1,000 Jiangbei cavalry drove 20,000 patrol battalion soldiers to the Beiyang Army camp, once they were routed and Jiangbei cavalry rushed in, the consequences would be unimaginable. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing the bad situation, Jia Binqing, the 10th assistant commander of the 5th town of the Beiyang Army, immediately ordered the artillery to block the artillery bombardment behind the patrol battalion.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom ......"

The shells fell between the Jiangbei cavalry and the infantry of the patrol battalion, and the Jiangbei cavalry kept falling to the ground, but this did not stop the advance of the Jiangbei cavalry.

"Bastard! This madman! Jia Binqing didn't think about it, and immediately ordered the artillery of the Beiyang Army to stop, and the machine guns fired at the cavalry behind the patrol battalion.

"But the Jiangbei cavalry and the patrol battalion are mixed together, if you shoot the cavalry, more of the soldiers of the patrol battalion will die." Staff officer Mo Chengan hurriedly suggested.

"No matter! Let them rush in, and we will die. Jia Binqing said coldly.

The officers only felt a chill worse than the winter cold penetrating their foreheads from the tail bones, and they could not help but feel sad for the soldiers of the patrol battalion.

"Da Da Da ......"

The Beiyang Army's Makqin heavy machine gun began to roar, and bullets rained down between the patrol battalion and the Jiangbei cavalry, but the bullets killed one Jiangbei cavalry and killed ten patrol battalions by mistake.

Seeing that the enemy army was so ferocious, Zhang Xianguo could only order the cavalry to retreat, turn the horse's head, and the Jiangbei cavalry returned to their own camp after killing more than 60 people and killing and wounding more than 3,000 Qing soldiers (nearly half of them were killed by mistake by the Beiyang Army).

After the cavalry of the Jiangbei Army withdrew, Jia Binqing immediately sent people to collect the rout of the patrol battalion and immediately treated the wounded soldiers, but many soldiers of the patrol battalion did not appreciate it, and they shouted that they would rather die of pain than need you to save us, get out of here, get out.

In this matter, the generals of the Beiyang Army privately believed that Jia Binqing had done nothing wrong, and that it was better to sacrifice hundreds of soldiers of the patrol battalion to save the camp than to be rushed into the Beiyang Army camp by the enemy cavalry. Moreover, only a small part of the soldiers of the patrol battalion were killed and wounded, and the vast majority of the soldiers were rescued.

However, yesterday there was an incident in which the artillery of the Beiyang Army mistakenly killed Jiang Yunhe, and today Jia Binqing ordered the Jiangbei cavalry to fire with a heavy machine gun in disregard of the friendly troops, and the Beiyang Army betrayed the friendly troops one after another, which is really chilling. Yuan Shikai received hundreds of telegrams demanding that Jin Yunpeng and Jia Binqing be dealt with.

The Beijing division base camp had no choice but to punish Jia Binqing, but at this time Zhang Yongcheng reported to Yuan Shikai that Jia Binqing had the intention of independence, and came up with evidence to prove that Jia Binqing conspired with Sun Baoqi, the governor of Shandong, and was encouraged by Xu Jingxin and Ding Weifen of the alliance to try to announce the liberation in Shandong, with Sun Baoqi as the president and Jia Binqing as the vice president. Just because the fifth town went south, Jia Binqing's rebellion failed, but shooting the soldiers of the patrol battalion definitely had the intention of murdering the army loyal to the imperial court.

Yuan Shikai was furious and ordered the immediate arrest of Jia Binqing, and announced that he would be relieved of his post, and Wu Bingxiang would be appointed to the unification post of the Tenth Association, and that he would be immediately escorted back to Beijing to be handed over to Zhao Bingjun to strictly investigate Jia Binqing's behavior.

In less than half an hour, Yuan Shikai replied to the telegram, and Zhang Yongcheng, the commander of the Ninth Association, replaced him as the commander of the Fifth Town, and led the Second Route Qing Army.

Zhang Yongcheng saw that the Jiangbei army was strong, so he ordered the Qing army to abandon the siege, began a confrontation with the Jiangbei army, and asked for support.

Yuan Shikai intended to immediately transfer the 23rd Town stationed in Jilin to support the customs, but the role of the 23rd Town was to guard against the Japanese and Russians, so he was very hesitant. At this time, the Japanese and Russians immediately sent people to inform Yuan Shikai that during the war between the Qing army and the Jiangbei army, Japan and Russia would never develop their forces in the three northeastern provinces to cause trouble, on the contrary, they would secretly provide support and execute those who caused trouble.

Yuan Shikai then ordered the 23rd Town, Zhang Zuolin's Fengtianqian Road Patrol Battalion, Wu Junsheng's Fengtianhou Road Patrol Battalion, and Ma Longtan's Fengtian Right Road Patrol Battalion to immediately enter the pass to support the Battle of Xuzhou.

Ask the monarch to immediately order Zhang Yongcheng to gather his troops and start a confrontation with the Jiangbei army, and the two sides did not fight for the time being.

After discussing with Li Zuzhi, commander of the Third Division of the Jiangbei Army, Liu Hui, commander of the Second Division of the Jiangbei Army, decided to wait for the arrival of the right commander Li Shirui, and that the four divisions of the Jiangbei Army are now only two, and the total strength is only more than 30,000 people, and although the enemy has suffered heavy losses and more than 10,000 casualties in the past few days, the total strength of the enemy is also more than 80,000 people, and it is not suitable for fighting. Their idea was simple, that is, to wait for Li Shirui and discuss it after Li Shirui arrived, but this decision was quickly overturned by another person.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the Fourth Division of the Jiangbei Army under Chen Jian finally arrived in Xuzhou, and Chen Jian immediately met with the other two and persuaded them to launch a general attack on the Qing army with him.

"It's not right, it's not right." Liu Hui smiled bitterly, "Crazy Chen, don't you think everyone is as crazy as you?" Their master general was replaced by Zhang Yongcheng, not Jin Yunpeng's idiot. ”

"Zhang Yongcheng has been fighting for a long time, not an easy person, and General Wang Yongtai was also a little jealous of Zhang Yongcheng in the past." Li Zuzhi said.

"But they don't know how many cavalry we have." Chen Jian sneered, and I heard that it will snow heavily tomorrow, and their artillery will be able to shoot accurately in the heavy snow?

Chen Jian is a strong general in Jiangbei, when he fought with a saber and northern Anhui, so that the bandits in northern Anhui were terrified, the character of the fourth division was exactly the same as its main general, the fourth division was only 15,000 people, composed of 4 regiments and 4 battalions, but because of the background of the cavalry general, Chen Jian actually had two cavalry regiments and a cavalry battalion directly under the division headquarters. Therefore, as soon as the Fourth Division arrived in Xuzhou, Chen Jian couldn't wait to launch an attack on the Beiyang Army, and asked all the artillery to take out a decisive battle with the Beiyang Army.

Although Liu Hui didn't want to fight now, Chen Jian strongly demanded that Liu Hui and he had been friends for many years and had to support him. The third division and the fourth division had already decided to launch a fierce attack, and Li Zuzhi naturally could not withdraw, so Li Zuzhi had no choice but to take out his artillery regiment, and the three divisions concentrated seventy-two artillery pieces and suddenly launched an artillery bombardment on the Qing soldiers.

In the afternoon, it was very dark, and at three o'clock in the afternoon it was already very dark, seeing that the wind was coming, the Qing soldiers returned to the base camp to hide from the wind and snow, and they never dreamed that the Jiangbei Army would take advantage of the darkness to launch a general attack.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom ......"

A burst of artillery shells suddenly landed in the camp of the Qing soldiers, blowing up the Qing troops in a daze. The two sides fought for five days and five nights, and the Jiangbei Army never used its own artillery, and at this time it suddenly launched an artillery bombardment from the position in Jiangbei, and the Qing army, which originally thought that there was no artillery in Jiangbei, was dizzy.