Chapter 447 Autumn Wind sweeps away the fallen leaves

The Feng army simply chose Zhang Guotai, a more influential person, so after three days of negotiations, the Anhui army in Hukou officially surrendered to the Feng army. Its Liangjiang Sixth Division, Liangjiang Third Division and two independent regiments were reorganized into the 21st Division of the Central Army and the 20th Division of the Central Army respectively. These two divisions formed the Central Army Zhang Guotai was the commander of the Fifth Army, and Zhao Dongyun generously directly awarded Zhang Guotai the rank of general.

The reason why Zhang Guotai was directly awarded the rank of general and the position of commander of the army is that on the one hand, there are many remnants of the Anhui army in the direction of Hukou and Jiujiang, and now there are nearly 30,000 people. Moreover, this unit is different from surrendering after being completely defeated. Although they have run out of food, they have basically maintained their adherence to the establishment. If you spend too much effort to reorganize, you can pull it out to fight.

These 30,000 people are not easy to separate, and it is also a waste to directly adapt them into one division, so they simply give the numbers of the two divisions and form these two divisions into one army.

In addition, Zhang Guotai is also a general in the Anhui army, and Zhao Dongyun gave the general title of Zhucheng what it was originally and what it is now. Lu Yongxiang is like this, Bao Guiqing is like this, Zhang Dian is like this, and Zhang Guotai is no exception.

Now giving preferential treatment to Zhang Guotai can also be regarded as a gesture of buying horse bones. In the future, Fengjun will continue to go south and march to the southwest. At that time, it will take too long time and more losses to fight all the way. If someone can take the initiative to surrender anyway, how about giving them some preferential treatment? Those who defected to the troops will be slowly transformed by the Feng army after they come. Just like Zhang Diru, although he is a division commander, in fact, he can't completely control the 16th Division. If the combat office lets him go there, he has to go there. If he doesn't go, the Soviet officers under him will have to be cut off first.

To put it bluntly, what Zhao Dongyun gave Zhang Guotai was a preferential treatment and a false position. You can see that Zhao Dongyun sent a large number of officers at the level of division, brigade, regiment and battalion. The follow-up Zhang Guotai is also a bald commander. As for what will happen in the future, it depends on His follow-up choices and creation.

Anyway, he, the military commander, can't be compared with several other real-power military commanders in the Feng army.

After the enemy of Hukou, he quickly transferred the muzzle and Lu Yongxiang's first army to land in Jiujiang directly with the cooperation of the navy, and cooperated with the third division in the north to fight against the newly arrived fifth army of the southern federal expedition.

After half a month of fighting, the fifth army of the Northern Expedition was defeated and forced to retreat to Hubei.

Up to now, the Jiujiang Campaign has also come to an end, and the fall of Jiujiang has had a profound impact on the Anhui army, because it means that nothing can stop the subsequent south of the Feng army.

On September 2, Xu Bangjie took Jinhua one after another. After Taizhou, he led the 10th and 15th Divisions of the 2nd Army and the 23rd Division, which had just been reorganized from the captured and surrendered troops, went south to Fujian, and the front went straight to Fuzhou.

On September 9, the 10th Division of the Feng Army captured Fuzhou, and the 15th Division captured Nanping, a military town in the hinterland of Fujian.

On September 12, after consolidating the situation in northern Jiangxi, the Feng army once again went south to capture Ganzhou, and its 9th division has pointed directly to northern Guangdong.

On September 20, the 14th Division of the Feng Army captured Pingxiang and other places and entered Hunan.

On the same day, Zhao Dongyun personally ordered the transfer of the Third Division to be placed under the jurisdiction of the First Army. Then Lu Yongxiang led the First Division, the Third Division and the Eighth Division of the First Army and the 21st and 22nd Divisions of Zhang Guotai's Fifth Army crossed into Hubei and went straight to Wuchang.

At this time, looking at the domestic situation, the southward momentum of the Feng army is unstoppable.

After the first army of the Feng army conquered Huangshi and Ezhou, Hubei Province in October, under the influence of the failure of the front line connection, Zhang Zhidong's body finally could not support it. He passed away on October 4, ending his magnificent life.

The death of Zhang Zhidong, the pillar of the Southern Federation, directly means that the Southern Federation is on the verge of collapse. Although Duanfang announced in time that he would succeed as the imperial prime minister, Duanfang, the successor of the Prime Minister of Manchu, made many of Zhang Zhidong's generals very dissatisfied. Li Yuanhong and Zhang Biao were the first The time was to kill Wuchang City, drive Duan Fang out of power, and then Zhang Biao announced his succession as the imperial prime minister, which caused more people's dissatisfaction.

There were continuous internal disputes and external attacks from Wang Shizhen and Lu Yongxiang. Zhang Biao simply approached Zhao Dongyun, saying that he was going to negotiate an armistice.

Regarding Zhang Biao's request for a ceasefire and the requirement to maintain the current military dividing line, Zhao Dongyun tore up the telegram with a smile and said, "Continue to fight until they surrender unconditionally!"

On October 20, Lu Yongxiang and Wang Shizhen jointly launched an attack on Wuchang. Five days later, the Feng army and the Hubei army successfully met in Wuchang.

Wuchang has been defeated!

Throughout the second half of 1908, that was the solo stage of the Feng army. The Feng army successively conquered Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian at a faster speed than the original Anhui army, and entered Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong.

When the calendar turned over 1908 and ushered in the Spring Festival in 1909, Fengjun had actually controlled more than half of China and could no longer find a rival militarily.

What follows is a military operation, let alone a political action!

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year after the Spring Festival in 1909, Guangzhou.

Duan Qirui met a guest he hadn't seen for a long time. Sitting opposite Duan Qirui was Wang Ruxian, and next to him was a Soviet politician who had not seen by Duan Qirui but had heard it many times: Yang Debiao, the first secretary of the Secretariat of the Presidential Palace.

Since Wang Ruxian's defeat in Henan in 1907, he first experienced more than half a year of house arrest, and finally took the initiative to convince Zhao Dongyun to gain freedom. Because of his active attitude, Zhao Dongyun did not deport him directly to the concession as an apartment, but gave him a false title of adviser to the presidential palace. He also retained his rank of lieutenant general.

Needless to say, Yang Debiao is the first secretary of the Secretariat. In the mouth of outsiders, he is Yang Shumi, and his political status is even higher than those cabinet chiefs.

Today, these two people with extremely special status came to Guangzhou. The purpose is self-evident, that is, Duan Qirui has connected with Zhao Dongyun, and what else can be talked about, nothing more than surrender.

Yang Debiao looked at Duan Qirui. He had seen Duan Qirui several times before, but today's Duan Qirui and Duan Qirui in his impression seemed to be two people. A few years ago, he saw Duan Qirui, which was high-spirited. Even if you look far away, you can see that it was a power. The illustrious hero, but now Duan Qirui looks like an old man in his 70s. You know, Duan Qirui is only 54 years old this year. For a soldier and a warlord, he is in his prime.

However, now his beard has begun to turn white, and the wrinkles on his face are comparable to those of a 70-year-old man. More importantly, the momentum of looking at the world's heroes as nothing has completely disappeared. Now he is like a twilight old man, not angry at all.

Yang Debiao can also understand Duan Qirui's state. If he still controlled more than half of southern China two years ago, hundreds of thousands of troops in the hands of the connection after two years of failure, and finally lost the two rivers, Fujian and Zhejiang, and hundreds of thousands of troops were lost. If he could only retreat to Guangdong with less than 50,000 remnants, everyone would I can't accept it.

Since the defeat of the Jiangnan Campaign in the second half of last year, the Anhui army lost Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi successively under the continuous south offensive of the Feng army, and once again lost the last possession of the Anhui army in the above three places. Even Jin Yunpeng's second mixed brigade was once again hit in the Ganzhou Campaign. Jin Yunpeng could only take Less than 10,000 people retreated to Guangdong.

Although the fourth division of the Anhui army did not suffer a large-scale fiasco, it failed in continuous battles, and the cumulative losses were also very amazing. At that time, the strength exceeded 25,000, and the fourth division, which used more than 75 artillery in four artillery battalions, now has only about 10,000 people, and less than 30 artillery pieces of artillery. .

Today's Anhui army has long lost its grandeur, leaving only less than 50,000 defeated soldiers. Looking at the follow-up development, when the Feng army continues to go south, Guangdong will certainly not be able to defend it.

In this case, Duan Qirui also had to take the initiative to send a message to Zhao Dongyun of Jurentang, that is, surrender!

Duan Qirui no longer hopes to continue to compete for hegemony, let alone hope that he can have a great political position in China after his surrender. He only hopes that the fourth division he has established with one hand can have a good end. He does not want to leave the last seed of the Anhui army under his command.

On the other hand, he also saw that the Soviet system and China are already unstoppable. Since it can't be stopped, let himself make his last strength for domestic unity and republic.

In the final analysis, he is still a Beiyang native. He has more feelings for Beiyang than his feelings for the country and the nation.

Whether you win or Zhao Dongyun wins, the world will eventually be a Beiyang man!

Yuan Gong, who knew the last gift he gave to Zhao Dongyun, must have been gratified.

After learning that Duan Qirui intended to surrender, even if Zhao Dongyun was confident to directly take Guangdong by force, the impact of Duan Qirui's active investment was not Zhang Guotai. Zhang Diruk can match them. Once Duan Qirui surrenders, it means that the Beiyang system has completely recognized Zhao Dongyun is Beiyang. The highest leader of the system is of great political significance for the subsequent unification of China.

So he sent Yang Debiao and Wang Ruxian to go to show his sincerity and let Wang Ruxian go to contact the feelings of the old people in Beiyang.

Anyway, Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui are all members of Beiyang, and Wang Ruxian is also a member of Beiyang.

So the three people here today didn't talk much and ended the meeting.

When Wang Ruxian and Yang Debiao went out, Duan Qirui said the last sentence: "Try to Ziyang, I, Duan, am also from Beiyang!"