Chapter 16 Jiaodong Self-Defense Army

It snowed heavily for a day and a night, and the thick snow on the ground made it difficult to move and the roads were muddy.

In Jinan, as soon as the train entered the station, several logistics officers rushed forward. The reinforcements of the third town arrived in advance, and Zhang Yongcheng sent people to greet him, intending to leave the target in Jinan, so as to help the fifth town top.

A tall officer got down from the train, with a mustache and a fierce face, and said loudly to the logistics officer who came to greet him: "My department will not get off the train, go directly to Zaozhuang, please tell the commander to replenish some grain and straw as much as possible." ”

An hour later, the train roared out of Jinan and headed south to Zaozhuang.

"What? Went directly to Zaozhuang? Zhang Yongcheng in Jinan City was surprised, the leading officer of the third town had a broken brain? A target force dares to go south, and he plans to withdraw a target from Zaozhuang. If it weren't for Yuan Shikai's repeated telegrams ordering that an inch of Shandong land should not be lost, it would have been withdrawn a long time ago.

"Leave him alone, telegraph Zaozhuang, hand over the defense to this Wu Peifu, and the troops will withdraw to Tai'an."

I don't know if this guy Fang Jianxiong messed up history, Wu Peifu, who was supposed to be the third artillery standard, failed to replace Liu Biao as the third artillery standard commander as the third artillery standard commander as he did in history after saving Cao Kun with Zhang Fulai on the Shanxi train, but changed to the position of infantry standard commander.

This is not Wu Peifu was ordered to go south, Cao Kun's order was to open the way for the headquarters of the third town, and he did not say that Wu Peifu should listen to Zhang Yongcheng's dispatch. In this way, Wu Peifu has a lot of autonomy.

The third town has always been the elite of the Beiyang Army, and Wu Peifu is above the top. This time, the people and horses in the south were neat, and they also brought an additional artillery battalion. The so-called people's army is a rabble in Wu Peifu's eyes. The defeat on the battlefield in Hubei was also a crime of non-war, which was the result of Duan Qirui's partial listening to the little fan Xu Shuzheng and blindly commanding.

This time he led the troops south alone, and Wu Peifu had already made up his mind. Go directly to the front line, with the elite of the Beiyang, kill the majesty of the people's army. As for the Fifth Town. Wu Peifu looked down on Zhang Yongcheng in his heart, and he held a strong Beiyang army in his hand, but he didn't dare to go south. Let Zhang Xun lose Xuzhou.

When the train stopped to fill up water in Yanzhou, Wu Peifu, who was sleeping, was woken up. After opening his eyes, he saw his deputy Zhang Fulai coming in: he asked, "Brother Ziheng, what's the matter?" ”

Zhang Fulai said: "I don't know, it seems that Zhang Xun's soldiers are in the station, and the people below have gone to negotiate." ”

Zhang Xun's current position is the governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty, and strictly speaking, he is Wu Peifu's superior leader. But now that this Qing family is about to abdicate, who will take this governor of Liangjiang as a dish? Besides, isn't Xuzhou lost by Zhang Xun?

"A bunch of rubbish!" Wu Peifu got up. He wiped his face casually and strode forward.

The feeling is that the train transporting troops was intercepted by Zhang Xun's soldiers, Zhang Dashuai has a hobby of detaining the front of the train and wagons, and his subordinates are also very fast. The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water. Relying on the railroad is naturally to eat the railway. It doesn't matter what's on your car, stop it first.

Wu Peifu's group of Beiyang soldiers, where will they sell Zhang Xun's account. The train did not move for a long time, and several officers came out to see that the locomotive had been intercepted by Zhang Xun's patrol battalion, claiming that the train was going to turn around. The patrol battalion was to transport troops to Jinan.

The two of them quarreled and were arguing at the station. Although they looked down on the battalion soldiers, these low-level officers did not dare to take the patrol battalion to anything, and as a result, it was a stalemate, and the two sides quickly developed from a few people to dozens of people, and then hundreds of people.

Wu Peifu came out to see that Zhang Xun's pigtailed soldiers were on the platform, and the soldiers from the third town were in the car, facing the window. It seems that in the spirit of peace and friendship, the two sides kept greeting each other's immediate female relatives and sincerely expressed their good wishes for in-depth exchanges with these women.

Wu Biaotong was always simple, walked to the side of the car window, pulled off the machine gun and the two soldiers in front of him who were spraying very highly, and waved his hand at Zhang Fulai. The two of them had a tacit understanding, and in the stunned eyes of the soldiers, Makqin hung up the bullet chain, pulled the bolt of the gun, and raised the head of the gun towards the eaves of the platform outside.

Sudden Sudden Rush! Sudden Sudden Rush! Sudden Sudden Rush! After a bullet chain is played, the whole world is quiet!

After a while, the battalion soldiers on the platform jumped and jumped and ran away in an instant, and those who didn't run away were all paralyzed on the ground, some of them were weak, and some of them were full of feces and urine. Wu Peifu crooked his mouth, clapped his hands and said, "In half an hour, the train must leave." ”

Xuzhou, after the arrival of Chief Huang, the Shandong strategy quickly took shape. Lan Tianwei led two warships to the north, and after landing in Yantai, he captured Yantai by Shun. At the meeting, General Director Huang first announced the news of this victory, and then arranged the Northern Expedition mission.

I don't know for what reason, Leng Shu's 3rd Division continued to serve as the Left Route Army, accompanied by the 1st Division of the Shanghai Army, and marched west to Shangqiu. On the right side, the first brigade of the town army of Lin Shuqing's department was the lead and advanced to Zaozhuang. Li Liejun's troops stayed in Xuzhou, and the rest of the troops then went north to Zaozhuang.

In other words, the Northern Expeditionary Army was divided. At the military meeting, Leng Shu expressed doubts about the move to divide troops, and Tang Zhidao, chief of staff of the Shanghai Army, could not agree with the move of dividing troops. The views of the two are basically the same, and they both believe that Zhang Xun and the Beiyang Army are Xuzhou who gave up on their own initiative, and their strength is almost undamaged. It is inappropriate to hastily divide the troops.

These two brothers were very decisively placed on the left side and marched into Shangqiu.

Lan Tianwei's good days in Yantai did not last long, and after a little rectification, he continued to move westward. I didn't think of Yantai, but I met a hard nail. To the west of Yantai is Laiyang, and there is a place called Taocun Town between the two places. A patrol infantry battalion was temporarily stationed in this place, and the pipe band was Xia Heng. There is also a battalion head in Laiyang County, and the pipe band is Liu Zhiyue. Today's counties in Jiaodong are basically under the control of the first phase of this wave of teaching teams, and a Jiaodong Self-Defense Army has been formed under the leadership of Qi Zhenghong and Xing Nan. Originally, it had eight infantry battalions and two artillery battalions.

These first-term students of the teaching team actually did not stay in Jiaodong peacefully, and they telegraphed Wuchang several times, saying that they wanted to return to the team. As a result, what I was waiting for was a call back from Fang Dashuai, saying: Jiaodong's location is critical, and it should not be left lightly. You wait patiently and develop with peace of mind.

With this order, those who are not at ease must stay at ease. Fortunately, relying on Qingdao, all kinds of supplies are also convenient. Lihe and the foreign company have successively supplied several times, and successively replenished a batch of Makqin, a batch of Grusen 57 land artillery, a batch of mortars, and a batch of technical soldiers. This Jiaodong Self-Defense Army originally had only ten battalion heads, but in a few months it grew to twenty battalion heads. Among them, there are four artillery battalions and four machine gun battalions. The total number of troops is more than 12,000 people, who are stationed in various counties in Jiaodong. The League carried out several uprisings in Jiaodong, all of which were suppressed by them.

Just such a group of people stayed in Jiaodong, Lan Tianwei landed in Yantai, and it was okay to take it honestly, didn't you come to the west to find a fart? These guys were already very annoyed when they were holding back in Jiaodong, and they were overjoyed to learn that the Northern Expeditionary Army had landed in Yantai.

Qi Zhenghong immediately convened a military meeting, and the 20 teaching teams got together and quickly came up with a feasible battle plan. It's very simple, lure the enemy deep, surround and annihilate them.

And this task of luring the enemy into the depths fell on Xia Heng's head. is also a student of the teaching team, and many of them are now brigade commanders, which is frankly a big stimulus for the people here in Jiaodong.

Xia Heng was not convinced, Li Yifeng's little white face can be the brigade commander, and Zhu Lafeng's living bandit can be the regiment commander, Lao Tzu's grades were better than them, right? What a human being!

In this unfortunate weather, a snow fell, and Xia Heng suffered from freezing in Taocun Town for a few more days. Haocai supplied a batch of military coats from Qingdao, otherwise if you stay in this broken place, you don't expect to go back alive, you have to freeze into popsicles.

Finally, the weather cleared, and the civilian army on the Yantai side was dispatched. Xia Heng faked a blockade in Taocun Town, put a gun into the sky, and left a few hundred brothers to turn around and run. Shunshu also dropped dozens of Hanyang-made, which looks a little more realistic.

Lan Tianwei led the first part of the Shanghai Army, plus the troops of the Yantai Uprising, about 5,000 people. There are more than 5,000 people, known as two brigades. encountered an attack in Taocun Town, Lan Tianwei was also startled, but he had heard of the Jiaodong Self-Defense Army before. But it's a patrol battalion, what combat effectiveness can it have, right? Local armed forces, suppressing the uprising is okay.

The League associations in various parts of Jiaodong did not do much about the work of the Jiaodong Self-Defense Army, but the result was that when the revolutionary party went to do ideological work alone, Qi Zhenghong arrested one, did not kill him, and locked him up. All in all, this group of people is really reactionary.

The battle of Taocun Town, in Lan Tianwei's opinion, can be regarded as beating out the bottom of the patrol battalion. Before the Northern Expeditionary Army could set up its position, gunfire rang out from the opposite side. In less than half an hour, a group of people fled from the village and fled to the west. Lan Tianwei ordered the pursuit, but he didn't expect them to run so fast that many people even lost their guns.

Taking a look at the captured gun, Lan Tianwei was relieved. The combat effectiveness of the army in these places is really bad, and this Hanyang is all new, and the bullets in it have not been hit. Many of the guns were not fired, and the soldiers dropped their guns and ran away. The revolutionary Northern Expeditionary Army was indeed mighty, the enemy fled in despair, and the victory of the Northern Expedition was just around the corner.

To say that this Lan Tianwei also understands military affairs, it is normal that it will not be so easy to be fooled. is really against the Beiyang Army, or Zhang Xun or something's "famous general", Lan Tianwei is not so light on the enemy. Qi Zhenghong's gang of people, no one knows the details of their origins. Outsiders knew that it was a close confidant of the former governor Sun Baoqi, and they didn't know if it was a relative from Sun Baoqi's hometown.

Lan Tianwei is a famous general in the Northeast!

The People's Army continued to move westward towards Laiyang. The journey was smooth and unstoppable. Under the city of Laiyang, as soon as the flag was displayed, the patrol battalion ran away again. This time he ran more simply, and directly dropped two three-seven guns, which were still good, with fifty shells. Hanyang even lost a lot of ground, with more than 200 strokes, which made Lan Tianwei very happy.

Lan Tianwei ordered a night's rest in the county seat and continued to set off early tomorrow morning. At the same time, a telegram was sent to Xuzhou that the Second Army of the Northern Expedition was making rapid progress and had occupied Laiyang and would soon arrive at Weifang.

As everyone knows, at this moment, in Lu Gezhuang, not far outside Laiyang City, a group of graduates of the first phase of the teaching team are calculating around the kerosene lamp, how can they eat the five thousand people of Lan Tianwei in one bite. (。 If you like this work, () vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )