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Xu Shuzheng, the youngest lieutenant general and division commander in the Beiyang Army, is known as the best general of the younger generation in Beiyang, before the Xinhai Revolution, his talent and fame have spread all over Beiyang, plus he is a descendant general under Duan Qirui, and the speed of promotion is unmatched in the entire Beiyang. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

You must know that when he abandoned martial arts and joined Yuan Shikai when he was a teenager, he was taken by Duan Qirui, and later he was personally sent by Duan Qirui to study, and after returning to China, he also served under Duan Qirui, after the Wuchang Uprising, he successively served as the General Staff of the First Army, the Director of the Military Department, the principal of the Baoding Military Academy and other important positions, when Yuan Shikai trained the 10th Division and the 11th Division (Note 1), he was personally recommended by Duan Qirui to Yuan Shikai, and then served as the commander of the 11th Division. As a result, he became one of the 14 lieutenant generals and division commanders in the Beiyang Army, and he was only 32 years old when he became the commander of the 11th Division last year, making him the youngest lieutenant general in the Beiyang Army.

On the eve of Xinhai, people who are on par with Xu Shuzheng's reputation, including Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Yi, have now faded out of people's field of vision, although Jiang Fangzhen also holds important positions in the southern republican political axe, but he is only a major general director of the Department of Education, and his reputation is enough to affect the change of the situation Xu Shuzheng is incomparable. And Cai Yi, since he arrived in Yanjing last year, people have chosen his surname to forget him, I heard that now he is lingering in Yanjing all day in the Bada Hutong, and he also has a tear news with a Qinglou woman named Xiaofengxian.

In just over two years since the Wuchang Uprising, heroes from all sides have come and gone, some have faded away, and some have shone and quickly become people's dazzling stars, speaking of dazzling stars, it must belong to Chen Jingyun, in just over two years, he pulled out an army of nearly 200,000 people, occupied many provinces in the southeast and competed for the power of the central political axe in Anhui, Jiangsu and Beiyang.

It's just that after Chen Jingyun got to the point, people have already compared him with Yuan Shikai, and naturally they won't compare Xu Shuzheng, Jiang Fangzhen, or Shen Gang, Feng Guozhang These generals with him, otherwise there is no comparable surname if you have to compare, of course, there are still a large number of young generals in their twenties in the southern army, but the ranks of these people's lieutenant generals and major generals are too large, for example, this Lin Chengkun, who is only twenty-four years old, is one of the four major commanders of the National Army, but people know it, This Lin Chengkun is not only the core general who started with Chen Jingyun at the beginning, but also Chen Jingyun's in-law, and the army of the southern provinces is expanding too fast, regardless of whether it is the National Army or the Gui Army or the Dian Army, the former Soviet Army, the Anhui Army, the Jiangxi Army, etc., all of which have swelled up in just two years, and those generals are all roles that rose overnight, and they are generally underaged, and the generals in their twenties have a big vote!

Based on the fact that the Beiyang Army has been formed for many years, the promotion of officers and generals is very slow, and it is necessary to pay attention to the situation of seniority, Xu Shuzheng was able to get up and become a lieutenant general and division commander in such a short time, whether it is his ability or his chance, it is very good.

You must know that Tang Tianxi, the commander of the 10th Division who became the commander of the two new divisions in Beiyang with him, is a model for the promotion of generals within Beiyang, and slowly started from the grassroots level, from the pipe band, to the standard commander, and then to the co-commander, Tang Tianxi, who became the commander of the Fifth Brigade, has climbed for many years, and was recommended by Cao Kun and Feng Guozhang as the commander of the 10th Division after making military achievements in the war in southern Jiangsu, otherwise he would have to climb to the position of lieutenant general and division commander for many years.

If you look at it like this, you will find that Xu Shuzheng is really not simple!

Although he had the idea of preserving his strength in his heart, he was reluctant to go south in Xuzhou and Bengbu, and used this time to expand the 11th Division in a big way, so that he could form a new supplementary brigade. Now in the Beiyang Army, it has become the norm for regular divisions to train a reading brigade/supplementary brigade, almost every division has organized and trained similar expanded troops, and even the second mixed brigade has also given itself a new supplementary regiment, although not every division's newly expanded supplementary brigade can have the same combat effectiveness as the reading brigade of the third Beiyang Division, but it can still be used to supplement the loss of troops during the battle.

Xu Shuzheng, who was busy expanding the troops, refused to go south quickly in order to preserve his strength, but it did not mean that he would watch Hefei and Jiangbei lose them.

Xu Shuzheng, who was able to climb to a high position at such a young age, was not a stupid person, on the contrary, he knew very well that the big tree in Beiyang could not fall, so Jiangbei and Anhui could not be lost. And according to his thoughts, Hefei's Cao Kun's Third Division is the most powerful unit in the Beiyang Army, Cao Kun is different from Xu Shuzheng and others, Xu Shuzheng is behind Duan Qirui, but behind him Cao Kun is Yuan Shikai, among so many generals in the Beiyang Army, he Cao Kun is Yuan Shikai's descendant general, so whether it is military expenses or weapons and equipment, Cao Kun's third division is the priority to be guaranteed, without Yuan Shikai's personal support, Cao Kun's third division reading brigade could not have come out so quickly, Moreover, it has the combat effectiveness of a mixed brigade.

With the assistance of 20,000 or 30,000 troops from the Anhui Provincial Army, it is estimated that it is impossible to counterattack the Nationalist Army, but it should not be a big problem to hold Hefei.

And Jiangbei is even less worth worrying about, although Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang are not in harmony, resulting in Xu Shuzheng and Feng Guozhang not dealing much, but the strength of the second army under Feng Guozhang is undoubted, and the three divisions and one brigade under his command occupy most of the Beiyang Army's descendant strength, if this can still lose Jiangbei, then Xu Shuzheng has to wonder if Feng Guozhang's head is made of paste.

However, he did not expect that the Nationalist Army did not hesitate to gather most of the main forces in Anhui in order to take Hefei, and Cao Kun chose to give up in order to protect himself when he could not resist, so that not only Hefei was lost, but also two divisions of the Anhui Provincial Army were also lost.

If Hefei is lost, if there is no Cao Kun to contain the enemy, then the Chuzhou and Jinpu lines will be very dangerous, and when Chuzhou is lost, Jiangbei will be finished.

And if Jiangbei is captured by the Nationalist Army, it can almost be declared that the Beiyang Army has been defeated in this life-and-death decisive battle. Even if it was able to keep Shandong, Henan and other places, but at that time, Beiyang had lost the ability to continue to compete for hegemony, and the strategic situation was to transform into a strong national army and a disadvantage to the Beiyang army.

As a member of the Beiyang system, Xu Shuzheng knows very well that the big tree in Beiyang cannot fall, once the big tree in Beiyang falls, then many people under this big tree will not be spared, and Xu Shuzheng himself will not be much better. Therefore, as soon as he got the news of the loss of Hefei, Xu Shuzheng didn't care about preserving his strength, so he immediately ordered the troops to mobilize, and then sent the cavalry regiment out to reconnoiter the news, and began to contact Feng Guozhang and Cao Kun, intending to find out the next move of the Nationalist Army.

If the main force of the Nationalist Army continues to move north, then he will have to defend on the front line of Huainan and Bengbu to block the main force of the Nationalist Army, and if the main force of the Nationalist Army goes to Chuzhou, then he will quickly rush south to help.

On the fifteenth, Xu Shuzheng learned that the main force of the Nationalist Army appeared on the periphery of Chuzhou, and Feng Guozhang determined that the strategic intention of the Nationalist Army was in Chuzhou, so he personally led the main force of the Eleventh Division that day, in addition to the supplementary brigade sent to Huainan, the rest of the main force of the Eleventh Division of more than 10,000 people were all taken south by him, although the army had already prepared, but it also took time, and it did not arrive in Mingguang until the eighteenth, and the 11th Cavalry Regiment, the vanguard of the whole army, found that a large number of enemy troops seemed to be coming west of Mingguang, There are at least several thousand, and they are. Immediately, Xu Shuzheng made a decision and commanded the troops to quickly arrive at the periphery of Mingguang, and then when the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the National Army had just entered Mingguang and had not had time to deploy fortifications, Xu Shuzheng's 11th Division had already been killed.

A regular main division of the Beiyang Army played against a mixed brigade of the National Army, and the quality of the soldiers and officers of the two was eight taels in a radius, but in terms of weapons and equipment, Xu Shuzheng's 11th Division was completely superior to the Fifth Mixed Brigade. In addition, the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the National Army had been marching for a long time, exhausted, and had no time to prepare fortifications after arriving in Mingguang, and was completely attacked by the 11th Division of the Beiyang Army without any preparation.

It is not so easy to win more with less, although people can say a lot of examples of winning more with less when talking about any war examples, but there are ten times, a hundred times more than many battles are not looked at by people, and the reason why winning more with less is because of its scarcity, people always talk about miraculous war examples, and scoff at ordinary war examples.

Obviously, the reason why a miracle is a miracle is because it rarely happens, and such a small probability of occurrence did not appear in Guo Chengdong, so as usual, the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the National Army was quickly unable to support under the blow of the enemy's superior forces and was forced to move, and the 520 Regiment that served as a cover was even more severely damaged, resulting in the third battalion of the 520 Regiment being surrounded and finally completely annihilated, and there was the first time that the Nationalist Army was eliminated by the enemy as a battalion.

In the end, only half of the remnants of the army were left and hurried south along the Jinpu line.

Xu Shuzheng walked in the bright light after being destroyed by artillery fire, these were everywhere after the explosion of the broken walls, the soldiers of the 11th Division were cleaning the battlefield, a large number of corpses of the Nationalist Army soldiers wearing brown and green military uniforms were placed on one side, on the other side was a large number of dejected National Army prisoners squatting on the ground, and there were naturally a large number of Beiyang Army soldiers in gray military uniforms guarding with guns.

"Humph! This is the National Army, and that's it! Xu Shuzheng looked at such a scene, and had some doubts about the combat effectiveness of the National Army, if the National Army was like this, then how could Cao Kun in Hefei be defeated, and even surrounded and annihilated a Reading Brigade for the National Army, could it be that Cao Kun ran on purpose?

Xu Shuzheng already doubted whether Cao Kun had an ulterior motive and deliberately gave up Hefei.

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