super god warlord

The Northern Territory Army was caught off guard, and was suddenly attacked by two revolutionary armies, causing chaos.It turned out that these revolutionary troops were just established by Huang Bin, and they were equipped with Zhongchuan support weapons.Because they had just been formed, Huang Bin was worried about using them to face the enemy head-on with the Northern Territory Army, so he came up with such a strategy to lure the enemy deep.

The revolutionary army, which attacked from three sides, charged bravely and quickly disrupted the establishment of the Northern Region Army. As a result, most of the Northern Region Army of the Association was killed and captured, and even the artillery was thrown to the Revolutionary Army.

Duan Ruiquan was taken aback when he received the news of the Northern Territory Army's defeat.He couldn't understand why the revolutionary army suddenly had so many weapons and was able to defeat an allied northern army.In any case, the counter-offensive revolutionary army had already returned to Yudai Gate, so he couldn't help but fight back.

After the cannons were seized, the artillery-born revolutionary army finally had a place to use. They operated a few cannons and inflicted heavy damage on the northern army. It was not until Duan Ruiquan mobilized the artillery to counterattack again that the revolutionary artillery was suppressed.

Although the Revolutionary Army achieved a great victory, it was only a flashback.The Northern Territory Army gathered more than 4 elite soldiers from Hanxia. Facing the superior enemy, the revolutionary army fought fiercely for several days and nights and suffered heavy casualties.The strength of the two warring parties is very different, and the weapons and personnel are very different.At this moment, it is difficult for anyone to reverse the overall situation of the Jiangkou battle. It is not easy for Huang Bin to fight to this point.Although the new army in the Northern Territory also suffered a lot of losses, the revolutionary army was small after all.After the ammunition was consumed rapidly, they gradually ran out, so they had to fight and retreat to the confluence of Han River and Longjiang River.

One day later, the Northern Territory New Army, which suffered heavy casualties, bombarded a large area of ​​the market from the south of Houcheng Road to Hejie. Difficult to do.

Yuan Kai was in a hurry, but Duan Ruiquan couldn't come up with a solution.Seeing that a large group of people entered the block, there must be another street battle with heavy casualties, so he had no choice but to order the fire.Setting fire was a helpless decision. Under the current circumstances, Duan Ruiquan could only use fire attack to offset the opponent's advantage.

The Northern New Army quickly set fire to several places in the Jiangkou neighborhood. As the wind blew harder, the fire quickly got out of control.The fire burned for three days and three nights, and finally all the commercial and residential areas from Siguandian to Longwangmiao were reduced to scorched earth.Under the fire attack of the opponent, Huang Bin was forced to lead the remaining troops to withdraw through Hanshui and go to Xiakou to hold on.

In the face of the successive defeats of the revolutionary army, in order to boost morale, Li Yuanhong held a general obeisance ceremony at Jiangxia Yuemachang on behalf of the Central Plains military government.Huang Bin was ordered to lead the chief of staff Li Shucheng and the secretary-general Tian Tong to station in Xiakou, set up the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army at Guqintai, set up a logistics supply office at Guiyuan Temple, and continued to personally command the defense of Xiakou.

During the war, Huang Bin, the commander-in-chief, quickly began to arrange the defense of Xiakou and Jiangxia, setting up artillery guards at Snake Mountain and Guishan Mountain, and setting up troops along the Han River from Nan'anzui to Sanyan Bridge.The Battle of Yangxia has already changed from an offensive battle to a defensive one. Now Huang Bin has a heavy responsibility. He must use Xiakou as the forward position to hold back the enemy's forces.Keep Jiangxia City, ensure the safety of the Central Plains military government, and preserve the hard-won achievements of the Jiangxia Uprising.

Chapter 4 The failure of the defensive battle

The defense of Xiakou will definitely fail. Huang Bin knows this very well. The reason why he gritted his teeth and persisted here is because he understands that the whole of Hualan is looking at the Central Plains Province and the three towns of Hanxia.If Jiangxia City is captured by the Hou Jin army, the democratic revolution will be wasted.Not only the Central Plains, but the entire Hualan will be plunged into a sea of ​​blood, and all previous efforts will be in vain.If Hanxia can hold on for one more day, the new army in the Northern Territory will not dare to leave without permission. In this way, the imperial court can only watch other provinces become independent one after another without mobile forces.

Huang Bin deeply felt the heavy burden on his shoulders, and he was also full of excitement as several provinces such as Plateau Province became independent one after another.Especially when Zhao Shouhong announced Zhongchuan's independence and vowed to send troops, Huang Bin's inner emotions could not be suppressed.Huang Bin didn't know the strength of Zhao Shouhong's troops, but he knew that the opponent had been preparing for a long time, and this launch must be earth-shattering.

With this spirit of dedication, Huang Bin devoted himself wholeheartedly to this battle.Because Yuan Kai felt the pressure from Zhao Shouhong before, he had to re-deploy his troops, which gave Huang Bin an opportunity to take advantage of it.In the past few days when the two sides adjusted their forces, the domestic situation has undergone earth-shaking changes.

In early November, 11 provinces across the country announced their recovery and established independent governments from the imperial court.The situation is becoming more and more favorable to the military government of the Central Plains, and the revolutionaries of the South Plains have also freed up their strength and sent troops across provinces to Hanxia.More than [-] soldiers from the Hunan-Hubei Allied Forces gradually gathered at the front of Xiakou. Huang Bin felt that his eyes were bright, and the battle between Han and Xia seemed to have the possibility of victory.

On November 11, under the command of Huang Bin, the revolutionary army stationed in Xiakou bypassed the heavily armed defenses set up by the Jin army at Nan'anzui, secretly built a pontoon bridge from Qinduankou to cross the Han River, and lay in ambush on the north bank of the Han River.The western outskirts of Jiangkou are full of wilderness, densely covered with swamps and sparsely populated, so Huang Bin and his troops crossed the river without being discovered by the Northern Territory Army.

In the early morning of the next day, Huang Bin personally led the counter-offensive force to suddenly attack Jiangkou City, advancing quickly from west to east, catching the Northern Territory Army by surprise.The revolutionary army quickly captured the Boxue Academy and the water plant of Jiji Hydropower Company, and the vanguard approached Yudaimen again.

Duan Ruiquan was shocked when he heard the news. He had never expected such a reckless counterattack by the revolutionary army, which was totally against conventional military thinking.Although he did not expect this situation, Duan Ruiquan's reaction was not slow. He immediately mobilized reinforcements, and soon the reinforcements of the Northern Territory Army rushed to Yudaimen in large numbers. , Light and heavy weapons fired together.

The northern wing of the revolutionary army was severely injured and had to retreat. Seeing that the enemy's firepower was so strong, the southern wing army did not want to hit the stone with an egg, so they retreated accordingly.Huang Bin yelled in the team: "Don't retreat, everyone rush forward!" But the soldiers retreated like a mountain, and Huang Bin couldn't manage it, and the revolutionary army ran to the pontoon bridge on the Han River.In desperation, Huang Bin had no choice but to give up Jiangkou and retreat to Xiakou. This counterattack failed.The revolutionary army suffered more than [-] casualties in this battle, and the failure also affected the morale of the Xiakou defenders.

However, Yuan Kai was not a vegetarian either. Just when Huang Bin took the risk of counterattacking Jiangkou, another team of the Northern Territory Army, Yu Xiao felt that Xingou crossed the Han River and occupied Caidian by surprise. On November 11, the Northern Territory Army approached Sanyan Bridge from Caidian, forcing Huang Bin to mobilize his troops westward to meet the enemy, and the two sides fought fiercely at Sanyan Bridge.

Xiakou Three-Eyed Bridge, in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, was the post road from Xiakou to the imperial capital. There used to be a bridge with three holes under the bridge, so it got its name. Later, the bridge was destroyed and left this place name.Facing the attack of the Northern Territory Army, the Revolutionary Army's fighting spirit was strong, and they launched a fierce counterattack recklessly, causing the Northern Territory Army to suffer heavy losses and be forced to stop advancing.

However, this was not Yuan Kai's only offensive route. On the same day, Duan Ruiquan commanded the Jiangkou Northern Region Army to cross the river from Ruoluokou.The Northern Territory Army broke through the defense line of Miliangshan, and cooperated with the Houjin Army coming from the direction of Caidian to attack the main position of Miliangshan, forming an angle between the revolutionary army.

The area between Xiakou Sanyan Bridge and Wangjiawan belongs to the landform of hills and hills, densely covered with hills and hills, enclosing the ancient city of Xiakou at the foot of Guishan Mountain like a basin.Breaking through this circle of mountains, there is no danger to defend, and the ancient city of Xiakou is at stake.Although Huang Bin is not considered a military master, he still understands the basic military knowledge, so he ordered the Xiakou defenders to guard the Sanyan Bridge and the Fairy Mountain in the east to prevent Yuan Kai's army from entering the city.But at this critical juncture, the revolutionary army did not obey orders.Two days later, Miliang Mountain and Fairy Mountain fell one after another, and the revolutionary army retreated to Guodi Mountain and Biandan Mountain.

On November 11, the two post-Jin armies joined forces in the area of ​​Biandan Mountain and jointly attacked the revolutionary army defending the city of Xiakou. The sound of cannons shook the mountains and waters.Guodi Mountain and Biandan Mountain changed hands one after another, and the Jin army drove straight in from Wangjiawan and Shilipu, approaching Guiyuan Temple and Xiakou Iron Works.

The revolutionary army, which suffered huge casualties in the battle for the mountains, was no longer able to organize defenses on the plains.Later, the Jin army's line of defense across the Hanshui River from Jiangkou was completely collapsed, and the revolutionary army trapped in Xiakou City could only fight desperately.At this point in the war, the defense of Xiakou has reached a desperate situation.

On November 11, the Nanyuan reinforcements retreated across the Longjiang River and returned to Nanyuan via Dongting Lake. The Central Plains troops also crossed the river to Jiangxia by boat.Xiakou finally fell, Huang Bin was then sent to Jiangxia by Li Yuanhong, and the remnants of the Xiakou defenders also crossed the river and withdrew to Jiangxia, including the Jiangkou People's Army who had withdrawn from Jiangkou to Xiakou.

The 41-day battle of Yangxia came to an end. This was the worst war disaster suffered by the three towns of Hanxia since the Taiping Army attacked the city in the second year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty.The death toll on both sides exceeded 6000, of which 200 were killed in the Revolutionary Army, but the casualties of the Northern Army were greatly higher than in history because of the weapons supported by Zhao Shouhong. On November 11, the Houjin Army entered Xiakou and occupied the Guishan Fort, aiming at the Aulue Building on the top of Snake Mountain.

On this day, the military government of the Central Plains held an emergency meeting in the Red Building to discuss future decisions.At the meeting, Huang Bin suggested: "If Xiakou can't hold it, Jiangxia may not be able to hold it either. In my personal opinion, why don't you follow me down the river and give up Jiangxia and go to Nandu?"

The Yangxia defense battle has been defeated in a row, and now only Jiangxia is left in the three towns of Hanxia. At this time, Huang Bin proposed to retreat, which directly angered everyone.Abandoning Hanxia meant abandoning the Central Plains. At this time, the Central Plains revolutionaries present looked at Huang Bin with blood in their eyes, and their previous respect had already turned into endless anger.

Some of the radicals shouted loudly: "The head can be broken, Jiang Xia must not be lost!" The thinking of these Central Plains revolutionaries is also understandable, after all, Huang Bin is from the South Plains.If the Central Plains Revolutionary Army withdraws to Jiangbei Province, it will become a tree without roots, and it will be difficult to say who will listen to it in the future.

Chapter 421 Yuan Wei Enters the Capital

The regional concept within the Communist Association is too heavy, which makes the revolutionaries in various provinces suspicious of each other, and it is difficult to form a joint force at a critical moment.Public outrage is hard to offend, Huang Bin only now understood the meaning of what Zhao Shouhong said to him.

Knowing that it was useless to talk too much, Huang Bin immediately announced his resignation and left the Central Plains military government.That afternoon, Huang Bin and Tian Tong got on the passenger ship from Jiangxia Caobu Gate. Thinking of Zhao Shouhong's words, Huang Bin decided to go to Nandu for a try.

Huang Bin's departure did not affect the Central Plains Revolutionary Army much. Li Yuanhong had no choice but to appoint Jiang Yiwu as the commander-in-chief during the war and continue to fight.After everyone passed the vote, the military government of the Central Plains decided: "Stick to Jiangxia, the city is alive and the people are alive, and the city is dead and the people are dead!"

Just when the Central Plains Revolutionary Party was excited and was planning to fight to the death, the Northern Territory Army, which had won a complete victory, was having a hard time.Although less than [-] people were lost in this battle, ammunition was consumed enormously.If the fight continues like this, once Zhongchuan sends troops to attack the supply line, the new army in the Northern Territory will be in danger of being wiped out.What's more, Yuan Kai's interests have not been maximized now, and he does not want to completely wipe out the Central Plains Revolutionary Army.

Now Yuan Kai is in a dilemma. He originally wanted to support the bandits and use the power of the revolutionary party to bargain with the court.Now that Zhao Shouhong has joined, the Revolutionary Party seems to be in a difficult situation.In addition, there was no response to the letter sent to Chongshan City last time, and he felt that he had lost control of the current situation.

In order to see the current domestic situation clearly, Yuan Kai sent three telegrams to Zhao Shouhong.Without exception, these three telegrams were all to persuade Zhao Shouhong to cancel his independence and continue to support Houjin.But in fact Yuan Kai was testing Zhao Shouhong's ideas so that he could consider future actions.

Seeing these three telegrams, Zhao Shouhong smiled. He knew what Yuan Kai was thinking now.Zhao Shouhong had received the previous letter a long time ago, but in order to allow the Shu army enough time to occupy various important locations, he deliberately delayed it.

Now that the military operations of the Shu army are coming to an end, Zhao Shouhong once again turned his attention to the domestic political situation.The only way to stabilize Yuan Kai and let him continue to move in the direction he wants is to make a gesture to reassure him.The clear-coded telegram was too obvious, so Zhao Shouhong asked Zhao Qian to go down the river from Chongshan City and go to Hanxia to meet Yuan Kai in person.

Hearing that Zhao Shouhong sent someone, Yuan Kai immediately received him. "Report to Duke Yuan, I am the personal guard of Governor Zhao. This time I brought the codebook to Duke Yuan." Zhao Qian cut to the chase, and took out a small notebook as soon as we met.

"What codebook?" Yuan Wei was a little surprised.

"It's the password used for the communication between the two parties, so that Yuan Gong can communicate with my governor by coded telegram." Zhao Qian took out a small notebook from his arms and handed it to Yuan Kai while speaking.

Yuan Kai's eyes lit up, Zhao Shouhong was able to send him the code book so sincerely, obviously he regarded him as one of his own.Otherwise, once others spy on your own password creation rules, it is easy to cause your own password to be leaked.Yuan Kai smiled and put the password book on the table in front of him and said, "It's rare that Shou Hong is interested. It seems that we need to contact more in the future. I don't know if Shou Hong sent you here this time. Did you bring me a message?"

"My governor did indeed say that he asked me to pay tribute to Yuan Gong, saying that my Dashu military government was against gold but not against Yuan Gong. Now our army has been strictly ordered, but anyone who sees Yuan Gong's new army in the Northern Region will definitely Do not use force." Zhao Qian said with a smile: "In addition, my family's governor also said that if Yuan Gong wants to negotiate with the Revolutionary Party, he can go to Guanghai City, and our Dashu Military Government should fully support you. The governor has sent a telegram to order all the ministries to stay on the spot and stop advancing."

"Oh?" Yuan Kai's heart skipped a beat when he heard Zhao Shouhong ordering the ministries to stop advancing, which meant that Zhao Shouhong still regarded him as an ally.After he sent the telegram, he actually made such a gesture that he did not cross Zhangjiakou to attack the imperial capital.

In Yuan Kai's view, although Zhao Shouhong occupies a large area, except for the land around Guanghai City, it is all sparsely populated and financially difficult northwest wild land.Although these places look big, there is not much oil and water.If Zhao Shouhong is willing to stop attacking those densely populated and economically developed areas in order to support him, his sincerity is not small.

As for the negotiations with the Revolutionary Party, Yuan Wei had intended to do so, but now Zhao Shouhong has proposed it and is willing to let them negotiate in Guanghai City. This is a good opportunity to test his intentions.Therefore, Yuan Kai immediately accepted it readily, and told Zhao Qian that he would start peace negotiations immediately after negotiating with the Revolutionary Party.After sending Zhao Qian away, Yuan Kai ordered Duan Ruiquan to stand still, and he himself took the train back to the imperial capital to test the attitude of the Qing royal family.

Today's imperial capital is already ruled by Yuan Kai. Although there are still many powerful people in the late Jin Dynasty, after Zaifeng lost power, they also lost their power.After Feng Guofu was transferred to the imperial capital as the commander of the imperial guards, they even lost their military power, so there was no danger for Yuan Wei to return to the emperor.

"My minister, Yuan Kai, sees the Empress Dowager." On the second day after entering the capital, Yuan Kai went to court.Now the military power of the imperial capital is in the hands of Feng Guofu, Xu Haichang and other constitutionalists have also been promoted to high positions, and Yuan Wei has no opponent in the court.

"Yuan Qing's family is no longer on the front line to supervise the battle, why did they come back?" Queen Mother Longyu asked, although she tried her best to conceal it, her trembling voice betrayed her heart, and she was not calm at this time.In other words, since the Jiang Xia uprising, her mood has never calmed down.These days, she has always had nightmares, sometimes seeing the late empress dowager shaking her head and sighing at him, and sometimes seeing the regent Prince Zaifeng standing in front of her bloody.

Going to court every day became the thing that Empress Dowager Longyu was most afraid of. She was afraid that one day she would go to court, and the Military Aircraft Department would give her news of the defeat of the Houjin Army.Yuan Kai's abnormal return to the capital today made the Queen Mother Longyu even more nervous.She thought that Yuan Kai would flee back to the imperial capital because of the defeat of the new army.

"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, I have led the new army in the Northern Territory to successfully recapture Jiangkou and Xiakou towns after dozens of days of bloody battles. Now the new army and the Revolutionary Party are facing each other across the river, and the two sides are at a stalemate." Yuan Wei replied tepidly. with.

Empress Dowager Longyu let out a sigh of relief: "So, Hanxia can still support it?"

"Not exactly." Yuan Wei's words lifted the Empress Dowager Longyu's heart that had just been let go.

Looking at the tense face of the Empress Dowager Longyu, Yuan Kai said it very seriously: "The new army in the Northern Region has been fighting fiercely for more than a month, and the ammunition consumption is extremely high. Northern Xinjiang, most of the inner Huns, and a large area around Guanghai City. If they mobilize troops to flank our army, the situation in the Central Plains will be corrupted."

Chapter 422 The Frightened Queen Mother

"What?" Empress Dowager Longyu clasped the back of the chair tightly with both hands, not even noticing that the cloisonne nail cover was broken.

Yuan Kai smiled secretly, but his face was full of sadness: "Qi Queen Mother, the situation of the new army at the front is now difficult, and the old minister has to order to suspend the attack on Jiangxia and guard against the direction of Zhongchuan."

"This Zhao Shouhong is really abominable. The imperial court treats him so favorably, yet he raises troops to rebel." Empress Dowager Longyu's voice trembled even more.

Yuan Kai curled his lips secretly, always on guard against others, weakening his military power, transferring him away from Zhongchuan, and even shelving him as a spokesperson. Is this called kindness?If he were Zhao Shouhong, even if he hadn't rebelled before, he would have rebelled after experiencing such a thing.