On the afternoon of 29 July, there were more than 300 local defenders in Yingshang who were inclined to the Southern Revolutionary Party, and later the Southern Army, which had been reinforced from the direction of Bengbu, and in a moment, there were more than 1,000 soldiers in the city.

In this way, for Han Zheng's more than 5,000 soldiers, it is five times less, but the other party occupies a geographical advantage, and it is the side defending the city, if it drags on for a long time, for Han Zheng, it is inevitable that an accident will occur.

Therefore, this battle on Yingshang seems to be particularly important.

"Where is the third battalion? Did the Spearhead Company keep up? Chen Feng listened to the latest report handed over by his subordinates, read it carefully, and then continued a series of questions.

At the same time, the regimental staff headquarters has unfolded the map, and according to the latest information, the location and orientation of the vanguard are marked at any time.

"What?! The spearhead company encountered the enemy's position in the eighteen-mile shop?! Well, let them stop their advance for a while, keep in touch, and keep a close eye on the enemy forces! Chen Feng carefully recorded these news, then thought about it, and soon gave another order.

When the herald left, Chen Feng looked at the position of the enemy and our troops drawn by the staff office on the map, a line was spread in the east-west southerly direction in this place of eighteen miles, and the Yingshang area was exactly the left and right junction of this line, which happened to block the troops of the three regiments on the road.

The staff officers below were arguing, but Chen Feng did not stop him, he listened carefully to the opinions of the staff department, and then carefully observed the map, seeking the best opportunity to destroy the enemy.

Soon after, the opinions of the General Staff were quickly unified, and Chen Feng was given a marching opinion.

After Chen Feng looked at it, he then found the marked position on the map, and quickly made up his mind, and said to a herald who had been waiting: "Go and inform Li Feng and Battalion Commander Li's artillery battalion, let them speed up their march, they must arrive at Shibalipu before four o'clock this afternoon, the rear position, and we are responsible for the safety!" ”

"At the same time, arrange some more people to inform the regimental transport team and try their best to cooperate with the artillery battalion to come forward! Let the second battalion escort up to support, and the regimental headquarters will follow immediately! ”

Because Han Zheng put Chen Feng's three regiments in the vanguard position this time, this cleared the obstacles, and the task of expelling the enemy troops on the road naturally fell on the heads of their three regiments.

At the same time, in order to allow the three regiments to increase their autonomy and seize every opportunity, Han Zheng also handed over the artillery battalion to the three regiments to prevent encountering the enemy's strong positions.

At this time, the first part of the three battalions of the three regiments, under Chen Feng's order, had already acted as the vanguard of the regimental headquarters to conduct a powerful search in the direction of Yingshang, but it happened to discover the enemy's peripheral positions outside Yingshang City, so the latest information on Yingshang was sent to Chen Feng's desk.

And the regimental headquarters will also set off to the front.

After hearing Chen Feng's words, the herald memorized the order firmly, then quickened his pace and ran quickly outside.

The army led by Han Zheng had already converged with Chen Feng's regimental headquarters and settled down temporarily, and Han Zheng happened to come from the temporary headquarters at this time, and when he saw Chen Feng's busy appearance, he couldn't help but smile: "Commander Chen, you are too anxious, it's not that you haven't fought before, although we are different this time, the other party looks very strong, but it won't take too long to really fight, as long as we resist the enemy's attack, let's fight with the other party now." ”

"Commander, although this is the case, I am afraid that if I don't strictly demand it, these subordinates will be lazy at that time, and if there is an accident, it will be troublesome!" Chen Feng replied after saluting.

Han Zheng smiled, knowing that persuasion was useless, but he also knew that what Chen Feng said was right, and to be honest, he was still a little nervous.

Han Zheng stepped forward and glanced at the marching array, and said with a smile: "Okay, anyway, this first battle is handed over to you, by the way, I just received a message, which is also a good thing, the 'Opium Governor' over there in Shanghai has now escaped." ”

"In this way, it seems that the Shanghai side has been stabilized by President Yuan, which is somewhat beneficial to us. In fact, it's funny, those newspapers that originally sang that Chen Qimei was the pillar of the country or something, but now they have lost their voices. ”

Han Zheng finally referred to the opium governor is Chen Qimei, since Chen Qimei almost openly supported the opium trafficking in Shanghai, this nickname has spread among various warlords, Chen Qimei's reputation has also stinked, and even the south has to be forced to alienate Chen Qimei.

Chen Feng thought for a while and didn't continue to say this, but asked: "Commander, I heard that most of the classmates who came back from Germany with you stayed in Shanghai, do you think it will be ?????? this time?" ”

Han Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then remembered this stubble, but the Tao was not the same, he had not yet landed, and it was not good to ask them to follow him, at this time, he thought about it and felt sorry for his classmates, I hope they are all fine: "It should be fine, they have just arrived in the army, and it seems impossible to want a huge high position, and naturally they will not be worried." ”

When Chen Feng heard this, he pondered for a while, and then continued: "Commander, see if we can find out those people and get them into our army, although we can't expand the army on a large scale for the time being because of the north, but after our victory this time, if we take northern Anhui, the army will be logical, and they will be able to play a better role in our crash school, and they can also expand our military school at this opportunity." ”

Han Zheng didn't expect Chen Feng to fight this idea, pondered it, and knew in his heart that the other party's idea was good, and it seemed to be necessary for the current situation, but I just don't know if these people can still be contacted: "In this way, I will arrange for the People's Affairs Department to notify the people in Shanghai to pay attention to this matter, and if they find it, they can also ask Mr. Li Yiru to help bring them over." ”

"Hmm." Chen Feng nodded.

"Then you can continue to get busy, and I'll go back and order the whole army to speed up and try to take down Yingshang as soon as possible??????!"

Tang Shunzi is now the battalion commander of the third battalion, originally in Bozhou City, Chen Feng promised to give him a company commander after the war, who knew that this kid was in the night of trampling on the bandit camp, he was forced to support the injury on his arm, and he actually took the remaining brothers in his platoon to act as a peripheral force to prevent the bandits from escaping, and it was a shit luck, Liu Mazi was personally killed by this person with his subordinates at that time.

After Chen Feng reported this great achievement, Han Zheng admired this person, and when he investigated and reviewed the other party's files, he knew that the other party's performance in the crash course was excellent, so with this great achievement, he was exceptionally promoted to the battalion commander of the third regiment and three battalions!

Since receiving the order from the regiment headquarters, Tang Shunzi, the commander of the third battalion with great courage, took his third battalion and searched for Yingshang City in accordance with the instructions of the regiment headquarters.

In the area of Eighteen Mile Pu, when arriving at the place not far from Yingshang City, when he was about to arrive at Eighteen Mile Pu, he found that Eighteen Mile Pu had been built into a temporary position by the enemy, although it was temporary, but it looked very strong, and there were many shadows inside, and it seemed that there were many defenders.

Originally, after Tang Shunzi heard the news, he wanted to take his brothers to make a good start, who knew that he used the military binoculars just sent down by the army to take a look, hey, the number of people in that place is really not old and young, at least two or three hundred people are in that position!

Knowing that he couldn't get a good start this time, Tang Shunzi didn't hesitate, and directly asked the rear regiment headquarters for instructions, waiting for the support of artillery and heavy machine gun companies, and then ordered the soldiers and the enemy to confront each other across several trenches and monitor local movements.

At less than four o'clock in the afternoon, the follow-up artillery finally came here and made peace with Tang Shunzi's third battalion, and the second battalion that followed strengthened the army.

Soon, the artillery battalion, under the command of their battalion commander Li Feng, marked all the coordinates, found a suitable firing position, and loaded the shells into the barrel of the cannon, which could give a fierce artillery bombardment to the local position at any time!

Tang Shunzi saw the cold light reflected in the afterglow of the sun, and glanced at it with envy, he knew the power of these more than ten cannons, once the power was launched, it would definitely be enough for the other party to drink a pot, but the only regret in his heart was that he didn't know when he would be able to have these good things under his command, so let us put a few cannons.

But to be honest, for Li Feng, the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, Tang Shunzi admired and hated it in his heart, what he admired was the talent of the other party in artillery command, and what he hated was that Battalion Commander Li was too protective of calves, and he wanted to touch the cannon that he had been coveting for a long time several times??????

Tang Shunzi didn't notice the sour taste in his mouth when he thought about this sentence.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Feng arrived with the follow-up troops, and the first frontal battle with the regular army in the south was about to start in this little-known eighteen mile shop! (To be continued.) )