The situation in Guangxi is not much better, although training is carried out every day, but when the moment the troops are dispatched, everyone discovers the difference between actual combat and training, and the entire staff headquarters of the Third Army is busy from the bottom to the bottom.

"Hey, hey, is it the Heavy Artillery Regiment of the 7th Division? Your heavy artillery regiment weishenme has not yet appeared? …… What, the tower crane is broken and is being repaired! "Hey, hey, pick me up at the dock management office...... Hello to the guest terminal management office? When will your tower cranes be repaired? …… What, tomorrow? Every effort must be made tonight to repair it, otherwise military law will be involved in ......"

"Hey, hey, the third division? Is there a discrepancy between the figures of the Wuzhou Military Reserve Base and the figures of the Military Department and the Ministry of Armaments? …… What, haven't finished warehousing yet? When is this all this, it has not been put into storage yet, contact the Ministry of Armaments immediately, and ensure the supply of materials no matter what......"

The staff officers of the military headquarters quarreled over the walkie-talkie, but Li Zongren, as the commander of the army, stood very calmly and motionless on the map hanging on the wall. At this moment, he knew very well in his heart that no matter how anxious he was, no matter how strong the strength of the youth army was, it would only be exposed to the world after Changde started. He suddenly felt a little excited, he was twenty-five years old and actually qualified to command an army of 50,000 to fight Guangzhou, and it was the marshal who gave him, an ordinary peasant son in Guangxi, such a chance to become famous.

Just when Li Zongren was grateful, Bai Chongxi was losing his temper at Laibin Wharf, it was too slow, the Seventh Division was only less than two-thirds of the scheduled assembly time, and the heavy artillery regiment was still dragging the guests without a ship. This means that Changde has not started yet, otherwise Bai Chongxi would have to shoot a few officers.

Bai Chongxi's anxiety is reasonable, don't look at him as only twenty-three years old, but he is already an expert in leading soldiers. Judging from the information provided by the Guangzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Long Jiguang in Guangzhou has received a telegram from Yuan Shikai, but he hesitates to wait and see for various reasons. The main force of the ministry is still cowering in Guangzhou, and at this moment, as long as he goes down the right river, he can appear almost unhindered under the city of Guangzhou. But this also requires his side to be faster, more ruthless and more accurate, otherwise there will be many dreams at night, once Long Jiguang has made up his mind to fight, the whole operation will increase unnecessary difficulty, and this is exactly what Bai Chongxi taboos. Therefore, at this moment, in his capacity as chief of staff of the Third Army and commander of the Seventh Division, he loudly and angrily reprimanded the officers of the Seventh Division who were responsible for this dispatch.

"I don't care what method you use, before dawn tomorrow, all the heavy artillery regiments of our seventh division must be on board, and before twelve o'clock tomorrow night, these heavy artillery must appear at the Wuzhou dock. If you can't do it, it's fine, you can apply for a military trial yourself, understand? ”

The officers wiped the sweat from their foreheads and replied in unison, "Understood! ”

The entire Seventh Division was frantically operating at full speed that night, and Bai Chongxi looked at the end of the Youjiang River in high spirits and said, "Guangzhou City, I, Bai Jiansheng, am here......"

In Changsha, Tang Overseer seems to smell a little different, unlike the blind optimism of other Beiyang bigwigs, Tang Qianming can be regarded as the top line, so he attaches great importance to the collection of information in all aspects. No matter how tight the protective net is, there are loopholes, and the intelligence spy system of the Military Intelligence Department and the Investigation Department can easily deal with the spies from the Law Enforcement Department of the Beijing Division and the War Department, but it cannot deal with Tang Qianming's non-professional intelligence personnel. Therefore, Tang Qianming naturally has more information and information about Xiangxi in his hand than Yuan Shikai in his hand, but these feedback information makes Tang Qianming not believe it at all. It's too exaggerated, the industry and agriculture of Xiangxi are several times more developed than the whole province, and the degree of development of various light and heavy industries is so high that Changsha, as the provincial capital, cannot be compared with it.

Tang Qianming deduced from this that as a Hunan Guizhou patrol envoy, the strength of the army in the hands of Wang Zhenyu, his nominal boss, was absolutely not allowed to others, but the secrecy measures in this area were too strict, and he had no way to investigate.

Although he came to a conclusion that he was half scared to death, Tang Qianming did not hand over the collected information to Yuan Shikai. Because he is Li Yuanhong's person, Tang Qianming's eldest brother Tang Hualong is Li Yuanhong's literary team. As for Lao Yuan's claim to be emperor, Li Yuanhong has always been opposed, not only refusing to accept the honorific title of Prince Wuyi, but also running to the Wuhan concession and openly singing against Lao Yuan. Tang Qianming is also in a dilemma at the moment, participate in the Protector Army to discuss Yuan, the army stationed in Hunan will definitely not agree, he is from the navy, and there are not enough descendants to protect himself, it is estimated that the front foot will tear the anti-flag, and the back foot will make people destroy It is very likely; And to help Lao Yuan suppress Yuan, Tang Qianming was unwilling, so the armament work in Hunan was in a state of suspension in this contradiction.

At this moment, the army under the name of the Hunan Governor's Mansion is also a very complicated situation, part of it is Tan Yanmin's first division and the troops incorporated from the original fourth division, these troops together are a little more than 10,000 people, and Guo Renzhang's mine police corps is 5,000 people, zuihou is a brigade left by the Beiyang Third Division, the fifth brigade of the Beiyang Infantry Wang Xueqian Division, about 8,000 people, but this force is mainly stationed in Yuezhou, and there are 7,000 people in Zeng Jiwu's department stationed in Yuezhou. As for Ma Jizeng's Sixth Division and the 15th Battalion of Ni Sichong of the Anwu Army stationed in Hengyang, they were not controlled by Tang Qianming, and all of them were under the name of the Ministry of War. Tang Qianming counted on his fingers, there are almost more than 30,000 people on his side, although the composition is a little more complicated, but it is estimated that no matter how the situation is tossed in the future, it will not be too much of a problem for him to keep the position of the overseer.

Not far from the Overseer's Mansion, where the First Division of the Hunan Army was stationed, Lu Diping, then the commander of the Third Brigade of the First Division of the Hunan Army, was reading a letter.

The letter was written by Wang Zhenyu to Lu Diping, Lu Diping hastily burned the letter after reading it, and then whispered to the person who sent the letter: "My situation here is a bit complicated, so I won't reply to the letter, you help bring the message to him, the content is not much, just ten words, one day for brothers, for life for brothers......"

On the occasion of the gathering of storms and clouds, whether it is Beijing, Changsha or Anjiang, they all set their sights on Changde. The news that Ma Jizeng was about to attack Changde had spread to almost every ant in the land of Hunan, so what are Ma Jizeng and his 18,000 men and horses of the Beiyang Sixth Division doing now?