Wang Zhanyuan once again fled under the nose of the Feng army, and the escape was even more crisp than the previous two times, before several troops of the Feng army entered Yingzhou, when Qu Quanqing of the Soviet system was still trying to win over the seventh division, he decided to escape secretly.

This made Qu Quanqing, who wanted to win over Wang Zhanyuan and establish meritorious service, very angry, you must know that it is not easy to mix up in the second section of internal affairs, although he is already a third-class secretary, and his power level is not weaker than that of ordinary local prefects. However, since he is serving in the Central Committee and is still serving in a core department such as the Second Internal Affairs Section of the Secretariat, he would like to continue to move up the ranks in the Second Internal Affairs Section, and if he can be promoted to the second secretary, then he will have a great chance of smoothly transitioning to the position of director of a certain department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As for the first-class secretary, this is not something that ordinary people can hope for, and the four first-class secretaries in the secretariat are all veteran and qualified staff members who have followed Zhao Dongyun for many years, not only are they highly qualified, but they are all important assistants to Zhao Dongyun in handling military and political affairs, and their status is not something that other officials in the Soviet Department can easily replace.

originally thought that Yingzhou and his party would be able to persuade Wang Zhanyuan, and then add a strong stroke to his resume, but he didn't expect that Wang Zhanyuan would be more cautious or more timid than he imagined.

Although the position of governor of Jiangxi said that there would be a conflict with Duan Qirui, if Wang Zhanyuan really agreed to this condition, based on the fact that Wang Zhanyuan would have a war with Duan Qirui for Jiangxi in the future, then Zhao Dongyun in the back would not sit idly by, and it was impossible to directly send troops to reinforce, but he would support some ordnance and ammunition.

And today, more than a year after the outbreak of war in the country, it is not so easy to obtain a large number of affordable ordnance and ammunition, before the four major warlords of Beiyang raised troops last year, there were dozens of large and small arsenals on the surface of the country, but most of them can be directly ignored, it is worth mentioning only the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, Hubei Arsenal (Hanyang Arsenal), Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, these three.

Needless to say, the Hubei Arsenal of the other three has been destroyed in the war between Wang Shizhen and Zhang Zhidong this year, although there are still many machines left, but it is impossible to resume production without three or five million votes.

A few years ago, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau also began to manufacture 88-type rifles, and last year began to produce a small number of 75-millimeter German-style tube-retreat field guns, which was the first arsenal in China that could produce 75-millimeter tube-retreat field guns.

After Duan Qirui captured Shanghai this year, the factory fell into the hands of Duan Qirui without accident, and there was no great loss, and the ordnance and ammunition produced by the factory in the past six months was one of the main sources of ordnance for the Anhui army.

The above three arsenals all have the same characteristic, that is, comprehensive arsenals, all have the ability to mass-produce Type 88 rifles, smokeless gunpowder, artillery and various artillery shells.

As for other arsenals in China, although there are still a lot, but most of them have little impact, such as the Guangdong Manufacturing West Bureau and the Sichuan Manufacturing Bureau, although the two factories have also purchased new machines and started trial production of 88-type rifle guns, but the output is very low, but the level of daily output of one or twenty pieces is only, and the daily output is not enough for a fraction of the daily output of the 88-type rifle guns of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory.

The rest of the Yunnan Manufacturing Bureau, Fujian Manufacturing Bureau, Jiangxi Manufacturing Bureau, etc. have tried a small amount of imitation, but none of them have formed mass production.

Looking at the domestic arms industry, it will be found that in addition to the Feng army, other warlord troops, even the Anhui army, were forced to import a large number of rifles and other weapons. The continuation of the civil war and the collapse of the Hanyang factory further caused the domestic production of self-produced ordnance, when the quantity of imports increased, it also caused more and more high prices, to put it bluntly, since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the price of arms in the Far East has become the highest in the world, so that it has attracted arms dealers from countless countries to seek opportunities to make a fortune.

However, although imported ordnance can be bought with money, but the key is that it is expensive, if you want to buy cheap ordnance, you can only buy domestic goods, but now those domestic arsenals are controlled by major warlords, and people will not take them out and sell them to him Wang Zhanyuan.

In order to obtain Zhao Dongyun's support, Wang Shizhen of Hubei put down his arrogant head and declared his allegiance to Zhao Dongyun, so that he could buy some of the ordnance from the Fuyuan Machine Qì Factory under Zhao Dongyun's control.

If he, Wang Zhanyuan, defected to Zhao Dongyun, even if it was only in name, he would be able to use this opportunity to buy a certain amount of cheap arms from Zhao Dongyun.

However, in Wang Zhanyuan's view, this condition is too unworthy.

In order to save hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, he publicly declared his allegiance to the central government, and then openly turned against Duan Qirui, this kind of thing is too much of a loss.

Therefore, even if he flees south, he will still enter southern Anhui and even Jiangxi, and it is inevitable that he will occupy part of Duan Qirui's territory, but as long as he Wang Zhanyuan does not raise the central banner, then at the critical moment when the two armies of Fengwan and Anhui are fighting for hegemony, Duan Qirui can only turn a blind eye to his Wang Zhanyuan's transgression, otherwise forcing Wang Zhanyuan directly to Zhao Dongyun's side will not benefit him Duan Qirui at all.

So I also went to southern Anhui and Jiangxi, but it was different from holding the central banner and secretly escaping by myself.

In such considerations, Wang Zhanyuan did not hesitate to refuse Zhao Dongyun's solicitation, but he did not have any intention of resisting, but fled directly to the south, giving up Yingzhou and other areas that had occupied for several months.

If you don't fight, you will give up your territory, and you will go so simply, before leaving, you don't forget to blackmail Yingzhou and other local gentry, it is rumored that at least millions of finances were looted a few days before leaving, and even Zhao Dongyun has to admire the courage of this expression.

What does it mean to be a qualified warlord?

This Wang Zhanyuan is a qualified warlord, he knows the importance of preserving his strength, and he knows how to survive in the gap between the two armies of Fengwan and Anhui, and then he does not forget to expand his strength step by step, and he spares no effort to loot money.

This person was able to flee all the way from Zhili Bazhou to Henan, and then to Anhui, and now he ran to southern Anhui with a whip, and the Seventh Division was not getting less and less, but had more and more troops, and the equipment was getting better and better, which shows that this person is really difficult to deal with.

Among the many warlords in China, Wang Zhanyuan, who has only risen for a few months, is much stronger than Zhang Huaizhi and Wang Ruxian, and even Cheng Dù is much stronger than Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling.

You look at Wu Fengling, sitting on a Shanxi, behind which he can still get the armaments and ammunition of the Soviet system, some financial support, and there is no worry about multi-front operations, he only needs to deal with Zhao Erxun, but more than half a year has passed, and now he has not even been able to control the whole of Shanxi, and he is still fighting back and forth with Zhao Erxun's nineteenth town in the southwest of Shanxi.

Looking at Wang Shizhen, although the scenery in the south is very good, but the next is also an elm head, only knowing that he is staring at the three towns of Wuhan, if he is replaced Wang Zhanyuan, he would have bypassed the turtle shell of the three towns of Wuhan, and then crossed the Yangtze River to kill Wuchang from behind, no matter how bad it is, it will enter Hunan, as for you Zhang Zhidong, even if you can trap the three towns of Wuhan, what can you do?

However, the time for his Wang Zhanyuan's rise was too short, he was only a member of the direct army before, and he was really independent after Wang Yingkai went into the wilderness, which was able to maintain the Seventh Division while wandering all the way and make the Seventh Division stronger and stronger, this ability is really not available to ordinary warlords.

Wang Zhanyuan slipped away from central Anhui like a loach, leaving behind a huge empty central and western region of Anhui!

In the face of Wang Zhanyuan's initiative to retreat, Feng Jun did not say that he would not let the family escape, play a hundred miles of pursuit or something, after all, the main enemy of the Feng army is still the Anhui army, since Wang Zhanyuan took the initiative to give up a huge piece of territory in western Anhui and eastern Henan, then Zhao Dongyun did not have the heart to fight to the death with Wang Zhanyuan, and it was true that he hurriedly transferred the troops originally used in the direction of Yingzhou to go south to the front line of Fengyang.

Wang Zhanyuan originally occupied a lot of territory in Henan and Anhui, occupying several counties in the southeast of Chenzhou in eastern Henan, several counties in the east of Guangzhou, Henan, and then the entire territory of Yingzhou Prefecture in Anhui, and some areas of Fengyang Prefecture and Liuhe Prefecture in Anhui Province, roughly spanning the border areas of Henan and Anhui.

Wang Zhanyuan patted his ass and left, not only leaving a lot of mess but also forming a power vacuum in the place, in order to recover this area as much as possible, the third army of the Feng army marched east from many directions in Henan, and the first army marched to Yingzhou, in order to control this area in the shortest possible time.

However, there were only a small number of troops going to accept the territory, and the main forces, especially the main force of the First Army, had already begun to be transferred to the front line of Mengcheng and Bengbu, preparing to conquer these two areas and completely lay the foundation for Jiangbei's victory.

Although Wang Zhanyuan escaped, the main force of the Feng army gradually moved south, and Duan Qirui, who was located in Bengbu, Fengyang, was also in a bad mood again!

"What is the situation with the 3rd Division? When will the Fujian First Brigade be able to reinforce Zhenjiang? Duan Qirui asked with a frown.

The adjutant next to him knew that Duan Qirui was in a bad mood now, and when he learned that Wang Zhanyuan had withdrawn to southern Anhui last night, Duan Qirui was furious, and immediately said cautiously: "The 3rd Division of Liangjiang has arrived in Jinling yesterday, and has now built a defensive line on the north bank, and is preparing to meet the 2nd Mixed Brigade of Zhejiang in the direction of Taizhou and Yangzhou.

The 1st Brigade of Fujian is expected to be able to arrive tomorrow to reinforce Zhenjiang! ”

When he said this, he said: "Now that the situation is tense, Marshal, are we transferring the Second Mixed Brigade back?" ”

The second mixed brigade, not to say the second mixed brigade of the Liangjiang Army, nor to say the second mixed brigade of Zhejiang, in the Anhui army, the second mixed brigade generally refers to the second mixed brigade of the Central Army, its predecessor was last year's Beiyang period Qirui with the third infantry battalion of the fourth division as the backbone, plus the recruited troops to train and train, last year's Tianjin agreement to determine the number of the Beiyang warlord troops, this unit composed of the backbone of the old Beiyang troops was awarded the number of the second mixed brigade of the Central Army, which is the first mixed brigade of the direct line. The Fourth Mixed Brigade and the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Soviet Feng Army, as well as the Third Mixed Brigade under Wang Shizhen, were the earliest batch of mixed brigades in the hands of the major warlords in Beiyang.

In the early stage of the operation, the Fourth Division was fighting in Jiangxi with the Second Mixed Brigade, after the Feng Army entered the customs, Duan Qirui led the Fourth Division to the north of Jiangsu, and the Second Mixed Brigade continued to stay in Jiangxi to fight, which was the absolute main force of the Anhui Army in the direction of Jiangxi.

When the Anhui army conquered Ganzhou, the front of the troops pointed directly at Guangdong, of which the Sixth Division of the Liangjiang Army had taken the lead in entering the northern part of Guangdong.

To put it mildly, even if the entire Jiangbei and even Jiangnan are lost, but as long as he Duan Qirui can take Guangdong, then the loss can be reluctantly accepted, and he can continue to consume the Feng army in Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

If the Second Mixed Brigade is now transferred northward, without the Second Mixed Brigade relying on the provincial armies of the Liangjiang Army and the Jiangxi Provincial Army, it is still unknown whether it can annihilate the remnants of the retreating Guangdong Duanfang and the Xiliangsuo Division in southern Fujian. Besides, the northern part of Guangdong is far away from Fengyang, Anhui Province, and there is no train to transport it quickly, and when the second mixed brigade arrives in Bengbu, it is estimated that the cucumber vegetables are cold.

In this case, Duan Qirui might as well simply let the Second Mixed Brigade continue to go south and take down Guangdong.

Without the second mixed brigade, only relying on a fourth division, as well as those provincial troops, to be honest, Duan Qirui himself also knew that there was no chance to hold Jiangbei, all he wanted was to delay time, now the third division of Liangjiang and several other troops have arrived in Jinling, Zhenjiang and other cities along the Yangtze River, then the fourth division, which has been blocking the Feng army in Bengbu for many days, should also retreat again, otherwise it is very likely to be surrounded by the Feng army if he stays any longer, and he will not be able to leave when he wants to.

In the face of Duan Qirui's withdrawal, Gu Lanyu of the Third Division of the Feng Army snorted coldly, last time you let Duan Qirui's Fourth Division escape with Shun, but this time you Duan Qirui still want to escape with your whole body, don't you really look at me Gu Lanyu?

"Order, march immediately, be sure to catch up!"