Chapter 198: Capture Zhaoqing

Liu Yongfu joined Tao Sanchun and Yang Zhuen, and the next thing here is basically under his command, after all, Tie Thirteen is too far away, and the reason for transferring Liu Yongfu back is to let this general who can stand alone attack Guangzhou City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to the 6th Regiment of the old regiment and the 22nd Regiment of the 2nd Division, there is also a new 62nd Regiment, which was formed in Vietnam, and the commander of the 62nd Regiment is a fierce general named Huang Shouzhong in Shangsi Hall in Guangxi.

Huang Shouzhong is also a rebel army, he made trouble in Guangxi back then, and then he was hit and ran to the northwest of Beiqi in Vietnam when he saw that the wind was wrong, and there were more than 1,200 people under his command, so the new 62nd Regiment was basically his old subordinates, all of whom were children of Guangxi and Guangdong, and they were naturally very willing to return to China.

Liu Yongfu's four and a half regiments first let the new 62nd Regiment attack Baidian, block the road to Yangjiang from the Xianghan Protectorate and the militia, and block the news.

Then he himself took the 6th Regiment directly to Gaozhou, sealed the news that Gaozhou was leading to Xinyi, and then joined the 22nd Regiment to capture Gaozhou, and the Qiangui East Advance Regiment attacked Maoming.

Gong Jichang died in battle, and there was basically no decent resistance in this area, Liu Yongfu waved his hand and led four and a half regiments straight to Yangjiang, first captured Yangxi County, and attacked Yangjiang Zhili Prefecture.

The strength of the four and a half regiments attacked fiercely from all sides, and now the four and a half regiments are basically two regiments with breech rifles, and the two regiments are the French Mini front-loading rifles, and the firepower is quite fierce, but the small half of the day captured Yangjiang.

When he arrived here, Liu Yongfu divided his troops into two routes, he took the 6th Regiment and the 22nd Regiment to the North Road, killed Xiangyangchun, concealed the banner and went straight to Zhaoqing, and ordered the Qiangui East Advance Regiment and the 62nd Regiment to arrive at Jiangmen from Enping and Kaiping, and threaten Guangzhou.

Guo Songtao, who stayed in Guangzhou, was taken aback when he saw that the New People's Army had captured Gaozhou and Yangjiang one after another and advanced to Jiangmen, so he urgently dispatched troops to Jiangmen, organized a defensive line, collected boats along the river, and sent Guangdong sailors over in an attempt to block the offensive of the New People's Army with the river.

Why is Jiangmen called Jiangmen, because it is located at the confluence of the Xijiang River and its tributary Pengjiang River, Yandun Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River and Penglai Mountain in the north of the Yangtze River face each other like a door, and the two big rivers are natural barriers, and the river is the gate of the city, that is, Jiangmen.

If you want to break through Jiangmen, you must rely on the naval army, first cross the Qin River, and then cross the countless diverts of the Xijiang River, so the rapid advance of the Qiangui East Advance Regiment and the 62nd Regiment was temporarily blocked in Jiangmen.

Liu Yongfu's side except for the mountain road is a little difficult to walk, everything is going well, there are still many scattered rebels in Luoding Yunfu area to occupy the mountain, Feng Yuniang sent funding in the morning, and now it is even more fierce.

When Liu Yongfu crossed the border, he joined several rebel armies halfway, with a few dozen people and hundreds of them, they all thought that Liu Yongfu was going to attack Luoding, and they didn't want them to lead the way and directly hit Xinxing County, and went north to kill Zhaoqing.

Zhaoqing is the west gate of Guangzhou, and it is now the rear of Mao Hongbin, no one expected the sudden arrival of the New People's Army.

The location of Zhaoqing is important, but there are not many soldiers, because the soldiers were all transferred by Mao Hongbin to the front line of Wuzhou, Guangxi to resist Liang Peiyou and Li Wencai, where did he think that someone suddenly pinched his neck.

Soon the city of Zhaoqing was broken, and the news of the re-ranking spread to Wuzhou and Guangzhou.

"What? Zhaoqing was broken by new bandits. ”

Guo Songtao of Guangzhou City was dumbfounded, a little blindsided, and had just transferred the army that could fight to the front line of Jiangmen. Now that Zhaoqing has suddenly been breached, this is worth it.

The New People's Army can follow the Xijiang River outside Zhaoqing to the Dongping Waterway in minutes, and then go directly from the important town of Foshan to the city of Guangzhou.

However, Liu Yongfu did not immediately attack the city of Guangzhou, but vigorously cut down bamboo in Zhaoqing, blocked the waterway, and blocked the upper stream, so as to prevent Mao Hongbin from abandoning Wuzhou and returning to Guangzhou to help.

After finishing this, he put the 22nd regiment in Zhaoqing, and led his people to Guangzhou City. Guo Songtao urgently transferred the troops on the front line of Jiangmen back to defend Guangzhou, especially the naval division, and asked Britain and France for help on the other.

However, most of the foreign guns were invited by the governor of Guangdong to attack Li Xiucheng in Meizhou, Chaozhou, and now it is impossible to go all the way back to help, so he can only actively organize various militia groups in Guangzhou and mobilize major landlords and wealthy households to pay high salaries to recruit new soldiers.

Mao Hongbin in Wuzhou City was walking back and forth, his mood was also ants on a hot pot, restless, his brows were furrowed, he pulled the sleeves of his official robe, and shook his head again.

"Zhaoqing! Zhaoqing, how can the New People's Army be taken away, the New People's Army will fall from the world. ”

Without Zhaoqing, his waist would not be straight. Chrysanthemums may be exploded every minute, and it is difficult to sleep. As the governor of Guangzhou, Mao Hongbin understood the importance of Guangzhou, and the whole of Guangxi was not as important as a city of Guangzhou.

Therefore, he immediately sent people down the river to recapture Zhaoqing, and ordered the armies of Luoding and Yunfu to fight Zhaoqing.

It was very fast to follow the river from Wuzhou to Zhaoqing, and Mao Hongbin's navy arrived, and this southbound navy had a total of four large ships, with four 5,000-pound guns on them; There were 10 pickpockets with 8 guns of 2 to 3,000 catties, 20 sampan boats, 15 guns weighing 1,000 catties, and a number of other troop carriers of various sizes.

Almost one-fifth of the naval forces in Wuzhou were transferred.

However, it was quickly blocked by the bamboo row horizontal chain on the river, to deal with this kind of pediatric thing, the original Qing army, that is, the current Xianghan naval army, is also very experienced, and directly drove the boat over and knocked it away, and let people pedal on the bamboo raft to cut the link.

"Is Flying Thunder ready?"

"Report to Commissioner Bai, ready."

Well, Bai Li finally walked out of Sichuan, and now she has become a commissioner of the 22nd Regiment, Tie Thirteen didn't dare to give him real command of the army, and the regiment commander didn't dare to let her be, otherwise the ghost knows where she would take the troops.

"Then let them go, blow them up."

Liu Yongfu and the others couldn't carry the cannon to maneuver, so they had to take 100 flying mines as cannons and place them at the east and west ends of the river, just enough to block the river.

The Xianghan Guards didn't know about this, and they rushed over in a generous way, and they didn't think that the New People's Army had artillery. On the contrary, their ships were also loaded with cannons, and after a few rounds of heavy cannons, a few rounds of deterrence were fired, and the sampan boats rowed over and slashed at the bamboo raft.

The New People's Army took the opportunity to open fire, and if it could hit, it would hit, and if it didn't hit, it would scare you, but fortunately, this was a breech gun, and the shooting distance was long, and many of the Hunan and Han Army sailors who did not hit were so frightened that they jumped into the river, relying on the water to cover, holding the bamboo raft with one hand, and continuing to destroy the raft with the other.

Soon the bamboo raft was cut through a few gaps, and when it collided with the big boat, it gently broke through the barrier across the water, and the Hunan and Han armies arrogantly blew the water trumpet to kill them.

But soon they knew that they were wrong, this bamboo raft was simply a smoke bomb, and the Hunan army was not much happy, and the thunder on both sides of the strait aimed at the largest number of people, and the largest ship bombarded it.

"Boom, boom, boom.!"

"Poof! Grunt. ”

However, the effect of the flying thunder is not good, because this is the surface of the river, the flying thunder falls into the water and is quickly extinguished, and the few that just explode in the air or fly directly on the sampan ship have a good effect, killing many enemy soldiers.

The invincible flying thunder suffered the first defeat in history, and no matter how defeated Bai Li was, he could only mout angrily: "What's the matter, the flying thunder doesn't work, don't use the flying thunder, stand back, let the Hunan army attack, we are still afraid of them?" ”

To fight a war is to constantly make mistakes, and then sum up experience, learn and improve, and only then will an army become stronger and stronger, and it will never become a brave army without actual combat.

"Haha. It turns out that the New People's Army is trying to stop us by this. It's too pediatric, come and attack, land on the shore and recapture Zhaoqing. ”

The battle on the river was clear that the New People's Army was not an opponent, and it was not possible to come up with a method or a fire blockade.

On the contrary, four large ships of the enemy army came up first, and four 5,000-pound guns on them shelled the coastal positions, giving the 22nd Regiment a great threat.

The pickpockets of the middle echelon took the opportunity to slowly dock and kill, and also began to shell at short and medium distances, and for a while the 22nd Regiment was not easy to raise its head to counterattack, so it could only endure. Then the sampan in the back quickly landed on the shore under the cover of the first two echelons, and the three echelons covered very strategically. (To be continued.) )