After the large-scale operation in Bozhou ended, Ren Di immediately signed the request of the General Staff to increase the number of four regiments. A large number of reservists trained in the mountains will be replenished into the field army, which will then have a total strength of 15,000 men. This is the second terrifying point of the mushroom tactic, how many people the Imperial Army has offended, how many people can be pulled over by the Red Zone as reserves. Ren Di did not do much outrageously, and most of the entire reserve was recruited from oppressive miners. Li Ziming in the south is to mobilize the peasants in the entire base area.

The soldiers of the Imperial Army were recruited by the Ming Empire with settling-in allowances, high military salaries, and high social status. As for Ren Di's troops here, they were purely forced over, and the miners and the like knew very well that if the imperial army fought back, what would happen to their gang of miners? As for the peasants in Huaibei now, they also have an understanding of the consequences of kicking the landlord at the criticism meeting, and what is the face of the returning group that led the way for the imperial army to shake up among the untouchables again.

The oppressed had not had to resist before, not because they did not want to resist. Rather, the cost of rebellion is not proportional to the benefits of rebellion. If the rebellion can be easily achieved and there is no need to pay a price, why should those guys who resist on the keyboard on the Internet in the future use their mouths to criticize their unpleasant things, they would have set fire to the city management government at home, and destroyed Japan and slaughtered the United States and Russia abroad.

The Empire's decades of military success have taught the local pariahs that rebellion is death. Ren Di used two years of accumulation and three months of combat to show the locals that the resistance could be successful. Fear can scare a large crowd of people, but when it breaks a small hole and is found to be not invincible, this fear drives a large number of people to fight. The Imperial Army is now fighting against such a large group of people who are afraid that the Imperial Army will win and the landlords will retaliate.

After the battle outside Bozhou swept away the power of the imperial army in northern Anhui, Sun Ze faced a serious problem at this time, and the Red Republican Army in northern Anhui swallowed up an unprecedented mobile force of 4,000 men. The imperial army in the north suddenly appeared a huge defensive gap that could not be filled, and Sun Ze's mobile force was only 10,000 at this time. The remaining officers and men of the Third Group joined forces with local forces and local magnates to defend the city.

Jiang Gong still knew how to catch strong men when he suppressed bandits, and the Third Group Army of the Imperial Army, a high-quality army, would die one less in Huaibei. At this time, the Imperial Army found that the long-lost General War finally had a chance to appear, and it was now weakened like never before.

Camera cuts. Whoosh, fifty over-the-top annealed guns were scattered over a range of several kilometers, under the command of the telephone. Strike at the city of Fuyang. The ancient city wall of Fuyang suffered a catastrophe suddenly, the stone blocks were stacked, the rammed earth structure of the city wall, was drilled into by cannonballs, and then explosives were blasted, setting off the debris splash and the eruption of earth fountains.

Under the combined cover shelling, the swarm of shells hit the wall like the waves crashing on a sandcastle. The ancient city walls of Fuyang collapsed one by one, and the collapsed earth and rocks drowned out the soldiers defending on the city walls and the heavy artillery that opened fire.

Ten minutes ago, after discovering that a large number of Republican troops had gathered outside Fuyang City, the two regiments of Imperial Army troops stationed in Fuyang City could not bear to start shelling, but as a result, the Republican artillery that had already dispersed to the position last night took advantage of the darkness and concealment, and together pulled away the camouflaged straw and soil on the cannon. In ten minutes these exposed positions of the artillery formations of the Imperial Army were fired with several times the artillery coverage.

This kind of attack by a large artillery group, Ren Di's command is still coquettish back then. Fiercely overshadowed the already panicked defenders in the city. By the way, a piece of the eastern wall collapsed.

And such an artillery density and artillery command level also made the defenders in the city sure that they were encountering the main force.

In the city, an officer covered in black dirt panicked and used a wireless telegram to ask for help, well, if the officer's clothes were clean, this costume was very handsome. But the blood on his head was mixed with sweat and dust, and the original white collar became like a dirty rag, which greatly reduced his appearance. White gloves, white clothes and feather yarns, and a graceful command to the ground, do not exist in Ren Di's dictionary. Ren Di's current enemy is now being made as disgraced by Ren Di.

Sun Ze, who was moving slowly on the way, received a telegram from Fuyang.

"The artillery position is hidden, covered by shelling, this is definitely not a mountain bandit! This is a long-planned subversion of the empire," Sun Ze roared inwardly. Now the Imperial army is moving north at a speed of forty kilometers a day, which is too weak compared to the opponent, but considering the large amount of baggage, more than 300 long-barreled guns, and a large amount of ammunition, this speed is already very good.

At this time, Sun Ze also learned about the situation around Fuyang through cavalry and aircraft, 50,000, at least 50,000 Red Republican troops gathered here, and an unknown number of artillery. The aircraft tried to get close to reconnoiter and get a sense of the distribution of fire on the opposite side. But when it flew within 300 meters, it was subjected to organized air defense from the ground. Light machine guns, heavy machine guns with raised elevation angles, and even rifles, after calculating the advance equivalent, fired at these guys flying in the sky, three planes fell, and the pilot of one of them was shot dead on the spot.

On the battlefield, you don't have to be a girl to have a gold medal for avoiding death, and bullets only obey the laws of physics. This is also thanks to the fact that it is a light aircraft, the speed does not exceed 30 meters per second, and the wooden fuselage will be damaged in the event of a fall and a collision with the ground. Otherwise, if you want to change to an all-metal plane, and if you fall and don't parachute, you will die. Ren Dikouhu's words of "hit a plane and send a girl" are a joke on the harsh battlefield after all, and the survival rate of the girls in the downed plane is only half.

The large number of deaths of pilots and cavalry forced Sun Ze to admit the fact that he was now attacking an army five times his size. When he learned of this fact, Sun Ze, who commanded the imperial army, felt that it was a bit difficult to ride a tiger.

If it was three months ago, Sun Ze would never hesitate and would go straight to Fuyang to start a decisive battle with Ren Di, but three months would not only consume Sun Ze's troops, but also his confidence and courage. What's more, the 4,000 troops that bit Sun Ze in the north did not find a trace. Where is this army? What kind of effect will it have on your side in Armageddon? Sun Ze didn't dare to think about it. A gloomy feeling of annihilation lingered in Sun Ze's heart.

When he learned that Sun Ze still led his army north to prepare for a battle with him after understanding the defeat in the Bozhou war, Ren Di felt that the situation was a little wrong. The battle plan must be reformulated if there is a step missing, how can this guy on the other side dare to continue after the mobile force has been reduced by 30 percent?

Ren Di didn't count the militia he had on hand. A telegram was sent to the field army repairing in northern Anhui. There are many guests and the meals are not prepared enough.

He Wang asked Zhang Youhe: "He has a lot of troops in his hands, he should be able to eat it." Zhang Youhe said: "He is a picky eater, this potato, he wants to eat it when it is cold." He Wang said: "It will take three days for the new establishment to be integrated. Do we need time here? ”

Jang You-hyuk pointed to the last sentence on the telegram and said, "Come when you're ready." It means that we give him a quasi-number. He thinks more than we do, and the more he thinks about it, the more he worries. The telegram sent to Ren Di by Zhang Youhe and others in the regular formation of troops in northern Anhui soon appeared on the front line of Fuyang.

Ren Di looked at the contents of the telegram and nodded expectedly. It is the law of the battlefield to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 self-inflicted losses, and when a field army uses several times its strength to complete a battle of annihilation, it must repair and replenish ammunition and replenish its establishment. And it's still being expanded after this battle, so it will take some time.

The blood will still be shed.

"Tactically we must attach importance to the enemy, and strategically we must despise the enemy" comes from Zhao Weiguo's red book to Ren Di. Well, now this book is a literacy textbook in the military. Here, Ren Di shouted this sentence to the officers who were forming a large group of militia. The militia's lack of experience in tactical execution does not mean that they need to cringe strategically and wait for the other side to fight.

Ren Di looked at the people under the table and said, "If I were the general opposite, I must be very frightened now." There are too many of us. Since there are many people, we should give full play to the advantages of being large. Ren Dibi stroked on the north side and said: "The opposite side now has no troops in the north. Go around and let them know it's not safe to go north. ”

One of the officers below asked honestly, "What if the other side is not afraid?" Ren Di rotated the tip of the pen on the map again and said, "Go around again and wrap it directly." Under the tip of Ren Di's pen is a huge encirclement.

Changes in technology have led to changes in human society. At the same time, it will also bring great changes to the war. The rifling is strong against the smoothbore gun, the rear reload is against the front reload, and the firing gun is against the flintlock gun. Every small innovation in firearms technology has the blood of the Crimea, the laggards of the Franco-Prussian War. The artillery explosives range from black # gunpowder to picric acid to t# nt, which is verified by the sinking of many ironclad ships in the three naval battles of Jiawu, Tsushima and Jutland. Zhao Weiguo was at the Guiyang base and could no longer support him in weapons, but he gave Ren Di full help in telegraph components.

The army in the red area of Dabie Mountain, in this operation, has an advantage in one piece of equipment. That was wireless telegraphy, and Ren Di's army could often be seen on a horse carrying two square wooden boxes. In the continuous movement warfare, the effectiveness of radio command and coordination is becoming more and more indispensable.

The popularization of the telegraph made the battle of tens of thousands of firepower troops entangled in a certain city or place a thing of the past a thing of the past, and the heroes were not judged by the gains or losses of one city or one place, and they were fighting in non-stop movement across three or four hundred kilometers. The telegram could transmit the commander's instructions to tens of kilometers away. Hundreds of years ago, it relied on cavalry orders and flag language to convey commanders' orders. Seriously shackled the commander's command ability. The Imperial Army actually had this technology for a long time, but a series of historical victories in battles made them not pay attention to this kind of book. As for now, within a radius of two or three hundred kilometers, tens of thousands of troops are united in large corps to fight together. It will be a battle between the old and the new against this imperial army that had a pre-World War I battle mentality.

While the Imperial Army was carrying heavy artillery and ironclad chariots were slowly moving north, the militia of 20,000 men also began to move north. Large trenches were excavated in the land of Huaibei. The long-awaited battle of the Imperial Army has begun, but it will be a nightmare of difficulty.