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In Jiejiazhuang, the headquarters of the Second Army of the Beiyang Army, which was already busy with people, was even more busy at this time, with a large number of officers of the Beiyang Army coming in and out, and some soldiers of the Beiyang Army were destroying a large number of various materials, and the documents and papers were spread all over the floor and no one paid attention to them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It's all ready! Feng Guozhang's adjutant walked up to Feng Guozhang and whispered.

Feng Guozhang looked at the headquarters of the Second Army behind him, who had been there for more than a year, and his eyes were full of emotion: "I, Feng Guozhang, have been in the domestic military circles for many years, and the Second Army under my command has brought together nearly half of the elite of the Beiyang Army. How did it become what it is now? ”

laughed at himself in his heart: "How could I have thought that I would run away from Jiangbei in embarrassment!" ”

Seeing that Feng Guozhang stayed where he was for a long time, the adjutant showed a worried look and said, "Commander, it's not too early!" ”

As if to confirm his words, as soon as the words fell, a shell fell not far away, Feng Guozhang turned his head to look in the direction where the bomb landed, he had been in the army for many years, and he could hear that it should be the sound of a seventy-five millimeter shell.

"It seems to be faster than expected!" Feng Guozhang sighed deeply at this time: "It's nothing more than a mountain of defeat!" ”

The battle in Jiangbei has been determined from the moment the national army cut off Shahe Town, and Feng Guozhang had already foreseen that the situation in Jiangbei would transform into an uncontrollable situation, but how could Jiangbei give up easily, so whether it was Feng Guozhang, Yuan Shikai or Duan Qirui, they all put the hope that Xu Shuzheng's 11th Division could reopen the Jinpu line and relieve Chuzhou after taking Shahe Town. As long as Chuzhou is not lost and the Jinpu line is kept unblocked, then the Beiyang Army in the Jiangbei area will not be in great danger.

Xu Shuzheng, who rushed south from Bengbu, did not stop for a moment, although he had the idea of preserving his strength in the early stage, which led to his eleventh division not going to Hefei for reinforcements, which led to Hefei being taken by the National Army and then changed the entire Jinpu Line War, which directly led to the National Army being able to free up the main force to attack Chuzhou, for which Xu Shuzheng was criticized by many people, Yuan Shikai's harshly worded telegram had been sent several times, and even Duan Qirui said that Xu Shuzheng had done too much this time.

Therefore, after Chuzhou was attacked, Xu Shuzheng did not dare to continue to delay, and was ready to go south even before the order of the War Department, when Duan Qirui's order came, he immediately led the main force of the 11th Division to the south, and defeated the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the National Army in one fell swoop in the early stage and made an extremely rare start.

Originally, I thought that although there would be resistance when sweeping all the way down, it should be able to reopen the Jinpu line with Pan Juying in the direction of Chuzhou. But the thought that it would be blocked in Shahe Town was ten days. In the past ten days, Xu Shuzheng had no idea of preserving his strength, but commanded the troops to launch a fierce attack on Shahe Town, and nearly 1,000 people had been killed and wounded in ten days.

This made him extremely corrupt and helpless at the same time.

He didn't know that in order to block the main force of the 11th Division of the Beiyang Army, which was more than 10,000 people, the Nationalist Army invested more than 2,000 people from the remnants of the Fifth Mixed Brigade and more than 6,000 people from the Eighth Division, and then received a regiment reinforced by the Fifth Division, and more than 10,000 troops had been gathered in the direction of Shahe Town. And this strength is not much less than the main force of Xu Shuzheng's 11th Division, the strength of the two is comparable, and the weapons and equipment are also half a catty, so in this case, the national army naturally lacks sufficient troops to counterattack, but it can still be done if it is to defend.

Xu Shuzheng couldn't take Shahe Town, and he couldn't relieve the siege of Chuzhou. The other Beiyang armies in the Jiangbei direction were also entangled by the national armies in their respective directions, and they could not divide their troops to support. It is reasonable that Pan Juying was defeated by the main force of the Nationalist Army when he could not get reinforcements and even lacked ammunition supplies.

And the loss of Chuzhou almost immediately announced the victory or defeat of the Jiangbei war, and Feng Guozhang did not hesitate to prepare to command the troops to break through to the north, intending to preserve the main force of the Second Army.

If the Beiyang Army wants to run, the Nationalist Army on the opposite side will definitely not watch them escape, on the contrary, they have also increased their offensive in all directions, and the first direction of the second division and the seventh division of the two divisions of the army to launch a fierce attack, Wang Ruxian's seventh division and the fifth division have no chance to retreat north at all, so they can only retreat in the direction of Jiejiazhuang while fighting, and prepare to retreat after gathering other troops of the second army.

At the same time, Feng Guozhang also shrank his forces in other directions, the Second Mixed Brigade gradually moved closer to the northeast, and the main force of the Fifth Division also gave up the defense of the Jiangbei area, and even withdrew from Taishan Town, and turned north to move closer to Jiejiazhuang, and Tang Tianxi's 10th Division in Wugang also began to retreat to Wuyi Town.

In addition to allowing the front-line troops to intensify their offensive, Chen Jingyun also ordered the guard division to cross the river directly from Nanjing under the cover of the navy, and a day after crossing the river, it occupied the town of Taishan, which had been abandoned by the Beiyang Army.

Looking at Taishan Town, which has many fortifications, Yu Ruofei, the commander of the guard division, sighed incomparably, during the military confrontation period of more than a year, the two sides carried out a large number of fortifications across the Yangtze River, and the National Army built many fortifications in Nanjing and Zhenjiang, and the Beiyang Army also built a large number of fortifications in Taishan Town, Jiejiazhuang, and even Yangzhou. However, only a part of these fortifications was used, and at best, only the fortifications in the ** direction were completely used by the Beiyang Army once, otherwise even if the remnants of the Seventh Division were reinforced by the Fifth Division and one regiment, it would not be possible to support them for too long under the attack of the two main divisions of the Second and Seventh Divisions of the National Army.

And with the active retreat of the Beiyang Army step by step, those intact fortifications were abandoned before they were used once.

After the guard division occupied Taishan Town, it continued to advance to the north, forming an angle with the second and seventh divisions of the Nationalist Army attacking from the east, plus the attack of the Nationalist Army in the west and northeast, the Beiyang Army was almost already attacked on all sides.

Listening to the sound of the explosion, Feng Guozhang knew that the enemy army was not far from Jiejiazhuang, and if this situation occurred, it already showed that a regiment of the Fifth Division in the south had been defeated.

Glancing at the headquarters of the Second Army again, Feng Guozhang turned around and strode in the northeast direction.

On November 3rd, the Nationalist Army captured Jiejiazhuang, more than 3,000 Beiyang defenders surrendered, and captured many artillery pieces of the Beiyang Army's heavy artillery regiment, these heavy artillery was inconvenient to maneuver, and the Beiyang Army could not take it away at all if it went so quickly, although it destroyed a part of it, but it left as much as half of the Nationalist Army!

Feng Guozhang led part of the remnants of the army to break through directly to the northeast. After learning that Feng Guozhang had broken through to the northeast, the 2nd and 7th Divisions of the Nationalist Army turned north. The guard division is also speeding north.

On November 5, fierce fighting broke out between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army in Wuyi Town, and more than 3,000 remnants of the 20th Division of the Beiyang Army Pan Juying and more than 10,000 people of Tang Tianxi's 11th Division in Wuyi Town were attacked by the 9th Division of the Nationalist Army from the north. After a day of entanglement, the 1st Division and the 17th Mixed Brigade of the 1st Army of the Nationalist Army pursued in the direction of Wugang.

Tang Tianxi saw that the situation was not good, and on the night of November 6, he retreated to the northeast overnight without notifying Pan Juying, resulting in a crushing defeat in the battle of Pan Juying's remnants in the early morning of the next day, and Pan Juying surrendered to the Nationalist Army very simply under the attack of the absolute superior forces of the Nationalist Army.

Pan Juying's voluntary surrender made Chen Jingyun, who was far away in Nanjing, overjoyed, not because he had a hobby of collecting generals, and he did not intend to win Pan Juying into the national army, but because Pan Juying's voluntary surrender was the highest-level general in the war between the two sides, this is one of the few lieutenant generals and division commanders in the Beiyang Army, and he is not the side division commander of those local provincial armies, this is a genuine Beiyang general.

In the previous battles between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army, the Nationalist Army did not kill, wound or capture many generals of the Beiyang Army, that is, a brigade commander under Zhang Xun's Eighth Division during the Battle of Nanjing, but that brigade commander was not a descendant of Beiyang. In the follow-up Chaohu war, although Major General Wang Chengbin, the brigade commander of the Reading Brigade of the Third Division, was advertised by the National Army as killed, but in fact his life and death were unknown, and there was no clear news for several months. Except for these two people, no other generals of the Beiyang Army have been killed or captured, and none of the generals at the rank of lieutenant general have been killed.

In previous battles, those senior generals ran faster than rabbits, and even if they couldn't run, they took off their military uniforms and hid, for example, Hu Wantao failed to break through with a small number of personal soldiers like Ni Sichong after the city of Hefei was broken, but the national army failed to find him, I don't know whether he mixed into the ordinary soldiers or took off his military uniform and hid.

It took the Nationalist Army to capture a major general, and possibly kill a major general. However, today Pan Juying surrendered after being heavily surrounded, which surprised Chen Jingyun, and immediately asked the front-line troops to treat the surrendered Beiyang Army generals well and asked them to bring people back to Nanjing. What are you bringing back for, naturally, it's to build momentum.

Even before he arrived in Nanjing, regardless of whether Pan Juying wanted it or not, the Nanjing Republican Political Axe had already publicly announced that he would be appointed as the senior military adviser of the Nanjing Republican Political Axe, and that Pan Juying would be re-awarded the rank of lieutenant general according to his original military rank

With such a high-profile publicity, it is natural to win people's hearts.

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