Master Yuan, start!

"It's not that easy. We have the lesson of Xuzhou. Maybe the national defense rebels are planning to lure the enemy deep into our territory. If we go too far, there might be explosives buried in the soil somewhere. We just need to defend Huai'an. We don't want to fail, but we want to avoid failure."

"Xuzhou is different from what it is now. It was an isolated city. The forts near Huai'an were all there, forming a pincer attack. There would definitely not be explosives buried in the dirt at the city gate."

"Still be careful! Better safe than sorry, otherwise..."

While his subordinates were arguing in front of him, Li Guangjiu's face was ashen. He stared at the map of the Jianghuai defense line, thinking about something in his mind.

This veteran general of the Hunan Army had fought a street battle with Japanese infantry in Niuzhuang Yingkou during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. After a hard day's battle, he even killed Major Imada Yuichi, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 21st Regiment of the Japanese Army. He led the remnants of his troops to break out only after hearing the news of the disastrous defeat of other friendly forces outside the Great Wall.

It can be said that Li Guangjiu was the number one in street fighting in the late Qing Dynasty, a title that even the Japanese army had to acknowledge.

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Li Guangjiu knew very well that although he had more than 2 new Jiangnan troops on his books, in reality he only had five battalions of the old Hunan Army, with a total of 5 elite troops.

Most of these 5000 people were descendants of the Hunan Army that destroyed the Taiping Rebellion and the Nian Rebellion. They were brave and fierce in their daily lives, and they specifically targeted the bandits at the border between Hunan and Jiangxi to build up their courage.

With these 5000 people, he could sit in Huai'an Prefecture safely, and the National Defense Army would not dare to go around the city to the south. The more artillery shells they fired, the more correct they were.

“Beep, beep!”

"It's stopped again," the lieutenant general rushed in from outside the door, as usual: "Sir, the Wehrmacht has retreated after firing the artillery!"

“How many times have you withdrawn?”

"The 18rd time."

"Is this the 18th time? This time it's a bit early. You left at daybreak."

"Any news from the telegraph office?"

"Your Excellency, there is no news at the moment. Even if there is news, we have to wait for the urgent intelligence to arrive from eight hundred miles away and verify it with each other before making a decision."

In the first few times, in order to prevent any fraud, the Hunan Army did not send troops to attack, but later they found that the National Defense Army really ran away after firing the artillery, so they bravely left the city, chasing them while collecting battle information.

Now, Li Guangjiu walked up to the city wall, looked at the dense retreating national defense army, took the hat from the deputy general, and decided to go out of the city himself and kill them.

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The sound of artillery shells continued to ring out from the sky. Bai Lang held the musket tightly in both hands and squatted in the trench with a determined look on his face.

He was from Baofeng County, Ruzhou, Henan Province. His family had been tenant farmers for generations, and he was the only one in his generation, with no brothers or sisters.

In rural areas, a poor family means being bullied.

Bai Lang was often bullied by local landlords. More than ten years later in the original time and space, he was arrested and imprisoned for beating the landlord's manager. After he was released from prison, he took advantage of the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising and launched a vigorous peasant uprising in the Yellow River flood area of ​​Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan.

　Known in history as the "Bai Lang Uprising"

During the war to overthrow the Curtain in this time and space, Henan Governor Yu Chang was busy mobilizing troops to besiege Yuan Shikai's hometown. Later, seeing that the National Defense Army was powerful, he followed Cixi directly to Wuhan and had no time to take care of the situation in Henan.

Baofeng County in Ruzhou was affected by the riots, and the local landlords summoned farmers to defend the fence and claimed that as long as they took a hoe and climbed the wall, they would give them 5 taels of silver. Bai Lang gladly agreed.

But when the rioters retreated, Bai Lang went to ask for money, but what he got was not silver, but a beating.

Bai Lang was filled with hatred while recuperating at home. After he recovered, he decided to go all out. He burned down the landlord's granary in the dark, killed the housekeeper and the landlord in the chaos, and then disguised himself and ran to the Grand Canal port near Xuzhou overnight to work as a boat puller.

After working as a boat tracker for several years, Bai Lang had saved up some money and bought a small piece of idle land near Xuzhou. He was about to get married and have children, realizing the ultimate ambition of an old farmer in the 19th century.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The National Defense Army and the Hunan Army confronted each other in Xuzhou. In order to prevent the National Defense Army from moving south, Liu Kun ordered the Hunan Army to plunder money and food in the Huaibei area.

The new Hunan Army already had the habits of the old Hunan Army. The good matter of "borrowing grain" was completely turned into a blatant looting of farmers under the manipulation of the grassroots Hunan Army. Bai Lang was robbed again.

After these two disasters, Bai Lang gradually realized that if he wanted to farm, he couldn't just do it.

Having a few acres of land and a hoe in your hand cannot protect any food.

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So when the National Defense Forces arrived, he resolutely joined the army, vowing to use the gun in his hand to carve out a piece of land for himself.

But the reality was not what he thought.

"Boom, boom!"

The sound of cannons rang out again, and sand and dust fell. Bai Lang bent down cautiously and stood up, looking around. Only then did he realize that the friendly troops he had just seen had disappeared without a trace!

It was not until the melodious sound of a horn came from behind that Bai Lang realized that he had missed the best opportunity to retreat because of his distraction.

"It's over, it's over, it's over."

Bai Lang's hand, tightly gripping the spear, trembled slightly as he felt the vibrations coming from the earth.

The Hunan Army went out of the city to raid again!

Bai Lang stretched out his forehead and looked at the thousands of cavalrymen galloping towards him in the distance in the south. His heart was as calm as death.

"At this rate, I'm afraid I'll be dragged out of the trench with a gun and trampled into a puddle of mud in no time."

"I never thought that I, Bai Lang, who had done good deeds all my life, would end up with a mutilated body."

However, at this moment, Bai Lang seemed to see a thin red line coming at a faster speed from behind the Hunan Army.

Just when he was confused, behind Bai Lang, the National Defense Army cavalry in blue uniforms appeared on the battlefield at some point, trampling on the ground and charging at the Hunan Army.

One blue and one red, one north and one south, looking from the sky, they formed two thin silk threads, which surrounded the earth-gray Hunan Army in the middle with lightning speed.

"Who the hell is behind this?!"

"Sir, we've fallen into a trap!"

Li Guangjiu was furious when he saw the red-clad soldiers behind him. He didn't understand why an unidentified enemy army appeared on the land that should have been behind him.

"Where are the Baoying and Gaoyou defenders? How could they allow so many cavalrymen to come from the south? Are they all going to die?"

The Jianghuai Defense Line starts from Huai'an and goes all the way south. Huai'an, Baoying, Gaoyou and Yangzhou are respectively stationed with Hunan troops of varying sizes.

But when he saw the red-clad enemy troops coming from the south, the right army in the south had no warning at all. Li Guangjiu cursed in his heart and fled into the city in a hurry.

"Baoying City is broken, Gaoyou City is broken!"

"General Huai'an, do not resist the national defense soldiers, surrender immediately!"

In the thin red line of the British cavalry regiment, Gong Baotian rode his horse and shouted beside Churchill. The words he shouted made Li Guangjiu's eyes widen.

"what?"

"Gaoyou and Baoying City were destroyed?"

"This must...must be fake...fake."

Beside Li Guangjiu, several Hunan Army defenders looked panicked and did not dare to believe Gong Baotian's call.

No one would believe this news. Although Baoying and Gaoyou are only small cities, they have thousands of defenders in total. How could they be breached out of the blue?

Won’t Yangzhou support? Won’t Jiangning support?

"Sir, sir, there is news from the telegraph office, I don't know whether it is true or false!" After approaching Huai'an City, a burst of anxious shouts came from the city wall.

"Speak, speak quickly!"

Li Guangjiu pulled the reins tightly and didn't care whether it was true or false. No matter whether it was true or false, it was better than being confused and knowing nothing.

When Li Guangjiu heard that two warships of the Jiangnan Navy harassed a merchant caravan in Weihaiwei and were sunk by the Beiyang Fleet, and that the Beiyang Fleet then pursued the remaining Jiangnan Navy relentlessly, chased them to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and went upstream, bombarding Yangzhou City under the cover of British ships, he was very disappointed.

And when he heard that the defenders of Baoying and Gaoyou were annihilated near Gaoyou Lake by the Red British cavalry and Wehrmacht cavalry who landed from nowhere on their way to support Yangzhou, his legs, which had been clamped tightly around the horse's belly, relaxed.

No wonder I had never seen this red cavalryman before, it turned out he was British;

No wonder Baoying and Gaoyou were both destroyed. It turned out that the defending generals, Shuosuo and Shanwu, thought they were in the rear and sent their main forces to support them.

No wonder the British were able to come from the south without anyone noticing. There were only remnants of soldiers left in Baoying and Gaoyou. How could they defend them?

The Jianghuai defense line is over!

Li Guangjiu knew that even if there were still tens of thousands of troops in Lu'an, Fengyang and other places in Anhui, the Jianghuai defense line was completely finished.

Yangzhou was besieged, and the military food supply line through the Grand Canal-Huaihe River was cut off. The Anhui Hunan Army did not want to become a predatory Nian group, so they had to return to the Yangtze River.

Who would have thought that the British would actually take action themselves!

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Bai Lang was the first to rush into Huai'an City as an infantryman, even faster than some Wehrmacht cavalry. However, he was not very interested in his own cavalry and kept looking at the British troops in red.

That thin red line left an indelible impression in his mind.

Before the gates of Huai'an City could be closed, they were attacked by the National Defense Army and British cavalry who were following closely.

Without any decent battle to defend the city, the city of Huai'an changed hands.

The news that the friendly city had been captured was so horrifying that Li Guangjiu had no intention of resisting and could only watch the chaos in the city.

Soon, Sheng Fei took the lead and entered Huai'an City.

He looked at the Hunan soldiers squatting at the base of the city wall and clearly noticed the resentment in their eyes.

Yes, they voted without thinking, without even swinging their swords. In the past, they all laughed at the Green Camp for "fleeing at the sight of the wind is the highest form of courage."

I didn't expect that when it was my turn, I was imprisoned without even being able to escape.

No matter who you ask, no one will be convinced.

Sheng Fei understood that the fall of Huainan City was not caused by war.

It can even be said that the National Defense Army's battles in these battles were too accidental and were far less realistic than the War to Overthrow the Curtain. The troops of several towns led by him did not go through a serious and bloody battle.

But it doesn't matter. Sheng Fei doesn't have mental mysophobia. He remembers that the chief instructor often quoted a saying of Sun Tzu during meetings.

"The first is to attack the enemy, then the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the third is to attack the city."

Being able to defeat the enemy without fighting is great news for the National Defense Forces.

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What's more, who said that the National Defense Army did not fight bloody battles? Feng Guozhang had long ago led his army south on cargo ships, replenished supplies along the coastline, carried out harassment warfare behind enemy lines with the British, and captured the two small cities of Baoying and Gaoyou.

We are all members of the National Defense Force. If he hits me, it is the same as if I hit him.

Besides, if you think about it, the Beiyang Fleet also belongs to the National Defense Force. Does sinking two enemy ships count as a bloody battle?

Thinking of this, the last trace of guilt in Sheng Fei's heart disappeared. He ordered the army to cook and rest for a night before heading west along the Huai River to intercept the Hunan Army stationed in Anhui as much as possible.

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On March 1895, 2, more than 4 cavalrymen from the 2000th Brigade of the nd Regiment of the National Defense Army broke into Wuhe.