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Volume III Aftermath 143 Battle of Yuegui

For those foreign-looking Nanyang factions, some old people in the Guangdong army had doubts, but after seeing the instructors sent by Nanyang show their hands a few times, most of the doubts were dispelled.

In fact, most of the soldiers were either Cantonese or Fujian, and the soldiers who returned from Nanyang turned out to be migrant workers who couldn't survive from China and went abroad, so the same background quickly made them mingle, and the relationship became close to each other's "old mothers".

Chen Jiongming's heart secretly relaxed. Now that the Guidian army is fighting for power in Guangzhou, it is beneficial to the Cantonese army, and what Chen Jiongming is most worried about is infighting in the army.

In August, the battle between Gui and Yunnan for power in Guangdong was finally decided, the Dian army was driven out of Guangdong Province, and the Gui faction monopolized the power in Guangzhou, and the military government of Guangzhou concocted by Sun Wen came to an end.

Tang Jiyao, Wu Tingfang, Tang Shaoyi and other politicians announced their withdrawal from the Guangzhou military government, because Wu Tingfang and Situ Meiden had already colluded, when he left Guangzhou, he took a large number of sealed letters and documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance to Hong Kong, and at the same time abducted Guan Yu, who had 1.8 million yuan, temporarily settled down and waited for the Guangdong army to return to Guangzhou.

Along with Wu Tingfang, there is also Tang Shaoyi, because of Situ Nan's relationship, Gu Weijun got close to the Zhi Gong Party, and naturally Tang Shaoyi, Gu Weijun's father-in-law, also came together with the Zhi Gong Party.

Regarding Chen Jiongming's wanton expansion of troops in Fujian and Guangdong, the Gui family has long heard of it. During this time, the news of Chen Jiongming's large-scale recruitment in Chaoshan and Zhangzhou reached Guangzhou from time to time, and the battle of Guangdong-Guizhou was inevitable.

The Gui army, which defeated the Yunnan army and dominated Guangdong, was full of morale and tried to take advantage of the power of victory to crusade against Chen Jiongming.

Although he knew that Chen Jiongming was strong, he didn't take it to heart. Originally, Chen Jiongming's Cantonese army was only about 20,000 people, short of food and clothing, and after being separated from Sun Wen, he was pulled away by some troops, and it would be good to be able to restore the original level.

On August 11, Guangzhou issued a crusade order, appointing Shen Hongying as the commander-in-chief of the attack on Guangdong, leading the middle road to the Gui army Liu Zhilu Division, the right road to the Zhejiang Army Lu Gongwang Division, the left road to the Yunnan Army Shengtao Division, and the three routes to attack the Guangdong Army.

It was a scorching hot Wednesday, and it was an August summer. The Cantonese army has already changed its guns, and now it is not what it used to be, just waiting for them to send it to the door

Chen Jiongming walked to the headquarters and found that Chief of Staff Deng Keng, Commander of the Second Army Zhang Chengdong, and a group of generals and generals all looked stern, and there was excitement in their eyes that could not be concealed.

"Commander, Cen Chunxuan has issued an order to beg Fujian, and he is coming at us." Chief of Staff Deng Keng said excitedly to Chen Jiongming.

Chen Jiongming smiled slightly, as if he had expected it. He turned his head and looked at Zhang Chengdong, the commander of the Second Army, with a grim face.

"Let's fight! Commander! Everyone is in a hurry. Zhang Chengdong said. For the organization to spend so much manpower and material resources to arm this Cantonese army, if he can't defeat Lu Rongting's opium soldiers, he really has no face to return to Nanyang.

During this time, as he learned about the warlord forces in the country, he found that his previous worries were unnecessary. According to the conservative estimates of German advisers, the strength of the Fifth Division under his command was at least equal to the three divisions of the Gui system, plus the aircraft, artillery, armored and automobile companies, and it was no problem to defeat the 10th Division. However, because he is a newcomer, he tries to make as few comments as possible.

The next day, Chen Jiongming held a pledge meeting in Zhangzhou, put forward the slogan of "Cantonese people governing Guangdong", and led the wandering soldiers of western Guangdong to crusade against the Gui army that controlled Guangzhou.

Less than two months after the smoke of gunpowder in the north dissipated, the smoke of gunpowder rose again in the south, which attracted the attention of the Chinese people for a while. Sun Wen made a generous statement in Shanghai, and he also felt that the opportunity had come, so he sent a messenger to contact Chen Jiongming, but was coldly rejected by Chen Jiongming, who was already high-spirited. He was noncommittal about Sun Wen's proposal to join hands with Xu Chongzhi's ministry to fight against the Gui army.

After Chen Jiongming issued a telegram to discuss Guangxi, Xu Chongzhi also announced that he would return to Guangdong from Fujian. However, after parting ways with Chen Jiongming, Xu Chongzhi was vigorously cultivated by Sun Wen, and the 3,000 people pulled away from the Guangdong army had swelled to 8,000 after a year. However, the equipment training is backward, and the combat effectiveness needs to be tested.

In addition, Wei Bangping, director of the Guangdong Provincial Police Department in Guangzhou, Li Fulin, the guard of Guanghui Town, and others were also ready to move, and the Yunnan army, which was driven out of Guangzhou by the Gui army, was not reconciled and joined the melee at any time.

The Guangdong army took the lead, Chen Jiongming commanded the first army of the Guangdong army to attack Heyuan, and the Yunnan army in front of him preserved its strength and met the battle passively.

Chen Jiongming waved his army into Heyuan, threatened the Pearl River Delta, and formed a confrontation with Liu Zhilu, the reinforcement of the Gui army.

After the Shengtao Department of the Yunnan Army, which had no intention of facing the battle, finished fighting soy sauce, it temporarily withdrew from the battlefield and hibernated, waiting to see the development of the war. The Zhejiang Army commanded by Lu Gongwang, who confronted the Second Army of the Guangdong Army, was also a soy sauce player.

The Second Army of the Cantonese Army, which was dominated by the Fifth Division with a Nanyang background, was very unfamiliar to Lu Gongwang and knew almost nothing, but in the style of the soy sauce man, he had no intention of attacking, as if to say, "On the other side, I don't want to teach you a lesson, and you don't come to mess with me." ”

It's a pity that the soy sauce man ran into the living Hades. In a sudden attack, Lü Gongwang's Zhejiang army was beaten to the point that he lost his armor and fled back to Zhejiang.

After a small test of the knife and the drive away of Lu Gongwang's department, the second army of the Guangdong army advanced from the direction of Chaoshan, and after encountering the new division of the Gui army Mo Rong, which had hurriedly reinforced, the confrontation was re-formed. Mo Rongxin is a veteran general on the battlefield, and he leads the elite of the Gui army, which is much stronger than the soy sauce man Lu Gongwang.

When Zhang Chengdong was about to defeat Mo Rongxin in one go, he received a telegram from Chen Jiongming.

"I didn't expect this old Chen to be insidious enough." Zhang Chengdong said with a smile, and decided to play according to his competitive spirit.

The Guangdong army suddenly exerted force on two fronts, drove away the Dian army and the Zhejiang army that were playing soy sauce, and met the real enemy Gui army, and a more fierce battle was about to start.

Chaos is when speculation prevails. Everyone was watching the contest between the Gui army and the Yue army, and then decided on the direction of speculation.

At the critical moment, Situ Meideng rushed to Zhangzhou, this time not only bringing the 5 million military expenses secretly supported by the Meihua Company, but also the information of heavyweight politicians such as Wu Tingfang and Tang Shaoyi.

"Everyone is watching you, it's a rare opportunity, take advantage of it!" Situ Meiden laughed. After several years of planning, we can finally see the day when it will come to fruition.

"Hmm!" Chen Jiongming nodded. He had already deployed an ambush and waited for the Gui army to obediently send him to death. After annihilating the opponent's main force in one fell swoop, he waved his army back to Guangdong and smashed Huanglong! It's just that what about the other armies that are messing around? It's not good to cut them off, and it's unlikely that the dividends will be distributed to them.

Chen Jiongming thought with a little headache.

"Think about what to do with those spoilers!" Seeing Chen Jiongming's somewhat distressed look, Situ Meiden smiled, "Just borrow a knife to kill someone." ”

Chen Jiongming turned his head and asked with his eyes, how to kill people with a knife?

"People love to do it. We control the absolute advantage, and we can play how we want. Give the Gui Department a dismount first, and defeat some of the main forces, then Guangzhou City will be empty, and there will definitely be people who want to enter the customs first to be the king, and then we will slow down one step further, Lu Rongting will definitely transfer troops from Guangxi, and after they clean up those messy spoilers, we will kill those Gui factions again. Although there were some twists and turns along the way, it also saved a lot of trouble. ”

Situ Meiden said with a smile, "I also have a plan, which is to transport troops from the sea and attack Guangzhou secretly. I can arrange the boat for you from the Southern Star Steamship Company. The navy will not be on the side of the Gui family, it will generally be neutral or biased towards us, as long as you spend some money, it is okay to let them open fire. In short, this time not only to win, but also to win benefits. ”

"Brother, you're so sinister!" Chen Jiongming smiled, and already had the answer in his heart. At this moment, a word appeared in his head - a knife kills a chicken!

Then the two of them were discussing how to give hope to those spoilers, so that after they saw the hope of victory, they raised troops to kill the Gui army and walked towards the end of **.

"By the way, Jingcun, in addition to sending you military expenses this time, I also brought a plan on how to reorganize Guangdong's finance after the war. I can tell you a little bit about it, so I can have a bottom. Situ Meiden laughed.

"Do you have to do it?" Chen Jiongming looked at Situ Meiden, his brows furrowed slightly. Xin said: "Sure enough, there is no free lunch in the world!" Carefully calculate that Meihua Company has invested more than 15 million in itself, and it is normal to ask for returns, but it is just ?????? ”

Being watched by Chen Jiongming, Situ Meideng's old face flushed slightly. "That's the most effective way. In the past few years, Guangdong's finances have been rotten and need a large amount of money, and there is no reasonable return, although the Meihua Company can help you win this war, but it is impossible to help you sort out Guangdong's finances casually. I can't help it. However, we still have leeway, as long as the operation is skillful, it will not impress you, but there will be a lot of benefits. ”

"Let me think about it!" Chen Jiongming sighed.

In September, just as Situ Nan had just left Tokyo. The Battle of Yuegui ushered in the first wave of the Gaoqi Dynasty. Chen Jiongming led the First Army to the Heyuan layout.

105-mm heavy guns, 75-mm mountain guns, 60-caliber mortars, a rain of shells, a bit at the level of artillery battles of the European powers. Liu Zhilu, the enemy who was in front of him, complained bitterly, and before he could be shocked by the powerful firepower of the Cantonese army, the battle failed.

Under the strong vitality of the Cantonese army, the Gui army was crushed and tried to flee in all directions, but unfortunately it was surrounded by the strength of three divisions honestly, and several breakthroughs were driven back by the machine guns of the Cantonese army.

Finally, he retreated in the city and waited for help.

Under the guidance of the Nanyang instructors, the gunners reviewed the subjects of their usual training in a serious manner, and pointed out the machine gun positions of the Gui system one by one. It's a pity that the technique is a bit bad, and it was repeated several times without directly hitting the target.

As a result, some generals in the army scolded the artillery as losers, but unfortunately the artillery rejected the phrase "artillery training". By the time the screaming infantry rushed to the position, the soldiers of the Gui army had already been sluggish, and many people in the fortifications were not killed, but were killed by the shells that fell nearby.

"Damn, Sun Da Cannon's cannon doesn't have to bully people like this! It hurts Lao Tzu to surrender if he wants to! "After the war, one of the surviving Gui soldiers denounced the enemy's inhumane behavior.

To this, the Yue army replied: "We are not Sun Cannon's troops, and the remnants of the Ming are the bosses!" ”

In Heyuan, Chen Jiongming's First Army annihilated more than 40,000 invading Gui troops in one fell swoop, and there was not a single enemy missing! The victory in the first battle made the generals excited, and they all shouted to return to Guangzhou and enjoy the world of flowers.

Chen Jiongming gave a strange order, blocked the news of the battlefield, and announced the news to the outside world that although the Cantonese army annihilated the invading enemy, it also suffered heavy losses and was unable to make any more attempts.

Subsequently, the Cantonese army repaired on the side of the river, established a defensive line, and held back, as if afraid of a counterattack by the Gui army.

As for Zhang Chengdong leading the Second Army to attack from the direction of Chaoshan, it was also painless, and he often sent a small number of troops to confront the Gui army. Under the guidance of the German affairs adviser, the Second Army honed recruits and practiced their skills hard, while from small to large, from a single arm to multiple arms, and slowly they could also play a bit of technical work in the barrage.

Under the circumstance that Zhang Chengdong deliberately retained his strength, the firepower of the Guangdong army and the will of the Gui army, the Second Army and the Gui army "wrangled" together, and it was difficult to separate, so it was not lively. It gives people a state of anxiety. The officers and men of the Fifth Division thoroughly carried out the idea of training troops on the battlefield and meticulously carried out "actual combat exercises" in accordance with the arrangements of the German staff officers; although a lot of ammunition was wasted, the relatively few casualties were exchanged for a large number of casualties among the soldiers of the Gui Army, and at the same time, their own combat effectiveness was also enhanced.

The most painful thing is not more than the flying team belonging to the Second Army, which can only reconnoiter in the sky every day and cannot shoot below, and as a result, the bored pilots can only play confrontation in the air by themselves.

Zhang Chengdong has no opinion on this. If the flying team can be cool in the air, then the armored car company can only wipe the wheels every day, and the brave ones go for a ride on the battlefield. It is not until the terrain is familiar that you can participate in armored assault battles in a small way, and you can have a small addiction.

With the First Army's "vigorous and vigorous, killing 800 self-losses on the first day", the Second Army was unremarkable, and after fighting for more than a month, no one could see the hope of victory, but it was already a kind of Cheng Dù success for the unknown Zhang Cheng dù.

After Mo Rongxin's troops of the Gui Army, who fought against Zhang Chengdong, gradually got used to the Second Army of the Guangdong Army that suddenly appeared on the opposite side, they felt that the other side came out with stronger firepower and more tricks, but in fact they were all showy and flashy.

So Guijun Mo Rong's new subordinates were secretly scolding Lu Gongwang for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and now he didn't even dare to watch and ran back to Zhejiang. If they could have drawn up manpower to reinforce Heyuan, they would not have lost the battlefield of Heyuan again.

Gui Jun didn't know that several times, a pair of 50 special forces brought by Zhang Chengdong had broken into their positions several times, approached their own headquarters, carried out reconnaissance, and then quietly returned.

Fortunately, things were not as Situ Meideng expected, seeing that part of the main force of the Gui army was annihilated by Chen Jiongming, Chen Jiongming's troops were unable to recruit again, and the strange Second Army of the Cantonese Army was dragged in Chaoshan.

In September, after the defeat of the Gui army at Heyuan, Lu Rongting transferred troops from Guangxi to Guangzhou at the request of Cen Chunxuan, but before he arrived in Guangzhou, there was a news that Xu Chongzhi, another small branch of the Guangdong army, and tens of thousands of recruits were making a noise to attack Guangzhou. Li Fulin's department in the city and Xu Chongzhi had already colluded, and under the cooperation of the inside and outside, they captured the city of Guangzhou, which lacked troops.

Li Zongren's troops stationed in Xinhui were unable to reinforce Guangzhou, and when they saw that Guangzhou had fallen, they hurriedly returned to Xinhui, which made Lu Rongting grit his teeth in anger. sent a telegram to urge Li Zongren but did not respond.

The Gui defenders had no choice but to withdraw from Guangzhou. A few days later, Lu Rongting led the Gui army, which had been reinforced from Guangxi, to contain the rout troops who had withdrawn from Guangzhou, and at the same time waved 40,000 troops to Guangzhou.

After the news of Xu Chongzhi and Li Fulin's recapture of Guangzhou spread, Sun Wen was overjoyed and hurriedly rushed from Shanghai to Guangzhou by ship. After a gorgeous and grand entrance ceremony, he triumphantly returned to Canton, as if the emperor had returned to his castle.

Sun Kee's Guangzhou Revolutionary Government reopened, and in order to deal with the imposing Lu Rongting, Sun Wen began to seal officials on a large scale and recruit troops everywhere. He appointed Chen Jiongming as the commander of the Guangdong Route Army and Zhang Chengdong as the deputy commander, and called on the Guangdong army to continue fighting and encircle Guangzhou.

Both Chen Jiongming and Zhang Chengdong remained silent and did not respond.

Guangdong's situation, in which the overall situation has been decided, has made waves again. Seeing Chen Jiongming's indifferent attitude, Sun Wen pinned his hopes on another big force, the Guangzhou Business Group.

The Guangzhou merchant group was obviously not optimistic about Sun Wen and decided to remain neutral. They replied to Sun Wen, "Let's pass this level first!" This made Sun Wen grit his teeth in anger and hate these unscrupulous traders to death.

He issued a series of appeals, inviting the Dian army, which had been defeated by Chen Jiongming, to defend Guangzhou by an army composed of the Dongbu and other land hooligans. Fang Bu and local hooligan gangs gladly agreed.

In the face of the fierce counterattack of the superior forces of the Gui army, Xu Chongzhi struggled to resist, but unfortunately he had too many recruits and had little combat effectiveness, and he was defeated in the face of the brave Gui army.

The newly reopened revolutionary government of Sun Ji lasted only four days and went bankrupt, and Sun Wen had to run back to Shanghai under the cover of Xu Chongzhi. Because the military discipline of the troops he recruited was disorderly, and when the troops were defeated, they carried out a killing and looting in Guangzhou, and their behavior was worse than that of the extorted Gui army, which aroused strong criticism from the citizens of Guangzhou. Some even see him as a plague god. Anything nasty was said.

At this time, Chen Jiongming, who had been silent for a long time, sent a telegram to denounce that Xu Chongzhi, Li Fulin and others were ineffective in suppressing ammunition, and had been defeating the army and scourging Guangzhou, causing huge losses to the citizens, and their behavior was even worse than that of the Gui army.

In this regard, Xu Chongzhi, Li Fulin and others could only eat Coptis chinensis dumbly, and they wanted to pick peaches, but as soon as the peaches were picked, they were wiped out before they could enjoy them.

Newspapers in Hong Kong and Shanghai asked questions to condemn the warlord scuffle, and many reports also reflected Sun Wen's disgraceful role in this disaster, and even some pro-Beiyang newspapers in the north directly criticized Sun Wen for indiscriminately looking for bandit troops and being the leader of the bandits in order to grab headlines.

After receiving the robbery in Guangzhou, Lin Yimin, who had been following the situation in Shanghai, was very unhappy and sent a protest demanding that the fighting be ended as much as possible. Because the Meihua Company also suffered a lot of losses, fortunately, the Guangzhou business group came forward in time to stop the evil deeds of the bandits.

Under the influence of the Meihua Company, the Guangzhou merchant group hoped that the Cantonese army would do its best to end the war.

With regard to the information of this battle of Guangdong, the William received daily reports from the front, which added some fun to Situ Nan's long journey.

After the Gui army defeated the farcical revolutionary government of Sun Ji, Lu Rongting was overjoyed and hurried from Guangxi to Guangzhou, preparing to command the troops to wipe out Chen Jiongming's troops in eastern Guangdong in one fell swoop, and then wave his army to Chaoshan to attack Zhang Chengdong's Second Army, becoming a veritable king of Liangguang.

At the end of September, Lu Rongting personally led the elite soldiers of the Gui family to Heyuan to crusade against Chen Jiongming. At this point, this war finally ushered in the most exciting but jaw-dropping scene.

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