If Qin Shuli couldn't make sense of it, it didn't matter; since they had crossed paths, he could only say it was their bad luck.
Meanwhile, at the Independent 7th Brigade headquarters, Guan Shan received the order from Yang Hu and immediately mobilized the entire brigade, insisting they must drive the 388th Regiment back.
However, no one had expected the 388th Regiment to bypass the Gaodianzi direction to the east and instead flee west. This completely blindsided Guan Shan. Gaodianzi was a city held by the Nationalist forces; though their garrison was small and they hadn't dared to leave the city to save anyone, as long as the 388th Regiment broke through to the outskirts of Gaodianzi, the Nationalist troops inside would certainly have come to their aid. The Independent 7th Brigade had deployed heavy forces on the road to Gaodianzi specifically to prevent the 388th from breaking through. Who could have known they would actually flee west toward Yixian, catching the Independent 7th Brigade completely off guard?
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