Shanghai, the magic capital of the East, once again ushered in her turmoil.

After announcing that he would join the Yuan army, Chen Qimei, the governor of Shanghai, had begun to gather his Shanghai army and began to expand the armament with all its might.

In fact, the reason why Chen Qimei is so hard-working, but he has his own plans, although Shanghai is prosperous, but the territory is too small, if you want to develop, you must occupy a larger area, he is ready to take advantage of this war, try to get out of Shanghai for the first step!

However, the city of Shanghai involves the interests of too many foreign powers, and among these powers, for their own interests, naturally no one wants turmoil in Shanghai at this time.

However, when the embassies of various countries protested several times, and later Chen Qimei personally went to the consulates of various countries to explain and privately carry out a number of unknown transactions, this protest was silent, and various countries declared their neutrality one after another.

The content of these transactions is unknown, but then the opium flooded in Shanghai has increased rapidly, even to the point of rampant, especially the various foreign trading houses, which for a time made the most prosperous city in East Asia a miasma.

At this time, the content of the transaction had been exposed, and in the face of the abuse outside, Chen Qimei gave full play to her rogue and bachelorish nature, turned a deaf ear, and pretended not to know.

At the same time, the southern government also attached great importance to this anti-Yuan action, and for this anti-Yuan action, Huang Xing personally set off from Nanjing, and then returned to Shanghai to sit down.

But for the opium rampant situation on the market, Huang Xing can only turn a blind eye, although at the beginning, he had persuaded Chen Qimei twice in private, but when Chen Qimei asked "otherwise, how to obtain military spending and neutrality of various countries", Huang Xing was speechless, and finally did not answer, and also avoided this matter.

At the same time, Chen Qimei also began to use the public opinion under his control to seize the moral high ground, and various newspapers and periodicals in Shanghai, under Chen Qimei's instructions, carried out a lot of publicity on this anti-Yuan action.

All kinds of comments and editorials believe that this anti-Yuan action has been tacitly acquiesced by the great powers, and it seems that as long as the Shanghai army comes out, it will relieve the people from hanging upside down, and they also publish a large number of photos of the Shanghai army gathering, from which it can be seen that the appearance of the Shanghai army is so powerful, it seems to be really exciting.

However, under such strength, who can know how many of these soldiers are local gangsters and gangsters who were co-opted by Chen Qimei?! And how many soldiers who have just put on their military uniforms, have never been on the battlefield, and have touched a firearm!

The declaration even published Chen Qimei's sassy appearance in a military uniform, with various medals neatly arranged on her shoulders, as if she was about to witness this victory.

However, soon, the Beiyang Army reacted, Yuan Shikai has always wanted to get involved in Shanghai, but has always been afraid of the reaction of the powers, at this time Chen Qimei actually made the first move, but it was in harmony with Yuan Shikai's intentions, although Yuan Shikai was a little nervous about military spending, but for the battle of Shanghai, he was not stingy at all, and the army soon arrived at the outskirts of Shanghai under Yuan Shikai's order.

Chen Qimei led the Yuan army composed of the Shanghai army to defeat the Beiyang Army after several fierce battles, and even Huang Xing and others in Shanghai did not expect the rout to be so fast, so fast that they had no preparation, so they had to flee from this place in a hurry.

And this defeat is not only like this, but even casts an indelible shadow on the anti-Yuan action this time, and the southern provisional government has to focus its last hope on the southern provinces!

When Qin Ying received the news from Shanghai, he just smiled coldly, and then he was still beside him, at this time, Qin Ying had already put all his energy into the upcoming Northern Anhui Campaign.

Except for the 600 soldiers who remained in their own districts to cooperate with the local police force to maintain law and order, all the main forces of the army began to concentrate rapidly in Taihe, Linquan, and Fuyang, trying to defeat the threat of their right flank and consolidate their local security before the decisive battle with the southern army.

All villages and towns encountered along the way are subject to martial law.

The army set off from Lixin, the first target of attack was Fuyang, because the sergeant of the Baihe army was worried about the safety of his family, unable to support the Baihe army in Fuyang, was Qin Ying fought down, half a day was less, the defenders in the city faced Qin Ying's 5,000 army, they took the initiative to come out and surrender, and Baihe was cut off by his subordinates and dedicated to Qin Ying, Bai's rule in Fuyang ended completely at this moment.

Qin Ying and his army did not stop in Fuyang County, and after refusing the celebration banquet of the local squires, he left a hundred soldiers to guard the prisoners and maintain local law and order!

And Taihe and Linquan, who have been shocked three times a day, even before the southern army reacted, in the face of Qin Ying's army, they went down without a fight, and the defenders in these places were even more instigated by the people's situation, shooting the local defender leader, and then Kaecheng surrendered.

On July 26, Qin Ying's army officially took over the three cities, setting a record for the three cities on two days before the formal battle with the southern army.

This kind of marching speed greatly exceeded Qin Ying and the others' expectations, so Qin Ying made a bold decision - to completely break the threat of the left and right flanks before the big war, and at the same time push the battle line to Yingshang and Bengbu!

Now the three regiments under Qin Ying's command, more than 5,000 soldiers are completely engaged in this battle, the victory in the past two days has greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers, each soldier is full of confidence in the battle that will continue, they believe that under the leadership of their commanders and commanders, defeating the other side seems to have become a foregone conclusion.

But the only thing in this is that one-third of the soldiers in the army have not experienced war and bloodshed, and it is inevitable that some problems will arise during the march and battle.

However, war is the best medicine that motivates people to grow up, and the junior officers who have come out of the crash course of officers have slowly grown up, and they have unwittingly provoked the pillars of the army.

If it was after the end of this war, Qin Ying believed that he would no longer worry about some trivial matters.

On the 26th, after Qin Ying captured the three places, he led the army without stopping, and the army continued to advance southward, taking Funan again on the night of the 27th.

At this time, the Southern Army finally came late, and traces of the Southern Army began to appear on the Ying, but they obviously did not expect Qin Ying to march so quickly, the two sides only contacted for less than half an hour, and then the two sides quickly separated.

After the search team of more than 50 people met with a company of Qin Ying's top soldiers, they were caught off guard by Qin Ying's side, and the embarrassed people with heavy casualties fled back to Yingshang County, and they did not dare to go out of the city for half a step, waiting for the reinforcements of the army.

However, just when Yingshang thought that Qin Ying would lead a large army to attack Yingshang, Qin Ying left Chen Feng's three regiments here to maintain pressure on Yingshang, and led nearly 4,000 people to a beautiful return rifle, and pointed the guns directly at the three places of Mengcheng, Suzhou and Huaibei who were rejoicing behind Qin Ying!

This time, in the case of unpreparedness in the three places, or deceive the city, or lure the snake out of the hole, or encircle the point to send reinforcements, all kinds of methods can be used, and everything is used, and it is here to reflect the benefits of the Qin and British army's training in peacetime rapid marching, and when there is almost no stop, it took two days and one night to capture the three places, so that this front was pushed to the area of Guzhen at the same time!

At this time, it was already late at night on the 28th, and the date of the decisive battle was getting closer and closer!

On the 29th, Qin Ying received a message from Chen Feng, who stayed on the front line of Yingshang, that the Yuan army had begun to increase troops from Bengbu to Yingshang, but due to Qin Ying's containment in Suzhou and other places, he did not march to Yingshang like most of the Yuan army in history, but left some defensive troops on the front line of Guzhen, and wanted to defeat Qin Ying's main force on the front line of Yingshang before solving the Qin Ying army in the direction of Guzhen.

After knowing the other party's intentions, Qin Ying left 800 people on the Taoyuan and Luling lines to confront the enemy troops in the direction of Guzhen to maintain a firepower confrontation, and then led the army to return to Fuyang on the afternoon of the 29th, and together with Chen Feng in Funan, he concentrated on the front line of Zhangzhai and Xinji, and formed a confrontation with Yingyi, and at the same time, Qin Ying had already decided to attack Yingyi!

Only in this way can we suppress Bengbu, so as to consolidate the half of the country that has just been won in northern Anhui! (To be continued.) )