Chapter 8: Before the War (1)

The day after Handan sent a telegram to Beijing, the Beiyang Army, led by the 11th Division of Li Chun's headquarters, began its attack to the north. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this era, although the Beiyang Army was famous for its "brave battles", most of the leading officers were from professional backgrounds. They are either veterans who have been in the army for decades, or new-style military talents who have gone abroad and studied abroad. Even the low-ranking officers below are mostly trained.

In particular, the artillery of the Beiyang Army, in the past, in terms of the quality of personnel, the artillery personnel of the Beiyang Army can be said to be first-class in the whole of China. However, in the context of rapid military expansion, the artillery trained by the Beiyang Army is still insufficient. For example, the artillery of the 11th Division, which belongs to Dao Li Chun, is a new recruit, and he neither knows how to parabola, nor does he practice his hand feeling with artillery shells, which is probably the level of being able to play a direct shooting.

In this regard, Handan is much more prepared. As early as a few years ago, they started compulsory learning. In the war for more than half a year, a group of experienced artillerymen have also grown up, although there are still very few who know calculus, but at the very least, those people can understand the shooting table.

However, Li Chun didn't know this, in his opinion, there were nearly 200,000 troops behind him. Even if there is some water in it, but excluding those people and empty salaries, it is enough to have an army of more than 100,000 people. With such a solid backing, what is there to be afraid of?

It is a pity that Wang Shizhen repeatedly emphasized that the senior generals on the front line were not allowed to leave the battle line, but to follow the friendly forces on the flanks to press over consistently. Although there is quite a thing about such a decision, Li Chun still has to obey orders. Now the Beiyang Army is not the rotten appearance of the later warlord melee era, and it still has to listen to military orders.

Just when Li Chun was thinking about approaching the city of Dezhou, his vanguard was blocked. Ambushed in the village were some local garrisons, the so-called C Regiment on the Handan side. After nearly a year of rest and redress, the garrisons in these places also changed their guns and completed the modernization of their weapons.

Of course, this so-called modernization refers to the modernization of the early twentieth century, that is, the rifle cannons of a water, and there are several heavy machine guns. Although there were still some cold weapons in the garrison, including the sabers of the officers and the sabers of the cavalry, most of them still preferred firearms, except for a few who were particularly high in martial arts.

There is no suitable place for ambushes on the Hebei Plain, and the terrain here determines that it is impossible to fight an ambush like Pingxingguan. The blocking troops did not think about completely annihilating the invading enemy, and after firing with light and heavy firearms, killing and wounding hundreds of Beiyang troops, they retreated.

By the time Li Chun arrived at the front line, there were only corpses and wounded left. He asked with a grim face: "How many enemy troops are there, and how many casualties have they suffered?" ”

The platoon commander who was still alive came up to report and said: "There are more than 1,000 enemy troops, and I will not let the casualties go, but they have a lot of mules and horses, and the wounded and the dead have been taken away." ”

Li Chun waved his hand to tell the platoon commander to get out, so he didn't believe this set of rhetoric. After looking at the village where the battlefield was located, his face became even more gloomy. Although the Mosin Nagant rifle used by the defenders was not suitable for the Chinese physique, and the man-machine system was a mess, it was no worse than the British rifle used by the Beiyang Army in terms of power and range, if not better.

There were some bullet casings scattered on the ground, he picked up a bullet casing and weighed it in his hand for a while, and then said: "Send a telegram to the headquarters, just say that our army has defeated a regiment of the enemy after a hard battle, killing and wounding countless people, but because the enemy army took the initiative to retreat, there are not many captures." ”

After Wang Shizhen received such a telegram, he also knew that this kind of words could only be listened to, not fully believed. However, he still ordered the meeting to encourage him, and picked up a flag and planted it on the sand table. As far as the eye can see, the yellow and blue flags are densely planted on the sand table.

Just as Li Chunbu was heading for Texas, another division beside him was also heading towards Liaocheng. Dezhou and Liaocheng were two important strongholds of the Handan Army on the front line. According to reliable sources, the Handan army hoarded large quantities of troops and military supplies in these two cities.

As soon as they advanced under these two cities, Handan would have to send troops to accept the battle, instead of retreating in strides as before. The blood of the front-line fighters was nothing more than a cold number in his eyes, and he had long been prepared to suffer huge casualties.

Even if the first four divisions are disabled, the next six divisions can still win the final victory. In the best-case scenario, the soldiers in front of them are exhausted by the enemy on the opposite side after a hard battle. Then, the army behind rushed forward and simply eliminated these formidable enemies in one fell swoop.

And the one who led the second wave of the army, of course, the best was the eldest prince Yuan Keding. Although this prince is a little unreliable, he is still very optimistic about the model teacher trained by Cai Yi.

And at this time, he received a declaration of war from the other side. This kind of thing made him dumbfounded.

How funny it is for a local government to declare war on the central government. You know, the bald government in a certain time and space, even if the capital is breached, has not declared war on the other side.

Isn't declaring war something that only Omi ghost animals like to do? Wars in the East have always been about war without declaring it, or declaring it without war.

Should we say that they are courageous, or should we say that they have backbone? Or both, he didn't know, but he felt that for his goal, he could only win, and never fail.

"Hmm, why do you have to declare war?" Chen Cheng asked curiously, "Isn't this the suddenness of the attack lost?" ”

"The suddenness of the attack? Are you sure you're not mistaken? Now that we have a total of 300,000 or 400,000 people piled up in such a small place as Hebei, you still tell me about the suddenness of the attack? The girl glared and said, "Besides, we are upright people, how can we learn from that bald head that can't grow hair?" ”

"To be reasonable, it's not that people can't grow hair, it's just that they're bald." Chen Cheng said: "And he also said that it is because of this that he became the leader of the country." ”

"Well, is there a relationship between that?"

"Yes," Chen Cheng said seriously: "I have become stronger, and I am also bald." ”

"......" (To be continued.) )