Years of the Republic of China 1913

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"Military Gate, the Ministry of the Army is calling."

"Read!" After Zhang Xun captured Xuzhou, he plundered wantonly. He loaded three carts with only gold and silver, and then led the army to continue south. He just passed Huai'an yesterday, and Baoying was further ahead.This route was exactly the way he escaped from Jiangsu back then, and now he is revisiting the old place, returning to the old place, Zhang Xun is full of vigor and majesty.

After reading a few sentences of the telegram, the meaning in it was nothing more than to ask Zhang Xun to immediately change the direction of the march, withdraw from the border of Jiangsu and enter Anhui to the west, and not to conflict with the Eighth Division, etc. After listening to the contents of the telegram, Zhang Xun laughed and took it After taking a look at it, he casually rolled it up and threw it aside as garbage.

"Marshal, the order of the Ministry of War, are we..." Tang Yiming couldn't help persuading Zhang Xun when he saw Zhang Xun doing this.

"What an order!" Zhang Xun said dismissively: "This is obviously the meaning of Song Jiaoren, a little boy. The telegram has no signature from the chief executive, and no authorization from the president. Why should my old Zhang listen to him? Hmph! Not to conflict with the Eighth Division? It's a joke, I killed hundreds of them on the way, so what a fart!"

"But Song Jiaoren is the Prime Minister after all, and the telegram was sent in the name of the Ministry of War. Commander, according to my humble opinion, I should take a detour. If there is a big trouble, I will be in trouble." Tang Yiming frowned. Head, although he and Zhang Xun have the same thoughts and don't like these KMTs and revolutionary parties at all, but after all, the central government has a righteous name, and if it doesn't follow the order of the Ministry of Army, it will be a big deal to be blamed in the future.

"Little Tang, you don't understand." Instead of being nervous, Zhang Xun said with a smile: "If the central government really needs my department to divert, why doesn't President Yuan send the report to Lao Zhang himself? At least he must Director Duan sent a private telegram? Look, there is nothing, just such a telegram, don’t you understand what it means?”

"Marshal...you mean...President Yuan is actually..."

Raising his hand to stop Tang Yiming's words, Zhang Xun squinted his eyes and smiled: "Some things just need to be tacit, pass my order! The troops continue to go south, straight to Nanjing!"

"Hey!" After recovering from his senses, Tang Yiming quickly called Zhang Xun, and sent the order excitedly.

"Hehe, Song Jiaoren, kmt, the Eighth Division? You're so majestic, I, Zhang Xun, must show you how awesome you are!" Zhang Xun swung his horsewhip hard, clamped his legs, and ran with his guards The horse goes away.

Fang Zida in Nanjing waited anxiously. The situation in the north became more and more tense. In the past two days, his contact with Beijing has not been broken, and he has also paid close attention to the progress of Zhang Xun's troops.Regarding Zhang Xun's unauthorized actions, Beijing's reaction was not unpleasant. Not long after Fang Zida sent power to Song Jiaoren and the Army Department, the Army Department sent several orders in succession, ordering Zhang Xun's Department to immediately turn to the west and not to cooperate with the Jiangsu Army Department. Eight divisions have conflicting messages.At first, Fang Zida breathed a sigh of relief. With the intervention of the Ministry of War, he thought that Zhang Xun would follow the order, but who would have thought that after a few orders, the news came from the front that Zhang Xun's troops did not divert, but continued to attack Nanjing is coming, and there is a posture of wanting to capture Nanjing.

At this moment, Fang Zida became a little anxious, and continued to send telegrams to Song Jiaoren and the Ministry of the Army, demanding that Zhang Xun's unauthorized actions be stopped immediately. At the same time, in order to prevent the situation from happening, the entire Eighth Division was mobilized and began to travel around Nanjing. Build fortifications and prepare for the worst.

Zhang Xun's disobedience, the news spread to Beijing made Song Jiaoren furious, and found Duan Qirui again.

"Brother Dunchu, our Army Department has already done what should be done. Zhang Xun, a bastard, dared to disobey orders and act on his own. He must be severely punished!" Before Song Jiaoren could question him, Chief Duan Qirui scolded Get up mother.

"These are all things to say later. I want to ask Chief Duan, how do we deal with Zhang Xun now?" Song Jiaoren's face was extremely ugly, and he directly called Duan Qirui by his position to show his anger.

"How else to deal with it, just follow what Brother Dun Chu said, dismissal! Investigate!" Duan Qirui said these words without any hesitation, and not only that, but also took out a written document from the Ministry of War and said : "Prime Minister, please take a look. This is a document that has just been drawn up. Please sign it."

Picking it up and looking at it, it was indeed a dismissal document. Song Jiaoren signed it on the spot without saying a word, and asked the army to notify the front line of this order immediately.

"It's no problem, come here! Send this telegram immediately!" Duan Qirui agreed without hesitation, and called for an adjutant in front of Song Jiaoren, and handed over the telegram for immediate dispatch.

Seeing the cooperation of the Ministry of the Army, Song Jiaoren's complexion improved a lot. After being persuaded by Duan Qirui, he finally sat down. After serving Song Jiaoren with a cup of tea, Duan Qirui sat down beside him, sighed softly, and said to Song Jiaoren. Jiaoren said heartily: "Brother Dunchu, although Zhang Xun has been dismissed, it is not so easy to investigate and deal with it. I also talked to you a few days ago. Zhang Xun's unit is different from other units. you know too?"

"So what? Are you still afraid that he's going against the sky?" Song Jiaoren raised his eyebrows and asked back.

"I'm not afraid of this. Zhang Xun's entire army is only close to ten thousand people. Except that the troops stationed at the original place did not go south with him, at most he took away more than 6000 troops. Such a small number of troops only needs one army from the Central Army." It's really not worth mentioning. However, you know the current situation, brother, the first army and the second army are in place at the front line, and they are attacking Li Liejun's rebellious army in Jiangxi, as well as Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi And other places also need the army to suppress. The warships of the Ministry of the Navy have already moved south, and these all rely on the cooperation of the two armies. As for the remaining troops of the Central Committee, they are located in the northwest if they are not in the northeast. In terms of strength, time is too late! In other words, if the strength of the first and second armies is used, if an accident happens to the front line, it will probably be..."

Song Jiaoren understood Duan Qirui's words. He also participated in the entire counter-insurgency plan at the beginning, and he was also clear about the deployment of troops by the Army Department. Duan Qirui did not hide anything from him.Now, several front-line troops are in place, and the battle in Jiangxi has begun. At this time, it is absolutely impossible to deploy front-line troops and turn back to deal with Zhang Xun's troops. It's getting bigger and bigger.

It is the unanimous opinion of the central government to put down the rebellion quickly, and Song Jiaoren will definitely not sit back and watch the rebellion intensify.However, it was too late to dispatch troops from other places. If so, Zhang Xun would have arrived in Nanjing before the soldiers assembled and set off.

Frowning and thinking, Song Jiaoren also felt a little embarrassed, and hated this lawless Zhang Xun to the bottom of his heart.He didn't know much about military affairs, but he could understand the overall situation, so he had no choice but to turn his questioning eyes to Duan Qirui, the army chief in front of him.

"Actually... I think so...." Duan Qirui suggested with some hesitation: "If Zhang Xun can rein in the precipice after receiving the order, everything will be easy to handle. If he wants to go his own way, then he can only garrison The [-]th Division of the Army in Nanjing was able to stop it. The [-]th Division is known as the KMT's strong army. A few days ago, it only sent a regiment to calm down the situation in Shanghai. On the one hand, the Eighth Division is required to do a good job in defending Nanjing, and once Zhang Xun intends to attack Nanjing, the Eighth Division will be sent to stop it. Of course, the main task of the Eighth Division is not to eliminate Zhang Xun's troops, but to block Zhang Xun and try to buy us time. On the one hand, let the front-line departments step up to suppress the rebellion. As long as the front-line battle is smooth, after Li Liejun's troops are defeated, the other departments will immediately dispatch troops to return to Nanjing, join forces with the Eighth Division, and then annihilate Zhang Xun's troops in one fell swoop. Brother Dunchu, you How do you feel about this arrangement?"

Song Jiaoren listened, his face suddenly darkened, he sat there and looked at Duan Qirui coldly, without speaking for a long time.After a while, he stood up and said coldly: "If that's the case, let's do it according to Chief Duan's wishes."

"Okay! Brother Dunchu, don't worry, I'll call the various departments immediately, and I will definitely let the various departments buy time to return to Nanjing and join the Eighth Division!"

"Humph!"

With a cold snort, Song Jiaoren walked away with a cold face. After returning to the Prime Minister's Office, he was in a very bad mood.He, Song Jiaoren, was no fool, he immediately smelled a conspiracy as soon as Duan Qirui's suggestion came out.But he knew it was a conspiracy, but he could do nothing, the opponent took the lead in every move, and the current situation could only let the Eighth Division rely on himself.

"Immediately give power to the Eighth Division and Fang Zida!" After thinking about it, Song Jiaoren immediately made up his mind that he would use the Eighth Division's own power to solve Zhang Xun. Not only that, but he also had to solve this problem before suppressing the rebellion Otherwise, when the first and second armies return to the division, not to mention the eighth division, KMT's power in Jiangsu will be completely annexed by Beiyang.

The telegram was quickly passed to Fang Zida who was looking forward to the news. After receiving the telegram and reading it carefully, Fang Zida instantly understood the situation of the Eighth Division. In this case, he did not hesitate, and immediately issued an order that all battalion commanders and above of the Eighth Division All the officers went to the division headquarters for a meeting.

"Tianyi, what kind of meeting is this? Why is everyone here?" Liu Zhi was taken aback when he walked into the division headquarters, and couldn't help asking Xiong Shihui who came with him.

"How do I know? It's probably a big move." Xiong Shihui didn't know whether to laugh or cry, you Liu Zhi didn't know, but I understood?Didn't he just receive the order?

After finding a place to sit down, after waiting for everyone to arrive one after another, division commander Zhao Hengti, deputy division commander Fang Zida, and two brigade commanders Huang and Wang walked in. The four of them looked cold and went straight to the front seat and sat down.

"Comrades! Our Eighth Division is going to fight a big battle!" Fang Zida said immediately, causing a commotion below.