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Lin Yuan thought to himself: "If we send troops directly to the south, can we bypass Xianshan Mountain?" Lin Yuan thought of this and transferred a detailed map of Xianshan Mountain, only to find that there are many mountain roads in and out of Xianshan Mountain. Dao: "This means that we cannot use the method of focusing on defense to block the way out of the Qing army in the mountains."

"If we let go of the enemy at Mount Xian and bypass it and attack southward, then the enemy in the mountain will frequently harass our troops, and we will have to spend a lot of troops to protect the transportation line. This is difficult when the distance is close. It is not obvious, and when the combat distance is widened, especially when the forwards of our troops attack Wuhan, this problem will be fatal."

"So, we can't get around the defenders in Xianshan anyway, so we can only shoot them down, but how can we take them down? It's impossible to trap them to death. Zhang Zhidong must be running Xianshan For a long time, there must have been a lot of fortifications inside and a lot of food reserves, so we can only shoot them down."

"But it's not easy to fight down. Our biggest advantage now is firepower, but the mountains greatly limit our firepower. For example, it is impossible for our grenades to go over the ridge and explode to another slope of the mountain. The dense woods restrict sighting equipment and so on. Therefore, if the third division is allowed to attack, then this battle will become a tragic tug-of-war. Although I am not afraid of a tug-of-war with the Qing court, that kind of combat method is Every commander tries to avoid it."

Lin Yuan was contemplating, and the words "sawing", "harassing" and "mountain" kept circling in his mind, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, thinking: "How did I forget: I still have a mountain division! I can take the mountain The division's special forces were dispatched into the mountains to harass the Qing army. In terms of individual combat effectiveness, my special forces must be much stronger than those Qing soldiers!"

Lin Yuan thought of this and contacted Ou Zhenhai first, and asked, "Are you sure what method to use to defeat the Qing army in Xianshan Mountain?"

Ou Zhenhai said: "Not yet. We are currently treating the people in the city, and we are still building floating bridges and fortifications. We have not yet formulated an action plan to attack Xianshan."

Lin Yuan said: "Don't attack Mount Xian yet, I will send special forces from the Sixth Division to you, and I will leave it to them to enter the mountain and fight."

After Ou Zhenhai agreed, Lin Yuan immediately contacted Fade Chen and told him about mobilizing special forces into the mountain to fight. Fade Chen readily agreed and said that he would personally lead the troops into the mountain. Lin Yuan declined, so Fade Chen mobilized the sixth division. Go to Xiangyang.

The headquarters of the Sixth Division is stationed in Changchun, Jilin, where there is a training base for special forces. It takes four full days to travel from Changchun to Xiangyang, so Ou Zhenhai began to wait.

It was October [-]th at this time, and the Second Army also began to fight against the Qing Army. The Second Army launched the attack later, because they had more armored vehicles, and it took a certain amount of time to prepare the armored vehicles to cross the river. The Second Army delayed its attack until the early hours of October [-].

In the early morning of October 50th, the four divisions of the Second Army launched an attack on the front more than [-] kilometers north of Huainan, and successively conquered important places such as Mengcheng and Guzhen. , preparing to cross the river to attack Fengyang, an important town in Huainan. Fengyang is the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, Fengyang is not a good choice to defend the Huainan area south of the Huaihe River, because Fengyang Mansion is surrounded by On the plain, as long as Lin Yuan's troops break through the Huaihe defense line, the armored troops can drive straight in and conquer Fengyang directly.

If you want to defend the Huainan area, the best place is Hefei. The north of Hefei is mountainous, which is most suitable for preventing the impact of the armored forces. However, in order to show his determination to defend Huainan, Xu Yingku put his defense focus on Fengyang, and he also led the way. The troops stayed in Fengyang and defended the Huaihe line with all their strength.

Xu Yingkui sent a telegram to Kodama Gentaro immediately after discovering that Lin Yuan's troops were attacking: "Lin Yuan's troops have launched an attack and have reached the Huaihe defense line. What should we do?"

At this time, Kodama Gentaro was in great distress, because he didn't expect that Lin Yuan not only failed to fall into his plan and transferred the troops to the place he wanted, but instead let the troops launch an attack on the Huaihe defense line, and the first to attack was the last one. In Xiangyang in the west, Kodama Gentaro knew that Zhang Zhidong had been refusing to listen to his orders, so he had no idea about him, and his heart was always hanging in the air. At this moment, he received a telegram from Xu Yingku, and suddenly felt dizzy.

Kodama Gentaro could only call Xu Yingku back: "Defend with all your strength and hold the defense line of the Huaihe River."

When Xu Yingkui received this telegram, he jumped up and down and cursed, thinking: "Hold on? You finish talking as soon as your upper lip touches your lower lip over there. How powerful is Lin Yuan's army! How can I hold on!" But he couldn't get angry either. , can only call back and ask: "Where are the reinforcements from the Great Japanese Empire?"

It’s okay not to mention the reinforcements, but Kodama Gentaro is more heartwarming. Now Japan has sent a total of two voluntary aid troops to China. Among them, the first regiment has become prisoners in a daze, and can only rely on tricks among the prisoners of war. to show the bravery of the samurai of the Imperial Japanese Empire; the Second Wing died on Huaijin Island for no apparent reason, and gave Lin Yuan the opportunity to lash out at chemical weapons.

Kodama Gentaro has long wanted to send reinforcements, but he doesn't know where to land the reinforcements. The most convenient Yangtze River has been captured by Lin Yuan, and he can no longer land. There are only two places available for landing, one is the coastline of Jiangsu Province, However, it is too close to Qingdao. After Lin Yuan occupied Qingdao, he used Qingdao as a naval base, and sent coastal patrol boats from the northeast to monitor the coastline of Jiangsu Province day and night. Basically, the Japanese army could not land here.

So they could only land in the Fujian area, but there was no suitable means of transportation after landing. Although the Japanese army had equipped cars on a small scale, they did not send them to China, and the railway workers went on strike again, so the Japanese army could only rely on horse-drawn carriages Walking to the Yangtze River with two legs, I don't know that the year of the monkey will make it to the battlefield.So Kodama Gentaro called back helplessly: "Reinforcements are arriving."

Xu Yingkui knew that it was impossible to rely on the Japanese, and now he could only rely on himself, so he urged the soldiers to strengthen the fortifications, deepen the trenches, lay mines, and almost hollowed out the south bank of the Huaihe River, vowing to prevent Lin Yuan's troops from crossing the Huaihe River.

At one o'clock in the morning on October [-], Xu Yingkui saw three yellow flares rising into the sky from the north bank of the Huaihe River, and the sound of "rumbling" main artillery tanks came from the river. Knowing that Lin Yuan's troops were about to cross the river, he immediately ordered The troops dispatched and entered the trenches. They had no long-range weapons, and the only artillery they had was blown up by the artillery of Lin Yuan's army. Therefore, they had no choice but to watch the tanks cross the river, hoping that the river would be destroyed. The minefields on the side can block these terrible steel monsters.

But the big guy who crossed the river first surprised them, because they had never seen a big guy like this before. Their main body was very similar to a main artillery tank, but there was a plow-like thing in the front, and everyone rushed Exclaimed: "What the hell is this thing?"