Originally, the strategic purpose of the Qing Army's Third Route Army was to lead Wang Zhanyuan to occupy Bozhou, and then directly attack Suzhou, occupy Huaibei City and Huaibei Coal Mine, and cut off the Tianjin-Pudong Railway. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The importance of Huaibei Coal Mine for the Jinpu Railway is self-evident, the train can take water along the way, but the coal can not be taken casually, the existence of Huaibei Coal Mine, not only to reduce the transportation of fuel for the Jinpu Railway, but also to the Jiangbei around the heating has brought convenience.

After cutting off the Jinpu Railway, Wang Zhanyuan could go north along the Jinpu Railway to encircle Xuzhou with the Qing Army's Second Road and the Qing Army's Fourth Road, thus encircling and annihilating Xuzhou's Jiangbei Right Road Army.

Although Wang Zhanyuan's command ability is not as good as Wu Peifu and other direct generals, he still moved forward according to the plan after all, but unfortunately the railway and Ni Sichong did not do so, after all, the Qing Army's Third Route Army finally captured Bozhou, Tie Liang used the excuse that the casualties of the Zhili Ten Road Patrol Battalion were too large and needed to rest, and Lai refused to advance in Bozhou, and Ni Sichong saw that Tie Liang refused to go east, and he did not go east, after all, to the east is Suzhou, And the Huaibei Coal Mine in Suzhou still has the troops left behind by the Jiangbei Third Division to defend, Ni Sichong is a self-proclaimed champion, and this matter of leading troops to fight will be handed over to Wang Zhanyuan.

However, Wang Zhanyuan's army was only 11,000 people, and seeing that these two people refused to move, he could not persuade him to order, so he had to lead the second town and the third association to Suzhou and Huaibei.

And seeing that Wang Zhanyuan carried out the plan alone, the railway and Ni Sichong discussed privately, why are we soldiers and officials, isn't it just for money, after coming to northern Anhui, it is freezing cold, the soldiers are hard, and the officers are watching the big guys suffer so much, and there is no benefit at all.

"Lord Tie, what do you say?" Ni Sichong hurriedly asked.

"Rob, these people in northern Anhui are not the people of our hometown, they are Jiangbei people, leave them money, that is the enemy." Tie Liang said with a smile.

Ni Sichong slapped his thigh: "It's exactly what I want, I'm embarrassed to say it, since Rui, our two brothers will share a piece of territory, who will grab it?" ”

As soon as the two of them are combined, they will draw it on the map, the first piece is Bozhou, Taihe County and Linquan County, and the second piece of Yingzhou (Fuyang County), Wuyang County and Mengcheng, it stands to reason that in these two territories, the second piece must be richer, the first piece is only Bozhou because of the traffic arteries are a little rich, Taihe County and Linquan County are poor places, but the north of Mengcheng is adjacent to Suzhou and the east is Huaiyuan - and Huaiyuan County is next to Fengyang Mansion, and it is very likely that the Jiangbei Left Road Army of Fengyang Mansion will be provoked by accident. Therefore, these two pieces of land are not one better or the other.

"Let's draw lots." Ni Si said.

The final result was that Tie Liang's plundering territory was the Bozhou generation, and Ni Sichong's looting territory was the Yingzhou generation, the brothers looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly led the troops to grab the money. Now it's okay, the patrol battalions of Wu Jingdao cuisine suddenly shook their spirits and began to carry out crazy looting of the previous generation of Huai in northern Anhui.

Wang Zhanyuan led the Third Association to attack Suzhou directly to the east according to the marching plan, and after conquering Suzhou City within one day, he led the army to Huaibei City.

The remaining troops in Huaibei City are the base camp troops of the Third Division of the Jiangbei Army, the Northern Anhui Supplementary Regiment, the Suzhou Militia and the Jiangbei Police Force that retreated from northern Anhui, with a total of 6,000 people, and the commander of the Huaibei City garrison is Xiahou Zhang. Listening to Xiahou Zhang's name reminds people of various fierce generals in the Three Kingdoms period, and Xiahou Zhang himself is also tall and mighty, but although this person graduated from the Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer School, he can study in the Heavy Duty Department, and he is a typical logistics general.

After Wang Zhanyuan's third association arrived in Huaibei City, he couldn't help but laugh so much that he almost fell off his horse after hearing that the Huaibei defender was Xiahou Zhang, because Wang Zhanyuan had been a teacher in the Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer School for half a year, and he had personally taught this Xiahou Zhang's class for half a year, so it can be said that the teacher met the students.

And Xiahou Zhang, a student, had too deep an impact on Wang Zhanyuan, and the school organized a bayonet fight, but Xiahou Zhang never won, pay attention, he never won. The result was that all departments had losses, and finally conquered the bandits' den, and Xiahou Zhang's company had no casualties, sitting on the hillside waiting for news, a group of bandits ran over and surrendered, and also caught the bandit leader by the way.

Wang Zhanyuan can see that this Xiahou Zhang is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, belongs to the kind of lazy person who can lie down and never sit, can sit and never stand, but he didn't expect that even Xiahou Zhang can be a big official in Jiangbei, and there is really no one in Jiangbei. But in fact, although Xiahou Zhang has no command ability, he has incomparable luck, Xiahou Zhang is the second oldest in the family, but he has five younger sisters, and each of them is as beautiful as a flower, one of which is married to Liu Hui, the commander of the Third Division of the Jiangbei Army.

Liu Hui did not have any profitable helpers around him, and it happened that although his eldest brother could not fight, his ability was not bad, so he promoted him to be the logistics supervisor of the Third Division, and the Jiangbei Army was expanded and reorganized, and Liu Hui, the eldest brother, was busy with the front and back, and finally was promoted to the deputy commander of the Third Division - as a person, the Third Division had three deputy division commanders, and Xiahou Zhang was only the most incapable of fighting among them.

After Wang Zhanyuan learned that Xiahou Zhang was the main general, he thought that Xiahou Zhang was as timid as a mouse, and as long as he sent a large army to attack the city for three days, Xiahou Zhang would definitely escape, so the whole association simply took a rest, and then ordered his 11,000 soldiers from the second town of Beiyang and the third association to launch a fierce attack on Huaibei City. But because he was in a hurry, Wang Zhanyuan's artillery stayed behind, and he thought that Huaibei was not heavily guarded and did not need artillery support, so he was relieved to invest his troops.

But he never expected that Xiahou Zhang, deputy commander of the Third Division of the Jiangbei Army and commander of the Huaibei City garrison, was frightened by the horse when he rode a horse to inspect (preparing to escape), causing him to fall off the horse, and the war horse jumped up high, and broke Xiahou Zhang's leg with a click.

Xiahou Zhang screamed, fainted, and was carried back to the headquarters by his subordinates. A doctor came to see him and re-grafted his bones and put a bandage, but warned him: "You must not move your leg injury now, you are all in the hospital bed for eating, drinking, and Lazar, if you move, your bones will have to be removed from their positions, and you will become lame in the future." ”

"Can't someone carry me away?" Xiahou Zhang asked with a bitter face.

The doctor said, "Yes, it's a big deal to become lame in the future." ”

Seeing this, Xiahou Zhang knew that he would not be able to escape, and if he surrendered, it was estimated that he would not be tortured by the Qing army, so he could only order the generals: "With the city, Huaibei is here, I am here, Huaibei City is broken, I will die with you!" And issued a telegram to show the determination to be with the city.

When outsiders learned that Xiahou Zhang said such ambitious words, they couldn't help but think that he was a heroic man, but those who knew him knew that this Xiahou Zhang was called Xiahou to hide, and he hid from everything. Even Liu Hui was taken aback when he saw the power-on, and said in his heart that my eldest brother had some kind of nerves, and he actually changed from a soft-footed shrimp to a hero, this situation seems to be wrong......