Jagged Warlord

After receiving a plate of gold from Li Mohan, Chen Shufan was overly polite, and he invited Li Mohan to bring his team to stay in Liquan.Li Mohan politely declined Chen Shufan's invitation, but only arranged some non-combatants into the city, and he brought his troops to station in the northwest corner of the county.

Chen Shufan immediately ordered his subordinate Yan Jipeng regiment to guard the moat, and Zeng Jixian's regiment set up a position in the northeast depression of the city, with its own brigade directly under the command of the troops in the city.

As a result, just halfway through the construction of the position, the sky was full of dust in the northeast direction, and then the sound of horseshoes rumbled.

"No, Bai Lang is here." Chen Shufan hurriedly hid in the city, and Chen Shufan's subordinates Yan Jipeng and Zeng Jixian also stopped the construction work and quickly set up the machine guns.Li Mohan's troops were in the northwest corner, it was a little late to receive the news, but they quickly set up machine guns.

The ones who came were indeed the vanguard of Bailang's army. They were all cavalry and surrounded Liquan from the northeast.As a result, Zeng Jixian's regiment, which was stationed in Wadao, fired with machine guns and had nowhere to hide. They suffered heavy casualties, and the battalion was in chaos.

"The opportunity is here~!" Chen Shufan immediately issued a charge, and the whole Shaanxi army took advantage of the victory to pursue fiercely.

Naturally, Li Mohan's troops couldn't lag behind. Li Mohan gave an order, and the resonant charge horn of the SS rang.

Tick ​​tock tock tock tock tock tock tock tock

All the SS soldiers put on their bayonets, raised their rifles, and jumped out of the trench to attack the Bai Lang army.The battle was fierce, with bayonets and bombs intersecting. The officers and soldiers of Bailang's army lost contact and could not resist. They retreated from Nanfang to Daiyupo. The battle only lasted for half a day before it came to an end.Most of the supplies of Bailang's army were lost, and many officers and soldiers were killed or injured. Most of the strong men who were dragged from Zhou and Hu counties ran home when the ranks were in disarray.

At this moment, Chen Shufan came out of the county in a big way. He found Li Mohan and praised him, "Brother Mohan, I never thought that your team is very effective in less than half a year."

Li Mohan also rewarded him with a certain high hat, saying: "Before, he had brought Bai Lang to life, but today when he met Brother Bai Sheng, he got a bump on his head. Bai Lang fell from the sky to the ground~~"

"Hahaha~ Brother Mohan~!" Chen Shufan was very pleased with this flattery, "Don't worry, your SS army has contributed a lot this time, I will report the truth to the Ministry of War, your brother will be indispensable for promotion and fortune. "

Li Mohan arched his hands and said with a smile: "It all depends on Brother Baisheng's good words!"

Seeing that the attack on Liquan was fruitless, Bai Lang turned his gun and captured Bin County. On the 14th, after Chen Shufan received the news that Bin County had fallen, he led his troops to Dayu Town, Bin County, and Li Mohan followed closely with his SS.The two sides then fought fiercely in the area of ​​Cuimu Town.In this battle, Chen Shufan's Shaanxi Army suffered more than 400 casualties, Li Mohan's SS Army suffered nearly 80 casualties, and Bai Lang's Army suffered more than 800 casualties.

This was quite a blow to Bai Lang.Because for the Western Expeditionary Army, it is difficult to replenish the consumption of personnel and ammunition every time, especially the soldiers.It is much more convenient for the Shaanxi Army to replenish soldiers, food and ammunition.Bai Lang had no choice but to turn around and go south, passing through Linyou County and Fengxiang County, and was chased by Zhao Ti's Department of Yi Army in Qianyang County, losing more than [-] people. Among them, the revolutionary Xu Ang and others were captured and executed by Zhao Ti.

Under the siege and interception attack of the Shaanxi army, the Bailang army could no longer stay too much in Shaanxi. Because the Shaanxi army deployed heavy troops in Lingtai County and blocked the entrance to Gansu, the Bailang army had to divert to the west and captured the Guguan, which entered Gansu on May 5.

After entering Gansu, Bai Lang's army faced even more severe conditions. Not only were government troops encircled and suppressed, but the local language and customs were completely different from those in Henan, and the troops were not used to it.

But when Bai Lang's army arrived in Tongwei County, they did a remarkable thing: after Bai Lang entered the county, he saw the dilapidated houses of the local primary school and the dilapidated students' books, so he said to his subordinates: "The city is as small as a bucket, and the people are poor and pitiful." , students can still be educated.” So someone gave 2000 taels of silver to the school to buy books and build school buildings.

Bai Lang led his army from the west of Tongwei, preparing to capture Maying first, and then Dingxi. He also posted notices along the way, calling on everyone to rise up and overthrow Yuan Shikai's rule.However, it is unknown how effective such a notice will be, but several armies sent by Yuan Shikai have already pursued them.Bai Lang could only command the troops and fight while retreating.

The first tough battle after joining Gan was in Tianshui.Tianshui was called Qinzhou in ancient times, and it was an important town in Longnan. On May 5, the two sides exchanged fire in Tianshui City, and Bai Lang commanded the army to attack Tianshui City immediately.After a day of hard work, Bai Lang's army finally captured Tianshui, but at the cost of hundreds of people including the deputy commander Li Hongbin being killed.Afterwards, when Bai Lang's army was playing victorious songs all the way in Kehui County, Wudu County, Min County and other counties, they did not expect to encounter setbacks in Lintan City.

Bai Lang led his army to the outskirts of Lintan, and clashed with the local ethnic minorities, and the two sides fought fiercely.In the end of this battle, Bai Lang's army lost more than a thousand men, many generals died in battle, and their vitality was seriously injured.

Due to low morale, Bai Lang could only shrink his troops to Min County and Lintan.Zhang Guangjian, the governor of Gansu Province, sensed the opportunity for war: the southwestern sides of the Min and Lin areas were high and difficult to climb, and as long as the northeastern and northeastern troops approached, the Bailang army would not be destroyed.Immediately, he ordered all Gan armies to encircle him from both sides of the northeast.

By June, the Gan armies from all walks of life basically arrived at the designated positions.Facing the encirclement and suppression by the Gan army and the resistance of the local armed forces, the Bailang army encountered the most serious predicament in history.

Bai Lang held a military meeting to discuss the next battle plan.

Bai Lang asked: "We are in a dilemma now, I want to hear everyone's opinions."

The people under his command rushed to suggest, and Xu Juren, a former veterinarian, said: "Qingduanjun Wang Zaiyi heard that he was in Ganzhou, so you can invite him here, make him king, and give him the reign title of Xuantong. It can win people's hearts."

What a bad idea!

Bai Lang shook his head and said: "When the Manchus were the emperor, whether he was benevolent or tyrannical, it had nothing to do with us, but he sat in his court and I drove my car. Now that they have fallen, we don't have to Use them as a front, why drag the emperor to call you brother-in-law, and climb high to succeed you."

A one-eyed man, nicknamed Bai Blind, was also one of Bai Lang's men, and he said loudly, "It's better to call yourself the emperor, even if you can't be Zhu Yuanzhang, you can also be Hong Xiuquan." Logically, it can't be done.Bai Lang's bandit-born subordinates all agreed, but the counselors all shook their heads.

another bad idea

Bai Lang himself didn't take it seriously and said: "My Bai family's grave doesn't have a huge vein, how dare I make such delusions. If I overstep it, I will lose my life and fortune."

At this time, Wu Shiren, a staff officer of the Revolutionary Party, offered a suggestion: "Why not take the Songpan Avenue to enter Shu?" Sichuan has been a natural danger since ancient times. Scholars, horses and commoners have to rest, recharge their energy and store up energy, and wait for the opportunity, why bother to travel so long?"

The proposal to march into Sichuan was unanimously approved by the revolutionaries, but the big and small bandit leaders present did not speak.

Yang Fangzhou, another adviser of the Revolutionary Party, also persuaded: "Return wealth and honor to the hometown, and the overlord of Western Chu will eventually kill himself." This means that returning to Henan without success is not the best policy.

Bai Lang agreed with this sentence, but the soldiers who watched the excitement outside the door were in an uproar, expressing their unwillingness to enter Shu.Bai Lang was in a dilemma, so he asked his most trusted Staff Officer Shen for his opinion.Staff Officer Shen looked at everyone and said, "I have no choice but to go back to Henan if I don't want to go."