Dantu, the capital of Zhenjiang Prefecture, the first node of the Jinling-Shanghai Railway, was garrisoned by 2,000 troops from Zhenjiang Town.

Late at night, the extended train drove into the Dantu Railway Station, the carriage door opened, and a team of Yan troops rushed out and quickly took control of the railway station.

Ding Richang and Wu Zhiqiang were the pioneers together, and with Wu Zhiqiang's cooperation, the 2,000 defenders of Zhenjiang Town, who were caught off guard, were suddenly attacked, and surrendered in less than half an hour.

Two hours later, the Yan army took full control of Dantu City.

As described in the intelligence, the defenders of Dantu Town did not know that the Yan army would come over, and Ding Richang was very happy about this, and no longer doubted Wu Zhiqiang.

Wu Zhiqiang said: "I'm afraid that the Dantu Telegraph Bureau has already issued a warning, Li Weiguo will dispatch troops, and the deployment will be completed as soon as the day after tomorrow." ”

After taking down the Dantu, Ding Richang already believed in Wu Zhiqiang, and he smiled: "Zhiqiang, rest assured, we have two strongholds in Jinling and Dantu, and we are already invincible." As soon as our side moves, the Anglo-French forces on the Haimen Hall side and at the mouth of the Yangtze River will also move, Li Weiguo's army will be pinned, and it will take seven or eight days to mobilize troops from other provinces to reinforce them, and I have already received news that 200,000 elites have crossed the river safely, and they will take a train from Jinling tomorrow after a night's rest. ”

Wu Zhiqiang frowned and said: "The soldiers are very fast, this place is already very close to Shanghai, and there are too many variables in one night." ”

Ding Richang is a fierce general on the battlefield, of course he knows this truth, so he said: "What Zhiqiang said is reasonable, the soldiers are fast, you take a rest first, and I will arrange it immediately." ”

So Ding Richang ordered the 200,000 Yan troops who had just crossed the river to come to Dantu by train immediately to converge.

Looking at the back of Ding Richang's departure, Wu Zhiqiang sneered and instructed the adjutant: "Let the brothers prepare and do it before dawn!" ”

Before dawn, when people are most sleepy, especially after a long night of rapid marching and high nervous tension, they will definitely sleep like dead pigs.

Jinling Railway Station. In order to "cooperate" with the Yan army, Wu Yong and Wu Zhiqiang, father and son, specially ordered Duoduo to prepare a locomotive and carriages, but despite this, each carriage was still crammed with five or six hundred people, which was twice the usual rated capacity.

Trains departed from Jinling to Dantu, the soldiers of the Yan army took the train for the first time, five or six hundred people were crammed into a carriage, breathing in the dirty air, some were sick and vomited, and some were nervous and couldn't stop urinating. More than two-thirds of the soldiers in almost every carriage vomited profusely, and there was no energy at all.

However, this is not the point, the point is that the train is not going to Dantu!

Halfway through, the railway was moved, and trains drove from the fork to Jurong, and the Yan officers and soldiers on the train didn't understand it at all, and it was naturally impossible to suspect it.

The other side. The 250,000 Nanyang troops who set off from Jiangning Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, and Taicang Prefecture in Zhili also took a train, but on another train track, that is, the Jinling-Hangzhou Railway Line. Respectively through Lishui and Liyang, they arrived in the Jurong area in advance, and then carried out an ambush.

Before the first train reached Jurong, it broke down near Tangshan.

Then the trains were blocked near Tangshan. Liu Xiang, the adjutant of Ding Richang, who was in charge of commanding along the way, scolded loudly, and he still didn't know that the train actually took a fork in the road, and it was not going to Dantu at all.

The Yan officers and soldiers in the train vomited heavily. Liu Xiang was also taken aback, he followed Ding Richang to take the train before, although there were also some who were not adaptable, but there were still very few. But now, looking at it, two-thirds or even more of the five or six hundred people in a carriage of Nima have fallen, how can this be a war.

So Liu Xiang made a quick decision, and while asking the railway workers to repair the train, he asked all the soldiers to get off the train for fresh air.

In addition to the 5,000 people who stayed in Jinling, the remaining 195,000 Yan troops were all here, and they all came out of the train one by one, all lying on the ground, and the scene was quite spectacular.

The train is still being repaired, which is not repaired at all, but unfortunately Liu Xiang doesn't know, he, like Ding Richang, has already believed in Wu Zhiqiang and has no suspicion of fraud.

Of course, Liu Xiang is also a fierce warrior on the battlefield, and he would not be so relaxed under normal circumstances. After all, the Yan army has already sent people to inquire about the armament situation in various parts of Jiangnan Province, one or two hundred defenders in small counties, seven hundred and eight defenders in large counties, even if they all add up, there are no more than 10,000 people, and at present, the Yan army has 200,000 people, even if they vomit two-thirds, there are still 50,000 or 60,000 people left, and they are not afraid at all.

This was Liu Xiang's confidence, but he knew that Li Weiguo's army would come by train from another road, and he mobilized 250,000 troops in one go, almost all the troops that could be mobilized.

This is the rhythm of breaking the boat, and if you make a mistake in judgment, then the consequences are unimaginable.

Obviously, there are no ifs.

After sleeping for a while, Liu Xiang was immediately woken up.

"Report, large groups of enemy troops are found approaching at the front, the number is unknown."

"What?"

Liu Xiang was suddenly startled and jumped up.

"What about Zhang Cheng?"

"Zhang Cheng is gone!"

Zhang Cheng was Wu Zhiqiang's subordinate, who followed Liu Xiang as a guide, but now he suddenly disappeared, and he found the Nanyang Army approaching.

Do you still need to think about this Nima? Obviously hit the plan!

"Pass my order, and the whole army will be on alert!"

……

Jurong, Headquarters of the Second Front.

Army Commander Li Jie and Chief of Staff Chen Yuming are intensively deploying combat operations.

Don't look at the officers and men of the Nanyang Army, they have just gotten off the train, but they did not suffer from motion sickness and fatigue, but their fighting spirit was high, and even many troops took the initiative to give up their carriages to friendly and neighboring troops from afar, and they marched on foot to the battlefield.

This is all the effect of the Nanyang Army's emphasis on the training of officers and men's armed cross-country ability in peacetime, and it cannot be compared with the armies of other countries.

"If you want to launch a general attack after the complete encirclement, I'm afraid you will have to wait until after dawn!"

"We can use the tactic of catching ducks and putting them on the shelves, and the troops that arrive first will immediately attack, use powerful artillery fire to drive the enemy to the predetermined location, and constantly ambush them."

"The advantage of attacking after the encirclement is that the enemy will be completely annihilated, but the disadvantage is that it will have to wait until after dawn, when the enemy's combat strength will definitely be almost recovered, and it will cause unnecessary casualties to our attack."

"And attack first, complete the encirclement in the attack, and finally annihilate the enemy, the advantage is that most of the enemy is now motion sickness, resulting in serious physical losses, and the combat effectiveness is the weakest. The disadvantage is that the total encirclement is not completed. Once the enemy army is lucky enough to break through, it will take time to destroy them, and it is clear that we are in a race against time, and the most important thing is time. ”

The two commanders analyzed the pros and cons, and both made sense.

In the end, the army commander Li Jie decided: "We have taken away all the mobile forces, if there is a mutation on the prince's side, I am afraid it will be very dangerous." Since what we lack most is time, I propose to attack immediately, so that the rest of the troops that have not arrived do not have to assemble. Go directly to the predetermined battlefield to launch an ambush. ”

Chen Yuming thought for a while, nodded and said: "I agree, if you want to fight, you will fight hard, and the first blow will make the enemy completely frightened!" ”

Li Jie nodded and called Ma Zhemin, the commander of the second town division, and Xu Diankui, the chief of staff, in.

"Your second town is the signboard of our second front army, and now I let your second town take the lead, you are facing 200,000 elite Yan troops, do you have the confidence to win against them?"

"Report to the commander, we are confident!" Ma Zhemin and Xu Diankui said in unison with confidence.

Chen Yuming added: "To buy time. We have temporarily changed our plan to encircle and annihilate, and now we want you to take the lead, not just to defeat the enemy on the opposite side, but to fight fiercely. To fight the majesty of our Second Front, to frighten the enemy, understand? ”

"Understood! Rest assured, Chief of Staff, that the enemy we will fight in the Second Town will be terrified. Fight the majesty of our second front army! ”

"Within an hour, I want to see results!"

"Report, it doesn't take an hour. Half an hour is enough! ”

"Okay, then I'll watch with the chief of staff, if your kid doesn't blow the cowhide, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you!"

"Please rest assured that the commander and chief of staff will ensure the completion of the task!"

"Get out!"

"Yes!"

Ma Zhemin and Xu Diankui ran out of the command headquarters in a hurry, excited and without pressure at all.

What are you kidding, the second town is the trump card among the aces in the elite of the Nanyang Army, that is the old foundation of the Shanghai Army that followed the king of Wu Li Weiguo to start, the elite of the equipment, the strength of the combat effectiveness, they dare to call the second in the world, no one dares to call the first in the world.

Of course, like Ma Zhemin's army, there are a total of eight towns in the Nanyang Army, all of which are old foundations of the eight towns of the Shanghai Army that started after Li Weiguo, and the officers and soldiers in each town shout among themselves that they are the first in the world, which is mutual disobedience.

Now, the second town is taking the lead, so naturally it can't drop the chain.

"Liu Sanpao! Du Lengzi! ”

"Here!"

"Lao Tzu has blown the into the sky in front of the military commander, what to do next, it depends on whether you can give it or not!"

"Rest assured, division commander, our third brigade will definitely beat the enemy so that he doesn't even know his mother!"

"The division commander can rest assured, the Fourth Brigade guarantees to be the first to rush forward!"

"The army commander gave Lao Tzu twenty minutes, Lao Tzu only gave you fifteen minutes, and within fifteen minutes, you can't tear your mouth, Lao Tzu will kill you!"

"Yes! Resolutely complete the mission! ”

"This, is it our third brigade or the fourth brigade first?"

"Let's get on it!"

"Division commander, there are no reserves left?"

"Leave a fart reserve, Quan Teniang is the main force, let other towns be reserves!"

"Yes!"

Liu Sanpao and Du Lengzi trotted out, but Chief of Staff Xu Diankui asked with a puzzled expression: "The army commander obviously gave us an hour, but you said that it would only take half an hour, why do you say that it is twenty minutes now?" ”

Li Jie smiled: "No way, the trump card of the trump card, the chief doesn't put pressure on us, we have to put pressure on ourselves." Liu Sanpao and Du Lengzi, if Lao Tzu said that the task would be completed in half an hour, the two of them would definitely wait until 29 minutes to complete the task, so for the sake of insurance, they had to tell him for fifteen minutes. ”

Xu Diankui suddenly smiled bitterly, speechless.

As soon as the words fell, the rumbling of artillery outside sounded, and the ground trembled, and it was obvious that this was the heavy artillery division directly under the Second Front Army that had opened fire.

Li Jie and Xu Diankui glanced at each other, this is real.

In the night, on the position of the heavy artillery division directly under the Second Front Army, the artillery roared, and the tongues of fire from the 155-mm heavy howitzers spewed out, and the shells shot into the sky like streamers, screaming and smashing at the enemy.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Fifty-kilogram shells exploded violently, instantly lighting up the night sky, and huge clouds of fiery red mushrooms rose into the sky and soared into the sky.

The violent explosion shock wave swept across the Yan army's position, flying sand and rocks within a radius of 100 meters, like the center of a sandstorm, and one by one the Yan soldiers were instantly blown to the point of flesh and blood, and even the whole person was thrown out and fell to a place dozens of meters away.

The Yan officers and soldiers were dumbfounded, they had never seen such a ferocious artillery shell when they were so big, a single shell killed a large area, and the 10,000 Yan troops who had just been deployed to the outer defensive positions were all gone in less than three minutes.

What the hell is this Nima? Is there such a ferocious shell?

The boundless fear instantly dispersed among the 200,000 Yan troops.

Liu Xiang was also stunned, in the face of such a powerful artillery fire, his first thought was to run into the main force of the Nanyang Army, otherwise it would be impossible to have such a powerful artillery fire.

Even if the entire Beiyang Group gathers all 800 cannons, it is impossible to cause such an effect.

There must be no doubt that this Nima has been a trap from the beginning, and Liu Xiang no longer has any doubts.

"The artillery battalions will return fire immediately!"

"General, are our cannons on the train?"

"You're not going to let people take it down, are you?"

"General, the cannon can be taken down, but the shells are transported separately!"

"Why don't you go find the shells?"

"My subordinates searched all the train cars, but there were none at all, it seemed that they were all in Jinling, and they were not transported."

"I'm Nyima!"

Liu Xiang collapsed, the shells were not transported, and the bullets must not have been transported, this Nima is a pit at all, and he was really killed by the pit!

"Report - report to the general, the second wave of Yang Zi battalions that went up to the position are all annihilated!"

"What? How can it be? It's only been a few minutes? Is Yang Xiangzhi's bastard made of mud? 10,000 people were reimbursed like this! ”

Liu Xiang was so angry that he vomited blood, but when he saw a sea of fire in front of him, he was also terrified in his heart, under such a ferocious artillery fire, I am afraid it is really difficult to survive.

"Report - report to the general, the enemy's artillery fire is extended!"

It's the rhythm of the charge!

"Order, let Zhang Ziying go up quickly, and hold the position for me!"

"Order, the rear team of the other battalions will change to the front team, and quickly retreat the same way!"

Only, in less than two minutes, the herald reported again.

"Report - report to the general, the Zhang Zi battalion has been defeated, the enemy army has captured the pass and is killing this side!"

"Fart! The artillery fire has not stopped, how did they come up? ”

"General, as soon as the enemy's artillery fire was extended, their infantry rushed to the position, and before General Zhang entered the position, he was ambushed head-on, and the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang Army was too strong, and with a charge, the Zhang Zi battalion was defeated."

Liu Xiang is going crazy, according to this rhythm, the 200,000 army is bound to be crushed, and the consequences are absolutely catastrophic.

"After the Tang Battalion and the Wang Battalion were cut off, the other battalions accelerated and retreated!" (To be continued.) )