Chapter 458: The Qing Army's Countermeasures
Taking advantage of the gap in the artillery attack of the Jiangbei Army, Chen Jian gathered all the cavalry of the Jiangbei Army with a total of 5,000 people, and rushed towards the Qing army with shells flying over his head in the last five minutes before the end of the shelling. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Kill!"
"Kill the dog!"
"Kill......"
"Crazy Chen, what a fucking madman, a madman." Li Zuzhi couldn't help but be dumbfounded, knowing that the Jiangbei cavalry that rushed to the front might even be killed by his own artillery fire, but Chen Jian actually didn't care about the casualties on his own side - it was crazy.
What shocked Li Zuzhi even more was that Chen Jian personally led the cavalry battalion of the guards to rush up, and the charge of the three divisions with a total of 5,000 cavalry instantly scared the Qing army's courage. In the Qing army, whether it was the Beiyang Army, the patrol battalion, or even the Yi Army, they were all frightened by the other party's crazy charging momentum and turned around and ran.
An army of more than 80,000 and nearly 90,000 rushed north in the dark night, and soon crushed the other Qing troops behind, and the various departments were also confused by the chaotic situation and fled one after another.
Among the various departments of the Qing army, there is a unit that is more different, and there is the twentieth town of the Beiyang New Army. The twentieth town is under the control of Pan Yuying, but his adjutant is the famous Duan Qirui's little poisoner Huang Bo, it is said that Huang Bo's official luck is very good, since he returned to Duan Qirui's side, his talent was quickly appreciated by Duan Qirui. Duan Qirui regarded Huang Bo and Xu Shuzheng as his right-hand men, and specially promoted Huang Bo to serve as Pan Yuying's adjutant and staff officer, in fact, Huang Bo controlled Pan Yuying, thus directly controlling the twentieth town.
And Huang Bo, who held Shang Fang's sword, seemed to have become the actual commander of the twentieth town, and Pan Yuying regretted it so much that he became a puppet instead. After the twentieth town arrived in Xuzhou, Huang Bo suggested that Pan Yuying should rest the position as far back as possible, for three reasons, if Xuzhou is conquered soon, even if we build the camp under the city, the credit is not the twentieth town, especially the twentieth town has a black history - once electrified against Yuan, not trusted, so the main attack task will definitely not be the twentieth town; Second, the twentieth town is composed of northeast soldiers, these northeast soldiers from the beginning of last year out of the customs, as a result of staying outside for a full year can not return to the northeast hometown, the soldiers are very war-weary, do not want to participate in the battle, so the fighting spirit is not high, if the battalion is too far ahead, it may lead to the soldiers to flee, repair the back, everyone rest assured that their own formation, will not escape; Third, Huang Bo said that this Jin Yunpeng is a mahjong handsome, he and Xu Shuzheng privately look down on Jin Yunpeng, and always think that he is not suitable to be an officer, so there may not be any good fruit to eat in this battle, and it is not good to let the Jiangbei Yankees fight and retreat - then Li Zuzhi is one of the thirteen Taibao under Wang Yongan, and he can even fight foreign troops abroad, not an easy person, in case he is beaten back by the enemy, lest we rebuild the base camp in the rear.
Huang Bo saw Jin Yunpeng very clearly, and he had no confidence in him as the coach at all, but he understood Jin Yunpeng's qualifications and connections. According to his ability, Huang Bo thinks that he is the first general in Beiyang, but Beiyang is a system, a place that pays attention to seniority and status, so Jin Yunpeng became a commander.
The soldiers of the Twentieth Town were responsible for the feint attack on the east side of Xuzhou City, so the 39th and 40th Concords of the Twentieth Town took turns to make a feint attack on the east side as if they were clocking in at work, and instead of attracting firepower within a few days, the defenders on the east side were transferred to the north side to support.
At this moment, after the twentieth town, which was on the east side of the position, heard the sound of ten thousand horses galloping, Huang Bo immediately shouted: "It's the Jiangbei cavalry!" ”
"How many cavalry are there in Jiangbei?"
"I don't know, but I know that the madman Chen of the Thirteenth Taibao in Jiangbei is from a cavalry, and this kid is notoriously crazy." Huang Bo smiled bitterly, "One-third of his army is cavalry, one-third is horse-feeding, and one-third is infantry for cavalry. He thought for a while and recalled, "Wang Yongan trusted Chen Jian very much, so he let Chen Jian garrison in Yangzhou, and at this time they rushed from Yangzhou, and they must have carried a large number of cavalry, not to mention 10,000." ”
"What then? 10,000 cavalry ......," Pan Yuying said with a bitter face, "Yesterday 1,000 cavalry from Jiangbei almost rushed into the camp of the fifth town, and now 10,000 cavalry ......"
"I can't stop it." Huang Bo pouted and said, "Then Jia Binqing carried the black pot for Jin Yunpeng, and Zhang Yongcheng definitely didn't have Jia Binqing's ability, otherwise he would have driven Jia Binqing away a long time ago, as for this time, he relied on a small report to drive Jia Binqing away." ”
"Since they can't stop it, what are we going to do?" Pan Yuying said eagerly.
Huang Bo thought for a while and said, "I have a way, that is, I need to sacrifice a hundred brothers. ”
"Say it quickly."
"The 12,000 men of the whole town immediately extinguished all the fires in the camp, and then sent more than 100 men to flee to the east with torches. When their cavalry had passed, we slowly retreated, shooting all the troops that came near us, friendly and enemy. Huang Bodao.
"Clever plan, I'll let them draw lots and decide to select these 100 death squads." Pan Yuying said excitedly.
Pan Yuying was a man of action, and immediately found a hundred people who wanted money and death, and each prepared three horses, with torches tied to the horses, and the riders fled eastward with torches on horseback, so as to attract the attack of the Jiangbei cavalry.
After the cavalry of Jiangbei Yankee dispersed the Fifth Town of the Beiyang Army and the 47th Association of the Shandong New Army, they killed the Yi Army, and the excited Chen Jian's face was all frozen into ice ballast, laughed, pointed to the defense line on the east side of the Qing Army and shouted: "Ahead is the Northeast soft-footed shrimp of the Twentieth Town, kill me ......"
"Kill!"
The Jiangbei cavalry rushed over, but when they got closer, they found that the twentieth town had already left, and watching the torches flee towards the east, Chen Jian scolded: "Little Wang Eight Calves! The Northeast Yankees can't do it, I'm afraid of dying! Brothers, do you want to chase or not? ”
"Chase!" Everyone shouted, how could the Jiangbei Army not take advantage of the enemy's position to attack the opponent at this time, if the other side regrouped one day, there would never be such a good opportunity.
"Kill!"
Towards the torches, the Jiangbei cavalry rushed over, and the Jiangbei cavalry was the vanguard of the Jiangbei army's counterattack, they turned to the east at the same time, but also let Liu Hui, who led the infantry charge behind him, deviate the direction of the main attack to the east, in the night when the wind swept the blizzard, the morale of the Jiangbei army chased to Taoshan in the east of Xuzhou only to find that they were chasing a group of ghosts for the dead. (Taoshan is located in the northeast of Xuzhou, 40 kilometers away from Xuzhou City, is a good place to travel, and remind me, don't drink with Xuzhou people, you can't drink them)