Beiyang reactionaries

In December of the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), Cheng Qian led the Hunan and Guangdong Army to launch the Battle of Yuezhou.Also Wang Ruxian's [-]th Division suffered the biggest blow, so that they were driven out of Yueyang. When they returned to Wuchang, the [-]th Division had only [-] troops including injuries, and lost more than half of its troops.

After a trip to Hunan, the loss was so great.

This is not enough.

Because Wang Ruxian once expressed his intention to discuss peace in Hunan, which offended Duan Qirui.After Duan Qirui stabilized his position, he immediately questioned Wang Ruxian.Wang Ruxian had no choice but to choose to retire, and then handed over the position of commander of the Eighth Division to his younger brother Wang Ruqin.

However, Duan Qirui was still worried about this, and asked the Eighth Division to be stationed in Jingzhou to accept the order of the Guard Command on the Upper Yangtze River, that is, Duan Xun's order.But even so, the Eighth Division has always followed the orders of Hubei Governor Wang Zhanyuan.Duan Xun also had no chance to control him.

Wang Ruxian's Eighth Division ruined Duan Qirui's major event at that time, how could Duan Qirui treat the Eighth Division.Therefore, it is very difficult for the Eighth Division to get the military salary, and the Ministry of the Army does not provide supplementary weapons and equipment.

Therefore, Wang Ruqin could only turn to Wang Zhanyuan for help.

But asking Wang Zhanyuan for money is not asking for his life.Therefore, Wang Zhanyuan only allocated [-] rifles to Wang Ruxian from the Hanyang Arsenal, and he didn't even think about the military salary.Even Wang Zhanyuan himself withheld some from the Eighth Division's military salary.

It made the life of the Eighth Division very difficult.

Most of the troops were lost in Hunan, and they did not fully recover after a year.At present, the Eighth Division seems to be the establishment of one division of the Beiyang Army. In fact, the current Eighth Division is only about 9000 people, and more than 3000 of them are recruits.Not to mention heavy weapons such as artillery, the entire army has very few heavy machine guns.

Because these heavy weapons were lost in Hunan a year and a half ago, the Ministry of War refused to replenish them.

The total number of long and short guns in the entire army is only more than 6000, and more than half of them are made in Hanyang, which is not used very much by the direct descendants of the Beiyang Army.

How could Fan Shihong not be worried.

"I know."

Wang Ruqin didn't get to his current position by relying on nepotism.Wang Ruqin was a graduate of the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School, and he was one of the very early batch.Wang Ruqin graduated from the third phase of the Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and they were classmates with Cai E.In the Beiyang Army, it was also done step by step.

How can the current situation be unclear.

Listen to the cannon.

It is obvious that Guo Songling has no shortage of shells in his hands, and if he continues to bomb like this, he will definitely be able to blast a way out in less than an hour.Jingzhou City Wall is absolutely unable to withstand such a bombing.

As long as part of the city wall is blown down, it is time for Guo Songling's troops to attack.

Fan Shihong did not have the confidence to resist Guo Songling's troops, nor did Wang Ruqin.

"It seems that Jingzhou cannot be defended. The troops we are facing now are Guo Songling's troops. This is a division. There is also Yin Chengyu's troops behind, which are reorganized troops from the Yunnan Army. It is estimated that the troops have a lot of artillery. If With hundreds of cannons firing, it is not impossible for our city wall to stop it, and it is not impossible for this side to collapse. Moreover, we are far behind in terms of military strength, and it is not so easy to rely on the defensive positions in the city."

Wang Ruqin understands the current situation.

Although Yin Chengyu's Fourth Army took away Wang Bailing's teaching brigade, the Tenth Division had already made supplements during this period.Although it is not as good as the original troops, the number is the same.Duan Xun's Fourth Army had more than 3 soldiers, and how could his own troops stop them from rushing forward.

"Teacher, what do you mean..."

"It's not interesting. Jingzhou can't be defended. What I'm thinking about now is where we are going."

"actually……"

Fan Shihong hesitated.

Seeing Fan Shihong's appearance, Wang Ruqin immediately said, "It's all at this time, so don't hesitate to say anything."

"Master, in fact, we can go directly to Duan Hefei (Duan Qirui). Although we are friendly with Feng Hejian (Feng Guozhang), we are not Feng Hejian's army after all. Speaking of the relationship between the teacher (Wang Ruxian) and Duan Hefei Not bad, if it wasn't for what happened in Hunan two years ago, we wouldn't be enemies with Duan Hefei."

Wang Ruxian is Yuan Shikai's favorite general and is Yuan Shikai's direct descendant.

There are no obvious traces of faction.It's just that he offended Duan Qirui during the law protection war, so he started to get closer to his immediate family.Speaking of which, Wang Ruxian is also a veteran of the Beiyang Army, not a direct general.

"Go to Duan Hefei?"

"Yes. Commander, think about it. It's so easy for Cao Kun to fight against Duan Hefei alone. And our Eighth Division should have accepted the command of Duan Xun, the commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. We went to Duan Hefei, or Duan Xun is not a legitimate thing, it is completely reasonable. After all, we all have the same roots, and Duan Hefei should not reject us."

Cao Kun and Duan Qirui fighting?

Although many generals in the direct line were waving their flags and shouting, but after the real fight, they all shrank their heads when they saw Duan Qirui's strong troops.And everyone didn't believe that Cao Kun could win.

So these people immediately started beating themselves up.

Anyway, everyone is the Beiyang Army.

As long as he changed his court, Duan Qirui couldn't do anything to him.

"That's the truth."

Wang Ruqin nodded.

I am not from Feng Guozhang's direct lineage, and I have no affiliation with Cao Kun.Wang Zhanyuan, a bastard, is not good to himself, and it is not unacceptable to go to Duan Qirui.

Anyway, once Cao Kun fails, there must be a lot of generals on the direct side who will change their families.It is the same thing to change the gate earlier and change the gate later, the difference between fifty steps and one hundred steps.Maybe there are more benefits to defecting to Duan Qirui earlier.

"Well, you go and talk to Guo Songling in person. If the conditions are right, it's not impossible to give up Jingzhou."

"Yes."

225 Battle of Hubei Jingzhou 2

"General Fan, please."

This is the Beiyang Army.

Although the Zhili, Anhui, and Fengshi are all called the Beiyang Army, later generations will also say that after Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang Army was divided into the Zhili, Anhui, and Fengshi.But in fact, although Zhang Zuolin's Feng line has the blood of the Beiyang Army, and many troops were originally part of the Beiyang Army's establishment, they actually have little to do with the Beiyang Army.

Although Zhang Zuolin and the others had served as soldiers in Yijun in the early years, Fengjun also annexed many Beiyang Army troops in the Northeast, but the top leaders of Fengjun were basically Zhang Zuolin's green forest brothers, and they couldn't get along with the Beiyang Army.Therefore, regardless of whether it is the direct lineage or the Anhui lineage, the Feng lineage in their minds is not the same as them.

The Zhili and Anhui are different.

Although the Beiyang Army is divided into the Zhili and the Anhui, there is no obvious difference between the Zhili and the Anhui.Many bigwigs from the Zhili and Anhui cliques trained with Yuan Shikai at the small station, and most of the generals below came from the military academy run by the Beiyang Army itself.Therefore, those bigwigs from the Zhili and Anhui cliques, as well as many generals below are classmates, and many of them have been friends for many years.

Just look at Jin Yunpeng.

He is one of Duan Qirui's most important generals with the highest status, and he is the head of Duan Qirui's Four King Kongs.However, he and Cao Kun are sworn brothers, and Wang Zhanyuan and Sun Chuanfang are from Shandong, and they have a very good relationship.

In fact, this is not a special case.

This is the case with many generals of the Beiyang Army.

Some generals used to be Duan Qirui's students, but now they are direct generals.Some people used to be generals under Feng Guozhang, but now they are generals of the Anhui Department.Look at Qu Tongfeng and Wu Peifu, Qu Tongfeng was Wu Peifu's instructor when he was in the military academy, but one of them is Duan Qirui's Four King Kongs, and the other is Cao Kun's direct line of love.

Seriously speaking, when Wu Peifu was in the military academy, Duan Qirui was still the supervisor of the military academy and Wu Peifu's principal.Like Duan Xun, Wu Peifu can also be called Teacher Duan Qirui.

Therefore, it can be said that there is no strict distinction between the direct lineage and the Anhui lineage.

Whoever supports Duan Qirui, who supports Feng Guozhang and Cao Kun, will become a certain faction.

That's it.