On the first day of 1913, Han Zheng packed up all his feelings, he knew that this year was worth taking seriously, and it was an extremely important year!

On this day, Han Zheng's officers and Lixin, who were stationed at the Yimen in the direction of Bozhou, were also transferred back to participate in the meeting that began the new year.

At the meeting, Han Zheng reviewed last year's financial statements, as well as the local development report and army building report.

According to the financial report, Han Zheng demanded that the development of light industries such as flour be accelerated in the economic aspect, and that as much baggage be stored as much as possible, and that they should be hoarded in the direction of Yimen and Lixin, and that the cooperation between the Chamber of Commerce and Shanghai and other places be accelerated, and that the agricultural policy be readjusted to solve some problems that have arisen in agriculture so far......

On the army side, Han Zheng put forward a request to all the officers, that is, to make the army initially have a fighting spirit and combat ability as soon as possible! Military factories should also increase their productivity.

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A series of planning requirements put forward at Han Zheng's meeting made the people below secretly frightened, because from Han Zheng's arrangement, it seemed that the army seemed to be going to war again, especially those officers, Han Zheng had passed the gas before, and they were already mentally prepared, and at this time, they knew that war seemed to be not far away.

In this way, everyone did not dare to slack off, and hurried a few times of Han Zheng's request, and did not dare to have the slightest omission. Sun Zhongwu and Zheng Rong frowned slightly, thinking about how much budget they would need to make and what kind of preparations they would make in advance if they started a war.

At the same time, large quantities of baggage were sent to the two places, and batches of ammunition and guns were continuously transported to the two armies under the pretext of military training under the organization of the logistics team.

Han Zheng's actions are difficult to conceal the surrounding bases, and the people who are always paying attention to Han Zheng's investigation, although on the surface, Han Zheng's actions seem to be reasonable, but a few people with sharp noses have already noticed something, and they are silently preparing behind their backs.

The surrounding situation seems to have suddenly appeared strangely calm, and there is a sense of depression in the calm.

But Han Zheng didn't care about that much, because time no longer allowed Han Zheng to make mistakes, and he also knew that now was not the time to think about it so much, as the sense of crisis was getting closer and closer, Han Zheng had to speed up.

The army is growing day by day, the soldiers are getting stronger day by day, and Han Zheng is now like a tiger cub lying dormant in northern Anhui, scanning his surroundings, looking for his prey!

Sure enough, as Han Zheng secretly expected, chaos has gradually appeared in Henan, with the arrival of the drought, there is no harvest, Han Zheng when he knew the news, he didn't know what it was like, and he saw that the opportunity he had been waiting for for so long had come.

Henan was ruled by the Beiyang Army of Yuan Shikai's group, but this rule, I don't know if there was any reason for the change, the Beiyang Army's current rule over Henan is not as strong as in later generations.

In this way, Henan can only be regarded as the periphery of the area controlled by the Beiyang Army, and as a buffer zone before the north and the south, it does not receive much attention in the face of natural disasters.

Then, the hungry people panicked, and a small-scale civil unrest followed, and then slowly spread, gradually burning into a single piece.

Some places on the border between Wuyang and Henan, under the orders of Han Zheng, began to open the passes, attracting plunderers and fleeing into Wuyang.

At the same time, the Bozhou direction finally reacted, and sent his troops to be stationed at the junction of the two places to prevent people from taking the opportunity to leave here, and began to fight with Han on both sides, without any prompting and coleus, to rob the population, but the Bozhou direction used guns, Han Zheng used food, and Han Zheng occupied the best advantage.

At this time, Yuan Shikai was still torn apart from the south, and the conflict of interests gradually became intense.

When a month or two later, in February 1913, in the election of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the northern government and the struggle for power, Yuan Shikai had fallen into passivity, and was gradually forced into a corner by the Kuomintang and some other parties, and at this time, the annoyed Yuan Shikai finally showed his fangs!

In March, Yuan Shikai, who had no patience, finally instructed someone to assassinate Song Jiaoren, and succeeded, and just like that, the war began.

In the past two months, Han Zheng has devoted himself wholeheartedly to the building of the army's combat effectiveness and equipment.

After communicating with the Shanghai side, the Industrial Chamber of Commerce paid twice the price higher than the first time, and bought a rifle production line and a bullet production line again, so that Han Zheng had the confidence to start slowly expanding the army again, and just after March, the combat army had increased to 3,500 people, and the regiments began to slowly replenish the manpower.

Among them, more than 1,000 people were put into the Lixin area by Han Zheng to guard their back garden, 500 people stayed in the local area of Wuyang, and the remaining 2,000 people were personally led by Han Zheng to the direction of Yimen to ensure the smooth escape of the victims.

In the entire northern Anhui, under Han Zheng's series of actions, the situation became more and more delicate, but after Han Zheng personally went to Yimen, several places in the south were a little relieved, at least he knew that Han Zheng did not aim the finger at himself.

They never thought that Han Zheng would develop so fast in a short period of time.

However, contrary to the situation in several places in the south, the situation in the direction of Bozhou was tense, Henan was unstable, and rebellion began to occur.

The confrontation between the two sides lasted until April, and when April came, the news of Yuan Shikai's big loan for the aftermath also spread to Han Zheng, which finally made Han Zheng breathe a sigh of relief.

Han Zheng knew that his peaceful days were over, and the development time of the year had come to an end, and he would never see the peaceful days in the future.

At the same time, not long after, another news came from Henan, the civil unrest in Henan has gradually expanded, and the white wolf and others who Han Zheng made the public intelligence department focus on also began to appear in Henan and other places, pulling up a team of not small scale, and slowly crisscrossing several places in northern Henan.

In this way, the Bozhou area had to drive the army to the border with Henan, divide the troops into three routes, one way to defend Henan, all the way to confront Han Zheng's army, and the last pair was to hold the county seat and go out to support at any time.

The turmoil in Henan finally attracted the attention of the Beiyang army, and in the face of this situation, the Beiyang army directly dispatched five or six thousand heavily armed troops and began to fight bandits in Henan and other places.

After the Beiyang Army entered Henan, it achieved very good results in the early stage, but then, it did not extinguish the turmoil in various parts of Henan as quickly as those high-level leaders in Beiyang thought, and those rebellions were suppressed under the trend of intensifying, and the suppression became more and more difficult.

And it was at this time that the white wolf seized the opportunity to call tens of thousands of rebellious people under his command, claiming to have 100,000 troops, galloping on the land of Henan, and suddenly Henan was a mess of disaster.

Some people who could no longer cover up the matter finally reported the news to Yuan Shikai.

At this time, Yuan Shikai, due to his own wrong move, was already in a war of words with the south, but he didn't expect this incident to happen again on his side, isn't this an excuse for those red guys in the south? !

Yuan Shikai was suddenly furious, scolded some of his subordinates for being a dog blood sprinkler, and under Yuan Shikai's attention, he began to gather heavy troops and march to Henan, wanting to pacify the bandits in Henan in one fell swoop!

This time, the Beiyang Army, which was no longer careless, finally showed the ruthlessness of China's strongest army, and drove the white wolf and others south step by step.

The white wolf's "100,000 army" was also broken up and began to flee in all directions.

And Anhui and other places in the south have become one of their goals.

Prior to this, Han Zheng had already received an order from above to let him cooperate with the suppression of bandits and prevent the bandits from escaping into Anhui and harming a place, and this time Han Zheng had an excuse to march in the direction of Bozhou.

However, the direction of Bozhou has not asked for help from his side, Han Zheng can only wait first, and when Bozhou can't hold on, it will be the time to occupy Bozhou!

Han Zheng is not worried that his opportunity will be lost in vain, he has already found out clearly, this group of bandits fleeing to Anhui is more than four or five thousand, although the equipment is backward, but the victory is more than a large number of people, enough for the local defenders of less than 1,000 people in the direction of Bozhou to eat a pot, just take this opportunity to eliminate some bandits, reduce the pressure on their side.