Lu Ziyun never expected that he would call others with a shout: "Two brothers, Ziyun only wants to return in a horse and a corpse. If he is defeated, please take care of me and other brothers and leave me alone!"

The officers under his command stood up one after another, and all of them were full of enthusiasm: "We five hundred men are willing to follow Ziyun, and Tian Heng and eight hundred heroes can still get back together, so we five hundred soldiers can naturally make a scene..."

This scene infected many people present. Looking at Lu Ziyun's calm and powerful back, Chen Xiuhai suddenly felt excited and said loudly: "Brother Ziyun, I'll go with you!"

Lu Ziyun turned around with joy on his face and suddenly bowed to Chen Xiuhai: "Thank you, Brother Xiuhai!"

Chen Xiuhai read classics and spoke in a bit of a literary style: "Brothers are from the city, and they are responsible for defending their territory. They will naturally not be able to destroy their families and relieve their difficulties... In the past, the Rouran army invaded the south, and the former Jin official slaves attacked with 450 loyal and filial troops, and they could drive the three or four thousand Rouran troops into the water and drown them alive. Who knew that we did not have such luck, and brothers would fight too!"

Lu Ziyun: "Brother Xiuhai, thank you!"

Shan Ping saw this heroic scene, and the blood that had been precipitated for a long time seemed to be boiling. He could only shake his head and comfort his officers: "There are five or six thousand people in an independent mixed brigade, which is not something that our thousand defeated soldiers can deal with... Let's retreat to Taihang Mountain to get along with Bu Shuai!"

But even he could not convince himself of this. The air in the room was silent for a long time, and everyone could only breathe heavily. Finally, an officer ran in panting and said, "Brother!"

Shan Ping looked at his brother in anger and said angrily: "This is not the family..."

But his brother complained: "Brother... this is really impossible. We can always raise some military funds, but today we don't want to sell the people on the street to us... But Lu Ziyun, Chen Xiuhai and others, the Chamber of Commerce and the people, all brought things to their bases, and didn't even have a penny. Before going to the battle, there were four or five hundred people who brought their own weapons to join the team!"

Shan Ping's face suddenly turned ugly, and his brother asked, "Brother... are we..."

With a loud bang, Shan Ping slapped the table suddenly: "They are humans, and we are also humans. Why do you ask them to steal the limelight... Brothers, we will also fight the Liefeng people!"

The officers cheered, and the morale of the seven or eight hundred remaining soldiers of the Shantuan suddenly increased. When they drove out of the county town, dozens of people who volunteered to serve as Masters. Shan Ping rode on the horse and scolded quickly: "Hurry up! I also fought with the Liefeng people..."

Halfway through the road, the dense sound of gunfire made the officers and soldiers quicken their pace. Shan Ping's passion in his heart calmed down: "I hope Lu Ziyun and the others won't collapse too quickly, and they can last until we arrive..."

After crossing a mountain, there was a battlefield filled with smoke in front of him. Shan Ping looked down with all his thoughts. He breathed a sigh of relief, then danced excitedly. He waved his saber and shouted: "Come on me! Artillery, hurry up and pick up the artillery!"

The two sides in front were in a melee, but the five-color flag and the iron-blooded eighteen-star flag that marked the Republic were still flying on the battlefield. The flag bearer protected the battle flag with his own blood and waved the military flag with his life. The Republican army rushed out from the bottom of the mountain and directly penetrated into the middle of the Liefeng Army. On the other hand, the dozen battle flags were already scattered on the battlefield in a row, and the war horses were running around. The artillery in the front row was not unfolded, and the gunners were trapped in a dense rain of bullets. Most of the artillery were casualties, and the officers and soldiers of the Liefeng Army were also in chaos. Many officers and soldiers shouted loudly.

But the officers of the Liefeng Army began to organize a counterattack. About a squadron of Liefeng Army spontaneously shouted and rushed towards this side, but they just happened to hit Shantuan attacking from the side. Before they reacted, the officers of Shantuan had already shouted: "Shoot!"

Sifei's projectiles immediately caused the formation of the squadron to fall down a large row, and Shan Ping himself was even more courageous. He shouted repeatedly: "Battle me hard!"

The unexpected reinforcements immediately made the morale of Lu Ziyun and Lin Xiuhai's troops suddenly rise, and the officers and soldiers shouted: "Kill! Kill!"

The Liefeng Army they bumped into seemed to be an artillery team that was independently mixed into the Fourth Brigade. The artillery was trained to be no match for regular infantry at all. Although they had launched a spontaneous counterattack, the development of Lu Ziyun Camp was very smooth. Especially after Shan Ping's reinforcements arrived, the three artillery squadrons of the artillery team almost collapsed, with war horses running around everywhere and rows of corpses of the Liefeng Army everywhere.

Lu Ziyun was covered in blood. He waved his sword and shouted, "Kill!"

Lin Xiuhai was elegant by nature, but today he also aroused his blood. He kept shouting: "Attack! Hold on to me..."

On the battlefield, the pressure is his self-defense regiment in the city. It was originally a militia formed by gentry. Its combat power is not strong. Thanks to the fact that the children of the city are responsible for protecting the land, they will not collapse. Under the impact of the Liefeng Army, more than 100 people have been injured and killed, and there is a possibility of collapse at any time.

Shan Ping's regiment entered the battle at the right time and attacked a squadron of the Liefeng Army in six rounds of volleys. Shan Ping took a look at the Liefeng Army's chaotic form and shouted suddenly: "Battle charge! Kill!"

This is the infantry brigade that is attacking the Mancheng Self-Defense Regiment. After discovering Shan Ping's attempt, he decisively ordered the attack to stop. However, it is difficult to complete such a maneuver in front of the enemy. When the retreating infantry had not yet withdrawn from the Mancheng Self-Defense Regiment's firepower range, the main force of the Dan Ping's regiment had already arrived, and the two sides launched a short battle of flesh-and-heart battle.

Bloody battle! The Liefeng Army began to retreat after leaving more than 30 corpses, but the Liefeng Army on the battlefield also organized during this period, and they launched several counterattacks!

Shan Ping heard Lie Fengjun shouting from time to time, and he asked loudly: "Who knows Lie***? What are they calling in ghosts?"

Someone immediately replied: "Yes... the brigade commander died in battle... the brigade commander of the Liefengren died in battle!"

Although the troops on the battlefield were only over 2,000, the morale was high at this time, and many troops even showed superhuman performance. Like the self-defense regiment in the city, there was even a strong attack spirit. However, the Liefeng Army had a lot of advantages on the battlefield, and the battlefield was in a stalemate.

At this critical moment, dense gunshots sounded from the left wing of the Liefeng Army. The Liefeng Army was forced to divide two infantry squadrons to the left, but soon, gunshots sounded from all directions. Lu Ziyun was incredible that the troops that appeared everywhere, with a roar, and were extremely excited: "Our reinforcements are here again... Kill! Completely destroy this brigade of the Liefeng Army..."

On July 18, 1996, the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade of the Liefeng People was attacked by the remaining troops of the Republican army and local forces in Mancheng. According to the official history of the Defense Department, "Hebei Operations": "...Baoding side. While determined to launch a side attack on Cangzhou with the main force, it also used the main force of the Independent Mixed Brigade to attack more than a thousand remaining bandits in Mancheng and Yi County... The brigade commander Major General Sato Shin-Taiwan led the brigade engineers, artillery teams and independent infantry three brigades owed two infantry squadrons. A total of thirteen infantry squadrons were attacked in Yi County... The resistance of hundreds of remaining bandits was defeated, and on July 18, he suddenly encountered the strong resistance of tens of thousands of remaining bandits, and the main force of the brigade fell into a hard battle.

The brigade commander was suddenly hit by a stray bullet while commanding the battle, and the command also encountered an attack. Note: The brigade commander suffered little losses, only twenty people were killed in battle, and fifty-nine were injured... The commander of the Sato brigade still shouted "loyalty to the emperor" while he was dying, and turned into the soul of protecting the country... Inspired by the spirit of the brigade commander, the 4th brigade defeated the enemy in front of him in one fell swoop... But more and more bandits gathered. In view of the heavy blow to the bandits in Yi County, the acting brigade commander Zhong Zuo was determined to carry out a reverse battle, defeating the enemy along the way, leading his troops to return to Baoding smoothly... The whole city was fought. I killed 206 people, injured 160 people, and 7,000 corpses on the enemy's battlefield, and seized twelve rifles..."

But the real situation on the battlefield is another matter. When the Liefeng Army found that they were trapped in a multitude of encirclements and the artillery of the single regiment also began to fire, the troops began to collapse. After using the seized artillery team of the independent mixed artillery team of the Fourth Brigade to start shooting, the Liefeng Army found that the familiar voice exploded on its head, and the troops almost collapsed completely.

The acting brigade commander was also forced to break through. The journey was a disaster. There were local force attacks at any time and anywhere. Finally, when the 4th Brigade was independent and mixed, he ran back to Baoding with his armor and abandoned his armor, the entire regiment changed from 4,200 people to 700 people. Although he had full strength to contain him in the next few days, he only accommodated more than 200 people.

"The Fourth Independent Brigade of Independent Mixed Brigade has been destroyed..." The North China Army's staff privately conveyed such news, while Lu Ziyun was watching the large army not even need spoils and desperately intercepting the defeated soldiers of the Fourth Independent Mixed Brigade. He asked Chen Xiuhai loudly: "Where did reinforcements come from..."

These teams were very mixed, including the remaining troops of the 13th Division that were dispersed, veterans of the Third Division of the Zhi Army, self-defense forces from various places, and remnants of the Feng army... There were a total of seven or eight thousand people in the western part of Baoding, and they were also undecided. Everyone said that the remnants had small troops, their morale was not high, and their equipment was not neat, so they could not stop the attack of the Liefeng Army, but they retreated to the Taihang Mountains and were unwilling to leave.

In this situation, Lu Ziyun raised his arms and gathered seven or eight thousand people in the whole city. When he saw that the battle situation of the Liefeng Army was unfavorable, everyone even ran out to get the bargain.

Most of the siege teams of the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade were wiped out, and the morale of these remnants suddenly increased. Lu Ziyun was even elected as the leader of the alliance. He said happily: "The overall situation is great. We must counterattack Baoding... Now it is clear that there are only two infantry brigades of the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade in Baoding City. Their main force has advanced towards Cangzhou. We have an absolute advantage!"

"Counterattack Baoding! Counterattack Baoding!" All the remaining troops took the opportunity to reap a lot of spoils. When they heard that there were only two infantry brigades in Baoding City, they were all very excited.

There were really not many troops in Baoding City. In addition to fleeing back to Baoding City, there were only two infantry brigades and two infantry squadrons of the Independent Mixed Brigade, which did not participate in the battle in the direction of Mancheng and Yixian County. However, the 7th Division and the Independent Mixed Brigade remained in Baoding with many institutions, and then plundered other soldiers, there were still five or six thousand people.

However, the 7th Division and the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade, which had just got off the train, are now rushing towards Dezhou, preparing to surround Liu Jingxiao's retreat. Unexpectedly, the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade suffered a setback in the direction of Mancheng. However, Colonel Mizukawa, the new commander of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, is a talented student who graduated from the University of Lu. He was very proud and immediately announced: "Sato was careless and defeated the battle. Let's see how I deal with these disabled bandits..."

Colonel Mizukawa immediately led an independent infantry brigade to Baoding to fight against the remaining bandits, but the main force of the brigade was defeated by these "remnants", let alone a mere infantry brigade, who had only been out of the city for more than twenty miles and encountered Lu Ziyun's troops.

Two hours after the war started, the infantry brigade had already left two infantry squadrons and fled back to Baoding with his armor. From then on, he had only dared to retreat and defend to death, and never dared to attack again. An infantry squadron in Wangcheng also became a victim of Lu Ziyun's counterattack against Baoding.

In the following week, the troops led by Lu Ziyun suddenly expanded to 10,000 or 20,000 people, and his headquarters also had one or two thousand people. Everyone fought fiercely. The Liefeng Army in Baoding had to pay more than a hundred casualties every day. Not only that, Lu Ziyun also sent troops northward and removed several strongholds of the Liefeng Army in Baobei. The Liefeng Army lost nearly a brigade of troops in these battles.

The 7th Division and the Independent Mixed Brigade, which were attacking Dezhou, only received news on July 24 that they were about to return to Baoding, but they were entangled by the Liu army and were in a dilemma. Fortunately, a temporary military station line was established, and the troops could still receive supplies.

The Baoding defenders were in a hurry to the North China Army every day, and even the expatriates were armed. However, by July 26, the Baoding Liefeng Army still lost 2,000 in defense wars, and Lu Ziyun was still attacking fiercely.

With Liu Jingxiao's defeat in Cangzhou and Mancheng, the North China Army "deteriorated sharply in the area" and the troops encountered attacks at all times. Although the North China Army organized four rescue operations from an infantry brigade to three infantry brigades in Baoding, they all ended in failure. The only exception was that on July 25, six infantry squadrons forcibly broke through the siege of Lu Ziyun's troops and entered Baoding City, but Baoding City was soon surrounded again.

In this situation, the North China Army made a major decision: "Order the 11th Army to transfer two divisions to Baoding on August 10th..."
Chapter completed!