Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Relying on the spies lurking in Long Jiguang's army, Li Zongren even knew the detailed deployment of the Ji army's retreat earlier than Long Jiguang's head of the regiment.

In the early morning of February 2, the battle broke out. Just when Long Jiguang was about to run away in the dark, the largest artillery attack since the youth army became an army began. . .

It is not unreasonable to say that a person can get stuffed between his teeth when drinking cold water, at least for Long Jiguang, at this moment, he has stuffed his teeth.

Retreating was originally a very challenging thing, and retreating at night made it even more difficult, but it was nothing, and it could still be overcome by gritting your teeth.

But if you are under heavy shelling at this time, it will not be fun.

The casualties that can be caused by shelling are always limited, but the psychological pressure caused by the huge roar of mountain cannons on soldiers is infinite.

What does such intense shelling mean?The enemy is about to attack on a large scale.

So what are you waiting for? At this moment, Long Jiguang's army was in disarray, and everyone lost their organization. Everyone ran towards Guangzhou like headless chickens.

Except for the guards around him, Long Jiguang could no longer command any units, and he could not find any other subordinates except his son. The chaos brought by the night continued until dawn.

Bai Chongxi fought the most beautiful battle since he joined the army. With less than a hundred casualties, he defeated nearly [-] enemy troops in one fell swoop.

When Long Jiguang fled back to Guangzhou with his guards, there were less than [-] people to gather, and there was no possibility of escape from Qiongya. It is said that the young army had already landed on the island in a small canoe.Long Jiguang lamented that the only thing he could do was to deposit the wealth he had seized during the three years he supervised Guangdong into HSBC, and then the family boarded a boat and left northern Guangdong to plead guilty to President Yuan Da.

On February [-], the sixth year of the Republic of China, Guangdong declared its independence. . .

Chapter 228 Blue Light

On February [-], the sixth year of the Republic of China, the Third Division of the Third Army of the Youth Army entered Huizhou. So far, according to the agreement, the western and central areas of Guangdong were all in the hands of Wang Zhenyu.

Before Yuan Shikai in Beijing digested the bad news, on February [-]th, Wang Zhenyu issued an important telegram in the Anjiang area, announcing to all walks of life in the country in the name of the National Socialist Party: "At this time when the country is in turmoil and the country is in danger, our party and our subordinates Fortunately, the National Salvation Youth Army under it did not disgrace the entrustment of all the people. After ten months of fierce fighting, they regained the land of Hunan and Guangdong, and saved the people of the two provinces from fire and water. Today, looking at Yanzhou, everyone is indignant at Yuan Thief's rebellion, and all of them are Beiyang zhuanzhi** is sad. Our party and our army are the army of the people and the soldiers of the people. We should strive to be the first to conquer the rebels and restore the country. From now on, the youth army will attack the Yuan thieves in the north. Anyone who responds is warmly welcome. Those who don't know how to live or die, resist in the corner, and stop the car with their arms, will be regarded as national thieves and punished together. The invincible youth army will surely plant the banner of protecting the country on the head of Beijing, and the [-] million compatriots will surely gain freedom and freedom , Long live Liberty, Long live the Republic of China!"

This telegram called the Declaration of the Northern Expedition was called by later historians the telegram that changed the historical trend of the Republic of China. As soon as the telegram came out, all the troops of the Youth Army were mobilized in Changsha, Changde, Guangzhou, and Anjiang.

In order to meet the needs of the new war, Wang Zhenyu established the Supreme Command of the Youth Army on the basis of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission (that is, hang an extra sign at the entrance of the administrative building in Anjiang), directly kicked away the sign of the party committee, and used the command of the Supreme Commander. In name, he issued combat missions to the more than 20 youth troops under his command.

Yang Wangui's staff researched, analyzed, and discussed day and night, and finally formulated a new battle plan.If this plan, code-named "Blue Light", was placed in front of Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai would probably be annoyed: "You Wang Zhenyu has such a big appetite, and you are not afraid of breaking your own teeth."

But Wang Zhenyu has such a big appetite. Blue is the color of the sky and the ocean, which symbolizes brightness and wisdom. Therefore, the content of the Blue Light Action reveals the meaning of sweeping the world and restoring the sky and the earth.

The whole plan is divided into three stages: the first stage is defined as the assault stage, the participating troops include the first army and all the second army, and eight integrated divisions are expected to be invested.The battle was launched on February [-]th, the sixth year of the Republic of China, and the focus of the attack was Hubei and Jiangxi.The content of the combat plan is that all participating troops will form four assault groups.

Major General Xu Yuanquan, commander of the First Assault Group, under the jurisdiction of Zhao Dongsheng's Fifth Division of the Youth Army, and Li Hongkui's Sixth Division, a total of 5 people, set off from Li County to attack Jingzhou, Hubei. Xiangyang, all the way down the river to take the three towns of Wuhan, asked the Ministry to arrive in Wuhan by early March at the latest, and wait for the arrival of friendly forces to attack Wuhan together.

Major General Wan Yaohuang, Commander of the Second Assault Group, under the jurisdiction of the Dai Yue Division of the Second Division of the Youth Army, and the Zhou Zhengming Division of the Eighth Division, set out from Yuezhou and went straight to Wuhan, Hubei. To seize Wuhan, the operational goal is to seize the entire territory of Hubei together with the First Assault Group.

Major General Tao Zhiyue, the commander of the third assault group, under the jurisdiction of the first and tenth divisions of the Youth Army, Zeng Jiwu, set off from Changsha and went straight to Nanchang, Jiangxi. The goal of the operation was to seize a province in Jiangxi.

General Cheng Qian, the commander of the Fourth Assault Group, under his command the Liao Lei Division of the Fourth Division and the Lin Xiumei Division of the Ninth Division, set off from Hengyang and went straight to Ganzhou.

However, the Third Army, which had no mission in the first phase of assault operations, was required to move to the Hunan area, and began to prepare for war with Changsha as the center to participate in the second phase of operations.

For the first phase of operations, Wang Zhenyu made several adjustments. First, Zhou Zhengming of the Eighth Division did not participate in the Wuhan operations, and prepared for the second phase of the war after reuniting with the Third Army in Changsha.

Secondly, Huang Shaohong, the head of the attendant department, served as the brigade commander, and Huang Xuchu, the chief of staff, was ordered to transfer to Huizhou to realize the monitoring of the revolutionary party forces in northern Guangdong.Yang Yongtai was appointed as the acting governor of Guangdong Province and also the director of the provincial party department, fully responsible for the local affairs of the National Socialist Party in Guangdong, and Chen Shao was transferred to the acting governor of Hunan Province.

Hao Bing was promoted to the commander of the Security Command of the three provinces of Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong. He has three regular corps, 24 detachments, and an independent corps. The total strength of the four detachments will reach 4000. All the weapons seized will be assigned to the security forces. headquarters.A Security Command Academy was set up at the Army University of the Youth Army, and all officers of the security system received training in a unified manner.

It is worth noting that Wang Zhenyu issued two other personnel appointments in order to cooperate with the first phase of the operation.

The first is that Weng Wenhao was appointed as the acting governor of the Guangxi provincial government, and the former governor Wang Zhixiang was appointed as the deputy commander of the three provincial security headquarters. Use him, and tell him that when you arrive in Guangxi, the first task is to speed up the construction of transportation projects and prepare for the export of large-scale industrial products. With the war to protect the country, the Yangtze River water transport has been cut off. It's no use going out.Therefore, in addition to the Liuzhou-Fangchenggang railway supervised by Song Xianfu himself, the Guangxi region was also required to build a road and railway from Laibin to Nanning.Weng Wenhao, who understands transportation construction, cannot handle such an errand.

The second is the appointment of personnel to the Security Command.

Chief of Staff of the Security Command ***, the three commanders are Tian Shouhai, Commander of Hunan Corps, Liu Mingkai, Commander of Guangxi Corps, and Deng Kunru, Commander of Guangdong Corps.The most worth mentioning is Shen Zongsi, who was actually appointed as the commander of the Anjiang Corps, responsible for the security of the central government.What is the concept of the commander of the Anjiang Corps?In the former Qing Dynasty, he would be the commander of the infantry yamen, that is, the admiral of the Nine Schools that is often seen in dramas. Such an honor made Shen Zongsi immediately become a big shot in the old Phoenix family.And all of this was originally just a random move by Wang Zhenyu for the sake of his adopted son Shen Quan, but it turned out that the status of the Shen family in the Phoenix family was equal to that of the Tian family. This was a situation that Wang Zhenyu did not expect when he issued this order. .

Long story short, let’s talk about the second stage. Yang Wangui’s second stage is defined as the critical stage. If the first stage assault mission goes well, the territory in Hubei and Jiangxi will start.Then at the end of March, the youth army will take advantage of the Beiyang Army's vital strength in the Hubei and Jiangxi battlefields, and its strength will not continue to cover its ears with lightning speed. The Liao Lei Division of the Fourth Division launched military operations against Anqing, Yangzhou, Nanjing, and Shanghai along the Yangtze River, targeting Jiangsu and Anhui to the north of the Huaihe River. shared, Khan) and rich Zhejiang.The entire military operation emphasizes one word, fast, and the requirement is to complete the military operation before the great powers intervene and respond, especially to prevent Zhejiang from falling into the hands of Sun Wen and others.In fact, according to the information sent back by the intelligence personnel lurking beside Sun Wen and others, although the war in Fujian is still going on, Sun Wen, who failed to take Guangzhou, has decided to organize an army to attack Zhu Rui in Zhejiang after pacifying Fujian. up.

The third stage is to be determined. There are two general directions. One is to prepare for the counterattack of the Beiyang Army. Through a battle in Henan and Xuzhou, it will smash this counterattack and consolidate the territory in hand. The second is to guard against the Yunnan Army headed by Cai E. It is estimated that At that time, this son will already hold the land of the three southwestern provinces.

Wang Zhenyu looked at this final analysis and remained silent. His great-grandfather in later generations was Cai E's subordinate. He knew that the root cause of the final decline of the Yunnan Army was Cai E's death. If this son did not die, judging from the current battle report from Sichuan , I may not be able to do anything to the Yunnan Army.But if there is a raging nest and a raging army, if the Dian army is no longer Cai E's Dian army, but Tang Jiyao's Dian army, then there is nothing to fear, and this has been proved by history.With great masters like Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi in hand, I am naturally not afraid that Tang Jiyao, an imbecile, can turn out flowers.

When it comes to achieving the entire combat goal, Wang Zhenyu is not worried, because He Jian and Zhou Lan have already figured out Beiyang's old background. Shengduo beat him so hard that even the teacher Cao Kun was almost captured alive by the guards.It is said that Feng Yuxiang, one of his two effective subordinates that day, felt that Cao Kun was dead and decided to retreat, but the other Wu Peifu did not agree, and led a surprise attack himself, and rescued Cao Kun from the encirclement of the guards. come out.If this matter is true, Comrade Feng Yuxiang is too unkind, and it is reasonable for Cao Kun and Wu Peifu to become brothers.

Not only the third division, Zhang Jingyao's seventh division is also in Sichuan, and there is also a brigade of the sixth division.Outside of Sichuan, the Sixth Division has been completely annihilated, and the Beiyang Army in Hubei actually has only Wang Zhanyuan's Second Division. If it hadn't been for the risk that the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway could be quickly reinforced at any time, Wang Zhenyu would not have even agreed to Yang Wangui's use of four divisions. The absolute superiority of a division's troops went to fight Wuhan, Nima, so many people went to fight without food or money.If Hubei still has the main force of the Beiyang Second Division, then in Jiangxi, Li Chun is not as good as Wang Zhanyuan. His Sixth Division has already been handed over, and now the entire army is annihilated.In this fight, the only army he can use is the local army in Jiangxi Province, and there are unreliable elements like Ouyang Wu here.In the whole of southern China, only the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions concentrated the main force of the Beiyang Army, including the Yang Shande Division of the Fourth Division stationed in Shanghai, the Zhang Huaizhi Division of the Fifth Division stationed in Zhenjiang, and the Lu Yongxiang Division of the Tenth Division stationed in Zhejiang.Moreover, according to Beijing's intelligence, although Feng Guozhang was slow to respond to the suppression of the war to protect the country and deliberately delayed, Yuan Shikai still decided to put his newly reorganized No.15 Division and No.16 Division and even Cai Chengxun's The first division has been transferred down, let's stabilize the situation in the south first.

Chapter 229 Blue Light ([-])

Such a layout made Wang Zhenyu focus on the second stage of Operation Blue Light. If Beiyang can be defeated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in one go, maybe the next step will be the rhythm of the big march.The remaining job of the Youth Army is probably to keep taking over new territories until the whole country is unified.

Then Beiyang, the stepping stone on his way to the summit, can be left aside, and what he really has to worry about is the great powers.Although there is a sense of national superiority in my heart, the cruel national conditions are there, neither increasing nor decreasing, and impartial.

So far, the great powers still exist like the emperor of China. Wang Zhenyu is not a fool. In his view, the war of protecting the country between himself and Cai E is essentially just a move by the great powers to protect their interests in China.In the final analysis, I still hope to prevent China from taking advantage of the opportunity of the European War to rise. After all, at this time, the control of China by the great powers cannot be compared with that of 15 years ago.

Japan contributed the most here. Although it is unwilling to admit it, many of Japan's practices during this period are not visible.On the one hand, the Japanese actively speculated that Yuan Shikai would proclaim himself emperor in order to expand the internal contradictions of the Chinese political group and cause civil strife; , Let them keep messing with Yuan Shikai.Anyway, it is not to let China stop, I don’t believe it, hum!

Wang Zhenyu had in his hand a piece of top-secret information sent by the North China Intelligence Network of the National Socialist Party Investigation Department. Cai E was able to escape from Yuan Shikai's hands, not because of Xiao Fengxian at all, but because of the escort of Hu Ying and Japanese diplomats. Beijing to Tianjin.Then there was Zhang Xiaozhun's subcontracting plan, and Cai E finally got away. As for Xiao Fengxian, he didn't participate in the whole process, and his only role was probably to tell Lao Yuan that Cai E was a liar.

As for later, after Cai E, the military god, defeated the Beiyang Army in Sichuan, and revealed the strength to replace Beiyang to unify China, and influenced Japan to obtain benefits from China, the Japanese did not hesitate to use the power of medical treatment Chance had given him his way.

Anyway, looking at the entire history of the melee of the democratic warlords, the Japanese have run through it. They paid money and weapons to fiddle with Duan Qirui to unify by force. Support the Southern King Chen Jitang's "anti-Japanese and anti-Chiang" (it's funny, that's how the Japanese operate).The purpose of all this is to prevent the Chinese from being twisted into a single rope, to let the Chinese exhaust their strength in the internal struggle, and at the same time to make them continue to sell benefits to Japan in order to gain Japan's support, so that Japan can slowly nibble away China.As for eating it in one go, it's not that Japan doesn't want to, but it can't.After all, China’s share of the world economy in this period was much higher than that of Japan. For such an elephant, no matter how strong an ant is, it would not dare to eat it in one bite.Looking back, perhaps we should really be grateful to the Japanese militarists. If the later Japan continued to be moderate, then it is very likely that today’s Northeast China still belongs to Japan, just as Russia still stands on the territory of our ancestors. The militarists' radicalism ultimately harmed Japan itself, thanks to idiots like Hideki Tojo.

Long story short, let’s go back to the topic of the great powers. What Wang Zhenyu is most worried about now is not the traditional powers like Britain and France.Firstly, they do not have the strength to curb their own growth, and secondly, they even need their own help. As long as the price of the steel in their hands is a little lower than that of Wall Street, it is estimated that it will be called a hot commodity.When it really comes to that point, these big powers don’t say that they don’t interfere with themselves. If they support themselves to replace the Beiyang government, they will all support them with both hands and feet. They don’t have the so-called face of Chinese officials.

What Wang Zhenyu is really worried about is none other than Japan.

It should be said that Wang Zhenyu really attaches great importance to intelligence warfare. The reason is very simple. He has watched the TV series "Latent" and the stories of Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei, and Pan Hannian. ** Can tell fortunes and is a half-celestial being.It was because he was able to obtain information from the Kuomintang (thanks to the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the Whampoa Military Academy), so if he wanted to make a name for himself in this era, the most important thing was information.

Information is the real productivity, so Wang Zhenyu has never been stingy in investing in intelligence. The annual expenditure of the three major intelligence systems accounts for almost 30% of the entire military expenditure.The number of intelligence agents working for Wang Zhenyu has reached almost 4 to [-], and this number will continue to expand as Wang Zhenyu's strength increases.

It is precisely because of the emphasis and attention that the intelligence work of the Youth Army is far ahead of the domestic level, and has even reached the international level.This point is at least recognized by the Japanese side. Whether it is civil society organizations or military spies, it will not work well when they come to Wang Zhenyu. All hidden personnel, including old spies who have been lurking in China for decades The world evaporated.

You must know that in terms of appearance, it is not easy to find out the difference between Japanese and Chinese, and compared to a commercial city like Anjiang, it is not difficult to conceal and transmit information.But just so weird, gone, all gone.

And this Wang Zhenyu is also very strange. The foreign trade in the Anjiang area is carried out in Wuhan through the Xiangxi Development Company.The Japanese were not allowed to go to Anjiang to open a shop, and they were brutally chased away after several attempts. They went to the governor of Hunan Province, Tang Xiangming, but there was no complaint. Tang Xiangming didn't know what to do with Wang Zhenyu, the local emperor, except for apologizing with a sad face.

Of course, it's not that the three major intelligence systems have really become so powerful that Skynet can't miss anything. The most important point is the carelessness and underestimation of the Japanese intelligence agencies themselves.

This is specifically reflected in the attention paid by Japanese intelligence agencies to Wang Zhenyu:

The first time to make relevant information was after Wang Zhenyu defeated Lu Rongting. After all, he became the master of a province. It is impossible to say that the Japanese do not pay attention.But then Wang Zhenyu was ordered to enter Beijing. Based on this performance, the Japanese judged that Wang Zhenyu had no real material, just a guy with good luck, and he couldn't make a fortune, so he didn't pay much attention to him.

The second time was after the outbreak of the War to Protect the Country. At that time, the judgment was that Wang Zhenyu was just a local force like Cai E, and he did not even play a dominant role in this war. where to go.

The third time was after Changde defeated Ma Jizeng. The Japanese finally paid more attention to it, but then came to the conclusion that it is not uncommon to win more with less, and Cai E did the same in Sichuan.

The fourth time was after the start of this nationwide march. The speed of Wang Zhenyu's expansion and the amazing strength he displayed in the process made the Japanese dumbfounded.The truth that could not be ascertained because of the tight defense of the Military Intelligence Bureau was gradually exposed to the Japanese secret agents with Wang Zhenyu's expansion.At this time, Japan's special high school was surprised to come to a conclusion that someone who has the strength to unify China appeared, and the military department did not pay attention to the situation of this person before, and even seriously underestimated it. The greatest crime is the greatest disloyalty to His Majesty the Emperor.

So at this point, we can only say that our Wang Zhenyu comrade-in-arms is really good, but Wang Zhenyu doesn't know that his feeling for the Japanese is a sword hanging over his head. will be cut down.

Therefore, for Operation Blue Light, Wang Zhenyu put forward three requirements: "fast, accurate, and ruthless".