The discussion in the room was lively, and the Qing army's artillery was blowing outside.[][].[23][wx].[] However, unlike the joy of the Revolutionary Army, everyone in the Qing army command felt a cold that penetrated their bones. Wu Jiezhang looked at the third town of Manchuria, who escaped from Meiling Pass in the tent and said, "What you said is true? Is the Western Route Army really the whole army?"

Fuxi was being supported by his personal soldiers at this time. He was originally stationed at Jigong Bridge, but then he was captured by the revolutionary army. He was stunned by artillery fire and was pulled by migrant workers who cleaned the battlefield to the Bagu Bridge to clean up the cloth. The slaughter who pretended to be dead woke him up. The two of them slipped into the ravine while the people were not paying attention and went around in circles before they escaped. They were caught by the Qing army's patrol at night, but he spoke fluent Beijing accent and braids on his body, and were soon sent to the headquarters.

"As soon as the Jigong Bridge I guarded was lost, the Western Route Army would have no barrier. The mountaintops around were occupied by the revolutionary party, and it was only a matter of time before the entire army could be exhausted. Now the revolutionary party is dragging us, and I am afraid that we will eat the Eastern Route Army. If you don't withdraw your troops, you will die here if you don't withdraw your troops." Fuxi escaped from death and wanted to leave here now, but he knew that one person still couldn't escape. It would be best to retreat south with the army so that it would be safe.

After Fuxi finished speaking, Chief of Staff Sun Zongxian said: "Songpo, we are going to prepare to withdraw now. If we don't withdraw, it will be too late."

Seeing him say this, Wu Jiezhang was even more anxious and said, "There is a charter to withdraw. Should we retreat there now? Is it Lanxi or Longyou, or something else? There must be a place. And how to withdraw this method? The marching speed at night is not fast. I am afraid that even if I walk overnight, I will not be able to reach Longyou County."

Wu Jiezhang asked about the details of the retreat, and Sun Zongxian said: "If you want to withdraw, you can only evacuate to Longyou County, Hengshan Town. We meet with No. 3 from Hengshan Town, and there are more than 30,000 people. We will evacuate and fight. As long as we can persist until the 10th town of Hangzhou will come to help tomorrow, the more than 40,000 people may not be afraid of the Revolutionary Party. And we have chlorine cannons in our hands, the Revolutionary Party will definitely be defeated by us..."

Sun Zongxian thought that what he could rely on now was the reinforcements from Hangzhou and the chlorine cannons in his hands, but after he said this, Fuxi next to him shouted: "Don't talk about chlorine cannons! The revolutionary party is not afraid of this thing at all. If the chlorine cannon is useful, would the Western Route Army be defeated so miserably? It must be that the person who gave the sub-production goods, and that thing was useless to shoot it out. Otherwise, the revolutionary party hired experts to protect the unrest parties. Cai Juntong, don't believe that that thing is useful."

The words of blessing and joy only made everyone in the tent stunned. Cai E, who was pondering how to get out, was also surprised: "What you said is true? How do you know that the revolutionary party is not afraid of chlorine cannons?"

"How could I not know? The revolutionary party was fighting the Bagu Bridge and was about to attack the Jigong Bridge that I defended. At that time, I was anxious and only let the artillery team shoot shrapnel, which stopped the revolutionary party. After dawn, I wanted to counterattack. Although the artillery team was suppressed by the revolutionary party, it still fired a few chlorine guns, but that thing was useless at all. The revolutionary party was running through the chlorine gas, and nothing happened! The foreigner must have deceived us again. All the things sold to us were fakes." Fuxi said hard, and he believed that this must be the person in charge of the matter who took the money from it. Then he fell for the foreigner.

"What did you see with your own eyes?" The matter was of great importance, and Cai E stared at Fuxi and asked loudly.

"Of course, I have to do it with my own eyes! If there is any false statement, it will be dealt with by military law!" Fu Xi looked at Zhenzhen in the daytime and replied loudly. As soon as he said this, all the military tents looked like earth. The revolutionary party was able to wipe out the Western Route Army. At first, everyone thought that it was a night attack by many people, so they succeeded by chance. Their chlorine cannons did not play a role at night. It turned out that the revolutionary party was not afraid of this thing.

Wu Jiezhang said anxiously: "Songpo, what should I do?! I think the revolutionary party retreated too calmly today, and no body was left behind. They... they just want to trap us here. For the sake of the present, it would be better to retreat earlier. If it is too late, I will be afraid of peace and the Western Route Army!"

Wu Jiezhang was anxious, Qi Baoshan, the 28th Association of the 28th Association in his town, was also anxious, and Jia Binqing, the 10th Association of the 5th Township, was also a little panicked. The two looked at each other a few times, and Jia Binqing, the 20th Association of the 5th Township, said to Cai E and Wu Jiezhang: "Military Commander, since the Western Route Army has been defeated by the revolutionary party, our army should retreat quickly. If it is too late, we, like the Western Route Army, will have to complete the entire army."

It is certain to withdraw, but it is necessary to think about how to withdraw. Cai E was about to speak, but Sun Zong next to him said first: "Don't be impatient. Even if you withdraw your troops now, you must have a constitution. You will go back first. After the military command has decided, you will come over to discuss it. Please go back first. Also, this matter must be kept confidential, otherwise the news will be leaked, and you will not be able to withdraw."

Sun Zongxian was in charge of affairs and soon persuaded the two associations to leave. Fuxi also asked him to escort him and take strict supervision. As soon as these people left, he looked at Cai E and Wu Jiezhang who were still frowning, saying, "Brother Songpo, it is certain to retreat now, but there is always a sequence of retreats. The 9th Union and the 27th Union are now on the front line. If they retreat, the revolutionary party will definitely find out. The best way now is to let the 10th Union and the 28th Union retreat first, and to the outside world, it is said that it is to go to the entrance of Meiling Pass to the west at night. When this side retreats, let the 9th Union and the 27th Union retreat in the middle of the night."

Sun Zongxian had a very organized plan. Now the 9th association is in Shimuling and the 27th association is in Zhutangkeng, which are both frontlines. Once these two associations move, the revolutionary army will be alarmed. I don’t know whether they can retreat safely. But in this arrangement, although they can also send orders to retreat in the middle of the night, they all know in their hearts that retreating in the middle of the night is just a polite word. Such an arrangement will only make these two associations never come back. Although Cai E and Wu Jiezhang felt sorry for the association, the situation was due to the strong man’s arm.

Wu Jiezhang was even more bureaucratic. Although he lost a military force, he did not think anything was wrong. However, he thought of another thing and asked: "What should I do in the third town? When will I notify them to retreat?"

The third town is the new Manchu and Mongolian army, the old man in the new army. If it is lost, then he will be punished when he goes back. Sun Zongxian only glanced at the tent door and said softly: "Our army retreats. The troops are already weak, so he wants to notify them to retreat together, but he cannot retreat with them, otherwise..."

Because we were not walking on the main road, but just a small road, it was already two o'clock in the morning when the troops were wading to the Qujiang River. Many officers and soldiers' acquaintances and relatives in the 10th and 28th associations who were withdrawn were all in the 27th association of the 9th association. After hearing the news, the chaos was in a while. Cai E and Wu Jiezhang personally suppressed and informed the 9th association of the 27th association that had received the order to retreat. In addition, they ordered an artillery standard and infantry standard to dig trenches on the south bank of the Qujiang River to cover the retreat of the subsequent troops. Only then did the entire army calm down and head to Tangxi Town where the railway station was located.

Although Cai E and Wu Jiezhang had notified the 9th Union and the 27th Union to retreat, the two knew that the two associations were afraid that they would not be able to retreat. Now they could only hope that the 3rd Town, which received the order to retreat, could arrive at Tangxi Town before dawn, and the two towns would retreat to Jinhua City together during the day. However, different from what they expected, the 3rd Town, which received the order to retreat in the middle of the night, passed Qujiang at around three o'clock, and arrived at Tangxi Town at less than five o'clock. They were completely desperate for their supplies, with only rifles and escaped alone.

In Tangxi Town, looking at the Zhentong Wenhua, who was riding on the horse with a frozen face, Cai E said apologetically: "Brother Xiufeng is suffering."

Wenhua looked at Cai E but was angry and said sarcastically: "Does Cai Juntong think that he can't get out and is about to report his demise to the court?"

Wenhua was not good at speaking, Cai E's face turned pale, and Wu Jiezhang next to him hurriedly smoothed out the situation, "Where is Brother Xiufeng, our army came here first to prevent it from being taken away by the revolutionary party, and did not mean to retreat first. Now I would like to ask Brother Xiufeng to rest and retreat to Jinhua for assistance first, and the revolutionary party's pursuers will be handed over to us."

Cai E actually dared to retreat first and then notify himself. This is why Wenhua was angry. However, Cai E finally did not dare to abandon him, and now Wu Jiezhang asked him to retreat first. He was angry for a moment, but he still did not forgive him. He only looked at Cai E and smiled and said, "Cai Juntong. Don't forget who is the master and who is the slave. No matter how much Lord Liang is favored by the emperor, he is just a dog of my Qing Dynasty. Humph!"

After Wenhua sarcasm, Cai E urged his horse to go to Jinhua. He didn't want to rest in Tangxi Town. He remembered that after he evacuated from Hengshan Town, there was constant sound of gunfire at Meiling Pass. I am afraid that the Qing army, who was left behind, was fighting fiercely with the revolutionary party. Once they could not find the main force of the Eastern Route Army, they would definitely fight across the river.

Cai E was so humiliated by Wenhua, and his face turned purple with anger. Wu Jiezhang and Sun Zongxian beside him just persuaded him with warm words, and it took him a long time to come to his senses. Thinking of the 9th Union and 27th Union, he lamented: "They are afraid they can't withdraw."

"Yeah!" Sun Zongxian also said. "I guess I can't evacuate. Brother Songpo, you can't stay here for a long time. You will have to evacuate to Jinhua later. The tenth town in Hangzhou will arrive at noon tomorrow. We will be safer if they arrive."

Cai E discussed the next retreat, but Zhou Sixu was slapped at the revolutionary army. He didn't expect the Qing army to retreat so quickly. He didn't run away all the artillery and supplies in one night, and he didn't walk on the main road, but took the small road. Moreover, the destination was not Lanxi and Longyou, but the temporary railway station of Tangxi Town opposite Qujiang. With the passage of that wooden bridge, all the Qing army waded across the river. He looked at Lin Wenqian and Fang Yanchen and said, "I was careless. I didn't expect the Qing army to run so fast, and the place where I ran was still Jinhua."

Lin Wenqian received a report of the retreat of the entire Qing army at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night. The revolutionary army set up observation posts on the main road, but the Qing army did not walk on the main road. They only waited for the third town to retreat from Hengshan Town to find out that the Qing army had already left. Although Zhang Gong had two brigades guarding Lanxi and Longyou, those two places were farther from Youbu Town than Hengshan Town, and the road from two places to Youbu was extremely difficult to walk. When they arrived at Youbu Town, the third town had already crossed the river.

"The two left-behind cooperatives surrendered?" Lin Wenqian did not blame him, but only asked about the current situation of the battle.

"Well. They were surrounded by the 6th Division and surrendered after a while. But there were still some scattered Qing troops who fled. Now Zhang Gong is blocking it." Zhou Sixu reported the latest battle situation and said again: "Are we going to chase Qujiang and go to Jinhua City to eat the remaining two towns?"

"Didn't the Qing army's reinforcements come? When will they arrive?" Fang Yanchen asked.

"According to the information, we will arrive in Jinhua at noon tomorrow. It is the tenth town. The town is Xu Chongzhi, the one we let go at the entrance of the venue the year before yesterday." Zhou Sixu said, and also introduced the town chief Xu Chongzhi. After this man was arrested, he made a deal with the revolutionary army, so Zhang Chengyue decided to let him go. To the outside world, he escaped and killed many people from the revolutionary party.

Lin Wenqian glanced at Zhang Chengyue who was smiling and said, "Since Xu Chongzhi is here, don't chase him. There is no need to use his role on these two towns."

Lin Wenqian said this, Zhou Sixu and Fang Yanchen both understood and laughed together. They only felt that the other two towns had run away, but a lot of baggage and artillery were left behind, especially the third town. They took nothing except rifles and ran away. Unfortunately, all the animals of the Qing army were taken away. If they wanted to bring so many cannons and baggage back to Yanzhou, they could only rely on those prisoners.

Everyone laughed, and Zhou Sixu took the opportunity to say, "Now the war is over, Cheng Yuan will also have to deal with it."

Li Chengyuan came to the headquarters to surrender in the middle of the night yesterday. Lin Wenqian was angry that he did not see him at all because he did not obey the order. It was just Zhou Sixu, Zhang Chengyue and Fang Yanchen went to see him. These people all mean to excuse Li Chengyuan. After all, Feng Guozhang's death had a great blow to the morale of the Qing army, and because Tiezhong's idiot took over the command. The Qing army did not break through overnight, which made the encirclement and annihilation smoother. However, in Lin Wenqian's view, Li Chengyuan's approach was indeed right for this encirclement and annihilation. However, this approach was detrimental to the army's obedience, and the most annoying thing was that Li Chengyuan refused to admit his mistake. In the review, he believed that the superior's orders were obedient, but when the commander received the orders, he had the right to make adjustments and weigh them according to the actual situation. Otherwise, the entire army would become rigid.

In order to prove that he was right, Li Chengyuan quoted the mottos learned from German instructors such as "Be accustomed to letting his subordinates take the initiative to solve problems" and "Combat is an art", as well as Yang Rui emphasized in the military documents that the chief officers at all levels must have the spirit of "automatic spontaneity" to prove that they are innocent. These things made Lin Wenqian very angry. In fact, Lin Wenqian was annoyed because of the different command styles of the two. Although he and Li Chengyuan were both in the first phase of South Africa, one was the infantry department and the other was the artillery department. Infants paid more attention to discipline and courage. Strictly observing orders is the prerequisite for victory; while Li Chengyuan was an artillery. A complete technical branch of the military, in his opinion, the most important thing in fighting is to use his brain to think about how to complete the task, rather than strictly implementing the orders of superiors, because for artillery, even if each soldier works hard and fails to hit the enemy, it will be useless.

In addition to the differences in military branches, the growth environment is also different. Although everyone has experienced the Japanese-Russian battle, Lin Wen later sneaked into the pass to support Zhejiang. He stabilized the situation under the collapse of the entire Zhejiang Front Army and opened a base in Yanzhou according to Yang Rui's instructions. The Qing army encircled and suppressed the troops, and the most important thing is that most of the officers were not qualified, so he could only ask the entire army to strictly abide by the orders and concentrate all their forces together, which led to the Yanzhou Fuxing Army today; and Li Chengyuan has been

Tonghua Mountain Army, because several forces intertwined and all the foundations were good, they were not as urgent as Yanzhou. The officer team was very qualified in terms of numbers and experience. The most important thing was that in order to cope with the encirclement and suppression of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Rui implemented the company commander's responsibility system. According to the view of the Vietnam War in later generations, he believed that jungle war was the war of the company commanders - the military's management style was more flexible, and often only gave a goal and did not limit the method of achieving the goal, so as to cultivate the overall concept of the officers.

After all, if the army is a machine, then Lin Wenqian hopes that every officer is a part of the machine, so that he can gather strength and achieve victory; while Li Chengyuan, or Tonghua Mountain Army, also believes that the army is a machine, they believe that the machine is modular. If necessary, the entire machine can be split into various small machines, and then these small machines operate alone under the command of officers at all levels and fight in cooperation.

Regarding the differences in styles between the two, among the chief officers of the Wartime Command, Lin Wenqian and Zhang Chengyue, both believed that such unscrupulous behavior should be severely punished. Fang Yanchen, an officer from guerrilla warfare, also had the Chief of Staff Zhou Sixu, who believed that Li Chengyuan could be punished slightly, and there was no need to take this matter too seriously. Now Zhou Sixu took the opportunity to mention Li Chengyuan's affairs, just to deal with this matter while Lin Wenqian was happy.

After Zhou Sixu finished speaking, Lin Wenqian said with a calm face: "I don't agree with any of the things Cheng Yuan said. In military operations, as long as one head, it is the command center. Everyone can't have their own ideas. Every officer does this, so what else should the General Staff do? At that time, everyone thinks that they have a better idea, and the entire army will be in chaos. What I mean is that this matter should be dealt with strictly. If Cheng Yuan doesn't teach him a lesson, he will still do things in chaos in the future."

After Lin Wenqian finished speaking, Fang Yanchen interjected, "Chengyuan shouldn't fire the gun in advance, but we also need to consider the actual situation. At least the result of this matter is not bad. I think it's better to withdraw his brigade commander and let him become the commander of the artillery regiment."

As soon as Fang Yanchen said he was dismissed, Zhou Sixu next to him said, "What should I do if the artillery brigade? Who will take over the command?"

"Chen Dashan doesn't know if it's OK. If not, let Cheng Yuan be the acting brigade commander." Fang Yanchen said. He wanted to deal with it lightly. Li Chengyuan's military rank and position were not changed, and he was still in charge of the artillery brigade.

As soon as he said this, Lin Wenqian said, "This is not too cheap. It is because the result of his work is good, so that he must be dealt with strictly. This will teach other officers a lesson. I mean that the military rank must be lowered, otherwise he will not be moved."
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