Faitinov and Matveyev both felt that it was better to count on these two groups of men and horses to form an army alone and be broken by the White Russian cavalry one by one, and it was better to let them protect their flanks, and after a telegram was sent, the military district also agreed to this sound plan, appointing Faitinov as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, Matveyev as the deputy commander-in-chief, with full command of three road convoys, six divisions and another cavalry brigade, and more than 30,000 Soviet Russian and Far Eastern Republic coalition troops to fight a campaign to snipe the white Russian army south.

As a result, a "Tengda Campaign" with completely asymmetrical information and strength began.

On the Russian side, first of all, two new officers, Faitinov and Matveyev, took office, and immediately arranged their troops as the main force, flanked by the 26th and 30th Divisions of the Siberian Infantry to protect the left side, and the 51st and 62nd Divisions of the Siberian Infantry to protect the right side.

The two main divisions of Faitinov and Matveyev, with cavalry opening the way, followed by infantry, fought all morning, and found that there were many White Russian cavalry gathered here, and every time they broke up one group, the other group of enemy cavalry swarmed again, but at noon, the other side began to retreat, and pursued for more than ten miles in one go.

When the sun turned westward, Matveyev, who suddenly led the infantry all the way east, felt a "groan" in his heart, his brows were furrowed, and a Russian "2" faintly appeared behind him.

"Stop! Where are all our flanks? After some inquiry, Matveev learned that because he was advancing too fast, he could no longer keep up with the two sides, seven miles from him on the left and five miles from him on the right, and he had heard from the top of the military district before coming to the Far East that when the Far Eastern Army in the region was engaged with the enemy, it was lured into the encirclement by the enemy, surrounded by ambushes, and the whole army was annihilated.

How similar is the current situation? The same opponent, the same tactics, you can't be fooled!

"Looks like we're going to stop and rest for a while!" Matveev silently read it in his heart, turned his head and shouted to the signal corpsmen behind him, "Pass my order, the whole army will camp on the spot, and wait for the commander-in-chief to lead the advancing cavalry to join us." The fire group arranged machine gun and artillery positions, the infantry carried out earthwork work, dug trenches along the camp, arranged barbed wire fences to prevent enemy cavalry from assaulting, sappers broke forward 50 meters, 150 meters, 200 meters, laid mines, and arranged three forward lines of defense. The reconnaissance battalion and the spy battalion were based on companies and platoons, and a radius of 50 miles gave me a sense of the enemy's situation. In addition, the hot air balloon that we used for school artillery was also raised for me to monitor the enemy situation in an all-round way. ”

Not to mention, Lao Maozi waited for the White Russian rebels to challenge their fortifications, far away in the north of China, due to the rapid defection of Shanxi, so that the entire northwest opened its arms to the Beiyang direct line, and the other army of the Mongolian army under the command of Shubutai, all the way to the west, while chasing down the pro-Russian Mongolian princes and Mongolian horse bandits, while pocketing these places, until they met the army of Yang Shi in Western Xinjiang.

Yang Shi is also an old man in Beiyang, who supported Yuan Shikai as emperor and was awarded the title of first-class earl. After Yuan's death, he served as the governor of Western Xinjiang for a long time. Yang took charge of Western Xinjiang and first used the means of "peace negotiation" to cancel the Ili Provisional Revolutionary Government established in the Xinhai Revolution, and appointed the governor of Western Xinjiang to serve as the military commander of Ili; Later, he sent troops to defeat the invading army of Imperial Russia, quell the chaos, and changed the Altay Special Zone to Ashan Road, completing the unification of Western Xinjiang. In Western Xinjiang, Yang firmly believed in Li Dan's political ideology of "small countries and widowed people", pursued the ruling policy of "ruling by doing nothing", rectified the rule of officials to "eliminate troubles before they sprout", reduced soldiers, rewarded land reclamation, advocated feudal superstition, obstructed the establishment of schools and the dissemination of science and culture, advocated "disputes do not ask about the affairs of the Central Plains" and "the troubled people have grown into the ancient people", and ruled the people of all ethnic groups with the policy of seclusion and self-defense and foolishness, so that all aspects of the western Xinjiang region were stagnant, and all kinds of people in the western Xinjiang seemed to be still living in the Qing Dynasty.

As for the foreign invading forces that covet the border from time to time, Yang Shi is to repair the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark. For example, Yang Zeng sent troops to build a secret military castle in the hilly area on the side of the Black Gobi, cutting off the possibility of the independence forces of Outer Mongolia entering the western frontier. This military fortress is not recorded in any books until a few decades after its establishment, when an archaeological expedition of 10 square kilometers was discovered, which shows the concealment of its work. Yang's policy of self-preservation maintained peace in the frontier, but it also caused the forces in the western frontier to withdraw from the stage of hegemony in the Central Plains.

Since ancient times, all walks of life for the Central Plains forces to enter the western Xinjiang, all by default to take the road of Yumen Pass, and with the Chechen Khan, the Mongols to lead the way, Shubutai took a different way, all the way to the west, relying on the advantage that the cavalry in the camp does not need to be fed, across the desert, facing the sandstorm, crossing the mountains, retrograde Jungger attacked the old road of Jixian County, in the surprise of everyone, appeared under the city of Dihua.

In the face of the aggressiveness of the "Three Kings", Yang decisively adopted a submissive attitude, anyway, the "Three Kings" have no ambition to enter the Western Xinjiang, the "Three Kings" are trying to unify the north of China, Yang is even soft on face, and he is still the "Emperor of the Soil". The entry of the Mongolian army into the western frontier this time was not a big loss for Yang Shi, but it was to find a backer to resist the invasion of Soviet Russia.

In the 5th year of the Republic of China, Yang Shi assigned the mining superintendent to study at the Yanchang Oil Factory in Shaanxi Province to extract oil in Duzi Mountain, and the oil produced was also a blessing for the Beiyang direct army. Due to Zhao Yun's involvement, there have been more and more "turtle shell" ironclad cars in the Beiyang Army, but the oil consumed is all imported from abroad, although the oil obtained in Western Xinjiang this time is only a drop in the bucket, but it is better than all imports, and in Changzhou, south of the Yangtze River, Zhao Yun has already spent a high price to introduce American technology, and he can refine oil by himself. However, due to the obvious obstacles, it is impossible for the south to blatantly transport supplies to the north, so finding a self-sufficient oil supplier in the north has become an urgent priority for the north. This time, Yang Shi's oil plant has brought hope to the north's logistical supply, and the idea of promoting "armored vehicles" in the army in the north has been implemented.

At the same time, there was Yang Shi, the warlord of the largest force in the northwest, as an example in politics, and militarily, Shubutai was "welcomed by the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai", and with these local "leading party", the warlords in Gansu, Qinghai and other places naturally had to bow their heads under the hooves of the Mongolian army, either surrender or flee, and by the beginning of October, the power of the "three kings" had spread throughout the north of China, and the south was approaching the line of Sichuan and Hubei.

And in the south, Zhao Yun, who had just ended the Battle of Longpan, also made a move, although there was a large army stationed on the northern front, but it was just a show to prevent Feng Yu, the "defective general" stationed in Henan, from moving south. The elite troops are divided into two routes, the first route is led by Wu Peifu himself, up the river, all the way to the west, after arriving in Nanchang, the soldiers are divided into two roads, all the way to the west, the original Wu Peifu forces in Hunan, Hubei into the bag, all the way to the south, will have been conquered by the Northern Expeditionary Army to a lot of Jiangxi, recover, and establish the frontier fortifications to attack Guangzhou.

The second route was led by Sun Chuanfang, starting directly from Zhejiang, heading south and attacking Fujian. Fujian is the only base of the Anhui system after Zhejiang, and the entire Anhui system from top to bottom attaches great importance to this place near the sea.

So the general Xu Shuzheng was sent to sit in the town, and after Xu Shuzheng arrived in Fujian, he cheered up and tried to restore the glory of the Anhui system. He knew people well, appointed a group of generals of the main battle faction, and in order to resist the vanguard of Sun Jun (Sun Chuanfang's army), he even accepted the rest of the Lu Du Army in Zhejiang, planning to hoard forces and send troops to the Northern Expedition, waiting for Zhao Yun to contain the main force of Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang, and then suddenly attacked, first recovering Zhejiang, and then trying to Jiangnan and other anointing places.

didn't expect Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang to lose so quickly, so that some arrangements were not in place. At this moment, Fujian's main military strength was still in the hands of the Fujian Anhui system, which started with the navy, had little interest in conquering Zhejiang, and refused to send troops and supply food and salary in order to preserve its strength, so that Xu Shuzheng's Northern Expedition came to nothing.

At this time, on the battlefield of Jiangxi, due to the internal strife in Guangdong, Sun Cannon was driven out by Chen Jiongming, and the Northern Expeditionary Army hurriedly abandoned Jiangxi and retreated to Guangdong. As Sun Cannon's allies of the Anhui system naturally became the object of the Jiangxi army's anger, after a little pacification of the internal affairs, the Jiangxi overseer sent troops to attack Fujian, the road army from Jiangxi Nanchang through Linchuan, Zixi and Fujian's gloss, Shaowu, Jianyang straight to Jian'ou, although there was no big move, but the army pressed the border, but also made Xu Shuzheng on all sides of the enemy, busy coping.

In October, when Zhao Yun sharpened his knife and Huo Huo attacked Soviet Russia, Sun Chuanfang's main force finally arrived and led the army to attack Fujian.

Having lost the only new force, Xu Shuzheng had to arrive in Yanping from Fuzhou in person, preparing to venture to Guangdong to ask for help from his ally Sun Dacang, who was stranded on the border between Guangdong and Jiangxi, but his trip was blocked by the Anhui Fujian faction.

It didn't take long for Li Houji, the Fujian overseer who had long been in close proximity to his direct lineage, to surrender to Sun Chuanfang, and the Anhui Fujian faction was divided, and most of them sat and waited to be killed, and a few troops went south to Xiamen to continue to resist. Li Houji's surrender opened the door to Xu Shuzheng's arrangement, and the defeat was decided.

Li Houji, the overseer of Fujian, graduated from the Beiyang Military Academy. Before the Xinhai Revolution, he was the head of the guard of the Governor's Office of Zhili, which can be said to be a direct line, and it was not until 1916 that he took refuge in the Anhui system. Therefore, Li Houji's surrender was not accidental, and Xu Shuzheng also expected it a long time ago, but it is a pity that Li Houji led troops into Fujian in 1913 and operated in Fujian for nearly ten years, which is deeply rooted, but it is not something that he, the "commander of the light pole" who has only been in Fujian for a few days, can be shaken.

At this time, as soon as Li Houji, who was the overseer, surrendered, his subordinates naturally had no intention of fighting, and Sun Jun easily crossed the Xianxia Ridge and went straight to Fujian, captured Jianning, and went straight to Yanping.