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As the commander of the 12th Infantry Division of the Second Corps of the Imperial Chinese Army, Huang Shengzhi's mood at the moment was extremely complicated, and he tried to pull out his gun and drink bullets several times without success. Vivid eyes! Huang Shengzhi had fallen into a situation where he could not afford to live, and he finally issued an order to disperse and retreat in the direction of Shanghai, which was equivalent to telling the troops that as long as they could escape, they would not care about anything, because the Xu Renda Division of the Ninth Division was in Shanghai, which was their last line of defense and their last hope. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As a divisional commander, Huang Shengzhi knew that the headquarters of the commander of the First Army Zhang Zheng was located in Hangzhou, the headquarters of the Xu Dawei Regiment of the Third Army Corps was located in Jiuyujiang, and the headquarters of the commander of the Fourth Army Zheng Zhipeng was approaching Xianning! And the 9th Division of the 2nd Army to which he belonged Xu Renda was in Shanghai, the 10th Division Li Jiang was located in Jiangyin, the 11th Division Wang Daodun was located in Suzhou, and his 12th Division was located in Changshu.

In the endless dark night, Huang Shengzhi was sandwiched by his own guards, walking in the field with one foot high and one foot low, after an earth-shattering explosion, the explosion like a ceremonial flower can be described as extremely brilliant!

After Xu Guangyuan, whose ears were shocked with blood, was helped up by his subordinates, it took a while to hear the voice, and he realized that a small soldier had been hiding between the stacked shell boxes, and was finally discovered by his subordinates, and the little soldier pulled a whole bundle of grenades!

The whole counterattack only lost 100 people, and the big explosion just now killed more than 300 people at once, and the injured are not counted, Xu Guangyuan can be said to be shocked and angry? I don't know if the people below were too ruthless, or the soldiers of the Chinese Empire resisted too fiercely and didn't catch a single prisoner? There is no way to verify whether the commander of the 12th Division, Huang Shengzhi, was killed or not, and the Russians' troops swarmed by, and the proud demeanor and contemptuous gaze made Xu Guangyuan extremely annoyed, he should take it and wait for a few more hours, in that case, the Russians will have at least seven or eight thousand people to get in, see if they can be angry at any time?

In the troops withdrawn from the 12th Division of the Chinese Imperial Army, some officers were calling for their subordinates, but most of them were in vain, and they had no choice but to arrest people and reorganize them at will.

A few of the only general-purpose machine guns were used to block the attack, and after a Cossack cavalry of less than 1,000 men in a hurry to make a contribution slashed at a few lone skirmishers, they crashed headlong into the scorching fire of the blocking position full of vengeful flames, and in a moment corpses were strewn all over the field, and only three or four hundred horsemen were spared from escaping first.

After such a defeat, the 12th Division could be said to have lost face, and the Imperial Army tasted defeat for the first time, and they still don't understand why the double-spear army of the Beiyang New Army appeared behind them? What is the river gunboat fleet doing? What is the Scout Patrol Battalion doing? What is the intelligence support of the General Staff?

Defeated the battle, and the defeat was inexplicable, the officers and soldiers up and down, including Huang Shengzhi himself, have a lot of whys!

On the outskirts of Shanghai, Veredovsky slowly put down his binoculars, and on the way, he was blocked by the Chinese Emperor of 100 people for the second time, wasting his great opportunity, which took three days! What made him even more angry was that the follow-up troops actually spent two days sacking Changshu City?

After whipping Margolov a few times, Veledovsky glared at his big bloodshot eyes and roared: "You don't want to put the gold, you have to pick up stones, now we have wasted two precious days, what should we use to make up for this?" We lost a great opportunity to follow the rout and capture Shanghai in one fell swoop, I should have shot you!" ”

Although Vyledovsky shouted loudly, Margolov didn't care, because Margolov knew that Villedov would press his sister to call all night every night, and if it wasn't for his sister's bed, he wouldn't have been able to sit in the position of commander of the Tenth Army anyway, otherwise Veledovsky would not have been able to take his sister all the way to the Qing Kingdom to fight.

Although Veredovsky slept with a lot of crying Qing women along the way, his favorite was his sister, as long as his sister was still favored, he naturally sat back and relaxed, and after being tired for a while, he waved his hand to let Margolov go.

The defenders on the periphery of Shanghai plus the more than 5,000 defeated troops of the previous 12th Division have retreated their defenses, and the permanent fortifications of the third line of defense are the main body, so that Veredovsky is equivalent to directly occupying the first two lines of defense without much effort, but Veredovsky understands that it is not a good thing for the defenders to actively shrink the defense, which means that the defenders have more mobile forces and firepower, and the machine guns and mortars captured from the Chinese Empire are indeed of very good workmanship, but the ammunition is limited.

For these advanced weapons Vyledovsky has some emotion, the metallurgical and mechanical processing technology of the empire has not yet been able to make the same light machine gun as the Chinese Empire, even if it is manufactured, its weight is almost twice that of the other party, and the barrel is particularly easy to overheat, jam, and even shell breakage, for these Villedovsky can only sigh helplessly! The imposing Russian Empire would have been inferior to a small country that had recently risen and not even been united.

However, this time to send troops, Veredovsky saw more of the Qing Dynasty's incompetence, their army except for the Beiyang New Army, can not be called an army at all, the Beiyang New Army, a unit taught by Russian instructors, will naturally not be the opponent of the Russian Imperial Army, but the sharp edge of the Chinese Empire made him feel deeply shocked, there will be such a brave army in Asia? If the Imperial Chinese Army simply relied on the power of machine guns, mortars and other weapons, Veredovsky would not have felt this way, in several battles for breakthroughs, Veredovsky even witnessed the Chinese Imperial infantry with cold and shining bayonets chasing the Russian army like a duck, and finally was stabbed to death on the ground, the difference in physique between the two sides did not affect the result of the white-knuckle battle, and the assassination technology and courage of the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Chinese Army made the Russian army tremble.

In the main fort headquarters of the main fortress group, Huang Shengzhi received a report from the adjutant that one of his divisions had lost as much as fifty percent, and the loss of light and heavy weapons was serious, and the commander of the 23rd Brigade Zhang Cheng and the commander of the 24th Brigade Li Ji were all martyred, which was a major blow to the 12th Infantry Division, and even the Second Army Corps, and even to the Imperial Army.

Xu Renda knew that the death of the two brigade commanders hit Huang Shengzhi very hard, so he changed the topic and said: "Division Commander Huang, now is not the time to be sad, it is indeed very difficult to defend the entire front of Changshu with the strength of one of your divisions, it is a line of defense that leaks on all sides, but now is not the time to be sad, but how to hold Shanghai, this is the most important!" ”

Huang Shengzhi nodded and said: "I have already reorganized the troops into a brigade, and I will make a reserve after replenishing weapons and equipment, this time I will be consumed by the dead old man!" Damn it, it's either him dead or I'm dead! ”

Xu Renda patted Huang Shengzhi on the shoulder and said: "I also thank your brother for reminding us that the range of the Russians is not as powerful as our army, so we can rest assured that we can shrink the defensive line, and now the troops of the second brigade of our division are concentrated in the third permanent defense line, and the division headquarters also has five battalions of reserves. ”

Huang Shengzhi smiled helplessly, he really couldn't lift any mood at this time, because after the war, there was no result on how to deal with his defeat and loss of Changshu, maybe his Huang Shengzhi's military career would end here.

Xu Renda saw that Huang Shengzhi couldn't lift his spirits, so he smiled slightly and continued: "Don't worry, there is not only a 75mm field artillery brigade behind us, but also two artillery battalions with a total of 18 105mm howitzers that arrived the day before yesterday. ”

"Huh?" Huang Shengzhi was stunned for a moment, since Shangfeng sent such an advanced weapon to the front line in Shanghai, then he must have been completely prepared? If you can make a bright spot in the battle in the future, will you be able to offset the merits in the end? Huang Shengzhi's heart came alive again for a while.

Huang Shengzhi guessed correctly, Lin Haijiang has been thinking about whether to make a gap in Changshu after the top is almost over, so that the main force of the Russian army and the main force of the Beiyang New Army can enter the periphery of Shanghai, and use the fierce artillery fire to consume a large number of the living forces of the Russian army and the Beiyang New Army, but Lin Haijiang also considered one point, that is, will the Beiyang New Army turn to besiege the two divisions of Suzhou or Jiangyin?

The 11th Division of Suzhou Wang Daodun has the Third Army of Hangzhou as a support, Zeng Guofan may not dare to move Suzhou to pull out the teeth, the most likely is that Zeng Guofan designed the Russians to go to Shanghai, and he went to Jiangyin to encircle and annihilate the 10th Division Li Jiangsuo, this may be the largest!

Therefore, Lin Haijiang temporarily decided to send additional troops to Jiangyin from the Fifth Brigade of the Marine Corps, Chang Guohao, through the formation of river gunboats, and sent two 75-mm field artillery battalions to Jiangyin, using the original fortress system to prepare to resist the enemy.

But Lin Haijiang never expected that the Fifth Brigade of the Marine Corps would gather and board the ship, and Changshu would be lost? Isn't this tantamount to a fake drama coming true?

(To be continued)