When there was a conflict between Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming in Guangzhou, although the Nationalist Army was concerned, it did not expect that the situation in Guangzhou City would eventually get out of control, even when the troops in Guangzhou City who supported Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming fought each other, they did not expect that this would be the case, and a large number of officers and staff officers in the Third Division in charge of the direction of Guangdong unanimously agreed that even if there was a conflict between Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming in Guangzhou City, it was also small-scale and controllable. In addition, the Strategy Department of the National Army Command also determined that although the situation in Guangdong was somewhat turbulent, it would not change much at present.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end, the Nationalist Army never imagined that there would be a fire fight between the two divisions in Guangzhou, and even less did they expect that after the fire fight, the main leaders of both sides would not be able to control the situation, and finally it was completely out of control, and the whole city was full of chaos.

When the news came back to Fuzhou, although some staff officers of the headquarters felt the seriousness of the situation, after analyzing it, they still felt that they had to continue to wait and see. The main reason for this is that the Nationalist Army only has the 3rd Division of Chaozhou in Guangdong, and the nearest troops that can support it are all in Fuzhou, which is hundreds of miles away, that is, the Guard Division or the 5th Division has a regiment stationed in Fuzhou. If this is taken rashly, the situation could spiral out of control.

In the eyes of many staff officers at the headquarters, if the lone Third Division was defeated under the city of Guangzhou, the Nationalist Army would lose its right to speak in Guangdong, and might even lose the bridgehead of Chaozhou, thus completely affecting the Nationalist Army's Guangdong strategy. Therefore, the Nationalist Army adopted a conservative wait-and-see attitude.

While the Nationalist Army was watching, Long Jiguang sent troops with the support of Yuan Shikai.

This incident was too sudden, not to mention Chen Jingyun, even the intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Department first learned about it from the newspaper. On that day, Chen Jingyun didn't care that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and hurriedly convened a military meeting of the senior generals of the National Army. In this way, there was the scene of the military meeting of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the previous scene.

"Since Yuan Shikai was able to openly support and order Long Jiguang to march into Guangzhou, everyone knew the purpose behind it. But Yuan Shikai must have other arrangements. Feng Qin said: "According to the current trend of the Fifth Division of Beiyang in Xuzhou and the Eighth Division of Beiyang in Qingjiangpu, they have obviously strengthened their combat readiness, and I am afraid that as soon as we transfer troops from Zhejiang, they will take the opportunity to go south!" ”

Liang Xunqin, the combat division, said: "That's right, compared to the situation in Guangdong in the south, we are facing much greater pressure in Zhejiang, the first division, the second division, and the sixth division on the front line cannot move at all, and the sixth and fourth divisions must also be ready to step forward to support at any time, so they can't move!" ”

Basically, the Operational Division is responsible for the deployment of military strength and tactical arrangements of the National Army before the war, and these arrangements are not just casual words, but the Operations Division judges through various data on both sides of the enemy, how many troops are to be used there, and they are basically responsible for attacking or defending in that direction. According to the various judgments of the Operations Division, at present the Nationalist Army must maintain four to five divisions in the Zhejiang region before it is possible to hold it when the Beiyang Army moves southward in the future. If the number of troops increased to more than three divisions in the course of the Beiyang battle, the Nationalist Army would have to continue to send more troops to the Zhejiang region.

Therefore, it is impossible for the Nationalist Army to withdraw troops from Zhejiang. In this case, the only troops available to the Nationalist Army in Guangdong are the Third Division, and as for the Guard Division, it is Chen Jingyun's Guards Unit, and its main purpose is to save lives, not to conduct conventional operations, at most, it is to send reinforced regiments to the theater to fight like the last battle in Hangzhou.

A large group of generals discussed for most of the day on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but did not make any judgment on the situation in the city of Guangzhou. The main reason for this is because of two points, one is that if the Nationalist Army waives its troops in Guangzhou, it is afraid that the Beiyang Army will move south in turn under the pretext, to tell the truth, not only is the Beiyang Army not ready to unify the southern provinces by force, but the Nationalist Army is also not ready to resist the Beiyang Army's southward movement, and the Eighth and Ninth Divisions that Chen Jingyun plans to expand are still on paper.

And another point is that I am afraid that the third division will suffer a crushing defeat after the lone army penetrates into Guangzhou, after all, the 13th regiment of the first division outside Hangzhou is still vividly remembered, and Feng Qinnai and Chen Jingyun have not forgotten it. In these years, no one can guarantee that the Nationalist Army will be able to completely defeat the armies of other warlords one-on-one.

If the Third Division joined the war and was defeated, or even withdrew from Guangdong, it was unacceptable to the Nationalist Army.

On the morning of the next day, Chen Jingyun once again convened Feng Qin, Liang Xunqin, Chen Yi, Jiang Fangzhen, Lin Chengkun, and other senior generals to hold a small-scale military meeting.

"Governor, please see, the Operations Division plans to move the 3rd Division westward along the sea from Huizhou, and due to the condition of the roads along the way, it is expected that it will take five days for the forward troops to reach the vicinity of Guangzhou. At this time, relying on the water transportation of the Pearl River, Long Jiguang's troops had already reached the city of Guangzhou and were able to control Guangzhou in one fell swoop. If we do not take into account the political influence and force the attack, in the face of Long Jiguang's more than 20,000 people and a considerable part of the rebellious troops that may be gathered, and considering the logistics supply and exhaustion equipment of our army, the chance of victory is about 50%. ”

"Only fifty percent?" Chen Jingyun was not satisfied with this result, although the Third Division only had more than 10,000 people, it belonged to the formed troops, and it was the old foundation of the National Army, so why did it only have a fifty percent chance of winning?

Feng Qin on the side interjected: "Before, our attention has always been on the Zhejiang side, the newly produced mortars and light and heavy machine guns are also concentrated in the troops on the Zhejiang side, and the logistics supply is also inclined to Zhejiang, so the mortars of the third division are not too much, and the related training is inferior to the first and second divisions in Zhejiang because of the problem of training ammunition." ”

Chen Jingyun also knows about this situation. The training of the army is not just empty talk, it takes a lot of consumption to maintain, if you want the soldiers to strengthen their physique, you have to let them do high-intensity physical training, so you can't let them be able to do not eat, when the soldiers do high-energy physical training, the amount of food is not ordinarily large, then you need a big bowl of white rice and a large piece of meat to ensure the nutrition they need. Otherwise, the soldiers in the army will become skinny and bones......

For modern people, this food may not be a big problem, but this will be the beginning of the Republic of China, food is not cheap, ordinary people not to mention a big bowl of white rice every day, it is good to be full, and only during the New Year and the festival are willing to buy a little meat. In addition to military salaries, many soldiers come to serve as soldiers because they value the ability to eat enough when they join the army.

This physical training is still a small matter, but the more important thing is the soldier's shooting ability and artillery technology, the soldier's shooting ability is fed by a large number of bullets, there is no other way to take advantage of it, and the artillery is also, if you don't fight so many artillery battles every month, it will definitely be uncertain.

Training needs to consume a lot of ammunition, the supply of ammunition for the national army has always been very tight, especially the war in Hangzhou, in order to attract the war in Hangzhou, especially in the rescue of the 13th regiment, the first division and the guard division are a large amount of ammunition, especially the shells are not to fight out like money, when the Zhejiang army shouted dad and mother, Sun Guangliang of the logistics department also frowned. Subsequently, Zhejiang gathered five divisions of the army, and faced the huge pressure of the Beiyang Army, so the logistics department has been hoarding ammunition in Zhejiang, relatively speaking, the third division is the fifth division in Fujian, which is a little more difficult.

In the case of insufficient training, the combat effectiveness of the 3rd Division is still some distance from that of the 1st and 2nd Divisions.

However, this is not Chen Jingyun's style. In addition to purely considering military issues, Chen Jingyun also had to consider the entire strategic issue. Let Long Jiguang control Guangzhou and let the revolutionaries control Guangzhou are two different things, when Hu Hanmin or Chen Jiongming controlled Guangzhou, they were basically busy with infighting, and they would not pose a great threat to Chen Jingyun, and even Chen Jingyun's Guangdong strategy would not pose much of a threat, but if Long Jiguang, and let Long Jiguang supported by Yuan Shikai, control Guangzhou, then it would be equivalent to the Beiyang Army inserting a knife in the belly of the National Army, and when the National Army and the Beiyang Army fought in the Jiangsu region of northern Zhejiang, Long Ji's knife alone can stab the national army to death.

Therefore, from a strategic point of view, Chen Jingyun is unwilling and cannot let Long Jiguang control Guangzhou.

Since his generals could not give him a good solution, it was necessary for Chen Jingyun to take arbitrary measures.

"Feng Qin, you remember! Ordered Shen Gang to immediately send troops to Guangzhou, if Long Jiguang had not yet arrived in Guangzhou, then he would take the first step to quell the rebellion in Guangzhou, and if Long Jiguang had already controlled Guangzhou, he would wait for the next order. After Chen Jingyun finished speaking, he said to Lin Chengkun beside him: "Your guard division is also ready to prepare, and transfer that guard infantry regiment to cooperate with relevant artillery and other auxiliary troops to form a reinforced regiment to reinforce Guangzhou after arriving at Chaozhou by sea." ”

After saying that, Chen Jingyun still felt uneasy, and said: "I ordered the 53rd Regiment of the Fifth Division stationed in Fuzhou to rush to Chaozhou by land!" ”

This sea and land reinforcements at the same time, there should be nothing wrong! Chen Jingyun thought about it like this, of course, and did not forget to designate the commander of this battle: "The reinforced guard division reinforcement regiment and the 53rd regiment of the fifth division are under the command of Shen Gang, and the headquarters will mobilize relevant staff officers to form a headquarters observation group and obey Shen Gang's dispatch!" ”

Chen Jingyun knew Shen Gang's ability, and the main reason why he asked the headquarters to send people over was to let those staff officers and other officers of the headquarters increase their combat experience and knowledge.

As soon as the Third Division, which had already been prepared, received a secret order from the headquarters, Shen Gang ordered the whole army to move westward on the same day.