Beiyang reactionaries

The current Guardian Fleet believes in the third theory even more.

Because Cheng Biguang really fell for Lu Rongting.It's not that Cheng Biguang supports Lu Rongting more, on the contrary Cheng Biguang despises Lu Rongting.Because Lu Rongting was born as a bandit, his troops had very bad military discipline in Guangdong, and they were really bandit troops.It is impossible for someone like Cheng Biguang to like Lu Rongting.

But if Cheng Biguang wanted to live, and if the naval force under him wanted to live, he needed funds.In the current southern region, only Lu Rongting can provide him with funds.So it is normal for him to lean towards Lu Rongting, and it is also a very helpless thing.

The same is true for Lin Baoyi.

After succeeding Cheng Biguang as the commander-in-chief of the Guardian Fleet, Lin Baoyi could feel Cheng Biguang's helplessness.If the navy wants to survive, it can only rely on a wealthy warlord like Lu Rongting.Because only Lu Rongting has money.

Whoever has the money and the navy will listen to whoever says it.

"The guardian fleet must also rush to Shantou and Jieyang to help the army."

"Yes."

Lin Baoyi nodded.

He can only take orders from Lu Rongting.

"Okay, today's meeting ends here."

218 War of Guangdong and Guangxi 3

"You said how to choose."

fast.

Chen Jiongming is a well-known general who has experienced many battles, and he knows what speed is the most important thing in soldiers.Although Lu Rongting brought troops to Guangdong, Lu Rongting did not send all the troops to the Chaoshan area.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Lu Rongting did not take Chen Jiongming seriously.

Lu Rongting's idea was that when he was ready, he would attack southern Fujian and eliminate Chen Jiongming's troops. By the way, even Li Houji, the governor of Fujian, would also be dealt with.Be it Lu Rongting or Mo Rongxin, they still underestimate Chen Jiongming.Therefore, besides Liu Zhilu's Fourth Army of the Guangdong Army, which is a general of Lu Rongting's direct line, the troops currently stationed in the Chaoshan area are Lu Gongwang's Zhejiang Army and Fang Shengtao's Fourth Yunnan Army.

Chen Jiongming saw this, so after hearing that Hunan was fighting, he immediately sent troops to attack Chaoshan.Take the Chaoshan area before Lu Rongting is ready.With the Chaoshan area, the problem of military pay for the troops can be solved, and they can have a place to stay in Guangdong.Now the troops are less than fifty miles away from Chaozhou and Shantou, and they can attack Chaozhou and Shantou in half a day.Therefore, Chen Jiongming immediately held a simple temporary military meeting to discuss the attack target.

"Let me tell you."

Yao Yuping did his part.

Yao Yuping was a member of the Tongmenghui in his early years and a general of the Cantonese Army in his early years. He participated in numerous anti-Qing riots.Including the famous Huanghuagang uprising, when the Tongmenghui organized a four-way death squad.The captains of the Four-way Death Squad are Huang Xing, Yao Yuping, Hu Yisheng, and Chen Jiongming.It can be seen that it was Yao Yuping's position in the revolutionary party at that time.Yao Yuping was very familiar with Hu Hanmin, Zhu Zhixin, Chen Jiongming, Deng Keng and other Cantonese revolutionary parties.

After the recovery of Guangdong in the Revolution of [-], Yao Yuping served as the commander of the Guangdong Northern Expedition Army, and later changed its name to the Northern Expedition Army, serving as the army commander and commander-in-chief.Yao Yuping led this army northward and fought all the way to the Jiangsu area.The war of protecting the law also followed Sun Yat-sen to the south and served as an adviser to the military government.

Later, Sun Yat-sen was pushed out of Guangdong, and Yao Yuping also left the military government and returned to his hometown.

This time Chen Jiongming wanted to compete for Guangdong, so he sent someone to invite Yao Yuping to come to the army as an adviser.Because Yao Yuping has always been known for his ability and resourcefulness in the Cantonese Army.And more importantly, Yao Yuping's connections in Guangdong were no worse than Chen Jiongming's.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yao Yuping raised funds to organize the "Songkou Sports Club". Yao Yuping personally served as a teacher to train military talents.The students are all from the Tongmenghui or those who tend to be revolutionary, with a total of more than 180 students.However, after only one term, the "Songkou Athletic Association" was terminated because the local government became suspicious.But these students trained by Yao Yuping all became leaders in the year of [-].

The restoration activities in Meixian, Chaoshan, Jieyang, Pingyuan, Shanghang and many other places were led by members of Songkou Sports Association.These people are all Yao Yuping's students.Not only during the Revolution of [-], these people are well-known even now in Guangdong, and many of them are local powerful figures.

Therefore, Chen Jiongming hoped to take advantage of Yao Yuping's connections.

"Concentrate heavy troops to attack Liu Zhilu's troops, mainly attacking the Chaozhou area, and use a small number of troops to monitor the troops of the Zhejiang Army and the Yunnan Army."

"Are the Zhejiang Army and the Yunnan Army really not capable of doing anything?"

"As long as we don't take the initiative to attack them, they will never take the initiative to attack us. Lu Gongwang of the Zhejiang Army and Fang Shengtao of the Yunnan Army both supported the Prime Minister (Sun Yat-sen)'s proposition before. It's just that they need military pay to survive in Guangdong. They usually listen to Lu Rongting It’s just words. But let them fight, Lu Rongting may not be able to order them. Moreover, we have no unavoidable conflicts with them, and they will not fight us.”

Yao Yuping answered confidently.

In fact, Yao Yuping didn't say anything deeper.In fact, to put it bluntly, although Sun Yat-sen's people and Lu Rongting's people are going to fight at present.And these foreign troops, such as the Zhejiang Army, the Yunnan Army, and the Navy, did not really go to anyone.They all participated in the law protection war for one reason or another.

And if we talk about the orthodoxy of protecting the law, it is the current military government of protecting the law in Guangdong, the "extraordinary parliament" in Guangdong.Although Sun Yat-sen initiated the law-protection movement, he was also the one who established the "extraordinary parliament" and the Guangdong law-protection military government.But the military government of Guangdong Province kicked Sun Yat-sen out a year ago.Therefore, for now, all the troops of the French Protectorate Army should be subordinate to the establishment of the French Protectorate Military Government.

The same is true for troops including Chen Jiongming.

In terms of affiliation, Chen Jiongming's aid to Fujian and Guangdong should also obey the orders of the Guangdong military government.

Therefore, whether Lu Gongwang's Zhejiang Province or the Yunnan Army stationed in Guangdong, they obeyed the orders of the Guangdong Military Government, not Lu Rongting's orders.Therefore, they can usually listen to Lu Rongting's orders, because it can be understood that they are orders from the Guangdong military government.But when Lu Rongting asked them to fight, they didn't necessarily listen to him.After all, they are not Lu Rongting's army.

They usually cheer for Lu Rongting because they need Lu Rongting's money.But if Lu Rongting asked them to fight against Sun Yat-sen's men, that would be a big problem.

Chen Jiongming still hesitated.

Although Lu Gongwang's Zhejiang Army was not very strong, Fang Shengtao's Fourth Division of the Yunnan Army was very strong.If you don't guard against these two troops, once these two troops raid the flanks of the Guangdong Army, or raid the rear of the Guangdong Army, it will be very difficult for the Guangdong Army.

"Brother Jing Cun, I also think that we should concentrate our forces. Our three armies should concentrate our forces to attack Liu Zhilu's troops and let the Zhejiang and Yunnan troops go. After all, our army is not strong enough, so we should concentrate our forces."

Deng Keng also agreed with Yao Yuping's opinion.

"Have you thought about the consequences once the Zhejiang and Guangdong troops raid us?"

"Wars are sometimes about taking risks."

Yao Yuping continued to persuade Chen Jiongming.

"And as long as we are fast enough, the Zhejiang Army and the Guangdong Army will not be able to react. The Zhejiang Army on the left is currently stationed in Meizhou, which is two hundred miles away from Chaozhou. The Fourth Division of the Guangdong Army on the right is in Shantou, which is also a distance from us." It is more than 100 miles away. If their troops want to come, even the Guangdong Army, which is relatively close, will take a day or two, and the Zhejiang Army will take longer. This time is enough.”

"Brother Shiyun (Yao Yuping), Liu Zhilu's Guangdong Fourth Army has nearly [-] troops. Now the troops are stationed in Chaozhou, Jieyang, and Fengshun. How can we annihilate this army in a few days?"

Chen Jiongming is not a man without courage.

It's just that Chen Jiongming is the commander-in-chief of this Guangdong army now, and he has a lot to consider.But after listening to Yao Yuping and Deng Keng's words, Chen Jiongming also made a decision.The Cantonese Army originally had not many troops, only about 5000 in total.

It is impossible to dispatch all of them this time. Southern Fujian still needs to leave some troops to guard against Fujian Governor Li Houji.Although because Lu Rongting and Cao Kun joined forces, Duan Qirui and Duan Xun supported Chen Jiongming and Lu Rongting to fight.Li Houji, as a general of the Anhui Department, should not attack Chen Jiongming's rear at this time for the sake of the overall situation.

But Chen Jiongming didn't believe Li Houji.

None of these people can be trusted.As long as there are interests, local warlords like Li Houji will back down at any time.Therefore, Chen Jiongming still left more than 5000 troops in southern Fujian.In this attack, Chen Jiongming did not have 2 people.

Originally, there were not many troops, and the division of troops was not very good.

It is a good strategy to concentrate troops to destroy an enemy first.I am afraid that the Zhejiang Army and the Guangdong Army will attack from both wings and attack the flanks of the Guangdong Army.

"Brother Jing Cun (Chen Jiongming), do you know the composition of Liu Zhilu's army?"

"It's the original Guangdong army. After Lu Rongting's Guangxi army and Li Liejun's Yunnan army entered our Guangdong to expel Long Jiguang's troops in the National Defense War, they reorganized many of the original Guangdong army. Liu Zhilu's Fourth Division of the Guangdong Army should basically be It's the Cantonese army."

Since there was going to be a war, how could Chen Jiongming not know the opponent's situation.

For Lu Rongting's troops, Chen Jiongming has already done all the investigations.Chen Jiongming is very familiar with Liu Zhilu's Fourth Army of the Guangdong Army.So it was said immediately.

"That's right. Since Lu Rongting served as the tour envoy to Guangdong and Guangxi, regardless of whether Chen Bingkun was the governor of Guangdong or Mo Rongxin was the governor of Guangdong, their approach is to control Guangdong's finances. Then use Guangdong's finances to expand the Guangxi army. Although Liu Zhilu himself is highly valued by Lu Rongting and Chen Bingkun, among Lu Rongting's troops, the Cantonese army is quite discriminated against by the Gui army. Moreover, during the Hunan campaign last year, Tan Haoming abandoned the Cantonese army and fled by himself, allowing the Gui army and the Cantonese army There's a lot of conflict between them."

Yao Yuping was well prepared.

Speaking of the current internal affairs of Lu Rongting's army, he knows everything well.Originally, Guangdong was a wealthy province, one of the best in the country.During the Revolution of [-], the Cantonese Army also performed well.But since Lu Rongting took control of Guangdong, Guangdong has become Guangxi's little brother.Lu Rongting used Guangdong's finances to subsidize the Gui army.Everyone who talks about Guangdong now means that the people of Guangxi rule over the people of Guangdong.This kind of thing has made the Cantonese army, or the Cantonese very disappointed.