The white wolf bandits have made the governors of all provinces like a fight, including Chai Dongliang and the Jianghuai army, which has not tasted defeat so far. As soon as the white wolf and the others entered the ground in Anhui, they collided head-on with Lu Kai's second division. The Jianghuai army hit these bandits with machine guns and cannons crying and calling their mothers, but the white wolf and others were really ruthless, throwing down these coerced bandits and fleeing back to Henan with the core of the old bandits. The officers and soldiers of the Second Division chased after each other, and when they arrived at the junction of Henan and Anhui, the bandits of the white wolf were gone, but they saw the Beiyang Army waiting for them. Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan, and Zhao Wei, the envoy of the Henan Protector, heard that the Jianghuai army was going to cross the border, and immediately placed the 20,000 Beiyang Army originally used to encircle and suppress the White Wolf and the incorporated Green Forest Armed Zhensong Army at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces.

Although Lu Kai has always been bold and reckless, he did not dare to rashly provoke a war, and there were less than a thousand white wolves left, so he felt that there was no need to make a big deal about it, so he had to scold and lead the army back to Lu'an County. Unexpectedly, half a month later, it was reported that the white wolf led the army to attack Laohekou, an important town in western Hubei Province, seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, and obtained two artillery pieces. Laohekou was known as the third commercial port in Hubei at that time, and there were many foreign foreign companies in the local area, such as British American Tobacco Company, Mobil Foreign Company, etc., in addition to churches, church hospitals, the White Wolf Army did not care whether foreigners were foreigners or foreigners, all of them gave national treatment, and plundered the good and the bad, causing heavy losses to the foreigners, and a Norwegian doctor was killed for refusing to operate on the soldiers of the White Wolf Army. After the occupation of Laohekou, the foreign powers were extremely dissatisfied, which brought great diplomatic pressure to Yuan Shikai.

When the Beiyang Army ran to Laohekou to prepare to encircle and annihilate the white wolf, he actually ran back to Guangzhou, Henan, and the area around Shangcheng, and once again ransacked this small city in southeastern Henan. When the Beiyang Army ran to Gwangju out of breath, he actually crossed the Pinghan Line again and entered Hubei. The number of troops has also grown rapidly from less than 1,000 to tens of thousands.

For a time, from south to north, from east to west, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Shaanxi, and Gansu actually had the figure of a white wolf everywhere, and there were more than 50 cities that were broken by him, and the land of China in the early years of the Republic of China was not peaceful.

In addition to the uncertain whereabouts of ordinary rogues, the white wolf's tactics are also quite subtle, which should not be underestimated. When the officers and soldiers followed and pursued, the white wolf army often deliberately lured the enemy to go deeper, and while they retreated, they deliberately threw the stolen silver dollars or property on the road, and when those greedy officers and soldiers picked up the money, the ambushed white wolf army suddenly killed and killed the officers and soldiers. When attacking the city, the White Wolf Army also has a set, they often send people to spy on the city first, if the city is empty and can be attacked, they will send a small group of men and horses to disguise themselves as hawkers or beggars and other groups to sneak into the city in batches, or instigate the party and the soldiers defending the city in the city as internal response; When the arrangements were in place, the main force of the White Wolf Army came from a long distance, and suddenly the troops came to the city, which caught the defenders off guard, and finally took it in one fell swoop.

What made the Beiyang Army even more troublesome was that the white wolf caught dozens of foreigners' meat tickets, and once they were caught up by the army, they put these people at the back of the line, and if the Beiyang Army was pressing forward step by step, they would immediately kill a few foreigners to demonstrate. The great powers repeatedly asked the political axe of the Republic of China to protect the meat tickets that were tied up by the white wolf, and Yuan Shikai also repeatedly ordered to protect the lives of foreigners, making the Beiyang Army cry and laugh, and often the pursuit turned into an escort, and there was nothing to do about the swaggering past of the White Wolf Bandit Army from under his nose.

Chai Dongliang was also helpless against the white wolf, these bandits came and went like the wind, grabbed a ticket and left, and the governors of each province beggar-thy-neighbor, would rather let the white wolf bandits come in and burn them, and would not allow the troops of the neighboring provinces to enter the country to suppress the bandits. What's even worse is that Henan, Shaanxi and other places are full of hungry people, and even if only 1,800 people are left after the white wolf is beaten by officers and soldiers, as long as they take a leave of absence for the entire ten days and eight days, they will immediately be tens of thousands of bandits all over the mountains and fields.

As long as there are hungry people in the world, the bandit team will not have to worry about having no soldiers, and the bandits will need to levy food and wages, which will accelerate the transformation of ordinary homesteaders into homeless people, and the bandits will grow even stronger. The more bandits are suppressed, and this has almost become an indissoluble dead knot.

The White Wolf Army went north to conquer Jingzi Pass, the gateway to Shaanxi, and then successively conquered Shangnan, Wuguan, Longju Village, Shangxian and other places, Shaanxi Governor Zhang Fenghui was beaten to the point of embarrassment, only to be trapped in Xi'an and told Yuan Shikai again and again, begging to send troops to help suppress.

Zhang Fenghui did not belong to the Beiyang system, and Yuan Shikai just took the opportunity to send the Beiyang Army into Shaanxi. Subsequently, Yuan Shikai's confidant Lu Jianzhang was appointed as the "West Road Bandit Suppression Supervisor", and Zhao Kui was the meeting office, leading the Beiyang Seventh Division and the Yi Army into Xi'an, respectively, while the other armies continued to pursue and intercept the White Wolf Army.

In the process of chasing and suppressing the white wolf, the forces of Beiyang also controlled Shaanxi, Gansu and other northwest regions.

Chai Dongliang only has envy of Yuan Shikai's good luck, who let the family occupy the name of the central government! However, several county towns on the border of Anhui and Henan and Hubei were sacked by the White Wolf Army, and although the losses were not large, they made the Jianghuai Army feel extremely depressed.

The guerrillas of the white wolf are even more difficult to deal with than the elite divisions of the White Wolf, and the Jianghuai Army is accustomed to fighting in an upright manner, and dealing with this kind of guerrilla force that gathers into an army and disperses for the people, there is really a feeling that a tiger has nowhere to put his teeth down.

For the first time, Chai Dongliang and the generals of the Jianghuai Army urgently felt that the important surname of national reunification. In all fairness, the command ability of the white wolf is not outstanding, and the combat effectiveness of the army is even more ordinary, not to mention that it is much inferior to the Jianghuai army, and even if it fights with the party and the people's army, it has no advantage, but their rogue style makes everyone feel shrinking. Both the Jianghuai Army and the Beiyang Army were hindered by the provincial border, and as long as the white wolf fled to the control area of other governors, the pursuers had no choice but to stop.

The white wolf has gradually grown stronger in the encirclement and suppression again and again.

If the government and military orders of the Republic of China could be unified, the white wolf would have died a hundred times a long time ago, how could it be possible to cause trouble in the five provinces?

But everyone understands the truth, it's another thing to start it, if others don't say it, it is impossible for Chai Dongliang himself to hand over the military power and administrative power to Yuan Shikai. In this troubled era where a gun is the king of grass, if the military power and financial power are not firmly controlled in their own hands, it is equivalent to handing over their family name and life to others. Now Chai Dongliang is not alone, around him is a huge Jianghuai system, including Jianghuai officers and soldiers, political axe officials and parliamentarians, Jianghuai businessmen and other groups, if Chai Dongliang drinks too much and is dizzy and wants to hand over these to Yuan Shikai, I am afraid that the people below will immediately rebel!

At present, Chai Dongliang's construction results are gratifying, and the industrial construction in Shanghai, Anhui, and Jiangxi has achieved initial results, and there is more than enough weapons to be sufficien, and after a batch is reserved, it can also be sold to other provinces. Heavy machinery and special steel smelting are the fist products, a large number of exports in exchange for foreign exchange, and then buy back urgently needed copper, nickel ore, white coal, gasoline, diesel and other strategic materials. In Chai Dongliang's ruled area, various horseback riding, shooting, and flying clubs have sprung up, and these civil organizations enjoy financial subsidies from political axes and are basically semi-military institutions. Militia groups were also formed in schools and factories, which were trained by instructors from the JAC Army. Moreover, in Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, ordinary people can buy rifles with household registration books and certificates issued by police stations with no criminal records, and many ordinary people regard going to shooting clubs as a regular pastime.

After more than a year of recuperation and recuperation in industry and commerce and the vigorous advocacy of the Military Advisory Office, tax revenue is growing at an explosive rate, and the Military Advisory Office has an unprecedented financial surplus, and Chai Dongliang no longer needs to use his share income to support soldiers. At present, Jiangxi and Anhui are almost just big barracks, and as long as the Military Advisory Office gives an order, more than 100,000 trained militiamen will immediately assemble into 10 integrated divisions, and there will also be a steady stream of reserve troops to replenish them.

Chai Dongliang and Lu Kai and other senior generals have repeatedly deduced that if they fight a decisive battle with the Beiyang Army, the victory or defeat will already be decided, and this will also require the Beiyang military character to explode, and there will be no more infighting between each other??? But everyone knows that it can't happen. The middle- and lower-ranking officers and staff officers of the Jianghuai Army are all graduates of the Anqing Army School, and they are all nominally all students of Chai Dongliang, so they can naturally be like a finger, and the military expenses of the Jianghuai Army come from the unified allocation of the Jianghuai Patrol Envoy Office and the Anhui Military Advisory Office, and Gao Ming, the governor of Jiangxi, Gu Nanshan, the governor of Fengtian, and Kuang Haishan, the Mongolian reclamation envoy, have no right to collect taxes locally, so naturally there will be no worries about internal friction.

In terms of strength, the Jianghuai Army is no longer under Beiyang, and its financial situation is far better than that of Beiyang.

But Chai Dongliang is unwilling to rely on force to unify China, if history has not undergone major changes, then next year the First World War will break out, Chai Dongliang all preparations are to participate in the First World War, for this goal, he risked to conquer Mongolia, and the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, with votes to support Yuan Shikai to prevent Beiyang constraints. Even in order to get the empty title of Jianghuai patrol envoy to seize Jiangxi, he did not hesitate to hand over the two Huai salt administrations that were said to be in the gold.

If at this time, the opportunity is missed because of the civil war, it is really a hundred deaths!

Chai Dongliang hoped that in the early stage of the war, by monopolizing trade with Russia, his heavy industry enterprises would achieve considerable development, so as to lay a good material foundation for participating in the war in the future. Then, when the blood of Europe was about to be drained, and Britain, France, Germany and other powers were exhausted, the Jianghuai army stepped out of the country and succeeded in one fell swoop, so that China could obtain the status it deserved as a great power, and then threaten the power of victory to make its own prestige and strength reach the peak, so that any competitor must look up to himself??? So as to achieve the effect of surrendering the army without a fight.

The damage to the country caused by the civil war is too great, and the white wolf bandit can only be regarded as a pediatric in comparison.

Helpless, Chai Dongliang had no choice but to order all parts of the country to tie up fences and strictly prevent the white wolf from violating the border.

is unwilling to provoke a large-scale civil war, but it does not mean that it does not intend to knock and knock the Beiyang Army. The White Wolf Bandits and Sun Wen's "Second Revolution" caused the Beiyang Army to cross the Yangtze River south and the Hangu Pass to the west. Now Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu and most of Jiangsu are all controlled by the Beiyang Army, which is unacceptable to Chai Dongliang.

On the side of the couch, there is no room for others to sleep soundly!

The first one to be beaten is Chai Dongliang's old acquaintance, Zhang Xun, a pigtailed commander who once fought in Bengbu, Anhui Province, and the First Brigade of the Anhui Revolutionary Army, the predecessor of the Jianghuai Army.

For this scumbag, he is tired to the extreme!

(To be continued)