Chapter 191 broke Xuzhou

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Liu Changyou roared in Kaifeng, so anxious that he turned around, the cavalry regiment of the New People's Army suddenly killed from Tongguan, no one could stop along the way, and crossed Luoyang with a sharp sword, and approached Kaifeng, the terrain of Henan was flat, and the cavalry came and went without a shadow.

Liu Changyou had no strength to annihilate them, so he had no choice but to withdraw all the soldiers and horses that were originally going to besiege Yang Dongfang, and Yang Dongfang could swagger south from the west of Xuzhou.

Li Hongzhang's heavy troops were concentrated on the eastern front of Xuzhou, and he was dumbfounded.

Of course, what made Liu Changyou roar and distressed was the Twist Army, Liu Songshan drove out the New Twist Army in the north of the jaw is also cavalry, and there are five or six thousand people, which is more threatening than the cavalry regiment of the New People's Army.

Because they are more destructive, the hometown of the Twist Army is Bozhou, and they are familiar with the road in this area.

The two cavalry forces entered their own defense area at once, galloping north and south, Liu Changyou was not a head and two big talents, so he had to shrink his forces in an important city, trap the garrison and ask for help, and let Zhili transfer some troops and horses over.

So he scolded Liu Songshan for bringing the scourge to his own side to add to the blockage.

The first line between Shangqiu and Xuzhou was originally the middle point of Li Hongzhang and Liu Changyou's defense, and there would have been omissions, but now as soon as Liu Changyou's troops and horses withdrew, Yang Dongfang led people to attack the land of Huaibei.

"What, Yang Dongfang disappeared from Tengzhou." Li Hongzhang, who was in Huai'an, was also very smart when he received the news, and immediately ordered:

"Zhang Shushan moved to Xiao County to guard Yang Dongfang to cross the Lake River from the direction of Mangdang County to bypass Xuzhou or attack Xuzhou, Zhang Shusheng retreated from Zaoyang to Xuzhou, Pan Dingxin and the 'Ding' battalion immediately went south from Linyi to prevent Yang Dongfang from returning to Tengzhou to continue to go south along the canal, I guess most of the problems are Liu Changyou, it seems that it is impossible to encircle and annihilate Yang Dongfang."

Li Hongzhang was worried and went back and forth for dozens of circles, and finally issued another order to transfer troops: "Order Zhou Shengbo, Zhou Shengchuan and the two brothers brought the 'Sheng' word camp to defend Suzhou and other places, I have a hunch that Xuzhou will soon be broken through by Yang Dongfang, I don't know if this Yang Dongfang is coming to me or really going to the teacher." ”

Li Hongzhang guessed correctly, Yang Dongfang had plans to return to Tengzhou, but he gave up using the technique of crossing back to the city again, feeling that this was too wasteful of prestige, and he could use it less, and more importantly, he received news from Hong Kong.

Hu Lili was captured by the British and French, and it took half a month for the Hong Kong side to find out the specific situation before reporting, and the French army captured Hu Lili and led the warship north to Shanghai.

In fact, the news was deliberately penetrated by the British, and they did not catch the backbone of the Hong Kong side, and Luo Shimin did not want to be a scapegoat, so he let people directly pass on the specific situation to the people of the Guanghua Business School who were arrested.

"Damn Gallic chickens, play yin with me, good, good, it seems that if you don't completely destroy your bullshit expeditionary force, don't sink your fleet, you don't know that there are dragons in the east, and they will roar with anger." Therefore, Yang Dongfang was anxious, and ordered the cavalry regiment that had just arrived on the periphery of Kaifeng to go south directly and take Shangqiu to Xuzhou.

Kaifeng to Xuzhou at most 300 kilometers, riding horses for only two or three days, Yang Dongfang took advantage of these two or three days, with people directly rushed to the west of Xuzhou under the city of Xiaoxian, set up a posture to attack the city.

The general soldier of Xuzhou Town, Xiao County, plus Zhang Shushan, the named commander, led thousands of troops to garrison Xiao County, looked at the new people's army that hurriedly arrived under the city, and sighed: "It is still the king of Huainan who guessed accurately, Yang Dongfang's son really went south around Xuzhou." ”

After praising Li Hongzhang, Zhang Shushan became worried again, because he saw the New People's Army outside the city launch thirty cannons, and they were directly facing the north gate of Xiao County, and he had a bad premonition.

"Yang Dongfang's people won't all be artillerymen! Where did he get so many cannons, and could he go so fast with him south? ”

"Report to the commander, the first regiment of guards is all ready, and it is ready to fire."

"Then attack, blast it for me!"

The veterans led the new recruits, taught them hand in hand, and the soldiers recruited in Pingyin County were now just able to play breech guns smoothly, shoot accurately, and cooperate with the attack.

Now their first artillery lesson has begun, first standing aside to help guard the surroundings, enjoying the shaking of the ground and the high force of puncturing the eardrums caused by the shelling.

"Boom, boom, boom.!"

Staying around the discharged cannon is actually a little stronger than being bombed, and you don't have to worry about being hit by shrapnel, and the roaring sound of the cannon and the gunpowder smoke in front of you are also a challenge to the psychological endurance.

However, playing with artillery is the same as fighting, once it is born, it is cooked, and three times it becomes an old cannon.

Watching the old artillerymen quickly fire three shells in a row, gradually the recruits became excited from being sluggish and numb at the beginning, and began to take the initiative to help, learning to hand ammunition or something.

Zhang Shushan of Xiao County was uncomfortable, thirty cannons, one door roared, the cannonballs smashed down, and the flying stones were splashed, and the mud and sand inside and outside the city were lifted more than ten meters high and fell from the top of their heads, and many people were killed and injured, not to mention, they were all embarrassed, and they ate a mouthful of sand.

"My lord, this can't be done! The artillery fire of the new bandits is too fierce, let the brothers withdraw to the city. ”

Zhang Shushan said under the protection of his subordinates: "Okay, let's withdraw our people to Chengdong first, I don't think the surnamed Yang Dong will attack Xiao County for a while." ”

Just firing artillery and not rushing the soldiers, fools can guess it, so Zhang Shushan hurriedly took his own headquarters Huai army to the city.

With a bang, even if he ran fast, obediently, a cannonball directly hit the city tower, and most of the eye-catching city tower collapsed in an instant, and the rubble poured down like money, smashing a few unlucky ghosts, not to mention, the raging flames began to burst out and burn along the painted old wooden pillars.

"Hurry! Watering to extinguish the fire. Zhang Shushan had palpitations, the secret head was so dangerous just now, if he hadn't listened to his subordinates, he would have been injured if he didn't die.

"Have the brothers learned?"

"It's almost handsome!"

"It's almost a lot worse! Then go and smash Xuzhou. Yang Dongfang had a straight face, he was not in a good mood, this smash, in addition to teaching the recruits to hold the artillery bombardment, also had a meaning, to dissipate his anger for himself, his wife was caught, of course he couldn't be happy, there was no way, Zhang Shushan was this punching bucket.

Zhang Shushan, who was fiercely intimidated, saw that the New People's Army was leaving, and hurriedly asked people to go out of the city to inquire, and heard that they were going to Xuzhou, and they hesitated for a while and didn't know whether they should go out of the city.

Xiao County is very close to Xuzhou, only dozens of miles, speaking of which, it can be reached, Zhang Shushan's brother has not arrived in Xuzhou as ordered, at least there is still half a day away.

Now staying in Xuzhou is Dong Fenggao of the original Shuzi Battalion, because Li Hongzhang expanded the army, he just built a Fengzi Army by himself, commanding 7 battalions of horses and infantry, and he is also a named commander.

Therefore, there are 5,000 soldiers in Xuzhou City, and I can see that the Fengzi battalion has cavalry, but it is still a chick, and it has not yet been warned, and the training has not yet been carried out.

When it comes to the Fengzi battalion, I have to talk about the origin of the Huai army, in fact, most of them are composed of the original two Huai militia groups, take Liu Mingchuan as an example, he is a spontaneous militia training, including Li Hongzhang's Zhang Shusheng brothers, Wu Changqing, Zhou Shengbo brothers, Pan Dingxin, and even Li Hongzhang's father and son are all militia training.

It's just that because of the relationship of interests, they are all tied together, and this is the Huai Army, and then Li Hongzhang was pushed to be the boss, and they raised money to buy weapons together, and they were well-equipped.

I really want to work hard, the Huai Army is really not comparable to the Hunan Army, after all, the Xiang Army dares to rush forward without decent weapons, the Xiang Army is a close bond between teachers and students, lovers, and clansmen, and uses a name that may not be very appropriate, a bit of a gate valve taste.

Huaijun is a group of scattered stockholders, raising funds together to resist shocks, when the market is good, everyone earns, when the market is bad, there is a question mark whether they can play happily together, so Huaijun is more like a warlord.

Their cohesion was destined to be incomparable with the Hunan army from the beginning of its composition.

Therefore, in the face of the shells sent in from outside the city, the newly-born Fengzi battalion was frightened, and the inexperienced officers and soldiers of the Fengzi battalion ran around, many of them were frightened by the sound of artillery, and they lost their weapons and ran to the city.

Soon the city gate was blown open by a cannonball, Yang Dongfang stood proudly, waved the flag, and rushed into Xuzhou City with people. (To be continued.) )