The next day, Han Yanxuan, the imperial prince and the military affairs of Pingzhang, announced the launch of the Northern Expedition in the Vertical Arch Palace.

For Han Yanxuan's hasty decision, the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces were all opposed in their hearts, whether it was the main peace or the main battle, but they were forced by Han Yanxuan's monstrous power to abolish the emperor and establish the young, as well as the deterrence of the summer soldiers in Lin'an City, they did not dare to really speak out against it, at least they did not dare to be the first to refute it.

All smart people are waiting for a reckless bird.

Soon, this budding bird appeared, he was Xin Qiji, who drew his sword on the street yesterday and wanted to use his mantis arm as a car.

Xin Qiji heard about Han Yan's abolition of the emperor, so he angrily went to the court with a sword.

He thought that this trip would be a bloody storm, but he didn't expect that the minions of the traitorous minister Han Yanxuan did not stop him at all, but respectfully welcomed him into the vertical arch hall, allowing him to stand in the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty in cloth clothes.

At this time, Xin Qijian couldn't be rectified, he thought about taking a look at the situation first, and then deciding whether to assassinate the traitor Han Yanxuan in court.

Then he heard the news of Han Yanxuan's announcement of the Northern Expedition.

Hearing this, Xin Qiji was startled at first, and then suddenly realized, thinking that Han Yanxuan had done such a rebellious thing in order to be able to make the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, so Xin Qiji ignored Buyi's body and hurriedly persuaded Han Xiang, hoping that he would plan and then act, and not rashly launch the Northern Expedition.

However, Han Yanxuan had a firm attitude, saying that the Northern Expedition was imperative, and threatened that there would be a big summer soldier to help, and the Jin Army was just a local chicken and a dog, inserting a label to sell the first ear.

Seeing that Han Yanxuan's intention had been decided, Xin Qijian had no choice but to retreat and accept Han Yanxuan's promotion and become the deputy general of the Dingyuan Army.

The temporary commander of the Yuan Army was Deng Yougang, who thought about being a general on a whim.

Of course, a whim is a whim, and Deng Yougang is still self-aware.

He understood that he was not the material for commanding the army to fight, so he asked Han Yanxuan for Xin Qiji, and asked Zhao Lihe for Ning Jianjun, who had a good chat before, Zhao Lihe readily agreed, and ordered Ning Jianjun to accompany him with a tank company.

There were three northern expedition fronts launched by Han Yanxuan, and the eastern front was mainly composed of more than 12,000 Dingyuan troops and 40,000 forbidden troops, and the troops under the command of Guo Ni and Jiankang Fudu in Shandong Jingdong were flanked by the troops under the command of Li Shuang, who were under the command of Jingdong in Shandong, and went north to attack the Lianghuai region.

The central front was given full authority to Zhao Lihe's Daxia First Armored Division, and the Jiangling Prefecture deputy commander Huang Fubin and Jiangzhou commander Wang Dajie, who were originally arranged on this front, were transferred to the western front, nominally to assist Wu Xi, the commander of the Western Route Army, to send troops from Chengdu to seize the hinterland of Guanzhong, but in fact, he was ordered by Han Yanxuan and His Majesty to wait for an opportunity to seize power and take down Wu Xi, a traitor who would cede land and rebel in the future and establish himself as the king of Shu.

After the arrangements of the various armies were completed, Han Yanxuan issued a document in the name of the young emperor to ask for gold, announcing the beginning of the Northern Expedition.

The armies of all walks of life were launched together, and Huangfu Bin of the West Road took the lead on the way to the Dasanguan of the Sichuan and Shu gates, relying on more than 100 personal guards sent by Zhao Lihe to take down Wu Xi, who had long been opposed, and reorganized the army of the West Road in Dasanguan and attacked Fengxiang to the north.

Guo Ni, Tian Junmai and others on the East Road suggested that the army adopt a feint strategy, first invading and luring the enemy in Shouchun, and then sending the main force to storm Sizhou, and then take the entire territory of the Huaidong Theater.

Deng Yougang, the supreme commander of the East Route Army, adopted his strategy and ordered Guo Ni and Tian Junmai to lead the army to attack Sizhou, and he himself led more than 12,000 Dingyuan troops to attack Shouchun to lure the enemy.

But what everyone didn't expect was that the combat power of the new army of the Dingyuan Army was really amazing.

Under the onslaught of Yang Tiexin, Guo Xiaotian and others, Shouchun fell in one day, and the main force of the Jin army was also shaken and lured to the outside of Shouchun City.

Seeing that the plan to lure the enemy was successful, Xin Qiji wanted to persuade Deng Yougang to withdraw his troops, but Deng Yougang enthusiastically said that he wanted to fight the Jin army.

It happened that the morale of the Dingyuan army was high and the fighting spirit was full, and Xin Qiji thought about it for a while, so he did not object.

But Deng Yougang did not let the Dingyuan army make a move, but used the tank company brought by Ning Jianjun for the first time.

In the next half an hour, Xin Qiji and the Dingyuan army finally saw the terrifying power of the Great Summer soldiers in the field.

The tank company brought by Ning Jianjun has a total of 12 tanks, and is equipped with sufficient fuel supply vehicles, mechanized infantry detachments and other auxiliary units for coordinated operations.

And when the Jin army allowed these twelve tanks to line up neatly outside the city, and with the cooperation of the mechanized infantry detachment, aimed their guns at the Jin army's camp tent in front, the outcome of the battle was already decided.

At that time, the artillery fire was continuous, and the deafening loud sound echoed in this battlefield filled with gunpowder.

Under the anti-personnel and explosive bombs specially carried by the tank company, the Jin army camp instantly turned into a burst of fire, and countless explosive shrapnel and steel balls shot in all directions at an extremely fast speed, instantly slaughtering all the Jin troops guarding near the camp tent.

The Jin army affected by the explosion is not just as simple as turning into a sieve, it is very normal for the shrapnel to be blasted off, the limbs to be cut off, the head to be shoveled, and the chest to be pierced.

For a time, blood and stumps flew all over the sky in the camp of the Jin army, and the smoke of gunpowder and the flames of war continued to spread.

Just the first volley, the tent of the first half of the Jin army turned into a sea of fire filled with screams.

Ning Jianjun's face did not change, and he ordered to continue to reload and shoot.

The tank company was equipped with a Type 54 medium tank modeled after the Soviet T-59A, with a total weight of 36 tons, a crew of four, a 100 mm rifled gun and a combat rate of fire of about seven rounds per minute.

Twelve 59 medium tanks, as long as they were properly allocated, were enough to fire non-stop at the camp of the Kim army.

As a result, the Jin troops in the camp did not know what was going on until they died, and could only hear the continuous thunder and thunder, and see the deadly fires that continued to burst out in the camp tent......

This scene of being killed by the sudden appearance of divine thunder and divine fire without even seeing the shadow of the enemy is a battle they have never experienced or even heard of in their lives.

Suddenly, all the Jin Jun's hearts were clouded with a haze called fear.

In addition, the Supreme Commander of the Jin Army died as early as the moment the first shell exploded.

The 80,000 Jin army was leaderless, let alone a counterattack, they couldn't even organize a decent retreat, and they were instantly routed in the sound of artillery fire.

Looking at the camp tent of the Jin Army, which was crying for his father and calling his mother, and was in chaos in an instant, Xin Qiji recovered from the shock, and forcibly asked Deng Yougang and Ning Jianjun if they could let the Dingyuan Army attack.

After obtaining the consent of Ning Jianjun, Xin Qiji quickly ordered the Yuan Army to attack, and under the cover of the tank company, he killed the defeated Jin army.

Perhaps it was because of the help of artillery fire, the morale of the Dingyuan army was greatly boosted, and with the help of God, every soldier exerted extraordinary combat power.

But at the same time, the Jin army, which finally saw the face of the enemy, also regained its senses a little, and the remaining Jin army finally organized a decent counterattack.

A general of the Jin Army armed with a spear even rushed out of the encirclement of the Dingyuan Army with thousands of horses, his eyes locked on the twelve black steel beasts that were constantly spitting fire outside Shouchun City, and led the remnants of more than a thousand cavalry Jin Army to rush over with a roar.

Looking at the more than 1,000 cavalrymen who were charging, Ning Jianjun sighed and quickly ordered.

Mechanized infantry detachments that worked together quickly stepped forward to lay mines, then retreated to the tanks and raised their rifles.

At the same time, one 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun and two 7.62 mm machine guns were mounted on each tank aimed at the cavalry, and the smoke grenade launchers on both sides of the turret were also loaded with anti-infantry shrapnel shells.

"Boom!"

At the same time that the ignorant Jin army generals led the cavalry into the minefield, the machine guns on the infantry and tanks in coordination also opened fire, and the bullets rained down on the cold-armed army in front, and the dense bullet chain was like Satan's windshield wipers, sweeping down the cavalry in front one by one.

Perhaps because of admiring the courage of the other party, all the bullets subconsciously avoided the generals of the Jin Army at the forefront.

When the general of the Jin Army rushed to the black steel beast alone, there was no one around him to follow.

But he still roared angrily, brandishing the spear in his hand and poking at the dense cylinder in front of him—

He thought it was the eyes of the steel behemoth, but it was actually a smoke launcher loaded with anti-infantry shrapnel shells.

The spear plunged into one of the six cylinders, and the remaining cylinders erupted with lethal anti-infantry shrapnel shells.

"Bang!"

Countless steel balls instantly pierced through the iron armor on his body, shooting the nameless Jin Army general into a sieve.

Since then, the Battle of Shouchun was a great victory, the Jin army suffered heavy losses, the eastern front advanced step by step, and it took only two days to take the Huaidong Theater, and then divided the troops to attack Suzhou and Xuzhou.

There are such results on the eastern front, not to mention the central front.

The commander of the First Armored Division of Great Xia is Sun Chuanting, the general of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Lihe handed over the first armored division with the strongest combat power in Great Xia to him in order to show that he was preferential, and he did not live up to Zhao Lihe's expectations, not only mastered the tactics of the new army at a speed that was not inferior to that of young people, but even took less than a month to convince those young officers who were born in the League.

Adhering to Zhao Lihe's will to fight quickly, the Great Xia Armored Division led by Sun Chuanting marched all the way, connecting thirteen cities in two days, and even divided the troops into two routes, taking Luoyang and Kaifeng respectively, which was the capital of Nanjing and the Northern Song Dynasty in later generations.

At this point, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, which had been absent for a hundred years, finally returned to the territory of the Central Plains.

(End of chapter)