Compared with the more than 10,000 casualties experienced by the Left Route Army led by Marshal Bai Chongxi in the Anqing area, purgatory-like combat operations. The battle of the Right Route Army led by Tao Zhiyue on the south bank of the Yangtze River was as relaxed and enjoyable as a road trip.

In the headquarters of the Southeast Front, Li Zongren was busy urging the General Staff to bring in new troops, and he was busy sending telegrams every day. Tao Zhiyue commanded the Right Route Army, which consisted of the 1st Ace Division of the Youth Army and the newly formed 11th Division, with a total of 48,000 men, advancing towards the southern Anhui region.

According to the diary of Zhang Zizhong, who later became an army general, it was recorded as follows: On March 11, our Right Route Army began to carry out the order to march to the southern Anhui region.

"One-two, come on, one-two, push, one-two, come on, one-two, push-......"

Dozens of shirtless and muddy men were trying to push a French heavy artillery, which was only available in the First Division, and no other troops had this kind of heavy artillery. Originally, this was also the pride of the artillery regiment of the 1st Division, but now it looks like a burden.

"Bai Chongxi is a ** goods, he is afraid of fighting tough battles, afraid of hardship, and does not forget to drag down his brother troops, so he postponed the launch of the campaign for ten days. Now, after a little rain for more than ten days in a row, all of us here have become muddy roads, and we can't get up fast if we want to," Tao Zhiyue complained to Lu Diping, who was very unhappy. With the successive victories and the continuous expansion of strength, the factions within the youth army have become more and more distinct, after all, the more tempting the cake of interests, the greater everyone's desire.

Lu Diping didn't forget to respond to the two sentences, but his mind had already flown away from the Nine Heavens Cloud. It's also very aggrieved to think about it, thinking that when I was the same as Wang Zhenyu as a pipe band, the commander-in-chief in front of me was just a student army temporarily recruited under Wang Zhenyu. A few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and I relied on friendship to get mixed up with a division commander, and this kid in front of me has actually become his superior. If you are not happy, Lu Diping's mentality is not bad, he knows what it means to focus on the overall situation.

"Commander-in-Chief Tao, don't worry about it and don't be angry, in fact, we're pretty good, I just read the war report from the front army headquarters, the left army is overturned, and it is said that the losses are not small. In contrast, we are lucky, from Jiangxi to the present, except for a few local tyrants who do not know what to do and what is wrong to organize the militia to attack us, we have not fought a single battle. Didn't you say before the war that there were two divisions of the Beiyang Army waiting for us? What about people? ”

Tao Zhiyue felt the same when he heard this, although he was a superior, but as long as the friendship between Lu Diping and Wang Zhenyu was from the second battalion, no one would know. When he was playing a mutiny in Changsha, Lu Diping led the team to participate without saying a word. Therefore, Tao Zhiyue didn't dare to hold it up in front of Lu Diping, he immediately put away his anger and said: "Brother Lu, what you said is also true, in fact, the brothers have worked hard, and our right army is still very lucky." I have just received two pieces of direct information from the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Investigation Department, saying that Feng Guozhang arranged to deal with our two divisions, Yang Shande and Lu Yongxiang, one in Shanghai and the other in Zhejiang, and they refused to move. Feng Guozhang has no choice, he has already transferred the 15th and 16th divisions from Xuzhou to the south to support, and we must at least take Wuhu, where the second Beiyang Division is located, before this reinforcement arrives. Otherwise, whether it is Yang Shande and Lu Yongxiang who repented, or the reinforcements of the two divisions going south, they would have drunk a pot with us. We must have a mental preparation, there is likely to be a big jihua on the marshal's side that needs to use troops, and the reinforcements that can be given to our Southeast Front Army will not be too much, and it is estimated that there will be only one or two divisions. And even if our Commander Li is sent, he will inevitably be transferred to the Left Army, so we'd better not have expectations. ”

Lu Diping was surprised when he heard this: "How come? Li Delin doesn't look like this kind of person, if our Right Route Army suffers a loss, no matter how hard their Left Route Army in Jiangbei fights, it will be useless, and if it doesn't work well, it will become a lone army. ”

When it comes to strategy, Tao Zhiyue is energetic, he waved his hand and said: "I don't think he Li Delin has any selfish intentions, I don't believe Brother Lu, look at this map." ”

Saying that, the two walked to the map, Tao Zhiyue pointed to the Yangtze River and said: "This is Pukou, which is the key point of the Southeast Front Army's operation this time. No matter how many troops Feng Guozhang invested south of the Yangtze River, as long as our Left Route Army captured Pukou and cut off the Jingpu line. Then Feng Guozhang's army south of the Yangtze River has become a lonely army, there are no supplies and no supplies, and what awaits them is only one way to perish. And this time the operation of Jihua is strictly feasible, the two sides of the strait go hand in hand, and even our logistics and supply are dependent on the Yangtze River, and he Feng Guozhang can no longer play any other tricks except to die hard. Of course, there are risks in this kind of combat, that is, it is easy to be broken by each one, and once one way is blocked, the other way can become a lone army to penetrate. However, now it seems that the Beiyang Army is also scattered, and it is estimated that they will not be able to break through this kind of internal power-consuming big move. So at this time, if I am Commander Li, I will also throw the reinforcements to Bai Chongxi's second goods, after all, once the Left Route Army captures Pukou, we will only be easier to fight here. ”

Lu Diping suddenly realized, nodded approvingly, and said: "Wen Zheng has a group of tiger generals under him, why worry about the great cause!" ”

Tao Zhiyue smiled when he heard this: "Brother Lu is the number one tiger general under the command of Dashuai, we are just showing our faces." ”

Lu Diping hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't make fun of you, Brother Lu and me, I'm just going to follow you guys to have a future, you, the commander-in-chief, should get an idea as soon as possible, if you march like this, it will be a big blow to the morale of the brothers." ”

Tao Zhiyue touched his cheeks happily and said: "It's simple, let the political work cadres organize, everyone sings and moves forward, just sing our military song "Youth Army", and the heavy artillery will be loaded at the next ferry, this thing is estimated that we won't need it for the time being, and the other mountain artillery will be split, so it will be easier to transport." ”

Lu Diping's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he patted his thigh and said, "Wonderful! ”

So, next, Zhang Zizhong's diary wrote truthfully: "The whole army sang the military song of the Youth Army: Forward, forward, forward, our team is moving forward...... morale is boosted. ”

And at a time when the left and right armies were advancing towards Nanjing, in Shanghai, many behind-the-scenes stories were being staged......

Although they have always been very confident in Wang Zhenyu, the sworn brother, in just a few months, when they found that the team of this sworn brother had defeated southern Anhui and approached Ninghu, Du Yuesheng and Liu Hongsheng were still shocked. What does this mean, this means that Wang Zhenyu is already qualified to compete with Lao Yuan for the world.

So when Wang Yaqiao found these two, both of them did not hesitate to put all their bets on Wang Zhenyu.

In many cases, the military is really just a continuation of the political struggle, at least in Shanghai, and this is absolutely true.

Just as Wang Zhenyu's army was advancing towards Nanjing, on March 10, Sun Yat-sen arrived in Fuzhou, which had just been recovered, via Taiwan, and announced the establishment of the Chinese Revolutionary Military Government, making himself the generalissimo of the military government. And Wang Zhenyu's youth army, Cai Ye's Protector Army was also assigned to his own name by Sun Yat-sen, who likes to pull tiger skin and strong momentum, and did not wait for Wang Zhenyu and Cai Ye to call back to accept, Sun Yat-sen directly awarded the two the post of deputy marshal, and then formed a coalition army of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, known as 100,000 to attack Zhejiang.

Under such circumstances, Wang Zhenyu also knew that there was still a big problem about whether Zhejiang could enter the stomach, so he immediately asked Zhou Wei to send a report to Wang Yaqiao, the person in charge of the Yangtze River Intelligence Network in Shanghai, to obtain the support of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols living in Shanghai as soon as possible, and pave the way for the Youth Army to enter Shanghai, Zhejiang, and southern Jiangsu. The same directive was sent by Sun Yat-sen, but the target of the report was Chen Yingshi (Chen Qimei), who was secretly operating in Shanghai at the moment, so an invisible war began in Shanghai......

Sun Yat-sen's appearance made this war to protect the country even more lively. At this time in the southwest, Cai Ye had joined forces with Xiong Kewu to defeat Chongqing, and the main force of the Protector Army had expanded to more than 50,000 (a large number of Sichuan troops and Feng Yuxiang's 16th Beiyang Mixed Brigade had joined the group). Cai Yi exchanged views with Wang Zhenyu through Zhao Hengti, the representative of the Youth Army stationed in the National Protector Army, and the next step is that the National Protector Army will take Chengdu as soon as possible, and then merge it into Shaanxi, and then strive to hunt in Beijing with Wang Zhenyu, a small fellow villager in Baoqing Mansion, as for Sun Yat-sen, he was consciously or unconsciously ignored by this Cai Dashuai.

Wang Zhenyu read this telegram and smiled lightly: "You Cai Songpo is full of ambition, but it's a pity that God is jealous of talents, you are destined to be a meteor that can only shine for a moment, and I, Wang Zhenyu, am the North Star that illuminates the starry sky." ”

In fact, Wang Zhenyu wants to say that he is the sun, but remembering that the word sun has been repeatedly tarnished by a group of ** people from generation to generation and three generations in later generations, and the fate of these ** people is also very bad, such as Gaddafi's asshole, Wang Zhenyu feels bad and does not dare to compare himself with the sun.

However, most of the people do not have such a high political consciousness, in their opinion, Sun Yat-sen is the third anti-thief in the world, and the old Yuan family's qi may be exhausted.

In the eyes of many young people who don't know the truth, Sun Yat-sen, a traditional revolutionary who can suddenly pull out 100,000 horses, is the leader of the revolution to lead the overall situation. In the eyes of Sun Yat-sen and his comrades, as long as they took advantage of the decisive battle between the Youth Army and the Beiyang Army to defeat Zhu Rui and Lu Yongxiang's army and take Zhejiang, the road ahead would be easy.

However, it seems that Sun Yat-sen's actual situation is not as good as he himself claims......

At that time, Zhang Xueji, who was the deputy commander of the Xiangxi Protector Army (only the number and no soldiers), was actually the representative sent by Sun Yat-sen to Wang Zhenyu, after receiving an urgent telegram from Sun Yat-sen, he thought for a while, and could only come to Wang Zhenyu with a bitter face......