Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Feng Guozhang only found out late at night, and it was too late to do anything at this time.

Just as Zhang Zizhong was running at high speed on the land of southern Anhui with the terrain of his own battalion, in Shanghai, a battle without gunpowder was going on.

At this moment, Wang Yaqiao and Chen Qimei are nervously making various preparations for the troops belonging to their own forces to enter Shanghai, and Shanghai at this moment has also become lively with the defeat of the Beiyang Army commanded by Feng Guozhang.

All powerful factions and celebrities in Shanghai are nervously inquiring about the latest news. If they want to protect their vested interests, they naturally need to know who will be in charge in Shanghai next.

The war in Zhejiang started at the end of March. Zhu Rui, who was given high hopes by Wang Zhenyu, performed worse than Li Houji in Fujian.Relying on more than 3 people, Li Houji fought fiercely with the revolutionary army in the Fuzhou area for more than two months. In the end, he was outnumbered and fled to Taiwan.And what about Zhu Rui?As a local snake who has been operating in Zhejiang for many years, with an army of 1, he lost half of Zhejiang in less than a week.

This is not to say that the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang Army is inferior to the Revolutionary Army, but that the main generals of the Zhejiang Army, Lu Gongwang and others, secretly communicated with Sun Yat-sen.As a result, before the battle started, more than 3 of the [-] troops became part of the revolutionary army.Now Zhu Ruike felt that he was hanging, and he might not be able to complete the task Wang Zhenyu asked to keep the revolutionary army out of Zhejiang.But Wang Zhenyu's final bottom line is that Sun Wen's army must never be allowed to enter Shanghai. This must be done no matter what, otherwise Zhu Rui will have nothing to do with him on the political stage.In order to achieve this goal, he can only call the generals he can trust to his side to give a lecture: "To be honest, everyone knows that Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army was defeated by Wang Zhenyu's youth army in the front, and our revolutionary army is also here. Aggressive, seeing that this Zhejiang territory is about to be lost."

These generals looked at each other for a while after hearing the words that demoralized them, and asked one after another: "Dare to ask the general what his idea is, whether to fight or defend, whether to make peace or to surrender, no matter what the decision is, I will just follow it."

These are polite words, but Zhu Rui didn't dare to take them seriously, after all Lu Gongwang was against him.He straightened his back and said: "Since everyone has this attitude, I will tell you brothers one thing. Before the start of this battle, I got in touch with Marshal Wang of the youth army. Marshal Wang is now strong and strong, and his soldiers are pointing directly at him. Nanjing, so my idea is to follow Dashuai Wang. But Dashuai Wang entrusted me with two things that day. The first is to protect our Zhejiang for his old man (Wang Zhenyu Juhan, who is older?), but Lu Gongwang forgot about the Restoration Association and The blood and blood of the Tongmenghui defected to Sun Dapao, and now most of Zhejiang has fallen into the hands of Sun Dapao. So we are sorry for this entrustment to Marshal Wang, but the second is to help Marshal Wang’s army enter Shanghai first, which we still have a chance to do Yes, as long as we stick to Hangzhou. That’s why Zhu asked all the brothers here to control the teams in their respective hands at this moment when our future and destiny will be determined. No matter what, we must defend Hangzhou. Please!”

After the generals exchanged glances, they seemed to have counted, so they got up one after another, expressing that they would fight to the end for Zhu Rui. . .

Wang Yaqiao has been quite busy recently. On the one hand, all information submitted to the Anjiang General Staff Headquarters and the Southeast Front Army needs his signature before it can be released.On the other hand, during this period of time, I have to find time to contact the local tyrants in Shanghai for Yang Yongtai. After all, the youth army will need support from all aspects if they want to enter Shanghai.

But just yesterday he got a very bad news, that is, someone saw Sun Yat-sen's general Chen Qimei enter the private residence of He Fenglin, the Songhu Protectorate envoy appointed by the Beiyang government and the commander of the Army's Sixth Mixed Brigade. It only came out in an hour, and it is unknown what the specific plot is.

If the previous activities of both parties were still in a state of mutual tolerance, then it would be a very serious foul for Chen Qimei to go directly to He Fenglin.After all, everyone went to drink tea and chat with well-known figures from all walks of life in Shanghai before, just to boost their popularity for their own side. The final result is to be faster than whose army is faster. This is the basis for everyone to tolerate each other.And now?Chen Qimei first killed the naval fleet commander of the Beiyang Army, and then instigated the navy. This is okay, because of the concession, the fleet finally left Shanghai for Mawei, Fuzhou under the intervention of the great powers.But He Fenglin is different. He is the Songhu Army Guard appointed by Yuan Shikai himself, and he has an army in his hand.If the final result is that He Fenglin was successfully instigated and turned into a revolutionary armed force under the Chinese revolutionary military government led by Sun Dapao.So, is the youth army attacking when it arrives in Shanghai?Or not to attack?

This situation is absolutely not allowed to happen. Wang Yaqiao immediately reported the situation to Yang Yongtai, Wang Zhenyu's plenipotentiary representative in Shanghai. Yang Yongtai has been busy attending various entertainments in the concession recently, but he still has basic vigilance.He glanced at Wang Yaqiao lightly, and then said in a low voice, "I've always been curious about one thing. He, Chen Yingshi, killed one of Yuan Shikai's naval commanders. With Yuan Shikai's character, he would allow this person to stay in the world?"

Wang Yaqiao suddenly became enlightened when he heard the words, nodded, turned around and left, while Yang Yongtai smiled slightly, and went to play with a brand new set of four treasures of the study on his desk.This was given to him by the Jewish businessman Hartung. It is a pure white jade product with a delicate luster, and it can cost as much as [-] yuan on the market.

"Shanghai is better, there are more rich people," Yang Yongtai sighed involuntarily. . .

Still back on the battlefield, in the fifth year of the Republic of China, at 1916:4 am on April 4, 300 in the Western calendar, Zhang Zizhong led more than 150 elite soldiers to the blocking position required by his superiors, Hongmu Mountain.Almost half of the officers and soldiers were left behind. After all, they were marching continuously, and the actual marching distance reached more than [-] miles, and there were six wadings.But very fortunately, although in the later books about this big interspersion, this time the interspersed was described by the pen in charge of propaganda work of the army as a battle of a narrow escape, and was stubbornly resisted by the Beiyang Army many times. None of them encountered any resistance from the enemy on the way, not even once.

So Feng Guozhang's door to flee to Nanjing by land was ruthlessly closed, and Feng Guozhang had only one choice, smashing the door.The Second Beiyang Division, as the leader of the whole army, unceremoniously launched an attack on Hongmu Mountain guarded by Zhang Zizhong and others, and the battle was very fierce.

It is said that Zhang Zizhong and his party were dumbfounded when they arrived at Hongmu Mountain this morning. The mountain is too short, and the number of available hills is limited, but at this time, there is no time to pick three or four.Everyone immediately started digging fortifications with their engineering shovels and pickaxes. There were four hills in total, and a company of troops was placed on each hill. The purpose was only to carry out the order of General Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the front army, and stick them here like nails.

The battle started at eleven o'clock in the morning, and the Beiyang Army's attack could not be described as ineffective. We all know that only by getting through here can everyone escape back to Nanjing.And an hour ago, Tao Zhiyue, who was determined to make up for his mistakes, had already pressed down on the Beiyang Army with the strength of two divisions.The Fourth Division, which has lost its commander, is unreliable at this time, so Feng Guozhang did not hesitate to throw the First and Second Divisions of the Jiangsu Army out to resist the flood of youth troops.Then he stepped up and urged Wang Zhanyuan to speed up his attack. He didn't have too many ideas now. Beiyang's direct descendants could stand out one by one. After all, he brought them down from the north by himself.

However, the more than 800 officers and soldiers of Zhang Zizhong's battalion have played the prestige of the entire No.11 Division today. Without the standard firepower configuration of the Youth Army, it only depends on these few heavy machine guns and the rifles in everyone's hands. grenade.Zhang Zizhong and the others actually withstood the three-hour continuous attacks of the Second Division in one breath. Wang Zhanyuan, the commander of the Second Beiyang Division, was so angry that he couldn't care about his demeanor. He jumped up and cursed: "What's wrong with our Second Division?" ? From Tongling to Wuhu, why can’t you take down a single position? What are you doing, idiots. Go now, organize a death squad for me, and I will stand on Hongmu Mountain in an hour. If I can’t go up, I will use Your heads are here to step on my feet, if you don’t believe me, just try it..."

The division seat uttered harsh words, and the officers and soldiers below naturally wanted to buy their strength. A large number of death squads rushed forward, shirtless, wielding ghost-headed swords, and were unceremoniously overthrown by Zhang Zizhong and the others. .

The cannons came up soon, bombarding Zhang Zizhong and the others in disorder, and then another wave of charges. There was no tactic at all, and they were all expected to exhaust Zhang Zizhong and the others by relying on their strength.

At about 350 o'clock in the afternoon, more than 111 people were killed in Zhang Zizhong's army, but the four hills were still firmly under his control.At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, He Yingqin came up with the main force of the [-]th Regiment. After a scuffle, they successfully joined forces with Zhang Zizhong's troops. Wang Zhanyuan knew that there was a big trouble this time when he saw the scene. . .

Late at night on April 4th, in the Shanghai Concession, Chen Qimei and several guards walked out of a navy club and were about to board a small car and leave.Just as she was about to get in the car, Chen Qimei stopped for a while. The outside of this club is usually very lively. What's going on today?Thinking about it?The mutation happened suddenly.

Eight gunmen suddenly rushed out of the night in eight directions, all of them were armed with double guns, and they were clear box cannons, and they shot at Chen Qimei.Chen Qimei's three guards were immediately knocked to the ground, and Chen Qimei lost the ability to resist after being shot several times in the back. She could only hold the car door firmly with both hands, but her knees fell to the ground uncontrollably.

The assassins obviously didn't intend to stop there. They approached the car and fired seven or eight bullets at Chen Qimei, and then one of them made another bullet to make sure that Chen Qimei was out of breath before rushing away.

Chen Qimei of the Megatron Republic of China was killed just like that, but Wulu gave the name of the murderer to Yuan Shikai who was far away in Beijing. . .