Because the stakes of the First Battle of Wuchang were so important, He Zonglian, Yang Shande and others were on the front line in person, even the eldest Wang Zhanyuan. Even lieutenant generals such as He Zonglian and Wang Zhanyuan are like this, not to mention the people below. What's more, there are also many diehard loyalists of Yuan Shikai in the Beiyang Army, out of loyalty to Yuan Shikai and fear of the southerners, there have been many Beiyang generals who have made up their minds to defend Wuchang―――――― Wu Hongchang also thinks so.

Wu Hongchang, who held the rank of major general, was the brigade commander of the 12th Infantry Brigade of Li Chun's department, and also served as the commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment.

Wu Hongchang was born in the Army University and was the first batch of graduates who graduated from Guangxu in the 34th year, because it was already 1908 at that time, so seriously Wu Hongchang was not born in a small station, and he could not be regarded as Yuan Shikai's descendant. However, after the Xinhai Revolution, Wu Hongchang was promoted by Yuan Shikai from the position of commander of the rear patrol team to the sixth town of Beiyang as the commander of the brigade of major generals. For Wu Hongchang, this is already a big reuse.

Therefore, although Wu Hongchang is not a descendant of Xiaozhan training, his loyalty to Yuan Shikai is no worse than others. At this time, although Li Chunbu was in a relatively backward position, Wu Hongchang was still constantly patrolling the position of the 12th Brigade, preparing to use actions to guard and reuse his "Lord Gongbao".

However, just when Wu Hongchang was constantly patrolling the position and cheering for the demoralized officers and soldiers, a soldier suddenly ran over.

"Brigade Commander Wu, the division commander has something to ask you to go over immediately!"

"The division commander called me?"

Wu Hongchang, who was cheering up the soldiers, glanced at him suspiciously, and recognized this soldier as the guard next to Li Chun.

"Did the teacher say that he wanted me to go?"

Of course, the guard knew, but when he faced Wu Hongchang, he pretended to have an expression of not knowing anything.

"I'm sorry, the division commander didn't say anything, just said that you should hurry up and go to Brigade Commander Wu."

Wu Hongchang nodded, because he was surrounded by all the troops, so Wu Hongchang didn't bring the guards of the brigade headquarters to follow him. However, when he walked towards the division headquarters, Wu Hongchang still asked.

"Did the division commander call someone else over?"

Because Li Chun didn't explain how Wu Hongchang should answer when he asked, the soldier had no choice but to say after hesitating.

"In addition to Brigade Commander Wu, there is also Commander Wu Xintian Wu..."

Although they are both surnamed Wu, Wu Hongchang and Wu Xintian are not relatives, and if you insist on describing them, it would be more appropriate to say that the two are enemies. Wu Xintian studied in the Beiyang Baoding Army Accelerated Military Preparedness School in the 28th year of Guangxu, that is, in 1902, and later transferred to the Army University. However, after graduation, Wu Xintian's place is much better than Wu Hongchang's, and after graduation, he served as a manager in the Beiyang Army, which is equivalent to a battalion commander.

After the Xinhai Revolution, Wu Xintian was promoted to the commander of the 21st Regiment of the 11th Infantry Brigade of Li Chunbu.

Wu Xintian's personality is not good, plus he thinks he is from the old Beiyang, and he has always looked down on Wu Hongchang, a guy who is not from Beiyang, plus there is a Ma Jizeng on Wu Xintian, and the 11th Brigade is not Wu Hongchang's 12th Brigade, so although the relationship between Wu Hongchang and Wu Xintian is not good, there is nothing to do with him.

So after hearing the soldier mention Wu Xintian's name, Wu Hongchang's face immediately darkened―――――― in fact, Wu Hongchang didn't see him when he usually met, in the final analysis, Wu Xintian, who was born in Beiyang, received more protection in the army than Wu Hongchang after all, not to mention that if he really wants to be more serious with Wu Xintian, Wu Hongchang will easily gain a reputation of oppressing people with power and bullying the small with the big.

The soldier who came to inform Wu Hongchang was Li Chun's personal soldier and guard, and he usually heard Li Chun sighing for dealing with the relationship between the two, which was why he asked why he wanted to say Wu Xintian's name. As long as he said Wu Xintian's name, Wu Hongchang was naturally in no mood to ask further.

However, the most important thing at the moment is to "get" Wu Hongchang to Li Chun, so he obviously saw Wu Hongchang's face darkened, but the soldier still said hard.

"Brigade Commander Wu, let's go quickly, otherwise the division commander will be in a hurry for a while..."

Wu Hongchang originally had a dark face, but when he heard the soldier's words, he felt that it was right, so he hurriedly followed the soldier towards the location of Li Chun's division.

Li Chun's division headquarters was not very far from the location of Wu Hongchang's position, so it was only a moment before Wu Hongchang and Li Chun's guards rushed to the division headquarters.

After walking into the division headquarters, the soldiers in the division headquarters looked at Wu Hongchang with very strange eyes. But at this time, Wu Hongchang was only thinking about Wu Xintian in his heart, as long as he thought of this guy, Wu Hongchang's heart was holding his breath for a while, and he didn't notice the strange eyes of the guards beside him.

Wu Hongchang didn't notice anything, and the guards around him were naturally relieved, after all, this is near the gate of the division headquarters, and there are some people who have been "invited" by Li Chun who have not arrived until now, if Wu Hongchang suddenly makes a fuss and is bumped into by those who have not arrived...

When Wu Hongchang walked into the conference room of the division headquarters, he found that there were already many people sitting in the conference room, and all of them were high-level leaders of the Sixth Division. From the chief of staff of the division to the regiment commander and the chief of staff of the regiment, there is almost everything, and if the big planes of the National Social Army come here to bomb it at this time, the top level of the Sixth Division will almost be wiped out.

But after taking a closer look, Wu Hongchang found that Wu Xintian had not yet arrived, which made Wu Hongchang's mood a little better, anyway, it always made him happy to postpone seeing that annoying guy.

Wu Hongchang is also a major general and brigade commander, second only to Li Chun in the Sixth Division, and Ding Xiaolan, the chief of staff of the division, and Ma Jizeng, another brigade commander, are on an equal footing, so after seeing Wu Hongchang walk in, even Ma Jizeng, who was a little estranged from Wu Hongchang because of Wu Xintian's affairs, also stood up.

"Old Wu, you're here too..."

After standing up, Ma Jizeng said to Wu Hongchang with a smile, although there is a bit of a gap between the two because of Wu Xintian's matter, as a boss, he always has to protect his subordinates, otherwise who will listen to him? Of course, there is another reason why he will greet Wu Hongchang, and that is because his heart is some...

Wu Hongchang didn't know this, and Wu Hongchang was also a little surprised when he saw Ma Jizeng greeting him, but in the end, he just hated Wu Xintian and was not particularly disgusted with Ma Jizeng, so after hearing Ma Jizeng's words, Wu Hongchang also replied with a smile.

"yes." Saying that, Wu Hongchang sat down next to Ma Jizeng and asked. "Old Ma, do you know why the division commander called us all over?"

Hearing Wu Hongchang's question, several other regiment commanders and regimental chiefs of staff also listened attentively, wondering what was going on, and they all called over who were still deployed on the position.

However, Ma Jizeng only hesitated on Wu Hongchang's question and did not give any answer, but fortunately, Wu Xintian walked in at this time.

Seeing Wu Xintian who walked in, Wu Hongchang was naturally disgusted, and he didn't ask the original question, but he just had a black face there, and Ma Jizeng could only smile bitterly...

Ma Jizeng seemed to know something but was not ready to say it, Wu Hongchang didn't seem to be ready to ask, which naturally made the other people in the conference room a little disappointed, but the worry about the battle situation still overwhelmed this disappointment, so soon the regiment commanders and regimental chiefs of staff in the conference room took this opportunity to discuss the current war, and for a while, the entire conference room was buzzing...

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Li Chun to walk in, and when he saw Li Chun walking in, Wu Hongchang, Ma Jizeng, Ding Xiaolan and others all stood up.

"Sit down..."

Saying that, Li Chun sat on the main seat, and Ding Xiaolan also sat next to Li Chun.

After everyone sat down, before Li Chun could speak, Wu Hongchang had already opened his mouth and asked.

"Division commander, did you call us here for the war?"

Hearing Wu Hongchang's words, except for Ding Xiaolan and Ma Jizeng, who knew the inside story, they were silent, and everyone else present looked at it.

However, Li Chunzhi, who didn't know how to speak, was overjoyed, and said bluntly after getting up from his seat.

"Somewhat related." Saying that, Li Chun whispered to a pro-soldier on the side, this pro-soldier is also a person who knows the inside story, so Li Chun just said a few words, and the pro-soldier has already walked out of the conference room.

Just when everyone didn't understand what Li Chun meant, just after a while, the personal soldier had already brought in a young man dressed as an ordinary soldier from outside. And after the young soldier walked in, Li Chun immediately greeted him.

"Divisional commander?"

Seeing Li Chun treat an ordinary soldier like this, most people had an inexplicable feeling, and only a few people such as Wu Hongchang felt that something was wrong.

Li Chun was also very straightforward, and introduced very directly after walking to the soldier's side.

"This is Mr. Li Yannian, Mr. Li, the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the National Socialist Army in Hankou..."

Hearing Li Chun say this, except for Ma Jizeng and Ding Xiaolan, Wu Hongchang, Wu Xintian and others all stood up in shock, and some people who understood that they had come over even took out their pistols and pointed them at Li Yannian and ......... Li Chun...

However, at this time, a large number of guards and soldiers had already broken in from the outside and pointed their guns at Wu Hongchang and others.

It wasn't until this time that Wu Hongchang and the others regretted why they didn't bring the people from the guard platoon over, but in fact, it was useless to bring them over, after all, it was impossible for them to bring the people from the guard platoon into the conference room.

Looking at the pistol pointed at him, Li Chunzhi was not worried that any of them would misfire, and said with a rather calm face.

"All of you here are smart people, and I believe you understand the reason why Mr. Li is here..."

However, before Li Chun could finish speaking, Wu Hongchang had already scolded.

"Li Chun, you bastard, Lord Gong Bao is not thin on you, you fucking dare to collude with the national army!"

In the Beiyang Army, except for Wu Hongchang, who was reused by Yuan Shikai, most of the rest are Beiyang descendants, and many of them are even old people who followed Yuan Shikai when they were training at a small station, and now when they hear Wu Hongchang say this, they naturally have a look of indignation on their faces.

However, since Li Chun dared to betray Yuan Shikai, he was naturally not afraid of Wu Hongchang's accusations, so after hearing Wu Hongchang's scolding, Li Chun just said lightly.

"Brigadier Wu, you have to understand, those who know the times are Junjie, as the so-called good birds choose trees to perch, virtuous ministers choose the lord and do things, although the palace guards go to say that although they treat me well, but now Beiyang is called the twilight of the West Mountain, and I have to choose a good lord again..."

Hearing Li Chun say this, even Li Yannian, who was standing behind him, showed a disdainful expression. You must know that Li Chun and Zhang Shaozeng are different, Zhang Shaozeng can only be regarded as an old minister of the former Qing Dynasty, joining Beiyang is just after the abdication of the Manchu royal family in the Xinhai Revolution, and Yuan Shikai actually does not have much friendship, but Li Chun ―――――― to know that Li Chun has followed Yuan Shikai when he was training at a small station, and now he is shameless...

But it is precisely because of this that Li Yannian will find Li Chun instead of Wang Zhanyuan, after all, compared to Li Chun, Wang Zhanyuan and they have much more backbone.

And after listening to Li Chun's words, Wu Hongchang was also so angry that his face turned red and said.

"Shameless..."

However, there were also some people whose faces changed, and even those who pulled out their pistols hesitated.

Gentlemen don't stand under the dangerous wall, although they can't be considered gentlemen, but Beiyang is definitely a dangerous wall...

Li Chun, who noticed this, naturally smiled slightly, and then motioned to the guards to get off Wu Hongchang's gun. Although Wu Hongchang really wanted to pull out the gun to kill Li Chun first, but the pistol was still in the holster at this time, and Wu Hongchang was too late to pull it out. As for the others? Some have already lowered their muzzles, as for those who have not?

If you don't obey, you may die, but if you shoot, you will definitely die.

They may have the courage to choose the former, but they may not have the courage to choose the latter...

After the guard pressed Wu Hongchang, who wanted to pull out his gun, on the table, Li Chun looked at the others.

"According to Yan Dudu's intentions, our Beiyang Sixth Division has been reorganized into the 16th Division of the National Social Army, and together with us, there are also the 20th Division of General Zhang Shaozeng, the 23rd Division of General Meng Enyuan, in addition to the Zhili Mixed Brigade and the Fengtian Mixed Brigade, as well as a division of the Hubei Army..."

This is Li Chun's shining old ground, so that those who have not yet made a choice can understand how many people are involved in this incident.

Sure enough, after hearing that in addition to the Sixth Division, there were three divisions and two mixed brigades with a total of 50,000 people, except for a few officers who were loyal to Yuan Shikai, most of the remaining people almost chose to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light"

As the so-called good birds choose trees to perch, virtuous ministers choose the master and do things, they are also old and young, in this case, why should they accompany Yuan Shikai to the funeral? What's more, as the upper echelons of the Beiyang Army, they also know a little about Yuan Shikai's bedriddenness, and they see that Yuan Shikai may not be able to do it at any time...

"Good birds choose trees to perch on, and virtuous ministers choose their masters..."

Seeing that so many people understood the truth that those who knew the times were Junjie, Li Chun nodded with satisfaction, and after ordering the people of the guard company to suppress Wu Hongchang and the others who were loyal to Yuan Shikai, Li Chun looked at Li Yannian again.

"Mr. Li, I don't know what to do next?"

"Master Li, don't worry, I have already brought a wireless telegraph into the army, and then I just need to wait for the news from Minister Wang before launching it..."

"I understand below..."

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In addition to Li Chun, Zhang Shaozeng, Meng Enyuan and other subordinates also took this opportunity to trick their subordinates into going to the division headquarters or brigade headquarters, and then imprisoned all those who were unwilling to follow them to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light".

However, Zhang Shaozeng and Meng Enyuan are much simpler than Li Chun here, such as Zhang Shaozeng's 20th Division and Meng Enyuan's 23rd Division, both of which were new troops in the former Qing Dynasty, Zhang Shaozeng and Meng Enyuan were both former Qing ministers, and there were not a few Beiyang guys in their troops―――――― it was not that Yuan Shikai didn't want to install them, but the Manchu royal family had just abdicated, and in order to stabilize the situation in the north, he was not good at immediately installing people, and after the situation in the north was slightly stable, the Kuomintang launched a second revolution, The Second Revolution has just been settled, but it was followed by the Northern Expedition of the Nationalist Army, how did he plant it in this case?

As for the division of the Hubei army, it is even simpler, it was originally Li Yuanhong's troops, and it has nothing to do with Beiyang at all, as the so-called "those who know the times are junjie", seeing that Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong are not going to do it, they really betrayed Yuan Shikai and betrayed him without any psychological burden...

So it's just a matter of one or two, and nearly 60,000 people in the four divisions and two brigades deployed behind the Wuchang defense line have all been under the command of the National Social Army, and Duan Qirui, who is still supervising the battle at the front at this time, still doesn't know at all, as for Feng Guozhang in the rear? He was still busy with the wounded soldiers who were constantly being sent down, patronizing the preparation of medicine for the wounded soldiers, how could he care about coming to the front line.

What's more, Feng Guozhang is still very relieved of the Beiyang veterans in front of him, such as Li Chun, Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui looked at him very pleasing to the eye when they were training at the small station, after all, Li Chun was very comfortable with them at that time, otherwise it would not be Li Chun's turn to be in charge of the sixth town.

And to be honest, I haven't been able to see Li Chun for a while now, Feng Guozhang really misses it, after all, when he is busy, it would be a pleasure if someone could make him feel comfortable...

Thinking of this, Feng Guozhang looked at the guards on the side.

"Where is Xiushan? Is it still there at the front? ”

Although the guard didn't know what Feng Guozhang was thinking, he still quickly replied.

"Division Commander Li should still be arming on the front line now..."

"That's it..."Feng Guozhang nodded. You go to Xiushan to have a look, if he is not in a hurry, let Xiushan come over..."

Worried about the war, Feng Guozhang is indeed tired, and now he really needs someone to relieve the pressure for him.

It's just that just as the guard was about to leave, there was a sudden sound of confusion outside.

"What's going on out there?"

At this time, Feng Guozhang only thought that it was the plane of the National Social Army flying over to make trouble, so after raising such a question, Feng Guozhang asked the guards to go out to have a look.

But before the guard could walk out, an officer had already rolled in.

"My lord, it's not good, Li Chun's bastard is !!"

"What?!"

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After detaining all the disobedient people, Li Chun began to prepare under Li Yannian's order―――――― the opinions of the soldiers below? In this day and age, the opinion of a soldier is not respected ...

After preparing for a while, Li Yannian and the members of the Military Intelligence Bureau distributed in several other units finally received Wang Yaowu's order from the wireless telegraph. According to the order, they will get up in a few days, and the main task is to cooperate with the four divisions that have landed on the beachhead to firmly drag the Beiyang Army here, and to solve the artillery units that have caused trouble to the river-crossing troops, and if necessary, it doesn't matter if all those artillery pieces are blown up...

Li Chun and the others also understood that their task was actually to make the Beiyang Army, which was confronting the landing force, chaotic, and then let the landing force take advantage of the chaos, so after a while, after doing a good job of sufficient defense work, Li Chun and other troops also began to attack the Beiyang Army in front at the same time as the incident―――――― and they did not need to achieve much success, as long as the Beiyang Army in front was in chaos.

Li Chun's task was still very successful, after being attacked in the back, the Beiyang Army troops in front were first beaten dizzy, and when they learned that the troops attacking them behind were Li Chun and other troops, and these guys had all defected to the Guoshe Army, the nearly 100,000 Beiyang Army in a state of front and rear attack was almost all chaotic...

Although Duan Qirui, Wang Zhanyuan and others personally led their troops down to quell the chaos, at this time, the National Social Army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, and in the case of the chaos of the entire Beiyang Army, they took the front two lines of defense in one fell swoop―――――― in order to take these two lines of defense, the National Social Army did not know how much blood was left on the beachhead, but now it is so easy...

After taking the two lines of defense, in order to prevent Duan Qirui and others from retreating to other places by water under the cover of Liu Guanxiong, Wang Yaowu also urgently sent two divisions of troops to land along the coast.

"I'm sorry for Miyaho-sama..."

After learning that Li Chun took the lead in launching the rebellion, thinking that when he was training at the small station, Li Chun personally recommended this guy to Yuan Shikai by himself and Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui couldn't help but cry, and the same was true of Feng Guozhang, who had already broken through from Wuchang City with the help of the guards.

However, seeing Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang like this, Yang Shande and the others hurriedly persuaded them.

"My lord, it's too late to say anything, let's break through quickly, Minister Liu has already personally led Hai Chip and other ships to meet by the river..."

At present, the whole army is in chaos, although Duan Qirui and they have tried to calm down a part, but this only accounts for a small part of the nearly 100,000 troops, and most of the rest have completely lost their ability to resist under the attack of the National Socialist Army and the Beiyang rebels, and it is impossible to defend it now, and the road in front of Duan Qirui and them is only to abandon the city and take this road, but the seats of the ships such as Hai Chip are limited, and it is unknown how much they can go by then...

It's just that after listening to Yang Shande's words, Duan Qirui shook his head heavily.

"No, either you don't go, if you want to go, you have to go together..."Saying that, Duan Qirui glanced at Yang Shande and the others. You go down below and get ready, and we'll retreat to Huarong Road..."

(To be continued)