"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Dada......"

The dense artillery sound resounded through Xuzhou City, the second division of the Jiangbei Army of the Xuzhou defenders struggled to resist, and the division commander Li Zuzhi gritted his teeth and said to the herald: "Tell me a few monkey cubs, I can't stand it, I will collapse myself first, I only allow the enemy to step on their corpses into Xuzhou City, and I will never allow to abandon the city and escape." Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info If anyone gives me a soft foot at this time, don't blame me for settling old accounts with him in the future. The next day, grandma's, by my Li Zuzhi, Qing soldiers don't want to enter Xuzhou. ”

After the recovery of Jiangbei, the entire Jiangbei region was in a state of jubilant celebration, and everyone thought that the Qing court - Yuan Shikai had to negotiate - but Yuan Shikai did not negotiate, but made a lightning expedition to the south.

Li Zuzhi's Second Division of the Jiangbei Army had a total of six regiments and four battalions, namely the First Infantry Regiment, the Second Infantry Regiment, the Third Infantry Regiment, the Fourth Infantry Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, the Baggage Regiment, the Cavalry Battalion, the Recruit Battalion, the Pro-Soldier Battalion, and the Engineer Battalion, totaling 18,000 men. The reason why the establishment of the Jiangbei Army Division is so huge is that the Jiangbei Army was in the process of expansion and reorganization before, but the expansion had just ended, the reorganization began, and the war broke out, which caused such a strange and bloated establishment of the Jiangbei Army. Originally, according to the plan for the whole army, the Jiangbei Army Division had two brigades, two regiments and two battalions, but now it can only be arranged according to the existing establishment plan.

Li Zuzhi left the first and second regiments in their positions outside the city, and all the other troops were put into Xuzhou City - not that he thought that the defense of Xuzhou City was more important, in fact, Li Zuzhi also knew that if the war started, the outside of the city would inevitably be the main battlefield, and the city was actually warmer.

Yes, Li Zuzhi knew that after the other troops arrived in Xuzhou, they must have been stationed in Xuzhou, so he played a trick and occupied all the useless houses in the city as military camps, so that the other troops could only live outside the city when they entered Xuzhou, while his troops could live in warm houses. Although Li Zuzhi is not a soldier like a son, but the weather is cold, and now on the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xuzhou City can be snowing heavily, and he does not want his subordinates to have too many non-combat attrition.

It was precisely because of his "selfish" idea that he saved the Second Division of the Jiangbei Army, and the Qing Army, with the Fifth Division of the Beiyang Army as the main attacking force, attacked the outlying positions of the Jiangbei Army with lightning and eliminated the First Regiment and the Second Regiment of the Second Division of the Jiangbei Army within an hour.

The Qing army killed and captured more than 1,000 Jiangbei soldiers, scattered more than 1,000 people, and about 2,000 Jiangbei officers and soldiers fled back to Xuzhou City, the commander of the first regiment, the deputy commander, the commander of the first battalion, and the commander of the second battalion were all killed, the commander of the second regiment and the three battalion commanders were all killed, and the deputy battalion commander was seriously wounded.

However, the 1st and 2nd regiments of the Jiangbei Army still held back the Qing army for an hour despite a surprise attack, providing enough time for the defense of Xuzhou City to prepare. When the Qing army arrived at the city of Xuzhou, it was immediately met with stubborn resistance from the Jiangbei army.

At this moment, complacency and pride filled Jin Yunpeng's heart, he rode on a white horse, and shouted: "Immediately capture Xuzhou City, the first to climb the city, reward 1,000 taels of silver!" ”

"Kill!"

Tens of thousands of Qing troops rushed to Xuzhou City, including the Beiyang Army, the Yi Army, the patrol battalion, and the people, who did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for a thousand taels of silver.

"Dada......"

The machine guns of the Jiangbei Army rang out, although the artillery of the Jiangbei Army was less than that of the Beiyang Army, or even only one-third of that of the Beiyang Army, but in terms of the number of machine guns, the Beiyang Army was far inferior to the Jiangbei Army. The Jiangbei Army's machine gun equipping standard is a company of two Makqin heavy machine guns, while the Beiyang Army attaches great importance to artillery and ignores the role of machine guns, and the main force of the Beiyang Army is only equipped with two, so the Beiyang Army suffers a big loss in the comparison of light firepower between the two sides.

Patches of Qing troops fell to the ground, and the defense of the Jiangbei Army formed a three-dimensional fire defense network from the trenches under the city to the machine-gun pillboxes on the city walls.

Jin Yunpeng was blinded all of a sudden, and the first wave of attack actually lost more than 2,000 soldiers, and a bullet almost hit him who was showing off his might on the front line.

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw! Shoot me and blow them up! Jin Yunpeng said angrily.

The artillery of the Beiyang Army finally came out of the mountain again, a total of one hundred and eight cannons, and launched an indiscriminate bombardment towards Xuzhou City, not only the trenches outside the city, the city wall of Xuzhou, but even the ordinary people who came to take Xuzhou City could not escape the poisonous hands.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom ......"

In fact, Jin Yunpeng served as the commander-in-chief of the second road, which made Feng Guozhang's direct line very dissatisfied, judging from the comparison of the strength of the two sides, the first road led by Feng Guozhang was a direct elite army, and Jin Yunpeng led all the Anhui troops, in history the Anhui department has always been known for being an elite soldier and bear general - there is no general in the Anhui system who can fight, Jin Yunpeng is a big man in the team.

Jin Yunpeng is not best at commanding battles, but pulling relationships to make friends and climb relatives, he is a native of Zou County, Shandong, when his father was alive, his family was well-off, and he was sent to a private school by his father to study, and his grades were excellent, but he bullied Jin Changsheng and died suddenly, and the Jin family fell into the middle of the road, so he had to quit the private school and entered the grocery store as a buddy. When Jin Yunpeng was 18 years old, he went to Tianjin Station to join Yuan Shikai, and was subordinate to Duan Qirui's subordinates. Later, Duan Qirui became the chief of staff of the Wuwei Right Army, the predecessor of the Beiyang Army, and Jin Yunpeng became Duan Qirui's right and left hand, serving as the promotion of the strategy unit (chief of the operations section). Because the big enemy of the right army of Wuwei was the bandits of Shandong and Zhili, and as a new promotion, Jin Yunpeng personally participated in the command of the encirclement and suppression of bandits and anti-thieves several times, and won many military achievements, and then promoted all the way.

The year before last, he was recommended by Duan Qirui to serve as the commander of the 19th town of the Qing army in Yunnan, last year Cai Yi and Li Gengen launched an uprising in Kunming, most of Jin Yunpeng's subordinates participated in the uprising, and Jin Yunpeng, who was alone, led a small number of officers and soldiers who were still loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty Wuhua Mountain to resist, and then Jin Yunpeng fled after being defeated and returned to Beijing.

After returning to Beijing, Jin Yunpeng was rewarded by the imperial court for his feat of "swearing to die" and "lonely hero", replacing Zhang Yongcheng as the commander of the fifth town, and then entrusted with the important task of becoming the commander-in-chief of the second road. Judging from the many years of combat experience of the general manager Jin Yunpeng, this person is good at suppressing bandits, but he has no experience in large-scale leading the army and fighting a modern army, and the only time he was beaten away by Cai Yi.

Jin Yunpeng's military command ability, far inferior to his ability on the mahjong table, his many promotions are inseparable from "mahjong politics", it is said that Jin Yunpeng accompanied the commander to play mahjong, which can not only make the commander win silently, but also make others impeccable, and he has a good relationship with the direct family in the future, the reason why everyone opposes Jin Yunpeng as the second commander is not because of his poor popularity, but because he has not brought so many troops, everyone is worried.

"I'll let you little bastards see how strong my command ability is Jin Ye." Hiding in the headquarters, Jin Yunpeng observed Xuzhou City with a telescope, thinking resentfully in his heart.