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Zeng Gao spread out the map. Under the dim yellow kerosene light, he saw a striking longitudinal map of the black railway line, and colorful pencils were painted around the railway line with various combat icons. Wusheng Pass in the north and Xiaogan in the south are the two ends connecting this vertical railway, and it is also the most dense distribution belt of various combat icons.

Li Xiang, Zeng Gao, Liu Jing and Lin Tiechang watched around the table and studied carefully. Time is extremely tight. The Beiyang army is constantly gathering towards filial piety. The people led by Huang Xing may fight with the Beiyang army led by Feng Guozhang. No one dares to take it lightly.

The wind and rain outside the small building have been lingering and have turned into pouring down, which is rare in autumn in Hubei. The noisy heavy rain slapped the closed windows, accompanied by the noise caused by the strong wind outside, which could not distract them at all.

Li Xiang pointed to an inconspicuous town located a little south of Xiaogan and Xiaochang: "The main force of Feng Guozhang's first army is gathered here, 20,000 elites, or original imported equipment. The army is of excellent quality and strong firepower, and you have also seen it.

Since the first time Feng Guozhang came out of Wusheng Pass and the Dawu Campaign began, Li Xiang, who was far away in Xiaogan, has been receiving reports about the battle. The Beiyang Army has made great progress all the way, but this army, which was divided by Li Xiang into the first war zone, has rarely won. The most fierce battle of Lidian can only be regarded as a tragic victory. This made Li Xiang a little uneasy at that time, and even strengthened his determination to adhere to strategic defense.

After Li Xiang went to Guangshui in Beijing, he held a meeting of the highest staff meeting of the Military Committee of the Hankou Government in a village where he could not find coordinates on this map in response to the situation of the battlefield at that time, and also passed the strategic defense battle plan.

Li Xiang nodded his finger on the table, with helplessness and dissatisfaction on his face. "No one can predict that the plan is difficult to keep up with the change. The newcomer Huang Xing overturned our strategic defense concept in one fell swoop and wanted to fight against Feng Guozhang with the low-equipped and patchwork miscellaneous army. It's not that Huang Xing has no chance of winning, but no chance of winning at all.

In the history that Li wants to understand, the battle of Yangxia ended in the defeat of the civilian army. Huang Xing pulled out the shit and sat back again. Thinking of the result of this battle, Li Xiang continued in a complicated mood: "But we have to take care of it. It is very important for Huang Xing to be responsible for the southern defense line of Hubei. If Feng Guozhang really captures Xiaogan, he can get along with Duan Qirui, who broke into the second war zone of Huangzhou Prefecture from Jiangbei. At that time, Li Xiping will lose the room to deal with Duan Qirui. He can only withdraw from Huangzhou Prefecture, while the three towns in Wuhan will lose Pingfan, and the exposure of Chiguoguo will be grabbed by the Beiyang military birds. Everyone knows what the Qing army will do after falling into the city. Everyone knows that many soldiers in the army are from Hankou, so we must not make Feng Guozhang get what he wants.

Li wants to reiterate again in order to strengthen his subordinates and his determination to the south. Li didn't dare to think that he was obviously too worried. Liu Jing, who came back from Xiangyang, said, "We have been suffocated for a long time, and we are waiting for your words."

Zeng Gao did not have his optimism. "Commander-in-Chief Huang insists on fighting with Feng Guozhang, and the troops we support can only help him defend the city. It is almost impossible to stick to filial piety from the current situation. It should be noted that the people's army deployed on the front line are all long-trained elite soldiers from the former eighth town of Hubei Province. They are constantly retreating backwards and can't stop the pace of the Beiyang Army's progress at all. Although this is the result of strategic defense and not confronting the enemy's main corps, it is an indisputable fact that the Beiyang Army has defeated us too much. The faction of the Xiaogan people's army is complex, and the internal problems are serious, so we don't have much hope for defending Xiaogan.

Lin Tiechang frowned and said, "If you don't participate in the battle to defend Xiaogan, how can you support Commander-in-Chief Huang?" Did you surround Wei to save Zhao? Concentrate the troops and go to the Wusheng Pass regardless of casualties. When Feng Guozhang sees the crisis of the supply line in the back road, he will give up his filial piety and wave back to help. He immediately shook his head, "The Beiyang Army is not only the one led by Feng Guozhang. Yuan Shikai sits in Xinyang and can deploy troops to support Wu Shengguan at any time. Even if the railway line is completely destroyed, Feng Guozhang can wait for those filial piety to meet with Duan Qirui to obtain military supplies in Jiangbei. In this way, the purpose of controlling the Beiyang Army's protracted war near the railway line will go bankrupt. A long-lasting mine will last, and a larger-scale war will be inevitable.

Lin Tiechang's deduction made everyone feel cold. Although he had long realized that a protracted and larger-scale war would be inevitable, the original strategic defense plan was also controlled by the battlefield in the railway line. Moreover, with the opening of the war of Xiaogan, Feng Guozhang's determination to extinguish the revolution will become stronger and stronger, and the power of meeting with Duan Qirui will rise greatly, and the scope of the war will spread uncontrollably.

And Li wants to think further. Yuan Shikai wants to raise the self-respect, but he will not raise a tiger. As long as Yuan Shikai leaves a lonely city in Wuchang, it is enough to negotiate with Li Yuanhong. Under the circumstance that the people's army will be unable to defeat the Beiyang army, Yuan Shikai may instruct Feng Guozhang to chase and beat him and get rid of his hidden danger. If Feng Guozhang cleans up Huang Xing and points the finger at Li Xiang, the whole Hubei will be involved in the quagmire of war. Li wanted to ensure that he would not expand the scope of war damage, implement strategic defense, wait for him to strike in the future, and preserve his strength, welcome the changes in the situation after Yuan Shikai's country, compete for territory, and play balance is considered bankruptcy.

Is it to keep filial piety or not to keep filial piety? Two questions,

After repeated meditation, the four people weighed the pros and cons, and it was always difficult to determine the result.

Zeng Gao finally said, "I still suggest adopting a plan that does not keep filial piety, avoid fighting with the Beiyang army in the first war zone, save the main force, and annihilate the enemy with a camera.

We can cover on the flanks, build defenses in advantageous geographical locations such as the three bridges, and defend Hankou.

Lin Tiechang stood up and resolutely opposed: "Xiaogan's strategic position is important, which is related to the survival of the civilian army and the success or failure of the Hubei revolution. As a soldier, you should defend it to the death. Then he said solemnly to Li Xiang, "I would like to coexist with Xiaogan. Please do it." Li Xiang and Zeng Gao and Liu Jing did not expect that Lin Tiechang's reaction was so fierce. Li Xiang believes that Zeng Gao's decision is undoubtedly more correct, and the main purpose of their trip is to understand the dead end of the battle between Huang Xing and Feng Guozhang, so that Huang Xing can implement the strategic defense plan after Xiaogan suffered losses. How can you get involved in the hard-line consumption of Feng Guozhang's Beiyang Army?

However, no matter how the three people persuaded, Lin Tiechang repeatedly insisted on keeping filial piety. Is Lin Tiechang's insistence because he is a person of filial piety?

Zeng Gao said helplessly, "It's useless for us to argue like this. It will only hinder the military."

Tang Yuewan pushed the door in at this time, and the arrival of the beauty diluted a little tension. She came in and said, "Xiaogan came for emergency information. Commander-in-Chief Huang temporarily announced a raid on Feng Guozhang tonight."

What Tang Yuewan brought is intelligence, which is simply a nuclear bomb! After opening their mouths for a long time, Li Xiang first came to his senses and said, "A mountain is higher than a mountain, and Commander-in-Chief Huang is bolder than me."

Zeng Gao immediately understood Huang Xing's attempt, "It's not just bold, but also has a big appetite. He wants to swallow Feng Guozhang's first army."

Li Xiang looked at the open map with burning eyes, listened attentively to the wind and rain outside the small building, and said slowly, "It's not impossible."