Xie Niancheng was fighting with the gentry in the city, and the soldiers of the revolutionary army were fighting with Liu Wuguang's soldiers outside the city.

Liu Wuguang was a ruthless man, he ordered the troops to set off at six o'clock in the morning, and his plan was to go to Pixian County for dinner at noon and spend the night in Chengdu!

Liu Wuguang's troops came over the mountains, and there were not many cavalry, so Liu Wuguang scattered most of them and sent them out, as the eyes of the troops, and the large army went straight to Pixian along the best road.

Liu Wuguang's plan was that after the troops marched to Pixian for lunch and a short rest, the troops would divide into three routes and attack Chengdu from the north, west, and south. Last night, he received a telegram from an informant in Chengdu, knowing that the revolutionary army was small in number and that it was all in the north of the city, he thought that this plan was foolproof.

However, when the troops were still about ten miles away from Pixian, there were bursts of gunfire in front, and cavalry kept coming back to report that they had encountered armed plainclothes attacks on the road.

Liu Wuguang naturally did not change his mind because of this kind of resistance, and he sent one of the most elite regiments to search and advance in platoons.

On the way to Pixian, these soldiers fought fiercely with Fan Fatzi's men all the way, and Fan Fatzi's men paid a huge price, with more than 500 people suffering casualties and almost 200 casualties.

The casualties of the Huaxing brothers were not in vain, their harassment made Liu Wuguang's troops unable to maintain an intact and wide reconnaissance network, and the cavalry battalion and infantry in ambush a few miles from the main road were not detected by Liu Wuguang's troops, nor were the artillery positions in front.

The opponent's small army tried desperately to block it, which made Liu Wuguang a little puzzled.

Is this a suspicious tactic?

Or is there an ambush ahead?

Liu Wuguang sent someone to examine the other party's body. As a result, the identity of the brother who died in battle confused Liu Wuguang.

Liu Wuguang's subordinates carefully examined the bodies of Huaxing's fallen brothers, and they were naturally able to distinguish them with experience. The Huaxing brothers are not veterans.

Combined with the intelligence of the inside line in the telegram, Liu Wuguang made this judgment:

The revolutionary army is in a hurry to jump over the wall, send some recruits to delay time, the main force of the revolutionary army must be in Chengdu to loot money and prepare to run away!

Even if there is an ambush, more than 20,000 of us are together, and this is a plain with a flat river. Can you still be afraid of thousands of ambushes?

Liu Wuguang ordered: Disperse these people, there is no need to chase, Pixian eats!

After this order was given. After the plainclothes enemy fled the main road, the officers and soldiers of Liu's department no longer pursued them, but buried their heads in the front.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Wuguang's three divisions arrived at the front line of Pixian.

At this time, Liu Wuguang made another fatal mistake. In order to prevent the revolutionary army from setting up ambushes in the county seat or villages of Pixian County, it delayed its own march. He ordered his troops to be stationed in divisions in three open areas outside the city, thousands of kilometers away from each other.

"Bury the pot and cook! Departure at half past one! ”

The officers of the Liu Department ordered.

After Liu Jun stopped, although the straggler cordon was released for more than 1,000 meters, it could not prevent the officers and men of the reconnaissance battalion with radio stations and carefully hiding, from reporting their positions to the artillery position of Yunshan Temple, nor could they find the revolutionary officers and soldiers who were ambushed in the distance.

After Wen Deyun received the telegram, he and the officers in the command post didn't have time to sigh at Lin Sanhu's clever calculation. The officers grabbed their phones one after another and gave orders to the artillery group outside, according to the coordinates reported by the reconnaissance battalion. Calibration of artillery began.

On the artillery position of Yunshan Temple, hundreds of field cannons, infantry guns, howitzers and mortars of all kinds are densely arranged.

A few days ago. Everyone is still complaining that there are not enough gunners and cannot arrange all the guns into the troops going out. Now seeing these guns and the gunners who have been trained by the surprise attack these days, the officers are both happy and afraid: "Fortunately, the artillery has not been trained well a few days ago!" ”

"This is the will of God, this is the heavens that want to rejuvenate our revolutionary army!"

"Commander Xie seems to be really a star monarch, what he does is right!"

"Coordinates: '5232, 2123', test firing!" The commander of several test guns began to order.

"Nourish...... Boom-"

Several test-fired shells exploded not far from Liu Wuguang's troops, who were resting in the far south.

The officers and men of the reconnaissance battalion immediately gave feedback on the location of the impact point.

The officers and men of Liu Wuguang's department were a little dumbfounded.

The commander of this division stood up and said, "Where to shoot artillery?" Where to shoot? ”

The artillery positions are simply out of sight, where can they be seen?

In less than two minutes, dozens of shells fell this time, several of which landed in the crowd, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

The officers now knew that something was wrong, "Quick, go and report to the commander." ”

"Hide, hide!"

The division commander hurriedly ordered.

This poor division commander could not have imagined at all how powerful the firepower of the revolutionary army would be.

"Coordinates: '5211,2432', 3 minutes of rapid fire!".

Hundreds of cannons began to fire at full limit.

The shells fired by the 120 mortars, the 105 howitzers, and the 85 field cannons were extremely lethal to the infantry, and thousands of large and medium-caliber shells fell, and the division quickly disappeared into smoke.

The officers and men of the other two divisions not far away were dumbfounded.

Liu Wuguang didn't have time to think about where the revolutionary army got so many long-range artillery, and seeing that a division under his command was disabled, Liu Wuguang got up and got on his horse, "Withdraw!" Remove! ”

His idea is not wrong - if the sneak attack fails, retreat to Dujiangyan first, and from the perspective of the overall strategic shape, the revolutionary army is still at a disadvantage!

On the artillery position of the revolutionary army, several test-firing guns had already found their positions in the middle of the division, and most of the officers and men of this division had just stood up, and before they had yet lined up, the shells in the sky flew in groups like black crows.

This time, the revolutionary army adopted the method of extending the shooting to the west, which made the officers and men of Liu Wuguang's troops who fled west feel that the shells were flying with their heads as if they had long eyes.

Seeing that the division led by Liu Wuguang himself also fell into smoke and dust, the officers and men of the northernmost division did not dare to line up, and scattered in a hurry, fleeing westward like sheep.

Liu Wuguang led dozens of guards to run in front on horseback, but he was not hit by the cannonball.

ran out less than three miles, and saw hundreds of cavalry on the opposite side. Rushing over with a bright saber.

Liu Wuguang was shocked and hurriedly turned his horse's head, but the infantry behind rushed over like a flood. Liu Wuguang was helpless, dismounted, and fled around the fields with the rebellious army.

The cavalry of the revolutionary army did not love war, but just rushed back and forth along several main roads, preventing Liu's army from reuniting.

Officers and men of Liu ran more and more scattered in the fields, and suddenly dozens of charging trumpets sounded at the same time in the north and south, and countless revolutionary soldiers and policemen in dark green and black military uniforms with bayonets were blowing. Fight your way out from an ambush a few miles away.

The slogan "Shoot or kill" resounded throughout the fields.

The soldiers of Liu Jun were completely confused, the timid knelt on the ground and raised their guns in surrender, and the bold ones threw away their guns and ran wildly......

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In the conference room here in Chengdu. The gentry talked less about land reform and currency reform, and more people discussed the war in the west.

"I heard that Liu Shuai has more than 20,000 people, and the revolutionary army has only a few thousand. I think the outcome is about to be decided. ”

"If Liu Wuguang's soldiers enter the city. It is indispensable for everyone to make up a military salary. ”

"Even if you pay the army, it is better than this man who wants land, gold and silver." People who didn't understand Xie Niancheng's policy whispered.

"Shhhhhhhh

Speaking of which, this young man is quite a general, and he has so few soldiers that he does not go to supervise the battle, and he does not pack up his things and flee for his life. Instead, he took the time to meet with us...... Extraordinary bearing. ”

"Hmph, what an extraordinary bearing. In my opinion, he is ignorant, last time he took Liu Sen's family and forced Liu Sen to surrender, this time, Liu Wuguang's elite soldiers came over, can they be dealt with as easily as last time? ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, I took a closer look at Commander Xie's Chen, if it is really like what he said, it is not impossible to do it."

"Don't talk about this, it's not dark yet, this Commander Xie is going to be a mess."

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The gentry in the hall, whether they were resistant to Xie Niancheng's reform plan or interested in participating, were not very optimistic about the current situation of the revolutionary army.

Yes, more than 20,000 elite soldiers, against thousands of recruits and thousands of policemen, do you need to think more about this victory?

Xie Niancheng and Luo Guoliang and a few others talked very happily with each other, and they did not mention the war situation.

After four o'clock, Lolita, who was wearing a military uniform, hurriedly came in and handed Xie Niancheng a telegram.

Xie Niancheng took it and looked at it, put it on the coffee table casually, and continued to talk to Luo Guoliang about the details of the currency reform.

A person next to him couldn't help but ask: "Commander Xie, how is the battle situation of the revolutionary army in Ximen?" Any news? ”

Xie Niancheng slowly picked up the teacup and took a sip, "Thank you for caring about my revolutionary army...... This is the latest battle report just sent to me, sir wants to know the situation, please take care of yourself. ”

The gentleman in his fifties got up and picked up the telegram from the coffee table, and after looking at it a few times, his hands trembled, obviously a little embarrassed.

Luo Guoliang also said anxiously: "Lao Wang, the battle situation is coming, read it to everyone." ”

This gentry named Lao Wang cleared his throat and read aloud: "Commander, all units of our army engaged fire with the enemy Liu Wuguang at noon, and the enemy was crushed at the first touch, our army pursued and killed for sixty miles, the enemy's corpses were innumerable, our army captured more than 10,000 enemies, and Liu Wuguang gave the head; Now our army has recovered Dujiangyan, and all units are chasing and destroying the remnants of the enemy. ”

"Lin Sanhu, Su Wei, Zhang Mang, Wen Deyun, Fan Pengju, Zhou Shisheng, ......"

This telegram of victory was sent by Su Wei, the highest-ranking official on the front line, and he was in charge and put Lin Sanhu, who had the greatest credit, at the top of the telegram.

Everyone who participated in this operation knows that Lin Sanhu, after this battle, will become the number one general of the 17th Army!

After listening to the contents of this telegram, all the gentry were stunned!

What kind of combat effectiveness is this of the revolutionary army?

Thousands of people defeated more than 20,000 elites of the old Sichuan army in one afternoon, and also killed Liu Wuguang, known as the "first general of the Sichuan army"!

Tian Geyao was captured, Liu Sen surrendered, Liu Wuguang was beheaded, how many days can Yang Sen and Deng Donghou bounce?

Xie Niancheng stood up at this time: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am busy with military affairs, so I will retire today; I would like to ask you to give more consideration to the various reforms, and wait for the official convening of the parliament before making a decision! ”

After saying that, Xie Niancheng left the conference room and went out, Xie Niancheng deliberately pretended to be very calm on his face, and finally smiled!

Everyone knows:

After this war, the overall situation of Sichuan has been decided.

After this war, the 17th Army became famous all over the world! (To be continued......)