On August 6, 1917, Duan Qirui sent his henchman Fu Liangzuo to replace Tan Yanmin as the overseer of Hunan; Send his brother-in-law Wu Guangxin as the commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Sichuan investigation envoy!

On September 9, after Fu Liangzuo led the Beiyang Army to Hunan Province, he ordered the dismissal of Liu Jianfan, a former member of the League and the garrison of Lingling Town, and Lin Xiumei, the brigade commander of the Hunan Army stationed in Hengyang. On the 18th, Liu and Lin jointly telegraphed, declaring "independence" and acting in concert with the navy and the southwestern provinces to protect the law.

The southwestern protector provinces regarded the change of Hunan governors as a signal for the Beiyang faction to march into the southwest, and for their own interests, to ensure that Hunan would not fall into the hands of Duan Qirui, so that it could not drink the Mazhu River, the Gui department decided to send 80 battalions of the Guizhou and Guangdong coalition forces to aid Hunan.

On October 3, Sun Yat-sen officially ordered a crusade against Duan Qirui and other rebels of the Republic of China.

The Hunan Provincial Protector Army formed the Southern Hunan General Headquarters headed by Cheng Qian, and the overall goal of the Protector Army of Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan Provinces was to attack Changsha. At this time, Duan Qirui also issued a crusade order to the Beiyang Army, and Fu Liangzuo appointed Wang Ruxian, commander of the Eighth Division, as the commander of southern Hunan, and Fan Guozhang, commander of the 20th Division, as the deputy commander, and attacked southern Hunan in three ways.

On October 6, the Beiyang Army and the Southern Hunan Protector Army engaged in a battle in Xiangtan Xinipu, and the Protector War officially broke out!

On October 7, Wang Hengyue, the Yunnan-Guizhou patrol envoy who had been waiting for this opportunity, suddenly announced:

Crusade against Yunnan!

Excuse?

Yunnan armed forces against the Protector of the Law and the political axe, did not listen to the dispatch of the Protector of the Dharma, and refused to go on the Northern Expedition!

Only God knows!

If you want to say that you don't take the Dharma Protector Political Axe in your eyes, he, Wang Hengyue, recognizes the second, and absolutely no one dares to admit the first. But now this is the Sichuan-Guizhou patrol envoy who has actually played this banner!

Duan Qirui is overjoyed! Obviously, he regarded Wang Hengyue as his own faction!

But before the joy was over, Wang Hengyue was electrified to the whole country, and Sichuan and Guizhou were "independent". This "autonomy" is just a change of "reading power" to a better name.

Sun Wen was a little anxious, the battle between the north and the south had just begun, and Wang Hengyue fought in the southwest first!

Sun Wen urgently sent a telegram to Wang Hengyue, ordering him to immediately withdraw his troops and go on the Northern Expedition first!

But Wang Hengyue didn't take this "generalissimo" in his eyes at all, and said in a reply to Sun Wen that if he wanted to go on the Northern Expedition, he must first pacify the interior, and Tang Jiyao was Duan Qirui's follower.

In short, it is a sentence, as long as he Wang Hengyue pacifies Yunnan, he will definitely lead the army to the Northern Expedition!

At present, the Gui army, the Guangdong army, and the Beiyang army are fighting fiercely in Hunan, and there is no time to take care of the affairs of Yunnan.

Besides, the most important point is that Wang Hengyue has elite soldiers in his hands, and he still supports the Dharma Protector Political Axe on the surface, if he really annoys him, he fights back and assists Duan Qirui, then it will be a big deal!

In such a situation, the Protector of the Law did not even dare to send a telegram of condemnation

Just like in the past, Wang Hengyue launched the most appropriate war at the most appropriate time!

Hit you on the bone, so that you want to interfere but there is no way to interfere!

On October 7, on the day the crusade order was issued, Jiang Baili of the Southern Route Army organized the Luhui offensive. Launched a fierce attack on the Dian army at Ludian and Huize.

Huize is the hometown of Tang Jiyao, the overseer of Yunnan, where Tang Jiyao put the elite of two divisions, with Gu Pinzhen, the commander of the sixth division, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy!

Gu Pinzhen, Cai's subordinate in the Protectorate War, appeared on the battlefield again!

And this time, his opponent is not Beiyang, it is the Sichuan army!

The well-prepared Ding[***] did not rush to attack, but used powerful artillery fire to constantly sort out the positions of the Yunnan army and constantly weaken the strength of the Yunnan army.

Seeing such dense artillery fire, Gu Pinzhen couldn't help but sigh:

"If Cai Du is still here, how dare Wang Hengyue be so arrogant!"

It's a pity that Cai Ye is no longer there, and Wang Hengyue has one less biggest opponent on the road to unifying the three southwestern provinces by force!

Gu Pinzhen suddenly remembered that Cai Ye had already said back then:

"Wang Hengyue is a very ambitious person, sooner or later he will unify Southwest Africa and unite Yunnan, Guizhou, Guizhou, and Guangdong, otherwise he will not be able to restrain Wang Hengyue."

Cai's prediction was accurate, but the alliance of the four provinces he wanted to see did not appear.

The Guizhou army was defeated and lost Guizhou, while the Gui army first fought a battle with the Dian army, and now the Gui-Guangdong coalition army is fighting fiercely in Hunan and Beiyang!

Thinking of this, Gu Pinzhen couldn't help but let out a long sigh

"What about the Qianjun? Did you arrive at the designated location? ”

"Nope!"

"No?" Gu Pinzhen turned around suddenly: "Why?" ”

In fact, there is no need to ask, Gu Pinzhen also knows why.

Since the Guizhou army entered Yunnan, at first everyone hated the same enemy and was relatively peaceful, but as the Gui army retreated and the Sichuan army temporarily stopped military operations, contradictions began to appear.

The most important contradiction is the issue of military salaries.

The Guizhou army lost its own territory, and its military salaries could not be guaranteed, so it could only rely on the support of Yunnan, but the economic situation of Yunnan was also not much better.

Yunnan's main economic point is that the route of transporting Yuntu from Sichuan has been cut off by Wang Hengyue, which forced Tang Jiyao to transport more Yuntu to Liangguang.

Once Yuntu is contained, then the economy of the Dian army will have a big problem.

Back then, the protector [***] could only mix a large amount of clouds and soil in the military salary, not to mention now? Especially after the Gui army attacked Yunnan, the economic problems became even more serious.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, there were ten thousand taels of gold!

The Yunnan army's own military salaries have not been properly resolved, so where can they have the strength to manage the affairs of the Guizhou army?

Since Tang Jiyao refused to take care of it, then Qianjun had to find a way by himself.

The place temporarily lent to the Qianjun garrison soon became unpeaceful. Extortion of places, robberies and other evil incidents occur almost every day, and the places where they are made are angry and resentful, and they cannot be quiet for a day.

But when it reached Tang Jiyao's ears, Tang Jiyao could only act as if he didn't know anything.

The Qianjun wants to eat and get paid, but if you can't give them yourself, what should you do?

However, Tang Jiyao's connivance made the Qianjun more and more lawless. There were even successive clashes with the neighboring Dian army, and on several occasions they almost fought each other.

The Yunnan army was full of complaints, and they all demanded that the Guizhou army be driven out, and some even demanded that it be resolved by force. If it weren't for the fact that [***] suddenly started a large-scale attack, I am afraid that things will further intensify.

But the seed has already been planted

"Commander-in-chief, the Qianjun army asked for their salaries, otherwise they would not move, we have urged them several times in succession."

"Forget it, don't count on them, as long as you don't mess with us." Gu Pinzhen calmed down and said.

The sound of artillery suddenly became dense.

"Let the soldiers take care of the artillery fire and find a good hiding place."

Gu Pinzhen kept imagining how Cai Ye commanded the army back then, and he vowed to fight a battle as beautiful as Cai Ye in Yunnan!

It's a pity that he is facing Jiang Baili!

"Commander-in-chief, Dongchuan, Dongchuan!"

"What's the panic, what's wrong with Dongchuan?" Gu Pinzhen frowned.

"Ding [***] is storming Dongchuan!"

"What!" Gu Pinzhen almost jumped up.

"Dongchuan is in a hurry, in an emergency!"

Gu Pinzhen sat down on the chair at once!

Higashikawa! Ding [***] actually went to fight Dongchuan!

The Dian army lined up in Ludian and Huize in a row, and Ding[***] also put on a decisive battle posture, but they didn't want to fight any decisive battle at all!

Once Dongchuan is lost, the Dian army will inevitably be cut off!

"Give up Ludian, transfer the seventh division to defend Huize, and the sixth division quickly return to Dongchuan!"

"Yes!"

"Report to the Chief of Staff, the Seventh Division of the Dian Army has abandoned Ludian!"

"Got it." Jiang Baili said calmly: "Let Xie Shui occupy Ludian with the first division, Li Yifeng's second division, and the guard division to attack Huize, and let the troops who feint to attack Dongchuan pull to Wuding and lead the nose of the Dian army." Let the Fourth Division of Guizhou put on a posture of attacking Longlin and threatening Kunming, and completely disrupt the deployment of the Dian army! ”

"Yes!"

Jiang Baili threw away the pen in his hand and glanced outside: "Move the headquarters to Ludian!" ”

Without spending a single shot, Jiang Baili got Ludian.

Everything was leading Gu Pinzhen's nose, and when Jiang Baili entered Ludian, Xie Shuixiang's first division had already controlled the whole city.

"Report to the chief of staff, there were no casualties in my first division, but when entering Ludian, a company commander twisted his foot!"

Jiang Baili couldn't help but laugh.

"Chief of Staff, you can win Ludian without firing a single shot, and only you can fight this battle." Xie Shuixiang said with some "flattery": "No wonder Heng Shuai can stay in Guiyang with confidence." ”

"When did you learn to pat on the back?" Jiang Baili put away his smiling face: "Continue to mobilize on a large scale, so that the Dian army is full of soldiers, I want one day at most, Huize will also be given up by Gu Pinzhen on his own initiative." ”

"If you don't let go of a shot, this Luhui offensive will be over?" Xie Shuixiang touched his head, and he still couldn't believe it.

"If Songpa is still there, I will definitely see the problem inside." Jiang Baili seemed to think of his friend Cai Ye again: "Concentrate troops in front of you and deploy troops on a large scale, just to seize the two places of Ludian and Huize?" Matsupa will certainly not be fooled. ”

Xie Shuixiang nodded silently.

The reason why Heng Shuai let the chief of staff command the Southern Route Army and didn't care about it at all was because he knew very well that since Cai Yi left, no one in Yunnan was the opponent of the chief of staff.

Gu Pinzhen can't do it, and Tang Jiyao can't do it either!

Jiang Baili froze: "Concentrate all the machine guns and shoot fiercely at Huize, you must fight fiercely and quickly, but don't attack, disturb the mind of the Yunnan army, and then let the movements in the two directions of Wuding and Longlin make as much trouble as possible." ”

"Yes!" Xie Shuixiang replied loudly, "Send electricity to Hengshuai", Jiang Baili thought for a while:

"You can send a brigade to attack along Longlin, Qiubei, and Wenshan all the way to disrupt the Yunnan army and threaten Kunming, then it won't take a month, and the Yunnan problem can be solved!"

As for the Yunnan issue, Jiang Baili has long been confident, and the only thing he has to face now is how to achieve the most satisfactory result in the shortest possible time!

(To be continued)