In this turbulent political situation, it did not affect the military operations of the Feng army in the country.

On October 16, the Second Army of the Feng Army conquered Nanning, Guangxi, and before that, the Second Army of the Feng Army had successively conquered a series of important cities in Guangxi, such as Liuzhou and Guilin.

In the direction of Hunan, after more than a month of hard fighting, the Feng army conquered Changsha and Xiangtan, two important cities in Hunan, and then successively conquered a series of important cities such as Hengyang, Yongzhou, and Yueyang.

By the end of October, the Feng army could proudly announce that they had taken control of most of Guangxi and Hunan.

On November 8, more than 10,000 remnants of the Third Division led by Wang Zhanyuan were surrounded by Feng troops in the Qinzhou area of Guangdong.

It's just that the conditions obtained for this surrender are far inferior to the conditions offered by Zhao Dongyun in order to win him over in the past, Zhao Dongyun promised Wang Zhanyuan that he could retain his military rank, and grant him the position of military adviser to the presidential palace, and also guarantee the safety of his private property, but the commander of the seventh division must call out.

Wang Zhanyuan chose to accept it, because if he didn't accept it, there could only be two ways, one was to be completely defeated and then arrested or commit suicide, and the other was to flee alone, and then go to Shanghai or Tianjin Concession as a duke, although Wang Zhanyuan saved a lot of money in foreign banks, and it was enough to be rich for a lifetime, but just like Duan Qirui, Wang Ruxian and others, they are a political family in their bones, as long as there is a slight opportunity, they all want to continue to be active in the domestic political stage.

Wang Zhanyuan's surrender and Duan Qirui's surrender influence are not the same, Duan Qirui's surrender caused a nationwide sensation, but Wang Zhanyuan's surrender did not stir up any waves, even when Wang Zhanyuan went to Beijing to prepare to serve as a military adviser to the presidential palace, there were no heavyweights to greet him, which made Wang Zhanyuan sigh in his heart, he knew that today, he would have accepted Zhao Dongyun's wooing, even if he lost his autonomy, but now he has to be a division commander at the very least, If you can't say it, you can still mix a military commander.

It's just that there is no regret medicine in this world, and no matter how much regret in his heart he can't change his future fate.

When Wang Zhanyuan entered Beijing gloomily, the Feng army also began to incorporate the remnants of the Seventh Division, and the experience of the Feng army in the collection and surrender of the army can be said to be very rich, from the beginning of the Zhifeng War, the Feng army has successively incorporated the troops in the Beiyang system such as the direct lineage, the Anhui system and the Lu army of the Yu army, including the first division, the fourth division, the eighth division, the eleventh division, the thirteenth division, the sixteenth division, the nineteenth division (formerly the first mixed brigade), the twenty-first division, the twenty-second division, the twenty-third division, the twenty-fourth division, the sixth mixed brigade, These are all units that have been rebuilt after being reorganized.

It can be said that more than half of the troops in the Soviet Feng army have been incorporated and rebuilt, and the only units that are really from the Feng family or newly formed are the 3rd, 9th, 10th, 12th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 4th Mixed Brigade, 5th Mixed Brigade, 9th Mixed Brigade, 11th Mixed Brigade, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and other units.

For example, the First Division and the Nineteenth Division have said that they are gradually growing into the main force of the Feng Army, and the Fourth Division, which has just been recruited, can also fight.

Without these surrendered officers, the officers trained by the Feng army itself in recent years alone would not be able to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops.

The Feng Army, which had rich experience in the integration and surrender of the army, soon integrated the remnants of the Seventh Division, and the middle and lower-level officers remained basically unchanged, and after the change of several senior generals, it was regarded as the initial completion of the reorganization of the Seventh Division.

The reorganized Seventh Division was incorporated into Xu Bangjie's Second Army, followed by a march into Yunnan.

After the Second Army took Guangxi, it quickly went to Yunnan, and at the same time, the Fourth Army of the Feng Army, which had already conquered most of Hunan, also advanced towards Guizhou.

The westward advance of the Second and Fourth Armies of the Feng Army did not meet any favorable resistance at all, and the ensuing military operations were almost smooth sailing.

At this time, in the provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, the Southern Federation did not have much military strength at all.

After the two battles of Hubei and Hunan, the Southern Federation has invested more than 300,000 troops, in the first battle of Hubei, facing the joint attack of Wang Shizhen and the Feng army, the more than 100,000 troops of the Southern Federation were almost wiped out, and then in the first battle of Hunan, the only remaining 100,000 troops were lost in Changsha and Xiangtan.

The fiasco in Huguang and Guangzhou provinces directly led to the destruction of the military forces of the Southern Federation that Zhang Zhidong had painstakingly managed in the previous two years, and after the loss of these troops, the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and other provinces in the rear could not muster tens of thousands of troops at all.

In the face of the pressure of the Feng army, and there is no force in the province to resist, plus Zhang Zhidong has already died of illness, Zhang Biao, Duanfang and even Zhao Erxun, Li Yuanhong and others are fighting for the leadership and make trouble, in this case, in order to keep the glory and wealth, the local officials united, that is, they directly issued a telegram to announce that they were anyway, and turned their allegiance to the northern republican government.

The electrification of these two provinces directly pushed the regime of the Southern Federation to the brink of annihilation!

Although it is said that the Southern Federation still has a little strength in Sichuan, and Zhao Erxun in Shaanxi, Gansu and other northwest regions also has the elite army of the Nineteenth Town, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Southern Federation is completely finished, and there is no possibility of turning over.

With the capture of Guangxi and Hunan, and after the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou announced that they were anyway, Zhao Dongyun's eyes also began to aim at Wu Fengling and Wang Shizhen.

Seeing that the Feng army was about to completely unify China, and now Wu Fengling and Wang Shizhen were still outside the central government, this kind of thing was absolutely unacceptable to Zhao Dongyun.

On November 25, Zhao Dongyun invited Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling to go north to Beijing to discuss the reform of the military system and the follow-up domestic development plan, under the pretext that the domestic situation had been roughly stabilized.

This excuse is a bit rotten, not to mention Wu Fengling and Wang Shizhen, even ordinary people know that Zhao Dongyun wants to clean up Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling, if they come to Jingshi, then don't think about going back, house arrest is 100%. If he doesn't come, then the next step is to estimate that Zhao Dongyun will use the excuse that Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling are not satisfied with the central government, and then he will transfer troops to attack Hubei and Shanxi.

Wu Fengling looked at Zhao Dongyun's telegram asking him to go to Beijing, and his face was very ugly: "He, Zhao Dongyun, really wants to cross the river and demolish the bridge!" ”

Wang Shizhen, who was in Wuchang, was no better, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "Call Wu Shuai in Taiyuan, that is, the survival of our two families is in one thought today, and please Wu Shuai see the situation clearly!" ”

Although this was not explicitly stated, it already revealed Wang Shizhen's meaning, that is, to fight!

Zhao Dongyun did not feel any surprise at their reaction, he knew very well that these warlords in contemporary China were all diehards, and if they wanted to give in, they had to be completely defeated, and if they were to be forced to submit by political pressure alone, it would be basically impossible.

Therefore, before he issued an excuse, he had actually begun to dispatch troops, and Lu Yongxiang's First Army, which was originally stationed in Hubei, had already gone north to southern Anhui, preparing to launch an attack on Hubei from the southern Anhui region north of the Yangtze River, and at the same time, Chen Guangyuan's Third Army in Henan was also ready for war, and the 11th and 13th Divisions were already ready to go south to Wushengguan.

At the same time, in the face of Shanxi, the newly formed 20th Division of the Feng Army and the 17th Division that changed the future from the 7th Mixed Brigade have also arrived in Shijiazhuang, and at the same time, Zhao Dongyun also specially approved the establishment of the Sixth Army of the Central Army, and transferred Gu Lanyu, the former commander of the 3rd Division, who had made outstanding achievements in the southward operation, to serve as the commander of the army, and awarded the rank of lieutenant general and general of the army.

In the Hunan direction, the main force of Meng Enyuan's Fourth Army had already begun to turn around and move north, and its main forces, the 3rd, 9th, and 14th Divisions, had already headed straight for Hubei.

From north to south, more than 200,000 Feng troops were already ready, and as long as Zhao Dongyun's order was issued, they could quickly dispatch troops to Shanxi and Hubei provinces.

And Zhao Dongyun did not let the front-line generals wait long, only three days after the telegram was sent, Zhao Dongyun announced the revocation of Wu Fengling's post as the Shaanxi-Gansu-Jin Patrol Envoy and the revocation of Wang Shizhen's position as the Huguang Patrol Envoy.

Subsequently, the army that had been preparing for a long time was officially ordered to launch an attack on Shanxi and Hubei.

As the Feng army began to attack the Jin army and the Hubei army at the same time, the war that had been pacified for several months in China was set off again, and this time it was different from the past, in the past, people were still disgusted with the war or had doubts about the victory, but this time people began to support the war initiated by Zhao Dongyun.

Because everyone knows that now the domestic unification has reached the final stage, and Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling are unwilling to give up the military power in their hands, which hinders the reunification of China.

After reunification, ordinary people can live in peace, and businessmen can do business with confidence!

In addition, due to the successive defeats of the Zhi Army and the Anhui Army and the main force of the Southern Federation after the Feng army entered the customs, it also made people think that it would be quite easy for the Feng army to defeat Wu Fengling and Wang Shizhen this time.

In the face of the domestic reunification war, Zhao Dongyun felt satisfied in his heart, this has been fought for several years, people's evaluation of him from Zhao Guangtou to Zhao Shuai, and then to the current president, his impression in people's hearts has been constantly improved, and now people regard themselves as the only candidate to unify China and end the current chaos.

Perhaps, his majesty can already be compared to Yuan Shikai in 1906!

At that time, Yuan Shikai was also based on high hopes by everyone, hoping that Yuan Shikai could lead China to carry out various reforms and enter the republic, and now, people are pinning their hopes on Zhao Dongyun to unify China and end the current chaos.

This is the first time that Zhao Dongyun has felt the feeling of being expected to return to the whole country, and I have to say that this feeling is really good!