Chapter 371 Crossing the River

"Hahaha. Who killed this beast, hurry up! I'm good at repaying my merits, and if there is no one, it can only be counted in the collective merit of the second class. ”

After the big victory, looking at the captives everywhere and the corpse of Tang Diankui lying on the ground, Song Guoqiang couldn't help laughing.

Nothing else, this time not only killed Tang Diankui, Liu Mingchuan's right-hand man, but also defeated 4,000 Huai troops, killed and wounded more than 1,800 people, captured 1,000 prisoners, captured 1,300 guns, and some ammunition, which can be regarded as a great victory.

This move solved the trouble of Lingshou County in the first battle, and after obtaining so many weapons, his battalion could really be expanded, so he hurried back to the county seat, trained the recruited security team, and sent people to reconnoiter in the direction of Zhengding overnight.

At the end of the curtain, the sky was getting dark, and most of Liu Mingchuan, with Tang Dingkui as the vanguard, also rushed to the Zihe River, but the cup found that the New People's Army had just crossed the river and seized the ferry and boats.

"My lord, we are a step late, the New People's Army crossed the river before a stick of incense, and according to the people here, they defeated Xinle's militia in only one boat." Tang Dingkui sighed and reported to Liu Mingchuan, who stared at the position of the New People's Army on the other side of the river and said:

"In this way, the New People's Army has basically captured the county seat, and the road to Dingzhou is afraid that it will not work, so I will send someone to find a few boats to come over and wipe the attack; You go directly to the downstream to collect boats and look for a place to cross the river, maybe we have to go to Wuji County to cross the river. ”

Tang Dingkui frowned and asked, "Junmen, why don't we search upstream to go to Tang." ”

Liu Mingchuan raised his right hand and interrupted Tang Dingkui: "The upstream is close to Lingshou County, if the New People's Army also sends some people there to grab the ferry, we will not be able to bypass Xingtang County, and there are many mountain roads there, we have to cross two rivers, which is not conducive to the movement of the army."

The downstream is not, there are many places suitable for crossing the river, and Wuji County is next to the Shuidao River, and there are many boats. After we crossed the river, if Dingzhou was also lost, we could go directly to Guoan County to Baoding without going to Dingzhou. ”

Tang Dingkui knew that Liu Mingchuan's decision was correct, and it was widely operable, the safest and risk-free, but he also smelled it from it, and the military gate began to tilt towards saving his life, rather than fighting Xinle County with the Xinmin army, which was a very dangerous signal.

Without asking too much, Tang Dingkui quietly asked the guards to ride a good horse, sent a message back, and informed his eldest brother.

And Nie Shicheng, who didn't know anything about all this, conscientiously stuck to the river defense, and in order to confuse the New People's Army, he did not relax the patrol country's sentry force, but strengthened it somewhat.

This made the New People's Army on the other side of the river hesitate a little.

"Commander, is the news that we are going to attack Zhengding, and the Huai army is beginning to be vigilant."

"Nope! Huai Jun is tight on the outside and void on the inside, presumably it was our people who took Lingshou and made a move, Liu Ming transferred people to Lingshou, so he deliberately sent more people to patrol, and it was really a cunning fox with some skills. Hu Gan said with a disapproving analysis.

The commander of the 12th regiment, Hokhov, said: "Then do we take the opportunity to attack the river, the engineer regiment is ready, and we can rush to the crossing." ”

Hu Gan waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, tomorrow is attacking, it is estimated that there will be news sent in the evening, so that everyone can recuperate enough and have a good fight tomorrow." ”

Late at night, both sides of the Hutuo River were waiting for the news to come, but it was Nie Shicheng who was the first to receive the news that Tang Tang Diankui had died in battle and his troops had been defeated.

"It was unheard of and shocked that the New People's Army had such a firearm, and it was so shocking." Listening to the description of the person who fled back, Nie Shicheng's heart was tense, his face was very bad, and his eyebrows were gloomy.

The next general reminded: "My lord, such a change is very unfavorable to us, if the New People's Army is attacking from Lingshou, what will we do to resist. ”

"Don't worry too much, keep the river with peace of mind." Nie Shicheng heard the man's voice, the New People's Army is so powerful, and it is ready to move, maybe when to kill the river, it is better to run away as soon as possible.

On the second watch, Nie Shicheng received news that Xinle County was taken by the New People's Army, and Liu Mingchuan changed to Wuji County and crossed the river around the city.

This news further shook the morale of the troops, and several generals began to withdraw their troops clearly, after all, this meant that they were surrounded on three sides, and if the Xinmin Army in Xinle County crossed the Zihe River and attacked their backs, there would be a danger of annihilation.

And at that time, the military lord will not come back to save them.

However, this time Nie Shicheng simply refused.

"My duty is to defend Zhengding County, to guard this river, I will not go, even if I die, I will die here, I am a soldier, I am a martial artist, I can't escape."

On the other side of the river, Hu Gan also received two pieces of news, first Song Guoqiang on the Lingshou side killed Liu Mingchuan's cadre Tang Dingkui and captured a huge number of them; Then the 112th Regiment pursued Zhang Yao from Hengshui to capture Shenzhou, advanced to Shenze County, and prepared to cross the Hutuo River from the downstream, accompanied by the 13th Brigade that took over the blind cavalry regiment of Dezhou, so that this small encirclement was about to be formed, and the time for the total achievement of eliminating Liu Ming's ministry had arrived.

Why did the cavalry regiment borrow to help, this is a deal between Hu Gan and Zhu Huilun, the two have been recommending to Beijing and Tianjin, they can help each other, but the 13th Brigade wants Cangzhou, and the 12th Division can only occupy Baoding.

The credit is shared by one person, just as the 12th Division occupies Hengshui and the 13th Brigade occupies Dezhou, the brothers are good.

In order to open up the situation as soon as possible, Hu Gan could only be extorted by Zhu Huilun, after all, his side has not achieved anything since the counteroffensive, although he has been mainly contained in the early stage, but now he also wants to make some great contributions.

The sky began to light up, the various units of the New People's Army were ready for battle, the artillerymen ate early, had strength, began to carry the shells, and pushed the artillery forward a little.

Seeing that the sky was completely bright, Hu Gan asked people to wave the order flag and said: "Inform the commander of the artillery brigade to bombard the Huai army on the opposite side, the 13th regiment is ready to rush to the crossing, capture the position on the opposite side, and the engineer brigade will build a bridge as quickly as possible." ”

Artillery brigade commander Wu Dadi received the order and couldn't help spitting: "Damn! It's been doing it for so long.,Finally, it's my turn to play.,Give me a hard.。。 ”

Staying in Shanxi, except for inviting Jin merchants to Taiyuan for a meeting last year, Wu Dadi showed a big face as the regiment commander, after the expansion and promotion to the brigade commander, this was the first big move, and Wu Dadi couldn't help but be excited.

"Grandma's, our artillery brigade has a rare opportunity to do a big job, you must fight it well for me, and send the Huai army to the sky for me."

The artillery of a brigade opened fire in an orderly manner, holding a telescope in his hand, and constantly checking the impact point, Wu Dadi was still somewhat satisfied with the artillery he had trained.

The Huai army on the position was frantically abused, the explosion made people turn over on their backs, and they suffered heavy casualties for a while, and they withdrew from the position, in the face of the sudden large-scale artillery bombardment of the new people's army, the Huai army was also apprehensive, this guy was comparable to the posture of the French army to help them attack the Taiping army.

The Taiping army was so badly blown up by the shells that they were deeply touched.

Nie Shicheng's face was even worse, knowing that this was the New People's Army really going to attack, but he didn't dare to send people to the position, because whoever he sent up at this time would have to rest and die.

Soon several boats of the New People's Army crossed the river under the cover of artillery fire, and the Huai Army had no choice but to shoot at the quiet landlord and some dead corners of the shells, but they would soon be returned by the muskets of the New People's Army on the other side.

In the end, the New People's Army crossed a platoon and immediately set up a position, and the boats behind were pulled back to continue to pull people across the river.

At the same time, the engineer brigade also began to try to erect a pontoon bridge, after all, there were their own people on the other side, and it was more sufficient to give them cover, so they let go of their arms and jumped into the river, and the soldiers behind carried out the bamboo raft and jumped down along the short plank.

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