Chapter 115: Recovering Jiangning
The troops repaired overnight, and the news of victory also came from the Huangxing side of the North Road, and under the response of the internal response, the South Route Army basically took the Wulong Mountain Fort without blood, so that Chen Xuan, who fought a tough battle, was very envious, and Xu Shaozhen of the Middle Route Army had a brilliant record, breaking through the four lines of defense of the Qing army in a row, killing more than 1,000 Qing soldiers, and Wang Youhong, the commander of the anti-smuggling team, was also killed, occupying the highlands around the Ma Qun to Xiaolingwei, and the forward had reached the Purple Mountain.
Chen Xuan deployed combat missions overnight, and the subsequent march route was Shangzhen-Gaoqiaomen and then to Yuhuatai, Dong Jian and Qi Liyuan fought for the attack on Shangzhen and Gaoqiaomen, Huang Xun and Feng Gu also wanted to fight, and they were choked speechless by Dong Jian's sentence that he wanted to take the battle alone.
In the end, Chen Xuan made a decision, the third regiment hit the upper town, and the guard regiment hit the Gaoqiao Gate, which quelled the battle between the two, and the first and second regiments shouldered the responsibility of guarding the position of the staff mountain, and at the same time found out that Tie Liang's headquarters was located in the North Pole Pavilion and was within the range of the staff mountain battery, so he ordered to bombard the enemy's headquarters early tomorrow morning.
Early the next morning, as the guard regiment and the third regiment of the instructor attacked, the artillery regiment also began to exert its might, and Chen Xuan was also watching the battle.
After the test firing, the cannons on the staff hill began to roar again, but this time it was no longer the revolutionary army that suffered the shells, but the headquarters of the Qing army in the Arctic Pavilion, and suddenly, the artillery position cheered.
Chen Xuan hurriedly raised the binoculars to observe, I don't know whether it was the luck of the revolutionary army or the misfortune of the Qing army, two shells directly hit the headquarters of the Qing army, the Arctic Pavilion was completely blown down, it was burning, and the Qing soldiers in the field of vision were shouting to extinguish the fire and save people.
Chen Xuan was ecstatic, how could he not know the truth that you would die while you were sick, Ma Shan ordered Feng Gu of the Second Regiment to directly bypass the town above and go straight to Yuhuatai, Chen Xuan transferred a battalion from the first regiment, and pulled a few small cannons to move with his own guard battalion.
According to Dong Jian, an army of about 3,000 people came to reinforce Gaoqiaomen under the banner of Zhang Ziqi, which should be Zhang Xun's Jiangfang battalion.
But for some reason, after a burst of artillery bombardment with the guard regiment, he hurriedly withdrew, which made Chen Xuan, who wanted to capture the shame of the Han people alive - the most stubborn widow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, regretted it.
Immediately ordered the guard regiment to attack Yuhuatai, Chen Xuan drew another battalion from the guard regiment and handed it to Feng Gu, and asked Feng Gu to lead a regiment and two battalions to fight and rush, and Chen Xuan took the guard battalion to respond.
The Jianyuan type, which has been reluctant to use, has been developed for two years before the Jianyuan charge, and the design has been changed several times, which is mature enough, but because the quality of the material is not up to it, the life of the gun is amazingly short, and it is scrapped after firing more than 1000 bullets, so it is generally not used.
Yuhuatai was taken by Dong Jian, and the big guy also turned to Jiangning City, with the bombardment of artillery, Jiangning City was even more panicked, Chen Xuan led his subordinates to blast open the city gate, so a more tragic street battle began.
Chen Xuan sent Feng Gu to attack the governor's palace yamen, and he led people to attack the city, and the people of the Manchu banner were afraid that the revolutionary army would slaughter the city, so they refused to surrender, which made Chen Xuan fight very hard.
With the anxiety of the war, Chen Xuan also joined the battle, at this time Chen Xuan seemed to have entered a strange state, the whole person seemed to have something more, but he couldn't say clearly, in the fierce battle, Chen Xuan was almost useless.
This is an experience that has never been experienced again, the battlefield sense of smell is surprisingly keen, the brain is running fast, and during the shooting process, he does not forget that one command after another is constantly transmitted, and he successfully pulls out the strongholds of the Manchu bannermen, and the chaotic and noisy sounds do not seem to have the slightest effect on him, and he is always one step ahead of the enemy in action, and this step is the difference between life and death.
A large number of memories that do not belong to Chen Xuan poured into Chen Xuan's mind, and Chen Xuan had no time to dwell on these, at this time, if he didn't pay attention to it, he was in danger of losing his life, and it could only be attributed to Chen Xuan's complete integration with Chen Xuan in this war.
The gate of the city was bombarded open by a 37mm battle defense gun, the guard battalion did not wait for the smoke to dissipate, and dozens of hands ** were thrown into the gate, the explosion and screams were endless, the commander opened the hanging, and the brothers of the guard battalion were also like wolves and tigers, regardless of the accidental injury of the hand **, rushed in like lightning, and quickly defeated the people on the city tower, and inserted Chen Xuan's Chen character flag on the city tower.
The officers and men of the guard regiment also showed no weakness, quickly occupied the commanding heights, arranged machine gun positions, and when the positions were set up, everything was settled, and the people were completely desperate, throwing down their weapons and waiting for death.
Although Chen Xuan was not a butcher, nor did he have the interest in killing the bannermen, he just ordered his subordinates to drive all these Manchus to the military camp outside the city, as for the family property, they still don't think about it, they don't need to pay the price for making hardcore crops for more than 200 years?
Chen Xuan wanted to go into the city to have a look, but was rejected by the commander of a company left to protect him, but in less than ten minutes, there were already several crazy banner men who wanted to assassinate Chen Xuan, which made the company commander even more nervous, and even immediately selected a small house, drove all the people inside, let the team members occupy the commanding heights, set up all three machine guns in the company, and 8 snipers were scattered everywhere, which can be said to be heavily guarded to the extreme.
This small mansion should be a very ordinary flag man's home, there can't be any tunnels or anything like that, it can be seen that this company commander is also thoughtful, and the operational staff officers of the command headquarters are also in place, and the huge radio equipment is also set up, and Xu Shaozhen of the Huang Xing Department of the North Route Army and the Middle Route Army are in contact to inform him of the situation here.
Xu Huang and the others heard that Chen Xuan had entered Jiangning City, and he had also captured the city, so their morale was greatly boosted, and the Qing soldiers on both sides also knew that Jiangning was lost, and there was no point in fighting again, so they either abandoned their weapons and surrendered, or fled in the direction of Qingjiangkou.
So Chen Xuan's headquarters was set up in this small courtyard, and began to persuade surrender in the city, at this time Chen Xuan knew that the original staff on the mountain of the artillery, directly beat General Jiang Ning to the bones, the Qing army directly lost command, after the troops entered the city, his old boss Liangguang Governor Zhang Renjun also slipped away.
The surrender went smoothly, Chen Xuan successfully seized a large number of military supplies, and under Han Xu's suggestion, he sent people to quickly post a notice in the city to crack down on the rout soldiers and ruffians who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob, although the Baath Party planned not to occupy Jiangning City, but it was also necessary to break the city and leave a good impression on the residents of Jiangning, and the temporarily formed gendarmerie was also sent out, and the soldiers who were found to have violated military discipline were immediately taken down.
Han Xu, who is on the same hill as Chen Xuan, also knows that Chen Xuan does not go to rob the governor's yamen, nor does he want to capture the Silver Dollar Bureau and Chang Ping, this city is much fatter than those places, and the accumulation of hundreds of years of accumulation of banner people is not a joke, and the harvest in those places cannot be missing Chen Xuan's share in the end, and he wants the benefits of the city? I'm afraid that Commander-in-Chief Xu and Commander Huang of the North Road will not have the face to open this mouth.
So Han Xu asked for a company of personal guards, and quickly organized the captives to pack the city's finances, no matter what copper coins, gold and silver, or famous paintings and antiques, they were transported to the camp just occupied outside the city.
That night, Xu Shaozhen's Middle Route Army and Huang Xing's North Route Army also entered the city and continued to sweep away the stragglers who remained in the city, and the sporadic gunfire did not end all night.
However, except for Qi Baicheng's team on the North Road, the military discipline of the soldiers and horses from all walks of life was not so good, the remnants of the sweep were carried out all night, and the smashing and looting were also carried out all night, Chen Xuan wanted to manage, but he had more than enough strength to hold this part of Nancheng, and even forced back several revolutionary armies from other places who wanted to make a fortune in Nancheng.
These soldiers did not dare to deal with the officers and soldiers of the instructor, so they had to scold and leave, and went to other places to find opportunities to make a fortune, and the instructor also made a name for himself in this Jiangning War, although there was an element of luck.
But winning is winning, and who can say that luck is not a kind of strength!
In the governor's yamen and Huang Xing and Xu Shaozhen met, the three of them jointly telegraphed the whole country, announcing the recovery of Jiangning, and Chen Xuan's name once again resounded at home and abroad, in the words of later generations, it is another hot search, and Chen Xuan seems to have been on the hot search several times since October, and some newspapers have called him the honor of the world's famous general.
Then again, it is true that whether it is the recovery of Hangzhou, the Battle of Songjiang, or the recovery of Zhouzhou, and the capture of the historical city of Jiangning in two days, it is really invincible.
Some people may say that Jiangning was captured by the three-way army, but who called Chen Xuan's troops was the first to enter the city and the first to take down the governor's palace, and they also killed Jiangning's general Tie Liang with artillery, so even Xu Shaozhen, the commander-in-chief, and Huang Xing, the revolutionary giant, were robbed by Chen Xuan.
Moreover, according to the reports of some newspapers, only the southern city occupied by Chen Xuan's troops in the entire Jiangning City was not harassed and looted by the army, and for a time the major newspapers rushed to report the wisdom and decisiveness of Chen Xuan's command and the strict discipline of the soldiers.
The tutor is also famous in this battle, and countless aspiring young people are proud to join the tutor, and after the tutor's brothers have these praises, they consciously have higher requirements for themselves, and virtually help Chen Xuan do a very successful military psychological construction work - which soldier doesn't want to be called the elite of strict military discipline by others!?
Of course, Han Xu would never say that the information reported by the first newspaper was provided anonymously by him.