Chapter 802: Spread the word to determine the world
With the signing of the "Paris Peace Treaty", the news was transmitted back to China, and Zhang Yi's prestige reached its peak in an instant. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. [com]。 The update is so fast.
Zhang Yi in Beijing immediately issued an order that all the Chinese Revolutionary Army assembled abroad should assemble in the country and return to their own homes, and at the same time immediately recruit new soldiers, replenish the troops, and complete the replenishment of troops in each department within a month.
In this war, not only Britain, France, Russia, and Japan suffered heavy losses, but also the losses of the Republic of China could not be ignored.
Five group armies, 300,000 troops, after a full half a year of fighting, in which more than 60,000 people were killed, more than 30,000 were seriously wounded, and countless people were wounded of various degrees!
Among them, the first ace army alone suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and the losses were the heaviest, and the losses of the second and third armies were also not small.
In the course of more than two months, all the large armies stationed in the three eastern provinces, Inner Mongolia, and Zhili completed the replenishment of their troops, and at the same time conducted training for more than a month, so that the combat effectiveness of all units began to gradually recover.
During this time, Zhang Yi first reorganized Zhongnanhai in Beijing as the office location of the future Central Political Army, and then, under the auspices of Tang Shaoyi, the Central Political Office of the Republic of China and the General Staff of the Chinese Revolutionary Army all moved into Beijing, completely transferring the political center of the Republic of China to Beijing City.
Today's Fengtian is now only left by Zhang Peilun to supervise on his behalf.
Immediately afterwards, the Republic of China announced that the capital of the Republic of China was Beijing, and its territory in the legal sense included the territory of the entire Qing State, and at the same time invited all the gentlemen and celebrities in China to enter Beijing, including revolutionaries far away, and invited these people to return to the country to discuss the state of affairs and prepare for the establishment of a new country.
At the same time, a new round of troop mobilization began.
First of all, Zhang Yihu was appointed as the superintendent of the three provinces outside the Guanwai, and continued to lead the First Group Army to garrison the three eastern provinces, and appointed Zhang Peilun as the governor of Fengtian Province and the chief executive of the three eastern provinces; appointed Lu Yuansheng as Governor of Jilin Province; appointed Liu Bi as Governor of Heilongjiang Province;
Immediately after that, Bagen was appointed as the overseer of the 'Mongolian' region, continued to lead the Second Army to garrison the inner 'Mongolian' and the future outer 'Mongolian' Gu, and appointed Chen Baochen, the former governor of the Inner 'Mongolian' region, as the chief administrator of the Inner 'Mongolian' region, responsible for all political affairs in the Inner Mongolian.
The Third Group Army was mobilized to lead its troops into Beijing to defend the capital and garrison Zhili, with Duan 'Yu' as the Zhili overseer, and the governor directly under the defense of Shandong, Shandong, and Shanxi; and the Fourth Group Army was mobilized to march into Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui, and at the fastest speed, to defeat all the Qing troops left north of the Huai River and the Qinling Mountains.
The original National Guard was changed to the Fifth Army, led by Wu Peifu, and marched westward, heading straight to Shaanxi, Gansu, and Xinjiang, recovering the four northwestern provinces in the shortest possible time.
With Taiwan's two divisions as the skeleton, it was reorganized into the Sixth Group Army, and Shi Dakai temporarily took charge of all military and political affairs in Taiwan.
The original artillery divisions were abolished, all the artillery divisions were dispersed into the six group armies, and the artillery brigade under the group army was established, and Duan Qirui, commander of the artillery division, was transferred to the post of deputy commander of the army.
Today, in North China, whether it is the northwest region, or in North China or Central China, the scattered military strength of the Qing army, although there are many troops, there are still more than 100,000 people, but this force is mainly composed of green battalion soldiers or Eight Banner soldiers, and its combat effectiveness is too weak, and it is not the opponent of the Third Army and the Fourth and Fifth Army at all.
Especially in North China, Duan Zi 'Yu' led three divisions, and it took less than two months to completely pacify the three provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong, and Zhang Yi 'pumped' a large number of administrative talents from the three northeastern provinces and added them to the three provinces, and at the same time reduced the bloated bureaucracy of the three provinces, and began to set up a new policy structure again according to the administrative establishment of the Republic of China.
As for the Fourth Group Army led by Ling Chuanqing, it has now recovered most of Jiangsu and Henan, and now the army is gathered in Anhui and is carrying out the final operation, presumably it will not take too long to completely clean up the remnants of the Qing army in the three provinces.
The only more difficult thing is Wu Peifu's Fifth Army, Wu Peifu led the Fifth Army of more than 50,000 people, all the way to the hurry, first recovered Ningxia, and then the army entered Shaanxi and Gansu, in Shaanxi and Gansu to Wu Peifu caused a huge obstacle is not the green battalion soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers, but the horse bandits everywhere, this is the most fatal, these horse bandits are fierce, the number of small has twenty or thirty people, the number of people has two or three thousand, the combat power is fierce, and then the familiarity with the terrain has brought a huge threat to Wu Peifu's operation.
For a whole month and a half, Wu Peifu's Fifth Group Army still failed to take Shaanxi and Gansu under the absolute superiority of troops, and Wu Peifu, who was extremely anxious, sent a telegram to Xu Huaijin's hand, asking for the secondment of a cavalry of the Second Group Army to quickly enter the northwest from Inner Mongolia and ancient China, and wipe out the horse bandits in the Shaanxi and Gansu areas!
After Xu Huaijin received the telegram, he immediately ordered that the First Cavalry Brigade stationed in Baotou went straight to Shaanxi through Ningxia, with the arrival of the First Cavalry Brigade, the horse bandits could no longer support it, what they relied on was the mobility of the war horse, the infantry could not catch up with them, coupled with the complex terrain in Shaanxi and Gansu, the combat power of the infantry could not be exerted, so they suffered a little loss, and now there is a large force of cavalry, a brigade, that is, a strength of 5,000 people!
Don't say 5,000, as long as there are more than 1,000 people, none of the bandit dens in Shaanxi and Gansu can compete with each other.
With the help of the First Cavalry Brigade, Wu Peifu won successive battles, and in less than half a month, he occupied the entire territory of Shaanxi, and more than half of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu was also conquered, and the soldiers had arrived at the border of Xinjiang!
In Shaanxi and Gansu, the total number of horse bandits close to fifteen or six thousand, either swept away, or all the way away, into Xinjiang, Wu Peifu in Shaanxi, Gansu, left a division of troops, and then, rushed into Xinjiang, before the two armies began to fight, Ili general Chang Gung led, the entire Xinjiang area of the Qing army surrendered.
Chang Gung is not a fool, Wu Peifu's army has even been pacified in Shaanxi and Gansu, a Xinjiang, added together, the strength is only about 10,000 people, and it is far from being the opponent of Wu Peifu's army at all.
As a result, the whole of North China completely fell under the control of the Republic of China.
After a series of dazzling and chaotic changes, Zhang Yi set his sights on internal affairs, after a major war, the current Shandong and Zhili territories have been seriously damaged, and the restoration of social economy has become the top priority at present.