The fierce cannon sound resounded in the sky, many places in Xuzhou City burned fires, the cold winter month air was dry, and the north wind was even more urging the fire to spread. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the commander of the Second Division of the Jiangbei Army, Li Zuzhi also served as the commander of the Xuzhou City Garrison, and he was not only responsible for the army but also for the people of Xuzhou City. While scolding the Qing army for its lack of morality and causing harm to the people, Li Zuzhi had to order the transfer of new barracks, supplementary regiments, and police units to extinguish the fire and prevent the fire from spreading, so that he did not have to participate in defensive operations. The people of Xuzhou also spontaneously organized themselves to extinguish the fire and provide disaster relief, and they launched a self-rescue under the leadership of their respective patriarchs or gentry, and Shicheng, the largest cloth merchant in Xuzhou City, even asked to bulldoze all his houses to prevent the fire from spreading to the neighbors' houses. Seeing his family's Buku burned to ashes, Fang Shicheng howled and cried for a while, and then took his clansmen to save the others.

In fact, the descendants of the revolution who made a revolution a hundred years later became the ruling class, but they were not as good as the gentry who had received traditional culture and education at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. And smearing the past history and highlighting one's own loftiness, it can be seen that China's politicians have been in such a cycle since ancient times, as far as Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and as recently as the party-state smeared Beiyang.

With the self-help of the people of Xuzhou City and the rescue of the army, the fire was controlled, and everyone hurriedly began to look for survivors in the collapsed houses. In the eyes of Xuzhou people, no matter how big the contradiction in their own family is, when outsiders come, they must be consistent with the outside world.

The bodies of civilians were constantly being dug up from the collapsed rubble and placed on the side of the road, and some of the wounded were immediately taken to military hospitals for treatment. There was a cry in Xuzhou City, as a defense commander, Li Zuzhi was tormented while walking on the road, and it was he who deliberately insisted on Xuzhou, which caused heavy casualties among the people of Xuzhou, and he blamed himself for these casualties.

The sky gradually brightened, and the sound of artillery outside the city stopped, indicating that the Qing army was about to launch a general attack, Li Zuzhi gritted his teeth and said: "Order the whole army to avenge the people who died in Xuzhou City, and beat me hard, hard!" ”

Fang Shicheng came over with hundreds of light and strong young men with white cloths wrapped around their heads and asked to see the commander. The soldiers were afraid that they had harmed Li Zuzhi and did not allow them to see it, so Fang Shicheng and the others immediately shouted: "Commander, let's go to the city and avenge our family." The shouts of the crowd attracted Li Zuzhi, and he turned away the soldiers and asked, "Are you all family members who were unfortunately killed?" ”

Fang Shicheng said sadly: "My three daughters were sleeping well in the room, but a shell blew up the house, and all three of my daughters were crushed to death. Commander, please make sure that I go to battle, I will take revenge with my own hands. Others were also crying out for revenge for their loved ones, and it seems that last night's attack had caused heavy casualties to the defenders and had also caused deep damage to the people of Xuzhou City.

"Well, you form your own rescue team, which is responsible for rescuing soldiers, and if you need reinforcements and reinforcements on the battlefield, you can accept the call to join the army at any time, can you do it?"

"Yes."

"Go ahead." Li Zuzhi looked at the tragic backs of everyone, I don't know how many people will survive after this battle, maybe there is really no need to implicate the people, but under the clouds of war, no one has been spared.

"Kill......"

"Kill ......"

"Break into Xuzhou City and capture Li Zuzhi alive!"

"The day the city is broken, the day of looting!"

The Qing army began to attack again, and although the artillery of the Beiyang Army could not achieve infantry and artillery coordination, it was enough to suppress the Jiangbei Army in the city.

Jin Yunpeng placed the main attack direction at the north gate of Xuzhou City, and handed over the task of the main attack to the Yi army led by Jiang Guidi, and although the equipment of the Yi army was worn out and there were even some soldiers holding Pu Dao shields, but the number of Yi troops was huge, and more than 13,000 Yi troops who came from Rehe were put into 3,000 troops in the first attack. And in the midst of the crowd, there were actually more than 600 sword and shield soldiers, and this equipment seemed to be a little too backward.

The Yi Army was established by Song Qing of Yiyong Batulu, and the Huai Army was dismantled in the first year of Tongzhi, and Song Qing, the registered commander-in-chief, recruited three battalions of the Huai Army to form the initial Yi Army, and the Qing general Miao Peilin led the army to oppose the Qing Dynasty and join the Taiping Army, and Song Qing led the army to cooperate with Zeng Lingqin to eliminate Miao Peilin (Note 1). Song Qing, who had made many military exploits, was soon appreciated by Li Henian, the governor of Henan, and appointed him as the chief soldier of Nanyang. In the same year, in order to prevent the Twist army from entering the river, Li Henian ordered Song Qing and Zhang Yao to expand their troops by 20,000, and the Yi army officially became a pivotal armed force in the late Qing Dynasty.

What made the Yi army famous was that Zuo Zongtang later went west to quell the rebellion, and the Yi army fought successively, and then stationed in the northwest to prevent the rebellion. Two years later, Song Qing was appointed as the governor of Sichuan, led the Yi army into Sichuan, and put down a small number of Tusi rebellions in the Xikang area. After the pacification of the southwest, Song Qing led the army to move to Lushun and served as the special guard of Lushun fortress, and he held it for 12 years. In the First Sino-Japanese War, Song Qing commanded the battle as the commander of Liaodong, and for various reasons Liaodong was lost, Song Qing led the army to defend Lushun, causing great casualties to the Japanese army. After the Japanese captured Lushun, in retaliation, they slaughtered all the people in Lushun City (only seven people were alive afterwards), and Song Qing was demoted and punished, and the rest of the Yi Army was reorganized into the Wuwei Left Army. Gengzi national disaster, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing, the Yi Army was defeated by the Coalition Army, forced to retreat to Tongzhou, after the loss of the Beijing Division, the "Gengzi Treaty" was signed, Song Qing also died of depression in the army, and its Yi Army Department was inherited by Jiang Gui.

However, Jiang Guidi's personal courage was extraordinary, and he fought bravely, but he had no ability to run the army, and even the rise of the Wuwei Right Army (Beiyang Army), which was parallel to the Wuwei Left Army (Yi Army), became more and more lonely, and finally became an army attached to the banner of the Beiyang Army. Although Yuan Shikai had great respect for this army loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after all, the Yi Army was not his descendant, and the Yi Army officers had the habit of passing on from father to son, so he secretly suppressed the development of the Yi Army, and even the Yi Army has been stationed in the relatively poor Rehe. This expedition of the Yi Army is still Yuan Shikai's promise to Jiang Gui that if the Yi Army captures Yangzhou, the Yi Army will move to the wealthy Yangzhou garrison in the future, and the military salaries required by the Yi Army can be paid by the Yangzhou Government.

In order to be able to garrison Yangzhou in the future, for the silver in the future, and for the future generations to live a better life, the Yi army raised a long knife, set up a spear, and resolutely rushed to the north gate of Xuzhou City.