However, although I was surprised by the identity of the enemy, I still had to continue to fight Wu Peifu’s way, "Report the news of the enemy’s fifth division, and let the artillery battalion get ready and we will attack in the afternoon!"

Hum, if it is the fifth division of the whole Liangjiang River, Wu Peifu may be more cautious. After all, even if the fighting capacity of the Liangjiang Army is poor, it is also a trouble for more than 10,000 people. After all, although his 19th brigade has been attached to the artillery battalion, its strength is only more than 5,000 people.
But there is just a regiment across the street, and there is no heavy fire support station. Wu Peifu is not going to be so cautious in front of the enemy
At noon, 16 field guns of the Second Artillery Battalion of the 10th Artillery Regiment and 6 120mm mortars of the 19th Brigade bombed Wu Peifu, and the infantry of the 19th Brigade launched an offensive attack quite smoothly. On that night, the 19th Brigade declared that it had completely captured the city, and Wu Peifu directly lived in Haizhou City.
After the first infantry regiment of the fifth division of the enemy garrison could not resist, except for a few casualties, most of them fled south to Wu Peifu. Although they wanted to pursue it, night fell, and he didn’t kill many enemies, but controlled Haizhou and then continued to move eastward to control the coastal ports, which allowed the Anhui infantry regiment to escape smoothly by one thousand people.
Yes, Wu Peifu played well here, but several generals in the high command of the capital frowned.
"The fifth division of the two rivers appeared in northern Jiangsu, and there was no news before!" Fang Biyong was a little angry. "Director An, you spend tens of thousands of classics in your intelligence department every month, and you can’t notice such a big event?"
Contented with silence on the same side, it is also cursing Duan Qirui. This Duan Qirui must have made a confusing means to secretly withdraw the troops from the front line in Jiangxi.
"Now there is a fifth division, so the number of Anhui troops in northern Jiangsu will not exceed 70 thousand!" Shi Yanglin also frowned. "Although the war department also expected the enemy to reinforce, now the variables are even more than expected!"
"A fifth division is nothing to be afraid of. It is afraid that the intelligence of the former Anhui Army was fooled by Duan Qirui. How many enemy troops are there in Xuzhou now, the fourth division of Duan Qirui? And what are the directions of his divisions in Liangjiang? " Once again, the wall always looks at the same place.
Content with the same is also asked some leng, to tell the truth, now he really can’t guarantee that there are many enemy troops in Xuzhou, and even the fourth division of Duan Qirui is still in Xuzhou, and he also has a question mark in his heart.
But on this occasion today, he can’t say that he doesn’t know anything, otherwise he won’t want to be the director of the intelligence service.
So he crustily skin of head said, "According to our intelligence report, there are currently the first and second divisions of the Liangjiang Army in Xuzhou, and Duan Qirui personally leads the fourth division!"
He said so, but Yonghe Shi Yanglin, the square wall, had doubts and dared not believe the intelligence of the intelligence service all at once!
When this matter was reported to Zhao Dong Cloud, Zhao Dongyun frowned. Although he didn’t quite believe that Duan Qirui would play any tricks, he insisted on the principle of caution. "I don’t think Xuzhou should be stable."
Chapter three hundred and six Xuzhou war kai
The northern Jiangsu front is about to join more than 100,000 troops of the Anhui and Shandong armed forces. The total number of troops on this line has already surpassed the two Tangshan battles in the previous direct service. Although the battles of more than 100,000 troops were nothing to the Russo-Japanese War, after all, the combined forces of the two sides in the Fengtian and Liaoyang battles during the Russo-Japanese War exceeded 600,000, which is more than the millions of battles in the later World War I and World War II.
But this battle, which was merged by more than 100,000 modernized armies, is extremely rare for contemporary China!
Although the outbreak of the national war has led to the surge of various armed forces in the country in recent years, the total number of formal and informal armed forces of major warlords has exceeded one million, but not many of them can really fight field troops, especially in the hands of Zhao Dong Yun, who is scattered among the Anhui Army and the Hubei Army. Although the total number of troops in the Jin army in the hands of the Southern Federation is not less than that of the northern warlords, most of the southern federal troops are messy, and a few main forces can barely fight the northern elite, such as Zhangdong Huidi Town, 21st Town, Zhao Erxun Huidi Town, Duanfang Guangdong Newly-edited 30th Town and Xiliangyuan Jiangbei Huncheng Brigade, which reorganized and expanded the 46th Town after losing to Fujian.
You can see from the titles of the main forces of the Confederacy that the titles and establishment of the Confederacy are in a mess at this time. The township titles are all in the 40 s, but there are not many towns that can actually be pulled out. Most of them are all kinds of messy new and old armies occupying those titles, and hundreds of people dare to play the banner of such and such a town.
The regular field armies in the hands of warlords in China add up to less than 300 thousand, while Zhao Dongyun’s family accounts for nearly half of the more than 100 thousand.
This is also the reason why many warlords in China regard Zhao Dongyun as the biggest threat. Don’t look at Fengjun’s southern team now, there are more than 100,000, but you should know that these hundreds of thousands are regular field troops, each of which is equipped with perfect light and heavy weapons. After complete training, any of these troops can compete with the most elite troops of his army. Although Fengjun’s south is divided into two ways, it still makes his warlords feel scalp tingling, even if he has more than 100,000 Duan Qirui.
Otherwise, Duan Qirui wouldn’t be so nervous as to deploy troops from the southern front to the north, and one deployment is more than 70 thousand, but in terms of the number of troops, it is far more than 30 thousand people from the second army in southern Shandong
And Duan Qirui transferred so many troops to Xuzhou, posing as a posture of fighting to the death in Xuzhou, which means that Fengjun was forced to change its original strategy, not only to form a new third army to reinforce Henan in the south, but also to transfer the first army to Xuzhou in the east after taking Zhengzhou.
This has also led to a huge force of more than 10,000 people in the first and second armies around the Xuzhou front
This is self-defeating for Duan Qirui. If Duan Qirui had transferred 30,000 or 40,000 people to North Xuzhou, Fengjun would not have paid so much attention to it and would not have specially transferred the first army from Henan to North Anhui to participate in the Xuzhou campaign.
In the war, all kinds of actions of both sides are influenced by each other, so we won’t know what will happen until we fight.
The first line of Xuzhou has collected more than 150 thousand troops from both sides, which has caused the largest battle since last year’s war. Such a large-scale battle is also a serious challenge to the command body of Fengjun
With the arrival of the first and second armies in Xuzhou, especially the 19th brigade, many ships from Haizhou Fengjunli Navy and Quartermaster Department were supplied by sea, and the frontline troops, especially from Shandong South First Army, got sufficient supplies.
At this time, the Xuzhou War, which has been prepared by both sides for half a month, has finally come!
On September 19th, Zhao Dongyun officially ordered Meng Enyuan, commander-in-chief of Xuzhou’s former enemy, and Xu Bangjie, deputy commander-in-chief, to take unified command of the First Army and the Second Army, which were attached to two 100 mm heavy artillery battalions directly under the jurisdiction of the High Command.
After many days’ rest, Xu Bangjie led the 20th Brigade of the 10th Division to attack Pizhou, 60 kilometers away from Xuzhou from the south of Yicheng. This place is an important stronghold of Suqian and Xuzhou, which not only guards the canal passage, but also captures this place to avoid the flank threat when the second army and other troops attack Xuzhou.
Therefore, the capture of this area in the war planning of Fengjun High Command is a prelude to the general attack on Xuzhou.
However, Duan Qirui, on the other side, also knows that it is not just a city in Xuzhou, but the whole northern Jiangsu defense line, and an important peripheral stronghold like Pizhou will not give up easily, so defending this place has a whole HunChengLv.
However, it is naturally impossible for such a big Xuzhou battle to break out here in Pizhou. At the same time, the 19th brigade took Haizhou, in addition to sending a battalion of troops to continue eastward to cover the port along the coast, and his troops in the 19th brigade continued to cover the south Muyang area.
Xu Bangjie told the Second Army that his main forces, including the Third Division and the First Hunchenglv Heavy Artillery Corps, went straight to Xuzhou along the southeast.
And the first army led by Meng Enyuan in the west of Xuzhou approached Xuzhou less than 30 kilometers away and successively conquered Tangshan, Xiayi and other Anhui peripheral defense lines. However, in the face of the fierce offensive of the first army in Fengjun, Duan Qirui Zhi chose to shrink the defense line and shrink many peripheral defense lines in the west to Xuzhou.
On the 27th, the First Army probably captured Xiaoxian, an important peripheral stronghold to the west of Xuzhou defense line. At this time, the main force of the First Army can be said to have arrived in Xuzhou City.
However, the closer you get to the front line of Xuzhou, the more careful you are when you fight, and the more cautious you are. Because a senior and middle-level military commander knows that the battle will be won or lost, which of the two companies will eventually reach the top of China, and Zhao Dongyun in the rear will not tolerate command mistakes.
To tell the truth, if it weren’t for the backward communication means these days, Zhao Dongyun would like to learn from the remote command of Brother Zhiqing, not that he doesn’t know the shortcomings of remote command, but that he is really worried.
With the outbreak of the battle of Xuzhou, Zhao Dongyun’s worry can be seen by others. Although Zhao Dongyun is still in a calm mood at this time, people who have followed him for a long time can see that Zhao Dongyun has been worried about the war in Xuzhou all this time.
Li San’s senior followers around Zhao Dong Cloud naturally know Zhao Dongyun’s various expressions and body language very well. Without this hand, he could not have followed Zhao Dong Cloud for so long.
"The president’s tea is coming!" Li San put the teacup but Zhao Dongyun didn’t turn around and still stared at the back wall of the office and looked at the map of China sharply.
Li San waited for a few minutes, but Zhao Dongyun said, "Li San, how long have you been following me!" "
Li San was a little stunned when he heard this nonsense, and then said, "Go back to the president’s office and follow you for seven years!"
Li San Zhao Dongyun was his bodyguard when he took charge of Wu Wei’s right military camp in 1991. Then he followed Zhao Dong Yun from the ordinary bodyguard to the escort officer. After that, he went through the director of the third town camp, the general’s office of Shengjing, the governor’s office of the three northeastern provinces, the director of the secret office of the three northeastern provinces, and the director of the secret office of the current presidential palace.
Although his position has changed a lot, the name of the worker has never changed. He is the director of the Secret Service, but in fact he does not interfere in politics. He mainly acts as Zhao Dongyun’s accompanying secret, which is to say, carrying a bag and serving tea.
But despite this, it is Suri, but no one dares to dismiss him. Suri Zhao Dongyun’s letter represents the potential.
Zhao Dong said, "Well, you’ve been following me for a long time. Do you think I’ve failed for so many years?"
Li San looked puzzled, but continued to respectfully answer, "No, since the presidency, Wu Wei’s right army has never lost a foreign struggle!"
Zhao Dongyun turned around and then Li San saw his face with a wry smile. When Li San saw this expression, he guessed in his heart, Is there something wrong with the front line in Xuzhou?
However, although Li San rarely specifically intervenes in military and political affairs, he is at least the director of the Secret Service. He is well aware of many things, and he is also better than watching the weekly military briefing. According to the news he has learned, although the progress in the front line of Fengjun Xuzhou is not too fast, it is because Fengjun is cautious step by step. In fact, the first-line operations in Fengjun Xuzhou are very smooth, and everything is planned in advance.
If it’s not the front line in Xuzhou, what’s wrong with the pavilion? I don’t think so. The second cabinet was formed by Zhao Dongyun himself, and most of them were well-thought-out senior officials. Since the establishment of the cabinet, although they have encountered a lot of troubles, they have handled many political cabinets in China smoothly and orderly, and there is nothing irreconcilable and contradictory among the chiefs.
Li San guessed secretly, but Zhao Dongyun didn’t intend to hide anything. In front of him, Li San was not only his genus, but also an old man who had followed him for many years. He immediately said, "In Japan, we have detained a batch of ordnance orders!"
When Li Sanyi heard it, his face immediately changed. "This oriental person is so hateful and so ignorant of faith!"
Li San’s scolding of Japanese people for ignoring faithfulness but faithfulness is nothing to Zhao Dongyun, which makes him really a Japanese person.
Chapter three hundred and seven ` interference
No matter what era, large-scale arms purchase is a country with strong political significance, especially interests.
Zhao Dongyun hasn’t expanded his army yet, but he has bought arms from Japan and Germany, especially the artillery owner. The German side doesn’t tell the truth. The interests of the German Far East, especially China, are actually the interests of arms dealers. This is not the same as the export of textile light industrial enterprises from Britain and Japan to China.
Speaking of this, it is important to say that the so-called far east interests are different for countries.
For the contemporary super-empire Britain, the first strategy in the Far East is to curb Russia’s expansion, followed by China’s textile and other light industrial markets, and heavy industries, especially warships and other arms markets. Once you know this British strategy in the Far East, you can well understand many British diplomatic actions in the Far East, including supporting Japan, confronting Russia and selling battleships to Japan. The British supported Yuan Shikai to unify China and protect China’s business environment from destruction.
For Japan, the core interest of contemporary Japan is its own development!
However, Japan, an island country with limited development, needs external markets. The core economic pillars of contemporary Japan are three aspects. One is the export of raw silk. Contemporary Japan is the world’s largest exporter of raw silk, and the total export of raw silk in the past 191 will account for 75% of the world’s output. The second is the tea export day, which is the fifth largest exporter of tea in the contemporary world. The third is the cotton industry.
The first two items are not very competitive for China at best, but the output and quality of raw silk in contemporary China are far inferior to those in Japan. Otherwise, it will not be overtaken by Japanese raw silk in international competition, and the tea talk is not big. There is a direct conflict of interest with contemporary China, but the cotton industry.
Japanese raw silk and tea are sold to European and American powers, but their cotton cloth and light industry are sold to China. Of course, they still have to compete with Britain and other western countries, China, for the market, but the biggest competitor is China’s national industry