readx; In addition to strengthening the strength of the 14th Mixed Brigade, Chen Jingyun also supported Long Jiguang's troops, who had just taken refuge in him, and in addition to directly giving him some military funds and logistical materials, Chen Jingyun also pulled out six 57-mm mountain guns for Long Jiguang and gave him six heavy machine guns. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info When Long Jiguang was defeated and retreated from Guangzhou, he lost all the heavy weapons, and later entrenched in western Guangdong, although he also purchased a part, but the number was very small, resulting in the 24th Mixed Brigade of Long Jiguang with more than 6,000 people originally only had six 57mm mountain guns, and there were only two heavy machine guns, and now with this part of the heavy weapons allocated by Chen Jingyun, Long Jiguang's 24th Mixed Brigade also had a full 12-gun mountain artillery battalion and eight heavy machine guns.

After Long Jiguang got this part of the weapons and logistical supplies, he felt that he was right to defect to the National Army. Although it is said that it has lost some of its power to a certain extent, and dozens of officers of the Nationalist Army have been added to the troops, the 24th Mixed Brigade has been greatly developed. Originally, the number of Long Jiguang's troops was more than 7,000 people, even if it was reduced by more than 1,000 people after being reduced to a mixed brigade, but it was a large number of ordnance supplies provided by Ke Chen Jingyun, especially in terms of heavy weapons and equipment, which satisfied Long Jiguang.

Of course, before Chen Jingyun supplemented and expanded Long Jiguang's 24th Mixed Brigade, he also maintained his personal vigilance against Long Jiguang, in addition to sending a group of officers to serve in the 20th Division Mixed Brigade, he also asked Long Jiguang to prepare to come to Nanjing, this kind of move is a temptation, if Long Jiguang does not even dare to come to Nanjing, then it means that this person has a ghost in his heart, then Chen Jingyun will also maintain vigilance against Long Jiguang's 24th Mixed Brigade, and only give them a small amount of light weapons, artillery and heavy machine guns.

Although many subordinates were worried about his safety, he still came to Nanjing, not only by himself, but also brought his wife and children to Nanjing and let them live in Nanjing, which clearly showed that he was loyal to Chen Jingyun on the surface.

Under such circumstances, Long Jiguang, who came to Nanjing, was received by Chen Jingyun, and two days later, Long Jiguang returned to Qinzhou, and then arrived in Qinzhou with a large number of weapons and ammunition.

Chen Jingyun replenished the weapons of the two mixed brigades deployed in Guangdong, but because these things were done in a relatively secretive manner, and they were not large-scale troop increases, they did not cause repercussions from the outside world, and the Gui army did not get any news.

And the strength of these two supplemented mixed brigades is enough to deal with part of the Gui army in the Guangxi direction, even if it can't attack on a large scale, but it can still be done to hold it, and Chen Jingyun only needs them to hold the early stage, as long as they hold it, then the national army can quickly transfer troops from the Jiangnan region to Guangdong by sea.

Although the Nationalist Army does not have the capability of large-scale amphibious landing operations, it can still do so simply by transferring troops by sea.

Because Chen Jingyun asked his subordinate troops to exercise restraint, the Changsha incident did not cause much reaction, and even in order to reduce the impact, Chen Jingyun even asked the following to keep silent about this matter.

The Gui army and the Dian army also remained silent, these three parties almost had a tacit understanding and generally did not react to this matter too radically, but this is only the surface, in fact, these three parties have been suspicious after the outbreak of the Changsha incident, Chen Jingyun in addition to strengthening the strength in the direction of Guangdong, but also reduced the supply of military expenses and logistics materials to the Dian army and the Gui army, and directly stopped the sale of arms to the Gui army, and Tang Jiyao also stopped the sale of heavy weapons and equipment, only selling limited light weapons, Such as rifles, etc.

On the surface, the current three major warlords in the south are still in an alliance relationship, although they are already engaged in a serious military confrontation in Hunan!

In this fragile alliance, the Great War continued, although the Nationalist Army stopped the large-scale offensive in the direction of Xuzhou, but relatively strengthened the offensive in other directions, the Fifth Division of the Nationalist Army had left Fuyang, and entered Henan Province in mid-December, and it can be seen from their marching route that the Fifth Division was heading straight for Zhoukou, Henan. The 6th Division of the Nationalist Army did not stop after occupying Lu'an, which Cao Kun had abandoned, but continued to march westward, and has now entered the southeastern border of Henan. As a result, two main divisions of the Nationalist Army have entered Henan Province one after another, and behind them there are two mixed brigades ready to rush to the Henan front at any time.

In the Hubei direction, the 15th, 16th, and 17th Mixed Brigades under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Army of the Nationalist Army had already defeated a brigade under Duan Zhigui in the west of Anqing and was marching in the direction of Hubei.

After capturing Yueyang, the 2nd Mixed Brigade, which was also under the 4th Army, also did not stop its pace, but continued to attack in the northeast, preparing to join up with the 4th Mixed Brigade.

Although Henan and Hubei did not invest many troops in the Nationalist Army, and the scale of the war was not large, it also attracted the attention of many people.

And here, the most worried person is Duan Zhigui, the commander of the First Army of the Beiyang Army.

After Feng Guozhang's Second Army was defeated in Jiangbei, Duan Zhigui was worried that the main force of the Nationalist Army would advance westward and finally invade Hubei. The First Army in his hands is no better than Feng Guozhang's First Army deployed in Jiangbei at the beginning, although his First Army has the Second Division, the Sixth Division, and three Hunan Provincial Army, but this kind of strength is still not enough compared with Feng Guozhang's Second Army at the beginning.

In addition, some time ago, he sent a mixed brigade to Yucheng, and another brigade to Hunan to reinforce Yang Shande, and at the same time, according to Yuan Shikai's order, he also sent a brigade east to Anqing and a brigade to attack Jiujiang. These expatriate troops also suffered certain losses in the process of fighting with the Nationalist Army, especially the brigade in the direction of Anqing was severely damaged by the Nationalist Army.

Now seeing the tens of thousands of troops of the National Army pressing Hubei, Duan Zhigui is also anxious, you must know that his defense area is much larger than Feng Guozhang at the beginning, not only to be responsible for a Hubei Province, but also to support him in Yucheng. Now that the Nationalist Army has threatened Henan, Duan Zhigui has to allocate a part of his troops to deploy along the Jinghan Line to ensure that Xinyang, Zhumadian and other areas will not fall under the control of the Nationalist Army. As for the Ninth Division and the Henan Provincial Army in the Henan region, Duan Zhigui didn't count on it.

In the Beiyang Army system, the Ninth Division is the weakest unit, otherwise a brigade of the Ninth Division would not have directly abandoned Fuyang and withdrawn to Henan. Speaking of strength, it is estimated that it is about the same as the army of Anhui Province or Hunan Province, and the Henan Provincial Army is even worse, basically the role of the local garrison regiment, and the lack of heavy weapons and equipment in addition to the dissatisfied personnel is incomparable, and even the basic light weapons such as rifles cannot be guaranteed, so it can be said that Henan's army strength is a relatively poor province among the provinces under the control of the Beiyang Army.

Under such circumstances, Duan Zhigui could not rest assured that he would hand over his back to the local troops in Henan Province.

In order to concentrate troops more likely, he also gave up many unimportant places and concentrated his troops around the three towns of Wuhan, anyway, there is a Hanyang Arsenal in the three towns of Wuhan, and he Duan Zhigui has hoarded a lot of ammunition after taking control of the Hanyang Arsenal, so the extremely fatal ammunition supply problem for Feng Guozhang's second army in Jiangbei is not too serious for Duan Zhigui.

From Hubei and Henan, it can already be seen that the Beiyang Army is already in a situation of comprehensive contraction!

The current situation in China is controlled by the Nationalist Army under Chen Jingyun and actively attacked, and the Beiyang Army can only passively defend on all fronts, and as time slowly passes, when the Nationalist Army gathers around Wuhan, 1913 will pass.

Although New Year's Day is also the Western New Year, this Western New Year China has not received much attention, even most foreigners in China are more concerned about the previous Thanksgiving Day and the Christmas the day before the book, and for Chinese, the Western New Year is not a festival, the Lunar New Year is a festival. So the calendar quietly turned over 1913 and entered 1914.

1914, this is destined to be an unusual year, Chen Jingyun knows that if there is no deviation in history, then the First World War will start this year, and whether history has deviated Chen Jingyun does not have too much worry about this, this historical trend is not something that anyone can stop, the cause of the war is not only because of the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince, but the competition of interests between the old and new powers, in order to prepare for this world war, The great powers have been engaged in an arms race for more than ten years, and at this time they are already at the peak of their excitement, and all they need is a little spark, whether it is the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince or some other time, a random spark will trigger an unprecedented world war.

This general trend of history will not change because of the arrival of Chen Jingyun, and after turning over the calendar of 1913, Chen Jingyun began to look forward to the outbreak of the First World War, which was an adventure with both opportunities and risks for China!

Because the outbreak of the world war will contain the energy of the European and American powers, which allows China to get room for development, what is more dangerous for China is that it also gets a great space for development! If it had not been for the economic and industrial foundation laid by the European war during World War I, it would have been impossible for China to have the intention and strength to annex the mainland.

At the same time, China can get greater opportunities, the outbreak of the European war also made European and American products temporarily withdraw from the Chinese market, and then its own domestic market is the most important thing for China's economic development.

In addition to this part of the domestic market, China was able to export a large number of industrial raw materials to the European participating countries during the war, and even obtained orders for some simple industrial products, such as textiles such as military uniforms, military quilts, military shoes, etc., as well as food represented by canned food, as well as some other materials with little technical content, such as bandages. At that time, the total amount of orders that China can obtain is naturally not to be compared with the United States, an industrial power, or even with the United States, but Chen Jingyun's ambition is not great, at least to occupy a small part of the big cake of the world war is enough for China to eat very much.

In addition to traditional goods, Chen Jingyun also plans to export two other kinds of medical supplies, and these two things are sulfonamide and morphine!