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"We also hope that you can come to Beijing and work together with us." Qu Qiubai sent the first invitation to Mr. Zhongshan.

Sun Yat-sen shook his head and said: "My life is coming to an end, I can't go to Beijing, but our party will also send comrades to participate in the formation of a coalition government. I hope that after defeating Zhili, all factions in China can participate The formation of a coalition government is coming."

"Does Mr. Zhongshan have any ideas?" Chen Duxiu asked.

Sun Yat-sen nodded and replied: "There is a preliminary idea, that is, all provinces and special administrative regions in China have one vote, and Beijing also counts as one vote. Each faction can calculate how many votes it has based on the number of provinces or special administrative regions it occupies. Then each faction elects the chairman and vice-chairman of the coalition government, and the person with the most votes is elected, but we KMT members do not participate in the election of the chairman.”

This is also the helpless choice of the Kuomintang. Mr. Sun Yat-sen was originally the chairman who did his part, but now his time is running out as an old man. If he goes north to deal with heavy state affairs, his condition may aggravate.If Mr. Sun Yat-sen does not serve as the chairman of the coalition government, I am afraid that no member of the Kuomintang will be able to take up this position. Otherwise, will he be superior to Mr. Zhongshan?How dare the Kuomintang people do this?

After leaving Qinglu, Chen Duxiu's mind was buzzing all the time. He had heard some things, but hearing Mr. Zhongshan say it himself was shocking enough.

Qu Qiubai and Chen Duxiu were in the same car, and they started discussing in the car. Qu Qiubai said: "Chairman, Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang seem to want to play the trick of the year of [-] again, and use a big position to lure others to take the bait."

"Oh, I think Mr. Zhongshan seems to be sincere. Qiubai, you said that if the Kuomintang unifies the south, will there be 13 votes including Xikang? If we can win Chahar and Beijing, we will have 2 votes. Most of Shaanxi is owned by us and Yang Huchen, so we have 16 votes in hand. According to Sun Yat-sen’s idea, the whole country has 30 votes, right?” The more Chen Duxiu counted, the happier he became, as if the climax of the Chinese revolution had arrived.

"Hmph! This is the KMT's conspiracy. They don't want to be the emperor themselves, but they have the power to decide who is the emperor. In this way, no one in the northern powers is willing to offend the KMT for that throne. This is what Sun Yat-sen did for him. Arranged for the protection of the little brother, right? Hmph, this old tease of the Kuomintang has good intentions."

Chen Duxiu thought about it carefully, and he also felt that this was the case, but how should he deal with it?He asked: "Comrade Qiubai, you are right, but how should we deal with it?"

"We should propose to convene a political consultative conference with participation from all factions." Qu Qiubai suggested: "It should also involve participation from all walks of life, especially representatives of workers and peasants. The proportion of workers and peasants should be quite high. Only Only in this way can we represent the people to the greatest extent.”

Chen Duxiu shook his head: "It's better to go to war with Zhang Feng and the others. I think Mr. Zhongshan's method can be tried first. If it doesn't work, then find a way. There are still things about the Red Army that need to be dealt with quickly. It should be formally established! Our party’s army will march into Beijing under the red flag! Let the whole world see that the climax of the Chinese revolution has arrived!”

Chapter 0100 Shocking Change ([-])

By the way, this warlord melee was named "The Second Zhifeng War" in another time and space, that is to say, the protagonists are Cao Kun, Wu Peifu of the Zhili lineage, and Zhang's father and son of the Feng lineage. Oh, there is another one who always The patriotic general who turned his back.Although in this time and space, because of a certain irresponsible big butterfly flapping its wings vigorously, the Kuomintang, a supporting role in the war, became the protagonist on the stage. The Chinese people and the world powers are addicted to it.However, after entering mid-October, the Kuomintang's role in the show finally gradually decreased, and the audience's attention can finally turn to Shanhaiguan and see what the Zhifeng and Feng families are doing?

What has Wu Peifu been doing all these years?It's nothing more than military training, longevity, and research on the triangle.Wu Peifu now has a big triangle outside, that is, the Sun, Duan, and Zhang Anti-Zhi Triangular Alliance. This anti-Zhi war was launched by this triangle alliance, and Zhili was dizzy.But what worries Wu Peifu even more is that there is actually an anti-Wu triangular alliance within the direct lineage. The direct governor Wang Chengbin, the Soviet governor Qi Xieyuan, and the patriotic general Feng Yuxiang.

Why are some people in the direct line opposed to Wu Peifu?It turns out that this has something to do with Wu Peifu's unification of military power. At that time, the Chinese warlords were all big warlords with small warlords, while the warlords of the Beiyang factions used the division as the largest unit. No matter how big the officer was, the position of the division commander was always dead. cling to.For example, Wu Peifu himself is the commander of the third division, Qi Xieyuan is the commander of the sixth division, Wang Chengbin is the commander of the No.20 third division, Hubei governor Xiao Yaonan is the commander of the No.20 fifth division, Lu Du Zheng Shiqi is the commander of the fifth division, and Yu governor Zhang Fulai is the commander of the No.20 third division. No.[-] is the commander of the [-]th Division, "Toilet General" Wang Huaiqing is the commander of the [-]th Division, and "Christian General" Feng Yuxiang is the commander of the [-]th Division.In short, the military governors and patrol envoys from all walks of life are unwilling to give up the military power of the division commander, and the military power plus the local government is naturally a warlord.Although Wu Peifu is a warlord himself, his ideal is to unify China and let China get rid of the situation of warlords. To achieve this, he also has to "eliminate" the warlords. The division commanders were all masturbated in order to achieve "separation between the military and the government."From this point of view, Wu Peifu and Sun Yat-sen have something in common.It’s just that Sun Yat-sen achieved this very smoothly under the effect of a certain big butterfly, but Wu Peifu’s efforts to unify the military power and remove the commanders of the soldiers were unanimously opposed by the whole line. Among them, Feng and Qi , Wang three generals.It can be said that before the start of the war against the Zhili warlords, the Zhili warlords were already on the verge of disintegrating.

On September 13, the 9th year of the Republic of China, the second Zhifeng war started. Cao Kun, who was the president of Beijing, saw that things were not going well, and immediately sent a telegram calling Wu Peifu to Beijing.Although Wu Peifu knew that the Zhili lineage was divided from top to bottom, the old generals were not trustworthy, the recruits were not well-trained, and even the logistics were not prepared, so he felt uncertain in the face of the aggressive war against the Zhili Triangular Alliance.However, President Cao Da had a summons and increased the enemy's current situation. Naturally, he could not stay out of the matter, so he took a special car to Beijing on September 15.

However, the direct generals in Beijing seem to be ready to fight in unity under the current enemy. For Wu Peifu's arrival, the Beijing side welcomes Wu Peifu with grand etiquette.From the station to the presidential palace, there is a sentry post every five steps, and a post every ten steps.The direct generals Feng Yuxiang, Wang Chengbin, Wang Huaiqing and others all lined up to welcome them. It seemed that they were really ready to fight against Marshal Wu to the end.

President Cao Kun was naturally full of joy when he saw Wu Peifu's arrival, as if swallowing a reassurance, he greeted Wu with a smile on his face, and said repeatedly: "Ziyu, thank you for your hard work; I'm old, and I'm in charge of everything." Uh, Listening to this, does Lao Cao mean to make Wu Peifu the successor of the counter-revolutionary cause?

Seeing the obedience of the brothers and the trust of Boss Cao, Wu Peifu's original worries about internal disunity were swept away, and he was ready to wholeheartedly lead the big guys to overcome difficulties and defeat Zhang Zuolin again. three provinces in Northeast China.

On the day Wu Peifu entered Beijing, President Cao ordered the crusade against Zhang Zuolin, er, and Sun Yat-sen!It didn't exist in the original history, but at this time, the market price of Mr. Zhongshan has risen too well.At that time, Tan Ni's mother-in-law and Luo Niyaoguo had brought 5 troops to surround Changsha, Jiang Nizhong was also bringing [-] soldiers to "aid Zhejiang", and Cheng Qian and Bai Chongxi, two rebels, also led [-] Thousands of people went to Jiangxi to grab territory. Under such circumstances, Cao Kun naturally ordered the crusade against Zhang Zuolin and Sun Yat-sen. As a result, Xiao Yaonan suffered a big defeat in Hunan.

According to Cao Kun's order, Wu Peifu became the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and Wang Chengbin and Xiao Yaonan became the deputy commander-in-chief.With Zhongnanhai Sizhaotang as the headquarters. On September 9th, Commander-in-Chief Wu took office in Sizhaotang, and personally appointed generals, known in history as "Sizhaotang appointed generals".

According to Wu Peifu's deployment, the army against Zhang Zuolin was divided into three groups. The first route army, with Peng Shouxin as the commander-in-chief, commanded three divisions (23th, 4th, and [-]rd) with about [-] people, and fought against the Feng army commanded by Zhang Xueliang in Shanhaiguan. The first and third armies are the main force in this battle.

The second route, with "Toilet General" Wang Huaiqing as the commander-in-chief, led the No.13 Division and two other mixed brigades to fight against the "Sword Immortal General" Li Jinglin of the Fengtian Second Army in the Chaoyang direction of Rehe.

The third route, with "Christian General" Feng Yuxiang as the commander-in-chief, commanded the other three mixed brigades of the No. 11 Division, with a number of about [-], to deal with Wu Junsheng and Xu Lanzhou in the direction of Chengde and Chifeng in Rehe.

In addition to the three routes, there are a bunch of backup troops, a total of ten routes, with Henan governor Zhang Fulai as the commander-in-chief, and Cao Kai, Hu Jingyi, Zhang Xizhen, Yang Qingchen, Jin Yun'e, Yan Zhitang, Zhang Zhigong, Li Zhiyun, Pan Hongjun, and Tan Qinglin as the ten reinforcements commander.In addition, there is also a cheerleading team called: the commander-in-chief of the preparations for the rear of each province, including Li Jichen and Li Bingzhi from Henan, Xiong Bingqi from Shandong, Liu Menggeng from Jingzhao and others.

Finally, there are navy and air force to assist in the battle. The navy is composed of the Bohai Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet. The commander-in-chief is Du Xigui, commander of the Yangtze River Fleet, and the deputy commander-in-chief is Wen Shude, commander of the Bohai Fleet.The navy devoted all its efforts to the Liaodong Bay, with Dagukou as the base, Qinhuangdao as the theater, and Huludao as the front line.It is also planned to use the navy to recruit merchant ships, transport marines and reinforcements from other routes to attack Andong and Yingkou, and enter Shenyang from the South Manchuria Railway.Air Force, organized into four teams.The first team was stationed in Beidaihe, the second team was stationed in Luan County, the third team was stationed in Chaoyang, and the fourth team was stationed in the Aviation Department.A total of more than 70 aircraft were stored in Nanyuan, Luoyang, Baoding, Qinghe, and the Beijing-Daiwan and Beijing-Tianjin airlines.The aviation commander is Ao Jingwen.

However, the so-called ominous signs appeared in the "Six Zhaotang Generals" this time. It turned out that Wu Peifu's deployment lasted from 17:2 pm on the 12th to [-]:[-] midnight. At the last moment of Wu Peifu's appointment, when his own name was selected, the lights in the entire presidential palace were all turned off, which seemed really unlucky.

Even more inauspicious was Feng Yuxiang's extortion of salary. Feng Yuxiang and Wu Peifu had turned against each other after the first Zhifeng war.It turned out that Feng Yuxiang had made great contributions in the first Zhifeng War because he traveled thousands of miles from Shaanxi to assist Henan to solve the Henan Governor Zhao Ti, so he became the Henan Governor.However, because he killed Bao Dequan, the former commander of Zhao Ti's division who had defected to Wu Peifu in Kaifeng, he was removed from the post of Henan Governor by Wu Peifu.Feng Yuxiang asked Zhang Shaozeng and Zhang Tinge to find a way. The two interceded with Wu Peifu but it didn't work, so they sent a telegram to Cao Kun for help. Cao Kun appointed Feng Yuxiang's army patrol envoy and commander of the [-]th Division, and transferred Feng Yuxiang's troops to Beijing went.Not long after Feng Yuxiang entered Beijing, he made a great contribution to Cao Kun. He forced Li Yuanhong to go to the field. He assigned army officers to surround the presidential palace and the State Council every day to demand payment.

So people who didn't know the truth at that time thought that Feng Yuxiang was one of the three heroes who contributed to Cao Kun's bribery election for the president. Uh, of course, this view is completely wrong.In fact, Feng Yuxiang was very dissatisfied with Cao Kun's bribery of the election of the President.Not even the Overseer would give one.And Wu Peifu is also hateful. During the bargaining with Feng Yuxiang, he also rejected Feng's request to be the top leader in the Northeast. Hehe, what energy can Feng Yuxiang have in this situation?Therefore, it can be said that Feng Yuxiang's rebellion and the collapse of the Zhili lineage were completely caused by the unfair rewards and punishments of Cao and Wu, and General Feng cannot be completely blamed for his cruelty.

In fact, Feng Yuxiang had already hooked up with Feng Zhang at that time, and I don't know how much Feng Zhang spent on campaigning General Feng?As soon as Feng Yuxiang's army came out of Beijing, it was completely reversed. The deployment of the army was light at the beginning and heavy at the end. Facing the Feng faction, two or three kittens were deployed at one end, and the heavy troops were all facing Beijing. It seemed that this posture was about to rebel.It's just that Cao Kun and Wu Peifu were devastated by the Civil War and ignored Feng Yuxiang's various signs of defection.

Chapter 0101 Shocking Change ([-])

In this war against Zhili, Zhili's start was extremely unfavorable, even worse than the situation in another time and space.First of all, the three-way army of the Kuomintang showed great power in the south. The original estimate that Zhongshan was critically ill and the Kuomintang was busy with internal strife completely fell through.In particular, on October 10st and 1nd, the main decisive battle between the Kuomintang army and the Zhili army took place on the front line of the Dalao River in the north of Changsha City, and the Zhili army was defeated!This incident, which had never happened in history, immediately shrouded the inside and outside of Si Zhaotang in a pessimistic and failed mood. Only Wu Peifu pretended to be calm, drinking alcohol and composing poems in Si Zhaotang.

However, Wu Peifu's calmness is also something to rely on.This time, Wu Yushuai came up with a clever strategy to deal with Zhang Feng. This strategy was called "amphibious landing", which was still very fashionable at the time.Wu secretly mobilized the naval fleet and a large number of merchant ships, intending to transport part of the army to Yingkou for landing, and then went straight to Shenyang to copy the old nest of the Feng family.If this plan succeeds, even if the direct lineage loses Jiangnan, it can continue to deal with the Kuomintang by virtue of the vast land and resources of the entire North China.

Although Wu Peifu's naval landing plan is advanced, Zhang Feng actually has a more advanced method, which is to use planes to bomb warships!You must know that it is only 1924 now, and there are still more than ten years before the naval and air battles of Taranto and Pearl Harbor. It is really surprising that such advanced tactics appeared in the backward Chinese civil war.Therefore, under the bombing of Fengjun aircraft, the Zhijun Navy did not complete the landing operation in the end, and Wu Peifu's plan completely fell through.However, after the war, Luo Yaoguo had been skeptical after receiving relevant information, could the bombs dropped by planes in the 20s really threaten the immediate naval fleet?

The method of amphibious landing and copying the back of the Feng family failed. Wang Huaiqing could not fight in the direction of Rehe, and Feng Yuxiang had ulterior motives, so the Zhijun also retreated steadily.In this way, the only hope of directly recovering the defeat is the front line of Shanhaiguan.

The front line of Shanhaiguan is defended by the direct line, and the Feng line is attacking fiercely. At this time, the Feng line is not the Northeast Army in the hands of Master Zhang in history, who has been defeated repeatedly except Chiang Kai-shek's guards.So now the battle on the front line of Shanhaiguan is extremely fierce and cruel.

The powerful firepower of ten artillery regiments of the Feng army, including one heavy artillery regiment, was concentrated on the front line of Shanhaiguan to support the infantry's attack.Hundreds of 75mm to 150mm caliber artillery were deployed at the front of the Shanhaiguan Fengjun position. Before each round of infantry assault, thousands of artillery shells with terrible flames would roar towards the Zhili army position. In the middle of the ground, it exploded with a bang, and the hot air wave mixed with countless flying metal fragments and gravel swept across the straight army's position, and immediately brought the hell full of gunpowder smoke and blood to the world.

Peng Shouxin, a fierce general of the Zhijun Army, is Wu Peifu's confidant, and the 15th Division under his command is also the main force in the Zhijun Army after the 3rd Division.This time, it was his 15th Division that defended Shanhaiguan.Although the Feng army's shelling was extremely violent, most of the officers and soldiers of the Zhi army escaped by relying on the carefully constructed fortifications.These battle-hardened veterans did not panic because of the endless bombardment of the Feng army. They covered their heads with their hands, curled up in the long and narrow trench, and kept their bodies close to the ground. Unless the trench was directly hit by shells, otherwise Fengjun's cannons were nothing more than wasting shells.Of course, this tactic of relying on positions to defend against shelling can only be used to deal with the Chinese army whose shelling level is not good. If it is really replaced by the Japanese army behind the Fengjun army, their mortars and grenades can accurately shoot the shells. Send it into the trenches of the direct army, so that the defense of the position becomes a real positional beating.

General Zhang Xueliang, who was watching the battle from the Fengjun position outside Shanhaiguan, put down the binoculars in his hand, and his face was actually triumphant.He nodded to Guo Songling beside him and said, "Maochen, it seems that Wu Peifu's soldiers should have been blasted to pieces by our cannons, right? Let the brothers charge once, and I will invite everyone to drink after entering Shanhaiguan."

Encouraged by Marshal Zhang, the nearly [-] officers and soldiers of Fengjun's First and Third Armies also mustered up their courage and launched the first wave of white soldiers with rifles in their hands!

Faced with Fengjun's desperate death squad assault, the officers and soldiers of the 15th Direct Division did not feel nervous at all, because most of their firepower points were not destroyed in the shelling just now. On the army's position, condescendingly waiting for his prey.

500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters until 100 meters, huh, huh, the straight army's position is actually silent!Zhang Xueliang, who was watching the battle from behind, almost danced happily.It seems that the shells just now were not in vain, Wu Peifu's soldiers were really killed!Shanhaiguan, Beijing City, and the throne of the President will soon be my father's, and they will all be my own in the future!

At this moment, "Tat-tat-tat--" Dozens of hot flames burst out from every corner of the Zhijun position, like dozens of life harvesters, mercilessly harvesting the young lives of the Fengjun Death Squad.The Fengjun warriors who rushed forward to the Zhijun position fell down row by row. After a while, there were corpses piled up in front of the Zhijun position.

"Kill!" Shocking roars came from the officers and soldiers of the Zhi and Bong armies, and the hand-to-hand combat between the two sides began.Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the two armies rushed towards their opponents with bayonets. Such large-scale hand-to-hand combat is extremely rare in modern warfare. Although the troops from Guangdong and Guangxi provinces in the Kuomintang also like to charge hand-to-hand There is almost no chance for the opponent to fight hand-to-hand. Often, thousands of shouting and cursing Cantonese and Guangxi soldiers charge, and the opponent flees.

"Yoxi!" A short man in an ugly khaki military uniform on the Fengjun position was watching the hand-to-hand combat on the front line with relish, and nodded "Yoxi, yoxi" while watching.This person is Colonel Matsui Nanao, the Japanese military adviser, and the younger brother of Matsui Iwane.He was sent to Fengjun as Zhang Zuolin's military adviser in May 1924. Matsui's job was probably to watch Chinese people kill each other, right?What Matsui Dazuo applauded again and again was the wonderful hand-to-hand combat between Fengjun and Zhijun. Uh, watching this is much more exciting than watching black market boxing matches in Japan, and you can get paid for it. It is really the best job in the world. It seems that when you applied for the exam Lu Shi is really a wise decision.

However, Consultant Matsui stopped after a while, because Feng Jun was beaten all over the ground by Wu Peifu's direct army in hand-to-hand combat, and they were defeated one after another.As a military adviser, he still has a certain understanding of Fengjun's combat effectiveness.In his opinion, the elite Fengjun who have undergone military training can probably be equivalent to one-third of the combat effectiveness of ordinary Japanese troops.Now Wu Peifu's direct army was actually defeated!And the best division in Wu Peifu's hands was beaten to death by the Kuomintang army in Hunan in the past two days!So if you do the math, doesn't it mean that Wu Peifu's soldiers are stronger than Zhang Zuolin's soldiers, and Sun Dapao's soldiers are better than Wu Peifu's soldiers!Uh, Zhang Zuolin's soldiers are now equivalent to one-third of the Japanese soldiers, and Wu Peifu's soldiers may be one-half of the Japanese soldiers. Isn't Sun Dapao's soldiers going to be one-to-one with the Japanese soldiers?Mr. Matsui counted with his fingers for a long time, and felt that the situation was very serious!It is necessary to remind the Japanese military that it should not treat the KMT as a dish too much.

Feng Jun gnawed his bones on the frontal battlefield in Shanhaiguan for several days, his teeth fell out, and he didn't take down a single position.The battle didn't go well, and the Fengjun actually began to quarrel. It turned out that Jiang Dengxuan and Guo Songling of Fengjun's first and third armies belonged to two factions, Jiang belonged to the non-commissioned officer faction, and Guo belonged to the Lu Da faction.The relationship between the two factions is bad, and they compete for power and profit with each other.After Shanhaiguan was blocked this time, Zhang Xueliang held a military meeting to discuss the situation of the war. At the meeting, Guo Songling suggested that since we couldn't get through the front, let's try another side, advocating a surprise attack on Jiumenkou, but Jiang Dengxuan firmly disagreed.This was originally a discussion of different opinions in combat, who knew that it would develop into two factions attacking each other, and it was almost difficult to end the trouble.In the end, Guo Songling pretended to leave, and Zhang Xueliang chased after Songling, which saved the situation.Then Guo Songling personally led three infantry regiments and a mountain artillery battalion to raid Jiumenkou, which caught the Zhijun by surprise. .

So far, the battle in Shanhaiguan took a turn for the worse, and Wu Peifu had to leave Beijing on October 10 to take a train to the front line of Shanhaiguan.At this time, encouraged by the victory at Jiumenkou, the Feng army once again launched a full-line attack on the front of Shanhaiguan, but was defeated again by the No.Subsequently, Zhang Xueliang, Jiang Dengxuan, and Guo Songling repeated the old trick again, sending troops to outflank the two wings of the straight army, using Jiang Dengxuan's troops to outflank the sea side of the southern line of Shanhaiguan, and Guo Songling's troops to outflank the Sandaoguan line in the north of Shanhaiguan.As a result, more than 10 people were killed and wounded in Jiang Deng's election department and still failed. Guo Songling commanded three brigades and Zhang Zuoxiang's reinforcements fought against Wu Peifu's direct 12th Division at Sandaoguan, and finally fell into Wu Peifu's trick to lure the enemy and was defeated.The Zhifeng War also fell into a stalemate, and we could only rely on silver bullets and meat bullets to break this situation.

Chapter 0102 Shocking Change ([-])

The world's calendar turned to late October 1924, and the Jiangnan battlefield, which had been quiet for a while, was once again full of gunpowder.Under the urging of Mr. Zhongshan's telegram, the three front armies of the Kuomintang once again acted swiftly.It turned out that Zhang Feng was blocked on the front line of Shanhaiguan, and he seemed to be a bit defeated. Sensing that things were not going well, veteran Zhang raised Feng Yuxiang's price on the one hand, asking him to turn to help him quickly, and on the other hand asked his ally, the Kuomintang, to restart the offensive in Jiangnan as soon as possible.

Mr. Zhongshan was naturally very anxious when he saw the stalemate in the Shanhaiguan war. After all, the victory of the Kuomintang in the south has not yet been finalized.Based on the current distribution of the Kuomintang and the Zhili in Jiangnan, it may be very unfavorable for Wu Peifu to defeat Zhang Feng and make a comeback.After carefully studying the map of China, Mr. Sun Yat-sen decisively vetoed the military committee's suggestion of watching the decisive battle and ordered the Kuomintang army to step up its offensive.

Although he knew that Feng Yuxiang would rebel and Wu Peifu would be defeated, Luo Yaoguo could only obey orders, he was not a warlord now!If Mr. Zhongshan is offended, the deputy chief of staff will be gone.On the day after receiving the order, Luo Yaoguo went down to Yuelu Mountain and took the train from Changsha to Wuchang city to supervise the battle.In this time and space, none of the Tingsi Bridge and He Sheng Bridge battles took place.Xiao Yaonan, who had just suffered a disastrous defeat, could do nothing but stick to Wuchang and prepare to run away.

When Luo Yaoguo arrived at the foot of Wuchang city, the attack organized by An Sihua and Qian Dajun had already started.120 75mm mountain cannons from five artillery regiments were pushed to the foot of Wuchang city to bombard the city wall intensively.Hundreds of shells exploded almost at the same time and at the same place.The powerful shock waves released by each fireball tested the ancient city wall near Xiaodongmen of Wuchang time and time again.

The defender of Wuchang City was Liu Zuolong, the commander of the [-]th Hubei Mixed Brigade. Liu was from the Hubei New Army, and strictly speaking, he was a member of Li Yuanhong.Later, when Wang Zhanyuan was in charge of Hubei, he took refuge in Beiyang, and Xiao Yaonan replaced Wang Zhanyuan and then joined Xiao.In the battle of Laodaohe some time ago, the whole army was not wiped out because of running fast, so Xiao Yaonan sent him to defend the city.

In fact, this Liu Zuolong has already sent people to contact the Kuomintang to discuss the issue of defection. The condition he offered was the chairman of Hubei Province, which was too demanding.Moreover, An Sihua, who was in charge of fighting in Wuchang, has a stubborn Prussian brain. Although it has changed a bit during this period, he is still very repulsed by defecting soldiers. up.So now Liu Zuolong had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight on.

"How's the situation?" As soon as he walked into An Sihua's command post at the front, Luo Yaoguo ignored the small talk and went straight to the point: "Sihua, can you win?" It's October 1924, 10. According to Luo Yaoguo's past life memories, it was only a few days before Feng Yuxiang launched the Beijing coup.If Wuchang could be captured before then, it would give people the illusion that Feng Yuxiang's revolutionary determination was strengthened because the Kuomintang captured Wuchang.

An Sihua seemed to have just returned from the artillery position, smelling like gunpowder all over his body.He frowned and said: "There are not many defenders in Wuchang City, only about a mixed brigade. However, the city walls of Wuchang are indeed very strong. We are now concentrating all our cannons to bombard one point. If we can blast the city walls, with our strength advantage, the city can be captured within a day, otherwise it will inevitably become a war of attrition and the losses outweigh the gains."

At this time, Xiao Yaonan was in secret contact with He Chengjun in the Hankou Concession. He Chengjun, on behalf of the Kuomintang, asked Xiao to leave Hubei and go north to Henan, and was willing to provide 200 million travel expenses.However, Xiao Yaonan concentrated his main force along the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, and made a gesture of being ready to go north at any time. There was only one brigade of defenders in Wuchang and Hanyang.

"It's a pity that we don't have heavy artillery." Luo Yaoguo shook his head helplessly and said, "Sihua, you continue to carry out the planned plan. I'm just here to watch the battle. If Wuchang can win the best, if it doesn't work, don't rush for a while, so as not to lose the troops." It’s too big. I guess the direction of Beijing will change in the next few days, and Wuchang will naturally be available.”