June 6, 19o9 A.D., 2 a.m. Shandong Yi County, Hanzhuang.

Hanzhuang is called Hanzhuang Town in later generations, 3 kilometers southeast of Weishan County, Shandong Province, west of Weishan Lake, east of Zaozhuang, south of Xuzhou, about 55 kilometers away from Xuzhou. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal enters Weishan Lake here, and when the Grand Canal was prosperous, it was a very important wharf, and the Tianjin-Pudong Railway also passed through here, and the geographical location was quite important.

Because there is a station here, some of the carriages broke down when the Beiyang Army went south, so they stayed here to repair them, and left a shed to guard the station and carriages.

"Uh......" A low scream came from the station dispatch room.

After a while, a figure came out of the dispatch room silently. Then the nearby street lamp can be seen wearing a camouflage uniform, with a black veil covering his face, and only his eyes and nose are exposed. If you suddenly see such a person at night, it is still a little shocking, and many people will be frightened.

Soon, several more identical figures ran out of the other rooms, and after several people converged, they exchanged gestures.

After about ten minutes, a few cuckoo calls suddenly sounded in the barracks, and several people here immediately replied with thrushes. Soon, a dozen people in the same dress came out of the barracks not far away.

The two sides communicate with gestures in a round. Then someone whispered: "Okay, the Beiyang Army here is all done, and the signal is for the big troops to come over...

About 6o meters north of Hanzhuang, a company of the People's Liberation Army is quietly waiting here.

Hong Shilou squatted in the grass on the side of the road, and then he looked around in the moonlight. His first company was around, but he could only see the nearest few, and the other comrades-in-arms were well hidden, if they hadn't known in advance, they wouldn't have seen that there was actually a company of nearly 2oo heavily armed men hidden in this bush. Further to the rear, about 1 km away, were all the other units of the 2nd Battalion.

As soon as he thought about tonight's action, he couldn't help but get excited. The soldiers of a whole regiment took advantage of the darkness of night to bypass the enemy camp on two large airships, and then flew to land dozens of kilometers behind the enemy troops, and unknowingly blocked the enemy's rear road.

According to the battle plan of the group army, the task of the 11o-regiment was to seize Hanzhuang, and then deploy defenses here to block the retreat of the Beiyang Army in order to close the door and fight the dogs. Hong Shilou's battalion, as the vanguard, was to seize Hanzhuang, and the regimental headquarters and the main force were at the landing ground 6 kilometers behind them.

After unloading the 11o-regiment, the airship brigade immediately went back and took over the 11o2 regiment and the divisional artillery.

But before that, it was all up to the 11o-regiment, so their task was the heaviest. If the Beiyang Army shows their movements, it will definitely counterattack in a big way.

Hongshilou's company is the sharp knife company at the front, for them, it is not a problem to capture Hanzhuang, I heard that the Beiyang Army only has a few dozen people here, and it is not counting the advantage in equipment. However, the superiors attached great importance to this operation, and dispatched a special unit to do this kind of thing to clean up the enemy troops in the village, without even having to do it. They were just outside the village just in case, and if the special team inside missed, they would rush in to help.

A platoon leader leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Company commander, what kind of squad won't miss, right? Why hasn't there been any movement?"

Hong Shilou shook his head and said, "It's the special squad, if they miss, they should have heard the gunshot, and now I didn't even hear the dog barking." ”

As he was talking, a red light suddenly lit up from the Zhuangzi, and someone took it and turned it clockwise three times, then counterclockwise three times, and then flashed three times with one breath at a time.

"There is a situation...... the officers and men of the company suddenly widened their eyes.

When the red light did the same action for the second time, Hong Shilou stood up and said to his subordinates: "The brother troops have cleared the enemy troops, and we will enter the village immediately...... In each shift, only 2 flashlights are lit in each shift, and they are spread out. The distance between classes is more than 2 meters. A row goes first ......"

The platoon commander jumped up and shouted: "Comrades, follow me......" The soldiers next to him immediately turned on the flashlights, and the soldiers in the platoon immediately took action, and several people ran towards the village in an evacuation formation centered on a flashlight.

In fact, everyone in their company was equipped with a flashlight, just to reduce exposure and confuse the enemy. With the body of the PLA officers and soldiers, a flashlight within a few meters can see the ground clearly.

After a while, a platoon entered Zhuangzi, and the special forces also greeted them, and after a few words of exchange between the two sides. A row sent out a signal to the back, and Hong Shilou was originally hanging behind, but after seeing the signal of their own people, they immediately sped up.

Han Zhuang is not big, and ten minutes later, Lian and the special forces together controlled the entire Zhuangzi. The signal corps of the company headquarters immediately contacted the battalion headquarters via the Guò radio station and informed them that Hanzhuang had been occupied.

At one o'clock in the morning, a large force of the 11o-regiment arrived, and immediately began repairing fortifications outside the village, digging trenches, laying barbed wire, laying mines, and building pillboxes and artillery bunkers......

At 2 o'clock in the morning, north of Xuzhou, the garrison of the First Army of Beiyang.

The temporary camp of the First Army was about 18 kilometers away from Xuzhou, and they took two armored trains as the core, which were placed around both sides of the railway, forming a camp area of 6 kilometers from north to south and about 4 kilometers from east to west.

Because it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening when Beiyang arrived here, it was unloading trucks, repairing camps and fortifications, and arranging defenses, and I didn't sleep until 1 o'clock in the morning. Originally, they were very tired on the road, and they had worked for so long that the soldiers were so tired that they basically slept on the pillows, and some people didn't even set up tents, so they slept directly on the ground, but fortunately, it was May, and the weather was relatively warm, and they were not afraid of freezing.

Now the entire Beiyang camp was snoring, and most of the people were sleeping soundly. Even some of the vigil were dozing off, no way, too sleepy.

However, Duan Qirui couldn't sleep, he, Xu Shuzheng and a few staff officers were still sitting in the carriage looking at maps and talking about things.

"Minister, I can't be careless now, the bandits are in the south, less than 2 miles away from us. The news of our arrival, they must have known, if the bandits sneak attack at night......" Xu Shuzheng persuaded without giving up.

Originally, according to Xiao Xu's meaning, he shouldn't camp here, at least he should retreat to Liguo Town and stay in the town.

Duan Qirui shook his head and said, "You Zheng, I don't know what you said, but we must do our best to join Zhang Xun and meet Feng Guozhang now, otherwise if we are broken by the bandits, the south will be out of control." Liguo Town is 7o miles away from Xuzhou, and if we rush from there, we don't know how many air raids we will receive on the road. It's a bit more dangerous here, but it's a little more risky than an air raid. By 6 o'clock, we started attacking. As long as they can fight with them, or break into the city of Xuzhou, their air force will be useless. ”

Along the way, Lao Duan didn't know how many bombs and shells he ate, and he was really scared by the People's Air Force. In his opinion, if he went to Liguo Town to camp according to Xiao Xu's opinion, it might be safe that night, but the next day it was miserable, there were more than 3 kilometers to Xuzhou, and I don't know what it would be bombed into along the way. I'm afraid that before I saw the city wall of Xuzhou, the first army knelt.

Camping here is a bit risky, but it's better than being bombed along the way. And in Lao Duan's opinion, such a thing as a night attack is unlikely. He is a veteran of the army, and he has always scoffed at the so-called "night attack on the enemy camp", which only exists in the romance novels written by literati, and it is difficult to do it in reality

Indeed, for a long time in the past, night battles were basically only in romance, and the reason was night blindness. This is true not only of China, but also of many countries, which really have to fight at night, and the losses are greater than during the day. And even without night blindness, night combat is far less efficient than during the day. Unless it's cornered, there's no going back to that kind of thing. And the PLA is obviously not at the point of cornering, and they are not fools, how can they do such a very risky thing?

Therefore, although it is closer to the PLA, it is basically safe, and Lao Duan has also set up defensive troops. And there is also the advantage of being close, just wait until five o'clock, and then start to attack, under the cover of the armored train, rush from here to Xuzhou City and join Zhang Xun in one breath.

However, what Lao Duan did not calculate was that the PLA did not follow his line of thought.

The troops surrounding Xuzhou took advantage of the darkness last night to quietly move their positions. Now under the city of Xuzhou, there are only the 1st Mixed Brigade and the 11O1st Regiment of the 11th Pei, which caught up from behind, as well as the division headquarters and directly subordinate troops. It turned out that the No. Pei and B mixed brigades surrounding Xuzhou had broken away from the encircled position and were outflanking the temporary camp of the Beiyang Army.

That's right, the PLA is going to be a "fool" for a while this time and have a night battle.

In fact, Lao Duan's estimation can't be wrong, if other armies such as the Beiyang Army would definitely not be able to attack at night in this kind of thing. Because most people in China at this time are deficient in nutrition and generally suffer from night blindness. The vast majority of people have to be blind at night, not to mention fighting, even walking is a problem. If you send them out to fight at night, you will be scattered before you reach your destination.

But the People's Liberation Army is different, Wen Desi gave his troops good nutrition, there is no night blindness at all, coupled with the advanced equipment equipped, the night is no longer an obstacle. At this time, only the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had the ability to fight at night.

Of course, no matter how you say it, the efficiency of night operations is certainly not as good as that of daytime, but it depends on who you compare with. For example, under the same number, if the combat power of the PLA is 1oo, the Beiyang Army is about 2, and there is an advantage of 6:1. But if it is a night battle, the combat power of both sides will decrease, but the PLA will drop to 6-6o at most, and the Beiyang Army will definitely drop to below 6, and the advantage can be pulled to more than 1o:1, and the gap will be even greater.

In the PLA headquarters, the communications staff officer reported to Xin Jie: "Chief of the General Staff, all the units of the sortie have been in place, please instruct"

"Good ......" Xin Jie looked at his watch, and it was now -2 points.

"Order all units to rest on the spot and attack on time at half past one"

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