Long after the beginning of spring, the frozen rivers in the north begin to thaw, and the melted snow and rivers converge and leave for the low-lying areas.

Here is the hot river, the Mongolian steppe and the northeast loess and the throat of the central Hebei region. Taking this place is equivalent to cutting off one of Zhang Zuolin's arms and grabbing the life of the Feng warlord, so Batu is determined to win.

The chairman of Rehe Province is the Feng warlord Tang Yulin, nicknamed the Second Tiger, and Zhang Zuolin, the king of the Northeast, is a friend of eight worships, because he occupies an important geographical location in Rehe, and sometimes he can even be on an equal footing with Zhang Zuolin.

However, no matter how fierce a general is, he is still a general after all, and in Zhang Zuolin's eyes, Tang Yulin will always be just a martial artist. Tang Yulin is a fierce general like Zhang Fei, his growth experience is the same as that of most generals among the warlords at that time, with little tribulation, then falling into the grass, and finally recruiting peace.

When Tang Yulin was young, because his family was poor, he herded cattle and sheep for the rich landlord's family, and when he grew up, he went to drive the car for the shopkeeper. Seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys often carry horsewhips, big carriages, and large cigarette previews pinned to their waists, pulling all kinds of goods back and forth between Chaoyang and Fuxin.

In those days, the people who drove the big carriage were not simple characters, and it was impossible to do it without a little real kung fu. In order to defend himself, Tang Yulin learned to ride and shoot hard, and he was able to wear a hundred steps in the initial archery, and the later fast gun was even more powerful in his hand. In addition, Tang Yulin is tall, and several middle-aged men are not close.

However, his two fists were invincible, and on the way back from a trip to transport goods, a mustache caught him, snatched all his goods, and almost killed him. Tang Yulin's temper came up, and in a fit of anger, he went to Daling River to join the fourth and fifth brothers of Yuan, became a hero in the green forest, and began a career as a bandit who robbed homes and houses.

Tang Yulin is a fierce and brave person, and he is addicted to gambling like his life, so he used the hot oil pot under his hand to catch the scales in order to compete for the treasure game; When fighting for the dock with others, in order to scare the other party away, he put the red briquettes in the stove on his thigh, and burned his ribs with a red-hot iron bar; The most surprising thing is that when Tang Yulin was short of money for gambling, he dared to use a knife to cut the meat on his thigh as a gamble......

Tang Yulin has done a lot of such appalling things, and because of this, Tang Yulin became famous soon after and became famous in his beard; Even their eldest brother, the Yuan brothers, was afraid of him, so he was named the second master soon after he went up the mountain, so the people in the green forest called him "Tang Erhu".

However, Tang Yulin is the kind of person who sends people under the fence, not long after leaving the mountain, he left the Yuan brothers and led a group of outlaws to occupy Hongluo Mountain in Jinxi to establish himself, and then recruited troops and horses to become the king of the mountain.

During the Manchu Dynasty, a group of Qing troops who participated in the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War fled to Hongluo Mountain and joined Tang Yulin's cottage, and it is precisely because of this that Tang Yulin's subordinates are no longer a rabble, and their well-armed team has also become militarized.

When the Northern Expeditionary Army reached Jinan, Tang Yulin dispatched troops and transferred tens of thousands of elites of the Northeast Army to Rehe. Although he was honest on the surface, he knew that Batu, a Mongolian barbarian, would definitely come to deal with him, this guy killed the prince of Guisui, and he was still doing some kind of grassland distribution in Guisui, so that a group of poor herdsmen supported him very much.

Although Tang Yulin had no ambitions, he could also think with his toes that Batu would deal with him next, so he was prepared early.

"I heard that Batu's barbarian used to be a big carriage for other people's carriages? This is a bit similar to Lao Tzu, but I think he will definitely die at the hands of Lao Tzu. In the Rehe Provincial Overseer's Mansion, Tang Yulin asked disdainfully while smoking a big cigarette pouch.

The officers under his command are all bandits who follow Tang Yulin to fight the world, where are there any rules on weekdays, this guy named Luan Liuzi is taking off his shoes and squatting on a mahogany chair smoking a big cigarette, Luan Liuzi followed Tang Yulin in his early years, and later followed him to recruit An.

In this place of Rehe, Tang Yulin is the boss, Luan Liuzi will not be more than a palm according to the number, Luan Liuzi is a big smoke and a woman on weekdays, so the women of the good family are not less ruined, some people sued the Rehe Provincial Government, Luan Liuzi almost led people to smash the provincial government when he heard it, and the arrogance of these people can be seen.

"That's it! How can that little kid compare to you? I think this barbarian is a slut, and his troops are all southerners? Is it strange that those short southern soldiers spent a winter in this place and did not freeze to death? Ha ha. ”

His words made Tang Yulin feel very good, and he felt that in the place of Rehe, the tall Northeast Army was the absolute protagonist, especially the cavalry. He really couldn't look down on half of the Guangxi soldiers in Batu's team, but he didn't know that not far from Rehe, Yuan Chonghuan used these Guangxi soldiers when he broke the Qing army.

Just as Tang Yulin was dispatching his troops, Batu's team had already begun the final preparations before the battle. After the defeat of Guisui, Batu's army expanded a lot, and now their troops are not only cavalry troops, but a mixed army of more than 50,000 people, and they are also the first army in the Northern Expeditionary Army to achieve all mules and horses.

Although the mule-horse army is not as fast as the motorized and mechanized army, in the vast plains, the mule-horse army has been able to achieve the speed of soldiers, not to mention that they are only facing warlord troops with very average equipment and training, and at this point, Batu is still very confident in his army.

Soon after the beginning of spring, Batu mobilized his troops and deployed, and the 50,000-strong army soon assembled from the hinterland of the steppe to Chahar Province, and then the army divided into two routes to attack Rehe.

One route was led by Batu along the Xilamulun River and Laoha River through the Baiyintao Sea to attack the important town of Chifeng, an important town of Rehe; One route was led by Liu Jian to take the provincial capital Chengde.

Liu Jian and Batu's methods of fighting are different, Liu Jian was a famous general of the Sichuan army very early, and he was much better than Batu in terms of army regularization, after he arrived at the cavalry unit, he successively opened officer training courses, and also formed a multi-arm mixed unit, which can be said to have made great achievements for the army's first telephone, but sometimes he was not as "cunning" as Batu when he started fighting.

At the beginning of the battle, Batu led the troops to attack Chifeng, and the defenders of Chifeng were all the Northeast Army under Tang Yulin.

At the beginning of the battle, Batu led his troops to take Chifeng, and at this time, the opponent did not pull out the cavalry, but stuck to one place to fight positional battles. This made Batu work a lot, the main force of his troops is cavalry, and he is good at fighting movement warfare, and positional warfare is just killing chickens with knives, not to mention the consumption of troops like this, I don't know how long it will take to fight.

After seeing this scene, Batu did not dig trenches to confront the other side, and made great use of artillery.

Fortunately, the artillery assigned in advance played a powerful role, and although Batu's troops were not equipped with heavy artillery, mortars and mountain artillery were still indispensable. As soon as the battle began, 75 mm caliber mountain artillery and mortars roared at the opponent's position, and under the cover of artillery fire, the cavalry wielding war knives launched an attack, and the defense line of the defenders of the Northeast Army collapsed in an instant. The cavalry rushed through the trench and approached Chifeng City.

Batu vividly turned a positional tug-of-war into a cavalry-based movement war, and after rushing through the defense, the charging cavalry met the cavalry units of the Northeast Army. The cavalry of the Northeast Army were tall and large, all wearing Japanese-style military uniforms and large-brimmed hats on their heads, looking murderous.

Thousands of cavalry on both sides scuffled together, and on the grassland outside Chifeng, the two cavalry first charged head-on, and when there were still a few hundred meters away, the soldiers on both sides started to shoot with their rifles.

Knock knock! Soviet-made rifles and all sorts of miscellaneous guns rang out, yellow, orange and orange bullet casings smoked in the thick grassland, and the cavalry of both sides in the first row fell, followed by the officers and soldiers behind rushing up.

The cavalry of both sides rushed towards each other like two torrents, and in an instant the two torrents converged, and at this time there was a muffled crash and the sound of swords piercing into the flesh, and bright red blood spilled out, and time suddenly slowed down for a moment, and then returned to its original state after a while.

Shout to kill! Horse whistling! The sound of the sword waving! For a while, it resounded, and all kinds of chaotic sounds intertwined, converging into a battlefield of fighting. The proud cavalry showed their courage and perseverance in their last glory days.

Batu, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, was shocked when he saw the bloody battlefield, the damage caused by cold weapons is often more bloody and direct than that of modern warfare, a corpse that had been cut down appeared in his eyes with blood, and the sharp war knife and the flesh were in contact again and again, and in an instant, it was a piece of flesh and blood.

More than an hour later, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was superior in numbers and equipment, was victorious, and Tang Yulin's 1st Cavalry Division was completely lost, but Batu also paid a heavy price for this, and the cavalry troops suffered hundreds of casualties.

"Quickly clean up the battlefield and order the troops to prepare for the attack on Chifeng!" Batu didn't plan to give his opponent time to prepare, he knew that the fall of the cavalry division had left them with no more mobile forces to mobilize, and now was a good time to take Chifeng.

When Batu attacked Chifeng, the troops led by Liu Jian had besieged Chengde, and after several battles, Tang Yulin already knew that he could not hold Rehe, so he hurriedly asked Zhang Zuolin for help, but Zhang Zuolin was not having a good time at this time.