When the Southern Federation retreated from Liangjiang, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces, it left more than 100,000 or 200,000 prisoners to the Anhui army, and also left a large number of rifles, artillery and other weapons and ammunition for the Anhui army.

After the Anhui army seized a lot of ammunition and prisoners from the Southern Federation, it swelled to more than 100,000 people in just half a year.

However, now that the Anhui army has retreated from Jiangnan, it has also left tens of thousands of prisoners to the Feng army, plus tens of thousands of rifles, pistols, hundreds of advanced artillery, and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, which are more strategically valuable.

Relying on these captures, the Feng army was able to expand rapidly after the Jiangnan Campaign, and it was only possible to rebuild the 4th Mixed Brigade and expand the 16th Division, and give the 8th, 11th, and 13th Divisions this possibility.

With these weapons and equipment that originally belonged to the Anhui army, the Feng army quickly expanded the troops of at least 100,000 people, and after the overall strength of the Feng army increased, the number of troops that could be used naturally increased.

The Feng army, which had sufficient troops and weapons and ammunition, once again launched a southern offensive, and took northern Zhejiang without much effort, which was regarded as completely controlling the Yangtze River Delta, a tax-bearing area, and then the Feng army continued to march towards southern Zhejiang and southern Anhui.

Correspondingly, Duan Qirui was also forced to retreat to southern Zhejiang, and at the same time transferred troops from Fujian and Guangdong to Jiangxi and southern Zhejiang, trying to resist the next offensive of the Feng army.

But can they stop it?

I don't know what others think of Zhao Dongyun, but in Zhao Dongyun's own opinion, the resistance of the Anhui army is already yesterday's yellow flower, and it is impossible to encounter any practical resistance in the next southward battle.

Since the Feng army took northern Zhejiang and marched into southern Anhui, Zhao Dongyun's eyes have shifted to the whole country from the Anhui army.

For the future Su lineage, including the Anhui lineage, the other Wu Fengling, Wang Shizhen, Zhang Zhidong, and Wang Zhanyuan are all enemies.

Needless to say, the Anhui and Zhang Zhidong have irreconcilable contradictions with them.

The war between the Anhui and Soviet factions is not only a war between warlords for territory, but also a war for the status of the boss of Beiyang. This contradiction between Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun is even more direct and fierce than the contradiction between Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun at the beginning, unless either side of Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun gives up fighting for the position of the boss of Beiyang and gives up the opportunity and ambition to unify China, otherwise the contradiction between them will be irreconcilable.

As for the contradiction between the Soviet Union and the Southern Federation, this is a contradiction in political differences, and you must know that there are two governments in China today, one is the Republic of China under the control of Beiyang. The other is the Empire of the Federal Republic of China controlled by the former Qing ministers such as Zhang Zhidong and Duanfang, and the large landlord group of the Han people in the south.

The contradiction between the Soviet Union and the Southern Federation is, by extension, the contradiction between the Beiyang and the Southern Federation, and unless one of them completely falls, there is no possibility of reconciliation.

And this will not change because the faction within Beiyang controls Beiyang, when Wang Yingkai controls Beiyang, Beiyang and the Southern Federation are enemies and are fighting. Now that Zhao Dongyun is in control of Beiyang, Beiyang and the Southern Federation are also at war, assuming that Zhao Dongyun is defeated in the future, and Beiyang people such as Duan Qirui or Wu Fengling come to power to control Beiyang, then Beiyang will still fight with the Southern Federation.

There are two reasons for the frequent wars of many warlords in China today: one is the internal contradiction of Beiyang, and the other is the contradiction between Beiyang and the Southern Federation.

It's just that for Zhao Dongyun, it's nonsense to say anything, he only knows that now China is its own enemy except for himself, and everyone else needs to be destroyed one after another, no matter who stands in the way of his own reunification of China, it needs to be eliminated.

In this regard, Zhao Dongyun already has the determination to fight all over the country, even if the civil war lasts for many years, and the people are killed and injured countless times, no matter what, he needs to unify China.

This is not only his selfishness and desire for power, but also a sense of responsibility for the country and the nation.

At the beginning of the Beiyang army in 1906, what he wanted was to expand more troops, occupy more territory, and worked hard to enter the customs, at that time he would never consider what countries and nations, and he would not care that his rash entry into the customs would completely set off the civil war in Beiyang, and the irreparable loss of property and life would be made to the entire North China.

At that time, Zhao Dongyun never considered how many people would be killed and injured and how many families would be broken up by the civil war he started, and he would not care about the protracted war between himself and other warlords, which might cause a split in China.

However, since the battle of Jiangnan in Fengwan was divided, the Anhui army was defeated, and the Feng army occupied the Jiangnan region, it was announced that the Soviet system had a greater possibility of unifying China.

Today, the Soviet system has completely controlled the three eastern provinces, Mongolia, Zhili, Shandong, Henan, northern Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces, and at the same time, northern Zhejiang is also under the control of the Feng army, and southern Anhui will also join the Soviet family in the near future, the above areas include most of northern China, and also include the important tax center of Jiangnan.

The Soviet Union, which owns the above-mentioned territory, can be said to have controlled most of China, whether it is population, resources, or economy, it occupies most of the domestic share.

In this case, Zhao Dongyun's perspective has expanded from simply expanding the army to occupy more territory to unifying the whole country.

Although the Soviet system currently controls only half of China, it cannot prevent Zhao Dongyun from considering the problem from the perspective of the interests of the whole country.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun will consider more issues related to the interests of the state and the nation, because these are the issues that every ruler must consider.

Now that China is divided, it can be said that it has been in a de facto split for more than two years, and if it continues, it is easy to fall into a situation of complete division, and even if it is a little better, it may form a situation of warlords in the Republic of China in the future.

For Zhao Dongyun, who already regards the whole of China as his bag, he absolutely cannot accept such a situation that may arise in the future.

And this kind of thinking can be said to be Zhao Dongyun's selfish desires, but from another point of view, it can also be seen as Zhao Dongyun's sense of responsibility to the country and the nation.

The same thing, if you look at it from different angles, it is actually completely different.

In order to avoid a protracted civil war that would cause a de facto split in the country and deal too much damage to the country's strength, the Soviets were required to be able to quickly unify China.

In order to achieve rapid reunification of China, military means are necessary, but some political means also need to be used, after all, the struggle for hegemony in the world does not only rely on fighting, killing and killing, sometimes it can also achieve good results by playing lip service.

Militarily, the Feng army continued to attack southern Zhejiang and southern Anhui.

As for politics, Zhao Dongyun continued to woo and appease Wu Fengling and Wang Shizhen, lest they have some kind of cold thoughts when they saw Duan Qirui defeated, once they have this kind of thought, it is difficult to ensure that they will not unite with Duan Qirui and Wang Zhanyuan to fight against themselves.

"On the Shanxi side, we still have to pay attention to the supply of ordnance and ammunition, not more and not less, neither can we let the Jin army be defeated by the Nineteenth Town, but we can't let them hoard too much ammunition and threaten us in turn!" Zhao Dongyun continued: "At present, the situation in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces is still more in line with our strategic requirements! ”

Wu Fengling of Shanxi and Zhao Erxun of Shaanxi and Gansu have come and gone many times in the past two years, although the scale of the war is not as big as that of the Feng army going south and the direct army and the Anhui army, but it is also a few battles with a scale of tens of thousands of people, Wu Fengling personally commanded all of his second division, the two mixed brigades of the Shanxi army and Zhao Erxun's 19th town and other troops in March at the beginning of the year, and as a result, the battle lasted for more than half a month, and both sides failed to make much progress. So after each of them killed and wounded thousands of people, they were forced to fight each other again.

This made Wu Fengling very aggrieved, and he had been in Shanxi for a long time, but now there are still less than 50,000 troops under his command, and there are only more than 10,000 people in the second division who can fight.

Secondly, Shanxi is already barren, and Wu Fengling can't make too much money even if he wants to expand the army, unless he and Wang Zhanyuan directly raid the rich businessmen and landlords in Shanxi without regard for the consequences, but this Shanxi is his basic territory, and it is impossible to mess around like Wang Zhanyuan, on the contrary, he also learned from Zhao Dongyun to put a lot of effort into developing Shanxi's economy, especially relying on the Zhengtai Railway, he supported a lot of factories such as textiles and flour in Taiyuan, and even planned to establish the Taiyuan Arsenal to produce bullets. However, there is a shortage of people and money in his hands, and he can't do it at all, and the current Taiyuan Arsenal is actually at the level of a repair institute, and it is okay to repair guns, and if you want to make a few sample guns, you can barely make a few sample guns, but don't think about it if you don't have a few million yuan to invest in mass production.

In addition to the fact that it is difficult for Wu Fengling to expand the army on a large scale, there is also a last reason for Zhao Dongyun's control of Wu Fengling's ordnance and ammunition.

At present, almost all the sources of weapons and ammunition for the Jin army under Wu Fengling rely on the supply of the Soviet system, although Wu Fengling also spent real money in order to obtain these weapons and ammunition, but sometimes Wu Fengling could not buy them with money.

On the one hand, the production of these heavy weapons is limited, and it is difficult to satisfy the Feng army itself, and on the other hand, Zhao Dongyun is also unwilling to see Wu Fengling have too much advanced equipment.

Therefore, the heavy weapons and equipment have always been strictly controlled, and only when they can't drag on will they sell a small amount of artillery and machine guns to Wu Fengling at a high price, what is this Cheng dù who can't drag on, it generally refers to when Wu Fengling really needs artillery, and does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to purchase from foreign foreign companies, in this case, Zhao Dongyun will generally sell a small amount of artillery to Wu Fengling at a slightly lower price than foreign companies.

After all, if it is not sold to Wu Fengling at all, people will directly ask foreigners to import it, so what, if the money is made by foreigners, it is better for the Su Department to make it themselves, and if it is sold in small quantities and in small quantities, and the price is slightly lower than that of foreign companies, it will be able to effectively control the number of heavy weapons purchased by Wu Fengling such as artillery.

Due to the constraints of various factors such as economy and weapons, Wu Fengling has never been able to really mix up in Shanxi, which is undoubtedly quite depressing for Wu Fengling, who has always had the ambition to compete for hegemony.

Wu Fengling is depressed, and Wang Shizhen is even more depressed than him!