Once the civil war begins, Song Biao will not plan to stop.

On August 23, the first and second infantry divisions, which arrived in Wuhan one after another, surrounded the Eighth Town and the 21st Mixed Association New Army, and the two sides were about to officially start a civil war.

In order to cope with the Chinese Revolutionary Army's national chess game, the Tongmenghui has been actively suggesting that the new troops of each province have been renamed the provincial autonomous army. Guangdong, Guangxi and Sichuan have responded to this call. In order to prevent this trend from continuing to spread, the First Army Governor Zhao Tingzhu received the

After Song Biao's telegram, he formally attacked the new Hubei army, occupied the three towns of Wuhan, and included Hubei in the jurisdiction of the provisional government.

Zhao Tingzhu was in his prime and 28 years old this year. He was very energetic. He was the youngest among all the soldiers and could be called a young marshal. With his background in the Russian church school, he was compared to Zhang Yahu, Chen Wu and others.

The further study of military academies such as Far East Land and Military Academy was much smoother. From the time he enrolled in September 1905 to the time he graduated from the Far East Land and Military Academy class in November 1906, he graduated with the first place among the 85 students in the infantry department.

After half a year, he finished his studies from the small class of the Staff Department. In April 1907, he went to the Russian Staff Academy for further studies, and in September he went to the German Staff Academy for further studies for another half a year. In April 1908, he returned to China to continue to serve as the brigade commander of the First Infantry Brigade.

Life...is that's it.

There are actually many people who are able to achieve great things, and sometimes they only need such luck and opportunities.

At this time, Zhao Tingzhu was not only the governor of the First Army, but also the leader of the Far East Main Sect within the Northeast Army, but also the mainstay of the imperial party. He was neither a naturally intelligent man like Chen Qicai, nor a knowledgeable and thoughtful person as Jiang Fangzhen

He just worked harder than others, and had more opportunities to learn and practice. The pain of losing his parents when he was a teenager, the difficulties of the gang when he was a young man, the Russo-Japanese War and the experience of clearing out bandits in the mountains and fields of the three northeastern provinces have all become

The most precious wealth in his life.

He did not participate in every fierce battle of the Northeast Army like Zhang Yahu and Chen Wu. He fought Heigoutai and Jiangjiayao. When Zhang Yahu and Chen Wu followed Song Biao to fight the Liaoyang Battle, he had already led the army.

When he was clearing out bandits in Jilin Province and attacking Feng Linge, he was granted the power to command multiple troops for the first time. In fact, the battle was not good. If it weren't for his strong strength, he would have been dragged down by the guerrilla warfare of the bandits' troops.

It is also a very valuable military experience for him.

At this time, on the bank of the Yangtze River, his first division commander was Fu Liangzuo, the chief of staff of the First Army was Chen Qicai, and the highest military adviser was the Martoste School of the First Staff Bureau. There were 1/2 of the staff officials in the First Staff Bureau.

He and his consultants were in Hanyang, planning the overall situation for him and preparing for logistics.

Because he is proficient in Russian, to this day, the First Infantry Division led by him still retains more than 20 Russian consultants, engaged in training and teaching, which is the source of the first Infantry Division's brave and elite combat forces.

After the first round of artillery fire at 9:00 a.m., Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, Chen Qicai, Martost School, and Fu Liangzuo went to Jiangan to inspect. He used a 7-magnification tube telescope provided by Germany's Zeiss company to observe the other side. At 1.3 kilometers, he

On the Wuchang River embankment outside, almost all the fortifications along the river of the Hubei Revolutionary Army were destroyed.

The opponent is really weak.

He knew that his opponent was Huang Xing, the legendary deputy leader of the Tongmenghui, Huang Keqiang.

The Hubei Revolutionary Army arranged a large number of fortifications along the coast, which were simple and huge, lacking cement bunkers and various other solid fortifications, and they even lacked machine guns. The only few machine gun points were accurately annihilated by the artillery.

The Revolutionary Army did not even have a deep defense line, only such a defense along the river, no high and low defense, no joint defense of points, lines and surfaces, and the control of firepower points lacked calculations. The defense line that had been piled up with sandbags for thousands of meters long had been torn to pieces by artillery, and blood was

The body remained in the ground, and the sporadic artillery counterattack of the Revolutionary Army was quickly suppressed.

In short, the opponent lacks a real military leader.

This is Zhao Tingzhu's judgment.

He put away the telescope and sighed to Zhang Yahu beside him: "Maybe as we initially expected, as long as we rush to the side of the Yangtze River, the battle will end. How do you say it? The surname Huang Lian is a Far East

Lu Shi’s new graduates are not as good as those of him. I really don’t understand why the Hubei New Army is willing to accept his command because of his fame?”

Zhang Yahu laughed.

Chen Qicai warned: "Everyone, Your Majesty has emphasized several times that you would rather overestimate your opponent than underestimate your opponent, nor should you underestimate your opponent."

Zhao Tingzhu nodded silently. He knew that the burden was heavy because Chen Wu's third infantry division did not need to continue to go south to Fujian. In addition, the overall situation was already extremely beneficial to the imperial government. He needed to suppress Hubei's new army as soon as possible and turn Hubei and the Empire.

The controlled Hunan was connected together, and from Hunan to Guangxi and Guangdong, they completely defeated the Tongmenghui, and then entered Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and wiped out any province and remnants of local forces in the country that were unwilling to accept the monarchy.

Especially in Sichuan, the brothers of Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, if these two people are not eliminated, the remnants of the Northeast Army will not be eliminated.

The fight against Hubei is to suppress domestic rebel forces, while the fight against Sichuan is to avenge.

As long as the new Hubei army turns against each other or completely defeats and loses the bridgehead of Hubei, other southern provinces will completely abandon the extravagant hope of autonomy, at least they dare not blatantly oppose the imperial rule.

To this end, Zhao Tingzhu, Martos, Chen Qicai and Fu Liangzuo prepared a complete set of combat plans, but now it seems that it is probably not useful.

The two sides of the Yangtze River were storming, and the fire was burning in the continuous houses. In the past half hour of artillery attack, more than 16,000 shells covered the entire Hubei Revolutionary Army's defense line along the river, and two hot air balloons were suspended in the air.

On the wide river.

The specifications of these two hot air balloons are much larger than the ones of the Hubei Revolutionary Army. They have the black three-gun logo of the Northeast Army. The hot air balloons have photography equipment and radio generators. The three people are responsible for operating the hot air balloons.

One person is responsible for investigation and photography, and another person is responsible for power generation.

The hot air balloon of the Hubei Revolutionary Army has never been launched, and the reason is unknown. Perhaps it is because it feels flashy and unreal. The other party seems to like to observe the military dynamics along the other side of the river on the Yellow Crane Tower. If it weren't for Song Biao's previous special explanation, Zhao Tingzhu might have

I would consider blowing up this ancient building directly.

After checking the situation on the other side of the river, Zhao Tingzhu and others returned to the command center and prepared to officially cross the river.

Because the Third Infantry Division did not have to participate in this battle, Chen Qicai designed a crossing plan. He planned to secretly let the Third Infantry Division cross the river to Huangshi in Xishui County, and attack Wuchang through the Daye-Wuchang railway detour. Zhao Tingzhu took this plan.

Modify it. The actions of Chen Wu's Third Infantry Division were exposed, forcing the Hubei Revolutionary Army to separate defenses, while he led his troops to follow Wuhan and forced his way across the river.

Zhao Tingzhu convinced the General Staff. Because what the Northeast Army needs at this time is a positive absolute victory, which directly crushes the opponent psychologically. Although it is necessary to take risks, this kind of adventure is worth it.

There is another advantage in crossing the river in Hanyang, that is, members of the Restoration Association of Hubei's new army left the new army very early, formed the Hubei Patrol Army, retreated to the two towns of Hanyang and Hankou, with the help of Far East Commercial Bank and Foreign Shipping Company.

After Zhao Tingzhu arrived in Hanyang, he owned a large number of commercial ships and fishing boats, which could be used for forced ferries.

Hubei New Army originally had 81 m1903 75mm Krupp artillery. However, the shell reserves were insufficient and more than half of it was consumed during the revolutionary uprising. After that, the army split and the restoration of the liberation will deploy artillery, shells and Hanyang Arsenal deployed in Hanyang and Hankou areas.

The inventory of ammunition was transferred away, which means that it was difficult for the Hubei New Army to stop a large-scale artillery counterattack.

In the past few days, Zhao Tingzhu has been constantly luring his opponents to fight back, and has seized the counterattack and destroyed several artillery positions of the Hubei Revolutionary Army.

Unlike Huang Xing and others, Zhao Tingzhu, who had fought more than ten times on a large-scale bandit suppression campaign alone, has rich combat and command experience and has participated in real wars. He knows it very well. In the past half month, he has been constantly

During the temptation, he had confirmed that his opponent's combat power was not high and his will to resist was not high.

So, the battle will end at the moment when the Imperial Army travels through the Yangtze River.

The revolution has been successful, and now of course it is time to enjoy the fruits of victory. As a result, there will be a war and even fight with stronger opponents. The soldiers will definitely not understand.

After Zhao Tingzhu and others returned to the command center, the second round of artillery attacks of the First Army was fired again. More than 170 artillery guns from six artillery positions were launched at the same time, and the entire enemy positions along the river were suppressed twice.

The Yangtze River Fleet controlled by the Restoration Association also sent four warships to participate in the operation, escorting merchant ships and fishing boats to transport the outpost troops of the First Infantry Division to the other shore.

The whole process was as smooth as Zhao Tingzhu expected. The several temporary artillery bombings launched by the Revolutionary Army were soon defeated by the targeted countermeasures of the Second Artillery Brigade. The opponent had neither machine gun nor artillery, and several sporadic machine guns.

After being broken up, they could only rely on rifles discharged from human walls to block the crossing of the river.

Zhao Tingzhu watched the 1st Infantry Division crossing the river on the temporary guard tower. The 101st Infantry Regiment was placed in the outpost. The 101st Infantry Regiment of the First Division was the elite unit of the Imperial Tianzi. There is still one

The battalion commander was from the Hunjiang Horse Gang, and the regiment commander Guo Changqin and the other two battalion commanders were old subordinates recruited by Zhao Tingzhu from the Russian church school when recruiting soldiers in Harbin.

The 101st Infantry Regiment, regarded as a direct unit, has always had the courage of the Russian army and is not afraid of sacrifice. He has rushed to the front line in all bandit suppression operations. He took two troop transport ships to the other side first and then rushed forward.

The company first seized the position at the Tankou area, seized the high point, and suppressed the revolutionary army with two heavy machine guns and more than ten light machine guns, so that the subsequent companies could log in and occupy frontier positions on a large scale.

It was not until this time that the Hubei Revolutionary Army suddenly fired at two hidden artillery points like a force. Dozens of shells fell sparsely on the position. Soon, the artillery regiment of the First Division used 54 three-inch Lucia field cannons.

Perform counter-suppression.

Because there are hot air balloons to watch, even if the Revolutionary Army hides artillery in difficult-to-discover houses and woods, it will be completely exposed as soon as it is opened. After some calculations, the Revolutionary Army also found that even though the artillery positions seemed very scattered, more than 30 artillery pieces were scattered.

At more than ten points, the shells of each gun can land on the pre-predicted front. The area is correct, the accuracy is large, and the threat to the First Infantry Division is not great.

Once these artillery were exposed, the scale of the counterattack encountered was surprising.

The real power of artillery has always been in its accuracy and range. Without accuracy and range, artillery is just a mess of grenades, but it just looks scary. The gap in artillery qualities between the two sides seems very obvious.

As the number of countermeasures of artillery continues to increase, the cumulative superimposed damage and gap between the two sides' outs will be wider. The disadvantaged side will become more and more difficult to launch artillery and countermeasures, while the advantaged side will continue to suppress more and more smoothly.

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This is a conclusion that can be drawn without thinking, and it is also the simplest war experience. In actual war, this gap may widen to an unimaginable extent.

In order to facilitate crossing the river and street fighting, the 101st Infantry Regiment was equipped with the m1910 Winchester automatic reloading rifle. The effective accuracy of this rifle is only about 150 meters, but the rapid shooting is extremely fast. A skilled soldier can shoot 40 rounds in one minute.

The rate of fire is that some teams even equipped with an experimental grenade canister with a range of 150 meters and a caliber of 30mm. This simple mortar has a lot of space for use in street combat.

The Revolutionary Army built a large number of defensive positions in the Huanghe Tower and the ancient city wall area based on the mountain advantages of Snake Mountain. The first large-scale battle occurred in the Lanhongting area. The first battalion of the 101st Infantry Regiment and the 20th.

Two targets from the mixed association fight here.

Bullets flew around, crackling and sounding. The bullets fired from the Northeast Army scattered like rain of bullets. Although there was a big gap in force, the light machine guns deployed by the Northeast Army to the squad were quickly exerted.

With extremely strong pressing effect, the crazy firing rate of the m1910 Winchester automatic reloading rifle caught the Revolutionary Army off guard.

In the previous few battles, every time the Beiyang Army encountered the Northeast Army, it was difficult for more than ten minutes. It retreated at a moment's touch, and it was defeated on a large scale as soon as it retreated. The Hubei Revolutionary Army was unable to escape such a fate.

It is not a contest of the same level at all, just like a contest between a world boxing champion and a weak scholar. If you hit it with an iron fist, the other party will not dare to hit it again.

In conventional operations, the Northeast Army usually adopts tactical operations of three companies advancing alternately. Each company platoons and each platoons advance in sequence, in an orderly manner. Each line takes turns to be responsible for the high points of their respective capturing areas and machine gun points.

a breakthrough.

The gap in tactical training level is exposed at this moment, and others cannot feel it. The officers and soldiers themselves have the most obvious feelings. Once the judgment appears, everyone can only retreat wildly.

The revolutionary army's plan to rely on Snake Mountain for sniper operations was soon declared bankrupt. The level of energy that had been laid out was not high, and the large number of fortifications became waste. The soldiers of the 21st Mixed Association soon became large-scale.

The choice to surrender.

Everyone knows that this is a battle within the Revolutionary Army. As long as you surrender, you can change your camp and continue to pay military salaries. If Huang Xing from the Tongmenghui had not brought a batch of military salaries urgently, they should have turned to the Provisional Government a month ago.

For soldiers, it’s enough to have a government, but it doesn’t matter what kind of government it is.

Zhao Tingzhu's initial prediction was basically correct. The battle of crossing the river was basically over in Snake Mountain. Half of the revolutionary army was defeated and half surrendered.

From 9:50 to the Northeast Army, at 10:15 noon, the Northeast Army's outpost troops had already occupied the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army's uprising. The Eighth Town New Army announced its surrender in the Yumachang and Jiyuqiao areas.

More than a dozen members of the Communist Party of China were suppressed by the officers and soldiers, and these people became scapegoats...!~!
Chapter completed!