The man had never seen such a formation. He was immediately frightened and his legs became weak. He knelt on the ground and shivered, "June, I am a pig slaughter. This morning, the Zhang Xiucai family in the south of the city wanted to kill pigs to celebrate his son's birthday. Today, I came here from the countryside to kill pigs for him?"

The soldier holding the gun didn't believe it and asked, "Does the pig killer have to bring a knife?"

The butcher man couldn't smile bitterly and explained, "Oh, my military master, killing pigs without a knife. Do I kill them with my hands?"

"Bah! Damn, you dare to talk back? I care whether you use a knife to kill pigs or not. Anyway, our commander has ordered the whole city to be martial law and even the iron-armed cannot enter Jingzhou! If you bring a knife to kill pigs, you say you are a butcher, are you lying to the child? Damn, I shave my head and I even say I am a monk! People come, arrest him and put him in prison and serve him. See if he is going to do it or not?" The Beiyang New Army soldier with a gun said viciously.

"June, I am really a pig slaughter. I am just a pig slaughter. I don't bring such a thing! I just brought a pig slaughter knife, so why did I become a spy of the southern rebels..." The soldiers escorted the butcher thought he was too noisy, and then a buttstock knocked the butcher unconscious, dragging the tall butcher away like a dead pig.

Wang Jianchuan and the other two could see clearly from the side, which shows that the defense power of Jingzhou City suddenly increased a lot, which could be described as "no drop of water".

Ma Rushan spitted a mouthful of thick phlegm, and the light of his eyes glanced at the surrounding environment, saying, "Captain Wang, the guards of Jingzhou City are too strict. Damn, a pig-killing knife is also suspected to be ours. Did Wang Shizhen discover our combat plan?"

Wang Jianchuan paced back and forth, saying, "I don't think it looks like this. Maybe Wang Shizhen is smart. He knows that we have endured for so long. I guess we will take action in the near future, so he suddenly strengthened the guardian power of Jingzhou City."

He Shan, who was standing beside him, also asked: "Captain Wang, what should I do now? Seeing that the body search was so carefully, I saw that it was difficult to even have a short gun, let alone our other weapons and equipment!"

Wang Jianchuan frowned. This situation is indeed very difficult. Now the defenders guarding Jingzhou City have obviously increased their vigilance. It is still a bit difficult for people to get in, not to mention carrying the long m14 rifle and the awp sniper rifle.

He Shan pondered for a moment and said, "I have a good idea!"

Wang Jianchuan was delighted. Sure enough, he brought He Shan and Ma Rushan to the scene. They had rich combat experience.

He Shan waved, and the three of them gathered together. He Shan explained his plan in detail.

Wang Jianchuan's face was filled with a smile when he heard it, but at the end he frowned and asked, "Is this okay? I'm afraid that Wang Shizhen would not be deceived, but would have made the brothers of the Beiyang Fleet in vain. And even if the first plan was successful, the second plan still had a great risk!"

Ma Rushan took a deep breath and said, "I think this is the only way to do it. As long as the first plan is successful, although the second plan is dangerous and successful, it is not impossible to try it!"

Wang Jianchuan hesitated for a while, finally let out a heavy breath, clenched his fists, and said, "That's it!"

"Okay, that's the decision. I'll send a report to the commander!"

After the three of them discussed, they pretended to be passers-by and left the periphery of Jingzhou City in a swaying manner. Shortly after they left, a patrol of the Beiyang New Army happened to pass by where they had just talked.

The captain of the patrol team asked, "What are those three people doing? It feels a bit strange?"

A young private in the patrol said, "Captain, I'll go and have a look!"

The patrol team nodded in agreement, and pulled out a cigarette. A soldier next to him immediately lit it. The patrol team captain cursed: "Damn it, it's like a big battle. I'm so tired every day. Brothers, let's take a break here for a while!"

When the soldiers of the Beiyang New Army Patrol heard that some rest were resting, they immediately collapsed on the ground happily, enjoying the rest during this boring patrol.

………

Anqing, the Beiyang New Army’s central route of the river defense position.

"Captain Xu is here to inspect the position!" With a reminder, the sentries standing guard on the position immediately straightened their backs, hoping that Captain Xu could pass by his post.

This regiment Xu is now famous. He became the most elite regiment commander under Commander Duan's command at the age of 23. Therefore, the soldiers in the regiment treated Xu Shuzheng as a hero, and all took Xu Shuzheng as their goal. He could gain the trust of Commander Duan at a young age.

Xu Shuzheng was extremely intelligent since childhood and had great talent. He knew literacy at the age of three, could write at the age of seven, became a scholar at the age of thirteen, and was appointed as a child prodigy at the age of seventeen.

Since 1901, Xu Shuzheng abandoned literature and military affairs, and surrendered to Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army from Jiangsu to Beijing, Jiangsu, and was later recommended to Duan Qirui. Xu Shuzheng was smart and capable, and had the ability to lead troops. In just two years, Xu Shuzheng was promoted to battalion commander by Duan Qirui, and then led his troops south with Duan Qirui. Not long ago, he was promoted to the commander of the main regiment, which was deeply appreciated by Duan Qirui.

At this moment, a handsome and innocent young officer led a deputy officer and several guards to the Jiang defense position. The young officer led by Xu Shuzheng.

Xu Shuzheng and his group of people began to patrol the position carefully, checking from time to time whether the ammunition on the position was sufficient, and also patrolled several open and secret posts on the position.

Xu Shuzheng walked to one of the sentrymen, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Stand guard well! Thank you brothers for your hard work!"

The sentry saluted happily and said, "Report to Commander Xu, it's not hard!"

"Well, that's good!" Xu Shuzheng smiled, and after patrolling the position, he led everyone back along the same route.

The sentry, who had just been patted by Xu Shuzheng on the shoulder, said to his companion around him: "Wow, it turns out that the commander is so young! He is younger than I thought, and he is fair and clean, looking like a teacher."

"Stop feeling emotion, stand guard!" The sentry's companion scolded.

After Xu Shuzheng and everyone patrolled the positions, they were about to return to their barracks to rest. When they passed by Duan Qirui's barracks, they found that it was still brightly lit inside, so they signaled their subordinates to retreat first and walked towards Duan Qirui's barracks alone.

At this time, Duan Qirui was reading a letter when suddenly, someone knocked gently on the barracks door. Duan Qirui hurriedly put away the letter and asked, "Who?"

"It's me, the commander!" Xu Shuzheng's voice came from outside the door.

"Come in!" Duan Qirui said softly.

Xu Shuzheng pushed open the wooden door of the barracks, walked in, and smiled and said, "Teacher, it's so late, haven't you slept yet?"

"Haha, aren't you sleeping too? Have you ever been patrolling the position?" Duan Qirui asked.

Xu Shuzheng smiled, pulled a chair and sat down, and said, "I saw that the southern rebels have become much less recently. I was afraid that the soldiers on the front line would be lazy, so I took the officers from the regiment headquarters to the position and took a casual look!"

"You! After a few commanders, you are the youngest, most dedicated, and most steady!" Duan Qirui smiled with relief. It seems that there is nothing wrong with promoting Xu Shuzheng to commander. You are young and steady, and loyal, and you are a good seedling!

Duan Qirui stood up, holding the letter enclosed in the yellow cowhide envelope in his hand, walked to Xu Shuzheng and handed it to him, saying, "Look at this letter!", and then paced back and forth in the barracks with his hands behind his back.

Xu Shuzheng stood up and took the letter respectfully. When he saw the signature on the envelope, he frowned inadvertently, then he kept moving, spreading a few pages of the letter paper and reading it.

After Xu Shuzheng finished reading, Duan Qirui asked, "How do you think?"

Xu Shuzheng knew that he could not hide it from Duan Qirui, so he simply said: "Teacher Feng is the old friend of the commander. Although most of the content of this letter is to miss the commander and his old love, silence is better than sound. When Commander Liu wrote this letter at this time, the purpose of the purpose of surrendering!"

Duan Qirui smiled knowingly: "Yes, this was sent by someone from the south three days ago. I have been watching these days?"

Xu Shuzheng's heart moved, grabbed the details of Duan Qirui reading the letter for a few days, and said, "What did the teacher plan?"

Duan Qirui did not say it clearly, but just sighed and said, "Wang Shizhen is a real villain, Feng Huafu is my old friend, but I cannot let down the Marshal's cultivation!"

Seeing Duan Qirui's ambiguous words, Xu Shuzheng replied with an unclear sentence: "A good bird chooses a good tree to live in. It depends on which place the teacher thinks is a good tree!"

Duan Qirui smiled, pointed at Xu Shuzheng and said, "You, you! It's really smooth!"

Xu Shuzheng laughed and was about to reply, but suddenly thought of something, and said anxiously: "Not good?"

Seeing Xu Shuzheng's expression nervous, Duan Qirui asked, "What's wrong?"

"Teacher, was this letter delivered three days ago?" Xu Shuzheng asked.

"Yes! It's delivered three days ago, and the time for writing the letter was five days ago!" Duan Qirui asked with a questioning look on his face.

Xu Shuzheng said nervously: "Although Feng Guozhang did not explicitly say the surrender in the letter, he believes that you can see the true meaning behind the letter. Maybe it was the Southern Revolutionary Army's first ritual and then the army. Feng Guozhang wrote this letter with his old feelings. It is very likely that they wanted to attack Anqing in large numbers, otherwise they would not have been ready for so long. Don't the division commander feel that the southern revolutionary army has become much quieter recently?"

After Xu Shuzheng said this, Duan Qirui suddenly realized after thinking about it and said in surprise: "Does Tang Jian want to counterattack the North Bank, and Anqing is their main attack direction?"

Xu Shuzheng nodded solemnly.

As if to confirm what Xu Shuzheng said, violent shelling suddenly sounded on the defense position of the middle army not far away.

Duan Qirui, who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, studied artillery major and served as an instructor at Tianjin Martial Arts School, naturally heard that this was the sound of the 150mm40-caliber Krupp rapid-fire cannon on the Beiyang Fleet cruiser!

"It's the Beiyang Fleet!" Duan Qirui was shocked and quickly put on his military uniform and rushed out of his barracks with Xu Shuzheng!

………

In the Yangtze River in the night, nearly ten warships led by the Hairong were bombarding fiercely at Duan Qirui's north bank river defense position.

In the command room of the Hairong Bridge, Feng Guozhang asked with vague concern: "Commander, will Duan Qirui fall into the trap?"

Tang Jian smiled confidently and said, "Haha, I have spent so much effort and such a big show. Duan Qirui will definitely fall into the trap, and the plan to seize Jingzhou will definitely go smoothly!"
Chapter completed!