In these years, airplanes are still a very new thing, most ordinary Chinese have not even heard of this thing, even if they have heard of it, they have never seen it, so no one recognized it for a while, but it attracted a lot of people to watch the excitement, some people said it was an iron bird, some people said it was a kite, some people said it was a monster. However, most people couldn't see what this thing was, but there were no longer a few knowledgeable people in the Beiyang Army, and soon a lieutenant colonel who had watched the air show shouted: "This is an airplane, this is an airplane!" ”

As he shouted, several officers looked at the plane with binoculars, and when they saw the five-colored star on the plane, they were greatly alarmed, and this five-colored star on a red background was not a strange thing, but the emblem of the National Socialist Party, which was well known to the Chinese people. At that time, Sun Wen and others advocated the use of the blue sky and white flag, while the people of the Communist Association advocated the use of the eighteen-star flag, while those on the Beiyang side hoped to continue to use the military flag of the Beiyang Navy Division and the army, that is, the five-color flag.

After fighting for each other, the five-color flag became the national flag, and the eighteen-star flag added one star became the nineteen-star flag as the army flag, and then the blue sky and white flag became the navy flag. Since the uprising, the Nationalist Army has always chosen the previous five-color flag as its military flag, which is not a special case of Fujian Province, but the common choice of the rebel new army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other provinces. After the peace talks between the north and the south, although the Nationalist Army also used the 19-star flag as the army flag, at the same time, in order to show the difference, a five-colored star was put in the upper left corner of the 19-star flag. Later, according to the military flag of the Nationalist Army, the Kuomintang directly intercepted the upper left corner of the Nationalist Army flag, that is, the part of the five-color star on a red background as the party flag, and used the five-color star on a red background as the party emblem of the National Socialist Party.

Even later, when the Beiyang side designed the national emblem, they encountered trouble, because the national emblem on the Beiyang side was originally a five-color star, but the National Socialist Party made a five-color star party emblem with a red background, which made the Beiyang side a little embarrassed. But it's really hard for him to say, because this five-color flag was not a Beiyang family at home before, and the new army across the country used it before, and even during the uprising, most of the new troops in Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces also used the five-color flag. The Nationalist Army in Fujian used the five-color flag as a military flag, and speaking of latecomers, the Beiyang Army, which originally used the dragon flag, was the latecomer.

However, the Beiyang political axe was embarrassed, but later the five-colored star was used as the national emblem. Therefore, from a distance, the micro-medals and military flags of the National Army and the Beiyang Army are almost the same, but they can still be distinguished when you walk in or look at them with a telescope.

The military flag of the National Army appeared on the plane above, which means that the plane is not a personal toy, not a kite released by others, not a monster or the like, but a military aircraft of the National Army.

Despite all the panic in their hearts, they didn't know how to deal with the plane in the sky for a while, and they didn't know what the plane in the sky was going to do slowly, a few shrewd people immediately remembered to shoot with a rifle, and after the first one, there was a second, when the pilot on the plane saw a group of people shooting into the sky below, although he knew that the current flight altitude was not hit by the rifle below, but for the sake of safety, he still climbed quickly, and then returned to Jiangyin slowly.

The incident of this plane coming to the head of the Beiyang Army brought some gossip and jokes to the Beiyang Army, and there was not much surprise, but when the reconnaissance plane returned to the Jiangyin Air Base, it immediately reported to the higher authorities about the Beiyang Army's erection of a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River, and the information was quickly sent to Sa Zhenbing's table.

Sa Zhenbing did not hesitate, immediately led the ships staying on the south of the Zhenjiang River to set sail, and at noon they found that there was indeed a pontoon bridge on the river, and Zhang Xun's troops were crossing the river from the pontoon bridge.

After this artillery bombardment, Zhang Xun's Eighth Division was unlucky, and the troops that were crossing the river were definitely finished, even the troops on the shore were shelled, and even the troops of Cao Kun's Third Division who were connected to Ying suffered a lot of damage.

After such a toss, Zhang Xun found that he not only failed to cross the river, but lost nearly 1,000 people out of thin air.

As soon as Zhang Xun left, Cao Kun's side was too lazy to take over Zhang Xun's subordinates, which saved Cao Kun a lot of effort, but when the two consecutive regiment-level attacks were repelled by the National Army that day, Cao Kun finally felt a little helpless.

"I played well a few days ago, why did it change in two days!" Cao Kun was a little depressed, and in addition to being depressed, he could only let go of the idea of breaking through the enemy's position in one fell swoop, but pondered whether he should use other methods to make a breakthrough.

You must know that Cao Kun is also under great pressure now, he started to attack Zhenjiang from Nanjing, and it has been four or five days now, although the first two days are okay, and the front and rear should also kill and wound two or three thousand people of the Nationalist Army, and also defeat a Jiangsu Third Division, but now he is still blocked from Zhenjiang. If it continues like this, I'm afraid the old man in Yanjing should be angry.

When Cao Kun arrived under pressure, Jin Yunpeng of the Fifth Division was not having a good time. He was more unlucky than Cao Kun, although he successfully took Nanjing on the 23rd, but later in the direction of Lishui, he was met with the joint resistance of the 1st and 7th Divisions of the Nationalist Army.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division of the Beiyang Army is not weak, the two divisions under Ma Cheng and Lin Zhaomin are not weak, and the First Division of the National Army has already dug fortifications in Lishui and is waiting for the Beiyang Army to attack, and when the first day of the attack, Jin Yunpeng's Fifth Division lost hundreds of people.

When the rear artillery regiment moved to the front line, it was detected by the aviation unit of the National Army, and then immediately sent a reconnaissance cavalry battalion to carry out a rapid roundabout raid, although there were only more than 300 cavalry, and the Fifth Artillery Regiment of the Beiyang Army also had a battalion of infantry escort, but in the process of marching by the more than 300 cavalry, the Fifth Artillery Regiment suffered heavy losses, and was destroyed by the reconnaissance cavalry battalion of the National Army Nearly ten pieces of artillery, After the cavalry units of the Beiyang Army rushed to reinforcements, the remaining artillery was saved. This unexpected surprise attack caused the Fifth Division of the Beiyang Army to lose a lot of artillery strength, so that the artillery support received by the Fifth Division in the subsequent operations was slightly insufficient.

Later, when Lishui confronted the Second and Seventh Divisions of the Nationalist Army, Jin Yunpeng felt the inferiority in troops, and constantly shrank his troops to avoid breaking through and eliminating all units of the Nationalist Army.

When the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army were fighting in Zhenjiang and Lishui, Cai Ye also arrived in Shanghai on November 1, and as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he invited Chen Jingyun to Shanghai to talk with him, and also invited Sun Wen to go to Shanghai.

After receiving Cai Yi's invitation, Chen Jingyun thought about it for a while, and then said: "Since we have all come to Shanghai, we have to meet them!" ”

The reason why Chen Jingyun went was to a large extent because the Chinese boundary in Shanghai was in the hands of the Nationalist Army, and now Shanghai was already the territory of the Nationalist Army.

Since Chen Jingyun decided to go, then the relevant personnel below acted quickly, Lin Chengkun personally led a regiment of the guard division to escort Chen Jingyun, and then Chen Cai of the Military Investigation Bureau also launched a large-scale operation in the Shanghai area to arrest and eliminate some opposition forces of the Nationalist Army to ensure Chen Jingyun's safety when he went to Shanghai.

Chen Jingyun is going to Shanghai to meet with Cai Jie, which has caused a great repercussion, many newspapers speculate on the cause and effect of this matter, and predict possible changes, some people speculate that if Cai Yi comes to persuade Chen Jingyun to stop the army, then this war in southern Jiangsu that has lasted for nearly half a month will stop, and some people even think that this is a new round of north-south peace talks.

However, these people's ideas are still too early, the war between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army can be said to have developed step by step, not that the leaders of the two sides are hot, but that Chen Jingyun or Yuan Shikai can start or end the war according to their personal wishes, this is already a dispute involving the interests of the two military groups, and it is unlikely that they will end the war until the winner is determined or a critical point is reached.

For example, according to the current situation, the Nationalist Army wants to hold Zhenjiang and take Nanjing, and then rely on the Yangtze River to complete the overall strategy of its strategic defense, while the Beiyang Army wants to take Zhenjiang and firmly plant the two nails of Nanjing and Zhenjiang in southern Jiangsu, so as to lay the foundation for the Beiyang Army to move south in a big way.

Therefore, before there is no major change, the war between the two sides will not end because of Sun Wen's mediation, nor will it end because of Cai Yi's mediation.

On 2 November, Chen Jingyun took a special train from Hangzhou to Shanghai, accompanied by a regiment of guards and many high-ranking generals of the Nationalist Army, in addition to his personal guard.

And on this day, a small incident happened in Hubei, Li Yuanhong arrested Zhang Zhenwu, deputy minister of military affairs of Hubei Military and Political Axe, and Fang Wei, head of the regiment of the generals, and during the arrest, the two resisted with guns and were ordered to be killed. Subsequently, the Hubei army, which had been reorganized into three divisions by Li Yuanhong, launched a rebellion led by some of the former Communist Advancement Association officers, and the rebels invaded Li Yuanhong's Governor's Mansion.

In this way, when there was a lot of trouble in Jiangsu, Hubei was in chaos again, and this chaos was not caused by the outside world, but by the internal contradictions of Hubei's military and political axes.