May 15, 1909 AD, Xuzhou.
Duan Qirui's First Beiyang Army rushed all night and finally arrived at Xuzhou City at midnight yesterday.
However, they failed to enter the city and join Zhang Xun's 14th Town.
Because just 2 hours ago, the People's Liberation Army's 7th Division, 7th Mixed Brigade and 8th Mixed Brigade had surrounded Xuzhou City.
Although the Beiyang First Army had the numerical advantage, their journey was dusty.
The officers and soldiers were very tired, unable to sustain the battle physically and mentally, and it was also very late.
The Beiyang Army did not know how to fight at night, so they set up camp beside the railway more than ten kilometers away from Xuzhou and prepared to rest for the night.
"Where is Feng Huafu now?"
Duan Qirui asked the communications officer as soon as he entered the temporary camp.
The communications officer quickly replied: "Minister, Governor Feng has arrived in Suqian and is approaching us.
He is expected to meet us the day after tomorrow."
Feng Guozhang's Second Army suffered heavy losses on the northern Jiangsu defense line.
The 13th and 28th towns were captured with dead and wounded, and were missing.
More than half of the brigade was damaged, and all heavy weapons were lost.
The most important thing is that the officers and soldiers in these two towns were frightened by the fierce firepower of the People's Liberation Army, and their morale was extremely low.
The generals have no fighting spirit and the soldiers have no fighting spirit.
If they are allowed to fight against the People's Liberation Army again, they may get wind of it and flee.
Old Feng's troops with little losses in Huai'an only had the 5th Town.
Feng Guozhang was also an old Jianghu.
He knew very well that the 5th Town and the remaining defeated generals alone would definitely not be able to defend Huai'an.
The People's Liberation Army had two divisions there.
With the two mixed brigades, both quantity and quality have completely destroyed our side.
If we insist on holding on, it is almost like seeking death.
So Feng Guozhang made the wisest choice to withdraw.
After he led the Second Army back through the old route of the Yellow River, he turned all the way along the Grand Canal, preparing to join Duan Qirui's First Army.
Now they have arrived in Suqian, Outside Xuzhou City, the People's Liberation Army camp.
At this time, a meeting was taking place in the conference room.
In fact, this battle has been planned by the Socialist Party of Science and Technology for a long time.
Wen Desi planned to annihilate the main force of Beiyang in one or two battles and speed up the progress of unification.
In Wen Desi's plan, he did not want this situation of warlord separatism to last for too long.
It was best to achieve unification before 1911, and then catch the last train of imperialism.
And because the current development is very different from the history of the original time and space, the Beiyang Group headed by Yuan Datou is no longer short of money.
If they are allowed to develop for a few more years, unification will become more difficult and cause a lot of unnecessary troubles.
Therefore, Beiyang must be defeated as soon as possible.
The "Second Huaishang Army Uprising" only gave the best reason for this attack.
Even without Ni Sichong, the Socialist Party of Science and Technology would have found other reasons.
Beiyang's reaction afterwards did not go beyond the General Staff's deduction.
As expected, they sent a large number of main forces southward.
Now, in addition to the 16th town of Ni Sichong that has been annihilated, Beiyang will gather the 2nd town, the 11th town, the 12th town, the 20th town, the 5th town, the 13th town, the 14th town, the 28th town, etc. in Jiangsu.
A total of 8 towns and a heavy artillery association.
These troops already account for more than half of the total strength of the Beiyang Army.
If these troops are annihilated, the blow to Beiyang will definitely be devastating, and it will be a very good situation for the Socialist Party of Science and Technology.
In order to organize this battle, the Military Commission organized the combat troops into the First and Second Group Armies, and dispatched Chief of General Staff Xin Jie and Army Commander Rossi to take personal command.
The First Group Army is composed of Anhui's 7th Division Commander Su Shide, 11th Division Commander Cai E, 7th Mixed Brigade Commander Wu Yuezhou, 8th Mixed Brigade Commander Jie Mo Division, and 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade Commander Ruda. , Lieutenant General Xin Jie, Chief of General Staff, also serves as commander of the group army.
The Second Group Army is composed of Cui Tuoyin, commander of the 16th Division, Fu Wendao, commander of the 8th Division, Yang Zhouhe, commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade, Chen Run, commander of the 6th Mixed Brigade, and Lan Yinglong, commander of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade.
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Lieutenant General Rossi, commander of the army, also serves as commander of the group army.
Ben Deshu, commander of the Second Heavy Artillery Brigade, was divided into two parts, one half on each side of the two group armies.
The Air Force and Navy also mobilized in large numbers.
Air Force Commander Meng Shu personally went to Nanjing to take charge, and Navy Commander Wang Tiechui went to Shanghai to take charge.
It can be said to be a major battle of unprecedented scale for the People's Liberation Army.
The meeting at this time was the First Army Operations Meeting held by Xin Jie.
The division and brigade commanders, political commissars, chiefs of staff, and several major air force generals attended the meeting.
“Comrades, our operational goal this time is to completely annihilate the First and Second Beiyang Army.”
More than half of them were lost, and their heavy equipment was severely damaged, and their combat effectiveness was basically lost.
And Town 14 was on our side. , so Lao Luo only had to deal with the defeated soldiers of the fifth town and the 13th and 28th towns.
The situation of the first army was completely different.
In addition to being attacked by our army during the march, Basically, there is not much loss.
In addition, Zhang Xun, who has been shrinking in Xuzhou City across from us, is also intact."
Xin Jie looked at everyone and said with a smile: "So what we have to deal with are 5 towns and a heavy artillery association.
Comrades, our task is very heavy.
Now, let's ask Comrade Luda, the chief of staff of the group army, to introduce the battle plan."
Ruda, the commander of the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade who is also the chief of staff of the 1st Group Army, walked up to the podium with a document.
At the same time, several staff members quickly started the slide projector and put a large-scale map of Xuzhou on the screen.
"Comrades, everyone already knows the goal of this operation.
Now I will introduce the operation plan and the task allocation of each unit."
The meeting lasted for more than 2 hours.
After the meeting, the chief officers of each department returned to their respective units and began preparations.
The camp of the 11th Division of the People's Liberation Army.
Compared with several other brother units under Xuzhou City, Cai E's 11th Division is located further south in the Taoshanji area, about 20 kilometers away from Xuzhou.
They started clearing the area and imposing martial law a few days ago.
No one is allowed in or out of Taoshan Town, and a large open space was cleared outside the market town.
This strange behavior puzzled the residents of Taoshanji.
Fortunately, the People's Liberation Army only temporarily prohibited them from leaving the market town, and also used military vehicles to transport supplies to them to ensure their daily lives, so although they were surprised, they were not very dissatisfied.
Today is the same as the previous few days.
Everyone has leveled a large piece of ground, and more than a dozen road rollers have arrived to compact the ground.
In the evening, after dinner, the officers and soldiers conducted cultural and political studies as usual.
The People's Liberation Army's cultural studies are usually conducted in company units.
The 7th Company of the 1103rd Regiment, like other troops, had a break in the Chinese language class, and the soldiers started chatting.
"Company commander, the other troops have gone up, why are we staying here?
Do you want us to be a reserve team?"
A soldier from the 7th company of the 1103 regiment asked his company commander.
Another soldier said: "Even if we are a reserve team, why are we cleaning so much ground and using it as a playground?"
A squad leader couldn't help but said: "Yes, company commander, even the mixed brigade has gone up now.
We are Class A divisions, and our combat effectiveness is better than that of the mixed brigade."
The strange behavior of the 11th Division not only confused the local people, but also the grassroots officers and soldiers.
The company commander smiled and said: "I don't know.
The superior's arrangement must make sense.
Maybe the key this time is us."
Unlike those soldiers, he had already faintly understood the war with his innate keen intuition.
Yueyue guessed something.
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Of course, these words cannot be said nonsense.
The commander of the 7th company is called Hong Shilou.
He is a young man in his early twenties.
He is from Nanchong, Sichuan.
He graduated from the former Xingke Security School of Southwest Military University at the end of last year and was assigned to the army as the acting company commander of this company.
He has been regularized for less than three years.
Where's the moon?
Although his qualifications appear to be very shallow, these squad platoon leaders and veterans do not dare to underestimate him, because during his internship, he participated in many battles in Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, and Guangdong and Guangxi, and performed extremely well, and won a victory in the Guangdong-Guangxi campaign.
A very amazing miracle caused a group of superiors' glasses to shatter on the floor, and even Mr.
Wen exclaimed a miracle.
Because of his performance, he was directly awarded the rank of lieutenant upon graduation and directly served as acting company commander.
Within 4 months, he was promoted to captain and became the official company commander.
Now he is somewhat famous in the army, and he is considered one of the models promoted by the army.
At this time, the company messenger ran in and saluted Hong Shilou: "Report to the company commander, the regiment headquarters called and asked you and the instructor to 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 with class, I'll go to the meeting." 11pm.
On the flat land cleared these days, more than 4,000 fully armed officers and soldiers of the 1103rd Regiment were neatly arranged into more than 20 square formations in company units.
Hundreds of gas lamps were lit on the site, and electric lights were temporarily set up, illuminating the entire site as if it were daytime.
Now Hong Shilou's excitement has cooled down.
He stood steadily in front of the company team and waited with peace of mind.
At this time, several off-road vehicles drove over, and the head of the division arrived.
Cai E and several main officers got out of the car and began to greet and shake hands with each square team one by one.
When he walked to the 7th company square team, before the leader could introduce him, Cai E smiled and said: "I know you, the fighting hero.
You are the one who captured three levels a day and eight villages at night.
You led more than one platoon and captured more than 800 prisoners."
Human Hongshi Tower, hahaha” Hong Shilou blushed and replied: "Commander, it was all the heroic fighting of our comrades, plus a little luck."
"This operation is very risky, are you confident?"
"Please rest assured, chief, and promise to complete the task," Hong Shilou said seriously.
Cai E shook hands with him and said: "Your regiment has the most important task in this battle.
I wish you all the best."
At this time, a slight buzzing sound sounded in the night sky, and then the sound became louder and louder.
Hong Shilou raised his head and saw a column of lights appearing in the southern sky.
This column of lights quickly approached the "temporary square".
The hundreds of green electric lights set up in the square also turned on, and those green electric lights were arranged in crosses.
He raised his wrist and looked at the luminous watch.
The time on it was 11:40
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