As the strongest third town of the Beiyang Army, Cao Kun has always been very confident, and now it is not the strong enemy that hinders the Beiyang Army, but the weather and roads. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, we have to admit that the Jiangbei Army is an opponent that is more difficult to entangle with last year's opponent, the Hubei Revolutionary Army, because the Jiangbei Army has its own officer system, its own command system, its own independent system of military salaries and military merits, and even the Jiangbei Army's firepower is not much inferior to that of the Beiyang Army -- except that because its artillery is inferior to the Beiyang Army because of the sanctions imposed by the foreign powers, the Jiangbei Army is indeed a hard nut to crack.

But it's just hard to bite, if the Beiyang Army really wants to gnaw down, then it will definitely be able to gnaw down, and Cao Kun will naturally not give up easily. He ordered the Third Town to regroup and ordered Wu Peifu's artillery to carry out a carpet shelling of the Jiangbei Army's Sanshan positions.

Wu Peifu deserved to be a high-achieving student of the artillery; he was bold and meticulous in his work, strict with himself, and deeply loved and supported by his subordinates; this time in order to strike at the Sanshan position, he personally went to the front line to survey and map, and commanded the firing unit.

Shells exploded in the three hills and the Sanshan station, destroying buildings, houses, and barbed wire, but did not destroy the will of the Jiangbei Army to defend.

Although there were no solid steel and cement bunkers in the Sanshan position, Wang Yongan emphasized the trench barbed wire tactics in the defense at the beginning of the army, so that Wu Peifu's artillery bombardment only destroyed the surface defense measures, especially the defense on the mountain, unless the shells directly hit the trenches on the mountain, otherwise it only made the soldiers temporarily dizzy or unconscious.

After the smoke of gunpowder, when the Beiyang Army charged, the bullets and grenades from the Sanshan position and the Sanshan Station made the soldiers of the Beiyang Army suffer enough, and the soldiers of the Beiyang Army were hit one by one and fell to the ground, the injured crawled back, and the uninjured rolled back, embarrassed.

"Damn, are they all cockroaches? Where did it come from? Tang Tianxi said depressedly.

Bai Chun's first cooperation with Yi Bin gave Cao Kun's elite Beiyang Army a blow to the head, and although the Jiangbei Army's field combat capabilities have not yet been tested, their defensive capabilities have shown unusually strong energy.

Tang Tianxi, of course, could not retreat, he once again ordered the soldiers to charge, and asked Wu Peifu's artillery support. Although Wu Peifu and him usually have a bad relationship, but when facing the enemy, neither of the two gave each other a stumbling block, Wu Peifu ran to Tang Tianxi's position and Tang Tianxi to study which peak to hit first, which peak is easy to attack, and so on. Tang Tianxi was also moved by Wu Peifu's behavior regardless of his previous suspicions, and when Wu Peifu was preparing, he patted Wu Peifu on the back and said, "Ziyu, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can be the infantry commander and replace my squad." ”

"You ......"

"I got the news from the prime minister, and I will use it again in the future." Tang Tianxi smiled slightly, "I will recommend you in the future, you just remember my love." ”

Wu Peifu smiled knowingly, and commanded the artillery to start a new round of wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Sanshan position, and the Beiyang Army's artillery fire and bravery continued to approach the Sanshan Railway Station, but they were all repelled by the Jiangbei Army's combination of heavy machine guns and grenades. Even Bai Chun put artillery on the three peaks, and the support of the few artillery fires of the Jiangbei Army made the Beiyang Army suffer enough.

After the attack was blocked for a day and a night, Cao Kun led the large army of the third town to the front line, and after watching the battle situation, Cao Kun said angrily: "The Jiangbei Army is defended, and it is an iron king." ”

Chief of Staff Xiao Yaonan suggested to Cao Kun: "Lord Commander, we can't delay any longer, we are not satisfied and give up the attack on the three-station position for the time being, bypass it, and occupy Fengyang County first." ”

"That's all there is to it." Cao Kun was also very helpless, the Jiangbei army was in the camp step by step, resisting one by one, so that the Qing army could not run on the first road, and now the Qing army was defeated and retreated on three roads, leaving only the troops that had been delayed along the way, and I don't know what Feng Guozhang's thoughts were, whether to continue to attack alone, or to retreat and wait for further instructions.

The railroad tracks of the Dingyuan railway station were blown up, so that Feng Guozhang's plan to continue along the Jinpu Railway had to be changed, and he then ordered the fourth town and the seventh association Chen Guangyuan to attack Jiashan County and outflank it from the right flank, and the sixth town and the eleventh association Li Chun to attack the county seat of Dingyuan from the left flank, and then enter Fengyang County along the west side of Jiushan, and occupy Tashan, threaten the west of Bengbu, give the third town three days, if the attack on the Sanshan position could not be attacked, immediately bypass the Sanshan position and leave it to the rear troops to continue the attack.

It's not that the Sanshan position can't be defeated, but it takes time, and Feng Guozhang would rather hold this cactus ball in his mouth for the sake of time.

At the same time as Feng Guozhang dispatched troops, Fang Xianwu, the left commander of the Jiangbei Army, was not idle, he was arranging a big pocket for the Beiyang Army.

Fang Xian ordered the Huang Zan Division of the Ninth Division of the Jiangbei Army to resist and delay the Qing army's 80,000 troops on the first road along the Jinpu Railway, and the Ninth Division completed it very well, delaying the Qing Army's first road for at least half a month, especially when the ice and snow melted in spring, and the roads were muddy, resulting in the first road could only march along the easy-to-walk road of the Jinpu Railway - because the Beiyang Army had many artillery pieces and walked on the dirt roads in the countryside, and the Beiyang Army needed to walk from Pukou to Bengbu for at least a month - the Qing army dragged the Qing army for so long that they must have been exhausted, Fang Xianwu knew that his opportunity had finally come.

Now that the Qing army was not only tired, but also the 80,000 troops could not care about each other because of the advance along the Jinpu Railway, Fang Xianwu decided to cut off the opponent and deal a fatal blow to the opponent.

Fang Xian's fifth division left the sixth division and Bengbu defense, the seventh division attacked on the left flank (west road), the eighth division attacked on the right flank (east road), after the ninth division resisted one by one, gradually introduced the opponent's main force into the encirclement, and then the whole army attacked, surrounded the first road army of the Qing army under the city of Bengbu, and completely annihilated Feng Guozhang's army.

This plan made Wang Yongan applaud, but he was worried about whether Feng Guozhang would be fooled, but Feng Heng said with a smile: "Feng Guozhang will soon be eager to go north, because we got the news that Duan Qirui's department has reassembled 120,000 troops to the south after half a month's rest, and it is bound to join our army in Xuzhou." ”

"All the way to Xuzhou, all the way to Bengbu, they are going to completely occupy the Jinpu Railway." Wang Yongan said with a smile.

"As long as the Jinpu Railway is occupied, Jiangbei will be cut out of two-thirds, this is Yuan Shikai's calculation." Feng Heng said, "Although Yangzhou is the place where Yunshuai started, it is not suitable to be the center of Jiangbei, but Bengbu is more suitable for being the military command center of Jiangbei." ”

"You're right, but Yangzhou is my nest." According to preliminary statistics, in March alone, 100,000 people fled from central Anhui to Yangzhou, and the local government of Yangzhou was overwhelmed, and the war urgently needed to stop.

"Alas......" Wang Yongan couldn't help but blame himself when he thought of the displacement of the people in Jiangbei due to the war.