Chapter 63: The Battle of the Jinghan Line (3)

The daredevils failed to come forward, only the sisters were able to come and speak. This is not because Fang Jianxiong is big, but because of today's Fang Dashuai, who is the key protection object of the Anhui Revolutionary Army. As long as you go out, at least one company of guards will follow. In today's situation, I don't know how many people are looking forward to Fang Jianxiong's death.

In the past, Fang Jianxiong, who used to go out on horseback, now sits in a Cadillac car, which is the requirement of the whole army. The cars were bought back by Fisher from the United States, a total of ten, and before they were divided, Fang Jianxiong and his guards occupied three first. Also accounted for two trucks.

Fang Jianxiong preferred to go out on horseback, but this matter was not discussed, Jiang Fangzhen called and asked Fang Jianxiong to go out to take a car, safety first. He also alluded to the fact that the revolutionary party likes to engage in assassination.

Even if the sisters were able to step forward, they would have to hand over their weapons. The two of them didn't have anything, but the daredevils behind them showed indignation. Someone muttered that we were here to help, not to assassinate.

The guard who was watching these people on the side said: "The situation is complicated, it has to be like this. Please cooperate a little. "The perimeter is a surveillance network of submachine guns and machine guns. Seeing this, the death squads had no choice but to cooperate, and they took out their weapons one after another, and these people had a lot of weapons, including box cannons, pickers, rifles, daggers, and homemade earth bombs.

As for these equipment, the guards on the side don't look at it very much.

In a makeshift shed on the edge of the pier, Fang Jianxiong and the sisters sat down to talk. Yin Ruizhi opened his mouth and said: "We went to lobby in Shanghai and Nanjing, but unfortunately they are afraid of foreigners. Don't dare to send troops. We are really angry, the foreigners are clearly helping Yuan Shikai, they know that they have to pretend to be blind. We gathered some comrades who were not afraid of death and formed a death squad to help you fight the Beiyang Army. ”

Of course, Fang Jianxiong knew the attitude of the military governments in various places, and when Lin Huaichuan came, he said everything that should be said. Li Yuanhong is close at hand. They did not dare to send reinforcements openly, but under the pretext of volunteers, they successively sent a new recruit. Don't say it. The recruits are young people, and they are all really volunteers from the various units. plus the people brought by Yang Xizhang, Cai Hanqing and others, as well as Liu Yutang's Hunan army. Seventy-seven-eighty-eight add up to fifteen or six thousand. Fang Jianxiong organized these people into a temporary division and handed them over to Lin Huaichuan, Yang Xizhang, and Liu Yutang to take with them, replenish the equipment first, pay close attention to training, and use them as a reserve team. That is, these people are not even qualified for the reserve unless absolutely necessary.

If someone else did this, Liu Yutang, Yang Xizhang and others would definitely not be convinced, Fang Jianxiong did this, and everyone had no temper. Competent. You bring out a team that can defeat the Beiyang Army.

Fang Jianxiong looked at the two sisters with gloomy faces, and said with a smile: "I don't want to gossip about others behind my back, I am grateful that you can come." This will not work, the medical team of the Anhui army needs a guard. If you want, go over there and help. ”

Yin Weijun stood up and said unhappily: "Brother Fang looks down on people, we are not afraid of death, we are a death squad, we have to go to the front line to fight the Beiyang Army." ”

Fang Jianxiong said with a smile: "Don't be excited, sister of the Yin family. Listen to me explain. Every soldier of the Anhui Army must go through at least half a year of formal training before he can be sent to the battlefield. Moreover, we have our own specific tactical discipline, and you are not familiar with the tactics of our army when you go to the battlefield, and you cannot cooperate with each other. ”

This can be regarded as a polite explanation, otherwise these daredevils, who are really on the battlefield, are at the level of help.

Yin Weijun was about to speak, but Yin Ruizhi reached out and pulled her down and sat down. At this time, Duan Feng came in and handed over a telegram report: "Marshal, Chief of Staff Jiang has sent an urgent telegram: The main force has begun to move south, and the second town of Beiyang is deployed along the Ru River, with a strength of about 12,000 troops. There are also 15 battalions of patrol battalions, with a strength of about 8,000. At 5 a.m. on the 20th, our unit was scheduled to launch an all-out attack on the enemy on the defense line of the Ru River, with the main force of the 4th and 5th Divisions and artillery divisions, attacking and advancing in the direction of Runan. Huyan Aobo Division, flanking the patrol battalion stationed in Pingyu. ”

As to how to fight this battle, there were no less than 50 telegrams between Fang and Chiang. Intelligence shows that Duan Qirui has arrived in Xinyang, and Beiyang troops have also begun to assemble in Xinyang. It was obvious that the main force of the Anhui army in the north should be defeated first, and then move south. The key to this move depends on when Cao Kun's third town will arrive. Judging by the current state of traffic, it will take at least a week.

In other words, Fang Jianxiong had plenty of time to attack the north and south first.

"Call back, Hanyang will start in the early morning of the 19th, and it is expected that Xiaogan will be able to go down on the third day. Your troops must break through the line of defense on the Joux by the 22nd. On the 28th, the two armies formed a flanking attack on the enemy in Xinyang. Fang Jianxiong read the telegram and immediately dictated the telegram, and after Dou Qingmei recorded it quickly, she repeated it and handed it to Fang Jianxiong to sign.

Dou Qingmei, who was dressed in military uniform, attracted the attention of the sisters, revealing envy at the same time, her eyes also changed a little.

"The military situation is urgent, so be it. Qingmei, you take them to the medical team, I still have things to deal with. When Fang Jianxiong dropped a sentence and was about to leave, Yin Weijun came over and stretched out his hand to stop him, but he was immediately pointed at by two guns. The two guards didn't care what kind of death squad you were, just stop you.

"I want to join the Anhui Revolutionary Army!" Yin Weijun spoke loudly, Fang Jianxiong looked her up and down, and said with a smile: "Don't talk about this yet, wait until you think about it." Saying that, Fang Jianxiong went out, and Austen was still waiting outside, going to the barracks together.

The car stopped halfway down the road, and a staff officer came on horseback and stopped the convoy with an urgent report. Fang Jianxiong stopped and rolled down the window, and the staff officer handed over a telegram to report: "Shanghai is in an urgent telegram, the peace talks have officially begun, and I hope that our army will exercise restraint." ”

Fang Jianxiong didn't even look at the telegram, and waved his hand: "Drive!" ”

The appearance of the Type 55 120mm mortar caused an uproar in the command. After Giosten took matters into his own hands and installed a cannon in the yard, he said with a smile: "According to the design, all the materials for this cannon can only be imported." ”

Fang Jianxiong waved his hand: "Don't talk about this, talk about the performance." ”

"Caliber 120mm, total weight 375 kg in combat state, 600 kg in marching state. Our technology is still not enough to meet the design standards. The maximum range is 5,000 meters, the minimum range is 500 meters, and at the moment we can only fire grenades, and we can only make grenades. Giosten's introduction was simple and straightforward, and the guys in the command were all red-eyed.

Tian Jiyang, who rushed to the meeting, was embarrassed to open his mouth several times. Fang Jianxiong circled around the cannon and said, "Anyi, these cannons and gunners, you can take them back." Your unit is the main attacking force in the Caidian direction, so replenish the firepower. ”

"Xie Dashuai!" An Yi stood upright, and his mouth was crooked.

"Okay, there will be a meeting in the future." Fang Jianxiong gave an order, and the chief officials at all levels entered the conference room. The meeting was presided over by Hamilton, who picked up the pole and pointed to the map and said: "Everyone, please see, after reconnaissance, the main force of the Beiyang Army has gone north, and at present, in the direction of Hankou and Xiaogan, the supplemented Eleventh Mixed Association is the main defensive force, plus the patrol battalions in various places, as well as the Eighth Association of Xiaogan, with a total strength of more than 20,000 troops. After the Qing army contracted its defense, the original plan of landing operations was the main attack, but now it was changed to a counterattack. It is planned to use the 1st Brigade as the landing force to attack the flank of Aoyama. The 3rd Brigade and the 2nd Brigade and the 1st Standard were the main attack, and launched an attack on Caidian through the first line of the Sanyan Bridge, and the right flank took the 2nd Brigade and 1st Standard as the main force of the assault, and made a feint attack from the flour mill. The 4th Brigade is the general reserve of the 1st Division. The key to this battle is the direction of Caidian, where the defense is supplemented by the 11th Mixed Association of the Beiyang Army, and the combat effectiveness has decreased, and the 3rd Brigade should be able to break through the enemy's defense line within 24 hours. After Hamilton finished introducing, Fang Jianxiong took a look at comfort and coughed.

"All troops, ready for battle at 12 o'clock tomorrow morning, must enter the sortie position. At five o'clock in the morning, the attack was launched on time. Now to the table! ”

Xinyang, Duan Qirui's headquarters, it was already dark, Duan Qirui had been restless, and it seemed that something was about to happen.

A game of Go has been played to the middle game, Duan Qirui's shape is not good, the opponent Xu Shuzheng saw that he was absent-minded, raised his hand to mess up the chessboard, and said with a smile: "Adults are absent-minded, this chess is not martial!" Not counts! Not counts! ”

Duan Qirui got up and walked to the map, stared at it for a while before saying, "Youzheng, will there be a problem with my deployment?" Can the third town be there in a week? Can Wang Zhanyuan withstand the main force of the Anhui Army in the north? ”

Xu Shuzheng shook his head and said: "The problem is no problem, but what I'm worried about is not Wang Zhanyuan, but Hanyang and Xiaogan." There are a lot of troops over there, but in fact, the only one with relatively strong combat effectiveness is the Eighth Association. It's better to transfer the Seventh Association as well, after all, Fang Jianxiong is in Hanyang. Of course, my worries may be superfluous, Shanghai has officially opened peace talks, does Fang Jianxiong really dare to launch an attack and bear the infamy of sabotaging peace talks? ”

Duan Qirui fell into silence for a long time before he said, "Fang Jianxiong even dares to stand up to the British, how can he care about infamy?" If we want to talk about infamy, we suffer even more. Order, the Seventh Association rushed south to reinforce Xiaogan! ”

First of all, Yuan Shikai called and said that he would officially cease the war from now on, and he would never take the initiative to attack the people's army in various places. Secondly, the arrival of Wang Jingwei played a great role in lubrication.

But this qiē is difficult to change one person, that is Fang Jianxiong. In response to Fang Jianxiong's threat of war, the Shanghai League and representatives of the provinces held an emergency meeting again. After consultations, it was agreed that the representatives of various provinces would jointly call Fang Jianxiong, asking him to take into account the overall situation of the peace talks and avoid starting a war!

In fact, Song Jiaoren, the representative of the Alliance, has been on the road for two days, and is expected to be able to Hanyang today, I don't know if Song Jiaoren can convince Fang Jianxiong, Li Yuanhong, who was originally pinning his hopes, is now hiding in Wuchang and refusing to come forward. In Hubei, Ju Zheng went to see Fang Jianxiong several times, but he was all called back, and no one saw him. (。 If you like this work, () vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )