June 15, 19o9, Xuzhou.

Duan Qirui's Beiyang First Army hurried overnight and finally arrived at Xuzhou City in the middle of the night last night. However, they were unable to enter the city to join Zhang Xun's 14th town. Because just 2 hours ago, the PLA's 1st Mixed Brigade and B Mixed Brigade had already surrounded Xuzhou City.

Although the number of the Beiyang First Army was superior, they were all dusty all the way, and the officers and men were very tired, and their physical and mental strength could not support the battle, and the time was also very late. The Beiyang Army didn't know how to fight at night, so they set up camp on the side of the railway more than ten kilometers away from Xuzhou, and prepared to rest for the night.

"Where is Feng Huafu? Where is it now?" As soon as he entered the temporary camp, Duan Qirui asked the communications officer.

The communications officer hurriedly replied: "Minister, Governor Feng has arrived in Suqian and is approaching us, and it is expected that he will be able to join us the day after tomorrow......"

Feng Guozhang's Second Army suffered heavy losses on the northern Jiangsu defense line, the 13th and 2nd towns were captured with dead and wounded, and even missing, more than half of the lost brigades were lost, and the heavy weapons were even more lost. Most importantly, the officers and soldiers of these two towns were frightened by the fierce fire of the People's Liberation Army, and their morale was extremely low. There will be no fighting spirit, no fighting spirit, if they are allowed to fight against the People's Liberation Army again, maybe they will flee after hearing the news.

Lao Feng has no losses in Huai'an, and there is only one 6th town left, Feng Guozhang is also an old Jianghu, he knows very well that the fifth town alone and those remnants of the defeated generals will definitely not be able to hold Huai'an, the PLA side is two divisions and two mixed brigades, both in terms of quantity and quality, they are completely on their side, and if they hold on, they are almost like looking for death

So Feng Guozhang made the most rational choice - withdraw

After retreating across the Yellow River with his Second Army, he turned all the way along the Grand Canal, preparing to join Duan Qirui's First Army. Now that they have arrived in Suqian,

Outside Xuzhou, the People's Liberation Army camp.

At this time, a meeting is going on in the conference room.

In fact, this campaign was planned by the Socialist Party for a long time, and Wen Desi planned to annihilate the main force of Beiyang and speed up the progress of reunification in one or two battles.

In his plan, he did not want this situation of warlordism to last too long, and it was better to achieve reunification before 1911 before he could catch the last train of imperialism. Moreover, because the current exhibition is very different from the history of the original time and space, Yuan Datouwei's Beiyang Group is no longer short of money, and if they are allowed to exhibit for a few more years, the difficulty of reunification will increase, and there will be a lot of unnecessary trouble. So Beiyang must be defeated as much as possible.

The "Second Huaishang Army Uprising" only gave the best reason for this attack, and even if there was no Ni Sichong, the Science and Technology Socialist Party would have found other reasons. And Beiyang's reaction afterwards did not come out of the general staff's deduction, and they really sent a large number of main forces south. Now, in addition to the 6th town of Ni Sichong, which has been annihilated, Beiyang will gather a total of B towns and a heavy artillery association in Jiangsu, including the 2nd town, 11th town, 2nd town, 2nd town, 6th town, 13th town, 14th town, and 2nd town

These troops already account for more than half of the total strength of the Beiyang Army, and if these troops are annihilated, the blow to Beiyang will definitely be painful and will be a very good situation for the Socialist Party.

In order to organize this battle, the Central Military Commission organized the combat units into two group armies, the First and Second Armies, and sent Xin Jie, chief of the General Staff, and Luo Xi, commander of the Sixth Army, to personally command them.

The First Group Army was composed of the 1st Peipei Chang Su Shide from the Anhui side, the 1st Peipei Chang Cai Yi), the 1st Mixed Brigade (Brigade Commander Wu Yuezhou), the B Mixed Brigade (Brigade Commander Jiemo Division) and the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade (Brigade Commander Luda), with Lieutenant General Xin Jie, Chief of the General Staff, concurrently serving as the commander of the Group Army.

The Second Army consisted of the 6th Division, Pei Chang Cui Touyin, the 1st Pei Pei Chang Fu Wendao, the 1st Mixed Brigade (Brigade Commander Yang Zhouhe), the 6th Mixed Brigade (Brigade Commander Chen Run), and the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade (Brigade Commander Lan Yinglong), with Lieutenant General Luo Xi, commander of the 6th Army, concurrently serving as the commander of the group army.

The 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade (Brigade Commander Ben Deshu) was divided into 2 parts, one side and one half of the two army groups.

The Air Force and Navy also made a big move, with Air Force Commander Meng Shu personally going to Nanjing to take up the town, and Navy Commander Wang Tiezhui going to Shanghai to take up the town. It can be said that it is a large-scale operation of unprecedented scale in the PLA.

At this time, the meeting was the First Army Operations Conference convened by Xin Jie, which was attended by the commanders and political commissars and chiefs of staff of various divisions and brigades, as well as several major generals of the Air Force.

"Comrades, our operational goal this time is to completely annihilate the First and Second Beiyang Army. Xin Jie said the goal straight to the point, and then said: "At present, the Second Beiyang Army has suffered heavy losses, with more than half of the 13th and 2nd towns lost, and the heavy equipment has suffered great losses, and it has basically lost its combat effectiveness. And the 14th town is on our side, so Lao Luo's side only needs to deal with the 5th town, and the remnants of the 13th town and the 2nd town. The situation of the First Army was completely different, except for the air raids of our troops during the march, they basically did not suffer much losses. Coupled with Zhang Xun opposite us, he has been shrinking in Xuzhou City, and he is also intact......"

Xin Jie looked at everyone and said with a smile: "So what we have to deal with is 6 towns and a heavy artillery association." Comrades, our task is very heavy, and now, I would like to invite Comrade Luda, chief of staff of the group army, to introduce the battle plan......

Lu Da, commander of the First Heavy Artillery Brigade, who was also the chief of staff of the First Group Army, walked up to the podium with a text jiàn, and at the same time, several staff members hurriedly turned on the slide projector and put a large-scale map of Xuzhou on the screen.

"Comrades, now that you know the objectives of this operation, I will introduce the battle plan and the task distribution of each unit......

The meeting lasted more than two hours, and after the meeting was adjourned, the commanders of each department returned to their respective units to begin preparations.

The 1st Pei Camp of the People's Liberation Army.

Compared with several other brother troops under the city of Xuzhou, Cai's 1st Pei was in the area of Taoshanji further south, about 2 kilometers away from Xuzhou.

They had been clearing and martial law since a few days ago, and they were not allowed to enter or leave the Momoyama market, and a large open space was cleared and leveled outside the market town. This strange behavior made the residents of Momoyama very puzzled. Fortunately, the People's Liberation Army only temporarily did not allow them to leave the market town, and also used military vehicles to transport supplies to them to ensure their daily life, so although they were strange, they did not have much dissatisfaction.

Today, just like a few days ago, everyone leveled a large piece of ground, and more than a dozen rollers came to compact the ground. In the evening, the officers and men who had dinner again studied culture and politics according to the usual practice. The PLA's cultural learning is usually based on the company, and the 11o-regimental company, like other units, began to chat during a break in a language class.

"Company commander, the rest of the troops have gone up, why should we stay here?" asked one of the soldiers of the 11o-regimental company to his company commander.

Another soldier said, "Even if you are a reserve, what is the purpose of clearing so much ground?

A squad leader couldn't help but say: "Yes, company commander, now even the mixed brigade has gone up, we are a division, how can the combat effectiveness be stronger than the mixed brigade......

1 Pei's strange behavior was not only confusing to the local people, but even the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level could not figure it out.

The company commander smiled and said, "I don't know, the higher-ups must make sense to arrange it this way, maybe the key this time is us......" Unlike those soldiers, he had already vaguely guessed something with his natural keen intuition about war, of course, these words could not be said nonsense.

The company commander is called Hong Shilou, a young man in his early twenties, a native of Nanchong, Sichuan, who only graduated from the Southwest Military University (formerly the Xingke Security School) at the end of last year and was assigned to the army to serve as the acting company commander of this company. Although his qualifications seem to be very shallow, these squad leaders and veterans dare not underestimate him, because during the internship, he has participated in many battles such as Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, and Liangguang, and he is extremely good, and he has made a very amazing miracle in the Liangguang Campaign, which made a group of superior glasses shattered to the ground, and even Mr. Wen exclaimed a miracle.

Because of his cousin, he was directly awarded the rank of lieutenant upon graduation, and directly served as acting company commander, and was promoted to captain and full company commander in less than 4 months. Now he is also well-known in the army, and he is one of the models promoted by the 6th Army.

At this time, the herald in the company ran in and saluted Hong Shilou: "Report to the company commander, the regiment headquarters is calling, and you and the instructor will go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting immediately...

"Okay, I'll go ...... right away" Hong Shilou said to his comrades in the classroom: "You continue to class, I'll go to the meeting......"

11 p.m.

On the flat ground cleared these days, more than 4,000 heavily armed officers and men of the 11o-regiment were neatly lined up in two or so squares in company units. Hundreds of gas lamps were lit on the site, and electric lights were temporarily erected to illuminate the entire site as if it were daylight.

Now that Hong Shilou's excitement has cooled down, he stood firmly in front of the company and waited with peace of mind.

At this time, several off-road vehicles drove over, and it was the commander of the division headquarters who arrived.

Cai Ye and several key officers got out of the car and began to greet and shake hands with each party one by one.

When he walked to the company team, before waiting for the regiment commander to introduce him, Cai Ye smiled and said: "I know you, the combat hero, you are the one who grabbed three levels in one day and eight villages in the night, and took a multi-platoon to capture more than 8o people Hongshilou, hahaha......"

Hong Shilou replied with a red face: "Division commander, it was all the heroic battles of the comrades-in-arms, plus a little luck......

"This operation is very risky, are you confident?"

"Please rest assured, I promise to complete the task," Hong Shilou said seriously.

Cai Yi shook hands with him and said: "In this operation, your regiment has the heaviest task, I wish you a smooth ......."

At this time, there was a slight humming sound in the night sky, followed by louder and louder sounds. When Hong Shilou raised his head, he saw a column of lights appear in the southern sky, and this column of lights quickly approached this "temporary square". The hundreds of green electric lights erected in the square were also lit up, and those green electric lights were lined up in crosses.

He raised his wrist to look at the luminous watch, which was 11:4o.

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