Republic of China 1927

() After gathering thousands of remnants in Section 28, they bypassed Guide City and retreated towards Yucheng and Mamuji.Perhaps in order to digest the results of Liuhe's victory, or because the lingering fear of the last attack on Guide City was still there, Han Fuqu's troops stayed in Liuhe and did not pursue it overnight.However, Lu Wenxiu and Yang Hucheng, who were chasing from the southwest, killed Guide City overnight, and entered the unguarded Guide City early the next morning.Not reconciled to gaining nothing, Lu Wenxiu went out of the city to chase east without even sitting on his buttocks in Guide City. Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by the teaching group in the east of Ma Muji. He suffered heavy losses and fled back to Germany in a state of embarrassment. .If Master Du Li hadn't been too busy running for his life, there would be no problem at all in annihilating Lu Wenxiu's miscellaneous army with bandits from western Henan as their team.

After defeating the pursuers, the Du Li Division and the remnants of the Fifth Army continued to retreat eastward to Dangshan. After a brief rest overnight, under the pressure of the Nationalist Alliance Army, they retreated eastward into Xuzhou City again and were really relieved.The rest of the Zhilu Army was far less fortunate than the Du Li Division: the Right Route Army broke through after five days and nights of fierce fighting with the besieged enemy. More than 2 remnants were withdrawn to the southwest of Shandong, and all heavy weapons were lost; Xu Yuanquan's troops on the middle road also lost troops and retreated to Xuzhou by detouring Liujiaji, Fengxian, and Peixian counties; When they came back, there were 1 people when they went out, and a little over 3 people retreated to Xuzhou.

The Nationalist Allied Forces with the power of great victory launched a powerful offensive against Xuzhou's outer defense line. Sun Liangcheng's troops went straight into the southwest of Shandong and occupied Caozhou and Shan County successively, and surrounded thousands of Lu Jun Jiang Yuming and other troops in Cao County; Han Fuqu and Shi Youshan's troops They went straight down to Mamuji and Dangshan Mountains, and at the beginning of December, soldiers approached the city of Xuzhou, and even once captured Jiuli Mountain, a strategic point in the northwest of Xuzhou. The Longhai Road Station in Xuzhou cut off the connection between Xuzhou and Shandong; The southwest wing of Xuzhou.

Under the pressure of the army, Xuzhou was in danger for several times. As one of the few full-staffed and full-blooded troops retreating to Xuzhou, the du li division became the firefighting team guarding Xuzhou's outer defense line. Reorganizing Xuzhou's outer defense lines, recruiting and training defeated soldiers, and divisions can be seen everywhere.As the defeated troops of various ministries rejoined the battle, especially the [-] to [-] remnants of Sun Lianshuai who had rested in southern Lunan went south to join the war, the Nationalist coalition forces that entered the outskirts of Xuzhou were defeated one after another, and retreated to Dangshan and Yongchang.

It annoyed Feng Christi very much, and fortunately for Zhang Dashuai, Du Yan and others, at the critical juncture of the Battle of Eastern Henan and the battle for Xuzhou's outskirts, He Yingqin's troops, who had huddled on the south bank of the Huaihe River, did not move until the end of the battle for Xuzhou's outskirts. He Yingqin himself rushed from Nanjing to Guzhen to command the Northern Expedition under the repeated urging of the representative of Christ in Nanjing.

"Master, according to the information from Guzhen, the No. 30 and 44 armies in Nanjing advanced northward along the two sides of the railway early this morning." Zhu Yunfu, chief of staff of Du Li Division's headquarters in Sanpu, marked it on the map Get out of the enemy's position.

"Leave them alone, Nanjing wants Christophe Feng to pick millet out of the fire for them." Du Yan said indifferently, "There is not a single week that they will not be able to make it through the three or four hundred miles from Guzhen to Xuzhou. "

Originally, before the first Battle of Eastern Henan, He Yingqin's tribe arrived at the south bank of Huainan, and it was Chen Tiaoyuan's tribe that was opposing him in Huaibei at that time.After Chen Tiaoyuan turned around again, the entire south line of Xuzhou was opened, but at this time, Nanjing not only did not take the opportunity to go north, but transferred Chen Tiaoyuan's troops to the west line to participate in the Western Expedition, and missed a great opportunity in vain.It may be understandable to miss this opportunity. After all, from the perspective of Nanjing, the danger of Tang Shengzhi, who is dominant in the upper reaches, is much greater than that of Zhang Zongchang, who is entrenched in Xuzhou.

The Second Battle of Eastern Henan was another excellent opportunity for He Yingqin's troops. If they cooperated with the Nationalist Allied Forces and copied the rear route of the Zhilu Army, Marshal Zhang would have no choice but to retreat to Shandong.But Nanjing has no leader, and all the factions are busy fighting for power, until they saw Feng Christie winning one after another, fearing that Lao Feng would become bigger, they hurriedly sent troops to the north.But when he saw that the main force of Old Feng had retreated, he immediately began to hesitate, but he reluctantly let the two miscellaneous troops walk ahead, while the First Army and Ninth Army of the direct line followed slowly.

"Lao Jiang's army has always been this kind of virtue. They can't fight wars and play tricks and tricks." Du Yan thought of some jokes from later generations, and couldn't help laughing: "Let's just use these few days to organize the troops."

Since the two Eastern Expeditions, the first army of the Whampoa faction or the Zhongyang faction, which was blown to the sky by later generations, has never fought a decent battle, relying on recruiting and accepting rebels all the way from Guangdong to Nanjing.

Wang Boling piaoji, the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the First World War in Nanchang, fled afterward.Shanghai and Nanjing Qing Party, laymen think that Lao Jiang relied on the First Army to solve gd. In fact, if the Guangxi Seventh Army had not disarmed the unstable Sixth Army and sent powerful troops to suppress the First Army, Lao Jiang couldn't even make things right internally.

After the Qing Dynasty, the Northern Expedition continued again. The core was also the Seventh Army of the Guangxi Clan and the Tenth Army of Wang Tianpei. At the beginning, they swept across the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, Jiangbei, and went straight to Shandong.Later, the Seventh Army of the Guangxi Clan went south and was immediately counterattacked by the Zhilu Army. Lao Jiang had no choice but to go to the front line to supervise the battle.

In the battle of Longtan in September, the Seventh Army also relied on the Seventh Army to turn the tide. However, the First Army did not lose any of the spoils distributed after the war.After the war, due to the large establishment, it was expanded from one army to the first and ninth armies.In October, Nanjing decided to carry out the Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition simultaneously.In just a few months, the Western Expeditionary Army occupied Wuhan and defeated Tang Shengzhi, but He Yingqin's troops, who were responsible for the Northern Expedition, did not even cross the Huaihe River.

"Teacher, all the ministries are full now, and there are 800 more people." Referring to the reorganization of the troops, Zhu Yunfu said with a smile: "If this continues, we will have to expand the number soon!" It is refreshing to fight with Master Du , people are hitting less and less, but Master Du Li is hitting more and more.

"It's fully staffed so soon!" Du Yan said in amazement: "If there is more time, they will be staffed in the engineering battalion, let them learn more about civil engineering, maybe they will be useful for defending the city."

Division Du Li fought more and more. Firstly, Division Commander Du was extremely tricky in fighting battles. Unsure battles were rarely big, and the losses in each battle were very small. In addition, Division Du Li's logistics support was much better than that of other troops unless it was directly Most of them were killed, and most of them could be rescued. Secondly, Commander Du relied on his own strength and the trust of Zhang Dashuai to swallow the scattered troops that retreated to Xuzhou City. Although it caused a lot of criticism, his team was full. a lot.This year, the gun at hand is tough, and Mr. Du doesn't care about some people's dissatisfaction at all.

"The total number of our Du Li Division should exceed 3000. If you add Commander Dong's Fifth Army, it will not be far away from 6000!" Zhu Yunfu said with ulterior motives. The remnant of the Fifth Army and Du Yan looked down upon For some remnants, Dong Chunke currently has [-] or [-] soldiers under his command. It’s just about their combat effectiveness.

"Yunfu, you have to be conscientious!" Du Yan shook his head at Zhu Yunfu and said with a smile, "If it weren't for Brother Dong, we would have been swallowed up as soon as we arrived in Linyi, so you don't want to fight the idea of ​​the Fifth Army." .”

"I'm just saying that you are thinking too much, Commander!" Zhu Yunfu smiled wickedly and said, "Let's take a step back, our Du Li division's expansion is already strong enough, even if Commander Dong is willing, I don't quite agree."

"Yunfu, you also have a lot of spare troops." Du Yan smiled and sighed and said: "The Xuzhou War has just kicked off, and there will be battles to come! We have tens of thousands of people, counting 10 It's really nothing in the big battle!"

"The enemy army on the Jinpu Road line has five armies, plus the three armies on the Lianghuai and Yancheng lines, the enemy on the southern line alone is more than 15." Zhu Yunfu calculated: "Including the one hundred thousand troops of Feng Christ in the west, , our Xuzhou is going to face more than 25 enemy troops, I don't think this Xuzhou can hold it anymore!"

"According to the current style of play and the morale of the Zhilu Army, it is really difficult to defend Xuzhou!" Du Yan nodded and said, "There are empty doors everywhere, and although there are more than [-] troops inside and outside Xuzhou City, they are in a mess. , there are not many who can fight."

"Master, do you want to have a talk with Nanfang?" Zhu Yunfu suddenly thought of something, and said in a low voice: "A classmate from the south who is pretty good sent me a letter."

"The time is not yet ripe. If it doesn't work, let's go back to Yishan." Du Yan shook his head and said, although he also knew that the days of the dog meat Zhang were not long.

"Teacher, the conditions offered by the south are pretty good. With the strength of our du li division, we can give you the designation of a temporary army." Zhu Yunfu continued a little bit reluctantly: "We have the final say on the personnel and organizational structure!"

"Yunfu, I know what you're thinking, and it's also for our group." Du Yan said earnestly, "But you have to know, don't pin your hopes on others at any time. The root of our Master Du Li is in Yishan , as long as Yishan's followers are still there, even if the entire Du Li division is wiped out, we can pull out a new division in half a month after we return to Yishan!"

"Master, I understand!" Zhu Yunfu was stunned. No wonder Master Du transported a large amount of supplies back to Yishan that were not urgently needed, and also sent back hundreds of officers and soldiers who were not seriously injured in these battles.

"Your classmate is called Chen Cixiu. I heard that he was dismissed not long ago." Du Yan said casually, "However, this person has won the trust of Lao Jiang and his future is limitless. Don't break your connection with him." , leave us a way!"

"Okay, okay!" Zhu Yunfu was shocked. He had never mentioned this classmate's name, and he only knew that he was doing well in Nanjing. He didn't expect Mr. Du to know such details. It seems that as a staff officer The boss still underestimated the strength of Mr. Du.

"Don't worry about Yunfu, I just guessed it by chance." Du Yan patted Zhu Yunfu's shoulder and said, "You guys in the eighth phase of Baoding are still juniors in the army, and there are only a few who can make it to the top. It's not hard to guess." arrive."

It is definitely a good job for those who have graduated to the level of teacher within five years after graduation, not to mention that this person has a great reputation in later generations. It is not difficult for Du Yan to deduce it when he read the information from Nanjing.

"Teacher, urgent call from the headquarters!" Before Zhu Yunfu could speak again, Han Gang hurried in from the outside.

"What's the matter?" Du Yan asked casually.

Han Gang hurriedly said, "Dashuai Zhang asked you to have a meeting at the headquarters before three o'clock, saying that we have important matters to discuss!"

"What the hell are you doing, you didn't notify me until 02:30 for the meeting at [-] o'clock!" Du Yan glanced at his watch and cursed: "Hurry up and prepare the car!"

Sanpu is still more than ten miles away from the city of Xuzhou, and it is barely enough to drive there by car.

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