Chapter 371: Chasing the Deer (13)

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The task assigned to the Red Second Front Army by the Northern Camp was that the Red Second Front Army was divided into three groups, the left, the center and the right, and at the same time crossed the Yellow River from different directions, responsible for annihilating the Manchu Qing Loyal and Righteous Rescue ** commanded by Li Hongzhang. As Wei Jun, who commanded the Red 23rd and Red 24th armies of the left wing group of the front army, the task given to him by the front army was that the whole group entered Jinnan through Pujin, Fengling, Maojin and other ferries, and after completely annihilating the Manchu Qing Zhongyi rescue ** in Jinnan Town, which was composed of the Seventh and Eighth Associations stationed in Ruixian and Pinglu, he immediately marched out of Zhongtiao Mountain, took Anyi and Xia County, attacked Pingyang Mansion, and pretended to go north to Taiyuan, covering the main force to move eastward to seize Yangcheng and Zezhou, and then turned south. Out of the Taihang Eight Paths, the first Yiguan (in the northwest of present-day Jiyuan County) and the second Taihang (i.e., Tianjingguan), assisted the middle route army of Mengjin to cross the river to surround and achieve the total annihilation of Ruilin's command of the Manchu Huaiqing Town, which had the four associations, and the loyal rescue**.

After accepting this task, Wei Jun made a bold and careful plan based on the information obtained by the detectives who had been continuously sent to the north of the Yellow River for several months, combined with the geographical conditions of southern Jin, and the combat effectiveness and attack ability of his army, after repeated deliberations and deductions with the generals of the Red 23rd Army and the Red 24th Army, such as Lai Yuxin, Chen Kunshu, and Huang Dingfeng, and reported it to the General Headquarters of the Front Army and the Headquarters of the Northern Camp.

They believed that the Middle Route Army sent by Meng Jin was the two most effective iron fists of the front army, and that the Red Fourth Army led by Ye Yunlai and Yang Yiqing and the Red 22nd Army led by Bai Huihuai and Wu Ruxiao should be more than enough to deal with and destroy the Ruilin men, who are likely to be cowering in Hanoi and have less than 20,000 men and horses in Jiyuan. The task given to him by the front army was nothing more than to block the way for Ruilin's men and horses to flee north, and at the same time to create a deterrent for the enemy to be cut off from the rear road.

Since this is the case, then, why can't you only use some of the men and horses to snatch the two paths of Yiguan and Taihang after seizing Yangcheng and Zezhou, while the main force turns around and goes north to Lu'an Mansion, takes Changzhi, goes out of Huguan, and directly cuts off the grain road of the Manchu Qing loyalty and righteousness in northern Henan, so as to complete the encirclement of the entire Manchu Qing loyalty and righteousness?

Because Wei Jun knew that the front army was used to deal with the four armies of Li Hongzhang's right-wing group, and before the left flank and the middle road completed the task of annihilating Ruilin's department, Li Hongzhang's division in Weihui Mansion was mainly to attract and drag the enemy troops in Weihui Mansion and cut off their contact with the Tsarist Russian army, and at the same time wait for the large army from the west to go east to Weihui.

Today's Wei Jun is in accordance with this battle plan, which has been affirmed by the headquarters of the Northern Camp, and has crossed the Yellow River moat with rolling waves under his feet. To his east, almost at the same time, Lai Yuxin's Red 24th Army had also crossed the Yellow River from Bailangdu to Maojindu. And what is even more unimaginable to his opponent is that at the same time that Puzhou City was besieged, not only one of his troops went south to copy Huang Chunxi's back road, but also another of his strange soldiers, but under the cover of night, rushed through the mountains and mountains to attack Jiezhou, and wanted to completely close the door of Rui County, Pinglu Manchu and Qing Zhongyi to save the ** retreat.

As soon as Wei Jun landed ashore, the fierce gunfire in the north was connected. Seeing that the Second Regiment of the Red Ninety-First Division, which had also gone ashore together, had only been slightly rectified, and quickly rushed forward into the battlefield according to the order from the front, Wei Jun nodded with satisfaction and strode towards Fengling Town in front.

"Yo, Mr. Wei is here," Yu Tingzhang, who was standing at the north entrance of the town, busy listening to the report in front of him, and arranging the next task to the various departments that participated in the war one after another, saw that the deputy commander-in-chief had arrived, and he didn't care about saluting Wei Jun, so he immediately held up a simple map in his hand, and reported the current shape to Wei Jun by the light of the torches around, "Mr. Wei, so far, due to the attraction of our local army's pretended intention to cross the river, the third standard of the puppet army stationed in the Yongle area has not had any abnormal movements. Liu Yuezhao from Rui County must have not received any terrible alarms, and has been quiet as usual. I have arranged for men to continue to scout and guard them......"

"Okay," Wei Jun nodded, his mouth scowling in the direction of the gun on the other side, "What's going on here?" ”

"Huang Chunxi, this guy is really fast," Yu Tingzhang smiled, and pointed his hand to the place where the gunfire was fierce, "It's still fucking competitive." After the cavalry who came running at the beginning was stopped head-on by my special battalion, it was only for a while, and as his brigade drove up, not only did he not mean to run, but he also stalked his mother vigorously, probably trying to drive us back to the Yellow River to feed the fish, haha......"

"Hehe......" Wei Jun also smiled lightly, then took out his pocket watch and looked at it, "Liang Litai's men will come up soon." ”

"Yes, in order to ensure the continuous combat capability of the troops in the next step and avoid excessive casualties, the current task of the 1st Regiment and the Special Service Battalion is only to block and hold off Huang Chunxi, and now the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Regiment has also copied it from the east, and is waiting for the Red 90th Division to fight from behind." Yu Tingzhang nodded with regret on his face, "To be honest, if there is another battalion like the special service battalion, if you don't wait for President Wei to come ashore, I can eat Huang Chunxi, a bastard, in one bite." ”

"Where is there such a simple thing." Wei Jun glanced at Yu Tingzhang, then put his hands behind his back, closed his eyes slightly, and silently paced around, thinking about something in his mind......

In an open area of a valley that is not small, Huang Chunxi leaned against a big rock, while watching the soldiers who came up one after another to take a short rest before the battle, while also slightly closing a pair of thief eyes, thinking.

Coming out of the camp, he ran at the front with a group of cavalry. He is very clear about the combat effectiveness of Wang Huaiqing and Fu Xin's ideas. Since it was the Red Army of the brigade that forcibly crossed the Yellow River, Wang Huaiqing and Fu Xin would definitely not be able to hold the Fengling Crossing for a long time. Once the reinforcements are too late, and there is no timely backup of the green battalion soldiers and regimental training, it is very likely that the army will be defeated like a mountain, and it will be out of control.

According to his thoughts, the journey of more than ten miles was only a blink of an eye for him and his usually well-trained cavalry. But who knows, just came here, can clearly hear the sound of fighting in front of Fengling Town in the dark night, he and his cavalry long and short guns clasped in their hands, and they have been ready to break through the valley in front of them to immediately put into the battle preparations, suddenly, under the moonlight, the originally quiet valley mouth and both sides of the gunfire rang out bursts of gunfire.

As the gunfire erupted, all of a sudden, the horse neighed. The cavalrymen, who had rushed to the front and could not hold back for a while, or had not had time to restrain the galloping steps of their mounts, fell off their horses one after another, and some of them were simply dragged by their crazy mounts, and continued to rush fearlessly towards the valley mouth.

Huang Chunxi was almost not taken aback by this sudden blow. This is really strange, there are obviously Wang Huaiqing and Fu Xin in the town who are organizing people to resist, why is there an ambush of the opponent here?

He hurriedly gathered up the remaining seventy or eighty men and horses, and carefully observed the situation in front of him. , he secretly cursed in his heart. In fact, he has long been very clear about the terrain here, and he has not been less beaten here when he is training.

This is a valley like a gourd, the bottom of the valley is not small, and it is very open, and it is not a problem to fit one or two thousand people. The winding hills that are more than 100 paces apart on both sides are not very high, but you can not go immediately. What if you abandon the horse and climb over on foot? It's possible, but at least you'll have to travel miles or more to get to your destination. However, it is not feasible that once this is done, all the baggage that comes up from behind must be discarded.

As a "modern army" cultivated by Russia's allies, it is clear that this is absolutely intolerable. Having lost his heavy equipment, why did he and his soldiers run to the front?

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