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Chapter 569: Four, Seven, Five, Don¡¯t force yourself when your destiny is yours (Part 2)

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    The position of president was Yuan Shikai¡¯s dream position over the years, and it was also the talisman he relied on for survival. However, it was ruined by Ruan Zhongshu so lightly.  At that moment, sleeping with skin and eating meat was no longer enough to express Yuan Shikai's anger. He wished he could kill Ruan Zhongshu's entire family and cut his corpse into thousands of pieces with thousands of knives!

    Of course, all of these are predicated on catching Ruan Zhongshu.

    Although the blood vessels near his temples were still pulsing, Yuan Shikai quickly calmed down: "Zhiquan, Yunting, because of my carelessness, I have lost everything now. Nowadays, the public opinion in the whole country is fierce, and I have become a thousand husbands."  As he pointed out, the situation is irreversibly rotten! Fortunately, 'actions speak louder than words'. For now, the only way to save the situation is to ask Beiyang Paoze to work together on the battlefield to completely defeat the invading enemy and make the people turn their attention and shut up. Otherwise, the situation can be saved a little bit.  If there is a slight delay, the southern provinces will surely end up at the top and the bottom, and our Beiyang Group will be doomed!"

    Tang Tianxi repeatedly agreed: "The commander-in-chief is absolutely right! The only thing above all words is force. Our previous mistake was to compete with Sun Baixi in the Congress. Who doesn't know that Sun Baixi was born as a private school teacher and is best at doing things?  Is it to deceive people with evil words? With my shortcomings and attacking the enemy's strong points, how can I have a chance of winning? The foundation of our Beiyang Group is the elite of the six towns trained by the commander at the small station. We will conquer when we attack, win when we fight, and strive to win the world.  It¡¯s more than enough, let alone Sun Baixi¡¯s student army?¡±

    Duan Qirui also said: "It is true as the commander-in-chief said, if we can win the battle, even if all the contradictions cannot be solved, there will be room for improvement. But if this battle fails, Sun Baixi will certainly take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack the capital. I'm afraid  Our Beiyang group will collapse and fall apart without a fight!"

    Before Yuan Shikai could answer, Tang Tianxi frowned: "What did General Zhiquan say? I have been in the Beiyang Army for nearly twenty years. Although I cannot boast that I am invincible in the world, I should not have a problem in being proud of the grassroots bandits in the country.  Why do you need to build up other people's ambitions and destroy your own prestige before the war?"

    Duan Qirui did not answer Tang Tianxi's question, but quietly waited for Yuan Shikai's instructions.

    Yuan Shikai said: "We should not underestimate ourselves, but there is a clear saying in ancient times, 'Before considering victory, consider defeat first.' What Zhiquan said is not without purpose, so I must concentrate three times the force to fight the invading enemy. If you still can't win like this,  General Yuan is willing to bow down and wait to be killed!"

    This was regarded as a life-and-death battle by Yuan Shikai, and Sun Yuanqi also agreed to pay more attention to it before the war, not only because it was not only the first time that tanks were put into actual combat, but also the first head-on conflict between his soldiers and the veteran Beiyang forces.  Who wins or loses will determine the future direction of the country to a large extent.

    February 14, 1914, Valentine¡¯s Day in the West, is a day destined to be indelible in modern military history.

    As soon as the sun rose, two reconnaissance planes took off from Datong Airport and began to conduct rigorous reconnaissance on the First Division of the Central Army and the Third Cavalry Brigade hundreds of miles away.  Cai Chengxun, commander of the First Division, and Zhang Jiuqing, commander of the Third Cavalry Brigade, received orders from Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui last night to conduct pre-war deployments overnight to face the invading 47th Mixed Brigade.  But these adjustments cannot be hidden from surveillance from the air!

    Zhao Jingxing and Yao Baolai, who were stationed in Datong, were both graduates of the military academy. Based on the photos taken by the reconnaissance plane, they could see through the opponent's adjustment intentions at a glance, and immediately informed the marching 47th Brigade to quickly prepare for battle and equip forty tanks.  The first regiment immediately formed a cross formation and approached the enemy position.  At the same time, more than a hundred fighter planes that transferred to Datong and Taiyuan quickly adjusted their combat direction and concentrated all their strength on the artillery positions and defensive positions of the 1st Division of the Central Army and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade.

    It should be said that this is the largest air force group operation in history.  More than a dozen air force aviation regiments, with aviation groups as units, carried out non-stop bombing on enemy positions in batches at different times. In just a few hours, more than ten tons of explosives were dropped, and almost every inch of land within several kilometers was covered with shrapnel.  and ravaged by flames.  The originally broad plains, winding trenches, and deep and orderly positions seemed to have been dusted by raindrops, leaving only horrific craters and flying dust.

    The 1st Division of the Central Army and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade have never fought such a useless war. They haven't even seen a shadow of the enemy. They were bombed to pieces and couldn't find anything in the southeast, northwest, and their heavy weapons were almost completely damaged.  As a result, morale dropped to the lowest point.  ¡ª¡ªWithin a few hours of the plane's arrival, Beiyang officers and soldiers were like sitting on a bumpy ship playing death roulette, and their lives would be lost if they were not careful.  What's more important is that the enemy has beaten him to pieces, and he has no power to fight back, so he can only let the opponent round him up and flatten him.  Is there anything in the world that damages morale more than this?

    On the battlefield, from division commander Cai Chengxun and brigade commander Zhang Jiuqing to ordinary soldiers,I have never been so eager for the enemy to appear in front of me!

    Looking forward, looking forward, during the earthquake and the shaking of the mountains, I finally found smoke and dust in the sky, and then four rows of roaring iron lumps rushed towards me with black smoke.  Although this iron lump is a bit weird, in the eyes of Zhang Jiuqing, commander of the Third Cavalry Brigade, it is much cuter than the monsters flying in the sky.  Zhang Jiuqing didn't hesitate at all. He immediately got on his horse, drew his saber and pointed straight ahead: "Brothers, charge! Avenge your comrades who died!"

    The soldiers of the cavalry brigade had long hated their previous unexplained deaths. When they heard the brigade commander's order, they all felt as if they were being pardoned. They spurred their horses on their crotches, waved their sabers, and rushed towards the tanks hundreds of meters away.  , just like Don Quixote holding a spear and killing the windmill.

    The officers and soldiers of the First Division in the rear seemed to have found someone to vent their anger on, manipulating various weapons to fire at the tanks.  Unfortunately, they have no idea that the "Kirin" tank's thick armor is enough to be immune to artillery guns below 75mm, let alone what anti-tank weapons are.  Although the bullets sent sparks flying around the tank, the tank continued to move forward as if nothing was wrong.

    When the heroic cavalry entered the range of the machine gun, the two rows of tanks in front stopped, and the machine guns and artillery on the tanks began to aim at the surging cavalry and fire violently.  On a plain without any obstacles, facing the cavalry who had no knowledge of tanks and insufficient heavy fire cover, the result was no less than the massacre of the Zulus by the British army using Maxim machine guns.  Even if a small number of fish escaped from the hell cage woven by machine guns and artillery, the armor of the "Kilin" tank was not something that the cavalry's light weapons could deal with. As a result, they could only be beaten by the 40th Army who followed behind and was responsible for the clean-up work.  Slaughtered by the Second Regiment of the Seventh Brigade.

    The four rows of tanks used two rows as a marching unit, rolling forward and crossing each other.  The second regiment following the tank is responsible for slipping through the net and preventing the enemy from outflanking; there are also aircraft above to take special care of the enemy's heavy weapons and stubborn strongholds.  Less than twenty minutes after the battle began, the Third Cavalry Brigade collapsed. Two pairs of the six battalion commanders in the army were killed, and the remaining two were seriously injured. If the brigade commander Zhang Jiuqing had not been rescued by the guards desperately, he would probably have died.  He was killed on the spot!

    Seeing the heavy casualties among the friendly forces, Cai Chengxun, the commander of the First Division who had been ravaged by the planes, was also stunned. Ordinary soldiers were on the verge of mental collapse when they saw the monster on the opposite side that could not be beaten or beaten.  Li Kuiyuan, commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, who was always known for his bravery throughout the army, also lost his calm at this moment and hurriedly asked Cai Chengxun for instructions: "Division Commander, what should we do now?"

    Cai Chengxun was already in disarray. Hearing this, he asked: "Commander Li, what do you have in mind?"

    Li Kuiyuan said: "The time is urgent now, please forgive Li for speaking bluntly. The enemy's planes are bombing heavily, and there are iron lumps below that are invulnerable. Although our army has many people, there is nothing we can do. A fierce battle here is simply to wait for the kill. The key now is not  The question is how to win, but how to preserve combat power! As long as we can safely withdraw the main force of our army into the mouth, it will be a great victory. I believe that with the help of the natural danger of the Great Wall, we can definitely turn the corner!"

    Dong Shizhen, the chief of staff of the First Division, interjected at this time: "How easy is it to withdraw the troops? As Brigadier Li said, the enemy was bombed by planes and swept by strange vehicles below. The entire army was terrified. If we defend here, we may have to fight to the death.  We can still survive from death; if we retreat now, if we are not careful, it will turn into a rout, and I am afraid that the entire army will be wiped out in the end!"

    Li Kuiyuan sneered and said: "What are you talking about, Chief of Staff? Now we are completely helpless against airplanes and iron knots. To defend here is to sit and wait for death. To survive? I think it is impossible to survive! Now there is the Third Cavalry Brigade in front of us.  Support, if we retreat quickly, we still have a glimmer of hope; if we wait until all the casualties of the Third Cavalry Brigade are exhausted before we try to retreat, the retreat may really turn into a rout, and then the whole army will be truly exhausted!"

    Dong Shizhen retorted: "It is true that we are helpless against aircraft and strange vehicles, but we can still barely support it with the fortifications we built before. As long as we stay up until dark, not only will the enemy's aircraft be unable to attack, but the movement of strange vehicles will also be greatly restricted.  , at that time we were united with the Third Cavalry Brigade, couldn¡¯t we still do nothing to attack the brigade on the opposite side?¡±

    Li Kuiyuan said: "Then we have to survive until dark today! The Third Cavalry Brigade can barely sustain it for twenty or thirty minutes, and there are at least four or five hours until dark now. Does the Chief of Staff think our division's combat strength is strong?"  Dozens of times that of the Third Cavalry Brigade? Or does the Chief of Staff think that our division can turn decay into magic if we leave it in your hands?"

    Dong Shizhen was choked by Li Kuiyuan and then remained silent.

    Although Cai Chengxun was loyal to Yuan Shikai, he was the commander of the First Division after all. Only with the First Division could he have everything. With the concept of "dead fellow Taoist, never die poor Taoist", he looked at the dying Third Cavalry Brigade on the front position.  He gritted his teeth and ordered: "Retreat!"

    This battle is often referred to as the "Battle of the Word" in later generations, and it is also the most famous battle of the "Constitutional War". It is recorded in history as the first time tanks participated in the battle, the first infantry-tank coordination, and the first flying-tank coordination.  In this battle, the casualties of the Third Cavalry Brigade, which served as a foil, reached an astonishing 70%. Even the Army's First Division, which fled the battle, suffered more than 30% casualties and basically lost its combat effectiveness.  The 47th Mixed Brigade only suffered more than a hundred casualties and lost three tanks.

    It is precisely because of such a disparity in battle damage ratio that tanks have become a star that attracts attention from military circles all over the world.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The most famous battle of the "War" was recorded in history as the first time tanks participated in the battle, the first infantry-tank coordination, and the first flying-tank coordination. In this battle, the casualties of the third cavalry brigade as a foil reached an astonishing 70%.  Even the First Division of the Army, which escaped from the battlefield, suffered more than 30% casualties and basically lost its combat effectiveness. The 47th Mixed Brigade only suffered casualties of more than a hundred people and lost three tanks.

    It is precisely because of such a disparity in battle damage ratio that tanks have become a star that attracts attention from military circles all over the world.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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