in western Hunan.

  The consequences of the mutiny of the 1st Division of Guangxi Army were very serious, as this mutiny delayed the entire 1st Division's original plan to besiege by three days. At that time when telegrams still had to be delivered through postal offices, it was impossible for Chen Bingkun, the commander of the 1st Division of Guangxi Army, to know about the situation in a timely manner, after all, there was Liuzhou between Nanning and the communication troops were not effective.

  As a result, the tragedy occurred. Chen Bingkun led the main force of the First Division earlier than any other unit to depart towards the friendly attacking point, Luchuan County.

  Chen Bingkun was still leaving a window of opportunity, he delayed his departure by a whole day compared to the original plan. He thought that these friendly troops might be late with their arrival, but he couldn't have imagined that other friendly troops would be so late that they collectively deviated from the plan. If this were placed in a modern-day film set, Chen Bingkun, as the second male lead of this episode, would definitely angrily shout: "Change the director! These sons are not following the script, how can I act?"

  If I had known it was this situation, Chen Bingkun would rather have stayed in Guilin for a few more days. He had just forcibly taken a concubine recently, and thinking about her figure and appearance made him feel comfortable all over. As a result, he hadn't even had time to enjoy her when Lu Rongting called him to Nanning for a meeting. After returning, he was arranged to go out on military affairs again. Chen Bingkun, who was somewhat superstitious, couldn't find an auspicious day recently and could only put off the matter of taking a concubine.

  "After I've killed all these Hunan bastards, I'll go back and thoroughly fuck this disobedient concubine" Chen Bingkun rode his horse with a resolute determination.

  At this time, the deputy officer ran over to report: "Master, we have left the river valley and walked along the river for about 20 miles, and we will arrive at Lüzhen County."

  Chen Bingkun nodded casually: "Has this vanguard discovered anything unusual?"

  Deputy: "No"

  Chen Bingkun looked at the deputy officer with suspicion: "We're not far from Liu Zhou, no reason we can't encounter a single enemy soldier. Let them go and check out the situation in Lùzhài County, hurry back and report. By the way, where are we?"

  Deputy officer: "Reporting to the commander, I just asked a woodcutter and he said this is Banggan"

  "Plank ditch" Chen Bingkun's mind flashed a very bad word called "dark ditch capsizing"

  Chen Bingkun immediately said: "It's already noon, let the brothers hurry up and leave. Once we get out of this valley, we'll bury the pot and cook a good meal to rest."

  On the other side of the mountain on both banks of the Liu River, Chen Bingkun couldn't see that many soldiers wearing blue-gray uniforms were quietly approaching the ridge line. More than 60 elite scouts of the Guangxi Army who were responsible for guarding the ridge line were killed one by one by the reconnaissance soldiers of the Xiangxi Army who were even more ruthless. Then these reconnaissance soldiers put on the military uniform of the Guangxi Army and continued to stand guard.

  In another direction, Mo Rongxin's new department set out from Wuzhou and was originally planned to advance by boat. However, after encountering a mysterious sinking incident that resulted in the loss of 170 soldiers, Mo Rongxin ordered his 4,000 troops to disembark and march on foot. It is estimated that it will take them several days to arrive at Liuzhou.

  Song Anxiu's army set out from Guigang to the right bank of the Youjiang River, but because Tan Haoming's 2nd Guangxi Infantry Division and Huang Banguo's mixed brigade had not arrived as scheduled, Song Anxiu was suspicious and ordered his 4,000 troops to stop on the opposite bank. He would rather die than take a step forward without seeing Lu Rongting's main force in front of him. Who knows if the enemy is watching from the other side, waiting for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack while we are crossing the river?

  As for Lin Junting's troops, they set out from Baise and took the right bank of the You River. This was a quick route, and as he was a subordinate of Lu Rongting, he had always actively responded to the orders of the Military Governor's Office. However, his army was the smallest, with less than 3,000 men, because the poor region of Baise could not afford to support many soldiers. When he arrived at Heishan, he found that there were no other troops around, and if he advanced further, he would be isolated. Therefore, although Lin Junting's attitude was different from Song Anzhou's, their actions were almost identical - they did not move.

  In the provincial military forces, the strongest is undoubtedly the First Division of Longzhou's Wei Rongchang, with a full 7,000 troops, including infantry, cavalry and artillery. Within Guangxi Province, Lu Rongting ranks second, but in his eyes, Wei Rongchang and Chen Chaoping of the Sixth Division are nothing but trash, almost taking three steps back for every one step forward. The mobilization order has been issued for three days now, yet these two are still lingering in Longzhou and Qinzhou respectively. At this pace and efficiency, it's estimated that by the time they conquer Beijing, they won't even have left their own province.

  As a result, Lu Rongting could only continue to send people to urge and at the same time make up his mind to use the 30,000 troops he could mobilize at present to defeat the Xiangxi Army's 10,000 troops in Liuzhou with one blow, and then take advantage of the great victory to turn around and deal with Wei Rongchang and Chen Zhaopeng. Unfortunately, Lu Rongting did not get accurate intelligence from the beginning, and the Xiangxi Army was not 10,000 but 25,000 troops, which was almost equal in strength to the Guangxi Army, and the Guangxi Army came from all sides, making it easy to be defeated separately.

  The outcome of war is often based on unequal information between two sides.

  "You are the vanguard of our camp, so it's not necessary to strictly follow the drill manual. It's perfectly fine to increase the load on the soldiers appropriately. Go find the person in charge of military supplies and have each of them take two more hand grenades."

  On October 2nd at 10 am, Major Cai Junxian, who had been assigned to the First Division from military school just a few months ago, was inspecting the combat readiness of his subordinate companies. Having defected to General Wang's camp almost a year ago, he had come to admire the system and management of the Tiger Troop very much. Although he was already approaching forty, Cai Junxian was determined to make a name for himself here.

  At this time, his old comrade-in-arms Liu Xu-yi, who was also the regiment commander of the 101st Regiment of the First Division, ran over: "Old Cai heard that you just came back from the division headquarters. What news do you have?"

  Cai Jun's head shook like a rattle drum: "What kind of news is this? This young guy is just timid, if it were me as the team leader, I would definitely suggest to our superiors that we launch a surprise attack on the enemy at the front line, with our team's combat power, we can defeat them, but they don't need us, and yet the whole division is waiting for orders by the Liu River, do they want to use the strength of one division to fight a delaying action? What a waste!"

  Liu Xu Yi hastily made a gesture to quiet him down: "After all these years, you still can't control that big mouth of yours. Sooner or later, you'll get into trouble. I heard the Third Regiment is heading north, maybe General wants our First Regiment to launch a counterattack."

  At 2 pm on October 2, infantry Huang Detiger, who had been incorporated into the third division of the Xiangxi Defense Tiger's 301st regiment, was now crouching less than half a meter from the side of the mountain ridge. Beside him were all the officers and men of the second company of the first battalion of the 301st regiment, except for the heavy machine gunner who was camouflaging the heavy machine gun with leaves at the shooting point. Everyone else was quietly crouching behind the ridge, waiting for the attack order. If they had crawled another meter, the Guilin army in the valley below could have been seen clearly.

  The entire ambush site was stretched to about 5 kilometers. As the division commander, Li Zongren and Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi did not say a word. Either don't fight or annihilate them all, it was what they had agreed on beforehand. So they were both waiting patiently, waiting for the Guangxi First Army to be completely surrounded.

  At 2:20 pm, the troops responsible for the terminal card tail launched three signal shells into the sky. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi simultaneously jumped up and shouted "Open fire!" The Hunan-Guangdong War, which had been brewing for nearly half a month, broke out in an instant.