Du Yuzheng was so surprised that he almost went into cardiac arrest and shouted: "You are all revolutionaries? Could it be that you all joined the revolutionary party? ”

"No, we are the Jiangbei New Army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Gong Xuewen corrected.

Du Yuzheng shook his head, a little incredible, and asked again: "Did you really cut your braids?" ”

Gong Xuewen replied: "I won't lie to you, our Jiangbei New Army has all cut its braids, and all the officers, soldiers and civilians have cut their braids, you don't need to doubt this." He sneered and pointed to some of the Anhui army prisoners and said: "On the contrary, there are still some of you who have not cut their braids, I really can't believe it, are they also revolutionary troops?" Looking like that, it's really not as good as our Jiangbei Army. ”

Du Yuzheng listened to Gong Xuewen's ridicule and was a little ashamed, because although the 31st Mixed Association of the Beiyang New Army all joined the revolutionary party, there were still many old-fashioned factions who listened to propaganda and did not listen to the tune, and kept braids to do revolution.

Du Yuzheng was rashly promoted from a deputy platoon commander to regiment commander, which has already made many people dissatisfied, and if he really uses force to suppress these soldiers who wear pigtails to do revolution, he may force these people to rebel. For the sake of the great cause of the revolution, Du Yuzheng also endured these people again and again, but he didn't expect to be captured by these people today, which is simply unbearable.

"Humph! These traitors! Du Yu said angrily.

Gong Xuewen said: "Senior brother, I think you should rest for a while, and wait until we conquer Tongcheng." ”

"Wait a minute." Du Yuzheng hurriedly said, "Can you let me meet General Wang Yongan, the envoy of the Jiangbei Army?" ”

"Is there anything wrong with you?"

"I want to persuade him to join our revolutionary party, overthrow the Manchus together, and carry out the revolution together." Du Yuzheng said hopefully.

Gong Xuewen patted his head and sighed, "I said...... This one...... Junior brother, it's not that my generals don't want to, but they can't join the revolutionary party. ”

"Why?"

"Your revolutionary party is all south of the Yangtze River, and the Jiangbei region is north of the Yangtze River, and you still have the Yangtze River to defend it, but what about our Jiangbei Army? If we join the revolutionary party and the 200,000 troops of the Beiyang Army are directly killed, there is no danger to defend this Jiangbei. Gong Xuewen patted his junior brother on the shoulder, and said in a deep tone, "You don't understand it, but I won't be embarrassed for you." Guards, take General Du down, and entertain him. ”

"Yes."

The Battle of the Baier River came and ended quickly, with nearly a thousand people captured before and after, tied up with ropes and left in place, waiting for the follow-up troops to receive them, while Gong Xuewen continued to lead his army south.

At this time, it suddenly snowed heavily, and the march became difficult, and the forward troops of the Jiangbei Army in the middle of the army took advantage of the slow march and finally converged the main force of the middle road four days later, and came to the area north of Tongcheng to confront the Anhui army.

On the first day, Wang Yongan ordered the camp to be rested and prepared for the winter, and sent prisoners to the mountains to chop firewood, and let the baggage troops carry coal from the rear to the front.

The Anhui army was also confused at this time, seeing that the other party did not fight, they were in a hurry, Sun Yuyun appointed Wang Qingyun as the commander-in-chief of the Anhui army, Wang Qingyun reorganized the Anhui Provincial Revolutionary Army in Tongcheng, and reorganized the Huaishang Revolutionary Army and the Anhui Provincial Revolutionary Army into a new Anhui army, and reorganized five brigades of 30,000 people, the first brigade commander Yuan Jiasheng, the second brigade commander Quan Daohan, the third brigade commander Li Qianyu, the fourth brigade commander Yue Xiangru, and the fifth brigade commander Sun Duomeng. Except for Li Qianyu, who was the former revolutionary leader of Anqing, the rest of the people were all leaders of the Huaishang Revolutionary Army, and Li Qianyu had a straightforward temper and said anything, and it was very easy to offend people and push him to the forefront, obviously secretly squeezing out people from Anqing.

Wang Tianpei, who was originally in charge of command in Anqing, was also excluded from the command circle because of his identity as a provincial and was only responsible for coordinating logistics. (Wang Tianpei is a native of Guizhou) and although Shi Peiran is old and respectful, he still has little experience in the army, so he had to retreat to the second line and serve as deputy chief of general staff, assisting Zhang Huitao, chief of general staff. On the contrary, Hu Weidong, who has been unknown in the Anqing Gang, was suddenly recommended by Wang Qingyun to be promoted to the deputy commander of the Anhui Army, which aroused the envy and jealousy of many people, but at the moment of the great enemy, everyone still held back their emotions and waited for a battle against the Jiangbei Army.

Wang Tianpei served as the chief of logistics, coordinating military supplies, and soon he found the biggest problem of the Anhui army, the shortage of ammunition, he hurriedly reported to Wang Qingyun, Wang Qingyun also immediately reported to the governor of Anhui Province, Sun Yuyun, saying that there was a shortage of ammunition, and hoped that the governor could ask for help from the whole country.

Sun Yuyun didn't put up a show, and directly sent a telegram, but unfortunately all the provinces were making revolutions, especially Nanjing and Wuhan, Sun Yat-sen organized an army to attack Nanjing, and Li Yuanhong prepared an army to fight with Feng Guozhang.

What's even worse is that the Xun army garrisoned in Sunjialing suddenly received an urgent telegram from Nanjing and Wuhan, asking Li Liejun to lead troops to assist. Li Liejun hesitated, did not know how to deal with it, obviously staying in Anhui Province is not in line with the interests of the Xun army, when the weather is cold, many Xun soldiers complained, first, everyone only supported the revolution in Anhui Province, but not in place of the revolution in Anhui Province, but the people of Anhui Province treated them as enemies, which made many Xun soldiers cold; Second, the Jiangbei army is strong, nearly 60,000 soldiers are strong and strong, the Xun army is only more than 5,000 people, and it is a pity that no one dies in battle if they are alone, if they win, it seems that they should do, and if they lose, it seems that it is all their fault, so the officers also suggested withdrawing the army; In order to let the Yangtze River Fleet and the Jiangxi Revolutionary Army support Wuhan, Li Yuanhong promised to appoint Li Liejun as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui and Sichuan, which made Li Liejun's heart flutter.

Li Liejun vacillated many times in his life, which also contributed to his vacillating position in the Nationalist government in the future, and in his old age he did nothing but serve as honorary chairman. The most successful thing in Li Liejun's life is to rob the wife of his former classmate and friend, when he and Fujian Gong Yongyitong studied at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and then separated, after Li Liejun served as the governor of Jiangxi, Gong Yonglai joined his former classmate and friend and was appointed as an adjutant by Li Liejun. Gong Yong took a leave of absence for three months, Li Liejun was strange, Gong Yong took out a photo of his wife Hua Shiqi and said that he was ordered to return to his hometown to marry a relative, but Li Liejun was like a lightning strike after seeing the photo, and he thought about Hua Shiqi who had never met him day and night.

When Gong Yong returned after three months of marriage leave, he boasted that his wife was young and beautiful, and at this time Li Liejun began to calculate how to snatch his friend's wife. At this time, Li Liejun entrusted Gong Yong with a heavy responsibility, and asked Gong Yong to return to Fujian with superstition to discuss with Sun Daoren, the governor of Fujian, the two provinces to become an alliance, and when Gong Yong set off, Li Liejun secretly telegraphed Sun Daoren, asking Sun Daoren to execute Gong Yong for the crime of collaborating with the enemy. As a result, Gong Yong returned to Fujian and was brutally murdered by Sun Daoren.

Li Liejun cried under false pretense of benevolence and righteousness, and threatened that Gong Yong was his best friend and classmate, and that he should take care of Gong Yong's family for the rest of his life, so he took the widow Hua Shiqi to live in Shanghi. At this time, because of the failure of the Northern Expedition, Li Liejun was defeated and went to the field to avoid trouble, taking care of Hua Shiqi day and night, and the two gradually developed feelings and married Hua Shiqi. Li Liejun originally had a big wife, but for the sake of Hua Shiqi, he would rather abandon his wife, he had ten children with Hua Shiqi, and personally sent his five sons to the front line of the national army in the War of Resistance against Japan, and was sent to the Li family by Chiang Kai-shek with a plaque inscribed "Five sons from Rong".

According to legend, Hua Shiqi's beauty is rare in the world, when she was in her seventies, someone visited her, describing her as only forty years old, which shows that she was brilliant in the world when she was young, and it is no wonder that Li Liejun poisoned her former classmates and friends for her. However, there is no unventilated wall in the world, Li Liejun's so-called was later said by Sun Daoren in his later years, but Hua Shiqi was already a mother of ten children at that time, so naturally he would not say anything.

Mrs. Li's beauty is indescribable, her appearance is somewhat like the beauty star Wang Likun in later generations, it can be said that Wang Likun with makeup has the beauty of Hua Shiqi without makeup. It is no exaggeration to say that Hua Shiqi is three points more beautiful than Lin Huiyin, the first beauty of the Republic of China. After Li Liejun married Hua Shiqi, he not only abandoned his wife, but also loved her only for the rest of his life, and never messed with flowers and grass outside, which shows Li Liejun's infatuation with Mrs. Li.

It's just that some people in later generations said that if you don't make friends with Li Liejun, you would rather become Li Liejun's enemy than become his friend.