Unlike Wang Zhanyuan from Hubei who is determined to run, Li Chun from Jiangxi showed a rare fighting spirit and acted actively. This attitude caused great trouble to the young army's great advance in Jiangxi.

Compared with Wang Zhanyuan, who was greedy for life and fear of death, Li Chun was definitely a capable official. During the more than two years of governing Jiangxi, close to a brigade of his own line, Li Chun easily stabilized the situation in the province. He organized the Gan Army into three divisions, but also actively trained local militia groups. Jiangxi is almost the area with the most serious rural conflicts in the southern region, because the feudal clan rights have developed to the peak, and the landlords are no longer simple land owners. In order to expand their own interests, they openly embarrassed on the road of underworld. , abandon all moral and legal standards, emphasize the principle of supremacy of the strong, or turn personal will into so-called rules, under such circumstances, the rural social order in Jiangxi is very bad, and everyone is inevitably bullied and slaughtered. There is no way to declare, which began in the late Qing Dynasty, and the contradictions naturally accumulate deeper and deeper. Local officials have always been deaf and dumb about this. Whether it is the yamen of the Qing Dynasty or the later revolutionaries, they are taking the attitude of these landlords who have been upgraded to bullies, they are not provoked.

When Li Chun was in charge of Gan, he once had the idea of ​​cracking down on these bullies who were rampant in the countryside and many illegal acts. However, as time went by, his policies gradually changed from suppression to appeasement. After all, the revolutionary party was the number one enemy of Beiyang, and as long as these landlords and gentry were willing to obey themselves, they would let their evil deeds go.

Of course, efforts will be rewarded. Li Chun's kindness to these clan bullies is exchanged for their loyalty. He can no longer find a better supervisor than Li Chun. Therefore, as soon as the young army entered Jiangxi, he did not resist the Gan army. Instead, he was repeatedly raided by the militia armed forces of these landlords and bullies, and the progress was very slow. According to the standards of later generations, the young army is now trapped in the sea of ​​people's war and cannot extricate itself.

You should know that the armed armed forces of Jiangxi are not fighting on their own. Hu Hansan, the big landlord in Ji'an, is Li Chun's sworn brother. This time, the planner who mobilized all the landlords to unite against the Youth Army was this person.

Hu Hansan is indeed a bit of real ability. Li Chun has a strong support for him. He has a total of five million oceans, six thousand rifles, and the title of commander of the Fourth Independent Division of Jiangxi, Hu Hansan has forced Hu Hansan to form a team of more than 40,000 people. Hu Hansan is not polite. The team was divided into two and 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 19, nearly 700 young soldiers were injured or killed in the attack (excluding minor injuries). The commander of the third assault cluster Tao Zhiyue and the commander of the fourth assault cluster Cheng Qian were both very angry about this.

Cheng Qian even angrily slapped the table and said, "Switch, let's go to attack Ji'an, I don't believe it anymore. These guys who dare not show their faces and only dare to be secretly secretly behind their backs will even want their nests."

If all the complicated things in the world really need to be solved, you will find that the solution is actually very simple. Cheng Qian was obviously right. No matter how cunning Hu Hansan was, he was essentially a landlord. He could not care about anything, but he would never care about the land and ancestral property of his hometown. So he personally gathered 30,000 people to Ji'an and decided that no matter how much the loss was, he would never allow the young army to step into Ji'an.

So the eyes of the entire Jiangxi surrendered to Ji'an, a small county town located in central Jiangxi.

Zeng Jiwu's troops, commanded by Tao Zhiyue, had successfully captured Jiujiang. The second division of the Gan Army guarding Jiujiang turned against him. Li Chun was not concerned about this, because before that, Ouyang Wu, who was guarding Ganzhou, had announced that the first division of the Gan Army had joined the National Protection Army. All Li Chun could do now was to delay. He threw Nanchang's defense to the third division of the Gan Army, and moved to Jingdezhen with a brigade of Beiyang soldiers and the wealth he had plundered. On the one hand, he wanted to see what Ji'an could eventually become, and on the other hand, he could spend more time in Jiangxi, which would be a good match.

All the works on this war of protecting the nation have a very obvious tendency for war, that is, they can exaggerate the bloody battle in Sichuan. In addition to the decisive battle in Nanjing, the battle against the youth army is basically avoided and the reason is very simple. Compared with Sichuan, Beiyang in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, the war preparations for Beiyang in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi are a mess.

A large number of troops were thrown into the Sichuan battlefield to suppress Cai E, who was the first to stand out. In Hunan, although he invested 60,000 troops, his components were complex and he fought each other. He also violated many taboos of all military strategists.

So the Youth Army naturally had no chance to fight the Beiyang Army like the National Guarding Army. Most of the time, the Youth Army seemed to be performing marching tasks, and occasionally those who were blindly ignorant to resist were comical stories like Jingzhou, so that the Zhujiaqiao blocking battle was finally used as a key battle in the newspaper, and there was really nothing to write about.

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

Hu Hansan was again received by Li Chun who was preparing to escape from the east on his way south. Li Chun rewarded Hu Hansan the entire Nanchang Arsenal in one breath and drew another one million yuan to encourage morale. More importantly, he also assigned Hu Hansan all the mountain cannons and heavy machine guns from his personal guard brigade to Hu Hansan. Li Chun thought that this would last at least a few more days. As for the possibility of Hu Hansan defeating the Youth Army, Li Chun never thought about it, but he still cheered Hu Hansan in front of him.

"Brother Li, don't be cheered up, don't worry, I, Hu Hansan, are fighting at home this time, the right time, place, people and people are all occupied. With your officers and equipment, you are your elder brother, what can the young army do to me?" After saying that, Hu Hansan laughed. At that moment, Hu Hansan felt that he was born as a general, and he was destined to be famous in history.

In this almost self-paralyzing and self-intoxicating mentality, Hu Hansan arrived in Ji'an.

Although he had never attended a regular military academy, he still had no basic understanding. Hu Hansan actually decided to defend the city instead of fighting in the field. This decision made the regiment generals with normal minds relaxed. After all, no matter how unhealthy the Youth Army was, it was still a regular army. No matter how strong he was, he was still a bunch of farmers.

Not only do these regiment commanders who have just become battalion commanders know this, but Cheng Qian also thinks of this so-called fourth division of the Gan Army.

As a result, they suffer losses if they really fight. Although these people are all peasant armed, it does not mean that their combat effectiveness is not good. In fact, most of the people who can be bullies for landlords and bullies are brave and fierce. The long-term career of dogs has also made them very rich in practical experience. In the rural areas of Jiangxi in this era, fighting and even pulling guns to shoot each other is not a rare thing. Jiangxi cousin is no less good at fighting than his cousin in Hunan, but Cheng Qian did not consider this, so he suffered a great loss.

The 9th Division of the Youth Army, which was formed by the merger of the First Division of the Hunan Army and the National Guarding Army in the Southern Hunan, was only more than a month until February 21. During this period, they cooperated with Li Zongren's Third Army to capture Shaoguan. However, after all, the army was short and lacked standardized training, so the officers were basically retained. The so-called 9th Division was actually just a sign, and its real strength could not meet the requirements of the Young Army's reorganization division.

However, it is precisely because of this that Cheng Qian, as a division commander, is eager to gain military achievements through war and then better integrate into the Youth Army system.

The attack was initiated at 1:00 on the afternoon of February 21. The officers and soldiers of the 9th Division launched an attack on the position constructed by Hu Hansan in waves and waves according to the command of the division commander. As a result, Hu Hansan took out his secrets without hesitation, and all kinds of cannons were lit out. Then they set up a supervision team to urge their subordinates to fight to the end.

The officers and soldiers of the Ninth Division fell on the charge road. Occasionally, they rushed into the enemy's positions several times and were forced out by the fierce Jiangxi people with big swords. Lu Diping couldn't stand it anymore. 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 did not expect that Hu Hansan would be so capable of fighting. After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and said, "Tell the brothers below that they should sell their strength and be able to fight for their face with their own life."

When Lu Diping heard this, he naturally knew what Cheng Qian was thinking. He could only sigh and organize the team to launch a charge.

The attack strength of the Ninth Division was significantly increased next, and Hu Hansan spent a lot of effort to barely stabilize the entire front and prevent the collapse of the entire front.

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

Although he was not very keen on Cheng Qian, Liao Lei still treated Cheng Qian with a regular military salute. Cheng Qian had obtained the latest casualties report. More than 3,000 people fell on the way to attack. If he continued to fight, the soldiers below probably refused to work hard.

"Teacher Liao, our 9th Division is a newly formed team. This battle is a joke. Let's see your fourth division. But after the weather, I mean to launch an attack tomorrow. What do you think?"

Liao Lei looked at the battlefield and said, "Commander Cheng, the brothers of the Ninth Division are actually fighting well, but there are some problems with this style of play. In addition, you do not have heavy equipment for attacking and fighting. Let's do this. Tonight, you will let the brothers of the Ninth Division intersperse from the second side to the enemy's back. Tomorrow, our fourth division will attack as soon as the dawn will dawn. Our big guys are waiting to capture the prisoners. What do you think."
Chapter completed!