Li Chun, the general of the Beiyang Army, and Jiang Yanxing, the general of the Jiangbei Army, both understood that no one could retreat at this time, but no one could attack, and the artillery of the Beiyang Army suffered enough when the Jiangbei Army suffered enough, and the Jiangbei Army's positional battle allowed the Beiyang Army to suffer a big loss, and both sides had no way to take each other, so they had to continue to confront each other on the west road. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On the east road, where Feng Guozhang had high hopes, Chen Guangyuan, the seventh association of the fourth town of the Beiyang Army, successfully attacked Jiashan County, Jiangbei, and occupied Jiashan County, and then Chen Guangyuan's troops did not rest and attacked Guangming Town, Jiashan County, overnight, trying to outflank the Sanshan position. However, it was long ago known that Chen Guangyuan's attack on Jiashan County, and the Gong Xuewen Department of the Seventh Division of the Jiangbei Army had set up pockets in Guangming Town, and the overnight attack of the Beiyang Army became a tragic process of drilling into the pockets.

On April 1, on the night of April Fool's Day in the west, more than 11,000 people from Chen Guangyuan's Beiyang Army directly drilled into the pocket-shaped defensive position of Guangming Town, and by the time they found out, the Seventh Division of the Jiangbei Army had surrounded them.

In an instant, the sound of grenades, shells, machine guns, rifles, and pistols came and went, and the fire lit up the earth.

Chen Guangyuan was completely stunned, he never expected that his adventurous assault would become a journey of death, and the sound of piercing explosions and sharp bullets cutting through the air was heard in his ears, and the adjutant immediately pulled him off his horse, which made him feel a little sober.

"General, what now?" Chief of Staff Chu Liangchen hurriedly asked.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat to Jiashan County, rely on the county seat to defend!" Chen Guangyuan immediately ordered. A shell exploded around him, and the adjutant desperately protected him, Chen Guangyuan was flipped to the ground, and he saw several officers fall to his side, and he saw some soldiers moaning in pain on the ground.

Suddenly, the battlefield seemed to be silent for an instant, with no guns, no shouts, no horses, no groans of pain, and no screams. It was as if none of this existed, and in the night of the enterprise, it seemed that he was the only one left between heaven and earth.

Under the surrounding hillside, the soldiers of the Sixth Town wearing big hats and blue military uniforms fled in a hurry, and on the distant hillside, Jiang Bei, who was wearing a green military uniform and a Penny hat, came over with bright bayonets, their faces were hideous, and they cried wolf howls and screamed in their mouths, Chen Guangyuan even saw the triumphant faces of the Jiangbei army.

The Jiangbei Army pressed over from all directions, completely destroying the morale of the Beiyang Army.

There is no doubt that Chen Guangyuan knew that his army of 10,000 was about to be wiped out, he pulled out his pistol and aimed it at his forehead, and then suddenly felt that the sky was dark, and he was knocked to the ground by his adjutant's punch, and the adjutant shouted: "General, we have not been defeated yet, you can't kill yourself." ”

"But ......"

"Look over there, our cavalry has come to our rescue." The adjutant pointed to the rear and shouted.

Because of the night march, Chen Guangyuan put the cavalry artillery and baggage at the end of the ranks, because Chen Guangyuan repeatedly asked the army to speed up the march, resulting in the disconnection of the ranks, the infantry eventually became longer and longer from the follow-up troops, and after the main force entered the ambush circle, the distance between the two sections of troops actually reached five kilometers away.

The commander of the rearguard unit was Chen Guangyuan's younger brother Chen Guangsheng, although Chen Guangsheng's command ability was not strong, but after learning that his own brother was surrounded by the Jiangbei Army, he resolutely decided to lead the cavalry to personally rescue his brother, and the artillery immediately suppressed the Jiangbei Army. Although some staff officers believed that once the Jiangbei Army turned its guns on us, our artillery would not be able to run away in the dark night, but Chen Guangsheng understood that if his fourth brother died in the hands of the Jiangbei Army, he Chen Guangsheng would have nothing, and only if the fourth brother lived, he Chen Guangsheng would have glory and wealth.

Chen Guangsheng, the son of a gentleman, made the wisest choice in his life, and in the dark night, the arrival of the cavalry of the Beiyang Army tore open a hole in the encirclement of the Jiangbei Army, and Chen Guangyuan was able to gather his troops and flee in embarrassment.

The battle was ten o'clock in the morning, batches of Beiyang Army soldiers chose to surrender, and Jiang Yanxing did not embarrass the captured soldiers, and ordered the wounded to be treated regardless of whether they were friends or enemies, and the statistics after the war found that in the ambush battle that night, Jiang Yanxing's troops captured more than 6,000 Beiyang Army prisoners (including the wounded) and killed more than 1,300 people. In the follow-up pursuit, the Jiangbei Army captured a complete artillery target of the enemy, 72 artillery pieces and 10 base shells, and the Jiangbei Army won a complete victory.

With Chen Guangyuan fleeing to Jiashan County, the rest of the Beiyang Army was only more than 3,000 people, and the Seventh Division was basically disabled, and this battle also created the most painful losses of the Beiyang Army since the Battle of Fengyang. even created the most humiliating defeat history of the Beiyang Army, when the telegram of Jiang Yanxing's results was transmitted to the Yangzhou Headquarters, the headquarters was thunderous, Wang Yongan held Feng Heng tightly, and said excitedly: "Use Jiang Yanxing's trick, it will work, it will work." Previously, he was repeatedly worried about Jiang Yanxing, but this battle was too exciting, so that Jiang Yanxing's reputation spread all over the country at once, and Wang Yongan's ability to know people and make good use of them was praised by everyone.

After a short rest of two hours, the Seventh Division of Jiang Yanxing's Division of the Jiangbei Army took the opportunity to storm Jiashan County, and Chen Guangyuan's troops could only defend the city, but after a day of fierce attack by the Seventh Division of the Jiangbei Army, they suddenly withdrew their troops, which surprised and delighted Chen Guangyuan, who was about to commit suicide by swallowing a gun again.

"What's going on, what's going on?" The second monk Chen Guangyuan was puzzled, and immediately led the remnants to prepare to return, but learned that the Jiangbei Army's Sanshan position had been conquered.

"Even if the Sanshan position is conquered, Jiang Yanxing will not withdraw his troops so simply, and if we are eliminated, Jiang Yanxing's army will be a dagger inserted into the waist of my Beiyang Army, Jiang Yanxing should not be stupid enough not to understand, right?" Chief of Staff Chu Liangchen said with a wry smile.

Chen Guangyuan frowned tightly and said, "Continue to inquire about the news, let's not retreat for the time being, and wait for the commander's instructions." ”

At the same time that Jiang Yanxing's troops surrounded and annihilated Chen Guangyuan's troops in Guangming Town, the Beiyang Army conquered the Sanshan position.

It turned out that Cao Kun of the Beiyang Army sent someone to buy Ning Yongquan, the defender of the Jiashan position of the Jiangbei Army's Sanshan position, and Ning Yuanquan was Cao Kun's fellow villager in Jinmen, and under the temptation of money and beauty, he took the initiative to lead his troops to surrender. Although Ning Yongquan was soon killed by his soldiers, Cao Kun's troops took the opportunity to attack Jiashan.

After conquering Jiashan, Cao Kun pulled Wu Peifu's artillery to the top of Jiashan Mountain and bombarded the Sanshan Railway Station and the Maoshan position opposite. Wu Peifu's artillery hit accurately and ruthlessly, and after discussing with Yi Bin, Bai Chun decided to abandon the Sanshan position and retreat to the Guanglang Mountain position in the direction of Bengbu.