Milli State ().

Since being killed by a hunter, Zhuoyang has fallen into a state of chaos, more than 20,000 Ni troops have not finished fighting for leadership through cannibalism, and one by one trucks have pulled the 103rd Brigade of the National Defense Army Guard Division to their doorstep, and with the support of an artillery battalion, it only took two days to tear open the gate of Zhuoyang.

Immediately afterwards, the Ni army in Linquan, Taihe, and Wuyang were all swept away, and some of the Ni army withdrew to Suzhou, and some retreated in Maozhou to try to resist in the end, but before they could gain a foothold, a regiment of the 103rd Brigade chased their butts with the help of trucks and slaughtered into the city of Maozhou.

There was no suspense in the battle, and mortars, grenadiers, and light machine guns equipped with the squad made the Ni army, which had no unified command and had long lost the will to fight, scattered, and put up a white flag after only half an hour.

When Mei Sheng arrived with the cavalry company, the city of Haozhou had been completely occupied, and the Ni soldiers who raised their hands to surrender could not see the posture of sweeping northern Anhui a year ago, and many people were still yawning and full of pain, and they looked like they were addicted to smoking. The black and oppressive Ni army captives made him disdainful, and he couldn't look down on these Beiyang peripheral troops now.

"Report, Mei Sheng, the commander of the third company of the first battalion of the cavalry regiment, was ordered to report for duty."

Mei Sheng met Qiu Wenbin, the commander of the 103rd Brigade, in a depression outside the city. From a soldier of the guard company to a squad leader, platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander, he graduated from the Hubei High Military Academy and was a student of the first phase of the National Defense University's crash course for officers. In addition, most of the officers and soldiers of the guard company were taught by Yang Qiuyan, so after the expansion into divisions, their group of people were promoted to officers and became the backbone of the guard division.

After Qiu Wenbin returned the salute, he glanced at the sturdy cavalry company commander, who had attacked the Yi army in disguise in Sanmenxia and captured Zhao Kui. So he immediately took out a small box from his pocket and handed it over: "You can't go back for the time being, so the commander-in-chief specially sent someone to send it to me and let me hand it over to you." ”

Mei Sheng opened the box, it was a small silver-plated Wehrmacht Medal of Honor of the second class, don't look at the small medal but it made Mei Sheng extremely excited, saluted and shouted: "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief." ”

After Qiu Wenbin put on the medal for him, he pulled him to the map: "Where is your cavalry regiment now?" ”

"The regiment commander has led people across the Yellow River a few days ago, and is currently operating in the area between Shandong and Xinxiang, and there are still two companies waiting for an opportunity on the Xuchang side, and my company was assigned to sweep on the Shangqiu side, and came overnight after receiving the order." Mei Sheng is a typical northwestern character, and he told the deployment of the cavalry regiment in a few clicks.

Qiu Wenbin glanced at the machine gun he was carrying and asked: "Our brigade was ordered to transfer to Hebei to attack Kaifeng, and the general route is to prepare to insert diagonally to the northeast along the Vortex River or the Huiji River. It is necessary to be able to pass the truck quickly. Mei Sheng had heard that the guard division was equipped with trucks that only foreigners had, but the trucks were afraid of crossing the river and the mountains, so he pointed to the map and said: "In fact, they are all about the same, starting from Maozhou, whether it is in the south or in the north, the terrain is flat and has its own advantages, and you can avoid Ningling by taking the vortex river, but there is a river to block the road when you arrive at Tongxu, and now it is the wet season, the water depth is about three or four meters, and you can't cross only the wooden bridge." In addition to a few low mountain bags in the north, there is basically no way to block the road, as long as you pass Ningling, you can go to Shangqiu to Kaifeng, Zhengzhou's post road, this section of the road trucks are okay to run casually ().

But this has to go through Ningling first, Beiyang has a mixed brigade here, and two artillery battalions to help, and in the past few days, a lot of resolute troops have been drawn to help, it is estimated that it is to prevent you. "Then according to your estimate, how long will it take to arrive in Ningling from Maozhou?"

Mei Sheng scratched his head and said with a smile: "It is only a hundred miles from Maozhou to Ningling, and our cavalry will not take an hour to arrive by gritting their teeth, and I don't know your marching speed." ”

"With the help of trucks, if the terrain is flat, you can walk at least 80 miles (40 kilometers) in an hour."

"That's not much slower than our cavalry, and this road is definitely easier to walk, so it will be two hours to the sky. However, the truck can't rush directly from Ningling, there are many checkpoints set up in this section of Beiyang, and we also came by detouring north of Shangqiu. ”

"There's a trench?"

"There are some outside Ningling, but there is no section between Ningling and Shangqiu, only roadblocks and deer firewood can be set up to push them away. However, Ningling's mixed brigade used to be Zhang Huaizhi's direct subordinate mixed brigade. ”

After Mei Sheng finished speaking, he just wanted to remind him that Ningling's Beiyang was not simple, but halfway through his words, there was a sudden noise and noise in the distance, and Qiu Wenbin heard the cheers and knew that the equipment sent by the commander had arrived, and hurriedly led someone to greet him.

Eight Daimler armored vehicles covered with rivets and steel plates slowly stopped in the open space with black smoke, and the hemispherical turtle shell in the upper part looked very funny, but the muzzle of Hessesen's Makqin made no one dare to underestimate it, steel plates, machine guns and black smoke, making the armored car look extremely strong, those Ni army prisoners were all dumbfounded, secretly thinking that this thing had just driven over, and they probably didn't even have scum left, right?

Mei Sheng's eyes widened directly, and he simply walked to the front and smashed the steel plate twice with his fist, and said, "Good guy." This thing can block bullets, right? ，…

It happened that Ouyang Wu got out of the back compartment and laughed: "I've tried it with rifles and machine guns, 300 meters can't even be an itch, 200 meters heavy machine guns can cause a little threat, and it is possible to be pierced by bullets when you enter 100 meters, but there are machine guns on it, and those who can survive within 100 meters are all killed ()." Although Ouyang Wu had never seen Qiu Wenbin, he knew that he was the commander of the 103rd Brigade when he looked at the epaulettes, and said with a smile: "Wenbin, I can be regarded as completing the commander's task and bringing things to you, and I almost didn't break my bones along the way." ”

After greeting a few people for a while, Qiu Wenbin immediately selected a few of the most skilled drivers and machine gunners to familiarize themselves with the equipment, and in an instant, eight armored vehicles rushed in and back in the open space, attracting countless soldiers and civilians to watch.

"Commander-in-chief, Ding Zhi, this armored vehicle can't defend itself against shells and grenades at close range, so we must first use artillery to suppress Ningling's Beiyang artillery, and strive to rush over as soon as possible when attacking.

He asked you to concentrate the flower machine guns and follow it to protect when attacking, because the steel plate behind it is the thinnest, so as not to be exploited by the North Ocean. After Ouyang Wu instructed Yang Qiu's explanation, he took out his old pocket watch: "When are you leaving?" "I'll leave after lunch. Garrisoned in Ningling is Wang Zhanyuan, an old friend of our National Defense Army, if it goes well, I can meet him in the afternoon, if I can break through, maybe I will be able to go to Kaifeng City tomorrow morning! Qiu Wenbin's words made Ouyang Wu secretly applaud, sure enough, he is a strong general without a weak soldier, he knows the importance of the speed of the soldiers, to be honest, if Beiyang is fully prepared, these armored vehicles may not be able to cause much trouble, but if the speed is fast, one night is enough to change a lot of things.

Mei Sheng jumped up excitedly at the thought of seeing the power of these steel plate monsters in the afternoon: "I'll go first and clear the way for you!" 、，

"Don't worry, let's have lunch." "No need, our regimental commander's requirement is to be able to sleep and eat on horseback." Mei Sheng laughed, and led more than two hundred cavalry to roar towards Ningling, seeing these young men who were alone in the Central Plains, Qiu Wenbin and Ouyang Wu were also secretly admired.

With their leadership, the officers and men of the 103rd Brigade also quickly prepared.

Two Daimler and six trucks loaded with protection soldiers and gasoline walked in front, followed by an infantry regiment and a convoy of more than 500 pack horses and wagons, all loaded with 70-mm infantry guns, mortars and heavy machine guns, most of whom sat in the wagons. Behind them is the main force composed of a full 54 trucks, 12 Krupp 1909 105 mm light howitzers are hung on the back of the truck, heavy ammunition and gasoline drums are also stuffed into the compartment, and a large flatbed truck is towed with hemp rope behind the truck without cannons, which is the original towing method of the 103 brigade, the board car can not only put ordnance and materials, but also used to sit soldiers, although it is impossible to bring all four thousand infantry at a time, but the rotation of the car can allow the soldiers to ensure the maximum physical strength, and the speed is much faster ().

The heavily built packhorse infantry brigade made Ouyang Wu's envious eyes almost drop, but fortunately he was not too disappointed, because he had been guaranteed that the Ninth Division would also carry out this packhorse modification in the future.

When the 103rd Brigade turned around and advanced north into Henan, the Beiyang 21 Mixed Brigade in Ningling did not know what was going to happen, and the camp under the sunset was full of shouting and shouting.

Ningling is located five kilometers west of Shangqiu, is an important gateway to the north of Anhui into Henan, after learning that Ni Sichong was killed by the "assassin", Chen Yan realized that there was a big gap here, so immediately let the 8th Mixed Brigade stationed to prevent the Wehrmacht from going north. After Xinhai, the Beiyang imitation of the national defense force carried out a rough military system, and the numbers of each unit were also modified, the 8th mixed brigade was Zhang Huaizhi's direct subordinate mixed association, Zhang Huaizhi went to Shandong to sit in the town, Yuan Shikai transferred Wang Zhanyuan, who was defeated in Xiaocang Mountain, to serve as the brigade commander.

Inside the barracks, Wang Zhanyuan ignored the commotion outside. From the division commander to the brigade commander, the big gap really made Wang Zhanyuan realize what it means to be warm, and he wanted to make a comeback when he was incorporated into the First Army, but he was rejected by Chen Eun many times, and was transferred to Ningling to guard the second line, and directly sent a telegram to Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai.

Now he is counting on Zhuoyang's Wehrmacht to go north, so that he can fight a good battle and let everyone understand that he is not old yet! Wang Zhanyuan picked up the small wine cup and slammed it. , pinched a few peanuts and was about to throw them into his mouth, when several scout cavalry suddenly rushed in the direction of the camp gate outside the window.

"The Wehrmacht is calling!"

Wang Zhanyuan slammed the wine glass, whether he can make a comeback depends on this battle! ……！。