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Zuo Zongtang, who returned to his camp, is actively deploying three things, the first of which is tonight's attack, for which he recruited all the commanders of the ten towns into his camp tent to discuss matters!

Zuo Zongtang looked at Li Xubin and Xu Guangyuan, who were a little absent-minded, and took a slight breath, and said a little weakly: "There is actually no other meaning to call everyone here, the handsome man is ruthless now, but this Wucheng Temple can not be won by a fierce force, how many times have we fought back and forth?" Xu Guangyuan's Tenth Town lost more than 3,000 brothers in one attack, this battle can't be fought like this, otherwise after tonight, our Beiyang Ten Towns may only be left with empty shells! ”

Li Xubin glanced at Zuo Zongtang and said, "I don't know if Lord Zuo has any high opinions?" But if our departments don't fight hard tonight, I'm afraid the commander won't be able to cope with it anywhere? You know the temper of the handsome man best, I'm afraid that when the time comes, one of us will really have to fall to the ground! ”

A few commanders on the side also muttered with sad faces: "Our Beiyang New Army training is all made of silver!" His own soldiers went up to die like this, and if he didn't feel heartache, he would be fucking light, but what else can he do now? Who dares not to fight if the big marshal wants to fight? ”

Zuo Zongtang also said a little helplessly: "I understand the thoughts of Zeng Dashuai, he is afraid that if we can't nibble on the head division of the Lin rebel bandit army this time, if we encounter it in the future, there will be a shadow in the hearts of the officers and soldiers, and when we encounter the army of the Chinese Empire in the future, we will be frightened, and the marshal has made up his mind to inspire the soul of my Beiyang New Army!" But after all, this Führer Division is the elite division of the elite of Lin Revers's bandit army, and we are waiting to be shocked by Lin Reb's annihilation plan! In the end, I am afraid that only our Beiyang will lose the army, with Lin Wei's financial resources and strength, he will be able to create ten such elite divisions in a hundred battles in less than a year! This is beyond our reach in Beiyang! The Great Qing Kingdom needs money everywhere, and the imperial court will not always favor our Beiyang, especially when our combat strength is greatly damaged. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Zuo Zongtang hesitated for a moment and said, "Then everyone can watch it!" But I ask you to keep in mind that our Beiyang has no sailors, and if the Lu division is damaged, then our Beiyang will no longer be Beiyang! ”

Zuo Zongtang was in a state of confusion, and at the same time he was arranging to prepare for the final blow to Wucheng Temple, whether he could really take Wucheng Temple Zuo Zongtang was also very entangled in his heart, and he also wanted to eat Lin Haijiang's first division very much! However, I am afraid that the cost is too great, and the current Beiyang will definitely not be able to withstand the wind and waves.

Due to the poor communication, the general offensive of the Chinese Empire also had some confusion, Li Jiang, the 10th Division of the Chinese Imperial Defenders in Jiangyin, and Chang Guohao, the 5th Brigade of the Marine Corps, did not take the initiative to attack, but stuck to the old rules, the Chinese Imperial defenders in Shanghai defeated the remnants of the Russian army on the periphery Due to the rapid pursuit, the troops all acted separately in company units, and when they realized that it was too late, the troops could not complete the rebuilding and assembly for a while, and the third corps interspersed with them collided with the retreating army of Villedovsky, As a result, after a big scuffle, Veldovsky's originally unorderly retreat completely turned into a rout.

The rout of the Russian army used everything they could find, horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, ox carts, and all other means of transportation they could think of, and all kinds of objects they plundered were hung on their rifles, and some Russian soldiers even tied things to themselves, and some Russian soldiers even pushed wheelbarrows that they didn't know where to steal, and poor technology led to overturning one after another, and even six or seven people carrying a large table were tired and sweaty and refused to give up! There is a posture of sacrificing one's life and money.

And in the distance there were dense gunshots and muffled explosions, for this muffled explosion, the Russians at this moment were like frightened birds, and the deadly Grim Reaper thrown out of the hands of the soldiers of the Chinese Empire who rushed out of the night was the kind of thing called a grenade!

This kind of thing was invented in Europe more than a hundred years ago, and has been used for purposes such as guarding castles, and just after the grenadiers have been in decline for a long time, the Russians saw for the first time the wisdom of the Orientals, and the grenade can be made so that the infantry can easily throw it? Whether it's offensive or defensive, this is obviously a very good weapon!

Veldovsky got some grenades and two hard-won light machine guns from the corpses of the fallen Chinese Imperial soldiers to be sent home, and more than a dozen carriages of Veldovsky had already been scattered in all directions, and Veletovsky even wondered if his subordinates were trying to embezzle his finances? So deliberately drove the car away?

Less than ten miles behind the rout of the Russian army, Xu Dawei stood in front of the corpses of several killed Russian officers on the side of the hillside and examined them, except for some gold and silver jewelry in the document bags they carried, Xu Dawei did not find any expected valuable documents and information.

However, Xu Dawei was still very disdainful of the Russian troops who were killed, because his third army was in the shape of a line of troops, and the vanguard met the retreating army of the Russian army because of getting lost and detouring, and an unexpected encounter broke out, but the Russian army did not have any intention to fight, but just fled in a panic, and the blocking troops left behind were quickly defeated.

Xu Dawei naturally knew that his task was to reinforce Wucheng Temple and close the door to the retreat of the Russian army and the Beiyang New Army, but he did not expect the retreat of the Russian army to be so fast, and there was intelligence that the new army of the three towns of Beiyang seemed to have left Jiangyin and assembled in the direction of Changzhou. To alleviate the pressure on the first-line imperial head division of Wucheng Temple?

Xu Dawei is now a little hesitant, because the headquarters of the commander of the First Army Zhang Zheng has already arrived in Hangzhou, according to the strategic plan of the empire, the first army and the corps directly under the headquarters will be the main force to attack Nanjing, and the headquarters of the commander of the fourth army Zheng Zhipeng is approaching Xianning, the third brigade of the Marine Corps and the second gunboat team of the inland river will cooperate with its attack on the headquarters of Seng Lingqin in Wuhan, and the imperial inland gunboat corps will concentrate more than 60 gunboats to cooperate with the first and second brigades of the Marine Corps and the fifth brigade of Jiangyin to land in Nanjing. Seize Nanjing.

And at this moment, the question facing Xu Dawei is whether to avoid the rout of the Russian army and directly reinforce Changzhou at all costs to become the imperial head division of Wucheng Temple in a bitter battle, or to directly defeat the main force of Vyledovsky and quickly reinforce Wucheng Temple after destroying the Russian army? And all this depends on whether the Imperial Führer Division can hold on? If he coveted the so-called military merits and caused the Imperial Führer's division to fall into the point of being alone and helpless, Xu Dawei knew very well that the Führer would not be polite to him!

After thinking about it again, Xu Dawei decided to quickly reinforce Wucheng Temple with the thirteenth, and he personally led the 14th, 15th, and 16th infantry divisions to follow the main force of the Russian army and encircle and annihilate it!

With a mere force of less than 40,000, encircling and annihilating at least 80,000 Russian troops? Xu Dawei knew that his courage was indeed not small, but these Russians, who had become frightened birds, really had no combat effectiveness!

Lin Haijiang looked at the map in the war room of the Zhenyuan ship, when he arrived, the main force of the Russian army had all retreated from the periphery of Shanghai, so the latest replacement of the main guns of Zhenyuan and Dingyuan could not play a role at all, Lin Haijiang was looking at the map over and over again, he knew that tonight was a very important night for the empire, and this night was likely to determine the future situation and national fortune of the entire China.

The number of the troops marked on the map has been five days ago, and now that all the troops are in motion, the contact has become a very tricky problem, and there is no good way for Lin Haijiang, if he uses military pigeons, it means that he must wait for the military pigeons to fly back, otherwise he will miss the information.

Lin Haijiang was most worried about his Führer Division at the moment, although this unit was known for its tenacity, but for the rapidly changing battlefield, it was difficult for him, who was responsible for the final overall command decision of the empire, to be able to make timely adjustments to the strategy that had been formulated and had already begun to be implemented under the premise that this communication method was very backward.

Lin Haijiang's original intention was to let the Imperial Head of State Division make a solid limelight, justify its name, in order to stimulate the competition between the division-level or regiment-level troops, and use the honorary battle flag and number to stimulate his subordinates, Lin Haijiang's move can be described as well-intentioned.

According to Lin Haijiang's understanding, even if Zeng Guofan finds out that he intends a decisive battle, he will definitely recycle his forces to defend the front line of Nanjing, and the Beiyang New Army may also attack the Führer Division deep behind the enemy, after all, the name of the First Division of the Chinese Imperial Army is not small, when the Beiyang New Army hit its head under the iron wall of the Führer's Division's defense, the flank attack of the 10th Infantry Division and the 5th Brigade of the Marine Corps in Jiangyin, plus the division and advancement of the four main corps, the Russian army is even Nikolavich God of War reborn, I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover the fate of being completely annihilated!

Then the First Corps quickly advanced to cooperate with the Corps directly under the Command to attack Nanjing, which can be said to be a decisive battle, plus the Fourth Corps Zheng Zhipeng Military Department and the Marine Corps cooperated to attack Wuhan, completely expelling the forces of the Qing court to the north of the Yangtze River, completing their first strategic plan, and as the Imperial Head of State Division deep behind the enemy line, it will also become famous because of this battle.

But through the feedback of the information, Lin Haijiang found that the course of the entire battle seemed to have deviated from his previous expectations, because the retreat speed of the three towns of Beiyang was too fast, and the Beiyang New Army under Zuo Zongtang, who was reinforcing the south from Nanjing, was also very fast, and the Beiyang New Army actually opened its posture and began to besiege the Imperial Head of State Division at Wucheng Temple? What made Lin Haijiang feel the most incredible was that Veledovsky actually retreated from the periphery of Shanghai in advance? This led to uncontrollable changes in his siege plan.

(To be continued)