There are mountains in the revolutionary army in the south, and the three brigades sent by Wu Peifu in Beiyang to "aid Guangdong" also have their own mothers, among which Deng Ruzhuo's soldiers are directly related to Feng Guozhang's line, and the current No. 9 Mixed Brigade of the Army is regarded as the Central Army of Beiyang, and he is the hardest working this time.

Zhang Keyao is a native of Anhui, it is estimated that he is from Anhui, and in February, he followed Duan Qirui to respond to Sun Yat-sen's telegram of peaceful reunification and disarmament, and went home from the field in the past two days, and his brigade also went back to Shandong, and Fang Benren had to transfer his 10th mixed brigade from southern Jiangnan.

Fan Zhongxiu was born in Henan swordsman, and in the past he was the second commander of Shaanxi Jing [***] under Sun Yat-sen, and was later defeated by the Beiyang warlords, and once took refuge in Wu Peifu, but he was in Wu Ying's heart in Sun, uh, Wu Peifu, the "Ludendorff", is one of the best in China to say, but it seems to be naïve to say that the means of scheming are a little naïve, and it is very easy to deceive.

For Wu Yushuai's nonsensical military deployment, Fang Benren also wanted to cry without tears, and sent two brigades to "help", one of which was the Anhui brigade in collusion with Sun Yat-sen, and the other was simply surrendered by Sun Yat-sen's Jing [***]! Yu Shuai! Yu Shuai! Have you ever heard of such a defection?

(Wu Yushuai's voice: "How come?") How could Lao Tzu's troops defect on the verge of battle? Huanzhang? Will you defect? "Feng Yuxiang is honest." Hui Yushuai, my old Feng believes in Christ, Christians must be honest, and honest people will not defect. ”）

Fang Benren's first thought after Nanxiong heard that the Cantonese army had captured Zhoutian Town to cut off the connection between Nanxiong and Renhua was to go home, it was time to go back to southern Jiangnan, this battle was not started, and there were three brigades under his command, one of which was suspected of fraudulent surrender, so to let a reliable brigade look at Fan Zhongxiu, there is only one brigade that can really be used! How many troops are there on the other side of Sun Artillery? Listen to Shen Hongying and Xie Wenbing say that there are 100,000! Although these two wastes must have exaggerated the strength of the enemy to disguise their own incompetence, it is estimated that 50,000 is there, let a brigade of 4,000 people go and 50,000 Cantonese troops PK? No matter how you look at it, it won't work. Therefore, Fang Benren simply hid in Nanxiong and pretended to be sick, no matter how Shen Hongying pleaded, he refused to send troops.

But Shen Hongying's pleas can not be heard, but Wu Peifu's strict orders cannot be regarded as a deaf ear, and the current Wu Peifu is not the Wu Peifu who let Feng Christ sell in the Second Zhifeng War more than two years later. Under the urging of Wu Peifu's sternly worded telegram, Fang Benren gritted his teeth and exhausted the troops of the three brigades, with the fifth mixed brigade of Fan Zhongxiu's Yu Army as the vanguard, and he and Deng Ruzhuo led two brigades of soldiers to supervise the battle in the rear. In this way, the three brigades and the first brigade were held back by the first two brigades, and slowly advanced in the direction of Zhoutian.

Fang Benren walked very slowly, as if he was waiting for Xie Wenbing and Shen Hongying to be wiped out, so that he could go home. This can make Luo Yaoguo anxious, the left and Fang Benren will not come, the right and Fang Benren will not come, and the wait and wait will not wait for Fang Benren to wait for Chiang Kai-shek's call.

"Fuwen, now that the situation has changed, Fan Zhongxiu of the Northern Army has sent someone to contact the prime minister to express his willingness to return to the revolutionary side." There was a slight hint of excitement in the Ningbo official dialect on the other end of the phone. "Fan Chongxiu's brigade will arrive at Taiping Town, the county seat of Shixing this afternoon, he will revolt in Taiping Town, and take up the post of commander-in-chief of the Yasukuni Yu Army, your eighth division must arrive at Taiping Town before seven o'clock this evening to join Commander Fan, and then wait for the opportunity to attack the Beiyang Army following behind Fan's department, and the specific actions are arranged by Fan Zhongxiu. The weapons and ammunition captured in this battle, and all the captured prisoners will be handed over to Fan Zhongxiu, and after you finish the battle, you will bring the troops back to Shaoguan, and there will be action in the next step. ”

"Yes, yes." Luo Yaoguo was shocked, but he only had time to spit out three words. Putting down the phone, Luo Yaoguo immediately summoned the regiment commanders and chief of staff Zhang Zhizhong, announced Chiang Kai-shek's latest order, and then handed over the defense of Zhoutian Town to Chen Cheng's artillery regiment, and then the whole division started as a whole and marched more than 20 kilometers to Taiping Town.

Taiping Town was supposed to be Shen Hongying in charge of defense, but this one is now a frightened bird, and when he heard that Zhoutian Town was captured by the Cantonese army, he did not dare to continue to stay in Taiping Town, but immediately took his henchmen to Nanxiong, leaving only the remnants of He Caijie's more than 1,000 people to defend Taiping Town.

On March 26, Fang Benren of the Beiyang Army was strictly ordered by Wu Peifu to set out from Nanxiong and let Fan Zhongxiu act as the vanguard, in fact, this Fan Zhongxiu had always maintained secret radio contact with Sun Yat-sen's people, and never really submitted to Wu Peifu, but because Fang Benren had been on guard, he couldn't find a chance to defect. This time, Fang Benren ordered him to attack Zhoutian as the vanguard, so he found a good opportunity, Fan Zhongxiu thought, if Fang Benren's two brigades were attacked by him and the Guangdong army on the way from Nanxiong County to Taiping Town, they would definitely be caught off guard and collapsed in a battle, and then he would join forces with Li Liejun's Jiangxi army to attack Jiangxi, maybe he could expel the forces of Beiyang and take Jiangxi Province. So Fan Zhongxiu, who had made up his mind, secretly contacted Sun Yat-sen through the radio, and explained the plan and the plan, so there was a matter of Chiang Kai-shek ordering Luo Yaoguo to assist Fan Zhongxiu. Uh, anyway, Luo Yaoguo, the irresponsible big butterfly, has now changed the history of this time and space to a blur, and even Fan Zhongxiu has been affected and revolted in advance.

Fan Zhongxiu, who arrived in Taiping Town, the county seat of Shixing, and the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Yu Army surrendered the weapons of He Caijie's troops without much effort, and imprisoned all the officers and men of He Caijie's troops in a school in Taiping Town to block the news. Not long after, Luo Yaoguo's Eighth Division of the Guangdong Army arrived at the Runaway from Zhoutian Town, an hour earlier than scheduled.

"Master Luo, we have finally looked forward to you." A strong man with thick eyebrows and big eyes personally greeted Luo Yaoguo at the west gate of Taiping Town. "I'm Fan Zhongxiu."

Luo Yaoguo gave a military salute to the handsome strong man in front of him. "Commander-in-Chief Fan, the Eighth Division of the Guangdong Army was ordered to come to join the division, and according to the arrangement of the General Staff, our Eighth Division will now be under the command of Commander-in-Chief Fan."

Fan Zhongxiu was stunned by Luo Yaoguo's actions and words. "What's so embarrassing about that? Commander Luo's team is much larger than mine, how can I command Commander Luo? Why don't we discuss something? "Fan Zhongxiu's words are sincere, he is from the green forest, although he can fight well, but after all, he is not used to the regular army, if these people's troops fight together, they will always have the final say in the number of people and guns, how can the leader of 8,000 people listen to the command of the leader of only 4,000 people?

"Commander Fan doesn't have to be polite, Yaoguo doesn't know anything about the deployment of the Northern Army, so let's ask Commander Fan to give an order." The 8,000 men of the Eighth Division were marching into Taiping Town, believing that the situation here would soon be detected by Fang Benren, so Luo Yaoguo still asked Fan Zhongxiu to give an order quickly.

"Okay then, brother, you're welcome. The current situation is like this, Fang Benren and Deng Ruzhuo's two brigades are about 8,000 people ten kilometers behind me, and they should spend the night in Mashi Town tonight. Mashi was a small town, with low and thin walls, and there was no room for the two of them with 8,000 men in the city. They should have set up camp outside the city, but officers above the regimental level should spend the night in the big families in the city according to the usual style of the Beiyang Army. "After giving a general introduction to the situation of the enemy army, Fan Zhongxiu came up with his own plan." There should be 12,000 troops in one of your two divisions, let's go to the night attack tonight, our Yu army's team will take the lead, your troops will follow us to kill it, and the town will be fought by my people, Brother Luo can only lead the troops to kill the troops outside the town, if you capture the prisoners, you will seize the weapons and ammunition" Speaking of this, Fan Zhongxiu looked at Luo Yaoguo and motioned for him to take an idea.

"According to the order of the General Staff, all the prisoners and captures in this battle will belong to your department, although Commander Fan is relieved to fight Zhencheng, we will try our best to catch the Beiyang Army outside the city." Luo Yaoguo knew that Chiang Kai-shek might want Fan Zhongxiu to cooperate with Li Liejun to fight Jiangxi in order to attract Wu Peifu's attention, so he ordered the captured weapons and ammunition and captured prisoners to be handed over to Fan Zhongxiu.

Fan Zhongxiu listened to Luo Yaoguo's statement and nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Brother Luo, I have already asked the big families in the town to prepare a meal for your department, how about we hurry up and catch Fang Benren when we have a meal?" ”

By the time the Eighth Division had finished dinner and rested for about an hour, it had recovered some strength a little, and it was already 8:30 p.m. on March 28. Luo Yaoguo and Fan Zhongxiu's two divisions of 12,000 people, with Fan Zhongxiu's brigade as the guide, took advantage of the night to quietly touch the town of Mashi, ten kilometers away.

The 12,000-strong army of the 10-kilometer night road took about two hours to complete, and the main force of the night attack was Fan Zhongxiu's troops, this swordsman-born army may not be good at positional warfare, but for this kind of night raid, they seem to be much stronger than Luo Yaoguo's Eighth Division. Four thousand officers and soldiers each had a bright steel knife, quietly infiltrating the enemy barracks under the cover of night, Luo Yaoguo didn't know how many Beiyang soldiers lost their lives in their sleep, he only knew that it took about ten minutes before this assassination attack was ended by a heart-rending scream.

"Zhongyi, it's our turn to rush." Luo Yaoguo's faint voice seemed to be talking about something inconsequential, rather than going to kill someone.

"Long live the Prime Minister! Come on! "With the fall of three red flares. The 8,000 men of the 8th Division erupted in an earth-shattering roar, and according to Luo Yaoguo's order, all the 8,000 officers and soldiers, including Luo Yaoguo himself, would be put into the battle package. In this battle, Luo Yaoguo's side only had a numerical advantage of 1.5:1, and the training level of the Eighth Division of the Guangdong Army was still far inferior to that of the Beiyang Army, which had been in the army for a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to crush the organized resistance of the enemy before they fully wake up from their sleep, so Luo Yaoguo felt desperate to throw all his troops into it at once, and strive to completely defeat the opponent in the first blow!

The 8,000 officers and men of the Eighth Division rushed to the enemy's camp like a tide, and the Beiyang Army that was attacked by surprise was obviously completely stunned, and the exquisite hand-to-hand combat skills of those swordsmen and the Eighth Division's extremely imposing all-army assault gave the Beiyang officers and men, who were not at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, an illusion that they were surrounded by a million-strong army. What's even more troublesome is that because most of the middle and senior officers are staying in the comfort of the city, the Beiyang Army that was raided cannot be organized in the fastest time, and when the chaos and fear spread among the low-level soldiers, even if Wu Peifu personally parachuted down, there was no way to suppress the collapse, and after the organized resistance of the 9th and 10th Mixed Brigades of the Beiyang collapsed, there was no suspense in this victory in the horse market.