Li Chun led the army north, and the smoke and dust rolled up by tens of thousands of troops covered the sky, and on the broken terrain of the Loess Plateau, tens of thousands of troops stretched for miles even if they tried their best to close. Li Chun is also very helpless about this, after all, the topography of the Loess Plateau was formed by thousands of years of erosion of heaven and earth. It's not human that can be changed. All he could do now was send out scouts as much as he could to prevent his troops from being ambushed again. Li Chun, who has suffered a big loss in an ambush, is holding back his strength this time and must find his way back. Otherwise, his title as the head of the three governors of Beiyang would be completely abolished. After all, how can a general who can't lead troops to win a battle be a good general.

Zhen'an County, a small county in southern Shaanxi, prospered before Li Chun returned from northern Sichuan, when wealthy merchants throughout Shaanxi had people moving in this area, and then smuggled the purchased military supplies into Sichuan through secret channels. Profiteering.

At the moment when the Southwest War broke out in Beiyang, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang joined forces to blockade the southwest region. It is hoped that the weak economy of the southwest can be disrupted and the development potential of Cai Ye can be cut off. Under the strong pressure of Beiyang, the forces around the southwest naturally did not dare to slack off, Chen Shufan, as the emperor of Shaanxi, said nothing in Shaanxi, but looking at the whole country, he was only a small person and a small warlord. After all, there are three huge warlords in Beiyang, Northeast and Southwest that span several provinces in front of them, and Chen Shufan's achievements are very inadequate.

Therefore, under the orders of Beiyang, Chen Shufan wisely blocked all trade routes between Shaanxi and Sichuan. It's just that although he explicitly blocked the trade routes, he should never underestimate the ability of merchants to pursue profits, coupled with the ** degree of the Shaanxi Governor's Mansion, all the road cards are useless. The families have banded together to sell military supplies to the southwest for profit, and of course, they will not forget to pay their filial piety to the Overseer's Palace. Therefore, with Chen Shufan's acquiescence, the entire Shaanxi smuggling group was about to be formed.

It's a pity that Li Chun's sudden defeat and return made the entire southern Shaanxi requisitioned by Li Chun, who lost the red eye. Li Chun drove Chen Shufan's people to the north as soon as possible, if it weren't for Chen Shufan's scruples about the Beiyang behind Li Chun, I'm afraid the two would have fought a long time ago. Li Chun didn't know that he had offended countless Shaanxi magnates by doing so. After all, cutting off people's financial means is tantamount to killing their parents. It's just that the power is far inferior to the strength in these years, and if you want to talk about influence, the influence of these big families in the local area has different repercussions, and they can even incite people to subvert the rule of zhèng fǔ, but for Li Chun, a warlord from another province, as long as there are soldiers and guns in his hands, the others don't care at all. After all, Shaanxi is the foundation of Chen Shufan, not his Li Chun's, as long as Jiangsu is fine, his position as the superintendent of Jiangsu will be unbreakable. The reason why he is working so hard now is because his reputation has been hit hard by the failure of northern Sichuan last time. This is a heavy blow to Li Chun, who is ambitious and wants to go further. In addition, now that he has integrated the troops in his hands, although it is not a sharp one, it is still no problem to use it against the Qin army, which is also a rabble.

Although the two sides raised their troops in succession, because they were afraid of being ambushed, Li Chun's troops did not advance quickly, and it took two days to occupy Zhen'an County. Zhen'an County, as the county seat on the edge of southern Shaanxi, was originally stationed with many troops of the Qin army. At that time, Chen Shufan's garrison here was also to prevent Li Chunque's nest from occupying the dove. It was only later that Chen Shufan took refuge in Duan Qirui of the Anhui system, and Li Chun relented a lot in southern Shaanxi after knowing it. After all, it is Premier Duan who is now in power in Beiyang. Although he Li Chun has a resounding name and a domineering style, he is not an Anhui general after all, and in the heart of Chief Duan, he is definitely not as valued as Chen Shufan, the leader of the Qin army who has just surrendered. Seeing Li Chun retreating, Chen Shufan also withdrew the garrison in Zhen'an, transferred all the troops to the vicinity of Xi'an, and prepared to go north to resist the Northeast Security Army, but Chen Shufan didn't think that when his army surrounded him, Hu Jingyi decisively killed him. There was even a large army sent by the Northeast to take over his troops, so that his years of hard work were in vain.

Zhen'an County, County Yazhong. Li Chun's temporary headquarters is located here. The people of Zhen'an County are very wise to hide in their homes. At this time, the discipline of the warlord army was not very good, and if he went out and collided with the military master, not only would his own life be difficult to protect, but he would even affect his family and friends.

"Report to the Overseer, find traces of the Qin army's large army fifty miles away from the county seat!" The commander of the reconnaissance battalion said excitedly.

"Great! How many people are there? "Li Chun jīng God is greatly inspired. You know, if you find a large force of the enemy, you don't have to worry too much about the enemy ambushing him.

"The troops should be more than 10,000 people, no more than 15,000 at most!"

"Are you sure there are only more than 10,000 people? That's impossible! According to our original information, there are more than 30,000 people in the Qin army! It can't be so little. Li Chun shook his head and said.

"Are there any reinforcements in the back?"

"No, our men bypassed them and reconnoitred for twenty miles, but they didn't find a single force! Not even their baggage team found out! ”

"Why is that?" Li Chun frowned.

"Overseer, is the enemy going to fight on their backs?" A middle-aged man with a full face said. He was Li Chun's staff recruited in the Ankang area, and Li Chun's original staff had already died during the last escape. After all, most of the staff members were literati, and they were powerless, and they needed to send troops to protect them, but the situation at that time made it difficult for Li Chun to protect the army itself, so how could he still think about others.

When he stabilized his position in the Ankang area of Shaanxi, all kinds of troubles came one after another, so that Li Chun was not very troubled. In his old nest, Jiangsu still has a lot of staff. It's just that Shaanxi is too far away from Jiangsu. Far water can't quench the thirst of the near, in order to make it easier for himself, Li Chun had to recruit his own staff in Ankang. And the middle-aged man with a face full of vegetables in front of him is the new staff recruited by Li Chun.

His name is Han Jin, and he is a down-and-out talent. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, these talents also lost their original status, and most of them either became other people's staff or stayed in the local area to teach and make a living. After all, these old-fashioned literati had no other ability than to teach and write. And Han Jin is better than other poor showmen, because he has been to Shanghai and other places for a while, but he is not satisfied, and he returns to his hometown gloomily. When Li Chun was recruiting staff, he took the initiative to apply. Originally, Li Chun didn't look down on a poor talent like him, but the degree of openness in Shaanxi was limited, and people like Han Jin who had seen the world were already considered talents, after all, Han Jin was literate and could help him deal with some copywriting work. So Li Chun left him.

It's just that I don't pay much attention to him. It's just that Han Jin himself doesn't realize it, and he always feels good about himself. He always regarded himself as Zhuge Liang who assisted Uncle Liu Huang, and his favorite thing was to give advice to Li Chun, but unfortunately, Li Chun didn't take his opinion seriously at all. A lot of the time, it is the mentality of looking at the clown to treat Han Jin's advice.

"A battle against the odds will never involve just more than 10,000 troops. Could it be that they have other armies lying in ambush somewhere else? Li Chun said suspiciously.

"Battalion Commander Jin, you immediately dispatch all the scouts and carefully search the radius of dozens of miles for me, I want to make sure that there is no Qin army ambush within fifty miles of this double circle!" Li Chunshen said solemnly.

After the reconnaissance battalion commander went down, Li Chun turned to his staff member Han Jin and said, "You immediately draft a telegram to be sent to Běi Jīng." I want detailed information about the Qin army. "Li Chun is not a local, so naturally he can't grasp the local intelligence force. Now he's facing something weird, so he's going to have to figure out what's going on. And this hope can only be pinned on the head of the běi jīng section. After all, the intelligence department of the Republic of China still has some skills.

"Report to the Overseer, we have just received information that the Qin army is encamped fifty miles away. Now they are burying the pot and cooking. There are also many Qin soldiers digging caves! Looks like it's going to camp there! ”

"Camping? It seems that the enemy has discovered us. That's right, pass on my order, and the army will camp in this town today! Li Chun had a faint smile on his face.

Fifty miles is not a one-mile journey. Besides, it was a little late, and it was not safe to march at night, so Li Chun also camped and rested.

"Overseer, we can send a force of Jīng Rui to attack at night. This will not only keep the enemy from resting, but also weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness. Han Jin suggested. It's just that his suggestion, as always, did not let Li Chun overseer listen to it.

"No need, Mr. Han, you can go and rest too! Today we are not moving forward! Besides, the enemy is only more than 10,000 people, can we still be afraid of them with an army of 30,000 people! Li Chun said in irrefutable words.

Although Han Jin is not very capable, he still has some ability to observe words and observe sè, and when he saw that Li Chun had the intention of chasing away customers, he was very interested in leaving.

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Li Chunbu buried the pot to cook, and by the time the day was completely bright, the entire army was ready to go. Li Chun was very satisfied with the speed of his subordinates. Although the soldiers of the army were a little apprehensive about going to the battlefield, through their own propaganda, the soldiers knew that the opponents they were about to face, the Qin army, were a rabble who could only bully the common people, and they knew that when their army arrived, the enemy would even collapse without a fight. So now, on the whole, the mentality of the soldiers of the Beiyang Army is still relatively stable. This gave Li Chun another point of confidence in victory.

Twenty miles out of the city, the intelligence of the enemy army on the opposite side was continuously delivered to Li Chun's hands. From the analysis of this information, the enemy did not hide much at all, and even led the army to rush towards him very directly. This made Li Chun surprised and angry at the same time. No matter who the enemy's commander is, he dares to use a force of more than 10,000 people to attack his own army of 30,000, which is simply arrogant. Such a person is either a peerless general, or a madman who doesn't understand anything.

"Report to the Overseer, Běi Jīng Urgent!" The Confidential Section sent Běi Jīng's urgent message to Li Chun's hands.

"Huh? The Qin army really only dispatched more than 10,000 people, including the dú lì regiment that Hu Jingyi started. It should be the rebellious Hu Jingyi who commands the army? "Although it was established through the intelligence system of the Beiyang. But Li Chun still felt unbelievable, you know, through the information he knows about Hu Jingyi, Hu Jingyi is a military student who has studied abroad, has received advanced military education from foreign countries, and he himself is also a very cautious person, and his descendant unit Dú Lì Regiment is also very strong in combat effectiveness, known as the first in the Qin army, and has completed many tricky tasks to suppress bandits. It stands to reason that such a person would not make such an unreasonable decision. It's a dumbfounded.

"Humph! No matter what, since Qin Jun has the confidence to go head-to-head with this Overseer, is this Overseer still afraid of him. This 10,000-strong army is probably the limit that Hu Jingyi can mobilize now. Except for his own 2,000-strong dú lì regiment, which needed more attention, the rest of the troops were a rabble and didn't need to be cared about. When the Overseer annihilates them here, the whole of Shaanxi will become our territory! Although it is impossible for him to serve as the overseer of Shaanxi, there are many rich people in Shaanxi, and after he controls Shaanxi, he can let go and grab a handful, and he will definitely get a lot of wealth. Even if you don't rob it, supporting an Overseer who supports you here will be a lot of political capital in the future.

"Order the troops to move forward at full speed and strive to defeat the Qin army troops at once!" After receiving the information from the Beiyang Headquarters, Li Chun's confidence swelled unprecedentedly.

"Report to the Overseers, the enemy has set up a defensive position ten miles ahead!" The scout sent the latest information to Li Chun's hands.

"Don't you think it's too late to build a defensive position at this time! Order the troops, concentrate your fire, and give me a break through their positions! Li Chun said loudly. He wanted to take advantage of the sharpness of the long-distance attack and the advantage of huge troops to create a situation of Mount Tai pressing the top.

"The 1st Brigade surrounded from the left in a roundabout way, and the 2nd Brigade in a roundabout way from the right. The rest of the troops attacked from the center, and this time the Overseer army was to capture Hu Jingyi alive. Li Chun ordered. If the 30,000-strong army can't swallow the rabble of 10,000 people, then he Li Chun doesn't have to mess around.

The troops themselves have an advantage, and the battlefield environment is not very favorable to themselves, but it does not have much impact on the offensive of the army. So Li Chun never thought that he couldn't win this war.

Temporary command of the Qin army. Qian Yansheng, Jiang Qi, and Hu Jingyi each had a telescope, looking at the situation on the battlefield.

"Commander, this defensive position is too simple to build. It is simply impossible to resist the enemy's attack for a long time! Hu Jingyi said with some worry. He studied military affairs abroad, and he has some heart for positional warfare. The defensive positions built by Qian Yansheng and them were obviously shoddy, and they only barely suppressed the attackers with the help of the high ground in front of them, and such terrain could not become a strong fortress at all. Even Hu Jingyi was worried that as long as the enemy launched a large-scale charge desperately, he could break through the defense line of the Northeast Army at most three times.

"Of course I know this, and I didn't want to let the enemy attack for a long time." Qian Yansheng said with a smile: "In my heart, the best defense is offense!" If it weren't for the scruples of the two sides, the gap in strength between the two sides was relatively large. The commander had long since ordered the troops to launch a direct attack on the enemy. ”

"Direct attack? Commander, the enemy has a threefold superiority in strength! Hu Jingyi said in surprise.

"So what?"

Hu Jingyi was stunned. Looking at Qian Yansheng's confident smile, Hu Jingyi had to admit that this kind of self-confidence in the Northeast generals was very contagious. It wasn't until Hu Jingyi slowly integrated into the Northeast Security Army that he realized how wonderful the confidence brought by the huge forces in the Northeast was. It's just that at that time, he was already a general in command of the side.

Boom Boom Boom ...... Da Da Da ...... On the defensive positions of the Qin army, the roar of mortars and the roar of heavy machine guns suddenly sounded. The massive firepower advantage tore the enemies who rushed to the front to shreds. The charging Beiyang soldiers were rigidly suppressed outside the defensive positions.

"Damn! How could the Qin army have such a huge firepower! Don't they worry about ammunition consumption! Li Chun, who was commanding in the rear, changed his face. You must know that at this time in the country, the only forces that can produce weapons and ammunition by themselves are the Northeast and Beiyang. It's just that the Beiyang bureaucracy makes the domestic military industry production capacity extremely low and cannot meet the ammunition consumption of all troops, so the Beiyang War also needs to purchase weapons and ammunition from foreign countries. This is also the reason why Beiyang had to borrow on a large scale before launching a major war.

"Overseer, our men are back!" Although there are no binoculars, Han Jin, whose eyes are still very pointed, said.

"Hmm!" Li Chun responded, but there was not much panic on his face, and the enemy's desperate pouring of firepower should not be defeated.

Tick Tick Tick Tick ...... A loud military horn suddenly sounded on the Qin army's position. Countless fierce soldiers of the Qin army rushed out of the trenches, holding snowy bayonets, and rushed towards the Beiyang Army opposite.

"This is Qin Jun?" Li Chun, who was standing at the rear headquarters, shouted in disbelief with a face full of disbelief. At first glance, these people are jīng rui, and they are a hundred battles jīng rui, even more jīng rui than the jīng rui division he left in jiangsu.

"Poof!" Han Jin, whose mind was taken away by the momentum of the Qin army, was so frightened that he sat on the ground. The other officers of the command also had their mouths wide in shock.

"Damn, order the 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade to abandon the original encirclement mission. Now assemble as much as you can to zhōng yāng. Be sure to block the enemy's attack! Li Chunshen shouted fiercely. If the enemy's strength on the opposite side was doubled, he Li Chun didn't say a word, and immediately fled with his troops. In the face of such a jīng Rui, the rout troops under his command had no hope at all, and could only be killed. But the enemy was only one-third of his own troops, which gave Li Chun a little hope. And now because of the light enemy at the beginning, his troops have been strangled with the Qin army, and the rash retreat command has completely collapsed the already unstable troops. Therefore, now that the Beiyang Army has been forced to a dead end, either it will defeat the Qin army troops and achieve victory, or it will collapse completely, and even Li Chun has no bottom in his heart about how much he can escape this time.

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