Chapter 19: The Nature of Historical Coincidence (Part II)

In order to cheer up the brothers, Lin Shuqing personally carried the sword to supervise the formation, and made a speech: The Ninth Division will arrive soon, and everyone can't tell them to see jokes. If you want to say that this place in Jiangsu is very strange, northern Jiangsu and southern Jiangsu are separated by a Yangtze River, and the folk customs are far apart.

Northern Jiangsu has always produced strong soldiers, and it can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, and northern Jiangsu is a place where elite soldiers are produced. Southern Jiangsu is just the opposite, the people are mild, and the soldiers are not fine. When the Ninth Town recruited soldiers, they were all recruited in northern Jiangsu. Most of Lin Shuqing's soldiers are from northern Jiangsu, and if Gu Zhongchen's southern Jiangsu soldiers see the joke, it would be really embarrassing to go home.

Lin Shuqing worked hard, and the standard of the fifth town was a little unbearable, so there were 6,000 soldiers on the opposite side. There are a few more Haqi Keites, and there are also some small cannons. At the beginning of the attack, the commander was on the front line of the essence of historical coincidence (II) in Chapter 19, and this morale was still very strong.

The Beiyang Army relied on a strong position and struggled to support. Wu Peifu just refused to move. The standard commander of the fifth town was in a hurry, and rushed to Wu Peifu and roared: "If you don't give the order to attack, Lao Tzu will lead the troops to withdraw." ”

Wu Peifu actually still felt that the time was not right, but this friendly army was from the Fifth Town, so it was not too much. So the artillery was ordered to open fire, and the whole army assaulted.

Lin Shuqing's side was fighting anxiously, seeing that he was about to rush to the position, and was about to go up with the guards, when suddenly the artillery fire on the opposite side was densely covered. The artillery battalion brought by Wu Peifu was equipped with 75 mountain guns of the 38th Meiji style made by Japan, and Beiyang was made of six guns in a company, and the momentum of the 12 guns was not small. This is not Zhang Xun's grass platform team, this is a serious Beiyang elite third town. Yuan Shikai's housekeeper troops. Originally, it was recruited into Beijing, which was to be of great use. Unexpectedly, Fang Jianxiong messed up history, the financial difficulties of the provisional government were alleviated, the waist pole was stiffened when he had money, the voice at the negotiation table was louder, and the firepower of the Northern Expeditionary Army was also fierce, which led the third town to the south.

Lin Shuqing personally supervised the critical moment of the battle. The artillery of the Beiyang Army was mighty, and the dense formation of artillery fire turned on their backs. Don't even point to Chapter 19 The Nature of Historical Coincidence (II) I hope that the troops in the provinces will have straggler tactics in these years, and basically these generals will make a move. Rush forward in a dense formation. The reason for deciding this tactic was simple, the equipment was too bad. Think about the Battle of Songhu, how heroic the Gui army was. The dense formation launched a charge, and the large-caliber naval guns of the Japanese navy were packed up in a while, and one army was directly disabled.

A shell fell to the ground, and Lin Shuqing's troops suffered heavy losses, and the formation was messy, and they scattered in all directions. Wu Peifu was also willing to pay the capital, and after ten minutes of continuous shelling, the Makqin machine gun, which had been concealed, was also full of firepower. The town army was suddenly attacked, and the formation was immediately disorganized, and some people just dropped their guns and ran.

When I saw that the people's army was beaten and began to retreat. Wu Peifu dropped the binoculars and rushed out of the command headquarters with his sword.

"Brothers, rush with me!" Well, the current Wu Peifu is still a standard, and when he sees that the people's army is in chaos, the defeat has been achieved. It shouldn't be a big problem to take the lead yourself.

In fact, Wu Peifu didn't have much room to play, as soon as he rushed out, he called Zhang Fulai to hold it down, and threw it to his two relatives, Zhang Fulai took over the position, holding a war knife and wearing a very eye-catching officer uniform. Rush forward with your brothers.

The vast blue-gray Beiyang Army suddenly came out from all directions with bayonets, and the momentum was huge, and the shouting of killing was amazing. The defenders of the fifth town have been pressed and beaten until now, and they have been quite aggrieved, and when they saw this formation, Zhang Fulai, who was holding a war knife, rushed in front, jumped out of the battle, and rushed forward with a bayonet. The town army, which was already retreating, was chased and killed by the trail, and was suddenly defeated, and it was out of control for thousands of miles.

Lin Shuqing didn't expect it to evolve like this, and he angrily waved his knife and cut down several defeated soldiers in a row, but he couldn't hold down the position. The Beiyang soldiers rushed fiercely with bayonets, and the town army fled quickly, chasing and fleeing, and several of Lin Shuqing's personal soldiers didn't say a word, they set up and left. At this point, the fierce battle ended in a day of defeat by the town army.

Luckily, Gu Zhongchen's "cautious" use of troops was actually worried that the Beiyang Army was too powerful. The result of caution was a slow march, and by the time movement was heard, it was still three miles ahead. Able to set the formation out in time.

The well-equipped Ninth Division also gave Wu Peifu a head-on bombardment, although the casualties were not large, but when he saw that it was getting late, Wu Peifu also ordered to withdraw his troops.

The Northern Expeditionary Army suffered heavy losses in Zaozhuang, and when the subsequent follow-up units arrived one after another, they were all frightened by the news. If you want to talk about the combat effectiveness of these armies under the command of the provisional government, the town army is relatively strong. The old foundation of the ninth town, ninety percent of the Northern Soviet soldiers. Although the equipment is only average, the other troops may not be able to be tough compared to the town army.

That is, the first and second divisions, which also take the ninth town as the old foundation, are stronger than the town army, which is still thanks to Fang Jianxiong's blessing and the fact that the troops are better equipped. What other Jiangsu Army, Zhejiang Army, Shanghai Army, Yangzhou Army, is not as good as the Zhen Army, the Zhen Army suffered a defeat, after retreating, the other troops are naturally very conscious and careful.

When Huang Xing and Li Liejun's Jiangxi army came up and learned that the town army had been defeated and lost more than half of it, it was also very frightened. Hurry up and convene a military meeting, this meeting has not started yet, and Lan Tianwei's urgent call has arrived. Something big happened, the Second Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, also known as the Second Route Army, was surrounded by more than 10,000 Jiaodong Self-Defense Forces in Laiyang County. After several fierce battles for a day, he finally broke out of the encirclement, and the troops suffered huge losses, and the total number of troops who returned to Yantai was less than 1,000, and Lan Tianwei asked for reinforcements. If there are no reinforcements, they plan to retreat by sea. Jiaodong is too evil, and the local armed forces are so strong.

Huang Xing received this telegram and almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, what is going on? When this Northern Expedition was good, how could it suddenly be hit in succession, this is too difficult to accept. The key is that Lan Tianwei is a mixed brigade, or is it the troops of the former Ninth Town and now the First Division of Jiangsu, after going north to Yantai, doesn't it say that the results are remarkable? Didn't you say that Weifang would not be able to go down in the future? It's too big a change to accept.

And what is the origin of this Jiaodong Self-Defense Army? Local militias? How did you defeat the elite 1st Mixed Brigade of the Provisional Government?

Huang Xing didn't understand, Li Liejun didn't understand, and a group of generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army couldn't figure it out. Can't beat the militias? That's the first elite under the Provisional Government!

Lan Tianwei didn't understand how the world became like this, she left Laiyang early this morning and was preparing to move on. As soon as the vanguard left the city, an overwhelming barrage of shells fell. With the density of this artillery fire, how can you have an artillery regiment?

The ambitious Lan Tianwei was directly stunned by this artillery fire, and within half an hour of leaving the city, less than half of the battalion came back. That's not all, I climbed to the top of the city, took a breath of cool air, and there were flags on all sides at the far end, and trenches were being dug everywhere.

Fools know that they are surrounded! The point is that these guys who came out of nowhere are not wearing the clothes of the regular army, the question is where did they get an artillery regiment? Soon, Lan Tianwei had an "answer" case, standing at the head of the city and observing, rows of cannons were swinging out, no matter how they looked like toys.

Forget it, these grandsons don't seem to want money for shells. Obviously, the Northern Expeditionary Army had retreated to the city, but they still did not give up, moved their positions forward, and bombarded the city wall. The shells didn't stop anyway, and for a whole morning, the Northern Expeditionary Army was blocked in the city and couldn't get out. Lan Tianwei organized several tentative attacks, which were simply sent to death, not only did there be more artillery on the opposite side, but also more Makqin machine guns, and I had the impression that the Beiyang Army had this firepower, and it was even inferior to these militia groups on the opposite side.

Three attacks, the first call for artillery fire to wash it over, then was plowed by Makqin, and there were not many people when they came back. The second and third times, the result was even more tragic, more than 2,000 people were thrown in, and the opponent's position was not even close before it was beaten back.

This time, Lan Tianwei panicked, and hurriedly went to find someone to interrogate, and finally took down some of the gentry officials in the county who did not run away, and only found out after the first trial. The so-called Jiaodong Self-Defense Army, that is the old foundation of the Shandong patrol battalion, the soldiers are all from poor places like Yimeng Mountain, and many of them are professional bandits who have changed careers. This patrol battalion was sent by Sun Baoqi to Jiaodong, and later doubled, calling itself the Jiaodong Self-Defense Army, with more than 10,000 men and horses, and several artillery battalions.

The counties in Jiaodong are relatively wealthy, and these self-defense forces are usually fine and do not disturb the people, but the protection fee cannot be less. Laixi County once refused to call for protection money, but as a result, the self-defense army opened the city, and the county order was beheaded. Since then, the counties have been honest, and they have to pay a lot of money obediently, and they have to pay every month. Later, I heard that the protection fee in Weifang was collected by this Jiaodong Self-Defense Army, and you think about how murderous these people are.

That is, the Germans do not provoke, and other counties in Jiaodong really treat them as fierce gods. Anyway, it's okay to pay a lot of protection money, and besides, they don't collect a lot of money. In the past, all the centigold in each county was abolished, which was equivalent to half of the protection fee of the centi.

Seeing that it was already afternoon, and he couldn't just sit still, Lan Tianwei ordered a breakthrough. At first, it was very smooth, out of Laiyang, did not receive much loss, and saw that the guards put the main force in the west. However, less than twenty miles away from Laiyang, disasters began to befall one after another.

The Second Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, on the way back to Yantai, was ambushed one after another. While fighting and running, there were more than 500 people left when they returned to Yantai. That's it, Lan Tianwei was embarrassed to tell the truth, and gave a five-fold discount, saying that there were still a thousand people left.

Returning to Yantai, the first thing Lan Tianwei did was to stay on the warship, and then send a telegram to Xuzhou, Nanjing.

This day was really an unlucky day for the Northern Expeditionary Army, and it was a time when the shape was gratifying, and it was called to give people a head-on blow.

The so-called house leak happened to rain overnight, and it probably referred to the Nanjing Provisional Government. The telegram exchange overnight was inconclusive, and the next morning, Fang Jianxiong telegraphed the whole country, and another big incident broke out. (To be continued!!