It was only learned by Feng Guozhang late at night, and it was too late to do anything at this time.

Just when Zhang Zizhong was running at high speed on the land of southern Anhui with the terrain of one of his battalions, in Shanghai, a battle without gunpowder was going on.

Wang Yaqiao and Chen Qimei are nervously making various preparations for the entry of the Shili army into Shanghai at this moment, and Shanghai at this moment has also become lively with the defeat of the Beiyang Army commanded by Feng Guozhang.

All the powerful factions and celebrities in Shanghai are nervously inquiring about the latest news, and if they want to protect their vested interests, they naturally need to know who will be in charge of Shanghai next.

The war in Zhejiang began at the end of March, and Zhu Rui, who was given high hopes by Wang Zhenyu, was really inferior to Li Houji of Fujian. Li Houji, who relied on more than 10,000 people, was stunned to flee to Taiwan in a panic after more than two months of fierce fighting with the revolutionary army in the Fuzhou area, and then fled to Taiwan in a panic, and then went to Guangzhou through Taiwan to accept the position of Guangdong Provincial Councilor arranged by Wang Zhenyu. And what about Juri? As a local snake who has been operating in Zhejiang for many years, he has an army of 50,000 people, and he has lost half of Zhejiang in a row in less than a week.

This is not to say that the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang army is inferior to that of the revolutionary army, but that the main generals of the Zhejiang army, Lu Gongwang and others, have a secret relationship with Sun Yat-sen. As a result, before the battle began, more than 30,000 of the 50,000 troops became part of the revolutionary army. At this time, Zhu Ruike felt that he was hanging, and it was likely that he would not be able to complete the task required by Wang Zhenyu to block the revolutionary army from Zhejiang. But Wang Zhenyu's bottom line is that Sun Wen's army must not be allowed to enter Shanghai, and this must be done no matter what, otherwise there will be nothing to do with him Zhu Rui in the next political stage. In order to achieve this goal, he could only summon the generals he could still trust to his side and lecture: "To tell the truth, everyone knows that his Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army made Wang Zhenyu's youth army defeat in the front, and our revolutionary army here is also aggressive, seeing that the territory of Zhejiang is about to be lost." ”

When these generals heard these demoralizing words, they looked at each other for a while, and asked one after another: "Dare to ask the general what his idea is, whether to fight or defend, whether to make peace or surrender, no matter how the decision is made, we will just do it." ”

This is a kind word, Zhu Rui doesn't dare to take it seriously, after all, Lu Gongwang is reversed. He straightened his back and said, "Since everyone has this attitude, I will tell you brothers something." Before this war, I got in touch with Wang Dashuai of the Youth Army. Wang Dashuai is now strong and strong, and the soldiers are directed at Nanjing, so my idea is to follow Wang Dashuai. But Wang Dashuai entrusted me with two things that day, the first was to help him with the old man (Wang Zhenyu Juhan, which of us is older?). Defend our Zhejiang, but it's a pity that Lu Gongwang forgot the blood feud of the Liberation Society and the Alliance and defected to Sun Cannon, and now most of Zhejiang has fallen into the hands of Sun Cannon. So this entrustment is sorry for Wang Dashuai, but the second one is to help Wang Dashuai's army enter Shanghai first, which is what we still have the opportunity to do, as long as we defend Hangzhou. Therefore, Zhu asked all the brothers present to control the teams in their respective hands at this moment when the future and fate of our people are decided, and no matter what, they must hold Hangzhou. Please! ”

After exchanging glances, the generals seemed to have counted, so they all got up one after another, saying that they would fight for Zhu Rui to the end......

Wang Yaqiao has been quite busy these days, and on the one hand, all the information submitted to the Anjiang General Staff Headquarters and the Southeast Front Army needs to be signed by him before it can be issued. On the other hand, during this time, I have to take the time to contact the local tyrants in Shanghai for Yang Yongtai, after all, the youth army needs support from all sides to enter Shanghai next.

But just yesterday he got a very unpleasant news, that is, someone saw Sun Yat-sen's senior general Chen Qimei enter the private residence of He Fenglin, the commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade of the Army, appointed by the Beiyang government, and sat for three hours before coming out.

If the activities of both sides were still in a state of mutual tolerance before, then Chen Qimei's direct activity of He Fenglin is a very serious foul. After all, everyone went to drink tea and chat with well-known figures from all walks of life in Shanghai before, just to make a popular aura for their own side, and the final result is to be faster than whose army is faster, which is the basis for everyone to tolerate each other. And now? Chen Qimei first killed the commander of the naval fleet of the Beiyang Army, and then rebelled against the navy, which did not matter, because of the concession, this fleet finally left Shanghai and went to Mawei in Fuzhou under the intervention of the foreign powers. But He Fenglin is different, he is the Songhu military envoy personally appointed by Yuan Shikai, and he has an army in his hands. If the final result is that He Fenglin was successfully rebelled, he became a revolutionary armed force under the Chinese Revolutionary Military Government led by Sun Dacang. So is it an attack when the Youth Army arrives in Shanghai? Or not to attack?

Wang Yaqiao immediately reported the situation to Yang Yongtai, Wang Zhenyu's plenipotentiary in Shanghai, who had recently been busy attending various entertainment in the concession, but was still on the verge of being vigilant. He glanced at Wang Yaqiao lightly, and then said in a low voice: "I've always been curious about one thing, he Chen Yingshi killed one of Yuan Shikai's naval commanders, and with his Yuan Shikai's character, will he allow this person to stay in the world?" ”

Wang Yaqiao suddenly opened his mouth when he heard this, nodded and turned to leave, while Yang Yongtai smiled slightly, and went to play with a new set of four treasures of the study on his table. This is a pure white jade product given to him by the Jewish merchant Hartung, delicate and shiny, and it is 10,000 oceans on the market.

"It's better to be in Shanghai, there are many rich people," Yang Yongtai involuntarily sighed......

Or back to the battlefield, the fifth year of the Republic of China, at seven o'clock in the morning of April 4, 1916 in the Western calendar, Zhang Zizhong rushed to the blocking position required by his superiors, Hongmu Mountain, with more than 300 elite soldiers. Almost half of the officers and men were left behind, after all, it was a continuous march, and the actual march covered more than 150 miles, and there were six wades in the water. However, it is very fortunate that although in the later books about this great interlude, this intersperse was depicted as a battle of death and life by the pen in charge of propaganda work of the army, and was repeatedly resisted by the Beiyang Army, but in fact they did not encounter any resistance from the enemy along the way, not once.

So the door for Feng Guozhang to flee to Nanjing by land was ruthlessly closed, and Feng Guozhang made only one choice, slamming the door. As the vanguard of the whole army, the Beiyang Second Division unceremoniously launched an attack on Hongmu Mountain, which was guarded by Zhang Zizhong and others, and the battle was very fierce.

It is said that Zhang Zizhong and his party were dumbfounded after they arrived at Hongmu Mountain this morning, this mountain is too short, and the number of mountains available for use is also limited, but at this time, there is no time to pick and choose. Everyone immediately began to dig fortifications with their sapper shovels and pickaxes, a total of four hills, and put a company of men and horses on each hill, with only one purpose, to carry out the order of General Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the front army, and stick them here like nails.

The battle started at 11 o'clock in the morning, and the attack of the Beiyang Army could not be said to be ineffective, and everyone knew that only by opening up here could everyone escape back to Nanjing. And an hour ago, Tao Zhiyue, who was bent on making up for his merits, had already pressed down on the Beiyang Army with the strength of two divisions. The Fourth Division, which had lost its division commander, was unreliable at this time, so Feng Guozhang did not hesitate to throw the First and Second Divisions of the Jiangsu Army out to resist the youth army that was used like a tide. Then he stepped up to urge Wang Zhanyuan to speed up the attack, he didn't have too many ideas now, the descendants of Beiyang could stand out one by one, after all, he brought them down from the north, and if he couldn't bring them back, he wouldn't be able to live with people.

However, Zhang Zizhong's battalion of more than 800 officers and men today made a name for itself as the entire 11 th Division, and in the absence of the standard firepower configuration of the Youth Army, they relied on these heavy machine guns, rifles in everyone's hands, and hand grenades that were temporarily replenished. Zhang Zizhong and the others actually withstood the repeated attacks of the Second Division that lasted for three hours in one breath, and Wang Zhanyuan, the commander of the Second Beiyang Division, was so angry that he didn't care about any demeanor, and jumped up and scolded: "What's wrong with our Second Division?" From Tongling to Wuhu, you can't capture a single position, what are you doing to eat, rice buckets. Go now, organize a death squad for me, and in an hour I will stand on Hongmu Mountain. If I can't get up, I'll use your head to give me a foothold, and if you don't believe me, I'll give it a try......"

A large number of death squads rushed up shirtless, brandishing ghost-headed broadswords and screaming, and then were unceremoniously knocked over by Zhang Zizhong and them.

The cannon soon came up, and it was a random bombardment on the hill where Zhang Zizhong and them were, and it was another wave of charge, which was not a tactic at all, and it was completely expected to rely on the advantage of troops to consume Zhang Zizhong and them.

By about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Zizhong's troops had lost more than 350 people, but the four hills were still firmly controlled by him. At three o'clock in the afternoon, He Yingqin came up with the main force of the 111th regiment, and after a scuffle, they successfully joined forces with Zhang Zizhong's troops......

In the middle of the night of April 4, Chen Qimei and several guards walked out of a naval club in the Shanghai Concession, ready to board a small car and leave. Just when she was about to get in the car, Chen Qimei stopped, this club is usually very lively outside, what's going on today? Thinking about it? The mutation happened suddenly.

Eight gunners suddenly rushed out of the dark night from eight directions, all of them were armed with two guns, and they were box cannons with clear water, and they shot at Chen Qimei. Chen Qimei's three guards were immediately knocked to the ground, and Chen Qimei lost her ability to resist after being shot several times in the back, so she could only clasp the car door with both hands, but her knees landed uncontrollably.

The assassins obviously didn't intend to stop there, they approached the car and shot Chen Qimei seven or eight times in a row, and then one of them made up for it, confirming that Chen Qimei was out of breath before scattering.

Chen Qimei, who was powerful in the Republic of China, was killed like this, and there was no way to give the name of the murderer to Yuan Shikai who was far away in Beijing......