In the Hukou position, the soldiers of the Jiangxi Army (Jiangxi) leaned against the trenches, and one by one they either closed their eyes to recuperate, or they were talking about the battle with the people next to them with a worried face.

"Brother, do you think we can really win this time?"

Inside the trench, a young man who looked to be in his early 20s asked the 30-year-old soldier next to him with a worried face.

The veteran was originally cleaning the sand in the barrel of the gun, but when he heard the young man say this, he was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he shook his head.

"It's hard to say..."

Yuan Shikai once held a military meeting in the presidential palace and decided to use the Jinghan and Jinpu railways to use the two railways to use troops to the south, with Duan Qirui leading Li Chun, Qi Xieyuan, Wang Zhanyuan and others south to Hubei and Jiangxi, Feng Guozhang leading Zhang Xun, Lei Zhenchun and Ni Sichong to Pukou in the south, and then Li Chun's troops into Jiangxi, Zhang Xun's troops into Suzhou, and Ni Sichong's troops into Anhui.

As soon as Li Chun's Beiyang Sixth Town entered Jiangxi, it clashed with the Lin Hu Department of the First Brigade stationed in Shahe Town and the Shengtao Department of the mixed brigade stationed at Hukou. After the conflict, Lin Hu's troops of the First Brigade were okay to say, after all, they were not facing the main force of the Beiyang Army, and their own strength was not bad. However, the mixed brigade, which only had the ninth and twelfth regiments plus one reading battalion, suffered a big loss in the face of one of the 23rd regiments of the 21st, 22nd and 12th brigades of the 11th brigade of the 6th town of Beiyang, Ma Jizeng, and if it were not for the brigade commander Fang Shengtao to the front line to desperately stabilize the battle situation, I am afraid that Hukou would have been taken by Li Chun's troops on the same day.

After learning that Fang Shengtao's troops and Ma Jizeng had lost the conflict, Yu Weiqian, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Jiangxi Army, Zhao Fushen, the commander of the Third Brigade, and Wu Anbo, the commander of the Fourth Regiment, all led their troops to help, and Yuan Shikai sent Tang Qianming, vice commander of the navy, to lead the ships Flying Eagle, Jiang Yuan, Jiang Li, Huying and Hu Falcon from Hankou to open and recover Hukou to assist Li Chun's troops in attacking the Jiangxi army, and at the same time, Wang Zhanyuan of the Second Division of the Beiyang Army also sent Bao Guiqing, commander of the Fourth Brigade, to support. (Tang Qianming is Tang Hualong's younger brother, he was introduced to Li Liejun by Li Yuanhong after the recovery of Jiangxi after the Xinhai Revolution, Li Liejun appointed him as the commander of the Second Fleet, and after the Second Revolution, Tang Qianming was appointed as the governor of Hunan, and wantonly searched for and killed the revolutionary party in Hunan, with more than 20,000 people who can be found alone, known as Tang Butcher).

On July 23, that is, when the reinforcements of the Jiangxi army arrived, the Beiyang Army launched an attack on Hukou, although then Ma Jizeng and Bao Guiqing's troops were repelled by the Hukou defenders, but in just one day, the Hukou defenders paid the price of more than 2,000 casualties, while at the same time, the Beiyang Army as the attacking side only suffered more than 100 casualties (taken from the Gui Chou Disaster Chronicles, volume below, the data said that the Beiyang Army suffered 50 casualties, the revolutionary army suffered 5000 casualties, 1000 captured, and 3000 guns were captured. The combat effectiveness is really super scum, →_→), which is why the youth will ask the veterans so much, such a disparity in casualties comparison, although the Jiangxi army has an advantage in numbers, but to be honest, the youth really have no hope of victory at all.

In fact, not only the young people and veterans think so, but even Fang Shengtao and Yu Weiqian and others in the command headquarters have no confidence.

"Brother Yun Song, do you have any suggestions for the current situation?"

Yu Weiqian, who had just returned from the hospital, said to Fang Shengtao as soon as he walked into the headquarters.

"Suggestions?"

Hearing Yu Weiqian's question, Fang Shengtao, who was drinking stuffy wine with Zhao Fuxiang, smiled bitterly.

"In today's situation, what advice do I have, I can only hold on for a few days..."

"yes..."

Zhao Fuxiang, who was drinking stuffy wine, also smiled bitterly.

Although the six towns of Beiyang are famous all over the world, but in the past, Fang Shengtao and Zhao Fuxiang have not fought with Beiyang after all, and they are not very good at the strength of Beiyang, so it is inevitable that they will be a little sluggish in this case, but after they fought with each other, they found that the six towns of Beiyang really lived up to their reputation, one hundred to two thousand, and the attacker was still Beiyang, such a casualty comparison even a blind person can see which side is stronger...

Hearing Fang Shengtao and Zhao Fuxiang say this, Yu Weiqian walked to the wine table and picked up the wine glass, and poured himself a glass.

"Ugh..."

After tilting his neck and pouring all the wine in the cup, Yu Weiqian sighed bitterly, and then looked at the two of them and said slowly.

"Do you say, can this revolution really succeed?"

Shanghai, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian. Although Sichuan did not join the Yuan army as in history, at the beginning of the second revolution, Yu Weiqian still believed that this revolution could succeed, after all, the strength of the six provinces and eight regions added together, in Yu Weiqian's opinion, it would not be too inferior to Beiyang.

But it wasn't until yesterday's fierce battle at Hukou that he found that the gap between the provincial army and [***] was too big...

And as the leader of [***], Beiyang's strength is more than several times higher than that of the Jiangxi army...

“………”

Hearing Yu Weiqian say this, Fang Shengtao and Zhao Fuxiang didn't know how to say it, in fact, they also felt that this revolution was likely to end in failure, but they didn't want to say it.

Fortunately, at this time, the headquarters were all cronies of the three people, so even if they said anything, they didn't need to worry about Li Liejun, who was sitting at Hukou, hearing it.

It's just that just when Yu Weiqian sat down and was about to discuss countermeasures with Fang Shengtao and Zhao Fuxiang, there was a sudden burst of artillery outside, and then the three people hiding in the headquarters felt that the entire headquarters was shaking.

"It's shelling!"

Listening to the explosions and roars coming from outside, Fang Shengtao's face became ugly, and at this time, a dusty officer of the Yuan Army suddenly ran in.

"Three brigade commanders, the Beiyang Army outside has launched an attack on us."

Glancing at each other, Fang Shengtao and the others walked out of the command headquarters.

As soon as they walked out of the headquarters, the three of them felt that the sound and vibration of the cannons outside were much stronger than when they were inside the headquarters.

At this time, the officer who had just run in also followed, and then pointed to the river.

"Three brigade commanders, look, where the shelling came from."

Fang Shengtao and the others raised their binoculars to look at the river, and found that the fleet brought by Tang Qianming was shelling the position of Yuan's army.

"Hmph, this Tang Qianming, the commander treated him so well at the beginning, and even made him the commander of the Second Fleet, but now he is taking the fleet to help Yuan Shikai fight us, it's really ungrateful..."

Although the warship brought by Tang Qianming was neither a battleship nor a battlecruiser, the naval guns on it were still extremely powerful for Yuan Jun. What's more, the Jiangxi Army is only a provincial army, even 75 cannons are not a few, and they can't be compared with the Beiyang Army at all, and there is no way to deal with Tang Qianming, who has a lot of silver power on the river.

Think about the dozen or so guns that all three brigades have, think about the fleet on the river, and the artillery owned by Ma Jizeng and Bao Guiqing's troops on the opposite side. Although at this time, the Yuan army was smashed on the head by Tang Qianming's fleet with cannonballs, but Fang Shengtao and others could only let their subordinates endure as much as possible, after all, if the only dozen guns were exposed at this time, under the counterattack of Tang Qianming's fleet and Beiyang artillery, those dozen guns had no reason to be spared at all, and there was no need to fight this battle at Hukou.

However, if it is Yan Guang's ten infantry divisions at this time, even if there is only one artillery regiment, it will make the battle situation different, after all, in the troops of the National Socialist Party, almost every division is equipped with an artillery regiment, and an artillery regiment has 72 mountain and field guns, some of which have a caliber of 105 and 120, such a caliber can completely pose a threat to Tang Qianming's small ship, if the 210 caliber cannon that has just been trialed is also launched, Even if it was to severely damage Tang Qianming's fleet, it was not impossible.

After all, in Tang Qianming's fleet, there is no warship that can compare to the Purple Quartz and the Companion, let alone the London, you must know that the largest caliber in Tang Qianming's fleet is only the Armstrong 120mm guns on Jiang Yuan and Jiang Li... (The smallest tonnage in the Purple Quartz incident is the Black Swan, but it also has 1,300 tons, followed by the protagonist of the incident, the Purple Quartz, with 1,400 tons, and the largest tonnage is the London, which is a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser.) In Tang Qianming's fleet, the largest was the Flying Eagle destroyer, with a displacement of 850 tons, and two 104-mm rapid-fire guns, six Grusen 47 guns, and four Hatch Kaiss 37 guns. The second largest are the two shallow-water gunboats Jiang Yuan and Jiang Li, and their weapons are one Armstrong 120 gun, one 75 gun, 4 Hatch Kaisi 47 machine guns, and 4 Makqin. The Lake Falcon and Lake Hawk are torpedo boats with a displacement of 97 tons, but are equipped with a 47-mm gun on the fore and aft decks. ）

The Yuan army on the shore couldn't raise his head when he was bombarded by the ship's shelling, but Tang Qianming on the Flying Eagle was holding on to the railing and laughing.

Seeing that Yuan Jun couldn't raise his head by Tang Qianming, Ma Jizeng and Bao Guiqing on the opposite side naturally couldn't sit and watch the play. Therefore, after signaling the artillery that followed to bombard the position of the Yuan army, the 21st Regiment of Ma Jizeng's headquarters and the 8th Regiment of Bao Guiqing's headquarters rushed forward under the cover of artillery.

After seeing the Beiyang Army rushing up, although the soldiers of the Yuan Army also fought back desperately, after a night of fierce fighting, they were finally defeated and retreated because of the big difference in strength (think about the record of the Ugly Disaster and Chaos Strategy, it took only two days for the Beiyang Army to take Hukou in history, →_→).

After the fall of Hukou, Li Liejun led his troops to retreat to Wucheng Town, and soon retreated to Nanchang.

On 18 August, after a period of attack, the Beiyang Army finally attacked Nanchang, but the casualties were only more than 100 people, while the Jiangxi Army surrendered four battalions and suffered more than 1,000 casualties. After the fall of Nanchang, Li Liejun led 200 defeated troops to retreat south, and Li Chun sent Tang Jingyao to lead his troops to pursue. On August 19, Li Liejun arrived in the city (here it should be 氵 + Yi word, but no matter how to find it, but it is the same meaning, so there is no problem), 20 days to Fengcheng, 21 days to Zhangshu, 27 days to Linjiang, and then from Changsha to the boat to this book, since then the Jiangxi Revolution has ended...

(To be continued)