Historically, the 17th Town of the newly built Army in Sichuan was a very peculiar team, very different from other new armies in the late Qing Dynasty. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info it was originally compiled and trained when Cen Chunxuan was the governor of Sichuan, and later Cen Chunxuan left Sichuan and took a considerable part of the officers and soldiers with him. Later, Xiliang took over as the governor of Sichuan and restarted the training, which was later the 33rd Mixed Association. Later, after being handled by Zhao Erxun and Zhao Erfeng respectively, it was expanded into the 17th town of the new army.

The 17th Town has been reorganized several times, and the personnel have been continuously reduced and added, so a large number of comrades from the League and members of the Sichuan Elder Association have been mixed in. However, it was such a new army with a very good foundation for the uprising, and after the start of the Baolu Movement, instead of opposing the Qing, it obeyed the orders of the Qing government to suppress the Baolu Comrade Army and the uprisings in various places.

It can also be said that the 17th Town was the only new army that did not revolt during the Xinhai Revolution, except for the Beiyang New Army.

In Phoenix Mountain, Chengdu, Zhu Qinglan, who has a beard with a figure-eight beard, is holding a command knife in his white-gloved hands, pedaling long leather boots, and the gray military uniform on his body is hot and straight without any wrinkles. Zhu Qinglan's image is the same as most of today's officers, whether it is style or behavior, it is similar to the Beiyang Army in the north, and on the surface it looks similar to the Japanese army, but in depth, that is, there is the shadow of German soldiers.

The reason for this situation is actually very simple, Zhu Qinglan is an officer of the New Army in the 17th Town, and the 17th Town is studying Beiyang, and Beiyang is studying the Japanese, but Japan is studying Germany. In this way, the Chinese army did not learn the rigor and high quality of the Prussian soldiers, but instead learned the style of the officers.

"Lord Commander, the Yunnan Revolutionary Party has been attacking fiercely all the way, and has now arrived in Xinjin County, and the Governor has ordered us to go south to meet the enemy." The staff officer behind him said to Zhu Qinglan, who was standing in the wind.

"Got it, you go down first." Zhu Qinglan replied in his mouth, but there was an indescribable bitterness in his heart. Since the Baolu Movement, there have been many armed bandits and bandits in the whole of Sichuan, and the comrades and bandits who have rebelled against the Qing Dynasty from all walks of life have been armed like cows, like weeds, and they have been exterminated batch after batch. In the current Sichuan, how can there be the tranquility of the country of abundance in the past. In addition to being able to control those larger cities, the county towns all over the province are not controlled by the chaotic soldiers, and now there is a group of revolutionary troops from Yunnan, and the world will be chaotic, and the situation is worrying!

At the same time, Xinjin County, not far from Chengdu.

"The city is all cleaned up!" Li Hongxiang was standing in the palace in the city at this moment, and behind him, in addition to the officers of the Third Division, there were five or six people wearing horse coats with trembling faces.

"Report to the division commander, the remnants of the bandits in the city have been wiped out!" It was Huang Yuying, the head of the Ninth Regiment, who spoke.

"Not bad!" Li Hongxiang nodded, a satisfied smile on his face. Then he continued: "Zihe, the brothers of the Ninth Regiment did a good job just now, and they were able to take Xinjin in one go, it can be seen that Ziheping is leading the troops in a good way, and I will ask the headquarters for credit for you!" ”

"There, this is all under the command of the division commander, and I don't dare to take credit." Huang Yuying also smiled.

"Haha, okay, we don't have to be humble here, we take Xinjin now, which is equivalent to opening the south gate of Chengdu, and the troops will enter Chengdu just around the corner." Li Hongxiang laughed loudly.

As a matter of fact, Li Hongxiang does have the capital to laugh, and since he was appointed commander of the Third Division at the reorganization meeting, he was quite unhappy. In his eyes, the 19th Town, which was newly equipped with 54 German 75 mountain guns, was not weak in firepower compared to the 6th Town of Beiyang, and it was also a well-known army in China.

Although he was reluctant in his heart, he still rushed to Panzhihua after the meeting. Until he officially took office, after becoming familiar with the establishment of the army under the leadership of Huang Yuying, an old acquaintance, Li Hongxiang had already put the previous depression behind him, and all that was left was silly music.

Since receiving the order of Xiao Mubai's Northern Expedition, Li Hongxiang swept towards Chengdu along the Chengdu-Kunming Railway with the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves. It's just that in Sichuan at this time, how can it be described in a messy word. Since the Baolu Movement, there have been many armed forces from all sides in Sichuan, including the League, the Constitutionalists, the Hui Party, and even the bandits. All the way north, there were no less than a dozen miscellaneous forces encountered.

Just like this time in Xinjin County, it was previously captured by bandits from the Alliance of the Hui Party.

Li Hongxiang did not have the slightest good impression of these revolutionary parties from the party, and the League was really good, accepting all kinds of people, and the miasma of a revolutionary organization had become a place to hide dirt and dirt.

Originally, Li Hongxiang didn't intend to embarrass them, so he camped outside the city, but these people didn't know what to do, so they didn't provoke them, but they provoked themselves. Under these circumstances, Li Hongxiang did not hesitate to order the siege of the city, entered the city in one fell swoop in the name of exterminating the bandits, and then wiped out the self-proclaimed revolutionary party and bandits.

After leaving a company of officers and soldiers waiting for follow-up reinforcements of Luo Peijin's Fourth Division, Li Hongxiang led his troops to continue to advance towards Chengdu. As early as two days ago, feeling the chaos in Sichuan, Li Hongxiang, who was nervous about the troops in his hands, sent a telegram asking for reinforcements in Kunming. After careful consideration, Xiao Mubai sent him to reinforce Sichuan, regardless of the fact that Luo Peijin's Fourth Division was not well equipped and equipped. This made Luo Peijin happy enough, in his eyes, no matter how incomplete the soldiers and equipment of his Fourth Division were, it was more than a little stronger than those chaotic troops in Sichuan.

Hearing the news of the arrival of the Yunnan Revolutionary Army, the 17th town that rushed to Wenjiang overnight and quickly launched a defense, for this battle, the 17th town really did not pay much attention to it, in the past two months, the officers and men of the 17th town have successively moved to various parts of Sichuan without encountering opponents, it is not an exaggeration to say that they have experienced a hundred battles. The successive victories in the battles had long made them arrogant, and they did not pay any attention to these revolutionary parties from Yunnan. In their cognition, it was just another group of old hats who didn't even have a few guns, but this time there were more people.

Similarly, Zhu Qinglan, the commander of the 17th Town, did not attach much importance to this battle, in his eyes, these Yunnan barbarians of Li Hongxiang's Third Division had already become meat on his chopping board and were left to be slaughtered by him.

Although there was a nineteen towns in Yunnan before, the strength was not bad, but the entire nineteen towns were so many people, this time the revolutionary party soldiers were divided into three routes to the north and the east, it must have been temporarily expanded, how much combat effectiveness can such a team have? And the thousands of brothers under his command are different, they have been fighting all over the country in the past two months, and they have never seen blood.

I can't help but say that Zhu Qinglan's conceit is unreasonable. But the wish is beautiful, but the reality is skinny, and it is just right to describe Zhu Qinglan at this time here. At this time, he may not have realized that there are times when the roles between hunter and prey can be reversed.

A few kilometers away, at the headquarters of the Third Division, there was no tension here before the war, and Chief of Staff Yin Chengzhen led a group of staff officers to make battle plans in an orderly manner.

After getting the news that the seventeen towns appeared in Wenjiang and were deployed, Li Hongxiang did not flash much surprise in his heart, after all, this is Wenjiang, and Chengdu is close at hand after this. What really surprised him was the series of situations shown by the Qing army's seventeen towns on the other side of the position.

It stands to reason that at this time, in the face of a fierce opponent like himself, he should have been treated with 100,000 points of caution, even if it is not, it should still be possible to be prepared. As it is now, the officers and men are scattered, and the defense of the entire position is lax. It seems that the officers and soldiers of these seventeen towns are really not ordinary arrogant in their hearts.

Thinking of this, Li Hongxiang couldn't help but be happy. At the same time, I was also a little annoyed in my heart, these turtle grandsons, isn't this obviously looking down on themselves. It seems necessary to give them a little color.