Chapter 229 The bold Wu Peifu

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The first division of the Jiangxi army defected, the vice president and minister of defense came to Nanchang in person, and the three slaps plucked the governor Li Liejun to the fine, and the news that he was abolished and assigned to Tangnu Wulianghai to guard the frontier soon spread throughout the officialdom and army of Jiangxi ().

Yang Qiu's ruthlessness is famous all over the country, at the beginning

I don't know how many gentry, bullies and private soldiers in the three provinces who did not cooperate were beaten and there were no bones, and there were nearly 10,000 bandits in Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan who were directly killed ()! Later, although the three southwestern provinces did not do it themselves, Lu Rongting and Cai Ye joined forces to suppress it even more. After returning to Jiangxi and personally sitting in Nanchang, not to mention the oligarchs and big fish, even the small fish and shrimp were so frightened that they didn't dare to raise their heads, and the gangsters even grabbed their tails and didn't even dare to stick out their heads.

In just a few days, earth-shaking changes have taken place in Jiangxi's officialdom and army, which supported Li Liejun and the central faction's open and secret struggle, and the captains of the two Gui Army brigades and four regiments of the National Guard drove straight into Jiangxi, and even stripped Jiangxi of all its coats in one go; hundreds of Li Liejun and the Kuomintang diehards were personally arrested and handed over to the National Defense Forces by the officers and men of the Jiangxi Army, who had long been unwilling to oppose the National Defense Forces and the central government, and those officials who took advantage of the opportunity of the revolution to make money were also swept away.

There is nothing wrong with the phrase "heavy canon" in troubled times, since Li Liejun took the lead in the confrontation and caused a situation of wait-and-see in the southeast and great changes in Guangdong, everyone knew that Yang Qiu would definitely not let go of Jiangxi, so when the news of his iron-blooded purge of officialdom and the army reached Nanjing, not even a bubble came out.

For a whole month, people were arrested every day in Jiangxi's major cities and the army, and everyone had conclusive evidence, and in the face of these evidences that had obviously been pinched in the palm of their hands for a long time, the southeastern officialdom was even more panicked. In the future, if the Wehrmacht continues to move south, won't they also be in trouble?

At this time, the Nanjing Presidential Office finally came out to refute the rumors, saying that the purge in Jiangxi was entirely due to the previous confrontation with the central government, and that the purge action would only be limited to Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces.

Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi finally calmed people's hearts a little when they said to reporters, Jiangxi is not interesting to ask for itself, and the chaos in Guangdong is also self-inflicted, as long as Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not touched. Although this refutation of rumors still makes many people feel uneasy, the officials are careful to even eat for fear that there will be spies from the National Society on the side. A large number of Kuomintang officials in the southeast began to quietly retreat, and many of them took the money looted by the revolution and did not dare to come back while the Wehrmacht had yet officially set foot in the southeast and crossed the ocean.

In the face of this scene, the new chairman of the Kuomintang Zhang Shizhao is also helpless, before he can ease up, the general trend has gone Bai Wenwei announced in Hefei to quit the Kuomintang and settle in Nanyang, this news is simply devastating for the Kuomintang Party, in the case of Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming's life and death are unknown, the resignation of the last real power boss of the Kuomintang is tantamount to telling the whole country that the Kuomintang has completely established the status of the country's first party, as long as Beiyang can be defeated, then no one can break this monopoly for a long time ()! This also spurred the initial cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Republican Party, and also established the basis for the eventual transformation of the country from a three-party to a two-party system in the future.

Yang Qiu didn't have the heart to think much about political matters for the time being, and after handing over the task of reorganizing the Jiangxi Army to Zhang Xiaozhun and Ouyang Wu, the two came up with a plan in just three days, according to the plan, the quality is good, almost all of them are rural children, but the actual shortage is serious, the Jiangxi Army has been compressed to three brigades, one of which is the 22nd Brigade of the Gui Army and the 26th Brigade of the former Dian Army is organized into the Seventh Infantry Division of the National Defense Army, and Yin Changheng, the deputy commander of the former Fifth Division, is appointed as the division commander and promoted to major general, and the remaining two brigades plus the 23rd Brigade of the Gui Army are organized into the Ninth Infantry Division of the National Defense Army, and Ouyang Wu is appointed as the division commander and awarded the rank of major general.

Since these two divisions were all veterans of Jiangxi, Gui, and Yunnan who were of good quality and loyal to Yang Qiu, they were immediately listed by the General Staff as the main force of the National Defense Force to give priority to the redressing of the National Defense Force.

In addition, the General Staff also reorganized the remaining troops of the Yunnan Army in Hunan and the coming Dian Army, the original 27th Brigade of the Dian Army (the 16th, 17th, and 18th Brigades have not been changed, and the brigade number has been postponed) was sent to Anhui to supplement Luo Peijin's 10th Infantry Division, and the 24th and 25th Brigades of the two Gui Army recruits were merged with the Fujian Army to form the Eighth Infantry Division, with Xie Ruyi as the division commander and awarded the rank of major general.

The garrison troops stationed in the south of the Yangtze River in Shanghai and some of the selected soldiers who knew how to use water formed China's first marine regiment, and the commander of the regiment, Liu Zhenxi, was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

At the same time, the commanders of the 10th and 11th Infantry Divisions, Luo Peijin and He Xifan, were promoted to major generals respectively.

So far, except for the Guangdong army in Guangdong because of the coup d'état of Long Jiguang, all the southern armies have been absorbed by the national defense force, plus the establishment of the sixth infantry division for Yan Xishan, the national defense army has a total of 13 infantry divisions, 3 independent brigades and 2 guard divisions.

Although the reorganization and unit numbers came out, it would actually take some time for the officers and combat effectiveness of each unit to be completely kneaded, but in order to speed up the settlement of the war, Yang Qiu strictly ordered the 7th Infantry Division to march into southern Jiangnan, and cooperate with the 3rd Division to attack the Longji Guangbu while reorganizing. At the same time, the 8th Brigade of the Fujian Army of the 27th Infantry Division was ordered to attack from Fujian to Guangdong, and it was under the control of Cai Jimin. In order to convince the Min army, Sa Zhenbing and the navy, which had great influence in Fujian, also went south to Guangzhou for the first time to quell the rebellion, and happily, Sa Zhenbing also brought back the first fleet of the Haiqi, the strongest cruiser in China.

At the same time, Ouyang Wu also led the 9th Infantry Division, composed entirely of Guijiang veterans, to cross the Yangtze River from Jiujiang into Anhui, and joined the relatively unfavorable southern front under the control of Cai Yi.

After discussing with Li Yuanhong, Yang Qiu chose to quit the army, and is now the deputy general office of the Sichuan Construction Bureau and the Hanchuan Railway, and is also the first to join the national community, Luo Lun, who is the acting governor of Jiangxi Province, which is geographically important.

While Yang Qiu and the Wehrmacht once again showed that they were using the means of war to swallow the whale, the fighting on the northern and southern fronts became more and more intense.

"Boom."

In Nanyang, Henan Province, a 75-mm shell was hit outside the command post of the Beiyang Eighth Division, and the earth and grass roots flew up and smashed into the earthen wall of the bunker. Because the second division was embarrassed, the first line of Xinyang was lost, and the eighth division stationed in Xinye had to retreat to Nanyang in great strides in order not to be surrounded from the flank.

Wu Peifu shook off the dust, and after handing over the telescope to the adjutant, he picked up a piece of grass from there and put it in his mouth, chewing while looking at the map on the table in a daze.

After a while, Peng Shouxin rushed in shouting: "***! What kind of bad fight is this? Our eighth division has really become a stepmother! He sent more than 100 boxes of shells to the 29th Mixed Brigade, but Lao Tzu sent people to ask for them, but it took three days! If this continues, Lao Tzu will simply go home and sleep. ”

The big mouth of "Peng Er's sting" is famous, who dares to answer when he opens his mouth? What's more, looking at his appearance, he is obviously angry, and whoever provokes him at this time will definitely not have good fruit to eat. Seeing that no one came out to let him scold a few words to get angry, Peng Shouxin simply went to Wu Peifu's side, slapped the table and said, "Ziyu, you say, how else can this battle be fought!" The artillery lost almost half of it, and the shells were running out. ”

The two are old friends who have worked together for many years, and they are both hot-tempered and daring, so as soon as he opened his mouth, Wu Peifu guessed that he was angry, and his eyes locked on the map and asked, "Chen Yan's cannonball hasn't arrived yet?" ”

"To a fart ()!" After being picked and broken, Peng Shouxin became more and more annoyed, and scolded: "It's all fucking Wang Jinjing's bastard's good thing, and he was so frightened by someone else's cannon that he lost the first line, causing the troops to retreat across the line." He pointed to the left side of the map with his hand: "Now the supplies need to go around Luohe and Fangcheng, the shells that were originally rationed to us have arrived, but just now we have to report that two regiments on the opposite side are advancing towards Fangcheng, and the 29th mixed brigade has detained all the shells, damn!" He thinks that the war depends on cannonballs? If the 29th Mixed Brigade can't hold it, we will have to withdraw to Luoyang and Yanshi, which is equivalent to throwing all the northwest of Henan to others. ”

He saw that Wu Peifu was still looking at the picture, and shouted: "Ziyu, don't look at it, you can't see the flowers!" How long have you been accepting the 8th Division? It's only been two months since the full fight, and even if you have the heart to make an elite hussar, what can you do with this little time? I went to check it again just now, and there were more than 100 desertions last night, and if it goes on like this, it will run out without fighting. ”

Wu Peifu sighed secretly in his heart, although Peng Er's words were ugly, they were all facts. Finally looking forward to leading the troops alone but not looking forward to the time, Yang Qiu's movements were too fast, and he barely pinched the eighth division to usher in this big battle, if he gave himself half a year more. Forget it, it's useless to think too much, let's solve the passivity in front of you.

Thinking of this, he turned his head and asked, "Hasn't the Sixth Division been transferred from Beijing yet?" ”

"I don't know." Peng Shouxin fought bravely and unforgivingly, but the big thing was very steady, and said: "The Yi army has moved, and Jiang Gui's old thing should be afraid, so the ten battalions of the forward have arrived in Luohe, and the rest are also deployed to protect the railway line." But in my opinion, Gong Bao must not be able to believe Yijun. The few divisions that Yang Qiu relied on in the south were all miscellaneous armies, and without Ni Sichong and Ni Jun, Cao San and Li Chun could win even if they risked their lives, so the Sixth Division would definitely be transferred to Henan in the next few days, and now the question is who will fight hard?!

Cao San and Li Chun obviously didn't have the strength, otherwise how could they be grinding in Bengbu and Huai'an? I know these *** old oilers too well, if you have soldiers in your hands, no one will lose your power in the future! If they want to fight hard, unless Sanjie personally supervises the battle. But now that Duan Qirui can't live or die in Beijing, he wants to wait for the old man to die and take over power, Feng Huafu was beaten in Hubei, how could Wang Shizhen come out at this time? Therefore, even if the Sixth Division enters Henan, it is very likely to stop at Weihui but the Yellow River, and in the end it will be in vain. ”

His analysis made Wu Peifu nod secretly, if Bengbu and Huai'an Beiyang were not solved for a day, they would not be stable, so they still had to rely on themselves to find a way out, and after stopping, he analyzed: "The shells will definitely not arrive ()!" As long as Chen Er'an is not a fool, he will definitely not consume troops in Xinyang, I estimate that he will retreat greatly to Luohe within a day at the latest, if he retreats, we will be isolated, once we solve the opposite side of Xinyang, we can vacate at least one brigade, and cooperate with this brigade in front of us to eat us first. ”

Peng Shouxin knew that Wu Peifu had a hand in fighting, and asked, "Then what should I do?" Why don't we withdraw from Yanshi now? ”

Wu Peifu pointed to the map and said solemnly: "Actually, our first army has no strength. Wang Jinjing was bravely chased and lost thousands, Chen Huan's side only had three divisions and two brigades, and the 19th division was pinned down by one brigade in Guangshan, in fact, Xinyang had 2 divisions and 2 brigades, but he had to face four brigades and hundreds of cannons! Do you think he can play? So the retreat is a matter of a day or two.

It's simple on his side, and he can temporarily report to Luohe to be safe, but we and the 29th Brigade will be finished if we retreat back to Yanshi! Because we still have Shanxi and Shaanxi here! Looking at the combat effectiveness of the opposite side these days, it is strange that Shi Congbin and Shaanxi can not stop it! Once the Wehrmacht takes Tongguan, Yan Xishan's wall-headed grass will definitely mobilize the Jin army to cooperate, and the Huiyan division will face a three-sided attack from the Jin army, Tongguan and the south, and our miscellaneous division will definitely die! ”

"What then? Is it possible to withdraw directly to Kaifeng, Zhengzhou? The military order is like a mountain, and the palace guard will ask for our heads first! ”

It can't be withdrawn, Peng Shouxin is really a little anxious, but Wu Peifu remained calm, and his eyes stopped at Tongguan: "Lao Tzu doesn't want to die, so the best way is to grab Tongguan first!" Block the way for the Shaanxi National Defense Army to go south, and force Yan Xishan not to dare to make a move! ”

Peng Shouxin also graduated from Baoding College after all, and suddenly jumped up in fright when he heard this: "Ziyu, you are crazy!" If you don't go to Yanshi, Chen Yan's flank will be finished! ”

Wu Peifu took a deep breath and slapped Tongguan: "Either we go to Yanshi, and then we will be attacked on three sides by the National Defense Army and the Jin Army who broke through the pass, don't everyone be finished in two days!" Either block Tongguan and fight, Chen Eun Laozi blocked Tongguan to save him, or wait for the Yellow River to be cut off. ”

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