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As the chief of the Imperial General Staff, Li Anmin acted with the regiments directly under the High Command, because he was also the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, Li Anmin was responsible for coordinating the mutual cooperation between the River Gunboat Corps and the Marine Corps and the Army! In particular, as a strategic artillery unit under the brigade level of the Imperial Army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It can be said that Li Anmin has realized a very serious problem that is interfering with the smooth progress of the important battles launched by the Empire, that is, the Imperial Army does not have too many advantages over the enemy in terms of mobility ability, which makes it possible for the formulated strategic encirclement and detour to evolve into an unexpected encounter.

Li Anmin believes that the head of state has long noticed this, but there are no good horses in the south of the Yangtze River, in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi Dynasty, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, introduced a number of good horse breeds to train Yunnan horses to equip cavalry, you must know that good war horses are basically castrated, so the horse breed degenerates very quickly, and it is very difficult to maintain a large population, and the empire can only start with horses if it wants to improve the mobility of the troops.

However, Li Anmin knows very well that this war horse is not just to feed some grass or something, a good war horse is to eat horse food, soybeans, refined salt, raw eggs and other essential ingredients every day, so that the war horse can be fat and strong, but in this way, the number of horses and the cost of the imperial army have become an astronomical amount, and at present, eighty percent of the empire's funds are all used for naval construction, and such a large amount of expenditure may not be found.

When Li Anmin was worried about how to improve the mobility of the troops, the ninth town of the Beiyang New Army in the south of the Wucheng Temple outside Changzhou City was encountering a fierce battle, Li Xubin was a recognized fierce general of the Beiyang New Army, otherwise Zeng Guofan would definitely not talk about the promotion of Xiangjiang Zhongzhong, who was ranked by seniority, but just like in history, Li Xubin's luck was also bad at home, simply put, although Li Xubin was brave and strategic, but he belonged to the master who drank cold water and stuffed his teeth.

Chang Guohao's Fifth Brigade of the Marine Corps is the earliest unit of the Marine Corps, which has participated in the operation of the Indochina Peninsula and the defense of the Imperial Fortress. Or is it because of human error? The point of attack of the 5th Marine Brigade deviated by as much as fifteen degrees from the starting point only three miles away? This is simply a low-level mistake that must not be forgiven for a leading company specializing in reconnaissance? How exactly this error happened is impossible to find out!

The only thing that can be determined is that it should have been Li Bin's Seventh Town that should have been attacked, but due to the mistake of the Reconnaissance Pilot Company of the Fifth Brigade of the Marine Corps, Li Xubin's Ninth Town was on fire!

After the first shot fired from the rear by the marines in camouflage uniforms and short cowhide boots, Li Xubin had already realized that something bad was going to happen, because the Dai Type 1 light machine gun and the Type 2 light machine gun equipped by the Chinese Empire had a very unique shooting sound, just like the grenade most used by the Chinese Empire, and its muffled explosion sound was very unique, which made it difficult for people to forget it once they heard it.

However, what made Li Xubin even more frightened was the sharp whistling sound of mortar shells equipped with the Chinese Empire, but after a while, the sound of general-purpose machine guns like beating drums also sounded! Before Li Xubin could react, the reserve of an infantry association in the Ninth Town was defeated, and half a pillar of incense time? Or even shorter?

There were officers and soldiers running around everywhere, and Li Xubin didn't even know where the enemy came from? How many troops are there? He dragged a panicked officer who had even taken off his clothes and was about to flee for his life, because the shirt that the other party had taken off, Li Xubin could not identify his unit and position, so he could only prove his identity from the leather boots he was wearing.

Li Xubin angrily dragged the deserter and said, "How many troops does the enemy have?" From which direction did the attack come from? Are you the one who cooperated? How dare you escape? ”

The deserter looked at the town commander in front of him in a panic and gestured in the air for a long time without saying why, Li Xubin was so angry that one Buddha went out of the body and the other Buddha ascended to heaven, and he reached out to pull out the revolver in his waist, but the deserter saw the courage that burst out out of nowhere, and pushed Li Xubin to his head, and escaped with a roll!

Li Xubin had just been helped up by his own soldiers, and two mortar shells fell on his tent one after another, and after a shock wave, Li Xubin and his own soldiers fell in a large area, and a panicked battalion officer found that the commander had fallen to the ground with blood on his face by the light of the fire?

Frightened, he shouted, "Oh no! The commander was killed by the Lin rebel bandit army! Li Tongzhi is dead! ”

Syllable! A gunshot rang out, and the muzzle of the revolver in Li Xubin's hand, who was still lying on the ground, was still smoking, and the battalion officer fell to the ground holding his chest, looking at Li Xubin with disbelief, as if asking him, why did you shoot me?

Although Li Xubin tried his best to shout clarification, but the collapse of the ninth town has become a foregone conclusion, the Fifth Brigade of the Chinese Imperial Marine Corps did not dare to directly insert into the rear of the Beiyang New Army due to the limited strength, but chose to directly attack the rear of the Beiyang New Army attacking Wucheng Temple, the Beiyang New Army, which had been fighting very hard, encountered an attack from the rear again, and suddenly fell into a panic, and the more than 6,000 Beiyang New Army in the entire south can be said to have no way into the sky, with the first Beiyang New Army kneeling down and raising his rifle, A large number of Beiyang New Army put down their weapons, and some of them threw away their rifles and fled quietly.

One deserter can sweep away ten, ten deserters can sweep away a hundred, a thousand! The rout of the Ninth Town has swept through the Seventh Town! The seventh town was also inexplicably defeated, and Li Bin, the commander of the seventh town, was shot with a black gun in blocking the rout, which can be described as life and death, and the fleeing ninth town and the seventh town rout even added swords and guns in order to seize the road!

Zuo Zongtang looked at the fierce gunfire and crossfire that sounded in the south of Wucheng Temple, and his heart suddenly chuckled, in the south, he remembered that at least two battalion heads of cavalry were arranged as alert troops, and now the seventh and ninth towns were suddenly attacked, which proved that those two cavalry battalion heads were probably more auspicious, and they could quietly kill the six hundred cavalry heads of the two battalions? Plus such dense firepower? How could the reinforcements of the Chinese Empire be so fast? In Zuo Zongtang's memory, the other party didn't have so many cavalry?

Zuo Zongtang knew that there could only be one possibility, that is, the Russians had been wiped out, so the reinforcements of the Chinese Empire would come so quickly, I am afraid that this can only be the vanguard, and the real main force is following behind, thinking of this, Zuo Zongtang was shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly got on his horse and went straight to the camp of Zeng Guofan, who was not far away.

The fierce battle in the south also involved Zeng Guofan's heart, and when Zuo Zongtang saw Zeng Guofan with a haggard expression, he was immediately shocked: "Dashuai, you have to ensure your health!" We are talking to Lin Zhicai with him! ”

Zeng Guofan looked at the Wucheng Temple, which had dyed half the sky red by the flames of war, and said tremblingly: "Just defeated? Why did Lin Rei's reinforcements come so quickly? Didn't you say it would take at least five or six days? Is there any news for the army of the Russians? ”

Zeng Guofan's series of questions made Zuo Zongtang almost speechless, how did Zuo Zongtang know the movements of the Russian army? At this moment, even the ten towns of Beiyang are in chaos, and the towns besieging Wucheng Temple have also retreated because of the collapse of the seventh and ninth towns in the south, but the more frightening news has also come back, Li Bin, the commander of the seventh town, was killed, and Li Xubin, the commander of the ninth town, was seriously injured!

Zeng Guofan knew very well what Zuo Zongtang meant, and persuaded himself to withdraw from the army, if he listened to their opinions yesterday, how good would it be? For the first time in his life, Zeng Guofan was annoyed by the decision he had made!

Can it be said that this defeat is really inexplicable? How many troops did the Chinese Imperial Lin rebel bandit army invest? Even if the Russians are not good, the 200,000-strong army is half lost, and there should still be 100,000 left, even if they stand there and cut with a knife, they will have to cut it for a few days! The muttering words of a staff member fell into Zeng Guofan's ears, Zeng Guofan glanced at Zuo Zongtang in confusion, Zuo Zongtang understood that what the staff under the marshal's account said was actually the incomprehension of the marshal!

Zuo Zongtang sighed helplessly and said, "How can we know about the Russians now?" But the Lin rebel bandit army will definitely not use knives, they are used to using machine guns and cannons, 100,000 people is a day's work, I think we should immediately use the strength of the first town, the fifth town, and the sixth town to set up a character formation that can be attacked, retreated, and defended, relying on Changzhou City to make defensive preparations, in case the main force of the Lin rebel bandit army raids, the rest of the towns should immediately gather their forces and retreat to Nanjing, we must beware of Lin Rebel's river gunboat corps and their marines! ”

Zeng Guofan stared into the distance, and Zuo Zongtang, who was anxious on the side, said anxiously: "My handsome! This is all burning eyebrows, can't we just stand up to the immediate loss? Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood! Come and say Fang Chang! ”

Zeng Guofan sighed helplessly and said, "Do as you say!" But I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to come back after retreating! ”

The Beiyang New Army began to retreat overnight, and Chang Guohao, who ascended the Wucheng Temple, was warmly greeted by Fang Guohua, and this unusual enthusiasm made Chang Guohao feel a little unbearable! The Imperial Head Division, which had been reinforced by the Fifth Brigade of the Marine Corps, was also in high morale at the moment, and Fang Guohua called the Chang Guohao Brigade the main vanguard of the troops below.

Although, the officers below are a little confused? Why the Marines are the pioneers? However, since the division commander has said it, presumably the command must have considered it, for the imperial division, it doesn't matter whether the reinforcements come from the army or the navy, the most important thing is that there are reinforcements.

(To be continued)