"Urgent!" Today's weather is fine, and I just wanted to go out to experience it, Zhao Yun, who the northerners call the "Slip Bend" activity, was pulled back by an urgent report from the front.

Zhao Yun held the letter, in a good mood, and asked Shao Lao Er beside him, "Tut-tut! Lao Shao, do you think Wu Peifu will be Li Zicheng or Wu Sangui this time? ”。

Shao Lao Er took the letter and looked at it, and couldn't help grinning. Wu Peifu finally came to his senses!

If Timur wants to deal with Wu Peifu alone, it is estimated that there will be results within a year, but with Xu Shichang, a sleek and sophisticated Beiyang veteran, as the leader, and he is pushed to the presidency by the Anhui Anfu Congress, this will be equivalent to the Anhui lineage, the Feng line, the direct lineage, and the Mongolian system all aiming their guns at Wu Peifu.

When Wu Peifu was blocked by Zhang Huzi outside the Shanhai Pass, he found that he was Li Zicheng, who was blocked by the Northeast Army under the Shanhai Pass, and it was difficult to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

But as soon as June 2 passed, Wu Peifu found that his situation was even worse than Li Zicheng, and he had been demoted from Li Zicheng to Wu Sangui, Jixian County was not in his hands, there was the Northeast Army in front, Wang Chengbin's direct army in the back, and the Mongolian Army in the north, leaving only the endless sea in the south.

There is only one way to survive, that is, to escape on a naval warship that has not yet mutinied, but the tens of thousands of troops under his command cannot be taken away.

"Wu Peifu Xiaoer, this time I can't eat and go around!" Zhang Huzi hummed Peking Opera, he was in a very good mood, and he smiled at his henchman Yang Yuting and gave Wu Peifu a verdict!

Yang Yuting is not a good person, at that time in April, Zhang Huzi was instigated by the main battle faction led by him, and made up his mind to fight with his direct family. At that time, compared with the strength of the Zhifeng army, the Feng army was weaker than the direct army in numbers, but in some areas of Jixian County, the Feng army was stronger than the direct army, so Yang Yuting encouraged Zhang Hu Zishuai to have a total strength of 5 divisions, 23 mixed brigades, and 3 special forces in the three eastern provinces and three special zones, with about 200,000 people. Although there were 300,000 direct troops, it included all the direct troops in the north and south of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and Wu Peifu's subordinates were more than 100,000 people under him, Cao Kun and Wang Chengbin. So on April l0, 1922, Zhang Huzi formed the "Zhenwei Army". He served as the commander-in-chief, with Yang Yuting as the chief of the general staff. The general headquarters is located in the military grain city, and the front-line headquarters is located in the Zhongzhou Hall in Hebei Province, Tianjin. Zhang Huzi was full of confidence, but he didn't expect Wu Peifu to slap himself a few loud times on the spot, which made the Feng army lose their armor and abandon their armor, and became the laughing stock of warlords from all walks of life in the land of China for a while. Even the Japanese who secretly supported Zhang Huzi couldn't look at Zhang Huzi's appearance, with superior firepower and local troops, and they could only rely on Shanhaiguan, the first pass in the world, to resist Wu Peifu's attack. If it weren't for Timur, a Mongol, who had inserted a pole, it is estimated that Wu Peifu would have been able to transfer all his troops and horses to attack Shanhaiguan.

In the past few days, Zhang Hu was so anxious that his mouth was foaming, and bad news came in one after another, and even the Japanese behind him had the meaning of changing to "support people". Now, Zhang Huzi has regained his confidence and has the idea of fighting Wu Peifu again.

"Dashuai, this game of chess in front of you is not finished yet!" Compared with Zhang Huzi's satisfaction, Yang Yuting is much more cautious.

"Why does this kid Wu Peifu still have a chance to turn around?" Zhang Huzi trusted his "right-hand man" very much, and although he was unwilling to accept this assumption, he still calmed down and listened to Yang Yuting's analysis.

Yang Yuting dragged a map of North China drawn by the Japanese, pointed to the mountains and rivers on it and said, "Dashuai, it is difficult to say who is in favor of the current situation. Although we surrounded Wu Peifu from the shape of the shì, and in the long run this person will be defeated, but in the short term, the advantage at hand is still very obvious.

Marshal, please see, Wu Peifu's army has its back to the sea, and with the warships on the sea, it can ensure that the back road is worry-free, and even life-saving military rations can be transported from Shandong to delay the time of defeat. If the Mongols had come to attack Wu Peifu before his army ran out of food, then the Battle of Qinhuangdao would have been another Battle of Baliqiao.

If the Mongols don't attack, then Wu Peifu can also go south to Tianjin to find Wang Chengbin for a decisive battle.

Moreover, if the Mongols came to assist, Wu Peifu could completely hide within the range of the warship's artillery, and the Mongols, who lacked heavy weapons, would definitely have nothing to do with him.

What's more, you see, this Wu Peifu is within our encirclement, but the soldiers and horses in the hands of Cao Kun in Baoding are still intact, and Wu Peifu can also let Cao Kun lead the troops and his north and south to attack Wang Chengbin, if Wang Chengbin is put down, then with the "toilet" general, those who will not defend the city will be able to resist Wu Peifu's attack? It is estimated that as long as he ascends to the top and shouts, those direct troops will return to his command.

And once there is the return of the main force of the direct army, then Wu Peifu is still afraid of those sparsely populated Mongols, those Mongols are really willing to fight to the death with him, how many people are there in our Han people, and how many people are there in those Mongols? Don't look at the Mongols who seem to be commanded by the marshal now, they have become the main force in the coalition against Wu Peifu, according to the estimation of his subordinates, if Wang Chengbin is defeated, the first reaction of those Mongols is to run back to Mobei. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Huzi, who had suffered from Wu Peifu, suddenly became worried, "If these Mongolians run back to Mobei, it will be a good thing, after all, Lao Tzu's crisis has been resolved." But what are the chances that they will get nervous and run to attack Wu Peifu's barracks. ”

"It's hard to say!" Hearing Zhang Huzi's assumption, Yang Yuting also looked bitter and shook his head, "The Mongols have always acted unreliable, and they are proud when they win a battle. ”

Zhang Huzi heard Yang Yuting mention the monk king, he couldn't help frowning, Timur had never dealt with this person before, but judging from the time when the Mongolian army entered Jixian County, this Timur's behavior was indeed quite Mongolian, very unreliable, Kou Yingjie, who had defeated Kou Yingjie, who had a heavy army, did not go to copy Wu Peifu's back road, but led the cavalry to attack the city! If you choose one or two, the small county towns around Jixian County, it can be regarded as a normal person's reaction. But with an old brain, he gave up the periphery and went straight to Jixian County, which was high and deep, which was obviously not used as cavalry, but as infantry.

When encountering such a Mongolian general who does not play according to the routine, Zhang Huzi really has no bottom in his heart, and he feels even more headache than meeting Wu Peifu. That sentence, not afraid of god-like opponents, but afraid of pig-like teammates, is just right to apply to Zhang Huzi's body at this time.

Zhang Beard is unreliable for himself

The "subordinates" are worried, don't bury the good shape. His old rival Wu Peifu was sleepless day and night, working overtime to direct the team to dig trenches, pull barbed wire, and prepare for battle.

Wu Peifu is not a fool, his own 50,000 or 60,000 people on the North China Plain are not the opponent of the Mongolian cavalry at all, if he just blindly escapes, then even if he hits Tianjin, then his logistics and baggage will not be surnamed "Wu" but "Song".

As for Zhang Huzi's plan to let Wu Peifu run out of grain and grass and be surrounded and surrender, Wu Peifu also had his own plans in his heart.

Although the number of the Mongolian army is not more than 10,000 people, but it is all cavalry, and the daily consumption of people chewing horses and swallowing is not less than their own 50,000 or 60,000 people, plus Wang Chengbin, Wang Huaiqing and others, as well as the Feng army who was captured before, there are no less than 150,000 troops from all walks of life now standing on Timur's side, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is close to the consumption of 200,000 troops.

At this time, it has passed May, entered June, the family is rural, everyone knows that June is the time of the green and yellow, if Jixian County is like in previous years, then it is still easy to say, but this year has increased the consumption of this equivalent to 200,000 troops, and the storage of grain is very fast. Therefore, Wu Peifu's heart is not in a hurry, he has the first navy in China at this time, and the second navy is far away in Guangdong. He can completely use the navy escort to purchase food from Qingdao and other places, although it is a drop in the bucket, but it is better than nothing, and it can also bring hope to his soldiers.

However, this strategy of taking advantage of the time and place to drag down the Mongol army was completely bankrupt from the beginning, because he was still looking at the Mongol army with his previous eyes. Under Zhao Yun's interference, the Mongol army had no logistics at all, and with the food provided by the camp mill, the captured and surrendered troops were also well fed and drunk, and burst out with a very strong force. Not to mention that after Zhao Yun occupied Jiangnan, he organized manpower at the first time, and provided a large number of military uniforms to his direct family under the pretext of "alleviating the contradiction between the north and the south".

At Timur's signal, Wang Chengbin, Wang Huaiqing and others were happy to accept it, and even with the Qi Governor's army, there was nowhere to fire, so they could only bow their heads as if they couldn't see it. After all, Wu Peifu and Zhao Yun are abscesses, and the other is mustard, and the Qi Overseers can still tell the difference.

With the supplies in the south of the Yangtze River, the food and clothing of the army led by Timur on the front line were very guaranteed, especially the distribution of dried meat in Jingjiang, so that those malnourished direct troops directly maintained high respect for Timur, and even improved their combat effectiveness to a certain extent, minimizing their previous antipathy that Timur was a Mongol.

Finally rested for a week, and the sandstorm was blowing, Zhao Yun set off again, ordering Timur's army to move and go straight to Wu Peifu.

When he heard that Timur was really going to Wu Peifu, Zhang Huzi almost fell to the ground. The current situation is really as Yang Yuting said, the Mongols are proud of their victory. Just finished fighting Jixian, they were in a hurry to find Wu Peifu, didn't the Mongols know that the cavalry was not much stronger than the infantry in the mountains, and they rushed to deliver food to Wu Peifu?

Zhang Huzi really can't guess what these "Mongols" think!