On the afternoon of February 9, the 1st Armored Division of the People's Guard broke through Shanhaiguan and attacked Qinhuangdao. After a night of fierce fighting, on the morning of the 1o, the Ming army took control of the entire urban area and port area of Qinhuangdao. The port of Qinhuangdao was immediately put into use, and a large number of troop carriers and cargo ships docked over, and the troops and equipment entered the customs directly from here.

Since then, Port Arthur, which has been overwhelmed, has finally got rid of its identity as a "cargo port" and regained its status as a traditional military port. By the standards of a military port, Lushun is certainly a good military port - an ideal strategic location, an easily defensible enclosed harbor, and there are old iron mountains and east chicken crown mountains to build forts on the left and right. It would be ideal to garrison a fleet in Port Arthur, but if it continues to handle a large amount of cargo, it still needs a large-scale open civilian port like Qinhuangdao. Port Arthur is small and the throughput is small. Moreover, the troops went ashore from Lushun, and they had to bypass the entire Liaodong Peninsula and the North Bohai Sea, which was not close at all.

Now, Qinhuangdao has seized it, which is equivalent to putting the dagger on the neck of the Qing court in Beijing.

On the 7th, when the Ming army had just entered Shanhaiguan, Guangwu issued an order to destroy the port of Qinhuangdao. Some of the cranes and other equipment on the dock were first blown up and lay on the ground. But these are just scratching the surface, and if you want to really destroy them, you have to sink ships in the harbor. But Qinhuangdao Port is different from Port Arthur, which is closed, like a bottle, and the export is very small, as long as a ship is sunk at the exit, it is enough to block the whole port. But Qinhuangdao Port is an arc-shaped open bay, and there is no "entrance" at all. The only thing the Qing army could do was to sink the ship at the berth of the wharf, so that the ship could not dock on the slipway.

However, the scope of Qinhuangdao port area is too large, and there are more than a dozen cement trestle bridges stretching into the sea, and ships can be docked on both sides of each one. To block all these berths, a large fleet of ships is needed. However, there were not so many ships in Qinhuangdao Port, and the sea was in the hands of the Ming army, so it was difficult for the Northern Qing Dynasty to move ships between several ports.

Thanks to the shape of Qinhuangdao Harbor, when the Ming army took it, most of the slipway berths could be used. And those cranes and equipment that were blown down, the sappers quickly repaired them.

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On the morning of February 1o, the tank units of the Ming and Qing armies encountered in the territory of Funing County, 15 kilometers southwest of Qinhuangdao. The "First Armored Brigade of the Sixth Army of the Great Qing Dynasty," which had just been formed by the Qing Army, collided head-on with the tank regiment of the First Armored Division of the People's Guard of the Ming Army, breaking out the second large-scale tank battle in the War of Unification.

Since it is not very deep into the six places, there is also a Jieshi Mountain in the west of Funing County, and there is only a radius of twenty or thirty kilometers between the mountain and the sea. More than 400 tanks on both sides were crammed into a small battlefield, and there was a collision of steel and fire everywhere.

The 1st Armored Brigade of the Qing Army had only half the number of tanks of the 1st Armored Division of the People's Guard. But they were all medium and heavy tanks, and their firepower and armor were stronger than the Ming Army's Lightning tanks. However, with the experience of the last tank battle on the battlefield in Xuzhou, the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty were more confident this time. They know that a good armored force is not made overnight. If you don't drive a powerful tank, this unit will be powerful.

The battle lasted until more than three o'clock in the afternoon. Within an area of several hundred square kilometers, burning and wrecked tanks can be seen everywhere, and as usual, there are many Barutu and Kubu tanks. The First Armored Brigade of the 6th Army of the Great Qing Dynasty originally had about 100 tanks, but now it has been beaten to 27 left, and each of them has bypassed Jieshi Mountain from the north and south and retreated to the west. The tank regiment of the 1st Panzer Division of the People's Guard lost only thirty-one tanks.

More importantly, because the Ming army won the battle and the post-war area was under control, most of the 31 tanks that were destroyed could be towed back for repair. Only a few were completely destroyed and could not be repaired. And the Qing army lost the battlefield, even if some tanks were only slightly damaged, or even just a walking part failed, then the whole tank had to be abandoned. The Ming army repaired it, and after a simple modification, it could be used by itself.

At this time, the vanguard of the Ming army was still 8o kilometers from Tangshan, 19o kilometers from Tianjin, and 23o kilometers from Beijing. Now, in front of them is the entire Beijing-Tianjin Corps. The Beijing-Tianjin Corps now has 5 Praetorian Guard Divisions and 14 Manchurian Eight Banner Divisions, with a strength of 450,000. This is the last elite of the Qing army, and now it is heavily deployed in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang area, eyeing the tiger.

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On the evening of the 9th, when the First Division of the People's Guard Corps entered Qinhuangdao, a long military column drove out of Nanjing Station and roared northward. This train carried the entire headquarters of the People's Guard Mobile Force. After the planning of the high command, the Ming army was to establish a forward command in North China to command the Beijing campaign nearby. After full measurement, coupled with the vigorous promotion of Xiaoqiang, this northern headquarters was built in Xuzhou.

As a traditional military town, Xuzhou has long been the center of the Central Plains Corps of the Qing Army, Xuzhou has a ready-made set of headquarters facilities, and all kinds of maps, sand tables, and fortifications are also available. There are really not many things that need to be brought from Nanjing, except for people. This is one of the reasons why I was able to move there so soon after deciding to do so.

A few days ago, there were already several trains carrying various equipment, materials, etc. to Xuzhou. This column is mainly composed of personnel from the headquarters of the mobile unit of the People's Guard. In addition to Xiang Xiaoqiang and his adjutants, guards and other teams of people in the car, the main team was a team from the mobile team headquarters, Li Gensheng and his subordinates. As for the other branches of the People's Guard, the security team and the like, they still stayed in Nanjing.

This time it was still the old rule: Xiang Xiaoqiang went out, and Fourteen Gege stayed in Nanjing to watch the scene for him. The difference is that in the past, it was necessary to leave a Xiuxiu to look at the fourteen grids, but now Xiang Xiaoqiang does not even leave Xiuxiu, and takes it with him. Now the relationship between Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege is only one step away from being a husband and wife, and they can already be fully trusted.

The dining car was full of sumptuous dinners, and Xiang Xiaoqiang took two adjutants and his wife to hold a banquet to entertain the generals of the mobile team under his command. This time, Xiang Xiaoqiang was in a very good mood, and he was about to "return to his hometown" and command a powerful army in his hometown to liberate the whole country. If nothing else, this battle of Beijing will be the last battle against the Qing Dynasty. In this spring, the whole country will be able to lift the dark clouds and see the sunshine, and his long-cherished wish of the Northern Expedition will be successfully completed. Both the future of the individual and the future of the nation are bright......

Thinking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang was in a good mood. Before he arrived at his hometown, he began to "do the friendship of the landlord" in the car.

Qiu Yu and Xiuxiu's mood is obviously very good. Needless to say, even Xiuxiu, who has always been calm, has a constant smile on her face along the way, and she is happy from the inside out, just as happy as the last time she took Xiaoqiang back to her parents' house.

Most of the people on this trip crossed the Yangtze River to the north for the first time in their lives. Although Qiu Yu and Xiuxiu were kidnapped to the north by Fourteen Gege last time, they were basically packed in stuffy tankers that time, frightened and scared, and couldn't care about anything or feelings. This time it's different. His army is still the conqueror or liberator of the north, and his husband is the commander of this army. You can not only revisit the hometown as the commander's wife, but also as an officer, and feel the mountains, rivers, grass and trees along the way.

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The next day, that is, on the morning of the 1oth, the military train slowly drove into the Xuzhou Railway Station. The two teams of People's Guard soldiers and a dozen officers on the platform stood straight, looking nervously at the door of the commander's luxury box.

With a bang, the door opened, and the ladder was lowered. Hu Jiong and Wu Yanbin jumped off one after another, guarding both sides on the left and right. After a while, Xiang Xiaoqiang appeared at the door of the train wrapped in a general's coat. There was a "bang" on the platform, and they all stood upright. More than a dozen officers said in unison:

"I've seen the Commander!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and waved his hand, and said with a smile:

"Everyone's worked hard."

Then jump out of the car. Behind him, Li Gensheng, Qiu Yun, Xiuxiu and others got out of the car in turn.

Xiang Xiaoqiang took a deep breath of the dry cold air from the north and exhaled a long time. He laughed and said:

"Finally breathing such comfortable air again. …… When I came to Xuzhou at the end of 35, I still felt breathless. Now, it's different. Even the air is free. ”

The officers on the first platform all laughed playfully, nodded their heads in admiration, and said that this kind of free air was not easy to come by, and what a price they paid for it!

Qiu Yu and Xiuxiu behind him looked at each other and smiled, unable to hide the excitement on their faces. For these two Jiangnan girls, the dry and cold air of winter in North China is still a very "exciting" experience. It was also the first time for them to experience the feeling of "the little north wind is like a knife cut" described in the book.

"You've worked hard," Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled at everyone, "Let's go, let's go into the city." I'll treat everyone to breakfast first, and then we'll go to the wolf's den. ”

A group of officers looked at each other in bewilderment:

"Wolf's den?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Hehe, that's the name I gave to the Northern Command. We will be here like wolves, commanding the battle with great ferocity until the Manchu regime is torn to pieces. ”

A group of officers burst out laughing. One of the highest-ranking majors waved his hand:

"Your Excellency, Madam, please!"

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