Chapter 89 Chapter 4 This battle can't be won

At dawn on July 12, 1913, Jiangxi Lin Hu's army and Beiyang Li Chun's army officially exchanged fire in Shahe. What's interesting is that neither of these two armies was well prepared, because neither side thought that the war would break out so soon, so when the battle started, they were both in a hurry, and the war showed a strange stalemate.After a stalemate for a while, Lin Hu suddenly had a whim, and sent a surprise soldier to take a detour to copy Li Chun's rear. This surprise soldier set off in a hurry, and on the way halfway, they collided face-to-face with a surprise soldier of Li Chun.It turned out that Li Chun and Lin Hu had the same idea, and also sent a surprise soldier to copy Lin Hu's back, but the two surprise soldiers fought together, leaving the main forces of both sides at a loss as to what to do.

This is the battle situation in the morning. Both sides reported the victory to their headquarters. At noon, the Jiangxi army began to escape victoriously. At least half of the officers, either leading the team or alone, fled to the Beiyang army in an endless stream.After some brothers fled to the Beiyang Army, they turned their guns and shot back. From then on, Yuan Jun will assign this series of incidents to the newly appointed governor Ouyang Wu. After fleeing at noon, the Beiyang Army hastily reorganized and defected to seek Yuan Jun.Discussing Yuan Jun's side also hastily counted the number of people, trying to figure out who ran away and why those who stayed didn't run away.This job was quite troublesome, so in the afternoon, both sides stopped the fire at the same time.

At night, the Beiyang Army counted the escaped men and horses, and they were overjoyed, and came rushing aggressively.Asking Yuan Jun to count the number of people who had escaped, he was furious, and went up to the battle full of grief and indignation.The battle line stretched from Jinjipo to Masuling, and the two armies fought all night. After dawn, Yuan Jun issued a battle report: more than 100 guns from the Beiyang Army were captured, 1 company commander, 5 platoon leaders, more than 200 soldiers, and 1 prisoner battalion deputy were killed.One soldier was injured in Jiangxi, and no one was killed.

This battle report is obviously nonsense, because the Jiangxi soldiers are in a mess, and it was released to fool the soldiers.But the strange thing is, this battle report is still quoted by many history books, what can you do? After the battle report was released, Fang Shengtao, another chief general of the Yuan army, arrived with reinforcements.When Lin Hu saw him and was about to be pleasantly surprised, Lao Fang had already retreated quickly, leaving Lin Hu dumbfounded. Afterwards, Fang Shengtao explained: He heard the gunshots on the battlefield stop, and thought that all his brothers had been wiped out, so he hurriedly retreated.

Lao Fang withdrew as soon as he said he would withdraw, causing Lin Hu to be held back by Li Chun until dawn on the 14th.At this time, Li Chun found the opportunity to fight, so he ordered the whole line of troops to advance. Lin Hu broke down and ran towards the blue bridge. Li Mu, the battalion commander, escaped a little slower, and was captured by Li Chun. Finding that Lin Hu had failed, Fang Shengtao led the machine gun company and rushed up eagerly.Just as he was fighting, he didn't guard against the machine gun company's sudden defection and swept towards his brothers. Li Chun sent out a surprise soldier and copied him from behind.There was also an incident of slaughtering officers in the Yuan army. With the support of the soldiers, the low-level officers killed the officers, and then all turned to the Beiyang army.

After discussing Yuan Jun, he completely lost his combat ability. This battle is really impossible.