Although Wu Fengling brought nearly 10,000 people from Shanxi, including the main force of a brigade stationed in Shijiazhuang, but in the face of Wang Ruxian's attack of more than 10,000 people is still very difficult, Wang Ruxian in order to rescue Wang Yingkai can be said to be very hard, at first a brigade went north, and then the entire Eighth Division went north, this is not counted, when the Eighth Division was blocked in Shijiazhuang, it was from Henan Province that the first brigade of the provincial army was transferred to the north, which added up to Wang Ruxian's attack on Shijiazhuang The strength of the army reached more than 16,000 people.

And at this time, Wu Fengling could not continue to send reinforcements from Shanxi to reinforce Shijiazhuang, at this time, the people of the Southern Federation also knew that several major warlords in Beiyang broke out in a civil war, and they all grinded their fists and palms to take advantage of this opportunity to regain the lost territory in one fell swoop, among which Zhao Erxun in the direction of Shaanxi and Gansu made the biggest move, and after he suffered a crushing defeat in the south of Shanxi a few months ago, it can be said that he was lying on his back.

On the one hand, he recruited soldiers with high salaries, and spent a lot of money to buy many foreign guns and cannons, and hired foreign instructors to train the troops, and everywhere he recruited non-commissioned officers and students who returned to Japan, as well as officers from various provinces, and the most important thing is that he can grit his teeth and continue to train this new army when he is losing and retreating at the front. This unit was not rushed into battle.

In the end, half a year has passed, and he has trained a so-called 'Nineteenth Town of the Imperial Army of the Chinese Federal Republic of China', although the soldiers in the town are all new, and the officers are also new and old, but it is still a new army, after going to the Shanxi battlefield for the first time in June, and the troops under the command of Wu Fengling have fought many times, although it is still more defeated and less victorious, but it is much stronger than the old army that was defeated in one blow before.

The combat effectiveness of these nineteen towns is placed in the Beiyang system, which is estimated to be the level of a local provincial army, but among the many troops of the Southern Federation, it has to be ranked in the top three.

Now I see that Wu Fengling has dispatched nearly half of his troops out of Shanxi to participate in the Beiyang Civil War, Zhao Erxun is also commanding his 19th Town to launch a counteroffensive against Shanxi, Wu Fengling's 2nd Division and 1st Brigade of the Shanxi Army left in Shanxi will not be defeated, on the contrary, it can continue to defeat the 19th Town several times, but this Zhao Erxun is like Zeng Guofan during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, repeatedly defeated, and more importantly, this person has been defeated again and again, and spent half a year in the south and west of Shanxi and Wu Fengling, There are more than 20,000 troops defeated by Wu Fengling, but they are still alive and kicking in Shaanxi and Gansu, and the wolf bèi who was beaten by Wu Fengling some time ago escaped from Shanxi, but within a few months, he made a nineteen towns and returned to Shanxi.

Although Zhao Erxun's side did not let Wu Fengling hurt his bones, he also dragged down a large number of his troops, and Wu Fengling's Third Brigade of the Second Division and the First Brigade of the Shanxi Army were dragged in Shanxi and could not reinforce Shijiazhuang.

In this way, Wu Fengling fought the Shijiazhuang side due to the small number of troops.

Speaking of which, in the current warlord warlords in China, in fact, Wu Fengling is the one who is besieged, he is fighting against Zhao Erxun's Nineteenth Town, Wang Ruxian's Eighth Division, the First Mixed Brigade of the Henan Army, and Wang Shizhen's Hubei Army Mixed Brigade in the future, and more importantly, he can't give up no matter which line he is. Needless to say, Shanxi is his Wu Fengling's territory, and he can't give it up no matter what, and he has to defend it even if he dies.

Although the Shijiazhuang front line seems to be working hard for Zhao Dongyun, but let's not mention how much benefit it will be in the future, just say that if you give up now, Wang Ruxian and Wang Shizhen's troops will go north to reinforce Wang Yingkai, and it is impossible for Zhao Dongyun to quickly take down the Beijing division and destroy Wang Yingkai, and if it continues to drag on, Zhang Huaizhi and Duan Qirui's troops will also go north, and the biggest possibility at that time is that Zhao Dongyun will retract back outside the gate again and continue to be his king of the northeast. However, Wu Fengling will definitely be destroyed by Wang Yingkai and Wang Shizhen.

Now that Wu Fengling has joined forces with Zhao Dongyun once, it is impossible for them not to worry that Wu Fengling will join forces with Zhao Dongyun for the second time, and Shanxi is a strategic place, Wang Yingkai dreams of controlling Shanxi, it can be said that Wang Yingkai's attempt on Shanxi is even greater than his attempt on the three eastern provinces.

In this case, what Wu Fengling can do is to continue to die in Shijiazhuang to drag Wang Ruxian and Wang Shizhen, and wait for Zhao Dongyun to be able to solve Wang Yingkai smoothly, once successful, then he will be able to form a real strategic alliance with Zhao Dongyun in the future, when Zhao Dongyun goes down to attack Henan, Shandong, Liangjiang and other regions, he Wu Fengling can also get a large amount of ordnance and military support from Zhao Dongyun, and then swing westward, destroy Zhao Erxun and then control the land of Shaanxi and Gansu, and finally take Sichuan into his pocket, At that time, he may not have the possibility of being on an equal footing with Zhao Dongyun.

Looking at the situation in Liangjiang, Huguang, Shanxi and other provinces, then you will find that there is not much time left for Zhao Dongyun, he cannot slowly besiege the Beijing Division, and then sit back and watch Wu Fengling defeat in Shijiazhuang, if this kind of thing really happens, it will also represent hundreds of thousands of military and political personnel of the Soviet Union, and the dream of more than 100,000 officers and soldiers of the Feng Army will be shattered, and this is unacceptable to Zhao Dongyun, and it is also unacceptable to the military Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan, and even Xiong Xiling, Zhao E and others in the Government Council. It was even unacceptable to the capitalists of the three eastern provinces.

The entry of the Feng army into the customs is not only the matter of the 100,000 soldiers of the Feng army, nor is it the business of Zhao Dongyun alone, in fact, this move is related to the three eastern provinces and the entire northern interest class.

In terms of military and political dignitaries, the generals of the military are all dreaming of the founding heroes, dreaming of commanding the army to sweep Kyushu and unify China, and those civilian officials are also counting on entering the customs to preside over the central government and becoming real cabinet bosses.

And those capitalists also hope that after entering the customs, the government will be able to immigrate a large number of people from the customs to the three eastern provinces, and then develop agriculture in the northeast, especially the soybean industry. In addition to this, the capitalists want to break the current situation of warlords fighting each other, and the provinces set up many checkpoints with each other, so that their products can be bought in more provinces.

Looking at Zhao Dongyun only from the perspective of military and politics, you will think that Zhao Dongyun's urgent entry into the customs to compete for Zhili is because of the chaos of the situation in the south and Duan Qirui's expansion, but if you look deeper, then you will find that there are actually deeper reasons to promote the entry of the entire Soviet system.

And the main reason for this is the economic aspect.

Wang Yingkai blocked the immigration channels of the three eastern provinces, and also set up a large number of checkpoints in Zhili, especially Tangshan, to collect centigold and commercial taxes, although this move is ordinary in China, otherwise how do you think Wang Yingkai can afford to raise so many troops in one province, but this behavior is a heavy blow to the economy of the three eastern provinces that rely on exports.

The economy of the three eastern provinces of this era is not very good, the main pillar economy is mainly based on soybeans, and now the Northeast soybean has successfully landed in Japan's capital, the European market, but in fact the domestic market is still the mainstream, more than sixty percent of the output of soybeans in the Northeast is absorbed by the domestic provinces, and at the same time, the cotton textile industry in the Northeast has been vigorously developed in recent years, and nearly half of the cotton cloth is sold to the northern provinces of the country.

In addition, there are other products produced in industrial zones such as Tangshan and Huludao, in fact, most of the product markets are not in the three eastern provinces, but in China, especially in several northern provinces, such as the famous Fuyuan cigarettes. The cigarette company's market once spread to the whole country, but after the republic last year, it suffered a heavy blow in the south, the reason is very simple, this Fuyuan company is Zhao Dongyun's industry, so let alone continue to sell, even the branch offices in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places have been seized by the Southern Federation.

Subsequently, he was forced to rely on the market under the control of the northern republican government, but Wang Yingkai set up a checkpoint on the Jingfeng Railway at this time and charged a high amount of money.

Nowadays, the cost of shipping many products from the three eastern provinces, including soybeans, cotton cloth, cigarettes, and even other light industrial products, has risen rapidly.

In this situation, Wang Yingkai doesn't even need to send troops to attack Zhao Dongyun, as long as the Jingfeng Railway is stuck, the immigrants are cut off, and the checkpoint is raised, it is enough to make Zhao Dongyun unable to operate the territory of the three eastern provinces, and he can't even develop the territory, so how can he expand the army and fight for hegemony!

With the economic stimulus and the encouragement of the military generals, even the civilian system was inclined to enter the customs, which completely led the Feng army to enter the customs in a big way.

It can be said that the battle to enter the customs is where the hope of the entire interest class of the Soviet system lies, and Zhao Dongyun does not want to see himself escape back to the customs again in disgrace.

"There is not much time left for us, and the speed of the front-line troops going south should be accelerated!" When Zhao Dongyun spoke, he still looked at the map and didn't look back: "The Second Cavalry Brigade doesn't need to delay too much in Langfang, and it doesn't have to care about Wang Zhanyuan's Seventh Division, and it goes directly south to Shijiazhuang." ”

Yang Deming said at this time: "The Second Cavalry Brigade had many non-combat losses in the first half of the month, and the losses of war horses were relatively large. ”

Zhao Dongyun frowned when he heard this: "Didn't the Second Cavalry Brigade rest in Baodi for a day, why didn't there be a follow-up battle, why hasn't it recovered yet?" ”

Yang Deming immediately explained: "In the first battle of Lizhuang, although the Second Cavalry Brigade did not suffer many losses, in the follow-up pursuit operation, the Second Cavalry Brigade lost a lot of troops in order to pursue the enemy, and a considerable number of war horses died during the march!" ”

Zhao Dongyun also had to ponder carefully for a while before he said: "In this case, let the Second Cavalry Brigade rest in Langfang for a day, and after a day, we must quickly go south to reinforce Shijiazhuang!" ”