Beiyang reactionaries

"Yes. When I was negotiating with Yu Enyang, I already got the military map of the Fumin area from him."

"Secretary-General, since that's the case, I'm going to rest for the night and continue south with the troops tomorrow. To launch a surprise attack on time tomorrow night, your side..."

"I'll go south with you."

…………

January 1917, 3, at four o'clock in the morning.

enrich the people.

Tang Jiyu was pulled out from the bed, unable to open his eyelids.He had been in a bad mood recently, and was called out from the bed by his adjutant, and his mood was even worse.Just as he was about to scold his adjutant, he heard his adjutant's trembling voice.

"Master, the Ninth Regiment was defeated at Chicken Street?"

Tang Jiyu, who hadn't fully woken up yet, immediately lost his drowsiness after a word from his adjutant. He opened his eyes wide and said, "What did you say, what did you say? The Ninth Regiment, what happened to the Ninth Regiment?"

Tang Jiyu turned pale with shock.

In order to stop Duan Xun's troops, Tang Jiyu was ordered to bring his third division to Fumin.I personally led a main regiment, a guard regiment, a cavalry brigade, an artillery regiment, and a supply regiment of the Yunnan Army, and then set up the headquarters in Fumin.The Ninth Regiment of the Dian Army was deployed in Jijie, north of Fumin, and the Tenth Regiment of the Dian Army was deployed in Songming.

The Ninth Regiment is the main regiment of the Dian Army and the elite regiment of Tang Jiyu's Third Division. It is a Dian Army regiment with 2000 people.It was an elite unit of Tang Jiyu's third division, so Tang Jiyu put him in Chicken Street.Just to let them block Duan Xun's troops.

But?

how come?

I didn't hear the information at all, how could my Ninth Regiment be defeated.This is simply not possible.Where did the troops attack Chicken Street?Could it be that Yu Enyang's troops turned against the water?

"Yu Enyang, is it the fourth division?"

At this time, the only thing Tang Jiyu could think of was Yu Enyang's troops.Because Yu Enyang's fourth division is stationed in Wuding, it has the strength and the opportunity to surprise his troops.Originally, when Tang Jiyu went north to enrich the people, Tang Jiyao told Tang Jiyu that Yu Enyang was very cautious.Before the situation became clear, he would never attack Tang Jiyu.He also warned Tang Jiyu not to mess with Yu Enyang.

So after coming to Fumin, Tang Jiyu didn't provoke Yu Enyang at all, and he didn't even dare to send scouts to Wuding, just because he was worried about angering Yu Enyang.

"Master, it's not the Fourth Division, it's not the Fourth Division. Duan Xun's troops raided Chicken Street? The Ninth Regiment, the Ninth Regiment has disbanded."

"Impossible, impossible."

Tang Jiyu shook his head again and again, and then roared in disbelief: "How is it possible, how is it possible. Could it be that Duan Xun's troops can't fly? According to our information, it doesn't mean that Duan Xun's vanguard is only on the 26th. Did they start? It’s four hundred miles from them to us, and they can’t fly so fast. It’s impossible to come here in less than a week, ten days. Impossible, impossible.”

Tang Jiyu didn't believe it at all.

distance.

The road from Sichuan to Yunnan is very bad, and the distance is also very long.It will be understood that Fumin has four hundred miles of roads, and most of them are mountain roads, and there are not many smooth roads at all.The road from Sichuan to Yunnan is very unfavorable for the army to march, and it is even more difficult for large troops to march.According to the normal speed of the new army, even if Duan Xun's troops speed up, it will take at least a week or more.But how long?

According to the information obtained by Tang Jiyu, the vanguard of Duan Xun's troops was the second regiment of the Fourth Mixed Brigade stationed in Syria.They started from Huili on the 26th, and it has only been five days until today, it should be less than five days.

Five days, five days to walk four hundred miles on such a difficult road?On such a difficult mountain road, it is not bad to be able to walk forty or fifty miles a day, but how could it be possible to walk eighty or ninety miles.

Tang Jiyu didn't believe it.

According to Tang Jiyu's calculations, this army should take at least a week, otherwise it would be impossible to reach Chicken Street.Not only Tang Jiyu thinks so, but also the frontline troops of the Third Division of the Dian Army think so.

"Master, what should we do now?"

"Where's Chen Yaowen? Where's the Ninth Regiment?"

Tang Jiyu suddenly asked his adjutant.

Troops are easily defeated without preparation, but the Ninth Regiment is a troop of 2000 people after all, and it is still the elite of the Yunnan Army.Even if they were defeated and Chicken Street was captured, the troops should not disappear completely.In Tang Jiyu's view, gathering the troops of the Ninth Regiment should be able to gather more than 1000 people.After all, in a few hours, it is impossible to have too many casualties. The biggest possibility is that the defense line was broken through by being caught off guard.

"Teacher, it's very strange. After the Ninth Regiment was defeated, we didn't receive many people here, only about two hundred people."

"what?"

Tang Jiyu frowned.

How can it be?

Tang Jiyu had already dressed at this time, walked around, and suddenly said: "Give the troops an order to enter combat readiness immediately. Then send a message to Kunming to tell them that Duan Xun's troops have arrived."

"Yes."

105 Intensified Contradictions

sensation.

During the war of words between Li Yuanhong, Duan Qirui, the Beiyang Army and the governors of the southern provinces, Duan Xun suddenly sent troops.Moreover, Duan Xun's troops marched very fast.

On March 1917, 3, Duan Xuncai announced his acceptance of the post of supervisor of the Southwest Anti-smoking Administration. On March 25, 1917, Duan Xun announced that he would send troops into Yunnan to expel the brothers Tang Jiyao and Tang Jiyu, opium dealers in Yunnan, and supervise the complete ban on smoking in Yunnan.

Unexpectedly, just four days later, on the night of March 1917, 3, Duan Xun's vanguard fought Tang Jiyu's Ninth Regiment of the Third Division of the Dian Army at Jijie.

Too fast.

The marching speed of Duan Xun's troops was so fast that everyone was stunned and all forces were completely unprepared.No one expected that Duan Xun's troops would march so fast, and they could reach Chicken Street in less than five days.Moreover, it can quickly enter the war, and its combat capability is still so strong.The attack was launched at [-] o'clock in the evening, and a regular regiment of the Yunnan Army was defeated in less than two o'clock in the morning, that is, within three hours.

The Yunnan army was caught off guard.

Because the marching speed was too fast, the Dian army had no defense at all.

But before everyone could react, two days later, on April 1917, 4, the third regiment of the fourth mixed brigade Wang Tianpei came down from Xuyongnan to Songming, defeating the tenth regiment of the third division of the Yunnan Army.

After defeating the Tenth Regiment of the Dian Army in Songming, Wang Tianpei continued southward with his troops, heading directly to Kunming.In a panic, Tang Jiyu divided his troops to block the attack, but Wang Tianpei boosted his morale, almost crushing the blocking troops, and made a gesture of continuing to attack Kunming.

At this time, Tang Jiyu's disadvantage was manifested.

Although the third division of the Dian Army has Tang Jiyu's direct troops, half of them are Gu Pinzhen and Ye Quan's direct troops.After Tang Jiyao reorganized the Yunnan Army, he organized Gu Pinzhen and Ye Quan's direct troops into the third division.After Tang Jiyu became the commander of the third division, he tried his best to suppress the direct line officers of Gu Pinzhen and Ye Quan, and eliminated the influence of Gu Pinzhen and Ye Quan.

If there is a period of time, of course there is no problem.

However, the Dian army had only been reorganized for two or three months, and Tang Jiyu hadn't had time to fully control this army. Instead, because of the hasty reorganization, there were complaints in the army, and there was no morale to fight.These people are fighting passively, especially after Duan Qirui received a telegram from Duan Xun, the news spread that Gu Pinzhen was appointed to replace Tang Jiyao as the governor of Yunnan, and these officers treated them even more negatively.

On April 1917, 4, Fang Dingying brought Li Hong's first regiment to the front line.Although Fang Dingying's Fourth Mixed Brigade is an army organized by the state, it only has more than 6 people according to the organization.However, with the support of Duan Xun, the Fourth Mixed Brigade currently has more than 5000 troops. Not only are there many veterans in the army, but the weapons and equipment are also very good. It belongs to one of Duan Xun's trump card troops.Although Wang Tianpei's third regiment is not there, Fang Dingying still has more than 8000 troops in his hands.

Attacking across the board, Tang Jiyu's troops failed to hold on.

On April 1917, 4, Fang Dingying captured Fumin in just one day, and Tang Jiyu's troops were defeated across the board.It should be said that the Third Division of the Dian Army is a unit with a strong combat effectiveness in the Dian Army, and it should not be so vulnerable.In particular, Fang Dingying's fourth mixed brigade did not bring heavy siege weapons such as cannons in order to speed up.But Tang Jiyu is really not expected to lead the army. The third division has too many internal problems and has no intention of fighting at all.In fact, Tang Jiyu's troops had limited casualties in the battle to defend the rich people, and more of them left the battlefield in an organized way.Many of these officers were not convinced by Tang Jiyu, so they led the troops to find their mothers and generals.Therefore, in a short period of time, one of the main divisions of the Yunnan Army was completely defeated, causing a sensation throughout Yunnan.Fumin fell, and the whole of Kunming was directly under Fang Dingying's Fourth Mixed Brigade.

After taking down Fumin, Fang Dingying led the main force to rendezvous with Wang Tianpei's second regiment.

Too fast.

Since Duan Xun said that he would send troops, only ten days have passed. Duan Xun's army has already reached Kunming directly, and the vanguard of the army has set up camp only a dozen miles away from Kunming.Besides Fang Dingying's Fourth Mixed Brigade, Song Tiancai's Independent Brigade of the Southwest Frontier Army and Guo Songling's First Brigade of the Armed Police Force also went south.Their marching speed was also very fast, and they had already entered Yunnan.Even Guo Songling's First Brigade of the Armed Police Force and Lu Zhonglin's First Regiment have come to the front line to meet with the Fourth Mixed Brigade.

accident.