As soon as the siege of Yanzhou was lifted, it meant that Wang Bin had solved half of the difficulties in Shandong, and the original small half of Shandong was caught off guard by the sudden advance of the Manchu Qing and fell into the hands of the Manchus. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now that the siege of Yanzhou is lifted, it is equivalent to recovering half of Shandong, and it is only a matter of time before the Manchus are driven out of Shandong as long as the siege of Yizhou City is resolved.

In the ruling government, Wang Bin looked at the map on the wall and muttered: "The siege of Shandong will be solved, although there is enough military strength in Jiangsu, but there are many small gunboats in Jiangsu that patrol in the river, which is not a small trouble."

At most, after advancing to Huai'an, the Manchu army could rely on the Yangtze River moat and the small gunboats patrolling back and forth on the river to form a blocking momentum, so that their own army could not drive straight down, and if they wanted to drive straight down from Jiangsu, they had to force the Manchu army in Jiangsu to return to the rear. ”

While Wang Bin said the current problem, he was also thinking about how to solve this dilemma, and suddenly Wang Bin's eyes inadvertently swept over Henan.

Wang Bin, who had skimmed the three passes of Yiyang, suddenly had an idea, and the previous strategy of using Hubei as a decisive battle place was not undesirable in terms of the current situation.

As long as the three passes of Yiyang were taken by surprise, they could drive straight down through the Jinghan Railway to the three towns of Wuhan, forcing the Manchu army in Jiangsu to return to Hubei.

In order to once again achieve the strategic policy of the decisive battle in Hubei that he had set before the war, as soon as he thought of this, Wang Bin immediately put a heavy red cross on the three passes of Yiyang.

Duan Qirui must find a way to gnaw down the bone of Yiyang Sanguan.

For this reason, Wang Bin decided to hand over the 1st and 10th Divisions, which were originally used to attack Xiangyang in a roundabout way, to Duan Qirui, and attack the three passes of Yiyang with all his might.

Moreover, Wang Bin also decided to put his elite troops, Task Force 141, which had been hidden for a long time, into this operation.

Orders began to circulate from the ruling government, and the troops on the front line quickly made corresponding moves after receiving the corresponding orders.

As soon as Wang Bin's order came out, Henan's Northern Army quickly began to assemble towards the Xinyang area, and it was expected that five divisions would be assembled in two days.

In this way, the army assembled by Wang Bin's Northern Army on the front line was as high as nine divisions, and the remaining three divisions were placed in Zhili, one in Shanxi, and one outside the Guan.

The patrol police personnel of the provinces have also begun to be continuously integrated, and it is estimated that they can also add three more patrol police divisions in addition to the two patrol divisions directly under their subordinates.

In addition to Zhili, because of this war, Wang Bin is still calling on the people to guard their homes, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th divisions of the army are also in the reorganization and training outside the Guanwai.

When war comes, a regime will always bring out great potential, and this is the case with the Northern Army at this moment, who are desperate to defend their homeland.

After the siege of Yanzhou was lifted, the Qing army entrenched in Dongpingzhou became the next target, and the Qing army in Dongpingzhou has been holding in Dongpingzhou after trying to rescue Yanzhou City and constantly digging deep trenches in the direction of Dongpingzhou.

made a desperate resistance, but these Qing army's trenches were dug well, and it seems that they put a lot of thought into this.

Look at the trenches dug decently, but they are still of little use to the Northern Army.

"Calibration begins" In the rear of the Northern Army, with an order, all kinds of artillery began to shoot one after another to calibrate the shooting target, and one shell after another suddenly fell in front of the Qing army's position, leading the defending Qing army to laugh.

"Target correction is complete, thirty minutes of destruction shooting."

Immediately, these artillery pieces in the back really exerted their original power, and the soldiers on the Qing army's position were suddenly caught off guard.

One by one, the crying father who was directly bombed and shouted his mother, only knew to stay in the position and accept the baptism of artillery, and some of the smart Manchu soldiers knew that lying in the trench could reduce the probability of being hit by artillery, but these soldiers were only a few.

More soldiers were hit on the spot by this fierce artillery fire, and the entire Qing army's position began to become fragmented, and under the artillery attack of the northern army, the Qing army's seemingly decent position was directly blown out of several gaps by the artillery fire, and the end of the siege of Yizhou City at the beginning of the artillery attack also learned about the situation of Yanzhou City and Dongpingzhou.

"Damn, what is this Ha Hanzhang for, give him the strength of three towns to let him take Yanzhou City, when he left, he swore that he would never go north if he didn't take Yanzhou City, and now it's good that Yanzhou City hasn't been taken and can't wait to go north, but he was caught off guard by others, and it was a shame for me to lose face in the Qing Dynasty."

Duanfang's words were full of dissatisfaction with Ha Hanzhang, if it weren't for the fact that Ha Hanzhang was still useful, he would have ordered Ha Hanzhang to be killed.

For Duan Fang, the blow to him in the past few days is really too great, just like when a person originally longed that he was about to catch up with the goddess in his heart, but someone else gave him a heavy blow, telling him that the goddess didn't look down on him at all.

Originally, he still occupied half of Shandong, as long as Wang Yingkai's second division was taken down with the advantage of military strength, this Shandong was at his fingertips.

However, there was a stupid talent like Ha Hanzhang, who did not focus on taking Yanzhou City, and sent most of his army to the north, and as a result, his side directly lost the strength of a town.

Ha Hanzhang gathered the remnants of the army for half a day, and there were only a few thousand.

Zhou Fu on the side saw Duan Fang's secret hatred, and immediately said: "Brother Duan, now that the wood is in the boat, what we have to do is not regret, but how to fill this gap." ”

After listening to Zhou Fu's words, although Duan Fang calmed down a lot, judging from his face, he still felt angry.

"What Brother Zhou said is extremely true, but I don't know what Brother Zhou thinks about this."

Although Duan Fang has already made a decision, since Zhou Fu is here, he always has to ask Zhou Fu's opinion, otherwise it will always give Zhou Fu the impression of being arbitrary.

After all, Zhou Fu is also one of the initiators of this Northern Expedition.

"Brother Duan, although the current situation is a little unfavorable for us, but there is still a turnaround, this Ha Hanzhang lost Yanzhou City and only lost the military strength of one town, and although the two towns in Dongping Prefecture are now entangled by the Northern Army, they have not yet been completely annihilated.

We can't give up the military strength of those two towns in vain, in my opinion, we should immediately allocate the military strength of one town to assist the two towns in Dongping Prefecture to retreat. ”

Zhou Fu's idea was also officially what the end had to do, and he immediately issued an order to send a town from the army besieging Yizhou City to assist the retreat of the army in Dongpingzhou. (To be continued.) )