The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (306): General Anderson guarded the four directions.
In the summer of the sixteenth year of Beiyang, Sun Chuanfang, the "joint commander of the five provinces" who had once been xuanhe, crossed the river to counterattack, and a generation of "southeast kings" lost more than 50,000 troops, and since then they have been depressed and can no longer afford to toss out waves. The situation of the Beiyang warlords in the northern battlefield was also not optimistic, on September 27 of that year, the Jin and Feng sides held their positions along the Jingsui Line, Zhang Zuolin sent Yu Zhen to Fengzhen to inspect the Feng army, and at the same time, the Jin army defender Shang Zhen suspected that he was marching towards northern Jin, so he demolished the front-line railway, ambushed on the way, Yu Zhen was captured, and the Feng army immediately sent reinforcements, and the two sides, who were already fighting with swords, immediately fought. The Feng army west of Datong saw that the lord general was inexplicably captured, and was also disarmed by the Feng army. In response to Zhang Zuolin's telegram, Yan Xishan replied that it was only a partial misunderstanding, in fact, it was impossible for the two sides to restore relations, and Yan Xishan had already appointed Shang Zhen and Xu Yongchang behind his back as the commanders of the two Jin armies, preparing to attack the Feng army with his division.
Subsequently, the Jin army crossed the river and successively captured six cities and pools, including Xinle, Dingzhou, and Zhangjiakou, and ZhangJiakou, Zhang Zuolin gritted his teeth in anger, and in the previous year' Fengjun captured Nankou in the past year to rescue the Jin army from lifting the siege of Datong, and the Jin army complained with virtue and planned to personally supervise the division and duel with one of them. The reason why the Jin army fought several victorious battles as soon as it came out was not because the combat effectiveness of the Jin army was much higher than that of the Feng army, but that the Feng army was too late to gather people and horses at the beginning, so losing the city was also shortening the battle line, thus preserving the strength. On October 7 of that year, the Feng army launched a counter-offensive, and Lianke Shijiazhuang, Zhangjiakou and other important places pulled the battle line back to the position before the battle, but the Feng army was not without encountering hard stubble, and a lonely city in Zhuozhou held down 30,000 Feng troops for more than three months, so angry that Zhang Zuolin wanted to personally attack the city, and after trying his best to dissuade him.
However, the reason why Zhang Zuolin was so angry was that the Jin army stationed in Zhuozhou was indeed a hard bone to gnaw. There were more than forty cannons used by the Feng army to attack the city, and the bullets in the city were endlessly fired, and the Feng army infantry charged forward, but they were successively calmly responded to by the Jin army defending the city with grenades, machine guns and other weapons, and constantly repelled them. Because the Breakthrough Attack of the Zhuozhou Jin Army could not only cut off the traffic between Beijing and Han, but also threaten Gyeonggi, the Feng Army regarded it as a bone-attached trick, and launched three general attacks in a row, and the number of troops who were pinned down reached 30,000 people. On October 27, Zhang Zuolin issued the order for the fourth general attack, within a time limit of three days to attack, the Eighth Front Army, the Guard Brigade, and the Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Fengzhi warlords were all transferred to attack the city, and the Feng Army concentrated aircraft, ironclad vehicles, and infantry cavalry, a total of eleven regiments of troops, and attacked from the dynasty to the twilight, and the Defending Jin Army did not fire a single bullet under the city, and when it counterattacked, "ten thousand arrows were fired at the same time", Zhuozhou has always been a famous tun grain area in the north, and the fortification of the city can be imagined.
In the end, the Feng army that besieged the city suffered heavy losses, and the Jin army still dug tunnels at the heels of the city wall to defend and attack, and after five days of fierce fighting, the isolated city of Zhuozhou was still standing unharmed, and Zhang Zuolin was so angry that he had to roll up his sleeves and personally fight. The next day, the Feng army began to dig tunnels to attack the city, Zhang Zuolin did not forget to send people to persuade him to surrender, two weeks later the Feng army bombarded the southeast city wall of Erzhangyu, and the infantry charged to follow, which was also the fifth general attack of the Feng army on Zhuozhou City, but it was still repelled by the defenders. Until December 22, when the Jin army in the city was exhausted, Yan Xishan agreed to negotiate a truce with the feng army, and finally decided to "surrender han and not cao". On January 12 of the following year, more than 7,000 people under the Jin army were taken over by the Beiyang Center, and after the Jin army defender Fu Yisheng was born into the city, he first met with the fengjun commander Wan Fulin, who was besieging the city, and then went to Beijing to meet Zhang Zuolin, who personally set up a banquet and hospitality, and expressed great admiration during the banquet.