The soldiers of the First Legion of the National Revolutionary Army had been holding on the position from Cuijiamiao to Dongguang County between Cangzhou and Dezhou for seven days.
At this moment, there are mainly two types of people on the position: those who have died and those who will die. Less than 30% of the soldiers still keep their hands and feet intact. It is said that the army has suffered more than 40% of the casualties.
It is impossible to maintain the integrity of the establishment, but the soldiers of the First Legion of the National Revolutionary Army used their actions to deny this view that military strategists from ancient times to the present have more or less agreed.
However, everyone knows that failure is a foregone conclusion.
On March 6, 1900, Hengshui County, which had been captured after two weeks of fierce battle, was lost, and the flanks of the revolutionary army's northward advance were immediately exposed to the Gansu Army. Therefore, the General Command of the Revolutionary Army issued an order to terminate the attack and retreat to Dezhou on its entire line.
Prepare to organize defensive operations outside Jinan with Texas as the core.
The remnants of the First Legion of the National Revolutionary Army were selected as the rear guard.
Early in the morning of March 13, the legion's political commissar began to make a final mobilization for the troops.
"We have no support, nor the possibility of retreating. We will be eliminated on the position, but our sacrifice will be exchanged for the survival of the remaining troops." The political commissars brought out the same remarks.
No one retreated. Even if someone had a slight greed for life in his heart, he was seized by the heavy atmosphere of dying in the army and had to be buried deep in his heart.
On this day, the Beiyang Army's artillery bombardment came particularly early. The god of war descended from the sky with iron and fire, spreading destruction and death fairly. That scene would make Buddhists think of the Avici Hell, and the Nordics think of the dusk of the gods, and
Christians will kneel on the ground and recite the sentence in Revelation devoutly: A gray horse appears in the clouds, its name is death, and the countless living beings on the earth are foreshadowing the arrival of the end of the world...
There is only one disrepaired city wall in Dongguang County. Under such fierce artillery fire, the city wall has long degenerated into a siege. Several city walls have been blown up. The city gate building that looked like that was the case.
It also turned into a piece of rubble.
As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the Beiyang Army's scattered line was pressing up in a dark way.
The Shen Ji, who assisted in the defense of Dongguang County, had already broken through with the cavalry of the army this morning, so the Beiyang Army did not send a Shen Ji who was assigned to them. The Shen Ji of both sides has been fighting against each other these days, and the Beiyang Army should
I plan to give the gods some more rest and prepare for future battles.
Anyway, if the God Girl doesn't come up at this time, it will have no impact on the battle situation. It's better to let the girls hurry up and reply.
The main attack was Wang Shizhen, the leader of the three heroes of Beiyang. This unit was the only unit in Yuan Shikai's army that was adapted and expanded from the original Huai Army. Most of the basic officers and non-commissioned officers were veterans who participated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Wang Shizhen
Most of the troops in the department were from Shandong, and they were the descendants of veterans who entered the cave to encircle and suppress the Nian Army after the Huai Army settled their families in Shandong. After the Revolutionary Party started, these people basically broke off their news from their families and had long been worried.
I wish I could put my wings on and fly home to see the situation, and I was extremely brave when fighting.
In the past few months, Wang Shizhen's troops of the Beiyang Army have made a name for themselves. Last October, Wang Shizhen's subordinate Cao Kun led his troops to station in Cangzhou. Cao Kun is different from other generals of the Beiyang Army. He is from the market and is a cloth seller.
Lang, in Dagu people called "Cao Sansha". However, in the face of the attack of the superior forces of the Revolutionary Army, these three fools adopted step-defense outside Cangzhou City, and used wide-area but low-intensity resistance to delay the revolutionary army's footsteps.
Before the subsequent Beiyang Army arrived, it defended Cangzhou - its own losses were not big.
The first batch of reinforcements Cao Kun received was the reinforced cavalry regiment led by Wu Peifu, who was also under Wang Shizhen's name. Wang Shizhen brought all the cavalry in his army and handed them over to Wu Peifu, who had a low official rank, so this later
The Beiyang Army general led this group of cavalry to play a big roundabout way on the plains of North China, sweeping over the supply line of the Revolutionary Army like the wind, completely disrupting the deployment of the Revolutionary Army...
When the revolutionary army finally began to siege Cangzhou, what was waiting for them was not Cao Kun, but Wang Shizhen's main force, and the right camp of Shenji Ping's rebel army led by Sun Chuanfang and Sun Xinyuan sisters.
While Wang Shizhen's troops were defending Cangzhou, the left-wing army led by Duan Qirui set off from Langfang, and attacked the flanks of the Revolutionary Army through Renqiu and Hejian. At the same time, Feng Guozhang's troops, as a reserve team, also left Tianjin and began to set off along the railway in sequence.
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At the same time, in order to prevent all the contributions from being robbed by the Han people, the Gan army under Ronglu also attacked from Baoding and Shijiazhuang to Hengshui, which was guarding the entire revolutionary army northward to the flank of the group.
In less than three months, the Revolutionary Army changed from an attacking side to a defense side, and the main cause of this transformation was Wang Shizhen's army.
Now this fierce army that made the revolutionary army hate him so much that he pressed forward fiercely towards the last position of the revolutionary army's most elite first legion, Dongguang County.
Dongguang County is stuck with the railway line from Cangzhou to Dezhou, and the canal flows from Tianjin southward to it. Without taking down this county, the Beiyang Army would not be able to attack Dezhou. It is precisely because of this that the Beiyang Army collapsed the revolutionary army's establishment.
After the defense line near Dongguang County, it did not choose to bypass the county town and pursue the retreating revolutionary army troops, but chose to surround the county town and attack in turn.
Today, the Beiyang Army is obviously preparing to completely end the battle, pull out this nail, and clear the way to march towards Texas.
The revolutionary army lacking ammunition did not open fire until the Beiyang army advanced to 50 meters. The sparse machine gun fire could not stop the Beiyang army from advancing. The soldiers in blue and gray uniforms shouted and began to run. The revolutionary army on the city wall had already clamped tightly.
The rifle was empty and the bayonet was ready to fight. The gods who assisted in defense of Dongguang County had already broken through with the cavalry regiment of the army this morning, so the Beiyang Army did not send the gods who were assigned to them - the gods of both sides have been
The battle was incomparable, and the Beiyang Army should have planned to give the gods a little more rest to prepare for future battles.
The blue and gray wave finally hit the ruined Dongguang County County, but what happened next made the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army stunned: the huge wave that rushed up fiercely retreated and left the sparse corpses and
Several Yellow Dragon Army Flags.
The Beiyang Army's seemingly powerful general attack ended like this.
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"Old Master!" As soon as Yuan Shikai entered Renshou Hall, he knelt in front of Empress Dowager Cixi, "The rebel party has excellent combat power. Our army fought hard under Dongguang County for many days, suffered heavy losses, but still did not take over the city.
, If the weak minister fails to supervise his commander, he deserves to die!"
Cixi's right eyelid kept twitching, and her hands wearing a golden fingertip were trembling. The iron hat kings sitting around Cixi were also very ugly. There were indeed many idiots among the Manchu nobles and powerful people.
But at this time, most of the old monsters in Renshou Hall were experienced in the palace struggle for decades. Who doesn’t know the intention of Yuan Shikai to come back at this time to kneel down and apologize in front of the empress dowager? If you really fight miserably, Yuan Shikai will
Fight to win, and then come back with good news to seek credit. Now he comes back with bad news, which means that everything goes well on the front line, whether to advance or retreat is all within the control of the Beiyang Army, so this guy comes back to negotiate conditions with the court.
Here comes.
Cixi stared at Yuan Shikai, who looked down with her head and looked like she was waiting for her hair to fall for a while, then turned to Li Hongzhang, who was sitting opposite the iron hat kings on the left side of the hall.
"What do you think of Lord Li?"
Li Hongzhang replied calmly: "God of Lady, I have just rushed back from Guangdong and I don't know the situation of the battle on the front line. I hope Lady of Lady will forgive me."
It means don't ask him, you can consider it yourself.
After saying that, Li Hongzhang picked up the tea bowl and started to taste tea leisurely in front of Cixi...
Cixi's hands trembled even harder.
Although the situation in Beijing at this time is very different from the previous time and space, one thing is indeed the same: the right to rule the country actually fell into the hands of the rear party led by Cixi. When Cixi announced her support for constitutionalism, most of the emerging assets
The class turned to the stronger Back Party, and in the cabinet during the constitutional period, the positions with real power were occupied by powerful factions in the court and the opposition: two ministers with military power, one was Yuan Shikai's and the other was Lin Youde's, and the Minister of Finance
The ministers of Cixi, Ronglu, were appointed by others, such as the Minister of Railways, Minister of Industry and Mining, and were basically old ministers of the Westernization Clan, and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet Li Hongzhang was even a veteran of the Westernization Clan.
Kang Liang, the Reform Party, was only assigned to a position that was irrelevant to soreness such as the Minister of Education.
Because of this, Renshou Hall replaced the Golden Palace in the Forbidden City and became the actual political center of China. Guangxu was just a symbol - undermining the emperor's rights, but it had a bit of a "constitutional monarchy".
But now, Cixi, the actual ruler of China, found that she could not command these Han bureaucrats.
The old woman suppressed her anger and turned to the young man sitting at the last seat of the Han bureaucrat.
"Mr. Chen," Cixi hesitated for a moment, and still added the title of "Mr." to the young man named Chen Hongda, "Look, this war is in a stalemate, Lord Yuan can't support himself, can you Nanyang Army help Yuan?
Is it a good move?"
"Empress Dowager," Chen Hongda did not call Empress Dowager Cixi like others, which made Cixi frown, but his words immediately made Cixi frown slightly, "Most of our officers and soldiers are the southeast coast and the south ocean.
The residents of the islands are not used to the dryness and coldness in the north. In the past few days after arriving in Dagu, many soldiers have developed symptoms of disagreement."
Upon hearing this, Cixi looked at the drizzle flying outside the main entrance of Renshou Hall, and then looked at the spring court uniforms of the important officials in the hall, which were much lighter than winter clothes, and finally her eyes fell on Chen Hongda's military uniform.
Chen Hongda remained calm and continued to report to Cixi's eyes: "Besides, the journey from Nanyang to Dagu is long and the sea transportation time is long. Our soldiers are still fainting and it is inconvenient to go to war."
Cixi was trembling, the Manchus looked at each other, while the Han bureaucrats seemed calm and composed. Only Yuan Shikai was still kneeling on the cold floor of Renshou Hall very pitifully.
In fact, at this time, the people in this hall basically understood that the Qing Dynasty had almost the same energy. It was just that some people were unwilling to face this fact and wanted to resist stubbornly, while others were planning to do so.
What is how to separate the bodies left behind after the death of the Qing Dynasty.
A few minutes later, Empress Dowager Cixi, the representative of the stubborn faction, slapped the armrest of the chair with force, snorted heavily, and said, "Enough, Yuan Shikai! You are continuing to waste your time in that Dongguang County. Ronglu!"
"I'm here."
"Order your Gan army to speed up the attack! I will strengthen another battalion of the gods to you, and take Jinan for me within a month!"