Chapter 338 Suining Crisis

After learning that Suining County had not yet fallen, but the fourth brigade that went to reinforce had been swallowed up by the Feng army, Duan Qirui also felt a sense of crisis for the first time.

Although he led the army north to fight against the Feng army for a long time, and the war in the past two months was not satisfactory, Duan Qirui only felt troublesome at most, but far from creating a sense of crisis.

However, today, he felt a sense of crisis for the first time, a crisis in which his main force may be surrounded in Xuzhou!

"What about Suining? Did they watch the Fourth Brigade attack by the enemy and be indifferent? Duan Qirui asked angrily.

The adjutant next to him said cautiously, "Suiting said that at that time, they had a Feng army in front of them and could not deploy troops north to reinforce Wang Lanzhen."

"Shuining has more than 13,000 troops, and how many 10th Divisions can be in front of them? At most, the scattered enemy can only gather 10,000 people. Since the main force is going to Wang Lanzhen, how many troops can contain them!" Duan Qirui was seriously dissatisfied with the unfavorable operation of the Anhui army in the direction of Suining, and he was even more dissatisfied after hearing the adjutant's answer.

"It is reported that Suining has at least two battalions of enemy troops in front of him!"

It's okay if the adjutant didn't answer, but Duan Qirui shouted and scolded directly.

"It's simply a bastard. More than 13,000 people in two camps scared them so much that they dare not go to war. Are they the same as those bastards in the first mixed brigade in Zhejiang?"

If Duan Qirui knew that in fact, there was no Feng army outside Suining City, I don't know how he would feel!

In fact, when the 10th Division of the Feng Army attacked Wang Lanzhen, it did not send troops to Suining in order to concentrate its forces. That is to say, when the 10th Division fought fiercely with Wang Lanzhen and the Fourth Brigade of Liangjiang, the Anhui army in the direction of Suining did not encounter any danger, but they faced Wang Lanzhen. He didn't dare to fight for help, and finally watched the defeat of the friendly army.

In order to shirk responsibility, they had no intention of lying about the military situation, saying that there were at least two battalions of enemy troops outside Suining City.

As for why don't many people only say two battalions? Because Duan Qirui will definitely not believe it. If it is missing, Duan Qirui will be dissatisfied. Considering the precedent of a battalion of the Feng army in Taoyuan County fighting through defensively and counterattacking the collapse of Zhejiang's first mixed brigade, the Suining garrison is facing the containment of two battalions of the Feng army, and it is reasonable not daring to fight rashly.

However, Duan Qirui was still seriously dissatisfied with this. The two battalions were so scared that his 10,000-person army did not dare to ask for help. He had made up his mind that he must replace the senior generals of the Fifth Division and the Second Mixed Brigade after the war.

However, it has to be said whether the fifth division and the second mixed brigade still exist after the war.

At this moment, in Suining, the senior officers of the 5th Division of the Liangjiang Army and the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Liangjiang Army sat together. Although Zhang Dianru, the commander of the 5th Division, looked flat, people familiar with it would know that Zhang Dianru was in a bad mood at this time.

And Liu Chaolu, his old subordinate and now the commander of the second mixed brigade of the Liangjiang Army, also doesn't look very good.

"My lord, what should we do in this situation? Please make an idea!" Liu Chaolu said to Zhang Diru, "Now that the 19th Brigade of the Feng army has turned back out of the city, they can be ready to launch an attack in a few hours. At that time, they still have to make another plan to block it. They all need to make an early decision!"

Although Liu Chaolu asked Zhang Diru to make a decision, and did not explicitly say that Zhang Dinlou would make any decision, the meaning in his words was very obvious, that is, to persuade Zhang Dinlou to lead the army to retreat.

Liu Chaolu still spoke with a cover-up, but several other subordinates spoke more obviously. One of the middle-aged young generals, Li Chengbing, the commander of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division, said, "Commander, if you don't leave now, I'm afraid it will be difficult to leave when Fengjun comes!"

However, when Li Chengbing opened his mouth to retreat directly, there were also some people next to him who had concerns, but Han Chenghao, commander of the 10th Brigade, had different opinions: "Xuzhou is asking us to defend Suining. If we retreat without authorization, I'm afraid that everyone here will be investigated in the future..."

He didn't go on, because it goes without saying that everyone knows that this is not about running away after a big battle, but running away without fighting. More importantly, there is still a situation where Duan Qirui strictly ordered them to defend Suining. If they escape, then Duan Qirui will definitely hold them accountable next.

What if Duan Qirui masturbate them at that time? What if Duan Qirui announced that he wanted to kill them and set an example to kill them with military law?

At that time, I'm afraid I won't even have a chance to escape, let alone resist.

Although the warlords began to gradually take shape in this era, the control of the armies of the leaders of major warlords is still relatively strong. Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen and Zhao Dongyun's prestige built by relying on the old Beiyang era is not so easy to shake, so the possibility of the troops to rebel is relatively small. After the Republic Wang Zhanyuan is actually the only small warlord who broke away from the above-mentioned big warlords.

And Wang Zhanyuan's self-reliance gradually became independent after Wang Yingkai's complete failure.

These days, if you want to be a warlord and play the game of having troops and self-respect, then there are two necessary conditions. The first one is naturally is strength. You must have enough troops under your hand, and you must be loyal to your army to be self-reliant and be a fact warlord.

And if you have strength, you have to have enough prestige.

prestige is also an illusory thing, but it is an indispensable factor for politicians in this era.

Why does the Southern Federation have many problems, and it still exists and continues to resist the North Sea after consecutive defeats? On the one hand, it is largely because they have the banner of Zhang Zhidong.

Even if they are Manchu generals such as Duanfang, Xiliang and Shu Qing'a, they have to raise the flag of Zhang Zhidong, otherwise they will not be able to gather the forces of the southern provinces to fight against the North Sea.

Now, the war between the north and the south has gradually evolved into a war between the interests of the north and the south, which actually has little to do with the national and political system.

The war between the Northern Republican Government and the Southern Federal Empire is not a national dispute, nor an imperial and republican dispute, but a war between the interests of the north and the south.

If you want to talk about the national struggle, joke, there are high-ranking officials such as Duanfang and Xiliang in the Southern Federation, but the main force is actually Han people, and they are mainly Japanese students. I have to say that this is an extremely ironic fact of history.

There are also many Manchus in the Beiyang Republican Government. Whether it is the Feng army or the Anhui army, there are actually a large number of Manchu officers.

As for the dispute between the imperial system and the republic, it is also quite nonsense. Although the southern federal empire holds the banner of the imperial system, you can see that it has the word federation. This is a provincial federal political system. Although there is a Guangxu sign on its name, it is actually provincial autonomy, and there are also parliaments. Zhang Zhidong can command Duanfang, Xiliang and even Zhao Erxun.

In contrast, although you hold the banner of republican, if you really want to talk about republican people, you can only say the word 'hehe'. Whether it is Zhao Dongyun or Duan Qirui, they have maintained absolute dictatorship in their respective ruling areas, and the parliament in Beijing has not been held since it was first last year. Even after a meeting, Zhao Dongyun did not go through the choice of the Congress when he came to power.

In a word, if you really want to talk about the republic, the Southern Federation and the Northern Republic are all half-hearted, and no one can say which one is wrong.

The war between the north and the south is a war of interests between the industrial and commercial landlords in the north and the south, and there is no direct connection with those messy high slogans.

Let's not talk about the essence of the war between the North and the South, but in this era, it is indispensable to become the leader of the North and the South, that is prestige!

And prestige is what those generals in the northern military world lack. To be honest, except for a few big warlord leaders, that is, Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui, their generals generally lack prestige, even Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan, Cao Kuan and Wang Zhanyuan in the second echelon of Beiyang. They are also seriously deficient. It is estimated that after leaving their respective armies, few people will know their names.

After all, China's melee has only begun for a year. If there are a few more years of melee, it is estimated that these military generals will gradually grow up, but now, their strength is still very poor. Not to mention others, even Wang Zhanyuan, who has now implemented independence, can only hide in Henan like a homeless dog. At the border with Anhui, Duan Qirui, Zhang Huaizhi and Zhao Dongyun all tried to collect him or simply destroy him.

So in the face of Duan Qirui's rebuke, these people who fled from Suining without fighting have little hope to resist or even become self-reliant.

If you don't escape, you will be killed by the Feng army. If you escape, you will be executed by Duan Qirui!

This made Zhang Dianru fall into the dilemma of choice!

Zhang Dianru looked at several people under his command and flashed many years in his heart. He has been in the army for a long time. He is a veteran of the old Beiyang era. When the fourth division was established, he served as the standard commander. It didn't take two years for the four Beiyang bosses to rise up and split. Later, Zhang Dianru followed Duan Qirui to the two rivers south and the Anhui army. After receiving a large number of defeated troops of the Southern Federation, Duan Qirui trained six Liangjiang infantry divisions and two Liangjiang mixed brigades, as well as several Zhejiang troops. Where did the middle and senior officers needed by these troops come from? There is no doubt that they all come from the Fourth Division.

So Zhang Dianru suddenly stepped from a title in front of the station to the position of the commander of the Fifth Division of Liangjiang, and even his old subordinate Liu Chaolu was promoted from the battalion commander to the commander of the mixed brigade.

Over the past year, the Anhui army has expanded from tens of thousands to more than 100,000, and they have also grown from battalion commanders and regiment commanders to division commanders and brigade commanders.

People, naturally don't want to fall down when you get up!

After thinking hard for a long time, when he heard that the Feng army outside had begun to bombard, he took a deep breath and said, "What do you think we should follow Lu Yongxiang's example?"

Lu Yongxiang?

Who is Lu Yongxiang? He is the commander of the first division. He used to be a direct general of Wang Yingkai. After the Feng army conquered the Beijing Division, he announced that he would join the Fengcheng army in Nanyuan. Please note that this is not the same surrender as Bao Guiqing of the first mixed brigade at the beginning, but surrender. The difference between one word is thousands of miles.

Now that Zhang Dianru said this person's name, the sound in the room stopped in an instant, and the faces of the people present changed in an instant!