In the middle of the night of February 15, the sixth year of the Republic of China, in Changdeli County, more than 20 staff officers of the First Assault Cluster Headquarters and the First Army Military Headquarters stopped their work, got up and stood at their respective posts, and their eyes were all set on Xu Yuanquan, commander of the First Assault Group.

Xu Yuanquan's gaze was fixed on the map motionless, and the entire part of Operation Blue Light involving the First Assault Cluster went through his mind over and over again, as if he was still struggling to think about the flaws that still existed in the battle.

At this moment, the wall clock hanging on the wall suddenly struck 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the crisp cuckoo sound seemed to break the silence of the early morning of the 16th. Xu Yuanquan simply stopped thinking about it, threw the pencil on the map, and said to the staff officers around him comfortably: "I don't want to, pass on my military order, and Operation Blue Light will begin." ”

The staff officers who were originally motionless suddenly moved with Xu Yuanquan's words, and one after another orders were issued to the various participating troops with great accuracy.

Zhao Dongsheng's division of the Fifth Division, which originally belonged to the battle sequence of the First Army, attacked from Lixian, and Li Hongkui of the Sixth Division attacked from Jinshi, and the ships of Yuanjiang shipping were all out of goods in Anjiang because of the closure of the Yangtze River (so all the goods were loaded in Guangxi by rail, and Youjiang shipping became stronger), and as a result, after completing the transportation of materials to Zhuzhou, half of the ships were transferred to participate in the assault operation of the first assault group against Jingzhou. All combat units will advance along the waterway in the direction of Jingzhou, and small units have already completed infiltration before the large force attacks.

The defender of Jingzhou at the moment is the Fifth Brigade of the Hubei Army, and the brigade commander is still an acquaintance of Wang Zhenyu, no one else is Xia Douyin, who was beaten by Wang Zhenyu when he failed to flirt with Ye Ziwen at the dock of the Hankou Concession.

Speaking of this, Xia Douyin is indeed a character, and he followed Sun Wu and others in the Hubei army at the earliest. Later, in the civil fighting in Hubei, he accurately stood on Li Yuanhong's side, although Li Fatzi didn't like such a skin-like person, but he bought horse bones, such a person had to be used, and Xia Douyin became the head of the Hubei army. In the subsequent Hubei, with the killing of Zhang Zhenwu, the situation became repeated, and Li Yuanhong was also forced to resign as the governor of Hubei, and Beiyang Shili became the ruler of Wuhan. Unlike other Hubei army shili who do not cooperate and do not depend, Xia Douyin is very good at coming to things, first putting Duan Zhigui in a relationship, and then following Wang Zhanyuan before and after, serving Wang Zhanyuan very comfortably. Wang Zhanyuan is also a real person, and he reciprocated the favor by promoting Xia Douyin to brigade commander.

After the start of the Protectorate War, Wang Zhanyuan paid attention to the progress of the war in Hunan almost every day, and with the continuous expansion of the results of the Youth Army, the strength it showed had already made Wang Zhanyuan instinctively feel frightened. After Feng Guozhang took up the post of patrol envoy of the five provinces of the Yangtze River, Wang Zhanyuan, who regarded himself as Feng Guozhang's descendant, unceremoniously applied for defense adjustment and left Wuhan in order to avoid the edge of the Youth Army.

However, Feng Guozhang, who was far away in Nanjing, received the telegram and did not reply for six or seven days, and he did not know what his idea was. However, Wang Zhanyuan is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he forced the four main brigades of the Hubei army to assemble in Wuhan and cooperate with the defense of Wuhan; On the one hand, he secretly ordered the Second Division to start packing up and prepare for the oil on the soles of his feet at the critical moment; At the same time, Xia Douyin was promoted to the commander of the Western Hubei garrison and the commander of the Fifth Brigade, and handed over the defense of Yichang, Jingzhou, and Enshi to this kid. In order to strengthen Xia Douyin's determination to fight to the death with the Youth Army, Wang Zhanyuan also allocated 7,000 guns and 3 million oceans to Xia Douyin very arrogantly. Therefore, although Xia Douyin's army only bears the number of one brigade, the actual number of guns has already exceeded 15,000 people. And this Xia Douyin is actually a stupid and bold person who doesn't read books or newspapers, and he doesn't go to inquire about how fierce the youth army is, as long as his habit is to get benefits from others, he dares to break through even if it is a big disaster. In fact, he was such a person in history, and after being bribed by Lao Jiang with a benefit fee, he dared to lead the team to fight Wang Jingwei in Wuhan, but the result was naturally beaten to pieces and defeated. In fact, there are still a lot of people in reality, but their fate is like a meteor, just pass it, Xia Douyin's ending is to be reduced to a street stall in Hong Kong to tell fortunes, this is still a later story.

Although Wang Zhanyuan planned to slip away, he also did some things to defend Hubei, such as transferring two local brigades from Henan to Xiangyang to garrison. However, all these materials were unmistakably placed on the desks of the Supreme Command of the Youth Army and the combat commander in the Hubei direction, and there was no secret at all.

According to the operation, at noon on February 16, all the attacking troops will appear around Jingzhou City, and if Xia Douyin does not apply oil on the soles of his feet in time, he will wait to be surrounded and exhausted. In this kind of battle of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, victory is a must. With the order given, Xu Yuanquan felt that he should go to sleep beautifully now, and then wake up and listen to the good news......

At about the same time, the 3rd and 4th assault clusters were also deployed, and their guns were pointed at the province of Jiangxi, where the door was wide open.

In Nanchang, Jiangxi, Li Chun, who was the pacification envoy of Jiangxi and the general of Jiangxi at the time, was sleeping, and he was not idle these days. From the moment Hunan declared independence, Li Chun knew that the situation had collapsed, and from that day on, he kept holding military meetings to prepare to defend the territory.

Speaking of Li Chun, this person was born in a poor family, and he has taken refuge with relatives since he was a child. And his reputation in the history of the Republic of China is very peculiar, some people say that he is a corrupt official, who only knows how to loot land; Some people say that he is a capable official and has dealt with many corrupt officials, such as the director of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Finance; But there is one thing that is undoubted, that is, the establishment of Nankai University in Tianjin, and the source of funding for the then president Zhang Boling was Li Chun. So no matter what Li Chunfeng's comments are, this is a good comrade who is enthusiastic about the cause of education, but it's a pity that Wang Zhenyu's muzzle is now aimed at him.

Jiangxi's military liliang is much worse than Hubei, and Hubei at least has a field force like the Beiyang Second Division, but what about Jiangxi? As far as the eye can see, not a single such force can be found. The Jiangxi army had three divisions, but these troops were all incorporated after the suppression of the Second Revolution and were politically unreliable troops. And with such a small number of people, they were also stationed in Jiujiang, Nanchang and Ganzhou.

In fact, not only did Li Chun look down on these troops, but the youth army didn't take them seriously. First, these armies are politically non-Beiyang descendants, and their relationship with the revolutionary party is also inextricably linked. Second, there are problems with the combat effectiveness of these armies, which are themselves congenitally insufficient, and Yuan Shikai also focuses on his lineage in terms of acquired development, and the so-called treatment and equipment cannot meet the standards of field troops. Usually used to bluff the people, arrest the rebellious party is okay, if it really fights, it can only be used to defend the city, and if it really pulls out, I am afraid that the enemy team will disperse before I see it.

It is precisely in accordance with such a reality that the requirement for the entire Jiangxi operation is not how many enemies to be annihilated, but one word is fast, and it is necessary to seize the entire territory of Jiangxi before the revolutionaries in Fujian can make their move, and then make preparations for attacking Zhejiang in the Shangrao and Leping areas. To this end, the General Staff Department also specially transferred a detachment of cavalry, about 3,000 people, from the security system with cavalry units to form an independent cavalry brigade, with Long Yunfei as the brigade commander, to be used as the vanguard of the third assault group.

Li Chun set the tone of holding on to the military meeting that ended during the day on the 15th, and originally thought that the Jiangxi army of nearly 40,000 men in three divisions would at least be able to hold out until the reinforcements of Marshal Feng in Nanjing were in place if they were really hard topped.

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen's representative, Hu Hanmin, had reached a deal with Wang Zhenyu's representative, Yang Yongtai. That is, Li Liejun, the original boss of the Jiangxi army, entered the Jiangxi army to oppose the Jiangxi army, and then the Jiangxi army entered Fujian and helped Xu Chongzhi defeat Li Houji, the Fujian patrol envoy and Fujian general. Having said that, the combat effectiveness of Fujian's revolutionary army is indeed worrisome, and Li Houji, who relied on the foundation of one brigade in Beiyang to expand the troops of three brigades, actually crushed the Fujian-Guangdong Protector Army, which was several times his own. In order to end the war in Fujian as soon as possible and then march into Zhejiang, Sun Wen and others made the decision to abandon Jiangxi. Of course, Sun Wen and others are not without their own wishful thinking, in their opinion, even if the territory of Jiangxi is given to Wang Zhenyu, he can't hold it, and these people occupy Fujian and Zhejiang to develop well, and wait for Wang Zhenyu and Yuan Shikai to fight and then come out to clean up the mess.

Wang Zhenyu naturally knew the wishful thinking of Sun Wen and others, and he didn't have any opinions, but he just assigned Wang Yaqiao, who was in charge of the Yangtze River Intelligence Network, to get in touch with Li Houji, the actual master of Fujian, and then not only supported him with 2 million oceans, but also supported 20 mountain artillery pieces and the equipment of a regiment. This little aid was not much, but it made the revolutionaries suffer greatly, and the blood of countless revolutionary martyrs flowed like this......

Wang Zhenyu secretly swore that I would definitely avenge you, martyrs.

The first person in the Jiangxi army system to respond to Li Liejun was Ouyang Wu, the commander of the third division of the Jiangxi army and the guard of Ganzhou Town. The other two division commanders are still waiting and watching because of their defection and betrayal of Li Liejun in the Second Revolution.

In the early morning of February 16, the 100,000 youth army launched an attack on Jiangxi, and Long Yunfei personally commanded 3,000 cavalry to be the first to break through the fragile border and enter Jiangxi......