When the cavalry of the Hubei army brigade made a detour to the south, Xie Tianan did not hesitate to order 120 mm howitzers and front-loading artillery with sufficient range to carry out blocking fire to delay the forward movement of the Hubei army.

The Hubei army was furious about this, and many officers and generals asked for an attack on Zhangjiakou, and the army removed this obstacle and then moved south, but Nicholas insisted on a rapid detour and ordered to go south on the road outside the range of Zhangjiakou's artillery.

In the sound of blocking artillery, the Hubei army bypassed Zhangjiakou and continued to advance.

There was only one company of the Huaxia army in the city of Zhangjiakou, and the rest of the five or six thousand strong men who were temporarily recruited in the fortifications were thankful that they did not collapse immediately when the Hubei army appeared in a big way.

Standing on the city wall, Lieutenant Colonel Xie Tianan could only watch as the cavalry of the Hubei Army Brigade made a detour and continued to advance south.

At this time, Cui Jinfeng's troops outside Zhangjiakou launched an attack on the front of the Hubei army.

However, the troops under the direct command of Cui Jinfeng were less than 3,000 people, and they only blocked the advance of the Hubei army for only two hours.

The ranks of the Evian army marching south seemed endless, until night, when Nicholas ordered not to stop and rest, and the soldiers ate and rested on horseback, and lit torches and marched through the night.

At this time, after a short rest, the troops commanded by Cui Jinfeng rushed out at night and flanked the troops of the Hubei army, wanting to slow down the advance of the Hubei army.

After the attack on the Hubei army, it immediately divided its forces to fight back at the attackers.

However, the Huaxia troops who attacked these attacks were very familiar with the terrain here, and completely used Hu Zhen's guerrilla warfare principle to the Huaxia army: "When the enemy advances, I retreat, I pursue, when the enemy is stationed, I will fight, and when the enemy is tired, I will fight."

Under the influence of the Huaxia Army, the people who were hiding on both sides of the road of the Hubei Army also attacked the Hubei Army in the same way as the Huaxia Army, causing heavy losses to the Hubei Army, and the pace of advance was greatly slowed down, and the speed of the advance was less than 20 kilometers in one night.

This made Nicholas full of anger, but he had no choice but to allocate more troops to sweep the roadside, but the Huaxia army commanded by Cui Jinfeng always stopped in front of the Hubei army, doing everything possible to delay the advance speed of the Hubei army.

Under the coordination of Zhao Xiaolu, chief of staff of the Northern Theater, the Huaxia Army in various localities assembled in front of the advance of the Hubei army, dug bridges and roads, and built positions to block the advance of the Hubei army.

That night, Cui Jinfeng ordered the Huaxia army in Zhangjiakou to continue to harass the Hubei army, and he himself rode his horse to the front of the Hubei army, commanding the Huaxia army from all over the country to block the advance of the Hubei army.

However, Cui Jinfeng hurriedly transferred only 20,000 or 30,000 Chinese troops, most of which were scattered garrisons adapted from the former Qing army in various places, and their combat effectiveness was uneven, and the weapons were still equipped with the former Qing army, at most, they could only cause a little trouble for the Hubei army on the way, and it was difficult to stop the pace of the Hubei army.

Nicholas was very determined to advance to the capital, and he kept dividing his troops to fight against the suddenly appearing blocking Huaxia army, covering the forward and continuing to advance rapidly.

After the Hubei army detoured to Zhangjiakou, it quickly entered Huailai in four days, and then divided the troops into two routes, the left road swept through Badaling and went straight to Changping, the right road first marched south, and then in a detour to Fengtai, and copied the capital from the south.

Both Hubei armies encountered the resistance of the Huaxia army, but all the crazy Hubei troops broke through, and hundreds of thousands of Hubei cavalry were about to directly attack the walls of the capital of the Chinese Empire.

Hu Zhen, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, braved the unstable meteorological conditions in the airship, and the airship was bumpy along the way, and the airship was almost blown down by the wind several times.

Due to the bad weather conditions, the airship had to fly to Lushun first, and then fly back to the capital.

The journey back to the capital took more than 30 hours before Hu Zhen flew in a bomber to the newly built Nanyuan Airport in the capital to land.

At this time, the two fronts of the Hubei cavalry had already approached less than 30 kilometers away from the capital.

When Hu Zhen walked into the General Staff Headquarters, there was a lot of chaos in the General Staff of the Huaxia Army, and all the telegrams and telephone calls were constantly asking where the reinforcements from all over the country had arrived, and urging the reinforcements to move quickly again and again.

As soon as Hu Zhen saw Su Wenqing, chief of the General Staff, he asked: "What troops do we have in the capital that we can use now?" ”

"We have more than 13,000 garrison divisions, more than 2,000 guards of the General Staff Headquarters, more than 3,000 Janissaries regiments, more than 6,000 people of the Huaxia Military Academy, and more than 10,000 police troops, and the troops that are about to rush to the capital have more than 1,000 airships and more than 100 planes....... There are more than 10,000 troops in the first armored tank division, and the capital has been fully mobilized, and at least 300,000 strong men are available, in addition, at most one day later, there are five infantry divisions with more than 60,000 troops rushing to the capital......"

"In this way, if you hold on for three days at most, the capital will be able to wait for more than 200,000 reinforcements!" Hu Zhen knew that in the face of hundreds of thousands of Hubei cavalry coming from afar, the capital was already worry-free, but his goal was not as simple as keeping the capital, but had a bigger goal: "Now you can order Cui Jinfeng and let them let go and let all the Hubei troops come over!" ”

"Let the Hubei army come over?" Su Wenzhen was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

"That's right, let Cui Jinfeng concentrate his forces, let go of the road, and prepare to block the retreat of the Hubei army! What I want is to completely annihilate these 730,000 Hubei troops! ”

"Ahh Only then did Su Wenzhen understand Hu Zhen's intentions, so he said: "The troops in the Northern Theater are very scattered, and it will take more than a week to concentrate more than 100,000 troops. ”

"A week? We don't have this time left, and the General Staff has issued an order for them to concentrate as many troops as they can, and as long as the Hubei army does not attack the towns along the way, they will not block the southward advance of the Hubei army. ”

When Hu Zhen returned to the capital to dispatch troops, Nicholas, the commander of the Baikal Front of the Hubei Army, also received a report from the scouts, saying that he had seen the walls of the capital of the Chinese Empire.

Nicholas said to the generals on the left and right with great ambition: "Tell our boys, it is strictly forbidden to waste time on robbery now, and we must seize the time to launch an attack on the capital, after opening this capital, we will open a treasure trove, which contains endless wealth, and we will be allowed to obtain it!" Haha......" (To be continued.) )