Compared with the battle in Sichuan, the battle in Qinghai was much slower, although the battle was easy to fight, but the occupation was very troublesome, because the transportation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was really inconvenient, the climate was not good, and the environment was harsh, even if most of the Dragon and Tiger Army had been training on the plateau for three months when they entered Qinghai to fight, many soldiers still had slight altitude sickness.

In the three months he entered Qinghai, he fought no less than 30 battles, but because the enemy's weapons were backward and the number was very small, he easily won the battle, and it was not enjoyable at all.

Even so, in three months, they occupied all the way, liberated serfs and herdsmen all the way, and most importantly, they had to build military stations all the way and store strategic materials, so the team went to Yushu and only occupied most of Qinghai, and had not yet entered the territory of Tibetan Province.

If it weren't for the fact that the army carried a large amount of nutritious food, as well as various canned fruits with sufficient vitamins, as well as tea and other materials, I am afraid that it would be difficult for the army to go on, and the signal on the plateau was too poor to receive the news from Yanjing, and almost all of it would have to be solved by Xiang Zilong.

After occupying Yushu, considering that there were too many troops and the logistics were unsustainable, and considering that there was no particularly great resistance on the plateau, as long as we took one step at a time, fought steadily, step by step, and thoroughly extended a solid strategic supply line to Tibetan Province, it would not be a problem to occupy Tibetan Province.

Therefore, Xiang Zilong decided to use only 30,000 iron-blooded cavalry troops and 20,000 infantry, special forces, and artillery of the Fifth Army to carry most of the supplies into Tibet.

The rest of the troops returned to Gansu to organize the transportation of supplies and build this strategic line to Tibet Province stable, large and strong, so as to ensure that tens of thousands of soldiers could be supplied at any time along the way in the future, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau would only belong to the Chinese Empire from now on.

Unlike the course of the battle on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the battles in Hubei, Anhui, and Jiangsu were much faster and easier, after all, attacking these three provinces from the Central Plains were almost all plains, and the field advantages of the Dragon and Tiger Army could be fully brought into play.

Because Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi both knew that the combat effectiveness of the Dragon and Tiger Army was terrifying, they both deployed more than 100,000 heavy troops in Hubei, Anhui, and northern Jiangsu.

But even so, it was still unable to resist the pace of attack of the Dragon and Tiger Army, and in Xiangyang, Hubei, the 120,000 Hubei army did not hold out for even a day, and paid more than 30,000 casualties, and was broken through Xiangyang City by the Dragon and Tiger Army.

Before that, Cao Futian had already led the Second Army to capture Yunyang Mansion.

After capturing Xiangyang, Yang Poyu and Tang Jian led an army of more than 200,000 people, all the way down the Han River, and successively captured Yichang Mansion, Jingzhou Mansion, and Huangzhou Mansion.

On August 6, Yang Poyu led a large army to capture Wuchang Mansion.

In mid-August, most of Hubei had fallen into the hands of the Dragon and Tiger Army, and the First Division of the Sixth Army had moved westward into Sichuan and captured Kuizhou Prefecture.

In Xuzhou, Jiangsu, Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, arranged an army of 150,000.

However, these 150,000 Soviet troops had to face the Dragon and Tiger Army, which had 300,000 weapons and equipment and combat effectiveness that surpassed them by a lot, and the results of the battle could be imagined.

So as early as the end of June, the battle of Xuzhou ended, with more than 30,000 Soviet casualties among 150,000 Soviet troops, more than 100,000 surrendered, and only more than 20,000 fled south and crossed the Huai River.

After capturing Xuzhou, Lin Zhengnan only left only one division to garrison Xuzhou, collecting prisoners, and the rest of the army, he directly divided his troops into two routes, one route was the first army, the second army, and the fifth army of the Guards Corps as the main force, attacking the north of Anhui, and the first route was the main force of the 100,000 troops of the Fourth Army of the Dragon and Tiger Army, directly from north to south, and occupied Jiangsu for the camp step by step.

By the end of July, the 110,000 Anhui army entrenched in the Yingchuan area in the north of Anhui Province had been defeated by the 180,000 Dragon and Tiger Army, with more than 20,000 casualties.

At this time, the East Road Army led by Pang Wei himself had broken through the Soviet army's Huai River defense line, and the remnants of the Soviet army's main force then quickly withdrew to southern Jiangsu.

On 8 August, the army attacking Anhui, under the personal command of Lin Zhengnan, only lost more than 400 men, so that Anhui Province could cross the Huai River defense line.

Within half a month, Lin Zhengnan led the army to create firsts one by one, and even set a terrifying record of capturing Luzhou City in 27 minutes.

On August 28, Lin Zhengnan personally commanded the army and captured Anqing City, which was heavily defended, had sufficient weapons and ammunition, and was garrisoned by 50,000 Anhui troops.

At this point, the prestige and terrifying combat effectiveness of the Guards Corps of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army were completely revealed.

After the Dragon and Tiger Army arrived at the Yangtze River, they did not immediately launch a campaign to cross the river, but under the order of Wang Jundao, they reorganized their troops and waited for orders.

This time, Wang Jundao dispatched the naval fleet!

Today's navy is no longer what it used to be, and the rebuilt and refined naval ships have far surpassed the previous Beiyang Fleet not only in terms of quality, but also in quantity.

The navy's fleet now has 48 warships of various sizes, as well as three new-type submarines, two new-type light battleships, and one new-type light cruiser jointly developed and produced by the Tianjin Shipyard and the Bohai Shipyard.

Its combat effectiveness has been preliminarily estimated to be more than twice that of the Beiyang Fleet when it was recalled to Tianjin by Wang Jundao, but even so, in the past six months or so, Wang Jundao still only ordered the naval fleet to operate in the coastal waters of Tianjin and in the Bohai Sea, and conducted two naval exercises, but these two exercises only dispatched half of the navy's fleet, and did not expose the full strength of the navy, still less did it clash with the navies of Russia, Yueben, and other countries.

Even when encountering the navies of other countries, Wang Jundao still ordered the naval fleet to endure again and again, and would not take the initiative to attack, during which several times encountered provocations and ridicule from the Russian Lushun fleet and the combined fleet, and the naval fleet still chose to retreat.

This time, the naval fleet sailed out of the Bohai Sea for the first time, and still only used half of the strength of the navy, and they were only small and medium-sized warships, only one heavy warship, and the fleet went out of the Bohai Sea, not to start a war with the fleets of other countries, but to sail to the southeast, threaten the Yangtze River Fleet under the Nanyang Fleet, and assist the Dragon and Tiger Army in launching the battle of crossing the river.

On September 3, just as the naval fleet entered the mouth of the Yangtze River, Li Jingxi, the governor of Liangguang, and Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, issued a joint statement: supporting the political axe of the Chinese Empire, denouncing Liu Kunyi, Zhang Zhidong, and Wei Guangtao, and deciding to send troops north within 10 days to attack the north and south of the Dragon and Tiger Army and unify China, and to send another fleet under the South Ocean Fleet to join the Dragon and Tiger Army's naval fleet (after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the South Ocean Fleet was divided into the Yangtze River Fleet and the Ocean Fleet), and cooperate with the Dragon and Tiger Army to cross the river......

Zhang Zhidong was shocked, Liu Kun was shocked, but he was helpless.

On September 10, Li Jingxi, the governor of Liangguang, sent 100,000 troops north to attack Hunan, and occupied Yongzhou and Guiyang in the south of Hunan within seven days.

At the same time, Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, sent 100,000 troops north to attack Jiangsu, and within five days, he occupied Suzhou.

On September 20, Wang Jundao issued a clear code, and under an order, the Second Army Corps, the First Army Corps, the Sixth Army Corps, the Guards Army Corps, and the Fourth Army Corps stationed on the Yangtze River launched the battle of crossing the river at the same time.

The Second Army attacked Yunnan, the First and Sixth Army attacked Hunan, the Guards Army attacked Jiangxi, and the Fourth Army attacked southern Jiangsu.

The Second Army consisted of five airships dropping bombs in the sky, artillery cover, and special forces parachuted into the south bank of the Yangtze River the night before, so the Second Army was the first to cross the Yangtze River, although it had the least number of troops to cross the Yangtze River and no fleet cover.

Almost at the same time, the Guards Corps commanded by Lin Zhengnan also broke through the Jiujiang defense line of the Jiangxi army.

Followed by the Fourth Army, Liu Kunyi did not hold out for long at all when he was attacked by the enemy on his belly and back, and was broken through the Nanjing defense line by the Dragon and Tiger Army.

Finally, the First Army Corps and the Sixth Army Corps, because their opponent is the Hunan Army, which is a team with extremely strong combat effectiveness and relatively advanced weapons, the First Army Corps and the Sixth Army crossed the river this time, and suffered more than 2,000 casualties before they successfully crossed the river.

After the successful crossing of the river, the Sixth Army once again gave full play to its great advantage as a mountain and jungle army, and did not march into Hunan with the First Army, but directly according to Wang Jundao's previous order, turned to the west, entered Guizhou from Xiangxi, and went to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

More than ten days passed quietly, just as winter was approaching, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu had been occupied by the Dragon and Tiger Army one after another, and Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong were finally defeated and surrendered.

The main force of the Sixth Army had also defeated the main force of your army and reached Guiyang, and also occupied Tongrenfu, Zunyifu, Zhenyuanfu, Duyunfu, and marched to Anshun Fu, west of Guiyang.

The main force of the Second Army, the 100,000 Dragon and Tiger Army, had defeated the 100,000 main army of the Yunnan Army, occupied Yunnan Mansion (Kunming), and captured Wei Guangtao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.

At the beginning of November, the Dragon and Tiger Army completely occupied the entire territory of Yunnan, all prefectures, prefectures, and county seats, and implemented military management by iron-blooded means.

At the end of November, the Dragon and Tiger Army took over Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces, and the Gui Army, the Guangdong Army, the Fujian Army, and the Zhejiang Army were all absorbed by the Dragon and Tiger Army, and the Yangtze River Fleet and the Ocean Fleet under the Nanyang Naval Division were merged into the Chinese Imperial Navy Fleet.

Li Jingxi, Xu Yingqi and others also directly joined the cabinet as officials, all of whom were at the level of vice ministers, because many vice ministers had already been or were about to be sent to various provinces by Wang Jundao to be governors, and many vice minister posts would be vacant.

Li Jingxi is nothing, after all, he was trusted by Wang Jundao and sent to Liangguang as the acting governor, and he was able to serve as the deputy minister of public security after completing the task brilliantly.

But Xu Yingqi was a little resentful, thinking that he was also a governor, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, which was equivalent to the emperor of Fujian and Zhejiang, but he was directly deprived of military power.

He also knows that the situation is stronger than people, and now that the Dragon and Tiger Army has unified most of China, there is no 'soil emperor', so he can only choose to swallow his anger, Wang Jundao directly made him the vice minister of national defense, but the Ministry of Defense has no real power at all, just a military hall and an excessive department of the cabinet.

In fact, Wang Jundao knew that he was not in good health and would hang up next year, so there was no need to give him any departments that were too tired, just treat it as a pension for him, as long as he gave more opportunities to his children and grandchildren.

When Wang Jundao told Xu Yingqi these words euphemistically, the trace of displeasure in Xu Yingqi's heart disappeared, and the grandfather (Xu Yongyi) of the woman who didn't see Wang Jundao only served as the Minister of National Defense, a position that did not have much real power? I am also old, and it will be a matter of my children and grandchildren in the future, and my children and grandchildren will have their own blessings for their children and grandchildren.

In fact, Wang Jundao is writing a blank check: I only said to give your descendants more opportunities, if he can't grasp it, or doesn't have that ability, then it's no wonder I'm not? You're going to die next year anyway.

Wang Jundao thought so evilly...... (To be continued.) )