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Yuan Shikai in Beijing was very shocked after receiving Feng Guozhang's telegram for help, the 300,000 army was lost in less than half a month, and the casualties of the East China Army were less than half of their own, and now the Beiyang Army basically has no army to rescue Feng Guozhang, because the Battle of Xuzhou has begun, according to Feng Guozhang, the East China Army should have large-scale weapons of destruction, if Xuzhou also has this kind of weapon, then the Battle of Xuzhou will inevitably fail, thinking that Yuan Shikai urgently sent a telegram to Duan Qirui in Xuzhou to ask him to be careful of the East China Army.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, Jiang Fangzhen was afraid that the Beiyang Army would know about the storage of tanks in the Battle of Maozhou, and he used tanks on the battlefield at the beginning, so Yuan Shikai's telegram was still a little late.

The Battle of Xuzhou was very effective because of the use of tanks at the beginning, those Beiyang troops did not know that the power of these tanks was defeated, and on the first day, Duan Qirui sent out less than 1,000 troops to test the 50,000 troops, and the casualties in East China were very few.

Duan Qirui saw these wolf soldiers and began to ask the reason for the failure, he learned from the mouths of these soldiers who fled back that the East China Army actually has a kind of iron box that can move and spray shells, which is very lethal, so that the Beiyang Army has no power to fight back, after getting this information, Duan Qirui was very shocked, and he didn't expect that the East China Army had such a terrifying weapon.

Just when Duan Qirui felt extremely heartbroken about the loss of 50,000 troops at the beginning, Yuan Shikai's telegram to him carefully, Duan Qirui felt very resentful when he saw it, President, you just sent it earlier, but from it he also saw that he had some things that Yuan Shikai didn't say, such as how could Yuan Shikai know that the East China Army had this kind of weapon, it seems that this kind of weapon also appeared in Maozhou, and the loss is definitely not ordinarily large, it seems that this war is very difficult.

After waiting for a while, Duan Qirui received another telegram, which was sent by a friend of his who was also the core figure of the Beiyang Army, Duan Qirui felt that it was over after reading it, because his friend said that the Beiyang Army in Haozhou had lost 200,000, and the rest was also surrounded by the East China Army, and asked Duan Qirui to deal with the East China Army carefully, otherwise if he missed, he would be hated for eternity.

When Duan Qirui saw this, he knew that the Beiyang Army in Haozhou was definitely finished, and he couldn't gnaw on the current East China Army in Xuzhou, and when the East China Army in Haozhou rushed over, they would not even have scum left, and he was now very entangled in whether to withdraw troops to retain the strength of Beiyang, but he did not receive the order of the president, and he did not dare to overstep.

Duan Qirui immediately gathered the officers to discuss how to deal with the iron box of the East China Army, because he found that this iron box was the biggest threat to them.

The officers below were all quietly pondering, and suddenly one of the officers said: "There is a hole in the top of the iron box for the East China Army, so if you throw the grenade into it, you will blow up the iron box." Most of the grenades mentioned here are old-fashioned grenades used during the Russo-Japanese War, and Yuan Shikai at that time was equipped with some grenades after seeing the power of this.

Duan Qirui and a group of officers were all bright-eyed, how could they not think of this, but an officer who escaped back said cautiously: "There is also an East China soldier who is using a machine gun to strafe it, I am afraid that he will be shot before he can get close." ”

As soon as the officer said this, the officers fell silent again, if they really wanted to do that, they would lose more people, but if they didn't, they would lose the same, or even greater, so they had to do it.

Duan Qirui: "Just do it, everyone has no good way, only in this way can we reduce losses, and it would be better if we could blow up these tanks." ”

Duan Qirui launched an attack on the East China Army two days later, and the East China Army saw that the Beiyang Army, which had been beaten yesterday, rushed up again, and started fighting without saying a word, and those tanks also began to be dispatched.

Many Beiyang troops fell under the attack of tanks, because it was a plain and there were no trenches or anything, the tanks drove very fast, and some tanks ran over directly regardless of the corpses of the Beiyang Army in front of them, and there were stumps and broken legs everywhere on the battlefield, that scene made Duan Qirui and them close their eyes directly.

Just when a tank passed by a group of corpses, and the soldiers on the tank were excitedly strafing the Beiyang Army in front, but they didn't expect that a person suddenly stood up in the group of corpses and slowly crawled towards the tank, the soldiers on the tank didn't notice this situation, the Beiyang Army soldier took out a grenade from his arms and lit it and threw it into the tank with lightning speed, the East China soldier was injured with a "boom", and the tank stopped with thick black smoke from the top, Suddenly, the iron box opened a door from the back and walked out of two East China soldiers, their faces were black, their hair was also scorched and smoking, they looked around vigilantly with their weapons, and after looking for a while, they finally saw the Beiyang Army in front of them who blew up their tanks with bombs, and without saying a word, they raised their guns to kill him, and then they urgently carried out the wounded comrade on the ground, and the two tanks nearby immediately drove over to protect them.

Duan Qirui saw that there was an iron box that couldn't move, and he knew that the effect of dropping bombs was really effective, and he was very happy, but it was a pity that they didn't have many bombs, after all, bombs were basically not used in normal times, so they had not yet been formed, and there were fewer people who could make them.

But soon those East China infantry began to keep up, with the help of the infantry, the tanks did not rush forward, but only cooperated with the infantry to attack those Beiyang troops.

Soon Duan Qirui began to retreat, because if he continued to fight, it would increase the casualties, this time he lost more than 30,000, but he also succeeded in blowing up about ten tanks in East China, and his 200,000 troops were now only 120,000, and there was no hope of victory, so he began to telegraph Yuan Shikai asking for withdrawal.

Just when Duan Qirui launched the second attack, Yuan Shikai received Feng Guozhang's suicide note from the East China Army, and when he read it, he cried with a pale face: "Huafu, how can you be like this, you have failed me and mistaken me." Crying and crying, he spurted out a mouthful of blood and fainted, Yuan Keding and Yang Du next to him hurriedly helped Yuan Shikai to sit on the chair, and the two shouted: "Doctor, doctor, come quickly." ”

Soon a group of Chinese medicine doctors arrived, it turned out that since Yuan Shikai fainted last time, there had been a medical team waiting near Yuan Shikai, they checked Yuan Shikai and said: "The president is extremely sad and angry, but he should recuperate, and don't get angry or sad again in the near future." ”

After arranging it, Yang Du and Yuan Keding took the last words and looked at them, and they were shocked at first glance, their faces were extremely pale, the army of 300,000 was gone, and Yuan Shikai's henchman and beloved general actually committed suicide, it was really a shocking event, both of them were silent and did not speak.

Suddenly, Yang Du shouted: "It's not good, hurry up and tell Qirui to withdraw his troops, this is a trap, what a big game of chess, if Qirui is also wiped out, then Beiyang will be over." ”

At this moment, a soldier came in with Duan Qirui's telegram, Yang Du opened it and looked at it, and instantly felt that the world was spinning, Duan Qirui lost more than half of his troops so quickly, and Beiyang was almost finished, but he still had a glimmer of hope, he hurriedly asked the soldier to send a telegram to Duan Qirui to retreat quickly.

Yuan Keding was also very nervous when he looked at it next to him, but he didn't have any good way at all, so he had to listen to Yang Du.

The East China Army in Xuzhou realized the shortcomings of the tanks when they lost eight tanks, so it was decided to arrange one more person on the tank, so that the losses would be reduced. The order from the headquarters came down, requiring that the Beiyang Army in Xuzhou be surrounded as quickly as possible, and not to let the Beiyang Army go back to the north.

Soon, the East China Army was dispatched to encircle the Beiyang Army, and Duan Qirui also discovered the encirclement intention of the East China Army, and gathered all the troops to quickly go north before they were all surrounded, trying to get rid of the encirclement. But it is obvious that the mobility of the East China Army is more than a star and a half faster than the Beiyang Army, and it was soon caught up by the East China Army, and the East China Army saw the Beiyang Army retreating frantically and fought to the death, and groups of Beiyang Army were knocked down by the East China Army that caught up, and those tanks were directly rushed up and crushed, and the Beiyang Army that ran slowly surrendered one after another, and only a small part of them were desperately resisting, and they were all killed.

This pursuit lasted three days, and most of the Beiyang Army surrendered, only Duan Qirui and a group of officers escaped with less than 3,000 people, and they rushed to the north all the way, all the way to the emergency escape, and when they escaped, they were so tired that they couldn't move on the ground, like dead dogs.

The East China Army's plan for the Armageddon in the North was a complete success, and the Beiyang Army now basically has no troops except for the 50,000 defenders defending Shanxi, as well as Zhang Zuolin in the northeast.

Yuan Shikai, who was in Beijing, had just woken up and was still a little weak, and after receiving the news that Duan Qirui had fled back and the Beiyang Army in Xuzhou was finished, Yuan Keding and Yang Du did not sue Yuan Shikai in order to let Yuan Shikai recuperate with peace of mind, otherwise I don't know if Yuan Shikai can survive.

Beiyang's defeats in Maozhou and Xuzhou were not announced, and even Zhang Zuolin did not know, and the East China government was very happy to see that Yuan Shikai did not make a statement, so for the sake of the southern battle, East China did not announce the news of defeating the Beiyang Army.