When the vigorous Sun Yat-sen appeared in front of the Anhui tycoon Qu Tongfeng, the fuse of China's new round of warlord melee had actually been ignited. Qu Tongfeng is a very old Anhui cadre general, who once participated in the First Sino-Japanese War as a sailor of the Dingyuan ship. After the first afternoon, he took refuge in Yuan Datou and entered the Tianjin Wubei Academy to study, and began a colorful warlord career. Later, he became a member of the Anhui system, and made the commander of the [***] West Road in the Zhiwan War, but was captured by the direct army because of the mutiny and collapse of the troops, and was confined for two years. After being released in 22 years, he continued to follow Duan Qirui and Cao and Wu to do the opposite. He traveled all over the place to contact the Feng Department and Mr. Nakayama, and it was he who organized the Anti-Straight Triangle Alliance.

In his meeting with Mr. Zhongshan, Qu Tongfeng made a request to invite the Kuomintang to send troops to aid Zhejiang and form a joint political axe after overthrowing the direct lineage. Regarding the request for aid to Zhejiang, Mr. Zhongshan nodded on the spot and agreed, saying that he would send Chiang Kai-shek to personally lead the army to Zhejiang to help in the war. As for the formation of the United Political Axe, Mr. Nakayama said that the GCD, as an ally of the Kuomintang, will also play an important role in the future war of reversal, so the United Political Axe should include the GCD.

The main task of Qu Tongfeng's trip is to ask the Kuomintang for help, as for the joint political axe or something, it was originally a pie thrown to the Kuomintang, and multiple GCDs naturally don't matter, Yanjing and Zhili are in whose hands is the key. Therefore, Qu Tongfeng also agreed to Mr. Zhongshan's request.

According to Mr. Zhongshan's latest instructions, the Military Commission also immediately made new strategic arrangements: First, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to personally lead troops to "aid Zhejiang," so the task of taking charge of the overall situation in Guangzhou fell to Xu Chongzhi, who was always listless, and Zhu Peide, a good man, was responsible for being Xu Chongzhi's deputy and acting minister of the army. Second, the logistics support work of the army will be in charge of Luo Yiqun, minister of armaments; for this big war, the Kuomintang has been preparing for a whole year, stockpiling a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and supplies, setting up two major military stations in Hengyang and Shaoguan, and repairing the road from Hengyang to Shaoguan. Third, three fronts of the army will be organized.

The First Front Army was the so-called "Zhejiang" Army, with Chiang Kai-shek as commander-in-chief, Liang Hongkai as deputy commander-in-chief, and Li Jishen as chief of staff. The troops under its jurisdiction are the 1st to 6th Divisions and the 1st Artillery Regiment. These are six old Guangdong divisions, and the qualifications of division commanders and regiment commanders are very old, that is, Chiang Kai-shek can command with the authority of the chairman of the committee.

The Second Front Army is also known as the "Aid Hunan" Army, with Tan Yanmin as commander-in-chief, Luo Yaoguo as deputy commander-in-chief, An Yi as chief of staff, and Qian Dajun as commander-in-chief of artillery. The troops under its jurisdiction are the 7th to 12th, 21st to 25th, a total of 11 divisions, and the 3rd, 4th, and 5th artillery regiments. Among them, the 10th and 12th Divisions and the 5th Artillery Regiment were all troops secretly transferred back from Sichuan.

The Third Front Army is also known as the "Aid Jiangxi" Army, with Cheng Qian, commander-in-chief, Bai Chongxi, deputy commander-in-chief, and He Yingqin, chief of staff. The troops under its jurisdiction are the 13th to 17th Divisions and the 19th Division, a total of six divisions, and the second artillery regiment. Among them, the 13th Division was also secretly transferred back from Sichuan.

According to Mr. Zhongshan's special instructions, the Second Front Army and the Third Front Army were really responsible for commanding the battle, and Luo Yaoguo and Bai Chongxi were the two who were really responsible for commanding the battle, and Tan Yanmin and Cheng Qian were just Bodhisattvas who were invited to suppress the battle, and were not directly responsible for commanding. The Third Route Army dispatched a total of 23 divisions and five artillery regiments, with a total strength of nearly 200,000! It is twice as much as the Northern Expedition of the Kuomintang in history. However, due to the absence of a large number of GCD people, especially the Ye Ting Reading Regiment, which was known as the Iron Army in history, the quality of the troops sent out on the expedition has declined.

At this time, the graduates of the first phase of Whampoa had been distributed, and most of the graduates had been appointed as second lieutenants or lieutenants in various units, which was far from the first phase of Whampoa in history. Well, there are exceptions, such as the careerist Wang Zijiu, who is now the colonel and the commander of the Hechuan town, doing a one-year warlord internship in Sichuan, and Du Yuming, Chiang Kai-shek's most proud protégé in another time and space, is now a battalion commander under his subordinates. Fan Hanjie is also an exception, he was originally a major general of the Guangdong Army, and he had a good relationship with Luo Yaoguo's uncle, so as soon as Huangpu graduated, he became a lieutenant colonel in the Ministry of Armaments in charge of the Hengyang Military Station. He Jinhan, one of the three heroes of Whampoa in history, was also more fortunate to be a major staff officer for Chiang Kai-shek, Hu Zongnan and Dai Li (Dai Chunfeng) were also lucky to enter Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, one was a lieutenant company commander in the Seventh Division, the other was a lieutenant staff officer next to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek's nephew Jiang Xiaoxian also served as a lieutenant staff officer beside Chiang Kai-shek. Song Xilian, Liu Huan, Chen Daqing, Chen Mingren, Li Mo'an, Liu Yongyao, Wang Zhonglian, Leng Xin, He Shaozhou (He Yingqin's nephew), Wang Jingjiu, Xuan Tiewu, Hou Jingru, Huo Yuzhang, Yuan Shouqian, Zhang Yaoming, Guan Linzheng, Xia Chuzhong, Huang Jie, Liao Yunze, Li Xianzhou, Sun Yuanliang, Gan Lichu, Yan Wu, Li Yutang, Wang Shuming, Li Liangrong, Cao Yuehui, Li Yannian, Zheng Dongguo, Gui Yongqing, Yu Jishi, Huang Wei, Yu Chengwan, Zeng Kuoqing, Zhong Bin, Dong Zhao and a large number of other historical celebrities have only been mixed into the position of platoon commander or second lieutenant staff officer, and only a few who are lucky enough to become company commanders or lieutenant staff officers. Moreover, there are a large number of classmates who were not originally in the first phase of Whampoa or who will die young to compete with them for the throne of generals! Hehe, it's obvious that these people are all victims of Luo Yaoguo's irresponsible big butterfly, but sadly they don't know it now, and they may never know it again.

Luo Yaoguo's Second Front Army Headquarters also came to a large number of graduates of the first phase of Huangpu, such as Li Wenhua, Yang Liren, Yang Lijing, Liu Yongyao, Wang Shuming, Yan Wu, Hou Jingru, Lan Yundong, Wen Zhiwen, and Xiong Zhiyun. Several of them were entrusted by Tan Pingshan to Luo Yiqun to take care of them. Tan Pingshan's list for Luo Yiqun is very large, there are more than 100 people, including classmates like Liu Huan and Huang Wei who are obviously not GCD, so Luo Yaoguo is also confused.

In August 1924, the city of Canton was still shrouded in gloom, and every day there was news that Mr. Zhongshan was on his deathbed and was about to pass. Although the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang had refuted the rumors, Mr. Zhongshan always did not show up, and Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou was tightly sealed off by the military police, and even several famous doctors from the Guangzhou Army Hospital were nowhere to be found. By all indications, there is a good chance that the so-called rumors are true. What is even more puzzling is that at such a sensitive moment, Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Military Commission, actually personally led six Guangdong army divisions out of Guangzhou to "aid Zhejiang." Obviously, the message is intriguing.

At the same time that the outside world was concerned about the imminent death of the Kuomintang leader and the imminent internal strife within the Kuomintang, Luo Yaoguo and his Second Front Army Headquarters had secretly set off for Guangzhou. Unlike the Northern Expedition in another time and space, the Kuomintang here seems to like to do everything secretly. Seven infantry divisions, plus three artillery regiments and a large number of logistics units, quietly entered their designated positions in the southern part of Hunan Province in mid-August. Except for a few high-ranking Kuomintang officials, almost no one in the outside world knew about this situation. Similarly, six divisions and an artillery regiment commanded by Bai Chongxi were also quietly lurking on the border of Fujian-Jiangxi and Guangdong-Jiangxi. Only Chiang Kai-shek's army to aid Zhejiang crawled slowly and slowly at a turtle speed on the road from Guangdong to Zhejiang, and it seemed that it would not be able to go in two months.

The strange state of Guangdong greatly strengthened the direct family's determination to fight, and when Cao Sange privately discussed with the generals of his direct line, he even suspected that Sun Yat-sen had passed away, and now the Kuomintang is secret. Therefore, in this crusade against Zhelu, the Kuomintang will definitely not take action. However, for the sake of insurance, Wu Peifu still left two divisions and four brigades in Hubei, ready to reinforce Hunan or Jiangxi at any time. The 18th Division and the 5th Mixed Brigade of Hubei were transferred from Hubei to Jiangsu to help Qi Xieyuan in the battle. The 18th Mixed Brigade and the 21st Mixed Brigade were transferred to Jiangxi to cooperate with Sun Chuanfang and Zhou Yinren to threaten Zhejiang from the west. In addition, Wu Peifu also mobilized the 24th Division of Chen Tiaoyuan in Anhui, the 3rd and 5th Mixed Brigades in Anhui, the 3rd Mixed Brigade in Jiangxi, and the 3rd Mixed Brigade in Henan to reinforce Jiangsu.

By the end of August, the direct warlord forces had assembled the second, sixth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twenty-fourth divisions of the Central Army and the first, second, and third divisions of the Jiangsu Army, a total of eight divisions. In addition, there are 15 mixed brigades, including the 1st, 9th, 11th, 18th, and 21st mixed brigades of the Central Army, five mixed brigades in Jiangsu, 3rd and 5th mixed brigades in Anhui, 5th mixed brigades in Hubei, 3rd mixed brigades in Jiangxi, and 3rd mixed brigades in Henan, with a total strength of about 1340,000 troops.

The Zhejiang Army concentrated the 4th and 10th Divisions of the Central Army, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of Zhejiang, the 6th and 24th Brigades of the Central Mixed Army, the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Zhejiang Mixed Brigade, the Zhejiang Supplementary Brigade, the Zhejiang Frontier Army, the Guard Regiment and other units, plus the police, batteries and other armed forces in Zhejiang, with a total strength of more than 70,000 troops. In addition, there are nearly 50,000 reinforcements from six divisions and one artillery regiment sent by the Kuomintang, so Zhejiang is not without the ability to fight a war, and it is much stronger than the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War in another time and space.

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