What Fang Xian didn't expect was that the Eighth Division of the Jiangbei Army on the right flank was preparing to bypass Dingyuan County and advance to Pukou along the direction of Shouxian West Road in Huaiyuan County, when it happened to encounter Li Chunbu of the Qing Army who was also heading north along the West Road, and the two sides arrived at Tashan at the junction of the three counties almost at the same time after a few days of marching. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The two cavalry units collided viciously, and the sabers of the cavalry on both sides did not hesitate to slash at the opponent, and the cavalry encounter became the first stop for both sides.

Tower Hill is called Tower Hill not because of how tall it is, but because there is a tower erected on this small hill of only 16 meters, hence the name Tower Hill. Tashan is on the east side of Xiquan Town, after Tashan is the most famous big family of Fengyang Mansion Liu Mansion (Liufu Town of later generations), during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing Town Guard Liu Qian returned to the hermitage after the construction of the Mansion Garden here, and the family moved here, after four hundred years of multiplication, Liu Mansion has become a small town at the level of the township, and the mayor of the town is the patriarch of the Liu family.

The Liu family had always been reluctant to participate in political disputes or wars, but he was inevitably involved, and the cavalry battle between the Jiangbei Army and the Beiyang Army took place in Tashan, less than five kilometers southwest of Liufu Town.

The Qing army is the sixth standard of the Beiyang Army horse team, the standard commander Wang Engui, and the Jiangbei Army is the eighth division cavalry battalion, the battalion commander Zhao Yicheng.

Wang Engui is not a famous figure in history, in history Li Chun later served as the governor of Jiangxi, Wang Engui rose in Jiangxi as a general to lead the army to fight against the Southern Revolutionary Army, after the beginning of the Protectorate War, Wang Engui led the army south to fight with Cai Yi, both sides have their own victories and defeats, indicating that Wang Engui's command ability is not bad. In the Zhiwan War, Li Chun led the army to fight against the Anhui system, but Wang Engui, who was originally preparing to make great progress, suddenly fell ill and died.

And Zhao Yicheng's experience is much simpler than Wang Engui's, he is a bandit, because of the cumulative promotion of military exploits, and because of the lack of cavalry officers in the army, Zhao Yicheng took shit and became a cavalry battalion commander. But Zhao Yicheng was lucky, but his strength was not strong, he lacked the experience of leading cavalry troops into battle, and he was more suitable to lead a cavalry company of less than fifty horsemen.

When the cavalry of the two sides met, Zhao Yicheng drew his saber without hesitation and shouted: "Jiangbei sons, kill the dog with me!" ”

"Kill the dog!"

"Kill......"

Wang Engui looked at the other party's charging posture, sneered and ordered the cavalry to form a team, and then the mount began to slowly increase speed, when the two sides were only fifty meters apart, Wang Engui ordered to charge with all his strength.

Although the courage of the cavalry officers and men of the cavalry battalion of the eighth division of the Jiangbei Army was commendable, their combat experience was far inferior to that of the cavalry of the Beiyang Army.

When the cavalry of the Jiangbei Army learned that the battalion commander was killed, the rest of the cavalry immediately chose to withdraw from the battlefield, how could Wang Engui give up this opportunity to annihilate the enemy's cavalry, and then fell into the cavalry standard and led the army to follow, taking the opportunity to beat the cavalry battalion of the Seventh Division of the Jiangbei Army to only about one company.

has been met by the large army of the Jiangbei Army, and the rest of the Jiangbei cavalry finally picked up a life and came back. The Beiyang general Wang Engui ordered the withdrawal of troops and cleaned up the battlefield, and he then triumphantly returned with captured horses, guns, and red flags to hand them over to Li Chun.

Li Chun frowned tightly and said, "Do you know how many troops the other party has gone south?" ”

"According to the enemy's troop deployment, there is at least one association (brigade level), otherwise it will not be equipped with cavalry standards (regimental level)." Wang Engui said.

"Occupy Tower Hill first." Li Chun ordered.

After occupying Tashan first, Li Chun found that he had encountered a thorny problem, the enemy was not a cooperative, but a town (division level), this time he encountered a thorny problem, and the two armies invariably stopped in front of Tashan.

After a night's rest, the 8th Division of the Jiangbei Army took the lead in launching an attack on the enemy's position, while Li Chunbu took advantage of the Jiangbei Army's scarcity of artillery to shell the Jiangbei Army, and the two sides fought for it at Tashan.

On March 30, the bright red sun had just risen, and the artillery preparations of the Beiyang Army began, 72 standard-format guns were aimed at the positions of the Jiangbei Army on the opposite side, and the soldiers corrected the firing angles one after another, and according to the instructions, they should cover all the opponents in this shelling.

"Ready! Put! ”

With the commander's order, one after another cannonballs flew towards the opponent like a flock of black birds, and the cannonballs that covered the sky and the sun smashed on the position of the Jiangbei Army, and with the splashing of the shells, the loud sound of the explosion and the dazzling fire ignited the position of the entire Jiangbei Army, dragging the world as if it was the end of the world.

The soldiers of the Jiangbei Army hid in the trenches and carefully covered their ears, lowered their heads, opened their mouths wide, and according to the requirements, even if they were buried in the anti-artillery holes at this time, they could not run around. But there were always recruits who couldn't stand the shelling and ran out like crazy, and were soon torn apart by shrapnel from the shells.

The commander of the second company of the first battalion of the fourth regiment of the eighth division of the Jiangbei Army has been stuffing cotton in his ears for many years, and he wants to fire artillery on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to carefully control the troops, and there are many recruits in his troops, all of whom are from the central Soviet region, and the central Soviet region is the nest of Wang Yongan's troops, or in other words, anything wrong may defect, but the Eighth Division is impossible. But even so, there were some recruits who were too nervous and fled in a panic and were killed, Nian Zhilian couldn't control these crazy recruits, he could only stare at the recruits with vicious eyes to prevent them from running around.

According to the standards of the Jiangbei Army, a company has three platoons and two squads of 150 people, the infantry platoon is full of 38 people, the two squads are one for the firepower squad of 18 people, the other is the cooking squad of 12 people, the company commander and the deputy company commander are each equipped with one guard, and at the same time, there are two clerks in the company who are responsible for recording information, and the second company is such a full-fledged infantry company.

In order to avoid the enemy's shelling, Nian Zhilian specially asked to dig the trench to a depth of one zhang (three meters three), but in fact the trench was only dug two meters, and water seepage began in the trench, so now most of the soldiers are squatting in the water, and their feet feel very cold, which is very uncomfortable.

Nian Zhilian only felt that the earth began to shake, he sat in the water, squatted hard, and was shaken to the ground again, fortunately this time he hid in the water, the cold water knew that his balls were shrunk into a ball, he couldn't help but shiver, and said in his heart that he didn't know if he could use it in the future, in case the ball couldn't be used, how could he marry a wife in the future.