May 14, 1909 AD, Teng County, Shandong Province.
"Asshole, Ni Sichong is such a loser.
He's such a loser that he didn't hold on for a whole day."
After reading the telegram from Zhang Xun in Xuzhou, Duan Qirui slapped the case with a livid face and cursed.
Originally, according to Beiyang's plan, the decisive battle with the People's Liberation Army was in the Bengbu area.
However, Ni Sichong was too weak and lost the Luqiao defense line in less than half a day.
Not to mention his own death, most of the 16 towns surrendered, allowing the People's Liberation Army to easily take over Bengbu and Fengyang.
Lao Duan was so angry about such a stupid thing.
Zhang Shaozeng, the commander of the 20th town, said: "Brother Zhiquan, it seems from the telegram that the bandits have captured Suzhou and are raiding Yingzhou and Sizhou.
There are only patrol camps in those two places, so they must not be able to stop them.
It looks like they can't stop them.
Anhui is finished.”
The 20th Town is also a relatively early New Army unit.
Its founding time is second only to Beiyang.
It was originally stationed in Fengtian.
The Qing government was very generous to the troops guarding their hometown.
Their equipment was no less than that of the Six Beiyang Towns, and their artillery was even better.
After Yuan Shikai came to power, he asked the newly built 27th Town to be stationed in Fengtian, and transferred the elite of the 20th Town back to Zhili.
Xu Shuzheng frowned and said: "With the consistent style of the Wu bandits, they will never stop in Anhui.
We must rush to Xuzhou as soon as possible to support Zhang Xun.
Otherwise, once the Wu bandits go north along the Jinpu Line, Zhang Xun's 16 towns will be It's absolutely impossible to defend."
Originally Xu Shuzheng was just Duan Qirui's deputy.
After Duan Qirui became the Minister of Army, he also rose to the top and became the commander of the 12th town.
Pan Juying, the commander of the 11th town, said helplessly: "Hey, how can we get up so quickly?
Their air force is too strong.
Their airships come over and bombard us during the day, so we can only leave at night."
When Lao Pan said this, all the generals fell silent.
It had been four days since the Beiyang Army set out from Beijing before they reached Tengxian County, Shandong Province, and the distance from Beijing to Tengxian County was only about 700 kilometers.
Although the train speed at this time is relatively slow, about 30 kilometers per hour, even at this speed, it should arrive in 2 days at the latest.
Why it has been delayed until now is of course because the PLA Air Force is too shameless and despicable.
As soon as the train carrying the Beiyang Army left Zhili, it was attacked by the People's Air Force.
Six armed airships flew slowly over from the south.
As soon as they saw the Beiyang military column, they began to drop bombs, fire artillery, and even fired machine guns.
To say that the Beiyang Army was not unprepared, the People's Liberation Army's Air Force has long been famous.
The Beiyang bosses are not stupid, how could they not be prepared?
They imported three armored trains from the UK just to protect the military trains and railways.
This time, the leader of the Southern Expedition allocated two armored trains to Duan Qirui and asked him to take them to the south.
In addition to two 152mm heavy guns, these British armored trains are also equipped with multiple anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, which have very powerful firepower.
And in order to prepare for air raids, Duan Qirui also ordered two specially modified anti-aircraft vehicles to be mounted on each military column.
Each anti-aircraft vehicle is equipped with one 57mm anti-aircraft gun, two 37mm anti-aircraft guns and four 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
This configuration still looks very powerful.
The Beiyang generals all feel that with this arrangement, even if they cannot defeat the bandit air force, they can at least drive them away.
But the reality is very harsh.
The People's Air Force's first air raid came with 6 airships.
Although the Beiyang Army fired desperately, they still didn't even touch a hair on anyone's body.
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There is no way.
The Beiyang Army's 57mm anti-aircraft guns can only hit a height of about 5,000 meters at most, but the People's Liberation Army's airships are at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, posing no threat at all.
The airship's attack is completely different.
There is no height limit for shooting from a high position.
The airships used artillery, machine guns and bombs to severely torture the Beiyang military column.
Although the hit rate was a bit low due to the long distance and high altitude, they still destroyed one military column and all the military columns were injured.
The important thing is that a section of railway was blown up.
Now the Beiyang Army was dumbfounded.
How to fix it.
In order to repair the railways and trains, the Beiyang Army had to spend a day in Texas.
When they arrived in Tai'an hurriedly and slowly, it was dawn again, and the airships of the People's Liberation Army arrived as expected, and there was another burst of bombardment.
These airships seemed to be training, and they fired all the cannonballs in a leisurely manner.
After throwing away all the bombs, he swaggered away.
After these two air raids, the Beiyang Army no longer dared to let the troops march during the day.
Strictly speaking, the hit rate of these two air strikes was very low.
The casualties caused to the Beiyang Army were not many, that is, more than a thousand casualties, but the blow to morale was huge.
In particular, they also blew up many trains and railways, significantly reducing the marching speed of the Beiyang Army.
Now when Beiyang mentions the People's Liberation Army's air force, it gets dizzy.
Duan Qirui walked to the window with a dark face.
When he looked up, he saw six airships circling in the southern sky.
The vivid shark mouth painting and the dazzling sickle and hammer logo made him grit his teeth and be helpless.
In order to prevent accidental injuries to innocent people, the People's Liberation Army will not bomb cities, not even stations, but only bomb military targets.
Therefore, as long as their military trains do not leave the station and hit the road, it is still very safe to park at the station, otherwise Duan Qirui and the others would not be huddled in Teng County City now.
Xu Shuzheng walked over and said: "Minister, don't worry, they will go back in the afternoon.
We will drive all night tonight and we should be able to reach Xuzhou."
"Report to the military, urgent call from Huai'an" a telecommunications room hurriedly ran in.
When Duan Qirui saw the telegram, his face suddenly turned pale.
Xu Shuzheng came over to take a look, his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Ah, the bandits are attacking Huai'an in a big way."
Huai'an Prefecture, the headquarters of the Second Army of the Beiyang Army.
Mr.
Feng Guozhang, the Yangtze River patrol envoy, Jiangsu governor and commander of the Second Army, sat in front of the sand table with a gloomy face.
He had been sitting here for almost an hour since he received the bad news from the front line.
In front of him was a sand table from Jiangsu Province.
On the sand table, the red flag representing the People's Liberation Army had been planted in Baoying, which was only 50 kilometers away from Huai'an Prefecture.
During the Ding Wei Revolution, the Ninth Town led by Zhao Sheng occupied southern Jiangsu after the uprising.
Just as they were conquering other places, the Beiyang Army's Fifth Town moved south.
At that time, the two sides faced off at the front line of Gaoyou Dongtai.
Later, Ninth Town obtained a large amount of weapons through a "foreign company" and replenished its military strength, and friction started again.
However, Beiyang's Fifth Town was seriously short of supplies.
Finally, under Yuan Shikai's order, it abandoned Gaoyou and retreated to the front line of Jieshou Dagang, relying on Ziying River and Gouhe River to set up a defense line.
Subsequently, the two sides acquiesced to this ceasefire line and faced off from north to south at Ziying River and Gouhe River.
Later, Zhao Sheng and others defected to the Socialist Party of Science and Technology and joined the southern government.
After the People's Liberation Army took over the defense line, the Beiyang Army was also very nervous for a time.
Yuan Shikai specially sent Feng Guozhang to Jiangsu to take charge.
However, after the People's Liberation Army took over the defense line, it did nothing except repair the company.
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The Beiyang Army was nervous for a few days and then felt relieved, and then the two sides got along well.
In the past, when Zhao Sheng was managing southern Jiangsu, there were frictions between the two sides from time to time, but after the People's Liberation Army came, there was no friction at all.
However, Feng Guozhang did not dare to be careless.
He immediately asked Yuan Shikai to send more elite troops to Jiangsu, because Jiangsu was a land of wealth.
Although northern Jiangsu was not as wealthy as southern Jiangsu, it was still stronger than many provinces.
The boss here still attaches great importance to it, and immediately agreed to Feng Guozhang's suggestion, and established the 13th town in Jiangsu to control Wei Zonghan.
The original 13th mixed association was upgraded, and the 14th town to control Zhang Xun, the original Jiangsu patrol battalion was reorganized, and the 13th town was reorganized.
Zhang Huaizhi, the commander of the 28th town, was upgraded to Jiangsu by the Zhili Huncheng Association, and together with Zhang Yongcheng, the original commander of the 5th town, formed the Second Beiyang Army.
Yuan Shikai gathered 4 towns in this small place in northern Jiangsu.
The number of troops was second only to Zhili, his hometown in Beiyang.
He also sent Feng Guozhang, a famous Beiyang general, to take charge.
The four towns were controlled by confidants.
It can be seen that he had great influence here.
Pay attention to.
After the big head looted Beijing, they had enough money.
They also worked hard to build fortifications on the ceasefire line and deployed a large number of artillery and anti-aircraft firepower.
In Lao Feng's opinion, there is no problem in defending northern Jiangsu.
After learning about the People's Liberation Army's attack on Anqing, the Beiyang Army in Jiangsu also immediately stepped up its alert.
Although Feng Guozhang himself believed that he was quite well prepared.
But at 4 o'clock this morning, when the People's Liberation Army suddenly launched an attack, Feng Guozhang discovered that his men were far from being as powerful as he had estimated.
Or, to put it another way, the People's Liberation Army was too powerful.
The People's Liberation Army's attack on Northern Jiangsu also started with heavy artillery.
The Third Heavy Artillery Brigade and the Part of the Second Heavy Artillery Brigade concentrated a total of hundreds of heavy artillery with a caliber of 155 mm or more to carry out a continuous attack on the Beiyang Army's defense line in Northern Jiangsu.
Half an hour of shelling.
Subsequently, the People's Liberation Army's division and regiment artillery also began to pour artillery shells.
After these medium-caliber artillery fired for half an hour, the heavy artillery that had cooled down was fired again.
After 5 o'clock, when the sky was just getting dark, the People's Liberation Army Air Force also arrived. 160 aircraft took off from Nanjing and Shanghai to carry out air strikes on the remaining targets of the artillery fire.
The Beiyang Army's anti-aircraft firepower had been almost destroyed by the previous artillery fire, and what was left was simply better than nothing.
At 6:30, the People's Liberation Army's 16th Division, 8th Division, 1st Mixed Brigade, and 6th Mixed Brigade officially launched the attack.
The Yangtze River Fleet of the People's Navy sailed into Gaoyou Lake and bombarded the 13th town in the frontier.
At 7:10, the 13th Beiyang Town collapsed under three-dimensional firepower, and a hole was broken through the northern Jiangsu defense line.
Then Dagang's 28th Town couldn't stop it.
By 8 o'clock, the northern Jiangsu defense line had been completely lost, and the 13th and 28th towns retreated in embarrassment.
At this time, the fifth town sent by Feng Guozhang to support the front line had not yet left Huai'an City.
"Commander, what should we do now?
The bandits are in full swing.
Huai'an is so vast that it's hard to stop them.
It's better to retreat to the north of the Yellow River."
Zhang Yongcheng, the commander of the 5th town, saw that Feng Guozhang was always silent and couldn't help but said.
Only he could say this.
Wei Zonghan and Zhang Huaizhi had just lost the battle, and Zhang Huaizhi was almost captured alive by the 6th mixed brigade that attacked.
How dare he talk about retreating.
Feng Guozhang's face changed a few times before he spoke out from between his teeth: "Withdraw, retreat to the Yellow River.
In addition, send electricity to Duan Zhiquan and tell him not to go to Anhui, and to hold northern Jiangsu first.
And give the old man some money.
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Generate electricity and ask him to send reinforcements":