10 kilometers south of Nanchang City, Li Yao, the head of the third regiment, sent his political commissar to personally go up the mountain to persuade him to surrender, but the political commissar holding the small white flag was driven back before he reached the middle of the mountain.

After communicating with Li Lizhu, he continued to attack.

The shells smashed on the position of Hu Zhiyuan of the Beiyang Army one by one, seeing that the enemy had little power to fight back, Li Yao's subordinates began to charge again, hundreds of soldiers were brave and fearless, ignoring the fallen people around them, and tried to dodge and rush upward.

There were not many gunshots in Hu Zhiyuan's position, but they were surprisingly accurate, and many soldiers fell on the way to charge, and when Li Yao's soldiers rushed halfway up the mountain, a piece of earthen ground appeared in front of them. Although the power of thunder was not as powerful as that of later generations, Li Yao's soldiers who blew up turned on their backs, and Hu Zhiyuan's position was constantly gunfired, not giving Li Yao a chance to clear mines.

Li Yao had no choice but to take the charging team back. Thunder blocking the way, or fire ditch interception, or ambush, all kinds of strange tactics emerge in an endless stream, although Li Yao's soldiers are well-trained and well-equipped, they are still beaten and suffer heavy casualties.

Seeing that Li Yao's repeated attacks were blocked, Li Lizhu couldn't help but become interested, handed over the task of clearing the remnants of the enemy to the chief of staff, and came to the front line himself.

"Throne! The subordinates were ashamed, attacked for two hours, killed and wounded hundreds, and still did not take Hu Zhiyuan's position! ”

Li Yao had obviously participated in the charge himself, and the wounds on his arm were still oozing blood from several white cloth bandages.

"This kid is so powerful?"

"Shame on your subordinates!"

"You will be ashamed later," Li Yao is Li Lizhu's old subordinate, and he has no scruples when he speaks, "Let's talk about it first, how did this Hu Zhiyuan defeat you, what are the advantages, and where is the difficulty of the attack?" ”

"Yes! Hu Zhiyuan's strength is now roughly determined to be about 350 people, he refused to surrender, my political commissar was driven back from the mountain twice, although there are not many of his people, but there are almost no flaws in the cooperation between each other, the tactics are very flexible, the position chosen is also very good, you can avoid direct artillery fire, the trenches are deep enough, we hid when we launched an artillery bombardment, and when we rushed up, they came out to block the attack, we tried to use smoke. The bullet was used as a cover, but the mountain wind was too strong, and soon the smoke was blown away, and it could not play the role of cover! ”

"Huh! It's really interesting, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's lack of time, he really wanted to compete with this kid, okay, don't fight, take the captured Beiyang Standard over, and let his chief come over to persuade him to surrender, damn, the officials have surrendered, what is he still tossing, is it possible that hundreds of people want to stop us? ”

Several disgraced Beiyang officers were soon escorted to the front of the battle, including Hu Zhiyuan's direct superiors, who shouted in front of the battle after hearing Li Lizhu's request, and Hu Zhiyuan's direct superiors even scolded him, and Li Lizhu's personal guard battalion also began to make a detour, ready to launch a fatal blow at any time.

"Hu Zhiyuan, you little lady raised, even Lao Tzu has surrendered, what are you waiting for, do you think that you can stop Commander Li's army with just two or three hundred people, do you want the brothers to accompany you to die?

Besides, don't you admire Chen Dashuai very much, Commander Li was born as the personal guard of Dashuai, and he personally recruited you, what an honor it is, Yuan himself wants to be the emperor, aren't you also very dissatisfied, why are you hypocritical now? ”

In fact, Hu Zhiyuan had also fallen into a dilemma, and began to gather the rout, with nearly 600 men under his command, but after Li Yao's indiscriminate bombardment and desperate charge, he also lost more than 100 people.

He also knew in his heart that the Northern Expeditionary Army had not been serious with him at all, and if he really wanted to take his position, he only needed to add some more troops to annihilate his entire army, at least the planes did not move, but the last bit of glory of the soldiers and the lives of the brothers still made him entangled.

"Lord Biaotong, haven't you always taught us that there are only soldiers who died in battle, and there are no soldiers who surrendered, and now 。。。。。。 How do you let the lowly position deal with itself? ”

"Bastard! Is the Northern Expeditionary Army an enemy? They are also the troops of our Republic of China, their own brothers fight to win or lose, since they have lost, what else is there to say, go down the mountain and surrender early, aren't there enough people who died today, don't let everyone have any more fearless sacrifices? ”

Beiyang's standard was thick-skinned enough to continue to persuade Hu Zhiyuan, and at this time, Li Lizhu also rode out.

"Battalion Commander Hu, I am Li Lizhu, the commander of the Middle Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, as you know, I used to be the personal guard of the marshal, as for your glory to the soldiers, I have a different opinion.

The marshal has taught us that the duty of a soldier is to protect the security, dignity, and property of the people of the country from being violated, and that you and I are both Chinese, even if we win the war, what glory is there to speak of? I heard that you are also a person who has studied poetry and books, what President Yuan has done over the years, and what has our marshal done, don't you know?

Not to mention anything else, that is, under the leadership of our commander over the years, we have rescued no less than 10 million people, this is the real merit, the war with the Japanese, almost completely annihilated the Japanese army's Third Fleet, my China in the past few hundred years, can there be such a feat? Moreover, Commander Li Jinxu launched a decisive battle against Japan in the northeast and took back the place occupied by the Japanese, and Commander Sun Zhiheng recovered Mongolia from the conspiracy of the Russians, not to mention Nanyang, like Commander Sun Zhiheng, General Li Jinxu, and General Yan Fu, these people can be called national heroes and model soldiers, the reason why I don't attack you with a large army is because the commander gave an order when he went out to fight, they are all Chinese, and we must minimize casualties, otherwise, you are also a person who studies military affairs, and how many layers of certainty are there to block my progress? ”

After Li Lizhu finished speaking, Hu Zhiyuan finally made up his mind.

"Li Junzuo, we have been fighting with your ministry for so long before, can you guarantee the safety of our lives after we lay down our weapons? And won't your brothers embarrass us? ”

"What's so difficult about this, I said, everyone is Chinese, what a blessing to be able to see each other without swords, you see, this is the head of Li Yao who has been fighting with you, let him personally promise you!"

Although Li Yao was a little unhappy to be blocked by Hu Zhiyuan for several hours, he was still very convinced of Hu Zhiyuan's command ability, although Hu Zhiyuan occupied a favorable position, but he was still able to stand tall when the friendly army was almost completely annihilated, and he fought with him without breaking and fleeing, which shows that there is no need to doubt whether it is personal ability or the degree of winning the hearts of the army.

"Brother Hu, you underestimate our Northern Expeditionary Army, our Northern Expeditionary Army has no habit of embarrassing brothers, and military law does not allow it, although you blocked us for a few hours, but it is not necessarily that I am really defeated, if it continues, I have not yet known who will kill the deer, I am personally not convinced, when you arrive at the Northern Expeditionary Army, there will be a lot of battles in the future, we will compare again, what do you think?"

Hu Zhiyuan finally ordered his subordinates to surrender, and the prisoners were handed over to the Military Administration Department for reorganization, but Hu Zhiyuan was arranged to be Li Yao's deputy head of the regiment, which was regarded as an official promotion, and there were not many military ranks, so he had to wait for the approval of the Quanxu Section.

After cleaning up the remnants of the enemy, the capture was also handed over to the logistics battalion, Li Lizhu continued to wave his troops north, came to Nanchang City 5 miles away, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening, the army after a day of fierce fighting, has been exhausted, although there is still an internal response in the city, but Li Lizhu did not dare to take this risk, so he commanded the army to set up camp and correct for a day.

Breaking the periphery of the Southern Great Wall, the Northern Expeditionary Army also captured a lot of Beiyang soldiers, more than 4,000, countless guns, artillery, and food, and some Beiyang officers, just taking advantage of this time to rectify.

Li Lizhu was reorganizing the army in Nanchang, but Chen Xuan was a little depressed.

I thought that I had been preparing for many years and it was already very sufficient, but because I had no experience and there were few generals in the New Republic of China, the strategy I set was extremely unreasonable.

At the same time, four or five battlefields were opened, and full of arms reserves were constantly being transported to the front line, and it was about to see the bottom, so we had to continue to expand production capacity, but how could industrial workers be trained in a day or two? As a result, the high scrap rate is scary, and the losses are heavy.

There are also financial difficulties, Chen Guangfu has already called Chen Xuan several times, the so-called 'cannon fires, gold 10,000 taels' is not the same thing at all, he is not a real warlord, grab a handful and run, the newly occupied places need to be rebuilt, the hungry need relief, industrial and agricultural development needs investment, there is nowhere to need money, the wealth obtained from overseas arms trade is pouring out like flowing water.

Chen Xuan had to agree that Chen Guangfu would issue banknotes when the finances of the New Republic of China had not yet been rectified and perfected, and the issuance of banknotes did not mean that it was enough to take out some printed matter, but that it was necessary to draw up a set of effective plans after careful planning and calculation; if there was a mistake, the damage to the New Republic would be more serious than the consequences of a big defeat.

Moreover, military supplies are now bought even if they have money and no land, and the United States is already struggling to support the European theater, and other countries have no hope.

And the Japanese were eyeing the side again, but fortunately, the military progress was quite smooth, otherwise Chen Xuan would have jumped into the river.

The war in the northeast is going well, after Sun Zhiheng set up the southward headquarters, the troops are divided into three routes, Xu Tingge all the way, Dong Dacheng all the way, Zhang Xiaozhun all the way, all the way to attack Fengtian, the Baath Party has briefly occupied Fengtian, the reputation in Shenyang is not bad, and there are many invisible forces.

Fengtian General Duan Zhigui knew that he was invincible, and he wanted to preserve his strength, and when his younger brother Duan Qirui made a comeback, he ran away with Zhang Zuolin and other Fengtian officers, and directly ceded the entire Northeast to Sun Zhiheng.

The Russians had a lot of influence in the Northeast, but they were dragged by the Germans on the Western Front and could not do anything about what happened in the Northeast, which was also an important reason why Sun Zhiheng was able to successfully occupy the Northeast.

In other words, Chen Xuan played a side-kick smoothly.