Chapter 251: The Battle to Unify the Southwest
As soon as "Gengdong was electrified" came out, the whole country shook!
Wang Hengyue, it's Wang Hengyue again!
No one would have thought that after the farce of the restoration, Wang Hengyue would put on such a tough attitude so quickly!
From reading power in Rongxian County, to protecting the country and seeking Yuan, and then to today, it seems that every time Wang Hengyue has walked in front of everyone. Every time I do it, it's exciting.
On the day of the "Gengdong Electrification", Wang Hengyue announced the establishment of the "Dingguo Rebel Army" and put on a posture of the Northern Expedition!
Subsequently, Duan Qirui, Cheng Biguang, the commander-in-chief of the navy, and Lu Yongxiang, the envoy of the Songhu Protector, jointly telegraphed to crusade against the restoration.
On the 4th, Sun Wen called members of the Senate and House of Representatives, calling on them to go south to protect the law.
That is, in the same day, something unexpected happened:
Lu Rongting, the overseer of Guangdong, Chen Bingkun, and Tan Haoming, the overseer of Guangxi, jointly telegraphed.
The telegram accused Yunnan and Guizhou provinces of secretly supporting Zhang Xun's restoration, and Tang Jiyao, the overseer of Yunnan, and Liu Xianshi, the overseer of Sichuan, were called protectors, which were actually restorations, and called on the southwestern provinces to discuss it!
In fact, what does Yunnan and Guizhou have to do with restoration? But in this world, it couldn't be easier to find an excuse to go to war.
Moreover, everyone knows that Yunnan and Guangxi, and Yunnan and Guizhou and Sichuan, have been fighting openly and secretly for too long, and they will have to start sooner or later, and the so-called restoration is just an excuse for them to fight.
The 20,000 Gui army immediately launched an attack on Yunnan on the day of the power supply.
And Tang Jiyao was also prepared, and he also sent a telegram, accusing Lu Rongting and others of sabotaging the revolution and deliberately provoking a war, and Yunnan and Guizhou would resolutely counterattack.
Subsequently, the Dian army went into battle!
After the Yunnan army, Liu Xianshi, the overseer of Guizhou, telegraphed, resolutely supported Yunnan, and ordered the Guizhou army to enter the battle to support Yunnan!
On this day again, Sun Wen sent a telegram, calling on Liangguang and Yunnan and Guizhou to stop the war, negotiate peacefully, and take the Northern Expedition as the first priority!
But the battle has started, who else listens to him?
Still on the 4th, Wang Hengyue, the overseer of Sichuan, sent another telegram.
In the telegram, he expressed his support for the military action of Liangguang, severely criticized the actions of Yunnan and Guizhou, and called on the six southwestern provinces to serve Lu Rongting as the leader of the alliance.
Power-up is flying all over the sky!
In the course of this day, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sun Wen, God knows how many telegrams were sent, you accuse me, I accuse you, you call for a peaceful settlement, I advocate reunification by force!
It's a mess, it's a real mess!
Duan Qirui's Northern Expedition over there, and the southwest here is fighting. Everyone is under the banner of "justice", and everyone is staring at each other's territory!
Let's fight, it depends on whose fists are hard, and whose soldiers have more guns and more bullets!
On July 5, 1917, Wang Hengyue, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army and the rebel army of Dingguo, swore to go on the expedition!
The main force of the six divisions was assembled on the Sichuan-Guizhou border, and the commander of this team was Wang Hengyue, the commander-in-chief of the Dingguo Rebel Army!
"Chief of Staff, I will attack Guizhou, and the Chief of Staff will attack Yunnan at the right time, everything will be please!" Wang Hengyue saluted Jiang Baili: "Yunnan's strength is stronger than Guizhou's, and my Wang is specially picking soft persimmons to fight!" ”
Jiang Baili smiled, and then said with a straight face: "Heng Shuai's road is very important, and the Qianjun must be solved in the shortest possible time, where is there a soft persimmon?" ”
Wang Hengyue laughed and turned over: "Brothers, go on the expedition!" ”
On July 5, 1917, Wang Hengyue, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army and the Dingguo Rebel Army, personally commanded the strength of six divisions to carry out the Guizhou Offensive Battle.
The battle to unify the three southwestern provinces has begun!
On this day, Margaret, a reporter accompanying the army, faithfully recorded everything:
"Ares took another big step towards his dream, although no one knew what his dream was, tens of thousands of troops, the mighty and could not see the end at a glance, under the guidance of the banner of 'Protecting the Dharma and Rebelling', he drove unstoppably into Guizhou!
He and his soldiers, their faces were full of the belief of victory, no one would doubt that they would win this expedition, and in the eyes of the soldiers of Sichuan and Ding[***], as long as their commander Ares commanded, victory would not be far from them.
In China, people like Ares are all called warlords, there are big warlords, there are small warlords, everyone occupies a place, everyone has their own force
Ares is also a warlord, he is entrenched in Sichuan, no other forces can enter, and he does not allow other forces to enter, but he, a warlord, always has something different from others
He was loved by the people of Sichuan, and he was also loved by his subordinates in the wildest, and in the hearts of the people and the army, there seemed to be nothing he could not do
He has four wives, one of whom is a good friend of mine, which is completely different from our concept of monogamy. Moreover, he is about to have a son or daughter. But the fact that he had four wives did not affect his popularity
I've been with Ares for a long time, and I've written down everything I can, and maybe one day I'll go back to Europe and publish a book, and I've even thought of the title, 'A Tale of a [***] Valve'"
But maybe Margaret didn't know that if such a book could really be published, Wang Hengyue would prefer to call her 'The Story of a Little Chinese Warlord'
The Gui army and the Sichuan army said that they would fight, which not only shook Yunnan and Guizhou, but also Sun Wen and his followers.
"Nonsense, this is nonsense!" Sun Wen looked very annoyed: "Our enemy is in the north, and the most urgent thing to do now is the Northern Expedition, why did the southwest fight first?" ”
His followers looked at each other, but no one spoke.
Sun Wen was even more angry: "I repeatedly asked Wang Hengyue to go out of the Northern Sichuan Expedition as soon as possible, why didn't he listen?" ”
"General Dingwei" Chen Jiongming smiled bitterly: "When did Wang Hengyue listen to the order?" From the Wuchang Uprising to the Second Revolution, to the defense of the country against Yuan, he didn't take anyone into account at all, and even kept using us to achieve his goals. Not to mention letting him go on a northern expedition this time! ”
"Wang Hengyue, lawless!" Sun Wen slapped the table in front of him hard: "The first righteous meritorious service, fake, all fake, I want to crusade against him first, then crusade against Lu Rongting, unify the southwest, and then go on a northern expedition by force!" ”
Several followers were taken aback, and Chen Jiongming hurriedly said: "Prime Minister is angry, we have too few soldiers in our hands, and it is not realistic to crusade against Wang Hengyue." Wang Hengyue's soldiers are strong and strong, and Beiyang was not his opponent back then, let alone us. And this person is very good at acting, and he is very famous in Sichuan, and even in the whole country."
"I'm going to expose his mask, I'm going to expose his mask!" Sun Wen said repeatedly: "You say, what should I do now? ”
Chen Jiongming thought for a while: "The top priority is to find a foothold. According to the previous agreement, enter Guangzhou first, establish a political axe, and then use the reputation of the prime minister to find another way. ”
"That's all there is to it today." Sun Wen nodded, he looked around at his followers, and suddenly shook his fist violently:
"Out of today's chaos, the real republic and the false republic dispute, the disaster of the false republic is especially worse than the real restoration, only by overthrowing the false republic, can we achieve the construction of the real republic"
He actually used this place as his own place of speech
The news of the Sichuan army's entry into Guizhou also made Liu Xianshi, the governor of Guizhou and the acting governor, feel great fear!
Originally, the goal set by Yunnan and Guizhou was to first find a way to eat Sichuan, and then solve the Guangxi problem. But what people didn't expect was that Yunnan and Guizhou hadn't done it yet, but Chuangui had already moved first!
And the Sichuan army actually merged with Guizhou so quickly!
Looking around at Yuan Zuming, the most brave and warlike among his subordinates, and Wang Wenhua, his own provincial Wang Wenhua, Liu Xianshi asked repeatedly: "You say, you say, what should we do now?" ”
"Please Tang Overseer immediately come to the aid of Qian!" Wang Wenhua blurted out without thinking about it.
Yuan Zuming glanced at him: "The Gui army is attacking Yunnan, Tang Jiyao is too busy to take care of himself, where is the time to take care of us?" ”
Wang Wenhua was furious and was about to refute, Liu Xianshi hurriedly said: "When is this happening, you still have to quarrel?" Let's solve the current dilemma first! ”
Yuan Zuming and Wang Wenhua have always had contradictions.
Yuan Zuming and Wang Wenhua are both Liu Xianshi's subordinates. Wang Wenhua is Liu Xianshi's nephew, who holds great power and can write but does not know soldiers, so as soon as there is a war, Wang Wenhua immediately ordered Yuan Zuming to be the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and after the war subsided, Yuan Zuming was transferred to the headquarters to senate and prevent him from having military power.
Yuan Zuming has been holding back this breath for a long time.
"Dingqing, what can you do?" At this time, he couldn't count on his nephew, so he could only put his hope on Yuan Zuming.
"Negotiate first and stabilize Wang Hengyue." Yuan Zuming already had a plan: "Then gather the elite of the five brigades of Dou Juren, Gu Zhenglun, Hu Ying, Zhang Chunpu, and He Yingqin, and look for an opportunity to attack the Sichuan army!" The terrain of my Guizhou is difficult to travel, and the Sichuan army is coming from afar, so there will be an opportunity to take advantage of it! ”
Wang Wenhua was not convinced, and snorted: "You said that you will negotiate?" Will you be Wang Hengyue's plan? ”
Yuan Zuming didn't say much to him, but only said to Liu Xianshi: "The negotiation is fake, it is to buy time, the overseer, the Sichuan army is coming, it is bound to be a quick battle, and it will not last for a long time." As long as we can withstand the early offensive of the Sichuan army, I don't think it will be long before Wang Hengyue will withdraw his troops! ”
Liu Xianshi frowned and thought for a long time, and at this point, he could only listen to him:
"Dingqing, you go and do it, appoint you as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and all the troops will be under your command. No matter what, we must block the Sichuan army, and we can't let Wang Hengyue stretch out his hand to Guizhou! ”
Yuan Zuming saluted and said loudly:
"Please rest assured, Yuan Zuming will resolutely block the Sichuan army outside Guizhou!"
(To be continued)