"In addition to the Fourth Cavalry Division, there is also the Ma Shaohao special combat team after completing the Vladivostok strategy mission, which is being transported to the northern theater of operations by ship, but it will take a day to arrive at the port at the earliest, and there are more than 10,000 marines, who can immediately ship Tanggu Port from the Lushun base, and then enter the capital by the Beijing-Tianjin railway, but it will take more than a day. Our First Armored Division is in the western Liaoning corridor and can be urgently transported to the capital by railway, but the railway from western Liaoning to the capital is being repaired, and the transportation time is really difficult to guarantee. In addition, the General Staff Headquarters in Beijing is urgently mobilizing troops from Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Guangdong, and other places to enter the capital from the railway line to rescue them, and it is estimated that at least 100,000 troops will arrive in Beijing four days later. ”

Hu Zhen felt a little remorseful at this time for his negligence in monitoring the Baikal Front, and said anxiously: "No matter what the situation, these troops must rush to the capital to rescue as quickly as possible!" ”

"The speed of the battleship is much faster than that of ordinary transport ships, and we can also use the warships of the fleet to urgently transport about 40,000 troops from Vladivostok to rescue the capital!" Cheng Dingbang proposed a solution.

Hu Zhen's mood improved when he heard this: "Well, yes, this is a good way, you go and ask Liang Kunri to give three infantry divisions immediately, and organize boarding immediately!" As long as the railway and sea transport quickly mobilize more than 200,000 troops to concentrate in the capital, even if the Hubei army has a million troops to attack the capital, we will not be afraid! ”

After Zheng Dingbang went out, Hu Zhen paced a few steps in place, and Zhang Dajiang, the attendant staff officer who had been waiting outside the door, came in and ordered: "Go and prepare the airship immediately, I will go to the capital immediately!" ”

"Your Majesty, the Meteorological Department said that the weather on the Liaodong Peninsula is unstable, and it may be dangerous to take an airship to the capital!" Since he had to pay attention to the bombing of the Hubei army by airships, Zhang Dajiang was quite clear about the meteorological situation in various places.

"Then can I fly from Vladivostok to Jilin?" The meteorological department of the Huaxia Army was set up under the operation of Hu Zhen in order to meet the operational needs of the air force, but due to the lack of technical means and the lack of observation stations in various places, it can only be barely used for airship battlefield bombing.

"Judging from the meteorological situation summarized in various places, it should be able to fly now, but if anything changes, it is difficult to predict."

Hu Zhen said: "Then take off now, and wait until there is any change in the situation!"

Zhang Dajiang was very nervous: "Your Majesty, we have to prepare a parachute, right?" ”

"That's what you're going to prepare!"

When Zheng Dingbang heard the news and rushed to the airship mooring ground, the airship that Hu Zhen was riding had already taken off to a height of dozens of meters in the air, so anxious that he hurriedly rushed up and shouted: "Your Majesty, be careful!" ”

Hu Zhen, who was carrying a parachute bag behind his back, waved his hand to Zheng Dingbang below in the air, and then turned back and ordered: "Fly in the direction of the capital at maximum speed!" ”

When Hu Zhen was galloping in the direction of the capital in an airship, Cui Jinfeng, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Theater of Operations, had already rushed to Zhangjiakou City with a guard squad.

The situation in Zhangjiakou City was rather bad, the Huaxia Army had only more than 2,000 troops, from several different units, and most of them were adapted from the Qing Army, with a large number of weapons, including single-shot rifles and old-fashioned firearms, while the old Huaxia Army troops from Nanyang had only one battalion of more than 700 people.

Cui Jinfeng immediately ordered all the troops of more than 3,000 people and more than 5,000 people to gather together, and he personally commanded them to urgently arrange the city fortifications, and at the same time sent fast horse signal troops to various places near Zhangjiakou to inform the local residents:

"Quickly organize to clear the wilderness, retreat and evacuate to remote areas, in order to avoid the slaughter and plunder of the Hubei army;

If it is really too late to evacuate and retreat, then hold their own towns and villages, do not fight hard with the Hubei army, the goal of the Hubei army is the capital, will not waste time staying in the local area, the Hubei army in these few days even if they attack the local towns and villages are just to get supplies of food and grass, if the price paid is too much, it will be temporarily abandoned. ”

The sudden appearance of the Hubei army made the people near Zhangjiakou of the Great Wall at a loss, Cui Jinfeng's order was very timely, and the people immediately had the backbone to do what he asked, avoiding great losses.

However, the peasants hundreds of kilometers near the capital are the group that benefited the most after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, Hu Zhen gave all the Eight Banners Grange to the local people, and immediately launched a large-scale construction of railways and highways near the capital, which is a lot of young farmers in the allocation of coveted arable land, and go to build roads to work and earn a lot of money, and now I heard that hundreds of thousands of troops in Oros are coming to attack the capital and destroy the Chinese Empire, how can tens of millions of farmers near the capital agree?

In order to protect their own interests, the peasants organized themselves, evacuated the women, children, and children in the village, and then took hoes, kitchen knives, forks, spears and other weapons into the fortifications of nearby towns and towns to join the ranks of the anti-Hubei army.

After Cui Jinfeng inspected the city wall fortifications in Zhangjiakou, he made a very bold decision: except for leaving a company of 200 people in Zhangjiakou with more than 5,000 strong men to defend the city wall, the rest of the Huaxia army under his own leadership all went out to the territory of Zhangbei County and used guerrilla warfare to block the cavalry of the Hubei army!

This surprised the soldiers of the Huaxia Army in Zhangjiakou City, the Huaxia Army of a battalion from Nanyang was fine, they were all used to Shangguan's way of fighting the enemy, and they were very incomprehensible when they took some Huaxia troops that had just been adapted from the Qing Army:

"Why don't you stick to the city, but abandon the city defenses and fight the enemy's cavalry outside the city? With this small number of troops, if you go to a field battle with the enemy's hundreds of thousands of troops, even if all of them die in battle, they will not be able to stop the Hubei army, and in the end, will they not be able to destroy the entire army and still be unable to hold Zhangjiakou? ”

Cui Jinfeng insisted on his own reasons, no matter whether others understood it or not, he had to resolutely implement it: "The Hubei army dispatched hundreds of thousands of cavalry, not to rob, their goal is to ask for our capital, forcing us to cede land to him for compensation, Zhangjiakou is now the secondary target of the Hubei army, as long as there is a certain defensive force, there will be no danger for the time being, but we must try to block the enemy's attempt to quickly rush to the capital on the main road." ”

"We have too few troops, how can we block the passage of hundreds of thousands of enemies?"

"We can't fight to the death, and we can't be eaten by the enemy, we can only use guerrilla warfare to delay the enemy, slow down the enemy's movements, and gain time to wait for reinforcements to arrive in the capital, and we can complete the task!"

Hearing Cui Jinfeng say such a tactic, those troops who had just been reorganized from the Qing army were a little relieved, and conscientiously carried out Cui Jinfeng's orders.

The road of the Hubei army to the capital started from Zhangjiakou, and along the way it was scattered with thistles and traps that blocked the advance of the cavalry, and the road was also dug into potholes.

The commander of the Baikal Front, Nikolas, intended that after the Eurian army had entered the densely populated area, the main forces of the army would rush from the main road without stopping, clearing both sides of the road with only part of his forces, and replenishing food supplies by means of robbery.

However, after the Hubei army entered the densely populated area of Zhangbei County, it was greatly hindered, first of all, the road was always not smooth, and the main road walked by the large group of people and horses either encountered ambushers who left after a few shots, or stepped on mines and thistles, and the worst thing was that the scouts were often ambushed and sniped, and it was difficult to obtain accurate information on the front of the road.

The speed of the Hubei army's movement has slowed down considerably, from the previous very smooth advance of 100 kilometers a day to a distance of 30 kilometers in a day.

According to this calculation, it would take a week for hundreds of thousands of cavalry to arrive at the capital of the Chinese Empire.

Nicholas, who had always been calm, couldn't help but get irritable. (To be continued.) )