Chapter 145: Jiangsu War

The captured 10th Division moved into the Huafu Army barracks, which was Guo Yu's instruction, and he wanted these soldiers to really feel the life of the Huafu Army. Therefore, although these captives were strictly guarded on the one hand, and on the other hand, they sent people to start educating and training this unit, Guo Yu was ready to wait for the end of this battle, and these prisoners were estimated to have been transformed into a part of the Huafu army.

The captives were fed only one day's free food, and the next day began intense training, even for officers above the battalion level, who had to participate in the training like ordinary soldiers. The content of the training is the same as that of the Huafu Army, but the time for study and education has obviously been extended, and the instructors in Guo Yu's army are all working at full speed to carry out in-depth education activities on the Huafu Army's ideology for these warlord soldiers.

It can be said that the education is successful, and the will of these warlord soldiers is not so strong, seeing that the conditions of the Huafu Army are so good, although the training is a little tired, but they eat well, and the officers do not treat the soldiers as human beings to their subordinates like the original troops, these officers of the Huafu Army are very reasonable, as long as the education courses and training are completed well, they will never beat and scold and punish them at will, in fact, these soldiers are already very content, and naturally there is no resistance to joining the Huafu Army.

Moreover, through guò study, the soldiers gradually accepted the teachings of the Huafu Society, and many people who had no faith and lived in a mess all day suddenly found the direction of their lives, and naturally preferred to join the Huafu Army.

Since Guo Yu finished this battle, the 10th Division has basically been collected and transformed, and after finally eliminating those soldiers with bad deeds and unqualified soldiers, nearly 18,000 people have been left, of course, this is a month later.

And Guo Yu could not give up such a good opportunity, sent troops directly to Shanghai, and occupied the territory of the original 10th Division in Shanghai, but the Huafu Army did not enter Shanghai, because Shanghai was too sensitive, and there was no need to drive the army to the urban area, now there is only a combat unit of Guo Yu's Huafu Army, and Shanghai has become Guo Yu's actual occupation area.

At this time, Guo Yu put down the matter in the direction of Shanghai, and cared about Chen Tiaoyuan, the commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade and the guard of Xuhai Town, who set out from Nanjing, and Lu Gongwang, the guard of Jiahu Town, who sent troops from Huzhou.

At this time, Wang Yue, who was stationed in Changzhou, dug trenches and built simple fortifications in a place called Yizhen outside Changzhou. As soon as Wang Yue arrived in Changzhou, he stationed his troops in Changzhou, and after learning that the government of the Republic of China really sent troops to attack the Huafu army, he began to build fortifications and waited for the enemy to send them to the door.

"Brother Glory, do you see any flaws in our armament?" Wang Yue asked Yao Rongguang, commander of the artillery brigade.

"In fact, there is no place in the whole territory of Jiangsu that is a battleground and a military danger, so we can only choose the enemy's way to do some defense, but it still depends on the military purpose of the other party, if he wants to destroy our army, he will directly attack our position, if you want to kill Suzhou directly, in fact, many places can still be bypassed." Yao Rongguang looked at the map and said.

"Yes, so we have to make preparations with both hands, the deployment and mobile forces must be prepared to deal with emergencies, the headquarters has sent a message, the other party is the Fifth Mixed Brigade, and the brigade commander is Chen Tiaoyuan." Wang Yue said.

"A mixed brigade has fifteen or six thousand people, which is quite a lot, but no matter how many of them are, they will still deliver food, and if they dare to attack us head-on, they will not return." Yao Rongguang said. Both of them laughed, and then continued to study the map and analyze possible situations.

And Chen Tiaoyuan received an order to eliminate the Huafu army, so after bringing out the troops from Nanjing, he came directly to Suzhou. However, the scouts sent out later came back and reported that a large force of the Huafu army had been found in the direction of the town outside the city of Changzhou, and that the Huafu army had built a trench.

Chen Tiaoyuan and Chief of Staff Feng Zhuyuan discussed, anyway, they would fight everywhere, and since they had discovered the enemy, they could not let it go. The soldiers of the Fifth Mixed Brigade were not as lucky as the soldiers of the 10th Division, and in the first round of attacks, they were bombarded by the artillery of the Huafu Army, and suffered heavy casualties, and more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded in the first round of attacks. Before dusk, they sent troops to attack for a while, but they still suffered heavy casualties and had to temporarily withdraw their troops, and retreated ten miles to find a village to station.

But unfortunately, at night, the village was surrounded by Huafu's army, and the heavy machine guns were mounted at several exits of the village, as long as someone dared to rush out, they shot directly into several sections, and they couldn't stick back, and in the end no one dared to rush out, and Wang Yue was not in a hurry to rush in, so the two sides were deadlocked. However, the Fifth Mixed Brigade did not bring much food, and even if the food of the people in this village of three or four hundred people was scavenged, it was estimated that it would only be able to barely last for a week, but after a week. Chen Tiaoyuan can now be said to have no way to enter the heavens and no door, sitting on the clay kang in a wealthy family in the village, smoking a cigarette in sorrow.

"My lord, what should I do now, the brothers will not be able to last a few days, and if they run out of food at that time, I am afraid that there will be a big mess." said the chief of staff in charge of logistics.

"What can I do now, Huafujun blocked all the exits, the brothers who rushed out have already killed and injured hundreds of people, I can't let the brothers go to death in vain, Huafujun's firepower is too fierce." Chen Tiaoyuan scratched his tight scalp worriedly.

The two could only sit opposite each other without saying a word, silently smoking cigarettes and thinking about their thoughts. In order to give the brothers a chance to live, Chen Tiaoyuan took the initiative to send an adjutant to meet Wang Yue with his own handwritten letter.

After Wang Yue received Chen Tiaoyuan's letter of surrender, the battle of the Western Route Army was considered to have come to an end. At this time, Chen Tiaoyuan's Fifth Mixed Brigade had suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and the entire unit had lost one-third. Guo Yu ordered Wang Yue to send troops to send the remaining 10,000 people to the headquarters of the Huafu Army to receive education and training with the soldiers of the 10th Division.

Then he ordered Wang Yue to send troops to Nanjing to capture the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and at this time only one regiment was stationed in Nanjing. Because the town guards around Jiangsu had soldiers in their hands, there was only the Fifth Mixed Brigade and one regiment in the city around Nanjing. Wang Yue's second division only after a short battle, completely annihilated this garrison, the regiment commander and below killed 510 people and captured more than 1,400 people, so that Nanjing completely fell into the hands of Guo Yu.

The battle of the third division of the Huafu Army is more troublesome in comparison, and Lu Gongwang, the guard of Jiahu Town, who sent troops from Huzhou, is also a strange person, who was elected as the overseer of Zhejiang a few months later, but resigned after a few months, and then threw himself into Sun Dacang, and turned around and became a **party member.

After the two sides came into contact at the junction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a big battle broke out, although the Huafu army had an advantage in weapons, but Lu Gongwang's troops were also good in combat effectiveness, and they also had a certain advantage in numbers, so the two sides were evenly matched at the beginning. Later, after Gao Yi's armored troops came on the field, the balance of the battlefield was broken, and Lü Gongwang's troops suffered a major rout. Lu Gongwang saw that there was really no way, so he had to retreat with his troops, and a day later he withdrew to his base camp in the direction of Jiaxing, but Zheng Junfeng, the commander of the Third Division, asked Guo Yu for instructions that Guo Yu asked him to pursue directly, and if he could take Hangzhou, he could stop.

In the Huafu Army, there was no such thing as a necessity to carry out Guo Yu's orders, so Zheng Junfeng and Gao Yi pursued them all the way and directly killed Hangzhou City, the capital city of Zhejiang Province. At this time, Lu Gongwang's troops were no longer the first target, Zheng Junfeng and Gao Yi's troops were now directly aimed at Hangzhou, and after two days of fierce fighting, they once again used the advantage of tanks to take Hangzhou City.

And this battle, from the issuance of the order of the Republic of China government to Guo Yu's occupation of Nanjing and Hangzhou, took less than a month, and there was such a shocking ending. The provincial overseers, the envoys of the guards, the envoys of the town guards and other warlords were incredulous about such a result, the war to protect the country, Cai Yi, Tang Jiyao and others, united several provinces to jointly crusade against Yuan Shikai, back and forth for half a year without much progress, the Sun cannon of the Protector War launched Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces to jointly resist Yuan, but also had little effect, did not have any effect. However, it took less than a month for this Guo Yu to easily take over most of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is really unacceptable.

During this period, not only the provinces paid attention to the battles named "Jiangsu War", but also all strata of the Republic of China. The local gentry in Suzhou, the major media of the Republic of China, the ordinary people and the people who have been in contact with the Huafu Association all stared wide-eyed at who could win, after all, Guo Yu's Huafu Association organizations in the country, Huafu shopping malls and other industries involved the vital interests of many people.

Compared with the high-level of the Republic of China, it feels incredible, among which Feng Guozhang is the most shocked, because his old nest Jiangsu is gone, originally he planned to return to Jiangsu to command the crusade against Guo Yu, and was ready to arrange the affairs of the capital before leaving, but Yuan Shikai was going to hold a state funeral, as Yuan Shikai's old subordinate and old friend, it was necessary to send Yuan Shikai on his last journey, but now he couldn't even go back. He really didn't expect that things would develop to such a point, that Guo Yu's Huafu army would capture Nanjing and most of Jiangsu so quickly, that now there is no room for conversion. And Duan Qirui was also very annoyed, Zhejiang, which belongs to the Anhui system, was occupied by Guo Yu, didn't he lose his wife and lose his troops.

According to Guo Yu's battle, he was able to defeat the encirclement and suppression of the three-way army in such a short period of time, and he was able to occupy the two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so it can be seen that Guo Yu is fledgling. In the end, a few people discussed, it was no longer appropriate to continue fighting, and if you talked, you had to find someone who could talk, and finally Duan Qirui thought of Xu Shichang, Guo Yu's two promotions were during Xu Shichang's tenure as Secretary of State, since there was the grace of promotion, I believe that Guo Yu would give some face, so he asked Xu Shichang to be an intermediary to mediate the matter. R1152