"And what about our third division?" Cao Kun asked.

"If it's okay, you can stay behind." Zhang Yi said to Cao Kun, and Wu Peifu, who was beside Cao Kun, said: "How can this be done, we are for the coalition army, so naturally we have to contribute together, please allow Brigade Commander Zhang to allow me to take a brigade to cross the river with the outflanking troops." ”

"That's right, we're part of the coalition, so we're naturally going to contribute." Cao Kun echoed and said, not blaming Wu Peifu for making his own opinions.

"If you insist on participating, that's fine."

"Then it's decided, when to leave, I'll let the following get ready."

"We leave at eight o'clock, and we have an hour to prepare."

…… Wu Peifu returned to the barracks and immediately called the Sixth Brigade together, and as soon as the night battle ended, many Beiyang soldiers were still sleeping, and they were called out in a daze.

After the assembly, Wu Peifu announced today's combat mission.

The soldiers of the Beiyang Army below complained, but they were quickly suppressed by Wu Peifu, and Wu Peifu's prestige in the army was still very high.

The soldiers of the Beiyang Army feel full of strength these days, after all, eating canned beef every day, as well as those nutritious canned food, is not a problem in terms of physical strength.

The assembled 6th Brigade of the Beiyang Army soon joined up with the 3rd and 4th Mixed Brigades, which were about to cross the river and outflank the back of the Feng Army, and then marched north.

The Dog River is relatively long, but the river is not as spacious as the Stone River, and the Feng army has lost so many people that it is obviously impossible to block the entire Dog River.

Then point people, lined up, ten meters alone may block the entire dog river.

But that obviously didn't work anymore.

The Feng army, who had seen the combat effectiveness of the East China Army, now wanted to attack simply looking for death, the artillery was not as good as others, and the individual weapons were even more different, and leaving the fortifications could only be to find death.

Wu Peifu followed the 3rd Mixed Brigade and the 4th Mixed Traveling Army, these two brigades are mechanized troops, and the marching speed is naturally one word - fast!

His Sixth Brigade couldn't catch up at all, and Wu Peifu saw that he couldn't catch up, so he simply stopped chasing, and passed through the Dog River from the pontoon bridge erected by the sappers of the East China Army, and Wu Peifu went directly to Fengtian City.

Taking Fengtian City was a great achievement, but in order not to annoy the East China Army, Wu Peifu still sent someone to ride a fast horse to report to the East China Army.

The East China Army did not care who occupied Fengtian City, but the East China Army soon sent a military police, and Wu Peifu also understood the meaning, and ordered that if he entered Fengtian City, he was not allowed to rob.

One of Wu Peifu's magic weapons for governing the army is the butcher's knife, those who retreat on the battlefield are shot, and there are also some requirements in military discipline, but Wu Peifu does not seek money by war, he does not accumulate land and property, and does not enter the lease and other three are his criteria.

If you want to make a good impression on the East China Autonomous Political Axe, then military discipline must be maintained. After a few days of contact, Wu Peifu knew very well that the East China Army attached great importance to military discipline, and if the Third Division could not be maintained at this point, then it would be easy to be rejected by the East China Army.

…… On the other side, after crossing the Dog River, the 3rd and 4th Mixed Brigades were detouring to the rear of the Feng army at an extremely fast speed.

If you carefully study the first Zhifeng War, you will find that the Feng army, which has more heavy artillery, is like a blind man when it starts a battle, and even the direct army does not know where it is, so it will shoot all the shells indiscriminately, and when Wu Peifu estimates that the shells of the Feng army are almost finished, and then immediately launch a charge, and the Feng army is defeated and lost.

Directly opposite the Bong army, the 1st and 2nd Mixed Brigades were sleeping with most of the soldiers asleep, and only a small number of soldiers, most of whom were snipers, were sent to the front.

At the same time, the artillery also opened fire again, raining shells on the opposite side of the Feng army, but the shells did not hit much, and the density of the artillery was not at all as fierce as last night.

A frontal attack is not a feint at all, it can only be regarded as a disturbance!

They were afraid that they would fight too hard head-on and scare the Feng army away, so it would be a bit difficult to chase them down.

However, as soon as those snipers went into battle, they immediately brought great panic to the Feng army on the opposite side.

The two armies were separated by a river that was not too wide, and the panic was very great when they suddenly saw the heads of the people around them bloom and fall to the ground.

The Feng soldiers were so frightened that they all shrank into the trenches, and some of the Feng soldiers looked up to see the situation with a fluke mentality, only to be shot in the head as well.

Soon the Feng army position on the opposite side was beaten so that not a single figure could be seen, and there were still many heralds who came from time to time, but as soon as they ran over, they were shot to the ground.

In the face of the sharpshooters on the opposite bank, the morale of the Feng army was even more unstable, and the morale of the Feng army had already dropped to freezing point just after the defeat last night.

And to make matters worse, the Feng army had little faith to keep them motivated.

Zhang Zuolin obviously didn't want to retreat, because he told him that if he retreated at this time, he would not want to hold the northeast without fortifications.

If you want to hold the northeast, you must stick to this line of defense.

For this reason, Zhang Zuolin began to collect troops again, and even let people catch strong men everywhere. It's just that these strong men haven't had time to be sent to the battlefield, and the nightmare of the Feng army has arrived.

After crossing the Dog River, the 3rd Mixed Brigade and the 4th Mixed Brigade detoured to the back of the Feng Army in just two hours, and when the East China Army suddenly appeared behind, Zhang Zuolin suddenly realized it.

It's just that it's too late, and the 3rd and 4th mixed brigades, with the strength of nearly a division, are approaching behind the Feng army.

The Feng army was in chaos all of a sudden, and even the officers in the army lost their positions, and they all ran away with their heads in their hands, as for guiding Zhang Zuolin to fight, there is no need to mention it.

When Zhang Zuolin saw the East China Army suddenly appear behind him, cold sweat ran down his head, and he hurriedly ran away with the guards in embarrassment.

The Feng army was suddenly in chaos, and the 1st and 2nd mixed brigades on the other side of the river immediately advanced on the other side of the river.

The pontoon bridge was laid in ten minutes, and there was no shadow of the Feng army on the other side, and these Feng troops collectively ran out of the trench and fled in all directions.

An encirclement and annihilation battle soon began, but because the troops were not too many, some could not be stopped, and the Feng army collapsed in an instant, running all over the mountains, and Zhang Zuolin and others did not know where to go.

The East China Army quickly adjusted its strategy through the radio, no longer annihilating the Feng army by encirclement, but driving them in one direction by interception.

A brigade of Cao Kun's 3rd Beiyang Division pursued behind, while the 1st Mixed Brigade and the 2nd Mixed Brigade intercepted in the southeast and northeast.

The 3rd and 4th Mixed Brigades were intercepted in the northwest and northeast directions, thus forming a straight-barreled pocket.

"Surrender and don't kill, the East China Army treats prisoners preferentially, and you can pay for the passage to let you go home......" The high-powered propaganda vehicle was speeding in the field, and the sound was driven to the maximum.

"Squatting on the ground, holding your head, the East China Army treats prisoners preferentially......"

Many of the people in the Feng army who could hear the official words squatted on the ground and hugged their heads, many of them were strong men who were temporarily pulled, and these people were arrested and let go, but the purpose of arresting people was to stabilize the place, if these collapsed to the place, and there were weapons in their hands, there must be many people who became bandits.

…… Battle of Dog River, the Feng army was defeated!

According to the reports of war correspondents, the East China Army suffered extremely light casualties in the battle, with only more than 100 killed, while the Feng Army suffered more than 30,000 casualties and an estimated 15,000 killed.

Such a disparity in results shocked the whole country.

The overseers in various places were at peace for a while, and they all telegraphed to support the central government's separation of military and political affairs.

They don't want to become the second Zhang Zuolin.

The news of Gouhe's defeat of Zhang Zuolin reached Yanjing as soon as possible, and Yuan Shikai called Hangzhou to ask Xia Jun what his next plan was.

Yuan Shikai was really scared of Xia Jun, and he was afraid that he would be yin again like the last time he withdrew the tariff.

But fortunately, this time Xia Jun didn't seem to have much interest in the territory of the Northeast, and he said to Yuan Shikai: "As long as the Northeast is open to investment in East China, for the rest, our East China Army will leave those four mixed brigades in the Northeast to suppress bandits, and at the same time, it also has a defensive foundation." The central government can send provincial governors, but I think there is no need to supervise the army, and our East China Army will have no problem in the northeast. ”

Leaving the East China Army in the Northeast still gave Yuan Shikai a yin.

What is this?

Once the fight started, the East China Army attacked from the north and south, and Yanjing suffered from the enemy on the back.

However, Yuan Shikai did not dare to object, through this battle, he completely realized the military gap between the two sides, and if he didn't garrison the army, he wouldn't garrison the army!

At least this will not damage the relationship between the two sides, and even if it reaches that point in the future, there will be plenty of room for both sides to preserve.

Yuan Shikai felt from the beginning that Xia Jun sent four mixed brigades, and it was a bit exaggerated to deal with one Zhang Zuolin with so many troops, but he understood it at this time.

However, the central government gained greater benefits, because Zhang Zuolin was defeated, and the other overseers all telegraphed to support the central government to separate the military and the government, and the power of the central government immediately increased a lot.

Yuan Shikai quickly threw himself into the action of rectifying the place.

…… The battle situation in the northeast is still continuing, Wu Peifu traveled hundreds of miles on the day of the Battle of Dog River to the city of Fengtian, Shenyang City was extremely empty at this time, and Wu Peifu's sixth brigade was simply attacked.

The Sixth Brigade entered Mukden City, and the robbery soon took place.

Wu Peifu did not show mercy at all, and shot the robbing soldiers to death, and soon suppressed the trend of robbery by the Beiyang Army.

The Beiyang Army also knew that the East China Army would not allow robbery, and if they dared to rob, not to mention that Wu Peifu would not let them go, the gendarmerie of the East China Army would not let them go.

Fengtian City made Yuan Shikai extremely happy, but Xia Jun called over and said to Yuan Shikai: "The name Fengtian is set by the Manchu people, and the name set by my Han people is Shenyang, and Yuan Gong ordered the restoration of the Ming Dynasty title." ”

"That's how it should be." For this big thing, Yuan Shikai agreed very cheerfully, and the next day he ordered Fengtian City to be renamed Shenyang.

The name of Shenyang is from the Ming Dynasty, and the name of Fengtian City is from the Manchu Dynasty.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty once made Shenyang their capital, so they changed Shenyang to Mukden.

The situation in the northeast quickly stabilized with the capture of Shenyang. As for Zhang Zuolin, judging from the intelligence, he should have gone to Lushun.

Lushun was under the control of Lushun at this time, and Yueben stationed tens of thousands of troops in Lushun.

Xia Jun ordered the 1st Mixed Brigade to be stationed in Dalian to keep Lushun's army stuck on the Liaodong Peninsula and unable to move, and at the same time sent the 2nd Mixed Brigade and the 3rd Mixed Brigade to Dandong to hold off the possible attack from Korea.

The Fourth Mixed Brigade was responsible for suppressing bandits in the three northeastern provinces, but such a small number of troops was obviously insufficient, so Xia Jun once again sent four production corps into the northeast.

One of these four production corps was stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula, two in the Dandong area, and the other was scattered in the territory of the three provinces to suppress bandits.

In order to protect the safety of the Dalian garrison, Xia Jun sent ten submarines to Dalian, after all, Dalian was very likely to be shelled by the Yuben Navy in the event of a war.

This is extremely disadvantageous.

Therefore, it is necessary to gain sea supremacy in the Bohai Sea, but now the strength of the navy is still weaker, so Xia Jun sent the Grim Reaper to Dalian.

Zhou Xiulong had to stay in Hangzhou to command the submarine force, so the captain of the Grim Reaper was Shi Yaoyun, who was excited about it for a long time.

The Reaper is the Navy's most mysterious submarine and the most powerful.

When the situation in the Northeast stabilized, Xia Jun's farming companies set their sights on the Northeast, which is an undeveloped agricultural region with large tracts of unowned land.

Emigration to the Northeast was the period when Zhang Zuolin controlled the Northeast, and now Zhang Zuolin has been brought down by Xia Jun, and the immigration to the Northeast has not yet begun.

However, the Northeast also has a population of nearly 10 million to 20 million.

The Northeast is suitable for growing corn, soybeans, and rice, and the rice in the Northeast is single-cropping rice, so the quality is better. However, the ecological and environmental protection of the Northeast is a problem, and Xia Jun will not develop the Great Northern Wilderness, which is a large wetland with a lot of wild animals.

With this Great Northern Wilderness, China can shoot its own animal world in the future.

As for the cultivated land, there is no pressure at all, so there is no benefit in developing the Great Northern Wilderness.

…… The situation in China was further stabilized, and thanks to the cooperation of the provincial overseers, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang political axe soon took control of the administrative power of the provinces.

At the same time, under the warning of the East China Autonomous Axe, the provincial overseers no longer dared to get involved in administrative matters.

At this time, the Joint Supervision Yuan, the Joint Military Police Brigade, and the Chinese Anti-Narcotics Police were established one after another, and began to send personnel to various provinces.

Xia Jun has set up nine more reading groups, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia 12 provinces, will have a reading group to suppress bandits, plus the previous five reading groups, it is 14 reading groups, and two reading groups will be sent to Shanxi and Guangdong.

However, these reading groups have not yet been organized, and it is estimated that they will be able to do so until November.

After these reading groups were dispatched to the provinces, Xia Jun could carry out anti-narcotics, suppress bandits, supervise local administration, and military discipline of local garrisons.

Xia Jun can be said to be in power at this time, if he wants, he can casually grab Yuan Shikai's pigtail, and he can denounce Yuan Shikai.

At the same time as the situation in China was stable, the Western media also commented on Xia Jun's speech.

A correspondent from The Times reported: "China has changed dramatically in a very short period of time, and they have already entered the process of industrialization. In particular, their ethnic appearance has also undergone great changes, and the existence of braids can no longer be seen in the jurisdiction of the East China Autonomous Axe, and they have restored their ancient costumes, which look very beautiful. What is even more incredible is that the autonomous political axe of East China has completely won the trust and support of the people, they support the political axe more than any other country, and their young head of state can make the people fanatical, perhaps China is not far from rising, because the young head of state has reached an agreement with their central political axe, ending the situation of infighting. ”

The New York Times reported: "China's East China Autonomous Axe has achieved miraculous political achievements since taking office, and we have to admit that they have made great efforts in the development of education, industry, and medical care."

At present, they are trying to reconcile their relationship with the central political axe, and are committed to stabilizing China's internal stability, although they have been able to completely replace their central political axe in force, but they have not done so, which is confusing.

But there is no doubt that the central political axe will always live in the shadow of this local political axe, which has the upper hand both economically and militarily, and has much more education than the central political axe of China, in contrast, education is more related to the future of a country. ”

Indeed, as reported by these Western media, the central political axe was completely in the shadow of the autonomous political axe of East China at this time.

Even when countries in the world look for China, they first look for the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and some countries even regard the Eastern China Autonomous Political Axe as China's central government.

For such a situation, how can Yuan Shikai say it?

But it's okay for Yuan Shikai, after all, the two sides have cooperated a few times and had several disputes, but there is some friendship.

In any case, there will be political leeway.

On the contrary, those local overseers felt that the black clouds were overwhelming, and they were all secretly cursing the East China Autonomous Political Axe for meddling in their affairs, and Yuan Shikai was also happy to do so, the more so, the more he could control power.

After the summer harvest, the East China Autonomous Government also increased its assistance to the provinces.

The first is the assistance of free refined salt, considering that Sichuan and other places are not very good luck salt, so East China Chemical Group began to go to Sichuan to mine well salt.

Each province can get a large number of free refined salt every year, which makes the price of salt in the market plummet, and immediately alleviates the difficulties of the people in the provinces in eating salt, and the people in those inland provinces no longer go to eat nitrate.

In addition, there is food aid, half of the food aid of the East China Autonomous Government is distributed, and half is used to open porridge sheds, because there are 5 million tons of food aid, all provinces have received a lot, and the poor people have also received some help.

At the same time, the East China Autonomous Government began to adopt orphans and lonely elderly people in various provinces, and these orphans would be sent to orphanages in East China Autonomous Provinces, and the elderly and lonely elderly would be sent to nursing homes opened in various provinces.

At the time of doing these philanthropic works, the funds were quite sufficient. The finances of the East China Autonomous Political Axe were relatively comfortable at this time, because of the blood transfusion of the East China Group.

The Ministry of Education has allocated another 100 million yuan, and at the same time, the central government is going to print tickets again.

The merger of Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanxi, and Guangdong provinces means that there will be a significant increase in education spending.

(To be continued)