"Orchestra leader, I am the former commander of the 21st Division of the Third Army of the Beiyang Army, Zhang Zuolin, I and my brothers have long planned to take refuge in you, seeing that the orchestra leader is in a high position at a young age, the tactics in the battle are clear, layer by layer, and your army's firepower is strong, I am deeply admired, and proud of my choice!" Zhang Zuolin is about five years older than Le Fei, but he really admires this Chinese army commander, so those compliments are from the bottom of his heart.

"With firepower, there are not many shining points in tactics, and Division Commander Zhang does not need to be complimentary, our Chinese army still relies on comprehensive strength to fight, firepower, logistics, transportation, etc., and the overall strength is strong, specific to each officer, so that there is not so much attention." Le Fei said modestly, he felt that these officers of the Beiyang Army were not from regular military academies, and their gangsterism had not disappeared, since they had surrendered and were senior officers, they would be handed over to the rear to deal with, and he had no time to grind his teeth with them.

Sitting in two rows like a primary school student, he sat in two rows and drove to the direction of Xiaogan in the rear, Zhang Zuolin felt a burst of sadness, maybe he was pulled back to find a place to shoot, damn, I already knew that I would not surrender!

Unexpectedly, less than a day after arriving in Xiaogan in anxiety, a telegram asked Zhang Zuolin and others to embark on the journey again, this time their destination was Wuhan, and the escorts did not know what would happen after arriving in Wuhan.

Zhang Zuolin, this is a ruthless man, there is detailed information about him in the Investigation Bureau, after reading it, Lu Liang couldn't help but sigh, the future king of the Northeast is gone, and the Feng warlord is gone, so his unlucky son will not be scolded by future generations, and the Northeast will also completely return to the hands of the Chinese people. The change of the individual is closely related to the change of the fate of the country, let's talk about it after seeing this fierce man and his brothers!

From a historical point of view, even the most revered historical figures in the north are subject to controversy. There are no perfect people at all. For Zhang Zuolin, simply refusing the Japanese demand to annex Northeast China was worthy of Lu Liang's attention, and he was much tougher than his hapless son. Of course, the rise of the Bong clan must have had a lot to do with Japan and Russia, which in the northeast region were intertwined. It is also impossible to leave them alone. The rise from such a mixed situation shows that Zhang Zuolin is a person who is rigid on the outside and soft on the inside, quite assertive, and has a deep city government, and must not be deceived by his rough appearance. Such a person is very helpful to Lu Liang if he is used well.

Regardless of Lu Liang's attention to historical celebrities, at about the same time as the battle in Xinyang, the ill-intentioned Wu Changchun and Cao Kun stayed in Nanyang, paying close attention to the movements in the direction of Xiangyang in southern Hubei. The Chinese army was strong, although it had previously assembled in the Xiaogan area. But no one can say whether it will make a detour to Xiangyang and attack Nanyang from then on.

This has a bearing on whether the main route of the Chinese army will be to attack Henan and advance to the northeast or to Shanxi and Shaanxi in the northwest. There are hundreds of thousands of troops gathered near Hebei, like a big light bulb to attract the attention of the Chinese army, the most likely is to attack Zhengzhou from Xinyang, cross the Yellow River and enter Hebei. Therefore, from a strategic point of view, Nanyang is safe for the time being, which is why Wu Changchun and others stay here. No one wants to touch the mold of the Chinese army when the troops are insufficient.

Just in case, a large number of reconnaissance troops were placed in Dengzhou, Xinye and other places north of Xiangyang and in Henan. Another reconnaissance force drove to the vicinity of the Xinyang battlefield, and Wu Changchun had to accurately grasp the state of the battlefield and then choose the right time to retreat to Zhengzhou.

Soon, the news that the 21st Division of Xinyang encountered the Chinese army came, as long as the two armies were glued, it would not be so easy to separate, and Wu Changchun felt that the time had come. He ordered Cao Kun, who arrived in Xinyang, to lead the cavalry regiment of the 21st Division to Zhengzhou first, and build fortifications there, and he led the 20th Division from Nanyang to Zhengzhou.

To the west of Nanyang is the remnant vein of the Qinling Mountains, and Wu Changchun first has to go west to reach the Luohe River. Then drive north to Zhengzhou. Thinking that he had completed Yuan Shikai's task, he was in a good mood, riding on a horse and singing a little song, not caring at all about the fate of Zhang Zuolin's 21st Division. Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at Qiaotou Town, east of Nanyang, the scouts who came back from the direction of Xinyang sent back an astonishing news, the Chinese army troops were found near Qinyang, the number was about 4,000 people, no heavy artillery was found, but there were some mountain artillery, because there were too many enemies, they did not dare to get too close, it should be a light army of the Chinese army!

Qinyang? Wu Changchun immediately ordered someone to spread out the map, it was only about a hundred miles away from here, and it would take half a day to arrive. Where did this force come from? There is its own reconnaissance unit near Xinyang, and it is difficult for a large-scale military movement to hide from its own eyes, so it must have passed through the mountains near Tongbai County, and only that direction does not have its own eyeline.

Goodong, swallowed his saliva, the question is, now do you want to continue forward or withdraw to Nanyang? If you withdraw to Nanyang, you can rely on the city to defend, but what if you are surrounded in Nanyang? According to the plan, the location of the battle was chosen in Hebei, and Henan was almost abandoned by Lord Gongbao. But if you continue to move forward, there are still nearly one hundred and fifty kilometers away from Luohe, will you meet that army? The key now is not to know the destination of that force, and it is not known whether his own troops have been discovered.

As for a fight with that force? This idea did not appear in Wu Changchun's mind at all, it was a troop of nearly a brigade, even if there was no heavy artillery, it was not easy for his own troops to defeat, once it was entangled, the Chinese army on Xinyang's side surrounded it again, and then it would be impossible to escape.

Staying is a dead end, take a gamble! "Order the whole army to speed up the march and arrive at Wugang to rest before dark!" Wu Changchun calculated, it would be about a hundred miles from here to Wugang, and he should be able to avoid that lightly armed army.

Wu Changchun didn't know that in addition to the lightly armed troops, there was another unit approaching him, and the combat goal of the Sixth Army was to completely annihilate the Beiyang Third Army stationed in Henan. Judging from the information obtained by the Investigation Bureau, Wu Changchun of the Third Army did not intend to resolutely resist, in order to reduce the possibility of the enemy escaping, the 1st Division of the Sixth Army quickly attacked, pointing directly at Xinyang, and the Xiaogan assembly area was closest to Xinyang, even if the Beiyang Army escaped, it could not escape the pursuit of the Chinese army.

As for the Beiyang Army stationed in Nanyang, the Sixth Army took great pains to arrange the encirclement, and the Second Division organized a reinforced regiment to advance lightly, and with the continuous intelligence support of the Investigation Bureau, it mastered the whereabouts of the Beiyang Army and pursued the Beiyang Army after passing through the vicinity of Tongbai. The other unit set out from Xiangyang, but unfortunately before it entered Henan, it got the information that the Beiyang Third Army had fled, and could only speed up the pursuit. That Wu Changchun was like a frightened rabbit, the grass and trees were frightened, and the Chinese army began to run away before it set off.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Changchun's Third Army had arrived at Xiaoshidian, about 15 kilometers southwest of Wugang, which had a city wall composed of earthen walls, which was much safer than in the field. I didn't encounter that unit along the way, and there were a lot of scouts who scattered, but none of them reported the situation, which made Wu Changchun's heart hang and never let go.

"Woooooo

Looking down from the sky, with his appearance, the Beiyang Army on the ground began to commotion, Bai Zhai grinned, he saw this kind of scene many times, and he still felt funny when he saw it again, is the plane so surprising?

Lieutenant Colonel Bai Zhai, who was sitting in the cockpit, squirmed around as if showing off, and even swept past the Beiyang Army Brigade at a low altitude, bringing bursts of exclamations. As another pilot of the wingman, he was covering in the air, and his own regiment commander was too coquettish, and he didn't look like a flight regiment commander at all!

Long before the start of the war, the Air Force Engineer Corps had built a field airfield about thirty kilometers north of Suizhou, where Bai Zhai's 1st Air Force Division 1st Regiment was ordered to provide reconnaissance/combat support to the front-line army, and the 2nd Bombardment Regiment also arrived. It's a pity that the army never calls for air support in battle, and only conveys information to a regiment when reconnaissance is needed, which makes Bai Zhai very unhappy. It is a pity that the Jian-1 fighter is not a professional ground support aircraft, and the H-1 bomber cannot attack without an order, which has caused an embarrassing position for the air force in the war.

"Regiment commander, is it to send electricity to the rear and mark the location of the Beiyang Army?" Seeing that Bai Zhai was having fun, the wingman pilot had to remind him by radio.

The time in the air is not short, Bai Zhai also felt that his body temperature has decreased a lot, since he has found the enemy, then report it, and then go back! Bai Zhai was a little unsatisfied, if he pressed the glass in the cockpit, wouldn't it be much warmer?

Wu Changchun is not a novice who doesn't know anything, he recognized it as an airplane at the first time, the plane of the Chinese army, the only one in the world. In the war against Japan, the planes of the Chinese army were in the limelight, and the Japanese had no means of countermeasures, so they could only let the Chinese hover over their heads, and now it was finally their turn.

Since the leak, he can't stay in Wugang, he has a hunch that he has become the target of the Chinese army, and now there must be many troops chasing him. It would be nice if they had air force planes themselves, and they could discover the enemy's position from the air, but it is a pity that the major powers, including Britain, are stepping up the development of new equipment such as airplanes, and they have not heard of any country making breakthroughs. (To be continued.) )