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The sound of the cannon was like the sky falling apart, and Wu Peifu, who was more than ten meters away, dropped the teacup in his hand to the ground in fright on the spot, and after the cannon sounded, the soil on the bunker began to fall slowly.

"Is this still a cannon?" Wu Peifu was stunned for a while before turning his head and asking Luo Dacheng beside him.

Luo Dacheng was not ashamed to laugh at Wu Peifu, after all, he was as shocked as Wu Peifu at the beginning.

The Lushun howitzer, in the eyes of the Navy, is just a small artillery, but in the Army, this is the existence of a Big Mac, with a caliber of 110 mm, any artillery that dares to challenge will have no bones left, and the dead cannot die.

With a bang, a huge mushroom rose from the Qing artillery position in the distance, and the surrounding trees began to fall to both sides like papier-mâché and began to burn.

"Hehe, commander, I'll just say that the marshal is a god, you look at this cannon, when my Lao Luo saw it for the first time, I thought it was just like that, but as a result, obediently, it's amazing, one shot, the city wall collapsed." Pointing to the artillery position of the Qing army in the distance, Luo Dacheng said with a grin.

With confidence, Wu Peifu saw such a powerful artillery, and his heart increased a lot of confidence in advancing to the northwest.

Ten minutes later, the artillery positions of the Qing army were no longer capable of firing back, and the Liaodong Army turned its guns again and began to bombard the infantry positions of the Qing army.

Although trenches were also dug in the infantry positions of the Qing army, this was obviously not a dish for howitzers. After half an hour of bombardment, the Qing army's position, which had been in shape, was suddenly bombed with gunpowder smoke, mud flew wildly, and even the machine-gun position disappeared completely.

Killed, the infantry in the forward position saw the extension of the artillery fire, and immediately rushed out of the trench like a tiger, and began to shout to stop the Qing army's Weihe defense line and pounce.

Tianshui City, although the war has not yet burned here, but the street, is full of the smell of war smoke, the Tianshui patrol battalion and the Gan army who arrived here are mobilizing from time to time, and the main forces are gathering at the east gate.

It seems that the sky is about to change, and the people in the city clearly see that the county order and the landlords and attachments who have a little money in the city are retreating in the direction of Lanzhou, and these people are crowded with large cars and small cars to the west gate.

Tianshui County Ya, originally there was only a patrol battalion here, but now, the large battalion of the patrol battalion has been replaced by the Gan army from Lanzhou.

Dong Fuxiang, who was fierce and fierce, after learning that the Liaodong Army was attacking Gansu, personally led the left battalion and the rear battalion of the Gan Army to Tianshui, hoping to block the Liaodong Army.

In the county office, Dong Fuxiang, who was wearing a military uniform, held the waist knife in his hand, and stopped from time to time The faint sound of artillery came from the Weishui River in the distance.

It was too close, and from the sound, he could hear that the shelling was all German Krupp field artillery, and this kind of artillery did not have it himself.

Hey, with a sigh, Dong Fuxiang turned around and returned to his room, he knew that the Weihe defense line was completely scrapped.

A loud shout sounded, followed by a soldier covered in mud running in to report that the Weishui defense line had been broken through by the Liaodong Army.

Expected, therefore, Dong Fuxiang was not angry, but signaled the soldiers to go down and rest.

Taking two deep breaths, Dong Fuxiang, who stood up from his position, took a few steps in front of the map, crossed the Wei River, and the primary target of the Liaodong Army was Tianshui, and the defenders of Tianshui currently had less than 5,000 people, and according to the survey, the Liaodong Army was nearly 40,000 people.

Whether to transfer the defenders of Gangu back to Tianshui for defense, Dong Fuxiang, who closed his eyes, began to think about such a question.

The Gangu defenders, who were their own rear battalions, entered Tianshui at the beginning, because they were worried that the Liaodong Army would be interspersed, so they put the rear camp into Gangu and cooperated with the local garrison in Gangu to defend themselves, however, they miscalculated, and the Liaodong Army did not intersperse this time, but directly attacked Weihe, and then attacked Tianshui.

What to do? Dong Fuxiang fell into deep thought.

"Dashuai, I'm afraid we won't be able to defend Tianshui City, I think it's better to withdraw to Lanzhou." The sad voice sounded, Dong Fuxiang looked back, and the person who said this was actually his first fierce general, Yang Xinxin.

Yang has followed him with his heart for decades, and he has never said such a dejected word, so Dong Fuxiang wants to know why his confidant would say this.

"Did you see something?" Dong Fuxiang, who tilted his head, asked lightly.

"Yes, according to the soldiers, the Liaodong Army has a particularly powerful artillery, that cannon comes, the trenches I dug disappear without a trace, and even the ground Yefu was blown up a few meters deep holes, I think, if the Liaodong Army wants this kind of artillery to attack Tianshui, with Tianshui's city defense, we will not be able to defend Tianshui, rather than let the soldiers fight here with the Liaodong Army, it is better to retreat to Lanzhou, after all, the city of Lanzhou is stronger than here."

Dong Fuxiang gasped, if this was really the case, then Tianshui would not be able to hold it at all, but he was a little unwilling to give up Tianshui like this.

Perhaps it was his own considerations that made Yang see with his heart, and Yang took a step forward with his heart and said something that should look at his head.

"Marshal, in all fairness, do you really think that we can compete with the Liaodong Army, Tieliang was so elite at the beginning, in Shandong and Hebei, it was wiped out cleanly, and besides, the imperial court has given up the northwest, and the Ili general Chang Geng has surrendered to Liu Jun, why can't we."

"Shut up. I'm saying I'll cut off your head. Dong Fuxiang interrupted Yang Xinxin's words all of a sudden, how could he not know the predicament he was facing, the ferocity of the Liaodong Army, how could he not know, but as the governor of Gansu, it was in case of a big man, if he surrendered to Liu Jun, his loyalty for so many years would be ruined, he also knew that the imperial court had given up Xinjiang, and even Gansu, otherwise, Gansu Tianshui was not far from Sichuan, if the imperial court wanted to send reinforcements, it would have already appeared, but until now, even the shadow of the reinforcements has not appeared, and according to the situation, The Qing army on the border of Sichuan, instead of attacking the Liaodong Army to counter itself, retreated ten kilometers back, all of which showed that the imperial court had given up on itself.

"Let's go down." Glaring at his beloved general, Dong Fuxiang waved his hand, he would not cut off the heads of his subordinates, not to mention, his beloved general was telling the truth, he really did not have any strength to be able to fight against the Liaodong Army.

Hey, looking at Yang's back as he moved away. Dong Fuxiang closed his eyes depressedly.

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