Lin Fei immediately ordered Li Ming to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Li Ming did not dare to slack off, and immediately investigated the attack on the convoy, and found that the troops attacking the convoy turned out to be a Qing cavalry.

This news made Li Ming very surprised, before the war, he had never heard that the Qing army had a working cavalry, although the Qing army had nominal cavalry, but it was negligent in training, and there was no combat effectiveness at all, where did this Qing cavalry come from.

Li Ming reported the results of the investigation to Lin Fei, Lin Fei's heart was also tight, if this cavalry was not from the Qing army, it was the reinforcements sent by the powers, among the powers, the Russian Cossack cavalry was very famous, could it be that the Russians sent troops to help the Qing country, this is impossible, the Russian army is still fighting with Japan in the northeast, how can the Russian Cossack cavalry have time to help the Qing country.

Lin Fei asked Li to report the whole incident in detail, and then learned that it was a carriage transport team that was attacked, not a car transport team, and the Qing army that attacked was very fast, they rushed out of the night, and they rushed out from the woods, and after rushing out, they were already very close to the carriage transport team, and it was too late for the escort troops to shoot.

After the cavalry of the Qing army approached the carriage convoy, they immediately shot feather arrows, and the object of their shooting was not people, but horses, and their arrows were accurate and ruthless, and the pack horses pulling the cart often fell to the ground after a few arrows, and died with a whimper.

This cavalry of the Qing army actually used bows and arrows, and Lin Fei suddenly realized that the Russian Cossack cavalry did not know how to use bows and arrows, and the only cavalry that was good at using bows and arrows was the Mongolian cavalry.

This cavalry of the Qing army must have been a Mongolian cavalry rushing from Mongolia to help.

Lin Fei figured this out, and couldn't help but sneer secretly, can a mere cavalry unit dare to compete with my large army?

Lin Fei then ordered Li Mingming to mobilize transport trucks and armored trucks as quickly as possible, and then transport a batch of ammunition to Shijiazhuang to ensure that the ammunition supply was sufficient.

At this time, there were fifty cars in Tianjin, which could transport materials and personnel, and Lin Fei also transported twenty armored trucks to Tianjin for field or urban warfare, and Lin Fei had already begun to use armored trucks as tanks.

In order to transport as much ammunition as possible for the defenders of Shijiazhuang, Li understood that all 50 trucks and 20 armored trucks were dispatched, and all 50 trucks were loaded with ammunition, and the process of loading ammunition was greatly assisted by the local people, so the speed was very fast.

Yuan Shikai took advantage of the fact that the ammunition of the defenders of Shijiazhuang was cut off, launched a more fierce attack on Shijiazhuang, the defenders of Shijiazhuang estimated the consumption of ammunition, according to the current way of playing, after six hours, the ammunition of the defenders will be exhausted, if the logistics troops can not transport the ammunition within six hours, then the defenders of Shijiazhuang will have to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy.

In order to solve a difficult problem in front of the Huaxia army, the car transport team was at full speed, transporting ammunition to the front line, while armored trucks were guarding the side, waiting to engage the Mongol cavalry of the Qing army.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and a large forest appeared in the distance, and the commander of the Huaxia Army immediately issued an order: "All units are ready for battle, and the cavalry of the Qing army is very likely to rush out of that forest." ”

All the armored trucks were set up with machine guns and mortars ready, just waiting for the Qing army to rush up.

The convoy traveled three or four kilometers, and there was no enemy rushing out of the woods, and the hearts of the Chinese soldiers were slightly relaxed, and it seemed that the Qing cavalry would not rush out in the woods.

Just when everyone's hearts were slightly relaxed, suddenly a deafening sound of horses' hooves came from the woods, and then, a dense cloud of smoke rose from the woods, and in that smoke and dust, I don't know how many cavalry rushed out, and from a distance, it was densely packed.

Only then did the soldiers of the Huaxia Army understand why the transport team was attacked by these cavalry, because the woods were only more than 400 meters away from the road, and it only took more than ten seconds for the war horses to rush over at this distance, and the rifles could not be fired many times at all.

However, the armored trucks were equipped with heavy machine guns and mortars, and the two weapons fired together, and the horses in the charge fell down in pieces, and some of the horses were tripped by the horses in front of them and fell to the ground, and the Qing cavalry suffered many casualties.

Although the Qing cavalry suffered a lot of casualties, they rushed to a place more than 200 meters away from the Huaxia convoy in the blink of an eye.

Whether it is a transport truck or an armored truck, they are not afraid of feather arrows, and the compartments of these two vehicles have thick guard plates, and feather arrows cannot penetrate at all.

I only heard the sound of clanging on the guard, and the Qing cavalry in the distance was surprised, what is the Huaxia military thing, why are you not afraid of our feather arrows?

It turned out that Lin Fei's analysis was good, this cavalry unit was the Mongolian cavalry, led by the Mongolian prince Suoshan Turle, with a total strength of nearly 5,000 people.

This army came to Beijing to "King Qin", but when they arrived at the battlefield, they were told to obey Yuan Shikai's command, Prince Suoshan Turle originally wanted to charge in person, but Yuan Shikai refused, Yuan Shikai knew that the cavalry charge was only a dead end, so he let the Mongolian cavalry take on the task of cutting off the transportation line of the Huaxia Army.

After the Mongolian cavalry fired a volley of feathered arrows, many cavalry rushed to the road, the cavalry drew out the saber, and wanted to use the saber to block the speeding truck, the armored truck relied on the thick body, and directly hit it, the speed and weight of the armored truck were much greater than the war horse, and under the violent impact, the war horse of the Qing army flew out and fell to the ground fiercely.

The armored truck relied on its heavy armor to carve a bloody path for the convoy.

The speed of the truck was faster than that of the horse, so the convoy quickly left the Qing cavalry behind, and the Qing cavalry was in hot pursuit, and the armored truck then strafed the pursuers, and the Qing army was soon scattered with corpses, and had no choice but to give up the pursuit.

Escorted by armored trucks, the convoy galloped all the way to Shijiazhuang, but after walking for another half an hour, it suddenly found that the official road ahead could not be walked.

The official road from Tianjin to Shijiazhuang is a cement road that has been renovated by Chinese merchants, it is very smooth, and the car walks very quickly on it, but in front of this section of the road, it has been made out of a lot of pits, those pits are big and deep, obviously not dug by manpower, but blown up with explosives, and the Qing army actually sent troops to blow up the official road.

The official road was destroyed, and the convoy could only detour through the fields on the side, so that the arrival time in Shijiazhuang would be delayed, but the convoy had no choice, and now it could only hope for the heroic resistance of the defenders.

At the same time, the Shijiazhuang defense line was in danger, and the Qing army's man-sea tactics had miraculous results, and the first line of defense of the Huaxia army was breached, and the remnants of the army had no choice but to retreat to the second line of defense.

Because the time for the defenders of Shijiazhuang to build fortifications is relatively short, so the second fortification is the city wall, and this city wall is not safe, when the Chinese army attacked Shijiazhuang, once used heavy artillery to blast out a lot of gaps in the city wall, at this time these gaps are still there, and there is no time to repair, the Qing army can enter the city from these gaps.

At a critical moment in the battle, the Monkey King airship joined the warband.

Lin Gecheng learned that the defenders of Shijiazhuang were in a hurry, and directly sent all the eight Monkey King airships to the battlefield, the appearance of these eight Monkey King airships caused a devastating blow to the Qing army, although the Monkey King airship did not cause great damage to the Qing army, but the psychological deterrence ability of the Monkey King airship is extremely huge.

These Qing troops were all temporarily recruited by Yuan Shikai, they were all illiterate peasants, they had never seen an airship at all, and they didn't even dare to imagine that something could fly in the sky, so as soon as the Monkey King airship came out, they were all frightened and stupid, threw down the swords and guns in their hands, and fled in embarrassment, and the Huaxia army took the opportunity to regain the first line of defense.

Thanks to the Monkey King's airship, the Huaxia Army held the line of defense and gave the transport convoy time to come over.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the convoy finally arrived on the east side of Shijiazhuang, and Yuan Shikai knew that not allowing the defenders of Shijiazhuang to obtain ammunition supplies was the key to victory, so here Yuan Shikai sent a force to block the convoy.

Yuan Shikai's troops dug improvised trenches on the road and wanted to block the convoy, at which time the armored trucks took the lead and rushed forward, and Yuan Shikai's troops saw the cars during the Tianjin Battle, and did not panic, so they launched an attack on the armored trucks.

A dense rain of bullets was fired at the armored truck, at this time the armored truck showed that it was inferior to the tank, the window glass of an armored truck was hit, the bullet of the Qing army happened to hit the gap in the steel bar grid, the bullet penetrated the glass, killing the driver directly, and the armored truck that lost control hit a big tree and stopped.

There was also an armored truck where the wheel protectors were pierced by bullets, the rubber tires were punctured, and the armored truck slid sideways and fell to the ground.

Although two armored trucks lost their combat effectiveness, the other armored trucks still broke through the defense line of Yuan Shikai's troops, and the defenders of Shijiazhuang also came out of the city and launched a two-sided attack on Yuan Shikai's troops with armored trucks, and Yuan Shikai's troops had to retreat in embarrassment.

The convoy finally delivered the ammunition to the defenders of Shijiazhuang, and Shijiazhuang's urgent needs were temporarily alleviated.

When the battle in Shijiazhuang was in full swing, a fierce battle broke out in Hengshui, the 9th Division and its subordinate troops from Jinan, and Yuan Shikai's troops stationed in Hengshui met, the battle began immediately, Duan Qirui deserved to be a famous general in the Lin Fei era, and the command operation was also quite a set, he ordered the troops to rely on the favorable terrain to block the Huaxia army from Jinan from the position, and the attack of the Huaxia army lasted for a day, without any gains.