Chapter 267 Shijiazhuang Crisis

Although Wu Fengling brought nearly 10,000 people from Shanxi, and one of them had a main force stationed in Shijiazhuang, it was still very difficult in the face of Wang Ruxian's attack of more than 10,000 people. Wang Ruxian worked very hard to rescue Wang Yingkai. At first, he went north to a brigade, and then the whole eighth division went north. After the Eighth Division was stopped in Shijiazhuang, a provincial army brigade was transferred from Henan Province to the north, adding up to Wang Ruxian's attack on Shijiazhuang reached more than 16,000.

And at this time, Wu Fengling could not continue to draw reinforcements from Shanxi to reinforce Shijiazhuang. At this time, the people of the Southern Federation also knew that several warlords in the north had a civil war. They all tried to take advantage of this opportunity to recover the lost land in one fell swoop. Among them, Zhao Erxun in the direction of Shaanxi and Gansu made the biggest move. He was a few months ago. After a fiasco in southern Shanxi, it can be said that he was lying on firewood and tasting gall.

He expanded his army and pulled these strong men to the battlefield by forcibly pulling strong men and clockwork guns in other provinces in the south. He adopted the suggestions of many new Japanese officers and continued to imitate the establishment of the former fresh army. On the one hand, he recruited soldiers with high salaries, and spent a lot of foreign guns at a large price, and hired foreign instructors to train troops. He pulled over the officers who returned to China, such as non-commissioned officers, Liu Desheng and military students from various provinces, and the most important thing is that he can grit his teeth to continue to train this new army without rushing to the army to the battlefield.

After half a year, he actually trained a so-called '19th town of the Imperial Army of the Chinese Federation'. Although the soldiers in the town are new and the officers are also new and old, at least it looks like a new army. After going to the Shanxi battlefield for the first time in June, he fought with Wu Fengling's troops many times. Although it is still more defeated than less, it is much better than the old army that was defeated by one blow before.

The combat effectiveness of these 19 towns is placed in the Beiyang system, which is estimated to be the level of a local provincial army, but in many units of the Southern Federation, at least it has to be ranked in the top three.

Now I see that Wu Fengling has transferred nearly half of his troops out of Shanxi to participate in the Beiyang Civil War. Zhao Erxun also commanded his 19th town to launch a counterattack on Shanxi. Although Wu Fengling stayed in the first brigade of the 2nd Division in Shanxi and a brigade of the Shanxi Army will not be defeated, he can continue to defeat the 19th town several times, but this Zhao Erxun, like Zeng Guofan in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was repeatedly defeated. More importantly, this man was repeatedly defeated. He spent half a year in the south of Shanxi and the west and Wu Fengling. At least more than 20,000 troops were killed by Wu Fengling, but they were still alive in Shaanxi and Gansu. Some time ago, they were beaten by Wu Fengling. He escaped from Shanxi, but in a few months, he found a 19 town and returned to Shanxi.

Although Zhao Erxun's side did not allow Wu Fengling to hurt his bones, it also seriously dragged down a large number of his troops. Wu Fengling's Third Brigade of the Second Division and the First Brigade of the Shanxi Army were dragged in Shanxi to reinforce Shijiazhuang.

This also led to Wu Fengling fighting harder in Shijiazhuang due to too few troops.

Speaking of which, Wu Fengling is actually the one who was besieged in many warlords in China. At the same time, he fought against Zhao Erxun's 19th Town, Wang Ruxian's 8th Division, the first mixed brigade of the Henan Army, and Wang Shizhen's Hubei Army mixed brigade. What's more important thing is that he is not on that line. Can give up. Needless to say, Shanxi is his Wu Fengling's territory. He can't give up in any case, and he has to defend it.

Although the front line of Shijiazhuang seems to be working for Zhao Dongyun, let's not mention how good it will be in the future. Just say that if you give up now, Wang Ruxian and Wang Shizhen's troops will go north to reinforce Wang Yingkai. It is impossible for Zhao Dongyun to quickly take down the capital and destroy Wang Yingkai. If you continue to drag on, Zhang Huaizhi and Duan Qirui's troops will also go north. At that time, the biggest possibility is that Zhao Dongyun will once again shrink back to his northeast king. However, Wu Fengling will definitely be destroyed by Wang Yingkai and Wang Shizhen.

Now Wu Fengling has joined hands with Zhao Dongyun once. They can't avoid worrying that Wu Fengling will join hands with Zhao Dongyun for the second time, and Shanxi is a strategic place. Wang Yingkai dreams of controlling Shanxi. It can be said that Wang Yingkai's attempt on Shanxi is even greater than the three eastern provinces.

In this case, what Wu Fengling can do is to continue to kill Wang Ruxian and Wang Shizhen in Shijiazhuang and wait for Zhao Dongyun to successfully solve Wang Yingkai. Once successful, he can form a real strategic alliance with Zhao Dongyun in the future. When Zhao Dongyun conquers Henan, Shandong, Liangjiang and other areas Wu Fengling was also able to obtain a large amount of ordnance and military support from Zhao Dongyun, and then waved west to destroy Zhao Erxun and control the land of Shaanxi and Gansu, and finally put Sichuan in his pocket. At that time, he may not have the possibility of equal footing with Zhao Dongyun.

Looking at the situation in the two rivers, Huguang, Shanxi and other provinces, you will find that there is not much time left for Zhao Dongyun. It is impossible for him to slowly besiege the capital, and then sit back and watch Wu Fengling's defeat in Shijiazhuang. If this really happens, it will represent hundreds of thousands of Soviet military and political personnel and more than 100,000 officers and soldiers of the Feng army. Their dream of entering the customs was broken, which was unacceptable to Zhao Dongyun, and it was unacceptable to the military Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan, even Xiong Xiling, Zhao E and others of the State Council, and even the two-term industrial and commercial capitalists in the three eastern provinces.

The entry of the Feng army into customs is not only a matter of 100,000 soldiers of the Feng army, but also a matter of Zhao Dongyun alone. In fact, this move is related to the interests of the three eastern provinces as the whole northern interests.

In terms of military and political dignitaries, those military generals are all sitting in the dream of founding heroes, dreaming of commanding a large army to sweep Kyushu and unify China, and those civil officials also expect to enter the central government to become real cabinet bosses.

And those capitalists also hope that after successfully entering the customs, the government can emigrate from the three eastern provinces, and then develop agriculture in the northeast, especially the soybean industry. The increase in soybean cultivation is equivalent to the expansion of the scale of soybean-related processing industry. In addition to this, those capitalists prefer to break the current warlord melee and the provinces set up many barriers with each other so that their products can be bought in more provinces.

From a military and political point of view alone, Zhao Dongyun would think that Zhao Dongyun's urgent entry for Zhili was due to the chaos of the situation in the south, and Duan Qirui's bigger, but if you look deeper, you will find that there are actually deeper reasons to promote the entry of the whole Soviet system.

And the main reason is the economic aspect.

Wang Yingkai blocked the immigration channels in the three eastern provinces and still set up a large number of checkpoints to collect cents and commercial taxes in Zhili, especially in Tangshan. Although this move is normal in China, how do you think Wang Yingkai can afford to support so many troops by relying on the land of a province, but this behavior is seriously dependent on The economy of the three eastern provinces is a heavy hit.

The economy of the three eastern provinces in this era is not very good. The main pillar economy is mainly soybeans. Today's Northeast soybeans have successfully landed in the Japanese and European markets, in fact, the domestic market is still mainstream. More than 60% of the output of Northeast soybeans is It has been absorbed by domestic provinces. At the same time, the cotton textile industry, which has been vigorously developed in Northeast China in recent years, has also sold nearly half of cotton cloth to the northern provinces of China.

There are other products produced by Tangshan, Huludao and other industrial zones. In fact, most of the product markets are not in the three eastern provinces, but in China, especially in several provinces in the north, such as the famous Fuyuan cigarettes. The market of the cigarette company once spread to the whole country, but it suffered a heavy hit in the south after the Republic last year. The reason is very simple. This Fuyuan Company is Zhao Dongyun's industry, so it continues to sell, and even the branches in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places have been seized by the Southern Federation.

Subsequently, he was forced to rely heavily on the market under the control of the Republican government in the north, but Wang Yingkai set up a checkpoint on the Beijing-Feng Railway at this time to collect high fees.

Now, it has led to a rapid rise in the cost of transportation of many products in the three eastern provinces, including soybeans, cotton cloth, cigarettes, and even other light industrial products.

In this situation, Wang Yingkai doesn't even have to send troops to attack Zhao Dongyun. As long as he is stuck on the Beijing-Feng Railway, cut off immigration and raise the level, it is enough for Zhao Dongyun to operate the territory of the three eastern provinces, and even develop the territory. How can we need to expand the army and compete for hegemony?

With economic stimulation and the encouragement of military generals, even the civil service system was inclined to enter the customs, which completely led to the Feng army's large-scale entry into the customs.

It can be said that the battle of entry is the hope of the overall interest class of the Soviet Union. In any case, Zhao Dongyun is unwilling to see himself flee back to the customs again.

"There is not much time left for us, and the southward speed of the front troops still needs to be accelerated!" Zhao Dongyun still looked at the map and did not look back: "The Second Cavalry Brigade does not have to delay too much in Langfang, nor does it need to care about Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division to go directly to Shijiazhuang."

At this time, Yang Deming said, "The Second Cavalry Brigade had many non-combat losses in the first half of the month, and the war horses suffered great losses. Originally, it was scheduled to go south after two days of resting on the front line of Langfang, but now I'm afraid if it goes south in a hurry!"

Zhao Dongyun frowned after hearing this: "Didn't the Second Cavalry Brigade rest for a day in Baodi? Why hasn't there been any fighting in the future? Why hasn't it recovered yet?"

Yang Deming immediately explained, "Although the second cavalry brigade did not lose much in the first battle of Li Zhuang, in the subsequent pursuit, the second cavalry brigade led to a considerable number of non-combat losses in order to pursue the enemy, and a considerable number of horses were killed during the march!"

After listening to this, Zhao Dongyun had to meditate carefully for a while, and then said, "In this case, let the second cavalry brigade rest in Langfang for a day, and a day later, we must quickly go south to reinforce Shijiazhuang!"