On March 1, 1923, the Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen's office issued an appointment, appointing Yang Ximin, commander of the First Army of the Yunnan Army, as the overseer of Guangxi, and Liu Zhenhuan as the commander-in-chief of the Gui Army and governor of Guangxi. Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan were naturally full of joy for the princes who could dominate one side, and although they were a little reluctant to give up the prosperity and wealth of Guangzhou, they were still gladly ordered to set off with their troops on March 5. The day after the departure of the Yang and Liu armies, the first division of the Guangdong army, under the command of Li Jishen, finally eliminated the warlord Deng Benyin's troops entrenched in the eight southern counties, and recovered all the territory of the eight counties in southwest Guangxi, including Hainan Island.

On the surface, Guangdong seemed to have been reunified, and even the Yunnan and Guizhou armies, who had done evil, let Chiang Kai-shek coax them to Guangxi. However, a new disaster was also brewing, and at this time, in the headquarters of the Gui Army in Shaoguan, Guangdong, another commander-in-chief of the Gui Army, Shen Hongying, was meeting with Zhang Qiqi, a distinguished guest from Luoyang.

"You troops, not the descendants of the Sun family, no matter how loyal to the Sun family, may not be able to make the Sun family trust, the drudgery who will charge into battle in the future will certainly be in their turn, as for the power, don't want to share a little profit. Just look at Zhongshan's attitude when he talks about people, whenever he says that only Xu Chongzhi and Chiang Kai-shek's troops are my cronies, and the rest are unreliable, you can see his attitude. Now it is just time to return to the central government, expel the Sun family, and proclaim himself the governor of Guangdong. Do things hard for others, but also listen to other people's commands, and be idle by others. Zhang Qiqi's every word now has touched Shen Hongying's heart.

As Wu Peifu's courteous staff, Zhang Qiqi's three-inch incorruptible tongue is naturally very good. As a lobbyist, spreading rumors and making trouble, telling right and wrong is not the best, a superior lobbyist only talks about reasoning and presents facts, just like Zhang Qiqi persuaded Shen Hongying, which sentence is not the truth? Sun Yat-sen did not believe in Shen Hongying, and the whole people of Guangdong knew this, and placing his troops in Shaoguan naturally had the function of being cannon fodder.

Listening to Wu Peifu's price code, Shen Hongying's small eyes narrowed happily. "What Mr. Ziwu said is very much in line with me, but Sun Cannon seems to be quite cheered up after returning to Guangdong, and now there are seven divisions of personal soldiers, that is, the two armies of Zhu Peide and Fan Shisheng of the Dian Army are now gradually leaning towards Sun. With the strength of Hongying's army, I am afraid it will be difficult to expel it. ”

Zhang Qiqi sneered and said, "Why should General Guannan grow the prestige of others and destroy his own ambition? Now that the general trend of the world is already in Zhong Shuai and Yu Shuai, Sun Wen is just catching his breath for a while, how can his Cantonese army have any combat power? This time, Yushuai has sent General Zhang Yushan, General Fang Yaoting, and General Yue Zhaolin to lead the army to help, and now the army of the three of them has arrived in southern Jiangnan, just waiting for the general to launch. ”

Shen Hongying was originally a careerist, and he had long coveted the wealth of Guangdong, so how could he not be tempted after listening to Zhang Qiqi's words? It was immediately decided to start a rebellion. After Shen Hongying sent Zhang Qiqiang away, he immediately concentrated his troops on the front line of Shaoguan and Xinjie in the name of moving defense, and set up a general headquarters in Xinjie. On March 16, he took up the post of superintendent of Guangdong military affairs sent by Yanjing Zhengaxe in Xinjie, and at the same time, following Chen Jiong's wisdom, he sent a telegram asking Sun Yat-sen to leave Guangdong.

As soon as the telegram was issued, Shen Hongying did not wait for the northern army to arrive, so he hurriedly ordered his subordinate commander Li Yibiao to go south to fight Yingde County, which is an important town along the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway. Shen Hongying's department was born as a bandit, although the military discipline was extremely poor, and it was no different from bandits, but after years of fighting, he had accumulated a lot of combat experience, and most of the soldiers and veterans in his department accounted for most of them. In Shen's opinion, with more than 10,000 veterans in his hands, it was enough to reach Sun Wen's tens of thousands of recruits, and with the help of northern soldiers, he wanted to come to Guangzhou just in his pocket.

Who would have thought that Li Yibiao had been going south for less than two days, but the good news did not come, and he received a basket of emergency calls for help. Only then did Shen Hongying know that Guangzhou was afraid that it would be difficult to fight, so he hurriedly brought the map to study it left and right to see where Xie Wenbing was blocked? After looking at the map, I found that something was wrong, it turned out that Li Yibiao's gang was actually at the door of his own house to let Sun Artillery's soldiers stop, and not only did he not go to Yingde or even Qujiang County, but now he is in a tug of war with the Yunnan Army on the front line of Dakengkou in the south of Qujiang County.

"Damn! A small town the size of a slap actually fought for two days! Li Yibiao, shouldn't this mother-in-law sleep too much and forget how to fight? Shen Hongying scolded and scolded, but he didn't dare to take the Dian army lightly at Dakengkou. On the one hand, he sent army commander He Caijie to lead troops to reinforce Xie Wenbing, and on the other hand, he personally led a brigade of elite soldiers to go south along the west bank of the Beijiang River to copy the rear road of the Yunnan army. The officers and soldiers of the Shen Department have always been good at marching, and although they have lost many battles and won few victories, they can always rely on their legs to run away in time after defeat, so Shen Hongying's troops are still very good at copying the back road.

On March 18, Shen Hongying said that he took a brigade of personal soldiers from Shaoguan to the south, and crossed the Beijiang River from Baitu Town, Qujiang. Then marched all the way south, passing through Baisha Town to Zhangshi Town, the terrain of this road is relatively flat, and there are large areas of fertile watered fields on both sides of the road, which obviously indicates the wealth of Guangdong. Looking at the farmers who were working hard in the paddy fields, Shen Hongying's mood became much better, and he was no longer bored by Xie Wenbing's long-term attack. In the opinion of Shen Hongying, who has taken up the post of supervising the military affairs of Guangdong, these busy peasants will send baskets of ocean money to his pocket in the autumn.

"Report! The town of Zhangshi has discovered the enemy situation ahead! Shen Hongying's mood had just improved a little, and with this unknown enemy situation, it suddenly became gloomy again.

"Spotting the enemy?" The intuition of an excellent robber told Shen Hongying that something was wrong with the situation, and it was obvious that the opponent was thinking the same as him, the opponent was going to attack Qujiang, and now Shen Hongying's two armies were fighting fiercely with the Dian army at Dakengkou, and there was also an army fighting fiercely in Zhaoqing and the Zhu Peide Department of the Dian army, and he was going to attack the rear of Dakengkou with his own brigade, and Qujiang and Shaoguan were two empty cities at this time. And if you want to retreat to Qujiang, you must cross the Beijiang River, can the enemy army in Zhangshi Town give you the opportunity to cross the river calmly? Dream on. If you don't care about Qujiang and Shaoguan, you can flee to Hunan and Guangxi over the mountains, but the two divisions in Dakengkou will not be there! It is estimated that Zhaoqing's division will lose most of it if it can run out, and the family foundation that he has managed to save up in the past few years has lost more than half of it all at once, so how can Shen Hongying be willing to give it up?

"That's it! Brethren! When the brave meets on a narrow road, defeat the Cantonese in front, and the world of flowers in Guangzhou City is ours! Thinking about his situation, Shen Hongying gritted his teeth and took out the ruthlessness that he had been a bandit for many years, and he was going to fight the enemy desperately.

At the same time, the Cantonese army in Zhangshi Town has also discovered Shen Hongying's troops, and the leader of this force is Luo Yaoguo, the protagonist of this book, this force is the seventh and eighth divisions of the Cantonese army, a total of 16,000 people! This is how things are on the battlefield, you can't know everything about the situation of your opponent (except for a certain party fighting the Kuomintang). If Shen Hongying knew the deployment of the two sides on the Beijiang battlefield now, he himself would have admired his bravery and good fighting.

This Beijiang operation was the first battle after Chiang Kai-shek became chief of the general staff, and Lao Chiang attached great importance to this, not only to win, but also to win a big victory, according to Lao Chiang's plan, after fighting Shen Hongying, it was best to beat the grass and rabbits to wipe out the three brigades of the Northern Army who did not know whether they were alive or dead! Later, he cooperated with Granny Tan to conquer Hunan, so that Jiang's position with Sun Yat-sen would be unshakable, and he would naturally be able to visit the Soviet Union with confidence.

In order to fight this battle well, Chiang Kai-shek tried every means to transfer troops and send generals, except for the 1st Division of the Guangdong Army, which had just returned from the eight counties in the south, which remained in Guangzhou, the 10th Division of the Guangdong Army in Huizhou, and the 9th Division of the Guangdong Army in Chaomei, which could not be moved, and Chiang Kai-shek, the other troops that could be used, were taken out. Among them, Zhu Peide led the First Army of the Yunnan Army to fight Zhang Xiyan's army in Zhaoqing. Fan Shisheng's Second Army of the Yunnan Army, Li Liejun's Jiangxi Army, Cheng Qian's Hunan Army, the Second, Third, Seventh, and Eighth Divisions of the Guangdong Army, and the First and Second Artillery Regiments under the Artillery Command commanded a total of more than 50,000 people under the personal command of Chiang Kai-shek to attack Beijiang.

According to the art of war that Jiang learned from Yueben, it is natural to let the miscellaneous cards take the lead, well, now the Guangdong army is regarded as Sun Yat-sen's cronies, so the lead is Fan Shisheng's Second Army of the Dian Army, Li Liejun's Jiangxi Army and Cheng Qian's Hunan Army, and the former enemy commander-in-chief is Li Liejun, who is very old. Although these three units all have army signs, their actual strength is very small, and the total strength of the three armies plus one army is only 20,000, and the weapons and equipment are very poor.

Li Liejun knew that the troops he led could not fight, so he set up a dangerous defense on the front line of Dakengkou and waited for Shen Hongying to attack first. As a result, Li Yibiao's army came, of course, Shen Hongying's army was also injected with water and meat, and an army was only 5,000 people, that is, the strength of a brigade of the Northern Army and the combat effectiveness of a regiment. In this way, the two half-pounded and eighty-two troops fought inextricably in the mountains around Dakengkou Town for a while, and it was Xie Wenbing who had the upper hand to see the scene, but Li Liejun had the advantage in counting the casualties, after all, the defense was always cheaper. After two battles, Shen Hongying sent He Caijie's army to reinforce, and at the same time, Chiang Kai-shek's main force also arrived, which was four divisions of the Cantonese army and two artillery regiments. In this way, Chiang Kai-shek's forces had an absolute advantage, and the battle could have ended as long as he ordered the three armies to storm Dakengkou. However, Lao Jiang suddenly patted his head and came up with a clever plan.

"Respect, Fuwen, come and see." In the headquarters of the thief army in Dakengkou Town, Chiang Kai-shek was teaching two henchmen and generals in person. "The main force of Shen Wei's department has been attracted by our army to the front line of Dakengkou, and it is expected that Qujiang and Shaoguan must be empty and unprepared, Fuwen, you lead two divisions from Beijiang Xi'an to detour to copy Shen Hongying's back road, respect, you take the second division of Guangdong to reinforce Li Xiagong. But don't forget to defeat Shen Rebellious's troops all at once, I'm going to have a front and back attack! ”

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