Jiang Gui worked hard to attack Wuzhou, not because he wanted to work hard for Zhao Dongyun, but because he needed to reflect the value of him and the Sixth Mixed Brigade.

In the original negotiations between Zhao Dongyun and Jiang Guidi, the conditions for the negotiation were that Jiang Guidi's Sixth Mixed Brigade would obey the dispatch of the central authorities, and the central authorities would be responsible for the military expenses and personnel replenishment of the Sixth Mixed Brigade.

And to reflect his own value, the simplest thing is to let Zhao Dongyun see that he Jiang Gui can fight, and his Sixth Mixed Brigade can also fight.

Only the troops that can fight are valuable, and the generals who win the battle are worthy of Zhao Dongyun's wooing.

Because of this factor, Jiang Guidi's attack on Wuzhou was still very hard.

On the one hand, Jiang Guidi's Sixth Mixed Brigade itself did not have many troops, and it was impossible to put all the troops into the front line in a war, and the logistical auxiliary forces could not go up, and at the same time a part of the reserve had to be left, so Jiang Guidi actually only invested one regiment in the first day of the attack.

The defense of Wuzhou was the 13th Brigade of Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division, which, like most of the main forces of the warlords of the present era, was overstaffed, with only two regiments in a brigade, but three regiments in one brigade, in addition to the 25th and 26th regiments, there was also a supplementary regiment.

The additional establishment of supplementary regiments and supplementary brigades generally exists in the descendants of the major warlords, such as the former Duan Qirui's Fourth Division, the Second Mixed Brigade, Wu Fengling's Second Division, Wang Shizhen's Sixth Division, and Zhao Erxun of the Southern Federation.

Of course, Wang Zhanyuan's Seventh Division couldn't be the same as Duan Qirui, and directly assigned the Seventh Division a mixed brigade with full strength and artillery, and the artillery and heavy machine guns he had on hand were limited, so he could only simply expand the number of infantry.

After more than a year of looting, Wang Zhanyuan's Seventh Division actually had a very large number of troops, and most of them were simple infantry, and its two brigades were subordinate not to two infantry regiments, but to three infantry regiments, in addition to two additional guard regiments led by the division headquarters.

Then he also learned from the Feng army to expand a large number of auxiliary units such as baggage and engineering, and the ordinary warlord troops were all division-affiliated baggage battalions and engineering battalions, but he was engaged in a baggage regiment and engineering regiment, and the number of them was more than 2,000 regimental levels.

And the key thing is that although Wang Zhanyuan has improved the logistics of baggage, Wang Zhanyuan's idea, like other warlords, is to use these baggage and engineering troops as infantry.

In these ways of vigorously expanding the infantry, the total strength of the 7th Division has exceeded 30,000.

Such a seventh division has more total strength than the fourth division at its peak, and the nineteenth town of Zhao Erxun of the Southern Federation, which is similar in number to the number of troops, is not like it.

Because the Nineteenth Town of Zhao Erxun of the Southern Federation is not a simple infantry division, but also has two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade, even if the infantry brigade has a large number of horses, this is a mixed force combining infantry and cavalry.

The 13th Brigade under the Seventh Division has three regiments, plus other auxiliary troops, with a strength of nearly 10,000 troops, and although this Seventh Division is not the Seventh Division of Feng Guozhang's era, it has some old Beiyang foundation, coupled with Wang Zhanyuan's strong training, in fact, the combat effectiveness of this army is still good, in 1907 when he was in Bazhou, Wang Zhanyuan's Seventh Division has proved that this unit can compete with the main division of the Feng Army. 、

Although the number of the Seventh Division has declined in the past two years, on the other hand, the number of the Seventh Division is more, and Wang Zhanyuan has such a force under his hands, and he is reckless when he loots local money on weekdays, and he almost tossed northern Zhejiang half to death, and some of this money was deposited by him in the foreigner's bank in case of accidents, and most of it was invested by him in raising and expanding the army.

Not to mention anything else, at least Wang Zhanyuan is still very willing in terms of soldiers' salaries, because he himself knows that because his seventh division does not have a fixed territory, the soldiers running around must have great complaints, and if you want to keep the soldiers wandering around with him Wang Zhanyuan, there is really no other way except money.

The Seventh Division in 1909, although the overall situation was not as good as that of the 1907 Zhifeng War, was not comparable to that of ordinary provincial armies, and now it is basically impossible for Jiang Guidi to break through the position of the 13th Brigade with just one regiment.

And Jiang Guidi himself didn't think that he would make any big breakthroughs in the first day of the attack, his purpose was actually very simple, he was just doing a fire reconnaissance.

He wanted to find out the deployment of troops and firepower of the 13th Brigade on the opposite side, especially the deployment of technical weapons such as artillery and heavy machine guns.

As long as you find out the strength and firepower deployment of the 13th Brigade on the opposite side, then he will have a credit to Jiang Guidi.

The next day, the commander of the Second Army, Army General Xu Bangjie, also arrived in Wuzhou with the rest of the Second Army, mainly the Tenth Division.

In the face of Xu Bangjie, his former Beiyang junior, Jiang Guidi, a veteran, did not rely on the old and sell the old, but reported to Xu Bangjie yesterday's fire reconnaissance situation as a subordinate general.

Xu Bangjie looked at this map of the enemy's strength and firepower deployment in Wuzhou, and nodded secretly in his heart, although this Jiang Gui said that he was not very famous in the civil war in the past two years, and his fame was far less than that of those famous generals in the northern and southern armies, but Jiang was still old and spicy, and it only took one day to start the battle to almost touch the details of the enemy army on the opposite side.

Jiang Gui, a veteran, was born in the Twist Army, and later joined the Qing Army and the Twist Army to fight, and went to Xinjiang to suppress the Hui Rebellion, participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, suppressed the boxing and bandit rebellion, and then transferred to Jiangbei to form the Jiangfang Army, after the republic, the department was reorganized into the Sixth Mixed Brigade, and was put into the Anhui Army all the way south from Jiangsu, and successively transferred to Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces.

But he is different from many veterans, although he is old, he is not pedantic, and he accepts new things quickly, otherwise he would not have been pulled by Yuan Shikai to train the new army.

Don't look at the fact that he played front-loading guns in his early years, but now he plays starting gun coordination, and his heavy machine gun tactics are not much worse than other young generals.

Since Jiang Guidi had already figured out the enemy's strength and firepower deployment in Wuzhou in advance, after the troops of the 10th Division arrived, Xu Bangjie did not hesitate too much, and soon ordered the 10th Division and the 6th Mixed Brigade to launch a large-scale attack on Wuzhou together.

This attack was different from Jiang Guidi's previous small-scale fire reconnaissance attack, and Xu Bangjie invested as many as three regiments of troops in the first attack.

Under the cover of follow-up artillery, these infantry launched a tidal attack towards Wuzhou.

As one of the three most prestigious main divisions of the Feng Army, the 10th Division had already begun to expand its 1908 establishment as early as when the Jiangnan Campaign was still going on, and by now in 1909, the 10th Division has already completed the expansion, and its soldiers and weapons and equipment are the most standard 1908 type of establishment in the Feng Army, with a total strength of more than 18,000 troops.

Together with the more than 7,000 men of the 6th Mixed Brigade, the Feng army invested more than 25,000 troops in the Wuzhou direction.

Not only did the strength far surpass the 13th Brigade defending Wuzhou, but it also had an absolute advantage in heavy weapons and equipment, and the 10th Division and the 6th Mixed Brigade of the Feng Army attacking Wuzhou together had more than 40 75-mm barreled artillery pieces and 8 57-mm barreled artillery pieces, as well as a large number of mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns.

In terms of the density of firepower, the 13th Brigade on the opposite side could not resist at all.

The gap between the two sides was so large that it was reasonable that the 13th Brigade in the direction of Wuzhou was defeated, and the 13th Brigade under Wang Zhanyuan only held out in Wuzhou for four days, and then began a large-scale retreat.

After taking the east gate of Wuzhou and Guangxi, it means that the entire hinterland of Guangxi has been opened to the Feng army, which is of great strategic significance for the subsequent westward advance of the Feng army.

When Xu Bangjie led the Second Army into Guangxi, several other units of the Feng army also launched attacks in other directions.

In the direction of Hunan, it is the number one main force in the Feng army: the Fourth Army.

After Meng Enyuan led the Fourth Army to occupy Pingxiang, the Third Division, its vanguard force, went straight to Xiangtan.

Xiangtan, although it is only a county, is one of the three largest cities in contemporary Hunan, and it is an important commercial and economic center of Hunan.

Aside from its economic and political status, it is also the southern gate of Changsha, the governor of Hunan Province, where the Southern Federation has stationed at least 20,000 troops, and if the Feng army wants to conquer Changsha, then Xiangtan is an obstacle that cannot be bypassed.

With the Feng army's march into Hunan, Hunan also lost its original tranquility, and like the cities in the east and north, it suffered the trauma of war.

After the republic in 1906, most of the provinces in the country, especially the eastern coastal provinces, were traumatized by the war, and Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Guangxi were all successively subjected to many warlords' wars.

However, the northeastern, southwestern, and western provinces were not threatened by war, and the northeast was the hometown of the Feng army, and after 1906, only the Feng army fought others, and no warlord was able to advance the front to the northeast. Xinjiang, Gansu and other places in the western region also kept peace because Zhao Erxun firmly blocked the Jin army in Shaanxi.

The three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan in the southwest are also far away from the battlefield.

It's just that as the strength of the Feng army became bigger and bigger, after defeating the Anhui army, it continued to march to the west, and finally burned the war to Hunan.