The presidential palace of Yuan Shikai in the north was already in a strange atmosphere at this time, and the results of the war between Xuzhou and the Northern Anhui Army had been sent to Yuan Shikai's desk.

For a series of battles at the junction of Xuzhou and northern Anhui, everyone did not feel sudden, and even this was what everyone wanted, but the result of the battle was to make everyone lose their voices for a while!

No one thought that in the contest between Han Zheng, a rising star in Beiyang, and Zhang Xun, a relict of the Qing Dynasty, Han Zheng's first division in northern Anhui would be able to defeat the old pigtail army that had just been withdrawn from Nanjing and was in high morale.

In fact, the details of this incident have to start from two days ago.

At that time, Han Zheng used a small county town as a funeral, and planted a huge amount of gunpowder in the county town, which completely destroyed the two or three thousand people of Zhang Shuyuan's department after ignition, which directly caused the morale of Zhang Xun's follow-up troops to be demoralized, and he no longer had the courage to face Han Zheng's army, especially when Zhang Shuyuan only took less than a hundred people and fled back to Zhang Xun's department in embarrassment, this emotion completely broke out.

Zhang Xun was frightened and angry, but in the face of such a situation, he didn't even have time to deal with the responsibility, so he had to impose martial law on the whole army, wanting to block the news of Zhang Shuyuan's annihilation.

At the same time, Zhang Xun, who knew that the matter was irreparable and that the general trend had gone, had to start preparing to withdraw the army, and the various departments packed up their things and prepared to withdraw to Xuzhou City overnight, and then relied on Xuzhou City to resist the attack of the Northern Anhui Army, and then waited for Yuan Shikai's reaction in the rear.

However, it is impossible for Han Zheng to give Zhang Xun this opportunity......

On the morning of the second day, Han Zhengwan's northern army appeared in front of Zhang Xun's department with lightning speed, and pursued Zhang Xun's department who was retreating.

But at this time, Zhang Xunbu's future was already slim.

Because of the chasing soldiers in the rear, Zhang Xun did not dare to retreat rashly, the two sides tested each other's combat strength from time to time, a daytime time, the two sides continued to fight small-scale, conflicts occurred from time to time, until the evening, after the two sides confronted each other for a whole day, Zhang Xun finally made up his mind, leaving a battalion of troops in the rear of the large army to contain Han Zheng's army, and his army began to slowly retreat.

However, what Zhang Xun didn't expect was that as soon as he left, he was detected by Han Zhengjun, and the army immediately pounced fiercely with the overwhelming force of Mount Tai!

A battalion of Zhang Xun's department, who had been left behind, had fallen into despair when they knew that they had been abandoned, and they met the attack of Han Zheng's northern army in fear, and then almost without any resistance, they all surrendered.

At this point, Zhang Xun's abacus completely failed, and the large army that had not gone far was directly caught up by Han Zheng.

The two sides fought a big battle on this plain, and you came and went, shouting and killing.

However, because Zhang Xunbu was defenseless before, he had been thinking about escaping, and in the face of the pursuit of the Northern Anhui Army, as soon as he made contact, Zhang Xunbu in the rear had already retreated, and then the rout began to spread.

Zhang Xun's department, which is withdrawing from the army, has received a strong blow from Han Zhengjun this time, and has suffered heavy losses, Zhang Xun is also a veteran and has rich experience, but no matter how good the idea is, it needs to be implemented by the soldiers, and when the soldiers have formed a rout, everything is useless!

For this reason, Zhang Xun once wanted to reorganize his troops many times and snipe Han Zheng's army, but then, Han Zheng's back hand finally appeared, and bursts of shouts and killings came from all directions, which made Zhang Xun's thoughts shattered again and again!

It turned out that the first and second brigades of the Northern Anhui Army had been surrounded from both sides, and in this way, Han Zheng in the rear formed a triangular encirclement, surrounded Zhang Xun's troops, and let the troops that Zhang Xun had just organized collapse again, scurrying around like a swarm of headless flies!

Zhang Xun knew that he was really finished this time, and in anger and despair, he almost committed suicide, if it weren't for Zhang Shuyuan and his own soldiers, Zhang Xun would have gone to see his subordinates this time!

In the end, in desperation, Zhang Shuyuan and Zhang Xun deserved to abandon the army, only with more than 100 guards, and took advantage of the night to find a gap and run out before the first and second brigades of the Northern Anhui Army had not completed the complete encirclement.

After a night of chaotic fighting, Han Zheng's army this time can be said to be a plough court sweeping the holes, all the pigtail army thousands of people to beat the wolf and rat, after Zhang Xun escaped, there was no one to command, the next morning, the pigtail army thousands of people were finally captured more than 2,000 people, annihilated more than 800 people, and the rest of the nearly 200 people who fled with Zhang Xun, the others were worried about too many casualties, deliberately released the water, and scattered more than 2,000 people in the war!

After this battle, there was no longer an organized enemy army in Xuzhou to resist the takeover of Xuzhou by the Han Zheng army!

On the battlefield after the collapse of the pigtail army, guns, bullets and weapons were scattered everywhere, a large number of rifles and bullets, dozens of cannons, and hundreds of heavy machine guns that had not had time to be taken away were left intact in place, and this battle did not even have time to be used!

In the end, these things were all cheaper than Han Zheng's Northern Anhui Army.

Zhang Xun brought back his subordinates fled back to Xuzhou in embarrassment, and the deserters who collapsed later came back one after another more than 1,000 people, speaking of which, Zhang Xun's men once again reached nearly 1,000 people, and the rout is still gathering.

This made Zhang Xun, who was already desperate, once again reveal the idea of wanting to defend Xuzhou, but these routs no longer have the slightest will to fight, most of the weapons have been lost on the way to escape, and the eyes of every soldier who came back were full of fear!

In this case, when Zhang Xun proposed to defend Xuzhou, he almost didn't get anyone's support, they were really scared, and even now the soldiers outside have begun to appear around harassing Xuzhou City, robbing the residents [robbery] Things happen from time to time, the military spirit has now been established, and Xuzhou City is becoming more and more chaotic with more and more routs into the city.

In the end, Zhang Shuyuan and others took the lead in asking Zhang Xun to evacuate this place before Han Zheng came, and in desperation, Zhang Xun finally nodded and agreed.

At this point, the war provoked by Zhang Xun ended with Zhang Xun fleeing from Xuzhou.

At this time, Zhang Shuyuan and Zhang Xun were sitting in a train car, and the other subordinate officials had been arranged to get on the train, Zhang Xun himself seemed to be more than ten years old at this time, his eyes were full of bloodshot and unwilling, and his graying hair was particularly obvious in the night wind and the firelight caused by explosions from time to time.

Zhang Xun looked at the chaotic station and Xuzhou City outside the window with a complicated expression, and gasped in pain.

Now the city of Xuzhou has been really chaotic, everywhere is desperate pigtail army chaotic figures, from time to time in the city rises a fire, the entire station around is now guarded by the two guards, any close to the station of the rebel army is mercilessly shot!

The soldiers who saw the commander leave and even left their own people behind even stormed the station several times, wanting to leave this place, but how many people can be pulled by a temporarily intercepted train? These soldiers who wanted to storm the train were all mercilessly killed by their own people who had prepared for a long time, otherwise it would be difficult for them to leave this place smoothly!

The soldiers cursed frantically, and the voice passed through the car window into Zhang Xun's ears, Zhang Xun finally closed his eyes in pain, and finally muttered: "I'm sorry for you!" ”

Zhang Xun's belongings were finally loaded at this time, several boxes full of silver dollars were carried onto the train, and a large bundle of bombs was placed on the railroad tracks, ready to blow up the railway after the train left to prevent Han Zheng's pursuit.

At this time, Zhang Xun himself knew that he would have to live on those silver money in the future, he no longer had an army in his hands, and he no longer had to talk about any future.

Zhang Shuyuan lowered his head tightly at this time, the pain in his heart was even deeper than Zhang Xun, he had always been Zhang Xun's henchman, but he didn't expect it to be in his own hands, burying the future of the entire pigtail army, even though Zhang Dashuai didn't blame himself, but the pain and guilt in his heart devoured his already fragile heart like a poisonous snake.

When he followed Zhang Xun, the old Beiyang under his command has been completely destroyed, at this time Zhang Xun's downfall, which means that he has no place to turn over, if Zhang Xun can still have a rich man, it is estimated that he can only live in the dark in the future!

I don't know what I thought, Zhang Xun suddenly raised his head, gritted his teeth at Zhang Xun and said: "Dashuai, this time I'm sorry for you, if I hadn't buried three thousand brothers, I wouldn't have caused such a situation, this time I'm not going to leave, I want to take my last breath here, and also buy some time for Dashuai, brothers can't die in vain!" “

Zhang Xun glanced at Zhang Shuyuan weakly, but there was no blame in his eyes, he knew that even if he led these people there, it was estimated that he would not end well, and he had always thought that it was because of Li Yan's betrayal that he had caused such a situation, otherwise his army would not have been touched so clearly by Han Zheng's little child, and when he heard Zhang Shuyuan's words, he sighed with some emotion.

"Brother Zhang, how can I blame you? I won't leave you behind anyway, I know you're worried, but don't worry, as long as I still have a bite to eat, I won't be hungry Brother Zhang. Let's go back together, there may not be a chance to turn over! Zhang Xun said something he didn't believe and comforted the other party.

Zhang Shuyuan smiled bitterly, but he had already made up his mind, but Zhang Shuyuan, who knew that his future was bleak, persisted, and finally when he found that the cavalry of Han Zheng's army had appeared outside Xuzhou City, Zhang Xun finally let go of Zhang Shuyuan.

The things that didn't have time to be sent to the train in the station were thrown everywhere, Zhang Shuyuan quietly watched the train leave, and then took his henchman Zhou Ming to gather some chaotic troops, a total of more than 100 people now, and the only thing he could do was to blow up the armory that he didn't have time to carry away in Xuzhou City!

And because when he heard that Zhang Shuyuan was going to stay and blow up the armory, Zhou Ming felt a little difficult in his heart, but his commander specified that he wanted to defend the armory, if Zhang Shuyuan blew it up, how could he explain to the commander? !

Therefore, when Zhang Shuyuan was about to arrive at the armory with people, a gust of evil wind suddenly came from the back of his head, and Zhou Ming slammed the butt of his gun on the back of Zhang Shuyuan's head in the shocked eyes of everyone, and then Zhang Zhang Shuyuan slowly fell.

The surrounding soldiers immediately pointed their guns at Zhou Ming, and shouted loudly whether Zhou Ming was going to rebel! (To be continued.) )