District 9

The internal shooting of Duan Zhenghong did not cause any sensation among the upper echelons of the coalition forces. Neither the He, Fenglu, or the Sichuan and Zhou cliques investigated the matter in depth.

The reason why the two sides have not pierced this layer of window paper is because there is still a common enemy. Unless the Shensha Group is completely overthrown, the coalition forces will have no way to break up for the time being. Otherwise, once the two sides fight, letting Shen Wanzhou take a breath will cause a serious problem in the future.

Overthrowing the Shensha Group is the current primary goal of the coalition. Before that, no matter how serious the internal conflicts within the coalition are, both sides will tacitly restrain themselves.

But Duan Zhenghong's incident is also a reminder to both parties. It indicates that once the Shensha Group falls, this fragile coalition will collapse in an instant. There must be a battle between the Sichuan clan, the Zhou clan and the He Fenglu clan, and that battle will determine who has the highest power in the nine districts.

Therefore, while the two sides were chasing the Shensha Corps, they were also constantly making secret moves against the other side.

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After Duan Zhenghong's death, Commander Zhou quickly cleared the hidden dangers of the Second Army, and sent Zheng Kaijun to advance to the south of Fengbei and garrison here, forming a military confrontation that echoed the Lu army on the north side of Fengbei.

at the same time.

The entire main force of the He clan and the 30,000 main force of the Feng clan, with a total strength of about 70,000, pursued along the north side of the Shensha Corps' withdrawal route.

Sichuan's 185th and 186th brigades, plus an independent regiment, and Liu Weiren's division pursued the Shensha Corps on the south side of the withdrawal route toward Lukou Port.

At present, the coalition forces do not have a great advantage in terms of military strength, because the Zhou and Lu factions basically did not participate in the pursuit battle; the Sichuan and Feng factions did not send out their entire forces, and each had their own back-ups. When the Shensha Corps evacuated Fengbei, it assembled all the troops from Fengbei and South, and half of Fengbei's troops. In addition to the 30,000 defenders in the city, a total of more than 90,000 people were evacuating on a large scale. Therefore, the strength gap between the two sides was Not big.

However, although the two sides are almost the same in terms of military strength, in terms of mentality, they are one in the sky and one on the ground.

The Shensha Corps, from the generals down to the soldiers, all knew in their hearts that they were defeated and were moving to Lukou Port. It talks about a strategic shift, but in fact it means running away. In this case, who can raise the fighting spirit?

On the other hand, the generals, officers, and soldiers of the coalition forces already knew that the Shensha Corps had completely lost their fighting spirit after the Shensha Corps began to withdraw from Fengbei. The large-scale battle between the two sides has ended. The next step is to expand the results and seal Shen Wanzhou's retreat.

To sum up, the psychological gap between the two sides was huge, so the coalition forces were unstoppable and their morale was extremely high. In just one day, they advanced more than 100 kilometers towards the brigade, squeezing the Shensha Legion who had been fleeing in embarrassment. In the mountains of Port Port.

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Outside Lukou Port, along the withdrawal route.

Shen Fei ate the hard rations and turned to look at the road behind the car.

In the rear, a large number of soldiers were sitting in the snow shells on both sides of the road in an extremely exhausted state of mind. Some were eating, some were smoking in a daze, and some were fighting with their comrades over trivial matters.

The battle the previous week had already made the soldiers of the Shensha Corps feel very depressed. Now they had to leave their homes and travel across the mountains and ridges. Everyone felt depressed and unhappy, and their tempers were naturally irritated.

In order to stabilize the mood of the soldiers, officers of each battalion and company began to frequently patrol their camps and organize activities such as singing military songs and handing out cigarettes.

Shen Fei leaned on the car, biting into his combat rations, and glanced expressionlessly at the crowd behind him. There were several people there who had been following him since he left Fengbei City.

"Sir Shen, you, the commander-in-chief's nephew, are still eating dry combat rations like us?" A deputy battalion-level officer came over and joked with a smile: "You should go to the cadre convoy. They use Our military vehicles are all air-conditioned and the food is served by cadres, and they must be the first batch to board the ship, so why do you have to come with us and suffer the same fate?"

Shen Fei glanced at the other party and replied expressionlessly: "I have a mission to stay here."

The deputy battalion-level officer nodded slowly and didn't ask any more questions: "Okay, just call me if you need anything."

"Um."

After saying that, the deputy battalion-level officer turned and left.

Shen Fei looked at his back and suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute!"

"What's wrong?"

"Do you have a new military coat? Get one for me. I'll go take a look at the back." Shen Fei returned.

Upon hearing this, the deputy battalion turned around and shouted: "Xiao Yang, take a military coat from my car and ask for a new one."

"Thanks."

"Haha, it's okay." The deputy battalion turned and left.

After a while, a soldier came over and handed a new military coat to Shen Fei. The latter put it on neatly, took out a canvas bag from the car and put it on his shoulder, saying: "You will leave in a moment, just don't touch my car."

"Yes, Chief Shen!"

"Well, I'll go take a look at the back."

Shen Fei wore a thick military coat and walked towards the rear.

Among the people resting on the roadside, a man glanced at Shen Fei, lowered his head and picked up the intercom microphone on his collar and said, "He walked back."

"Follow him." Someone replied on the intercom.

Shen Fei walked along the main road and walked back for more than ten minutes. Suddenly he found a place with few people, turned around and ran towards the mountain.

It was now ten minutes in the evening, and the sky was already very dim. There were snow and dry branches everywhere in the mountains, and the visibility was not high.

When the few people following him saw Shen Fei go into the mountain, they immediately chased after him. Some people pinched Mike again and shouted: "Sir, Shen Fei might want to run away!"

In the mountains.

Shen Fei stepped on the thick snow one step at a time, breathing heavily in his mouth and nose, and ran away to the outside.

About ten minutes later, the five people following them had completely moved away from the large army along the highway. They followed their footsteps and panted halfway up the mountainside, near a large rock.

"Where are the people?!" a man asked, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Yeah, there are no footprints."

"Spread out, spread out, don't get together." The leader greeted.

"The snow shell here is relatively hard, and he didn't leave any footprints." Someone reminded him.

"Kangkongkangkong...!"

Suddenly, several gunshots suddenly appeared in the mountains.

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District 7, Luhuai City.

Zhou Xingli stood at the window of his office with his hands behind his back and asked in a low voice: "Isn't Lao Xu here yet?"

"Bang!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the guard opened the door of the office, saluted and shouted: "Commander, Commander Xu is here."

Zhou Xingli turned around after hearing this.

Before Xu Hancheng entered the room, he was the first to express his position: "I don't agree."