Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

In fact, in the eyes of Higashino Nanjiro and the entire Fuso, Su Zhengyang has never been regarded as a real opponent, although Su Zhengyang has been constantly stirring up new storms and becoming famous from Linzhou to Shanghai.

But in the eyes of the arrogant Japanese people, Su Zhengyang was just an upstart who received arms assistance from the Peace Company. He was not even the leader of a large regime and was not worth mentioning at all.

But with Su Zhengyang's sudden effort this time, the Zhenxing Division created a feat of annihilating an entire Class A division of the Kwantung Army on the grassland, and truly made Su Zhengyang and the Northwest Revolutionary Army enter the sight of this army general who held absolute power in the entire Kwantung Army.

Fuso's military intelligence department began to make efforts, but after a day of information collection, it was unable to obtain any information about the elite troops entering the grassland.

In the Kwantung Army headquarters, Asano Wenliang stood straight in front of Higashino Nanjiro, with a gleam in his eyes, and slowly said: "Commander, I think that this Northwest Revolutionary Army unit that entered the Mongolian grassland must be Su Zhengyang's trump card, similar to the Skeleton Division that suddenly appeared in Shanghai. Before the Skeleton Division appeared, we did not have any information about this armored unit. Su Zhengyang announced to the public that this unit has been secretly cultivated by the Peace Company. This Northwest Revolutionary Army combat unit on the grassland should be no exception."

Higashino Nanjiro looked at Asano Atsuyoshi in front of him and slammed the table heavily.

"Don't shirk responsibility in front of me or find any excuses! Could it be that Su Zhengyang knows magic? Can he conjure up an elite force out of thin air? If you don't have the relevant information about this force, it means that your intelligence agency has failed in its duty!"

"Haiyi, the commander has taught me that I will find out the specific information of this mysterious force in the shortest possible time."

"Immediately call all the Kwantung Army generals in Baizhou Chuncheng for a military meeting. I want to bury Su Zhengyang's ace troops completely in the Mongolian grasslands!"

The Fuso Kwantung Army had a total of 800,000 combat troops, including twelve Class A divisions, ten Class B divisions, six Class C and Class D divisions, as well as eight infantry brigades, two armored brigades, and two artillery brigades.

On the battlefield in Northeast China, the Kwantung Army has deployed a total of thirteen divisions and four brigades of combat troops. Faced with the Revitalization Division that continued to wreak havoc on the grasslands, Higashino Minamijiro decided at the headquarters meeting to mobilize two Class A divisions, two Class B divisions, two infantry brigades, and one artillery brigade from Hakushu, where the Kwantung Army's headquarters was located, in order to launch a hunting operation against the Revitalization Division without affecting the situation on the front battlefield in Northeast China.

As a result, the difficulties faced by the Zhenxing Division on the grassland were of hellish difficulty, and it was unable to force the Kwantung Army troops on the Northeast battlefield to send rescue troops and share the pressure of the Northeast battlefield. The reason for this was that after getting rid of the entanglement with Tsarist Russia and the Anglo-Saxon Empire, the entire behemoth Kwantung Army had completely freed up its hands and could fully launch its invasion plan against China.

Under such circumstances, the burden on the shoulders of the First Army of the Northwest Revolutionary Army led by Liu Chengxu became particularly heavy.

Su Zhengyang also changed his plan at this time. He called the First Army of the Northwest Revolutionary Army, and cooperated with the main force of the Duan faction in Guanzhou. After defeating the Ding faction, he changed his route directly to the north to support the Northeast Army from the front battlefield.

The First Army led by Liu Chengxu traveled thousands of miles in ten days, almost crossing the entire Mengzhou grassland from west to east, and finally arrived at Guanzhou where the Duan troops were located.

After the First Army entered the battlefield, the Ding faction of Hongzhou suffered a devastating blow, just as Su Zhengyang had expected. In less than five days, the Ding faction's army, which had been fighting hard with the main force of the Duan faction, had two army-level combat units directly crippled by Liu Chengxu. They could only hide in the major cities in the southern part of Hongzhou like turtles, barely surviving.

Liu Chengxu did not choose to continue to fight with the Ding army, but handed this task over to the Duan main force. He went directly north from Guanzhou to Fengtian City, the capital of Haizhou in the northeast.

During the two-month-long war, the Northeast Army had almost lost all the important cities of Haizhou except for a few cities south of Fengtian City.

The Northeast Army originally had 350,000 people and seven army groups. Four of the army groups were almost destroyed, and the remaining three army groups also suffered heavy losses. They used Fu'an City, 70 kilometers north of Fengtian, as a military fortress, cleared the countryside, and launched a desperate resistance against the main force of the Kwantung Army.

After the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army, Jiang Yanlin, was injured, Jiang Xuewen, the 22-year-old young master, took over the heavy responsibility from his father. This playboy and young marshal of the Northeast Army, who had always lived in a greenhouse, witnessed the cruelty of the battlefield for the first time and grew up rapidly in the continuous smoke of battlefields.

When Liu Chengxu met Jiang Xuewen, this young marshal who used to be always well-dressed, handsome, and unrestrained was now completely unkempt, with black stubble all over his face. He was wearing a very old-looking military jacket and looked extremely haggard.

"General Liu, you finally made it. These days, the Fuso side has been going crazy, launching a frantic attack on the Northeast Army's defense line in Fu'an City and its surrounding areas. The losses on the front battlefield are too severe. Currently, a large number of Haizhou's reserve forces have been transferred to the front battlefield. For the Northeast Army, every day is a nightmare of wandering on the edge of life and death. These damn Fuso people are as short as dwarfs, but they are extremely fierce when fighting."

Liu Chengxu originally wanted to make a few jokes about Jiang Xuewen's uncharacteristic image, but after hearing Jiang Xuewen's words, Liu Chengxu's expression became serious.

"Find a place and tell me the current battlefield situation in detail. Also give me a military map of Fu'an City. Our First Army has traveled thousands of miles to the Northeast just to curb the arrogance of the Fuso troops and stop their advance."

Jiang Xuewen nodded and said, "Come with me. The Governor's Office also has a special combat command room. My father has just recovered and has been spending every day in the combat command room, studying the situation on the entire battlefield, hoping to find a breakthrough. By the way, you have come from afar and must be exhausted. Do you want me to arrange a banquet to welcome you and then talk about the war."

Liu Chengxu waved his hand and said, "The battle situation is urgent, there is no time for a banquet. Just prepare some food to fill your stomach. We can eat while studying the battle plan."

Just like that, Liu Chengxu, who had just led his troops to Fengtian and had not had time to drink a sip of hot tea, rushed to the combat command room of the Governor's Office with the main officers of the First Army to study combat strategies based on the current situation in the Northeast.