Chapter Seventy-Six: Where to Go From Here

"Sichuan...... Hunan...... Fujian. Chang Ruiqing repeated the names of these three places in a low voice, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he began to weigh the gains and losses repeatedly in his heart.

This time he led his troops south, which was a good opportunity for him to get rid of the control of the Beiyang central government and transform into an independent warlord! But you have to choose an ideal base area.

The main battlefield of the Protector War in history was in Hunan, where the Hunan army, the Yunnan army, the Guangdong army, and the Gui army fought a series of bloody battles with the Beiyang Army...... The water on the battlefield in Hunan is too deep, and there are too many giants, and even if a small mixed brigade commander goes there, he probably won't be able to let go.

And Sichuan Province is a big province, not only the power of the local Sichuan army, but also the men and horses of the Yunnan army and the Guizhou army, and the strength of gangs like Brother Pao that should not be underestimated. The strength of the Beiyang family there is relatively weak, and the historical Sichuan Protector War is the Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou tripartite alliance war against Liu Cunhou, who supported the Beiyang government, and the final result is that Liu Cunhou's army was defeated out of Sichuan, and the Sichuan warlords of the Kuomintang family temporarily controlled the military and political power in Sichuan. If you enter Sichuan by yourself, how sure can you pacify the whole Sichuan with the strength of a mixed brigade? I'm afraid it's less than 12 out of 10, right? In addition, there is a trouble that I have to consider, in history, the world of the Anhui system is only two or three years, and when the Anhui system falls, I am isolated in Sichuan, and I am trapped at home and abroad......

The last battlefield is Fujian! The situation in Fujian is relatively simple, there are no strong warlords on the mainland, only the navy and some militia groups that are not weak in combat effectiveness...... However, after all, the navy could not go ashore, and the militia group was not as good as the regular army after all. At that time, Li Houji relied on one brigade and two regiments to bring Fujian into his hands, which shows the weakness of Fujian's local strength.

And now, this Li Houji's strength is not very strong, but it is just the strength of four mixed brigades. One of the 11th Mixed Brigades of the Central Army is Xu Chongzhi's old unit, and Li Houji is an enemy at all. Although Zang Zhiping, the commander of the 14th Mixed Brigade of the Central Army, was also a member of the Anhui family, he did not sell Li Houji's accounts, and was even a little pro-Kuomintang; Only the 10th Mixed Brigade of the Central Army and the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Fujian Army were expanded from Li Houji's old unit, and the two brigade commanders, Tang Guomo and Yao Jianping, were Li Houji's henchmen.

Relying on this little force, Li Houji did not have the strength to resist the attack of the Gui warlords and the Kuomintang in Liangguang, so in history, at the beginning of the Protectorate War, Duan Qirui sent him a reinforcement, which was Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade. As a result, Feng Yuxiang's soldiers staged a mutiny against the civil war when they arrived in Pukou, and did not reach Fujian at all...... Sun Yat-sen sent Chen Jiongming with 10 battalions of the Guangdong army to invade Fujian with the Shengtao Department of the Yunnan army, and defeated more than 20 counties in southwest Fujian in one go, which became the base for the Kuomintang to attack Liangguang and eliminate the old Gui warlords in the future.

After Chen Jiongming's rebellion in 1923, Xu Chongzhi's division of the Second Army of the Guangdong Army, which was loyal to Sun Yat-sen, was able to seize Fujian with a defeated army and expel Li Houji after the failure of the counterattack on Guangzhou! It shows that Li Houji is also a weak and vulnerable paper tiger!

Another point, Zhejiang, a neighboring province of Fujian, is also the territory of the Anhui system, and the fourth and tenth divisions of the Anhui system are stationed there. As for Jiangxi, another neighboring province, there are no hard hands in history, whether it is Chen Guangyuan, who is about to go to Jiangxi to take office (the appointment has not yet been announced), or Cai Chengxun, who is later, they are all paper tiger-level warlords. It will not pose any threat to Fujian.

And the only thing that made Chang Ruiqing a little uncertain was how to deal with the relationship with the Kuomintang after arriving in Fujian? At present, most of the local forces there support the Kuomintang, and they also recognize Sun Yat-sen, an "old tease", and if they want to go to Fujian for development, they will naturally have to deal with the Kuomintang!

In this era, it is impossible to avoid the **oss of this Republic of China era, since it can't be avoided, it's better to start contacting it earlier!

The Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen are not general, and there is even more Chiang Kai-shek! Hehe, instead of letting him usurp the party, it's better to usurp it yourself! In this way, the future cooperation between the KMT and the CPC will be much more harmonious. As long as these two parties can fight without tearing their faces, China will be better mixed than in history......

Seeing that Chang Ruiqing didn't speak for a while, Xu Shuzheng couldn't help but cough softly. Chang Ruiqing's body moved, turned his head and glanced at Xu Shuzheng, and then he recovered from his thoughts.

The future is bright, but there are many things to do...... I tied up the ticket of the little emperor, and the ransom issue is still bargaining, but this large amount of money is the key to opening the situation in time after I go south! You have to do everything you can. In addition, Xu Shuzheng handed over the errand of rescuing Pu Yi and exterminating the Red Brigade to himself, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd, would he be testing himself? No matter what, he must find a way to clean up his relationship with the Red Brigade, and he must also give Xu Shuzheng an explanation...... It's not that I'm afraid that he will be exempted from the errand of his 31st mixed brigade commander, the position of Beiyang Warrior is not so easy to dismiss! Xu Shuzheng's words are just for Wang Shizhen to hear. However, in the future, the Red Brigade will have to do a lot of things that offend the Great Powers, and if the Great Powers find out that they are the masterminds behind the scenes, it will not be easy for this day!

The expansion of the model regiment into a mixed brigade should also be done as soon as possible, after all, the barrel of a gun is the foundation of a qiē! A mixed brigade, two regiments of infantry, plus a battalion of artillery, engineers, baggage, and cavalry, and then find a way to add a guard battalion and a supplementary battalion, there are almost twelve battalions, and the total strength should be six or seven thousand people! To become an army in five months, the task is still quite heavy.

In the end, the Red Brigade must also seize the time to develop, and after the "kidnapping of Pu Yi" this time, the name of the Red Brigade can be regarded as standing. However, its strength has not increased, and its head is still about 30...... And the Beiyang government is already preparing to suppress this organization! If this weak revolutionary force is expanded, it will be a real headache.

He concentrated some energy, put aside a bunch of troublesome things first, smiled at Xu Shuzheng, and replied: "Gong Zheng, the student has thought about it again and again, and feels that the key to this assessment of the southwest is to seize Guangdong!" Guangdong is the key to maintaining the army on which the southwestern heroes depend, and once Guangdong is lost, the southwest will lose the financial resources for maintaining the army, and the troops will disperse without pay, and the Gui army and the Yunnan army stationed in Guangdong will inevitably collapse without a fight, and the remaining Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Hunan forces will naturally not be worried. Therefore, the students want to go to Fujian this time, and they are ready to find an opportunity to copy the money bag of the Guizhou department - Guangdong! ”

"A mixed brigade dares to fight Guangdong? What a guts! Xu Shuzheng smiled, stretched out his hand and patted Chang Ruiqing's arm: "I'm not as optimistic as you, to take Guangdong, at least a few divisions are needed...... However, I will still send you to Fujian, and my plan is to transfer the Fourth Division and the Fourth Division into Fujian, supplemented by the four local mixed brigades in Fujian and your 31st mixed brigade, with a total of more than 60,000 troops, which should be able to capture Guangdong in one fell swoop! Yaoru, you are still the vanguard in this battle, fight beautifully, and when you level the southwest, there is always an errand for a division commander. ”

Chang Ruiqing's body shook and made a gesture of gratitude. But in my heart, I couldn't help but lament for Beiyang, Xu Shuzheng's plan is logically completely feasible. With the little soldiers of the old Gui department, the two Beiyang Central Army divisions (in history, these two elite divisions of the Anhui system refused to move their nests), plus the five mixed brigades, how could they all be drawn! And on the other side of Hunan, there is still an elite such as the third division of the direct line in history...... However, there is no doubt what the final result of this battle of military reunification will be.

Although later history textbooks said that the war ended in failure, in Chang Ruiqing's view, it was the Beiyang government that really failed......

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