Chapter 452: Marching into the Northeast
readx; Although the Nationalist Army promised to maintain the establishment and the position of the commander of the 27th Division, Zhang Zuolin knew very well that he could no longer keep the position of Fengtian Overseer, and according to the system of the Nationalist Army, army generals were not allowed to meddle in local affairs. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Zuolin hesitated, watched, and even sent someone to say, 'Myself, to ask for support.' At the same time, he is also preparing to contact Feng Delin to see the situation on his side, if he can give up his previous suspicions, they may not be able to block the national army from the northeast gate when they join forces.
But before he could contact Feng Delin, news came from Guangning! Feng Delin's army is defeated!
Feng Delin naturally received Chen Jingyun's solicitation like Zhang Zuolin, but Feng Delin was also as hesitant as Zhang Zuolin, and said, "I don't want to see the Nationalist Army march into the Northeast, so I said" I sent Feng Delin a batch of arms and asked Feng Delin to resist the Nationalist Army's march into the Northeast. After thinking about it, Feng Delin felt that although the Nationalist Army could fight, but the whole country was so big, and the Nationalist Army still had to deal with a large number of warlords such as Shanxi, Hubei, and the Dian Army and Gui Army in the southwest, it should be unlikely that it would send too many troops in the northeast. At most, it was one or two divisions, and according to his expectations, if he united the 3rd Mixed Brigade and the 4th Mixed Brigade stationed in Jinzhou, although he could not defeat the Nationalist Army, it should not be a problem to stop the Nationalist Army. Of course, he didn't want to resist to the end, he just wanted to let Chen Jingyun see that he Feng Delin was not an idler, don't use the same set to deal with the surrendered army to incorporate my 28th Division, if you want me to surrender, you can show sincerity, but you have to show sincerity, what he expects most is naturally to maintain a half-reading state like Yan Xishan, the national army will not enter the customs, and he can nominally obey the leadership of the Nanjing Central Political Axe.
However, Lieutenant General Xu Jingqing, who had just been promoted to the commander of the Tenth Army of the National Army, was at a time when he was in high spirits, and he was thinking about winning a battle to show Chen Jingyun, looking forward to being promoted to the rank of general like Li Jimin in the future. So in the face of Feng Delin's resistance, Xu Jingqing did not hesitate to lead the second and fourth divisions to attack Jinzhou.
Feng Delin once again proved with facts how big a gap there is between the local warlords and the Beiyang Army and the National Army, which are piled up with silver!
Not to mention the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Division, which was responsible for the main attack, even the combat effectiveness of Xu Shuzheng's division, which had been defeated by the Nationalist Army several times, was not comparable to those ordinary warlord troops.
Xu Shuzheng took some remnants of his 11th Division and some other Beiyang troops to form the 27th Division, the process of training made Xu Shuzheng extremely worried, all the old subordinates were transferred, and then all the officers from other units of the National Army came, so that in addition to Xu Shuzheng and several regiment commanders and other senior officers, the middle and low-level officers below the battalion commander were all other old officers of the National Army. Although this situation has long been set in the peace negotiation agreement, Xu Shuzheng is still worried about when he will be killed by Chen Jingyun.
However, after the logistics department of the Nationalist Army made a large number of ordnance replenishments for his 27th division, he was slightly relieved. Almost all at once, the Nationalist Army replenished the 27th Division with more than 6,000 Hanyang-made and Type 88 rifles, as well as a large number of machine guns, some mortars, and an artillery battalion.
Such a large-scale ordnance replenishment made the 27th Division under Xu Shuzheng suddenly change from a down-and-out to an almost full force, and the strength and equipment even reached the situation of his 11th Division that year, which made Xu Shuzheng feel a lot more relieved, because in his opinion, if he had such equipment, even if Chen Jingyun sent him to be cannon fodder, he would be much more sure. Besides, if Chen Jingyun sent all the troops with such good equipment to be cannon fodder, then Xu Shuzheng would have nothing to say.
In fact, Xu Shuzheng overestimated Chen Jingyun's conscience!
After the two Beiyang divisions were absorbed, in addition to transferring a large number of middle- and low-level Beiyang officers and supplementing the two divisions with a large number of Nationalist officers, Chen Jingyun even separated the two divisions, the 27th Division was incorporated into the 10th Army to prepare for stationing in the northeast, and the 28th Division was incorporated into the Third Army in Shandong. But the interesting thing is that these two places are places where war with the Yue army may break out in the future, and Chen Jingyun's intention of sending these two divisions here and consuming them as cannon fodder has been exposed.
It's just that Chen Jingyun didn't say it, and others really couldn't guess it, after all, no one would have thought that Chen Jingyun was already preparing to fight for Qingdao and the Great Powers, but the enemy was the German army or said.
As for those equipment and weapons, they were originally captured by the National Army from the Beiyang Army and local warlords in various provinces, plus the number captured by the National Army is too large, in addition to the heavy weapons such as artillery and machine guns, rifles can be said to be not lacking, so these two divisions are equipped with light weapons, as for the artillery, there is not much addition, but although these two divisions are the remnants of the Beiyang Army, they still have their family background, at least there are dozens of artillery, plus a battalion of mountain artillery supplemented by the National Army, Instead, Xu Shuzheng's 27th Division made up an artillery regiment with a full complement of 36 guns.
No matter what Chen Jingyun has in mind, and no matter whether Xu Shuzheng has any scruples in his heart, Xu Shuzheng knows that the first battle in Jinzhou is his opportunity, and if he performs well enough, he will not have so many small shoes to wear in the future. Therefore, when the Jinzhou Campaign was carried out, he Xu Shuzheng worked very hard.
Speaking from the heart, Xu Shuzheng's ability is there, he was able to become one of the two division commanders of the Beiyang Army among so many Beiyang generals, and he is the youngest lieutenant general and division commander in the Beiyang Army, his ability to command operations is not low, although he suffered several defeats on the Jinpu line, but most of them were facing the attack of the superior forces of the National Army, and he could also take the 11th Division all the way from the periphery of Chuzhou to Bengbu, and then fled back to Xuzhou, then fled back to Jinan, and finally fled back to Yanjing There are still 4,000 remnants. Not to mention anything else, his experience in retreat can be said to be the richest among the active generals of the National Army today......
This time he had the intention to show something, plus the 28th Division under Feng Delin is one of the four major military forces in the Northeast, but in the final analysis, it is still a local force, and there is still a considerable gap between it and the central forces such as the Beiyang Army and the National Army, whether it is equipment or combat experience, it is far inferior to the divisions of the Tenth Army under Xu Jingqing.
Xu Shuzheng led the troops to attack all the way, although he did not take the main attack mission, but he also broke the blockage of the 3rd Mixed Brigade and the 4th Mixed Brigade, and finally detoured to the flank of Feng Delin's 28th Division and launched an attack.
Feng Delin's troops were not strong in combat, and in the face of the attack of the three divisions of the Nationalist Army, they could not support it at all, and soon collapsed, not only the 28th Division was severely damaged, but even Feng Delin himself was captured on the spot!
And the army that captured Feng Delin happened to be Xu Shuzheng's 27th Division, so Xu Shuzheng made a lot of contributions and made himself rank in the purge list in Chen Jingyun's heart drop a lot at once, instead of being at the top with Duan Qirui like at the beginning!
Hearing that Feng Delin was defeated and captured in Jinzhou, and Wu Junsheng's Second Cavalry Division was also approaching Fengtian from the northeast, Zhang Zuolin did not think that he could resist the joint attack of three divisions and one cavalry division of the Nationalist Army even if he was arrogant, so before the Nationalist Army approached Fengtian, he hurriedly agreed to Chen Jingyun's surrender conditions! Issued a telegram in support of the central political axe of Nanjing. And he himself was awarded the rank of major general, and the 27th Division of his department was reorganized into the 29th Division of the Army, which was under the command of the 10th Army of the National Army!
Ma Longtan, the commander of the right side of the Fengtian patrol battalion, also followed Zhang Zuolin and announced that he would obey the dispatch of the central political axe in Nanjing, and he was the same as other warlord generals who surrendered to Cheng, and he was awarded the rank of major general by Nanjing in accordance with the original Beiyang military rank, but the right side of the patrol battalion of his department was not strong, and the number was not large, which was not enough to train a division, so it was reorganized into a mixed brigade, numbered as the 25th mixed brigade of the army, and Wu Junsheng's second cavalry division originally had some infantry units that belonged to the rear of the Fengtian patrol battalion. This time, it will be transferred out and all of them will be filled into the 25th Mixed Brigade, and Wu Junsheng's 2nd Cavalry Division will be expanded and constructed as a pure cavalry division, and the missing cavalry will be drawn from the 29th Division Cavalry Regiment under Zhang Zuolin, this is because the local troops in the Northeast are different from other warlord troops in China, and the cavalry of these Northeast troops is larger, and the 27th and 28th Divisions each have two cavalry regiments under their jurisdiction. At that time, when attacking Jinzhou, if it were not for the cavalry battalion formed by the old Beiyang cavalry under Xu Shuzheng, he would have suffered a loss in the cavalry.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Jingyun once again ordered the establishment of the Third Cavalry Division of the Army in the northeast, and the subordinate cavalry was composed of cavalry units such as the Heilongjiang Frontier Army and the Jilin Frontier Army, as well as the cavalry units under the defeated Feng Delin, and the newly established Third Cavalry Division was also under the command of the Tenth Army of the National Army.
After the initial pacification of the northeast, Chen Jingyun did not let many large armies stop to rest, but carried out a series of military movements, preparing to gather heavy troops to attack Hubei.
The current Hubei Duan Zhigui still did not make any reaction to Chen Jingyun's surrender, although this situation was somewhat unexpected by Chen Jingyun, but Chen Jingyun also had to prepare to mobilize troops to destroy Duan Zhigui in Hubei.
As the situation in Europe becomes more and more tense, there is not much time left for him to stabilize the domestic situation, once the European war breaks out, Qingdao will become the fuse of the war between China and Germany, although Chen Jingyun is unwilling to do so, but he also knows that China's involvement in this war may be as high as more than 50 percent, whether it is to fight with Germany or with himself, Chen Jingyun must be prepared in advance. As for this war, if it is only with the Germans, it is okay, Chen Jingyun is sure to control the territory of Shandong, but once he intervenes, maybe the war will spread to the coastal provinces of Northeast China, Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.
Although at this time, it is said that the possibility of a full-scale invasion of China is not high, but Chen Jingyun has to take precautions, and if he wants to take precautions, then he needs to deploy heavy troops in the northeast and Shandong and the coastal provinces of the provinces at the same time, and if there is a hostile Duan Zhigui behind his back, Chen Jingyun will not be able to sleep every night!
So before preparing to deal with the situation in Qingdao, he had to solve Duan Zhigui first!