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Chapter 265 Fleeing across the board ([-])

Feng Guozhang withdrew to Wuhu before the main force of the army. At this time, the latest news came. Through Li Chun's dispatch and command, the newly formed Beiyang Sixth Division, together with Dingwu Army and Anwu Army, a total of 4 horses, successfully entered Pukou. At this time, Bai Chongxi's vanguard was still more than 70 miles away from Pukou.

This latest news made Feng Guozhang very annoyed. The reason why he hastily withdrew the main force before was because of the youth army's sneak attack on the headquarters, but it was not enough to cause him chaos.What really made him panic was Bai Chongxi's aggressive marching posture, and the youth army's lucky night attack made him feel that the youth army had already pounced on him like a big net.Years of experience made Feng Guozhang, the old master, have the illusion that Tao Zhiyue had started a big chase under Zhao Yong's chaotic punches, so he ignored the objections of Wang Zhanyuan and others, and very nervously issued an order to retreat across the board, even blocking the rear of the palace. The troops are not arranged.What followed was a great chaos, and the Beiyang Army was in chaos. If Guo Songling hadn't immediately set up a law enforcement team to maintain traffic, it might have been a big question mark whether the Beiyang Army could be organized and returned to Wuhu.

Perhaps it was because of God's pity for Feng Guozhang's misery, this time Goddess of Luck smiled at him, Tao Zhiyue was also confused, he didn't know what the Beiyang Army was going to do, and turned around in front of his own army?How could Feng Guozhang make such an idiotic move?Tao Zhiyue concluded that a veteran and famous general like Feng Guozhang would definitely not be stupid, so he didn't know whether it was a trick of dragging the knife or an empty city.Tao Zhiyue thought over and over again, considering some of his own difficulties, Tao Zhiyue cautiously made a decision that he regretted unceasingly, and watched Feng Guozhang withdraw to Wuhu.

And when Zhao Yong and the others escorted Yang Shande back to Tongling's army position and asked Tao Zhiyue and Li Zongren for credit, Tao Zhiyue realized what a big mistake he had made.This is simply dereliction of duty. It was this fatal mistake that made the youth army miss the best opportunity to easily defeat the Beiyang army.As for Tao Zhiyue personally, it also greatly reduced his position in the heart of the commander-in-chief who was originally highly regarded by Wang Zhenyu.In the army in the future, Tao Zhiyue began to gradually move away from the core. Although his position was constantly promoted, he never got the opportunity to command a campaign or battle alone. This is a great regret.

The only thing that can be remedied now is to hope that the No.11 Division can really complete the large-scale interspersed tasks as Li Zongren's order requires, cut off the passage from Wuhu to Nanjing in time, and cut off Feng Guozhang and his nearly 11 Beiyang troops from fleeing back. Nanjing's return route to the north, so as to make up for the fault of the first division's escape from the enemy.However, the No. [-] Division is the weakest unit in the entire youth army, which is really difficult for people to entrust with important tasks.

So what is the No.11 division who has been given high hopes doing?

The current head of the 111th Regiment is He Yingqin. This is also Lu Diping's decision after communicating with him several times, because Lu Diping found that He Yingqin's military quality is very good, and his psychological quality is even better.In the end, Lu Diping resisted all opinions and appointed He Yingqin, an airborne cadre from Anjiang, as the chief of staff of the No. 11 division and the head of the 111 regiment.

In the ensuing outflanking operations, He Yingqin proved Lu Diping's unique insight with his actual actions.

At this moment, the 111th regiment shouldered the heavy responsibility of the whole division to assault the road between Wuhu and Nanjing, and Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the first battalion, rushed to the forefront as the vanguard of the whole regiment.As for Lu Yongxiang's Beiyang [-]th Division, which was originally in front of them, Lu Diping chose to turn a blind eye and ignore it, given that they were all busy evacuating towards Zhejiang.

The final blocking location was personally determined by Lu Diping, who Wang Zhenyu called a clever guy, in Ma'anshan.The reason is that although the Beiyang Army did not dare to go by water, it must return to Nanjing by sticking to the Yangtze River, because this is the safest way.And then this suggestion was transmitted by Lu Diping to the Right Route Army Command through the radio station of the division headquarters, and then reported to Li Zongren, the commander of the Southeast Front Army Command level by level.

At this moment, Li Zongren has a lot of things to do. As the commander of the front army, he cannot only be responsible for military operations like the headquarters of the left and right armies. He is also responsible for politics.Since the troops were dispatched in December last year, the most direct impact of the youth army's rocket-like marching speed is not the shock of the whole country, but the vacancy of political power in a large number of newly liberated areas.

Under the protection of security forces, a large number of National Socialist Party cadres as the main body took over the power in these areas, but a lot of trouble followed.

On the one hand, these work teams composed of the National Socialist Party have to compete with the original local forces for the actual dominance of the area. Military pay and supplies.After all, as the battle line continued to stretch, it became extremely unrealistic to expect many materials to be transported through Anjiang.

This request itself may not be contradictory. If it is a comrade with strong ability, then he will do these two things together.First, suppress those local powers that should be suppressed, and win over those that should be wooed, and then the local order will naturally stabilize, and the task of raising supplies will not be difficult to complete.It's a pity that not all comrades in the work team are so strong. The good side of human beings determines that they habitually choose to compromise and give in when facing the original local hard forces.However, history tells them cruelly and mercilessly that this is raising tigers.Li Zongren has this problem in Anhui now. After the work teams in many places are dispatched, they are tortured by the local tyrants and evil gentry.Squeezing out, listening to the tune and not listening to the propaganda is still a relatively good state. What is more serious is even playing the banner of Sun Yat-sen to organize local armed forces, openly expelling them by force, and attacking the work teams sent by the National Socialist Party, causing many bloody incidents.

This caused Li Zongren to greatly reduce the time to think about the war, and his nominal chief of staff happened to be Bai Chongxi, a part-time job leading troops on the front line.This forced him to spend his energy on mobilizing security forces to suppress them every day, and meeting with representatives of the gentry group who are willing to cooperate with the government. Contact, because the last and most critical step in the whole battle is to enter Shanghai.

When Lu Diping reported the plan and sent it to Li Zongren, Li Zongren felt that he was indeed a little negligent about this war.It seems that my side seems to have a sure chance of winning, but in fact, Feng Guozhang has only lost the initiative on the battlefield since the beginning of the war. The main force of the Beiyang Army still exists. If he continues to be so careless, he may give his opponent a salty fish If there is a chance to turn around, then his reputation in the world in this life will be all over.Therefore, this situation must not be allowed to happen. Li Zongren opened the map and looked at it. He personally measured the amount with a ruler and estimated the marching speed of the Beiyang Army. , ordered the Ministry to rush to Hongmu Mountain in Ma’anshan before 11:111 am on April 4, and then stick it there like a nail.”

The telegram was sent directly from the Front Army Command to He Yingqin, the commander of the 111th Regiment, who was performing a high-speed interspersed mission, bypassing the Right Route Army Command and No.11 Division Division.He Yingqin was very surprised when he saw this telegram, because it was already twelve o'clock at noon on April 4rd, and he and his army had just arrived at Guquan Town, which was a full distance away from the blocking location requested by Commander Li. There is a straight-line distance of 3 miles, the actual distance plus the sudden encounter with the enemy on the road, as well as the normal rest time, it is almost impossible to complete this order within the remaining 120 hours matter.And there is another outstanding situation. Feng Guozhang is only more than 80 miles away from this place in a straight line, and the actual distance is no more than one hundred miles. Moreover, they will start to retreat at any time.This is quite a problem, but He Yingqin thought about it for less than 3 minutes, and tried his best to suppress the idea of ​​appealing, because he knew that as a member of the youth army, he had to complete this task, and there was no room for bargaining, just how to do it Implementation is negotiable and flexible.

One-third of the officers and soldiers of the 111th regiment are northern soldiers, and most of them are concentrated in Zhang Zizhong's first battalion. They are tall and leggy and have good marching ability. Possibility of getting lost.So He Yingqin decisively ordered Zhang Zizhong's first battalion to throw away all pots and pans, and only take dry food and ammunition, and set off immediately, and must arrive at Hongmu Mountain by eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

Zhang Zizhong's military quality was fully demonstrated at this moment. Although he realized that this order was extremely unreasonable after a little thought, he still accepted the order without any objection.This moved He Yingqin very much. He secretly made up his mind that if he had a chance to be promoted in the future, he must not forget to support this young man from Shandong.

He patted Zhang Zizhong on the shoulder and said: "My whole regiment will follow behind your first battalion. After you arrive at the place, as long as you persist for two or three hours, we will be in place, so go ahead and do it boldly."

When Zhang Zizhong returned to the first battalion, he announced the order, then assembled the team and set off. While marching, Zhang Zizhong made a marching plan.He asked all ministries to rest for half an hour every two hours, and they rested in rotation. He adopted the method of solitaire. After a company surpassed all the companies, it rested and recuperated, and he himself led the whole battalion with a sharp knife platoon.

At this time, Feng Guozhang was still hesitating in Wuhu. Was he setting up a blocking position here?Or retreat to Nanjing across the board, and then cross the river to the north?History made a merciless joke here, that is, the news of Lu Yongxiang's withdrawal to Zhejiang was only known to Feng Guozhang late at night on April 4, and it was too late to do anything at this time.

Chapter 266

Feng Guozhang only found out late at night, and it was too late to do anything at this time.

Just as Zhang Zizhong was running at high speed on the land of southern Anhui with the terrain of his own battalion, in Shanghai, a battle without gunpowder was going on.

At this moment, Wang Yaqiao and Chen Qimei are nervously making various preparations for the troops belonging to their own forces to enter Shanghai, and Shanghai at this moment has also become lively with the defeat of the Beiyang Army commanded by Feng Guozhang.

All powerful factions and celebrities in Shanghai are nervously inquiring about the latest news. If they want to protect their vested interests, they naturally need to know who will be in charge in Shanghai next.

The war in Zhejiang started at the end of March. Zhu Rui, who was given high hopes by Wang Zhenyu, performed worse than Li Houji in Fujian.Relying on more than 3 people, Li Houji fought fiercely with the revolutionary army in the Fuzhou area for more than two months. In the end, he was outnumbered and fled to Taiwan.And what about Zhu Rui?As a local snake who has been operating in Zhejiang for many years, with an army of 1, he lost half of Zhejiang in less than a week.

This is not to say that the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang Army is inferior to the Revolutionary Army, but that the main generals of the Zhejiang Army, Lu Gongwang and others, secretly communicated with Sun Yat-sen.As a result, before the battle started, more than 3 of the [-] troops became part of the revolutionary army.Now Zhu Ruike felt that he was hanging, and he might not be able to complete the task Wang Zhenyu asked to keep the revolutionary army out of Zhejiang.But Wang Zhenyu's final bottom line is that Sun Wen's army must never be allowed to enter Shanghai. This must be done no matter what, otherwise Zhu Rui will have nothing to do with him on the political stage.In order to achieve this goal, he can only call the generals he can trust to his side to give a lecture: "To be honest, everyone knows that Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army was defeated by Wang Zhenyu's youth army in the front, and our revolutionary army is also here. Aggressive, seeing that this Zhejiang territory is about to be lost."

These generals looked at each other for a while after hearing the words that demoralized them, and asked one after another: "Dare to ask the general what his idea is, whether to fight or defend, whether to make peace or to surrender, no matter what the decision is, I will just follow it."

These are polite words, but Zhu Rui didn't dare to take them seriously, after all Lu Gongwang was against him.He straightened his back and said: "Since everyone has this attitude, I will tell you brothers one thing. Before the start of this battle, I got in touch with Marshal Wang of the youth army. Marshal Wang is now strong and strong, and his soldiers are pointing directly at him. Nanjing, so my idea is to follow Dashuai Wang. But Dashuai Wang entrusted me with two things that day. The first is to protect our Zhejiang for his old man (Wang Zhenyu Juhan, who is older?), but Lu Gongwang forgot about the Restoration Association and The blood and blood of the Tongmenghui defected to Sun Dapao, and now most of Zhejiang has fallen into the hands of Sun Dapao. So we are sorry for this entrustment to Marshal Wang, but the second is to help Marshal Wang’s army enter Shanghai first, which we still have a chance to do Yes, as long as we stick to Hangzhou. That’s why Zhu asked all the brothers here to control the teams in their respective hands at this moment when our future and destiny will be determined. No matter what, we must defend Hangzhou. Please!”

After the generals exchanged glances, they seemed to have counted, so they got up one after another, expressing that they would fight to the end for Zhu Rui. . .

Wang Yaqiao has been quite busy recently. On the one hand, all information submitted to the Anjiang General Staff Headquarters and the Southeast Front Army needs his signature before it can be released.On the other hand, during this period of time, I have to find time to contact the local tyrants in Shanghai for Yang Yongtai. After all, the youth army will need support from all aspects if they want to enter Shanghai.

But just yesterday he got a very bad news, that is, someone saw Sun Yat-sen's general Chen Qimei enter the private residence of He Fenglin, the Songhu Protectorate envoy appointed by the Beiyang government and the commander of the Army's Sixth Mixed Brigade. It only came out in an hour, and it is unknown what the specific plot is.

If the previous activities of both parties were still in a state of mutual tolerance, then it would be a very serious foul for Chen Qimei to go directly to He Fenglin.After all, everyone went to drink tea and chat with well-known figures from all walks of life in Shanghai before, just to boost their popularity for their own side. The final result is to be faster than whose army is faster. This is the basis for everyone to tolerate each other.And now?Chen Qimei first killed the naval fleet commander of the Beiyang Army, and then instigated the navy. This is okay, because of the concession, the fleet finally left Shanghai for Mawei, Fuzhou under the intervention of the great powers.But He Fenglin is different. He is the Songhu Army Guard appointed by Yuan Shikai himself, and he has an army in his hand.If the final result is that He Fenglin was successfully instigated and turned into a revolutionary armed force under the Chinese revolutionary military government led by Sun Dapao.So, is the youth army attacking when it arrives in Shanghai?Or not to attack?

This situation is absolutely not allowed to happen. Wang Yaqiao immediately reported the situation to Yang Yongtai, Wang Zhenyu's plenipotentiary representative in Shanghai. Yang Yongtai has been busy attending various entertainments in the concession recently, but he still has basic vigilance.He glanced at Wang Yaqiao lightly, and then said in a low voice, "I've always been curious about one thing. He, Chen Yingshi, killed one of Yuan Shikai's naval commanders. With Yuan Shikai's character, he would allow this person to stay in the world?"

Wang Yaqiao suddenly became enlightened when he heard the words, nodded, turned around and left, while Yang Yongtai smiled slightly, and went to play with a brand new set of four treasures of the study on his desk.This was given to him by the Jewish businessman Hartung. It is a pure white jade product with a delicate luster, and it can cost as much as [-] yuan on the market.

"Shanghai is better, there are more rich people," Yang Yongtai sighed involuntarily. . .

Still back on the battlefield, in the fifth year of the Republic of China, at 1916:4 am on April 4, 300 in the Western calendar, Zhang Zizhong led more than 150 elite soldiers to the blocking position required by his superiors, Hongmu Mountain.Almost half of the officers and soldiers were left behind. After all, they were marching continuously, and the actual marching distance reached more than [-] miles, and there were six wadings.But very fortunately, although in the later books about this big interspersion, this time the interspersed was described by the pen in charge of propaganda work of the army as a battle of a narrow escape, and was stubbornly resisted by the Beiyang Army many times. None of them encountered any resistance from the enemy on the way, not even once.

So Feng Guozhang's door to flee to Nanjing by land was ruthlessly closed, and Feng Guozhang had only one choice, smashing the door.The Second Beiyang Division, as the leader of the whole army, unceremoniously launched an attack on Hongmu Mountain guarded by Zhang Zizhong and others, and the battle was very fierce.

It is said that Zhang Zizhong and his party were dumbfounded when they arrived at Hongmu Mountain this morning. The mountain is too short, and the number of available hills is limited, but at this time, there is no time to pick three or four.Everyone immediately started digging fortifications with their engineering shovels and pickaxes. There were four hills in total, and a company of troops was placed on each hill. The purpose was only to carry out the order of General Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the front army, and stick them here like nails.

The battle started at eleven o'clock in the morning, and the Beiyang Army's attack could not be described as ineffective. We all know that only by getting through here can everyone escape back to Nanjing.And an hour ago, Tao Zhiyue, who was determined to make up for his mistakes, had already pressed down on the Beiyang Army with the strength of two divisions.The Fourth Division, which has lost its commander, is unreliable at this time, so Feng Guozhang did not hesitate to throw the First and Second Divisions of the Jiangsu Army out to resist the flood of youth troops.Then he stepped up and urged Wang Zhanyuan to speed up his attack. He didn't have too many ideas now. Beiyang's direct descendants could stand out one by one. After all, he brought them down from the north by himself.

However, the more than 800 officers and soldiers of Zhang Zizhong's battalion have played the prestige of the entire No.11 Division today. Without the standard firepower configuration of the Youth Army, it only depends on these few heavy machine guns and the rifles in everyone's hands. grenade.Zhang Zizhong and the others actually withstood the three-hour continuous attacks of the Second Division in one breath. Wang Zhanyuan, the commander of the Second Beiyang Division, was so angry that he couldn't care about his demeanor. He jumped up and cursed: "What's wrong with our Second Division?" ? From Tongling to Wuhu, why can’t you take down a single position? What are you doing, idiots. Go now, organize a death squad for me, and I will stand on Hongmu Mountain in an hour. If I can’t go up, I will use Your heads are here to step on my feet, if you don’t believe me, just try it..."

The division seat uttered harsh words, and the officers and soldiers below naturally wanted to buy their strength. A large number of death squads rushed forward, shirtless, wielding ghost-headed swords, and were unceremoniously overthrown by Zhang Zizhong and the others. .

The cannons came up soon, bombarding Zhang Zizhong and the others in disorder, and then another wave of charges. There was no tactic at all, and they were all expected to exhaust Zhang Zizhong and the others by relying on their strength.

At about 350 o'clock in the afternoon, more than 111 people were killed in Zhang Zizhong's army, but the four hills were still firmly under his control.At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, He Yingqin came up with the main force of the [-]th Regiment. After a scuffle, they successfully joined forces with Zhang Zizhong's troops. Wang Zhanyuan knew that there was a big trouble this time when he saw the scene. . .

Late at night on April 4th, in the Shanghai Concession, Chen Qimei and several guards walked out of a navy club and were about to board a small car and leave.Just as she was about to get in the car, Chen Qimei stopped for a while. The outside of this club is usually very lively. What's going on today?Thinking about it?The mutation happened suddenly.

Eight gunmen suddenly rushed out of the night in eight directions, all of them were armed with double guns, and they were clear box cannons, and they shot at Chen Qimei.Chen Qimei's three guards were immediately knocked to the ground, and Chen Qimei lost the ability to resist after being shot several times in the back. She could only hold the car door firmly with both hands, but her knees fell to the ground uncontrollably.

The assassins obviously didn't intend to stop there. They approached the car and fired seven or eight bullets at Chen Qimei, and then one of them made another bullet to make sure that Chen Qimei was out of breath before rushing away.

Chen Qimei of the Megatron Republic of China was killed just like that, but Wulu gave the name of the murderer to Yuan Shikai who was far away in Beijing. . .

Chapter 267

In the middle of the night on April 4, the mobile brigade of the security detachment stationed in the Wuhan area suddenly received an emergency assembly order, fully armed and rushed to the Wuchang wharf, and then set up security in an orderly manner under the command of the leading officer.After a while, more than a dozen Ford cars drove into the wharf, and a large number of dignitaries got out of the cars. They cast their eyes on the river, and the ship lights in the distance were flickering. Wang Zhenyu's special passenger ship Yuanjiang was slowly approaching the Wuchang wharf.

Tang Hualong, the special envoy of Vice President Li Yuanhong of the Republic of China, Ye Zuwen, the acting governor of Hubei Province, and Qing Heng, director of the Wuhan Military Management Committee, were all waiting at the pier.

No one would have imagined that in just four months, Wang Zhenyu, who was still nestled in the mountains of Xianggui, would become a big shot who could determine the direction of the whole of China.All kinds of forces are paying attention to him, after all, today's Wang Zhenyu has almost controlled a large area of ​​land.

Wang Zhenyu’s decision to come to Wuhan this time was made a month ago. Therefore, the Fifth Division of the Youth Army was ordered to enter Hankou under the leadership of the division commander Zhao Dongsheng. Find a house and play the front station.

The victory came so quickly and smoothly that the entire Wang Zhenyu Group, from the Youth Army to the National Socialist Party, was not ready for victory.Take the Ministry of Armaments as an example. They have accepted various mining areas and factories all the way these days, but they don't have enough manpower to manage them.In the end, I had to adjust my policy and handed over a large number of non-military necessary factories and mining areas to the China Development Corporation. However, under such circumstances, Ma Xicheng's younger brother Ma Xiren was still very efficient in only half a month. He led the full-scale production resumption of the Hanyang Arsenal, which provided great convenience for the subsequent southeast operations. For this reason, Wang Zhenyu also specially notified and commended Ma Xiren.In the case of the National Socialist Party, it is manifested as a serious shortage of cadres. At present, the total number of party members who have joined the National Socialist Party is only more than 4, and this itself also includes political cadres in the army. It is absolutely sufficient to keep the local government functioning.However, the marching speed of the youth army was too fast. Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces fell into the hands of the youth army one after another.Many places simply cannot send enough work teams, and large numbers of former government officials have been allowed to stay on.For this, Wang Zhenyu also asked for a large number of youth league members to make up for the serious shortage of comrades in the party. As for why he chose this way, Wang Zhenyu felt that it was to avoid the problem of a political party being too large, which would eventually lead to the reverse elimination of good and bad people. For him, the party is just a tool for righteousness, and he doesn't want to turn this party into the largest party in the damn universe in the future.

And on the battlefield, the goddess of luck seemed to favor Wang Zhenyu in particular. When Zhang Zizhong and the others were nailed to Hongmu Mountain like a nail, the escape door for the four divisions commanded by Feng Guozhang was tantamount to being closed.

First of all, under the onslaught of Tao Zhiyue and Zeng Jiwu, the troops of the First and Second Divisions of the Jiangsu Army were completely vulnerable and lost Wuhu at an alarming rate.This result made Feng Guozhang dumbfounded. The combat effectiveness of the two Jiangsu local divisions was even worse than he expected, and not only could he not be held accountable, but he had to comfort himself. Fortunately, the two divisions did not defect.

A total of [-] Beiyang troops were blocked on the road between Hongmu Mountain and Wuhu, with no way out.