On June 14, 19o9, the county seat of Tengxian County, Shandong.

"Bastard, Ni Sichong is that waste, it's really a rice bucket that hasn't been kept for a day" After reading the telegram from Zhang Xun from Xuzhou, Duan Qirui scolded with a blue face.

Originally, according to Beiyang's plan, he fought a decisive battle with the People's Liberation Army in the Bengbu area, but Ni Sichong was too weak and threw away the Luqiao defense line in less than half a day. Not to mention that he hung up himself, most of the 6 towns surrendered, allowing the PLA to easily take over Bengbu and Fengyang. Such a ** thing made Lao Duan so angry.

Zhang Shao, the commander of the second town, once said: "Brother Zhiquan, judging from the telegram, now that the bandits have conquered Suzhou and are sweeping Yingzhou and Sizhou, there are only patrol battalions in those two places, and they must not be stopped." It seems that Anhui is finished. ”

The second town is also a relatively early new army unit, second only to Beiyang in terms of military time, and was originally stationed in Mukden. The Qing court was still very generous to this army guarding their hometown, and their equipment was not inferior to that of the six towns of Beiyang, and they were better in terms of artillery. After Yuan Shikai took power, he let the newly built 2nd Town garrison Fengtian, and transferred the elite of the 2nd Town back to Zhili.

Xu Shuzheng frowned and said: "With the consistent style of the bandits, they will definitely not stop at Anhui. We must rush to Xuzhou as much as possible to support Zhang Xun. Otherwise, once the bandits go north along the Jinpu line, they will definitely not be able to hold on to Zhang Xun's 6 towns...... "Originally, Xu Shuzheng was only Duan Qirui's deputy, and after Duan Qirui became the minister of the 6th Army, he also rose to the top and became the commander of the 2nd town.

Pan Juying, the commander of the 11th town, said helplessly: "Hey, how can we get up quickly? Their air force is too strong, and their airships will come over and bomb and bomb during the day, so they can only leave at night." ”

As soon as Lao Pan said this, all the generals were silent.

It has been 4 days since the Beiyang Army left Beijing before it reached Tengxian County, Shandong, and it is only 7oo kilometers from Beijing to Tengxian County. Although the train degree at this time is relatively slow, about 3 kilometers, but even at this level, the slowest should be 2 days. Why it has not arrived until now, of course, blames the air force units of the PLA for being too shameless and despicable.

As soon as the train full of the Beiyang Army left Zhili, it was attacked by the People's Air Force. Armed airships flew slowly from the south, and as soon as they saw the Beiyang military columns, they began to drop bombs and shoot artillery, and also brought machine guns to strafe.

To say that the Beiyang Army is not unprepared, the air force of the People's Liberation Army has long been famous, and the Beiyang bigwigs are not stupid, how can they be defenseless? They imported armored trains from Britain just to protect the military trains and railways. This time, the head of the southern expedition allocated two armored trains to Duan Qirui and asked him to take them to the south.

In addition to being equipped with 152 mm guns, these British armored trains were also equipped with a number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and their firepower was very powerful. And in order to prepare for air raids, Duan Qirui also asked each column to hang two specially modified air defense vehicles. Each anti-aircraft vehicle was equipped with a 117-mm anti-aircraft gun, a 7-mm anti-aircraft gun and 4 2s. 7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun.

Such a configuration still looks very powerful, and the Beiyang generals feel that with this arrangement, even if they can't defeat the vultures air force, they can at least drive them away

But the reality is very skinny, the first air raid of the People's Air Force came to an airship, and despite the desperate shooting of the Beiyang Army, it still did not even touch a single hair. There is no way, the 57-mm anti-aircraft guns of the Beiyang Army can only hit a height of about 6uu meters at most, while the PLA airships are at a height of more than 66 meters, and there is no threat at all

The attack of the airship is completely different, and there is no height limit for condescending shooting. The airships used artillery, machine guns, and bombs to brutally torture the Beiyang military columns, and although the hit rate was a little lower due to the long distance and high altitude, they still destroyed one military column, all of them were wounded, and the most important thing was to blow up a section of the railway.

At this moment, the Beiyang Army was dumbfounded. What should I do?

In order to repair the railroad and trains, the Beiyang Army had to delay in Texas for a day. When they hurried to Tai'an, the sky was bright again, and the PLA airships arrived as scheduled, and there was another burst of indiscriminate bombardment, and these airships were like training, unhurriedly shooting all the shells and throwing away all the bombs, and then swaggering away.

After such two air raids, the Beiyang Army no longer dared to let the military column rush during the day. Strictly speaking, the hit rate of these two air raids was very low, and the casualties caused to the Beiyang Army were not much, that is, more than 1,000 casualties, but the blow to morale was very large. In particular, they also blew up a number of trains and railways, which greatly reduced the marching degree of the Beiyang Army.

Now when Beiyang mentions the air force of the PLA, its head is as big as a fight.

Duan Qirui walked to the window with a dark face, and as soon as he looked up, he saw that in the southern sky, an airship was circling. The vivid shark mouth paint and the glaring scythe and hammer logo made him grit his teeth and be helpless.

In order to prevent accidental injury to innocent people, the PLA will not bomb cities, not even train stations, but only bomb military targets. So as long as their military train does not leave the station and goes on the road, it is still very safe to stop in the station, otherwise Duan Qirui and they would not have shrunk in Tengxian County now.

Xu Shuzheng walked over and said, "Don't worry, minister, they will go back in the afternoon." We rushed overnight tonight, and we should be able to reach Xuzhou......"

"Report to the military seat, Huai'an emergency telegraph ......" A telecommunications room hurriedly ran in.

Duan Qirui saw the telegram, and his face turned pale all of a sudden.

Xu Shuzheng leaned over to take a look, his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Ah, the bandits are attacking Huai'an...... in a big way."

Huai'an Mansion, the headquarters of the Second Army of the Beiyang Army.

Mr. Feng Guozhang, the Yangtze River Patrol Envoy, Governor of Jiangsu, and Commander of the Second Army, sat in front of the sand table with a gloomy face, and he had been sitting here for almost an hour since he received bad news from the front.

In front of him was a sand table from Jiangsu Province, and he saw that the red flag representing the People's Liberation Army on the sand table had been planted in Baoying, which was only 6 kilometers away from Huai'an Mansion.

During the Ding Wei Revolution, Zhao Shengwei's Ninth Town occupied southern Jiangsu after the uprising, and just as they were conquering other places, the Fifth Town of the Beiyang Army went south, and the two sides confronted each other on the Gaoyou-Dongtai line. Later, a certain "foreign foreign firm" in Tongguò, the ninth town, obtained a large number of weapons, and after replenishing the military strength, friction broke out again. However, the fifth town of Beiyang was short of supplies, and finally gave up Gaoyou under the order of Yuan Shikai, retreated to the Jie-Dagang line, and relied on the Ziying River and the Gou River to lay down the defense line.

Subsequently, the two sides acquiesced to this ceasefire line and confronted each other in the north and south of the Ziying River and the Gouhe. Later, Zhao Sheng and the others defected to the CSD and joined the southern government. After the People's Liberation Army took over the defense line, the Beiyang Army was also very nervous for a while, and Yuan Shikai specially sent Feng Guozhang to Jiangsu to sit in the town, but after the People's Liberation Army took over the defense line, there was no other action except for repairing the company. The Beiyang Army was nervous for a few days and was relieved, and then the two sides were also peaceful, when Zhao Sheng was managing southern Jiangsu in the past, the two sides still engaged in friction from time to time, but after the People's Liberation Army came, there was no friction.

However, Feng Guozhang did not dare to be careless, he immediately asked Yuan Shikai to send more elite troops to Jiangsu, because Jiangsu is a rich land, although northern Jiangsu is not as rich as southern Jiangsu, but it is also stronger than many provinces. He still attached great importance to the big head here, and immediately agreed to Feng Guozhang's construction, and set up the 13th town (under the control of Wei Zonghan, the original 13th mixed association upgraded) and the 14th town (under the control of Zhang Xun, the original Jiangsu patrol battalion was reorganized), and the 2nd town (under the control of Zhang Huaizhi, and the promotion of the Zhili mixed association) was transferred to Jiangsu, and the original 6th town (under the control of Zhang Yongcheng) together formed the Beiyang Second Army.

Yuan Shikai concentrated 4 towns in this small place in northern Jiangsu, and the number of troops was second only to Beiyang's Laowo Zhili, and he sent Feng Guozhang, a famous general in Beiyang, to sit in the town, and the control of the 4 towns is also confidants, which shows the importance attached here. After the big heads looted in Beijing, they had plenty of money in their hands, and they were also desperately repairing fortifications on the ceasefire line, and they were equipped with a large number of artillery and anti-aircraft firepower. In Lao Feng's opinion, there is no problem in holding northern Jiangsu.

After learning the news of the People's Liberation Army's attack on Anqing, Jiangsu's Beiyang Army also immediately strengthened its vigilance.

Although Feng Guozhang himself believes that he has been quite well prepared. But at 4 o'clock this morning, when the People's Liberation Army suddenly attacked, Feng Guozhang realized that his subordinates were far less powerful than he estimated, or in other words, the People's Liberation Army was too powerful.

The PLA's offensive on northern Jiangsu was also kicked off by heavy artillery, and the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade concentrated a total of more than 100 heavy artillery pieces of 156 mm caliber to carry out an artillery bombardment of the Beiyang Army's defense line in northern Jiangsu that lasted for half an hour. Subsequently, the divisional and regimental artillery of the PLA also began to rain shells. After the medium-caliber guns were bombarded for half an hour, the cooled heavy guns were picked up again.

At 6 o'clock, when the sky was just dawning, the air force of the People's Liberation Army also arrived, and 6o planes took off from Nanjing and Shanghai respectively to carry out air strikes on targets remaining from artillery strikes. The anti-aircraft fire of the Beiyang Army has long been almost destroyed in the front shelling, and the rest is simply better than nothing.

At half past six o'clock, the 6th Division, the 8th Pei, the 1st Mixed Brigade, and the 6th Mixed Brigade of the People's Liberation Army officially launched an attack. The Yangtze River Fleet of the People's Navy sailed into Gaoyou Lake and shelled the 13th town of the border.

At 7:1o, the 13th town of Beiyang collapsed under three-dimensional fire, and the defense line of northern Jiangsu was broken through. Then the second town of Dagang could not be stopped.

By point B, the northern Soviet defense line had been completely lost, and the 13th and 2nd towns had retreated. At this time, the 6th town sent by Feng Guozhang to support the front line had not yet left Huai'an City.

"Governor, what should I do now? The bandits are in full swing, Huai'an is a flat river here, it is difficult to stop it, it is better to withdraw to the north of the Yellow River......" Zhang Yongcheng, the commander of the 6th town, saw that Feng Guozhang was always silent, and couldn't help but say.

This is only easy for him to say, Wei Zonghan and Zhang Huaizhi have just lost the battle, and Zhang Huaizhi was almost captured alive by the assault 6th Mixed Brigade, where is he embarrassed to say retreat.

Feng Guozhang's face changed a few times before words burst out from between his teeth: "Withdraw, withdraw to the Yellow River." In addition, give Duan Zhiquan a telegram and tell him not to go to Anhui, and to defend northern Jiangsu first. And call the old man and ask him to send reinforcements......"

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