262 fat dragging down

262 fat and thin (middle)

Wuchang, the scorching sun is like fire, so hot that people have nowhere to hide, only those tireless cicadas are still singing annoyingly.

In the conference room of the Military Commission, senior military generals and senior civil servants in Han gathered in the combat room of the Military Commission to discuss the strategy of Jiangxi's counterattack.

"You mean we occupy Jiujiang and then Nanchang?"

When the staff officer stated the whole battle plan, Tang Hualong stood up. This plan is really crazy.

The breath of Mars shrouded the venue tightly from the beginning. The Wenwu members of the Wuchang system who attended the meeting all know that today's meeting will determine the fate of China in the future. Turning to Jiangxi, if they can reverse the stalemate in World War I, and then completely defeat the current regime in Beiyang, they will become the masters of New China.

The chaotic China can also be freed from the war and bravely get rid of the shackles and immerse themselves in the construction of the country when the great powers are busy with the just broken out of the European war.

But if this battle still can't defeat the Beiyang Army in Jiangxi and disintegrate the Beiyang Front, they will occupy Nanchang. They will also watch their motherland fall into a long-lasting war of attrition - a melee of warlords! Then in the end, it will be them who will fail, and it will be their own motherland who will suffer.

This choice is too difficult!

A sense of confusion and pain of "looking at the end of the world" permeates everyone's mind.

For example, if we talk about the military capture of Jiujiang and Nanchang, the problem is simple. Not to mention the war maniacs in the military department, even those civil servants who know nothing about the war, they also think they are more than 90% sure. But if you want the fat man in Beijing to give in completely, you don't have to think about it. It's impossible! The rest can only go to Beijing in one breath, and no one is sure.

Li wanted to open his collar sultryly and said, "As long as we win the battlefield in Jiangxi, there will be peace."

"What? ..." Tang Hualong asked.

"We don't teach the Beiyang army a hard lesson in the Jiangxi battlefield, so why do we talk to Yuan Shikai? Yuan Shikai couldn't help us in the battlefield of the Central Plains, so he turned to attack Jiangxi with all his strength, that is, he refused to admit defeat. Therefore, only when we defeat Yuan Shikai fiercely in the Jiangxi battlefield can we negotiate with Yuan Shikai! Yuan Shikai can't eat us, and he has to come back to the negotiation table!"

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Li didn't expect that this move would have an unexpected effect from the Beiyang Army.

The performance of Yuan Shikai and Duan Zhigui and Li Chun, who were established in Nanchang, were completely different. He was not panicked, but excited and excited! He finally looked forward to the decisive battle, which is the real decisive battle!

In southern Jiangxi, around the mountains, they were really dragged to death by those bandits! The Beiyang army stuck to a tail and turned into a dog. In that case, Li Liejun's prestige was calmed down in less than two months. In the eyes of outsiders, the Beiyang Army has become the signboard of the Beiyang Army.

Yuan Shikai has a more personal sense of this. At the beginning of suppressing bandits, he confidently deployed the main force of Beiyang to suppress bandits in Jiangxi, but now the peripheral battle has been shown more and more clearly. The deployment of the bandit army is "towing", and the Beiyang army has been passive without fighting. Before the game, President Yuan lost a move first and couldn't help but be shocked.

In Jiangxi to suppress bandits, it is not easy to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops from north to south. In addition to the hot weather, few roads and muddy weather, countless mountains and rivers in Nanling, Ganjiang, Jiangxi, western Fujian and northern Guangdong and other places between the two major battlefields are enough. What's more, it was rushed before the war, and basically there were not many combat readiness channels in the rear. How can this dilapidated road withstand the pressure of hundreds of thousands of people?

In those days, Beiyang's staff was in tension and disorder for a while. People who hurried in and out of various departments and rooms had already lost their ease and ease, and even panicked. Jiang Baili, whose eyes are above the top, is in a hurry in the staff, and can't come up with a quick and effective way to crack the "16-character formula" of Li Madman.

Although Yuan Shikai pretended to be calm on the surface, his heart was like scratching with a hundred claws. He quietly took root in the staff.

For good, the madman Li finally opened the posture of the decisive battle in Jiangxi. Yuan Shikai began to prepare long ago through the friendly reminder of his British allies. When Li Xiang transferred troops and generals to Tianjia Town and was ready to launch a large-scale offensive, the north-south adjustment of hundreds of thousands of Beiyang troops was basically completed.

It's a decisive battle! Since the battle between the Beiyang Army and Li Kuangzi, it has been annoyed by Li Kuangzi's unconventional fighting style. Jiang Baili, the champion of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, was crazy in the Beiyang staff, and finally waited for a decent decisive moment!

The hanging heart finally fell to the ground. Although Yuan Shikai was still so calm on the surface, he was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

In the combat room of the General Staff. Yuan Shikai seems to have escaped a big disaster and is in a relaxed mood

He presided over the military meeting of senior generals gathered in the Jiangxi Theater.

Since Li wanted to fly a plane as a means of transportation, the rich families and government agencies at home and abroad have followed the same example. Yuan Shikai also ordered a Shamai plane from France and a Gaode landing plane from Germany. In fact, the bumblebee plane made in Hankou is much cheaper, but Yuan Shikai dares not buy it. He is afraid that Li wants to tamper on it.

One is used as Yuan Shikai's own car, and the other is specially used for Beiyang generals for official business.

Not to mention, it's really convenient to have a plane. For example, now, with a greeting, Duan Zhigui and Li Chun will fly to Beijing.

This is the last meeting of the front-line generals before the Jiangxi War, so Yuan Shikai attaches great importance to it.

Looking at the generals, he is more happy than worried.

Jiang Baili swept away the decadence of some time ago, and it was still so vigorous. At present, he has basically abandoned the teaching affairs of Baoding Army School and devoted himself to the war in the Jiangxi war zone. Jiang Baili was so painstaking. One day and one night, his battle plan finally made Yuan Shikai smile and his head moved frequently.

"... Our 300,000 troops in the Jiangxi war zone are planned to be divided into two major combat regiments. Commander-in-Chief Duan Zhigui led the 1st Corps to be deployed on the southern front line of Jiangxi and its two sides, striving to break through the bandit army in the north and block Nanchang.

As the main force of defense, the 2nd Corps, Commander-in-Chief Duan Zhigui, will try its best to guard the front of the line from Jiujiang to Ruichang, and block the main force of the bandit army in front of the battle. With the cooperation of Li Chun Corps, each of them will break through all divisions of the bandit army.

With that, he glanced at Yuan Shikai and added mysteriously but proudly, "As for the Wang Zhanyuan Legion, our district is planned to be organized into a theater commando army, which is used in the most critical part of the battlefield. In front of this tight wall, it is difficult for the madman Li to cross these lines of defense without the old capital.

Yuan Shikai frequently shook his head, scanned the left side, looked at the right side, and moved excitedly on the chair. It seemed that he could no longer sit still.

But Duan Qirui, the commander-in-chief of the army sitting aside, pulled his muscles and smiled coldly. This smile failed to escape the shrewd and capable Feng Guozhang's sharp eyes.

Cao Kun seems to be more old-fashioned and not as sharp as Duan Qirui.

Beiyang Sanjie, who has been fighting with swords and shadows for more than 10 years, has already learned to clip the edges and corners into the cartilage.

Cao Kun is a beautiful person, and his heart is actually shrewd. Since Yuan Shikai set up a military department in the presidential palace to control the national military, he has forgotten the position of chief of staff.

The foundation of the Beiyang system was established in the small station training period. At that time, Yuan devoted all his energy to the construction of the army. He personally deployed everything, such as the establishment and deployment of the army, the selection and supplement of generals. Since then, Yuan's political status has been increasing, and the development of the Beiyang Army has also increased. Yuan naturally cannot take into account the Beiyang Army, so the power of General Feng Duan has gradually increased. After Yuan became president, his energy was scattered in diplomacy, finance and political parties, and the military was entrusted to the Beiyang generals. At this time, the situation of the "Three Heroes of Beiyang" was: Feng Guozhang was transferred to Nanjing to preside over the military around the Yangtze River; Duan Qirui was in charge of the national military in the Central Committee; Wang Shizhen retired. As the commander-in-chief of the army, Duan not only has the exclusive power over the Beiyang military department, but also has the right to coordinate the national military. Duan relies on Xu Shuzheng, Xu is talented, but he has no deep relationship with the Beiyang system. Most of the new forces of the Beiyang Army were cultivated and promoted by Duan, but Yuan did not relax the military, so he set up a military department in the presidential palace to control the national military.

Duan has a personality. After the Republic of China, Yuan Duan always had something on his mind. There is such a story in the Beiyang system:

After Yuan Shikai changed the president to a lifelong system, the old man of Xiaozhan had already resumed kneeling and worship. Duan Qirui refused alone. He didn't care about other issues, so he was against bending his knees in the era of the Republic of China.

Feng Guozhang advised him to say, "Zhiquan, don't be wayward. What's the difference between the emperor and the lifelong president? Isn't kneeling and bowing the same as taking off your hat?

Feng pulled Duan Yiqi to Yuan to pay a New Year call. He knelt down first. When Duan saw Feng kneeling down, he had no choice but to draw a gourd in the same way. When Yuan saw the two generals kneeling in front of him, he was a little embarrassed. He stood up in a hurry and said, "I dare not do it, I dare not do it!"

Feng and Duan sat for a while, and then went to Yuan Keding's place. They also knelt down and saluted. Of course, there were 120,000 points in their hearts. How did they know that the young master sat still and accepted it calmly?

Duan was full of grievance and ran out angrily, complaining that Feng said, "You see, the old man is still modest, but the young master is full of airs. How can he treat us as human beings! We have been dogs for the rest of our lives, and we will be dogs for the rest of our lives!"

Feng Yilian shook his head and said, "Zhiquan, don't say you are angry, I can't stand it. In the future, I will follow you, and we can't be dogs for life!"

Feng and Duan's dissatisfaction was later passed on to Keding, complaining that he should not set off and anger the two generals in Beiyang. How could Keding say lightly, "This is exactly my arrangement. These two people were raised by old men. Now they are a little big. If I don't break him. Their arrogance will be even worse in the future. It's inevitable that they won't climb on my head!"

Beiyang soldiers knelt down to Yuan Xing that year. When Yuan received their salute, he always shouted his son's name and said, "Come and return the gift!"

Yuan Keding never agreed, as if he would be the future crown prince.

This is a small festival, but it makes the Beiyang generals centrifugal to Yuan. However, this is not a fatal injury. The most fatal thing is that they gradually feel that Yuan refuses to tell them the truth and wants to release their arms. They feel that "The bird is not finished and the bow has been hidden, and the cunning rabbit is not dead and the running dog will cook!" Since the old man no longer treats us as human beings, why should we be loyal to him?"

Among the "Three Heroes of Beiyang", Wang Shizhen is the most easy-going and has no personality, so Yuan is particularly at ease with Wang. After the founding of the Republic of China, Wang Shizhen returned to Zhengding, without asking about the politics of the Republic of China. Because Yuan was deeply dissatisfied with Duan's stubbornness and intended to reject Duan, it was necessary to borrow the king. In the spring of the third year of the Republic of China, Yuan sent his eldest son Keding to Zhengding to take a special bus to welcome Wang to Beijing. Wang said that he had no intention to participate in political activities again. Yuan Keding said, "It is one thing to participate in politics or not. It is another thing that my father invited you to Beijing to talk about. If you don't leave for a day, I have to stay in Zhengding to promote driving and go back to Beijing shamelessly." Wang was forced by the eldest son, and finally came to Beijing in the era of the Republic of China with Yuan Keding. Yuan immediately awarded Wang as an army general and was assigned to the office of the marshal of the army and navy.

The command office was established on May 9, the third year of the Republic of China. It is organized by senior generals sent by the Chief of the Army, the Chief of the Navy, the Chief of Staff and the Grand Marshal. The chiefs of the three departments, Lu, Hai and Shen, are of course clerks. The first batch of clerks sent were only Yanchang, Wang Shizhen and Sa Zhenbing, followed by Cai E from Beijing after the Second Revolution.

This is a specific measure for Yuan to take back the national military power from the War Department. Since the establishment of the command office, the military department of the presidential palace has been abolished, Duan Qirui has been retired as one of the clerks, and the important functions and powers of the Ministry of the Army have been transferred to the office, and the Ministry of the Army has become a de factual organ.

Although the president is tall, after all, it is a real organ. It has never been his style to make wedding clothes for others.

Of course, Duan Qirui is also different from those low-taste warlords in the Kuomintang army. He grabs the army for power and money. He sees and thinks much more, so he has to care more about the war in Jiangxi.

Although his report was flat, it captured the hearts of everyone from the beginning and made people clearly see his excellence.

"The attack direction of the enemy in front of Jiangxi Theater is not only the front line of Jiujiang and Nanxun. Considering the cooperation between the Hubei Army and the New 4th Army in southern Jiangxi, it is most likely for the bandits to attack Nanchang along the north and south. In this way, it is also convenient to get the support of its navy along the river. To this end, our war zone plans to use the Wang Zhanyuan Corps and the coast of the Yangtze River to prevent the enemy from taking shortcuts to attack the Jiujiang River, but also use the terrain to break through the enemy. Taking the northern foothills of Lushan as a response, the focus is on blocking the enemy's breakthrough, detouring, and delaying the attack of the Hubei army, and the Wang Zhanyuan Corps, which is good at defense, is naturally the best choice. But Wang Zhanyuan's regiment could not give it all to him. In order to strengthen the main direction and control the mobile force, he could only deploy half of his troops in the front. He pulled out the troops, led by Sun Chuanfang, and hid deep in the Lushan Mountains. The task is to control the frontal danger of Lushan Mountain and carry out the mobile mission. In addition, a part of the Li Chun Corps was temporarily placed in the rear to form a commando force in the war zone, and cooperated with Wang Zhanyuan to control the front line of Nanxun.