Wang Zhanyuan ran to Henan for help, but at this time Wu Peifu was guarding against Zhang Zuolin's department of the Northwest Army, he knew that Zhang Zuolin had ambitions to enter the Central Plains and occupy Henan, and he stayed in Henan to fight against Zhang Zuolin, so he sent his general Xiao Yaonan to lead a mixed brigade to reinforce Hubei. Wu Peifu himself went to Beijing to participate in the meeting of the Big Four, which was attended by Jin Yunpeng, Wu Peifu, Cao Kun and Li Chun. This Jin Yunpeng wandered between the two direct Anhui lines, and jumped from the Anhui system to the direct line. At present, the direct department controls the State Council and the Presidential Palace, while the Anhui system controls the Congress, and the two sides do not deal with each other, resulting in the failure of the national decree. The presidential palace and the State Council ordered, the parliament did not approve it, the parliament proposed, and the presidential office of the State Council vetoed it, Duan Qirui hated the presidential palace and the State Council, and Wu Peifu also hated the Anfu Congress.

This is also the reason why Wang Maoru dared to give orders at will north of the Great Wall, your central government is in chaos, why should I listen to you?

Wang Zhanyuan, the overseer of Hubei, warmly and excitedly welcomed the reinforcements of Xiao Yaonan, the general of Wu Peifu, to Wuhan, but received a telegram on the same day, the central government of Beiyang appointed Wu Peifu as the patrol envoy of the two lakes, and Xiao Yaonan as the overseer of Hubei.

After Wu Peifu occupied Hubei, Xiao Yaonan led the Beiyang Army to quickly drive the Hunan army Lu Diping out of Hubei, and invaded Hunan, Hunan Zhao Hengxi hurriedly asked for peace, and cut Yuezhou (now Yueyang City, Hunan) to Wu Peifu as compensation. and expressed allegiance to Wu Peifu, and the Hunan army joined the Wu Peifu Department of the Beiyang Army. Wu Peifu was also afraid that Zhang Zuolin was about to move and did not dare to act. So he made peace with Zhao Hengxi. Now Wu Peifu sits in Henan and is directly subordinate. Hubei, Hunan, Shandong five provinces of rich land, can be described as infinite scenery, for a while the limelight overshadowed everyone.

Feng Yuxiang, who was cowering in Xiangxi, suddenly launched an attack on Sichuan at this time, capturing Xiushan County, Qianjiang, Fuling, Wulong, Xudu, Shiyan, Nanchuan, Zhongxian and other places in Sichuan, and the army reached Chongqing. At that time, Chongqing was occupied by Xiong Kewu, commander-in-chief of Jing**, and occupied by Yu Jitang, the sixth division of the Sichuan Army. And Yu Jitang thought that he wanted to take advantage of the Hunan army going north to attack Hubei. But he didn't want Wu Peifu's Beiyang Army to beat the Hunan army to the point of losing its armor, and as soon as he led the army into Hubei, he was also attacked head-on. At this time, Feng Yuxiang issued a telegram supporting the central government's support for the direct line, and said that he belonged to the direct line and hoped to follow Wu Peifu.

Wu Peifu was naturally Han Xin's more troops, the better, and ordered Feng Yuxiang to clean up the Sichuan army, so Feng Yuxiang took the opportunity to attack Sichuan. And the troops came to the city of Chongqing.

After Yu Jitang's Sixth Division of the Sichuan Army was defeated by Feng Yuxiang, Liu Xiang, the protector of Chongqing, immediately dispatched troops to Chongqing, and although the Sichuan army was divided internally, Feng Yuxiang, a northerner, wanted to enter Sichuan to arouse the collective vigilance of the Sichuan army. Liu Xiang said that the Sichuan people defended Sichuan, and Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou and other Sichuan warlords immediately rushed to support and fought with Feng Yuxiang's troops for three days and three nights. Finally defeated Feng Yuxiang's troops. Feng Yuxiang was defeated and retreated to Xiangxi, and found that the Hunan army was approaching, so he had to turn around and run to Hubei, where Xiao Yao, the overseer of Hubei, went south to seek seclusion. The Sichuan people show the true colors of the Sichuan people here, and the characteristic of the Sichuan people is that they are not confused about major things. The little things are not clear. If there were no outsiders, the Sichuan people would be able to crack and tear down their homes among their brothers. He lived in the fields and went to war. Russia was dying, lying on the ground and scolding his brother. But once an outsider comes, immediately get up in spirit, no matter what your situation, unite and fight with outsiders. As soon as the outsiders were defeated, the two brothers continued to fight. Just like the later Sichuan Army to resist Japan, a group of "beggar army" wearing straw sandals and carrying an old sleeve with only ten bullets on their bodies dared to fight hard with the well-equipped Japanese Army Division A regiment with broken copper and iron, which was enough to conclude that the Sichuan people would never be confused in the face of major rights and wrongs. Feng Yuxiang thought that the Sichuan warlords could take advantage of the melee, but unfortunately they kicked down the iron plate, and the 20,000 army was beaten and only 3,000 troops remained.

And the protagonist of the Zhiwan War, the direct Wu Peifu Department has fully grown up at this time, sitting on the land of five provinces, and the army under his command is as high as 300,000 people, and he will never put the Anhui system in his eyes again. However, Zhang Zuolin occupies the northwest, and the 150,000 Northwest Army under his command should not be underestimated, and if you want to expel the Anhui government, you must first solve Zhang Zuolin.

Zhang Zuolin and the Anhui family at this time showed their eyebrows, in fact, he has long had his own little abacus, the sunset of the Anhui system has already fallen, and although the direct line is becoming stronger and stronger, but the direct line is full of internal contradictions, at this time and the Anhui family is still united, but if the world is won, it will definitely be torn apart. On the other hand, although the Anhui system is arrogant and abnormal, the old man Duan Qirui of the Anhui system is physically tough, and even if the Anhui generals can't fight, they are united. So Zhang Zuolin ordered Yu Zhijiang to go to Luoyang to meet Wu Peifu secretly, saying that he hoped that the direct line would lead the central government, and the Northwest Army would fully support the direct line - on the condition that he would deal with the Jin family and hope that the direct line would support him. Zhang Zuolin also knows that it is better to get something now than anything else, and if he occupies Shanxi, the richest country, the problem of military spending can be solved.

After Zhang Wu conspired, Wu Peifu agreed to Zhang Zuolin's conditions, and helped Zhang Zuolin pay for 20,000 rifles from Wang Maoru's National Defense Army.

In order to deal with the Anhui system with all his might, Wu Peifu united with the southwest warlords, and the southwest warlords were naturally happy to get the Beiyang army dog to bite the dog's hair, so they shouted desperately and never caused trouble for Wu Peifu in the rear. In this way, after the three families united, Wu Peifu was more confident in expelling the Anhui system.

And the Anhui system was not idle, Duan Qirui pulled the Anhui army to form an army of 200,000, and prepared to divide the troops into three ways, but unfortunately, although the Anhui system was arrogant, there was no good general. Among the four King Kongs of the Anhui system, Jin Yunpeng rebelled and became a direct line, Qu Tongfeng and Fu Liangzuo were both people who had been defeated repeatedly, and Ni Sichong was seriously ill, and there was no leading general in the Anhui system.

At that time, Xu Shuzheng also took out the mixed brigade of the Anhui Central Army, which had been painstakingly organized and trained, because all of them were Japanese-style ordnance brigades trained by Japanese instructors, so they were the 24th mixed brigade of Wang Yongquan, the first mixed brigade of Song Banghan was stationed in Luoyang, the 2nd mixed brigade of Song Ziyang was stationed in Langfang, the first mixed brigade of Chu Qixiang was stationed in Xuanhua, the 4th mixed brigade of Zhang Dingxun was stationed in Luoyang, and the 5th mixed brigade of Li Ruzhang was stationed in Zhangjiakou. Among them, Wang Yongquan, Song Banghan, Song Ziyang, and Zhang Dingxun are all classmates of Xu Shuzheng's Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, Li Ruzhang is a relative of Xu Shuzheng, and Chu Qixiang is also a veteran of the Anhui Department, with mediocre ability but loyalty to Duan Qirui. Xu Shuzheng led hundreds of thousands of troops to the north to attack the Northeast Army, but he was beaten and, so you can imagine how bad his classmates were.

In order to deal with the direct war, Duan Qirui divided the army into two armies, Xu Shuzheng on the left led the Anhui Central Army, and Duan Zhigui on the right.

Wu Peifu announced the establishment of a protector to crusade against the traitorous government, while Duan Qirui immediately announced the establishment of a definite ** to crusade against those who did not obey the orders of the central government, and the two sides were telegraphed to fight. At this time, there were more than 100,000 direct troops, and more than 100,000 Anhui troops, but both sides claimed their own 300,000 troops to deter each other, and fought a verbal battle in the telegram. But they quarreled with each other, but they didn't actually do it at all. The war in Zhiwan has not started yet, but it is already in full swing, as if a big drama has done all the foreshadowing, and it is almost a posture to do it.

One day in early March, Wang Maoru was reading a strategic note written by Babin Gayed, a German infantry platoon-level officer commander translated by Babin Gayed, the founder of the Yakeshi Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, who assassinated himself, but for his country. Wang Maoru's feelings for him are very complicated, if he had not fought in Italy, he would not have achieved today's status, let alone have the opportunity to sit in front of the European, American and Japanese powers. The Yakeshi Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy was full of strong German flavor, and when Wang Maoru thought of this, he suddenly felt that it was time for him to return the bones of Babin Gayed to his family.

At this time, the officers of the General Staff led by Yong Xingbao and Jiang Fangzhen immediately found Wang Maoru and asked for instructions on how to deal with the war in the Central Plains and whether to take the opportunity to invade the Central Plains.

Wang Mao looked at the map, thought about it, and asked: "Going south, is the General Staff sure to unify China?" ”

Yong Xingbao, the new deputy chief of general staff, said: "Although it is impossible to unify China, it can occupy several provinces. ”

Wang Maoru said: "I don't need a few provinces, what I need is to decide China in World War I." Sue me, how many troops does China need in World War I? ”

Several officers said to each other, or Jiang Fangzhen: "800,000 troops." ”

"Our army now has 430,000 national defense forces, 36,000 armed police forces after streamlining, and 600,000 reserve forces. Yong Xingbao said confidently.

Wang Maoru's throat was a little itchy, coughed twice, and said, "How much does it cost?" How long is the fight? ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "Xiushuai, if you go down in a battle, it will be worth spending any amount of money." ”

Wang Maoru sighed and said, "You guys, don't I know? Do you think I'm hesitating to worry about other warlords right now? I'm worried about the Japanese, the British, French, and the Americans, especially the Japanese. He pointed to Shandong and Zhili and said: "Now Shandong and Zhili, railway rights, transportation rights, forest rights, and the national debt borrowed by Anhui, we will take over all when we enter the central government, and if we take over completely, what will the people do if we let us take back us?" If we don't take it back, we will be a traitorous government, and if we take it back, we will have a big war with the Japanese. ”

Several think tank staff officers shook their heads at each other, it was really unwise to fight with the Japanese, Japan was different from Russia, the country that Russia fought by itself collapsed, Xiushuai stepped in and reaped the benefits, and almost fell into it and couldn't pull it out. Now that Japan is headed by the emperor, the self-confidence of the nation has been unprecedentedly raised, and if there is a war with the Japanese, it will not stop if you want to.