On June 1o, 19o9 A.D., Beilu Bridge Village.

Beiluqiao Village is located in the east of Changfeng County, Huainan in later generations, north of Luqiao Town, east bank of Yaohe River, is the only way from southern Anhui to Bengbu, 45 kilometers away from Bengbu. This is an important line of defense for Ni Sichong's 6th Town.

After the "Second Huaishang Army Uprising", Ni Sichong was going to send troops to exterminate him, but as soon as the troops arrived at the Yao River to prepare to cross the river, the news of the People's Liberation Army's Northern Expedition came over, which scared this guy and quickly shrank back.

Although Governor Ni Dadu is a military novice, there are still a few sober people under him, and they immediately built a yì army not to return to Bengbu, and they guarded by the river here in Beilu Bridge Village. According to Governor Ni's original intention, he must have wanted to turn in, but the leak of this stab was too big, and the big head strictly ordered him to hold on and wait for reinforcements, otherwise he would have to engage in military law.

Ni Dadudu, who turned into no door, had no choice but to stubbornly defend it.

Seeing Ni Sichong's sighing appearance, his henchmen persuaded him: "Don't worry, Minister Duan has already led the First Army to support, and the bandits are relying on heavy artillery and airships and planes to bully people, and the roads in northern Anhui are poor, and their heavy artillery can't come up at all, and now we also have anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, specializing in airships." The bandits don't have heavy artillery, but we have heavy artillery here, and our furnace bridge defense line has been operated for more than a year, all of which are reinforced concrete, and steel plates have been added to important parts, which can be called impregnable."

Another staff member also said in an arrogant manner: "Exactly, Governor, we are now guarding by the river, and the bandits will definitely not be able to defeat them." If the bandits force the river crossing, we will be able to defeat the bandits by attacking halfway through."

That's right, the current Beiyang Army is not short of money, it has purchased a large number of artillery, machine guns and other advanced equipment, but also purchased aircraft, and all units have changed their guns. Ni Sichong's 6th town also received a lot of new weapons, because Ni Sichong's position was important, Yuan Shikai specially allocated him a battalion of 6 German-made Krupp 15omm heavy guns, if it weren't for the lack of artillery, the big head would give more.

In addition, because the air force of the People's Liberation Army was too active, the Qing army was bullied miserably. The major powers hurried back to show their new anti-aircraft weapons.

Germany was the fastest, because they had already created the first anti-aircraft gun, the balloon gun, as early as the Franco-Prussian War. At that time, Prussia sent heavy troops to surround the French capital of Paris, cutting it off from the outside world. In order to break through the siege, the French government sent people to fly out of the city in balloons to communicate with the outside of the city. French balloons flew over the Prussian lines on several occasions, carried out propaganda and agitation in the rear, and kept in constant contact with the Paris government through the guò balloons. When the Prussian army realized this situation, it immediately studied countermeasures and decided to develop artillery specially designed to shoot balloons in order to cut off the connection between Paris and the outside world.

Soon, such balloon guns were made. It was converted from a cannon with a caliber of 37 mm and mounted on a four-wheeled vehicle that could be moved. This cannon can change the position and direction of fire, and many French balloons have been shot, hence the name "balloon cannon". It was the prototype of the anti-aircraft gun.

In 19uu, the German Ichhardt Arms Company (the predecessor of the Rheinland Arms Company) improved the original balloon anti-aircraft gun installation according to the characteristics of airplanes and airships, and made artillery specially used to shoot planes and airships. And the artillery was mounted on the car and the protective armor similar to that of modern ship guns was adopted. This was the world's first professional anti-aircraft gun. This gun has a caliber of 6 mm and a maximum fire height of 6 meters.

Two years later, Germany made an anti-aircraft gun with better performance. It was a 6 mm 3 times diameter gun with a maximum range of 66 meters, and the high and low firing ranges and directional firing ranges were correspondingly expanded. This type of gun has begun to use a gantry gun carriage and a control wheel to adjust the high and low firing boundaries. With these improvements, the maneuverability of the artillery was significantly improved.

During the same period, Britain and France and other powers also produced various anti-aircraft guns, but they now have much faster aircraft in China, and they must improve on the original basis. For the great powers, there is no technical difficulty in this kind of weapon, only the question of whether it is good or not, and whether it can be built or not.

Stimulated by the Chinese Air Force, Germany developed a series of anti-aircraft weapons such as newer antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns in November last year, and Britain did not lag far behind, and also produced some anti-aircraft weapons at the end of last year.

And the Beiyang Army, in order to prevent it from being ravaged by the People's Air Force again, also ordered a batch of 2mm, 37mm and 57mm anti-aircraft guns from the British, as well as 2. m anti-aircraft machine guns, and at the same time modified a batch of anti-aircraft machine guns themselves, and now the towns are equipped with anti-aircraft weapons. Originally, Anqing's -1 town also had anti-aircraft weapons, but when the artillery fire in front was prepared, it was completely destroyed by heavy artillery, and it didn't have time to wield it at all.

Moreover, Beiyang also bought a number of planes from the foreign powers and trained pilots to form an air force. Although these planes are not as good as the PLA, and the pilots are also rookies, they are better than nothing, and no matter how bad they are, they can be used as reconnaissance planes.

Under the comfort of his subordinates, Ni Sichong finally stabilized, he thought that even if he couldn't defeat the People's Liberation Army with the strength in his hands, it was still very promising to hold on until Duan Qirui came over.

Beijing, Railway Station.

Today is the day of the official southern expedition of the Beiyang First Army, the Beijing railway station is crowded with people, firecrackers, gongs and drums are ringing non-stop, and the military band is constantly playing their newly obtained "March of the Beiyang Army".

If Mr. Wen heard this tune, he would definitely be very solid, because this tune is the later "Ta" (Mass), which was composed by the German musician Carl O Orff in 193, and was misunderstood by many netizens in later generations as "The Battle Song of the First Panzer Division of the German SS" "6 Lightning Forces are Forward."

Well, according to normal history, it is definitely impossible to have this song now, but Beiyang now treats it as a military song. There is no doubt that no one will do this except for the undisciplined guys in the North China Bureau of the Science and Socialist Party.

"Stationmaster, why do we want to compose music for Beiyang? Aren't they enemies? I think this song is really good, it can be used as our military song......" Sun Dianying asked in a puzzled low voice. This time the Beiyang Army was such a big operation, of course, the people at the Beijing Station could not be present, and most of the stationmaster Fan Han and the following bones were dispatched.

Fan Han spread his hands and said helplessly: "As far as I know, those guys in Beiyang went to the Tianjin Concession to ask musicians to help them compose the "March of the Beiyang Army", but I don't know what happened to them, and they actually found our people. Our identity at that point is a band, and there are musicians, so we can't do business that doesn't come to the door, so we ...... It's like this. ”

"Oh, that's the case......" Sun Dianying fixed his face and wiped his sweat.

Well, Mr. Wen doesn't know about it yet.

Yuan Shikai was a group of Beiyang bigwigs, all of whom saw off the First Army at the train station.

"Zhiquan, respect for Shao Zeng), and Zheng (Xu Shuzheng), Danting Pan Juying), Kuang Xun Qi Wenbao), this time it's up to you, we must play our Beiyang majesty" Yuan Shikai shook hands with the five generals respectively, and said earnestly.

Duan Qirui said confidently: "Prime Minister, please rest assured, our Beiyang Army is not like it used to be, I don't believe that the People's Liberation Army has three heads and six arms."

Zhang Shaozeng, Xu Shuzheng, Pan Juying, Qi Wenbao and others also expressed their determination, saying that they would definitely make the People's Liberation Army look good, please rest assured. However, what everyone didn't notice was that Qi Wenbao, the commander of the 1st Heavy Artillery Association, had a flickering expression.

At this time, the First Army formed by Beiyang had a total of four towns: the 2nd Town (under the control of Duan Qirui), the 11th Town (under the control of Pan Juying), the 2nd Town (under the control of Xu Shuzheng), the 2nd Town (under the control of Zhang Shaozeng) and the 1st Heavy Artillery Association (with the co-commander Qi Wenbao), with a total strength of more than 60,000 people, equipped with more than 1oo artillery pieces of more than 1om, and the firepower was unprecedented.

They are going to take the train through the Jinpu line directly to Bengbu, under the stimulation of Wen Desi, the construction of the railway in the Qing court is faster than the original time and space, especially after Yuan Shikai took power, he is not short of money is overhauled, Jinpu line has been repaired soon, just from Bengbu to Chuzhou that section.

Several generals sat in their special VIP car, and Duan Qirui smiled at Qi Wenbao and said, "Kuang Xun丨 This time we will rely on your heavy artillery, hehe......"

Qi Wenbao said with a smile: "No problem, this time the heavy artillery of the People's Liberation Army will not reach Bengbu, and we will not suffer a loss in the artillery battle...... his smile was a little stiff.

Xu Shuzheng also said: "Brother Kuang Xun is an artillery expert of our army, and he was awarded by the Japanese emperor during his study in the East, and he is well-known abroad. The artillery commanders on the bandits' side are all unknown juniors, and even if they arrive in Bengbu, they are not Kuang Xun's opponents, hehe......"

"Everybody, you've won the prize...... Brother Jing Yu is my senior, and he is an artillery expert. Qi Wenbao Yu laughed a few times.

"Hahaha, this time the two artillery experts of our army are famous, and the bandits will not escape defeat," Pan Juying also joked.

Zhang Shaozeng has also been praised.

Later, everyone opened the map and began to discuss the battle plan. Qi Wenbao excused himself to go to the toilet and walked to the back of the train, he nodded to one of his own horses, and the horses immediately understood, turned around and left. Qi Wenbao stayed in the toilet for a while before returning to the VIP car.

Luzhou, the temporary headquarters of the People's Liberation Army.

"Master Cai, I heard that you have a good relationship with that Zhang Shaozeng, and he is also inclined to revolution, I wonder if you can persuade him?" said Su Shide, the chief of the first pei.

Cai Yi asked in some surprise: "Brother Su, I'm afraid I remember wrong, Zhang Shao and I used to be alumni and were not at the same time, but the friendship is only general." The best friends with him are Zhang Shaozeng, Lan Tianwei ......"

After half a year of training at Wuchang Military University, Cai Ye is now the first chief of the 6th Army of the People's Liberation Army. This time, it was his 1 Pei and Pei as the main force.

"Oh, that's it, it seems that I remembered ...... wrong" Su Shide laughed a few times awkwardly, and scolded in his heart for hurting people and embarrassing Lao Tzu. Su Shide is a cyborg, and he doesn't know where to look at the stall information that he sees is serious, but now it is out of trouble.

"However, your idea still makes sense, we can try it......" Cai said with a smile.

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