This time, Chen Zhong reorganized the army at the Wuzhishan training ground, which completely changed the Hainan military's view of him and greatly improved his status in the army.

Chen Zhong is well aware of the significance of going to Guangxi, and the stakes are self-evident. This campaign is not only related to the future of Hainan, but also related to the implementation and completion of its great wishes.

Although Chen Zhong's reorganized First Group Army claimed to be 100,000 elite soldiers, in fact, it had less than 40,000 troops, and the overall number was less than 30,000 minus some old, weak, and disabled soldiers.

Although the blood boiled after the passionate words, it was very grim to look back and rationally analyze the situation in front of him.

The current situation in Guangxi is extremely complicated, and its northern and central parts are almost occupied by the peasant rebel army, forming two centers with Nanning and Liuzhou, which are gaining momentum, but it is a pity that they do not have a unified command and cannot be effectively connected.

At present, there are still three major units of the Qing court defenders in Guangxi. One was Wang Zhichun, the governor of Guangxi entrenched in the Yulin region, and the Yulin garrison under his control had nearly 20,000 men.

To the east of Yulin, there were nearly 30,000 defenders in Gaozhou and Xinyi in Guangdong, echoing it from afar.

There are also as many as 20,000 defenders in Wuzhou in Guangxi to the north, and if the battle starts, these two places can quickly connect the city.

In addition, in the southwest of Yulin, there is also the Su Yuanchun Division, which has extremely strong combat effectiveness, with about 30,000 defenders.

This Guangxi governor Su Yuanchun once won a great victory at Zhennan Pass with Feng Zicai in the Sino-French War, which was the only battle won by the Qing army in a foreign war. Chen Zhong also admired this person very much.

However, the purpose of Hainan's troops this time was not to quell the rebellion with the Qing army in Guangxi, but to be the enemy of the Qing army. Chen Zhong was reluctant to meet this hero who had won a great victory in Zhennanguan on the battlefield from the bottom of his heart.

Chen Zhong deliberately avoided Su Yuanchun's defenders with his troops this time, but took Yulin directly. Judging from the geographical location and the disparity in the strength of the two sides, this is a risky move!

According to Chen Zhong's deployment, the 19th Army led by him personally landed in Beihai and attacked Yulin along the line of the Lianjiang River and the Nanliu River.

Qi Gang led the First Army along the Luchuan line and covertly outflanked Yulin from the back road.

The Eighth Army's Yangtianlong Division, stationed in the east of Qinzhou City, was used as a defender to guard against Su Yuanchun, and a French ** team that was very likely to take the opportunity to invade.

Chen Zhong's deployment was intended to force Su Yuanchun's troops to submit after capturing Yulin, and he could also connect with the peasant rebel army. In this way, the Qing army in Guangdong could not echo the Guangxi garrison.

This time, the 19th Army led by Chen Zhong and the 1st Army of Qi Gang were going to blitzkrieg Yulin, so they were all light weapons, and only the Eighth Army was heavy weapons and equipment.

Taking advantage of the cover of night, Qi Gang's first army quickly passed through the territory of Guangdong, arrived outside Luchuan County, which was more than 50 kilometers away from Yulin, and quietly set up a large camp and waited for Chen Zhong's order.

Chen Zhong's 19th Army marched to Yulin with great fanfare, and on the evening of the second day, the army marched rapidly to the outside of Bobai County, 60 kilometers from Yulin.

There were more than 2,000 Qing troops stationed in Bobai County, and when they learned that a unit from Hainan had suddenly appeared outside the city, they quickly sent a message to Wang Zhichun's defenders in Yulin.

Wang Zhichun of Yulin had already received a secret order from the imperial court, and this time he united the seven provinces and the Jiangnan New Army to quell the peasant uprising in Guangxi, and there was also a task to eliminate the power of the king of Hainan.

After Wang Zhichun received the report of Liu Ziguang, the defender of Bobai County, he was taken aback, but he didn't think that this Hainan army would strike first and come to Guangxi ahead of schedule.

Wang Zhichun had fought with the king of Hainan several times more than ten years ago, and he really understood the courage of this army, even if the Qing court later mobilized a large army to encircle and suppress it many times, it was all in vain.

He once summed up the lessons of defeat and failed many conquests, because first, the Hainan army was brave in battle, second, Hainan's weapons and equipment were excellent, and because the Qing court was tired of dealing with the foreign powers and the surging peasant rebels in various places, so every time it was a huge battle and an extremely embarrassing rout. Therefore, the defenders of Guangxi were very afraid of the elite of Hainan.

Wang Zhichun frowned when he received the military intelligence report from Bobai County. He immediately transferred a part of the defenders of Wuzhou, and immediately ordered someone to ask Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, to transfer the Qing army from Xinyi County, which was closest to Yulin in Guangzhou, to join the battle.

Chen Zhong knew that this attack on Yulin must be quickly decided, otherwise, as soon as Wang Zhichun's reinforcements arrive and form a cohesive force, then the less than 20,000 horses led by Chen Zhong and Qi Gang will fall into the encirclement of the Qing army, and the battle will be completely defeated.

Since the 19th Army led by Chen Zhong was all mechanized equipment, as long as they took care of the supply of ammunition, even if the Qing army was two or three times their own, it was not their opponent.

Therefore, Chen Zhong's 19th Army, after less than an hour of fierce fighting, quickly conquered Bobai County, and the defenders of Bobai County broke and fled to Yulin City.

At the same time, Qi Gang received an order to occupy Luchuan County with a blitzkrieg of extremely fast movements, leaving two divisions in Luchuan County to block Guangdong reinforcements, and the other two divisions quickly marched to occupy Rong County between Yulin and Wuzhou, so that after half a day, Huang Biao's 19th Army and Qi Gang's First Army formed a joint encirclement of Yulin.

The defenders of Yulin City became a turtle in an urn, and Wang Zhichun did not expect that Chen Zhong's Hainan army was so powerful in combat and so fast.

However, Wuzhou's reinforcements were blocked by Qi Gang's two divisions in the area of Rong County. Guangdong Xinyi's reinforcements have not yet appeared.

So, in desperation, Wang Zhichun sent a message to Su Yuanchun, who was guarding the Nanguan of Pingxiang Town, to come to Yulin to rescue.

Asking for help from Su Yuanchun this time was Wang Zhichun's extremely helpless move. Because, Wang Zhichun and Su Yuanchun have always been at odds, and they have their own opinions. Moreover, Wang Zhichun also played all the charges of Su Yuanchun in the court many times, and wanted to control him to death.

Su Yuanchun is just a military general, although he is extremely unhappy about Wang Zhichun's behavior, he also complains in private, and he does not make a trick behind his back.

However, Su Yuanchun has great contempt for Wang Zhichun, and he believes that literati like Wang Zhichun are just villains who play with power.

In the early morning of the third day, Chen Zhong ordered the 19th Army to launch a general attack from the west, the 2nd and 4th Divisions of Qi Gang's 1st Army from the east of Yulin, and the 1st and 3rd Divisions of the 1st Army from the north of Yulin. For a time, Yulincheng turned into a sea of fire.

Although Wang Zhichun's Guangxi defenders were extremely poorly equipped, they were not as good as the Hainan army. However, the 20,000 defenders of Yulin have been holding on to it with the strong city defense facilities of Yulin City, as well as extremely sufficient food, grass and ammunition.

Therefore, the 19th Army and the 1st Army led by Chen Zhong fought fiercely until noon, and did not capture Yulin City.

Time passed minute by minute, the Guangdong reinforcements in the east were getting closer and closer to Yulin, after Su Yuanchun received the order of the governor of Wang Zhichun, although he was reluctant, but after all, it was a military order, or, quickly led 20,000 people to come to the rescue.

Chen Zhong knew that under such attrition, the battle situation would be extremely unfavorable to them, so he had to concentrate the most intense firepower and quickly resolve the battle.

Therefore, after a short rest, Chen Zhong ordered all units to quickly replenish grain, grass and ammunition, and concentrate all heavy firepower weapons to storm Yulin City in the afternoon, and be sure to take Yulin City before dark at night.

Chen Zhong, who was thinking about the battle situation, suddenly heard a report from the signal corps of the 1st Division that the military ammunition supplied by the 10th Army was all empty boxes!

For a time, the signal corps of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th divisions reported that the ammunition boxes were all empty!

Chen Zhong was shocked into a cold sweat, how could this battle continue without ammunition!!

Chen Zhong was furious: "Order Blue Tiger and Ling Zhan to come to see me immediately!" ”