The unit guarding the north gate of Xuzhou was the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Division of the Jiangbei Army, and the regiment commander Hao Deming asked all the soldiers to hide behind the city walls and in the trenches at the first moment of the enemy's shelling. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He judged that the enemy would definitely put the target of the shelling on the city walls, so he did not let a single soldier stand on the city walls and hid all of them.

As expected, after all, the walls of Xuzhou City are tall, and the walls are easier to hit than trenches, and the walls are more able to directly threaten the heads of soldiers in battle. As a result, 80 percent of the artillery fire of the Beiyang Army was still on the city wall, and the city wall of Xuzhou City was cut half a meter shorter. It is necessary to know that this city was built in the Yuan Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty has been repeatedly built, especially in order to prevent the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition, the Qing Army thickened the city wall of Xuzhou, but at this time it was bombarded by continuous artillery fire for more than an hour.

As soon as the sound of the artillery stopped, the Yi army began to charge, Hao Deming patted the dust on his head, immediately ordered the whole army to go out, and raised a red flag on the city wall, indicating that the north gate of the Jiangbei Army was still strong, and even arranged a platoon of sharpshooters to shoot cold guns on the wall.

Yi Jun was really attracted by the person on the head of the gun again, and after being killed by more than a dozen people, he actually retreated timidly, and was scared away at the first attack, which obviously made Jiang Gui angry.

Jiang Guidi ordered a second attack, and if anyone retreated, they would be killed. Under the urging of Jiang Guidi, the second wave of attack was launched, Jiang Guidi personally stood behind the army with a ghost-headed knife to supervise the battle, this time the three thousand Yi troops were not frightened to death by the sharpshooters at the head of the city, but rushed to the head of the city desperately, and carried the ladder to prepare to attack the city.

Suddenly, just as they were approaching the trenches of the Jiangbei Army under the city wall in the north of Xuzhou City, hundreds of grenades were thrown out with all their might. As the explosion of grenades rang out and the screams of the Yi soldiers continued, the defenders of the Jiangbei Army quickly lifted twelve heavy machine guns out and erected them on the barrier of the trench.

"Shoot!" Hao Deming excitedly pulled out his command knife and roared.

"Dada......"

The dense network of fire swept through like the scythe of death, and the Yi soldiers fell to the ground in succession, and some soldiers were even swept away by Maxim's bullets. The twelve chains of fire were merciless, and it was probably not the first time that the Yi Army had seen this kind of bullet strafing, but they were still horrified.

"Ah......h

"Save Me ......"

"Mother......"

Screams rang out frequently, and the Resolute soldiers quickly collapsed, turning around and running, only to be killed even more. Seeing this, Hao Deming did not hesitate to order the death squad to counterattack, and thirty-six Jiangbei men armed with sabers rushed forward, and the soldiers on the city wall fired at the same time to shoot at the Yi soldiers one by one.

As a result, everyone saw a surprising scene on the battlefield, where 36 soldiers of the Jiangbei Army in green military uniforms brandished a one-meter-long saber and chased thousands of Qing troops wearing blue-gray military uniforms and leather hats. A Jiangbei soldier slashed at it with a knife, and the head of the soldier was cut off, and his body continued to run for more than ten meters before he found that he had no head and fell to the ground.

"Ahh

"Hell yes!"

Yi Jun shouted, and people kept falling to the ground, and it was a miracle that thirty-six Jiangbei men actually killed ten times their own Yi soldiers unscathed. In fact, if the heavy machine gun continues to strafe, the lethal effect will inevitably be more obvious, but Hao Deming knows that this battle will take a long time, at least until the reinforcements arrive, and he must save every bullet and every grenade. Although the 36 Jiangbei daredevils could not kill many people, after this battle, the morale of the Jiangbei army was high, and the morale of the Yi army plummeted.

Jin Yunpeng, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, was holding a telescope in the distance, so angry that his beard flew away, and he turned to look at Jiang Guidi, the commander of the Yi army, without saying a word.

Jiang Gui is an old qualification, his qualifications in the old army are deeper than Yuan Shikai, and even Yuan Shikai has to give him three points of face, but he didn't expect Jin Yunpeng, who can only pat on the back, to look down on him.

But I never expected that the Yi Army was embarrassed and embarrassed, and the thirty-six Jiangbei soldiers were almost chasing thousands of Yi Jun......

Jiang Guidi was furious, and ordered his own nephew Jiang Yunhe to lead 2,000 people to regroup, and asked the Beiyang Army to shell the North Gate again.

Nearly an hour of shelling once again reduced the height of the walls of Xuzhou, but the losses were not great for the 3rd Regiment of the defenders. The attack led by Jiang Yunhe was once again stubbornly blocked by the Jiangbei Army of the Xuzhou defenders, Hao Deming was full of confidence, the morale of the Jiangbei Army was strong, and the roll call of the sharpshooters at the head of the city also made the Yi Army bitter. Although Jiang Yunhe was short-tempered, his command ability was not strong, and he led 2,000 people to charge, and when he was beaten back, there were only more than 1,300 people left, and nearly 700 people were explained in front of the position.

From morning to night, the Yi army lost more than 2,000 people in a day, more than 200 were captured, and hundreds of people were wounded and fell in the center of the positions of both sides, wailing for a day, and gradually freezing to death as the temperature dropped. And now for both sides, the biggest enemy is not the opponent, but the cold weather. Although Xuzhou is not the northeast, the average temperature during the Republic of China is ten degrees lower than the average temperature after a hundred years, and now on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the temperature outside Xuzhou City has dropped to two or twenty degrees.

Whoever collapses first, loses first.

Seeing that the attack on the first day failed like this, Jin Yunpeng was disappointed, except for the north gate, there was nothing in other areas, Li Zuzhi, the defender of Xuzhou City, relied on the height of the city to defend Xuzhou City, and the people of Xuzhou City also joined the team to support the Jiangbei Army because of their hatred for the Qing army and the northern Yankees outside the city. The soldiers and civilians of Xuzhou City shared the same hatred for the enemy, and for a while, Jin Yunpeng's army had nothing to do about it.

Jin Yunpeng asked to give up attacking Xuzhou, and the army went south to join Feng Guozhang on the first road and then directly took Yangzhou, and after occupying the nest of the Jiangbei Army, the various units of the Jiangbei Army would naturally disperse, and then gradually recruit and win over the Jiangbei Army, wouldn't it be easier. However, Yuan Shikai reprimanded him, how important Xuzhou City is, the Tianjin-Pudong Railway needs to pass through Xuzhou, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal needs to pass through Xuzhou, and if Xuzhou cannot be taken down, the Qing army will be like a fish in the throat and unable to stretch its fists and feet, so the focus of the battle of Jiangbei is Xuzhou.

"Within three days, I can't take Xuzhou, so I'll see you." Yuan Shikai gave the death order, and Jin Yunpeng was so worried that he had to take his subordinates to play mahjong to relieve his emotions...... According to legend, Jin Yunpeng's mahjong level is a unique ...... in Beiyang