Knowing that the Xu family army had begun to attack, and the entire Anzhou Mansion had fallen into it, Ning Qingyuan was undoubtedly very angry. It's just that in the face of the menacing Xu Jiajun, Ning Qingyuan was a little helpless to find that the troops he could draw out at hand were really not enough to deal with the Xu Jiajun's attack in a state of encirclement.

What made Ning Qingyuan even more puzzled was when the Xu Jiajun had so many troops, you must know that now the intelligence officers of the Gannan Army's secret service are always staring at the station of the Xujia Army's regular army. But I found that those hundreds of troops stationed in the area were not pretending, but also elite soldiers who could go to the battlefield when they were pulled out!

In the face of the fall of Anzhou Mansion and the urgency of Yudu Mansion, Changzhou, the gateway of Hero City in Gannan Capital, is also under siege by Xu's army. After thinking about it comprehensively, Ning Qingyuan immediately ordered the army of Jiangdu Mansion to quickly march into Yudu Mansion to resist the invasion of Xu's army.

As for the besieged Changzhou City, it was the Gannan Army that was transferred to Shangjingdao and quickly rushed to the Hero City to carry out the defense work. At the same time, the garrison stationed in Hero City was dispatched, and the construction of fortifications outside Hero City began, and for Changzhou's more urgent telegram for help, what Ning Qingyuan could do was to order them to hold on.

The Anzhou front has Situ Baili as a town, Xu Bin can rest assured, plus there are already nearly 30,000 troops there, which is enough to deal with the armies of Yudu Mansion and Jiangdu Mansion. When the front line began to advance steadily, the logistics department of the Xu Jiajun led by Xu Bin's second uncle, a large number of logistics officers and soldiers with rich experience in the masses, quickly threw themselves into the work of stabilizing the situation in Anzhou.

First of all, it is the work of dividing the fields and land. At the same time, the same tax policy as the Linzhou government is implemented. As these policies were propagated and thoroughly implemented by village-level joint defense teams, the people of Anzhou changed their minds. He did not treat him coldly as he did against the revolutionary army, but showed a warm reception that he had never seen before.

In the eyes of others, Xu Jiajun took Anzhou. It may take some time to stabilize the situation in Anzhou, but I didn't expect that Xu Jiajun would not only quickly take over the military and political power in Anzhou, but even the people's hearts would be bought so quickly.

And with the road connection between Linzhou and Anzhou, a large number of grains and materials were quickly transferred to Anzhou. Those people who pay high rents and buy high-priced grain throughout the year will finally be able to eat low-priced grain, and in the next harvest season, they will have their own privately produced grain.

Aside from the rapid stabilization of the situation in Anzhou, Xu Bin, who was in command of the Changzhou government. Seeing that Ning Qingyuan seemed to be planning to defend the hero city. Finally, he no longer concealed the attack power of the Xu family's army, pushed out the artillery battalion responsible for attacking this place, and set it up under the city of Changzhou, which had been besieged for several days.

In the face of these cannons and the Zuihou ultimatum issued by the Xu Jiajun, the defenders of Changzhou City, who had not been able to wait for reinforcements for a long time, finally chose to surrender the city. The artillery battalion, which came with the army, did not have the opportunity to show its skills.

Ordering the Changzhou Brigade to take over the military and political organs of various counties and towns in Changzhou, Xu Bin immediately ordered the standby Shangjing Brigade to advance to Shangjing Mansion. For the Gannan Army who sent heavy troops to defend the hero city, Xu Bin was also happy to let them defend it, anyway, he really didn't care about a hero city. If you can use the hero city to drag a group of elite troops of the Gannan army. Xu Bin was more than willing to take this opportunity to speed up the recovery of the Gannan provinces.

The Gannan Army, which had been on standby for defense in Hero City and Changzhou Mansion, found that the Xu Jiajun who had taken Changzhou Mansion did not seem to be in a hurry to attack at all. On the contrary, they did the opposite, opposite the positions they defended. The construction of fortifications also began. It seemed that he had no interest in Hero City at all, which made the officers and soldiers of Gannan breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, it also made Ning Qingyuan realize what kind of idea Xu Jiajun was fighting.

It's a pity that the Gannan Army has lost the hearts of the people. At this moment when the hearts of the people of Gannan began to tilt towards the Xu Army, the garrisons of the Gannan Army had die-hard officers but no die-hard soldiers. Soldiers were found almost all from the homes of the poor. I can't raise the interest of fighting with the Xu family army at all.

Even if they are forced to go to the battlefield, most of them are shot in the sky. Xu Jiajun, who was not willing to follow up the army at all, made a feud. Even some bold grass-roots officers, when they heard that Xu Jiajun was propagating a pre-battle uprising, which could be used as a military merit to join Xu Jiajun, would often win over a group of soldiers who were unwilling to serve in the Gannan Army and give these high-ranking officers a pre-battle uprising.

So he began to realize that Ning Qingyuan, who was isolated in the Hero City, and found that the Gannan Prefectures other than the Hero City had fallen faster than he had imagined.

Even Jiangdu City, where a main division was stationed, except for the naval army stationed in Jiangdu, fled back to Hero City by boat before the Xu Jiajun attacked. Of the rest of the Jiangdu garrisons, only a few were annihilated by the Xu family's army, and a large number of them were turned into reserve troops of the Xu's army. This means that with the assistance given by the people of the United States, the expanded troops suddenly made a wedding dress for Xu Jiajun.

In the face of Xu Jiajun's announcement that he would take over the military and political power of Jiangdu Mansion, the Shangjingfu garrison, which had been partially transferred, was not the opponent of the Shangjing Brigade commanded by Chen Zhengdao at all. Like other state capitals in Gannan, wherever the Xu Jiajun Shangjing Brigade went, those second-rate city defense battalions and city defense regiments almost fled in despair.

Those who remained to resist were faced with the double blow of the artillery fire of the Shangjing Brigade and the elite soldiers, and no one resisted and surrendered at the slightest casualty. What is a little different from other places is that when the Shangjing Brigade took over the defense of the border, many of the Gannan troops who used to defend here had fled to Qiantang Road.

Even what made Ning Qingyuan a little happy was that the border garrison of Qiantang Road seemed to have deliberately chosen this time to prepare to come over to fight the autumn wind. As a result, in the border area between Gannan and Qiantang today, the Xu Jiajun, who had just taken over Shangjingfu, had already started a skirmish with the border guards in Qiantang.

However, this kind of conflict was after Wu Dao sent a new brigade from Changzhou and an artillery battalion at the same time. The Qiantang Army, which was already tentative, didn't want to provoke this Xu Jiajun, who seemed to be very aggressive. began to restrain the matter of cross-border provocations, so that the situation in Shangjing Mansion began to calm down after only a little problem.

As the situation in Shangjing Mansion calmed down, the Xu family's army had only one remaining target for attack, that is, Ning Qingyuan, who was still preparing to fight the trapped beasts in the Hero City, and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers who were die-hard. Facing Ning Qingyuan, who had lost the effect of persuasion, Xu Bin finally decided to use the power of thunder to let them know that the Xu family army would not only win over the hearts of the people and the troops, but also fight.

When the Second Brigade of the Xu Family Army stationed in Linzhou was transferred to the Changzhou border, Xu Bin pulled all the most deterrent 105-caliber howitzers to the Changzhou border.

The artillery unit, which had only played in the battle of Xiangu Mountain, was also assembled by Xu Bin this time and began to carry out artillery bombardment that made the defenders of the Gannan Army lose their courage.

Seeing that the cannonballs in the Xu Jiajun camp fell on their defensive positions like hail, the commander of the Gannan Army who was in charge of defense was also as pale as earth. They couldn't have imagined that the artillery strength of the Xu Jiajun would be so great. This kind of long-range and short-range artillery configuration made the artillery of the Gannan Army deployed here have no power to fight back at all.

The defensive positions of the Gannan Army, which had been combed several times before and after this fierce artillery fire, did not wait for the defenders on the positions to come and feel sad, and the officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade, who were regarded as staying behind during this time, burst into unprecedented enthusiasm. That kind of charge that forgot to die, and the ability to shoot accurately, made the defender commander sitting in the rear.

Seeing that the defensive positions were broken by the Xu family's army like a sweep. In order to avoid being completely annihilated, these officers, who originally regarded themselves as die-hards, could only speed up their pace and flee to the hero city. As for the officers and soldiers who were running slowly, after seeing that these officers who forced them to fight back fled. In the face of those murderous Xu Jiajun who rushed up, they all chose to disarm and surrender.

When he heard that the commander, who had fled back to the city, told them that the position defended by 3,000 men had not been held out for even a day, and that only these officers had fled back. Ning Qingyuan was furious, ignoring the opposition of the people around him, and ordered the spies of the secret service to pull out these officers and shoot them as a warning.

In the past, this practice may raise the awareness of the officers of the Gannan Army, and they will no longer dare to abandon the battle and escape at will. But in this kind of situation where the army of the Xu family army is pressing, Ning Qingyuan broke out regardless of his previous loyalty, and directly dealt with it with this iron-blooded means.

The officers who were worried about being liquidated by the Xu Jiajun saw that if they were by this leader's side, they would end up being shot. Originally, it was hoped that these subordinates would be reminded to use more snacks when they took over the defense of the city.

As a result, the next day, Xu Jiajun's troops took over the port of Hero City, and the army was already deployed outside Hero City. Ning Qingyuan vomited blood and learned that those subordinates who were still loyal in front of him yesterday had fled from Hero City overnight. Now the defenders in the city can be described as panicking.

I really don't understand the Gannan Army he built single-handedly, in the end, Weishenme will become like this, in the face of the inquiries of the special service director around him, Xu Jiajun has already begun to issue an ultimatum. If he didn't make a decision and the Xu family army began to attack the city, Ning Qingyuan was like a demented old man, and he didn't respond for a long time.

Just after the director of the secret service was anxious and finally shouted 'Lord Governor' and woke up Ning Qingyuan, who was in a stupor. When he learned that the situation in the city was now unstable and some grassroots officers were preparing to jointly sacrifice the city, Ning Qingyuan finally understood. This battle, from the day Xu Jiajun appeared, I am afraid it has been doomed.

But in order to save his life, he decided to talk to Xu Binhaode, the leader of the Xu family's army, and ask the other party how he did it. In less than two years, he overthrew the Gannan military junta, which he had ruled for nearly a decade. If he doesn't figure out this answer, Ning Qingyuan won't be willing to die even if he dies! (To be continued......)