With Duan Qirui's hysterical order, the Beiyang Army 240,000 troops were divided into four routes.

The first road went straight from Ankang, Shaanxi to the hinterland of Sichuan, with a total of 50,000 troops.

The second road starts from Yichang, Hubei Province and enters the southwest hinterland along the Yangtze River. The total number of troops is 70,000.

The third route went straight from Huaihua, Hunan to Guizhou, with a total strength of about 80,000 troops.

The fourth route went from Yongzhou, Hunan to Guangxi, with a total strength of 40,000 troops.

The four-way army marched hand in hand, murderous, and the whole country was affected by the murderous spirit of the war.

Canton Overseer's Office. Lu Rongting's face was not very good-looking. Although the Beiyang Army went south to Guangxi nominally to expel the forces of the New Army, the essence was to occupy Guangxi and prevent the New Army from gaining access to the sea. And now Guangxi's access to the sea is all controlled by its own Gui system. Beiyang wanted to expel him from Guangxi together with Lu Rongting and form an encirclement of the southwest from three sides. Nearly half of Guangxi's land is the foundation of his Lu Rongting's rise. Lu Rongting will not give up easily.

An order from the Republic of China government has been sent to ask Lu Rongting's troops to withdraw from Guangxi and hand over the land currently garrisoned to the Beiyang Army going south. Regarding Beiyang's aggressive momentum, Lu Rongting's heart was full of anger. His power is known as the Gui system, if he loses the foundation of Guangxi, it will become a rootless Ping, and Guangdong is newly determined, and the current large influx of Kuomintang forces will make Guangxi's territory even more important in this case.

"Report to the general, Southwest Emergency!"

"Southwest? Cai Yi? What does he want to do? Lu Rongting couldn't help frowning. Since he was dissatisfied with Cai Yi's centralized behavior, he led his headquarters to the south and established the Gui system based on Guangxi. Later, the Gui family and the new army fought for control of Guangxi, and Lu Rongting couldn't stand the pressure and gave up half of Guangxi, but at the same time gave him the opportunity to annex Guangdong Province in one fell swoop. Far from weakening, its power has increased considerably. In addition, after Cai Ye occupied half of Guangxi, he did not kill him, but the two sides lived in peace for a while. However, there is also a tacit understanding between the top leaders of the two sides. This time, in the face of Cai Yi's urgent telegram, Lu Rongting was a little confused.

"Brother Ganqing, after a farewell for half a year, the experience of that year is vivid. The brother is not satisfied with the brother's decision, and the brother understands. However, after all, the southwest is the foundation of our generation's bloody development, and it cannot be abandoned. Now the Beiyang army is pressing, and the younger brother is under great pressure. The younger brother did not ask the elder brother to send troops to support. But ask my brother to take care of the feelings of the robe, and don't help the abuse. Guangxi is the brother's Guangxi, and the younger brother ordered his subordinates to withdraw to Yungui. I hope that my brother can take over as soon as possible, and my brother's Guijun should own Guangxi Province! Southwest Governor Cai Yi! ”

"What a trick! Cai Ye is Cai Ye after all, and his vision in war is incomparable. Although I know that you are taking advantage of me, I really can't refuse such a big piece of cake. Guangxi is the Guangxi of someone in my land, and Beiyang doesn't want to get involved! A look of determination appeared in Lu Rongting's eyes. Cai Yi wants to exchange half of Guangxi for Lu Rongting's troops, the Beiyang Fourth Route Army, as long as Lu Rongting helps him block the Beiyang Army going south. In this way, the pressure on the southwest will also be much less.

"Order the soldiers on the front line in Guangxi to quickly occupy the entire territory of Guangxi. Order Lin Junting's troops to go north to Quanzhou, build a defensive position, and prevent the Beiyang Army from entering Gui! Lu Rongting's face sank like water. Now the Gui army has nearly 50,000 people, which can be regarded as a strong army, and Guangxi is still the place where someone else started from him, which can definitely be regarded as a local battle. And the information he got knew that the Beiyang Army had only 40,000 people going south to Guangxi, and the Gui system had an advantage in military strength. In the face of Beiyang's southward movement, Lu Rongting will certainly not fight with him. However, since he took over half of Cai Yi's Guangxi, he couldn't watch it be annexed by Beiyang. Therefore, Lu Rongting had already set the operational policy of defending Quanzhou and preventing Beiyang from entering Guangxi.

When the Beiyang Army was marching forward, the Northeast Public Security Army issued a mobilization order, and the soldiers and material resources continued to flow to the front line of the Chaharre River, and the Southwest Military Region of the Northeast Public Security Army stationed in Shanhaiguan swelled like a snowball. In order to cope with this war, Feng Yong drew 30,000 people from the Sixth Division, the main force of the Southern Military Region, to the Southwest Military Region and temporarily joined the battle sequence of the Southwest Military Region. An elite brigade of 25,000 men was transferred from the Northern Military Region and the Northwest Military Region to join the Southwest Military Region. In a short period of time, the number of troops controlled by Guo Shanhu swelled from 50,000 to 100,000. Military supplies were continuously transported to the front line of Shanhaiguan by rail and road. Zhang Zuolin's unit, which was originally planning to go north, also stopped its operations because of the sudden outbreak of war.

Now that Chahar and the Rehe area are about to break out, how can there be time for Zhang Zuolin to let his Feng army replace other troops. The actual situation of Chahar Zhang Zuolin also understands that although he is helpless in his heart, the Feng army has changed banners, the wood has been completed, and it is too late to regret it. Feng Yong transferred a group of senior political cadres from the Southwest Military Region to the Feng Army to serve as political commissars at the brigade and regiment level. At the same time, nearly 1,000 low-level instructors who had just graduated from the teaching team were transferred from the Changchun headquarters. With the addition of troops from the south to the Feng army, the political commissar system of the Feng army was improved, and the control of the Feng army in the northeast was strengthened.

If the Feng army is added, the strength of the northeast on the front line of the Chaharre River will reach 180,000. However, Feng Jun has just joined the Northeast Security Army, and the army's heart is undecided. It also takes time for troops from other military districts to join the battle sequence of the Southwestern Military District. Therefore, all this requires that the Northeast must send an outstanding commander with prestige and ability. At present, in the northeast, the most capable commander is none other than Jiang Baili.

Although Feng Delin was also a commander, he had never commanded a large army of 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands. Although Jiang Baili did not have this kind of experience, Feng Yong believed that with his vision and means, he must be better than his own command. In this battle, Feng Yong prepared to set up a supreme three-man regiment with Jiang Baili, Feng Delin and Zhang Zuolin to jointly command the battle. The three of them are not simple, they are all famous figures in history, learning from each other's strengths and complementing each other's weaknesses, coupled with the current military advantage occupied by the Northeast Army, the possibility of victory is extremely high. Feng Yong, as always, continued his good habit of not going to the front line and not commanding indiscriminately. Jiang Baili, Zhang Zuolin, and Feng Delin are all famous military strongmen in history, even if Feng Yong comes from later generations and has a longer-term vision than them, but in terms of the specific command of the army, he is far behind. Therefore, every time he delegates power to the outside world, he is very relieved, no matter what the result is, he can accept it, after all, he is not confident in his military command ability, it is difficult to be too harsh on others. Perhaps continuing his good fortune, even if he lost a few battles in the northeast, he won in the end.

Northeast Marshal's Mansion.

"Report, Lanzhou Emergency Electricity!"

"Lanzhou? It seems that Brother Chuanxin is a little out of breath! Feng Yong smiled and took the telegram in his hand, although the northeast was now shrouded in the clouds of war, Feng Yong was not worried. Although Beiyang is stronger than either side in the northeast and southwest, Duan Qirui is too arrogant to defeat all the forces of both sides at once. And who are the generals of the Northeast Front? That is the famous military theorist Jiang Baili in history, and the current Jiang Baili is different from the original time and space, he has participated in the battle of tens of thousands of troops, although his reputation is not obvious, but he pressed the Russian cavalry out of the territory of China step by step at the minimum cost, and even when the Russian reinforcements were not firmly established, they simply attacked, killed the main force of the Russian Far East Army, and laid the foundation for stability in the north. If it weren't for Feng Yong's great ambitions, I'm afraid that the Russian ** team would have been defeated a long time ago.

When he opened the telegram, things turned out to be as he expected, and Li Jun was indeed worried about the situation facing the Northeast. Ask if the Western Military Region needs to move eastward to attract troops from Beiyang?

This idea is indeed tempting, with a commander like Li Jun, plus 70,000 people in the Western Military Region who have experienced a major war, if a large-scale eastward advance will definitely shake the Beiyang government. Now the two wars opened up in the Beiyang are already a little exhausted. If you are opening up a third battlefield, you don't have to fight too long to drag it down. However, in the end, Feng Yong gave up this idea. The purpose of the Western Military Region's westward advance was not to flank the Beiyang Army on both sides. Rather, they want to take over western China completely. This western part includes Xinjiang and Tibet. Although the strength of the Western Military District is somewhat weak, now is the best time to advance. The Great War in the Central Plains attracted all the troops of the Beiyang government, and if the Northeast Security Army advanced westward, they would only be happy. The Russians and the British, who were concerned about Xinjiang and Tibet, were exhausted by the First World War and were unable to pay attention to China, and if they did not take advantage of this good opportunity to annex the two problematic areas in one fell swoop, it would not be easy for the great powers to recover from the war and intervene in the local forces.

Although the battle caused by Cai Yi's strength was not expected by Feng Yong, since it happened, with the current strength of the Northeast, he was not afraid of war at all. And Feng Yong was not prepared to fight Beiyang to the death. As long as the troops of Beiyang are attracted and the pressure on Cai Ye in the southwest is relieved. As for defeating Beiyang, annexing the Central Plains, and establishing a nationwide regime, he didn't think about it at all. It's not that I don't want to, but I feel that the time has not come, and the Northeast Security Army still lacks the capital to face the world.

"Generate electricity to the Ganning area, establish the Western Theater, take the Zhang Xiaoshan Department of the Western Military Region as the foundation, stop the transportation of the Ma Jiajun, and break up the Ma Jiajun Army into the Western Theater. Li Jun served as the commander-in-chief of the Western Theater and managed the military, government, and people's livelihood in the western region. Zhang Xiaoshan is deputy commander of the Western Theater and concurrently commander of the Western Military Region. Presided over the western military. Cui Xiaolong served as the political commissar of the Western Theater and concurrently served as the political commissar of the Western Military Region. From now on, the Western Theater will reorganize its troops and prepare to advance westward! ”

"Westward?" Operational staff officer Xu Lang was surprised.

"Not bad, westward! Send a report to Zhang Xiaoshan! Ask him to fight quickly, no matter what method he uses, he must take Xinjiang and Tibet in the shortest possible time! Feng Yong said firmly.

(To be continued)