In the later stages of the Battle of Lodlone, Italy defended the Lodlone Plain at the cost of 2,000 dead and 50,000 wounded, and released poison gas bombs on the opponent's positions and supply roads, making it impossible for the Austrians to storm and support through the Guò mountain road, and the Italian people were more excited than ever. It was probably the most brilliant in Italy, with 2,000 dead and 50,000 wounded—it is impossible to say how many of these 50,000 were wounded, Wang Maoru once saw an Italian general return to the rear on leave because of a toothache. Marshal Barrioli felt that the Chinese had contributed, so he transferred Wang Maoru to the front command as a staff adviser, and Wang Maoru's bizarre ideas also gave the chief of general staff Diaz, who originally looked down on him, a lot of inspiration, such as using planes to throw propaganda leaflets at the other side, ** pictorials, burning gasoline bottles, etc., training sharpshooters to harass the opposing side, and even providing sharpshooters of the squadron ** for the Italian army to use. The Austrians lacked artillery and had a great headache for these sharpshooters.

The news of Wang Maoru's great victory in the Battle of Lodrone reached China, causing many Chinese people to be excited, and they expressed their feelings in the newspapers, saying that General Shangwu was like the savior of China. Major newspapers reported how heroic and great the Chinese troops were in the European theater. In particular, the Battle of Lodrone commanded by Wang Maoru can be called a classic of Chinese soldiers.

Someone from Italy reported the whole process of the Battle of Lodrone, and the Chinese participating army first showed the enemy weakness with the second division, so that the enemy mistakenly thought that the Chinese would not fight, and then led the snake out of the hole and let the Austrian ** team attack in a big way. The originally impregnable defensive line of the position has become an ornament. Then he closed the door and beat the dogs, and eliminated one of the opponent's regiments. Then Wang Maoru sent his army to attack overnight, and finally smashed Huanglong, almost capturing the enemy chieftain alive. Then Wang Maoru beat the water dog and wiped out nearly tens of thousands of Olympic teams. The Chinese media used to exaggerate, and several thousand Austro-Hungarian soldiers spread to the country. has become tens of thousands, and this exaggeration is even more exaggerated among the people, becoming hundreds of thousands. Five thousand enemies became more than a hundred thousand. It's exaggerated enough, and in the end it was because of the use of gas bombs to wipe out a whole mass of enemies, of course. The use of gas bombs cannot be said. Everyone thought it was a fierce battle, and they depicted it in their minds as a magnificent hand-to-hand fight. Don't you know that the Chinese soldiers, with cigarettes in their mouths, drinking wine and beer, waited under the scorching sun for each other to be smoked to death by poisonous gas.

Also thanks to Wang Maoru, the Chinese people didn't know about the European war, and they didn't even know where Europe was, but this time they knew, it turned out that so many countries in Europe were fighting, and our squadron actually played the door. Destroy more than 100,000 foreign devils......

Some experts in the newspapers conducted a study on Wang Maoru's use of troops, and gave Wang Maoru nicknames one after another, saying that Sun Wu is reincarnated, Yue Fei is second, etc., in short, what do ordinary people like to see. They just blow about it, and then the newspapers sell it.

The essence is that for a long time, the status of Chinese in the international community has been too low, and once there is a person who can be recognized, he can be blown into the sky in China. In addition, Wang Maoru's propaganda office, which stayed in China to help him publicize, praised Wang Maoru in various names, which made this kind of praise even more powerful. The heroes that Chinese people like to see are not insiders in the civil war and outsiders, but heroes in foreign wars like wolves, and Wang Maoru appeared appropriately.

As Wang Maoru's best friend. Yan Fu has been concentrating on learning since he faded out of politics, and this time he heard that Wang Maoru had won a battle in Europe, invited a few friends to drink a few more glasses of wine excitedly, and wrote a poem "Breaking the Array" to praise Wang Maoru's achievements.

Liang Qichao's article "The Heavy Weapon of the Country, General Shangwu", which was published in many newspapers such as "Xinmin Daily", "Yanjing Daily", "Young People", "North China Daily", etc., told about Wang Maoru in his eyes and the bits and pieces of his contact with Wang Maoru. Liang Qichao, the predecessor of the Chinese cultural industry, praised him much more than Pu Ji's propaganda, but the articles he wrote were written in classical Chinese. For the common people, Wang Maoru in the mouth of the storyteller is undoubtedly the real martial general, and only then is in line with the martial general in their hearts. Even Wang Maoru was ostracized because his fourth wife was Japanese, and at this moment he has become a glory for the country.

Wang Maoru unknowingly caused such a big repercussion in China, and also won medals from Italy and France, and the red-eyed Xu Shuzheng was so angry that he screamed.

This should have been his credit, it should have been that he led the Chinese army in Europe to kill the Quartet, it should have been that he won the Lombard Medal of Hero, the Medal of Warrior, but now Wang Maoru took advantage of it, and he also forcibly swallowed one of his divisions, how to make Xu Shuzheng not resentful?

When Wang Maoru and Hathaway traveled to Paris, news came from China that Zhang Zuolin went to Suiyuan Province to become the commander of Suiyuan and received Suiyuan's Beiyang army, with a total military strength of 80,000 people, ready to go south to Shaanxi or west to Gansu.

In March 1918, with the support of Duan Qirui of the Anhui lineage, Meng Enyuan and Wang Maoru of the Northeast Department, and Jiang Guidi, a veteran of the Yi Army, Zhang Zuolin led the army to drive out Jiang Yanxing, the direct commander of Suiyuan. Cai Chengxun, the commander of the Rehe capital, was also a direct general, Duan Qirui and Zhang Zuolin were naturally dissatisfied, so after several persecutions by the Governor Army, Zhang Zuolin became the commander of Suiyuan.

Cai Chengxun, the former commander of Suiyuan, was naturally unwilling, he felt that the Seventh Army under his command was not a vegetarian, so he had to refuse by force. It's a pity that President Feng Guozhang, who has always supported him, was jointly persecuted by Duan Qirui, Wang Maoru, Meng Enyuan, Zhang Zuolin and Jiang Guidi, so he had no choice but to transfer Cai Chengxun to Gansu as a Gansu overseer, and Cai Chengxun was also expelled. Feng Guozhang saw several powerful figures standing behind Zhang Zuolin, so he could only reluctantly agree to Zhang Zuolin's request.

Zhang Zuolin immediately merged the 27th, 28th, and 29th Divisions of his subordinate towns with the Seventh Army, 10,000 recruits, a total of 80,000 people, and reorganized them into 12 mixed brigades, namely:

Zhang Huijing, commander of the first mixed brigade of the town

Sun Liechen, commander of the second mixed brigade of the town

Wu Junsheng, commander of the third mixed brigade of the town

Tang Yulin, commander of the fourth mixed brigade of the town

Kan Chaoxi, commander of the fifth mixed brigade of the town

Zou Fen, commander of the sixth mixed brigade of the town

Zheng Diansheng, commander of the seventh mixed brigade of the town

Cai Yongzhen, commander of the eighth mixed brigade of the town

Wan Fulin, commander of the Ninth Mixed Brigade of the town

Cai Pingben, commander of the 10th Mixed Brigade of the town

Niu Yongfu, commander of the 11th Mixed Brigade of the town

Ding Chao, commander of the 12th mixed brigade of the town

After the reorganization, Zhang Zuolin was ambitious. Just waiting to swing the knife south.

Suiyuan Province is bordered by Chahar to the east, Shanxi Province to the southeast, Shaanxi Province to the south, Ningxia Province to the west, and Outer Mongolia to the north – of course, Outer Mongolia is vast and in the hands of Wang Maoru's Northeast Frontier Army, and Zhang Zuolin still needs to use Wang Maoru. You can't offend him, so the town will never go north. Going west to Ningxia is of little strategic significance. There are many ethnic groups in Ningxia, and the most important point is that Ningxia is too poor. It's not worth fighting at all. To the east, Chahar is the territory of the Anhui system, and now the Anhui system is in full swing, and he can't afford to provoke the Anhui system, and his colleague Chahar is not a land of abundance. Therefore, there are only two options for the town, one is to fight Shaanxi, and the other is to fight Shanxi.

After the planning of Zhang Zuolin's town ** staff, the town ** decided to hit Shaanxi first and then Shanxi, after all, the persimmon is pinched first and the soft one is pinched.

There is another important reason for sending troops to Shaanxi. It was Shaanxi that was in war at this time, and Chen Shufan, the overseer of Shaanxi, was in a hurry.

Shaanxi Overseer Chen Shufan, this person is an Anhui general from the Alliance.

Chen Shufan is a native of Ankang, Shaanxi, and originally hoped that the scientific examination would become a show, but he did not expect that at the age of eighteen, Emperor Guangxu ordered the abolition of the scientific examination, and then the Shaanxi Army Primary School. He was sent to study as a non-commissioned officer cadet of the Baoding Army, and after returning to Shaanxi, he served as the ordnance manager of the armory. After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Shaanxi was also ready to move. At this time, the people of the League found him and asked him to join the League, and Chen Shufan thought that the Great Qing Qi was exhausted and revolted. However, after the recovery of Shaanxi, Zhang Fenghui, the overseer of Shaanxi at that time, did not pay attention to him, and Chen Shufan did not have an official position when he was a meritorious hero. Chen Shufan joined the People's Army in a fit of rage. Raise an army on your own. Later, Zhang Fenghui saw that he was powerful, so he appointed him as the commander of Hedong to attack Shanxi. After the establishment of the Republic of China, Chen Shufan served as the commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and soon Yuan Shikai's henchman Lu Jianzhang led the Beiyang Sixth Division into Shaanxi as the overseer. Seeing the wind, Chen Shufan took refuge in Lu Jianzhang, who disbanded the Shaanxi army, leaving only Chen Shufan's mixed Fourth Brigade. After Yuan Shikai was proclaimed emperor, Lu Jianzhang ruled Shaanxi and made many killings, which made the people of Shaanxi angry, and Chen Shufan used a trick to drive away Lu Jianzhang and annex Shaanxi. Subsequently, he took the initiative to take refuge in Duan Qirui, and was named the overseer of Shaanxi by Duan Qirui.

The Shaanxi Rebellion originated from Li Yuanhong, who believed that the military and government should be separated, and appointed Li Gengen, a veteran of the League, as the governor of Shaanxi Province, and then Li Yuanhong stepped down because of the scandal of introducing Zhang Xun to Beijing, and Chen Shufan expelled Li Yuanhong's subordinate Li Gengen. Guo Jian, the commander of the Shaanxi garrison, supported Li Gengen, and Chen Shufan sent Hu Jingyi and Wang Feihu to encircle and suppress Guo Jian.

At this time, Sun Wen launched the Protector War, Guo Jian Gengzhi established Shaanxi Jing ** to fight against Chen Shufan's army, Chen Shufan was defeated by Guo Jian, but because of Henan Zhensong Army Liu Zhenhua's troops into Shaanxi, unexpectedly the Zhensong Army military discipline was extremely poor, causing the people of Shaanxi to complain. Originally, there was civil strife in Shaanxi, and the people did not support it, but Chen Shufan's army led the Zhensong army into Shaanxi, so that the people supported Jing **. So Jing ** fought more and more, crushing Chen Shufan's army and Zhen Song's army.

Zhang Zuolin held 50,000 horses in the town, and after coming to Suiyuan, he annexed the 20,000 horses of the Seventh Army left by Cai Chengxun, and then expanded the army by 10,000 to 80,000 horses, and became the most powerful warlord in the northwest.

At this time, Chen Shufan thought that with the friendship between the Anhui department and the town **, Zhang Zuolin helped him for free, since the town Song army was able to enter Shaanxi, it didn't matter if the town ** entered Shaanxi, one broken bowl was falling, and two were also falling.

At this time, I received a letter from Chen Shufan asking for help, and it was really like sending charcoal in the snow, what is a sticky bean bag falling from the sky? This is simply a golden lump falling from the sky, not to mention sticky bean buns.

So Zhang Zuolin asked his general Zhang Zuoxiang to lead the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth mixed brigades with more recruits in Suiyuan to guard the family and nursing home, and he personally led the nine mixed brigades south to march into Shaanxi. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )rv