Jiang Fangzhen swore to march westward in Jiujiang, although he claimed to be 50,000, in fact, there were only more than 20,000 people who really had combat power, and the others were only thousands of people and the baggage ships that marched west with them.

Wang Zhanyuan and others did not understand the abundant logistics and materials of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and when they saw that Jiang Fangzhen's fleet was so amazing, they were convinced of the number of the Northern Expeditionary Army, but according to their guesses, even if there were 50,000, most of them were new soldiers, and their combat power would not be remarkable.

The troops advancing westward first cleared the Beiyang Army stronghold at the Huangshi landing site with the artillery of warships, and the Yangtze River was almost completely occupied by Chen Xuan's Yangtze River fleet.

Jiang Fangzhen sent a scout special operations brigade to clean up the eyes of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and after completing it, he landed at the dock near Huangshi with great fanfare, and then sent a vigilance force to set up a large camp near a small village called Mojiaao, during which Sun Chuanfang also sent a small force to test, but they were all resolutely beaten away by the vigilant troops.

After Jiang Fangzhen's camp was set up, after synthesizing all kinds of information, Jiang Fangzhen began to dispatch troops and swooped down on Sun Chuanfang's position. The bomb opened the fortresses that Sun Chuanfang tried his best to run.

After hearing that Chen Xuan's plane was powerful, Beiyang purchased a lot of fighters from abroad, including Europe, the United States and Japan, and also invited a lot of instructors from Japan and the United States, but no matter how many planes were purchased, there would not be more than 50 planes after they were assigned to each military region. Bomb, fragments of fighter planes flew everywhere.

The Beiyang Army has also seen airplanes, but dozens of planes have never seen a big scene of attacking together, and the intensity of the war has suddenly frightened them, Jiang Fangzhen's artillery has not yet moved in place, and the Beiyang soldiers have been frightened, crying and rushing out of the dug trenches, running all over the mountains.

Jiang Fangzhen was also a little confused, these years of China. The army has also seen a lot of new weapons such as airplanes, but I didn't expect that I was just casually probing, and Sun Chuanfang's forward troops collapsed, is this still the elite of Beiyang?

And he was not ready to continue to attack at all, the purpose of his coming to Huangshi was just to drag Sun Chuanfang, and then let Wang Zhanyuan, who occupied Wuchang, keep increasing troops to Huangshi, forming a tactic of adding fuel to Wuchang, dragging down Wuchang, and giving himself an opportunity.

But now that he is fighting like this, he can endure it anymore, it is not like words, so he ordered a general attack, and the Northern Expeditionary Army dressed in camouflage swept away like an unstoppable torrent, receiving countless Beiyang prisoners along the way.

Sun Chuanfang was also so surprised that his mouth opened wide, he had already overestimated Jiang Fangzhen's firepower as much as possible, but he didn't expect that his troops would collapse just by touching him, so he hurriedly sent a supervising team to sort out the team, and at the same time cut off the pursuit of the Northern Expeditionary Army with artillery, but the power of the artillery array also attracted the attention of the Northern Expeditionary Army fighters.

Dozens of planes kept strafing and bombing on the positions of the Beiyang Army, and even caused a martyrdom on the artillery positions, causing heavy losses to the artillery and artillery.

With the constraints of the superintendent team and officers at all levels, Sun Chuanfang sent troops to respond, coupled with the artillery strike, the rout finally stabilized, but the next thing was short-handed.

The morale of the Northern Expeditionary Army was high, Sun Chuanfang's troops were elite enough, and after a short period of panic, they finally settled down, and the two armies fought back and forth, and various tactics emerged one after another.

Sun Chuanfang deserved to be a fierce general of Beiyang, not only stabilized the situation in the case of the collapse of the army, but also tried his best to let his troops and Jiang Fangzhen's troops be twisted together, Jiang Fangzhen's air force was worried about accidental injury, although he saw that the Northern Expeditionary Army suffered a lot of losses in the short army, but he had no choice, he could only watch from the sky and be anxious, and finally found a place where he could attack, and several planes pounced.

The fierce battle lasted until the evening, Jiang Fangzhen was not ready to fight Sun Chuanfang, so he sounded the horn to withdraw the troops, and Sun Chuanfang did not care about himself, and at the same time restrained his team.

In the Huangshi camp, Sun Chuanfang's face was so fierce that he seemed to be about to kill, and the officers were silent, and the commander at the front had been killed on the spot by Sun Chuanfang, who was furious, you must know that this officer grew up with Sun Chuanfang, and the relationship between the two has always been good, and they have been partners for many years.

"Let's talk about it, how will this battle be fought?"

Sun Chuanfang asked suspiciously, and the people present were silent, and no one dared to speak.

"Huh? Rubbish! It's all rubbish! I usually brag about how good I am, but now why don't I have anything to say? Brigadier Zhang, come on! ”

"Yes! Xin Shuai, the Nanban firepower is too strong, today just the fighter plane is dispatched to fight us without the power to fight back, if the Nanban artillery catches it in time, we are only afraid... 'M afraid...... ”

Brigade Commander Zhang was so nervous that he was sweating profusely and didn't dare to say any more.

"What are you afraid of? Say! ”

Sun Chuanfang shouted loudly, Brigade Commander Zhang's courage could no longer withstand Sun Chuanfang's tiger might, and he fell to his knees under great pressure, kowtowing more than once, but not saying a word.

Seeing that his subordinates were so wretched, Sun Chuanfang was even more angry, jumped up from the handsome position, kicked Brigade Commander Zhang on a big horse, and was still angry, snatched a horsewhip and beat Brigade Commander Zhang fiercely, and then stopped.

He also saw that his subordinates were like wolves and tigers in good times, and they couldn't count on it in adversity, so they went back and forth in the lobby a few times, and then said:

"Go down at once and set up the defenses, the trenches must be deepened, and with the shallow ditch you are digging at the moment, are you a liar or do you not take the lives of your brothers seriously? The trenches had to reach 2 meters so that it was possible to block the bombardment of the Nanban planes and artillery. Bomb, do it immediately, do it overnight, tomorrow I will personally inspect, whose defense area can not meet the standard, who has a place on the city gate to hang people's heads, and at the same time remember, if the Nanban is attacking, try to meet them in a short fight, although the discipline of the Nanban team is good, but the actual combat experience is not good, in addition, you can also try to avoid the Nanban artillery fire! ”

"Yes!"

All the officers stood up in unison.

When the officers returned to the camp in a sedan chair, Sun Chuanfang arranged a messenger to urgently ask Wang Zhanyuan for help.

In the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Jiang Fangzhen's face was not very good-looking, he had no intention of fighting Sun Chuanfang, but a chase battle turned into an offensive and defensive battle, and it can be clearly seen that without the help of fighters, his army would be inferior to the Beiyang Army in terms of individual combat, teamwork and the command of middle and low-level officers.

After a day of fierce fighting, although more than 1,000 Beiyang troops were captured, their own losses were not small.

According to the habit of the Northern Expeditionary Army, it is natural to use the sand table to simulate the battlefield after the war and summarize the gains and losses of the battle.

And after Wang Zhanyuan, who was in Wuchang, received Sun Chuanfang's telegram asking for help, he didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly asked the troops that had been prepared long ago to rush to Huangshi to reinforce Sun Chuanfang.

At the same time, he made an appointment with the gentry and merchants of Wuchang to ask for help, and at the same time looted the people and vigorously raised grain and grass.

The Beiyang Army, whose military discipline was not very good, got the order, and now it was even more indulgent, smashing open the doors of merchants' stores in groups of three or five, and directly robbing them openly, and the strong ones directly smashed open the courtyard doors of the gentry, driving these people who usually claim to be the upper class out of their homes, digging three feet into the ground to find treasures, and raping. Adultery and plunder, all kinds of evil.

With the northward movement of Chen Xuan's troops, although Beiyang is trying its best to hide information, everyone is mixed in Beiyang, and there are not a few brothers and fellow villagers in other troops, many Beiyang soldiers have completely despaired of the Beiyang regime, and with the mentality that they can make a handful, Wuchang City is completely chaotic.

When Wang Zhanyuan completely reacted, it was too late, the wolf-like Beiyang Army was worse than the robbers, Feng Guozhang had robbed the soldiers in Wuchang when he was in Xinhai, and the wounds of the people of Wuchang had not yet healed, and now Wang Zhanyuan came to such a place, so that many gentry who were still swaying completely stood on Chen Xuan's side.

Wang Zhanyuan jumped to his feet in the Overseer's Mansion in a hurry, but there was no way at all, the reinforcements had been sent, and there was no force to suppress them, so the gendarmerie sent out simply ripped off their armbands and joined the robbery army, and several officers were even shot black.

The members of the dozens of special operations brigades sent by the Baath Party to lurk in Wuchang City were now like fish in water, killed several Beiyang soldiers, and appeared in the city with a swagger in their clothes, trying to provoke the internal fighting of the Beiyang soldiers.

It is said that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the Chinese like to hold together, what the same clan, fellow villagers, and classmates are the reasons for the group, and there are also a lot of grievances between various groups, and now the special operations brigade is fanning the flames and setting off black guns, and now it is impossible to think about it, and countless small groups began to fight inexplicably, first quarreling with their mouths, and then fighting each other with fists and feet, and the number of people has increased from one or two to three or four, or a dozen, and the invincible fists and feet have gradually become angry, and they have begun to use knives and guns, and the situation is becoming more and more out of control.

Wang Zhanyuan also wanted to use his power over the years to clean up the mess, but as soon as he came out of the gate, he was put a black gun by the people of the special operations team, although he was not injured, but he was also scared.

So he ran back to the Overseer's Palace, never to come out again.

Wuchang's Beiyang Army was even more unrestrained now, and when some low-level officers saw that the suppression was ineffective and even their own lives were threatened, the violent spirit in their chests also burst out, tore off their epaulettes, and gathered a few henchmen to join the robbery army。。。。。。