Chapter 123

Feng Guozhang did not have the courage to live and die with Xuzhou, and was taken away by Chen Zhiji with the guards, got on the train and fled to Jinan. When he climbed onto the train, Feng Guozhang glanced at a red flag waving in the wind in the distance behind him, and his face was like ashes.

"Come on, light the fire." Chen Zhiji shouted and ordered the guards to set fire to the train station. Kerosene had been poured beforehand, and the strong smell choked my nose. Feng Guozhang raised his hand and said, "Don't set fire, leave a way back." ”

The train started slowly, and some soldiers tried to climb onto the train, and Chen Zhiji's guards kept smashing them down with the butts of their guns. In a curse, the train fled Xuzhou, the red flag behind it became clearer and clearer, and the soldiers who could not get on the train dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender. The green whirlwind swept into the station, and it was Zhang Jingyao who rushed to the front of the 123rd chapter of the decisive battle (4) to guard Jinan, watching the train disappear, Zhang Jingyao suddenly scolded: "***, ran away." ”

"Mother, let the brothers surrender." The last resistance force in Xuzhou was Wu Xiangjiao, trapped in a corner of the west of the city, within a radius of no more than 100 meters. When he learned that Feng Guozhang had also run away, Wu Xiangjiao ordered him to surrender.

At noon, the gloomy sky had the sun, and the city of Xuzhou, which had experienced the war, was floating with gunpowder smoke in the winter sun. War is not only a matter for the warring parties, but also the residents of Xuzhou. A large number of houses were affected by the war, and the people who were affected could only look at the green soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield in the city with hateful expressions.

Zhang Xiaohuai entered the city in the afternoon, and the gunfire in the city had stopped. The most visible people in the streets were members of the gendarmerie, and those who took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble were shot dead on the spot. Even with the strictest military discipline, after the war, there were still more than a dozen soldiers in Xuzhou City who took advantage of the fire to rob, some robbing money, and some robbing color. After the gendarmerie was dispatched, they were shot when they were caught, and they were thrown into the cart when they were done.

I witnessed two gendarmes driving out of the city in a cart with several corpses in green uniforms. Seeing this, Zhang Xiaohuai couldn't bear it, and stepped forward to stop the gendarme and asked: "Is it so calculated that the decisive battle in Chapter 123 (4) of the battle is hard to defend Jinan?" ”

The gendarme hurriedly saluted and replied: "Report to the chief, count as missing!" "If you go missing, there is no pension. Zhang Xiaohuai hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's count it as killed." The second lieutenant of the gendarme replied with a look of hesitation. Nodding reluctantly, he said, "Don't take it as an example!" ”

Zhang Xiaohuai didn't mind that the gendarmes didn't give him face. In fact, this gendarmerie is not under the control of the General Staff at all, and belongs to the troops directly under Fang Jianxiong's General Headquarters. Watching the gendarmes pull the corpse away, Zhang Xiaohuai smiled self-deprecatingly and said with a wry smile: "Ci is not in charge of the soldiers!" ”

The former Xuzhou Daotai Yamen, that is, Feng Guozhang's headquarters, is now Zhang Xiaohuai's headquarters. The courtyard wall outside. Let the 120 heavy mortars collapse for a while, and it looks much more dilapidated.

"The 3rd and 4th Divisions continued northward, pursuing the fleeing enemy. The rest of the ministries rested on the spot for a day. Tomorrow to the north. Along the way, many refugees were affected by the war, and the rest of the troops immediately went to relief. Zhang Xiaohuai entered the headquarters and immediately gave an order.

Paulus and Li Xiaochuan immediately answered. The reorganized troops immediately went north to reinforce Jinan. At this time, a Zhang Zhenwu came in outside, and when he entered the door, he saluted and said: "Report to Commander-in-Chief Zhang, and I am ordered to lead my troops to reinforcements." The 16th Brigade of the 8th Division was all in the station, and the heavy equipment was on board. You can always get on the car and chase the enemy. ”

Zhang Zhenwu's Eighth Division was stationed in Wuhu, and before the war, he received an order to send an infantry brigade north to the train from Pukou. When he arrived in Xuzhou, Zhang Zhenwu ordered the troops not to leave the station, so they rested in the station and ran all the way to fight.

Sure enough, Zhang Xiaohuai was very happy when he saw Zhang Zhenwu, and immediately said, "Okay, Master Zhang, it's too timely." You immediately lead your troops in pursuit, and remember to send cavalry to explore the road in front to prevent the Beiyang Army from blowing up the railway. ”

After the order, Zhang Xiaohuai ordered a telegram to Wuhan to report the war situation. Immediately lying on the map again, looking at the entire battle map, the key now is Jinan, whether it can hold out until the third and fourth divisions arrive, has become the key to the battle situation. In fact, in the entire Eastern Front battlefield, what Zhang Xiaohuai wanted to eliminate most was the Beiyang Third and Fifth Divisions.

Less than an hour after the order was given, three division commanders arrived from various battlefields. After entering the door, he saluted neatly, and after Zhang Xiaohuai returned the salute, Lin Huaichuan stepped forward and said: "Commander-in-chief, each of our three divisions can draw out a brigade of troops, and we can go north with a little replenishment of ammunition supplies." At present, Jinan is the key, and it will be hard to work hard. ”

Zhang Xiaohuai didn't answer immediately, but looked at Li Yifeng first, the seventh division suffered the largest casualties in this battle, mainly related to Chen Yan's opponent, but Li Yifeng's seventh division grabbed the jackpot again this time, and it was his spy battalion that took the lead in Xuzhou City. "Senior Commander Li, is your guard battalion commander okay?" Zhang Xiaohuai asked this first, and Li Yifeng, who was in a good mood, said with a smile: "It's okay, the Japanese guns of the Beiyang Army have strong penetration, limited lethality, and they don't concentrate on the key points, just raise them for a few days." ”

Zhang Xiaohuai nodded and said, "Since you all asked for it, you're welcome." The style of continuous combat, in fact, is exactly what I want to see. The 5th, 6th, and 7th Divisions were ordered to immediately draw at least one brigade of troops, hurry up supplies, and have the commanders of each division lead their troops north to pursue the fleeing enemy. ”

Zhang Xiaohuai was also in a good mood, in fact, he originally wanted all the troops to pursue immediately, but the problem was that these people were all descendants of Fang Jianxiong, for fear that the command would not move. In other words, Zhang Xiaohuai measured these people by the standards of the Beiyang Army. As everyone knows, as long as they are officers from the teaching team, they all have a ruthless spirit, and they have the habit of being cleaned up by Fang Dashuai in Wuhu back then, and they are ruthless to the enemy, and even more ruthless to themselves.

Now it seems that Zhang Xiaohuai's worries are unnecessary.

"Report, Jinan is in an emergency, the enemy going north will arrive first, and soon the enemy going south will also arrive in the north of the city, our army will be attacked from both sides, and we hope to reinforce as soon as possible." An urgent telegram sent by the staff officer immediately tugged at Zhang Xiaohuai's heart. Almost like lightning, he rushed to the map and stared in the direction of Jinan.

Jinan, with mountains on both sides and rivers on both sides, is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Qi Zhenghong had only two divisions in his hands, and after some research, it was decided to focus the defense on the southern front, and the northern front was deployed along the Xiaoqing River with the strength of one brigade. In the south, the strength of a brigade was scattered on dozens of hills, large and small, to block them in echelons and slow down the advance of the enemy troops moving north. At the same time, a division is used as a reserve to reinforce at any time.

It is important to have sufficient reserves at all times, this is what the teaching team has learned.

Qi Zhenghong, as the commander-in-chief of the Jinan garrison, was under tremendous pressure. Early this morning, the enemy troops on the southern front marching north, without waiting for a rest, immediately launched an attack on the many hills that were deployed in the south. Despite the preparations, the fierceness of the battle was beyond the imagination of Qi Zhenghong and others. The 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Beiyang Army wanted to seize the road and flee north, and compared with the 1st and 4th Divisions of the Beiyang Army that went south, the Beiyang Army in the south fought a little more fiercely.

Daqingshan, dead on the throat of the railway line, is the focus of defense here, and it is also the focus of the attack of the Beiyang Army. It was Wu Peifu's infantry regiment that was responsible for attacking this vital location.

Qi Zhenghong set up a battalion of defensive troops on Daqingshan, and as soon as it was dawn in the early morning, the Japanese-made 75 mountain artillery of the two artillery regiments of the Beiyang Army began to bombard Daqingshan frantically.

Qi Zhenghong has artillery in his hands, but now is not a critical moment, and the artillery is mainly deployed in the north, relatively speaking, it is more difficult to defend in the north, what if the Beiyang Fourth Division in the north is desperate? The Xiaoqinghe defense line is only the strength of one brigade, and it is not the main force of the A division, and without the support of artillery, it is not enough to block the desperate attack of the Beiyang Army.

Holding the Zeiss telescope, Wu Peifu was expressionless, and the black clouds on the mountain were no different from ordinary clouds in his eyes. Daqingshan is the key point, Wu Peifu is determined to win. The Beiyang Army is well-trained, and the Third Division is the main force in the main force, so there is no suspense in Wu Peifu's opinion about whether it can take the position of Daqingshan. Judging from the binoculars, the artillery hit very accurately, and the first-line positions of the green-skinned soldiers were beaten in scattered places.

The shelling stopped, and the blue-gray blue-gray of the attacking troops took on a wavy shape and charged towards the hill. Wu Peifu invested a battalion of troops for the first time, and Wu Peifu was very confident in his subordinates, and the rabble of the Jiaodong Self-Defense Force should be able to take the position with one impact.

Tata Tower, the machine gun on the position rang out, Wu Peifu frowned, picked up the binoculars, and looked at the blue-gray waves that hit upward, as if hitting the rocks, and spread out in an instant.

Machine guns on the position, unexpectedly more. Although the two provisional divisions of the Jiaodong Self-Defense Force did not have light machine guns, there was no shortage of Makqin, and one company was equipped with two. The suppressed Beiyang Army did not retreat immediately, but continued to stubbornly disperse and rush forward. Although soldiers were constantly hit and fell, they still rushed to about fifty meters of the forward position.

Wu Peifu nodded with satisfaction, the platoon guns on the opposite side were not too accurate, but the Beiyang Army machine guns covering were very effective, suppressing several firepower points on the mountain. Seeing that he was about to rush to the position and start a white-knuckle battle, an explosion suddenly sounded on the mountain, and a guy blew up the Beiyang Army.

This is a grenade, a housekeeping weapon currently exclusive to the Wehrmacht. The grenade was thrown down without money, and the condescending one was thrown far away, and the third division, which had never encountered this thing, suffered a big loss for a while. Leaving more than a hundred people behind, the first charge was repulsed.

Wu Peifu's eyes were round, but Liu Anyue on the mountain sighed heavily, don't look at the Jiaodong Self-Defense Army has been an army for a while, and has fought the Northern Expeditionary Army, but after all, he has never fought with the main force of the serious Beiyang Army. In the first battle just now, a battalion of troops defended and took advantage of the terrain, and in the face of the artillery bombardment and impact of the Beiyang Army, it lost a company of troops. rq！！！