An Yutong, director of the intelligence department, continued: "The first division and the second division of the Jiang Army are all integrated from the Southern Federation, although the personnel are full, but the equipment is relatively messy, and the combat power should be equivalent to the provincial army in the Lu army, but the predecessor of the Jiangbei Mixed Brigade is the Jiangbei Mixed Brigade in the former Qing Dynasty, which was absorbed by Duan Qirui after the surrender of the Nanjing Campaign, although it suffered certain losses before, but the backbone of the old Beiyang era is here, and the personnel have rich combat experience, although the equipment is relatively lacking. But it still has a certain combat effectiveness.

Zhejiang's 1st Mixed Brigade, formerly known as the Zhejiang New Army, was organized as the 18th Town of the Southern Federation last year, and was once one of the main forces of the Southern Federation, but it was heavily damaged by Duan Qirui's Fourth Division in the Battle of Hangzhou, and after surrender, it was reorganized by Duan Qirui into the Zhejiang 1st Mixed Brigade with less than 2,000 people.

In addition, a small number of miscellaneous troops, the intelligence department was limited by its ability to find out one by one, but the total number of remaining miscellaneous personnel would not exceed 5,000, and the equipment situation was rather chaotic. ”

An Yutong's words made everyone else look a little ugly, this Duan Qirui actually dispatched so many troops to the north in just two months, you must know that at this time, Duan Qirui is fighting on two fronts, and he is still fighting in Fujian and Jiangxi and the end of the Southern Federation.

Just like Zhao Erxun, after seeing the Feng army entering the customs in a big way, Duanfang thought it was a godsend, and looted a lot of troops from Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Yunnan-Guizhou and other provinces, organized defense in Xinyu, Fuzhou and other places in central Jiangxi, and also used the mountainous terrain of Fujian to defend to the death, at least for the time being, Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian, is still in the hands of the Southern Federation.

Although the end of the Southern Federation could not launch a counteroffensive against the Anhui army, it was enough to contain the tens of thousands of main forces of the Anhui army, but Duan Qirui still had the strength to block the Feng army from moving south, it is conceivable that Duan Qirui's development speed was far beyond Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun's expectations, although it was not clear that it was not yet known, but the intelligence department believed that the divisional numbers of the Liangjiang Army under Duan Qirui were at least the sixth division.

Although the combat effectiveness of these Liangjiang armies is still to be discussed, it is a fact that Duan Qirui has more than 100,000 troops under his command.

Now that Duan Qirui is at war in Fujian, Liangjiang and the Southern Federation, he can even send 60,000 or 70,000 people north to resist the southward movement of the Feng army, which shows how fast Duan Qirui's Anhui army has expanded.

If it weren't for the entry of the Feng army, Duan Qirui would be greatly afraid, and when the Feng army entered the customs, he began to draw troops from Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places to the north, relying on the advantages of the Anhui army, it is estimated that they will now fight to Guangdong and Guangxi.

Especially after the Fourth Division, the trump card unit under Duan Qirui, was transferred north, the pressure on the Southern Federation troops under Duan Fang was greatly reduced, although they were still defeated and retreated, but they were not as difficult to gather tens of thousands of troops as before, and they were completely defeated by the Fourth Division at once.

In a certain way, Zhao Dongyun's entry greatly relieved the pressure on the Southern Federation, and Zhang Zhidong and Duan Fang should strictly thank Zhao Dongyun for this.

Relatively speaking, he is also one of the Beiyang warlords, Zhang Huaizhi, Wang Shizhen, Wang Ruxian, Wu Fengling, they are much worse than Duan Qirui, Zhang Huaizhi holds Shandong and Anhui provinces, and he can only get out about 30,000 troops, and now he has lost most of the main force in Jinan, Zhang Huaizhi will not end up much better without troops, either defeated and annexed by Zhao Dongyun or will be annexed by Duan Qirui, you must know that Duan Qirui is also coveting the territory of Anhui. It is almost impossible to maintain the same transcendent status as before.

Wang Shizhen was also in the limelight last year and at the beginning of this year, but as time passed, he was unable to cross the Yangtze River to Wuchang on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and his energy was dragged to Wuhan for a long time, using the territory of northern Hubei and southern Henan, his expansion speed was extremely limited, and most of the year passed, but it was only an expansion of one division and one mixed brigade, with a total strength of less than 50,000.

And Duan Qirui's expansion is different from Zhang Huaizhi, Wang Ruxian and others, Zhang Huaizhi's expansion of the army is often a set of old troops, and then expand, for example, the second mixed brigade of the Shandong Provincial Army that was surrounded and annihilated by the Feng army before, the predecessor of the brigade was actually formed by several infantry battalions drawn from the Fifth Division, so that the expansion method can certainly accelerate the formation of combat effectiveness of the new expansion troops, but the impact on the original troops is also great, and it is affected by the scarcity of weapons and equipment and high-ranking officers. It is very likely that the original main forces will become mediocre day by day.

However, the Fourth Division, the absolute main force under Duan Qirui's command, has not been transferred out of the Second Mixed Brigade since it transferred several battalions to form the Second Mixed Brigade last year.

Duan Qirui defeated 200,000 or 300,000 Southern Federation troops in Liangjiang, and the main composition of the Liangjiang Army was actually the prisoners of the Southern Federation.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Division has been extremely well preserved, and even with the increase of combat experience, personnel, technical equipment, and combat effectiveness, the combat effectiveness is even stronger than in the era of Yuan Shikai.

In the process of fighting in the south, Duan Qirui trained a so-called supplementary brigade for the Fourth Division, and this supplementary brigade is a mixed brigade, so the Fourth Division has two infantry brigades, a mixed brigade, a full-fledged artillery regiment, and a cavalry regiment with a thousand cavalry scale, with a total strength of more than 20,000 reinforced divisions.

This can be seen from the fact that Duan Qirui has always personally served as the commander of the Fourth Division, and the weight of the Fourth Division in the Anhui Army.

If the Feng army wants to go south to northern Jiangsu, the first enemy to bear the brunt of it is this fourth division, and although the other Anhui army units also have a certain combat strength, they are far from being able to pose too much threat to the Feng army.

After An Yutong said that he had finished the shape of the Northern Anhui Army, he said the shape of the Henan region: "In the direction of Henan, the remnants of Wang Ruxian's 10,000 people are holding Zhengzhou, but there are still two mixed brigades of Wang Shizhen in Zhengzhou, and the two are combined, and the enemy army in the direction of Zhengzhou is about 20,000 at present. And we have received information that Wang Shizhen has transferred a large number of troops from the Wuhan front line to the north, and the current number of enemy reinforcements is ominous, but the intelligence department is expected to be no less than one division! ”

On the Henan front, in fact, Wang Ruxian has been disabled, although previous wars have not been able to encircle Wang Ruxian's troops and then completely annihilated, each time Wang Ruxian's eighth division can escape, but after previous battles, Wang Ruxian's small 20,000 people have fought until now, some of them have been killed and wounded, and some of them have escaped, and there are only about 10,000 remnants of the defeated generals left, not to mention their hardware equipment, morale alone is already very low, Relying on the remnants of Wang Ruxian's hands, it was absolutely impossible to stop the offensive of the strong Meng Enyuan's First Army, but the successive reinforcements of Wang Shizhen's troops allowed them to stabilize their position. Therefore, the main enemy of the service army in the follow-up Henan War is actually not Wang Ruxian, but Wang Shizhen.

After Zhao Dongyun heard this, he suddenly asked, "What about the Southern Federation, how is the situation now?" What is the situation in Jiangxi, Fujian and Wuhan, and Shaanxi and Gansu? ”

Although I was surprised that Zhao Dongyun would suddenly question the situation of the Southern Federation, although Feng Jun has not directly involved with the Southern Federation, the two are naturally enemies, so the Intelligence Department will naturally not ignore the Southern Federation, so the relevant intelligence collection has always been maintained, but due to the distance between the two sides, the focus of the previous work of the Intelligence Department has been on Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and others, and the intelligence on the Southern Federation is relatively limited.

An Yu Tongdao: "As far as we know, the Southern Federation currently has two towns under the command of Xiliang in the direction of Fujian, namely the fifth town, the sixth town, and the tenth town, with a strength of about 40,000 people. In the direction of Jiangxi and Hunan, there are the 11th, 12th, 16th, and 17th towns under the command of the Duan Fang, as well as a number of mixed associations, with the strength of the two provinces ranging from 100,000 to 130,000. In the direction of Hubei, there are the 8th Town, 21st Town, and 32nd Town led by Zhang Zhidong, with a total strength of about 100,000 troops, and in the direction of Shaanxi and Gansu, there is the 19th Town of Zhao Erxun. ”

An Yutong's intelligence on the Southern Federation is a little vague, it's not that he doesn't want to make it clear, but the intelligence is really limited, plus the number of the Southern Federation's troops is relatively chaotic, last year, the number of the Southern Federation's town-level troops was already more than 30, as for the mixed association of various names, there are more, sometimes hundreds of people dare to pull out a mixed association number, less than a thousand people are called a town, and sometimes more than 20,000 people are also a town, such as Zhao Erxun's nineteenth town, the source is also quite complicated, There is a new army that has been newly organized and trained, there is also a new army adapted from the former fresh army, and there are also patrol battalions, training troops, green battalions and other troops in the former Qing era, in short, there is a mess of everything. Moreover, the troops of the Southern Federation were often defeated and defeated by the Beiyang troops, and after being completely annihilated or defeated, the numbers of many troops disappeared, and then within a few days, a unit with the same number was found in other places, which made it quite difficult for the intelligence department to judge the military strength of the Southern Federation, especially the numbers of specific troops.

Therefore, An Yutong can only give an approximate number, as for the specific strength, let alone An Yutong, it is estimated that even Zhang Zhidong and Duan Fang themselves don't know.

Many Fengjun generals have a very limited understanding of the Southern Federation, and they only know a few well-known Southern Federation troops, such as Zhao Erxun's Nineteenth Town, Zhangzhidong's Eighth Town, and Twenty-first Town, as for the others, they basically have no knowledge.

After hearing this, Zhao Dongyun turned his head and asked Shi Yanglin again: "Does the War Office think that the Southern Federation can block the attack of Duan Qirui's southbound troops?" ”

Shi Yanglin said: "It's very difficult, although Duan Qirui has already dispatched a number of main forces to the north to deal with us, but there are still a lot of troops in the Anhui army in the direction of Fujian and Jiangxi, among which Jiang Guidi's Sixth Mixed Brigade and Duan Qirui's other descendant troops, the Second Mixed Brigade are still fighting in the direction of Jiangxi, plus the assistance of other Liangjiang Army, it is only a matter of time before Jiangxi is completely taken and then killed in Guangdong." ”

"The situation in Wuhan is better, although the army under Zhang Zhidong is not strong in combat, but it is also 100,000, but it can firmly hold Wuchang before, and it is not a big problem to continue to hold it in the future! It is very difficult for Wang Shizhen to break through the Yangtze River and conquer Wuchang! ”

If Wang Shizhen could take Wuchang, he would have fought it a long time ago, so why not fight against each other across the Yangtze River in Wuchang and Zhang Zhidong for more than half a year!

Zhao Dongyun didn't ask any more questions after hearing this, but pondered, and when the others saw Zhao Dongyun's situation, they knew that Zhao Dongyun was already thinking about the overall strategy for the future.

And Fang Biyong, Shi Yanglin and others, they are all waiting for Zhao Dongyun to make the final strategic decision, lead them to victory after victory, and then unify China.