When the Chinese literati "generals" understood the "Art of War", they would always refer to "the soldiers who surrender without a fight", and the focus was usually on "not fighting", and "surrendering soldiers", Sun Tzu's willingness to break the opponent's will to resist as much as possible through other means without direct engagement, weaken the opponent's military equipment, and reduce the opponent's military strength, this is "surrender".

In On War, Carl. Feng. Clausewitz also has a separate chapter on this, and Clausewitz pays more attention to the result of "yielding" than Sun Tzu, and requires that all war tactics serve the ultimate destruction of the enemy's resistance strength, and this idea was carried out in the actions of the German army throughout World War I and World War II.

The focus of Song Biao's thinking is to eliminate the opponent, not a simple "yield", not a simple "no war", no war is actually a service for the sake of war, war can never be avoided, this is the natural surname of human beings.

In this era, the revolution was clearly divided into two kinds: the Liberation Revolution and the Republican Revolution, Sun Yat-sen said that the revolution of the Liberation Society was the revolution of the Han compatriots, and the revolution of the League was a real revolution that further pursued civil rights, people's livelihood, and Ming Cooking.

Although the revolutionary forces in the twentieth town were intertwined and complicated, in addition to the Guangfu faction and the republican faction, there were also a large number of constitutionalist members, but if there was an opportunity for this force to temporarily lay down their arms and revolt and jointly deal with the Beiyang New Army of the Qing Dynasty, Song Biao was also willing to put in the effort.

Back at the command post, Song Biao presided over a small regular military meeting at the General Staff, and asked Jiang Zhengyuan and Chen Wei to do the work of Baoying, Pan Juying, and Yang Zhengkun.

If you want the twentieth town to give up resistance tomorrow, it is not enough to rely on persuasion alone, but also to have all kinds of tricks of intimidation, breaking off and attacking.

The Northeast Revolutionary Army has thought of many methods, first fighting huge artillery for a while to scare it, and then distributing leaflets to propagate all kinds of big truths, exaggerating the strength of the Northeast New Army, and sending people to communicate.

At this time, Bao Ying, the commander of the Twentieth Town, and other officers were also eager to contact the Northeast Revolutionary Army, and Bao Ying wanted to send Pan Juying to the Revolutionary Army as a lobbyist.

Pan Juying refused to go, because he felt that Song Biao would not talk, so he persuaded Baoying to surrender directly.

Bao Ying said, if you want to surrender, then go directly to surrender, I will continue to stay in Shanhaiguan, locked up in people, and people will die. As a result, Pan Juying did not surrender, after he discussed with Yang Zhengkun, Huang Benpu and others, he learned the news of the Northeast Revolutionary Army, and Suo surnamed joined Yang Zhengkun and others to kidnap Bao Ying to revolt, but when they went back, they found that Bao Ying had packed up some soft gold and silver with a team of personal soldiers and ran away.

When the news reached the side of the Northeast Revolutionary Army, Chen Wu was about to attack Xiangshuiyu at night.

Song Biao didn't sleep that night, and at about three o'clock in the morning, he was still in the command post and the staff headquarters to sort out the operational arrangements.

This town is different from the 21st Town and the 23rd Mixed Association, and there are many members of the Alliance in it, and if it is not handled well, there will be a lot of sequelae in the future.

Early in the morning of the next morning, Song Biao was woken up by Jiang Fangzhen after a short sleep of two hours, saying that Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun had come to visit him.

Hearing this, Song Biao turned over and asked Jiang Fangzhen, "Is Zhang Yahu stationed in Shanhaiguan over there?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "I have already been stationed, and I am preparing to let the twentieth town accept the reorganization and temporarily station in Luanzhou, and then send them south to attack Tianjin." ”

Allowing the Twentieth Town to participate in the attack on Tianjin is a temporary consideration, and it is estimated that it may not be able to win the war, but it can prevent the Manchu magnates from escaping to Tianjin, and the main force of the Northeast Revolutionary Army can directly attack the Beijing Division, especially the First Cavalry Division of Cai Yi and Sun Shulin, which can directly intervene to attack Baoding.

Song Biao took the towel from the orderly, scrubbed it briefly, rinsed his mouth, and then hurriedly went to the conference room to meet Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun, Pan Juying is more interesting, you say he is a revolutionary party, he doesn't seem to be too radical, and later followed Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai has been a direct warlord since his death, and finally gave Zhang Zuolin a senior adviser, and then it was gone.

Yang Zhengkun is a member of the Alliance, and Zhang Shaozeng joined the Alliance together.

Two very complicated people.

When Song Biao arrived in the conference room, he saw two young and middle-aged officers in their thirties sitting at the conference table, and sitting with them was Chen Wei, a native of Wenzhou, who was also one of the early members of the Liberation Society.

Seeing Song Biao come in, Chen Wei immediately got up and saluted, Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun were slightly stunned for a moment, and then they also got up and saluted like Chen Wei.

After Song Biao returned the salute, he said, "Sit down." ”

Chen Wei sat down, and Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun also sat down with a slight hesitation.

Song Biao sat in the position of commander-in-chief and glanced at Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun, both of whom still look relatively young, it should be said that if it weren't for Liangbi's coming to power, they would not be able to be co-commanders now, but as we all know, it was Liangbi's large-scale use and promotion of non-commissioned officers and students throughout the country, which led to a large area of the new army being controlled by these young generals with revolutionary consciousness.

After Yuan Shikai's death, these young people gradually changed from hot-blooded youths to realists, and were gradually eliminated and used by China's first late Qing warlords.

It's a pity for a generation.

Song Biao thought about it for a moment before thanking Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun: "Thank you very much for responding to the uprising, the uprising of the Northeast Revolutionary Army is an uprising of the Liberation Revolution, and the goal is to overthrow the Manchu royal family, establish a new country dominated by the Han nationality, and promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Therefore, our overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is only the first step of the revolution, the establishment of a new political power, the establishment of a new constitution, the implementation of a responsible cabinet system, let the capable rule the country, let the virtuous judge the government, this is the second step of the revolution. Our third step is to make the Chinese nation prosperous for all, for everyone to enjoy political rights, for everyone to elect the prime minister by universal suffrage, and for the people to govern the country. At present, we are still in the first step of the liberation revolution, and we need to unite and continue to work hard. ”

Pan Juying immediately praised: "The commander-in-chief said very well, we all regard you as the commander-in-chief, and ask you to officially serve as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. ”

Chen Wei also said: "Yes, General Seat, now is not the time to be modest, now only you have the strength to overthrow the Manchu rule, China cannot be without a leader, you are the head of the real dragon, naturally you should be called the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, hold high the banner of the leadership of the Liberation Revolution, lead the National Liberation Revolution, and command the colleagues of the National Revolutionary Army." ”

Song Biao thought for a while, and Chen Wei instructed: "This proposal is very good, the General Staff here wants to ask the opinions of the generals of each town, if everyone has no objection, we will all change the name of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, the Northeast Revolutionary Army will be included in the First Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, the Revolutionary Army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Huizhou provinces will be included in the Second Army, the troops of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi will be included in the Third Army, the Zhili region will belong to the Fourth Army, the revolutionary troops of Shandong and Henan provinces will belong to the Fifth Army, the troops of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ning will belong to the Sixth Army, Sichuan Yungui will be incorporated into the Seventh Army, and the Ninth Army will be organized in Liangguang. ”

Chen Wei immediately nodded and said, "General seat, I will send a telegram to the various ministries and the rebel troops in various places, and ask for the opinions of the various ministries!" ”

Song Biao bowed his head and signaled Chen Wei to handle it immediately.

After Chen Wei left, Song Biao asked Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun about Bao Ying's whereabouts, as well as some internal conditions in the twentieth town and the reserve of military salaries, guns and ammunition.

The twentieth town is an armed force that Liangbi attaches special importance to, the level of training is very average, the guns and ammunition are mainly German, mainly using Mauser gewww.xstxt.org1906 88mm Krupp rapid-fire field guns, equipped with machine gun battalions with 18 Makqin water-cooled machine guns and 6 imitations of the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, as well as two six-turn machine guns (Grimm revoltor machine guns).

Everything else is fake, and the 54 M1906 88mm Krupp rapid-fire field guns are absolutely beautiful, which is enough to show how much Liangbi attaches importance to this new army.

After a general inquiry, Song Biao, Pan Juying, and Yang Zhengkun sighed casually: "So Liangbi still can't say that he is deeply familiar with the military, since the Twenty Towns are mainly to defend Shanhaiguan, then they should be equipped with more machine guns and fortification guns, the 88 mm Krupp rapid-fire field gun is indeed very good, but this is a field artillery, with a little more heavy howitzer and cannon, isn't the effect better?" You can also buy a few more 37 and 47 mm guns. ”

Pan Juying nodded in agreement.

Yang Zhengkun said: "General seat, Liangbi has actually considered a lot of things, he has talked to me a few times, I heard what he meant and seemed to have the idea of counterattacking the three eastern provinces within four or five years, so he specially purchased Krupp rapid-fire field artillery, wanting to suppress the Northeast Army's three-inch Lucia field artillery and 7 li 5 mountain artillery." ”

Song Biao smiled and said to Yang Zhengkun: "This person is really thinking about too many problems, if I am really so easy to deal with, does he still need to buy wild artillery?" ”

After a pause, Song Biao said again: "Let him go, I estimate that your twentieth town will be righteous together, as soon as Bao Ying escapes like this, I'm afraid that he, the secretary of the War Department, will not be able to do it, even if he continues to work, plus the old army and the Praetorian Guard, he can almost draw out 1340,000 troops in his hands, and the new army has the strength of seven towns." My current idea is to let you rectify a little, and when my main two divisions annihilate the third towns of the Beiyang Army, such as Luanzhou and Kaiping County, you will send troops to Tianjin, contain the fourth town of Beiyang in Machang, Tianjin, and create an opportunity for the Northeast Revolutionary Army to gather the main force to annihilate the first, second, and sixth and Janissaries of the Beiyang Army, and destroy the other five towns before the fifth town of Beiyang is recovered, and the Manchus will surely perish. ”

Yang Zhengkun and Pan Juying were excited, and asked for battle: "Commander-in-chief, let's go to the twentieth town to attack the third town of Beiyang together, Cao Kun's level is very average, and he became the commander purely by patting Yuan Shikai's sycophants, and he can be destroyed in one battle." ”

Song Biao smiled.

The third town of the Beiyang Army is also a tragedy, this town was originally in the hands of Yuan Shikai when it was a confidant, it is indeed not because Cao Kun is capable, but because Cao Kun is obedient, in contrast, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang are too capable, and Yuan Shikai is not very relieved.

When it came to the era of Liangbi, Cao Kun hurriedly worshiped Liangbi as a teacher, and every time he talked about Liangbi, he put on a posture of respecting him as a teacher, and he was indeed very happy with Liangbi, so he continued to stay in Luanzhou and Kaiping in the third town, and let Cao Kun be responsible for the twentieth town palace.

But Cao Kun is Yuan Shikai's henchman after all, and Liangbi is also guarding against it, and he really has the intention of using Baoying's Twentieth Town to contain Cao Kun, and it is weaker than the Twentieth Town in terms of equipment configuration, especially the artillery still uses the M1903\05 75mm field gun that imitates Krupp, and the quality is not as good as the original German gun, the firearm is a 30-type 6.5mm rifle, the machine gun is 24 Hatch Chase machine guns, and several 38-year-old heavy machine guns.

If Liang Bi defends himself, Cao Kun will be tragic.

The Krupp M1903 \ 05 Krupp 75mm field gun is the so-called 38-year field gun, in addition to 75mm, the Krupp M1905 120mm light howitzer itself is a bit tragic, and it is even more tragic after the imitation, which was retired from Germany and the two countries very early, and the 75mm \ 150mm caliber was used until the end of World War II.

Compared with the three-inch Lucia field gun installed on a large scale in the Northeast New Army, the German M1903\05\08 Krupp field gun is about the same in terms of dead weight, projectile weight, firing angle, rate of fire, and multiple diameter, the only difference is in caliber, muzzle velocity and trajectory, the trajectory of the three-inch Lucia field gun (the difference in the angle of two clamps) is relatively low, and the muzzle velocity of the shell is much higher (more than 88m/sec), more powerful, and the firing range is longer (more than 1600m), and the difference is not like a heavyweight gun at all.

In addition to the long-stroke tube retraction technology, the three-inch Lucia field gun is a three-inch caliber copy of the French Schneider M1897 gun, and the lower elongation ballistics are the result of the Russians' own improvements.

Because of the large-scale use of Krupp M1903\05 75mm field guns in the towns of the Daqing Army in the early days, there are more stocks in the country, and it also creates a lot of space for the large influx of field guns into the country in the 38-year-old army, and the Shanxi and Sichuan arsenals have imitations, but the quality is very poor.

From rifles to machine guns, from machine guns to artillery, once this gap in the Third Town is seized by the main division of the Northeast New Army, especially considering that the Northeast Army's theory of artillery and infantry coordinated operations has already taken shape, the result may be very tragic.

Because of the complete superiority in weapons, Yang Zhengkun and Pan Juying both wanted to fight the third town of Beiyang, but their twentieth town may not be able to beat Cao Kun, anyway, the third town is also a veteran army, and the training level is still very reliable.

Listening to Yang Zhengkun and Pan Juying's intention to actively ask for battle, Song Biao smiled and said to the two of them: "The soldiers are very fast, how to fight the third town, we have already deployed it last night, and at 12 o'clock at noon today, our cavalry troops will directly cut the two mixed associations of the third town, and the second infantry division, as you know, the new army of the twelfth town will be inserted and knock out a association from the front, and the first infantry division will send two infantry regiments to assist the cavalry, and surround the third town tomorrow morning and deploy a association in Kaiping County, Eventually, the two synergies were annihilated in the Kailuan region. ”

After saying this, he casually took a blank piece of letter paper from the table next to him, used the pencil he carried with him to draw a rough combat map on it, especially marked the combat distance between the two battlefields, and said: "This is a large combat area of 50 kilometers, and the width of the battle lines at the two actual combat points is less than three kilometers, so it is of little significance to send three divisions there." Now, our only worry is that the Qing army will send the Fourth Town stationed in Tianjin to rescue, but according to the information we know so far, first, the Qing Zheng Axe War Department has not yet given this order, and Liangbi probably doesn't know what to do until now; Second, although the distance from Tianjin to Kailuan was very short, and there was a railway, the fourth town did not dare to rush over, and even if it received the order, it would take two days to prepare. Two days later, our battle was basically over, our First Division and Third Infantry Division had arrived in the Kailuan area one after another, and our First Artillery Brigade had also arrived in Luan County. It's not that you are not welcome to participate in the revolutionary war, but the plan has been set, speed comes first, and it is too late for you to reformulate the battle plan now. Especially on the issue of supply, the Northeast New Army's understanding of you is still not enough to guarantee that it supports you to fight on the front line, and if you rush online, my logistics work will be very chaotic. Therefore, you should not be in a hurry now, the key is to let the staff find out your situation as soon as possible. ”

Pan Juying has nothing to say at this time, he must know about these details, but sometimes he really doesn't care too much, and now when he listens to Song Biao, he feels that the new army in Guannai, including the Beiyang Army, and the Northeast New Army still have no way to compare, and the problem is not in the equipment, but in the modern military staff headquarters system.

The Northeast side has considered all the problems very thoughtfully before the war, and after going into battle, they are shooting indiscriminately, and the military thinking of their new armies is rudimentary, and they don't think about anything, and they rush up to fight temporarily while trying to find a way, which will definitely not be able to do it to others.

Thinking about it, Pan Juying was still unwilling in his heart, because they were not afraid of death, they really wanted to participate in the revolution, and he and Yang Zhengkun, Huang Benpu and others had another idea - Song Biao's appointment to the Jingshi was already a matter of the overall situation, and they were also eager to show themselves, so that they would be mixed up with an official and a half-job in the future.

Yang Zhengkun also had the same idea, so he couldn't help but suggest to Song Biao: "Commander-in-chief, we can pull the artillery up to fight, our 88 guns are definitely more powerful than their 75 guns, and we can also save the loss of shells on the side of the Northeast New Army." ”

Song Biao raised his index finger and shook it gently, and said: "This is not how the battle is fought, your M1906 88mm Krupp rapid-fire field gun has no stock shells on my side, and my reserves of 75, 76 and 105 shells are absolutely sufficient, and I can produce them in the four major arsenals in the northeast." My plan is like this, you go to fight the Fourth Town by relying on the artillery, you can use artillery and machine guns to delay in front, do not let the Fourth Town organize a large-scale counteroffensive, of course, it is the best thing for them not to take the initiative to attack, you will drag them in Tianjin, as long as you can delay for half a month, my side to clean up the main force of the Beiyang Army, we will win, one less revolutionary comrade is a victory. If you run out of shells now, how are you going to hit Fourth Town later? ”

Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun were even more speechless.

Their artillery is indeed the only one in the country, as far as their twentieth town and the Praetorian Guard are equipped, and none of the other troops have it, and the new army has been prepared by the new army in the country with a total of twenty towns (excluding the Northeast Army), and the artillery in each town is basically based on German-style Krupp 75mm artillery, M1903\05\08 and M1906 have both kinds, as well as three kinds of German manufacturing, 曰造, and self-made.

Therefore, the M1906 88mm Krupp rapid-fire field gun has almost no follow-up supplies in China.

Song Biao saw that Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun were very embarrassed, and they might have more ideas, so he comforted them and said: "You can't be in a hurry now, Chen Wei is in charge of this work, you cooperate well with him, fill in the general form of military supplies and materials in the headquarters, and hand over all kinds of work, so that the twentieth town and our side can be seamlessly connected." What standard should be achieved, that is, how many materials and how many types your troops will consume in a day, our staff headquarters can guess with their eyes closed, and at the same time, the supply can be basically guaranteed, and you can go into battle at this time. We have an old saying that before the three armies move, grain and grass go first, this is still very important, and other things, including your radio equipment, communication equipment, and contact methods, must be connected with us, and we will also send new staff officers from Shenyang to assist you in your work, even if everything is grasped quickly, it will basically take five or six days. Sharpening knives does not delay the chopping of firewood, don't be in a hurry, when you really want to play, you will fight beautifully, that is the best revolution. ”

Pan Juying replied: "What the commander-in-chief said is that Zhengkun and I are really taught. ”

Song Biao got up and shook hands with Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun, and said goodbye: "Then you go to Chen Wei first, and do a good job on the side of the General Staff, including how many personnel there are, how much is the cost of military salaries, we still want the situation on your side for the time being, and the part that is not enough for us will be given a certain subsidy, and I won't say much about other things, I haven't had breakfast yet." In this revolutionary period, I didn't have time to invite you to a meal, and I will definitely make up for it for you when I have the opportunity in the future...... In this way, since you are here, then I will ask the orderly to order a little more noodles, add shredded meat, and let's eat his pot of shredded pork noodles, even if it is to congratulate you on participating in the revolution! ”

Pan Juying and Yang Zhengkun are very happy again, as long as Song Biao doesn't treat them as outsiders, it's really easy to talk about anything.

As Song Biao said, the preparations for the attack on Cao Kun's third town were already ready, Cai Ye and Sun Shulin led two cavalry regiments of the First Cavalry Division to assault and march early in the morning, and before three o'clock in the afternoon, they inserted Beijiadian to set up defenses and cut the Fifth and Sixth Concords of the Third Town of the Beiyang Army, while Zhang Yahu's Second Infantry Division quickly included the east side of the Sixth Association by rail, and attacked Cai Ye from the east, west, and north of the three sides, trying to annihilate the Association within two days, and one of Cai Ye's regiments also had to undertake the task of preventing the rescue of the Fifth Association.

After taking Shanhaiguan, the operation of the entire Northeast New Army was immediately accelerated, and the whole army was transferred to Yongping Mansion in large numbers; Chen Wu and Liu Gengyun directly led the army through Xiangshuiyu and entered Yongping County ahead of schedule; Zhang Yahu and Zhang Hongkui's Second Infantry Division went to Luanzhou with the main force; Zhao Tingzhu and Fu Liangzuo's First Infantry Division and Shan Qipeng's Second Artillery Brigade were also transferred to Yongping County; and the Jinzhou Patrol Army Corps under the command of Duan Lanfang was responsible for taking over the entire Shanhaiguan defense line and sporadic battles with the old army.

The old army was mainly the Eight Banners Battalion, the Xianghuai Army, and local veterans, who were paid by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the military attaches appointed were all from old-fashioned backgrounds, and it was unlikely that they would easily participate in the so-called revolution, and they were very scattered, and there were still small-scale battles.

Jiang Yanxing's Fifth Infantry Division, Wu Luzhen's Fifth Cavalry Brigade, and Xu Baoying's First Artillery Brigade had been transferred to Jinzhou, and those remaining in the pass were Zhang Xiaohuai's Fourth Infantry Division, Wu Yuanze's Sixth Infantry Division, Huang Zhan's Third Cavalry Division, Zhang Shuyuan's Third Artillery Brigade, Chen Jing's Sixth Cavalry Brigade, and Yang Tiesheng's Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces.

The Northeast New Army has 6 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry divisions, 3 cavalry brigades, and 3 artillery brigades, totaling 263,000 people, and more than 100,000 people have crossed the Shanhai Pass at this time, and they have divided their troops into two ways to leap towards Luanzhou, while the second cavalry division and the fourth cavalry brigade have bypassed the grassland and will raid Zhangjiakou three days later.

A week later, with the Jinzhou Patrol Army of nearly 20,000 people and the Fuzhou Patrol Army of 6,000 people, the Northeast New Army of nearly 200,000 troops entered the Guannei, plus the revolutionary armies of all walks of life in the Guannai, what else did the Qing Zheng axe use to resist?

The wheels of war are constantly rolling forward.

The First Cavalry Division of Cai Ye and Sun Shulin arrived at Beijiadian at 4 p.m. on July 23, 1910, and the lightning generally cut the third town of the Beiyang Army in half.

Cao Kun already knew about the Twentieth Town Uprising at this time, and he had already expected this, there was a distance of 75 kilometers from Kailuan to Shanhaiguan, even if he took the railway, it was Chen Wenyun's side that was attacked first.

At this time, Cao Kun did not expect that the cavalry of the Northeast Army had already been killed, he was hesitating whether to revolutionize or not to revolution, if he wanted to raise the revolution, he seemed to have no contact with the revolutionary party, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also very powerful in previous years, and the whole country was in trouble, and in the end it was not crushed by the Qing political axe.

Therefore, he is also very hesitant.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of god-level opponents, you are afraid of god-level teammates.

In the evening of that day, he finally learned that Cai Yi's cavalry troops had been killed to Beijiadian and were building large-scale fortifications, and Chen Wenyun's Sixth Association had also been attacked.

Cao Kun didn't say a word, and together with Bao Ying and Lu Yongxiang, he retreated in a panic with the troops, and the things and troops that could be transported hurriedly took the railway south to Tianjin, and those who were too late to transport were still in the battalion headquarters.

Chen Wenyun was very strong, he dug a trench in front of him to fight Zhang Yahu, and sent someone to inform Cao Kun to hurry up and save him, Cao Kun was to let Chen Wenyun hold out for two days, he came immediately, but ran away that night.

Chen Wenyun fought to the death for one evening and the next morning, the casualties were very bad, and he lost four positions in a row, only then did he know that Cao Kun had run away, and he declared an uprising without saying a word.

Song Biao received a front-line report from such a bastard at noon that day.

Previously, Song Biao did not know that Cao Kun and Chen Wenyun were running and falling, and were discussing the follow-up operations with Jiang Fangzhen, Martos and others in the staff headquarters, and the focus of the discussion was to set the decisive battle location, take the initiative to attack, and win quickly, but to lure the enemy to come and fight a large-scale positional battle.

Jiang Zhengyuan hurriedly sent the telegram, Song Biao opened it and took a look, knowing that Zhang Yahu and Cai Ye had won a great victory, the sadness in his heart was far more than joy, he couldn't help but sigh, if there is no Northeast Army, how can these people defend the country alone?

Ran away without firing a shot?

This was the first official confrontation between the Northeast New Army and the Beiyang Army, and Cao Kun, as the commander of the Third Town, chose to flee from the battle.

Song Biao had nothing to say.

He passed the telegram in his hand to General Jiang Fangzhen and other staff officers, and said: "I think we still have to take the initiative to attack and win quickly, if we want to wait for them to come over and fight a positional battle, I am afraid it will take several years." ”

Jiang Fangzhen also sighed after reading the telegram, no one thought that the third town of the Beiyang Army would flee directly so quickly.

After a little thought, Jiang Fangzhen and Song Biao said: "General, we can now directly take the entire Luanzhou, with Luanzhou as the center, let the whole army go south, win quickly, we can directly transfer the third cavalry division down, fight fast and slow, two cavalry divisions plus a cavalry brigade quickly surround and cut the opponent, and the infantry will be recommended along the railway and sweep through the northern area of Guannei." As long as we win quickly, it will be too late for the army to intervene. ”

After a pause, Jiang Fangzhen said: "The key is that the Beiyang Army may not have the intention of fighting us, the faster the quick victory, the smaller the resistance behind." ”

Song Biao thought about it for a while, but he felt that the Beiyang Army would resist sooner or later, but when the third and fourth towns could hardly exert their combat strength, the fifth town was far away in Jinan, and it was really impossible for the first town, second town, and sixth town of the Beiyang Army and the Praetorian Guard to compete with the Northeast New Army.

The other side is four infantry divisions, he is four infantry divisions plus one cavalry division, one cavalry brigade, two artillery brigades.

After thinking about it, Song Biao still waved his hand and said: "If there is something wrong in Outer Mongolia, it will not be able to solve the problem by relying on a temporary new cavalry brigade, the Third Cavalry Division cannot move, and Huang Zan is still very reliable." In addition, the Russian army in Shenyang will generally not move, but it is also a headache to move. ”

When he said this, Jiang Fangzhen naturally understood in his heart.

Huang Zan is one of the backbone members of the Restoration Society, he and Yang Tiesheng are guarding in the city of Shenyang, a cavalry division plus a patrol army, and two infantry divisions of Zhang Xiaohuai and Wu Yuanze, they also play the role of monitoring the Russian army, and deter the army together with the Russian army.

The relationship is very complex, and it is easy to be immovable.

Since Song Biao said so, Jiang Fangzhen will no longer persuade him, anyway, with the current number of troops, and then considering the will to fight of the Beiyang Army, it is really enough to annihilate the Beiyang Army.

Jiang Fangzhen's current worry is that the new armies in all provinces are revolting, but the hard bones are on their side, and after their Northeast New Army defeats the Beiyang Army, the new armies in all provinces have occupied their own territory, and everyone is a revolutionary party, so it will be really difficult to clean it up.

So win quickly and occupy the entire north as soon as possible.

(To be continued)