The dense rain of bullets is like a deadly stream of fire, quickly reaping the lives of the deserters, and the completely unprepared rout soldiers don't know how to avoid the plane, they just run away by instinct, desperately moving forward run.But how can a person's running speed be comparable to that of an airplane, the final result can only be shot by bullets.

The pilots under Gao Zhihang enjoyed it very much and did not return to the airport until they ran out of ammunition, but as soon as they returned to the airport to replenish, they would take off to fight again. The suffering from the air continued until the evening, and the air force, which could not fight at night after dark, finally withdrew its troops. .In the pursuit battle, the shooting from the air caused the old Guangxi army to lose more than 3000 people. If it weren't for the high mountains and dense forests in western Guangdong, such losses should have increased tenfold.

Chapter 863 Prepare for War

After this battle, more than half of the old Gui army's soldiers were lost on the South Road, and less than 6000 people fled back to Wuzhou. However, Xu Xiangqian only collected more than 2 wounded soldiers from the old Gui army nearby, which can be described as a rich harvest.Chen Bingkun and Tan Haoming, who returned to Wuzhou, were worried that Lu Rongting would condemn them, but when they saw Lu Rongting's army that had withdrawn, they let go of their throats.

After the baptism of successive wars, only more than 3000 of Lu Rongting's main force of [-] fled back in the end.The others either died or surrendered, and the old Guangxi army was basically wiped out.

When the news of the West Special Army's participation in the war and its troop number reached Lu Rongting, he stood there for a long time without saying a word.Lu Rongting, who was quite conceited about the strength in his hands, now realized that he was like a frog in a well. Compared with the West Army, his strength was not enough.

Even the tip of the iceberg shown by the West Army is no longer something Lu Rongting can resist, so he has no idea of ​​revenge.After consulting several cronies and subordinates, everyone agreed that even when the old Guangxi army was in its heyday, it would be difficult to resist the mere divisions and regiments sent by the West Special Army, let alone continue to resist with the thousands of people left today. up.

Their final decision was to admit defeat, give up the chance of a comeback, break away from the civil war, and find a place to spend their old age in peace.In the old Guangxi faction with many factions and constant internal disputes, all the high-level generals unified their thinking for the first time, but this time it was for the purpose of surrendering and admitting defeat, which has to be said to be a great irony.

As early as when the old Guangxi army sent troops to Eastern Guangdong Province, Sun Wenhai, who was overseas, received the news, and he immediately set off to return to Eastern Guangdong Province.It is hoped that the local people can be called to resist and resist Lu Rongting's annexation, so as to cooperate with Chen Jiongming's counterattack.

When Sun Wenhai arrived in Eastern Guangdong Province, he was surprised to find that Lu Rongting had withdrawn his army. Only then did he know that the three heroes of the Xingui Clan, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Huang Shaohong, joined forces and took control of Western Guangdong Province in one fell swoop.Sun Wenhai didn't have time to rejoice at this cheap pick-me-up, so he immediately devoted himself to appeasing the local people.

Chen Jiongming, who returned from Kuaiji Province, also took the initiative to cooperate. They must first stabilize the morale of the army and the people in Eastern Guangdong Province, and wait until Lu Rongting and the Xingui faction are both defeated, and then send troops to seek benefits.Chen Jiongming never imagined that before he had time to mobilize the logistics supplies for sending troops, there was a notice from Western Guangdong Province that Lu Rongting and many cronies would voluntarily leave the field, and that the Xingui Army would fully accept Western Guangdong Province.

According to the unwritten rules of domestic warlords, warlords who voluntarily resigned can keep their private property, go to the concession or abroad as an apartment, and spend the rest of their lives in peace and stability.Li Zongren will not break this unspoken rule, because maybe one day he will be defeated and go to the field, and he must always leave a way out for himself.Therefore, the New Guangxi faction welcomed Lu Rongting's resignation, and the new Gui army entered the Wuzhou area to receive the remaining thousands of old Gui troops, and at the same time sent Lu Rongting and others to leave the country with their personal belongings.

The ever-changing situation of the Guangdong-Guangxi War and the final dramatic resolution made the major warlords in the country unable to react, but the most worried person was not Lu Rongting, but the three major factions of the Northern Territory Army far away in Beihua City.

Although Lu Rongting was defeated and resigned from the army, he let go of the burden in his heart, gave up his ambition to fight for world hegemony, and went to Guanghai City Concession as a condominium with a normal heart.However, the Northern Territory faction, which originally held the initiative in the domestic situation, is now facing a serious problem.

The West Army finally intervened in the domestic battlefield. Although they only dispatched [-] army and air and navy auxiliary troops, this was a dangerous signal, a signal that the West Army was about to unify Hualan.Although the West Special Army quickly withdrew from the area after completely handing over Western Guangdong Province to the Xingui faction in the name of destroying the warlords who oppressed the people and returning power to the people, it put a lot of pressure on Duan Ruiquan.

If you can have the first time, you can have the second time. Who knows when the Western Special Zone will use the excuse of eliminating oppression and returning power to the people to make such a move for its Anhui faction.The enormous pressure made Duan Ruiquan, who was originally calm, lose his composure. Now his only hope is to unify the eastern region of Hualan Kingdom. With what he believes is a huge advantage in manpower and wealth, he can compete with the western special zone. The biggest obstacle in front of him is The direct lineage and the Feng lineage that have been united.

At the secret meeting within the Anhui Clique, Duan Ruiquan quickly announced the secret decision to start war against the Zhi and Feng Clans.Although Xu Shuzheng, who had changed his mind, tried his best to dissuade Duan Ruiquan, he couldn't change Duan Ruiquan's decision. At this moment, he was desperate to give it a go.

The troops of the Wan Faction began to prepare for the battle intensively, but this secret was soon discovered by the Zhi Faction and the Feng Faction.Even if this meeting was a secret meeting, even the records were not kept, and there was no danger of leaking words, but the preparations for such a big war must have made a lot of noise. If the Zhili and Fengshi couldn't detect it, they would be blind and deaf.

Both Cao Kun and Zhang Zuolin received notifications from their subordinates one after another that the armies of the Anhui faction were preparing their weapons, and the main forces of the Anhui army in Qilu and Jiangbei provinces showed signs of moving to Zhili.In addition, Fu Liangzuo, an important official of the Anhui Clan, met with the special envoy of the Wa Kingdom in secret, and then some personnel of the Anhui Faction withdrew a huge sum of more than 300 million Japanese dollars from the Zhengjin Bank of the Wa Kingdom in batches.

All these news indicated that Duan Ruiquan seemed to have shown signs of making a move, and because of this, both the Zhili and Fengli became nervous.Cao Kun and Zhang Zuolin quickly issued various orders, and the armies of Zhifeng and Bong also began to prepare for battle intensely. The atmosphere in Zhili became extremely tense for a while.

The two factions of Zhi and Feng have always wanted to strike first, because they know very well that the Anhui faction has 12 veterans who participated in the war. Once these people burst out with energy, their power is unparalleled, and they are not comparable to recruits like them who have never fought.However, under the strong military pressure of the Anhui faction, the high-level officials of the two factions were unable to make up their minds to act, but soon an unexpected incident brought them a pleasant surprise.

It turned out that Duan Ruiquan learned about Wu Ziyu's fierce fighting style and the rapid breakthrough ability of the armored troops of the West Special Army from Xu Shuzheng after the soldiers who participated in the war returned to China.Duan Ruiquan was shocked by such a powerful army. In order to guard against possible surprise attacks by the West Army, he deployed six infantry divisions out of eight infantry divisions composed of 12 veterans to the front lines of Zhangjiakou, Central South Province, Central Plains Province, and Nanyuan Province. In order to prevent the local garrison from being quickly defeated during the battle with the West Army.

Chapter 864 Collective defection

There is nothing wrong with Duan Ruiquan doing this. With today's tactical guiding ideology, even the famous Marshal Foch of the Gaul Kingdom can only deploy in this way under such circumstances.It's a pity that Duan Ruiquan missed one thing. After the change of mind in the Western Continent, after Wu Ziyu led the participating troops to win a brilliant victory, and made people from all over the Western Continent look at the Hualan people differently, the soldiers of these troops and even Military officers at all levels regard Wu Ziyu and Zhao Shouhong as idols.

Let these elite troops defend their idols, which is tantamount to beating dogs with meat buns, especially under the propaganda of the West Army, they have completely hated fighting civil wars.What they think in their hearts is to expand the territory, to fight for the living space of the Hualan nation in foreign wars, and to confine the wolves to the Xuxu.Under such thinking, who can appreciate Duan Ruiquan's narrow strategic vision.

These days, the domestic situation is relatively stable, and they are also happy to relax. Sometimes they even have secret exchanges with the defending West Army on the opposite side.This is a military confrontation, and it is basically an exchange of feelings between brother troops.

After all, Hualan Country is an ancient civilization, with thousands of years of loyalty and loyalty, so the officers of these troops don't want to betray their superiors unless they have to.As long as Duan Ruiquan no longer thinks about the civil war, they will continue to hang around like this.But under the tremendous pressure of the Western Special Forces participating in the Western Guangdong War, Duan Ruiquan made such a stupid move.

When Duan Ruiquan actively prepared for the war, the order to prepare for the civil war was conveyed to all units, from the division commander to the regimental commander, and all the officers who had been given this order were angry.Not to fight the civil war is a consensus reached within the participating army, but now Duan Ruiquan insists on going his own way, and wants to use them as the vanguard of the civil war, which is unbearable for the majority of officers.

In fact, even if these officers accepted the order, they would be resolutely resisted at the bottom.The years of war in the Western Continent have allowed them to establish a sense of national pride and responsibility, and a brand-new outlook on life and the world, so they decided to disobey.

The various units quickly connected in series, not only from the division commander to the soldiers, but also between the divisions stationed in various provinces.The situation quickly developed to involve all eight divisions of the participating army, and even in the end, even the three divisions of the Zhili line stationed in Zhili were involved.

The three main divisions of the direct lineage were also part of the Hualan army. They had the same experience and ideological changes as the Anhui army. It was also their consensus not to fight a civil war.So when some friends in the army connected with several divisions in private, they quickly responded.

To be on the safe side, the divisions of the Anhui Department quickly contacted the West Army on the opposite side, hoping to get their help.This matter was reported to the staff headquarters layer by layer, and Jiang Fangzhen did not dare to neglect to send the news to Zhao Shouhong himself.The decision Zhao Shouhong gave was very simple. These are the strong pillars of the country's future, and they must not be wasted on the battlefield of the civil war. Since they decided to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, they will take it with all their strength.

In order to keep Duan Ruiquan from any vigilance, Zhao Shouhong specially approved special forces to attack and go to various provinces in the country to fight.Chen Hu attached great importance to this battle. He personally commanded Yibin City, and the Longya Special Forces, Mandrill Commando, Snow Leopard Commando, and Sandstorm Commando jointly launched a joint attack. The various departments of the government launched raids.

The first to suffer was the intelligence personnel from the Zhiwan and Anhui departments. These people were originally used to monitor each other, but they were all wiped out by the elusive special forces.With the strong intelligence support of the SAR Intelligence Bureau, the special forces were able to accurately determine the target. Their attack range was very wide. After the shady intelligence departments of both sides were completely paralyzed, the Zhiwan and Anhui departments were almost blind and deaf in the local area.

The special forces launched successive attacks in several provinces, killed dozens of government officials who were extremely angry with the people, and punished a group of evil gentry and bullies at the same time.This special action made people everywhere applaud, even though they didn't know who did these things.

The local rule of the two lines of warlords in Zhi and Anhui mostly relied on those powerful tyrants and evil gentry, and now they died one by one, which had a considerable impact on the rule of the warlords.For a while, government officials from the two factions focused their energy on maintaining local rule and finding new agents. No one paid attention to the situation of the troops stationed in various places.

Even Cao Kun and Duan Ruiquan, the bosses of the Zhiwan and Anhui departments, did not realize that the eleven elite divisions stationed in various places started camping and training operations almost at the same time.For these elite troops, it is common to carry out training activities, so the local government departments have not interfered except to provide them with sufficient dry food.It's a pity that those officials didn't know that after these troops left, they would not come back.

The fastest move was the No.17 Division of the Anhui Army stationed in Jingzhou, Central Plains Province. After leaving Jingzhou with all the heavy weapons, this unit went upstream along the Yangtze River. in Yichang.The supreme commander stationed at the checkpoint was only a second lieutenant platoon leader. He didn't know what this elite unit was going to do. He immediately called up and asked if there had been any recent combat operations against the Western Special Zone.

At the level of a mere platoon leader, he can only call his own company commander.If the high-level military has any military actions, he, the sesame mung bean officer, must not be informed.As a result, the company commander continued to report. After reporting layer by layer, the situation was quickly reported to the Governor's Mansion of the Central Plains Province.

At this time, the governor of the Central Plains Province was Jin Yunpeng, one of the giants of the Anhui Faction. After receiving the news, he felt that the situation was serious, because based on his experience, even if Duan Ruiquan had a secret military operation, he would not carry him behind his back.To be on the safe side, he still sent a telegram to Duan Ruiquan, asking if there was any secret military action, but Duan Ruiquan told him there was none.

At this time, the two Anhui bigwigs still don't know what the No. 17 division is doing.Because in their consciousness, these participating army units are absolutely loyal, and it is impossible to betray them.It wasn't until the No. 17 Division entered the Western Special Zone and published a newspaper statement that they had left the Northern Territory Army and joined the Western Special Zone. The two of them woke up like a dream, but it was already half a month later.

In the past half a month, the situation has undergone a huge reversal.There were two divisions of the Anhui Army stationed in Nanyuan Province, but they were not stationed together. As a result, the No.15 Division stationed in Yiyang marched westward in the name of field training, and directly entered Changde to join the Xite Army.At the same time, the No. 20 Third Division stationed in Yueyang suddenly crossed Mufu Mountain and entered the territory of Jiujiang.

Chapter 865 The Battle of Zhiwanfeng

All the former troops stationed in the provinces joined the West Special Army nearby. The two direct army divisions stationed in Zhili even cooperated with the two Anhui troops stationed in Zhangjiakou, and they all left Zhangjiakou and entered the territory of Southern Mongolia.If it wasn't for the fact that the West Special Army hadn't received the order to attack, Zhangjiakou would have been almost lost.

The eight divisions of the Anhui Army and the three divisions of the Zhi Army left within half a month, and all of them joined the Western Special Zone without exception. Duan Ruiquan was so angry that he smashed his beloved blue and white porcelain vase.The Zhili also lost the three strongest divisions, but Cao Kun was less angry. After all, his loss was much smaller than that of the Anhui, and it was basically within the acceptable range.

This mass flight of the army increased the strength of eleven main divisions to the West Army, and also weakened most of the strength of the Northern Army.After these troops entered the Western Special Zone, Zhao Shouhong was not polite.At the beginning, when Yang Zengxin and others were being treated, it was because the Western Special Zone was not firmly established and needed to win over powerful generals from all over the country.Now that the Western Special Zone is in full swing, with money, soldiers and guns, how can they take into account those generals who command the army.

After entering the special zone, these troops were first settled down, and within the next three months, these troops would be dispersed and then reorganized into various troops to mix with the original troops.Those officers were also transferred to each other and took up their original positions in units they were not familiar with.

Of course, Zhao Shouhong also needs kindness and power. The salaries of soldiers and officers who surrendered are the same as those of the West Special Army, and the treatment is also the same. Anyone with family members can join the special zone, and the special zone can even send people to pick them up.

The benefits of the special zone have always been ten times higher than that of the domestic warlords, which made the officers and soldiers very happy. In addition, their relatives were properly arranged, which made them even more determined to join the West Army.Of course, after these troops joined, Zhao Shouhong had no choice but to ask the army to expand the designations of four armies and eleven divisions to be stationed in various military regions.

After the Gwanghae Territory expanded its defense area to Yizhou Island and Hainan Island, its troops were no longer sufficient, especially after Tian Songyao of the Tenth Army was permanently stationed in Hainan Island, the problem became more serious.For this reason, Zhu Daizhen asked several times to increase the number of troops, and this time he finally got his wish.

In order to promote his generals, Zhao Shouhong sent Zhang Zhijiang and Wang Lingji out, one as the Minister of Defense of the Southern Cross Republic and the other as the Commander-in-Chief of the Lanfang Republic, in exchange for Huang Gonglue and Zhang Yunfeng.

The newly formed No.20 Second Mountain Infantry Division, No.20 Fifth Mechanized Infantry Division, and No.20 Sixth Infantry Division formed No.14 Army. Zhou Jianping, who had made great contributions in the battle in western Guangdong, served as the commander of the No. [-] Army, stationed on Yizhou Island .Tian Songyao's Tenth Army was still stationed in Hainan Island, and the commander of the Tenth Division was replaced by Xu Xiangqian, who had made great contributions, and was stationed in Fangchenggang, Western Guangdong Province.

The No.20 Third Infantry Division, No.20 Fourth Infantry Division and No.20 Seventh Tank Division formed the No.15 Army, led by Zhang Yunfeng and stationed in the Guanghai City area.At the same time, the first and second garrison divisions of Yizhou and the first garrison division of Hainan Island were organized as regular garrison forces in the region.

The other two armies are the No.40 Army with the No.40 Second Infantry Division, No.40 Third Infantry Division and No.16 Fourth Infantry Division.And the No.40 Army, which has the No.40 Fifth Mechanized Infantry Division and No.17 Sixth Infantry Division, has made several achievements in the Battle of Gwanghae. To the territory of the Western Military Region, as a strong backup for the Southern Military Region.

As a result, among the army of the Western Special Administrative Region, the regular army has increased to 49 infantry divisions and tank divisions of the 86th Army, four independent artillery divisions, three cavalry divisions, as well as military police brigades, paratrooper brigades, inner guard brigades and several Special forces, an army of more than 36 people.In addition, the special zone also has 43 garrison divisions stationed in various provinces, with a total of 2000 troops.

So far, the conventional army strength of the Western Special Administrative Region has reached a super-large scale of 1209 million, but compared with the vast land of the Special Administrative Region, this number of troops does not seem to be much.

On the other hand, the strength of the Anhui faction has dropped to less than 20, and the Zhili faction still has about 15 troops. It is the cost of these soldiers that makes Duan Ruiquan and Cao Kun scratch their heads. This is the best example of economics determining military strength. .

The problem of reorganizing troops and carrying out daily mobilization is not a problem for the SAR General Staff Headquarters. It only took half a month for the entire SAR to regain its calm, but in the north of Hualan Country, the riots have just begun.

After the loss of troops, it was difficult for Duan Ruiquan to make up for the lost strength vacuum for a while, which gave Cao Kun and Zhang Zuolin the best chance. On September 1920, 9, Zhang Zuolin led the Feng army to suddenly cross Shanhaiguan Pass and enter the territory of Zhili Province.The 2 troops pointed directly at the Kailuan Coal Mine. It was obvious that Zhang Zuolin wanted to occupy this area and the nearby Tangshan Industrial Zone, so as to reap some benefits first.

Facing Fengjun's unannounced war, the Sixth Division of the Anhui Army quickly greeted them, and the two sides fought fiercely on the front line from Qian'an to Luan County.At the same time, the three divisions of the Zhili Army located in Qilu Province and Zhili Province suddenly dispatched to attack the Anhui Army stationed nearby.Soon in Zhangjiakou, Baoding, and Hengshui, the war between the Zhiwan factions inevitably broke out.

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