Feng Guozhang finally made up his mind to reinforce, and had sent troops to attack Chen Xuan's industrial munitions base in Anshan before, and this time he had to send reinforcements, and the troops were indeed a little stretched.

After a search in Nanjing City, even the students were used, so more than 10,000 people were gathered and handed over to Chen Tiaoyuan's commander, Feng Guozhang's son-in-law Chen Zhiji deputy, and Feng Guozhang continued to stay in Nanjing, and at the same time sent envoys to lobby and contact other leaders of the Beiyang Army, hoping to get their approval, so as to push himself to the Beiyang Territory. sleeve status.

The battle in Suzhou has not yet begun, but the battle in Nanchang has already begun.

After Li Lizhu was transferred to Jiang Fangzhen, he quickly formed the First Army of the Northern Expedition in the Central China Theater, with more than 18,000 people under his command, and marched from Lushan to Nanchang.

Lushan can also be regarded as a research and development base and talent training base of the Baxing Party, there are several institutions of higher learning in Lushan, Dr. Shi Meiyu's medical school is arranged here, after several years of development and returned international students to join, Jiangxi Medical College is already a first-class medical training holy land, because most of the talents choose this side and do not want to go to the remote Harbin, so in terms of strength has surpassed Dr. Wu Liande's Harbin Medical College.

"Brother Li, the front is ready, after the brothers pass, you can have a hot meal."

It was Hong Yunxian who spoke, Hong Yunxian can be regarded as Chen Xuan's old friend, since Zhenhua started, he has been following Zhenhua's pace, and now he is a well-known big capitalist in Central China.

When the Baath Party occupied Nanchang for a short time, Hong Yunxian and some of his friends were appointed to be responsible for coordinating the industrial and commercial layout of Jiangxi, and after the north-south negotiations, the Baath Party handed over power, but a large part of the people stayed, and Beiyang cleaned up for several years, but still failed to drive these people out, and these people have huge influence in the local area, not to say that they will be rushed.

"Brother Hong, thank you so much, this march, the instructor has already arranged the logistics for us, but I didn't expect Brother Hong to organize people to donate money and materials to help, saving us a lot of trouble, just the people who transported the materials, let us spend a lot less effort!"

"Brother Li, don't you see the outside, not to mention our friendship for so many years, and I am still an official appointed by the marshal, just say that now I am also a member of the Baath Party, and the Northern Expedition was called by the marshal, so naturally I should go all out, and these things are naturally my duty."

Hong Yunxian has been an official for a few years, and he is no longer as submissive as when he first met Chen Xuan, and the scenes are also set in a set.

"Brother Hong, how sure are you about the preparations in Nanchang City, if there is any mistake, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take Nanchang easily?"

"Brother Li, I really don't dare to say how sure I am, I don't know how military it is, the people in charge of the uprising in Nanchang City are all members of our Revival Party, and the guards of each merchant group have also received them into their homes, but the guards are not always soldiers, so I came this time, just to let Brother Li send some capable people to command, and when you clear the periphery of Nanchang, we can work together inside and outside and take the Southern Great Wall in one fell swoop!"

"Brother Hong comes out this time, will it attract Li Chun's attention, if there is a leak, it will be a failure, and it will also be dangerous to the eldest brother's family."

"Don't worry, the so-called cat has a cat road, my Hong family has a history of hundreds of years in Jiangxi, and I will do some unsightly things, so I naturally have to avoid the ears and eyes of others, but I can't stay outside for a long time."

"I know this, so let's do it, I'll ask my chief of staff to bring some people back with you, and don't make a big move after you go back, just get ready, and wait for my troops to come to the city, and then launch according to the signal."

"Good! That's it. ”

Sending Hong Yunxian away, Li Lizhu ordered the construction of fortifications, convened a military meeting, and drew up the order of attack.

The battle began early the next morning.

Li Chun was not a famous general, and he didn't have many people available, so he didn't go out of the city to meet the enemy, but just occupied a few hills outside the Southern Great Wall and stationed thousands of troops to resist Li Lizhu's army.

"The military seat, the artillery regiment has moved in place, and the other departments have also successfully entered the battlefield."

The communications staff officer reported to Li Lizhu of the secret command.

Li Lizhu looked at the time, it was exactly seven o'clock in the morning.

"Command! The artillery first hit two base shells, and then used smoke . bullets, the infantry is always ready to charge! ”

Li Lizhu had the information provided by Hong Yunxian, and the news transferred by Wu Qi's Archives Bureau and Chen Guofu's Party Affairs Investigation Section, so he had already found out about Li Chun's several strongholds outside the city, and he was not afraid of any schemes they had.

"Tom! Tong! ”

The sporadic shelling began, the artillery regiment began to test fire, and then adjusted the Zhuyuan, and Li Chun's troops on the mountain saw that Li Lizhu's troops had launched artillery bombardment, where could they still endure it, and immediately began to counterattack.

The Beiyang Army in this era is still very powerful, the Beiyang Army is the foundation of Yuan Shikai, since the small station training began to invite many German instructors to train their own soldiers, and constantly send outstanding officers to foreign countries to investigate, learn the advanced military concepts of the West, and purchase a large amount of cash German-style equipment.

To put it mildly, if Yuan Shikai does not restore and become emperor, he can also be called a hero, at least much more pragmatic than the chairman's regime, in the years of his reign, he has spent a lot of money to build the army and industrial base, and introduce talents, although Chen Xuan's Zhenhua Group can be regarded as the leader in China, but Xiao Jin's Pearl River Group and Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Group are also second only to Zhenhua's industrial group companies, which should not be underestimated.

Moreover, the Beiyang Army is a veteran with rich combat experience, and its combat capability is not comparable to Chen Xuan's new army.

At the beginning of the artillery battle, Li Lizhu's artillery regiment began to shoot at the Beiyang artillery back and forth after a short period of adjustment, the Beiyang army was elite enough, Li Lizhu's troops had a large amount of training, the two sides came and went, large areas of dirt were bombarded into the air, the unlucky soldiers were instantly torn to pieces, thick smoke billowed everywhere, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of gunpowder smoke and blood.

The heralds ran back and forth in the various artillery teams, conveying various orders hoarsely, and those who were temporarily deaf by the sound of the cannons were replaced by sign language or flag language.

Li Lizhu grabbed the telescope with both hands, his face was a little unsightly, he had long known that Beiyang was not easy to fight, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful, their number of artillery should be inferior to their own, but in the case of occupying a favorable position, they can be on par with their own fighting.

"Inform the Air Force that the enemy's artillery is too stealthy, our artillery can't hit them, and we need Air Force support!"

"Yes!"

In less than ten minutes, the roar of the plane's engine was heard in the sky, and the silver-white plane broke through the thick clouds and swooped down towards the artillery position in the Beiyang.

There were bursts of cheers and exclamations on the battlefield, and there have been quite a few Baath planes over the years, but they rarely appear outside, so they are still a new thing, even the soldiers on the battlefield, most of them have not seen it.

People are always afraid of what they don't understand, whether it is the enemy or the enemy, the orderly shelling is chaotic in an instant, Li Lizhu's artillery regiment fought the Beiyang artillery array, which could not be smashed for a long time, and it collapsed at the appearance of a few planes, and countless soldiers ran out of their hidden positions crying and running all over the mountains.

For a while, the open space of the two armies was full of camouflage seas, and the vigorous figures of the Northern Expeditionary Army abounded, and the commandos rushed into the position of the Beiyang Army, wielding a Mauser pistol in each hand, firing the bow left and right, and beating the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army to shout.

The follow-up troops also rushed forward, and the sound of shouts of surrender filled the entire battlefield.

When Chen Xuan formed the Northern Expeditionary Army, he told all the troops that the Beiyang Army was not his enemy, and if he had the opportunity, he would try to surrender as much as possible.

One by one, the mountains were slowly swept into the sea of camouflage, and some Beiyang troops saw that the general trend had gone, and began to lay down their arms and surrender, or escaped from the battlefield, not knowing where to hide, and many people were unwilling to fail and were still struggling to resist.

"Who is the one who led the troops over there, and why are they still resisting now?"

Li Lizhu was a little surprised, the surrounding hills were all captured by himself, but there were still two hills that still fought with the encircled Northern Expeditionary Army, repelling Li Lizhu's troops several times, and the distance between the two armies was too close, and the air force could not support it.

"The military seat is the person of the first division and the third regiment."

"I'm asking who the opponent is?"

"Ahh

The operational staff officer was a little dumbfounded, the main commander of the other side was very clear, but the junior officer who commanded one or two mountains, who knew who he was?

"Call the commander of the third regiment over and ask, it seems that the opponent is not without talent, the third regiment is also our elite, and there is no way to take him when the morale of the troops and equipment is ahead of the opponent."

Li Lizhu was somewhat dissatisfied with the operational staff and did not understand the enemy's forces, which was really a dereliction of duty.

"Yes!"

The combat staff officer went out to give the order with a red face.

The commander of the third regiment trotted to Li Lizhu's headquarters, thinking that Li Lizhu was dissatisfied with his performance, and immediately promised that he would lead the charge and take the position in an hour!

"Third Commander, I didn't mean to blame you, there is nothing wrong with your attack, I just want to know who your opponent is?"

"Report to the military seat! It is a battalion commander in Beiyang, named Hu Zhiyuan, who is said to have come out of Tianjin Beiyang Army University, used to be a student of Tsinghua School, and later joined the army! There were about 300 men under his command, and some of the routs were later collected, and now there are about 500 men. ”

"Stop fighting, send someone up the mountain to persuade you to surrender, this kid is a talent, see if it's possible to be included in our team!"

"Yes!"