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With the defection of Zhang Zhigong, the battle plan of the Zhiwan coalition army also fell into the hands of Luo Yaoguo and Deng Yanda.

This jade marshal who is in Zhongzhou is still very thoughtful, and he is not willing to withdraw from the stage of Chinese history. In order to fight this battle well, he and Duan Qirui secretly formulated a perfect decisive battle plan. Wu Peifu decided to deploy the elite first division in Shaanxi County, relying on the dangerous terrain to block Feng Yuxiang's army from advancing westward.

Then send Zhang Zhigong to lead the first division of the Yu Army to Anyang City to defend as a bait, and Wu Yushuai also repeatedly told Zhang Zhigong to let him defend three times is the first achievement, and after the matter is completed, he will definitely appoint the good or bad (probably the meaning of giving a fat shortage to make money, right?). ）。 And Zhang Zhigong's stubborn defense was to buy time for Wu Peifu's deployment of reinforcements and another surprise attack force.

Wu Peifu's reinforcements will be composed of the most elite 3rd and 6th divisions under his direct line, and Wu Peifu will personally lead them north to relieve the siege of Anyang. He estimated that Hu Jingyi and Deng Yanda's 21st Division was well-trained and well-equipped, and could be called elite. He should have the courage to fight with his two divisions. But they must not have imagined...... The Zhiwan coalition army actually has a follow-up move, that is, they also ambushed a soldier in Liaocheng, Shandong, which is the old capital of the Anhui system, the fourth division composed of "Three Kingdoms fans" (just look at the super long military song of the Beiyang Fourth Division) and the tenth division commanded by He Fenglin. These two divisions would start fighting in Anyang under the command of Lu Yongxiang and then advance west from Liaocheng to attack Handan, the old nest of the 21st Division.

Probably to cheer up Zhang Zhigong and strengthen his confidence in victory. Therefore, the wise Wu Yushuai told Zhang Zhigong of his full plan before he went north. Outcome...... Wu Peifu didn't calculate that Zhang Zhigong's Zhensong army suffered heavy losses in the half-day battle, and what he didn't expect was that the Kuomintang actually used a despicable and shameless silver bullet tactic, and after teaching Zhang Zhigong a hard lesson, he sent a huge sum of 500,000 legal currency!

Smack. Luo Yaoguo threw the document full of the battle plan of the Zhiwan coalition army on the table. Because the money to buy Zhang Zhigong was from Luo Yaoguo, this matter was also handled by Luo Shun, the adjutant who followed him. This Zhang Zhigong's vote was naturally obtained by Luo Yaoguo first.

Regarding Wu Peifu's battle plan, Luo Yaoguo's answer was a sigh. The fate of the left wing of the Kuomintang is really great.

"It's so infuriating. Such a perfect battle plan was actually defeated by a mere 500,000 fiat currency...... What does this mean? It shows that the warlord system has no future at all, and it is not our military strength that defeats Wu Peifu, but their warlord system. Feng Yuxiang was like this in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, and now Zhang Zhigong is like this. ”

To tell the truth, if this plan is implemented, the little military strength of the left wing of the Kuomintang will be wiped out by others. Even if the plan of the Zhiwan Allied Army is obtained now, with more than 20,000 people in the 21st Division plus the very unreliable First Division of the Yu Army, it is still very difficult to defeat the Zhiwan Allied Army with a total of 36,000 troops.

Luo Yaoguo took a pair of military maps and spread them out on the table, and smiled: "Now we have to face the elites of the two Zhiwan families at the same time, and it is probably unrealistic to defeat the four divisions of the Zhiwan coalition army at the same time with our strength." The only way now is ...... Each one was broken. The two armies are now coming by two routes, each of which is about 30,000 people. And we now have the 1st Yu Division, with a total strength of more than 36,000 men, and it is still possible to defeat any of them. My idea is that we should first go south and fight to the death with the two divisions of the direct army commanded by Wu Peifu, and then cross the Yellow River east into Heze, Shandong, and threaten Shandong after defeating them. Now the Anhui system is the main force, and the strength to stay in Shandong is limited. If we put on a posture of wanting to fight Shandong, it is estimated that the main force of the Anhui system will come to the rescue...... Then let's go east to capture Kaifeng and Feng Yuxiang, how about a flanking attack? ”

This plan seems to be the only viable option right now. Although Wu Peifu's two divisions were elite, they had suffered heavy losses in the 13-year war of the Republic of China, and most of the heavy weapons were lost, so they were easier to deal with than the two Anhui divisions that drove from the east. And compared with Wu Peifu, Duan Qirui and others are much less dangerous. If Wu Peifu's main force is defeated and Shandong Laowo is threatened again, Duan Qirui is likely to choose to negotiate peace and withdraw from the Zhiwan Alliance, so that the 21st Division and Feng Yuxiang only need to deal with the direct line, and they will naturally win.

As soon as Luo Yaoguo's plan was proposed, it was immediately approved by Deng Yanda, Hu Jingyi and others. The 21st Division and the 1st Yu Division were also mobilized immediately. That night, the 21st Division abandoned Handan, and the whole division drove to Anyang, and the next day, 36,000 men from the two divisions had to go south as a whole team to compete with Wu Peifu's main force.

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The late autumn in North China is a little more slaughtering than in the South. The cold wind blowing from the northwest had already whistled southward at this time, blowing the vast land desolate and desolate. Looking around, I only felt a heroic spirit of generosity and sadness surging into my heart, but in this heroic spirit, there was always a faint sadness.

The war has been fought until now, and I don't know how much blood of heroes has been shed, and how much people's fat and ointment have been consumed. If this time it is a national war, it is easy to say, but this is another civil war. The Republic of China in history gradually lost its vitality in this internal conflict, even when the invasion of foreign enemies and the disaster of destroying the country and exterminating the nation were coming, the momentum of this internal struggle did not seem to have weakened much, right?

And now that he has crossed over, it seems that he has come to reverse the situation of this troubled world, and at least half of the country has stopped the civil war because of himself, and has begun to continue the pace of strength for the future national disaster. As for the troubled times in the northern country, I'm afraid it really can't be reversed by myself. Who makes ...... Is this an era of heroes? There has to be a stage for the heroes to perform, right? Now that the heroes of a country have gathered on this shrunken stage, the troubled times of this northern country are even more chaotic!

Regardless of the Northeast for the time being, the situation in this pass is also extremely complicated. Now that GCD's 100,000 Red Army is storming Shanxi, Yan Xishan's painstaking foundation is about to belong to others, but I don't know if GCD will be allowed to go in the end, or will it be returned to the Feng department? The situation in Henan is also unclear, and the Kuomintang leftists and Feng Yuxiang seem to be allies on the surface, but in fact they are also intriguing. Both factions wanted to gain more territory, strengthen their own strength, and then dominate the alliance, and finally compete with the right wing of the Kuomintang for the mantle of Sun Yat-sen. And I'm actually making a small calculation...... The battle for hegemony in the north is powerless to stop itself, so it can only seek a temporary balance to delay time. It is best to form a three-legged situation in which the Feng faction, the GCD, the left wing of the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang army stand together.

"Bang Bang Bang --- "

The faint sound of gunfire pulled Luo Yaoguo out of his mind, this should be the vanguard of the two sides encountering and exchanging fire. It sounded like the crisp gunfire from his own side of the water rifle had a slight upper hand, and the dull gunfire of the other party seemed to be gradually thinning out. It is estimated that this was a firefight between the vanguard teams of both sides, and it should be the reconnaissance cavalry of the 21st Division that won.

It was four o'clock in the afternoon on November 2, the 15th year of the Republic of China. The decisive Qixian Battle in the First Central Plains War officially began!

The two sides of the battle were the 21st Division of the Central Army controlled by the Kuomintang leftists and the 1st Division of the Henan Army, with a total of more than 36,000 men and 36 Soviet-made field guns. The 3rd and 6th Divisions of the Central Army under the command of the direct warlord Wu Peifu had about 30,000 troops and 16 domestically produced 11 mountain guns (also imitating the 41st year of the Meiji era).

The contact between the two armies took place in the area of Liangma Temple, south of Qi County, after a brief exchange of fire between the vanguard forces of the two sides. The whole battlefield was silent again, a silence before the storm. The commanders of both armies seem to know that this battle will determine the life and death of their respective political lives and the military blocs to which they belong. Therefore, in the early stages of the campaign, they all chose to proceed with caution.

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"The three infantry brigades of our 21st Division have been deployed along the line of Huangdui Village, Liangma Temple, Shisanlipu, Wangzhuang Village, Nanyang Village, and Yunvguan, and the artillery regiment of the 21st Division has been deployed to Shizhuang Village. The cavalry brigade had shrunk back to the rear of the battle line to rest. The 1st Yu Division was deployed in the county seat of Qixian County as a campaign reserve. ”

In a large house in Xishiqiao Village, about two kilometers away from the county seat of Qixian County, the top leaders of the 21st Division, Liao Zhongkai, a leftist bigwig of the Kuomintang who accompanied the army, and Luo Yaoguo, a military adviser to the Kuomintang Central Committee, sat down separately. A huge military map hangs high. Deng Yanda was holding a red and blue pencil while sketching out the battlefield situation while explaining.

"How far are the two divisions of the Anhui system from us now?" Liao Zhongkai looked solemn and got up to ask.

Deng Yanda smiled: "They haven't arrived in Handan yet." It is at least a hundred kilometers away from us, almost two days' journey, and we must break through the enemy in front of us within these two days, so I suggest that our troops take the initiative to attack in this battle. Attack the enemy tonight. ”

Liao Chung-kai has never interfered much in the military operations of the Kuomintang left, and generally does not speak and make decisions at military meetings. However, today he seems to be a little uneasy, and now the 21st Division, the only reliable force of the Kuomintang left, is in the middle of the attack of the two armies of Zhiwan and Anhui, and if it cannot break the direct army in front of him within two days, the consequences will be unimaginable! What reassures Liao Zhongkai even more is that Wu Peifu, who is known as China's Ludendorff, is still in command of this direct army, and there is also the third direct division known as the first elite in Beiyang!

"What do you think of Fuwen?" Liao Zhongkai frowned slightly and glanced at Luo Yaoguo, who was sitting in the corner silently.

Luo Yaoguo looked up at Liao Zhongkai, who was worried, and said, "Duke Liao." We have more troops than Wu Peifu, and our firepower is stronger than his, and even the training of our troops is better than theirs. And we're braver than they are! We are a revolutionary army, and we are by no means comparable to their warlord forces! Now we and Wu Peifu are meeting on a narrow road, and the brave wins! So the victory must be ours! ”

"It's a narrow road to meet, and the brave wins!" Hu Jingyi gave a thumbs up and agreed: "Isn't it just a third division and a Wu Peifu?" It's not like our Kuomintang hasn't defeated them! The 3rd Division was simply defeated under our General Fuwen, and there was no problem this time. General Fuwen, it's better for you to arrange it, let's have a good fight this time, and after that, this Henan will be our world! ”

In fact, there is nothing to arrange in this battle, it is to attack! Offensive! Attack again! It's just that...... The prestige of the 3rd Division and Wu Peifu is so great that the officers and men of the 21st Division now need a little bit of heroic sentiment to boost their morale. And Luo Yaoguo, who once defeated the Third Division, undoubtedly just catered to this psychological need. As soon as Hu Jingyi's words came out, the senior officers present all turned their expectant eyes to Luo Yaoguo.

Luo Yaoguo had no choice but to stiffen his face at this time and began to pretend to be a hero. He strode to Deng Yanda's side, casually pointed to the military map, and looked at everyone with a cold-looking expression: "Comrades, we can only choose to attack in this battle!" Because we must defeat Wu Peifu before the two divisions of the Anhui Department reach our back! As long as Wu Peifu is defeated, Henan will be yours! Since we're going to attack, my advice is to go as fast as possible! The enemy and our armies encountered each other during the march, and both sides were almost tired, and it was the same whether they rested or not. And we are the attackers, so we don't need to dig trenches to repair fortifications, so why should we give the other side time to repair fortifications? ”

“…… My plan was to launch a general attack after dinner. At one time, our side invested three infantry brigades, and the three brigades advanced together to press up, and under the cover of the artillery regiment, launched a fierce attack on the direct troops on the front line of Qihe Huang Village, Changtun Village, and Nansong Village. At the same time, the cavalry brigade was dispatched to go around the enemy's left flank to the enemy's rear, and use the cover of night to launch an attack on the enemy's rear, striving to cause chaos in the direct army...... Finally, I would like to remind you that now neither the enemy nor the enemy is aware of the enemy, and there are no strong fortifications to rely on, so victory must belong to the bold and decisive side. I ask everyone to attack boldly and not be afraid to fight a melee or a night battle. Our army was trained by the methods of the Soviets, had a great deal of political and ideological education, and was paid well and well-paid. Therefore, they must be more proactive and more loyal. In the chaotic night, without the supervision of the officers, our advantage is far greater than that of Wu Peifu! Comrades, let's attack boldly tonight! Let your enemies tremble in the night! ”