"Ran away? The Japanese ran away again? It didn't take long for Wu Peifu, who was commanding the troops to advance eighty miles away from Qingdao, received the news.

He looked into the distance, and even though it was already noon, the procession on the various roads was still continuous. With 200,000 people, equipment and baggage, even if the striker has already hit the outskirts of Qingdao, the central part is still seventy or eighty miles away.

"Didn't the striker get a night's rest and just continue this morning? What time is it? Defeat the Japanese so quickly? Isn't that right? "At about 7 o'clock in the morning, Wu Peifu arranged a regimental force of 20,000 people last night to attack the periphery of the devil. At that time, Wu Peifu was still worried about the Japanese resistance, but he didn't expect that it would not take long for the Japanese to be defeated so quickly, or to withdraw their troops automatically.

"The Japanese army has gradually gathered more than 3,000 troops, plus more than 3,000 Japanese overseas Chinese, and the scale of 6,000 has been reached, and the artillery in Qingdao has also been mobilized. The remaining 12 Japanese planes were also involved in the fighting. Zhu Xi stood behind Wu Peifu, squinting his eyes and enjoying this rare good mood. No matter how well the civil war was fought, it was still Huaxia's own people who died, and although the losses were not small, the mood was completely different.

"The Japanese army has learned wisely this time, and seeing that we are powerful, they dare not come to us for trouble, and want to shrink their forces and lengthen our battle line." Wu Peifu laughed, and then looked in the direction of Qingdao from afar, "Order the troops to advance at full speed, and at the same time, order the forward troops, while the Japanese have not completely withdrawn into Qingdao, bite their tails, and it is best to rush into the city in one fell swoop and occupy a bridgehead for the follow-up troops." ，”

Wu Peifu's two regiments should still be able to bite against the Japanese army's formation of about two wings, but with the addition of 12 planes and some fortress guns left by the Germans in Qingdao City, I am afraid it will be very difficult. Eighty miles, if it is fast, it only takes a day for the army to arrive. At this time, Wu Peifu was no longer thinking about whether the striker would lose more weight, as long as the Japanese army in Qingdao was solved quickly, it would mean that more artillery would be able to go north to support the brigade battle.

The Japanese army's thoughts at the moment are exactly the opposite of what he thinks. After receiving the news of the sneak attack on Qingdao, the Japanese army had already allocated a Takata detachment composed of two infantry wings from the brigade and rushed to Qingdao on a warship, and it was only a day's journey from Qingdao.

As long as the Japanese army in Qingdao waited for this support army, it could support it for a longer time, and even counterattacked Wu Peifu's army, which had already put up a long snake formation.

"Our navy is still too weak, when will we end this situation of having no sea defense!" Wu Peifu sighed, the more news he gets, the more content he analyzes from it, and Wu Peifu deeply feels the consequences of not having a strong navy in China at this moment.

"After this Sino-Japanese war, Japan's power in China will inevitably be severely damaged. With the inability of Britain and the United States and other countries to coordinate, I am afraid that another warlord with the support of external forces will cause chaos in the current situation. If we don't clean it up as soon as possible, I'm afraid that there will be no stable days after the war! Compared with when many warlords in China were still staring at Qingdao and the Battle of Luda, Wu Peifu had already thought of more.

"Hmm!" Zhu Xi nodded, as Zhao Yun's descendant, Zhao Yun had already sued him long before he left. Zhao Yun is already eighty percent sure of winning against the Japanese this time, and the other two percent are variables, one is the intervention of the British, and the other is the sudden reversal of the Japanese. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and anything can happen, so Zhao Yun did not say that he was ten percent sure. However, after the war, Zhao Yun must have "gently" cleaned up all kinds of warlords and maintained the authority of the unification of China. After all, the infighting from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China has consumed too much vitality in China. If you don't retain some vitality, how will you dominate the world in the future? "Don't think about the future, now our target is only the Japanese after the shrinking of the army! Compared to us, General Wang Huaiqing's situation in the north is not very stable! ”

"Yes! Qingdao, the Japanese talent has been received for less than two years, and the University has been in the hands of the Japanese army for so many years, that is the real hard bone! Wu Peifu nodded slightly, and also expressed his concern about the Battle of the Brigade.

"Wu Shuai, do you think we will send a group of soldiers and horses to Denglai, make it look like we are going to send troops across the sea, and involve the Japanese army in the brigade?" Seeing Wu Peifu's agreement, Zhu Xi couldn't help but say again. Wu Peifu and Wang Huaiqing seem to belong to the governments of the north and the south, but they are both China's national defense forces.

This time, in the attack on Luda, Wang Huaiqing gathered almost all the forces of the three eastern provinces, plus all the forces of Chahar and Eastern Mongolia, to gather 200,000 troops. In case of Wang Huaiqing's defeat, the Japanese army will definitely retaliate, and the Chinese people, who have lost the protection of the army, will definitely bear the brunt of the slaughter. The Lushun Massacre is still vivid, and the survivors are still alive. Therefore, Zhu Xi, who knew about the evil deeds of the Japanese army and was soft-hearted, was very worried about the atrocities of the Japanese army.

"Just involve it appropriately, don't really cross the sea and fight. I'm afraid, our victory in Qingdao, Wang Huaiqing will not be able to hold his breath! Wu Peifu knew that Zhu Xi was Zhao Yun's descendant, and the jurisdiction was the richest region in China, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If only Zhu Xi's army and the Japanese were to be singled out, in terms of equipment, Zhu Xi's third division even surpassed the Japanese army, reaching more than 80% of the French army, which is known as the first in the world. This is not a comparison of the Japanese army alone, but a balance of strength between the navy, land and air forces. Since Zhao Yun's family background is basically in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Zhu Xi's Third Division has a separate submarine force and a separate seaplane brigade. Wu Peifu, who was once luxuriously prepared by Zhu Xi and was dizzy, naturally knew that Zhu Xi's department had the ability to cross the sea independently, so while Wu Peifu agreed with Zhu Xi's point of view, he also had to remind him, so as not to make the fake come true.

In the afternoon, Wu Peifu received new information.

The two forward regiments already had a battalion of 1,000 men to break through the defenses of the suburbs and enter the city, and the Japanese troops in Qingdao City resisted layer by layer on the east bank of the river.

Wu Peifu is not surprised by this, the forward regiment is the elite of the army, after the reorganization of the army, the quality of weapons has also been greatly improved, compared with the Japanese army is slightly better, plus the Japanese planes have been shot down after several times their seaplanes, and now the planes flying in the sky are all Zhu Xi's planes.

With air supremacy, the Japanese army's originally arrogant artillery was suppressed a lot, which gave the striker a chance to break through the Japanese position, and the prelude to the battle for Qingdao had begun.

But what Wu Peifu didn't know was that at the same time, the war at the brigade was also burning. Wang Huaiqing, who discovered that there were signs of large-scale troop mobilization of the Japanese army, urgently ordered all units to send elites to the forward positions to prepare a feint attack to test the combat intentions of the Japanese army.

Of course, Wang Huaiqing's military orders to all his ministries directly indicated that this was a feint, not a decisive battle and a desperate siege battle, which made the various departments with their own thoughts begin to converge on the front line pointed out by Wang Huaiqing.

This time, it was Wang Huaiqing's first active attack after the start of the brigade war, no matter whether it succeeded or not, Wang Huaiqing did not want to lose too badly, so the selection was also the main force in the army, a total of five warlords' teams were drawn to come, plus Wang Huaiqing's total of six warlords.

The five warlord forces were stationed far and near, and almost all of them entered the battlefield at the same time.

But as soon as they arrived at the position of Wang Huaiqing's department, all the troops immediately woke up from the eagerness of rushing to the rescue before, and saw that they were all on guard against each other, they were all from different forces, and the warlords had a tradition of annexing each other, and they were more afraid of others shooting black guns in their backs than fighting with the Japanese.

Different from ordinary local warlords, these five warlords all belonged to organized groups, although they were all Beiyang Army, they belonged to the Zhi Army and the Feng Army, and the Zhi Army was divided into the Jin Army's Li Shengda's Division, the Shaanxi Army's Hu Jingyi Division, and the Shaanxi Army's Wang Huaiqing Division. Li Shengda's department is the main force under Yan Laoxi, and this time he was recruited by Wang Huaiqing, mainly to undertake the task of artillery cover, after all, Wang Huaiqing dug up a lot of gunners from the Jin army, but the Jin army is better in terms of quantity and quality. Without the advantage of artillery, whether it is an attack or a retreat after a feint, it is very passive, so the arrival of Li Shengda's troops is expected by everyone, and surprisingly no one is hostile to it. As for the Shaanxi army Hu Jingyi's department, it was much worse, and the equipment fell behind the other warlords, if it weren't for the fact that most of the Shaanxi army was composed of swordsmen, and the melee power was invincible, it was estimated that the rest would have to oppose Hu Jingyi's participation in the war.

The team of the Feng army that came to the brigade accounted for the majority of Wang Huaiqing's 200,000 army, and the composition was also the most mixed, although they all claimed to be the Feng army, which was divided into descendant and non-descendant, and the descendant was because Zhang Huzi was placed under house arrest in Jixian County, so as to collect Zhang Xueliang's strength Guo Songling's department and Wu Junsheng's department to collect Zhang Huzi's power are regarded as the orthodox descendants of the Feng army, Guo Songling's department is a total of 68,000 people, accounting for more than one-third of the total number of Feng army, and they are all new elites in the Feng army. It was originally a cadre resource reserved by Zhang Huzi in order to allow his son to take over, and in the final analysis, a large part of the Guo Department was the second echelon in the construction of Zhang Huzi's echelon. Therefore, Guo Bu and Wu Bu can be regarded as the descendants of Zhang Huzi's line. The non-descendant department is Zhang Zuoxiang and Jiang Dengxuan's department, among which it is Guo Songling's department that came to help this time, as well as Wu Junsheng, who is not dealing with him, and Jiang Dengxuan, a good old man. Guo and Wu have always been incompatible, relying on the favor of the old marshal and the young marshal respectively, and they have become even more incompatible.

The factions of the various ministries are strictly divided, and the equipment is also very complicated. Since Zhao Yun's reorganization of the army, although limited by the economic conditions of China at this time, it has not yet been perfect. However, the process of perfecting the equipment of individual soldiers of the Beiyang Army has never been interrupted, and before the reorganization of various departments, although the warlords of all walks of life wore Beiyang military uniforms, there were more than 10 kinds of uniforms. It took a lot of effort to unify the Beiyang military uniforms alone, and if it weren't for the support of the camp behind Zhao Yun, just distributing two million people and four seasons regular uniforms would have dragged down Beiyang's weak finances. The combat equipment began to develop from a single gun to the familiar shape of the tree branch tied on the left and the right in later generations. Of course, due to the differences in the quality of personnel, the phenomenon of not being able to use and not daring to use new equipment does exist in some troops, and Wu Peifu also mentioned it to Zhao Yun, but this just reflects the fact that the army's personnel construction cannot keep up with the update of equipment. New equipment and new weapons are not just something that has been issued, but is accompanied by changes in habits, updates to regulations, and exploration and summing up of experience. In addition, the coordination of equipment is also related to the development of the combat system, in addition to the level of scientific research, economic strength, but also related to the process of military mechanization, for example, Zhao Yunyi's plan to send heavy machine guns off the squad, although with the help of the camp, the number can be reached, but let a mule and horse army fully equipped with heavy machine guns, it will only become a burden.