readx; The war between the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army is not a national war, nor is it an ideological struggle, everyone is just fighting for control of the central political axe, and everyone has no life-and-death enmity that cannot be abandoned. Pen "Fun" www.biquge.info In fact, after many middle and low-level officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army surrendered, there were not a few who joined the Nationalist Army on the same day, and even most of the senior officers of those colonels also expressed their intention to continue their military careers, and for these officers of the Beiyang Army who took the initiative to surrender, Chen Jingyun's method of dealing with them was also simple, and they were thrown into the Fuzhou Military Academy to study for three months, and then they said that if they joined the Kuomintang Socialist Party and continued to want to join the army, then they would be selected and assigned to idle posts, and after a period of inspection, they would be called again, and as for those who did not surrender, they were not directly shot, and the officers would continue to be detained, the soldiers will be detained for a period of time and then given severance pay to let them go.

In the case of non-national warfare, it is also beneficial to win the hearts and minds of the people, at least to shake the hearts of the enemy army, and maybe they will take the initiative to surrender. If you want to win people's hearts, you have to do the thing of buying horse bones, but unfortunately there has been no opportunity for Chen Jingyun to do it before, but today after Pan Juying took the initiative to surrender, Chen Jingyun felt that the opportunity had come.

Therefore, Chen Jingyun didn't even ask Pan Juying if he was willing, he had already pushed Pan Juying out, just to tell the world that surrendering to the national army would not have to worry about his surname, and he could even continue to be an official and make a fortune, and even if he wanted to continue to lead troops, it was not impossible.

Pan Juying surrendered, and also sent a signed telegram, claiming that Feng Guozhang and Tang Tianxi ignored the lives of their allies, evacuated without authorization and fell into his dangerous situation, and finally received the great grace of President Chen Jingyun not to kill and continue to appoint, which was really a fluke. Finally, he called on other generals of the Beiyang Army to learn from themselves and devote themselves to the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Nationalist Army in China.

In fact, when this telegram was sent, others were still locked up, and they didn't know what was going on outside.

But the truth is true or false, it is true that he Pan Juying surrendered, but it is false to join the national army, but Yuan Shikai doesn't know, Yuan Shikai, who had fainted some time ago, heard the news and his face twitched for a long time.

Duan Qirui looked at Yuan Shikai lying on the bed, and sighed in his heart!

"Now at this critical moment, the old man is sick again!" Duan Qirui was worried: "This situation is getting worse and worse! ”

Yuan Shikai's illness has been hidden from outsiders, except for Duan Qirui and a few close people, others don't know that Yuan Shikai has fallen ill, and the matter of fainting for a while has not been spread at all, otherwise the news that Yuan Shikai fainted in anger will not cause much reaction, for the morale of the army, in order to maintain the big tree of Beiyang. Yuan Shikai's personal health is of paramount importance.

Chen Jingyun is very similar to the National Army and Yuan Shikai is very similar to the Beiyang Army, both of them have established the army single-handedly, and deliberately balance their subordinates because of their control of power, and there is no clear political heir, which leads to whether it is Chen Jingyun or Yuan Shikai, as long as they die, then the military group they established single-handedly will immediately fall into a situation of fragmentation. In addition to Chen Jingyun, there is no second person in the national army who can command the huge military group of the national army, Shen Gang is not good, Ma Cheng is not good, Lin Chengkun, Li Jimin is not good, and Zheng Zuyin and others in the civilian system have no such influence. The biggest possible surname is that the major generals turned against each other, and then the Fujian and Zhejiang military groups were completely split. The same situation will also appear in Beiyang, as long as Yuan Shikai dies, then Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui, and even Duan Zhigui, Cao Kun, and Yang Shande will immediately fight for leadership.

Based on these special surnames, the health problems of Chen Jingyun and Yuan Shikai are directly related to the safety of the two systems, so Yuan Shikai's health problems have always been kept secret and have not been passed on.

Even Feng Guozhang, Tang Tianxi and others on the front line didn't know that Yuan Shikai had been bedridden for many days.

"Now Jiangbei is also lost, the most important thing is to take out the second army of Huapu!" Yuan Shikai said to Duan Qirui in a weak tone: "And if the front line wants to take over the Second Army, you can only rely on the 11th Division, you tell Xu Shuzheng, if it is unfavorable to fight again this time, then go back to Baoding Military Academy and continue to be the principal!" ”

Yuan Shikai issued an unprecedented threat of dismissal to his subordinates for the first time, you must know that it is not an easy thing to remove from the Beiyang system, although with the prestige of Yuan Shikai now, he can still do this, but it will also cause great repercussions, one is not good is to mutiny or even make a fuss to surrender to the enemy, so Yuan Shikai is rarely dismissed, especially the brigade commander, division commander These vital positions.

Duan Qirui was also helpless when he heard it, Xu Shuzheng was his person, which was not a secret in the Beiyang Army, and now the old man did not say this to Xu Shuzheng, but to him Duan Qirui. The meaning is already very obvious, it is to ask Duan Qirui not to care about the differences with Feng Guozhang this time, and to cooperate to tide over the difficulties first, otherwise the old man will be really angry.

It's just that Duan Qirui is also helpless, he knows Xu Shuzheng's situation, the 11th Division has suffered thousands of casualties, and he really made efforts to fight Shahe Town, but he still couldn't take it down, which can't be blamed on Xu Shuzheng.

But when Yuan Shikai said this, he still had to respectfully say that he would urge Xu Shuzheng to take over the Second Army.

In fact, the situation of the Second Army was much worse than Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui imagined in the rear, and since the loss of Jiejiazhuang and Wuyi Town one after another, the Nationalist Army had completed the overall link, linking the entire front and gathering most of the main forces of the Nationalist Army in the Jiangbei area, including the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 16th and 17th Mixed Brigades of the First Army of the Nationalist Army. The remnants of the 5th, 8th, 9th, and 5th Mixed Brigade of the Second Army of the National Army. In addition, there are guard divisions, reading cavalry regiments, reading artillery regiments.

Although the strength of the Nationalist Army has suffered some losses in previous operations, it has continued to replenish its follow-up troops, and there has been no large-scale defeat, so it has generally maintained its combat effectiveness, and the most serious losses should be the Fifth Mixed Brigade, the Sixth Division, and the Eighth Division.

However, on the whole, the Nationalist Army still maintained a relatively complete establishment, although it also lost a part of its weapons and equipment, but at the same time replenished a lot, and also captured a part of the weapons and equipment of the Beiyang Army, especially the artillery captured many Beiyang Army artillery in the Jiangbei area, and even made the number of artillery of the Nationalist Army even greater than before the war.

This as many as more than 100,000 troops are near Jiangbei, and it is not easy for the remnants of the Second Army led by Feng Guozhang to escape.

In fact, now the remnants of Feng Guozhang's Second Army have left more than 30,000 people, and the Seventh Division has suffered heavy losses in several battles in Taizhou, Yangzhou, and [***], and finally the remnants were surrounded by the Nationalist Army in Jiejiazhuang, except for a few senior generals such as Wang Ruxian, the rest of the troops have surrendered, so in terms of structure, the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army has been completely annihilated, even worse than the original Zhang Xun Eighth Division, and the original Zhang Xun Eighth Division escaped with nearly 1,000 people. Zhang Xun was also able to rely on the foundation of nearly 1,000 people to regain his strength. Except for a few high-ranking officers, Wang Ruxian's Seventh Division remained in Jiangbei.

The Fifth Division originally had 15,000 troops, but the losses before and after were extremely large, and a regiment after the break was completely annihilated by the Nationalist Army, and now only more than 8,000 troops are left to retreat northward, and the losses of the Fifth Division mainly occurred in the retreat of the past few days, and the Fifth Division was still close to full strength three days ago, but in just two or three days, it was attacked by the superior strength of the Nationalist Army, and the troops were sent one after another, resulting in great losses, and even a regiment was completely annihilated.

The losses of the 2nd Mixed Brigade were smaller, and now more than 4,000 of the 6,000 people remained, basically maintaining the main force.

Tang Tianxi's 10th Division is in a much better situation, although it has been in Wugang and the National Army for several months, but because there has been no fierce encirclement battle, and Tang Tianxi is much more capable than Wang Ruxian, so the losses in the front and rear battles are not large, plus Pan Juying was placed in Wuyi Town, and he withdrew first, so the 10th Division now maintains the scale of tens of thousands of people, and the basic main force has not been lost, and even a large number of heavy weapons such as artillery have been lost by other Beiyang troops. Heavy machine guns, these weapons, the 10th Division still maintained a relatively complete structure, unlike the 5th Division, an artillery regiment, which now can't even get together an artillery battalion.

In fact, more than 7,000 people of the 20th Division of the 20th Division were defeated in Chuzhou, leaving more than 3,000 people, and some of them were wiped out when they were in Wuyi Town, and the rest all surrendered.

In this way, plus some other scattered troops of the Second Army, there are only about 30,000 left under Feng Guozhang! Before the war, Feng Guozhang's men had 60,000 or 70,000 troops, and after a Jiangbei campaign, only half of them were left, and there were many heavy weapons and equipment losses. And how such a group of remnants of the defeated army will be able to run away smoothly under the pursuit of more than 100,000 national troops is very problematic.

However, the people in the staff headquarters of the Nationalist Army obviously underestimated the Beiyang Army's determination to escape, and when the Second Division, which received the order to urgently pursue northward, marched lightly for a day, it found that the distance between it and the Beiyang Army in front was getting wider and wider, from the beginning of five kilometers to more than seven or eight kilometers, which amazed a large group of Nationalist army generals. You must know that at this time, the second division had given up its baggage and heavy weapons and chose to march lightly, and the speed was more than twice as fast as the usual march, but Beiyang ran faster than a rabbit, and it was stunned that the national army behind it chased all the way and did not catch up.

Seeing that the pursuit did not achieve the expected results, the Ninth and Fifth Divisions of the Nationalist Army turned around and headed north to Shahe Town, preparing to defeat Xu Shuzheng's 11th Division and then go north, on the one hand, to march to Bengbu, and on the other hand, to cut off Feng Guozhang's Second Army's plan to use the Jinpu line to quickly flee north.

After several months of fierce fighting between the two sides in the Jiangbei area, the Jiangbei Campaign ended with a great victory for the Nationalist Army!

The significance of this battle far exceeds the significance of the previous Chaohu Battle and Hefei Battle, although the previous victories in these battles were also important but did not play a key role, and the Jiangbei Campaign was a complete separation of the decisive victory and defeat between the two sides in Anhui and Jiangsu.

The victory of the Nationalist Army in this decisive battle also announced that the Chinese Nationalist Army had taken the initiative in the domestic battlefield, and in the next step it was already possible to guess that the Nationalist Army would continue to attack northward, crushing the remaining forces of the Beiyang Army in one fell swoop, and capturing Shandong, Henan and even Yanjing.