nucmednet Chapter 247: The Final End of the Pang Clan
Chapter 247: The Final End of the Pang Clan
That evening, the 73rd Regiment, led by Zhao Changfeng, fired the first shot in the rebellion against the Pang family.
As Zhao Changfeng was the first to make his position clear, several regiment-level combat units under the Jiangbei Corps, affiliated with the First Army and the Second Army, successively launched wars in the heart of Jiangbei Province. These old members of the Su family vented all the grievances and anger they had felt in the past few years at once today.
A single spark can start a prairie fire. The violent wave of rebellion that broke out within the Jiangbei Legion soon swept across the entire Jiangbei Province. The major cities under the control of the Pang family were filled with smoke and flames, and the deafening sound of artillery fire continued to echo throughout the land.
"Commander! Our intelligence personnel in Yanzhou City, the capital of Jiangbei, have received accurate information. The 73rd Regiment of the Second Army near Yanbei City was the first to stand up and express its attitude and position. With the statement of the 73rd Regiment, now in Jiangbei Province, regiment-level units and more than combat troops have successively raised the banner of rebellion, shouting slogans of overthrowing the traitorous Pang family, and launched attacks on the nearby Jiangbei Army. The entire Jiangbei has been completely plunged into war."
Su Zhengyang was slightly startled. Tang Zhengqi behind him clenched his fists and said excitedly, "Zhao Changfeng of the 73rd Regiment, good boy! He really didn't let me down! He didn't let the old commander down! It seems that Jiangbei has always been the Su family's Jiangbei. Zhengyang raised the banner high, and immediately everyone responded."
Su Zhengyang smiled. "We sent out sixteen secret letters, but got twenty-one troops to respond. It seems that the Pang faction has reached the point where everyone will scatter when the tree falls and everyone will push the wall down. Many fence-sitters who wanted to fish in troubled waters also took the opportunity to defect to us at this time."
"Convene a combat meeting immediately. I want to issue specific combat orders!"
"Yes, Governor!"
Half an hour later, in the operations conference room, Su Zhengyang sat at the first seat. All the officers of the Second Army were present, each of them looking solemn and sitting upright.
"Our rebellion plan has achieved extremely significant results. Now a war has broken out within the Jiangbei Legion. The Jiangbei Province is filled with smoke of gunpowder. The Pang Clan is on the decline and at the end of its strength! It is time for us to launch a general offensive!"
"Use Jiangye City as the base camp. I will give your Second Army half a month. Half a month! I want to see the Pang family become history! The Pang family father and son kneel before me and kowtow and repent. Zheng Zeyu, can you do it?"
Zheng Zeyu stood up and said in a loud voice: "It's only half a month. If you can't take down the Pang faction in half a month, Commander, just shoot me!"
At this time, Yu Zihang, the commander of the Second Army of the Yan Clan, also came in. After giving Su Zhengyang a standard military salute, he said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "Commander-in-Chief Yan has ordered that the command of the Second Army be temporarily handed over to Su Zhengyang. How can we eliminate the Pang Clan rebels without our Yunzhou Army? Councillor Su, please issue combat orders and arrange corresponding combat tasks!"
Su Zhengyang did not act pretentiously and said immediately: "Okay, Yu Zihang, listen to my orders!"
"From today on, the Second Army of Yunzhou will launch an encirclement and suppression war against the three direct army-level troops of the First Army of the Pang Clan from the east! Tie down their energy and force them to be unable to return to Yanzhou for support! Once Yanzhou falls, it will mean that the traitorous Pang Clan has completely come to an end!"
"Yunzhou Second Army, ensure the mission is accomplished!"
That afternoon, the entire Second Army of the Northwest Revolutionary Army launched an attack, heading southward towards Yanzhou City, the capital of the central region of Jiangbei Province. Following closely behind, the Second Yunzhou Army came out in full force and at two o'clock in the morning of that evening, launched a large-scale battle with the main force of the First Army of the Pang faction entrenched in Hecheng on the east side.
The two armies also officially played the music that foreshadowed the end of the Pang family.
For ten consecutive days, Su Zhengyang stayed in Jiangye City, paying attention to the battle situation on the front line while mobilizing logistics troops to continuously deliver supplies to the front line, arranging everything in an orderly manner.
The Second Army on the front line did not disappoint Su Zhengyang. Under the leadership of Zheng Zeyu, the Second Army won victory after victory with its amazing efficiency. It captured three cities in a row and continuously broke through the blockade of the Pang family's direct troops north of Yanzhou City, annihilating more than 30,000 enemies. Finally, on the eleventh day, they arrived at the city of Yanzhou and joined the coalition forces formed by Zhao Changfeng and others.
One day later, Su Zhengyang formally issued an order to launch a general attack on Yanzhou City at the rear base. At this time in Yanzhou City, Pang Yunshan sent away his half brother Pang Yunhai, and with the determination to fight to the death, he led the last two division-level troops of the Pang family and launched a desperate fight with the coalition forces.
After a full fourteen hours of siege, Yanzhou City was officially captured at 3:30 p.m. on August 6. The two division-level troops in the city suffered a large-scale defeat and surrender.
In the Governor's Mansion, Pang Yunshan, knowing that the situation was hopeless, first strangled his bedridden father to death, and then shot himself. At this time, Pang Yunhai and the Pang family's family had already fled to the southern part of Jiangbei Province under the escort of a small group of elite troops.
It is extremely ironic that Huang Qingshan, the captain of the guard team who was regarded as an absolute confidant by Pang Jinghong, was tempted by money and directly ordered the shooting of all 27 members of the Pang family while escorting the Pang family to escape. Pang Yunhai, who was regarded as the last hope of the Pang family, was brutally killed after his pleadings were in vain. The bodies of the Pang family members with extremely miserable deaths were not discovered until five days later. They paid a heavy price for their actions.
On August 11, Su Zhengyang personally rushed to Yanzhou City. Looking at every blade of grass and every tree in front of him, Su Zhengyang had a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling, and his mood was extremely complicated. Su Zhengyang traveled to this world and replaced the original owner, and also resonated with the original owner's feelings.
After a year, Su Zhengyang finally fulfilled his oath and led his men back to Jiangbei. While avenging his original father, he also took back control of the Jiangbei Legion.
What made Su Zhengyang lose interest was that before he could even take action himself, all the members of the Pang family had been killed.
A moment later, a middle-aged man in green military uniform and with the rank of major general and division commander was pushed into the governor's office by Zheng Zeyu's guards. He knelt down in front of Su Zhengyang with a plop. His eyes flickered and he looked terrified. The moment he saw Su Zhengyang, his face turned pale and he almost fainted.
The middle-aged officer in front of Su Zhengyang is called He Qingzhang. He is the confidant of Su Zhengyang's father, Su Yuting, the former commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei Army Corps, and the commander of the headquarters guard regiment.
After the Pang faction took control of the Jiangbei Legion, this person was the first to stand up and help Pang Jinghong clear the suspicion of conspiring with Fuso to assassinate Su Zhengyang's father, and he firmly expressed his attitude of supporting and following Pang Jinghong.
It can be said that the death of the original body's father was caused by this person. If he had not deliberately left a loophole for the Fuso assassin to successfully sneak into Su Yuting's side, how could Su Yuting, who had experienced countless storms in his life, have been easily fooled.
Su Zhengyang looked at He Qingzhang who was kneeling in front of him with cold eyes. Faced with the creepy and bone-chilling coldness in Su Zhengyang's eyes, He Qingzhang collapsed all over, with beads of sweat the size of beans rolling down his forehead.