Duan Zhigui took the train as his headquarters, and during the war, he actually played mahjong as his main business, and as the commander-in-chief, it was no wonder that the Anhui army was vulnerable. Xiao Duan was famous for playing mahjong in the Beiyang era, and at that time, there were Liang Shiyi, Duan Zhigui, Wang Kemin, Sun Muhan, Pan Fu, Zhang Arc, etc., especially Liang, Duan, Wang, and Sun almost every night, and often gambled until dawn. Liang Shiyi is not limited in size and often watches business at the poker table.

Xiao Duan commanded the Zhiwan War at the card table, the news of defeat came, and the card game was not over and shouted to open the train to escape, and later passed on as a joke in Xi'an, listed as a good story in the history of the Zhiwan War.

Poor Duan Zhigui didn't talk about himself, but also appointed two generals, Qu Tongfeng and Tanaka Yu, a long-legged general and a person in Cao Ying's heart in Han, how the Anhui army was undefeated.

Duan Zhigui was defeated and fled back to Xi'an, and the newsletter in the Shanghai newspaper at that time was passed on as a joke, and several paragraphs are transcribed as follows:

Duan Zhigui, commander-in-chief of the Anhui army, supervised the battle in the former enemy, and his office was located on the train. There is a wooden sign hanging in front of the car, and the words "Commander-in-Chief" are written in a big book, and there are more than 100 people who do things. In addition to military supplies, there are 14 pairs of cigarette guns and cigarette trays, hundreds of dozens of hoho water, 7 pairs of sparrow brands, and 24 general dishes. The front and the direct army came into contact, the battle was a small setback, and the attachés knew that they would not be lucky, and persuaded Duan to do it early, Xiao Duan said: "I swear to live and die with the Anhui army, you are afraid of death, please return to Qin Ke'er." "All of them resigned without resignation. On the thirteenth, there was a battalion of the direct army to deceive the surrender, and Duan Yi boasted of it. In the middle of the night, the troops attacked the headquarters of the general headquarters, and Duan fell from the car and fainted. Hidden for a station master. At dawn, the deception army retreated, and the stationmaster sent it back to the headquarters. The servants asked from the crowd, and Xiao Duan said: "What a strange thing is this, the gentleman can deceive him, and there is no harm." "I went to the car to check the opium* and lay down and smoked it. The crowd relied on it for its calmness. The next night, they suddenly heard gunfire in the northwest, and the attachés all went to the commander's bedroom to ask for instructions. Duan no longer knew where to go, but he got to investigate, knowing that it was the army that was sentry, although the hearts of the people were at peace, but the commander-in-chief disappeared, searched everywhere, disturbed all night, and the next morning, he was found in the firewood pile of the township farmer. So the crowd laughed, and the prestige of the commander-in-chief was ruined. The enemy's 15th Division was defeated and retreated backwards, Duan mistakenly thought that it was a direct army, and urgently ordered the 1st Division to attack it, and knowing the misunderstanding, the officers and men of the 15th Division killed each other with the same kind and were furious. After seeing the commander-in-chief's train, the front of the train had already turned north, and the general was ready to flee, so he fired with a machine gun, and Xiao Duan urgently ordered the train to add a dragon head and fled back to Beijing. Hundreds of soldiers along the road blocked the way, intending to tell Xiaoduan about the fact that the first division was shooting from behind and killing each other, but Xiaoduan did not care whether he was alive or dead, but only ordered to drive, so that many people were killed. When I arrived in Xi'an, my family gathered to inquire, only touching my head with my hands, and even calling for danger and danger, and there was nothing else to say. Later, when he heard about the incident in the Tibetan section of the stationmaster, he was shot dead by the direct army. Xiao Duan kowtowed to the air, weeping bitterly, saying that he was a life-saving benefactor, and he was also a monk at home, and he was overdone. Suddenly, under the order of the wanted culprit, he fled to Qinghai in embarrassment, and the monk and Taoist dojo also stopped halfway, which is also a funny history among the soldiers of the Anhui army.

Duan Zhigui took the title of the Anhui army, and the former enemy was defeated, so he returned to Beijing in embarrassment, and resigned by telegram. Although the wording of the telegram is not very good, and the four and six are also quite smooth, the speaker said that when he fled in a hurry, he was able to search for the dry belly, and it was a strange thing to do this, and I don't know that there is really the most interesting material in it. First of all, Duan Youxi was a certain Jia, an old pedant, before Anhui Zhi was broken, Duan was eager to try, the main battle was very strong, and a certain A strongly persuaded him, but he did not listen. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Anhui army, and wanted to make a manifesto, which was drafted with a message to the soldiers, and ordered Jia to draft, in which many loyal monarchs loved the Chinese language, and Duan was discarded because it was not in line with the times, and asked others to write it on his behalf. Although A's mind is dry, he is quite unhappy with the self-proclaimed writer. Leng Yu said: "Although my text is not good, I originally had two drafts, and I stopped reading one of them in my current residence, that is, I hurriedly asked others to catch the knife, and my second draft is not allowed to be corrected again, and it can be kept for future use." Xiao Duan ignored it with his detour. and a small section fled back to Beijing from the former enemy, and the rumors were loud, and the grass and trees were all soldiers, and he was anxious to resign from the post of commander-in-chief by telegram, hoping to reduce his guilt. The Chinese people looked for the manifesto they had written, but they had already fled. As a last resort, A immediately sent a telegram in his sleeve saying: "I have a second draft of my preface, and it has already been prepared. "Read it in a small paragraph, the manuscript is four or six, the wording is quite decent, and the following reading of the first material is bound to lose, but there is a sarcasm, tearing up its draft, and throwing it to the ground in anger. A sneered, and before he reached the atrium, Xiao Duan personally chased after him and said: "I know that the gentleman is good-natured, and he is very funny." I don't want to be a mustard, please record it according to the original manuscript, I should not be easy to say a word. So he sent the draft prepared by Xixi to the table, so the wording was very calm.

At that time, "the situation of the war on the East Road: At 9:30 on the night of July 15, the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Anhui Army, the cavalry, infantry, artillery, engineering, and baggage teams, and the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the newly formed 3rd Division of the Anhui Army, totaling about 15,000 people, were divided into three routes to attack the direct army defense line of Linqi County. The direct army in Vang Vieng is the fourth mixed brigade, which is divided into infantry, horse, artillery, engineering, baggage and machine gun teams, and directly under the 20th battalion of the garrison infantry team, with a total of about 20,000 people. The battle officially began in the north of Vang Vieng, with guns and cannons firing in unison, and the bloody battle was fierce. Duan soldiers are mostly reluctant to fight. However, he was forced by the superiors, regardless of the direction, and fired his guns at will, and the artillery team was also divided into three teams to bombard, each team had about six field guns. The morale of the direct army was very strong, and it was extremely calm, and they also fought back in formation, and fought until half past two at midnight. By the morning of the 16th, the bloody battle between the two armies had become more intense, and the direct army had already won the victory. The direct army lined up many cannons in the mountains on both sides of Gaocun Township to defend against the enemy, and the Anhui army surged from the crack in the direct army's defense line, and the momentum was extremely fierce. Because the left and right flanks could not be united, the direct army was quite tricky, and the machine gun team was postponed, and the order was retreated, and the team was extremely neat, resulting in countless bombardment and killing of the border army in front of the pursuit, and the direct army retreated to the middle of Beicang and Lijiazui, and the formation was determined. From time to time, a battalion of the Feng army galloped to help, and the prestige was greatly enhanced. On the morning of the 17th, they attacked jointly with the direct army, and attacked forward from the Langfang, and the Duan army was defeated one after another, with no less than 1,000 dead and wounded. Since then, the Duan army has been in a slump, and has been fighting with the Fengzhi army for several days, retreating. By the twentieth day later, the army in the area of Yuncheng had fled, and then wanted to flee to the west and south, but it was blocked by the river defense, and there was a tendency to be poor and homeless. When Tanaka lost the war, he fled to Henan, or lived in the Shanghai Concession, or went to the home of a certain country, and his whereabouts were mysterious and unpredictable. There were also several ups and downs in the fighting on the Western Front,..."

"In this war, the Anhui side used cutting-edge weapons to compete with the old direct army, just like throwing an egg at a stone, and there was no reason to lose. If you know that there is a stone and you can't use it, the egg, though weak, can be vividly dripping, so that you can't do anything. It can be seen that there is no talent of generals, although there are strong armor and sharp soldiers, it is also in vain. The defeat of the Anhui side this time is due to this. Duan Zhiquan, Chief of General Staff, put down the whip, listening to Duan Zhiquan's analysis, Wu Chenxuan always felt a little strange, you must know that this battle of Zhiwan was supposed to happen five years later, and the two sides of the battle were Duan Qirui and Cao Kun, but I didn't expect that although Duan Zhigui was also surnamed Duan, he didn't have Duan Qirui's ability (of course, Duan Da's ruling vision was basically semi-disabled), and the Anhui system was even worse than the border guards in history, and it was necessary to keep the enemy out of the country.

"Now that the two votes of Zhihui and Anhui are fighting in Shanxi and Shaanxi, do our national defense forces want to take the opportunity to smash Huanglong and take the capital? In general, more than a dozen divisions of our army have been in the northwest of Chenbinglu and northern Henan, and they can completely divide the troops into two routes, one way from Cangzhou along the Jinpu Road to the north, directly take the capital, and the other way to sneak attack Tongguan, and lock the rest of the Anhui army and the direct army outside the Tiger Prison Gate. ”

Among the generals who attended the meeting, there was a role in playing a fan, which was Xu Shuzheng, a senior disciple of General Staff Duan, Xu Xiaofanzi, since the drill of fighting for the defense minister in the confrontation with the south, Xu Shuzheng's status has skyrocketed, and he has made great contributions to the boss and is also a personal disciple of General Staff Duan, and even the five tiger generals have to give him three points. This time the little fan's words are also just right, if Wu Chenxuan didn't know the following historical process, maybe he would be tempted by this plan to unify the rivers and lakes, but unfortunately...

Duan Qirui also shook his head secretly, he knew his own family affairs, this is a first-class master in terms of strategy and military strategy, and he also has his own true heritage, he is honest, has no vices, and can be regarded as a manufacturable material, but Boss Wu's vision is very poisonous, and he can see at a glance that this person is Ma Jian and the like, although the tactics are remarkable, but he lacks the demeanor of a general, his personality is extreme, and his tricks are all straight to the next three roads. Dealing with the opponent, indiscriminately, it is a plan not to let go of the other party's life, it doesn't matter if the national war is so vicious, I am afraid it is rare to have a good end.

Xu Shuzheng's suggestion seems reasonable, and considering the combat effectiveness of the National Defense Force, it is indeed very possible to leave the Central Group Army to deal with the south, and the Seventh and Eighth Group Armies to attack separately and annihilate Beiyang Zhiwan in one fell swoop, but this plan is only to fight for the sake of winning, and does not take into account the ultimate goal of the war, that is, there is no real benefit.

First of all, the southern Qiaofu also has the name of the president of the republic, once the Beiyang is surrounded, as long as the time is soft with Qiaofu, it will definitely be able to be incorporated into the regular army by the Nanjing government, and the national defense force will not fight or not, and it will be a dilemma. Even Jof, who lacked a regular army, did not need to surrender to Zhiwan at all, he would definitely send a revolutionary party to infiltrate the two armies and strive to take the initiative to absorb each other, I am afraid that this is also the best choice for Jof, who has no military power. Considering the Japanese forces behind him and Qiao Fu's temperament, this kind of good thing of cutting off his beard to entertain himself and others, there is no reason for him to give up such an opportunity to increase his strength and disgust Wu Chenxuan at the same time.

Finally, judging from the international situation, although Europe is already sabre-rattling, but the possibility of Britain, Japan, and Russia investing a certain amount of troops in China is not small, if Wu Chenxuan intends to rely on force to forcibly reunify, and change the current situation in China, which is most reassuring to the great powers, nominally unified, but in fact divided by warlords, then several times foreign forces, no one will vote in favor, and now Wu Chenxuan has become the master of his own house, and the opportunity to harm the Manchu government is gone. Taking these factors into account, in addition to allowing Beiyang and the revolutionary party to merge in advance, the quick victory may also cause the armed intervention of the great powers, coupled with the constraints of the Nanjing government of the revolutionary party, in the end, in addition to the generals who participated in the war can have some military merit points, the gains outweigh the losses for Wu Chenxuan, so Wu Chenxuan and Duan Qirui's opinions have coincided before, that is, "lead but not start, quietly profit." ”

It's a pity that although Xiao Xu is Lao Duan's high foot, he has not learned Lao Duan's overall view and overall control.