readx; Jinan, Shandong, in the headquarters of the Third Army of the National Army, Xu Lishan is waving the pen in his hand to write the recent report in Shandong, during this period of time, the National Army has not broken out too large-scale wars, but only fought a few small-scale wars in Shandong. www.biquge.info Since the Nationalist Army defeated the Beiyang Army again in Xuzhou in February, Beiyang has not been able to organize a large-scale resistance, and the Beiyang Army that has retreated from the Xuzhou front line has not taken care of any resistance at all, and they are all rushing north.

After Duan Qirui took over as the commander of the Second Army, he found that he was no different from Feng Guozhang, because in this situation, he, Duan Qirui, could not command other Beiyang Army, so he could only grit his teeth and pull his descendant Xu Shuzheng's 11th and 16th Divisions to deploy in Jinan, trying to block the northward pace of the Nationalist Army, while the other Beiyang Army had already fled north or west.

"Hmph, do they think they can escape by fleeing north and west?" Duan Qirui hated these people's escape, but there was still nothing he could do. In the end, when the main forces of the First Army and the Third Army of the National Army converged under the city of Jinan, Shandong, the two divisions under Duan Qirui collapsed again, Xu Shuzheng's 11th Division only resisted for two days and then there was a large-scale collapse, and the 16th Division, which was originally adapted from the former Qing Forbidden Guard, has never fought any hard battles, Feng Guozhang didn't believe them when he was in Xuzhou, so he arranged them behind, and in fact, the 16th Division was not trustworthy in the region, and it was just a few days after the war. The two commanders of the 16th Division led their subordinates into the headquarters of the 16th Division, although they failed to capture the commander of the 16th Division and other senior officers, but this sudden mutiny still made Duan Qirui's Jinan defense line declare a rout after holding out for three days.

Under the mutiny of the two regiment commanders, the 16th Division made a large-scale surrender to the Nationalist Army, and then after the 11th Division also suffered heavy losses, Duan Qirui could only retreat all the way north with the remnants of more than 7,000 defeated soldiers.

After the Nationalist Army occupied Jinan, the First Army led by Li Jimin did not stop the pace, but immediately went north to pursue, at present, the first division of the First Army of the Nationalist Army has entered the border of Dezhou, only 200 kilometers away from Tianjin, and it is only 300 kilometers away from Yanjing if you attack along the Jinpu line! It has only been more than a month since the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Nationalist Army has advanced a full 400 kilometers on the Jinpu line, and this kind of advance speed is almost faster than the advance speed of the mechanized army in later generations, and the reason why it has such a rapid march speed is inseparable from the Jinpu line.

Because the march route of the national army is all the way north along the Jinpu line, and the defense of Beiyang is also carried out along the Jinpu line, this is not to say that the commanders on both sides like Xuzhou, Jinan, and Dezhou, but because of the low level of transportation in these years, if the national army wants to quickly advance to Yanjing, it must rely on the Jinpu line, otherwise it will have to climb the mountain slowly and walk, if the first army is the same as other troops, it is not a large number of heavy artillery, only mountain artillery and mortars are barely feasible, However, the First Army was different from the other armies of the Nationalist Army, the First Army was an all-heavy army, and the artillery regiments of each division under its jurisdiction were all horse-drawn artillery regiments with two battalions of field artillery, and there was also a heavy artillery regiment in the establishment, which doomed the First Army to rely on good transportation conditions in order to conduct large-scale operations.

In fact, the General Staff did not plan to let the First Army climb the mountain, and the First Army was equipped with so much heavy firepower, hoping that the First Army would fight all the way along the Jinpu Line to Yanjing, but it did not plan to let the First Army climb the mountain.

The First Army continued to move north, Xu Lishan had learned from the internal military newspaper that the main strategic goal of the First Army was still Yanjing, and in order to support the combat operations of the First Army, the Third Army sent the Seventh Division to Shijiazhuang, preparing to cut off the Jinghan Line and prevent Yanjing's Beiyang Army from fleeing to Hubei along the Jinghan Line, and also imitating other Beiyang Army from Hubei, Henan and even Shanxi and other Beiyang Army to go north to rescue Yanjing.

The other units of the Third Army did not follow closely behind the First Army, and Xu Lishan received an order from Chen Jingyun himself, asking him to set up the headquarters of the Third Army in Jinan, and the Third Division and the 18th Mixed Brigade under his jurisdiction to rest and recuperate, and to reorganize the 16th Division of the Beiyang Army that surrendered to Cheng.

Because this was the first time that the Beiyang Army surrendered as a formation, and in order to let more senior generals of the Beiyang Army take the initiative to surrender, Chen Jingyun was not able to directly and openly dismantle the 16th Division of the Beiyang Army and reorganize it, so he could only adopt a tactful method and give this unit the number of the 23rd Division. The 18th Mixed Brigade and other units of the Nationalist Army, while the middle-level backbone officers of the newly formed 23rd Division were all drawn from other units of the Nationalist Army.

The reason for this was to calm the hearts of those high-ranking officers who surrendered on the one hand and to attract more high-ranking officers of the Beiyang Army to surrender, and on the other hand, to withdraw all the backbone of the Beiyang Army who surrendered from the original troops and imitate them for the second mutiny.

Except for the 7th Division, which went to Shijiazhuang, the main forces of the Third Army were resting and existing as reserves for the First Army. During this period, it was inevitable that like other national armies that had not fought in the war, large-scale operations were carried out to eliminate bandits and private armed forces. During this period, the troops of the Third Army also penetrated deep into various parts of the Shandong Peninsula, and the main force of the Third Division arrived at Weifang along the Jiaozhou Railway. Although this move attracted the attention of the German garrison in Qingdao, because it was not in the so-called neutral areas of Gaomi and Jiaozhou, the Germans naturally could not control the stationing of the Chinese [***] team in other areas of Shandong.

Chen Jingyun left the Third Army in Shandong, naturally in order to prepare for future changes in Qingdao, although Chen Jingyun has not yet made up his mind how to solve the Qingdao incident after the outbreak of World War I, but no matter what, it will not be wrong to make early preparations.

Compared with the rapid progress of the First Army and the Third Army of the Nationalist Army, the advance of the Nationalist Army in the direction of Hubei and Henan will be much slower, although the Hubei direction has been reinforced by a mixed brigade, but the Nationalist Army still does not have enough troops to launch a tough attack on the three towns of Wuhan, and the commander of the Seventh Army, Lin Zhaomin, has also received instructions from Chen Jingyun: Hubei is not in a hurry! Therefore, the tens of thousands of troops of the Nationalist Army in Hubei are slowly touching the troops around Wuhan and Duan Zhigui, and there is no big war, but small battles are going on every day.

In the Henan direction, the 6th Division of the 8th Army fought a fierce battle with the remnants of Cao Kun's 3rd Division in the direction of Xinyang, but Cao Kun's 3rd Division received reinforcements from a brigade of the 6th Division under Duan Zhigui.

Compared with the defeat in the Xinyang direction, the advance of the Second Army of the Nationalist Army in the direction of Zhoukou and Shangqiu was much smoother, the Fifth Division had already taken Zhoukou, and the Eighth Division had already taken Shangqiu.

This is not to say how capable the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division are, but the Beiyang Army in Henan did not defend these two cities at all, and the Ninth Division deployed by the Beiyang Army in Henan has obviously retracted to Zhengzhou, and there is only a part of the Henan Provincial Army in Zhoukou and Shangqiu, that is, the troops of those small warlords in Henan Province, and the troops of these small warlords are facing the attack of the main force of the National Army, and it is impossible to block them, and they will either collapse immediately or surrender.

The advance of the Second Army in the direction of Zhoukou and Shangqiu did not encounter any obstacles at all.

Looking at the current strategy of the Nationalist Army, it is basically to take Yanjing as the first goal, and then control the Jinpu Line and extend it to the west, and then control the Jinghan Line, and once the Jinghan Line is also controlled by the Nationalist Army, then Chen Jingyun can proudly claim the right to rule China. Because after all the provinces involved in these two railway arteries were controlled by the Nationalist Army, it can be said that Chen Jingyun has controlled most of China, not to mention that this area is less than one-third compared with the whole of China, but it has occupied the elite area of the whole China, and the industrial aspect can be controlled by 100%. All that's left to do is to push the boat down the river and bring the other outlying provinces under control.

The progress of the Nationalist Army is very good, as if it will be able to take Yenching within a month, so there are already many people in Nanjing preparing for the official founding ceremony, and there are also debates about whether to choose Nanjing or Yenching for the capital, as well as parliamentary elections and presidential elections.

You must know that the current Nanjing Republic political axe is not an official political axe, Chen Jingyun only temporarily used the title of the Republic of China in order to avoid diplomatic trouble without a name, and Chen Jingyun, the president, is also a temporary president, the political axe is also a temporary political axe, and Nanjing is only a temporary capital, all of which are temporary surnames.

In the traditional sense, Chen Jingyun has not yet established a legitimate central political axe! The current political structure is the same as that of the original Generalissimo's Office. Therefore, it is predicted that after the Nationalist Army takes Yanjing, then there should be preparations for the official founding ceremony, the formation of the first National Assembly, and the selection of the president.

It's just that some of these things don't have much meaning for Chen Jingyun, such as the founding ceremony and the formation of a formal political axe. And there are things that he doesn't want to do, but wants to delay, such as congressional elections and presidential elections.

The reason is naturally because it will affect his personal power, you know, if he is the interim president, there is no time limit, if he does not conduct the presidential election for a day, he can continue to be the interim president, and once the presidential election is held, even if he Chen Jingyun has no suspense, but how long can he be in the future, according to the constitution of every five years, at most two consecutive terms, he Chen Jingyun can be the president for ten years at most, and ten years later, he Chen Jingyun is only in his thirties, and he will withdraw from politics at that time?

Therefore, Chen Jingyun is thinking in his heart that one more day of delay is one day, and this interim president will continue to be in office, as for the election in a few years!