When discussing in the headquarters of the Qing army, Zhang Gong, who was attacking the 15th Division in the south, only circled around in the command post, and now the south is just about to take the Qihao Mountain, and the other highlands have been taken. And if the Banner Mountain is to be taken, then the mountain artillery on its side will have to open fire -- it is useless for the artillery shells of the own army in the north to hit them, and the Qing soldiers on the Banner Mountain only hide in the south of the ridge of the mountain, so that Li Chengyuan's artillery regiment cannot fight, and the own troops occupying the heights of Anshan Temple want to rush up to fight hand-to-hand, but they are suppressed by the mountain artillery of the Qing army under the mountain. Therefore, if you want to break the defense of the Qing army, the best way is to fire artillery from the south, one can cooperate with the artillery regiment in the north to bombard the Qing army on Qihao Mountain in an all-round way, and the other can suppress the Qing artillery in the valley, they are also the same as the Qing army on Qihao Mountain, the artillery array is arranged on the south side of the hill, and the artillery shells in the north are difficult to hit.

Zhang Gong waited anxiously, and finally when it was almost four o'clock, the phone on the side of the artillery regiment rang, and without waiting for the staff officer to answer the phone, Zhang Gong grabbed the microphone and asked loudly: "Okay?" Okay, no? ”

"Report to the division commander, alright. The front line has been contacted. "The voice in the microphone is a little out of tune, and it is completely inaudible that it is the voice of the artillery battalion commander.

"Good! Shoot immediately, aim at the flag mountain, and give me a hard shot! Zhang Gong's nervous heart finally relaxed, with the cannon in hand, he didn't have to worry about winning the battle.

"Wait a minute!" Liu Yaoxun, who had just received a telegram next to him, hurriedly shouted, and then only grabbed the microphone and said: "Now the military commander has an order to prohibit firing artillery on Qihao Mountain, prohibit firing artillery on Qihao Mountain, and only suppress the enemy's artillery." ”

Liu Yaoxun said it into the microphone, but Zhang Gong next to him heard it. Looking at his difference, Liu Yaoxun put down the phone and only handed over the telegram he had just received. Said: "The meaning of the headquarters is not to fight the flag mountain first. ”

There were only a few words on the telegram, and Zhang Gong didn't understand what the headquarters meant at all, and he asked, "What is this for?" ”

"I don't know. I think I'm afraid I'm going to get stuck with Feng Guozhang, so as to lure Cai Ye to come and fight for a while. Liu Yaoxun didn't understand why this was the case, what he said was just his guess, but he didn't think this guess was reliable.

"Don't quickly annihilate Feng Guozhang's troops, and don't quickly clean up the battlefield and retreat. The Qing army in the east was about to enter Yanzhou. Zhang Gong said that Liu Yaoxun was worried, if he didn't hurry up to understand the war here, the four Manchurian and Mongolian towns in Hangzhou would be suppressed.

"The headquarters may have other arrangements." Liu Yaoxun finished speaking. The cannon outside rumbled, and it was the artillery of the Qing army in the valley where two mountain artillery battalions were shelling. "I'd better send a telegram to the headquarters and see what the reason is."

After Liu Yao finished speaking, he went to send a telegram, but he never called back after his telegram went. At this time, the wartime command was also discussing the next direction of the war. Nowadays, in addition to the flag mountain. The other heights have been taken, and the command has two opinions under the control of victory, one is that the chief of staff Zhou Sixiang, that is, according to the original plan, take this opportunity to quickly annihilate Feng Guozhang's troops, and then retreat to Yanzhou to resist the enemy;

The other is Fang Yanchen's, that is, Feng Guozhang's department is already a dead dog, the artillery array in the south and the artillery array in the north, as well as the artillery array on the top of the east and west mountains. Then Qihao Mountain and the Jigong Bridge, which has been under attack for a long time, are not a problem, and it is only a matter of time before these three towns are annihilated. Case. Then the Qing army should be given a way to live, so that they can feel hopeful, and at the same time, let Cai Yi come to the rescue. Under the condition that all of them completely occupy the high ground, it is entirely possible to pull Cai Yi's side closer to half a town and a town.

Fang Yanchen is thinking about maximizing the results of the battle, as for the other Qing troops that are marching towards Yanzhou, he also has a countermeasure, and now it has been ascertained that the patrol battalion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the third town of the Manchu and Mongolian New Army, so since the patrol battalion on Feng Guozhang's side is the Manchurian and Mongolian New Army, is the patrol battalion on Cai Ye's side also the Manchurian New Army? Fang Yanchen thinks so. Since there are six towns on Feng Guozhang's side, there are only two Manchurian and Mongolian new military towns on the Hangzhou side, and the other two are pretended to be patrol battalions. The two towns of the Fourth Army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the west can be ignored, although there are four towns in the north, but it is also very safe to have internal responses, and now on the east side, only one brigade of the 8th Division is attacking and harassing, if another brigade is transferred from the battlefield, the strength of a mountain division can still block the offensive of the Qing army against these two Manchu and Mongolian new army towns. In that case, it is not necessary for those to the south to end the battle quickly.

Fang Yanchen only analyzed the matter very thoroughly, and also said that the strategy was the first thing, but Zhou Sixu still said: "Things may indeed be like this, but there are still many places where there will be problems, for example, what if Cai Yi does not have a Manmeng new military town on his side, and he drags us regardless of casualties?" Then there are the three Jiangsu towns and one Anhui town of the Third Army of the Qing Army in the north, although there are our people in it, but there is only one regiment of troops over there attacking them, once the Manchu Qing Dynasty puts pressure on them, even if they don't want to leave, they can only advance forward. ”

"Then divide another regiment from the east to the north, so that one and a half brigades will look at the two towns of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the east, a brigade will look at the four towns in the north, and a regiment will look at the two Hubei towns of the Fourth Army in the west." Fang Yanchen said again: "Except for the Manchurian and Mongolian New Army, the fighting spirit of the other New Army is not too strong, as long as the news of our side encircling and annihilating Feng Guozhang's troops comes out, then they will definitely have no time to retreat." We can't see the Qing army as a unit like us, many of those soldiers are soldiers just for food, they don't know why they are fighting, I believe, don't say that Feng Guozhang's three towns were surrounded and annihilated, even if the news of Feng Guozhang's death spreads, they can withdraw from the army. ”

Fang Yanchen gushed endlessly, and as soon as he finished speaking, there was no opposition in the entire war room, and after a while, Lin Wenqian said: "If you do what you say, how will the next battle be fought?" ”

Seeing that Lin Wenqian was a little moved, Fang Yanchen pointed to the path under the Banner Mountain: "From Qudou Village to Huayi Mountain under the Banner Mountain, and then out of the valley to Leiwuyuan Village, this road is the only way to survive the besieged Qing army. The only key point that the Qing army had on this road was Qihao Mountain, and even Qihao Mountain was under the threat of our army's artillery fire. If Cai Yi's department wants to rescue, it can only be along the side of the Lei Wu source, when the time comes, we dig a trench to block the enemy, and the loss must be him, and now we have captured the Qing army's 50 Makqin machine guns, and the ammunition is completely sufficient, as long as the Lei Wu source is dug and fortified, then the Qing army will have to rush up. As soon as the war is stalemate, then we can eliminate Feng Guozhang's troops, and we can eat Cai Yi one or two more towns when we turn around. ”

"But what if the Qing army in the encirclement breaks through?" Lin Wenqian asked again, he actually felt that Fang Yanchen was very right, that is, if only two Manchu and Mongolian new army towns were attacked in the east, then he could accept the battle in no hurry, and it would not be too late to eat more Manchu towns. However, he was worried that the Qing army in the encirclement would turn over.

"Now that the artillery of the Qing army is completely destroyed, when the dawn begins, we can begin to compress the defense line of the Qing army with the cooperation of artillery. A little tightening of the noose would not provoke them to resist violently. Fang Yanchen said: "If they really jump over the wall in a hurry, then there are still four artillery formations in the north and south on the top of the east and west mountains, and they can completely crush the Qing army with cannonballs." Now they are holding less than five square kilometers, and if we can compress them again, then we can solve the battle with shells. ”

Hearing that Fang Yanchen wanted to use artillery shells to solve the battle, Zhang Chengyue said with a smile: "A mountain artillery shell is more than five taels of silver, and the price of a mortar shell is almost two taels. In my opinion, by that time, it would be better to persuade the Qing army to surrender. Now in the encirclement, that is, there are less than 20,000 people, most of them are Han Chinese, as long as they send people to persuade them to surrender, even if the town commanders above do not agree, the soldiers below will rebel. ”

The 25th and 26th towns and even the 3rd town of Manchu and Mongolia have prisoners in their hands, plus there is also Yao Yuping's department who came over to surrender, Zhang Chengyue believes that as long as he shouts the broadcast, then the Qing army inside will immediately surrender, if he does some more ideological work for the soldiers, then he can make up another brigade, this is because they are all people from the two Guangzhou, if Anhui is still a soldier from Jiangsu, I am afraid that there will be more anyway.

"Alright! Since there is time, the General Staff will make a plan according to this meaning. Lin Wenqian said: "The most important thing is to replenish the machine gun and ammunition for Zhang Gong's side, and let him dig the fortifications and entangle Cai Jie." As for the Qing army in the valley, we occupied the high ground, and we had an advantage in artillery fire, so it was enough to surround it with one division. ”

Lin Wenqian roughly agreed with Fang Yanchen's plan, but he had other thoughts, and after speaking, he looked at the map and said: "We will add a regiment to Zhang Gong's side, and he will send a regiment to detour Cai Yi's retreat, and when the two armies are fighting, cut off the grain and grass supply of the Qing army, and then Feng Guozhang's troops will be surrounded and annihilated again, then the Qing army must be panicked, this is our opportunity!" Maybe you can directly chase Cai Ye to Lanxi City. ”

Lin Wenqian actually wanted to defeat Cai Yi's department, although it was not impossible, but just after eating Feng Guozhang's department, and then eating Cai's department, everyone present looked at him very strangely. Seeing that everyone had seen it, Lin Wenqian smiled and said: "Isn't there our big political commissar Yin Ge, when the time comes, when Feng Guozhang's troops surrender, then those soldiers in Liangguang only need to do a little ideological work, then they will be issued with rifles immediately, so that they can supplement our ranks." Now the morale is on our side, and it is a tailwind war, and these people can still be used. ”

"But ......" Fang Yanchen was bold, Lin Wenqian was even bolder, that is, Zhang Chengyue said: "Zhou marrow, don't forget jì, there are few people here in the political department who know Cantonese, you let us do ideological work, how to do work if we can't understand the words?" ”

"Isn't there a battalion over there in Yao Yuping?" Lin Wenqian still smiled: "You can teach them right away and let them do the ideological work of those Cantonese people." (To be continued......)