【17o】Wind Blowing Red Flag Earth Flip (26)

Among the more than 100 trainees, only a few young people other than military cadres chose to leave, accounting for less than 20 percent, which made Yao Fan feel very gratified. The intellectuals who stayed behind were arranged by Yao Fan in various committees under the General Staff, especially the Education and Culture Committee in charge of Su Sanjie, and received the most young cadres.

Yao Fan's Shandong Commune was an out-and-out militarized group, and after completing the campaign deployment, it took only two days to complete the pre-departure preparations.

On February 11, 1876, the sixth day of the first lunar month, on the snow-covered land of Jiaodong, a bright red party flag was torn in the gale, and the troops of Shandong Commune were like a rushing black iron stream, flowing to the west continuously, carrying heavy mules and horses and carts to follow the troops, endlessly driving out of Jimo City, people, horses, mules, donkeys, and living creatures all spewed white mist from their mouths and noses, and formed a steaming line on the road. The whole earth rejoiced in the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves.

The howling of the cold wind in the field was drowned out by the loud singing, and the People's Liberation Army, dressed in thick winter cotton clothes, was full of enthusiasm and marched in columns on the official road according to the orders of the company.

The first regiment and one battalion that served as the vanguard unit left at five o'clock in the morning, and they walked quickly with hot steamed buns in their arms, and arrived at Jiaoxian, 40 kilometers west of Jimo, before two o'clock in the afternoon.

A fire support company surrounded the city in a straggler state, and fired at the head with rifles to suppress it, and the blasting of the company on the assault mission was not very smooth, and the Qing army somehow summed up some experience from the previous battles in various cities, and piled up a lot of stones and dirt behind the city gates.

Luo Qiren was furious, and ordered a second blasting with a thirty kilogram TNT ** bag, this time the blasting shook violently from the earthquake, and the shock wave sprayed out from both ends of the city gate cave with dust and gravel, and the gravel crackled on the steel helmets of the soldiers a hundred meters away, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers behind the city gate were blurred by the flesh and blood splashed by the rubble.

Perhaps because of the disrepair, this blasting actually caused the entire city gate cave to collapse, and the bricks wrapped outside the city wall on both sides of the city gate were blocked and collapsed, revealing the thick rammed earth wrapped inside.

After this period of training, the guards of each company-level cadre have learned to play the trumpet, Yao Fan from the modern customized military horn iron bronze plated gold bright appearance, the reed sound inside is extremely loud, the blowing of the charge horn is enough to make the opponent of any army in the world frightened, "Di Di ~ Di ~~~~~~~~~~~ Di ~ Di ~~~~~~~~~~~"

More than 100 soldiers of the assault company were divided into three straggler columns in three platoons, carrying rifles and struggling to climb the hill-like mounds of masonry and earth formed after the collapse of the city gate and the city wall.

The scale of Jiaoxi County is very large, in addition to the outer city and the inner city, but the county order temporarily recruited hundreds of brave soldiers in the outer city after being broken into the city will have no will to fight, in addition to surrendering is to flee everywhere, the county order saw that the general trend has gone and no longer resisted, obediently surrendered, this surrender is only more than two months after he last reported to the imperial court.

That night, Yao Fan's whole army was stationed in Jiaoxi.

"Early tomorrow morning, the second battalion of the fourth regiment will stay in Jiaoxian. The 1st Regiment, 2nd Regiment, 1st Battalion of the 4th Regiment, 1st Company of the Cavalry Battalion and 1st Company of the Artillery Battalion continued to attack Gaomi to the west. I took the 3rd Regiment, the 5th Regiment and the 2nd and 3rd Companies of the Artillery Battalion to the north to attack Pingdu. The Western Route Army was under the overall command of Li Hainiu, and Li Jun and Zhou Sisi served as deputy commanders. ”

"Yes!"

At noon the next day, Li Hainiu took Gaomi, according to the battle plan, leaving Zhou Si and his four regiments and one battalion to defend Gaomi, and the first regiment and the second regiment did not enter the city, and after eating outside the city, they did not stop to Anqiu and Weixian, Li Jun was responsible for attacking Anqiu, and Li Hainiu was ready to wait for Yao Fan's Northern Route Army and Li Jun, who came to join the army after capturing Anqiu, near Weixian.

Yao Fan arrived at Pingdu City in the evening of the same day.

When Pingdu Tongzhi Jin Ruchun and Yao Fan made a comeback, his mood was extremely complicated, except for sending fast horses to Weixian for help, he did not make any preparations for city defense.

Jin Ruchun is a person who understands, the last time Wang Zhenqi raised more than 4,000 neat soldiers and horses, they couldn't resist Yao Fan, and this time he only relied on a few hundred temporarily recruited soldiers and servants, and it was not enough to fill them all in.

Yao Fan seemed to know Jin Ruchun's thoughts, and after arriving in Pingdu at about six o'clock in the evening, he ordered Wang Guangxing, the commander of the second battalion of the third regiment, at seven o'clock: "Wang Guangxing, you go and blast the city gate to try, if the defenders shoot at the head of the city, then retreat, if the enemy does not shoot, rush directly in." ”

As a result, when Wang Guangxing's demolition team easily blew open the city gate, a soldier waving a white flag immediately stood up by the lantern hanging above the city.

As a result, the Northern Route Army was able to go into the city for the night instead of sleeping on a large bonfire outside the cold city.

Yao Fan, who returned to Pingdu, looked very kind, he smiled and picked up Jin Ruchun, who was kneeling in the palace, and praised Jin Ruchun's non-resistance policy, and said: "Lao Jin, once born and twice matured, we are also old acquaintances, you don't have to be restrained, let me ask you, I came this time, does Lao Ding know about it?" ”

Jin Ruchun's face was pale, and he said with a bitter face: "The lower officials don't dare to hide it, when Chairman Yao's soldiers came to the city, the fast horse had already rushed to Weixian to report the news. ”

Yao Fan said: "Then do you know, how is Lao Ding's strength in Weixian?" Has Li Hongzhang's Huai Army arrived? ”

Jin Ruchun's face became even more ugly: "Chairman Yao, now the Qingzhou army is gathered...... Alas...... It would be good if you didn't write about the revolutionary army, the imperial court was going to recruit you, and I went halfway with the will of the military department and Ding Junmen's letter, but Ding Junmen somehow saw the revolutionary army you wrote, and immediately recalled me, and scolded me, alas......"

"Do you think I'll accept Zhao'an?"

"But?"

"I told you the actual situation last time, just hoping that Huai Jun could come later, so that I could be prepared first, and now that I am ready, it doesn't matter if I have Zhao'an or not."

"Chairman Yao thinks nine out of ten are safe?"

"Who else is I?"

After Yao Fan said this, he ordered the soldiers to escort Jin Ruchun down.

The next day, Yao Fan left three regiments and three battalions to garrison Pingdu, and the army set off again and headed straight for Changyi.

After a night's march, the army camped under the city of Changyi and prepared to attack the city at dawn.

After Wang Zhengqi's whole army was annihilated, Li Peirong and Mo Zushen only had Peizi Battalion and Shen Zi Battalion plus a Fu Biao battalion of Ding Baozhen, a total of four infantry battalions and four cavalry battalions.

Li Peirong, as the temporary commander-in-chief, is currently in command of the only remaining soldiers and horses in Ding Baozhen's hands, and he knows very well that if these soldiers and horses are lost, Ding Baozhen's status in the eyes of the imperial court will plummet.

"Brother Mo, the glue thief is now moving west from the southeast and south, how is this good?"

Mo Zushen had suppressed the twist, knowing that whenever the peasant uprising was always loud and morale was high at the beginning, he said: "I don't think it is appropriate to send troops. It is better to rely on the city defense of Weixian County, and use the strong city to wear down the morale of the thief army. ”

Li Peizong thought so: "What Brother Mo said is exactly what I want. I have asked Qingzhou for help, and Master Li's more than 7,000 soldiers and horses are currently conducting exercises in Qingzhou, where there are still five Manchurian cavalry battalions with yellow flags and yellow flags, which can relieve our Weixian predicament at any time. ”

So under the watchful eye of Li Peirong, on the fourth day of Yao Fan's troops, Anqiu and Changyi were also taken respectively, and the Northern Route Army and the West Route Army realized a meeting outside Weixian County.

"All the regiments are here, please instruct the chairman!"

"The second regiment, one battalion and two battalions are here, please instruct the chairman!"

"All the cavalry battalions are here, please instruct the chairman!"

"All the artillery battalions are here, please instruct the chairman!"

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Yao Fan said to Xi Dahu, the commander of the cavalry battalion, in the tent: "Xi Dahu, tell me about the intelligence of your cavalry battalion. ”

Xi Dahu has been in a state of excitement and anxiety since the White Horse Society was incorporated into the Shandong Commune, excited that Yao Fan had handed over the only cavalry unit to him, which made him feel a heavy trust, and anxious that the infantry officers under Yao Fan generally did not take him seriously. Therefore, Xi Dahu worked hard and wanted to play his own position.

"Chairman Yao!" Xi Dahu stepped forward and clenched his fists.

"Let's salute our revolutionary soldiers." Yao Fan said with a smile.

Xi Dahu's face turned red, and he hurriedly stood up and saluted, and said: "Now that it has hit Weixian, the Qing army is so frightened that all the roadblocks are frightened and fled, our cavalry battalion caught a few tongues, and after interrogation, I learned that now there are more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Weixian with four steps and four horses, which is the same as you guessed, Chairman." ”

"What about Qingzhou? I heard that the Qing army there was gathering a lot. Yao Fan asked.

"Chairman, Qingzhou is a hornet's nest right now, Chang Ying's six battalions of the tree army of more than 3,000 people are all here, I heard that this new tree army was just recruited a few years ago, and half of them are from Shanxi. Zhou Shengchuan's Sheng army came with six battalions this time, two steps and four cavalry, also more than 3,000 people, and they also brought a foreign artillery team from Tianjin, plus the five Manchurian cavalry battalions that Qingzhou already had, with a total strength of more than 8,000 people! ”

Seeing that Yao Fan was silent, Xi Dahu admonished: "Chairman, that Zhou Shengchuan was full of tricks, and there was a foreign artillery team, so we should not take it lightly." ”

Yao Fan haha, turned to the officers in the tent and said, "Do you know how to sing in the song of the Sheng Army? ”

"The seventh article in the song says, 'The seventh skill must be practiced diligently, and the spear shaft and knife should be exercised, and the foreign spear should be sharpened brightly, so as not to panic when something happens.'"

After hearing what Yao Fan said, all the officers immediately burst out laughing.

Li Jun smiled and said, "Grind him a bird!" Tomorrow, I'll shoot him in the head. ”

Zhang Ercang, the new deputy commander of the Fifth Regiment, said: "What about returning the spear shaft and broadsword, we can kill them with one shot if we don't wait for him to get close." ”

Yao Fan said: "Don't underestimate the enemy, people don't need cold weapons now, you haven't heard people sing, you have sharpened foreign guns, very powerful." ”

Liu Jinbaole couldn't close his mouth: "Then let's seize Ming'er and confiscate all their foreign guns to see if they are polished." ”rg

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