Wu Xintian is a member of Beiyang, and the 14th Brigade in his hand is also a strong army, otherwise he would not have been sent to guard the important place of Hankou, and now Wu Xintian's hand [***] has 12,000 soldiers, which no longer seems to be a few, but the elite troops are less than 6,000 people, after fighting with the Hubei army, now it is more than 4,500 people, and it is wishful thinking to block the surging offensive of the Sichuan army with this little force, but Lao Yuan has already given a death order, asking Wu Xintian to defend to the death, At the same time, he also named Wu Xintian a hereditary marquis, hoping to make Wu Xintian sell his life with the stimulation of the title.

Zhang Jingyao also repeatedly ordered Wu Xintian to hold on, so that Wu Xintian had no way to retreat, he could only fight to the death, he concentrated his main forces in the Hankou Railway Station, which is the most critical place, a total of two lines of defense were set up, and a large number of machine guns and artillery were prepared to strictly defend it.

Now there is a large amount of inventory in Hankou, and the supply of arms is also very sufficient, so the fight is not distressing at all, and it has also caused great trouble to the Hubei army, Xia Douyin only occupied half of the station in a day and a half, and the rest could not break through.

After Zhu Qinglan led the Sichuan army to arrive, he carefully reconnoitred the situation on both sides, Zhu Qinglan turned back to Wang Huai, who was in charge of the attack, and said: "Division Commander Wang, the Hankou Railway Station is a very important matter, and it must be captured quickly. ”

"Don't worry, I'll complete the task!"

Wang Huai immediately organized the artillery of the Sichuan army to bombard the railway station, suppress it, and then use mortars to clear the Beiyang fortifications one by one, the quality of the artillery of the Sichuan army was obviously much stronger than that of the Hubei army, and the artillery was very accurate, and three machine gun positions in a company were blown away, and the dead and wounded Beiyang army reached hundreds of people, and the firepower was greatly weakened immediately.

The Sichuan army immediately began to charge, the Sichuan army in gray uniforms seemed to be a wave after wave, constantly slapping at the position of the Beiyang Army, the Beiyang Army quickly disintegrated and the ice disappeared, Wu Xintian saw it in his eyes, he was really angry, and hurriedly put all his guards into the battle, wanting to reverse the decline.

At this moment, the roar of the engine sounded in the air, and the air force of the Sichuan army arrived at this time, and now the planes of the Sichuan air force have a range of more than 200 kilometers, and they cannot take off from Hankou, and feel that Henan is bombing the Luhan Railway, but choose to take off in Xiangfan, and after the bombing is successful, they immediately fly towards Hankou.

The air force rushed to Hankou at this time, and the deterrent to the Beiyang Army was too great, and some of them already knew that it was this weapon that blew up the Luhan Railway and blocked the reinforcements of the Beiyang Third Division, and now the plane was over their heads again, and these soldiers were worried about when the plane would also drop bombs on them.

The leader of the air force was Wang Yue, who bombed the warship last time, and this time he was still the first to drop bombs, but now the Sichuan army and the Beiyang army are staggered, and it is easy to be injured by mistake when blindly dropping bombs, so he first lowered the altitude of the plane to about 200 meters, and after carefully choosing the timing, he dropped two bombs, and the other planes did the same, dozens of bombs fell from the sky and landed behind the Beiyang Army's position, setting up dust all over the sky.

Suddenly, the Beiyang Army could no longer bear it, and they could barely hold out in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Sichuan Army, but now in the face of this situation where they can only be beaten, they can no longer bear it, and they retreat one after another, no matter how Wu Xintian stops it, it is useless, and the defeat is like this.

Wu Xintian was also coerced and began to flee, the Sichuan army took the opportunity to launch an attack, and the Hubei army also cooperated with the Sichuan army to act together, and soon the entire Hankou completely fell into the hands of the Sichuan army.

In this battle, Sichuan successfully occupied Hankou, wiped out a total of 3,150 Beiyang troops, captured 5,200 people, and the remaining Beiyang troops all fled, as for the capture, it was even more astonishing, capturing 30,000 rifles, 5 million rounds of ammunition, 20 75-mm mountain guns, 35 Makqin machine guns, 2.4 million oceans, 400 small yellow croaker, 500,000 stone of grain, and 1,000 boxes of opium.

In addition to military uniforms, tents, horses and other materials, with a total value of more than 15 million yuan, it can be said that the Sichuan army got most of the materials prepared by Yuan Shikai for the two Beiyang Army in one fell swoop.

As soon as the Sichuan army entered the war, it showed strong combat effectiveness and excellent strategic vision, and after taking Hankou, the connection between the north and south of Beiyang was immediately cut off, Beiyang fell into unprecedented passivity, and the strategic situation of Beiyang encircling the southwest was completely broken.

After receiving the report, Cai Ye was very happy, and hurriedly commanded the army to launch a full-scale attack on Ma Jizeng, winning consecutive battles, and the most frightened person at this time was Liu Xianshi, and he did not expect that the Beiyang Army would be so vulnerable.

This Protectorate War is several times larger than the scale in history, especially after Sichuan sent troops, starting from Shaanxi and Gansu in the north, all the way to the south of Liangguang are all the front line, so it is a huge test for Beiyang, and it is also a test for the three southwestern provinces, most of the materials needed to participate in the war must be provided by Sichuan, and at the same time, Sichuan must ensure the normal export to the Entente, so the materials are relatively tight, and even worse is that the southwest road is difficult, so it is inevitable that the distribution is not reasonable, Liu Xianshi's Guizhou army attacked Guangxi, It is the farthest away from Sichuan, the weakest power, and the least things he naturally gets, so Liu Xianshi's heart is naturally a little dissatisfied.

The new hatred and old hatred were added together, Liu Xianshi was not able to work when he was fighting, and even wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and after Beiyang consumed the power of Cai Ye and Qiao Yu, he could regain control of Guizhou, and even expand his power to the entire southwest, so Liu Xianshi secretly colluded with the Beiyang Army.

The Beiyang Army fighting on the southern front was mainly the troops of Liangguang, and Long Jinguang, the eldest brother of Long Jiguang, the governor of Guangdong, was appointed as the commander of the first division of the Guangdong army, and concurrently served as the Yunnan investigation envoy, leading the Guangdong army into Guangxi, and then attacking Guizhou and Yunnan, Lu Rongting, who was the most powerful in Guangxi, was not satisfied with Yuan Shikai, especially Yuan Shikai appointed Long Jiguang as the governor of Guangdong, so that this contradiction was almost public, from the beginning of Cai Yi's announcement of reading power, Lu Rongting was ready to move, not only did he attack Yungui together according to Lao Yuan's intentions, Instead, he discussed with the old ministry to oppose Yuan Shikai.

It was this situation that only Long Jinguang's troops attacked Liu Xianshi, and Liu Xianshi secretly reached a compromise with Long Jinguang at this time, the two sides faked a fake war, and the Guizhou army pretended to be defeated and retreated, wanting to introduce the Hubei army to the southwest, and at the same time Liu Xianshi informed Long Jinguang of the Qinzhou shipyard.

Qinzhou shipyard was originally the product of Sichuan and Britain cooperation, bought equipment from the United States, introduced technology in the United Kingdom, used the territory of Guangdong, and now Qinzhou shipyard has begun to produce freighters, and soon the first batch of freighters will be transported to Europe to participate in the transportation of the Atlantic route, it can be said that now Qinzhou shipyard has begun to make money.

Liu Xianshi secretly sent people to monitor the movements in Sichuan, and he was also very clear about the value of this kind of shipyard, and he also knew how much scheming Qiao Yu had put in, and now this was an enclave, so Liu Xianshi gave Long Jiguang an idea and asked him to lead the army to attack the Qinzhou shipyard, as long as he took it down, the huge wealth of the shipyard would be Long Jiguang's, at least he could get a piece of profit, and he could also increase the maritime power of the Guangdong army, which was a great thing for the Guangdong army.

Moreover, Liu Xianshi also told Long Jiguang in the letter that as long as the supply of cargo ships could be guaranteed, Britain would not care who this shipyard belonged to, and the letter was sent to Long Jiguang, the governor of Guangdong, through Long Jiguang.

After getting the letter, Long Jiguang also hurriedly convened his subordinates to discuss it, according to the agreement, Qinzhou Shipyard only pays five hundred taels of silver to Guangdong political axe every year, at first Long Jiguang did not know the value here, now how Long Jiguang thinks how awkward, now the opportunity is in front of him, Long Jiguang is more and more tempted by this piece of fat.

After careful discussion with his subordinates, Long Jiguang finally decided to lead 8,000 Cantonese troops to attack Qinzhou Shipyard, and the Cantonese army swaggered to the periphery of Qinzhou Shipyard, Long Jiguang thought that a small shipyard could be taken as long as his army went by, and he didn't even have to fight, if there were foreigners to stop him, Long Jiguang also thought about it, it was a big deal that he only needed his own share of the benefits, such a shipyard had to hand over hundreds of thousands of yuan to himself every year, especially now that the shipyard has begun to generate profits, As the ruler of Guangdong, isn't taking five hundred taels of silver an insult to his own intelligence?

However, Long Jiguang did not know, this time he made a huge mistake, with Qiao Yu's cautious surname, how could he not pay attention to this enclave, besides, this enclave still carries the Chinese's naval dream, there must not be any problems.

Therefore, long before the outbreak of the war, Sichuan sent Pan Wenhua to lead a team of Sichuan troops to the shipyard to set up defenses, and now a large number of fortifications have been covered within five kilometers around the Qinzhou shipyard, Ming Fort and Hidden Fort, and there are two barbed wire fences in the outermost periphery, although the Sichuan army guarding the shipyard is only more than 1,300 people, but even if there is a division of troops, it is not expected to quickly attack the defense of the shipyard.

Long Jiguang saw that the other party was waiting for him, and he also regretted it a little, it seems that Liu Xianshi is really not a good thing, is this Qinzhou shipyard easy to fight, but at this time, Long Jiguang can not retreat, and immediately began to organize an attack, Guangdong has a developed economy, the equipment of the Guangdong army is not bad, the artillery began to bombard the defensive positions of the Sichuan army, and under the cover of artillery fire, the Guangdong army rushed to the outer position of the shipyard in a mess.

Pan Wenhua was holding a telescope at this time, carefully observing the situation, and after seeing the poor formation of the Guangdong army, the corners of Pan Wenhua's mouth also showed a sneer, it seemed that it was time for him to make meritorious contributions.