On February 4, the sixth year of the Republic of China, the Third Division of the Third Army of the Youth Army was stationed in Huizhou, and so far, according to the agreement, all the western and central regions of Guangdong have been in the hands of Wang Zhenyu.

Before Yuan Shikai in Beijing could digest the bad news, on 5 February, Wang Zhenyu issued an important telegram in the Anjiang area, announcing to all circles of the country in the name of the Kuomintang Socialist Party: "On this occasion when the society is in turmoil and the country is in danger, this party and the Youth Army for National Salvation under its command are fortunate enough to live up to the trust of all the people, fight fiercely, recover the land of Hunan and Guangdong provinces, and save the people of the two provinces from fire and water." Today, looking at Shenzhou, all of them are indignant for the perverse behavior of the Yuan thief, and all of them are sad for Beiyang zhuanzhi**, our party and our army are the army of the people, and they are the soldiers of the people. From now on, the Youth Army's Northern Expedition to Yuan Thieves, all those who respond in groups, warmly welcome them. Those who don't know whether they are alive or dead, who resist stubbornly, and block the car with their mantis arms, will be regarded as national thieves and will be punished together. The invincible youth army will surely plant the banner of protecting the country at the head of Beijing, and 40,000,000 compatriots will surely gain freedom and**, long live freedom**, long live the Republic of China! ”

As soon as the telegram came out, in Changsha, Changde, Guangzhou, and Anjiang, all the troops of the Youth Army were mobilized.

In order to meet the needs of the new war, Wang Zhenyu set up the wartime supreme command of the youth army on the basis of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission (that is, to hang an extra sign at the entrance of the administrative building in Anjiang), directly kicked off the sign of the party committee, and issued combat tasks to the more than 200,000 youth troops under his headquarters in the name of the supreme commander.

Yang Wangui's staff worked day and night to study, analyze, and discuss, and finally formulated a new operational jihua. If this plan, codenamed "Blue Light", is put in front of Yuan Shikai, it is estimated that Lao Yuan will be angry: "You Wang Zhenyu have a big appetite, and you are not afraid of breaking your teeth." ”

But Wang Zhenyu has such a big appetite, blue is the color of the sky and the ocean, symbolizing brightness and wisdom, so the content of the blue light action is everywhere to sweep the eight wildernesses, and the meaning of heaven and earth is clear.

The whole Jihua is divided into three phases: the first stage is characterized as an assault stage, and the participating troops include the First Army, the Second Army all, and it is expected that eight integrated divisions will be invested. The battle was launched on February 15, the sixth year of the Republic of China, and the focus of the attack was Hubei and Jiangxi. Combat jihua content for all participating units will form four assault clusters.

Major General Xu Yuanquan, commander of the First Assault Group, with a total of 50,000 troops under the command of Zhao Dongsheng of the Fifth Division of the Youth Army and Li Hongkui of the Sixth Division, set out from Li County to launch an attack on Jingzhou, Hubei.

Major General Wan Yaohuang, commander of the Second Assault Group, under the command of Dai Yue, the Second Division of the Youth Army, and the Zhou Zhengming Division of the Eighth Division, set out from Yuezhou and approached Wuhan, Hubei, with containment as the primary purpose, and if conditions permitted, they would wait for an opportunity to seize Wuhan, and the operational goal was to seize the entire territory of Hubei together with the First Assault Group.

Major General Tao Zhiyue, commander of the Third Assault Group, and Zeng Jiwu, the 1st and 10th Divisions of the Youth Army, set out from Changsha and went straight to Nanchang, Jiangxi, with the goal of seizing a province in Jiangxi.

General Cheng Qian, commander of the Fourth Assault Group, under the command of Liao Lei's Division of the Fourth Division and Lin Xiumei's Division of the Ninth Division, set out from Hengyang and went straight to Ganzhou, with the operational goal of seizing the entire territory of Jiangxi together with the Third Assault Group.

The Third Army, which had no task in the first phase of the assault operation, was asked to move to the Hunan region and begin to make war preparations with Changsha as the center to participate in the second phase of the operation.

For the first phase of the operation, Wang Zhenyu made several adjustments, the first was that the Zhou Zhengming Division of the Eighth Division did not participate in the Wuhan operation, and after the Changsha and the Third Army joined together, they made preparations for the second phase of the war.

Secondly, Huang Shaohong, the head of the attendant department, concurrently served as the brigade commander, and Huang Xuchu, who also served as the chief of staff, was ordered to be transferred to Huizhou to realize the monitoring of the Shili of the Northern Guangdong Revolutionary Party. Yang Yongtai was appointed acting governor of Guangdong Province and director of the provincial party department, with full responsibility for the local affairs of the Kuomintang in Guangdong, while Chen Shao was transferred to the acting governor of Hunan Province.

Hao Bing was promoted to commander of the security headquarters of the three provinces of Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, under the jurisdiction of three regular corps, 24 detachments, and an independent corps, with a total strength of 84,000 troops in the four detachments, and all the weapons seized were assigned to the security command. A security command college has been set up at the Army University of the Youth Army, and all officers of the security system have returned to the school for training.

It is worth noting that Wang Zhenyu issued two other personnel appointments in order to cooperate with the first phase of the operation.

The first is that Weng Wenhao served as the acting governor of the Guangxi Provincial Government, and Wang Zhixiang, the former governor, served as the deputy commander of the Security Command of the three provinces, this appointment caused a lot of controversy, because Weng Wenhao is strictly a jishu expert, not a professional, but Wang Zhenyu just wants to use him, and told him that when he arrives in Guangxi, the first task is to speed up the construction of transportation projects and prepare for the export of large-scale industrial products. Zuihou is useless if the freight does not go out. Therefore, in addition to the Liuzhou-Fangchenggang railway, which was personally supervised by Song Xianfu, the Guangxi region was also required to build a highway and railway from Laibin to Nanning. Such an errand is not capable of Weng Wenhao, who understands transportation construction.

The second is the appointment of personnel to the Security Command.

Chief of Staff of the Security Command, the three captains are Tian Shouhai, commander of the Hunan Corps, Liu Mingkai, commander of the Guangxi Corps, and Deng Kunru, commander of the Guangdong Corps. The most noteworthy thing is that Shen Zongsi was actually appointed commander of the Anjiang Corps, responsible for the security work of the central government. What is the concept of the commander of the Anjiang Corps? In the former Qing Dynasty, he was the commander of the Yamen of the Infantry Army, that is, the commander of the Nine Gates often found in the play, and such an honor made Shen Zongsi immediately become a bigwig-level figure in the old phoenix system. And all this was originally just a casual move by Wang Zhenyu for the sake of his adopted son Shen Quan, but it turned out that the status of the Shen family in the Phoenix Department was on par with the Tian family, which was a situation that Wang Zhenyu did not expect at the beginning of this order.

Far away, let's talk about the second stage, Yang Wangui's second stage is defined as the attack stage, if the first stage of the assault mission goes well, Hubei and Jiangxi's territory starts. Then at the end of the following March, the Youth Army will take advantage of the Beiyang Army's vitality in the Hubei and Jiangxi battlefields to be seriously damaged, and the rear force will continue to use the third division and the seventh division of the third army Bai Chongxi and the fourth division Liao Lei along the Yangtze River to launch military operations against Anqing, Yangzhou, Nanjing, and Shanghai, targeting the Jiangsu and Anhui parts north of the Huai River (note, during this period, the Yellow River had two outlets, one of which was shared with the Huai River, Khan) and the rich Zhejiang. The whole military operation emphasized one word, fast, and demanded that the military operation be completed before the great powers intervened and reacted, especially to prevent Zhejiang Zuihou from falling into the hands of Sun Wen and others. In fact, according to the information sent back by the intelligence officers lurking around Sun Wen and others, although the war in Fujian is still going on, Sun Wen, who failed to take Guangzhou, has already decided to organize an army to attack Zhu Rui in Zhejiang after pacifying Fujian.

The third stage is to be determined, and there are two general directions, one is to prepare for the counterattack of the Beiyang Army, and to smash this counterattack through a battle in Henan and Xuzhou, and consolidate the territory in hand, and the other is to guard against the Yunnan army led by Cai Yi, which is estimated to have held the land of the three southwestern provinces by then.

Wang Zhenyu looked at this zuihou analysis and did not make a sound, his maternal great-grandfather in later generations was Cai Yi's subordinate, he knew that the fundamental reason for the decline of the Dian army was Cai Yi's death, if this son did not die, judging from the current battle report from Sichuan, he might not be able to help the Dian army. But if the Dian army is no longer Cai Yi's Dian army, but Tang Jiyao's Dian army, then there is nothing to fear, which history has proven. With great gods like Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi in hand, he is naturally not afraid that Tang Jiyao, an imbecile, will be able to turn over flowers.

When it comes to achieving the entire combat goal, Wang Zhenyu is not worried, because He Jian and Zhou Wei have already figured out the old bottom of Beiyang, and the third division, the most capable unit in Beiyang, is in Sichuan, and now it is being beaten by Cai Yi with less victories, and even the division commander Cao Kun was almost captured alive by the Protector Army. It is said that Feng Yuxiang, one of his two right-hand men that day, felt that Cao Kun was dead and decided to retreat, but the other Wu Peifu did not approve, and led his own people to raid and fish Cao Kun out of the encirclement of the Protector Army. If this is true, then Comrade Feng Yuxiang is too unkind, and it is reasonable for Cao Kun and Wu Peifu to become brothers.

Not only the 3rd Division, but Zhang Jingyao's 7th Division was also in Sichuan, in addition to a brigade of the 6th Division. And outside of Sichuan, the Sixth Division has been completely annihilated, and the Beiyang Army in Hubei actually only has Wang Zhanyuan's second division, if it were not for the risk that the Jinghan Railway could be quickly reinforced at any time, Wang Zhenyu would not even agree to Yang Wangui using the absolute superiority of four divisions to fight Wuhan, so many people in Nima went to war without food or money. If Hubei still has a main force like the Beiyang Second Division, then in Jiangxi, Li Chunke is not as good as Wang Zhanyuan, his Sixth Division has long been handed over, and now it can be regarded as the entire army. This time he will fight, and the army he can use is the local army in Jiangxi Province, and there are still unreliable elements like Ouyang Wu here. In the whole of South China, only the main force of the Beiyang Army was concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, including Yang Shande's division of the Fourth Division stationed in Shanghai, Zhang Huaizhi's division of the Fifth Division stationed in Zhenjiang, and Lu Yongxiang's division of the 10th Division stationed in Zhejiang. Moreover, according to Beijing's intelligence, although Feng Guozhang was slow to respond to the suppression of the Protectorate War and deliberately delayed, Yuan Shikai still decided to transfer his newly trained 15th and 16th Divisions and even Cai Chengxun's 1st Division after the war situation deteriorated, so as to stabilize the situation in the south first.