readx; After Chen Jingyun listened to the report of the General Staff, he also considered this plan in detail, and felt that although this plan was a little conservative, it was better to be more stable in military affairs. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Now the national army has a big cause, but there can be no big chaos, and although many high-level leaders of the national army are young as a whole, the high-level generals who actually control the power are not young, Ma Cheng, Li Jimin, Shen Gang and even Yuan Fang, Chen Yi and others are about thirty-four years old, and Yuan Fang's age is even nearly fifty. Even the younger generation of Lin Chengkun, Yu Ruofei, Chen Weihua and several others are in their twenties, approaching thirty.

Most of the young generation in their twenties are concentrated in the grass-roots and middle-level officer system, especially those graduates of the Fuzhou Military Academy, who are younger than the youngest, and two years later this year, many of these graduates of the Fuzhou Military Academy have climbed to the position of colonel, and there are many colonels under the age of 20, and there are even a few who have become major generals, such as Chen Jingfei. On the whole, the Nationalist Army was radical in the middle and lower classes, and the large group of young Nationalist Socialist officers were extremely radical, and they were the ones who shouted every day that the Northern Expedition would take Yanjing, and these people were what people usually call the Young Zhuang faction.

However, like all armies, the top ranks of officers are almost all conservatives, and even young officers who used to be young and strong will unconsciously become conservatives when they get older and climb to the top. When you are young, you think less about things when you have a low status, and in addition to climbing up, you have time to think about ideal problems, and what you think about is not very clear, and when you are older, you will experience more things and think more about practical problems.

Most of the high-level generals in the top echelons of the National Army are also very conservative, for example, in terms of specific tactics, Chen Jingyun once mentioned guerrilla warfare, and put forward the concept of the enemy advancing and retreating, and the enemy retreating and advancing with me, but they were despised by the generals and thought that those were the combat methods that only bandits would choose! For example, an important stronghold, Nanjing. How can the national army retreat, it can't retreat even if the troops are exhausted, and in Chuzhou, which is occupied by the Beiyang Army, or Bengbu further north, how can the Beiyang Army easily retreat, and if the National Army retreats, it will not be able to attack the city of Xuzhou for thousands of miles!

The National Army is a regular army, and what it needs to use is regular tactics, and those so-called out-of-the-way tactics are not applicable to the National Army, focusing on concentrating superior forces and seeking opportunities to engage in a head-on battle with the enemy.

This conservative attitude was also reflected in the detailed battle plan, for example, the generals agreed that the greatest enemy of the Nationalist Army was the Beiyang Army, so no matter what action was taken in the direction of Jiangxi and Anhui, the southern Jiangsu front must ensure that sufficient troops were used against the Beiyang Army.

In fact, Chen Jingyun himself is also very conservative! Standing in a higher position, looking farther, the various problems and concerns faced are also increasing, and when making choices on various major issues, they are all carefully considered, and they will not make choices as soon as their heads are hot, just like those young officers.

Chen Jingyun immediately approved the preliminary operational plan put forward by the General Staff and instructed the General Staff to make preliminary preparations and complete the operational preparations as soon as possible. For example, it takes time for the troops to enter the predetermined starting position, and the logistics department needs to provide sufficient supplies to those combat units, so as to avoid the fact that the front-line troops have no ammunition to use. The time required from the decision to send troops to the start of the real offensive is not a day or two, but ten days and a half a month, to say the least. At the beginning, the Nationalist Army had been preparing for more than a month in order to prepare for the war in southern Jiangsu, and Beiyang had been preparing for a long time in order to wave the army south, and this was not counting the time for the logistics department to reserve combat materials in advance.

While these military operations were being prepared, Chen Jingyun had already instructed the propaganda department to launch an all-out public opinion offensive, first discussing the assassination incident in the major newspapers, using all kinds of false headings and slogans to trigger a big discussion among the whole country, but the Nationalist Army had never publicly made the mastermind behind the assassination in the past few days, and only repeatedly promised that the Nationalist Army would not give up on this matter and would inevitably attack the enemy with thunderous means.

At this time, Yuan Shikai in the north was also a little incomprehensible, outsiders may not know about this assassination, but Yuan Shikai, as a party concerned, is very clear, it was Zhao Bingjun's subordinates who assassinated Chen Jingyun, and this matter was personally instructed by him Yuan Shikai. And the assassination he suffered was by the people of the Nationalist Army, and Zhao Bingjun's men still had two brushes, and it took a few days to find out the identity of the assassin.

It can be said that this matter is already an open secret for the core high-level leaders of both sides, and it is obvious that Zhao Bingjun of Beiyang sent someone to assassinate Chen Jingyun, and then Chen Cai of the National Army sent someone to assassinate Yuan Shikai in retaliation. This was originally a very simple thing, according to the predetermined plot development, then the double defense began to blame, and then began to scold, and finally the two sides were engaged in a large-scale battle in southern Jiangsu, which led to the full southward movement of the Beiyang Army.

Originally, Yuan Shikai also planned to do this, the troops on the Jinpu line were ready, as long as the main force of the Nationalist Army was defeated in the southern Jiangsu region, then the next thing was that the autumn wind swept away the leaves, whether it was the remnants of the Nationalist Army or the revolutionaries, or the Dian Army and the Gui Army in the south, they could not stop the situation of the Beiyang Army dominating the world.

However, the development of events was somewhat unexpected by Yuan Shikai and many high-ranking Beiyang generals, and Chen Jingyun in the south never said who planned the assassination, and in recent days, public opinion in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces has gradually tended to point the finger at the revolutionaries.

"This Chen Jingyun, what does he want to do?" Duan Qirui was also a little incomprehensible: "According to the news from the south, the national army has carried out a large-scale mobilization, and it is very likely that there will be military operations in the near future!" ”

Yuan Shikai also had a deep face: "How is Jiangbei?" ”

Duan Qirui said: "The president put it down, now that Brother Huafu is personally sitting in Jiangbei, there is Cao Kun's third division and the second mixed brigade behind him to support at any time, there is no problem!" If they want to cross the river, with their forces in southern Jiangsu, they will definitely not be able to achieve any great advantage. And looking at their transfer, it doesn't seem like they are all transferred to the front line in southern Jiangsu, but in other directions! ”

Yuan Shikai thought, and then his eyes lit up: "How is the movement of the National Army in Guangdong?" ”

Duan Qirui is also a smart person, as soon as he heard Yuan Shikai mention the movements of the Guangdong National Army, he immediately thought of something and said: "It is rumored that the National Army in Guangdong has also been transferred, and even the National Army in Fujian Province has also been moved. ”

Yuan Shikai said: "If my guess is right, this Chen Jingyun is going to attack Jiangxi!" ”

Duan Qirui said: "The warlords in the south are all cold-hearted, he Chen Jingyun is going to fight Jiangxi, how can Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao in Guangxi sit back and watch them occupy Jiangxi." Even if they don't move, there are still us! ”

Yuan Shikai closed his eyes and said slowly: "Why didn't the south delay in announcing the mastermind of the assassination, since we can't find out that the person who assassinated me was done by them, then can't they find out that it was our people who assassinated Chen Jingyun?" It's just a deliberate cover-up! ”

Duan Qirui said: "Could it be that they are preparing to push this incident onto the revolutionaries?" ”

"It should be ** not far from ten! With this excuse, he dared to directly send troops to Jiangxi, even if Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting opposed him, they would take Jiangxi. As for us, do you think our troops on the Jinpu line will be able to break through their Yangtze River defenses, capture Nanjing and Zhenjiang, and then capture Shanghai and Hangzhou? Yuan Shikai looked at Duan Qirui after speaking, waiting for him to answer.

Duan Qirui didn't answer immediately, but pondered for a moment: "It's difficult! In the last war in southern Jiangsu, although our army was stronger than the national army in terms of combat effectiveness, the national army was not a vulnerable army like the revolutionaries. According to their deployment in southern Jiangsu, if our army wants to cross the river to fight, we will not be able to gain superiority in troops, and at the same time we will face the Yangtze River moat, and the navy is now in the hands of the national army, so it will not be an easy task to cross the river at that time. Even if the concentration of troops to cross the river is successful, but in the face of the heavy troops deployed by the Nationalist Army in southern Jiangsu, it will be a big trouble for our army to further break through to the south! ”

Yuan Shikai said: "Yes, it is not easy for our army to go south, and it is also difficult for him Chen Jingyun to go north. However, since the Jinpu line is not passable, then take the inland hinterland! ”

"The president is talking about Anhui?" Duan Qirui was also telegraphed: "After the Yangtze River arrives in Nanjing, the large warships of the Nationalist Army who continue to narrow the west channel cannot come in, even if a few small warships come in, it is not to be afraid, and the inland hinterland of the Yangtze River is so long, our army can completely avoid the resistance of the Nationalist Army, and then cross the Yangtze River to advance to the south inland, and even bypass to attack Hangzhou, cutting off the logistics supply of the enemy's main force in southern Jiangsu." At that time, Nanjing and Zhenjiang can go down in a fight! ”

"Obviously, Chen Jingyun thinks the same way!" Yuan Shikai said: "If we want to fight, they want to fight!" ”

"In that case, then the Nationalist Army is definitely going to capture Jiangxi and Anhui, so how should we deal with it?" Duan Qirui said, it is one thing to see the layout of the national army, but how to deal with it is another.

"Hmph, if they are allowed to beat the revolutionaries, won't we be allowed to do so!" Yuan Shikai continued: "Looking at the public opinion in the south in the past two days, if they continue to plant on the heads of the revolutionaries, we will be like the Nationalist Army, and we will carry this incident on the heads of the revolutionaries. As long as this momentum is created, I am afraid that the Chinese people will not understand! ”

Yuan Shikai continued: "Besides, the Kuomintang group is too annoying in the Congress, and they say every day that they want to form a cabinet to change the president, if it is not for a progressive party, I am afraid they will have to form a cabinet alone." Although there is a progressive party in the way, there is no guarantee that there will be any problems in the future, so now they simply do nothing and directly end their old nest. I think they are still in Congress, do they dare to continue to shout for the formation of a cabinet and the election of the president? ”

At this time, Duan Qirui was happy that Beiyang had found a new way out, and on the other hand, he was worried that Sun Wen and those revolutionaries rushed to the tragedy: "Look, although the two life-and-death rivals of the Beiyang Army and the National Army are not connected in series, but they have a tacit understanding and start fighting at the same time, it is estimated that only Sun Wen and Huang Xing are unlucky people!" Who let your strength not be good and too high-profile to publicize everywhere, but you still occupy the two important provinces of Jiangxi and Anhui. Jiangxi is so important to the Nationalist Army, and Anhui is the future battlefield of the Central Plains War for the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army. This is caught in the middle and can't be co-opted, it's hell if you don't get beaten! ”

"Although we also have to send troops, but this black cauldron can't be carried by ourselves, and after the national army sends troops, we will send troops again, although it is the back hand, but it is also avoided that the Chinese people will scold us for provoking a civil war, and then we can also use the central government to regulate the war between the two of them!" When Yuan Shikai said this, he couldn't help laughing.

After taking Anhui, plus Hubei Province, which is now leaning towards Beiyang, then the Beiyang Army will eliminate the power of the last revolutionary north of the Yangtze River, and then there is no need to worry about the Jinpu line being cut off by the revolutionaries, and it can use all its energy to fight a life-and-death decisive battle with the Nationalist Army and several other southern warlords to unify China in World War I.