Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Battle of the Jinghan Line (17)

When Yuan Shikai walked out of Zhu Erdian's study for the third time in two days, there was no joy or anger on his face. It's calm, it seems like nothing has happened. After getting into the carriage, when there was no one else around, he showed fatigue.

England, which has always been strong, why is it unwilling to continue to put pressure on the other party's sword heroes? The battleship sent a few more ships to Wuhan, and that kid was still not convinced? What the hell is going on here? Yuan Shikai couldn't understand why the British clinged to a neutral position. Of course, Zhu Erdian once again reiterated Whitehall's expectations of Yuan Shikai, which is still a satisfying gain.

Now the only thing that can change the outcome is the battlefield! Foreigners are also unreliable!

Yuan Shikai boasted that he had a deep understanding of foreigners, but he did not know that his understanding was based on the position of a Manchu official. Perhaps Yuan Shikai and the people around him have an almost advanced understanding of this world, and it is this understanding that makes Yuan Shikai afraid of foreigners in his bones.

Back in the mansion, Yang Du hurriedly greeted Yuan Shikai, who was getting out of the car, and said in a low voice: "My lord, Xinyang is calling, Jiang Baili launched a fierce attack this morning, and the telegram said that the Anhui army is equipped with a large number of heavy artillery. Wu Xiang framed a battalion, and half of it was reimbursed before he saw the opponent. Wang Zhanyuan let Wu Xiang's counterattack fail, and then offered a reward of 50,000 oceans to organize a death squad, and three counterattacks failed. However, it can be regarded as a heavy blow to the Anhui army, and the two sides are in a stalemate along the Ru River. Jiang Baili could not expand the results of the battle, and Wang Zhanyuan could not drive the opponent back. ”

Yuan Shikai breathed a sigh of relief and strode in: "Where is Cao Kun?" Why didn't Zhang Yongcheng go south yet? Is one of them holding a chick in Jinan? ”

Yang Du said: "Zhang Yongcheng called back, there are still thousands of soldiers from the original patrol battalion in Jiaodong, and Zhang Yongcheng does not dare to leave Jinan lightly. ”

Yuan Shikai's face became more and more gloomy, and his breathing gradually became heavier, and it took a long time to exhale a breath of turbidity. sneered: "Sun Muhan, the teacher, is really dutiful. Millions of taels of silver were missing, so he was let go, and he didn't expect to leave such a hand. By the way, does Sun Muhan have any news? ”

Yang Du shook his head, Yuan Shikai's eyes were like snakes, he wandered a few times, and stood still: "Telegraph Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang that Beiyang is involved in this battle, even if it can't win." Nor can they be defeated. ”

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Wang Zhanyuan looked at the two hundred death squads with a hideous face, everyone had a bowl of wine in their hands and two hundred oceans in their pockets. This is the second time that the death squads have been organized to rush up. The previous time called the Anhui army to fight down, killing and wounding hundreds of people. Wang Zhanyuan had to raise the price of the death squad.

"The brothers drank this bowl of wine and went on the road, Anhui Green Skin is here to smash everyone's rice bowl, if we don't win against them, we all have to drink the northwest wind." Everybody, go first. Then there is a mark to follow, please rest assured, this time no matter who dares to take a step back, the ghost head knife is waiting! After saying this, Wang Zhanyuan raised his hand and pointed to the team behind him, and said hoarsely: "Everyone has seen it." I, Wang Zhanyuan, recognize you, but I don't recognize the ghost head knife! I respect all the brothers, do it first! ”

A bowl of burnt knives went down the stomach. Wang Zhanyuan's face was red, his neck was thick, his eyes were also red, and he took out his war knife and pointed ahead: "Open the cannon!" ”

The second town and the thirty-nine mixed associations all have artillery, and Wu Xiang is almost meaningless, there is only one artillery battalion. They are all equipped with 37 small cannons. The second town did have an artillery mark, armed with 57 and 75 guns.

After about ten minutes of shelling. The death squad roared and rushed forward, and Wu Xiangjiao also brandished his sword, forcing the small artillery positions of the artillery battalion to move forward and shoot at close range. Wang Zhanyuan discussed with Wu Xiangjiao and judged that the pontoon bridge in Anhui Greenskin should not have been erected, so there was no intention of expanding the results. This time, you can't beat the green skin down, and you can only be beaten when you turn back. After that, under the heavy artillery of the green skin, whether the position can be held or not is two theories. In case they lose their position, Master Duan can spare them, and Xu Shuzheng's little fan can't spare them.

Neither of them likes Xu Shuzheng very much, and it seems that Xu Shuzheng doesn't like these two very much. Thinking of Xu Shuzheng's domineering style, as well as the cold eyes when looking at people, Wu Xiangjiao could only bite the bullet, promised a heavy reward, gathered a target force, launched an attack from the side, and cooperated with Wang Zhanyuan's second town, striving to succeed in the battle and drive the green skin down the river.

Li Yifeng kept observing from a distance with a telescope, and even the shelling just now had no intention of going down. He was almost hit by shells several times, and if the guards hadn't suppressed him in time, Li Yifeng would have had to take a few hits.

Li Yifeng was also under great pressure, and Jiang Baili actually only let him hold on for a day and a half, not to break through, but to stick to the other side of the river. After the pontoon bridge was erected, Li Yifeng's headquarters did not all cross the river, but only another battalion came over. Otherwise, with such a position of less than 2,000 meters, the Beiyang Army would not have suffered heavy casualties due to artillery fire?

The last time the Beiyang Army's attack continued, the old drunken platoon suffered half of the casualties, the Beiyang Army fought very fiercely, and the two squad leaders of the old drunk were killed by the Beiyang Army's Haqi Keith machine guns. These Beiyang troops were actually equipped with bombs, and when they rushed to the front of the battle, the bombs brought a lot of casualties to Lao Zui's platoon, which made Lao Zui very sad. Just now, these people were still jumping around, and some of them even came to him to ask for cigarettes. A sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy was killed by a shell next to Lao Zui.

Lao Drunk didn't quite understand why the pontoon bridge was erected, and the main force was not the river. If you don't understand, you don't understand, Lao Drunk went to the company commander, and the company commander supplemented him with a squad of reinforcements. The company commander was born in the short-term training course of the teaching team, and his age was in his twenties, and he was a scholar who was white and pure, and he was originally a platoon commander mixed into the 31st Association, and he was promoted to company commander after the expansion of the army.

"Old drunk, I know you have an idea in your heart, don't worry, the brigade commander is still on the position." The company commander said such a sentence, and the old drunk heart was immediately steady.

The war was so cruel, but when he learned that the brigade commander was still there, the old drunk calmed down. Since joining the Anhui Revolutionary Army, I have never heard of an official running away first. Just like Gengzi Nian, he fought foreign devils under Nie Junmen, if Nie Junmen hadn't died in battle, the team would not have dispersed, and it would have lasted two more days. Thinking of Nie Junmen, the old drunk couldn't help but think of that Fang Dashuai, who was also leading the troops, and Nie Junmen's care for his brothers was much worse than Fang Dashuai. How can anyone who is a soldier still take care of the bowl of eating, and each person will be given one. Officials are not allowed to beat and scold their subordinates casually, thinking of this, Lao Drunk felt that he joined the Anhui Army and did not regret his death.

The Beiyang Army came up again, still the same old way, but this time the charge was much more ruthless. There was also a group of Beiyang troops on the flank, and the snipers on the position began to call names from 500 meters away. Although these snipers could not suppress the attack of the Beiyang Army, they played a role in striking hard at the momentum of the Beiyang Army. Seeing that the speed of the Beiyang Army had slowed down, the Maxim machine guns on the position began to fire.

Lao Zui felt strange, this time the brigade commander gave the order to open fire a little earlier. "Old drunk, there is an order from above, and if you enter three hundred meters, you will shoot, this wave of Beiyang Army seems to be different." The herald brought the order of the company commander, and Lao Zui nodded, in the little guy is sixteen or seventeen, he actually didn't call himself platoon commander, which made Lao Zui glare at him very unpleasantly, no big or small.

Knock knock, it's a mortar shooting, this thing really works. At a distance of 500 to 300 meters, mortars at the company level are really like a fish in water.

But this time, the Beiyang Army was really ruthless. The 37 guns advanced to about 500 meters and bombarded the position directly. The firepower on the position slowed down a little, and the Beiyang Army rushed up with a shout of killing.

Despite the desperate efforts of the Anhui army, it was still unable to stop the approach of this wave of Beiyang troops. At thirty or fifty meters, both sides threw grenades, but failed to suppress each other, and the Beiyang Army rushed to the position.

When Wang Zhanyuan saw the death squad rushing to the position, he slapped his thigh excitedly and said, "It's a good fight, it's finally hit." These greenskins, fighting bayonets, won't be able to hold us down, right? ”

Lao Zui saw that the first person on the position to jump out of the trench with a rifle was actually the brigade commander Li Yifeng, and shouted: "For the sake of New China, rush with me!" Subconsciously, Lao Zui also jumped out of the trench and howled with a rifle: "Brothers, follow me!" ”

Suddenly a charge sounded on the position, and the green tide jumped out of the trench and slammed into the blue and gray camp in front.

It was almost an instinctive reaction for every officer to rush to the front of all his men. When Lao Drunk faced a Beiyang soldier, there was another Beiyang soldier on the other side rushing towards him. Subconsciously, Lao Zui made a stab, and the Beiyang soldiers on the opposite side blocked it, and Lao Zui felt that there was one more person around him, blocking the Beiyang soldiers on the flanks for him. One looked down, and the drunken butt smashed over the Beiyang soldier opposite, looking at the people around him, it was actually the company commander. The young company commander was not ambiguous in his bayonet, and he was hit on the thigh, and the bayonet penetrated the heart of the Beiyang soldier.

Wang Zhanyuan couldn't believe his eyes, the most desperate death squad, when he was fighting with a bayonet, he let Anhui Green Skin kill a fart and urine. These Anhui greenskins are too evil! Like an awl, one guy swept the blue-gray group of the Beiyang Army into pieces.

Finally, the Beiyang soldiers couldn't hold it anymore, and after the first soldier turned around and fled, it was like an infectious disease, and the people around him also began to run.

The most successful attack of the Beiyang Army's 2nd Town and the 39th Mixed Association was completely lost in the white-knuckle battle.

Wang Zhanyuan did not enforce military law to the retreating soldiers, but found Wu Xiangjiao and said: "Brother, look at what it means, let's not expect to be able to lay a position." ”

Wu Xiangjiao nodded: "It's already afternoon, no matter how slow the action is, the pontoon bridge has been erected." ”

Lao Zui helped the company commander to the trench, called the health soldier to bandage, and the young company received a piercing thorn in the thigh, seeing that he couldn't insist on fighting, so he said to Lao Zui: "I'll tell the battalion commander, you will bring the whole company up after I go down." (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )