Chapter 188: Xi Baotian's Speculation

Not to mention Tao Sanchun's decisive retreat to Huazhou, Gong Jichang expected that the French army had landed in Guangzhou Bay to attack the rear of the New People's Army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The French army's 500 musket infantry, plus 2,000 militia regiments, also made a lot of money to attack Lianjiang. wants to recapture Lianjiang in one fell swoop and eat Qianguidong into the group in one go.

But now guarding Lianjiang County to ensure that the rear of the Qiangui East Advance Regiment is the Qinzhou Security Regiment led by the young general Yang Zhuen, who has more than 100 French Mini rifles in his hand, relying on the advantages of the county town, fighting quite bravely, killing hundreds of people, swearing not to retreat, and actually blocking the attack of the French army at the head of the city.

This group of French troops was actually the French army that Yang Dongfang had fled to Lianjiang in Guangzhou Bay last time, and they had lost artillery, and now they could not attack Lianjiang County for a while, which made them quite distressed.

Fortunately, their back road was not attacked by the New People's Army in the direction of Wuchuan, which puzzled them, but the veteran militia owners guessed the general idea, and sent people to Wuchuan to contact Huang Chongying that night, and the two sides had a friendly negotiation.

All of a sudden, a strange scene was formed in the entire Gao Lei Yang Road, the second part of the New People's Army was besieged, and the other part was ambiguous and did not move, but continued to expand its troops in Wuchuan and collect money.

The situation of Gao Lei Yang Dao, Tie Thirteen has not received the news yet, and Yang Dongfang has learned about it as soon as possible by receiving intelligence collection from the dark children of the coordinate points in various places every day.

"What the hell is the monk doing, how did he send the Qiangui East Regiment to fight Gao Leiyang Dao, why didn't he send a decent army to such an important coastal passage." Yang Dongfang received Tie Thirteen's deployment and was slightly dissatisfied.

The main force of the 2nd Division actually went to the front line of Liuzhou, and let Li Xiaozhu fight Yulin Zhili Prefecture alone, blooming on all sides, and each fighting its own is forgotten, and the 22nd Regiment actually stayed in Hengzhou, isn't this a waste of resources?

Anyway, how Yang Dongfang thinks of this arrangement is a very clumsy arrangement, it looks very majestic, powerful and murderous, but in fact, it can be said that it is terrible and has no threatening power, except for Liuzhou, he has not seen any possibility of success.

"Am I in too much of a hurry, the monk is not a famous general after all, and he has not commanded any big battles." Staring at the map, Yang Dongfang drew a strategic offensive and defensive line, a little worried, and finally he was still not at ease, and decided to intervene in the military affairs of the Eastern Expedition on the right to provide long-distance support to Yang Zhuen and Tao Sanchun.

In the direction of Liuzhou, the 21st Regiment feinted to attack Liuzhou to contain Zhang Kaisong, the 20th Regiment first attacked Luzhai County in the east, cutting off the connection between Guilin and Liuzhou as planned, and the 2nd Regiment with the 13th Iron Brigade attacked Wuxuan and Xiangzhou all the way, and approached the Baisha River Estuary, an important defensive point in the lower reaches of Liuzhou.

In the war in the south, the right to control the river is the most important, because the cities in the south are built on the riverside, and many times they are surrounded by water on three sides and backed by mountains, and a few are surrounded by mountains on three sides and face water on one side, which ensures convenient transportation and can attack and defend defense.

But Liuzhou is a bit special, although it is also surrounded by water on three sides, but the north is not backed by mountains, it can be said that it is a bit smooth, which gives the New People's Army a chance.

The 21st Regiment divided its troops into two ways to occupy the north of Liuzhou City, and confronted Zhang Kaisong's army in the city to the west of the Liuhe River, although Zhang Kaisong had many people, but he did not dare to go out of the city to fight with the New People's Army, because the two regiments of the New People's Army took Qingyuan Mansion, the musket was extremely sharp, Zhang Kaisong lost 1,000 people, and 18,000 troops retreated in the city, using the newly cast iron cannon and the gun to counterattack.

"Kill..!"

The 21st Regiment approached from the north to attack, and launched a scout, and soon the dense gunfire in the city rang out, chaotic but fierce.

"Boom...

Zhang Kaisong put several iron cannons in the city at the north gate, and the 21st regiment retreated after rushing halfway, and the artillery threat was very great, and they did not come hard, because their purpose was not to capture Liuzhou.

Wuzhou!

"Hahaha! This Tie Thirteen is a bit interesting, does he want to learn from Chen Kai and Li Wenmao to blossom on all sides? ”

After receiving the news that the New People's Army was divided into multiple routes, it was Xi Baotian and Mao Hongbin, the governor of Liangguang, who were now guarding Wuzhou.

I saw Mao Hongbin smile and said: "Yanqiang, it seems that you can't guess accurately, this Tie Thirteen did not put the main force in Xunjiang, and hit Wuzhou first." ”

According to Xi Baotian's original guess, Tie 13 will concentrate the main force to attack Wuzhou, use the superior forces to fight with himself and others, and when Wuzhou has a geographical advantage, he can attack Zhaoqing in the east to threaten Guangzhou, or go north to Hezhou to besiege Guilin and blockade Guilin and Liuzhou.

This is a relatively good plan, but he did not take this method, but instead made a random punch, blindly beaten, and sneered that he was not a master who could be beaten to death by random punches, Xi Baotian smiled:

"Tie Thirteen is just known as the Blood Demon, which means that he is just a fierce general, but not a handsome talent, now I am not too worried about Wuzhou, with the ability of Liang Peiyou and Li Wencai, there is not much hope of retaking Wuzhou as it was back then, Lord Mao can crush the attack of the two here, as for Lei Gaoyang Dao, don't worry about it."

On the same day, Xi Baotian rushed to Hezhou with all the Hunan troops of the Jingyi Battalion, and ordered the three brothers of Su Chunyuan, who were originally staying in Hezhou, to lead troops to support Liuzhou, especially to hold Luzhai County and protect the Luoqing River waterway, so that Liuzhou would not be left without help, and Zhang Kaisong panicked.

Soon the three Su brothers rushed to Luzhai County, and the 20th Regiment saw that the enemy had reinforcements and was not attacking, so they retreated downstream, first set up a large camp in Luorong Town on the west bank of the Luoqing River, and at the same time set up a camp in Luorong on the east bank of the Liujiang River in the rear.

At that time, Dacheng defended Liuzhou, and Hunan made a move, went ashore from Luorong Town, dragged the bamboo raft to Luoyan on the east bank of the Liujiang River, bypassed the Dacheng defense line at the mouth of the Baisha River, and attacked Liuzhou. The 20th Regiment was also afraid that the Hunan army would repeat its old tricks, and directly supported Liuzhou City from here.

Soon, Xi Baotian set up his headquarters in Lipu County, the only way for the New People's Army to attack Guilin and Hezhou, and cut off Tie 13 and Liu Tiancheng's move to attack Guilin.

At the same time, Xi Baotian sent the generals Xi Qizhao and Rong Weishan to the west to relieve the danger of the Baisha River estuary, and at the same time sent Tang Renlian, Tang Benyou, Tang Benpeng, and Tang Bu Yunnan to attack Xiangzhou.

Tie 13 had no choice but to give up attacking the mouth of the Baisha River and retreat to Xiangzhou.

This made Xi Baotian laugh proudly:

"Look at it, this blood demon is also the king and hegemon in Sichuan, and he came to Guangxi like a worm to tie his hands and feet, so he still wants to fight Liuzhou and Guilin, and he is dreaming, I really think that others don't know what good calculations he plays."

Xi Baotian saw that Liuzhou was not in danger for the time being, and immediately pressed the platoon, and said to his staff Chen Baozhen: "Xiangzhen, you still draft the documents, and order the three Su brothers to attack Luorong Town along the river, and Xi Qizhao and Rong Weishan will go up the river to attack Luorong Town; After telling Zhang Kaisong to send a team of men and horses to attack Luojin from behind the 20th Regiment of the New People's Army, didn't the New People's Army want to attack? Let's eat the 20th regiment of Iron Thirteen first, and see what it can do to fight Liuzhou. ”

After Chen Baozhen finished writing, he asked with a little worry: "My lord, will this be too anxious, Tie Thirteen is not very like a brave man, his two regiments are placed outside Liuzhou City, and they have not attacked the city and captured the pool, but I heard that the New People's Army is strong, this is not quite like their style, if I were him, when I entered Guizhou from Guizhou, four regiments and one main division would attack Liuzhou directly from the top of Mount Tai in the north, why bother going around in circles." ”

"Xiangzhen, although you are a great talent, but I don't understand, the 2nd Division of the New People's Army, it is very loud, but it is all the new army that has been expanded in Sichuan, and it has not yet been fought, and it has seen blood, speaking of which, it is a recruit egg, and the combat effectiveness is not as strong as you think, I guess Tie 13 wants to use the surrounding counties and towns to train the recruits, and he is attacking Liuzhou, so he is still a little self-aware in this regard." Xi Baotian proudly analyzed, but Chen Baozhen frowned and said:

"I still feel that something is wrong, the order given to us by the emperor and Jiu Qiantose is to focus on defense, and now the rear army has not yet been formed, and it is not a good time to attack."

Xi Baotian thought for a while, he still attached great importance to Chen Baozhen's opinion, but he didn't want to give up such a good opportunity, and finally said: "If you don't worry, in this way, how about you go to Hezhou." (To be continued.) )