January 10, 2016, Ganzhou.

Since entering Jiangxi, because Yuan Shikai is unpopular with the people, the power of the Baaxing Party in Jiangxi is not small, and the support of the enlightened gentry, plus the power of the Southern Route Army is strong enough, so it is to recruit and rebel along the way.

The power of the Beiyang Army in Jiangxi was not strong enough, and most of them either fled or surrendered, which did not bring too much trouble to the Southern Route Army, until it advanced to a big city like Zhiganzhou, and only under the strict orders of Li Chun, the overseer of Jiangxi, did it block Sun Hongye's Southern Route Army.

But now that there are wars in Jiangxi, even Nanchang is in danger, reinforcements are not to be thought about, for a while, the morale of Ganzhou has plummeted, and Yuan Shikai's claim to be the emperor has been unpopular with the army and the people, and now the Beiyang Army no longer knows why and who to fight for.

After two days of peripheral offensive and defensive and siege warfare, Sun Hongye successfully took Ganzhou, and after arranging the remaining personnel, he went straight to Hunan non-stop.

Jiujiang, the original plan was that after Li Lizhu waved his army to Nanchang, Jiang Fangzhen led the main force to attack Wuchang by boat, but after careful consideration, Jiang Fangzhen thought that he should not take the risk, and now Nanchang has not fallen, and the Anshan base behind is being surrounded and beaten by the Beiyang Army in Nanjing and Anhui.

Hubei is an important town of the Beiyang Army, and the Second Division of the Central Army led by Yuan Shikai's 'General Zhuang Wei' and 'First Class Marquis' Wang Zhanyuan is the elite of the Beiyang Army, and unlike Chen Xuan's army, the Beiyang Army is a division and three brigades, in addition to mixed brigades and local troops.

The strength of the soldiers of a brigade in Beiyang far exceeds Chen Xuan's two divisions, and there is a fierce general Sun Chuanfang, Sun Chuanfang is a big warlord who dominates several provinces in the southeast in history, although the reputation is extremely bad, but no one can deny this person's ability, in the troubled times, from a grass people can be the king of the southeast, such a character will be simple?

Therefore, after Jiang Fangzhen stated his concerns, Chen Xuan agreed that Jiang Fangzhen's main force would be temporarily stationed in Jiujiang, firstly to respond to the Anshan and Nanchang battlefields, and secondly, to lure the Beiyang Army from Hubei into Jiangxi.

As a result, domestic wars broke out, but Jiujiang rarely fell into peace.

Jiangsu battlefield, Li Qingquan has been fighting with Lu Yongxiang and Yang Shande's troops outside Suzhou for three days, after Chen Xuan arrived, Han Xu revised his plan, in the night of the 'fierce battle', Chen Xuan's troops changed into the military uniforms of Lu and Yang, and mixed into Lu. The team of the Yang duo.

With the cooperation of Lu Yongxiang and Yang Shande's confidants, the exchange of troops was actually completed silently, and the generals who refused to surrender were also secretly taken down and reported their death to Feng Guozhang.

Chen Tiaoyuan's reinforcements also arrived in Suzhou the day after Chen Xuan's arrival, because they were afraid that the Northern Expeditionary Army would sabotage the railway, so they began to march on foot 50 miles away from Suzhou, and after assembling, they went straight to the Suzhou battlefield.

As Feng Guozhang ordered, Chen Tiaoyuan really did not communicate with Lu. Yang and Yang met together, but after camping, they let Lu and Yang come to the camp to talk.

"Commander Chen, you are finally here, our two divisions are nearly 30,000 people, and under the blow of nearly 100,000 rebels, less than half of our combat strength can still be maintained now!"

Yang Shande has no reputation in later generations, but now he is a good hand at acting, and he still has injuries from nowhere, and he began to describe the war situation to Chen Tiaoyuan with a handful of snot and tears, how powerful, ferocious and vicious the Northern Expeditionary Army was, and how hard the two divisions of Beiyang fought.

The grizzled Lu Yongxiang also echoed with red eyes, and it can be seen that none of the people who can make a name for themselves in history are simple.

"Division Commander Yang, Division Commander Lu, thank you for your hard work, after the general knows your situation, he has already collected all the people who can fight in Nanjing City, and now Nanjing's defense has become useless, you two also know that Anshan is the foundation of the Chen thief, and the domestic arms are basically from this place, the general sent Anshan when the Chen thief did not go north, and he didn't think that the rebels in Anshan were strong, and there were a large number of military supplies as the backing, the two sides were inseparable, the general had asked for help from Zhang Braided Shuai in Xuzhou, and the reinforcements would arrive soon!"

Chen Tiaoyuan knew that Feng Guozhang wanted to win over Lu Yang and the others, so he carefully explained the current battle situation.

"Commander Chen, Lu knows that he has offended the general and the brothers in Nanjing over the years, but Lu is also acting on orders and can't help himself, the general and the brothers in Nanjing hate me Lu Yongxiang, I can understand, but how innocent the brothers are, if the general wants to blame, just punish me Lu alone, why let thousands of brothers die in Suzhou?"

Lu Yongxiang seemed to think of the sad place, and cried bitterly as he spoke.

"Where is Division Commander Lu, everyone belongs to Beiyang, know the roots, how can the general have such an idea, if there is half a point of harm, only two days later, the team of Division Commander Lu and Division Commander Yang is only afraid that it will be difficult, the general said, as long as the two division commanders of Lu and Yang are honest and effective, after the traitors in the southeast are retreated, the two generals will make up for the losses of the generals, and this time they also brought supplies for the two!"

"The general's grace, there is no way to repay my humble duties, I can only thank my brothers! I just hope that in the future, under the command of the general, I will not hesitate to be a cow, a horse, and a broken body。。。。。。 ”

Lu Yang and the others hurriedly knelt on the ground to thank them, and it seemed that after they were desperately killed, they were so moved that they just knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

Chen Tiaoyuan and the other officers persuaded them a lot, and only then helped the two people who were sobbing and choking up, so they comforted them, and called the quartermaster on the spot to count the materials they brought as supplies for Lu Yang and the others, as a sincere gesture, and Lu Yang and the others thanked them again.

"Zhiji, do you think these two people can be trusted?"

After Lu Yang and the others left, Chen Tiaoyuan opened his mouth to ask his deputy marshal, Chen Zhiji, Feng Guozhang's son-in-law.

"The commander was too worried, just looking at the tragic image of the two, it shows that they were indeed beaten badly by traitors during this time, and now that they know that the general has accepted them, they are naturally grateful, and they have a sense of desperation, and these two bastards still have a choice now? The old man (Yuan Shikai) has plummeted in popularity, and he is about to die of illness, Duan Zhiquan is still catching loaches in his hometown in Anhui, how can he take care of them, even if Duan Zhiquan wants to recover, do these two bastards have that fate? What options do they have other than the generals? ”

Chen Zhiji said disdainfully, Chen Tiaoyuan also felt that he might be a little worried, but he was still a little uneasy in his heart, so he sent soldiers to inquire around.

It's not that these two people are too stupid, but for so many years, they have never heard of the enemy in Beiyang, let alone two high-powered division commanders, and they also know Chen Xuan's rules when they surrender, they will inevitably reorganize the troops, and these two people will only use their military power if they are stupid.

"Zijia, do you think Chen Tiaoyuan will believe us?"

Yang Shande, who left the reinforcement camp, changed his miserable and miserable thoughts, and the majesty of the division commander came up again.

"Well, do we still have a choice? Most of the troops have been transferred, and during the period of contact with the Northern Expeditionary Army, I still agree with their ideas, and now Feng Guozhang has a request for others, so he naturally has a lot of tolerance for us, and when the situation is decided, it is not yet the autumn to settle accounts, luckier, we can go home, bad luck, I am afraid that my life will not be guaranteed! ”

"It's just that Chen Dashuai's military discipline is too strict, and many brothers have been punished in the past during this time, this is still just us, if the situation is stable, I'm afraid that the brothers will be more unsuitable for life over there, and then our use value will be gone, I'm afraid that the future is also worrying!"

"What? Does Brother Seondeok have any other ideas? Now that we are in a boat, we can't get it back, even if we go back to Beiyang, there is no place for us, and don't forget, Brother Shande, but you defected to Chen Xuan first. ”

"Of course I know this, but if I think about it carefully, I am indeed a little unwilling in my heart, and the team trained by one hand is just given to others, alas!"

The two of them had nowhere to talk about their hearts, so they hastily met and camped.

Nanchang, after a whole day of hard fighting, the city and the outside fell into silence, occasionally flashing a few wisps of ghost fire, and the deep yin qi made people very uncomfortable.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the Beiyang Army, who had been tired for a day, were already drowsy, and the sentries on the city wall were also leaning on the edge of the wall and napping.

A group of figures suddenly appeared outside the city, moving very slowly, if you don't look closely, it is difficult to find even if you are close in front of you, and these days when Li Lizhu was besieging the city, there was no Jiangxi army scout outside the city, and it had already been cleaned up.

The crowd crawled slowly through the pile of corpses outside the city, clutching a small branch in their mouths, trying not to make a sound.

The atmosphere in the city is also tense, the Jiangxi Beiyang Army suffered a lot of casualties, and the overseer Li Chun had to recruit the people and the merchant group to guard the city, of course Li Chun also knew that this method was to drink to quench his thirst, but he couldn't think of any way to come, the telegraph line had long been cut off by the rebels outside the city, and the messenger asking for help didn't know how much, but now there was no response.

Wang Zhanyuan of Hubei sent people in, saying that reinforcements had been sent and asked Li Chun to hold on, but now that the Yangtze River has been cut off by Chen Xuan's Yangtze River fleet, it is unrealistic to come up from the river, so he can only send troops by land, and only God knows when it will be.

Hong Yunxian and the others who are ready to command the response are also like ants on a hot pot, all parties have been contacted, and the city will be broken tonight.

And this kind of pressure of life and death gambling is really not something that businessmen like Hong Yunxian can adapt to all at once, it has become, rich and expensive, defeated, the whole family can only get together on the guillotine, how can they calm down.

There are those who pray to God and worship the Buddha, those who pray in a low voice, and many who tremble so much that they do not say a word.