Zhang Jinghui, who was under pressure, quickly ordered the deputy commander of the brigade to take over, and made a desperate attempt to attack the position of the direct army. The reason why he is working so hard is because many of the generals of the Feng family have been promoted, and he has fallen behind. If this battle can't save face or is really taken over by the young marshal, his position in the Feng department will be in jeopardy.

The 16th Division was also an earlier unit established by the Fengjun Army, and many officers graduated from the first and second batches of Fengtian Lecture Wutang crash course with Zhang Hanqing's classmates. If it weren't for Zou Fen's rash advance, even if he was one enemy and two enemies, the brigade headquarters would not be easily defeated. The brigade commander was captured, and the whole brigade also held back their strength after being reprimanded, and the battle was particularly fatal, and three times as many direct troops in front of it were actually frightened.

At this time, Wang Ruihua, who served as the acting company commander of the second lieutenant of the direct army, decided to fight back.

He graduated from the Baoding Army Military Academy two years ago, and was later incorporated into the border guard army, successively serving as squad leader and platoon commander, and finally with his hard work and military talent, he was just promoted to company commander assistant teacher with the rank of second lieutenant.

Because he is a native of Jinzhou, Liaoning, he has a poor life in the Anhui system with a strong sense of region. Because with his qualifications and ability, if he is in the army, he must at least be the position of deputy battalion of the regiment. Think about it in history, it was he who introduced his classmate Wang Yizhe to join the Feng Army, and now Wang Yizhe, who is staggered in time and space, is already at least a general (his news is lagging behind, Wang Yizhe has already been promoted to lieutenant general).

What made him dissatisfied was that Duan Qirui betrayed the interests of the Northeast and signed a treaty with the Japanese, which made him feel that it was against his ambition to continue to stay in the Anhui army. During the "May Fourth Movement," many people defected to the Feng faction, who was righteous and awe-inspiring in shouting for the country, and he also asked someone to bring a message to Zhang Hanqing, a young marshal who "did not shamefully ask questions and used talents in an eclectic manner," but was instructed to hide and wait for an opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Zhang Hanqing, who is familiar with the history of the Republic of China, is very clear about Wang Ruihua's origins: his father was the leader of the Jinzhou Boxer Rebellion, and his granddaughter was the fourth sister-in-law of Mrs. Liu Shaoqi. Among the people who Zhang Xueliang completely trusted in history, except for Zhang Zuoxiang, he was definitely the first, and his status was no worse than Wang Yizhe, and he was Zhang Xueliang's deputy at the peak.

Feng is the time to employ people, but there are not many opportunities for rapid promotion like Wang Yizhe. Although Wang Ruihua's ability is not outstanding now, he is still among the virtuous and talented, and if he wants to be promoted quickly, he must have military merits. Zhang Hanqing, who had long anticipated the battle in Zhiwan, reserved a chess piece at that time.

At the most intense moment of the battle, Wang Ruihua suddenly rushed into the command post of the 2nd Division of the Border Guards with a company of soldiers who had already been successfully brainwashed by him. The guards at the command post were stunned by this sudden exchange of fire, and although the division commander fled under the guards, the command system of the whole division was disrupted. In addition, rumors spread, and the officers and soldiers on the front line were shaken, and they were defeated by two regiments of the Feng army.

Seeing that the friendly forces were not in a knowing rout, Liu Xun, commander of the 9th Division, who had long been demoralized, not only did not go to the rescue, but instead ordered the whole division to withdraw from the battle and let the border guards be defeated, in order to preserve its strength. However, he still reaped the consequences of his own evil, and the victorious Feng army did not stop, but took the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and took him away by the way. Naturally, he couldn't talk about strategy without a fighting spirit, so he withdrew fifty miles in a fit of anger and threw Zhangjiakou to Fengjun.

This battle fulfilled Zhang Jinghui, and it was also an important reason why he later became the commander of Suiyuan. And Wang Ruihua, after the war, was promoted two levels in a row because of great merit, and entered the Northeast Lecture Hall with the rank of lieutenant colonel as a major, replacing Ji Yiqiao as the captain of the student teaching team.

The battlefield is in full swing, and the pen is not idle. Wu Peifu denounced Duan Qirui and denounced him as "a traitor to the country and a traitor, saying that today's battle is to fight for the country and the nation"; Zhang Zuolin sent a telegram denouncing him for "using state weapons and using border guards to pursue his personal interests." If the border guards are not returned to their original station, then "the whole army should take it as their own responsibility to eliminate the national beetle and rebuild the republic"!

Speaking of which, Duan Qirui originally formed the border guards to treat it as his own private soldier. However, time has passed, and his current position is not the prime minister, but the "border supervision office", and the use of this army is a bit arrogant. But the knife is on the neck, and no one will stand still, right?

Originally, since July 11, there have been small-scale clashes between the two armies on the front lines of the two armies. The sound of artillery has been heard in the city of Beijing from time to time. Legend has it that the border guards and Liu Xun's 15th Division expressed their reluctance to fight, and every time they came into contact with the direct army, they all retreated. When the Fengjun entered the customs, the Anfu Department really panicked, and Cao Rulin and Fu Liangzuo went to Xu Shichang to ask for an armistice order.

Duan was in a hurry, on the one hand, he pressured Xu Shichang to issue an armistice order, and on the other hand, he felt that the current situation must be fought quickly, otherwise it would be difficult to maintain the morale of the army, so on the afternoon of July 14, a special military meeting was convened, and it was decided to immediately issue a general attack order, and at the same time, in order to encourage morale, a special message was sent to the whole country to crusade against the direct army.

On July 14, the two armies of Zhiwan and Anhui fought in the areas of Zhuozhou, Gaobeidian and Liulihe on the Beijing-Tianjin Railway and the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway on the east and west sides of Beijing. The direct army on the Western Front was frustrated by the attack of the border guards and withdrew from Gaobeidian. The border guards on the east road were led by Xu Shuzheng, attacking Yang Village, where the direct army was based, but did not decide the victory.

Three days after the two armies had already opened fire, the Guangzhou Military Government also issued a telegram denouncing Duan Qirui.

On the Hubei side, Wang Zhanyuan, who was directly related to Zhiwan, suddenly took decisive action when Zhiwan was on the verge of war, and placed Wu Guangxin, the Hunan overseer who lived in Hubei, under house arrest. It turned out that after the Beijing government announced Duan Qirui's internal relative Wu Guangxin as the overseer of Hunan, the northern army had completely withdrawn from Hunan, and he and the former Hunan governor Zhang Jingyao conspired to seize Hubei, assist the direct army, and secretly ordered Wu Guangxin's old department, Zhao Yunlong, who was stationed in Xinyang, Henan, to capture Henan. However, Wang Zhanyuan was not a fool, and he did not wait for Wu Zhang to make a move, so he made the first move, and in the name of inviting a banquet, he invited Wu Guangxin to the governor's office for a banquet, and after the banquet was dispersed, Wu Guangxin was placed under house arrest, and Wu mutinied, and was also disbanded by the direct army. Zhang Jingyao was very smart this time, and he escaped first when he heard the wind.

In the midst of the vigor, Tang Yulin's troops were ordered to cross the Chaohe River, penetrate Miyun and Huairou, and threaten the back of the Anhui army. The front line is not smooth, and the Feng army will kick the crotch again, and if you don't die, you have to peel off your skin. As the masterminds behind the Anhui system, the Japanese will not sit idly by and watch the destruction of their agents.

When the three parties were in trouble, as Zhang Hanqing expected, the Japanese were dispatched. On July 16, the Japanese North China Garrison sent a road escort team to help the Anhui army occupy Yangcun; On the same day, the Kwantung Army dispatched a wing to attack Yingkou, intending to stabilize the front and give the direct army a chance to breathe. The Japanese consul general in Mukden, Yoshida Lan, personally visited Zhang Zuolin and prepared to put pressure on the Fengjun army.