readx; It is not difficult for the Ninth Division to take a Xuancheng, even if the Soviet army on the opposite side has more than 10,000 troops to defend it, and it is still increasing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe Ninth Division does not have an advantage in terms of strength, but now both the officers of the Ninth Division and the many staff officers in the headquarters of the Nationalist Army have great confidence in the Ninth Division, and this confidence comes from the successive victories of the Nationalist Army in the past two years. Even if the Ninth Division has not experienced a war at all, the Ninth Division has gone through more than half a year of training, and the training standard is the same as that of several other main forces of the National Army, and what is lacking is only actual war experience, so the National Army still has great confidence in this, otherwise it would not have given a time limit of ten days to take Xuancheng.

But this superficial confidence is one thing, and when the time comes, it is a problem to achieve the goals set for them by the General Staff. After all, it is not difficult for the Ninth Division to take Xuancheng with superior firepower, and it is difficult to take Xuancheng quickly!

But when Zhuang Xianhe of the Ninth Division and other senior officers of the Ninth Division had a headache for how to take Xuancheng in just a few days, the advance of the Nationalist Army in several other directions was also going smoothly, and the Tenth Division from Guangdong had already entered Jiangxi, and after advancing all the way for dozens of miles, it did not encounter a large force of the Jiangxi army, and even the Jiangxi army at the battalion and company level had not encountered it, but by the way, they exterminated a group of bandits who were not long-eyed, and the bandits' family members did not know whether they were confused or naively thought that they were invincible in the world. At that time, after a platoon of the logistics transport team escorted the logistics transport team to block the attack of the bandits, a company of the nearby national army quickly reinforced, and it took a few hours to completely defeat this group of bandits, and then captured two or three hundred bandits. Yu Shaoying, the commander of the 10th Division, was not a soft-hearted person, and on the same day he ordered all the captured bandits to be shot, and there was not a single small miscellaneous fish left to threaten those bandits and hooligans. This move frightened many bandits in Jiangxi, some surrendered to the Nationalist Army, some dispersed on the spot, and many fled Jiangxi into the neighboring province of Hunan, and for a time there were many bandits in southern Jiangxi.

Although Li Junlie controlled Jiangxi, and there were not many troops under him, his control over the jurisdiction was far less than the control of the national army over the jurisdiction, and he only occupied important cities and strongholds, and ordinary towns and towns could not be managed, which was not an individual example of Jiangxi, but other provinces were similar, and even Beiyang could not get out of this situation, mainly because the control of the political axe basically reached the county, and the vast rural areas below were still in the state of clan gentry management. In order to improve this, the Nationalist Army set up a multi-layered administrative structure in towns and townships to completely control the vast rural areas. However, other provinces are still similar to the pre-Qing Dynasty, plus Jiangxi has suffered natural disasters in the past two years, the harvest is not very good, and many farmers have no way to live and go to the mountains to set up villages, so there are many bandits in Jiangxi, countless.

As soon as the Nationalist Army entered Jiangxi, it slaughtered hundreds of bandits with extremely harsh methods, and threatened those bandits very much.

The 10th Division advanced towards the southern part of Jiangxi, while the 2nd Mixed Brigade was marching towards the eastern part of Jiangxi, but due to transportation, the speed of the advance was not fast, and the 3rd Mixed Brigade from Quzhou was not fast.

Generally speaking, the vast majority of the time and energy of the Nationalist Army's march into Jiangxi was spent on the march.

Although the Nationalist Army had not been able to engage in a large-scale battle with the revolutionary army so far, the progress was in place according to the plan, and those who knew the truth naturally knew that the Nationalist Army was going well, and outsiders could guess what was going on in the battle ahead by some telegrams and newspaper words.

"President, it's almost time now, do you think it's time to let the troops in Chuzhou and Bengbu move!" Duan Qirui suggested to Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai did not answer immediately, but asked: "How is the national army fighting in Jiangxi and southern Anhui?" Has there been any change in southern Jiangsu? ”

Duan Qirui said: "There is not much news about Jiangxi and southern Anhui, and the revolutionaries did not say that there was a big war, these two places are far away, it is estimated that there will be no big war in three or five days, but according to the current situation, the revolutionaries will definitely not be able to hold on, although they have a lot of troops, but it is enough to deal with the national army!"

"The national army on the southern side of Jiangsu has not changed much, and Brother Huapu reported that the national army on the other side of the strait has no signs of being transferred, but another national army unit has appeared on the Lishui side, the number is the fifth division of the national army. This Fifth Division was stationed in Ningbo before, and this time it was transferred to Lishui, I am afraid that it is also to prevent us from suddenly going south! ”

Yuan Shikai said: "This Chen Jingyun is very careful, southern Jiangsu didn't move at all, so he sent some second-line troops to fight Jiangxi and southern Anhui!" ”

"It is estimated that Chen Jingyun also knows what kind of revolutionaries he is, so he sent second-line troops!" Duan Qirui said this, and after a pause, he continued: "However, among the national army that attacked southern Anhui this time, there is a new unit of the national army, the number is the ninth division of the national army, and the people below reported that although this army has not been formed for a long time, the weapons are also configured according to the other main divisions of the national army, and it has been trained for half a year before becoming an army!" ”

"He, Chen Jingyun, will definitely not be idle!" Yuan Shikai said, also wondering: "Where did he Chen Jingyun get so much money, now the number is found out is eleven divisions and three mixed brigades, although the establishment is smaller than ours, but the cost of this will not be much less than ours, how did he pull up so many troops?" ”

Yuan Shikai didn't understand very much, even if the national army controlled the two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang, but it was impossible to have so many financial resources to establish a regular army of more than 100,000 in just two years. And to get such a force, it is impossible to do it without a huge amount of silver, even if Chen Jingyun scrapes the ground in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, it will not be able to build it.

Yuan Shikai naturally didn't know that Chen Jingyun had hooked up with Ben since the beginning of the Fuzhou Uprising, and then hugged the thighs of the Americans, in order to make money, he not only mortgaged the surplus of Fujian Customs to a British consortium, but also mortgaged Fujian's salt administration to Ben, and only after these two sums of money did the foundation of the National Army be established, and later after taking Fujian and Zhejiang, it was much more relaxed, and the cigarette and opium monopoly system allowed him to make a lot of money, which made the Nationalist Army grow slowly step by step, as for the loans from the Americans, The original intention of the United States was to help Chen Jingyun build a navy, and then the industrial and commercial loans were really used for tens of millions of yuan in the army. It was not until the Nationalist Army grew stronger and the expected benefits of the United States became larger and greater that the United States took the initiative to propose the second phase of the military assistance plan, but this plan was still in the planning and had not yet been negotiated.

With incomprehension and depression in his heart, Yuan Shikai said: "It seems that there is no chance on the southern side of Jiangsu, wait for you to send a message to Huapu, since the national army has attacked southern Anhui, then we also have to move, let him send troops from the Jinpu line to the west, capture Anhui north of the Yangtze River, if possible, capture Anqing or other strongholds or even cross the river, and obtain a bridgehead for the future southward crossing of the river." ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Shikai also looked at it on the map, and then said: "In addition, send a telegram to Lei Zhenchun in Henan and ask his Seventh Division to send a brigade south to Anhui." Together with the 3rd Division and the 2nd Mixed Brigade, you must take Anhui down for me! ”

A few simple arrangements have already pointed out the direction for the future movement of the Beiyang Army, but Duan Qirui reminded Yuan Shikai at this time: "This seventh division has not been formed for a long time, and there are many arrears of money, food, and guns before, I'm afraid it's ......."

When Yuan Shikai heard this, he also frowned a little, he naturally knew the situation of the Seventh Division, when the Beiyang Army expanded in the first round, he took the new army in Henan and some other troops to form the Seventh Division, and then formed the Eighth Division with Zhang Xun's troops and Qingjiangpu's troops. This Zhang Xun's Eighth Division was under great pressure because it was staying in the southern area of Qingjiang and Pusu, and Zhang Xun was a person who could scavenge money and was willing to spend it, so although the Eighth Division was a little inferior in weapons and equipment, it was finally completed. However, the Seventh Division was a little worse, although there were nominally the 13th Brigade and the 14th Brigade at the beginning, but only one brigade was completed, and the heavy weapons of the artillery regiment were also seriously insufficient.

However, even if the Seventh Division is not strong, it still needs to go south, and now that the Jinpu Line is tight, it is impossible for Yuan Shikai to transfer Cao Kun's Third Division and the Second Mixed Brigade as reserves to participate in the Anhui war, and considering that fierce battles may break out with the Nationalist Army in the Anhui region in the future, the strength cannot be too small, so the northern area of Anhui must be shared by other troops.

"Give Lei Zhenchun another 500,000 yuan, and then give him a strip and let him go to the Hanyang factory to get a thousand guns!" Yuan Shikai now took a big loan for the aftermath, and he still had some money in his hand, so he immediately allocated 500,000 military expenses to the Seventh Division. As for the guns in the Hanyang factory, they can get their hands on them smoothly without Yuan Shikai's strips.

After Li Yuanhong went to Yanjing as his vice president, Yuan Shikai appointed Duan Zhigui, the commander of the Second Army, to concurrently serve as the military envoy of Hubei Province, commanding the Beiyang Army troops on the Jinghan Line, and began to incorporate the original Li Yuanhong troops in Hubei Province. The Hanyang Arsenal in Hubei naturally fell under the control of Beiyang, and now the Hanyang Arsenal is once again working overtime to provide weapons and ammunition for the Beiyang Army.

With the support of Lei Zhenchun's troops, there would be no problem in northern Anhui, and Cao Kun's third division would be able to concentrate on the central region of Anhui and confront the Nationalist Army. Of course, the inevitable Yuan Shikai also tried to buy several division commanders and other senior officers under Bai Wenwei.

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There's another chapter added in the evening!

In addition, today's editor's notice said that it will be put on the shelves after New Year's Day, and this will be more like the yellow flower girl, sooner or later, and now the million-word shelves are also considered to be older girls out of the cabinet, and you have a lot of pity......