Chapter 412: The Decisive Battle (1)
/newmessage.php?tosys=1&title="Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Chapter Errors/Click here to report
With the gradual development of the situation, the news reported by Fan Wenrui and Qi Ying became closer and closer to reality, and Rong Lu and other "post-party figures" who had previously been imprisoned in the camp of the Fengtai coalition army had been secretly released one by one and received a secret interview with Cixi. The smell of blood wafting in the capital could already be smelled, but the more this happened, Yi Xin began to be more and more half-hearted and indecided.
At this moment, an explosive news came that the three parties did not expect. The Red Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom dispatched troops on all fronts, and the Yellow River defense line was completely broken overnight, and urgent paperwork came one after another. This news stunned everyone in the chamber for a moment.
However, after a suffocating silence, it was strange that the people in the room seemed to be relieved again, and they were no longer as depressed as before, but much more relaxed.
"What's the matter, if the Russians still dare to come to the tiger's mouth to brush their whiskers, it's really hard to say who will kill the deer." Duanhua looked at Zaiyuan, who was sitting calmly on the side, and smiled at Yi Xin.
Yi Xin also turned from shock to a sense of relief in an instant, indeed as Duanhua said, now he really feels that the heavy waist pole of the previous two days straightened up a lot. However, immediately he went into sorrow again, and he looked at Duanhua, who was a little overdone, could this really make you feel wonderful? The Yellow River is lost, how many days can the Qing Dynasty survive? Alas...... But it's really a girl who doesn't know the hatred of the country, and Yi Xin also knows that it is indeed a little inappropriate to describe Duanhua in front of her, including those people, but is there a better word than this?
He shook his head and turned his head to look at Zaiyuan, who had always seemed to be very stable, "Yiwang, you don't seem surprised by this, huh?" ”
Zaiyuan put down the long cigarette pouch and pot in his hand and glanced at Yi Xin, "I want to wait and hear how those bullish Russian friends can run back from the front line." ”
Pryushenko had received a secret order from Lord Muravyov, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, pointing out that since the Qing government might have another turmoil in the near future, he was ordered to immediately organize an elite rapid army, ready to stop every move of the Manchu army in the Zhengding area that might conspire to interfere with the change of power in the Great Qing Dynasty, and to ensure the stability of the Great Qing State, so as to facilitate the next step of active preparations. However, as soon as this secret order was received, Pryushenko was so angry that he scolded Muravyov's ancestors for more than ten generations.
After scolding, Pryushenko thought of the most critical question, because he had never believed the news that the Taiping Red Army from Dongchang and Wuding was really trying to advance northward on the Yellow River defense line with all his might, and now the defense line had been broken through, but he only cared about organizing the so-called contingency counterattack, and had not yet reported this important military situation to the headquarters in time. It's not surprising to say this, but what's the use of reporting to the headquarters in a timely manner? Almost all the troops that can be gathered and mobilized are in his hands, and if he reports a message back, he will cry hoarsely, and he will not reinforce a single soldier.
Now Pryushenko, don't say that he is asking him to draw out his troops and horses to do something else, but he can't just make up for his own hole here.
As soon as the Yellow River moat broke through, the Red Army of the Celestial Empire was like a tiger descending from the mountain, stabbing a sharp knife into the enemy's body. And the Red Third Front Army, which faced the Tsarist Russian army, was even more fierce at this time.
On the west road of the Red Third Front Army, under the strong echo of the rapid attack of Ren Huabang and Niu Hongsheng of the Red Second Front Army to Huaxian and Jun County, Lin Qirong's Red Ninth Army took Kaizhou in the first battle, not only annihilating a regiment of the Tsarist Russian defenders stationed in Kaizhou, but also completely annihilating one and a half regiments of the Tsarist Russian army that came to reinforce Kaizhou from Neihuang and Qingfeng, and took advantage of the victory to go down to Neihuang and Qingfeng. Subsequently, he joined forces with Pan Qiliang and Wu Dinggui's Red Seventh Army, which had already captured Yanggu, Fanxian and Xin counties on the right flank, and threatened Liaocheng, the city of Dongchangfu, on the one hand, and then Kenanle on the other, and surrounded the Daimyofu.
On the east road, following the success of the teaching brigade attack on Binzhou, Wei Zheng and Chen Tingxiang's Red Tenth Army and Red Eighth Army successively broke through the defense line of the Tuxiao River and the Russian army in the Tuxiao River, and within two days, the Wuding Fucheng Huimin was tightly besieged by the Red Army of the Celestial Empire.
At this moment, Pryushenko's two fists stretched out outside not only couldn't be waved at all, but now they have become two big burdens screaming and urgently waiting for his reinforcements. At this time, he realized that he had made a fundamental mistake in strategy from the beginning. No matter how lax he pretended to be on the edge of the Yellow River, the middle breakthrough of the Taiping Red Army that he fantasized about did not exist at all, and there was not the slightest hostility in his front. According to the analysis of the current situation, the Taiping Red Army clearly wanted to cut off his two arms first, and then twist his neck again.
Knowing his mistake and correcting it, Priushenko immediately mobilized Yucheng to Dezhou, which was originally tightly grasped in his hands, to deal with the army that broke through in the middle of the Taiping Red Army, and reinforced it from east to west. At the same time, Vasilyev's cavalry unit, which was stationed in Cangzhou as a strategic reserve, was urgently dispatched and quickly moved south.
After two days of fierce battles, the Daimyo's Mansion was conquered, and Lin Qirong then crossed the Maji River in the east and entered the Battle of Liaocheng. Major General Chikovska, the commander of the Tsarist Russian garrison in Dongchang, who was blindfolded, looked at the remnants of the defeated troops who had returned from the rout on all sides in the city, and saw the besieged city overflowing, and almost blew up the poor telegraph machine in the headquarters. "The Taiping Red Army is attacking fiercely, Liaocheng is not guaranteed, and the general must quickly send troops to reinforce ......"
The reinforcements from the plains and Yucheng were indeed called by Chikovska, but they did not arrive in Liaocheng. When the three regiments of the Tsarist Russian reinforcements marching westward to Gaotang and passing through Qingping, and only a dozen miles away from Liaocheng, they were intercepted by the main force of the Red 27th Army that followed the Red Seventh Army across the Yellow River in the narrow passage with the Maji River in the north and the Tuxiao River in the south.
The main force of the Red Seventh Army surrounded Liaocheng, but the Red Twenty-seventh Army could only clean the periphery for Pan Qiliang and Wu Dinggui. As a result, the only way to vent his grievances was on Eping and Boping, two "small places" where there were no real Tsarist garrisons and horses. The sledgehammer smashed the walnuts, and the smasher was definitely not enjoyable, and the defenders were even weaker, so that the news of the loss of Eping and Boping had not yet been learned by the Russian reinforcements who were in a hurry to move westward.
When Zeng Tianhe looked at the group of Russian soldiers and horses who came into his pocket, he realized the wonder of sweeping the periphery. The feeling is not only to attack the city to have meat to eat, but also to meet the big fat sheep when you go outside.
Not to mention what the "big fat sheep" in Zeng Tianhe's mouth is destined to be, not to mention that the Tsarist Russian reinforcements advancing eastward will also encounter a good hunter like Zeng Tianhe. A day after the departure of the two reinforcements sent by Pryushenko, he realized that he had misanalyzed the shape again.
This time, Cao Weiren and Wu Dingcai's Red Fifth Army crossed the Yellow River in one fell swoop in one fell swoop as he had expected. The fragile city walls of Yucheng could not withstand the bombardment of the heavy artillery of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, and when General Pryushenko received an emergency telegram from Yucheng on the front foot, Yucheng on the back foot had already changed color.
Cao Weiren, a loyal general of the Celestial Empire, is a little bad to say. As a native of Guangxi, he led an uprising that planned to defect to Hong and Yang before they arrived in Jintian, and the Taiping army led by Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing had already killed out of Guangxi. Although he couldn't find the brigade, he did not give up his ideals and still insisted on fighting in Guangxi. It wasn't until a few years later that the winged king Shi Dakai led his army back to Guangxi with a surging momentum, and Cao Weiren finally found his roots with an uprising team that had grown into thousands of people.
Although he had just returned to the command of the Wing King, in the Taiping Army's sweep of Guangxi, he relied on his own previous attention to the situation in all aspects of Guangxi to give advice to the Wing King. According to his proposal, Shi Dakai's strategizing is more convenient, and naturally, Shi Dakai praised this Cao Weiren, who was praised by his subordinates as "Mr. Crouching Tiger".
The Red Army of the Celestial Empire began to form the second batch of new armies, and when the candidates for the commander of the Red Eighth Army were proposed, Shi Dakai naturally thought of Cao Weiren.
For Cao Weiren, Lin Haifeng's latent memory will certainly not forget it. In history, when Shi Da set out to trap the Dadu River, the Qing army sent people to lure him to surrender. When Shi Dakai secretly discussed countermeasures with the left and right overnight, it was this Cao Weiren who insisted on advising Shi Dakai, "The enemy uses tricks to deceive us, and in the face of danger, we can only fight to the end, or maybe survive in the death." Please Your Highness the Winged King to inspire the whole army early tomorrow morning to fight to the death, if you win, you can rush out of the Jedi, even if you don't win, you must fight to the last drop of blood and die with the enemy. You must not surrender to the thief, stretch your neck to suffer the humiliation of his axe, and laugh at the world and future generations. It is a pity that under the opposition of Zaifu Zeng Renhe and others, Shi Dakai finally did not accept Cao Weiren's proposal and adopted the so-called temporary surrender. In desperation, although Cao Weiren still had to obey the order, according to Shi Dakai's intentions, he drafted a letter of surrender to Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But after he wrote a letter of deception, he immediately threw himself into the turbulent Dadu River, hoping that he could finally use his own death to persuade and wake up Shi Dakai.
Such a person who is loyal to the cause he is engaged in, Lin Haifeng will not ignore it, and Cao Weiren was ordered to form the Red Eighth Army. It was at this time that he contracted severe malaria, and during the period when he was fighting alone in Guangxi, he had to leave the army and temporarily return to Tianjing to recuperate. In such an instant, the commander of the Red Eighth Army not only changed hands, but he himself also lacked the brilliance of Tan Shaoguang, Lai Yuxin, Chen Tingxiang and others in the war.
Being able to leave Tianjing to take over the Red Fifth Army this time, Cao Weiren is like a lion who has been trapped in a cage for a long time and is hungry.
There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and the Red Fifth Army has two fierce generals, Cao Weiren and Wu Dingcai, who else can stop their progress. Yucheng, the left and right wings of the Red Fifth Army bluffed towards Gaotang and Linyi, and the main force resolutely pounced on the plain with a thunderous momentum and a fierce tiger. The defenders of Enxian and Lingxian, who originally supported each other on the two wings of the plain and relied on each other, had not yet had time to react, and the reinforcements sent by Pryushenko from Texas had not completely left Texas, and the plain had actually become a meal on the plate of the Red Fifth Army.
Aishang Novel Network would like to thank all book friends for their support biquge.info