Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the 13th Brigade, and after Xu Chongzhi reorganized the 4th Brigade, Huang Dawei left three brigades of the First Army to fight thieves, as well as an artillery regiment and two battalions of guards. At the second stage of the reorganization, Xu Chongzhi, Chiang Kai-shek, and Li Fulin jointly sent a telegram to Sun Yat-sen, who was far away in Shanghai, suggesting that the army of thieves on the eastern road should be divided into two routes, with Xu Chongzhi and Li Fulin leading the main force to stay in Fujian, and strive to turn Fujian into the world of the Kuomintang.

According to the reorganization plan of Chiang Kai-shek and Xu Chongzhi, Chiang Kai-shek's Reading Division was merged with the First Army of Thieves, and Chiang Kai-shek became the commander. The newly formed First Army will be composed of 20,000 people from the 3rd Brigade of Qiu Hongjun, the 13th Brigade of Wang Boling, the 14th Brigade of Wei Lihuang, the 15th Brigade of Luo Yaoguo, the Qian Dajun Artillery Regiment, the Liu Zhi Special Service Regiment, the Huang Chengxi Baggage Regiment, and the Wu Han Engineer Regiment. Among them, the Qian Dajun Artillery Regiment was formed by merging the two battalions of the original First Army Artillery Regiment on the basis of the artillery battalion of the Reading Division, and the other battalion of the First Army Artillery Regiment was taken by Xu Chongzhi, and Chen Cheng and Luo Zhuoying each got an artillery battalion commander, and the civil engineering department was also beginning to emerge. Huang Chengxi, the former commander of the artillery regiment, was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to serve as the head of the baggage regiment, and it was expected that Huang Chengxi was a close confidant of Huang Dawei and was excluded this time.

Luo Yaoguo's post of director of the 15th Brigade appointed Zhang Dingfan, who graduated from the Baoding Engineer Section, Zhang Dingfan's name Boxuan, a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi, graduated from the Jiangxi Road Army Surveying and Mapping School and the Baoding Engineer Section, and was an engineer instructor in Yunnan Jiangwutang, and was the director of the General Office of the Whampoa Military Academy in history, and was a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, but in this time and space, because he was Huang Dawei's chief of staff, he could not be trusted for the time being, and was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Luo Yaoguo as the master staff officer.

The chief of staff of the First Army of the East Road Thief Army appointed the famous He Yingqin, and the deputy commander was Luo Yaoguo's uncle, Luo Yiqun, who had a quarrel with his nephew for a while because of Luo Yaoguo's acceptance of his daughter as a concubine, but as Ma Jiali was sent by Luo Yaoguo to buy a house in Hong Kong to collect rent, Uncle Luo's abusive surname was attacked, and he quickly forgave his nephew, and he simply acted with Luo Yaoguo's 15th Brigade when he was in the army.

"Uncle, what's the happy event? Why are you always smiling? Luo Yaoguo couldn't cry or laugh when he saw his uncle's pair of small dimples, alas, a good person, plus a pair of small dimples that greatly damaged the majesty, how could he lead the troops to fight? And this one looks like he's smiling all day long. Luo Yaoguo is now in the army, but he is learning from Chiang Kai-shek all day long, with a straight face, looking like someone owes him money and does not pay it back, trying to make himself look a little majestic.

"Hehe, of course Yigong is too late to be happy to have such a good nephew as you." Zhang Dingfan, the chief of staff, is also an optimist, and he does not complain at all about becoming the chief of staff of the brigade from the chief of staff of the army, and he still smiles all day long, and his slightly blessed face and faint smile are indeed very pleasing, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before Chiang Kai-shek trusts him.

Looking at the marching team and the prosperous army in the distance, Luo Yiqun nodded with satisfaction and said: "Bo Xuan, Fuwen, with this elite, it seems that this time there is hope for the thief, and the prime minister can also return to Guangzhou to preside over the overall situation." ”

"Yes, in just two months, Jiegong used two supplementary regiments to conjure up such an elite army, it seems that we are with the right person this time." Speaking of Chiang Kai-shek, who demoted himself, Zhang Dingfan admired him with a face.

Luo Yaoguo looked at Guangzhou from afar and said with a solemn expression: "It is easy for the prime minister to return to Guangzhou, but it is not easy to really take charge of the overall situation. ”

"Then we should speed up the march and enter Guangzhou before the two armies of Yunnan and Guizhou." Listening to his nephew's words, Luo Yiqun also became worried.

"Alas, it's all Chen Jiongming's rebellion! It was he who betrayed the trust of the prime minister and ruined the good situation. Zhang Dingfan talked about Chen Jiongming with a look of resentment.

Luo Yaoguo knew very little about the situation before Chen Jiongming's rebellion, so he asked: "Brother Boxuan, listen to your tone, could it be that the last Prime Minister's Northern Expedition was very promising?" ”

"Hehe, whether there is any hope for this Northern Expedition depends on where you plan to cut down? Of course, it is impossible to cut down to Yanjing, but it is still very promising to cut down to Jiangxi and Hunan. Who is there in Jiangxi? It's just the two divisions of Chang Desheng and Zhou Yinren, and our Northern Expeditionary Army has 30,000 people, if Chen Jiongming, a rebellious man, is willing to mobilize the main force of the Guangdong army, 60,000 can be obtained! Chang and Zhou will definitely not be able to stop it. As soon as Jiangxi arrived, Lu Yongxiang of Zhejiang in the east and we were allies, Li Houji of Fujian betrayed the Anhui system, and we and the Anhui system in the north were surrounded on three sides, and it must be a road to the lower field, and then we and the Anhui system divided Fujian equally.

Jiangxi has it, and then Hunan naturally has no way to run, and Hunan Zhao Hengti can withstand the troops of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi provinces? Moreover, Tan Zu'an is already in contact with the prime minister, if he comes out, Zhao Hengti's Hunan army can pull at least half of it. Do you think Hunan can get it in this way? In this way, we have a territory of four and a half provinces, and our influence in the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou in the west is not small, and Sichuan also has the army of Xiong Jingong of the Yasukuni Sichuan Army. Tell me, is our situation good? Listening to his analysis, it seems that Chen Jiongming has indeed ruined the good situation of the Kuomintang this time.

"Yes! Originally, when we decided to go on the Northern Expedition, it was before the Great War of Zhifeng, and Wu Peifu would not let the Feng Department go south to fight us no matter what. Maybe they will throw Jiangxi and Hunan to us in order to concentrate their forces against the Feng system. It's a pity that such a good opportunity was given up in vain because of Chen Jiongming's rebellion. Luo Yiqun was also angry when he talked about Chen Jiongming, he was originally the commander of the Guangdong military police, quite a big official, if Sun Yat-sen won the revolution, he would definitely be able to be the commander of the military police in the whole country, and now he has become a deputy commander in name only, which is still done by relying on his nephew's competition.

Luo Yaoguo listened to what the two said, and also felt that Chen Jiongming's disaster was a bit big, in fact, Chen Jiongming was the No. 2 person in Sun Yat-sen's family before, the boss of the Guangdong army, if this person was not a traitorous revolution, as soon as Sun Yat-sen passed in the future, this Kuomintang would not be Chen Jiongming's! If Chen Jiongming knew that Sun Yat-sen would have lived until 1925, he would definitely regret his death, I don't know if this guy will regret it in the history of the earth? However, this Chen Jiongming seems to have a little bit of an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, as if it will not be completely settled until after Chiang Kai-shek's two Eastern Crusades.

Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo couldn't help frowning. "Now the situation in the Central Plains has not settled down, the strength of the Anhui and Feng systems is still there, and it is estimated that they will make a comeback soon, we missed this opportunity, and we can't miss it again next time, so this crusade against Chen Jiongming must be thorough! Otherwise, he will continue to drag us back and make us inseparable from Guangdong. ”

At this time, a fast horse came from the rear and brought Chiang Kai-shek's order to summon Luo Yaoguo's uncle and nephew to the military headquarters to discuss the battle situation. It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek received an urgent telegram from Sun Yat-sen on the way to the army, and from Sun Yat-sen's telegram, Chiang Kai-shek learned that Chen Jiongming had now suffered retribution.

"Here, Yichen, Fuwen, look at this, the telegram I just received." Chiang Kai-shek handed over a telegram that had just been translated.

The telegram said that the First Division of the Guangdong Army on Chen Jiongming's side had defected on the Fengchuan front, and now it had cut off the rear route of the 30 battalion troops under the command of Chen Jiongming's chief of staff Ye Ju, and this unit was Chen Jiongming's henchman, and once it was lost, Chen Jiongming's Guangdong overseers would almost come to an end. Sun Yat-sen still hoped that the East Road Thief Army could march quickly, and it was best to enter Guangzhou City before the Dian Army and the Gui Army.

"Great! Chen Reverse's end is coming, Jiegong, let's march quickly, don't let the prime minister down. After reading the content of the telegram, Luo Yiqun couldn't help but scream.

Luo Yaoguo took the telegram from his uncle and looked at it. "Very good, we are sure to win this battle."

"Guangzhou, can we get ahead of them?" Chiang Kai-shek shook his head, indicating that he was not sure.

"Jiegong, Guangzhou's right to speak is not to see who goes first, but to see who has more soldiers and more guns, we should not rush into Guangzhou, but to strengthen our strength and bring a large army to the prime minister." Luo Yaoguo walked to the map and stretched out his finger to point to the border between Fujian and Guangdong. "We want to insert it from here to Chaoshan, and then take Huizhou to dig up Chen Jiongming's roots, there are now two armies of Hong Zhaolin and Lin Hu on the Fujian-Guangdong border, and we will be the first to swallow them."

"Swallow them?" Chiang Kai-shek smiled understandingly.

"It is also necessary to use the minimum cost, preferably the whole army." Luo Yaoguo moved his finger to the positions of Chaozhou and Shantou again. "This is a good territory, we should take it for the prime minister, swallow Hong Baozi (Hong Zhaolin's nickname) and then we will reorganize it here, and then go to Huizhou, I estimate that Chen Jiongming's last capital will go there."

"Well, yes, we have to dig up Chen Jiongming's roots, and if we don't lay down Huizhou, Chen Jiongming will always have the capital to make a comeback. However, you said that you want to eat Hong Baozi at the lowest cost, is there anything you can do? Speaking of this, Chiang Kai-shek's eyelids raised and looked at Luo Yaoguo.

"It's up to my husband and uncle to figure out how to do this." Luo Yaoguo smiled slightly: "I think Jiegong already has a good way, right?" ”

"You kid is really getting more and more cunning, and he can't hide anything from you." Chiang Kai-shek turned his face to look at Luo Yiqun and said, "Yichen, this time I want to trouble you to come forward and discuss the defection with Hong Baozi, how about it?" No matter what the conditions, we can agree to him first, but we must let him stay on the Fujian-Guangdong border and not move. ”