Seeing that the Kuomintang Army was overwhelmingly rushing over, the Beiyang Army, which was originally escorting the artillery, and the officers and soldiers who had just been transferred from the middle of the team mentioned the most rearly Yu Yong, shouting and holding bayonets and fighting with the Nationalist Army.

Bullets, bayonets, grenades and even teeth, almost everything that can be used is used, which is probably the last bit of courage in the Beiyang Army after a series of incidents.

This is probably their worst madness...

However, although the resistance of the Beiyang Army was much stronger than Fu Xiuming expected, this unexpected change did not disrupt Fu Xiuming's position.

"Tell the first division, continue to rush forward for me, don't care about those rabbits in the Beiyang, it's just one word, rush me!" Putting down the binoculars, Fu Xiuming also said a little ruthlessly.

At this time, in addition to outflanking the troops on both flanks, he has already concentrated most of the forces in his hands, as long as he can crush the enemy army from the front, then he can directly eat this army in one go, and if he does not rush over, although things will not change much, it will become very troublesome.

Hearing Fu Xiuming's words, an officer next to him saluted. "Yes, I'm going to deliver the order..."

After speaking, he ran out of the temporary headquarters, and soon Fu Xiuming's order was passed to the ears of the front-line troops.

The First Division, as a unit reorganized from the former Anhui New Army, has always had the strongest strength of the National Social Army, and it is the main force among the main forces like the Third Division.

As for the 2nd Division, it has always been the second-level main force second only to the 1st and 3rd Divisions in the sequence of the National Social Army. This is also something that can't be helped, although the second division has been incorporated into the National Social Army since it was assigned. All the treatment enjoyed is the same as that of the first division and the third division, and there is absolutely no remoteness, but the second division is adapted from the original patrol battalion and other units after all. There are too many bad habits among the officers and men of the troops, and although there are some who work hard, when most of them have no intention of changing, the efforts of a few people become useless...

Of course, in addition to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd divisions, the combat effectiveness of the Guards Regiment was also very strong, but after all, the Guards Regiment had less than 3,000 people. 2,846 to be exact. No matter how you think about it, it can't be compared with an infantry division with more than 18,000 people—————— if the equipment of these more than 18,000 people is similar to that of a ragtag army, then there is no problem.

But then again, the nature of the Guards Regiment's mission is different from that of these main divisions after all. Therefore, it is difficult to go to war.

The same is true, so the 1st and 3rd Divisions have become the two most combat-effective units in the Nationalist Army, and it is even very likely that the two most combat-effective units in China (equipment is also one of the combat effectiveness), in the case of the 3rd Division's march into Jiangxi. The first master naturally became the sharpest knife in Fu Xiuming's hand.

After getting Fu Xiuming's order. The offensive of the 1st Division really became more intense.

Seeing that the troops were progressing smoothly, Fu Xiuming also breathed a sigh of relief.

"As long as we can win beautifully this time, there will be no big problems in the future..."

Fu Xiuming still has some understanding of the situation in Beiyang, don't look at the past battle, although it only took more than 2 months. However, in fact, both the Guoshe government and the Beiyang government have exhausted their powers, and the Guoshe government has already begun to mobilize reserves due to excessive casualties, and the Beiyang side has simply begun to arrest the strong men because of the lack of a reserve system.

The Beiyang Army gathered here now does not dare to say that it is all the elite of Beiyang. But at least most of it is still worth it.

"That is, as long as these enemies in front of you are solved. There won't be any resistance on the Beiyang side..."

As long as there is no Beiyang problem, the three-step plan of 'military administration, training administration, and constitutional government' that Yan Shao once put forward, the first step of the military and political stage can be regarded as an end. The reason why it is said to be the end rather than the end is because in addition to Beiyang, there are many other warlords waiting for them to solve, and Beiyang is just the largest group of them.

However, as long as Beiyang is solved, then the rest will not be a trouble.

After all, the rest of the people, including the Kuomintang, don't have much climate, as long as Beiyang is solved, those people can be solved very easily.

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The guns shook the sky, and the National Social Army didn't mention it for the time being, but the Beiyang side was completely disrupted.

There's no way, who told them that they were originally on the way to the march, and suddenly let them change from a marching army formation to a battle formation, not to mention the current Beiyang, even if they changed it when they just went south, it was not easy to do it.

So soon on the frontal battlefield, tens of thousands of Beiyang troops fell into a situation of fighting on their own.

It's just that there are no trenches and other fortifications, and Beiyang, which has been supplemented with a large number of recruits, is not as good as the National Social Army, and now there is confusion in command, to be precise, there is no one who can even control the overall situation, so...

Defeat is almost a foregone conclusion...

Feng Guozhang and the others did not try, but now the troops they can control are extremely limited, so these efforts soon failed.

"Commander, we can't stop it, let's withdraw quickly..."

Headquarters? At this time, there was no command center, and in a relatively simple fortification, listening to the sound of gunfire getting closer and closer, Li Chun pulled Feng Guozhang a little anxiously.

Just behind him, more than twenty soldiers of the Beiyang Army had already begun to carry things.

"Defeated, I didn't expect to be defeated like this..."Seeing that the soldiers were defeated, Feng Guozhang numbly let Li Chun pull him, and then was helped to a tall horse by several pro-soldiers. During the whole process, Feng Guozhang did not struggle at all, like a puppet, at the mercy of Li Chun and them, until he sat on the back of the horse, and seemed to come back to his senses a little.

But at this time, Li Chun and the others didn't have time to take care of this, and saw that Feng Guozhang was already sitting firmly.

"Drive!"

Whipping the horses, more than 100 people began to flee for their lives to the northwest.

On the road of 'strategic transfer', many Beiyang troops who did the same thing saw Feng Guozhang and Li Chun, and they were like seeing the backbone, and they attached themselves one after another. Soon a relatively large team was formed.

It's just that now this team doesn't have the slightest idea of turning around and fighting desperately with the National Social Army, but flees in the northwest direction at a faster speed than before.

At this time, the situation was completely out of control, and except for a few troops on the huge battlefield, they were still being ordered to resist. Most of the troops had lost the will to fight, and began to flee desperately in the south, south, and northwest.

A large number of artillery and machine guns were discarded on the roadside and in the fields, and the soldiers carried only rifles and other items that were most convenient to carry, and some even dropped their guns, just to be able to run faster.

From the time the National Social Army caught up with Beiyang to the current situation, it only took more than two days.

In order to be able to slow down the pace of the National Social Army's catch-up. Feng Guozhang arranged for the strength of two brigades to be cut off. According to Feng Guozhang's estimate, even if the National Socialist Army wanted to break through the defense line of these two brigades, it would probably take a day or two to do so.

A day or two. Feng Guozhang has already withdrawn to Shandong.

And if the Nationalist Army chooses to bypass the defensive line, it would be better, because Feng Guozhang is afraid that he will have returned to Tianjin with his troops by then.

Who would have thought that Lu Chuan and Yan Meng would actually mutiny (Feng Guozhang didn't know that Yan Meng was killed by Lu Chuan...... Although Yan Meng himself did not intend to die for Beiyang), coupled with the fact that the Guoshe cavalry in front of him had arranged a number of minefields, the marching speed of Beiyang was greatly reduced. As a result, Feng Guozhang had just entered Shandong, and not long after he was caught up by the National Social Army behind him.

There are no trenches. There are no fortifications, there is no preparation, and in this case it is caught up, and the result can be imagined.

Although after learning about this, Feng Guozhang had already ordered the troops to move forward.

The problem is that the whole team is tens of thousands of people, and the marching line is too long, and the team will definitely be a little panicked when they learn that the Nationalist Army is catching up. Under a variety of circumstances. The already disorganized troops became even more disorganized.

Fortunately, in order to speed up the movement of the artillery, Feng Guozhang once arranged some infantry troops behind. Helping the artillery units to carry these precious things, after learning that the National Socialist Army had caught up, these troops quickly prepared for battle under the order, and finally survived the arrival of reinforcements under the offensive of the National Socialist Army, otherwise I am afraid that it would be really completely useless.

But even so, Feng Guozhang still didn't last long.

There is no other reason, because they are retreating, and the retreat has already consumed too much of their morale. And Feng Guozhang's previous move of letting soldiers be cannon fodder to go to mines cannot be said to be wrong, but it also gave them no chance to fight and break the boat...

In addition, the formation was already very chaotic, even if Feng Guozhang and other Beiyang generals desperately moved, it was useless, and there was no help from trenches and other fortifications. After Bai Runshan and others outflanked him from both wings, Feng Guozhang was completely defeated...

"I'm sorry for the palace guard..."Looking at the only remaining soldiers around him, Feng Guozhang couldn't help but burst into tears.

However, looking at him from the side, Li Chun didn't feel anything in his heart. He was originally able to reach his current high position by relying on Yingfeng and many connections, and the most important thing for him is his life and power, from a certain point of view, he and Lu Chuan are the same kind of people.

If Beiyang is still as prosperous as before, he is naturally willing to serve this group to the death, but now that Beiyang is about to collapse, why should he be buried with him?

From a certain point of view, he is more willing to learn from Lu Chuan.

It's a pity that now he knows very well that in the case of Beiyang's defeat, he is of no use to the National Social Army at all. Even if he runs over to surrender now, I'm afraid people may not be merciful.

That being the case...

"It's better to accompany Feng Guozhang, the old horseman, back to Zhili first, and then see if there is any other way out...... Maybe there's a chance..."

Thinking of this, Li Chun's face changed for a moment, and he comforted Feng Guozhang in a harmonious voice.

"The commander doesn't have to be so sad, this failure is entirely because of Lu Chuan and Yan Meng, the two despicable villains, if it weren't for them living up to the commander's trust and the palace guard's favor for many years, we wouldn't have failed, the most important thing at the moment is to withdraw to Shandong first to regroup..."

But obviously, Li Chun knows better than anyone that there is absolutely no hope for such a thing as regrouping.

In fact, Feng Guozhang himself knew very well, but after some encouragement, he finally became a little more energetic.

"You're right, the most important thing now is to withdraw first..."

Nodding, nevertheless. After seeing the remnants of the defeated soldiers around him, Feng Guozhang was still sad.

There are more than 70,000 people, and now there are only so few people left around me. After he went back, he really didn't know how to explain to Yuan Shikai—————— or he didn't even have a chance to explain.

However, in any case, life is at stake now, and Feng Guozhang, who is in his 50s, obviously cherishes his life more than Li Liejun and Bai Wenwei. So after making up his mind, Feng Guozhang led the remnants of the army to evacuate here.

That is, when Feng Guozhang and the others were retreating to Shandong with the remnants of the troops, Fu Xiuming also began to command the troops to clean up the battlefield.

Perhaps because they had already known the result, the surrounded Beiyang Army did not resist desperately, but directly abandoned their weapons and surrendered after determining that there was no hope.

Dusting off the dirt from his hat, a tall, thin Beiyang officer looked around him. Seeing that it was the Beiyang Army that had surrendered, he sighed helplessly. "Now, it's completely changed..."

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June 28th. That is, more than two months after the Beiyang and the National Social Army officially tore their faces, the largest war since the liberation of the three provinces that took place at the junction of the three provinces was finally decided.

After more than two months of fighting, due to the appearance of rogues led by white wolves in the rear, in order to avoid being cut off from the back road. Feng Guozhang, commander of the Beiyang Army, after asking Yuan Shikai for instructions. He led most of the troops to withdraw to Shandong, leaving only two brigades of more than 8,000 people to stay in the original position and be responsible for the rear.

Who knew that Lu Chuan, the commander of the 31st Brigade of Ludao, actually surrendered to the enemy, and after shooting and killing Yan Meng, the brigade commander of the other army, he led two brigades to Yan Shao 'anyway'.

Although Yan Shao didn't have a good impression of Lu Chuan, a person like him who could even kill his friends, he also knew that many things were not emotional, so he appointed Lu Chuan as the commander of the 10th Division of the Anhui Army, commanding the original two brigades, and at the same time Yan Shao personally rewarded Lu Chuan with 1 million. In addition, more than 8,000 officers and men of the 10th Division were given a salary of 30 yuan each.

No matter what these more than 8,000 people were thinking in their hearts, the strength of the National Social Army and Yan Shao's behavior of 'buying bones with a thousand dollars' made it impossible for this army to have any problems for the time being.

Meanwhile. After solving the problem of the broken troops, Fu Xiuming also commanded the troops who were originally planning to launch an offensive to pursue Feng Guozhang's troops.

Because Fu Xiuming had already sent a large number of cavalry troops with 'mines' to bypass the defense line of the broken rear troops, catch up with Feng Guozhang from the flank, and first use 4 regiments of cavalry to attract Feng Guozhang's attention, and then let another regiment lay mines in front of Feng Guozhang, the marching speed of Feng Guozhang's troops was seriously hindered...

Therefore, the Nationalist Army that was catching up was finally able to catch up with Beiyang.

Feng Guozhang could never have expected that the two brigades that he had arranged for the break would throw themselves into the National Social Army, but when the National Social Army unexpectedly caught up from the rear, the Beiyang Army was suddenly in chaos.

Although many generals, including Feng Guozhang, had commanded their troops to counterattack on the spot as much as possible, they still ended in failure.

In the end, more than 4,000 of the nearly 80,000 Beiyang troops led by Feng Guozhang were killed in battle, only more than 10,000 of the remaining 70,000 people fled, and almost all of the remaining 50,000 people surrendered.

Although this battle cannot be said to have completely solved Beiyang, it also caused most of Beiyang's elite to lose most.

At this point, Beiyang could no longer pose any threat to the National Socialist Party, and the National Socialist Party became the largest force in the country because of its victory in this battle.

And in the eyes of the world, the fall of Beiyang is only a matter of time.

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Anqing, as the news of the victory came back, almost the entire city was boiling.

To be honest, when the Kuomintang government chose to start a war with Beiyang, although the people of Anhui expressed their support, they were still a little worried. There is no way, who called Beiyang's prestige early, compared with the Nationalist Government, although it also has a half-moon record of pacifying Jiangxi, but after all, it is still so much worse.

If the Nationalist Army loses, then...

When the National Social Army and Beiyang officially clashed, almost all the people and gentry in Anhui were worried about this problem.

They were not afraid of anything else, because the Communist government was not in the habit of demonizing the Northern Army or the local armies of other provinces. Although the military discipline of the Northern Army is indeed not very good, and it is even more common to harass the local people or something, to be honest, how many troops in this era do not harass the people? It's just half a pound and eight taels.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the National Social Army had already set up several clauses such as 'death to those who disturb the people', I am afraid that the military discipline of the National Social Army might not be stronger than that of the Beiyang Army. Even so, whenever there was a holiday, the officers and soldiers of the National Socialist Army would still run to the kiln to spend their hard-earned wages on the belly of those bitches.

However, this is probably one of the reasons why the National Social Army has not been disturbing the people, after all, a group of sturdy young men have been imprisoned in the barracks for two or three years, and if they don't find a way to vent, either 'picking up soap' or something will become the norm, or it will harm the people...

What people from all walks of life in Anhui are really worried about is whether the existing life in Anhui will change if the national government fails.

For various reasons, the people of Anhui, especially in big cities such as Anqing, Wuhu, and Dangtu, know very well that their current life is like paradise compared to those outside the province.

Some of the places that have been governed by the 'revolutionary' government since the restoration are still good, and some are even worse than they were under the former Qing rule. Therefore, they naturally worry that the Nationalist government has failed, and the situation in Anhui will become the same as outside the province.

Thankfully, they won... (To be continued......)