The 1st Mountain Brigade will operate in Hezhou in northern Guangxi and eventually capture Guilin, and they will cooperate with the 2nd Mountain Brigade and the 2nd Division of the 1st Army, with the Mountain Brigade responsible for the main attack mission. This was only one of the five attack directions of the Zhenguo Army, in addition to this, the 3rd Mountain Brigade and the 3rd Division of the 1st Army were responsible for the direction of Wuzhou, and then captured Liuzhou, and finally the Hechi area to the west; The 1st Division of the 2nd Army was responsible for the task of attacking from Cen Xi to Yulin, and after capturing Yulin, it joined up with the 2nd Division of the 2nd Army from Luchuan to jointly attack Nanning, the capital of Guangxi; The Third Division of the Second Army set out from the south of Guangxi and captured Daba, Beihai, and Qinzhou all the way, with the ultimate goal also being Nanning.

There is no distinction between primary and secondary forces, and each direction can be said to be the main attack, with the purpose of realizing the recovery of Guangxi in the shortest possible time and disrupting the deployment of the Qing army with speed. The General Staff believes that there is a generational gap between the combat effectiveness of the Zhenguo Army and the Qing Army, and there is at least one division of troops on each road, coupled with superior firepower, even if the Qing Army concentrates its forces on a certain road, it will not be able to resist the attack of the Zhenguo Army. However, there are still difficulties, there are still uncertainties in the plan, and the problem lies in the logistical supply, which is also the link in which the most resources are invested before the start of the war. However, no matter how well prepared, problems can arise.

Lefei's mountain third company encountered embarrassment, and after the attack began, the large force was overwhelmed, and did not encounter decent resistance at all. The Qing army's position has long been empty, leaving only the embarrassment and gunsmoke everywhere, and the news fed back by the reconnaissance troops is that most of the Qing troops have taken the initiative to withdraw from their positions during the shelling, gathered around Hezhou City, and built defenses inside and outside the city after organization. In other words, there will be no more major battles from the place of departure to Hezhou City.

The 3rd Brigade ordered the 1st and 2nd Infantry Battalions and the Fire Battalion to bypass Hezhou City as quickly as possible and build fortifications in the western part of the brigade to prevent the further rout of the Qing army. Both mountain brigades are doing the same thing, that is, they must rush to the road, and they must surround the Qing army in Hezhou, otherwise it will be troublesome to become bandits after forming a rout.

The embarrassing thing is to hurry, Le Fei according to the military map issued by his superiors, after rushing more than 30 kilometers, he found that what he saw and the map did not match at all! In many places, there is only one small path, and it twists and turns, intersecting each other, which can easily cause confusion. The mountain road is difficult to navigate, and many of the hills do not match the map depiction, which is understandable, all the terrain is similar, and you have to pass through some karst caves, and the map is not accurate enough, but it is another thing that actually corresponds to the map.

"Lao Dong, Ma Dan, I'm lost. Ask a row of brothers to go to the front and ask questions in the small village, preferably with a local guide. Dong Dashan immediately asked the second shift to explore the way, turned around and said to Le Fei: "We have only walked more than 30 kilometers in an hour and a half, and we have been going around in this mountain for less than four hours." Lao Le, we have to hurry up, otherwise the task will not be completed, and we will not be able to eat and walk around. ”

"Damn, can I not know? The most worrying thing in the refresher class is the map homework class, and now it's revenge on me here, if He Guangsha's kid is here, we don't have to worry about getting lost. Le Fei scratched his head. In the final analysis, the level of education is still not able to keep up, although there are map courses in the advanced training class, and I have been trained before, but there is still a gap between practical operation and theoretical learning. Lefei's cultural study began only after joining the army, and the combat tasks and training tasks during this period were particularly heavy, and the cultural study did not advance but retreated, and now it is finally embarrassing.

Ten minutes later, the brothers of the second platoon returned, and brought with them a young hunter with a wood knife in his hand and a long torch on his back. Lefei was given two cans of canned food and a small bag of individual rations, which calmed Orion's nervousness a lot, and the march of the Third Company finally became smooth.

Half an hour later, when he finally got out of the mountain, the road became gentle, and the speed of the third company became very fast after he got on his bicycle, and the hunter refused to go back, so he could only follow along. In the afternoon of the same day, Sanlian arrived at its destination, the Sanjia area in the west of Hezhou, and began to build fortifications despite fatigue. According to the telegraph contact, the troops arrived at the predetermined place one after another, and the encirclement of Hezhou gradually formed, and the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion who stayed here could not escape!

In front of Hezhou, the Second Division of the First Army, as the main force of the siege, arrived close to evening, and they needed to carry more heavy firepower and equipment, the roads were narrow, and advanced vehicles such as trucks could not play much role. Fortunately, the General Staff chose the dry season of November as the time for the attack, otherwise they would have waited to struggle in the mud pit.

There is a city wall in Hezhou City, I don't know when the city wall was built, it seems dilapidated, and some of the Qing soldiers who were originally building a defense outside the city all ran back to the city after seeing the banner of the Zhenguo Army, hiding in the city wall to pray to God and worship Buddha, hoping that the city wall can block the Zhenguo Army.

The ancient city walls have lost their usefulness in the face of modern warfare, especially for armies with powerful artillery. The walls were not reinforced concrete fortifications, and it would not take long to knock them down. The 2nd Division launched an attack that night, and the power of the artillery once again proved the change in the mode of warfare. With the help of continuous flares, the infantry launched an attack overnight, and easily broke through the Qing army's defense line and penetrated into Hezhou City through several large gaps.

At this point, the barely organized Qing army collapsed again, and fled from the north, west, and south directions, the first army and the second division did not pursue, and they had a more important task - to maintain order in the city of Hezhou, more than 10,000 Qing troops ruined this place a lot, there were traces of robbery everywhere, and even more soldiers found women raped and those who resisted were killed. The Han people are unrelenting in killing their own people, which is the sorrow of the entire nation, and they can only hope that there will never be any more intra-national wars after reunification.

The Qing soldiers who fled overnight still failed to escape, and the discrediting walked for less than half an hour before encountering a fire attack, after the flares were raised, the bullet rain followed, and the Qing soldiers who had no heart to resist lay on the ground waiting for the final verdict, and an officer scolded and lay on the ground, his mouth was not clean, which roughly meant that those Zhenguo troops were not authentic, and they didn't even give us the chance to surrender, and they shot when they came up!

After the capture of Hezhou that night, the Second Division left one regiment to be responsible for local law and order, and it was early in the morning after the rest of the men had a brief rest. Le Fei organized the capture and handover of the prisoners, did not rest all night, and finally after finishing the work, he just wanted to lie on the ground and rest, and the herald brought the task of the third company - to move on, the goal, Guilin.

Like Hezhou, the fighting in the rest of the area was easy, Wuzhou, Cenxi, Luchuan, and Beihai were all occupied by the Zhenguo army, and the operational objectives of the first stage were basically achieved, and the main force was advancing in depth. According to the statistics of the various units received by the General Staff Headquarters, in the first stage, a total of 13,600 Qing soldiers were eliminated, 31,500 were captured, and countless supplies were captured. Ninety-two casualties of the Zhenguo Army, most of them were losses during the battle in the city, and more than a dozen casualties were caused by bandits, the details have not been reported, which roughly means that a company was temporarily stationed in a mountain village and was attacked by the villagers, in fact, these villagers have the dual identity of bandits and farmers. After this incident, the General Staff Department issued an order to plan a sneak attack by bandits, and the bandit problem in Guangxi was not much worse than that in Guangdong, and a campaign to suppress bandits must be carried out after the war.

Su Yuanchun ran back to Nanning from the front line of Luchuan early, Luchuan was the location of his admiral's yamen, and in order to fight the rebellious party, he deployed more than 30,000 green battalion soldiers in Luchuan. After a burst of artillery fire, Su Yuanchun immediately woke up, these soldiers can only become the target of the Zhenguo Army here, it is better to return to Nanning to organize the city defense as Li Jingxi said. The news received after that made Su Yuanchun very happy, if he stayed in Luchuan, maybe he would also be surrounded, and now he would become a prisoner of the Zhenguo Army!

"Master, you have made a plan early, the Zhenguo Army has entered Guangxi, and it won't take a few days to hit Nanning, and the green battalion soldiers in the hands of Admiral Su won't last long." In the governor's yamen, Li Jingxi's housekeeper was persuading him bitterly, looking at his lord's steady appearance as Mount Tai, he became more and more anxious, this family of hundreds of people is waiting for the lord to make a decision!

Li Jingxi slowly knocked on the table, raised his head and asked, "Has my brother Li Jingmai replied to the telegram?" ”

"Not yet, sir, the telegraph office is firmly controlled by our men, and there are important places such as warehouses and arsenals, and the chaos in the city has not yet affected those places. However, the green battalion soldiers in the city are also not restless, and many of the troublemakers are those big-headed soldiers, Su Yuanchun is not there, and those soldiers are even more unrestrained. Moreover, there are a lot of sneaky people in the city, and our people have gotten a tip, and some people want to make trouble when the Zhenguo army comes, do you want to arrest them? ”

"Catch what? They are all the families of some wealthy gentry and big businessmen, and if they want to take advantage of the prosperity of the Zhenguo Army to fight and arrest them, we will die without a place to bury, not to mention anything else, how many of those green battalion officers are from big families? Let them go, and we'll just have to wait for the telegram from Jingmai. ”

Ten minutes later, this telegram, which Li Jingxi regarded as the key, finally arrived, and Li Jingmai's reply came. Li Jingmai is the current patriarch of the Li family, although Li Jingxi is much older than Li Jingmai, but when encountering major things, it is better to ask the patriarch, especially this kind of major event related to the survival of the family. The telegram sent back by Li Jingxi before suggested that the Li family should bet at both ends, and Li Jingxi would take the initiative to surrender and join the Zhenguo Army, so that even if the world changes greatly in the future, the Li family will not be too passive. After receiving the telegram, Li Jingmai immediately consulted secretly with the clansmen, and finally decided to agree to Li Jingxi's proposal.

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