Chapter 110

The captain of the military police was directly dismissed from his post and was left to become a company commander, directly changing from a colonel to a lieutenant. This chop was not ordinary. Even so, in private, Fang Jianxiong treated three people from the teaching team and treated Lin Huaichuan, and two

Attitude. The former scolded the office for more than an hour, which made the three of them very happy. Everyone knows Instructor Fang’s temper. When he scolds you, he treats you as one of his own. If he doesn’t scold you, it will be troublesome!

To treat Lin Huaichuan, Fang Jianxiong decided to come to the door in person to deliver the medicine. When Mrs. Lin saw her husband being beaten back, she felt distressed and complained directly. Lin Huaichuan faced his wife's complaint and said with a smile: "This beating is worth it! Marshal.

This is no discrimination.”

He was quite happy after being beaten, but Mrs. Lin didn't understand and gave him a soft cushion. Fang Jianxiong came to the door, and Lin Huaichuan struggled to greet him. Fang Jianxiong didn't say any polite words or comfort, but in front of Mrs. Lin.

Said: "Old Lin, these people in the teaching team are too young, you have to help take care of them. Commander of the Third Army, you do it, I don't trust others."

"You must do your best in your humble position!" Lin Huaichuan's heart was agitated, and he stopped saying words of gratitude and loyalty. He was not a talker. Fang Jianxiong was not polite, and after sitting down, he said: "Beiyang puts the main force in Henan, and the General Staff will be based on the battlefield

Tactical adjustments have been made to the situation. The third and fourth divisions are secretly moving towards Bengbu. With Hubei's terrain at Wusheng Pass, the defense of the two divisions should be no problem. The key now is how to attack the Eastern Front. What do you have?

Any ideas?"

Lin Huaichuan was very excited. This was an absolute secret. To communicate like this in private was to express trust. For someone like him who came here halfway, the boss's trust was the most important. The specific rules of the National Defense Force were to make plans for how to fight.

Just follow it up. But since you asked, Lin Huaichuan replied: "With five Class A divisions fighting the Eastern Front, we will naturally push forward steadily along the Jinpu Road. This may be slow to achieve results, but the victory is stability. No

Mistakes will happen. With the strength of our army, there is no need to take risks."

This is the same as playing Go. The stronger you are, the less likely you are to take risks. They actually formulated a strategy of defending in the west and attacking in the east. The purpose of this adjustment is naturally to avoid the main force of the Beiyang Army in Henan. Strategically, it seems risky.

In fact, this is not the case. Even if the Beiyang Army attacks Hubei, with the strength of two A divisions, plus the B divisions garrisoned in various places, there will be a lot of available troops. It is estimated that the General Staff has other considerations, and the specific details are not what he should ask. Of course

If this news was leaked in advance, Lin Huaichuan would not be able to reap the consequences.

The city of Bengbu changed overnight. The soldiers seemed to be more cautious. The business of taverns, teahouses and brothels was greatly reduced. There were many complaints from the market, but the news of the general's arrival in Bengbu was also known to the market.

Fang Jianxiong's appearance in Bengbu with such fanfare is not good news for Beiyang. The location of Bengbu is too terrible, facing Xuzhou's back. The Beiyang Army in Shandong is led by Feng Guozhang. Faced with this situation, Feng Guozhang hesitated. No

Dare to decide to go south.

However, Yuan Shikai could not give up on the so-called second revolution of the Democratic Party, otherwise he would not be able to rule this country.

After receiving the news reported by Feng Guozhang, Yuan Shikai convened a meeting to discuss. The aides were unanimous in their opinions. Fighting was definitely going to happen. The key was to appease the variable Fang Jianxiong first. As for Fang Jianxiong's appearance in Bengbu at this time, the aides unanimously agreed.

, this is a bluff. If he really wants to send troops from Bengbu, Fang Jianxiong will not do this. He must go secretly. At the same time, he has repeatedly emphasized that it is possible that he really wants to send troops from Bengbu.

This Fang Jianxiong is indeed difficult to predict. The old Yuan who held the meeting had a dark look on his face and couldn't say anything right for a long time. Finally, he decided to order Feng Guozhang to attack Xuzhou and agreed to give the territory of Xuzhou to Zhang Xun to raise troops. At the same time, he agreed

Feng Guozhang captured Nanjing and the territory belonged to Feng Guozhang. At the same time, he ordered Chen Huan to lead a newly formed division south to serve as Feng Guozhang's assistant. In this way, Beiyang's military strength in Jinan was strengthened.

Half of Chen Huan's division is the old foundation of Twenty Towns. Yuan Shikai divided Twenty Towns into two and became two divisions. The combat effectiveness was supplemented by half of the new recruits, which is obviously not as good as before. Originally, Twenty Towns was nothing.

The main force, in order to annex this army, Lao Yuan has to do this. In short, Beiyang is like this, soldiers are the generals. What Lao Yuan did before, the people below will follow suit.

Feng Guozhang ordered the troops to go south, and Zhang Xun's forty battalions took the lead. They arrived in Zaozhuang two days later. In early November, Zhang Xun's vanguard troops marched into Jiawang and encountered small-scale contact with the defending civilian army. The civilian army withdrew to Xuzhou's peripheral positions after a slight resistance.

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Zhang Xun was worried about fraud and ordered to stop the advance and wait for the follow-up of the main force of the Beiyang Army. That night, Feng Guozhang's aide Yun Baohui rushed to Zhang Xun's army. After an interview, he found out that Chen Zhiji, the commander of the second division of the People's Army in front of him, wanted to be replaced. Chen Zhiji and several

After discussing with his subordinates, they sent someone to contact the Beiyang Army and decided to rebel. Chen Zhiji was a member of the League and Husband Group. He had donated 6,000 taels of silver to fund the revolution. Because he was Feng Guozhang's son-in-law, he was replaced as division commander before the war and wanted to be fired.

He went to Nanjing. In history, Chen Zhiji was also mutinied by his subordinates and fled to Japan. Later, he returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion.

Chen Zhiji, who was in vain, had no intention of rebelling. Unexpectedly, he was suspected of being dismissed from his post, so he chose to rebel.

Of course Zhang Xun was happy. Feng Guozhang helped him to persuade Xuzhou, and it was not for nothing. Feng Guozhang was greedy for money. When he was still in Beijing, Zhang Xun sent someone to give Feng Guozhang 20,000 taels of silver. Otherwise, even if other people suggested

, Feng Guozhang would not say this to Lao Yuan.

I don't know whether the civilian army moved too slowly or the Beiyang Army advanced too fast. In short, this was the result of looking forward and backward. That night, Chen Zhiji ordered the troops to get out of the defense line. Zhang Xun's troops, with the cooperation of Wu Xiangjie's troops, broke into Xuzhou and defended it.

Li Liejun of Xuzhou was caught off guard, and his troops were dispersed without any organization. Li Liejun hurriedly led the guards to protect Huang Xing and rushed to the train station, fleeing to Bengbu overnight.

At this time, the two infantry divisions in Nanjing that were said to be heading north actually did not move.

It was already three o'clock in the morning, and the rapid knocking on the door woke up Fang Jianxiong, who was sleeping. He had a meeting last night until after one o'clock, and he didn't sleep for a while. Fang Jianxiong was unhappy when he was woken up. When he came out to open the door, he saw three division commanders.

Everyone has arrived, and Zhao Hao from the Military Intelligence Department has also arrived.

"Commander, the former Eighth Division Commander of the Xuzhou garrison turned against Chen Zhiji, the First Division Commander of the Yuan Army. Li Liejun was caught off guard and Xuzhou fell." The one who came forward to report was Zhao Hao. There was an intelligence station of the Military Intelligence Bureau in Xuzhou and he immediately reported the news.

It was passed on.

When this news came, Fang Jianxiong was completely stunned, and his mind was confused. What kind of battle was this? Third, four or two divisions just arrived in Hefei last night, but Xuzhou here was lost?

"Fuck you!" Fang Jianxiong said something harsh subconsciously, and his dazed mind suddenly woke up. He immediately dressed up and said: "Let's go to the war room."

Everyone in the war room is here, and a group of staff officers are surrounding the sand table. This is a common practice of the National Defense Forces, and they are rehearsed repeatedly before the war.

Fang Jianxiong strode in, hurriedly returned the greetings to the staff, stood in front of the sand table and looked at it for a while and said: "Huyan, is there any news from Suxian?" Stationed in Suxian is a brigade of the National Defense Forces, equipped with a battalion of artillery.

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"The telegram just arrived, Li Liejun and Huang Xing escaped from Suxian, and the train has already gone south." Huyan quickly replied, and then added: "Huang Xing wanted to use our army to counterattack Xuzhou, but Suxian refused on the pretext that there was no military order."

When Fang Jianxiong heard this, he became angry and sneered: "Huang Keqiang has never changed his problem. He dares to command anyone's troops. The two entire divisions in Xuzhou are now gone. The Japanese weapons have all been cheapened by Beiyang."

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"Commander, you might as well take advantage of the Beiyang Army's unstable foothold to raid Xuzhou." Li Yifeng took a step forward, with the intention of actively asking for a fight. Huyan Aobo became anxious when he saw it, and hurriedly said: "Commander, my troops are in Suxian.

Give the order to set off now, and we can reach the outskirts of Xuzhou at dawn."

Fang Jianxiong glanced at the two people and said nothing. Instead, he said to Yin Ruizhi, director of the Telecommunications Department: "Urgent call Wuhan and inform the two chiefs of general staff and ask them what they mean."

The war room fell into silence. The National Defense Forces could not be said to be unprepared, but the pre-war adjustments were not in place yet. Now that this incident happened temporarily, they were anxious to attack Xuzhou and worried about variables.

Half an hour later, there was an urgent telegram from Nanjing: Xuzhou mutiny, Huang Keqiang, and Li Xiaru were heading south along the road. They hoped that Brother Fuguo would raise an army to attack Yuan Wen as soon as possible. He paused and looked forward to it! Fang Jianxiong threw the telegram aside and continued to stare at the map in a daze.

An hour later, Wuhan called back: Huyan's troops would launch a surprise attack, and for the sake of stability, Lin and Li's troops could be ordered to assist.

This reply is based on the current deployment of the National Defense Force. In the current deployment, the Sixth Division is in Suxian and Bengbu. The main force of Lin Huaichuan is in Guzhen and the people are in Xuzhou. Li Yifeng probably can't count on it. All his troops are

In Bengbu.

"Call back to Nanjing: We will turn on the power tomorrow to counter Yuan. Call back to Wuhan and make arrangements in advance, pending ascertainment of the enemy's situation."

Yin Ruizhi finished recording and was about to go out when Fang Jianxiong raised his hand and called out: "Notify Xu Shaojie to urgently mobilize a brigade of the Eighth Division of Wuhu to go north to Bengbu." Xu Shaojie went to Wuhu for a meeting, but fell ill and was hospitalized. Fang Jianxiong left him to recuperate in Wuhu and took up command in Wuhu.

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After a series of orders, Fang Jianxiong pulled open the Fengji buckle and cursed angrily: "A bunch of idiots!"

Huang Xing, who was taking the train south, had a grave look on his face, staring blankly at the dark night outside the window, not knowing what he was thinking. Li Liejun, who was opposite, also had a serious face. The defeat of Xuzhou was really unspeakable. This Chen Zhiji

, Li Liejun initially supported him to continue to serve as division commander, but because of Li Liejun's support, the replacement was not implemented for a long time. Because of this matter, Li Liejun felt very guilty. (To be continued...)
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