Back to the Republic of China as a commander

In the middle of the night on February 20th, [-]th year of the Republic of China, in Lixian County, Changde, more than [-] staff officers of the First Assault Group Command and the First Army Military Headquarters stopped working, got up and stood at their posts, and all their eyes were on Xu Yuanquan, Commander of the First Assault Group.

Xu Yuanquan's gaze was fixed on the map, motionless, and the part of the whole Blue Light operation involving the first assault group went through his mind over and over again, as if he was still thinking hard about the flaws in the battle plan.

At this time, the wall clock hanging on the wall suddenly rang twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the crisp cuckoo sound seemed to cut through the silence in the early morning of the [-]th.Xu Yuanquan simply stopped thinking about it, threw the pencil on the map, and said to the staff around him contentedly: "Don't think about it, pass on my military order, and the blue light operation will begin."

Following Xu Yuanquan's voice, the staff officers who had been motionless suddenly started to move, and one order after another was extremely accurate to all participating troops.

Zhao Dongsheng of the Fifth Division, which originally belonged to the battle order of the First Army, attacked from Li County, and Li Hongkui of the Sixth Division attacked from Jin City. The ships shipped by the Yuanjiang River happened to be out of cargo in Anjiang because of the closure of the Yangtze River (so the cargo was all Take the railway to Guangxi to load the ship, and Youjiang Shipping has grown from this), and after completing the transportation of materials to Zhuzhou, half of the ships were transferred to participate in the first assault group's assault on Jingzhou.All combat troops will move towards Jingzhou along the waterway, and before the large troops attack, the small troops have already completed the infiltration work.

The garrison in Jingzhou at the moment is the Fifth Brigade of the Hubei Army, and the brigade commander is still an acquaintance of Wang Zhenyu. It is none other than Xia Douyin who was beaten up by Wang Zhenyu when he failed to molest Ye Ziwen at the wharf of the Hankou Concession.

Speaking of this Xia Douyin is indeed a character, he followed Sun Wu and others in the Hubei army at the earliest.Later, during the internal struggle in Hubei, he accurately sided with Li Yuanhong. Although Fatty Li didn't like such a rambunctious person, he still had to use such a person if he bought a horse bone with a lot of money. Xia Douyin became the commander of the Hubei army.The situation in Hubei that followed Zhang Zhenwu's murder became repeated, Li Yuanhong was forced to resign as the governor of Hubei, and Beiyang forces entered Wuhan.Unlike other Hubei forces who do not cooperate and do not depend on each other, Xia Douyin is very good at dealing with affairs. First, he linked Duan Zhigui, and then followed Wang Zhanyuan, serving Wang Zhanyuan very comfortably.Wang Zhanyuan was also a real person, he reciprocated and promoted Xia Douyin to brigade commander.

After the war to protect the country started, Wang Zhanyuan paid close attention to the progress of the Hunan war almost every day. With the continuous expansion of the youth army's achievements, Wang Zhanyuan's displayed strength has already made Wang Zhanyuan feel fear instinctively. The analysis report on the strength of the youth army, He had already reported to the Ministry of Army and Feng Guozhang.And after Feng Guozhang took up the post of patrol envoy to the five provinces of the Yangtze River, Wang Zhanyuan, who regarded himself as Feng Guozhang's direct lineage, unceremoniously applied for redeployment and left Wuhan in order to avoid the edge of the youth army.

But Feng Guozhang, who was far away in Nanjing, received the telegram and did not reply for six or seven days. He didn't know what the idea was.However, Wang Zhanyuan is not a fuel-efficient lamp. While forcing the four main brigades of the Hubei Army to assemble in Wuhan and cooperate with the defense of Wuhan; at the same time, he secretly ordered the second division to start packing up and prepare for oiling the soles of the feet at critical moments; The commander of the garrison and the commander of the fifth brigade handed over the defense of Yichang, Jingzhou and Enshi to this boy.In order to strengthen Xia Douyin's determination to fight to the end with the youth army, Wang Zhanyuan also allocated 300 guns and 5000 million oceans to Xia Douyin with great pride.So although Xia Douyin's army only had the designation of one brigade, the actual number of men and guns had already exceeded [-].And this Xia Douyin is actually a foolish and bold person who doesn't read books or newspapers, and he doesn't ask how fierce the youth army is. As long as his habit is to get benefits from others, he dares to cause disaster even if it is a big disaster.In fact, he was such a person in history. After being bought by Lao Jiang for a favor, he dared to lead the team to fight Wang Jingwei in Wuhan.In fact, there are quite a few people of this type in reality, but their fate is like a shooting star, passing by as soon as they pass. Xia Douyin's final ending is to be reduced to a fortune-telling stall on the streets of Hong Kong, which is another story.

Although Wang Zhanyuan planned to run away, he also did some things to guard Hubei, such as transferring two local brigades from Henan to Xiangyang for garrison.However, these materials are clearly placed on the desks of the Supreme Command of the Youth Army and the combat commander in the Hubei direction, and there is no secret at all.

According to the battle plan, at noon on February 2, all the attacking troops would appear around Jingzhou City, and if Xia Douyin didn't get his feet oiled in time, he would be completely surrounded.In this kind of battle of knowing ourselves and the enemy, victory is a must.After the order was issued, Xu Yuanquan felt that he should go to sleep well now, and then wake up to hear the good news. . .

Almost at the same time, the third and fourth assault groups were dispatched, and their guns were directed at Jiangxi Province, which was wide open.

In Nanchang, Jiangxi, Li Chun, who was the pacifier of Jiangxi and general of Jiangxi at the time, was sleeping. He has not been idle these days.Ever since Hunan declared its independence, Li Chun knew that the situation had collapsed. From that day on, he kept holding military affairs meetings, preparing to defend the territory.

Speaking of Li Chun, this person was born in a poor family, and he has taken refuge with his relatives for a living since he was a child.Moreover, his reputation in the history of the Republic of China is very strange. Some people say that he is a corrupt official who only knows how to search for land; One thing is beyond doubt, that is, the founding of Tianjin Nankai University, the source of funding for the then principal Zhang Boling was Li Chun.So no matter what Li Chunfeng's comments are, he is a good comrade who is enthusiastic about education. It is a pity that Wang Zhenyu's guns are now aimed at him.

Jiangxi's military strength is much worse than that of Hubei. At least there are field troops like the Second Beiyang Division in Hubei, but what about Jiangxi?Looking around, there is no such army to be found.The Jiangxi Army has three divisions, but these troops were all recruited after the suppression of the Second Revolution that year, and they are politically unreliable troops.And with such a small number of troops, they are stationed in Jiujiang, Nanchang and Ganzhou respectively.

In fact, not only did Li Chun himself despise these troops, but the youth army did not take them seriously either.Firstly, these troops belong to the non-Beiyang lineage politically, and are inextricably linked with the Revolutionary Party. Focusing on the direct line, the so-called treatment or equipment cannot meet the standards of field troops.It is usually used to bluff the common people, and it is okay to arrest the rebels, but in a real fight, it can only be used to defend the city. If it is really pulled out, the team may disperse before seeing the enemy.

It is precisely based on such an actual situation that the requirement for the entire Jiangxi operation is not to wipe out the number of enemies, but to quickly take the whole territory of Jiangxi before the revolutionaries in Fujian take action, and then attack Zhejiang in the Shangrao and Leping areas. preparation.To this end, the staff also specially transferred a detachment of cavalry from the security system with cavalry troops, about 3000 people, to form an independent cavalry brigade, with Long Yunfei as the brigade commander, as the vanguard of the third assault group.

At the military meeting that ended on the 4th during the daytime, Li Chun set the tone of standing firm and waiting for reinforcements. He originally thought that the Jiangxi army with three divisions had nearly [-] horses. bit.

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen's representative, Hu Hanmin, had reached a deal with Wang Zhenyu's representative, Yang Yongtai.That is Li Liejun, the original boss of the Gan army, entered Jiangxi to fight against the Jiangxi army, and then the Gan army entered Fujian to help Xu Chongzhi defeat Fujian patrol envoy and Fujian general Li Houji.Having said that, the combat effectiveness of Fujian's revolutionary army is indeed worrying. The three brigades expanded by Li Houji, relying on the foundation of one Beiyang brigade, actually overwhelmed the Fujian and Guangdong guards who were several times his own.In order to end the war in Fujian as soon as possible and then march into Zhejiang, Sun Wen and others made the decision to abandon Jiangxi.Of course, Sun Wen and others are not without their own wishful thinking. From their point of view, even if Wang Zhenyu is given over to Jiangxi's territory, he will not be able to keep it. People like him occupy Fujian and Zhejiang and develop well. Just come out and clean up the mess.

Naturally, Wang Zhenyu knew the wishful thinking of Sun Wen and others, and he had no objection. He just assigned Wang Yaqiao, who was in charge of the Yangtze River intelligence network, to get in touch with Li Houji, the actual owner of Fujian, and then not only supported him with 200 million oceans, but also supported the second Ten mountain cannons and equipment for one regiment.This little aid is not much, but it has caused the revolutionaries to suffer a lot. The blood of countless revolutionary martyrs is just like this. . .

Wang Zhenyu swore secretly, martyrs, I will definitely avenge you.

The first person in the Gan army system to respond to Li Liejun was Ouyang Wu, the commander of the third division of the Gan army and the guardian envoy of Ganzhou. This buddy was put together by Yuan Shikai during the Second Revolution, so he had the least worries about this rebellion. , Naturally, the army is the most active.The other two division commanders are still on the sidelines because they defected and betrayed Li Liejun during the Second Revolution.

It's a pity that neither Tao Zhiyue's third assault group nor Cheng Qian's fourth assault group planned to give them a chance to continue to wait and see. In the early morning of February [-]th, the [-] youth army launched an attack on Jiangxi, and Long Yunfei personally He commanded [-] cavalry to be the first to break through the fragile border and enter Jiangxi. . .