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In the General Staff Building next to the Nanjing Presidential Palace, Chen Jingyun, Shen Gang, and others held a small meeting, which was basically to report on the recent progress of the war on various fronts. After the Nationalist Army launched a large-scale offensive operation when it first arrived in Xuzhou in early December last year, due to the lack of ammunition and the advent of heavy snowy weather in winter, the Nationalist Army has stopped large-scale offensive operations on the Xuzhou and other northern Jiangsu fronts, and now maintains a strategic stalemate, and the Nationalist Army needs time to re-stockpile ammunition and replenish the troops participating in the war, and it is also necessary to use this period of time to set up a shelf for the newly formed 21st Division, the 22nd Division, and the five mixed brigades. Although Chen Jingyun did not expect these newly formed troops to be put into the battlefield in a short time, it was still possible to train and serve as a reserve unit after setting up a shelf.

The fighting in northern Jiangsu has calmed down, but the Nationalist Army is quite active on other fronts, especially in the northern direction. After the Nationalist Army, the Gui Army and the Dian Army jointly captured Hunan, although it was said that the three families almost broke out because of the ownership of Changsha, but they did not fight after all, Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao also apologized to Chen Jingyun on the surface through telegrams for the recklessness of their subordinates, and said that they would severely punish the subordinate general Yunyun, and finally it may also be to alleviate the contradictions between the three, Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao said that the Nationalist Army could also enter the city, and the last three families were stationed in Changsha City with a regiment, and the rest withdrew from the city. After this came down, the once tense relationship between the three families was eased again, but the seeds of division had been planted, and no one knew when it would break out, so Chen Jingyun had to maintain a considerable number of troops on the Hunan side, and the 10th Division, the main force of the Fourth Army, as well as the 1st Mixed Brigade and the 3rd Mixed Brigade, were still deployed in Changsha, Xiangtan, and Hengyang in Hunan. The Nationalist Army continued to maintain heavy troops in Hunan instead of sending the main force north to attack Hubei, Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting were not stupid, and naturally they would not send troops to Hubei to provoke Duan Zhigui while consuming their own strength, so whether it was the Gui Army or the Dian Army, they no longer had the idea of continuing to go north, and the troops sent to Hunan also continued to stay in Hunan, the Dian Army had two divisions, and the Gui Army also had one division and two mixed brigadesHowever, joining forces is still a great threat to the first division and two brigades of the Fourth Army of the Nationalist Army remaining in Hunan.

However, the tense situation in Hunan did not affect the determination of the Nationalist Army to attack Hubei, and not only did the three mixed brigades led by the newly established Seventh Army attack westward from the direction of Anqing, but the Second Mixed Brigade and the Fourth Mixed Brigade under the Fourth Army also advanced from Yueyang and Jiujiang to Wuhan respectively.

It's just that Duan Zhigui took the initiative to abandon the southern Hubei region south of the Yangtze River in order to concentrate his forces in Wuhan, resulting in the 2nd Mixed Brigade and the 4th Mixed Brigade progressing smoothly without encountering any stubborn resistance.

"According to the progress of the various troops, a total of about five mixed brigades of the Seventh Army and the Fourth Army of our army are expected to arrive in the surrounding areas of Wuhan in five days, and then they will launch a tentative attack!" Shen Gang introduced.

Chen Jingyun said: "If there are only five mixed brigades, will the strength be weaker?" ”

The Nationalist Army's mixed brigade establishment is two regiments and one battalion, that is, two infantry regiments plus one mountain artillery battalion; even after the establishment of each unit has been expanded by the logistics unit and the personnel of each mixed brigade have climbed to more than 6,000 people, the actual combat strength is not much more than before, and even if the five mixed brigades are all fully established, they will only have 30,000 people. And they have a lot of opponents, and Duan Zhigui's measures to concentrate troops have made Duan Zhigui's troops concentrated in the three towns of Wuhan, where there are not only the second division under Duan Zhigui, but also the remnants of the fourth division of Yang Shande who fled from Hunan to the north of five or six thousand people, and there are nearly 20,000 people in the Beiyang line alone, in addition to the three divisions of the Hubei Provincial Army under Duan Zhigui, the number of these three divisions together is more than 30,000 people. Therefore, the number of troops in the direction of Wuhan under the control of Duan Zhigui is at least more than 50,000 people.

This does not include the deployment of the Sixth Division of the Beiyang Army on the Wuhan-Yanjing-Han Line, although Duan Zhigui deployed the Sixth Division in northern Hubei in order to ensure that the Jinghan Line was not lost, but at a critical juncture, he could still transfer the Sixth Division to Wuhan for reinforcements, with the Hanyang Arsenal in hand, he did not rely so much on the railway supply line as Feng Guozhang's Second Army at the beginning, so even if the Jinghan Line in the rear was cut off by the National Army, it could not endanger the foundation of the First Army under Duan Zhigui.

Like Hubei, the process of the national army marching into Henan was also quite smooth in the early stage, at least when stepping on the land of Henan, there was no large-scale resistance of the Beiyang Army, but the regular army did not meet, the bandits did encounter several groups, these bandits were somewhat knowledgeable to see the national army large force coming and immediately fled to the north or the west, and some bandits who thought that the heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals were not long-sighted and planned to rob the logistics transport team of the national army, among which a group of bandits led by Bai Lang was even more arrogant. A group of more than 1,000 bandits actually launched an attack on a logistics convoy with an entire battalion escorting them. This courage, this courage, amazed a large number of officers of the National Army! Even in the plain area, Li Dianrong's Third Cavalry Regiment, which was subordinate to Cao Kun's Third Division, did not dare to attack the Nationalist Army's logistics transport team, which had an entire battalion to escort the escort......

The result is obvious, the bandits of more than 1,000 people have not returned, more than half of them have fallen under the guns of the national army, and the national army has never been in the habit of capturing bandits, so the remaining bandits have also been killed, and even the manpower to guard the prisoners is left. Although the Nationalist Army likes the surrender of other warlords' troops, and prefers to capture the soldiers of the Beiyang Army and persuade them to join the Nationalist Army, it has never captured any bandits, let alone accepted bandits to join the army.

Speaking of which, the Nationalist Army has a long historical tradition of killing bandits, and less than a month after the founding of the Nationalist Army, when the Third Brigade led by Yuan Fang marched into Chaozhou, it killed hundreds of people, and then in the process of purging bandits in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, many bandits were killed.

When the Nationalist Army marched into Jiangxi in the first half of last year, thousands of bandits were killed, and in almost half a month, the bandits in Jiangxi were either killed by the Nationalist Army or fled as soon as possible.

Now the march into Anhui and even into Henan is the same, many generals of the Nationalist Army have never received an order to capture or persuade the bandits to surrender.

When the Sixth Division marched into Henan did not meet the main force of the Beiyang Army, but exterminated thousands of bandits, Chen Jingyun could only sigh, with the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, the situation in the country continued to be turbulent, this not only has many warlords to carry out large-scale wars, but also bandits in various places emerge in endlessly, the people's living standards are falling again and again, and many people are already shouting that the republic is not as good as the imperial system.

Some of the Manchu remnants also shouted that China could not do without an emperor, and that Emperor Xuantong must be restored!

Now that the various fronts continue to remain calm, and the Nationalist Army is accumulating more strength to prepare for the next larger-scale offensive, the Beiyang Army took advantage of this short opportunity to recuperate, not only using the last part of the aftermath loan to urgently order a large amount of ammunition from the Ben, but also sending the last of the main forces of the Beiyang Army to the front line, including the First Division, the Sixteenth Division, and several mixed brigades that were trained last year.

As for the defense of the Gyeonggi area, Yuan Shikai planned to hand over the newly organized 12th Division and the 13th Division, the first of these two divisions was the 13th Division, which lacked both personnel and ordnance, and so far did not even have artillery, while the 12th Division was in a better situation, and a considerable number of the ordnance ordered from the 12th Division were supplemented to the 12th Division, and they were also equipped with new weapons in service, such as the 38-type 6.5-mm rifle, the 38-type 75-mm field gun, and the 38-type 6.5mm heavy machine gun, which can be described as a standard mechanic.

Interestingly, the commander of the 12th Division is none other than his eldest son Yuan Keding, Yuan Keding, who broke his leg while riding a horse, originally planned to study military affairs while treating his injuries in Germany, but as the domestic situation became more and more tense, and the 12th Division was about to become an army, his son Yuan Shikai sent a telegram to recall Yuan Keding back to China, regardless of whether he had only learned military affairs for a half-time, and no matter how lame his leg was, he directly made Yuan Keding the lieutenant general and division commander of the 20th Division with a stroke of the pen.

Not only was the division commander his eldest son, but the other important officers of the 12th Division were all relatives of Yuan Shikai, and he was determined to build the 12th and 13th Divisions into units similar to Chen Jingyun's guard divisions. And his behavior naturally caused the dissatisfaction of a large number of Beiyang Army generals, although now the big tree of the Beiyang Army is far away, but there are still many middle and lower-level generals waiting for the position, or it is not easy to have an extra position of lieutenant general and division commander, you Yuan Shikai actually nepotism let his son be the division commander, which makes many Beiyang generals who followed Yuan Shikai to fight the world in the era of small station training how embarrassed! Could it be that a large number of generals of the Beiyang Army are not as good as Yuan Keding, a person who has only studied military courses for three months?