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Unlike Wang Zhanyuan in Hubei who was determined to run, Li Chun in Jiangxi showed a rare fighting spirit and took active actions.Such an attitude has brought a lot of trouble to the youth army's great advance in the Jiangxi area.

Compared with Wang Zhanyuan, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, Li Chun can definitely be regarded as a capable official. During the two years of supervising Jiangxi, he was close to a brigade of his own lineage, and Li Chun easily stabilized the entire province. situation.Not to mention organizing the Gan army into three divisions, they also actively organized and trained local militia groups.Jiangxi is almost the area with the most serious rural conflicts in the southern region, because here the feudal clan power has reached its peak, and the landlords are no longer simple landowners. In order to expand their own interests, they have blatantly embarked on the road of gangsterization .Abandoning all moral and legal principles, emphasizing the principle that the strongest is supreme, or turning personal will into so-called rules.Under such circumstances, Jiangxi's rural social order was very bad, and everyone was inevitably oppressed and persecuted. There was no way to appeal, and it started at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the contradictions naturally piled up.The local officials have always been deaf to this. Whether it is the yamen of the former Qing Dynasty or the later revolutionaries, the attitude towards these landlords who have been upgraded to bullies is that they can not be provoked.

At the beginning of Li Chun's supervision of Jiangxi, he once thought of cracking down on these lawless bullies who were rampant in the countryside.But as time went on, his policy gradually shifted from repression to appeasement.After all, the revolutionary party is the number one enemy of Beiyang, and as long as these landlords and gentry are willing to obey themselves, they can let their evil deeds go unchecked.

Of course, hard work pays off. Li Chun's kindness to these clan bullies got them their loyalty. There is no better warlord than Li Chun.Therefore, as soon as the youth army entered Jiangxi, they were not resisted by the Jiangxi army. Instead, they were repeatedly harassed by the militia armed forces of these landlords and bullies, and their progress was very slow.According to the standards of later generations, the youth army is now caught in the chaos of the people's war and cannot extricate itself.

You must know that these Jiangxi landlord militias are not fighting on their own. Hu Hansan, the big landlord in Ji'an, is Li Chun's sworn brother.

This Hu Hansan does have some real skills, Li Chun's support for him is not small, a total of 500 million oceans, 4 rifles, plus the title of commander of the Jiangxi Independent Fourth Division, it just made Hu Hansan pull up a total of 2 Multiplayer team.Hu Hansan was not too polite. The team was divided into two, and they continued to harass the youth army along the two lines of Ganzhou and Xiushui. Now it seems that the results are not bad.From February 16 to February 2, nearly 19 youth army officers and soldiers were injured or killed in the attack (excluding minor injuries). Tao Zhiyue, commander of the third assault group, and Cheng Qian, commander of the fourth assault group, both responded Very annoyed.

Among them, Cheng Qian slapped the table angrily and said: "Turn around, let's go to fight Ji'an, I don't believe it, this group of guys who dare not show their faces and only dare to hide behind their backs will not even want their old nest."

If you really want to solve all the complicated things in the world, you will find that the solution is actually very simple.Cheng Qian was obviously right. No matter how cunning and ruthless Hu Hansan was, he was still a landlord in essence. He could not care about anything, but he definitely would not care about the land and ancestral property of his hometown.So he personally gathered 3 people to Ji'an, and decided that no matter how much the loss was, he would never allow the youth army to step into Ji'an.

So the eyes of the whole Jiangxi surrendered to Ji'an, a small county located in the middle of Jiangxi.

The Zeng Jiwu Department of the Tenth Division under the command of Tao Zhiyue has successfully captured Jiujiang, and the Second Division of the Gan Army guarding Jiujiang turned against him. Li Chun didn't care about this, because before that, Ouyang Wu, who was guarding Ganzhou, had already announced that the Gan Army The first division has joined the nursery school.All Li Chun could do now was to procrastinate. He left the defense of Nanchang to the Third Division of the Jiangxi Army, and moved to Jingdezhen with a brigade of Beiyang soldiers and the looted wealth.On the one hand, it is to see what Ji'an can do in the end, and on the other hand, if he can spend one more day in Jiangxi, it will be good to keep up with his superiors.

All the works of later generations on this war of defending the country have a very obvious tendency towards the war, that is, they can exaggerate the bloody battle in the Sichuan area, and basically avoid the important ones and ignore the minor ones except for the decisive battle in the Nanjing area.The reason is very simple. Compared with Sichuan, Beiyang's war preparations in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi are a mess.

A large number of troops were invested in the Sichuan battlefield to suppress Cai E, who was a young bird. In Hunan, although [-] troops were invested, the composition was complicated, and they were different from each other. up.

So the youth army naturally has no chance to fight the Beiyang army in full swing like the guards. More often, the youth army is more like performing a marching mission.Occasionally, those who do not open their eyes to resist are the farces like Jingzhou, so that the Zhujiaqiao blockade was finally included in the newspaper as a key battle, and there is really nothing to write about.

The Battle of Ji'an was the first large-scale decisive battle that broke out in the Jiangxi area. Unfortunately, it later proved that this was also the last one.

On the way to the south of the commander, Hu Hansan was received again by Li Chun, who was about to flee to the east. Li Chun rewarded Hu Hansan with the entire Nanchang arsenal in one go, and drew another 100 million yuan to boost morale.More importantly, he allocated all the mountain artillery and heavy machine guns and some officers of his personal guard brigade to Hu Hansan. In Li Chun's mind, he could last at least a few more days.As for the possibility of Hu Hansan defeating the youth army, Li Chun never thought about it at all, but he still encouraged Hu Hansan in front of him.

"Brother Li, don't cheer up. Don't worry. I, Hu Hansan, are fighting at home this time. The right time, place and people are all in place. With your officers and equipment, brother, what can the youth army do to me?" Hu Hansan said haha Laughing loudly, at that moment, Hu Hansan felt that he was born to be a general, and he was destined to be famous in history.

In this almost self-paralyzed and self-intoxicated state of mind, Hu Hansan arrived in Ji'an.

Regardless of whether someone has never been to a formal military academy, but the basic understanding is still not lacking, Hu Hansan actually decided to defend the city instead of fighting in the field.This decision relieved the normal-minded regiment leaders below him. After all, no matter how bad the youth army is, it is still a regular army, and no matter how tough they are, they are still a bunch of farmers in essence!

Not only do these regimental leaders who have just become battalion commanders know this well, but Cheng Qian actually thinks of this so-called Fourth Division of the Jiangxi Army in this way.

In the end, it would be a disadvantage if they really fought. Although these people are armed by peasants, it does not mean that their combat effectiveness is not good.In fact, most of the people who can serve as dog legs for landlords and bullies are those who are brave and ruthless, and their long-term life as dog legs has also made them very rich in actual combat experience.In the Jiangxi countryside of this era, it is not uncommon to fight or even draw guns and shoot each other.The Jiangxi old cousin is no less good at fighting than his Hunan cousin, but Cheng Qian didn't consider this, so he suffered a big loss.

The Ninth Division of the Youth Army, which was formed by the merger of the First Division of the Hunan Army and the Hunan Provincial Guards, was only a month old until February 2. During this period, they cooperated with Li Zongren's Third Army to capture Shaoguan. .But after all, the days of joining the army are short and lack standardized training, so the officers are basically retained. The so-called Ninth Division is actually just a signboard, and its real strength cannot meet the requirements of the Youth Army Reorganization Division.

But it is precisely because of this that Cheng Qian, as the division commander, is eager to gain military exploits through the war, and then he can better integrate into the youth army system.

The attack was launched at 2:21 pm on February [-]. According to the command of the division commander, the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Division attacked the positions built by Hu Hansan wave after wave.As a result, Hu Hansan unceremoniously took out his housekeeper's things, lit up all kinds of cannons, and then personally set up a supervisory team to urge his subordinates to fight to the end.

Pieces of officers and soldiers of the Ninth Division fell on the way of charging, and occasionally rushed into the enemy's position several times, but were forced out by the vicious Jiangxi people with big knives.Lu Diping couldn't stand it any longer. He turned around and asked Cheng Qian for instructions: "Commander, should we wait for the Fourth Division to come up before attacking? If we continue to fight like this, our Ninth Division will suffer a lot."

Cheng Qian didn't expect such a little bully like Hu Hansan to be so capable of fighting. After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and said: "Tell the brothers below, if you try your best, you will have to fight for your face with your own life."

When Lu Diping heard this, he naturally knew what Cheng Qian was up to, so he could only let out a long sigh and personally organize the team to charge.

Next, the Ninth Division's attack strength increased significantly, and Hu Hansan took a lot of effort to barely stabilize the entire front without collapsing.

The battle lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, and both sides were exhausted. At this time, the Liao Lei Division of the Fourth Division of the Youth Army came up.

Although he didn't like Cheng Qian very much, Liao Lei gave Cheng Qian a military salute in a polite manner.Cheng Qian had already received the latest casualty report, and more than 3000 people fell on the way to the attack. If the fight continued, the soldiers below would probably not give up their lives.

"Mr. Liao, our Ninth Division is a newly formed team. This battle is a joke for you. Next, we will see your Fourth Division. But when the weather gets dark, I mean to launch an attack tomorrow morning. You see how?"

Liao Lei took a look at the battlefield and said, "Commander Cheng, the brothers of the Ninth Division are actually playing well, but there are some problems with this style of play, and you don't have heavy equipment for tough battles. How about this, let the Ninth Division fight tonight Brothers from the Ninth Division penetrate the enemy's rear from both sides, and our Fourth Division will attack at dawn tomorrow, and our big guys will just wait to catch the prisoners, what do you think?"

Cheng Qian is also a smart person, and immediately understood Liao Lei's meaning, clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "It's so good, it's so good!"