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"Isn't the 11th Division in Cangzhou, why did it get to Baoding?" In Yanjing City, Duan Qirui lost his temper, and several Beiyang Army generals around him naturally didn't dare to say anything at this time, so they could only wait for a long time and see that Duan Qirui didn't look so angry, and one of them tried to say: "The 11th Division was originally scheduled to be stationed in Cangzhou, but Cangzhou was attacked by the enemy's forward two days ago, and the 11th Division had to turn to the northwest after it couldn't support it!" ”

Duan Qirui snorted coldly: "You don't have to explain Xu Shuzheng, I don't know who he is, don't you just want to keep the thousands of remnants!" ”

Duan Qirui still didn't say a word in his heart, when the big tree in Beiyang fell, what could he do if Xu Shuzheng left thousands of remnants, could it be that he could fly to the sky!

After being dull for a long time, Duan Qirui suddenly sighed: "Alas, Jinan lost the 16th Division in the First Battle, and now the 11th Division has also retreated to Cangzhou, looking at the entire Gyeonggi region, we can't even get together tens of thousands of troops!" ”

The Beiyang Army was defeated again and again on the Jinpu line, and the main force of the Beiyang Army had already been consumed in the Jiangbei Campaign and the Xuzhou Campaign, and later Duan Qirui deployed the last main force of the Second Army in Jinan, but the Jinan War collapsed in just a few days, and he Duan Qirui finally only had more than 10,000 people left, and now even Xu Shuzheng's 11th Division was defeated in Cangzhou, and then transferred to Baoding. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info:

Up to now, there are less than 10,000 troops that can be controlled by Duan Qirui, and these nearly 10,000 people no longer have a complete establishment, all of them are defeated and defeated generals on the front line, Duan Qirui finally formed them into two brigades and four regiments, and Wang Shizhen also issued the latest number to this army composed of remnants of defeated generals in a timely manner, calling it the 14th Division of the Army.

In the Gyeonggi area, in addition to the 14th Division composed of the remnants of Duan Qirui's defeated army, there are more than 5,000 remnants of Xu Shuzheng's troops in Baoding, and then the 12th Division under Yuan Keding, the eldest son of Yuan, and the 13th Division, which has only two regiments and no heavy weapons. As for the other troops, they were either defeated by the Nationalist Army in various battles along the Jinpu line, or retreated to the west, such as Zhang Xun's remnants of the Eighth Division all the way from Qingjiangpu to Shandong, and then when the Beiyang Army was defeated in the Battle of Xuzhou, Zhang Xun fled faster than a rabbit, and immediately crossed the Jinpu line, and did not even stop in Jinan but went straight to the north of Henan.

Most of the other troops were like this, of course, there were not a few who surrendered, most of them surrendered on the size of a battalion or a regiment, and of course there were also entire divisions like the 16th Division who surrendered after the mutiny.

Even the most optimistic people have little confidence in the overall situation of Beiyang, most of the military and political leaders in the Beiyang military system are already planning all kinds of retreats, whether they are fleeing into the lease with their private wealth or preparing to fight a rake and make contributions to Chen Jingyun, there are people with all kinds of thoughts.

The building is about to fall, and everyone is beginning to plan a way out, even Duan Qirui himself is thinking about whether the next step is to contact with the south, of course, this does not mean that he will conduct peace talks on behalf of Beiyang, but on behalf of him Duan Qirui himself to conduct peace talks.

In fact, since the defeat of Xuzhou, Duan Qirui and even Yuan Shikai have sent Chen Jingyun a signal of peace talks through secret channels, and the conditions are becoming more and more relaxed.

The reason why Chen Jingyun did not agree to the peace talks was very simple, what he wanted was not the Xuanfu envoy of the nine provinces, let alone the division of the river to rule, but he wanted to replace Beiyang. With the Nationalist Army occupying an all-round advantage, Beiyang had no other way to go except for all-round surrender.

In this case, in fact, the second north-south peace talks planned by Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui had already failed before they began! Yuan Shikai watched the situation of the Beiyang Army getting worse day by day, after Jinan was also lost, Yuan Shikai fell into a coma again, his doctor said that Yuan Shikai's uremia deterioration speed was greatly accelerated, and the rest of the day may not even be able to support it for three months, although Yuan Shikai blocked himself last year There was not much news, but this time after being unconscious, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen and others finally got Yuan Shikai's accurate information from Yuan Shikai's personal doctor.

Yuan Shikai is going to die! If it was before, or even just a year ago, the first thing Duan Qirui thought about was how to snatch Yuan Shikai's political legacy from his many rivals and then ascend to the position of leader of the Beiyang Army. However, it was not a year ago, and now the big tree in Beiyang has reached the final stage of complete collapse, and the reason why it is barely maintained until now is because Yuan Shikai is not dead.

If Yuan Shikai dies, as soon as the news spreads, the major generals of the Beiyang Army below are estimated to be immediately torn apart, and most of them are estimated to be thrown into the arms of the Southern Alliance.

Even Duan Qirui himself thinks so, Yuan Shikai said that there is not much news only he and Wang Shizhen know, and even Feng Guozhang was hidden by him, Feng Guozhang has been very low-key since he was removed from the front line by Yuan Shikai and returned to Yanjing, and half a month after returning to Beijing, he took his family to the Tianjin Concession, looking like he had withdrawn from the military and politics for two terms.

Although Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen were satisfied with the news that Yuan Shikai did not have much news at the time, the news that Yuan Shikai was unconscious was full of insufficiency.

In Wuhan, Hubei, Duan Zhigui had a gloomy face: "There are so many people, why don't any of them have the old man's letter, and they can't even see each other!" ”

Wang Zhanyuan was also full of worries: "The news in the capital is chaotic, some say that the old man is seriously ill and will not wake up, some say that the old man is fine, and even say that the old man has gone west!" The War Department also said the same thing, and there was nothing else to say except for us to send reinforcements north. ”

Duan Zhigui, like Cao Kun, can be regarded as the second echelon of many warlords in the Beiyang Army, but in the past two years, Duan Zhigui has climbed much faster than Cao Kun, and after becoming the commander of the First Army, the power has not been ceded to Feng Guozhang, and the First Army in his hands and the three Hubei Provincial Army under his control are combined, with a total strength of 60,000 or 70,000 people, which is the largest military force under the Beiyang Army system except for the Second Army under Feng Guozhang.

After the defeat of the Beiyang Army in the Jiangbei Campaign, the elite of the Second Army under Feng Guozhang was lost, and Feng Guozhang's personal power also fell from the sky to the ground.

In today's Beiyang Army system, he Duan Zhigui is the No. 1 person, the second division and the sixth division of the Beiyang Army under his command are the two of the six towns that the Beiyang Army started, and the descendants of the lineage, the combat effectiveness is not trivial, and the three divisions of the Hubei Provincial Army in his hands are not comparable to the local armies of other provinces, the Hubei Provincial Army in his hands is the army that started with the revolutionary party, and was later controlled by Li Yuanhong, and was controlled by Duan Zhigui after the Xinghai Revolution and civil strife in Hubei. Compared to other warlord troops, it is a unit with a lot of combat experience.

And after Duan Zhigui sat in Hubei, he did stop the weak National Army, so that Hubei is still firmly in the hands of the Beiyang Army.

However, with the rapid northward movement of the Nationalist Army on the Jinpu Line, it has now reached the edge of Yanjing City, which makes Duan Zhigui, who is sitting in Hubei, extremely anxious and wants to send troops north to reinforce, but although the Nationalist Army does not have many troops in Hubei, there are many troops entering Henan, and the Nationalist Army in the Xinyang area has reached more than 20,000 people, and the Sixth Division under Duan Zhigui had to send a brigade to reinforce the remnants of Cao Kun.

Coupled with other directions in Henan, Duan Zhigui couldn't draw troops to go north at all. If he insisted on sending troops north, then he might have sent reinforcements into Beijing in the future, but the Nationalist Army then occupied Henan, and then completely separated the connection between Zhili and Hubei. At that time, Duan Zhigui, whose strength was weakened, did not have the confidence to face the siege of the national army from all sides.

Duan Zhigui was unable to send troops north, which made the Beiyang Army in the Zhili area, which lacked strength, unable to resist the advance of the superior forces of the National Army! Soon after the fall of Cangzhou, the Nationalist Army captured Baoding, and Tianjin was not allowed to send troops directly due to various agreements with foreign countries. This had to make Chen Jingyun order Li Jimin to stop this kind of behavior, and then after urgent discussions with diplomats from various countries, the countries allowed the national army to send armed police to station, but it was absolutely not the main force of the national army on active duty who took off their military uniforms and changed into police uniforms and then dragged artillery with light and heavy weapons. As a last resort, Chen Jingyun could only urgently order the Xuzhou Garrison Regiment, which was originally stationed in Xuzhou, to be modified and only equipped with rifles, pistols and other light weapons, and then become an armed police regiment under the Nationalist Army system and stationed in Tianjin.

Baoding, Cangzhou, and Tianjin successively entered the hands of the Nationalist Army, and at this time, Yanjing City was already directly facing the heavy attack of the Nationalist Army.

Although there was still a remnant of the 14th Division in his hand, and Xu Shuzheng's remnants of more than 4,000 people also retreated to Yanjing, there was also a full 12th Division under Yuan Dagongzi and a 13th Division that had not yet been formed. But Duan Qirui still didn't have the confidence to hold Yanjing City.

Yanjing City is in danger, and the minds of the generals of the Beiyang Army in other directions are even more confused, and at this time, Yuan Shikai is unconscious, and even the news that he has died of illness has come out, how can this make so many Beiyang Army generals outside feel at ease, and in this chaotic moment, Chen Jingyun also sent a lot of lobbyists to various places to persuade those Beiyang Army generals to surrender, although the National Army has the ability to directly capture Yanjing, but if it can go down without a fight, it is naturally better.

Duan Qirui, as a character second only to Yuan Shikai in the Beiyang Army, naturally got the treatment of Chen Jingyun sending a handwritten letter to solicit him!

Duan Qirui looked at Chen Jingyun's handwritten letter in his study, in addition to praising Duan Qirui's credit for supporting the North-South peace talks and forcing the Qing Emperor to abdicate, the letter also advised Duan Qirui to put the common people in the world first and the lives of hundreds of thousands of generals of the Beiyang Army as the most important thing. Of course, in the end, it was inevitable to make a promise, although there was no such organization as the Ministry of War in the national army system, and he could not be given the position of army chief, but if Duan Qirui was willing to lead the army to surrender to the national army, then Chen Jingyun could give him the position of deputy chief of staff and grant him the rank of army general. Moreover, the Beiyang armies that surrendered to Cheng can also follow the model of the 16th Division, except that the troop establishment should be changed to the national army establishment, all senior officers will remain in the original unit, and middle and low-level officers will be transferred to other national army units!

I have to say that Chen Jingyun's conditions made Duan Qirui a little tempted! The deputy chief of staff can accept it, whether it is to retain the rank of general, and more importantly, the Beiyang Army will retain the establishment, and even if these Beiyang Army units are reorganized by the National Army at that time, but if so many Beiyang Army are integrated, how can they retain the existence of Beiyang, and at that time, he Duan Qirui will be the direct leader of this faction, and based on this, he may be able to mix in the Southern National Army, at least it is much better than the current defeat, Duan Qirui didn't want to flee to the Tianjin Concession after the defeat like Feng Guozhang, but he didn't want to commit suicide like Zhu Rui.

Duan Qirui has this kind of thought, and others also have this kind of thought, but the first to announce it was Yan Xishan, the Shanxi Protector who has always been very low-key, who is not well known to outsiders!

On April 12th, when the soldiers of the National Army arrived in Yanjing City, Yan Xishan, the protector of Shanxi, issued a telegram that the entire territory of Xuancheng Shanxi was surrendered to the Nanjing Republican Political Axe!

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