Beiyang reactionaries

Who dares to underestimate Wu Peifu.

So Duan Xun thought about it, and still needed to continue to reinforce Henan.At present, there is another army in Hubei, which is the No.11 Army composed of the Fourth Division and the Eighth Division.Originally, if there were no major problems, Duan Xun of the No. 11 Army did not want to be transferred.

After all, this is currently the only unit in Hubei.

It's not that Duan Xun is timid, but that all the leading agencies of the Frontier Supervision Administration are currently in Wuchang.If the No.11 army is also sent out, then the hinterland of Hubei will be too weak.If something happened, it was too late to control the situation.However, there were changes in the Zhili battlefield, and only the No.11 army could be mobilized by Duan Xun.

Other troops that can be mobilized are either in Yunnan or Guizhou, and it will take time.Only the troops in Hubei are not only not far away, but also have railways to use.After being mobilized, it doesn't take half a month to get all of them into Zhengzhou.

"Teacher, can we also shrink the front line? Shandong, with the Feng army going south, it is already difficult to capture Jining. It is better to withdraw the troops, so that we have enough troops."

"withdraw?"

Duan Xun thought about it, but still shook his head.

No.

At this time, the troops withdrew from Shandong, so it was admitted that the Zhiwan War had failed.Even if it can't be said to be a failure, at least it didn't achieve its goal and failed to win Cao Kun.At that time, Duan Xun and Cao Kun can only negotiate a peace, which is not what Duan Xun needs.Therefore, he said: "There is no turning back when you open the bow. Since you have shot out, you must defeat Cao Kun in this battle. Let the Eleventh Army go north."

"Yes."

Xu Yongchang nodded.

Just about to go out, Yang Jie walked in with a flushed face.The steps that come in are light and light, and people seem to be drunk.Since the war started, this was the most coquettish day for Yang Jie to walk.

As if he didn't see Xu Yongchang, he went straight to Duan Xun and shouted: "General, great victory, great victory."

"where?"

Duan Xun asked immediately.

In fact, after the Zhiwan War began, Duan Xun's troops had many victories.For example, the troops entering Gansu easily suppressed Ma Qi, the disobedient Xining guard.Following the suppression of Ma Qi, the guardian envoys in Gansu immediately pledged their allegiance to Duan Xun.Wan Xuancai led troops to attack Jiangxi, which also defeated all the troops in Jiangxi, and now they are besieging Nanchang.According to the current situation, it is estimated that winning Nanchang will be within a day or two.

Could it be that Nanchang was taken?

However, this is just a detail. At most, they can suppress Chen Guangyuan, the governor of Jiangxi Province, and Li Houji, the governor of Fujian Province. It won't make Yang Jie, the Secretary General of the Military Department, so happy.

So Li Jishen won Guangzhou?

Not right either.

There is only one thing that everyone has a headache now.That is what is currently happening on the Zhili battlefield, and other things are left behind.Could it be that there have been new changes in the Zhili battlefield?

In what direction has the big victory been won?

"Zhili, Handan."

"Handan? Wu Peifu's third division?"

"Yes."

"Say it."

Duan Xun immediately regained his spirits.

Now Duan Xun is most worried about Handan.The garrison division was caught off guard by Wu Peifu. There were not many remaining troops in the garrison division in Handan, and there were not many field troops.

Facing the danger of being attacked by Wu Peifu.

With the strength of Wu Peifu's third division, if Handan is attacked by force, Handan will definitely not be able to defend.Handan is not a place that is so important.But under the current circumstances, Handan has become very important.Because once Wu Peifu takes Handan and defeats the garrison division, it means that the garrison division is completely reimbursed.

Because the garrison division is currently besieged in Zhili, they are still counting on reinforcements, so they can persist.But once Handan is breached, their hope will disappear, and the troops will collapse immediately.

Also, as long as Wu Peifu wins Handan, he will inevitably drive straight into Henan.

This is the most terrible.

So when he heard the good news from Handan, Duan Xun immediately wanted to know what happened.

"The garrison division fought a great victory in Handan, killed and injured more than 400 people from the third division, captured more than 700 people, captured seven cannons of 110 sizes, 340 three machine guns, and more than 300 soldiers. rifles, and more than 200 horses."

"what?"

Duan Xun was taken aback, completely unbelievable.

He quickly asked in confusion: "Brother Geng Guang (Yang Jie), are you kidding me? How is this possible? Where did this report come from? Is it our own report? Could it be someone broke the code?"

how can that be.

That's the third division.

Not to mention the semi-disabled garrison division that has been beaten by Wu Peifu, even with the independent division and independent brigade directly under the group army behind, Duan Xun does not think that Wu Peifu's troops that can be defeated in a short period of time have suffered such heavy losses.

Even if the No.20 Second Division of the Frontier Defense Army goes up, it is estimated that it will be able to suppress the Third Division.Duan Xun absolutely did not believe that the third division could be beaten so badly.

A security division, and an almost half-disabled security division can defeat the third division?

It is absolutely impossible.

How can Duan Xun believe this.

Xu Yongchang next to him was also dumbfounded. Like Duan Xun, he didn't believe such a result at all.Just now Duan Xun and Xu Yongchang were still discussing about sending the No.11 Army north to support.

But this is...

"General, it's not fake, it's true. They also introduced the process of defeating the third division. At noon yesterday (June 6), Wu Peifu was about to capture Handan in one fell swoop and began to gather troops. However, Commander Liu (Liu Xiang) ) sent an air team over there, and sent two air formations. The first batch consisted of eight planes, and the second batch consisted of ten planes, and successively attacked the troops of the Third Division. Two airstrikes within an hour caused the entire third division to be thrown into chaos. Commander Hu (Hu Jingyi) in Handan City saw the opportunity of the chaos of the third division and led all the troops in the city to attack, directly defeating the third division. The third division. According to the estimates of the frontline troops, there will never be more than 1 troops accompanying Wu Peifu, and there should be only about 5000."

"Really?"

"Yes. Commander Liu (Liu Xiang) couldn't believe it after receiving the battle report. So he rushed to Handan overnight to confirm it. The security division did not exaggerate at all, even as the troops are currently collecting the collapsed third division troops, The results of the battle will continue to expand. General, the third division has really collapsed, and Wu Peifu's third division has completely lost its combat effectiveness."

Yang Jie's tone of voice was very excited.

Everyone thinks the same.Cao Kun's army looks like a mess with more than a dozen divisions, but the gold content of those troops is not as good as Wu Peifu's third division.Wu Peifu's third division can beat Cao Kun's four or five divisions, or even more divisions.

Wu Peifu's third division was destroyed, and the other troops were really out of Duan Xun's eyes.Just look at Yue Weijun's performance at the beginning.Yue Weijun defeated the No.14 Mixed Brigade and the No.20 Third Division one after another, which is genuine.

Feng Yuxiang's No.16 mixed brigade is quite strong, but it's a pity that Feng Yuxiang is not Cao Kun's direct army after all.How much power he can contribute in this war, and even how he can cooperate with Cao Kun's direct troops in this war, are still unknown.

And even if Feng Yuxiang's army is strong, so what?

Feng Yuxiang's army has a total of only about 1 troops, and it is impossible to decide a battle of this scale.Only Wu Peifu, with [-] elites in his hands, has the ability to change the outcome of a battle in a certain direction, so as to affect the entire Zhiwan War.

But such Wu Peifu was defeated, and the third division was defeated.

And judging from the battle report, the third division was not only defeated, but completely collapsed and completely lost its combat effectiveness.This is good news for Duan Xun.

"Great."