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Li Hongzhang was very secret, he only saw the troops and troops that the Red Army of the Celestial Empire had put into the surface battlefield, but he didn't expect that behind these superficial phenomena, there would be anything.

Li Hongzhang's series of plans did not seek the consent of his Russian adviser Maryanov, in other words, he deliberately carried out it behind Maryanov's back. Li Hongzhang used to have a lot of respect for the Russians, not to mention that they had good guns and artillery, and they were good at fighting, and they were also very good at training the army.

However, as time goes by, Li Hongzhang feels that it is not like that. Naturally, there is no need to talk about the defeat of Su Wan, the Russians insisted that they did not blame them, but blamed the Manchu officials in various places for their unfavorable support for the battlefield. He can't argue with the Russians about this, so just look at what is in front of him. In the construction of the so-called Yellow River defense line, he felt that the Russians were not only taking the dignity and land of the Qing Dynasty as a child's play, but also expressed fear of the "red bandits" in the south. He couldn't help but feel a kind of helplessness in his heart, if there was enough time, if the Qing Dynasty could completely make the new thing of the foreigners by itself, what were the Russians? What are the Westerners?

Ruilin knew about Li Hongzhang's plan, and as soon as he heard about this plan, he immediately reminded Li Hongzhang again and again that he must not send people across the river at will. He fully agreed with the Russians' plan to defend the Yellow River with all their might, and his past experience told him that not to mention the loyalty and righteousness of the two associations to save the ** faction in the past, even if all the nine associations in front of him drove across the Yellow River with a spoonful, it would definitely not be the opponent of the Red Army on the other side. It is better to hold on, and if we can finally stop the Red Army's northward advance, that is quite a good record. What's more, what the "red bandits" are best at now is to lay a trap for the Qing soldiers to drill, and what they look at is cheap, but it may not be really cheap.

In fact, he still has something to say in his heart about Li Hongzhang, that is, he has a premonition that the Yellow River cannot be held at all. The reason is very simple, Shandong is now spreading everywhere that the Red Army is a team specializing in fighting Tsarist Russian devils and traitors, calling on all Chinese not to fight Chinese. In Dongchang, Dezhou, and Wuding, it has only been two months, and the Russians have already made a fuss and jumped over the wall, and the people's grievances are boiling. Even when General Pryushenko, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army's front line, negotiated with Kuang Yuan, the governor of Shandong, and planned to send troops to help defend the capital city of Jinan, the people of Jinan, together with the officers and soldiers of the garrison, resolutely did not allow them to enter the city as if they had seen the plague. In his opinion, the Russian ** team, known as the 60,000 army, may not be as effective as the 40,000 loyal salvation **, the situation has reached such a point, where is there any hope of victory.

But Li Hongzhang's advice to him is not appropriate at all, which is one thing. Li Hongzhang, who looked like a calf, didn't believe Ruilin's description of the Red Army's super combat effectiveness at all, let alone that the Red Army would have so many powerful weapons.

"The sharpness of the firearms of the Westerners is the sharpest in the world, and the Russians are inferior to them, let alone here. Red bandits are good at bewitching the public, and they are engaged in some dirty witchcraft to deceive outsiders. According to Ben Shuai, Lord Xiangli just fell for the tricks of the red bandits in the first place......"

Li Hongzhang immediately said a large amount of "theory" and educated Ruilin. For example, China has no industrial base, no advanced technology of Westerners, and no personnel who understand these technologies, and only relies on those mud poles with sorghum flowers on their heads that do not recognize big characters, let alone speak foreign languages, where can they have weapons that are more superior than those of Westerners? It's just nonsense.

Ruilin had nothing to say, and what he said was not only his own experience, but also the battle reports from the Henan front to corroborate it, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces actually turned a deaf ear. He suspected that Li Hongzhang was either blind or mentally ill.

In fact, Li Hongzhang is like this, if Ruilin immediately agreed with his plan as soon as he heard it, then he might not be able to make up his mind to implement it so happily. The more a defeated general like Ruilin said that the opponent was powerful, he strengthened his confidence to compete with the opponent. No wonder, if Li Hongzhang is really right this time, then it is self-evident how high the prestige he will get.

Another point is that in the information that Li Hongzhang has mastered, after the Red Third Front Army commanded by Chen Yucheng captured Jeju and Yanzhou, the main forces of the two armies quickly continued to move north, one took Tai'an Mansion and wanted to enter Jinan, and the other was to kill Qingzhou, obviously to find the bad luck of Enhua, the deputy capital of Qingzhou, where Manchurian soldiers were stationed, and the "red bandits" would never let them go lightly. There are only a small number of "red bandits" around Caozhou Mansion who are active, and the counties west of Caozhou are tossing and turning, and even Heze, the Caozhou Mansion, is now very quiet. The reason why he did not take the method of crossing the river nearby from Fengqiu first to rescue Kaifeng, but made a detour to Dongming and put reinforcements on the back of the enemy besieging Kaifeng, in order to achieve a surprise effect. He felt that his plan was seamless.

But Li Hongzhang just forgot about the Luyu-Anhui guerrilla column that had been galloping across eastern Henan and southwestern Shandong for a long time before the start of the war. Where are they? What are they doing?

The main force of Zhang Lexing and Gong Deshu is repaired in Guide Mansion. Moreover, the territory of Caozhou Mansion was originally one of their most active areas, and the reason why several county towns were placed there was not to be taken, so there was naturally a reason to put it there and look at it. In fact, they have been waiting for the loyal and righteous rescuers to cross the river and come down to find a bargain.

As soon as the news of Zhou Shengbo's westward march across the river was sent, Gong Deshu and Zhang Zongyu immediately rushed out with their commanders, and took Qixian County and Minquan in their hands with a snap of their fingers, while Ren Huabang and Niu Hongsheng went out of Juye to conquer Heze, and immediately cut off Zhou Shengbo's westward retreat.

And when Zhou Shengbo suddenly got the thunderous news of the fall of Caozhou Fucheng, he hurried all the way into Lanfeng County, according to his expectations, at this time the vanguard led by his brother Zhou Shengchuan should be about to arrive in Lanfeng County. There is no way to retreat, and now I can only stick to the original plan, go to Lanfeng with all my strength, and then have lunch and rest well, and deal a fatal blow to the back of the Red Army that is attacking Fengfu City.

Zhou Shengbo had no choice, he sent a group of men and horses to turn back to meet the artillery battalion and baggage troops that were far behind the brigade because of the muddy roads, and the whole army continued to move forward without stopping for a moment. What he is most worried about is that there must be no more accidents in the county town of Lanfeng in front of him. It's a pity that it backfired, and he was afraid of whatever he was afraid of, and his forward soldiers and horses had not yet approached Lanfeng County, and they had already met the main force of the Red 14th Division from the east.

In the first head-to-head battle, the exhausted Zhou Shengchuan was immediately defeated by the Red Army and fled in a hurry, and his brother Zhou Shengchuan was also seriously wounded. Not only that, the artillery battalion and baggage troops, which were lagging behind and thought that there would be no danger in the slightest danger with the protection of Caozhou Mansion, also lost contact with the main force and became the bag of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire under the interception of Ren Huabang's troops and Zhang Zongyu's army, which was killed halfway.

A large plain, unobstructed, Zhou Shengbo couldn't save people, and now he has become the target of hunting.

Under the unified command of Yang Fuqing, the 14th Red Division intercepted it head-on, and the Luyu-Anhui guerrilla columns of Zhang Lexing and Gong Deshu flocked to it in all directions, and there were murderous Red Army officers and men everywhere, and the only north where no opponent appeared was the raging Yellow River.

For Zhou Shengbo, this situation is indeed too uncomfortable. As soon as the battle began, the vigorous morale that had been relied on for pride was first defeated, and all the heavy weapons were lost, and all that was left was the more than 3,000 tired divisions that had already walked in mud.

One by one, the cannonballs carrying hatred flew from three sides to the besieged Zhongyi Rescue** with a sharp roar, compressing Zhou Shengbo's living space, gunsmoke, mud and sand, mixed with stumps and broken arms flying all over the sky. In the midst of this angry roar were the dozen or so complete Russian cannons that had just been captured by the guerrilla columns.

Now, Zhou Shengbo also has to thank his Tsarist master, he took a lot of hard work to cross the Yellow River, and pushed and pulled all the way, telling him to worry a lot about foreign cannons, only a few dozen shells, and then it couldn't be fired. As soon as the battle ended, when Ren Huabang was angry and wanted to throw these "rotten Tsarist Russian cannons" into the Yellow River, the artillerymen who had time found out after careful inspection that the reason for the failure to fire was not that the Russian artillery was too bad, but that the problem was mainly in the shells.

Zhou Shengbo ate at least hundreds of shells less for this, and the brothers of the Thirteenth Association of Loyalty and Righteousness also had many fewer scum who should have become stumps and broken arms in the artillery fire. However, in the face of the Celestial Red Army, which had an absolute advantage of ten to one in terms of strength, the soldiers who were loyal to save ** could not escape the fifteenth even if they escaped the first day of the new year.

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