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Lin Haijiang under the night looked very calm, Li Anmin knew that once the head of state decided the matter, no one would be allowed to intervene, and the more disappointed people present were Liu Quansi and Xu Dawei, Liu Quansi had an eleventh infantry division in Suzhou, just in front of him, and Xu Dawei had four whole divisions ready to go, although Feng Jingbin and Shen Chengwen were eager to try, but their qualifications were still shallow, and the troops were not ready to fight such a tough battle, so they could only look at it with their eyes, hoping that the head of state would suddenly have a flash of inspiration, Just like when they were promoted unusually, but they also knew that there were legions directly under the command, and they would not be able to gain anything in a tough battle, and the Führer often said that the sharp knife should be used in the enemy's vital points. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lin Haijiang looked at his watch and said, "Fang Guohua has been off for more than an hour, right?" I believe they have what it takes to get the job done. ”

And about ten kilometers outside of Hangzhou, on a small road that is inaccessible and only often walked by porters, Fang Guohua is riding on a Western horse captured by the British, and is urging the mule and horse team of the supply brigade to speed up, it can be said that the honorary title of the head of state division has hurt Fang Guohua a lot, he has now become the public enemy of all division-level officers in the empire, everyone is holding their breath to surpass him, the more Fang Guohua does not dare to relax in the slightest!

The Imperial Head Division has more than 9,600 combat officers and soldiers, more than 1,200 logistics personnel, and temporarily strengthened two mortar battalions, with a total of more than 12,000 people in the whole division.

Fang Guohua looked at his watch nervously, every minute and every second now is very important to him, Changzhou probably has three to four battalions of the Beiyang New Army, plus thousands of militia groups, but the goal of his trip is not Changzhou City, but the Wucheng Temple outside Changzhou City, where the mountain is guarded by the side of Lin Jiangyin, it can be said that they sneaked under the nose of the troops attacking Jiangyin from the Beiyang New Army and built fortifications. Separate the seven towns of the Beiyang New Army coming from the east and the three towns of the Beiyang New Army attacking Jiangyin from the Russian army that still dares to claim to be 200,000, and cooperate with the large corps to encircle and annihilate it.

At the same time, the troops of the eighth town, the ninth town, and the tenth town of Beiyang are heading to Jiangyin, and even the attack operation has made the Beiyang New Army extremely miserable, full of lamentations and whip whipped wails, and the helpless Xu Guangyuan found Zeng Guofan, and he must rest for a night, Zeng Guofan hesitated for a moment and said: "The soldiers are fast, and taking Jiangyin a day earlier is equivalent to taking a nail behind us, otherwise once the Russians lose, if the Jiangyin defenders take the initiative to attack Changzhou and cut off my retreat, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Let the soldiers bear with it!

After Xu Guangyuan left with a helpless sigh, Zeng Guofan also sighed slightly, he was even miserable when he sat in the car, not to mention the soldiers who were wearing backpacks, rifles, and food bags, but what could he do? With Lin Yi's temper, he will never sit still, and as long as Lin Haijiang makes a move, it will be a continuous killing move, and he will rest until he dies! How could Zeng Guofan not be in a hurry?

And in the town of Chenjiahang on the outskirts of Shanghai, the Cossack cavalry once again appreciated the strength of the intensive firepower of the Chinese Empire, the rain of bullets from cross-fire echoed with the artillery fire covering the area, and the Cossack cavalry still stubbornly rushed to what they thought was weak in the flash of the explosion, although the attacking cavalry troops were tripped by barbed wire obstacles piece by piece, but the back was still one after another, whether it was the blood flowing from the horses or people, the air was more of a smell of blood, and less of a smell of gunpowder!

The Cossack cavalry, who were hopeless and unable to push forward, began to use the carcasses of horses as cover to shoot at the defenders, and the officers and soldiers of the defenders of the Chinese Empire, as the defending side of the Chinese Empire, were also the first time they encountered such a brave and warlike enemy.

If you don't fight, you don't know, only after you have fought hands, the soldiers of the Chinese Empire finally know what is called madness, even madness, they have pushed forward little by little against the corpses of their companions, and when they feel that they are much worse, they start a hopeless and even desperate charge, and as a result, their corpses have become new bunkers for those behind.

The Russians have advanced to a distance of less than 30 meters, and rifles are no longer of much use at the moment, because as long as you lean out to shoot, there will be several rifles aimed at you at the same time, completely exchanging lives for lives, and many shooters in the machine gun firing position are ordinary soldiers, because the machine gun shooters have long been dead!

But the soldiers of the Chinese Empire have something that the Russians don't have, listen to me! Cast! Free Bomb Drop! A lieutenant had just thrown a grenade, which exploded so much that the ghost on the other side howled, apparently the grenade had just been thrown into the pile! However, some recruits were nervous, and they didn't wait for the grenade to be delayed, so they pulled the fuse and threw it out, only to be thrown back by the other party!

The killing outside of Shanghai shook the earth, and the head of state division in the rapid march was undergoing another kind of test, all the way the Chinese Guohua got a report from the top soldiers and captured a few ordinary people, and these ordinary people did not have the identity of the empire, and they were all strong people, because the soldiers of the Qing army except for the Beiyang New Army had some military characteristics, such as the mark of the hat on the head, the calluses on the fingers, etc., and the rest of the Qing army spies, you can't tell whether he is a fleeing ordinary person or a Qing army scout.

In desperation, Fang Guohua could only close his eyes and waved his hand: "Pull it down and solve it!" Use the sword to make them less guilty. "It can be said that this is also a way to go! It was also the first time that Fang Guohua understood what it meant to be involuntarily, and it was also the first time that he understood what it meant to be decisive in the killing of soldiers.

On June 20, 1862, when the Beiyang New Army began to attack Jiangyin like a tsunami, Fang Guohua miraculously led the troops through several patrol lines on the periphery of the Beiyang Army.

Xu Guangyuan's 10th Town was left behind by Zeng Guofan as a reserve, and Ma Tianbao's 8th Town and Li Xubin's 9th Town participated in the first great siege of Jiangyin.

If you let Lin Haijiang know that Li Xubin, who is known as the first fierce general of the Hunan Army in history, not only did he not die, but he actually commanded a town of new troops, I don't know how he feels? Originally in the history of the Battle of Three Rivers in 1858, more than 100,000 Taiping troops besieged the Hunan army of less than 6,000 people, and the main generals of the Hunan army, Li Xubin and Zeng Guohua were killed one after another, it can be said that the Li Xubin Department of the Hunan Army in the First Battle of the Three Rivers shook the 100,000 elites of the Taiping Army with less than 6,000 people, disrupting the overall deployment of the Taiping Army, and providing an opportunity for the later decisive battle.

But due to the great changes in history, the Battle of Three Rivers did not break out at all, so Li Xubin miraculously survived, but the unlucky Zeng Guohua drowned in a group of people crossing the river! Therefore, Li Xubin has always been unknown, if Lin Haijiang knew that Li Xubin was appointed as the commander of the Ninth Town, then he would continue to increase troops to Jiangyin as soon as possible.

Jiangyin is located in the south of Jiangsu, at the northern end of the Taihu Plain in the Yangtze River Delta, along the Yangtze River in the north, facing the Jingjiang River; It is close to Taihu Lake in the south, borders Wuxi, Zhangjiagang and Changshu in the east, is more than 160 kilometers away from Shanghai, is adjacent to Changzhou and Wujin in the west, and is more than 180 kilometers away from Nanjing.

The Beiyang New Army seized the city is also expected, since the Fifth Brigade of the Marine Corps Chang Guohao Department and two 75 mm field artillery battalions arrived in Jiangyin, the 10th Division Li Jiang began to command the troops, the Jiangyin fortress began to strengthen and repair, but Jiangyin City has a very complete city wall and defense system, the city walls are made of large green bricks and glutinous rice juice, the city walls are filled with molten iron, because since ancient times Jiangyin is to block the city, so the city wall is as thick as six meters, not to mention the artillery fire of the Beiyang New Army, Even with the Chinese Empire's corps-level firepower, it is not easy to blast a gap.

Moreover, there are two fortresses around Jiangyin City, which echo each other with the main city, not only can support each other's firepower, but also can carry out flexible and mobile attacks on both sides, because as long as the enemy attacks from the front, the flanks will be exposed to the fortress, and if the fortress is attacked, it will be exposed to the main city, so the tactics of besieging the city on all sides are difficult to be effectively played here in Jiangyin City.

Li Jiang's appointment as the commander of the 10th Division was actually a complete accident, his main interest was not in the military, but in civil engineering and architecture, but his family had five sisters and two younger sisters, only he was a boy, and his father's vision was extremely unique, and he always thought that Lin Haijiang was a master who could sweep, so he sent Li Jiang to Prussia to study like a bet.

For the defense of Jiangyin Fortress, Li Jiang's focus was not on strategy and tactics, but on overhauling various fortifications, calculating the effective blocking range of firepower bunker clusters, shooting dead ends, etc., it can be said that Li Jiang combined his own design of a variety of composite bunkers, closed bunkers with the city wall defense system, including the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the Marine Corps Chang Guohao who came from the reinforcements, were so tired that they almost vomited blood!

Now these fortifications have played an amazing role, the fire at the head of the city and the mortar groups in the closed bunkers in the city have not yet been fired, and the first full-scale attack of the Qing army Beiyang New Army has retreated like snow meets scorching sun!

(To be continued)