Chapter 388: The Confrontation between Yunnan and Jiangxi
Since Chang Zhenbang marked on the Hengzhou military conference to negotiate peace with Tang Jiyao, the generals were taken aback, many people asked Ying to fight, were rejected by Chang Zhenbang one by one, the generals of the Southeast Army had to obey the order, but this kind of thing was Chang Zhenbang as the top secret and strictly forbidden anyone to leak the secret, once the leaker was found, he would be killed, at this time there was also good news from Jiangxi, the civil unrest in southern Gannan, eastern Gan and other places were quelled one by one, among which Yue Zhaolin wanted to return to Gandong to take advantage of the chaos, and accidentally fell into the encirclement of Hu Zhong and others, This Yue Zhaolin is not in vain, he actually let him break out of the encirclement and successfully return to Jingdezhen City, want to knock on the door, but was coaxed back by the army in the city with cannons, extremely corrupt and powerless had to return to Shangrao, but unexpectedly bumped into Li Tingyu's department, after a bloody battle, Yue Zhaolin's division was completely defeated, Yue Zhaolin only took dozens of cronies to kill out of the siege, and fell into the rivers and lakes, at this time he knew that since he went out with Chang Zhenbang to Hunan, although the acting Dao Yin and the town guard envoy were his close friends, However, the qualifications and prestige are far from enough to convince the public, the contradictions have broken out again and again, not Shangrao, Jingdezhen and other places have broken out large-scale civil unrest, internal and external torment, they have to send troops to Zhejiang Li Tingyu to borrow the help of the division, who knows that Li Tingyu is mainly anti-guest with lightning speed, occupy Shangrao and other places, the rest of the people in the face of the chaos and Li Tingyu can only have power after the power, made the decision to sacrifice the city, and then Li Tingyu's army entered Jingdezhen City, From the Nanchang Rebellion, the eastern Gandong region that was out of Jiangxi's control returned to Chang Zhenbang's arms again, and those Gandong officials were also under Li Tingyu's house arrest, cooperating with Yue Zhaolin step by step into Hu Zhong's encirclement, and finally lost his army and withdrew from the stage of Jiangxi, but Yue Zhaolin was not willing to be defeated like this, and after several rounds, he finally gritted his teeth and hid in the Dongying Embassy, and a few days later was sent to Shanghai on a dark and windy night, and then went to Baoding from Shanghai and took refuge in Cao Kun. He is an old man in Beiyang, and Cao Kun is a backup, and they have also drunk and talked happily with each other, but now the reunion is a world of difference, there is no harm if there is no comparison, remembering that not long ago he was a prince, but now he has become someone else under the fence and can't help but show a painful look on his face, Wu Peifu, who was accompanying him on the side, observed the details, and from the slight change on his face, he concluded that this person was really down-and-out so far, the third master accepted him, so as not to fall into Chang Zhenbang's plan. After three searches for wine and five flavors of food, Yue Zhaolin was officially appointed by Cao Sanye as the commander of the new 28th Division, stationed in Puyang.
After Chang Zhenbang received the battle report, he left Li Tingyu to take care of the military and political affairs inside and outside Jiangxi, clean up the aftermath, and immediately mobilize Wu Hongchang's department and Hu Zhong's two divisions to fight in Hunan. After Li Tingyu settled Shangrao and other places, the civil unrest in the southeast gradually stopped, Li Tingyu only then freed up his hands to take two divisions as a follow-up into Hunan to fight, this time, the five divisions in the southeast entered Hengzhou, Zhuzhou, Chaling, Changning, Rucheng, Chenzhou, and dozens of other county towns into the hands of the southeast, even on the ground of Yongzhou, where the rest of Lu Rongting was settled, it was also occupied by the southeast Xintian, Lanshan, Qiyang three county seats, At this point, the Gui family, which was once majestic in the southwest, collapsed after Lu Rongting was sent to Kunming by Tang Jiyao to recuperate, and completely became a vassal of Yunnan.
Tang Jiyao had just collected the Gui family in Hunan, and he really planned to take advantage of this to further collect the Guangxi Gui system, but he encountered Chang Zhenbang swallowing the eastern part of Hunan like this, just like being slapped in the face at the most glorious time, how could he not be annoyed and ashamed? At this time, he was catching up with Zhao Hengti, who had not captured Changsha yet, and he was like a tiger with wings, and he was thinking about how to fight with Chang Zhenbang in his heart, and also trembled to Zhao Hengti's Hunan army and Bi Biankang and others of the Gui Department, it is also interesting to say, this Bi Biankang's life is really big, when a big flood washed away Hengyang County, Ma Ji died on the spot, but he was safe and sound, and even took the opportunity to collect the rest of the Ma Ji Division, further expanded the armed forces in his hands, and took refuge in Tang Jiyao on this basis, Lu Rongting and other troops who were appointed with full authority to take over the flooded troops, not to mention, gathered nearly two divisions and regiments in just a few days, and in order to further control these generals, all officers at and above the regimental level were either shot for desertion or shot in the name of impersonating officers. Who is Tang Jiyao, how can he not know his thoughts, smiled slightly, and stopped asking. After Zhao Hengti returned, he was immediately appointed by him as the commander-in-chief of the Hunan army of the southwest protector military government, and immediately sent troops to Hengshan.
Three troops sent troops at the same time, this time was different from the last time, where they went, they encountered limited resistance from the local city defense regiment, although they did not flee from the wind, but they also collapsed at the touch of a button, and ran away as soon as they collapsed, even if they gave an explanation to the southeast, after Tang Jiyao's forward Yang Ruxuan Brigade entered Hengyang, he reconnoitred the surroundings after placing the garrison of the army, so as to prevent the recurrence of the old incident that the flood washed Lu Rongting, but this time Chang Zhenbang seemed to have become much more well-behaved, and he did not make those evil and crooked moths. After Tang Jiyao heard the report, he was very uneasy, and once again ordered Yang Ruxuan and others to investigate around, when the news came again, he was relieved, but he couldn't help but be suspicious, this Chang Zhenbang is by no means a good person, and the means are extremely clever Don't find out these fools, thinking of this, he immediately divided his troops and horses, led by Hu Ying, stationed in Shaodong, and Jin Handing stationed in Shuangshan Peak, ready to respond at any time.
When everything was in order, Tang Jiyao led the strength of three divisions to advance under the city of Hengzhou, at this time Hengzhou after the last Lu Rongting's washing, once again by Chang Zhenbang consciously reinforced, in addition to the large-scale renovation of the city wall that had been impacted by the water, the artillery on the city wall was also replaced by Chang Zhenbang with the British Empire just captured from the European battlefield of the German City fire artillery, although this is a very chicken rib in the eyes of the British Empire, but in the hands of Chang Zhenbang, but if you get a treasure, you will not show it easily, It is difficult to see the entire southeast except Guangzhou and Nanchang, and this time it is also because of Li Tingyu's blessing that he can show his skills in Hengzhou City, so that Tang Jiyao has not had time to gain a firm foothold, and he has suffered the loss of the cannons on the city wall, and the power of these cannons is still secondary, and what surprised him is that the range of the artillery on the city wall greatly exceeded his expectations, so that the Yunnan Division, which had just set up camp and was ready to rest and have a good fight with Chang Zhenbang, suffered a lot of losses. What's even more infuriating is that Hengzhou City took this opportunity to open the city gate, and the cavalry division killed the Yunnan Army in a hurry like a whirlwind, which was really as easy as cutting vegetables and cutting melons, but Tang Jiyao had already made arrangements, and he had always had a kind of uneasiness in his heart, for fear of falling into Chang Zhenbang's tricks, this bombardment, coupled with the slashing of the cavalry, could be regarded as a big stone that made him fall in his heart, I saw that after the adjutant next to him received the order, he raised his arm and threw a signal flare into the sky, from behind the panicked Yunnan Army, He also rushed out of a cavalry unit, which was one of his gains after conquering Sichuan, only to see the cavalry of a division shouting the slogan of protecting the law and revolution like a whirlwind and rushing head-on with the cavalry division of Hengzhou City, and the panicked Yunnan army was also able to quickly rest under the leadership of officers at all levels and cooperate with the cavalry troops of Yunnan to assist the cavalry troops in the southeast.
What people didn't expect was that the Yunnan army actually cooperated with such a tacit understanding, especially the cavalry and foot combat is more familiar, yes, the battle situation reversed rapidly, the southeast cavalry unit was rapidly reduced, at this time Hengzhou City once again surged out of Hu Zhong and Wu Hongchang two divisions of the strength of the cavalry troops, at the same time the artillery on the city wall is desperately bombarded the past, with the help of the southeast army with artillery and infantry combat experience, the cavalry troops in front can be out of the entanglement of Tang Jiyao's troops, until the limit of the city wall artillery, the two armies each withdrew their troops.
After Tang Jiyao counted the casualties of the troops, the first confrontation folded nearly a division of the living force, this casualty is a bit large, but the casualties of the cavalry troops in Hengzhou City have also reached more than one brigade, the battle loss of three to one is not large, especially the other party's loss of this brigade is cavalry troops, you must know that the cavalry is far above the infantry, so it seems that the battle damage of three to one is still taken advantage of by their side, which is all thanks to the blessing that Yunnan can always fight since President Yuan Da, So that both in terms of cooperation and combat reaction have been tempered for a long time, and this kind of strength tempered from iron and blood is by no means something that ordinary armies can force down, not to mention Lu Rongting, who has no tactical concept. Even the Beiyang Army, which is known as the first in the world, could not be eliminated after many major wars between the north and the south, but gradually fell apart with the gradual growth of the southwest Yunnan system.
Chang Zhenbang in Hengzhou City was also surprised in the face of battle damage, except for a few big battles with Wu Peifu, whether it was Long Jiguang or Zang Zhiping or even Li Liejun's revolutionary army, they did not let Chang Zhenbang's southeast army suffer such a big loss.
"Report, General Li Tingyu has successfully opened the army to Changsha, Zhang Jingyao, Zhang Jingtang brothers, surrendered without a fight, expressing obedience! General Li Tingyu appointed Zhang Jingyao as the overseer of Hunan, and his troops were changed to the 30th Southeast Division, and Zhang Jingtang was appointed as the guard of Yueyang Town, and his army was changed to the 31st Southeast Division. ”
The news of Changsha's success certainly made Chang Zhenbang feel happy, but Tang Jiyao's expression was unwavering after learning about it, but he comforted his subordinates and said: "Zhang Jingyao is a dog that can't be raised, if Chang Zhenbang wins, it's okay to say, if he loses, this Zhang Jingyao can't say that he has to bite him back, and now when he is not victorious or defeated, Zhang Jingyao is just playing on the spot, someone came to ask Tang Huaiyuan to come over, and the official has something important to discuss with him!" ”
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