Just when the Central Army was pressing forward step by step and the various units of the Northwest Army were constantly defecting, it was a rainy day, and Ge Yunlong, the commander of the Northwest Army's special service division, who followed Song Zheyuan to Luoyang to protect the Northwest Army's retreat, secretly accepted the persuasion conditions of Xu Yuanquan, commander of the Tenth Army of the Central Army, and sent a telegram to Chiang.

Song Zheyuan, who was already alone, was missing Ge Yunlong's division, and only one division of Zhao Dengyu was left in his hands, and he couldn't resist Yang Hucheng's attack, so he had to retreat west to Tongguan.

However, Yang Hucheng completely ignored the situation in the Northwest Army that year, and pursued closely to Tongguan, Song Zheyuan was powerless to resist, and did not dare to retreat to Xi'an, so he had to cross the Yellow River from Chaoyi and retreat to Yuncheng, Shanxi.

Liu Yufen, who stayed in Xi'an, after learning the news that Yang Hucheng had taken Xi'an directly from Tongguan, was powerless to resist, so he led a part of the military and political personnel in Shaanxi and some of the families of the generals of the Northwest Army who stayed in Shaanxi and more than 1,000 people from the guards to retreat to Chaoyi along the north bank of the Wei River, intending to retreat to southern Jin and join Feng Yuxiang.

But after Yang Hucheng occupied Xi'an, he didn't know what psychology he had, and he followed him closely to the river, and Liu Yufen, who was helpless, had no choice but to go to see Yang Hucheng in person, and asked Yang Hucheng to remember the old feelings, open the net, and let them cross the river. Because of the old feelings, Yang Hucheng except for Liu Yufen's guards, the rest of the personnel, including Liu Yufen, were allowed to retreat to Jinnan.

In the end, the Northwest Army, which crossed the Yellow River north from the west of Zhengzhou, was relatively complete only with the three divisions of Sun Lianzhong, Ji Zhentong's Guards Brigade, which had not yet received the conditions for defection with the Central Army. The rest of Wei Fenglou, Tian Jinkai, Cheng Xinming, An Shude, Zhang Lingyun, Shi Jingting, Dai Qingyu, Zhao Xipin, Feng Anbang, Li Songkun, Feng Zhi'an and other departments are all incomplete.

Moreover, these people have one thing in common, that is, they did not follow Feng Yuxiang's orders to enter Jinnan, but were stationed in Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, and Qinghua, and their wait-and-see attitude was very obvious.

Those who obeyed Feng Yuxiang's orders to enter southern Jin included about 16,000 remnants of Song Zheyuan; Sun Liangcheng's 4 divisions are about 24,000 people; Pang Bingxun's department has about 13,000 people; Liu Ruming's department has about 8,000 people; about 15,000 people; about 6,000 people in the Gao Guizi Division; Zhang Renjie's department is about four or five thousand people; Zhang Zizhong's department has 5,000 cadres. The total number of troops is about 100,000.

Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek officially issued an order appointing Ji Hongchang as the commander-in-chief of the 22nd Route Army; Liang Guanying is the commander-in-chief of the 25th Route Army. He also informed the remnants of the Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army that they must unconditionally surrender to the Central Army, otherwise they will be severely punished.

Although Chiang Kai-shek was very tough, the Central Army in Henan still stopped on the south bank of the Yellow River as planned, and He Yingqin was stationed in Zhengzhou to form a camp in Zhengzhou.

Chiang Kai-shek slaughtered Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, so that the Northwest Army regarded Chiang Kai-shek as an enemy from then on, and this was the beginning of another form of war between the miscellaneous army and Chiang Kai-shek's descendant troops for several decades -- trying to preserve strength, refusing to obey orders, passively avoiding war, fighting for merit if victorious, and blaming for defeat, and the civil war of this civil war was quickly accepted by the Northwest Army for the armies of all provinces across the country and became an unspoken rule, so Chiang Kai-shek was even more red when he saw the miscellaneous cards, and the miscellaneous cards saw Chiang Kai-shek as if he saw a natural enemy, and the two sides fought until Chiang Kai-shek was defeated. The miscellaneous cards finally got out of their hearts.

Feng Yuxiang's performance in the organization of this war was relatively perfect, he was not reckless because he was wronged, and always held the original intention of cooperating with Yan Xishan, which dragged Yan Xishan, an old fox, into the water. The Northwest Army has no material supplies, no ammunition, and no money, and the anti-Chiang is not by mouth, not by will, but by the strength of [***], all of which only Yan Xishan can rely on.

The Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army cooperated to learn from each other's strengths, and they could compete with Chiang Kai-shek. Feng Yuxiang's Lianjin anti-Jiang is comparable to Zhuge Liang's Lianwu anti-Cao, but Yan Xishan is even narrower than Zhou Yu's, and this alliance cannot succeed.

And the reason why this war ended so quickly was undoubtedly Song Zhewu who played a decisive role.

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These days, although Henan is very happy, but Fu Zuoyi in Datong is still slow to move, for some people speculate, 'Fu Zuoyi is afraid of timidity, and he does not dare to fight the Fourth Route Army head-on. Song Zhewu and Tao Rong both shook their heads helplessly and smiled bitterly. They knew that the reason why Fu Zuoyi didn't move for a long time must be planning a big action, and he didn't move now, because he was not ready, he was waiting for the opportunity, and he was by no means afraid and timid.

At this time, after several days of arduous trekking, Zhang Yinwu finally brought his troops to Jingcheng and couldn't wait to launch an attack on Jingcheng.

Because of the delay on the road, Yan Xishan counted the telegrams again day, urging Zhang Yinwu to speed up and march into the army, which made Zhang Yinwu very stressed. Moreover, there is another reason, which also makes Zhang Yinwu have to speed up the pace of attack.

Because, due to the entry of the Northeast Army, Chu Xichun, Zhang Yinwu's old subordinate, Chu Xichun, the commander of the 25th Division of the Ninth Army Army of Feng Pengzhuo, who is currently the commander of the Beiping garrison, privately said to Mu Zhongheng, the vanguard brigade commander of the Feng Army and his classmate in Baoding, "We will withdraw from wherever you enter." Therefore, the troops of the two sides tacitly understood and amicably carried out a "change of guard" without meeting.

According to Zhang Yinwu's request, with the slow advance of the Northeast Army, Chu Xichun also slowly retreated along the Pinghan Line. Chu Xichun's purpose in doing this was to buy more time for Zhang Yinwu to attack Niangzi Pass.

Although Chu Xichun "turned back step by step" and slowly retreated westward, but now he has been grinding in Gaobeidian for two days, if the Northeast Army once it arrives in Shijiazhuang, then this tacit understanding between the two sides can not be maintained, if the Jin Sui Army in Jingcheng does not lay down its arms, in order to take into account the perception of the people, the two sides will inevitably meet each other.

Therefore, time is very tight for Zhang Yinwu. Therefore, his attack on Jingcheng was very fierce, and at the beginning of the first round of attack, he concentrated 120 75mm mountain guns of all five artillery regiments to bombard the positions of the Fourth Route Army of Jingcheng, and after the shelling, Li Shengda's Fourth Army immediately threw in a regiment and launched a group charge against the positions of the Fourth Route Army in Jingcheng.

Since the Fourth Route Army itself attached great importance to the use of artillery fire, it also attached great importance to the firing of artillery in the setting of positions, and all positions had a large number of anti-artillery holes. Therefore, the heavy artillery fire of the Jin Sui army did little damage to the personnel of Li Sichi's troops. As soon as the shelling stopped, the officers and men who had come out of the anti-artillery holes immediately rushed out and entered the trenches to launch a fierce counterattack against the attacking Jin Sui army.

As soon as the attack of the Jin Sui army was repulsed, a second round of artillery bombardment was immediately launched, because in the attack just now, the artillery of the Jin Sui army had observed the position layout and firepower deployment of the Fourth Route Army with relative accuracy, and the second round of artillery bombardment not only lasted longer, the density was stronger, and the accuracy was also higher. Heavy artillery fire destroyed many positions of the Fourth Route Army, and even individual anti-artillery holes were blown up by intensive artillery fire. While bombarding with heavy artillery fire, another regiment preparing for the attack also moved into the starting position, and as soon as the shelling stopped, the attack began.

When the five artillery regiments of the Jin Sui Army were fighting vigorously, twelve DH-10s and four Newburg-28s that had taken off hastily from Wusu Airport also flew to the battlefield with a roar.

As soon as these planes arrived on the battlefield, they first aimed at the artillery positions of the Jin Sui army. However, during the bombardment of the artillery positions of the Jin Sui Army, these planes were immediately met with fierce counterattacks from ground anti-aircraft fire deployed around the artillery positions.

Each artillery regiment of the Jin Sui Army is equipped with an air defense company, although the scale is limited, the air defense weapons are limited to the Harchikis and Maxine machine guns, and the anti-air power is not great, but even these small-aperture air defense weapons are still not what the wooden fuselage of the DH-10 can withstand, these twelve DH-10s are not equipped with protective armor, and these young pilots of the Fourth Route Army are bombing for the first time in the face of the threat of powerful anti-aircraft fire, in the face of dense anti-aircraft fire on the ground, He didn't dare to fly too low, so his accurate surname was very poor, and the artillery threat to the Jin Sui army was very limited.

Although only two artillery pieces were destroyed in the more than 20 minutes of bombardment of the artillery positions, the bombardment by the planes still effectively terminated the Jin Sui Army's shelling of the positions of the Fourth Route Army. The bomb load of the DH-10 is not large, it can only be loaded with 50 pounds of small bombs, such bombs will hardly pose much threat to the artillery unless they fall directly on the gun position, but the damage to personnel is still very large, these bombardments with low accuracy still blow up the artillery of the Jin Sui army to hide in the east of the province, unable to continue the shelling.

The four Newburgs were not idle, and although they were not of great use against the artillery positions, they were still very handy against the infantry on the ground, and they swooped back and forth on the positions that the Jin Sui army was preparing to attack, completely messing up the regiment that was preparing to attack.

After these planes ran out of bombs and flew away, it was impossible to organize an attack immediately, and the regiment that Li Shengda was preparing to attack was already in chaos. After the regiment had put its troops in order, before it could launch an attack, another pair of planes flew in from the west and bombed the Jin Sui army.

This bombing was different from the last time, and what surprised Jin Suijun was that these slightly bloated planes did not care about the fire of dozens of machine guns firing at the ground, and they all dived to more than 200 meters above the ground before they began to drop bombs.

Moreover, these planes not only had bombs, but could also use the machine guns in the nose to strafe the ground, which caused the artillery of the Jin Sui army, which was caught off guard, suffered considerable losses, and more than a dozen mountain guns were blown up at once and could not continue to be used, and the casualties were even greater. These planes, which are not afraid of ground anti-aircraft fire, are the only attack planes in Wujin that are all equipped with protective armor.

(To be continued)