"Liu Zhaocheng is ready to use troops in three ways!"

Jiang Baili showed a smile on his face: "What kind of soldiers will be brought, when Heng Shuai used troops in three ways during the Northern Expedition, no one thought that now Liu Zhaocheng is also sending troops on the front line, bold and peerless, although there are surprises, but there is no danger, the battle of Hunan is going on according to Liu Zhaocheng's vision." ”

"Liu Zhaocheng can fight as much as he likes on the front line."

The smile on Wang Hengyue's face was even brighter: "If you want to use your life, you must make him get what he wants on the battlefield, and he can even do whatever he wants." Liu Zhaocheng only entered Hunan, and there were always some people who said this and that in my ears, what Liu Zhaocheng was unwilling to use troops, and what Liu Zhaocheng colluded with Beiyang in private. Now Liu Zhaocheng has won several battles in Hunan one after another, and he is full of praise for him, hehe, four words to describe these people, Tian is shameless! ”

Jiang Baili smiled and shook his head. Heng Shuai, if you don't trust a person, if you want to trust a person, you must trust an unconditional trust, no matter who it is, no matter what you say, you can't shake Heng Shuai's confidence.

But if you think about it carefully, the reason why Heng Shuai is where he is today is largely based on this.

"Command." Wang Hengyue thought for a while: "We must strictly guarantee the logistics of Hunan, and also, our newly trained troops must be put into the Hunan battlefield in time to increase the strength of Sun Wu's army, and at the same time, send a telegram to Liu Zhaocheng, no matter what he does, he can report without asking for instructions, and one second on the battlefield can sometimes decide the outcome of a war." ”

Jiang Baili nodded.

Wang Hengyue stood at the window, and the president at this time was full of belief in the victory of the Hunan battle.

On the battlefield in Hunan, he invested more than 100,000 heavy troops in one go, and sent Liu Zhaocheng, Zhang Xiaohuai, and Li Zongren, all three generals, to the front line, and Rao Guohua, Li Jiayu, and Zhu Zaiming, the future famous generals, are also on the battlefield at this moment to meet the shocking battle!

The battle will be won, and the Northern Expedition will be won!

Although Wu Peifu is also a member of the generals he admires, he is facing a group of generals who will shine in China in the future, and what he has to face is the hope of the future of the whole China!

Wu Peifu's defeat, Beiyang will no longer have the power to return to heaven

Thinking of this, Wang Hengyue said softly: "I really want to go to Hunan in person to see this exciting battle." ”

Jiang Baili smiled, there was no interface, he knew that the president was just talking, once the president really arrived at the front line, it would only increase the burden on the front-line soldiers, and it would not play a role.

Perhaps, when the victory of the battle comes, he can really accompany Heng Shuai to the front line to see those soldiers who fought bloodily for the reunification of the country

"Extra, extra! The Battle of Hunan is about to break out! ”

"Extra, extra! 500,000 troops from the north and south gathered in Hunan, and a decisive battle is about to break out! ”

Such voices are resounding in various cities, and the battle of Hunan has touched the nerves of the whole country.

Wu Peifu to Liu Zhaocheng!

In the Beiyang Army, Wu Peifu is undoubtedly one of the few generals who can win the favor of the people, and he has always been known as the "victorious general". He governed the army strictly, could share weal and woe with the soldiers, and was honest and honest, without personal information, and even personally issued an edict "Wu surnamed Tian, Fu, Dao, Yun, and Long V will never be used". In the Beiyang Army, there has always been a kind of worship of Wu Peifu. Even his opponent Hu Jingyi said, "Wu Peifu is not afraid of death, he doesn't want money, and his personality should be respected by us." ”

And his opponent Liu Zhaocheng, before the Northern Expedition, his name was probably known only to the southwestern provinces, and it was not until after the Northern Expedition of the Guangzhou National Axe that Liu Zhaocheng's name began to shine in China.

Although he had fought a few beautiful battles in Hunan before and annihilated a lot of troops, what kind of results he would achieve when facing Wu Peifu, the first general in Beiyang, except for Wang Hengyue, the president of the south, no one had a bottom in his heart.

And his two assistants, Li Zongren is also a nobody, although Zhang Xiaohuai is as famous as Cai Yi and Jiang Baili, but to what extent his expression on the battlefield will go, it also makes people sweat in their hands.

Especially Beiyang's 270,000 against the 180,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, I can't help but make the people of the whole country secretly worry about the Northern Expeditionary Army!

The Northern Expeditionary Army had been invincible on various battlefields before, but now they finally faced a formidable opponent:

Wu Peifu!

Public opinion abroad has also begun to be optimistic about the Northern Army, and the United States has repeatedly met with President Wang Hengyue, holding that the time is not ripe for a decisive battle with the Northern Army in Hunan, and suggesting that the Nationalist Political Axe have already obtained the situation in Fujian and Shaanxi, temporarily stop the offensive, form a confrontation situation in Hunan, and start peace talks with the Northern Political Axe.

But this suggestion was quickly rejected by Wang Hengyue, who told the US president's secret envoy Cavinsong, who was still stranded in Guangzhou. Gedrin says:

"The decisive battle is inevitable, this is an opportunity that we have been looking forward to for a long time, this battle will determine the future fate of the whole of China, since the prelude to the battle has begun, there is no possibility of stopping. I am confident that my generals will win this battle, and I am confident that my brave soldiers will win this battle! ”

"Then I can only wish the president good luck." Gedrin shrugged his shoulders: "The United States attaches great importance to its friendship with the president, and sincerely hopes that the president can reunify China by force in the shortest possible time, so that the friendship between China and the United States can be further developed." I was supposed to go back to the United States, but the Battle of Hunan was about to break out, and I received an order from China to remain in China until the end of the battle, hoping that Mr. President would approve it. ”

Wang Hengyue smiled and said, "I approve, you will see how a brilliant victory is born!" ”

On July 28, 1919, Wu Peifu swore in Changsha.

"Don't retreat from life and death, defeat the rebellious party! When the officer retreats, the soldier can capture and behead him, the soldier retreats, the officer can enforce the law in front of the battle, and the officer above the brigade commander must also go to the firing line at any time to supervise the battle! Wu Peifu's voice was very loud:

"It's time to defeat the rebels. I, Wu Peifu, will personally stand on the front line and see with my own eyes how you fought bravely! If anyone sees me cowardly under enemy fire, the soldiers can kill me! If I see a cowardly fight, I can kill it!" Ladies and gentlemen, my Beiyang has been repeatedly defeated in the hands of the chaotic party, this is the shame of my Beiyang, the shame of the Beiyang soldiers! Today, the Hunan battlefield is the time for our army to wash away its shame, and those who dare to fight raise their guns in response! ”

With a "brush", tens of thousands of soldiers raised their guns together.

Wu Peifu pulled out the command knife and said sharply: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! ”

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief! The cries of tens of thousands of Beiyang soldiers soared into the sky.

It is said that Chinese and foreign reporters who witnessed all this sent back telegrams one after another, and one of the royal reporters of the Beiyang political axe wrote in the telegram:

"General Wu is angry in the sky, he will not return the thief army, the officers and men of the whole army are united, and victory is just around the corner. Yanjing has General Wu is the luck of Yanjing, China has General Wu is the luck of China, the thief army is huge, all of them are invincible, now General Wu finally shot in Hunan, 300,000 soldiers are waiting for the day, morale is high, Hunan will fight, if you don't fight, General Wu will win, and the war will be won by my Yanjing political axe! ”

The report also rekindled concerns among those who supported and sympathized with the Northern Expeditionary Army. In the various reports of Yanjing Political Axe, Wu Peifu is simply an invincible general, as long as he makes a move, the Northern Expeditionary Army will be undoubted.

Some of the students who were participating in the strike flocked to Hunan, hoping to do their part for the great cause of the Northern Expedition of the Nationalist Axe.

On the other hand, the momentum in the south is much weaker, and only the "National Daily" published an article on the 28th:

"The Battle of Hunan is a decisive battle that will determine the fate and future of China, our Northern Expeditionary Army raised 180,000 troops against the Northern Army of 270,000, although the number is small, but it will be able to defeat the strong with the weak, and win more with less. The 180,000 soldiers on the front line of our country did not hesitate to throw their heads and shed their blood for the revolution, and fought to the end for the revolution with full loyalty!

Although Wu Peifu is brave, he is not the master, and it is not at the right time. Liu Shuai Zhaocheng, Zhang Shuai Xiaohuai, and Li Shuai Zongren of our front-line legion are all outstanding generals in the future of China. Pitiful, lamentable, Yushuai I's heroic name ruined the Hunan battlefield! ”

It was also from this day that Liu Zhaocheng, Zhang Xiaohuai, and Li Zongren were called the "Three Marshals of Hunan", also known as the "Three Marshals of the Northern Expedition", and the names of the three of them will inevitably be able to be passed down through the ages with the Battle of Hunan!

Before the decisive battle, both the North and the South opened up their public opinion machines, wantonly created an atmosphere favorable to their own side, and wantonly attacked the other side in order to win as much sympathy and support as possible.

Today, there is a telegram in the south, and tomorrow there is a telegram in the north, both accusing the other side of being the first to provoke the war, and neither of them is willing to back down even a single step.

In the two days from the 28th to the 30th alone, the two sides received a staggering 78 telegrams in various forms.

Therefore, the "Battle of Hunan" is also nicknamed the "Power War".

The front line uses the army to fight a decisive battle there, and the rear uses telegraphs to fight there, and you come and go, and you are happy. It seems that whoever sends more telegrams has the upper hand.

In particular, Wang Hengyue, who is known as the "King of Electrification", has brought the electrification to the fullest!

On the day of the 29th, in the name of the President and the National Axe, he sent 26 telegrams one after another, which made people dazzled.

The battle of Hunan has not started, and the power war will come first!

And all this will not affect the mood of the commanders of both sides of the Hunan front, no matter who wins or loses in the telegraph battle later, the decisive battle on the front line is the first.

With the arrival of August, the long-brewing decisive battle in Hunan is about to break out!

(To be continued)