readx; In order to solve the problem of Diao Duan Zhigui, the last warlord with a large number of troops under the Beiyang system, in order to completely defeat the Beiyang system and let those who still have illusions in Beiyang die in China, Chen Jingyun can be said to have spared no effort. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, there is no fighting in the direction of the Jinpu line, and although the situation in the northeast and Zhili lines is still turbulent, there are Chen Jingyun's second and fourth divisions under the 10th Army of the Nationalist Army, which is enough to make the newly surrendered Xu Shuzheng's 27th Division, Zhang Zuolin's 29th Division, Wu Junsheng's 2nd Cavalry Division, and Ma Longtan's 25th Mixed Brigade and other troops defend themselves in peace.

However, in view of the important surnames in the northeast and Zhili regions, as well as the fact that there are many defective troops in the northeast, in order to avoid the excessive number of surrender troops in the northeast and the possibility of various changes, Chen Jingyun has already ordered Zhang Zuolin's 29th Division to be transferred south to Shandong. Jiangsu, next door to Shandong, is now the base camp of the Nationalist Army, and the strength of Shandong's Third Army is not weak, so it is obvious that Zhang Zuolin is not worried about Zhang Zuolin when he is transferred here.

In fact, Chen Jingyun is really not very at ease with Zhang Zuolin, he knows that Zhang Zuolin is the leader of the Feng family after the future, and now although he has temporarily surrendered, if Zhang Zuolin continues to stay in the Northeast, it is difficult to guarantee that this person will not make a comeback with this person's prestige in the Northeast. Chen Jingyun also wants to transfer him out of the Northeast.

The 27th Division of Zhang Zuolin was only to guard against the turmoil in the northeast, and what really made Chen Jingyun make large-scale adjustments was naturally to solve Duan Zhigui on the Hubei side.

In order to completely solve Duan Zhigui, he transferred the 1st Division of the 1st Army to Shijiazhuang to take over the defense of the 7th Division, garrison Shijiazhuang and guard against the change of the Jin army in the direction of Shanxi. The Seventh Division was incorporated into the command of the Second Army, preparing to completely defeat the remnants of the Beiyang Army in central and northern Henan with the original Eighth Division, the Fifth Division and the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Second Army, and then leaving a part of the troops to defend the Zhengzhou area to continue to clear the remnants of Beiyang, the main force of the Second Army will continue to move south, and then will take Xinyang together with the Sixth Division and the Nineteenth Mixed Brigade of the Eighth Army. In the end, the two armies entered Hubei with a thunderous momentum, and captured the three towns of Wuhan together with the Nationalist troops in southern Hubei.

Chen Jingyun believed that it would not be a problem for him to concentrate so many troops to take Hubei in a short period of time, and once he took Hubei, he would be able to free up a large number of troops to deploy in the northeast, Shandong, and the coastal provinces of Zhili, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

In order to completely solve the war in Henan and Hubei, Chen Jingyun dispatched up to four divisions and eight mixed brigades, with a total strength of up to 100,000 troops, and attacked Hubei in the south with Henan as the main breakthrough direction. Although it is now expected that most of the troops used to attack Hubei are still in Henan, as long as the Nationalist Army clears out the remnants of Beiyang in Henan, it will immediately be able to reorganize the main force and move south to Hubei, and then in the face of the Nationalist Army, which has an advantage in strength and firepower, the more than 60,000 people under Duan Zhigui will not be able to resist no matter what.

"Now the Seventh Division has begun to set off from Shijiazhuang, and it is expected to arrive in Henan within three days! Other units of the Second Army, located in the central and northern regions of Henan, have also completed their initial assembly, and it is expected that the Zhengzhou front line will launch an offensive in three days! Shen Gang, as usual, reported the military briefing to Chen Jingyun. Due to the growing size of the Nationalist Army, the work of the General Staff Department is getting busier and busier, and Shen Gang himself is also busy with more and more things, this kind of military briefing does not need Shen Gang, the chief of staff, to come in person, but when it comes to large-scale operations in the troops, Shen Gang will still report to Chen Jingyun in person as before.

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun said: "The progress in Henan is too slow now, and it will be May in a few days!" Chen Jingyun personally designated the national army to focus its strategic focus on Henan and Hubei, but he only ordered a strategic direction, and he did not have so much time to intervene in the specific campaign planning and command, and he had a lot of things to be busy with in addition to the military, and after looking at the plan put forward by the General Staff, he was dissatisfied with the progress of the operational plan set by the General Staff to take Henan within one month.

You must know that it is now April 29th, and it is May in a blink of an eye, although Chen Jingyun has not heard the news of the official outbreak of the European war, but he estimates that if there is not much deviation in history, it should be within these months, of course, there is also the possibility that the European war will not break out, but Chen Jingyun would rather believe that it is not credible, no matter whether the European war comes or not, when it comes, he has to make arrangements to deal with the situation in Qingdao in a short time, and this time is naturally as short as possible. Therefore, if the Hubei problem can be solved as soon as possible, it will be solved as soon as possible.

Under such circumstances, it took a month to take a mere part of Henan, which was obviously unacceptable to Chen Jingyun, you must know that from the beginning of the Battle of Xuzhou, it took only more than a month for the National Army to take Shandong, and the time to take Zhili was about the same.

Shen Gang said with a sad face at this time: "The situation in Henan is very complicated, in addition to the original Ninth Division in Henan itself and some miscellaneous cards of the Henan Provincial Army, there are also a large number of Beiyang remnants of troops pouring into Henan. There are Zhang Xun's Eighth Division, Cao Kun's Third Division, and Tang Tianxi's Tenth Division and many other Beiyang remnants, although these troops have suffered heavy losses in previous battles with our army, but so many troops add up to a large number, if it were not for the influx of a large number of Beiyang remnant troops, our army should have been able to take Henan a month ago! ”

The Beiyang Army was defeated again and again on the Jinpu line, except for Duan Qirui who led his descendants to retreat from Shandong to Yanjing, most of the remnants of the other Beiyang Army poured into Henan, which led to the many Beiyang troops in Henan, even if these Beiyang troops received heavy losses before, but more or less still retained some of the backbone troops, and recruited a lot of soldiers after arriving in Henan, although the strength was not restored, but they could not be ignored as air.

For example, Cao Kun's third division, after the defeat in Hefei, retreated to Lu'an, and after resting and recruiting, it also recovered the scale of nearly 10,000 people, and then retreated to the Xinyang area of Henan without occupying it. He, Cao Kun, still gave a hard reinstatement to the full establishment of the two brigades and four regiments in the past! On the surface, the total strength of Cao Kun's 3rd Division has recovered to as many as 13,400 men. Even if there is still a lack of heavy firepower, it is not something that can be underestimated casually, and there is also a brigade of the Sixth Division under Duan Zhigui on the Xinyang side, resulting in the Sixth Division of the Eighth Army of the Eighth Army of the Nationalist Army attacking Xinyang in the early stage not only failed to successfully take Xinyang, but also suffered a counteroffensive by the Beiyang Army, resulting in having to stop the pace of the offensive and wait for reinforcements from the 19th Mixed Brigade, another unit of the Eighth Army.

The Second Army of the National Army, which entered the central and northern regions of Henan, also encountered a similar situation, a large number of Beiyang remnants poured into Henan, coupled with the Beiyang Ninth Division and a large number of troops in Henan Province, so that the Second Army encountered great resistance, if these troops were concentrated, the Second Army of the National Army could fight a decisive war with its firepower superiority and completely defeat them, thereby saving a lot of time, but these Beiyang remnants were very scattered, one in the east and one in the west, Although these Beiyang remnants were even more unable to resist the attack of the Nationalist Army after they were dispersed, the scattered Taikai caused the strength of the Nationalist Army to also disperse, after all, they could not watch the Beiyang Army of 1,000 or thousands of people alone.

Although the news of victory in skirmishes kept coming, it also seriously delayed the time for the Second Army of the Nationalist Army to attack the central and northern parts of Henan!

Under such circumstances, the General Staff Department sent the 7th Division stationed in Shijiazhuang to also go south to Henan, and was preparing to go straight to Zhengzhou along the Jinghan Line, trying to directly capture Zhengzhou and break up the resistance of many remnants of Beiyang.

"I understand the complexity of the situation, but I still hope that the General Staff can formulate a plan to quickly take Henan! If the planned troops are not enough, then you can continue to send troops south! Chen Jingyun felt that it was necessary to remind Shen Gang, the general he valued the most, that what he said about letting the troops solve the problems of Henan and Hubei in a short time was not a joke, but it must be implemented.

Shen Gang said: "If you want to solve the Henan problem in a short time, then you should gather the main forces to directly open the Jinghan line, and then go straight to Xinyang to join the Eighth Army." In this case, there is only one seventh division of troops from Zhili to the south, and I am afraid that it will not be enough! At least one more division to reinforce! ”

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun pondered, as the head of the National Army, he was very clear about how many troops he had and where these troops were deployed, so after thinking about it, he said: "It is too slow to transfer from Shandong or the Northeast, so that the First Division originally scheduled to be sent to Shijiazhuang to garrison will also go south with the Seventh Division, as for the garrison of Shijiazhuang, let the Ninth Division send a regiment to watch first, and the Tenth Army in the Northeast asked him to send a division back to defend Shanhaiguan and Tangshan." ”

"If you add another division, it shouldn't be a big problem!" Shen Gang said this, and then hurriedly returned to the staff headquarters to prepare a specific battle plan for the direction of Henan.

After Shen Gang left, Chen Jingyun stared at the huge picture of the whole situation again, and only after looking at it for a while did he retract his gaze, and at this time, another person outside knocked on the door and came in.

Chen Jingyun looked up, and what caught his eye was Cai Ning in a small suit, this woman also showed a meaningful smile to Chen Jingyun after she came in, and the door was not completely closed at this time, just so that Yan Jing Kuang outside could take a look in, and at this time, although Yan Jing Kuang's expression was as usual, but he was already muttering in his heart: "It seems that they have to 'chat' for a while, and they have to block other people from coming, so as not to spoil the good things of the president!" ”

As everyone knows, Chen Jingyun inside saw Cai Ning come in, his face changed slightly, and he coughed lightly before he said softly: "Ah...... That one...... Secretary Cai ......"