The main body of these three divisions belonging to the party was established on the basis of the original Jiangsu New Army, and the Jiangsu New Army, because of the infiltration of the party, most of the personnel with military capabilities were concentrated here, which was also the fundamental reason why Sun Yat-sen was able to succeed in Nanjing in one fell swoop.

This part of the foundation, and a part of the Huguang New Army, has been reorganized after five or six days of training, especially to strengthen the progressive youth who have returned from abroad and the backbone personnel scattered among other new troops, in a sense, it is the most powerful and trustworthy unit in the party army.

The most important thing is that their oldest foundation is the Feng battalion of Feng Yuxiang, and the Feng battalion at that time has begun to absorb advanced foreign tactics, including the newly developed tactics of Baotou, which are integrated into their bones, and the use of machine guns and artillery fire is far more powerful than other southern new armies, which has been proved in the uprising.

Now it has obtained some of the munitions left by Zhang Jingjiang, of which the number of automatic firearms is quite large, and there is a slight deficiency in artillery fire, but the three divisions have a total of 279 Makqin, which is far more than the average number of Beiyang towns at present, you know, even if it is the third town, it only has 80, which is still the result of a substantial expansion.

That is, because these three divisions did not arrive, the confidence of the entire battle situation, including the high-level leaders behind, has not collapsed, even if it is in contact with Beiyang, it is also carried out on a small scale and secretly, and it can be made by itself and consolidate its own position, who will be willing to send people under the fence, Beiyang and the Qing court, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, it is not cornered, who is willing to hand over its fate to the hands of others.

The army of 3 divisions, after entering Changsha, took over the place that was currently attacked most fiercely by the Beiyang Army, of course, not directly to the front line of the battle, after the training of the Feng battalion, they knew very well that there was no protection of trenches, just relying on infantry units and a rifle, in the battlefield with roaring artillery fire and machine guns, the mortality rate was quite high, they could not let their combat effectiveness be consumed here, they must do a good job of earthwork.

It takes time to do earthwork, even if you have the fast-setting cement you get from Baotou, it will take two or three days, and the three divisions themselves are ready to sacrifice a part, at least, they will send one-third of their personnel to resist the attack of the Beiyang Army, and they are ready to sacrifice half of the attack of the equally well-trained Beiyang Army on the unprotected and bare battlefield.

Fortunately, the Beiyang Army is not particularly urgent, it seems that compared to the ** party, they are more stingy with casualties, some often a charge, can solve the problem, a lot of slowdown, which makes a week, even if the Beiyang Army has the advantage, there is not much fundamental reason for the continuation of the party, not the ** party can fight, it is the Beiyang Army is unwilling to waste military strength here, compared to before, the death ratio has increased I don't know how much, within a week Beiyang only sporadic casualties, but caused the ** party, close to 10,000 casualties.

It was this détente that gave the three new divisions an opportunity, and they quickly took over the second-line battlefield and began to build fortifications. Starting from Feng Ying, until a few years of ** career, these ** party officers, almost carved the earthwork into their bones, even in the face of other teams that also do not have heavy artillery and machine guns, they are also strictly in accordance with the requirements, Feng Battalion, again and again tests, exercises, heavy artillery bombardment and machine gun strafing, deep into their hearts, even if it is the Beiyang Army, far less than the Feng Ying firepower of the year, as far as possible to protect themselves, increase the killing of the opposite, is what they must do.

The Beiyang Army did not realize at all that the opponent on the opposite side, to be exact, the opponent of the second line, had been replaced, the fortifications of Feng Ying looked extremely simple, and the secrecy was strong, plus the rapid condensation cement produced in Baotou, this kind of cement, which was a new product only recently, to be exact, it was produced by an accident, which was originally regarded as a defective product, but was known by an officer who happened to the cement factory, he knew very well that this need for combat, like other cement, really took a month to solidify, so what was too late.

This kind of cement, and the real high-grade cement, there is a certain difference, but the hardness has reached the standard, and ordinary stones, in the battlefield where every second counts, they are more applicable than high-grade cement, produced at that time, are used as military materials, accidentally entered the list of transactions with the party, which flowed into Zhang Jingjiang's hands.

Now, the Beiyang Army, the opponent of the party, and not the Northwest Army with heavy artillery of more than 100 mm, a frontal hit will not affect the effect of the overall fortifications, but it can obtain three-dimensional protection in a short time.

For three whole days, the third division let other troops see what it means to be a powerful earthwork, some officers of the New Army who jumped out of the way, saying that the three divisions are earthy rat troops, can only dig soil, and there are also some officers, or commanders with vision, from these earthwork, see their own shortcomings, if they can also master these, maybe the powerful Beiyang, it will not be so terrible.

Interested people want to learn the methods of the three divisions of the earthwork, for this point, the three divisions did not hide at all, they are all ** comrades, and it is a juncture to deal with the Beiyang Army, so that their troops are stronger and contribute to Changsha, this is what they should do.

Three divisions of 45,000 people, for the city of Changsha, is enough, around Changsha can fight a big battle, but the entire Yangtze River, even if the third division has three heads and six arms, don't want to defend it, it is not to rely on many ** colleagues and comrades.

In 3 days, the basic protection has been arranged, at least enough for the three divisions to form a dozen or so defense echelons, if this is still broken by the Beiyang Army, the three divisions will definitely not be forced to stay, they know that they may be the last foundation of the **, if they do not block the front, resist the Beiyang Army's front, Beiyang will sweep the entire Jiangnan.

At this time, the fourth and fifth towns, which were responsible for the main attack, were paralyzed and careless in the continuous attack, feeling that the southern new army was nothing more than that, annihilating 3 divisions, more than 30,000 people, and losing hundreds of people, it seemed that a surprise attack could break through the city defense of Changsha, gather and annihilate 140,000 new troops here, and decide the victory or defeat in a battle.

On this day, the fourth and fifth towns, which charged as usual, did not encounter much resistance under a charge, and directly rushed through the previous defense line, and the entire front moved forward by more than 500 meters, which was a big step forward from Changsha.

Such a situation did not make Zhang Yongcheng and Wu Fengling vigilant, after all, the battle situation for almost a month has made him know and understand the strength of the ** party on the opposite side, if they are in a hurry to attack the city, they are afraid that they will be able to rush to Changsha City with a charge, the reason why they don't do this is that they have continuous rapid marching and non-combat attrition, which makes Beiyang a little weak, plus they don't want to continue to consume strength, so they simply reduce the intensity, and the other party will not be able to support for long.

It seems that this is the limit, maybe today, they will be able to rush to the city of Changsha, and tomorrow, they will be able to encircle and pursue the remaining remnants of the ** party.

It is with this mentality that the two commanders continue to order their troops to attack forward, but unfortunately this time, they touched the nail, completely ran into the iron plate, and it seems that there is no defense at all, even worse than the previous **party, the previous, **party also casually threw a few sandbags, as a bunker, and also set up a headquarters on the hill, and now, it looks like it is not much different from usual, it seems that everyone has withdrawn.

The long-term field battle, although the losses were very small, made the Beiyang high-level in the rear a little dissatisfied, and the urging orders were issued again and again, which gave them huge pressure, since the opponent's defensive will was completely destroyed, then take the positions on the periphery of Changsha in one go.

The military order was issued, the trumpeter blew the trumpet, and the gray sea of the Beiyang rushed forward like a tide, seemingly an impact, and took the positions in front of them, but unfortunately the fate of the two towns was not good, and they encountered strict earthwork operations, and armed with a large number of machine guns and artillery of the three divisions of Nanjing.

In the tight trenches, the three divisions of the ** party troops, flexible movements, tightly arranged firepower points, perfect earthwork operations and powerful firepower, suddenly hit the Beiyang Army by surprise, in just one afternoon, on a front of more than 15 kilometers, more than 200 fixed fire points and trenches composed of fortification groups, at once repelled the Beiyang Army more than 20 charges, and when the Beiyang front commander found that the situation was not right, the team retreated, the Beiyang Army's fifth town and fourth town, which was responsible for the main attack, Each lost one and a half battalions, and the overall losses exceeded 1500 people.

In the past month or so, the loss will not exceed 1,000 people, and now, 1,500 people have been lost in one afternoon, such a loss is too amazing, this is probably after the Beiyang Army went south, or in other words, after 1900, after the Beiyang Army really formed its combat effectiveness, except for the Northwest War, the biggest loss suffered was still that kind of inexplicable loss.

That's right, when fighting with the northwest, the northwest showed a powerful artillery fire, the ubiquitous Makqin, and even a defensive position composed of barbed wire, but because of the form, there was no strong earthwork in the northwest, after all, the Zhangjiakou railway station was all built of high-grade cement, in a sense, it was a powerful fortress, like the ** party, in batches, the overall defensive camp, the Beiyang Army was the first contact, all of a sudden, was beaten down, if it wasn't ** On the party's side, the number of artillery fire is small, and it is also suppressed by the Beiyang Army, I am afraid that their losses will at least double. R1152