Chapter Seventy-Six: The Frontline
The battlefield has been cleared, and the two boats in the river are also controlled by Han Zhengjun.
Han Zheng led people to the river quickly, and then jumped onto the boat, only to see the two cold Makqin next to him, and couldn't help but touch them with his hand, feeling the cold chill reflected on the gun.
Then Han Zheng put aside the two Makqin and walked directly into the cabin, where there were still the good things he had captured this time!
"It's really a fluke..." Looking at the several boxes of rifle ammunition stacked together in front of him, as well as two boxes of Makqin heavy machine gun ammunition, Han Zheng couldn't help but sigh...
If the opponent and his subordinates fight face-to-face, the opponent relies on two heavy machine guns and sufficient ammunition, it is difficult for him to easily take down the opponent, not to mention that there are still half of the recruits on his side.
Now, though, they're all their own.
When Han Zhengjun was arranged to eat here, Han Zheng knew that in the next time, it would be impossible for him to get any guns, ammunition, military salaries, food and grass from above, and he had to rely on his own efforts to fight for every step.
Therefore, for Han Zheng at this time, every bullet and even every penny is extremely precious, and this batch of loot is a temporary relief.
In particular, the heavy machine gun can be regarded as getting rid of the history of Han Zhengjun not even having heavy weapons, and to a certain extent, it makes up for the lack of firepower.
As for the money, a whole box in the cabin was lying there quietly, telling Han Zheng what it meant to receive both goods and goods.
Everyone around him was happily discussing, Han Zheng ignored the few people next to him, and directly arranged for his subordinates to move all the things out of the cabin, and then transport them to his station.
As for the two boats, Han Zheng will not waste it, it just happens that he doesn't have a boat, and it is difficult to go out, these two boats seem to come in handy in the early stage of his development, and they will not waste anything.
The soldiers carried these things back happily, and the battle that had just passed made them not sleepy at all.
Han Zheng promised everyone that this time everyone would send three oceans as a reward, and those who performed well during the battle would have an additional reward of five oceans, as for the people who stayed behind and the health team, they also fell, and one person and one ocean, which can be described as a great joy.
This is a drop in the bucket for the money seized.
The two boats were temporarily placed here, and a few people arranged by the logistics department came to guard them, and Han Zheng had already taken a fancy to the terrain here, so he decided to stabilize it in two days and build a small wharf here, which could be regarded as the beginning of his own water transportation and outward development.
Not to mention that Han Zheng made a fortune here and enjoyed a small fortune, Zhang Xunbu over there, after Han Zheng's farewell, the army marched all the way in the north of Anhui Province, although there were occasional small battles, but it was also like a bamboo, on the fifth day of January 1912, through Fengtai County, on the 10th day of the first month of Huainan City, on the 13th of Changfeng, on the 25th arrived in Dingyuan, and on the 26th arrived in Chuzhou Lai'an...
However, Zhang Xun's smooth road, after the south reacted, stopped there.
Until today, Zhang Xun's troops have arrived in Chuzhou for two days, and they still haven't taken a smooth step out of Chuzhou, and the southern army is desperately stopping Zhang Xun's advance on the front line, and the two armies in front have become anxious in the short term.
Facts have proved that the soldiers in the south are really not lacking in ruthless people, although they are slightly different from Zhang Xun's equipment, but they are still fighting with Zhang Xun's pigtail army, almost every inch of land.
Every time the two sides take a step forward or step back, a lot of blood will be left behind, and the two sides are really angry.
In this way, Zhang Xun looked at each other from a distance in Chuzhou and Nanjing, and the number of casualties on the battlefield every day would not be less than four or five hundred, and the Jiang Defense Army brought by Zhang Xun was almost disabled, with nearly a thousand casualties, and several commanders of the Jiang Defense Army almost knelt in front of Zhang Xun, hoping that the other party could replace his remnants of his subordinates to take a breath.
On the fourth day, seeing that the Jiang Defense Army was about to collapse, Zhang Xun no longer dared to take it lightly, and immediately ordered the Jiang Defense Army, which had been disabled, to be replaced, and his own braid army was on top. As a result, the front line has slowly stabilized, but there is no hope of opening up the situation.
Zhang Xun has been scratching his head in his temporary office in the past few days, and the corners of his mouth have blisters, but in the face of the desperate resistance of the Southern Army, coupled with the fact that he cherishes his subordinates, he can't think of any good way after all, that is, a group of people from the staff department were also pressed by Zhang Xun in front of the map in the room.
"Li Yan, how's it going? Did you find out who led the team across from us? Zhang Xun saw Li Yan walking in with sweat in winter, and he didn't care about those false courtesies, so he asked directly, Zhang Xun, who was in his fifties, looked more than ten years old at this time, and the scorching battle line in front of him, as well as the continuous casualties of the lineage army, made his heart angry.
"I know, the one who is fighting against us on the other side is Lin Shuqing, who used to be the standard commander of the local garrison in Zhenjiang." Li Yan knew Zhang Xun's urgency at this time, so he didn't beat around the bush and said directly.
"It turned out to be him, no wonder, he didn't stay in Jiangsu, why did he come here, don't you want your hometown!" Zhang Xun has some impressions of this Lin Shuqing, when he came over some time ago, he checked some characters in the south, and knew that this Lin Shuqing was originally a standard of the imperial court, eating imperial grain, but what he didn't expect was that he was raised as a white-eyed wolf.
When Li Yan heard Zhang Xun's words, he only smiled bitterly and did not answer, he also knew that this was Zhang Xun's angry words, could it be that who was arranged over there really had to ask Zhang Xun's opinion?
"Report! Emergency! Just when Zhang Xun was angrily scolding his mother, the voice of the signal soldier suddenly came from outside.
"Come in, Li Yan will help me see what is going on." Zhang Xun recently received several urging orders from the north, and thought that this time would be the same, so he waved his hand a little weakly and said to Li Yan.
Li Yan took the piece of paper in the signal soldier's hand and signed the registration book in the signal soldier's hand before reading it.
Li Yan's expression was happy at first, but then his brows furrowed together, and he glanced at Zhang Xun with some tears and smiles.
"What? Or is it an order from the Warlord? Zhang Xun glanced at Li Yan in surprise and asked suspiciously.
Li Yan shook his head and handed the telegram directly to the other party: "Boss, you better take a look for yourself..."
Zhang Xun glanced at Li Yan in surprise and took it, but before he finished reading, he saw Zhang Xun put the teacup in his hand heavily on the table and snorted angrily.
It turned out that when Yuan Shikai had just decided to use force against the south, he sent Duan Qirui south to serve as the president of the First Army and act as the governor of Huguang, and the telegram said that Duan Qirui was about to arrive here with follow-up troops and was fully responsible for the military operation against the south, and Zhang Xun was to be under his control.
Although he did not mean to punish Zhang Xun on the surface, Zhang Xun knew very well that this telegram meant himself, and his relationship with Duan Qirui was not very good.
If Han Zheng knew, he would definitely know that it was his own butterfly effect that had exploded.
In the history of his previous life, Duan Qirui was appointed by Yuan Shikai on November 18, 1911, and went south to concurrently serve as the presidential officer of the First Army and the governor of Huguang.
At this time, it is completely different from this history, whether it is the people who participated in the war or the time, it is already completely chaotic, at least in the previous life, the area north of the Huai River at this time the Beiyang Army will not encounter any battles in transit, and it is completely under the control of Beiyang, and at this time Zhang Xun has been going all the way but small battles have also happened from time to time, and Duan Qirui's appointment has had a great conflict with the original history.
"Forget it, I don't want to do this, when Mr. Duan arrives, let's hand over this stall to him, see if they can make a flower, let the soldiers all withdraw, and let them all rest and rest, just prevent the surprise attack over there, our affairs seem to be done." Zhang Xun was silent for a moment and finally said.
Since it is Yuan Shikai's meaning, his current position is embarrassing, and he does not dare to object no matter what, and he also wants to see Duan Qirui, one of the so-called three heroes of Beiyang, joke in his heart.
Hearing Zhang Xun's tone of relief, the people in the staff over there were all relieved, maybe it was too smooth before, this time they were a little caught off guard, and they wanted to find a way to deal with it in a short period of time but they couldn't think of it for a while, listening to what Mr. Zhang meant, he could finally sleep well.
Li Yan looked at the somewhat decadent Zhang Xun, and wanted to persuade a few words, but he didn't know how to speak, Zhang Xun originally hoped that this time he would be in the front and lead people to deal a good blow to the arrogance of the southern revolutionaries, which also meant to be loyal to the Qing government, but he didn't want to be subject to the so-called Beiyang Sanjie.
But now that Duan Qirui is coming, Zhang Xun's abacus has also failed, although there will be a big war between the north and the south, but both sides are thinking about peace, and they will definitely have their own proportions and restraints when they really fight.
The aftermath of this war is the politicians' game・・・・・・
On the last day of January, whether Zhang Xun wanted it or not, Duan Qirui still came, followed not only by nearly 20,000 old Beiyang soldiers, but also by rows of heavy machine guns and a large number of German Krupp 75mm guns that Zhang Xun was blushing at.
"It is worthy of the three heroes of Beiyang, this pomp, heh! It's strong with those of us who are halfway monks. Zhang Xun looked at those treasures with hot eyes, sneered in his heart, and said to himself with some jealousy, if he had these treasures, he would have beaten the rebels on the other side a long time ago!
But the gap between people is like this, whether you are willing or unwilling, it does not affect anything.
This time, as Zhang Xun expected, Duan Qirui came with a strong purpose this time, did not gossip too much with Zhang Xun and others, and after directly understanding the current situation, without saying a word, he put each artillery battalion in place, and cleanly bombarded the opponent's position, and then the barrage intertwined with various heavy machine guns was rampant on the battlefield.
Lin Shuqing already knew the news of Duan Qirui's arrival in advance, but after confronting Zhang Xun for a few days, he relaxed his vigilance, thinking that Beiyang was like this, and he didn't pay too much attention to it.
But what he didn't expect was that Duan Qirui launched a fierce attack on the first day he arrived here, especially those powerful heavy weapons, which were completely beyond the scope of the defensive ability of the original defensive position, and under the surprise attack, Lin Shuqing's troops could be said to have suffered heavy casualties.
Lin Shuqing saw that he had suffered heavy losses and that the front front was in danger of collapsing, and he could no longer hold on, so he directly asked the Nanjing War Department for help.
The War Department replied that the troops had already been assembled and were on their way, and the request to Lin Shuqing's department was to hold on for a day and a half anyway, waiting for backup to come.
However, the opportunity had been lost, the soldiers were poor, the equipment had suffered serious losses, and the troops under the heavy artillery bombardment were no longer able to continue to hold on.
Lin Shuqing said that he was an ideal revolutionary, and he did not have the careful thinking of those politicians in his heart, otherwise when the south wanted to find someone to fight this first battle, others pushed and shouted, but he was the only one who took the initiative to undertake this task.
Therefore, this time, since the top still let himself hold on for a day and a half, even if he was dissatisfied with the above, he knew in his heart that if he held here, his army would probably be disabled, but he still accepted the order with difficulty and stayed here.