Wu Peifu couldn't capture Xuzhou for a long time, but his strength was still stronger than that of Li Songshan of the First Army, but why did he retreat?

There is only one explanation, that is, the direct line and the Feng family did not negotiate, but the negotiations did not break down, and the direct line decided to withdraw troops in order to preserve the strength of the bargain.

And the direct line of this shrinking force, then the Henan side will look down on the wind, and the direct troops will withdraw, do they want to rely on those security regiments and wealthy private soldiers to fight against the elite soldiers of the East China Army? Isn't that looking for death? The fate of wealthy families in several provinces in East China is already a lesson from the past.

The natural danger of the Yellow River is extremely important for both the direct line and for Li Bufan, and the direct line has to rely on this natural danger to resist Li Bufan's attack before negotiating with the Feng family, and the direct line is difficult to estimate Li Bufan's strength for a while, but the large-scale expansion of the East China Army is really a jealousy of the direct family.

For Li Bufan, in his opinion, although the East China Bureau is rapidly expanding the army, but the combat effectiveness is very problematic, in order to prevent the troops from evolving into warlords, the soldiers in the provinces are mixed, and the dialect communication alone is a problem, and it will take more time to form combat effectiveness, so he is more worried that the direct line and the Feng line will suddenly unite to go south, which may be difficult to resist. But with the Yellow River, it is much easier to defend.

Li Bufan finally accepted Wu's suggestion, swept the rear, and continued to expand the army while pressing westward.

The whole Guangxi became a mountain and rain, Chen Jiongming was defeated and announced to go to the field, the cannon fodder hometown was a residence, and the Second Army of East China began to approach Guangxi after the reorganization of the Guangdong army. At this time, Guangxi was not monolithic, but was divided into two factions, the old Gui faction headed by Lu Rongting and the new Gui faction headed by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.

"To resist is to die." Li Zongren couldn't help but smile bitterly, Li Bufan's plan to expand the army by 800,000 is no longer a secret, with the progress of his massive reorganization of various units and the expansion of troops, 800,000 is definitely not there for the time being, but 400,000 should be there, and they only have more than 10,000.

Bai Chongxi sighed: "Forty to one, the gap is too big. Judging from Li Bufan's troop movements and deployments, it is obvious that he wants to sweep away the south first, and then unify the whole country by force to the north. He may have put his foot on hold because of transportation problems, but there is no doubt that he is determined to win Guangxi. ”

Li Zongren's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "If you say it, it's a little strange." Judging from the actions of the East China Army, they are quite a bit of a single-nose who can't tolerate sand in their eyes, just like to Chen Jiongming, even if they are electrified, they will be completely defeated. But why hasn't the attack on Guangxi been delayed? ”

Bai Chongxi frowned and said, "No strength? Definitely not, they have plenty of troops, are they trying to make a forced landing? ”

Li Zongren shook his head and said: "I think Li Bufan does not accept the surrender of other troops, but he does not want warlords to appear in his army. You see that he expanded the army, and the formation of each army was a mixed formation of soldiers from multiple provinces, which was to avoid the emergence of local warlords. Chen Jiongming is an old-fashioned army, and the entire army is full of warlord atmosphere, and Li Dashuai can't look down on it. ”

Bai Chongxi said: "What do you mean?" ”

Li Zongren said: "There are two roads: one is to disband the troops early and go home to farm; The second is to accept the reorganization, so as not to learn this ability in vain. ”

Bai Chongxi sighed: "This country should also be unified. ”

"It's the general trend."

At this time, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were only temporarily revealed, although they had begun to breed so much ambition, but Li was still a little short of the warlord thinking, in fact, if it were not for the rapid expansion of the Gui faction after the Northern Expedition in the later period, and then stimulated by the warlord frenzy of the Ninghan split, it might not really form a big warlord.

At this time, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were only nearly thirty years old, and when they were established, they were in the prime of life and high morale.

Li Bufan is very welcoming to the surrender of these two people, Li Bufan doesn't know how capable these two people are, but Wu Di is a traverser, and he likes military literature, and the names of these two people are thunderous during this period. In Li Bufan's words, there are finally people available.

After Li and Bai accepted the reorganization, Lu Rongting simply went into the field with a single power and handed over the troops. He can't beat it, and he knows it. can let him bow his head to Li Bufan at an age, he can't pull off this old face, the surname Suo is out of sight, what if he can't bear the power? Can you keep it if you don't put it down? If you can't keep it, why bother looking for death.

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Li Bufan, male, from Anhui, was admitted to the Baoding Military Academy for one year, and then was escorted to study at the Munich Military Academy in Germany, joined the German army at the outbreak of the World War, served in the Second Army, participated in the Somme, Verdun battles, fought bravely, and was deeply loved by German commanders. Later, China declared war on China, and under the guarantee of the commander of the army, it was transferred to the neutral country of Switzerland to return to China, and after returning to his hometown, because he was not used to seeing the behavior of his fellow domestic officers, he later arranged for the Ma'anshan garrison. ”

"Bagaya Road!" The old Yama Prefecture Youpeng smashed the information on Kenji Tohihara's face and yelled, "What I want is not this garbage, what I want to know is where his tiger group came from." ”

Kenji Dohihara was as obedient as a schoolboy in front of this army veteran, and when he saw that Shan Shan Youpeng was angry, he said in fear: "Marshal, the special high school has repeatedly sent people to investigate, and General China's tiger regiment seems to have appeared out of thin air, as well as his military enemy, there is no information at all. What we found out is that their tiger ben originally had 3,000 people, known as 3,000 tiger ben, and then because the army expanded too quickly, half of them served as officers of all levels in the army. ”

"Rice bucket! If a few people can't find out, then it's understandable, after all, the branch is so big. However, there are three thousand such excellent military officers. You can't even find out the slightest bit of useful information, what's the use of the empire raising you bunch of waste? "There are friends in Shan County, that's 3,000 people, 3,000 of the world's top soldiers, and they are all Chinese, how many troops do these 3,000 people need to be carefully selected and retrained, and how many times do they have to go through elimination, so that all of them can achieve this effect? So many targets and not a single one of them?

Three thousand tigers? Youpeng in Shanxian seems to remember that there was a king in Chinese history, and he almost unified China in a short period of time with 8,000 soldiers, and it seems that he is called an overlord. But today, Li Bufan relied on 3,000 tigers to raise troops, and in just over a year, he swept through most of China, and now he has ten provinces and 800,000 elite soldiers, which is simply more than a step ahead. So what will such a hero be called?

Shan Youpeng couldn't help but feel a burst of fear in his heart, and his old heart couldn't control the violent beating, which made him cough and bend down deeply. There were many people who rushed to rescue him for a while, but he was thrown away by Youpeng in Shanxian irritably, but he couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart: I am really old, but he is so young

The development of the East China Army has made the neighboring Yueben have to worry, because it has already shown a general trend, and some local forces have begun to look down on the wind. This is a very terrible thing, because with this general trend, it is very likely that the East China Army will complete the consent of South China in a short period of time, and even unify the whole country.

"Accept reorganization, or be annihilated."

All warlords in the Sichuan army were shocked by Li Bufan's official letter sent to Sichuan by the Nanjing political axe. The strength of the East China Army has made the warlords of the Sichuan Army have to pay attention to and fear, and China has formed a situation in which it is a monopoly of the country, which is simply a situation of unifying the whole country by force.

"An army of 800,000!" Xiong Kewu, Liu Xiang, Liu Chengxun, and Yang Sen all had extremely ugly faces, but this number almost overwhelmed them.

"They have 800,000?" Questions were also raised.

Xiong Kewu said with a wry smile: "There are several provinces in East China that have happened first, and after Li Bufan swept through the southeast, he comprehensively collected the civilian armed forces, if you count those old weapons, don't say 800,000, even if it is twice as much." ”

Liu Xiang nodded and said, "Then, there are still many of these weapons that are good, and it should be feasible to select 800,000 people who can be used." Moreover, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, the Hanyang Arsenal, and the Guangzhou Arsenal are now in their hands, and it is said that they have very powerful experts, and as long as they are slightly rectified, the Hanyang Arsenal can produce a division's equipment in a month. ”

Yang Sen shook his head and said, "It's more than that. Li Bufan moved the Jinling Arsenal to Ma'anshan, concentrated military technicians, and imported a batch of equipment, with a monthly output of arms and equipment of nearly 20,000 people, and the Hanyang Factory also started after he took Wuhan, and the scale would not be smaller than that of the Ma'anshan Arsenal. And they can also produce a rapid-fire cannon, like a mortar, which can get more than 10 rounds a minute, and the shells are like rain. Moreover, it is said that the arsenal in Guangzhou will be moved to Guangxi to form a large arsenal, which is required to be able to cope with the conflict in the southwest. ”

Liu Chengxun smiled bitterly: "It seems that he wants to implement Duan Qirui's set of force to unify the whole country, and just drove away the wolf Tang Jiyao, and as a result, a man-eating tiger came." ”

Xiong Kewu sighed: "This tiger is much better than a wolf, he wants to eat us until there are no bones left." ”

Liu Chengxun sneered: "I have the danger of mountains and rivers in Sichuan, and our strength is indeed far from being comparable to Li Bufan, but it is more than enough to guard against natural dangers." Sichuan people rule Sichuan, Nanjing Li Bufan wants to eat us, it depends on whether he has that good teeth. ”

Just as the warlords and bigwigs in Sichuan were swearing, Xiong Kewu's adjutant ran in in a panic and shouted: "Commander-in-chief, everyone, something is wrong, Liu Cunhou has led the East China Army into Sichuan!" ”

"What!?"

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