Because they were afraid of being intercepted and killed by Chinese warships along the Yangtze River in batches, the coalition forces did not dare to divide their troops until they reached Zhenjiang, until they gathered together and made preparations for several days. In addition to capsizing and losing a few hundred people on the way, more than ninety percent of the troops arrived safely in Jiangdu.

At this point, the generals of the coalition army breathed a sigh of relief, believing that the most difficult stage had passed, but they did not notice the strange eyes of the liaison officer sent by the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion flickering from time to time.

Without Yang Hao releasing water, the 50,000 army wanted to secretly cross the border into Jiangbei? Dream on!

The foreign devils are not stupid, they were originally going to have to fight hard to pass the level, but now they haven't encountered any obstacles, who believes that there are no ghosts! At a regular military meeting, Commander Wadsey issued a stern warning about his personal opinion and urged all parties to agree to divide their forces and move north along the canal to ensure safety.

The cost of a large-scale land march is too high for the average country to bear. Although most of the foreign devil army in a foreign country eat about the same as pig food on weekdays, after all, it is 50,000 pigs that can be eaten, and just satisfying their bottomless pit appetite has become a big headache for the local Qing officials.

Now that they have arrived at a more suitable location, Zhang Zhidong immediately cooperated with the coalition forces to do a good job of transshipment, picked up most of the waste Caoyun again, sent them to small boats, and went north along the waterway.

Since the Westernization Movement, the establishment of the steamship China Merchants Bureau, the replacement of Cao Yun by shipping, and the rapid collapse of the ecological chain of the Grand Canal. Hundreds of thousands of people who relied on the Cao Yun to survive were either displaced or turned into gangsters to earn a living in the wilderness.

A few years ago, the Yellow River overflowed. Cut off the siltation of the canal in the eastern part of the mountain. The north-south transport was officially out of line. However, the territory of the two rivers can make do. And with Yang Hao's vigorous promotion of sailboats, countless old-style wooden ships can run suddenly with a steam main engine, but it is to make these sections of Cao Yun unexpectedly linger.

Now, in order to transport the army, Zhang Zhidong gathered all the small boats that could be collected and divided them into two routes from the river. All the way from Dongtai and Yancheng to Haizhou, all the way from Jiangdu to Gaoyou, Huai'an, Suqian, and straight to Pizhou. The distance between the two is not too far, barely going hand in hand, and the goals are very clear, pointing to Yang Hao's nest Rizhao and the revolutionary army's most noisy Luxinan-Xuzhou Mansion.

Besides. The cunning old man Zhang also sent out a new army that he had carefully built up, nominally to assist the allied forces of the great powers in the battle, but in fact to monitor their movements nearby.

Since the imperial court ordered Ronglu Yuan Shikai to train the new army, Zhang Zhidong, who saw that things were not good, immediately made a decision, intercepted the two rivers and the two lakes and trained a troop, called the Hubei New Army. This army was based on the Jiangnan Protector Army, which had been trained a few years earlier, and the original Wu Kai Army, Wu Defense Army, and Wu Jian Army were disrupted and integrated, reorganized and divided into two armies, the left and right armies, with a total number of nearly 14,000 people, led by Zhang Biao and Li Yuanhong respectively.

One should train the troops. All of them were in charge of the officer corps led by the German chief instructor Xi Behrensdorf, and they were not much worse than the armed guards in the capital. Equipment. Some of the arms bought with a loan of 40 million yuan, and the rest of the vacancy was simply embezzled by him from the tax money and went to Guò Yanhua Foreign Bank to make up for it from Yang Hao.

Up to now, the troops have been training together for more than half a year, and all of them have changed into the crisp military uniforms produced by the Yang Group. Based on Zhang Zhidong's own sensory effect, if there was such a force to fight the Taiping Army thirty years ago, it would be a dozen and a lot!

But now that he has to deal with Yang Hao's revolutionary army, he doesn't have so much confidence. In comparison, people are real and powerful troops in the world, who have killed tens of thousands of Japanese little noses and defeated the coalition forces of the great powers, and a group of raw melons and eggs who have never seen blood on their own side, so don't have too high hopes.

Taking advantage of this opportunity for the imperial court to join forces with the powers, Zhang Zhidong sent out the Hubei New Army, not to let them rush up to fight the main force, but purely to stay on the side of the coalition army and fight soy sauce!

On May 8, after a series of arduous treks, the coalition forces finally arrived at their destination. On the left flank, with the 6th Division of the Japanese Army as the main force and more than 20,000 troops supplemented by the British Army, landed in the towns of Yaowan, Yutouji, Mazhuangji, and Maoerzhuang on the coast of Luoma Lake, and the headquarters was set up in Pixian County.

Due to the advance propaganda and mobilization of the revolutionary army, almost all the aborigines in this land that had long been infiltrated and mastered by them fled, leaving empty houses, but not even a grain of grain or chicken could be found. The mountains are full of green crops, but people can't gnaw on them, right?

Even in the county town, there are only a few stubborn elm pimple heads left, and with self-righteous experience, they feel that no matter who comes, they are just paying taxes to live. In the face of the virtue of the coalition troops who exuded a fierce atmosphere when they rushed into the county seat, they just watched indifferently.

But disaster soon struck!

The coalition army ate and chewed almost nothing along the way, and the first task when they arrived at the place was to go out to collect grain and grass. But when I got to the official warehouse, I found that it was empty and could starve to death of mice! The original county officials had already defected to the revolutionary army, and they ran away in advance according to the requirements, and by the way, they also transported away the small amount of grain reserves, and the whole practice of clearing the wilderness with a strong wall!

The British army, which had rich experience in invasion, immediately decided to send people to the villages, towns and villages to ask for help, and the Japanese army, who had long been salivating over the land of China, took the initiative to ask for help, and sprinkled the lake in all directions with small teams as units, and everywhere they went, under the banner of cleaning up the troubles, they looted a single usable material, and pulled out all the stubborn people who stayed behind, regardless of men, women, and children, to be people's husbands.

The results were very disappointing, and the food they could find was pitiful, and all of them did not add up to enough food for more than 20,000 of them for three days. This means that they must attack and capture the target city within three days, otherwise starvation alone will kill them!

The commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, Kuroki Weizhen, and the commander of the British Army, Alfred. After urgent consultations, Gaisley asked the Liangjiang Governor's Office to coordinate officials to help transfer grain supplies from other places. As for the total number of more than 1,000 civilians who had been captured or stayed in the county, they gave an extremely cold order: "Leave the young and strong ones who can work, and kill the rest." Save the waste of food! ”

The brutal Japanese army once again exposed its bestiality. Under the guise of saving bullets. Kuroki ordered the recruits to use the common people to practice bayonet killing, and they picked thousands of people to death!

No matter how they tried to cover it up, the news was leaked out after all, and Li Yuanhong, who led the troops to be stationed alone in the old city on the edge of the Yellow River, was furious when he heard this, and led two hundred people from the pro-soldier guards to rush to the Pixian headquarters, and broke into the yamen lobby and reprimanded a group of foreigners: "Who gave you the courage to torture and kill my innocent civilians in the Qing Dynasty?!" ”

The British sneered arrogantly: "Those people are clearly deliberately staying in the war zone to act as spies for the rebels, and keeping them will strictly affect our battle plans." Again. When you Chinese yourself were in civil war, didn't you also like to kill civilians to pretend to be military merits? ”

Li Yuanhong was speechless for a while, after all, this matter was a bad habit in the armies of all dynasties. The border army of the Ming Dynasty in the previous dynasty would do this, and most of the bandits in this dynasty were killed and robbed. The adults who started with the suppression of the Taiping Army were not clean under anyone.

But this kind of thing can not be said, especially he does not agree with the imperial court's practice of luring wolves into the house, and he stiffens his neck at the moment: "No matter what excuse, you have no right to kill innocents indiscriminately!" I will definitely report this matter to the imperial court, and I ask you not to forget it. You claim to be the teachers of civilization, if such tyrannical acts spread to your land. Public opinion must not look good! ”

The Englishman's face changed slightly, and he seemed to have some scruples.

As Li Yuanhong said, the British Empire is now in full swing, and the time-honored pirates have washed their hands and gone ashore to change into the coat of civilized people, so they have to act like philanthropists on the surface. Foreign wars must also be repeatedly exaggerated and smeared, disguised as being forced to fight back or punished for lawlessness, without mentioning aggression and robbery.

In the past, the Qing people did not understand the true faces of the great powers, and it was not until Yang Hao used the literacy course of "The Rise of a Great Power" to mercilessly strip off the details of their rise and rise, so that the domestic people suddenly understood that this was the case!

This also makes the so-called "civilization" that the great powers talk about all day long a joke, and in the final analysis, the right to speak still depends on the fists to fight for it!

Li Yuanhong's new army nominally coordinated operations, but they did not obey the command of the coalition headquarters, and they were camped alone and well-equipped, and they could not be cleaned up in a hurry. If he not only does not cooperate, but also hinders him, the situation of the more than 20,000 allied troops will only get worse.

The British would never bow to the ignorant and backward Chinese, so General Gaisley emphasized: "We have sufficient evidence." In addition, this is not the norm, and some accidental injuries during the war are forgivable. After all, we have a common goal, and that's the most important thing, isn't it? ”

He felt that explaining such a process dù was already very face-saving for the Chinese.

Li Yuanhong also knew that there was nothing wrong with this group of foreign devils, but the anger in his heart became more and more intense, and he now understood why weak countries have no human rights, and foreign devils do not regard Chinese as human beings at all! No wonder Yang Hao's revolutionary army resolutely resisted the foreigners, but they had already seen their true faces clearly!

The British's willingness to restrain behavior is already the ultimate he can do. But unexpectedly, the Japanese said coldly from the side: "We don't need to explain to irrelevant people at all, if we kill it, we will kill it, so what can we do?" Any enemy who hindered the actions of the Imperial Japanese Army was to be executed without mercy! Since you have invited the coalition forces to help quell the rebellion, you should have been aware of this. ”

Li Yuanhong almost gritted his steel teeth, stared at Hei Mu Weizhen with anger, and said word by word: "You will definitely pay the price for today's atrocities!" The revolutionary army will never spare any enemy who dares to massacre his compatriots on the land, and you have made a great mistake! ”

The British laughed disapprerovingly, but the Japanese changed their complexion greatly, their eyes flashed with fierce brilliance, they seemed to be a little jealous, and there was a murderous surge that could not be concealed!

Before Hei Mu Wei Zhen led his army on the expedition, he was summoned by the Emperor Wa, and he swore on his knees that he would repay the blood debt for the heroic souls of the 3rd and 5th Divisions, who were almost completely annihilated! The sacrifice of every loyal warrior must be repaid with ten times the life of the Chinese!

This time, he's here to kill someone!

Li Yuanhong didn't want to say much to this group of humanoid beasts, so he left the headquarters with a dark face, and after leading the troops out of the city, he ordered the captain of his own army: "Order people to go, and collect all the bodies of the victims." Proper placement. Other than that. Get the word out to the outside world! ”

The captain of the pro-soldier was born in the military academy. The knowledge and knowledge are not low, and he was immediately taken aback: "My lord, in this way, wouldn't it greatly anger the revolutionary army?" ”

Li Yuanhong sneered: "Instead of letting the outside world misunderstand us in the future, it is better to transfer all the hatred to the heads of foreign devils." It is already a great mistake to lure the wolf into the house, and we cannot become accomplices in the tiger's play. ”

The captain of the pro-soldier suddenly understood. Yes, things have already come out, and trying to cover it up may not work. With the consistent style of the revolutionary army, they have always been unforgiving to traitors and traitors who betray the country and the nation. The coalition forces have done such a hurtful deed, which will definitely cause an unprecedented outrage! The result is likely to be as Li Yuanhong said, these people are afraid that none of them will want to go out of China.

In today's domestic circles, there are few people who read and read books that are not affected by Yang Hao's theory, and the concept of the country and the nation is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, arousing awakening, and at the same time, it also gives Huayi's distinction a new definition.

The people of the country at this time. Basically, I no longer have much affection for foreigners, and it is also because of the Yang Group's promotion of the industrial revolution. The fact that the natives themselves were able to produce a better foreign goods completely offset their sense of mystery and superiority. After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War and the decades of devastation that followed, the pride of Chinese civilization was still stirred in the hearts of the Chinese people at this time.

On this basis, a comparison of the Manchu court and even the imperial power of all dynasties under the rule of various ignorant policies and rigid and stubborn class oppression has also aroused extensive speculation. As a reader of the new generation of students, the kind of fighting spirit in his bones that takes the rise and fall of the world as his own responsibility, has the right direction and goal of effort.

Many of the student officers who came out of the Hubei Jiangwutang secretly joined the "Huaxing Society" and even various political parties, and there were not a few who made progress and transformation.

The captain of the pro-soldier is one of the leaders, Li Yuanhong already knew it but pretended not to see it, and at this time he released his attitude in order to leave a way out in the future.

The order of the Hubei New Army was carried out very quickly, and when it turned around, it sent a team of hundreds of corpses to collect the corpses, but unexpectedly, the Japanese intended to destroy the corpses, so they dug up the buried corpses again, poured oil on them, and burned them to ashes!

Li Yuanhong scolded angrily after hearing this, and almost led his troops to kill the fire! This astonishing news also spread to the headquarters of the revolutionary army and Chen Bing's second division at the front of the battlefield through the secret radio station.

The radio stations covering Tianjin, Zhili, Shandong, Liaodong and other places suddenly came out with his irrepressible angry declaration: "I have never been afraid to speculate on foreigners with the worst malice, but I still don't expect or believe that they will be so cruel and cruel!" Thousands of innocent compatriots have been slaughtered and burned, and their bones are gone, and these tyrannical acts are enough to prove what the so-called civilized face of the great powers is! And the Qing court disregarded the safety of its compatriots to do such a thing to lure wolves into the house, what face does it have to represent my 40,000,000 Chinese people? Such a sea of blood feud should be washed away with blood! The tyranny that aids and abets the abuses must also be resolutely overthrown! ”

Subsequently, he issued a new combat order to the former enemy armies: "Don't spare your hands, kill all the enemies who set foot on Chinese territory, and leave no one behind!" ”

Most of the soldiers of the Second Division of the Revolutionary Army in the Xuzhou battlefield came from southwest and northern Jiangsu, and they personally experienced the earliest land reform movement. At the beginning of this combat deployment, the strategic retreat issued by the headquarters and the practice of clearing the field with strong walls to lure the enemy into the depths made them very dissatisfied, believing that it was unnecessary to show the enemy's weakness, but they also resolutely carried out the order.

Now that the bloody case has come out, their dissatisfaction and anger are filled to the extreme! Lin Yongfang, the acting division commander, had just issued the new instructions of the headquarters, and all regiments erupted in a wave of shouting for battle, and some people even wrote a petition for war in blood, and wanted to make a military order to fire the first shot.

Lin Yongfang himself is not very old, he also can't hold his breath, seeing that the army's heart is available, he immediately made a decision, sent out all three infantry regiments, and the artillery regiment scattered to follow up and assist, except for the directly subordinate battalion, more than 10,000 troops simply left the defense line, and each committed suicide to the enemy!

Pixian also had a limited broadcast that had not been destroyed, and Yang Hao's declaration was translated, and the coalition generals could hear it clearly. The British only changed color slightly about their undisguised murderous intentions, but they were not too worried. The Japanese were even overjoyed, believing that Yang Hao's anger and raising troops was for the sake of chaos, which would inevitably disrupt his original operational deployment, and the uncontrollable lower-level soldiers rashly threw themselves into the battlefield, which would inevitably cause uncontrollable chaos!

The coalition forces can just wait for work, turn a strong attack into a strict defense, and give full play to the advantage of their forces to calmly kill them.

Kuroki Weizhen even solemnly wrote this combat case into his own diary of the art of war, so as to establish the style of the Sixth Division. In battle, Tong Guò's wanton killing and humiliation aroused the anger of the enemy, and when they lost their square inch and launched a chaotic attack, he concentrated his elite forces to break through the head-on, completely crushing his fighting spirit and winning continuous victories.

Subsequently, he ordered the 11th Brigade to take the initiative to step forward and open a position on the front line of Bian Tangji and Pizhou Mansion to meet the battle! (To be continued......)