The first encounter with Yuan Shikai was almost over. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info it seems that Yuan Shikai's new army is not good? As a matter of fact, if we carefully consider the history of the establishment of the New Army, we will understand that it is reasonable for the New Army to have such a combat strength.

After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, Yuan Shikai was ordered to start training, and the Qing army has not had any special wars in recent years, or there is a war, and Yuan Shikai's recruits have not been allowed to go to the battlefield, and after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, it has only been three years now, and it stands to reason that three years can also train a strong army, but the Qing army treats the new training army as a baby, and it is also this time that it has no choice but to pull it out to fight, in essence, Yuan Shikai's group of soldiers can only be equated with new soldiers.

Comparatively speaking, Yuan Shikai's soldiers of the New Army did not have as much experience on the battlefield as the Mengshan Army.

Originally, because of Nie Shicheng's three armies to get closer to each other, the three armies of the Qing army were not too far apart on the battlefield. If the three armies could work together to deal with the attack of the Mengshan army, which was much smaller than them, although they might not be able to win in the end, it was not impossible to bite a piece of meat from the Mengshan army.

It's just that although these three armies came together because of the emperor's order, and the personal relationship between the commanders of the three armies cannot be said to be bad, after all, these three armies belong to military forces that have grown up under different environmental conditions, and their concepts and habits are different. For example, the Gan army is good at cavalry raids, invades like the wind, and is good at fighting battles with the wind; The Wu Yi Army, like its name, is relatively more resolute, whether it is its predecessor Huai Army or later fought with the Eight-Nation Alliance in Tianjin, it has shown a certain degree of perseverance; As for Yuan Shikai's new army, it is more about the role of military discipline and discipline in the army, and it is a more Westernized army.

It stands to reason that as far as the three armies are concerned, Yuan Shikai's new army is more familiar with the army discipline of the Rhine State, and may have more offensive and defensive methods. However, it is but, Yuan Shikai himself is not so high, Yuan Shikai himself, to put it bluntly, is also a guy from the old literati, when he sees that he is in danger, he does not think about the problem from the perspective of a military commander, but from the perspective of the old literati that "a gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall", so Yuan Shikai ran away.

Yuan Shikai started running, which was equivalent to Nie Shicheng losing his last support.

As for Dong Fuxiang's Gan army, it actually started earlier, after all, it was attacked earlier, and the previous losses were greater. But what Dong Fuxiang did even more was that he did not run to meet Nie Shicheng, but to run independently, which was not called shrinking the position, but escaping.

Therefore, when Yuan Shikai ran to Nie Shicheng with about half of the new army left, Nie Shicheng was commanding the troops to resist the impact of the Mengshan army, and at the same time scolded Dong Fuxiang for not being a thing, and dared to leave the commander and run away alone!

"Yuan Shikai, do you also want to escape?" Seeing that Yuan Shikai came to his side without asking for instructions, Nie Shicheng became angry, so his tone became very blunt.

"Dashuai, I'm not escaping! In the previous battle, half of the 16 combat battalions of the newly formed army have been lost, and if they don't retreat, the imperial court will not even have a single soldier left! Yuan Shikai had already thought of an idea, and he thought that he had done the right thing in this decision.

"This ......" Nie Shicheng also felt the ferocity of the Mengshan army, but he was quite unwilling to retreat like this.

"Marshal, if we have cannonballs, we can fight this battle, but ......" Yuan Shikai was persuading, and a few shells suddenly fell near the command post of the Qing army, and in front of Nie Shicheng's eyes, more than a dozen soldiers were blown up into the sky!

"Dashuai, offended!" Yuan Shikai waved his hand, and seven or eight guards rushed up to lift Nie Shicheng and ran towards the war horse in the distance.

"Put me down, let me go ......" Nie Shicheng struggled, but no one listened to him.

"Order the troops to retreat north on their own!" Yuan Shikai temporarily took over the command and ordered to one of Wu Yijun's heralds.

"Yes, General!" The herald turned away.

At this point in the war, almost all the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level knew that they had no food, no ammunition supplies, and the guns in their hands were about to become matches.

However, if you really want to talk about it, this battle is also wonderful, even now, the Qing army still has more than 20,000 people, and the Mengshan army only has more than 5,000 soldiers.

However, the three commanders were already panicking, which doomed the Qing army to a complete failure in this encirclement and suppression.

"Surrender the gun and don't kill -- the Mengshan army treats prisoners preferentially-" Seeing the large-scale rout of the Qing army, the Mengshan army pursued by various units even more happily. As for the content of their shouting, these Qing soldiers will only know afterwards that they really treat the prisoners preferentially.

With the oppression of the Mengshan army, the retreating Qing army gradually evolved into a rout, and Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai gradually separated from the other troops, and were only guarded by hundreds of guards.

It's a real mess! Not only was the Qing army in chaos, but the Mengshan army, and in the end, the regiment commander could not find the battalion commander, and there were many times when the battalion commander could not find the company commander.

And in the end, only the squad and platoon combat collectives are still playing a role. However, this was enough, because most of the soldiers of the Qing army were no longer out of guns and ammunition, and they were waiting for them to capture prisoners. If the Qing army still has guns and ammunition, and there is resistance, the sound of gunfire will definitely attract the support of mortars and heavy machine guns of the Mengshan army!

Although Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai both have horses to ride, and the guards also ride horses, the terrain of the battlefield is very complicated, and the pursuit of the Mengshan army also seems to be in all directions, and hundreds of people riding war horses are rushing left and right on the battlefield, which is really too big a target, so Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai can only hide and slowly evacuate, looking for a safe and hidden road as much as possible.

However, even though Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai have very rich battlefield experience, it is more difficult to stand out at this time.

The reason is that every battalion-level unit is equipped with walkie-talkies that surpass this era, and as for the reconnaissance battalion and guard battalion, the company commander also has walkie-talkies in his hands, and hundreds of war horses are clustered and retreating towards one place, avoiding the movements of the Mengshan army as much as possible, which is very conspicuous on this battlefield and is easy to be caught by the Mengshan army.

In fact, the reconnaissance battalion and the guard battalion have been paying close attention to the whereabouts of Nie Shicheng and his party from a distance, and have let the various units that are destroying the enemy consciously form a large encirclement.