New Warlords 1909

"I want to expand the production capacity of the Wing Loong aircraft factory, and I need the help of the two gentlemen to purchase related equipment! In addition, I plan to build an automobile machinery factory in Shanghai. I hope that the two of you can help introduce it in your country. I am very grateful! "

Kyle thought that Hua Fei would take the opportunity to speak loudly, but he didn't expect his request to be so.Is this a requirement? This is clearly another lucrative contract!Such a good thing is simply a pie that fell from the sky!The only fly in the ointment is that Huafei cannot provide cash, and needs to borrow from a bank, and the coal mines in Huainan and other places are used as guarantees. //*/\

All the guests and hosts were happy, and Edsey also found Smith just after they left.Compared to Kyle and the others, Edsey is more straightforward.He didn't complain about the extension of Huafei's contract, but increased his order for [-] aircraft.The power shown by the pioneers in several battles has aroused great interest in the German military, and Edsey and others have also received special awards for their foresight.

Huafei is doing everything as usual, all orders are received, and the price is not expensive, but the only condition is that Germany can continue to aid in the construction of a tractor factory and an instrument factory.Sensitive equipment such as the artillery factory has been assisted in the construction, and these two civilian factories are of course not a problem.

That night, not only Hua Fei was negotiating with several people about the aircraft export technology transfer contract plan, but other military executives also preliminarily discussed various industries with representatives from various countries according to the scheduled plan, including petrochemicals, machine tool bearings, ships and locomotives, Mechanical instrumentation, transportation and communication, coal and oil exploration and mining, etc. a series of light and heavy industry cooperation plans.

Of course, Hua Fei does not have the funds to carry out such a huge industrial investment plan, so most of the plans are just cooperation intentions.Hua Fei did this not only to lay out a blueprint for future industrial construction, but also to temporarily tie foreigners to the wheel of his interests and protect his current actual interests to the greatest extent.

Representatives from various countries finally signed relevant contracts. Except for Germany, which is not small, most other countries have a scale of more than a dozen or twenty aircraft.It can be seen that the purpose of their purchase is also to study and prevent.

In the end, Hua Fei also invited everyone to visit the air show, and even made public the live ammunition bombing exercise performance.Although I have read countless times about the power of bombers in the newspapers, seeing it in person today, the direct and shocking effect is obviously different.

All this, including the cooperation intentions reached with various countries, were published in the next day's newspaper reports.While the domestic revolutionary war was still fierce, Hua Fei retreated from the front line and signed so many cooperation agreements with various countries, which can definitely read a lot of meaning in the eyes of those who are interested.

But no matter who it is, it can't make irresponsible remarks about it.Huafei spends money on industrial construction, which is not something that is detrimental to the national interest.In some ways, it's even his personal affair.After all, everyone knew that most of the military expenses of his First Revolutionary Army came from his own pockets.People are not short of money, so there is no problem with this.

Throughout September, the fighting in Hubei and Jiangxi was basically over. However, Hua Fei's naval ships were stationed in Anqing, and the Second Division even dispatched five regiments to station in Anqing, which made the Beiyang Army in Hubei and Jiangxi not dare to advance eastward for a while.The battle in Jiangsu is also coming to an end. Nanjing has been attacked and defended several times, and it is only a few days before it is occupied.Huang Xing and others urgently called Hefei several times, asking Hua Fei to send troops for assistance, but Hua Fei always refused to send troops on the grounds of insufficient troops.

"Report, urgent call from Jiangsu. Zhenjiang has fallen, Sun Wen and others have fled to Shanghai, the Beiyang Army is besieging Nanjing, Huang Xing and others are desperately resisting. Cheng Dequan, governor of Jiangsu, has sent a telegram to cancel independence."

In Wuhu, Hua Fei, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, finally got the news he wanted to wait for.Once Nanjing falls, it heralds the complete failure of the second revolution, and the resistance of the revolutionaries will die down!At that time, Yuan Shikai will be able to concentrate on besieging Anhui, so as to completely eradicate Hua Fei's power!

Therefore, whether it is for himself or for the revolution, Hua Fei cannot just sit back and watch Nanjing fall.The reason why he didn't send troops before was to let the Beiyang Army continue to fight against the Revolutionary Army to consume, and secondly, to allow the troops to rest as much as possible, and race against time to expand the army!At this time, no matter how difficult the financial resources are, Hua Fei must ensure sufficient troops.

128 In the Name of Justice

Looking at the occupation of the whole Anhui, after the redeployment of troops, the Huaibei-Suzhou front line is the main forward position against the Sixth Division of the Second Beiyang Division. There are ten infantry regiments, with a strength of about 1.Among them, except for the five regiments of the First Army of the Anqing Army, the three regiments reorganized from the Construction Corps all have certain combat effectiveness.However, the equipment department is unified, the weapons are huge and complex, and ammunition supply is difficult, and the ammunition that is captured is mainly used.

There are five regiments of infantry stationed on the front line of Fuyang, Bozhou, with a total number of about 5000 people. They are mainly a regiment of the First Army of the Anqing Army and the Second Division of the New Army.In addition, Bengbu and Huainan each stationed a regiment of infantry as backup reinforcements.Fuyang Bozhou focused on defending the Beiyang Army in Henan on the front line, and at the same time maintained local law and order and arrested those stragglers who fled during the battle.

In Anqing in southern Anhui, five regiments of the Second Division and five warships of the Navy were stationed, mainly defending the Beiyang Army in Jiangxi and Hubei.Hefei stationed two regiments adapted from the Construction Corps, one regiment of the Boy Scouts, and one regiment of the Ninth Regiment of the First Division to defend the appeasement areas. Most of the other cities were armed with patrol police and militia.The main forces of the First Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army were all gathered in Wuhu. After rest and replenishment, most of the first division and half of the second division had twelve regiments of infantry and two regiments of artillery. The engineering soldiers of the two regiments and the temporary logistics regiment composed of a large number of civilian troops have 5000 basic combatants.In addition, there are ten naval combat ships and hundreds of civilian transport ships. //The Air Force has a squadron with nearly [-] bombers, and they have flown to Ma'anshan to be on standby.After all the soldiers have dispatched their subordinates, they will enter Jiangsu and fight the Beiyang Army with all their strength!

Of course, Hua Fei's troop transfer on such a scale could not be hidden from the eyes of Yuan Shikai and the revolutionaries.Yuan Shikai was very nervous immediately.How can he not be nervous?Since the confrontation with Hua Fei, he has lost more than 3 troops in a row.Lei Zhenchun's guards even withdrew from northern Anhui, and they were unwilling to march any more.Wang Zhanyuan of the Second Division also perfunctorily delayed his orders, and the Sixth Division simply used the excuse of insufficient troops.Not Hua Fei's opponent.Yuan Shikai increased military pressure in northern Anhui while gathering military presence in Hubei and Jiangxi.At the same time, the secret message Hua Fei, as long as he does not interfere in Jiangsu's internal affairs and military affairs, then he promises to appoint Hua Fei as the governor of Anhui after the war is over, and he will take charge of all military and political powers in Anhui.

Non-interference in Jiangsu?When the battle is over, who knows how Yuan Shikai will deal with him?Besides, if Hua Fei is greedy for the military and political power of a province, why wait until now?Haste makes waste.Too much food is just indigestion until you don't have enough digestion capacity!

When Huang Xing, who was in Shanghai, heard that Hua Fei was gathering troops in Wuhu and other places and was preparing to massively reinforce Jiangsu, he immediately canceled his plan to go to Hong Kong. \/At the same time, in the name of a private land, Hua Fei was telegraphed that if Hua Fei could drive out the Beiyang Army in Jiangsu, he would definitely elect Hua Fei as the chief of the army in the new revolutionary government.

At the same time, Sun Wen and other revolutionaries who were already in Japan were also inexplicably excited when they heard the news.Sun Wen immediately called Hua Fei in the name of the chairman of the Democratic Party.Hua Fei was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan Dispute Yuan Army during the war, and he had full authority to dispatch the Jiangnan provinces to discuss Yuan Jun.In addition, many remnants of the revolution have died down.Also stimulated by this news, it revived again.It greatly restrained the strength of the Beiyang Army.

Hua Fei didn't seem to care about this, what kind of army chief.It's all a false name to discuss Commander-in-Chief Yuan Jun.Neither can Hua Fei ask for more military expenses.Nor can it strengthen Hua Fei's troops.As for dispatching Jiangnan to beg Yuan Jun with full authority, joke, can you move the gun in his hand?

However, this false name is not useless, at least if the battle is won, Hua Fei can use these names to become the mainstay of the revolution.He can raise the banner of revolution and have a certain right to speak, instead of leaving his fate to the revolutionaries to fiddle with.In addition, although the commander-in-chief could not mobilize many troops during the war, the remaining troops of many troops fighting in Nanjing and other places can be regarded as elite. \\Especially after the revolutionaries abolished the army, the eighth division of the army, which gathered all the financial and material resources to reorganize, is the elite of the main force of the revolutionary army.

At the beginning of September 1913, Li Liejun led more than 1 remnants to Anqing, seeking Hua Fei's help.Hua Fei just called Anqing to give Li Liejun their barracks and food, and temporarily stationed in Anqing to assist in defense.The Beiyang Army from Hubei, Jiangxi and other places took advantage of the situation to pursue, but their attack capabilities on the river were too weak. With the assistance of warships, within a few minutes of the confrontation, the Beiyang Army withdrew to Jiangxi.Hua Fei's achievements in northern Anhui were exaggerated through the reports of the Jagged Army Daily and other newspapers. The combat effectiveness of the First Division of the First Army of the Revolutionary New Army has been described as a terrifying existence.Especially the battle of the First Division's long-distance attack to wipe out the elite Yi army made all the Beiyang troops tremble with fear.They don't want to stay in Anhui territory for one more minute. Who knows if the first division will fall from the sky and make dumplings for them.

Although the battle situation in Jiangsu has undergone slight changes under the influence of Hua Fei, but because Hua Fei has been standing still, the balance of victory is indeed tilting towards the Beiyang Army.The Revolutionary Army's First Division, Second Division, Third Division and the two Revolutionary Brigades have canceled their protests one after another.After Zhang Changzong took over as the commander of the third division, he joined the Beiyang Army sequence and acted as the vanguard to attack Nanjing. \

Sure enough, as Hua Fei expected, the Beiyang Army occupied Nanjing again after several violent attacks.Many Beiyang soldiers wantonly burned, killed and looted, Nanjing was full of mourning fireworks, and the prosperous Xiaguan was burned to the ground by Feng Guozhang's subordinates.Nanjing "has been robbed completely, and all the furniture and other things have been transported. The people of all classes have no clothes, and the family has no food for a meal."Many soldiers from Zhang Xun's and Xu Baozhen's divisions robbed enough property, but abandoned their guns and left, which greatly reduced the strength of the second division.Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, has been ravaged again since the bloodbath of Zeng Guoquan's Hunan Army.

At this point, many citizens in Nanjing suddenly realized how civilized, friendly, and kind-hearted Hua Lengzi, who was so barbaric at the time, looked at the moment!The same is robbing, they are robbing the armory of the treasury, and the same is moving, they are moving guns and machinery, and they are not guilty of treating ordinary people.Moreover, the order on the streets after the war was more stable than usual.The difference, how I miss the time when Hua Lengzi entered the city!Commander Hua, hurry up and lead your new army to attack Nanjing!

It was this opportunity that Hua Fei was waiting for, and Hua Fei's own notice was published in the urgent numbers of the major newspapers that day.In the announcement, Hua Fei described the tragic situation in Nanjing with pictures and texts, and hissed and condemned this kind of war that is inhumane and inferior to beasts. \And sharply blamed Yuan Shikai for maintaining the status and power of the president, the military discipline of his subordinates was corrupt, he did evil, and harmed the people.This is a naked crime against humanity, an intolerable war crime!

In the notice, Hua Fei called on the Beijing General Prosecutor's Office to investigate the matter and arrest and examine the responsible persons for war crimes.At the same time, Hua Fei announced that as a soldier of the country, he cannot ignore the suffering of our people.From now on, the First Army of the Revolutionary Army will take over Jiangsu and issue an ultimatum to surrender and plead guilty to all soldiers who committed war crimes. Otherwise, they will be arrested by force and punished twice!At the same time, to the various divisions of the Revolutionary Army that abolished the Communist Party, I advised them not to help the evildoers and not to interfere with the just actions of the First Army.

In the circular, Hua Fei issued the first circular with the order of the commander-in-chief of the army in wartime.Order the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River not to act rashly and reject any transfer orders from the Beijing government.Order the units of the Revolutionary Army in Jiangsu to defend and resist on the spot to maintain local public security, people's livelihood and order.

In the end, Hua Fei opposed the corruption in the provinces in his own name.China is a unified country, and anyone who commits suicide for any reason is not allowed.However, due to the fact that the Beijing government sent troops to cause disaster, they assassinated politicians.Provinces are entitled to self-government until general elections are held to elect a legitimate central government.

Occupy the moral high ground and judge all war criminals in the name of justice.Even more, by opposing the Communist Party, Hua Fei's political reputation has been pushed to a higher level.

The influence brought by this announcement is no less than that of Hua Fei's elite troops marching into Jiangsu.Many political commentators lamented, at this moment, who would dare to call Commander Hua a fool again?Both his fighting style and his political skills have matured day by day.

The obvious direct effect was that the disclosure of the Nanjing atrocities triggered waves of massive demonstrations across the country.Even in Beijing, a large number of students took to the streets to protest, asking the government to try those war criminals.The divisions of the Revolutionary Army that originally canceled the protest and intended to join the Beiyang Army withdrew to their stations one after another and remained silent.Zhang Changzong, the commander of the [-]rd Division who attacked Nanjing Pioneer, even sent a telegram to the whole country, affirming that his troops absolutely did not participate in the looting and murder in Nanjing, and expressed support for Hua Fei's call for the election of a new central government as soon as possible.

Soon, the governors of various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were electrified, expressing the abolition of independence and the maintenance of self-government.Support Hua Fei's proposal to hold an early public election as soon as possible to form a new central coalition government.

Self-government is good!Although it doesn't mean much to them in essence, it sounds much better than **.You see, we don't want to split the country, it's just that your president is unpopular. In order to protect the interests of the people, we can only maintain autonomy.When there is a general election, when a new central government is formed, we may cancel self-government.Of course, it is unknown whether to cancel or not, and how to cancel.

You see, perfect and magnificent, impeccable.Even those aides and politicians who claimed to be veterans in the political arena couldn't help but admire Hua Fei's hand.To be so young, to have such a beautiful move, and to hold a lot of power, the future is boundless!Let's borrow flowers to present Buddha and show our support to him.

Hua Fei didn't expect his announcement to cause such a big chain reaction.He just understood that it would be very difficult to win this battle only by force.Therefore, public opinion psychological warfare, a new type of warfare commonly used in later generations, was used by Hua Fei.

Almost on the night of the announcement, under the escort of the navy, the First Army split into two groups.The first division will quickly capture Pukou and Liuhe with the ship, and cut off the support and supplies of the Jinpu line to the Beiyang Army in Nanjing.With the support of warships and gunboats, the headquarters of the Second Division quickly attacked and occupied the important areas of Yangzhou, completely cutting off the retreat of all the Beiyang troops.

129 Deep Crisis

Since the revolutionary army in Jiangsu was dismantled several times, Yuan Shikai secretly bribed and instigated, and the factions of the revolutionaries were chaotic, the determination to challenge Yuan was not strong, and each had their own ghosts.Therefore, Jiangsu's revolutionary army is not very strong. Strictly speaking, the strength of five divisions and four brigades, the fourth division stationed in Yangzhou has defected to the Beiyang Army early, and the third division has rebelled.In addition to the loss of the previous battles, at this time, the revolutionary army in Jiangsu, except for the remnants of the Eighth Division, had only a few thousand actual resistance troops.

The failure of Yuan Shikai's early strategy in Anhui Province forced him to speed up his strategy in Jiangsu.He mobilized the Fourth Division, the Fifth Division, the No.20 Division, the First Mixed Brigade of Zhili, the Imperial Guards and other armies to temporarily form the Second Army.Feng Guozhang was appointed as the commander of the second army, and he unified the command of the battle in Jiangsu, and successively invested about 4 to [-] troops.

However, Hua Fei chose this opportunity to attack Jiangsu at this time. The strength of the Beiyang Army has been exhausted and fought several times. Whether it is the physical fitness of the soldiers or the consumption of ammunition, it is already a bit exhausted.In particular, the Jinpu line was destroyed by revolutionary soldiers. Many Beiyang troops actually walked southward along the railway line, and their ammunition and supplies were replenished entirely by capture.

This is also an important reason why Hua Fei stayed put for a long time. Compared with the troops Yuan Shikai invested in Jiangsu, Hua Fei was depressed and flustered.As the center of power of the revolutionaries, facing the strength of the five divisions and four brigades of the revolutionary army, Yuan Shikai only invested 4 to 7 people. \But in order to attack Anhui and deal with the strength of Hua Fei's second division, he has invested nearly [-] troops successively!This is really a wolf's eyes to judge people's superiority, favoring one more than another!

It feels good to be valued by others, but if Hua Fei has been defeated at this moment, I believe Yuan Shikai and his staff must be cheering and drinking at this moment!

When the fleet had just arrived near He County, Hua Fei received military intelligence from Nanjing.After Zhang Xun learned that Hua Fei's first and second divisions had sent troops from Wuhu, he withdrew from Nanjing without saying hello and went straight to Zhenjiang.

To be honest, Zhang Xun, a stubborn royalist party, was extremely hostile to Hua Fei, especially after being scammed by Hua Fei in Nanjing.He and Hua Fei formed a great enmity.This is why when Yuan Shikai absolutely sent troops to crusade against the Southern Revolutionary Army, Zhang Xun took the initiative to invite Ying to attack Xuzhou directly from Yanzhou and join the battle against Anhui.

Not to mention that the Yi army was completely wiped out, Zhang Xun could be considered to have learned the strength and strength of Huafei's first army in the battle of Xuzhou.Not to mention the long-distance raiding ability of surreptitiousness, and the powerful firepower that never stopped at that moment when Xuzhou was besieged.The precise sniper marksmanship, the endless fire suppression coverage of the mortar. \/What makes Zhang Xun look at the sky even more sighed is that there is nothing he can do about the planes circling in the sky and blowing up the ground!

The [-] new troops attacked Zhang Xun in less than a day, and fled Xuzhou in a hurry before he even had time to transfer his belongings.Nothing can have Zhang Xun's personal experience.He has fought for so long, and he has never felt as weak and helpless as facing the first division of Hua Fei's new army.Under the powerful firepower of the opponent, they were so embarrassed even to resist.

In particular, I heard that this time Huafei marched into Jiangsu, bringing most of the heavy artillery regiments, and dozens of air force bombers.God, Zhang Xun has more than 1 troops.In the battle of attacking Nanjing, there has been a lot of loss.Those turtle grandsons burned, killed, raped and looted after entering Nanjing.After looting a lot of property, many people even lost their guns.Run away without a trace.At this moment, Zhang Xun can summon less than 5000 subordinates.

5000 people?Against Hua Fei's new army armed to the teeth?Zhang Xun didn't even think about it.He led his adoptive son Zhang Wensheng and his confidant Yin Xiangong.Chen Dexiu fled to Zhenjiang, collecting remnants along the way.

Pukou ** serves as the gateway to the north bank of the Yangtze River in Nanjing.It is directly related to the safety of Nanjing.At this moment, most of the Beiyang army has crossed the south of the river to attack, and there are not many troops in Pukou and **. \/ With the support of the warship artillery fire, the first division took the second place with almost no effort.The remnants fled to Yangzhou, Subei and other places.When the First Army was fully preparing to attack Nanjing, the Second Division had already continued eastward along the Yangtze River to attack the important town of Yangzhou.

The Yangzhou garrison was originally the Fourth Division of the Jiangsu Army, and the division commander was Xu Baoshan, a great salt lord.As mentioned in the previous article, Xu Baoshan started his business by speculation. After the establishment of the Nanjing Revolutionary Government, he was once appointed as the governor of the Yangzhou Military Government.But Xu Baoshan is an idiot, in order to seek the greatest benefit, he even played the split.It's a pity that the technology was not good enough, and the revolutionaries saw through it, and they were assassinated and killed.After his younger brother Xu Baozhen took over as the division commander, under the instigation of Yuan Shikai, he put up the banner of avenging his brother, and has completely joined the Beiyang Army.

Zhenjiang and Yangzhou faced each other across the river. Zhang Xun had just fled to Zhenjiang and collected more than a thousand stragglers along the way.But before he could catch his breath, the scouts came to report that Hua Fei's army was heading towards Zhenjiang, and the goal seemed to be to attack Zhenjiang!

What?Zhang Xun was surprised!Hua Feidi's army captured Nanjing so quickly?How do you say that Nanjing still has nearly [-] troops defending it!How long has it been?The city is broken?This is too scary!No matter, continue to escape!

Zhang Xun didn't even want to verify this information, after all, Hua Fei's army's elusiveness did not impress him too deeply. \/In his opinion, for Hua Fei's first division, nothing is impossible, nothing is impossible!Anyway, it's right to run farther away, at this moment, Wan is not Hua Fei's opponent, so run away in the direction of Changzhou!

When Zhang Xun escaped like this, the soldiers of the two ** brigades stationed in Zhenjiang panicked.After inquiring secretly, he learned that the Huasha Shenhua Demon King of Anhui led his army to attack Zhenjiang.It is said that the purpose of attacking Zhenjiang this time is to arrest war criminals and shoot each one!What is a war criminal?Ordinary soldiers don't understand it very well, but soon someone guessed that soldiers who have fought wars are probably war criminals!

What?Soldiers carrying guns, except for those recruits who have just been recruited, who has never fought a war!Regardless of whether it is true or not, in the atmosphere of panic, the soldiers of the ** brigade followed Zhang Xun's retreat and ran away to fuck!So the officer of the ** brigade soon discovered that his subordinates were running around in a hurry and could not find anyone!These officers hated and had no choice but to follow in Zhang Xun's footsteps. Without soldiers, no one wanted to see who they went to!

So when Huada's second division was about to land on Guazhou, it received news that Zhenjiang was empty and all the defenders had fled.This military situation not only surprised Huada, but also made Li Qianyu, Mo Haiyu and others look at each other in disbelief. \