The gunfire echoing over Nanchang City gradually became scarce, nearly 100 looted money houses, military camps, material warehouses, and rich houses were still burning, flames and smoke shrouded the whole city, and the corpses of civilians could be seen everywhere, and among the wounded who were dying and wailing in pain all over the streets, there were countless defenseless and miserable women, and the helpless cries of children and the crying, moaning and lamentation full of endless grievances of the people, so that the hard-hearted people would cry when they heard it.

As soon as more than 500 Beiyang officers and soldiers protecting the foreigner area withdrew, more than 200 bank employees and expatriates from Britain, the United States, France and other countries rushed to the top of the tall building, looking at Nanchang City like a hellish scene, almost everyone was stunned, one by one stunned and then exclaimed, no matter how much contempt and fraud the Chinese are usually, but at this time, almost all foreigners shouted God in unison, His face and heart were filled with infinite pain and compassion.

Driven by a sense of justice, more than 10 angry whites took out their cameras and rushed into the chaotic streets, and more than 10 bank leaders headed by Catholic priests and celebrities from various countries quickly gathered together and hurriedly organized expatriates to set up ambulance teams, and Citigroup, HSBC, Quanye and other banks immediately activated their own radio stations to inform the embassies, consulates, and newspapers of various countries of everything that happened in Nanchang City.

More than 20 thugs of the nursing home organized the chaotic citizens quite strangely, carried wounded civilians and scarred women into the compound with door panels, took out a lot of money, and brought back more than 10 famous doctors in the city.

In the hidden basement of the backyard of the Academy, Cao Yuan, the young head of the Nanchang Station of the Sichuan Army Intelligence Bureau and the owner of the Academy, immediately used the radio station to inform the whole country of the Nanchang catastrophe that had just occurred.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Mahuiling, north of De'an City, Jiangxi.

After four hours of fierce fighting, the lush Mahuiling had turned into a scorched earth, and patches of bare tree trunks burned like torches in the blazing air, and the corpses of officers and men of Li Chun's Eighth Division of the Beiyang Army were all on the three positions from top to bottom.

After a short period of calm, the 36 75 mountain guns and field artillery of the 18th and 1st divisions of the Sichuan Army roared again, and the dense shells accurately fell on the firepower points rebuilt by the defenders, and the remaining more than 1,000 Beiyang troops suffered heavy casualties, but they still did not have the slightest intention of surrendering.

In the headquarters of the southern section of the Boyang River Railway Bridge, Yuan Chongxi, the commander of the 19th Division, and Yang Sen, the commander of the 1st Division, put down their binoculars almost at the same time, looking at Mahuiling, which was like a burning mountain with thick smoke in front of them, and admired the stubborn will of the enemy.

On the other side, Guo Rudong, chief of staff of the 1st Division, smiled at He Yuxing, chief of staff of the 19th Division: "I am afraid that the shells fired this afternoon are more than the total number of our training in the past few years. ”

He Yuxin couldn't help but say: "I said that I sent it, I don't need to use it in vain, and I can create the greatest result with the lowest casualties, isn't it exactly what the marshal always emphasizes?" ”

Guo Rudong listened to it interestingly, and couldn't help laughing, and said enviously after laughing: "I really envy you!" The first mountain division of the whole army, and the only main division that was replaced with M1917 light infantry guns and M1918 new light machine guns, as well as your assault battalion, all new equipment, as soon as it appeared, it won the arsenal of De'an Station of Li Chun's 18th Division with an absolute advantage, tsk! The handsome is eccentric! ”

"Come on, don't complain in front of your brother."

He Yuxuan approached Guo Rudong, lowered his voice, and asked, "I heard that Deputy Commander Wang will soon come to Jiangxi to be the overseer, and my brother is probably going to be promoted to major general and division commander, right?" ”

Guo Rudong's heart sank: "Where did you hear the news?" ”

"Brother, don't get cheap and sell well, who doesn't know that after the battle of De'an, my division will have to return to Jiujiang and rush to Wuhu with the two newly attached regiments of the Beiyang Army? The rest of the tasks such as pursuing the remnants of the enemy and reorganizing the Gan army have not all fallen on the head of your first army?

"Think about the looting of the Beiyang Army that lasted for half a month, how much wealth did it have? I'm so red-eyed! I don't believe that you, the chief of staff of the division, did not see the overall battle plan of Jiangxi before. He Yuxuan deliberately pretended to be disdainful, which made Guo Rudong embarrassed.

"What's going on in the west?"

Yuan Chongxi's stern roar sounded, Guo Rudong and the two immediately stopped talking, hurriedly walked out of the bunker, and looked west, only to see tens of thousands of people gathered on the field two kilometers ahead, and the temporarily established prisoner camp had been flooded by Rulin's swords and guns.

The two war horses came quickly, and the commander of the engineer battalion and the guard company of the 19th Division jumped off the war horses almost at the same time, rushed to Yuan Chongxi and reported loudly:

"Brethren can't stop it, Master! The local villagers who originally helped us transport ammunition suddenly led thousands of villagers to storm the prisoner of war camp, and despite our dissuasion, surrounded more than 1,000 prisoners of war to fight to the death. ”

Yuan Chongxi gasped when he heard this, and looked at Yang Sen who was full of shock.

Yang Sen suddenly burst out laughing, and after laughing, he gritted his teeth and said, "Retribution! This is the retribution of the Beiyang Army, it came so quickly, it can be seen from this to what extent the perverse behavior of the Beiyang Army has been in my opinion, it should be killed, we can't shoot at the people, right? ”

He Yuxing, who reacted quickly, had already ordered the guards to take the horses, led a platoon of guard officers and soldiers, rode their horses and rushed to the crowded prisoner of war camp in the west, and quickly organized more than 800 officers and soldiers to separate the angry people, and finally stopped the chaos and squeezed into the center of the crowd, He Yuxin and the officers and soldiers around him were stunned one by one:

More than 1,000 prisoners of war had been slaughtered by the angry people, and there was no longer a human figure to be seen on the bloody ground, mutilated limbs, broken heads mixed with brains and internal organs, all over the ground, and a huge bloody breath came to the nostrils, like the center of flesh and blood like the Shura field, and a few runaway men over forty years old kept waving hoes, and their mouths let out beastly hoarse howls and curses.

Two hours later, the two divisions of the Beiyang Army turned around and fled westward 17 kilometers south of De'an, and the fierce battle at Mahuiling had ended, and Yang Sen's first division completely controlled the county town of De'an, and the two main regiments continued to move south under the leadership of Chief of Staff Guo Rudong, and launched a two-front pursuit on the north and south with the three divisions led by Wang Zan Xu and Ouyang Wu.

Yuan Chongxi's 19th Division went north to Jiujiang and joined Liu Xiang's 2nd Division, which had just arrived by boat from Wuchang, and then led his division and two regiments of the Beiyang Army to surrender to Cheng, boarded more than 20 ships, and under the escort of naval warships, they slaughtered to Wuhu in Anhui Province.

The next morning, Wu Peifu's two divisions, which suddenly went south from eastern Henan, surrounded Xuzhou, and Wang Tingzhen, the general of Xuzhou, saw that the general situation had gone, and led his troops to join Wu Peifu without firing a shot, and Wu Peifu, who had obtained a division of Beiyang veterans and a large amount of material supplies, was overjoyed, and after leading his troops into the city to pacify the army and the people, Wu Peifu immediately sent a secret telegram to Xiao Yimin, and then telegraphed the whole country, announcing the successful end of the Huaibei counterinsurgency operation.

On 14 April, Liao Zhen, commander of the Sixth Army of the Sichuan Army, led the 16th and 18th Divisions under his command to Xuzhou via southern Henan to complete the defense handover with Wu Peifu's department.

The 16th Division of the Sixth Army of the Sichuan Army marched into Xuzhou City amid the welcome of tens of thousands of citizens, and Chen Wancheng, chief of staff of the army, led the 18th Division to slowly move southward, closely cooperating with the 17th Division, which crossed the mountainous areas of eastern Hubei and the 19th Division, which easily captured Wuhu, and pressed Hefei in a three-sided attack.

On the battlefield of Jiangxi, more than 30,000 people led by Li Chun, Ni Sichong, and Chen Guangyuan were defeated under the pursuit of the Sichuan-Jiangxi coalition army, and along the way, more than ten special detachments sent by the Sichuan army fought piecemeal day and night.

Li Chun and others, who were anxious to flee for their lives, had to reluctantly order to abandon all artillery baggage and lead 20,000 remnants to flee westward.

Two days later, the tired and hungry remnants of 20,000 finally fled to Daye, only to find that Huangshi Port had been occupied by the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army transferred from Yichang, and the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army, which had moved quickly, had already built two lines of defense under the personal command of the army commander Sun Zhaoluan, blocking the only way for Li Chun and others to retreat.

Just when Li Chun and others were at a loss, more than 25,000 Sichuan officers and soldiers who followed the pursuit were killed, and did not give the remnants of Beiyang any chance to rest and recuperate, erected more than 100 mortars, and immediately launched a fierce artillery bombardment.

On the afternoon of the 14th, before the arrival of the person himself stationed in Hankou, the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army fortified at Huangshi Port had already arrived at Daye, and together with the two divisions led by Wang Zhanxu, launched a two-hour artillery bombardment on the stubborn enemy, and the entire Daye Iron and Steel Company, together with most of the mining equipment, was instantly turned into a ruin.

At dusk, the Sichuan army stopped shelling, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the three divisions launched a final charge with shouts, and the desperate Li Chun committed suicide with a gun, and Ni Sichong and Chen Guangyuan rushed out of the encirclement under the desperate protection of more than ten guards, changed into civilian clothes and fled to the wharf at the mouth of the Yangtze River, boarded the warship that came to meet them, and quietly left.

On the morning of 15 April, the Central Military and Political Affairs Department held another news conference in Nanjing, where hundreds of representatives from all walks of life and Chinese and foreign reporters flocked to the meeting, and two generals, Wang Shizhen, army chief and Wu Guangxin, the new Anhui Provincial Supervisor, also appeared in front of the public in high spirits.

General Xiao Yimin solemnly announced: "The counterinsurgency war that lasted 25 days and covered the four provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui and Henan has ended successfully!" Nanjing's application for "tax reduction and exemption for two years in the war-torn four provinces" has been approved by Premier Duan Qirui and unanimously approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives. ”

Amid warm applause, Army Chief Wang Shizhen, on behalf of Prime Minister and Minister of Military Affairs Duan Qirui, announced:

"Appoint Admiral Wang Lingji as the superintendent of Jiangxi Province; appointed Lieutenant General Ouyang Wu as Governor of Jiangxi Province; According to the resolution made by the joint meeting of the Central Political Axe, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice, the Central Supreme Court and the Ministry of Justice jointly issued a wanted warrant to hunt down 17 rebel generals, including Ni Sichong and Chen Guangyuan, who committed 13 crimes such as rebellion and murder and robbery, and confiscate all their property! ”

In the afternoon of the same day, the resolutions, appointments, war reports, and wanted notices announced at the press conference quickly spread throughout the country.

At this time, the European and American powers and the major domestic forces suddenly discovered that the entire north and south of the Yangtze River, including Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Hubei, and most of Anhui, had been occupied by the Xiao Yimin clique, and that Guangdong, which was desperately resisting the Gui army, had been surrounded by the Xiao Yimin clique on three sides, and that China's largest opposition party was crumbling in internal and external troubles, and that it was no longer able to recover its fate of defeat or even annihilation.

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(To be continued)