Chapter 444: Hubei New Army
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Most of the Qing troops in the south were composed of the Sichuan New Army, and their weapons and equipment were not inferior to those of the Hainan army, and they were quite sophisticated.
Ling Zhan's army on the middle route advanced into Sichuan in three ways. Due to the extremely fierce artillery fire of the Hainan army, the battlefields on the left flank and the center were once beaten by the Hainan army, and almost lost the ability to resist.
However, these new armies are also extremely tenacious. Moreover, most of the commanders of these armies have received training from German-style military academies. They are also very smart.
These Qing troops relied on occupying favorable terrain in advance, so that the Hainan army failed to break through for several days, and the artillery battle between the two sides entered a stalemate.
According to the advantages of the Hainan army, the commander-in-chief Ling Zhan decided to open a gap in the right flank and encircle the front and rear of the Qing army by detouring to the rear of the Qing army.
Ling Zhan transferred all the armored combat vehicles spontaneously developed by Hainan and tried to force the charge.
However, after the Qing army on the opposite side discovered this new type of chariot of the Hainan army, in the process of retreating, a large number of roadblocks were set up with boulders.
As a result, in the Sichuan Basin, where the mountain roads are crooked, the armored car loses its obvious advantage.
At the same time, Zhao Erxun asked the imperial court to transfer a new army from Hubei, which had a very strong combat effectiveness, into Sichuan to support the Battle of Sichuan.
Although Yuan Shikai did not agree to transfer the Hubei New Army, the imperial court still agreed to Zhao Erxun's request on the grounds that the battle in Wuchang was smaller than that of Sichuan.
Yuan Shikai knew that it was pointless to continue to argue about this matter, and Zaifeng and the others just wanted to weaken or even eliminate their Beiyang New Army by the hand of the King of Hainan.
Now, on the edge of a precipice, a group of Manchu officials of the Qing court could put themselves to death at any time. Yuan Shikai has no intention of fighting, he is thinking about where he should go.
The reason why the Qing court transferred the Hubei New Army was to further force Yuan Shikai's forces in the Beiyang New Army near Hubei.
The second is to prevent the Hubei New Army from being controlled by Yuan Shikai, because the Hubei New Army is also a very important military force in the Qing court.
After far from the feather, the old love feather is too cool
Later, Yu Kutai transferred all the armored combat vehicles spontaneously developed by Hainan to Ling Zhan and tried to force the charge.
Zaifeng believes that they want to hold this army firmly in their hands. Gradually isolated Yuan Shikai militarily.
After Yuan Shikai's military strength was weakened in this battle, they would not be worried that Yuan Shikai's tail would be too big to control and difficult to control.
Sun is not far away, Yuji is alone, and he is cool and secretive
At that time, if Yuan Shikai is rectified, there will not be too many scruples.
The Hubei New Army is a new military armed force established by Zhang Zhidong when he was transferred to serve as the governor of Huguang.
After the First Sino-Japanese War, Zhang Zhidong advocated a large-scale launch of a new policy for foreign affairs in Hubei Province, with military training, revitalizing schools, and setting up factories as the three major ends.
In the early days of the establishment of the Hubei New Army, in order to obtain the approval of the Qing court, Zhang Zhidong transferred 500 people from the former Jiangnan Protector Front Battalion that had been trained in the Nanjing Self-Strengthening Army to Hubei.
After gaining the support of the imperial court, Zhang Zhidong immediately divided these 500 people into two battalions.
With Zhang Biao and Yue Siyi as the two battalions as the management and belt officers, and the German general Behrensdorf as the chief teacher, he participated in the German ** system, recruited brave to make up the number of the two battalions, and formed the Hubei Protector Army, with a total of 1,000 Benyong and more than 100 horses.
The knot is not a feather, so the secret ghost sails the enemy
Later, in order to enhance the overall quality of the new army, Zhang Zhidong selected 20 Hubei students to go to Japan to learn military equipment.
The officers of the Hubei New Army have all received new military training, and the equipment of the troops has been modified with new guns.
Zhang Zhidong officially reorganized the original Wukai Army, Wufang Army, Wu Jianjun and other old-style armies in Hubei into the left and right wings of the Hubei Standing Army, and later changed to two towns, which were led by Zhang Biao and Li Yuanhong.
As a result, the Qing court reformed the military system of the Qing army, and a total of 36 towns were trained in the country, and the Hubei New Army was the 8th and 11th towns. This force of nearly 20,000 men and horses is very strong in combat.
Ling Zhan received information that this new army wanted to enter Sichuan to participate in the war. He decided to set up an ambush at the junction of Sichuan and Hubei to block this Qing army.
After Ling Zhan reported this battle plan to the general headquarters, Chen Zhong agreed to this battle plan to defend the enemy outside Sichuan.
For a time, as a force of Hainan troops quickly assembled near Wushan, the Hubei New Army also raced against time to advance to Sichuan. Wushan County, Chongqing, a small remote place, is on the brink of war.
At this moment, it is late October, and it has snowed heavily in the north, and Chongqing, known as the fog capital, is now full of fog.
After receiving the order, after a five-day trek, the troops of the three mixed brigades arrived at the junction of Sichuan and Hubei in advance.
The Hubei New Army was very smart, and the troops of their two towns did not rush into Sichuan after they came to the junction of Sichuan and Hubei, but built fortifications on the spot.
After the arrival of the early troops of the Hainan army, before they could gain a firm foothold, they immediately launched an attack on it.
The three mixed brigades of the Hainan army entered the battle before they had time to recuperate and launched an all-out attack on the Hubei New Army in the two towns opposite.
The artillery of the Hubei New Army, equipped with 105 mm howitzers, was powerful and powerful, and once contained the offensive of the Hainan army, and the defense line of the Hainan army fell into a sea of fire.
The three mixed brigades of the Hainan army were taken by surprise by the Hubei New Army because of their own light enemy.
They did not expect at all that the Hubei New Army would open fire at this time, and the firepower was strong.
Because the three mixed brigades of the Hainan Army were the positions of the lightly armed and rapid march to the Sichuan-Hubei border, they did not carry heavy weapons such as artillery.
Xiang Jincheng, commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade, Niu Bibi, commander of the 7th Mixed Brigade, and Feng Sheng, commander of the 10th Mixed Brigade, faced the situation in front of them and decided to form six cavalry companies of the three brigades into a cavalry assault team.
They demanded that this cavalry assault team each carry a bundle of explosives, break into the artillery positions of the Hubei New Army, and deliver bombs at close range, in this way to destroy the opponent's heavy artillery attack.
The power of the 214 105-mm howitzers in the artillery positions of the 8th and 11th towns of the Hubei New Army is certainly not to be underestimated.
Therefore, as a last resort, the Hainan army could only rely on the speed of cavalry to rush through the periphery of the enemy's artillery shell range, enter the interior, and use the cavalry to throw bombs to attack the enemy's artillery positions.
When the Hubei New Army was violently shelling the positions of the Hainan army, Zhang Biao, the commander of the new army, looked through a telescope at the Hainan army that was caught in a sea of fire on the opposite side.
He laughed: "It is said that the Hainan army is extremely strong, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that, and in the face of the artillery of our new army, we can only sit and wait for death." ”
At this time, in the corner of the telescope, he suddenly found that a cavalry assault team of nearly 600 people fell from the sky, through the dense artillery fire, and roared towards the artillery position of the Hubei New Army, Zhang Biao was taken aback.