In the Zhejiang Governor's Mansion, Zhu Rui and a group of generals under him sat in the hall. Although Zhu Rui did not get the official title of Governor of Zhejiang, and he did not even have a self-proclaimed title, this did not prevent him from living in the Governor's Mansion.

"Commander, strike first, and then suffer. Now that the First Division of the National Army outside has put on a posture, it is definitely not an outing. If they only have 10,000 people, it's okay, we have more than 30,000, and the brothers are all people who have fought old battles, and this rush over can slaughter the one named Yuan Fang, and then arrest the one surnamed Jiang and everything will be over. But if it drags on like this, if the Nationalist Army transfers all their men and horses over in Yiwu, it will not be easy to do at that time! ”

Someone simply suggested: "If you want me to say, what are you waiting for, just start fighting, just drive this national army back to Fujian in one go!" ”

"That's it! The people from Jinhua have already sent a telegram, saying that the Second Division of the Nationalist Army over there has left overnight, isn't this clearly coming to deal with us! ”

Seeing that the generals under his command all said that they wanted to fight early, Zhu Rui was also mentally hesitant.

He needs to think more than the generals under him, he knows very well that many people are paying attention to the situation in Zhejiang, and he knows even more that there is no one in China who wants to see the national army move north and completely control Zhejiang. And does Chen Jingyun have the courage to take the initiative to attack himself in the face of the world's condemnation?

Zhu Rui couldn't figure it out, because he wasn't Chen Jingyun, and he didn't know what Chen Jingyun was thinking. According to him, even if outsiders pay attention to Zhejiang, the Zhejiang War Rebellion is definitely a good excuse to march into northern Zhejiang, if he Zhu Rui has such an opportunity, he will definitely do it, instead of estimating any nonsense such as public opinion.

But he wasn't sure if Chen Jingyun would think the same way. If Chen Jingyun only wanted to defend himself and did not have the intention of taking the initiative to attack, would his initiative to attack the national army cause other impacts?

While Zhu Rui and Yizi were discussing the way out, things were developing in a direction they didn't expect.

Outside Hangzhou, a company under the 8th Regiment of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division was being ordered to be stationed in a section of hillside rear defense tens of meters long, and hundreds of meters away from them were the troops of the Nationalist Army. Since yesterday, the troops of the two sides have been approaching one after another, but they have tacitly stopped and started to build fortifications, and in just one day, a state of initial confrontation has been formed.

"Ge Laozi, these Fujian guys don't get tired of digging that thing all day!" A platoon commander of the Zhejiang army was smoking dry tobacco while talking nonsense.

The little soldier next to him who filled him with cigarettes said: "Isn't it, I think they are rats, and they dig holes in the ground!" ”

"Haha! That's right, it's a mouse! The platoon commander laughed: "If you really want to fight, Lao Tzu will shoot one at a time, and he will fight rats!" ”

As soon as the word rat finished speaking, there was a crisp gunshot.

As soon as he heard the gunshots, the platoon commander immediately fell to the ground, and the cigarette barrel in his hand was also thrown aside: "What's the matter, there are guns there, is it the national army?" ”

But no one answered him, and then several gunshots rang out in a row, and with this continuous gunshot, the Zhejiang army position was in chaos, and people kept shouting: "The Nationalist Army is coming, the Nationalist Army is coming, shoot quickly, shoot ......."

Even the platoon commander had not yet figured out what was going on, and the soldiers of the Zhejiang army just picked up their guns one after another and shot forward, and no one knew if there was an enemy in front of them.

After the continuous gunshots rang out, there were also bursts of gunshots of fried beans on the opposite side!

"Fuck, what the hell is going on? Did the Nationalist Army come over after all? At this time, the company commander of the Zhejiang Army was already running over in stride, and the military uniform on his body was not yet worn, and at this time, a stray bullet that flew from nowhere hit the company commander, and the company commander fell down all of a sudden, and the blood in his chest continued to spurt out, and he shouted before he died: "Fight, hit Lao Tzu hard!" ”

After saying that, it is a dead breath.

The order given by the company commander before his death was faithfully executed, and the Zhejiang army of this company quickly entered the combat state, and then launched a confrontation with the national army on the opposite side, and this situation soon spread, and the reality was a battalion, then a regiment, and finally there was a continuous sound of gunfire on the entire front.

At the same time that the gunfire continued to ring, the officers at the grassroots level on both sides began to command the battle according to their instincts, and some of them saw that the other side had a loophole, and quickly commanded the troops to capture the enemy's territory, and in just half an hour, before the high-ranking generals of both sides could figure out what was happening, the troops of both sides were already entangled, and even the artillery of both sides had begun to fire after receiving a request for artillery support.

As soon as Yuan Fang learned that there was an exchange of fire among the front-line troops, he immediately asked the front line about the battle situation, but the subordinate regiment commanders and even the battalion commanders couldn't figure out what was going on, they only knew that the enemy army was suddenly fighting, and his own side naturally couldn't wait for death, so he launched a counterattack.

Faced with this situation, Yuan Fang was very angry, and he didn't care about anything else, so he personally went to the front line to inquire about the situation, but he still didn't know anything. In the end, in order to evade responsibility, some grass-roots officers insisted that the enemy should open fire and attack first, and one of the battalion commanders even said: "Division, the enemy's attack is organized and premeditated, and within an hour of the start of the battle, the enemy has already captured three positions of our army, and it was not until our battalion put into reserve that we regained the position!" ”

Of course, he did not say that many units of the Nationalist Army had so far broken through to the hinterland of the enemy front.

In this case, Yuan Fang could only believe that the enemy had launched an attack on him, and immediately said: "Emergency Command, the headquarters was attacked by Zhu Rui's Second Division, and there was a large-scale exchange of fire between the two sides!" The first division is now as stable as Mount Tai, and has not lost a single position, please give the headquarters instructions for the next step! ”

He then personally inquired about the battle situation with the battalions, and then made the next tactical arrangement according to the battle reports under his control, concentrating the flanks that were too weak to the central part, trying to avoid the weakness of the troops.

Like the Nationalist Army, Zhu Rui's 2nd Division was completely unprepared for this sudden large-scale firefight, and now Zhu Rui is still discussing the future strategy with a group of generals. And Ye Songbin and other senior generals who commanded the troops on the scene were also similar to Yuan Fang, they just couldn't understand the real situation at all, and the battalion commanders and regiment commanders below didn't know what was going on at all, the only thing they knew was that the two sides suddenly exchanged fire, and then almost before they could reflect, the troops of the two sides had already crossed together, attacking and defending each other.

An hour after the exchange of fire, several positions had already called for help from their superiors.

Ye Songbin, who had just been called back, had not yet learned the real situation, but he was in a hurry to mobilize troops to reinforce or fill the defensive line, and he did not know the real situation at all.

Because the first division of the national army was not the full strength of the second division, there were only two brigades of nearly 10,000 people, and the second division was called a division, but after Zhu Rui's expansion, it was already organized into five brigades and ten regiments. At present, when there is an exchange of fire between the two brigades and the 1st Division of the National Army, the weakness of firepower is fully manifested.

In less than two hours, Ye Songbin received a preliminary casualty report, and just two hours later, more than 100 people were killed and more than 300 others were injured. You must know that the battle started for two hours now, but because both sides were commanded by the instinct of grassroots officers, there was no offensive and defensive battle on the scale of the attack, but more of a mutual shooting. Most of these casualties were also caused by the artillery of the National Army.

More than 400 people were lost in two hours, which made Ye Songbin predict that he was not in a hurry, and at the same time, he hurriedly asked Zhu Rui in Hangzhou City for reinforcements.

Zhu Rui was still in a meeting with the generals, and the gunshots could not be heard due to the distance, but when the divisional artillery regiment of the National Army fired to provide artillery support for the front-line troops, the rumbling noise finally made Zhu Rui realize that something was wrong.

Sure enough, soon someone on horseback came to report that the enemy was attacking and that our army was stubbornly resisting.

"I knew it, I knew it, this Jiang Zunwei and Chen Jingyun are not good things!" Immediately, the generals of the Zhejiang army scolded.

"We haven't beaten them yet, but they actually came to the door, is it really because I have no one in Zhejiang?"

"Commander, what are you waiting for, send a large army immediately, they are just a division now, let's press them together, we can solve them in one day!" Someone is arrogant.

Zhu Rui also felt a little angry, originally thought that there would be no war in a short time, but he would think that the national army would attack at this time, so he immediately entered the conference room with a group of generals, and then began to plan the battle arrangement against the map near Hangzhou.

And at this time, Ye Songbin's letter for help was also sent to Zhu Rui, when Zhu Rui saw that there were nearly 500 casualties in just two hours of fighting, his face was full of doubts, Ye Songbin was Zhu Rui's confidant general, Zhu Rui did not think that he would lie about this kind of thing, expand or shrink the number of casualties.

Five hundred casualties in two hours?

This gave Zhu Rui a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of the National Army, and he immediately didn't care about anything else, and immediately said to several generals present: "If the National Army wants to play ruthlessly, we will accompany it!" ”

"The third brigade can go to Ye Songbin for reinforcements, and the fourth brigade will go out of Hongbei Mountain!"

Zhu Rui is an old qualified general, and he made tactical arrangements almost instantly!

"I want to see if this Chen Jingyun, who was boasted in the newspaper as the second master of the south along with Cai Yi, really has three heads and six arms, and whether the national army under his command can stop my second division!" After Zhu Rui said that, he took a group of generals out of the Governor's Mansion and went to the front line outside Hangzhou.