220 bandits are very serious

The night is quiet, but Li Xiang can't fall asleep.

Yuan Shikai pointed the attack directly at the armed separation of workers and peasants in Jiangxi, opening the prelude to the great encirclement. As a result, tens of thousands of elite Beiyang troops who occupied Nanjing, like rolling waves, rushed to his enemy base in Jiangxi one after another.

The clouds of war are rolling, and the enemy's army is overwhelm.

The war situation in central Jiangxi is becoming more and more urgent.

In the combat room of the Wuchang Military Commission, from the map on both sides of the Yangtze River full of red blocks, blue circles, curves and arrows, Li Xiang can clearly see the current military situation.

Zeng Gao and Li Xiping's eyes fell on Li Xiang. Li Xiang, who has not received any formal military training, now holds the title of "famous general", and his generals are used to looking up at him like this, which makes him under great pressure.

"My intelligence shows that Li Chun organized the seven divisions in Jiangxi into a three-way column and gathered on the south bank of Yuanshui within five days, preparing to gather and annihilate the main force of Lindong in Qingjiang and Fanyi areas in one fell swoop." Li wanted to speak. Briefly introduce the situation.

"The situation in Nanchang has changed." Zeng Gao said, "Yuan Shikai actually sent more troops to Jiangxi."

"The battle plan is going to change!" Li Xiping said, "Are we transferred from the northern line to Jiangxi?"

"The troops preparing for the Central Plains War can't move. This general policy cannot be changed. Although Lixiang doesn't know much about commanding and combat, as a time traveler, he has a strategic vision and is very good at fighting guerrilla warfare.

"Then how to hit Nanchang?" Li Xiping asked again.

Li Xiang said in a low voice, "Now it's not a question of whether to fight Nanchang or not, but how to smash the encirclement of the Beiyang army."

"No more Nanchang?" Zeng Gao coughed softly and asked.

"At present, it is not a matter of attacking big cities, but a matter of active defense." Li Xiang held his chin and meditated for a long time and said, "Only by resisting Yuan Shikai's encirclement and suppressing this time, the war in Jiangxi continues to stalemate. The Beiyang army can only continue to release troops into Jiangxi. As a result, the troops in other defense areas will be transferred, and the Beiyang army in Henan is bound to weaken."

Zeng knew his intention and said, "Can Lin dong withstand the pressure and defend the enemy's base?"

A dark cloud also rose on Li Xiping's face, with a slightly gloomy smile and said, "Li Chun's seven divisions gathered in Jiangxi..." Then he said nothing.

Li Xiang thought about it and smiled and said, "What are the operational guiding principles of guerrilla warfare? That is, "the enemy enters and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase", referred to as "the sixteen-character formula". The sixteen-character formula includes the basic principles of anti-encirclement and subjugation operations, the two stages of strategic defense and strategic attack, and the two stages of strategic retreat and strategic counterattack in strategic defense. The basic spirit of "Sixteen-character Tips" is to start from the basic characteristics of the enemy is big and small, and the enemy is strong and weak, take advantage of the favorable situation created in the base area, flexibly use the strength and change tactics, seek benefits and avoid harm, promote long and short, strive to preserve and develop yourself in the war, and gradually change the enemy's strength by winning more battles and eliminating the enemy. I am in a weak situation and win the war. ......”

Li wants to borrow the strategy of a great man again. When he said this, he paused, frowned and said, "In order to survive and develop the new weak revolutionary regime in the political environment of powerful and fierce enemies on all sides, it is necessary to adopt a set of special combat principles that are different from the conventional. We should be able to fight and fight in circles. The enemy is "the one who comes is not good, and the one who is good does not come", and we have to "retir from the army". The enemy doesn't know where we are going, so we have to investigate again. Let's lead him in a few circles first. When his weaknesses are exposed, we can catch him accurately, fight hard, play cleanly, and capture him. It's like doing business. You can make money and don't do it. In a word, if you win, you will fight. If you don't win, you will leave. If you come to hit me, I can't beat you. If I come to hit you, I will definitely eat you.

Finally, Li wanted to issue an order to lure the enemy deep into the red area and wait for it to be wiped out. At the same time, it was decided to move the main force to the east bank of the Ganjiang River.

The specific deployment is: take the first regiment of the Yuan army as the middle road, and it is allowed to cross the river near the river in Xingan on the 5th of this month and move towards the camphor tree; take the fourth and twelfth regiments of the Yuan army as the right road, drive to Xiajiang City on the 5th, cross the river on the 6th, and advance to Fuzhou through Chongren; take the third regiment as the left road, as the area on the west bank of the Ganjiang River. Enemy work, etc.

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Li Chun came to a hill on the outskirts of Nanchang. It is about 400 meters from the bank of the Ganjiang River and about 1,800 meters from Nanchang City. Nanchang is shrouded in smoke, and the water in the Ganjiang River is very turbid after the rain.

After the Beiyang army sent troops into Jiangxi again, the Yuan army, which was preparing to attack Nanchang, crossed the Jiangxi army yesterday. It is estimated that there is no further movement for the Yuan army for the time being.

Li Chun looked at Nanchang City and left and right on the hill for about 40 minutes and returned to Nanchang.

Nanchang Street is full of refugees, citizens and soldiers, which is very chaotic. The soldiers who served as escorts were very worried that the guerrillas of Jiangxi Yuan's army among the refugees would attack them, and they looked very nervous.

Li Chun is extremely worried about the battle situation. What impressed him most along the way was the Beiyang officers and soldiers who kept meeting on the road. Whether they were riding horses or walking back to the city, they laughed and cheered when they met a group of people. They couldn't see the shadow of the injured, and soon the smile disappeared. The attitude of officers and soldiers always makes people feel that something is wrong.

"These people have lost their organization and fighting spirit!" Li Chun felt like this as soon as he was shaking.

Wang Zhanyuan felt the same way: "It's really like an army that is only one step away from disintegration!"

Both Beiyang generals think so.

Li Chun came to the Jiangxi Metropolitan Bandit Headquarters located in Nanchang New National School and met Zhang Jingyao.

"I detected that the main force of the two enemy regiments crossed the Ganjiang River in the east, transferred and gathered to its base areas, and carried out work in Yongfeng and Nancheng as a combat readiness. Lin Dong and the pseudo-provincial executive committee government of the Jiangxi Rebel Party set out from the Xiajiang River, retreated along the west bank of the Ganjiang River, and arranged the military and civilian retreat in Ji'an. Zhang Jingyao said excitedly. They are afraid!"

Li Chun couldn't get excited. He walked to the front of the map and pondered. After he found that the main force of the Yuan army went to the east, he was afraid to say, "Will the Yuan army attack Zhangshu and Linchuan?" We have to adjust the layout!"

Zhang Jingyao felt that Li Chun was too bold.

"The two divisions of the 3rd column continue to advance south along the west bank of the Ganjiang River." Li Chun said, "Urgently order the four divisions of the 1st and second columns and one division of the general reserve to cross the Ganjiang River in the east to seek the main force of the chaotic party and bandit army."

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"The main force of the enemy has crossed the river to the east! The third regiment of the Yuan army is from the Qiqin area, the fourth regiment is from the Chongren area, the twelfth regiment is from the Yihuang area, the 20th regiment is from the eight capital area, and the third regiment is from the oilfield area west of the Ganjiang River, one by one to the center of the base area to preserve strength and wait for the opportunity. Lin Dong said.

Put the hope of victory on the armed separation of workers and peasants. Lixiang's guerrilla war ideology has been specifically reflected in the southwestern region of Jiangxi. The armed separation of southwestern Jiangxi has expanded to 20 counties, including Xingguo, Ningdu, Ruijin, Yihuang and Guangchang, occupying 9 counties with an area of 30,000 square kilometers. The population of the base area is about 2 million.

In just a few months, Lin Dong expanded the base to western Fujian, to 7 counties such as Longyan, Shanghang and Changting, occupying two counties, with an area of about 10,000 square kilometers and a population of 800,000.

Li wants to see that in Wuchang has the support of 2.8 million people, and tens of thousands of square kilometers of land belong to his own territory. More than 40,000 main forces will definitely win the initiative of the battle.

According to Li Xiang's fighting ideology, Yuan Jun took the initiative to give up Ji'an City, and Lin Dong set out from Ji'an to Teng Tian in Yongfeng to meet with the main force Yuan Jun.

Along the way, Lin Dong paid special attention to the combat readiness in Ji'an and found that there was no work here.

Lin Dong asked, "What happened to the 20th Regiment? Why did you turn a deaf ear to the instructions of the General Assembly? This is a war, not an argument.

Immediately came up to make a small report and said, "I heard that the 20th Regiment was suspicious of the policy of luring the enemy deeply, and thought it was time to fight to the enemy."

Lin Dong frowned and immediately said, "Such a place can't be used as a battlefield. What we can get, the enemy can also get. It seems that this 20th Army must be rectified.

"Those former generals of the Jiangxi army have no military discipline! It's time to have them!"

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At 3:00 a.m., the Beiyang army began to advance to Ji'an, Jishui and Yongfeng.

Nanchang. Jiangxi Bandit suppression headquarters.

"Report, no enemy has been found!"

Li Chun received reports from Ji'an, Jishui, Yongfeng and other places, which means that the main force of the bandit army was not found.

Li Chun muttered in his heart that the front was getting longer and longer, and then he entered a very serious area of Chihua. It seemed that Lin Dong had been prepared for a long time.

Zhang Jingyao said confidently, "The bandit army has no troops in Ji'an, Jishui and Yongfeng. Seeing that the bandit army does not have many troops, we can destroy the nest of the bandit army in one fell swoop and completely eradicate the bandits in southern Jiangxi."

Just as Wang Zhanyuan lowered his head and thought, Li Chun issued an order: "All troops should slow down the march to prevent the bandits from returning."

Zhang Jingyao curled his lips beside him and scolded, "A coward!"

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Just as Li Chun and Zhang Jingyao scolded each other, the forward headquarters of the Yuan Army Command a little further away also began to be extremely busy.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Dong communicated with Wuchang by radio when the Beiyang Army entered Ji'an, Jishui and Yongfeng, conveying the combat reports prepared by the troops on the front line and the current actions of the Beiyang Army. After receiving Lin Dong's contact, Wuchang replied that he could choose the end point of the strategic retreat in the middle of the base.

After Lin Dong returned to the headquarters of Yuan Jun, he immediately notified the battle plan, announced the decision of the General Staff, and chose the end of this strategic retreat in the middle of the base.

Later, Lin Dong signed an order in Yongfeng and decided to gather the main force in Donggu and Longgang.

Three days later, after repeated consideration, the main force of the Yuan army gathered on the line of Huangpi, Xiaobu and Luokou in Ningdu County.

From the map, the Beiyang Army formed a fan-shaped encirclement of about 90 degrees from Ji'an to Yihuang. And Yuan Jun put up a triangular array, hidden standby