Seeing such strong opposition from the representatives of the public concession, and the Hualan army waiting in full force, the Gauls are still reasonable.Major Henry withdrew his troops back to the French Concession under the pretext of asking for instructions from the Minister, finally saving the face of the French army.Then Zhu Daizhen immediately ordered part of the factory protection team to form five security regiments to cooperate with the independent third brigade and third regiment to block the two major concessions.Sandbag barricades were set up in each adjacent block, and the whole army looked like they were facing a big enemy.

Zhu Daizhen's actions shocked the ministers of various countries in the concession, and they protested against the hostile behavior of the Shu army, while Zhu Daizhen refused to withdraw the line of defense on the grounds of preventing mobs from entering the concession to cause trouble.Two days later, he didn't see his own army coming back, and the Minister of the Wa Kingdom felt that something was unusual.He immediately went to the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and asked to ask Hualan about the movements of his own army.

The excuse of the Japanese people is quite idiotic. They even said that the army disappeared during the night march training, and hoped that the Chinese side would help them to facilitate the investigation.Zhu Daizhen was even more ruthless. He had already thrown the bodies of those Japanese people into the Huangpu River to feed the fish. After being asked by the Japanese side, he simply asked questions.He claimed that there were scuffles everywhere in the city that night, and he didn't know where the Japanese army was.Then Zhu Daizhen asked the Minister of the Wa State why the garrison of the Wa State Concession ran outside the concession.

The Japanese were sneaky and wanted to gain benefits, but when Zhu Daizhen asked him such a question, he was speechless, stuttering for a long time and couldn't find a reason.Zhu Daizhen had thought about it a long time ago. After all, the Japanese army had left the concession, and the battle was fierce that night.

Since the Japanese people dare not say that they were dispatched during the day, they disappeared at night instead.Even if it is found out that the Shu army did it, he can still give him a flat denial on the grounds that he cannot see the style of the military uniform clearly in the dark.Anyway, the Japanese army was wiped out outside the concession, which is not protected by various treaties.

Regarding this matter, the Wa people knew they were wrong, and the Baiying people of the Ministry of Industry Bureau were overtly and secretly supporting the Hualan people, so the Wa country minister had no choice but to let this matter go.Kishi Shinsaburo and his brigade, who never came back, became the only case of the Japanese army disappearing in peacetime.

After Zhu Daizhen took full control of Guanghai City, Yu Qiaqing, Qin Zhongyi and others came forward to form a temporary government agency, responsible for the control of the entire surrounding areas of Guanghai City.Zhang Yi even transferred [-] policemen from the Zhongchuan Police Station to Guanghai City to be responsible for the security of the Guanghai City area.Due to the initial testing, the ministers of various countries knew that the Shu army occupying Guanghai City was not easy to mess with.They all shrank back and stopped causing trouble everywhere, and even the vigorous cross-border road construction was stopped indefinitely.

After using leapfrog tactics to attack from Zhongchuan for a long distance, and controlled several key points along the river, as well as the entire Guanghai City, Zhu Daizhen felt deeply that his troops were insufficient.He decided to hand over the security of the entire Guanghai City to Zhou Jianping, who was in charge of the five security regiments.

Zhou Jianping was also clever enough. He then made a list to relieve the people, claiming that the businessmen who joined the armed business group were coerced by Chen Qimei, and that attacking revolutionary comrades was not his intention.Therefore, the Dashu Military Government is extra merciful. As long as they can return to Guanghai City and continue to operate their own industries, the Dashu Military Government will not blame the past.

Zhou Jianping's thoughts were indeed vicious, and soon many businessmen who were originally coerced by Chen Qimei secretly left the brigade with their own troops and returned to Guanghai City to continue to be law-abiding and good citizens.This tactic has made the momentum of the two revolutionary parties much weaker out of thin air.Whether it was the side attacking Nandu or Chen Qimei attacking Hangzhou, they both took a lot of effort.

In order to expand the territory and try to improve the strategic environment around Guanghai City, Zhu Daizhen ordered the independent third brigade and third regiment to attack north.The regiments of the Independent [-]st Brigade were attacking west and south separately, and he wanted to create a large buffer zone to ensure the safety of Guanghai City.At the same time, try to be as one with the independent second brigade near Zhenjiang, so as to ensure your own combat effectiveness to the greatest extent.

Chapter 4 and Five

While Zhu Daizhen led the team down the river, attacking the city and occupying Guanghai City all the way, Wu Ziyu was leading two infantry divisions and one artillery division under his command, under the cover of three independent brigades, along the Lanyi Railway Simultaneously launched an attack on the Western Regions and Northern Xinjiang.

On the third day after the establishment of the Dashu Military Government, Wu Ziyu, who had already served in Xining, began his combat operations.Because the northern border area is vast and close to the Luocha Kingdom, it is a very dangerous border area, so Wu Ziyu personally led two infantry divisions and one regiment of the artillery division of the Shu Army, relying on the convenient transportation conditions of the Lani-Yi Railway, quickly Advance towards Dihua.

Before the Jiangxia Uprising, Zhao Shouhong had already carried out a lot of preparatory work in these areas. It was not only Zhang Jiexian and others who used the relationship of the Gelaohui to infiltrate the northern Xinjiang, Western Regions and plateau provinces.Ma Fuxiang also took advantage of his identity as a Yi nationality to build a lot of connections among Yi people in various provinces.

Back then, Zhao Shouhong sent Liu Xiang to lead a team to the northern Xinjiang for earthquake relief. Many soldiers even died because they worked tirelessly to rescue the wounded and dig the ruins. These deeds have always been widely circulated in northern Xinjiang.These deeds laid a solid mass foundation for the Shu army and indirectly helped Wu Ziyu a lot.When the Zhongchuan army arrived this time, it was heard that it was the army that fought the earthquake and disaster relief back then, and people from all over the country lined up to welcome it.

With the rapidity of train transportation, before Yuan Dahua, the governor of northern Xinjiang, could react, the army had already approached the city of Dihua.Yuan Dahua panicked and quickly asked Wang Peilan to discuss countermeasures.Wang Peilan is the coordinator of the Army's 35th Mixed Combination Association. His subordinates control Dihua's defense. He also feels very troublesome about the Zhongchuan army's pressure.

Not long after Jiangxia's uprising, the court's attention was all in the direction of Hanxia. At this time, Zhongchuan suddenly sent troops to the northern border, which made them somewhat overwhelmed.If you want to ask the Qing court for instructions, the telegraph line along the way from northern Xinjiang to the Western Regions has long been cut off by the Shu army, and it is impossible to communicate at all.They wanted to resist, but they didn't have enough strength, so the two of them couldn't decide to pay attention.

Yuan Dahua and Wang Peilan hesitated, but Wu Ziyu did not hesitate.Arriving outside the city of Dihua, the army quickly dismounted and formed formation. Xu Xiaogang, the commander of the Artillery Division, personally calibrated the guns and placed twelve [-]mm howitzers produced by the Western Sichuan Arsenal under the city of Dihua.

The Shu army immediately sent an ultimatum to the city, asking them to surrender immediately, otherwise the Shu army would launch a full-scale attack.Yuan Dahua is a person who is very loyal to the imperial court. When he heard that the Shu army came to attack him, the first thing he thought of was death festival.Therefore, Yuan Dahua ordered Wang Peilan to mobilize manpower and deploy a tight defense around the city wall, intending to resist to the end.

The envoy persuading surrender was dismissed, and Xu Xiaogang had no scruples.Although this time he came to northern Xinjiang, his artillery division only came with one artillery regiment, but this artillery regiment was the only heavy artillery regiment in the entire artillery division, and his power was enough to make any enemy tremble.

After the persuasion failed, Xu Xiaogang immediately ordered the artillery to fire into the city.In order to avoid harming the people, the range of the artillery's attack was strictly limited to the vicinity of the city wall, where there were many defensive officers and soldiers of the No.30 Five-Mixed Association.

Yuan Dahua and Wang Peilan were discussing countermeasures in the governor's yamen when they suddenly heard bursts of muffled thunder outside the city. They thought it was a common dry land mine in northern Xinjiang so they didn't care, but they soon realized something was wrong.After the thunder, there was a sudden dense screaming sound in the sky, and then countless [-]mm caliber shells fell from the sky, accurately landing on the city wall.

Yuan Dahua only felt the ground under his feet suddenly shake, and he almost fell to the ground because he couldn't sit still.Huge explosions rang out one after another inside and outside the city wall, and the air waves from the explosion knocked all the roofs within a hundred meters away. The officers and soldiers of the 35 Mixed Association had never seen such a formation before. They panicked immediately. Some began to look for cover to avoid, and most of them simply lay on the ground.

After 10 minutes, the continuous shelling gradually stopped, and the surviving officers and soldiers slowly walked out of the shelter, wanting to check the situation.But they found that none of the soldiers lying on the ground got up.A young man named Mu Ga walked up to his good friend and wanted to tease him: "Hey Hay, get up quickly. The cannons stopped long ago. Are you deaf and unable to hear?" He smiled deliberately I kicked my partner, but the other party still didn't move.

Mu Ga squatted down to check his companion carefully. He felt that there was no wound on his companion's body, and there was no external injury at all except for a lot of soil.He thought that his companion was joking with him, so he smiled and pushed his companion, but this turned him over.Hai lying on the ground was turned over, and Mu Ga was surprised to find that his good friend was bleeding from seven orifices, and he was already dead.

Frantically, he turned over all the comrades lying on the ground, and found that each of them died in the same manner.The surviving officers and soldiers of the 35th Mixed Combination Association were completely crazy. They didn't know what kind of magic these comrades had been under, and why they had bled to death without any wounds on their bodies.

In fact, these people don't know that under the continuous attack of large-caliber shells, people cannot lie on the ground.The transmission speed of the earth to the shock wave is very fast, and the loss is also very small.If a person puts his fragile abdomen against the ground, the strong shock wave generated by the explosion of the shell will be transmitted, shattering all the internal organs of the person, which is why all the seven orifices of the dead are bleeding.

The soldiers of the Mixed Association who did not have this knowledge did not know how they escaped by luck. They, who believed in Islam, finally attributed this strange phenomenon to the punishment of heaven.As a result, the morale of the Huncheng Association plummeted, and many soldiers fled one after another, leaving behind panic.After a round of shelling by the Shu army, the entire Dihua city had actually lost its combat effectiveness.

After being bombarded once, Wang Peilan went to the city immediately. He wanted to lead his troops to stand firm and wait for possible infantry attacks from the opponent.But when Wang Peilan reached the city wall, he found that the ground was covered with dead soldiers, and there were very few standing soldiers left.

Seeing the Shu army lined up outside the city, Wang Peilan lost his courage first. He said something indiscriminately to the officers and soldiers, and immediately turned and fled.Wang Peilan was quite a friend. Before he fled, he passed by the governor's yamen and brought Yuan Dahua with him.The two hurriedly opened the west gate of Dihua, and fled along the railway line to Yili, where there was another armed force in northern Xinjiang, the Yili Mixed Association.

Unexpectedly, a bombardment would solve the problem. The Shu army immediately entered the city to calm the people, and then the army centered on Dihua and quickly expanded around to control and occupy the surrounding areas.It is said that the army that fought the earthquake and disaster relief had returned, and the people of all ethnic groups turned their backs one after another, and many local soldiers also chose to surrender, which made the work of taking over northern Xinjiang extremely smooth.

Chapter 4 and Six: An Unexpected Enemy

Zhao Shouhong's one-thought benevolence back then has now achieved fruitful results. After leaving two regiments to consolidate the place, Wu Ziyu led the troops to continue the pursuit. Their goal was Ili, the end of the railway.

At this time, Yili was already in chaos, and Yuan Dahua was terrified by the tragedy of Dihua. After arriving in Yili, he immediately rectified his military equipment, hoping to block the attack of the Shu army.Yang Zengxin, who was known as a good fighter, was appointed as the criminal inspector, responsible for the overall armament work of Ili.Under his command are the remnants of the 35th Association of the Army that restrained Yang Peilan, and the Yang Zanxu Department of the Yili Mixed Association, with barely enough troops.

In addition, in order to increase the garrison force, Yang Zengxin recruited five battalions of cavalry from the local herdsmen after gaining the support of Yuan Dahua, thinking that the mobile force would prevent the advance of the Shu army.

When Yili was about to stop, Wu Ziyu's army had already reached a distance of about ten miles outside Yili City.Seeing Yili as a tiny place, Wu Ziyu didn't despise it in the slightest.He knew that as a commander, any act of underestimating the enemy would be suicide, not to mention that the enemy in front of him was not very weak.

Hearing that the Shu army had arrived, Yang Zengxin immediately sent a large army to confront it to prevent his own army from being trapped in the city and unable to attack.The combat power of the Northern Xinjiang Mixed Association is not weak. Although they don't have any good weapons, their combat power is not low.A regiment of the Shu army launched three consecutive attacks, but they did not retreat a line of defense.

When the battle was most intense, Wu Ziyu only dispatched an infantry regiment to attack, while the heavy artillery regiment of the artillery division was hidden and did not fire back.Because he had a faint feeling in his heart that he seemed to have missed something.Sure enough, when the battle between the two sides was fierce, a large cloud of smoke and dust rose from the wasteland to the west of Yili City.

"What's that?" Wu Ziyu was startled. He picked up the binoculars to watch, but the scene in front of him was covered in dust, so he couldn't see what it was.

The cloud of smoke and dust was getting closer and closer, and Wu Ziyu gradually saw what was coming.The black cloak flashed past, and accompanied by the sound of horseshoes, a sharp saber gradually appeared in people's field of vision. It was the most famous Cossack cavalry in the Raksha Kingdom.

Before Wu Ziyu could give an order, Ma Hongkui, the eldest son of Ma Fuxiang who came with the army, pulled out his saber and yelled at the large group of Qingyuan cavalry he brought: "Brothers, it's up to us now, kill all these old men."

The Qingyuan cavalrymen shouted one after another, they drew out their sabers in unison, and under the leadership of Ma Hongkui, they fought back against the Cossack cavalry.There were a large number of Cossack cavalry, at least [-]. Once such a large number of cavalry attacked the infantry, the Shu army would suffer heavy losses, so Ma Hongkui took the initiative to attack without waiting for orders.At this time, he only had one belief in his heart, to try to hold back the Cossack cavalry's attacking pace and buy time for the infantry to adjust their formation.

At this time, the high quality of the officers and soldiers of the Shu army was displayed. Seeing the Qingyuan cavalry bravely greeted them, Xu Xiaogang immediately ordered loudly: "All heavy artillery should be adjusted to the left by 25 degrees, the elevation angle is [-] degrees, and the scale is [-] degrees. Replace all with shrapnel, and fire three rapid-fire rounds."

Xu Xiaogang is worthy of being an artilleryman who was born in the Japanese army. He calculated the angle and distance of the Cossack cavalry in a very short period of time, and ordered the heavy artillery to fire at the same time.The artillerymen usually practice emergency situations, and it took them only one minute to turn the heavy artillery around.Two of the artillerymen cooperated with each other and quickly adjusted the scale and elevation angle. One artilleryman pushed the shell into the barrel and locked the bolt.

With the sound of booming cannons suddenly sounded, the dense shells drew a beautiful arc and attacked the Cossacks.The artillery used by the Shu Army this time was not traditional artillery shells, but shrapnel developed by the Western Sichuan Arsenal on the basis of traditional artillery shells.This shell has a precise air-burst fuze, which can explode at a distance of three meters from the ground.The few explosives are not used to kill the enemy. It will scatter the steel balls wrapped around the periphery and the broken shrapnel in all directions to achieve the effect of kinetic energy killing.

The shells of the [-]mm heavy artillery were very powerful. These shrapnel shells exploded over the Cossack cavalry, and now the Cossacks were in bad luck.Shrapnel bullets are extremely powerful against unarmored soft targets, and every air-exploded shrapnel bullet will cause a big hole in the Cossack team.At the bottom of the big pit, wounded with severed limbs, dead bodies, and crippled horses were piled up here and there, like hell on earth.

The Cossack cavalry is worthy of the world famous cavalry, their will is as hard as steel.After a large number of comrades were killed, the Cossack cavalry seemed not to see it. They still whistled and waved their sabers, vigorously urging their horses.

After three quick shots, the artillerymen dared not fire anymore. The distance between the Qingyuan cavalry and the Cossack cavalry was already very close. If they continued to fire, it would be easy to hit their own people. Now everything can only be relied on by the Qingyuan cavalry. up.

The Qingyuan cavalry at the forefront leveled up their rifles one after another, firing intensively at the Cossack cavalry.Although the shooting accuracy was not high due to the bumps on the horse, they were more or less effective in the face of this group of charging Cossack cavalry.These soldiers who had fired a shot quickly inserted their rifles into their pouches, then pulled out their sabers with their backhands, and rushed towards the Cossack cavalry.

The cavalry brigades on both sides were like two high-speed trains running towards each other. They collided suddenly, causing waves of waves.As soon as they fought, the Cossack cavalry suffered a small loss. They never expected that the Qingyuan cavalry was not only as skilled in horsemanship as they were, but also had extremely sharp sabers in their hands.

The titanium steel saber specially designed by Zhao Shouhong for the cavalry is much sharper and stronger than the medium carbon front steel saber of the Cossack cavalry.Hundreds of Cossack sabers were destroyed as soon as the battle was fought, and many people were cut off their horses because they were caught off guard.

After all, the Qingyuan cavalry with only one regiment was at a disadvantage in number. After the initial chaos, the Cossack cavalry quickly regained the situation due to their large numbers.The Qingyuan cavalry was surrounded in the middle, their situation was precarious, and someone fell off every second.However, no one will bow their heads to help their companions, because if they do that on the battlefield, they will soon follow in the footsteps of their companions.All the cavalry were gritting their teeth and persevering, knowing that they had to hold off the Cossacks and buy time for the infantry to get ready for battle.

Chapter 4 Cavalry Showdown

Ma Hongkui's robe was blood-stained. He swung a saber and slashed left and right, resisting the attack of many Cossack cavalry.With his own small guard platoon, he actually formed a triangular assault formation, charging back and forth in the Cossack ranks, greatly restraining the opponent's strength.At this moment, Ma Hongkui knew that only by mobilizing his own cavalry to form enough impact can he best preserve himself.

Ma Hongkui, who has rich experience in cavalry combat, organized the men he could find into a wedge formation, and he himself served as the most dangerous arrow part.Then he led this small force to rush towards the most densely populated place of the Cossacks, and rescue the fragmented Qingyuan cavalry team that had been divided.

Gradually, many people gathered around Ma Hongkui, and the wedge formed by them became bigger and bigger, and their impact became stronger and stronger.With a click, Ma Hongkui chopped off a Cossack officer's horse's head with his powerful chopping, leaving indelible scars on his face.The Cossack officer screamed, threw away the half-broken saber, and instinctively covered his face with both hands, but was directly hacked to death by the following Qingyuan cavalry.

Relying on his equipment advantages and his good horse control ability, Ma Hongkui was like no one in the Cossack cavalry.However, the number of Qingyuan cavalry is only one regiment, which is equivalent to one-fifth of the Cossacks.In the heavy siege, the Qingyuan cavalry were constantly cut off from their horses, and the casualties soon exceeded half.

"Regimental Commander, the infantry seems to be ready." The guards around Ma Hongkui tried their best to push aside the Cossack's saber, and glanced back in a leisurely way.Seeing that the infantry group seemed to have changed their line of defense, facing the formation of the cavalry group, he immediately reported to Ma Hongkui.

"Great, now our task is completed, everyone follow me to fight out." Seeing that the infantry formation had formed, Ma Hongkui whistled immediately and led the cavalry regiment to retreat to the flanks through the encirclement.The usually fierce Cossack cavalry could not stop the Qingyuan cavalry from retreating.

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