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Xuan Jianzhang received the president's order and immediately ordered a regiment of the Chinese army to launch an attack on Xi'an City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, Yixiao's Great Smoke Army cooperated with the Chinese army to launch a full-scale attack.

The Great Smoke Army went to send the head of the Chu Army, and there was a Chinese army brigade behind them, and they couldn't walk if they wanted to.

Giving away people's heads is not voluntary!

After all, no one wants to die.

Yixuan looked at the battle situation and sighed.

"This time, I'm afraid our people are going to die, right? The awesome guys of the Chinese army are all trained all day long, and the Chu army doesn't dare to beat them, you see, it's too fierce to beat our Eight Banners! "Prince Alcohol kept nagging.

Li Hongzhang smiled: "Prince Alcohol, you still don't understand this?" What could these big smoke armies be used for? It's here to die! If the Chu army didn't resist, it wouldn't be like this, who would make Zuo Zongtang stubborn? ”

Yixuan is secretly funny, it seems that half a month ago, you Li Hongzhang was also a stubborn one, right?

Li Hongzhang saw Yixuan smiling, knowing that he was laughing at himself, and patted Yixuan's arm, "King Xuanjun, in the future, it will depend on you to take care of you, you have a good relationship with President Meng now?" ”

Yixuan smiled: "That's not the president's promotion?" Doesn't Shaoquan know that heaven is unpredictable? Let's just do our best. ”

"Hehe, in the future, Huaguo won't be called an errand, right? They all said they were doing things. Li Hongzhang corrected with a smile.

Yixuan nodded, "Yes, do your best!" I still have to rely on your brother's support, I heard that your chrysanthemum root and the president studied together when they were young, and the chrysanthemum is also a big girl now, right? ”

Li Hongzhang did not respond to Yixuan, Li Ju Lotus is Li Jingshou's life, Li Jingshou is Li Hongzhang's granddaughter, five years older than President Meng, although she is not a big girl, but she has also become a flower.

Li Hongzhang regretted wow, Zeng Jize's vision was more accurate than him, and now Zeng Jize's daughter Zeng Siping is already a quasi-imperial concubine, and she just waited for her to pass through the door to President Meng's president's mansion when she became an adult, alas.

Yixuan saw Li Hongzhang's thoughts, and said with a smile: "If you know each other, there is a door, and when you return to Beijing, take more chrysanthemum and the president to find a chance to meet, I found that the president likes to talk to Shaoquan, this opportunity will be indispensable in the future, you, this is really looking for blessings for children and grandchildren!" ”

Prince Alcohol also smiled and said: "Yes, this is right, you are old, and the relationship with the president's family will be far away in the future, if the chrysanthemum has the opportunity to enter the president's mansion, then, your family, for generations, has been prosperous and wealthy, you are the old minister of the Qing court, but the new minister of Huaguo!" ”

Li Hongzhang scolded with a smile: "There is a war going on here, what are you two old things doing when you are thinking about my chrysanthemum?" ”

"This battle has little to do with us, I wish this big smoke army would finish the fight as soon as possible, we just merge with the Chinese army, let's go, don't look at it, let's drink, hahaha." Yi Xuan suggested.

Prince Alcohol responded enthusiastically, "Yes, don't look at it, drink and go!" ”

Li Hongzhang slapped his face, "It seems that I want to learn more from you two princes, you are really smart people!" Drink wine when you drink, is there sea bass? ”

Yi Liang laughed: "You can't live without a sea bass, wright?" This is Shaanxi, where can we arrest you? ”

The Chinese army's operation was very brave, and an artillery battalion quickly transferred from Shanxi was equipped with 75 mm caliber small-caliber howitzers.

The people in the city of Xi'an were scared to death, they didn't expect the scale of the war to get bigger and bigger, although they knew that the Chinese army would not slaughter the city, but the large-scale artillery bombardment, whether it hit people or houses, the people couldn't bear it.

Fortunately, the Chinese army did not further expand the war situation, nor did it storm the city defense, although the firepower of the attack was fierce, but the officers sent only fired near the city defense.

In the Chinese army, a small part of the Hubei New Army was also added, these are the elite of the old Huai army, on the one hand, it is to give Li Hongzhang face, on the other hand, it is also for all the troops and officials who surrendered to the Qing court, it is not that the Chinese army does not arrange a good job, you have to see if you have the ability, the Huai army that can be incorporated into the Chinese army is a year of battle, many people, and even participated in the war against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

As long as ideological education is strengthened, these people will certainly be better than the Chinese army training new recruits from scratch.

There are more than 1,000 of these people.

Those who fight the most fiercely and want to make the most contributions to the new collective are these people.

Zuo Zongtang looked at the battle situation with a telescope anxiously, he didn't expect the Chinese army to open fire at this time, although he was not caught off guard, he had already made certain preparations for war, but if he continued to fight like this, he would really be unbearable.

"Dashuai, don't look at it, you go down, the cannonball doesn't have eyes." Liu Jintang sighed.

Zuo Zongtang frowned, "What do they mean by this?" Either hit it hard, or don't fight it, this is not light or serious, it scares the people in the city to close their doors, and I don't arrange it, whether to retreat or not. ”

The reason why the Chinese army uses this rhythm is that they don't want Zuo Zongtang to go, Zuo Zongtang's more than 30,000 people really want to be scattered everywhere, this great northwest, you can run horses everywhere, it will be troublesome to catch it, it is estimated that after a while, all of them will have to be turned into bandit troops!

Therefore, after Xuan Jianzhang received the president's order, he thought about it, the president should have asked him to stick Zuo Zongtang in this Xi'an City, not let him go, and not attack easily.

"If they continue to fight like this, let's leave early, this is Shaanxi, next to Shanxi, the whole territory of Shanxi has been connected to Beijing's train, and the Chinese army will transfer troops from Beijing to Shanxi, it will not take ten hours!" Liu Jintang said: "Dashuai, I feel that Hua Jun is playing with us as rats." ”

Zuo Zongtang nodded, "You are right, they are indeed playing the trick of cat and mouse, I am really unwilling, I just gave up Shaanxi, and besides, we have to leave, and we have to pass through Gansu, and I don't know if Dong Fuxiang will have a trick behind his back." ”

Liu Jintang was silent, and suddenly a cannonball came over, and he hurriedly bowed his head.

Zuo Zongtang also hurriedly lowered his head, and when the two of them got up, they were all covered in dust.

Zuo Zongtang snorted twice, his mouth was full of dirt, and he was extremely embarrassed.

Liu Jintang saw that the general trend had gone, and he didn't want to say anything to Zuo Zongtang, when Zuo Zongtang led everyone to fight foreigners, how decisive and majestic, why is he so embarrassed now? Because it's the Chinese army that's fighting!

When Zuo Zongtang fought the foreigners, it was the Chinese army supporting them, whether it was mobilizing the people, or getting supplies, or the morale of the army, they didn't need to mobilize much, but once they were enemies with the Chinese army, not to mention that the people had no confidence, the entire Chu army was like a deflated ball, if Zuo Zongtang hadn't personally led it for many years, and he had deep feelings, otherwise it would have broken up a long time ago.

On the artillery positions of the Chinese army.

The artillery battalion of the 1st Field Division of the Chinese Army is firing at the city defense of Xi'an.

The artillery battalion is a complete artillery battalion of three companies, equipped with a total of fifty 75mm howitzers, and when all fired, the power cannot be underestimated.

"Take it easy, just put it every minute, an hour is 60 times 50, three thousand shells!" Xuan Jianzhang silently calculated beside him, "No, it's still too fast, order, release one shot in two minutes, and end in half an hour." Put it once a day, and the water will flow for a long time. ”

The chief of staff of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army smiled and said, "Division, what kind of deal are you doing?" We've never fought like this, and this one is really not fun. I know that the president wants to settle it peacefully, but looking at Zuo Zongtang's posture, where is the meaning of peaceful negotiation? It's better to jerk him off. ”

Xuan Jianzhang waved his hand, "This is not good, this is a political war, let's be more patient, tell everyone, be careful, don't damage the people's houses." ”

"Yes, Master." The commander of the artillery battalion stood next to him and gave a military salute.

"Master, let's guard against Zuo Zongtang's escape, right?" The chief of staff of the division reminded.

"You go and arrange a cavalry cut-off route, I don't think he will run for the time being, but it's good to be prepared in advance." Xuan Jianzhang thought for a while, "As long as Zuo Zongtang dares to take people out of this Xi'an City, see one and kill another, otherwise, they are all very experienced in combat and combat effectiveness, once they arrive on the Loess Plateau, it will be even more difficult to catch, and they will all become horse bandits." ”

"Yes, Master." The chief of staff of the division agreed.

Xuan Jianzhang looked at the sky, and also felt bored, it was really unpleasant to let the First Field Division of the Chinese Army, which was the first ace division, come to fight this kind of war that seemed to be a drill.

When he first received the task, Xuan Jianzhang was still happy, but now that he thinks about it, he is really not as happy as Wang Dashan with the Third Field Division of the Chinese Army in Central Asia Province, and there are two divisions under him, and he actually manages three divisions, how majestic is it?

A large section of the city wall of Xi'an City has been seriously damaged by the shelling of the Chinese artillery battalion.

As soon as the artillery bombardment was over, the Qing army hurriedly rebuilt the stones and repaired them temporarily, but as soon as they were about to repair them, the Chinese army continued to attack, and the attacking troops were mainly the Huai army from Hubei.

After the city wall of Xi'an was ravaged by the cannons of the Chinese army, it was not destroyed, but Zuo Zongtang refused to leave the city defense, in order to show that he was always with the army, he really stayed in the city gate building.

Xuan Jianzhang has already received the information sent by the agents of the city's statistics bureau, if he wants to kill Zuo Zongtang, Zuo Zongtang has been killed a hundred times, but Zuo Zongtang, an old boy, never sees his city gate tower being bombed, and thinks that he is blessed with a great life?