President Meng's death toll has risen sharply, and the Huai army is no better.The more than 15,000 troops brought out by Luo Guozhong were the strongest elite in Li Hongzhang's hands, and more than 3,000 people died in less than five hours, plus more than 2,000 died when he stormed the trenches of the Danzhou Army outside the city just now, and now the total number is almost less than 10,000.Luo Guozhong was anxious and roared: "If you take Benxi, you must take Benxi."
All cheer up, our Huai army has not suffered such a big loss" Lu Kangtian led the troops to resist in the city, and the Danzhou army was extremely tired, but everyone supported it to the death, and kept talking about defending the leader, defending Danzhou, and cheering each other up.At this time, it shows the power of faith, the advantage of training, although the time is short, but it does not make the Danzhou army's individual combat effectiveness much worse than that of the Huai army, the gap is definitely there, the power of faith, let everyone stand up.The Huai Army is fighting for money, and the Danzhou Army is fighting for the new society, and the spiritual level of the two sides is different."
I really didn't expect the Qing army to be so able to fight, so why was it beaten like a dog by the foreigners at the beginning" Wang Zhankui looked at the mountains of corpses of his own soldiers, and his heart was very heavy.President Meng felt even more uncomfortable, "This is because Luo Guozhong and his Huai army saw that we were all Han Chinese, and they fought better and better. ”Wang Zhankui nodded and said: "Yes, I don't look down on such a person the most, president, let's let them see who is powerful." ”President Meng said lightly: "Can you be willful in a war, just like you are boxing, you have to pay attention to strategy." ”The sky is bright, a large number of corpses of the Huai army are piled up under the city, they are two meters high, but they have not broken through Benxi, the people of Benxi have listened to the gunfire for a whole night, and the city, at this moment, is as silent as death.This is a short gap."
Let the second regiment come over and cover our evacuation" President Meng gave the order, and this time, President Meng did not consult with Instructor Albert Kirchbach and Chief of General Staff Rob Cles.Instructor Albert Kirchbach suggested: "President, just let the second regiment come and defend together, I think these people are crazy, they won't take care of the artillery position for the time being, they should be to die and take Benxi City."
Move the artillery position back, let the people of the construction corps help withdraw to Danzhou, and we will fight them to the death here, not without a chance to win. ”President Meng secretly scolded, are you German also crazy "No, meet with the second regiment, give up Benxi first, there is no need to stick to such a lonely city." ”Chief of General Staff Rob Criss agreed with President Moe's opinion: "What the president said is right, take a step back first, and if you fight hard, you will hit their strategy." ”The instructor of the big Albert Kirschbach was very unhappy when he saw that President Meng did not take his advice, and the Germans thought that it was a shame to retreat in their bones, and he did not like President Meng's thinking.President Meng didn't bother to explain, he was familiar with the ideas of Instructor Albert Kirchbach and Chief of General Staff Rob Cleris, after all, they have been together for so long, the Germans have the advantages of the Germans, and the American army also has the advantages of the American army, however, President Meng knows that it is also necessary to cooperate with Chinese characteristics to contact the mountains through the flag soldiers, the second regiment has long been rendezvous with the artillery position, Xuan Jianzhang saw the instructions of the flag soldiers, and hurriedly brought people over, and with a fierce charge, he quickly bit out a hole in the encirclement of the Huai army.The Huai army did not have the tactical literacy of modern warfare, and after completing the encirclement, they just sat on the ground to rest, and they did not even have the consciousness of entering the trenches, although they were holding rifles, in fact, it was still a set of tactics with spears, and fighting ruthlessly was their inherent thinking, and they were indeed very capable of fighting, but they were not very good at fighting.This is not the fault of the commander, it can only be said that Luo Guozhong's wisdom and thinking are far from reaching the level of the chief of the general staff of the Grand Albert Kirchbach and Rob Cles.The Second Regiment also did not mean to fight with the Huai Army, the task instructions instilled during this period worked, German military discipline, no matter what reason you have, you must put the completion of the task first, even if your commander is a stupid pig, you must do what the stupid pig says.The second regiment rushed into Benxi to join the first regiment, and President Meng hurriedly evacuated with the army."
General, the Danzhou Army is evacuating Benxi."
The adjutant general came to brief.Luo Guozhong turned the horse's head, turned around in place, and kicked the ground a few times, "I saw it all, forget it, don't chase it, there are not many shells, don't let the Danzhou army bite back, this gang of bandits is quite capable of fighting, rest first, come here, report to the court in my name" "Huh" In fact, even if the Huai army chased over, President Meng was not very afraid, after all, the Danzhou military port already had a prototype, and the forts could be used, but it was not perfect, if the Qing army dared to chase deep into the hinterland, the situation was really uncertain.I'm afraid, I'm afraid, the Huai army continues to be like now, steady and steady, step by step, then, President Meng's army will be forced into the sea step by step.Danzhou is in danger.President Moe's army retreated to the mouth of the grass river and rested for a day.President Meng convened the highest military meeting, which was attended by high-ranking military officials."
Let's talk about it, what to do next," President Meng asked.Rob Cris, Chief of General Staff, took the lead and said: "Caohekou is just a small town, and there is no city defense at all, so hurry back to Danzhou." ”Albert Kirschbach the Greater also said: "Mr.
Chief of the General Staff is right, it is indeed necessary to go back, the army needs to rest, there are too many wounded soldiers, the first regiment has almost lost its combat capability, basically all the lightly and seriously wounded soldiers, more than 1,000 people have died, and now there are only more than 500 people left." ”Lu Kangtian, Xuan Jianzhang and other officers did not say anything, this battle, it is difficult to say whether it is a defeat or a victory, but in their hearts, losing the territory they have won is a failure.President Meng smiled slightly, "Do you think we failed" Everyone was even more silent, anyway, no matter what, it can't be regarded as a win.President Meng smiled: "Now it can be regarded as a draw at most, not a defeat, as long as the war is not over, there is still hope to win" Grand Albert Kirchbach instructor puzzled: "President, you still want to fight Benxi, we don't have the strength, hurry back to Fengcheng and prepare for defense, in case the Huai army refuses to give up, we will be in danger." ”President Meng shook his head and said: "Now it can't be stopped, the Huai army still has an army that can fight everything, and there are follow-up troops, and if you launch a large-scale offensive again, even if you return to Danzhou, it will be very dangerous, and if you are really beaten by the Huai army to Danzhou, those powers who are still waiting and watching may take advantage of the fire to rob." ”What President Meng said is entirely possible.t1706231537: