Beiyang reactionaries

On the afternoon of the 15th, various troops under Wu Peifu began to gather outside Yueyang City, preparing for the attack on Yueyang.Originally, Wu Peifu wanted to launch a general attack on Yueyang on the 16th, but the attack on Yueyang had already been launched on the afternoon of the 15th.

At this time, not only the army but also the navy are invested.Yueyang is on the Yangtze River waterway, and the Beiyang Army can mobilize naval ships to help attack.

But even with the help of warships, it is reasonable to say that Yue Yang is not so easy to break through.Because there are currently three divisions in Yueyang, and Yueyang has very complete fortifications because of its very important location.It is very difficult to capture such a city.

pity.

The relationship between the Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi troops currently in Yueyang is very bad.If it weren't for the Beiyang Army soldiers pressing down on the border, there would even be a fight internally.It's not just the Hunan Army and Lu Rongting's troops that have a bad relationship.Even Lu Rongting's own troops, the Guangxi Army and the Guangdong Army, had great conflicts.Because Tan Haoming regards the Gui Army as his direct descendant, and doesn't like the Guangdong Army, the Gui Army and the Guangdong Army are also in the same situation.

Cheng Qian, the commander-in-chief, has nothing to do.

The Gui Army didn't listen to Cheng Qian at all, and the Guangdong Army did too.The troops that Cheng Qian can mobilize are the Hunan Army troops.

The result is foreordained.

After fighting for only one day, the troops guarding Yueyang were completely defeated and retreated from Yueyang City. On the afternoon of February 1918, 2, Wu Peifu's troops had already begun to occupy Yueyang.

Of course, Cheng Qian was still not reconciled.

So using Yueyang's fortifications, he still wants to struggle.The troops concentrated on the new wall, trying to resist Wu Peifu's troops.However, under the attack of the Zhili Second Mixed Brigade and the Third Mixed Brigade, on February 1918, 2, the French Guardian Army retreated again.

So far, the entire Yueyang Battle has come to an end.

It only took Wu Peifu 23 days from the beginning of the attack with the assembly of troops to the end of the war.Destroyed 8 people from the Hunan-Guangdong-Guangxi Allied Forces. Of course, the French defenders were mainly defeated and dispersed.Anyway, no matter what, Wu Peifu caused a sensation in the whole of China during the Battle of Yueyang.

Because Wu Peifu defeated the main force of the French Guardian Army.Everyone is paying attention to the general Wu Peifu, and many newspapers have begun to praise Wu Peifu, thinking that Wu Peifu is a famous general of the Beiyang Army.

"Teacher, Changde Battle Report."

"Say."

Although Wu Peifu attacked Yueyang, he has always been very concerned about the situation in Changde.

"Duan Xun's Liu Mingzhao brigade captured Changde this morning. At noon, Zhang Xueji, Tian Yingzhao, Zhou Zefan, and Deng Hanxiang signed a treaty of 'truce and strike' in Changde. Cities such as Taoyuan and Longyang have been gradually surrendered. , the troops have retreated to Anhua. Duan Xun's troops have also stopped attacking."

"Damn."

Wu Peifu was furious.

He killed and killed in Yuezhou, and at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties, he defeated the French Guardian Army in Yuezhou.But Duan Xun's troops only faced troops with less than [-] people, and they were not even regular troops of the Hunan Army.

Changde and Taoyuan were captured easily, and the road to Changsha was opened in one fell swoop.

"Order, after a brief rest for the troops, follow me south to Changsha."

"Yes."

149 disputes

Changsha.

The economic and political center of Hunan.

Hunan and Sichuan are different.Sichuan has two central cities, Chengdu and Chongqing, and even the relationship between the two cities is not very good.However, there is no city in Hunan that can compete with Changsha. Changsha is the most important city in Hunan.Whoever takes Changsha is tantamount to taking Hunan.So the target of all troops is Changsha.

On February 1918, 2, with the fall of Yueyang and the fall of Changde, Tan Haoming was completely stupid.He didn't know what he was going to do now. After thinking about it, Tan Haoming did something that made the Hunan Army scold him.

Ran.

On the day when Yueyang and Changde fell, Tan Haoming was still in Changsha to write the Anmin Announcement, saying that the Yuezhou battlefield and Changde were just slightly unfavorable, and there was no major problem.And as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of the three provinces of Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, he will definitely fight to the death to defend Changsha.But after talking about this, he immediately had a meeting to prepare his luggage.Since he came to the couch and made a fortune, he started loading all these goodies into the car.

On February 1918, 2, after seeing that Cheng Qian could not stop Wu Peifu's troops at all, Tan Haoming ran away from Changsha with his direct line troops of the Gui line.Throwing the Hunan Army that was retreating from Yuezhou and Pingjiang areas directly to the front line, he ran away with his troops alone.

Originally, the Hunan army wanted to retreat to Changsha, and then defend Changsha with Tan Haoming's troops, and fight a defensive battle in Changsha.But Tan Haoming ran so fast that the Hunan Army, including the Cantonese Army who retreated from the front line, was furious.

But at this time, they didn't have time to complain about Tan Haoming.After all, Wu Peifu and Zhang Jingyao's troops followed them closely.In desperation, Cheng Qian led the Hunan Army and the Guangdong Army to go south from Xiangtan.

Of course, at this time Xiangtan and Zhuzhou were also threatened by Zhang Huaizhi's troops.But this road was the fastest way to withdraw to the south, so Cheng Qian still chose this road.The choice this time was still very correct. Cheng Qian led the troops to withdraw to Hengshan and Hengyang in a short time.

Tan Haoming went to Xiangxiang, and finally withdrew to Baoqing.

Suddenly Changsha became a completely undefended city.Wu Peifu's troops in Yuezhou, Duan Xun's troops in Changde, and Zhang Jingyao's troops in Pingjiang are all desperately heading for Changsha.Because everyone wants to be the first to enter Changsha.

On the evening of February 1918, 2, Liu Mingzhao's vanguard troops arrived in Changsha first.There was no resistance force at all along the way, and Changsha had no defense force at all.However, when Liu Mingzhao's troops entered Changsha, Wu Peifu's vanguard also came to Changsha.

On February 1918, 2, Li Jishen, the commander-in-chief of Duan Xun's army to fight against the rebels in Hunan, followed the large force to Changsha.Following Li Jishen's arrival in Changsha, two brigades of Duan Xun's troops had already entered Changsha, and another two brigades had arrived outside Changsha.On the same day, Wu Peifu, the front-line commander-in-chief of Cao Kun, the first army, also came to Changsha, and several brigades of Wu Peifu also began to station in Changsha. On the night of February 26, Zhang Jingyao's troops arrived in Changsha at the latest.

For a while, Changsha was full of storms.

Nearly 3 troops gathered inside and outside Changsha City.Duan Xun's department plus Chen Fuchu and Wang Zhengya's Hunan Army troops, more than 4 people entered Changsha from Changde and Chenzhou.Under the leadership of Wu Peifu, Cao Kun's Zhili troops also had nearly 2 people who came to Changsha.And the [-] people led by Zhang Jingyao.

"Mr. Wu, after the first battle in Yuezhou, Mr. Wu became famous all over the country."

With so many troops gathered in Changsha, as the generals of the troops, of course they must gather together for coordination.Otherwise, these troops of different attributes will easily cause troubles over trivial matters.Which army should control where, and which army should allocate which place, these are all problems.

Especially Changsha.

This is the provincial capital of Hunan and the most important city in Hunan.There are many important places in Changsha. It is a big question which army will control these places.Therefore, a large number of generals from each army gathered together.

Wu Peifu's side are all generals from Cao Kun's line, starting from Wu Peifu, Wang Chengbin, Yan Xiangwen, Xiao Yaonan, Cao Ying, Zhang Fulai, Dong Zhengguo and others.Similarly, Zhang Jingyao is also a general of Zhang Jingyao's line.

The same is true for Duan Xun.

Because Wu Peifu and Zhang Jingyao are here, Duan Xun asked Li Jishen to hurry to Changsha.Therefore, since Li Jishen received the order, he led the vanguard all the way eastward, and finally caught up with the large frontline troops during the Battle of Changde.

This time several troops met in Changsha and held a joint meeting. Li Jishen appeared here on behalf of Duan Xun, commander-in-chief of the Third Route.Next to Li Jishen were Wan Xuancai, the commander of the Fourth Division, Yu Xuezhong, the commander of the Fifth Division, and their subordinates Tian Songyao, Liu Mingzhao, Lai Xinhui and others.

In terms of seniority, compared with Wu Peifu and Zhang Jingyao, Li Jishen is a junior, so he complimented Wu Peifu.Because now Wu Peifu is indeed very powerful.Just defeated Yuezhou's army, with 5 to [-] troops, and the whole of China knows Wu Peifu, a famous general.

"De Gong (Duan Xun) Department is also doing well."

Just as Wu Peifu spoke, Li Jishen and the officers below frowned.Even Wan Xuan gave Wu Peifu a gloomy look.

hold big.

Wu Peifu's personality is a bit lofty, and few people can take it seriously.In Wu Peifu's mind, he and Duan Xun are equal.So it is natural to call Duan Xun the word "De Gong", and it is natural to put myself and Duan Xun together.He immediately regarded people like Li Jishen as juniors.

But it was different in Li Jishen's heart.

Duan Xun is definitely not as good as Wu Peifu's benefactor Cao Kun.After all, Cao Kun was a senior general of the Beiyang Army when Yuan Shikai was there, and his qualifications can even be compared with Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, and Cao Kun is now the governor of Zhili.But what are you Wu Peifu?

He had just joined the division commander of the third division, and Duan Xun had been the division commander of the Beiyang Army more than two years ago, and he had been the governor of Sichuan Army more than two years ago.Now he has become the border defense supervisor of the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Tibet, and concurrently serves as the commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.Now Duan Xun, even Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui, Cao Kun and other Beiyang army leaders cannot ignore it.Anything needs to be discussed with Duan Xun.

Because Duan Xun is now trying his best to suppress the current situation in the Southwest.It is the biggest trump card of the Beiyang Army in the southwest.If the Beiyang government wants to control the situation in the southwest, it must rely heavily on Duan Xun.

What right do you, Wu Peifu, have to call Duan Xun like that.

However, Wu Peifu did not realize that there was something wrong with his statement.Because Wu Peifu is such a person.During the second Zhifeng war in history, Wang Chengbin, Feng Yuxiang, Sun Yue, and Hu Jingyi, the original direct troops or troops that relied on the direct line, all turned against each other. It cannot be said that there were no problems caused by Wu Peifu's character.Before the Zhifeng War, there was a "Falling Wu" group within the Zhili, because Wu Peifu had offended too many people within the Zhili.