Jagged Warlord

Duan Qirui was furious and scolded: "Fucking Feng Yuxiang, a teacher sold himself." Duan Qirui completely forgot that he was just buying Feng Yuxiang with the position of a mixed brigade commander.

Xu Shuzheng said: "The first priority right now is to attack the capital with all our strength and end the war before Li Yuanhong takes actions to further divide us. In addition, Li Yuanhong can set fire to our backyard, and we can also turn on lights in his lair."

Duan Qirui thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's right, Hua Fu and the others can attack Shangqiu and Xuzhou in the south, and let them take over Li Mohan's lair, so the tenth battalion of SS troops in the capital will definitely be in a mess, and they will be defeated without a fight. "

But Xu Shuzheng and Duan Qirui's thoughts were a bit wishful thinking. Firstly, Tang Jiyao, the former protector of the south, supported Li Yuanhong on the surface. Later, he saw that Duan Qirui had nothing to do with Li Yuanhong and Li Mohan. I made up my mind to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.After Li Mohan declared Duan Qirui and others to be public enemies of the nation, these southwestern power factions regarded this as a good opportunity to go north to attack the foreign faction and expand their territory by the way, and dispatched troops one by one to go north actively.This made the Beiyang generals in Jiangxi, Hunan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang feel like thorns on their backs, having trouble sleeping and eating. How could they even think about going north to help Duan Qirui?

The second is that Feng Guozhang now has the selfish desire to establish his own family, and he also regards himself as the heir of Beiyang after Yuan Shikai, so naturally he will not be willing to be subordinate to Duan Qirui.Feng Guozhang also advocated Beiyang unity, but driven by this kind of selfishness, Feng Guozhang believed that the way of Beiyang unity was the failure of Duan Qirui, and then he came forward to take in this former brother himself.Since Feng Guozhang thinks this is a good way to unite Beiyang, Feng Guozhang is willing to see Duan Qirui fail in a sense.

So Duan Qirui's telegram was quickly sent to Nanjing, and Feng Guozhang also responded quickly, but Feng Guozhang's army stopped when it arrived at the Huaihe River.

During this period, Duan Qirui did not give up his efforts to instigate rebellion. He sent people with a lot of money to bribe Wu Changzhi and Tian Hopeful who were stationed on the Langfang flank, hoping that they would sneak attack the SS Wuwei State Department stationed at Langfang Railway Station overnight.

Wu Changzhi and Tian Wangwang were not staunch Lebanese supporters in the first place, so under Duan Qirui's heavy bribe, they turned their backs again and attacked the Wuwei State Camp in Langfang in the middle of the night.Fortunately, Wu Weiguo had sent people to spy on Wu and Tian long ago. As soon as Duan Qirui's secret envoy entered Wu Changzhi and Tian Wangwang's barracks, the spies immediately reported to Wu Weiguo.

On the one hand, Wu Weiguo ordered the troops to prepare to retreat, and on the other hand, he called Li Mohan in Beijing for instructions.At this time, the SS has already equipped some wireless telephones. Although a base station is needed to switch when the distance exceeds three kilometers, it is much more convenient than wired telephones.This invention is due to Nikola Tesla, who was experimenting in the United States.

Li Mohan agreed to Wu Weiguo's retreat, and at the same time attracted Shen Liankai who had not participated in the battle.

"Lian Kai, can your chariot battalion fight?" Li Mohan asked directly

Shen Liankai patted his chest and replied: "Of course, ours is an armored chariot, not an ox cart pulling dung."

"That's good." Li Mohan said: "The battle in Langfang is not going well, and the battle line is likely to advance to the Daxing Town area."

Shen Liankai looked at the area and said with a smile: "The terrain around Daxing Town is open and flat, which happens to be the place where our chariot troops show their talents. In addition, I heard that we also brought cannons to Beijing this time?"

"Yes." Li Mohan replied: "Although the troops I lead this time are all organized at the battalion level, there is indeed a complete artillery battalion. Before your tank troops set off, I will let them saturate Shelling, open the way for you."

"Chairman, on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of the Chariot Battalion, I assure you that we must crush all the stones that stand in the way of revitalizing the country and rejuvenating the nation." Shen Liankai raised his right hand: "Long live the National Party."

At this time, Li Mohan stationed a battalion of troops in Tongzhou, Changxindian, Fengtai, and Nanyuan each, and sent a battalion of reinforcements in the direction of Gaobeidian.Except for the troops guarding the capital, the only troops that could be mobilized were the Artillery Battalion, the Chariot Battalion, the Wuwei State Battalion, and Feng Yuxiang, who had just come here and didn't know if he could trust him.

Li Mohan ordered Feng Yuxiang to attack Duan Qirui's troops immediately in the name of the army chief.Of course Feng Yuxiang was not stupid. He had just changed schools, and he heard the news that Wu Changzhi and Tian were expected to defect.

Duan Qirui was very happy after finding out the news that Feng Yuxiang's troops were standing still, but in his heart he wanted to go back and deal with this capricious guy.At the same time, I also heard that Li Mohan spread out his troops when he was short of troops. He immediately laughed and said: "This kid really doesn't know how to use troops. There are only a few thousand people, and he divides his troops so scattered."

Therefore, Duan Qirui ordered Li Changtai, Tian Wangwang, and Wu Changzhi to pass through Langfang together, advance along the railway line, and entered the chariot that Li Mohan had reserved—the area of ​​Daxing Town.

On the front line of Daxing Town, the pilots of Nanyuan Aviation School did not know the specific situation of the battle, but just followed the order to drop bombs on the so-called enemy positions.

When the first round of planes came to bomb, many soldiers of the Beiyang Army had never seen planes, so they panicked.Xu Shuzheng thought of a way, he said to the soldiers: "Are there more birds in the sky or are there more planes in the sky?"

The soldiers thought for a while and replied, "There are many birds."

Xu Shuzheng asked again: "Then did the birds shit on your heads?"

The soldiers thought for a while and replied, "That's not enough."

Xu Shuzheng said, "So many birds shit didn't hit you, but with just a few planes, can you throw bombs at you?"

It made sense for the soldiers to think about it. Therefore, during the second round of bombing, the soldiers of the Beiyang Army became more courageous. Instead of evading, they crawled out of the trenches to watch the western scenery.As you can imagine, the Beiyang Army was killed and injured hundreds of people.As a result, the soldiers no longer believed Xu Shuzheng's nonsense.

After finally surviving the bombing by planes, many Beiyang soldiers quietly hid behind the trenches with their eyes wide open and watched the movement in the distance. Beads of sweat were oozing out, and in addition to wearing long-sleeved military uniforms, the soldiers were already sweating profusely.Although the weather in September can't be called vicious, it is still uncomfortable, and the current tension of the enemy has exacerbated this discomfort.

It was Li Changtai's Eighth Division who was in charge of the frontal attack. After Tao Yunhe's defection and Tian Jinzhang's death, Li Changtai was determined to recover the matter from the SS.But according to the report of the soldiers who escaped, the SS had a lot of machine guns, and it was also equipped with a kind of artillery with a short range but a fast firing speed.Therefore, Li Changtai decided to bombard the SS positions with artillery first.

When it comes to modern Chinese artillery, Duan Qirui has to mention it. In 1885, Li Hongzhang, a representative of the Westernization School of the Qing Dynasty, founded the Beiyang Armed Forces Academy. Duan Qirui was admitted to the first batch of preliminary students of the Armed Forces Academy with excellent results, and was assigned to the Artillery Division. In 1887, Duan Qirui graduated from the Artillery Department of Tianjin Armed Forces Academy with a "top grade" grade. In the winter of 1888, Duan Qirui was allowed to study in Germany with four other students with a No.1 grade. In the spring of 1889, he went to Germany and entered the Berlin Military Academy with an official fee. He studied artillery for one and a half years, and then stayed alone in the Krupp Arsenal in Essen for half a year as an intern.When Yuan Shikai was training troops at the small station, Duan Qirui became the commander of the artillery battalion and the supervisor of the artillery school, thus becoming the first artillery commander in Chinese history.

The Eighth Division of the Beiyang Army is equipped with an artillery regiment, with a total of 75 18mm Krupp mountain guns. Although the caliber is small, the 18 guns in the unit fire together, and the movement is very loud.But the artillery shells of the Beiyang Army were more expensive than the bullets in their hands, so such artillery preparations did not last long.

Seeing that Beiyang's artillery fire stopped, the SS's artillery reconnaissance immediately passed the news to the artillery battalion headquarters, and the battalion commander Qin Zha immediately ordered the artillery to fire.Unlike the 75mm mountain artillery equipped by the Beiyang Army, the SS Artillery Battalion is equipped with many large-caliber artillery with a caliber of more than 100mm, and even 120mm mortars that are only equipped at the regiment level.

Immediately, the large-caliber artillery of the SS, like a big hand, kept beating the positions and bunkers of the Beiyang Army.In the trenches of the Beiyang Army, fragments of broken machine guns and cannons were everywhere, mixed with the corpses of soldiers of the Beiyang Army and mud, almost filling the trenches.

"Master, the enemy's artillery fire is too fierce. More than half of our troops have been killed or injured. We ask for reinforcements, ask for reinforcements!" The first to be attacked was the No. 30 Infantry Regiment of the Eighth Division in the middle of the Beiyang Army's defense line, and the command post of the 31st Regiment. , Sun Zhenkai, head of the 30st Regiment of Infantry No. [-], kept shouting while holding the phone.The command post, which was temporarily built with logs, made harsh rattling noises under the impact of the shell shock wave, and soil and gravel continued to fall from the gaps in the logs, accumulating a thick layer of loess on his big cap.

The order from the other end of the phone is still "Reinforcements are on the way, you must stick to them!"

"Guard? What are we going to do!" Sun Zhenkai cried

"Use your life to guard, the regiment commander is dead and the battalion commander is dead, the battalion commander is dead and the company commander is here!"

"..." Sun Zhenkai sat slumped on the saddle, his face ashen.

On the SS position in the distance, more than a dozen armored combat vehicles are ready to go, and the rumbling sound of the engine is so loud that people's ears hurt.Shen Liankai, who exposed half of his body on the chariot, looked at the pocket watch in his hand. It had been almost 10 minutes to prepare for artillery fire. Looking through the binoculars, the temporary fortification bunkers built by the Beiyang Army with earth and wood had long since disappeared. The soil has been turned over.