Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Zhang Zuolin's electrification did not shake Cao Kun's determination to challenge the Central Committee, except for making Cao Kun a little nervous.The second-in-command of the direct line and the actual core figure Wu Peifu said in Baoding to the officers above the regiment commander who was about to go to the front line that this battle is a matter of life and death for everyone, so I hope that you will fight for your future.

The battle that will follow will be much more intense than in history. The current time is the sixth year of the Republic of China, 1917 AD, and the participating troops organized by the Anhui Department are full of vigor and fighting spirit.

So it is unknown who will kill the deer!

On July 7, in this space and time, many things are going on.

First of all, in Europe, the cloud of war still hangs over the land thickly.Due to Foch's stubborn behavior, the Allied Powers failed to end the long war with victory in the Verdun counterattack.But they were not all in vain. After the arrival of the U.S. Army, the coalition forces once again accumulated strength and launched an offensive.

From July 1917, 7 to November 14, 1917, in the 11-day battle known by historians as the Great Western Front Offensive, the coalition forces successfully drove the German army out of France and Belgium.The western section of the Western Front has also been fully advanced (10 km), and the iron hooves of the coalition forces have reached the Rhine River. In this battle, the American soldiers performed the best, and the US commander Pershing also became a world famous general.

In contrast, the performance of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force was not as brilliant as the previous Verdun counterattack.

It is really no wonder that Li Liejun, the No.1 family only took office in early June, and many things have not been figured out yet.The Second Expeditionary Force was severely injured in the Verdun counterattack, and the 6 troops originally planned to come to France were also allocated two divisions to participate in the coalition's military operations in the Middle East in accordance with the temporary increase in the cooperation requirements of Britain and France. The operation, these two divisions were commanded by Tao Zhiyue, the favorite general of the marshal, who had recently been sitting on the bench. Around the beginning of June, Tao Zhiyue led more than 20 people to capture the Iraqi port city of Basra.This also made Li Liejun only receive a supplement of 5 people, and the total number of troops added together is less than 15.The third is the speed of equipment replenishment. Since Britain and France will launch a new campaign in the western section of the Western Front, the equipment that should be provided to the Chinese Expeditionary Force according to the agreement will naturally have to be delayed.Li Liejun, who was very determined to do something big, had to change the battle plan again and again with the acting chief of staff Jiang Baili and others. In the end, during the entire counterattack on the western front, the Chinese Expeditionary Force only used He Yingqin, Zhang Zizhong, Ye Kaixin and Xia Wei Four divisions of about 30 troops entered Italy in accordance with the requirements of the Allied Powers. Together with the 10 Italian troops, they split into two groups and launched an attack on the Austro-Hungarian army, wiping out 13 of the Austro-Hungarian army. , about 9 casualties, including about 4 Italians.In this battle, under Jiang Baili's plan, the Chinese army once again copied the case of mobile warfare. Taking advantage of the fierce battle between the Austro-Hungarian army and the Italian army, Zhang Zizhong's powerful attack from the German-Austrian joint At this point, they successfully penetrated behind the Austrian army and cut off the retreat of the Austrian army. One hundred thousand Austro-Hungarian troops had to retreat across the board.Then when the main force of the Austro-Hungarian army besieged Zhang Zizhong's troops, Ye Kaixin and Xia Wei's troops attacked the Austro-Hungarian army with all their strength and defeated four divisions of the Austro-Hungarian army. Look, the battlefield was broken. At this time, He Yingqin made a bold tactical move. The 5000 men in his unit threw away their heavy equipment and moved towards the center of the Austro-Hungarian army.The Austro-Hungarian army was obviously not as resilient as the German army, and their performance after leaving the position was even worse than that of the German army. As a result, He Yingqin made such an intervention, and the huge army was immediately defeated.The final outcome of this battle, known as the Battle of Ljubljana by European military scientists and the Battle of Austria by Chinese military scientists, was that the Italian army captured the entire territory of today's Slovenia and opened the door to Vienna.Li Liejun got the honor he wanted from this victory, and a heavy Italian medal flew over.

After the counter-offensive on the western front ended, Li Liejun was ordered to return to China as the deputy chief of staff, and Xu Yuanquan took over as the commander of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force.

And on the same day when the Allied Powers launched a major counterattack, Bai Chongxi, the first commander of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force, and Zhu Zhixin, chief of staff, arrived in Shanghai.Thousands of people are empty, to welcome the famous general who will never come out of the world. . .

To paraphrase the words of Mr. Shao Piaoping, the new editor-in-chief of "Ta Kung Pao", since the Opium War in 1840, the shame that has been pressed on the head of the Chinese nation has been washed away for the first time.

The "National Daily" also published a commentator article written by Ms. Wang Chunling, head of the Propaganda Department of the National Socialist Party Central Committee: From Heilongjiang to Xinjiang, from Xinjiang to Tibet, from Tibet to the South China Sea, from the South China Sea to Taiwan.No matter what nationality, as long as you are a member of the Chinese nation, you are all sincerely proud of the great achievements of all the soldiers of the expeditionary force. . .

Although the north is in a state of fighting at any time, it seems that this has nothing to do with the Nationalist Government in Nanjing.Indeed, all military affairs themselves do not require any decision-making by the national government.Even Sun Wen, who is the chairman of the national government, is only a vice chairman of the military committee, and he is the kind who has been absent from meetings all year round.

So the national government is actually just the government affairs department in the southern region. At this time, everyone has time to worry about what will happen in the north, so why not do something to gain fame and profit.

The action of welcoming heroes such as Bai Chongxi is obviously an activity of gaining fame and gain. From Sun Wen, the chairman of the National Government, Xiong Xiling, the prime minister, Liang Qichao, the speaker of the Senate, Hu Hanmin, the speaker of the Legislative Yuan, and Zhang Taiyan, the chairman of the Civil Affairs Committee, down to the ministers Director, all of you are in full dress and waiting for the arrival of our great hero in the Nanjing National Government Auditorium.

Sun Yat-sen even issued an order to hold a 30-person celebration in Nanjing for Bai Chongxi, Zhu Zhixin and other European returning heroes, and will also hold a grand ceremony for the fallen heroes of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force in Nanjing's Zijinshan Martyrs' Shrine Public sacrifice ceremony. . .

In Wuhan, China, a delegation from the United States also arrived at the headquarters of China Development Corporation in Wuhan on July 7, accompanied by Chairman Ye Guoxuan and General Manager Liu Guojun.After the 14-member American business delegation headed by Rockefeller Jr. visited several important projects of the China Development Corporation in Wuhan, they will be arranged to meet with Wang Zhenyu, the actual supreme leader of South China.

And the highlight of this volume, the Zhiwan War also started on July 7th.

The direct army was the first to launch the attack. Wu Peifu, the former commander of the direct army and the commander-in-chief of the West Road, personally commanded the fifth brigade of the third division to launch a large-scale night attack on Tuanhe, where Duan Qirui's headquarters is located.As expected of a famous general in history, Wu Peifu immediately took out the youth army's trick as soon as he came up, and Heihu took his heart out.

However, Duan Qirui was obviously not Feng Guozhang, and Wu Peifu's plan was quickly leaked. Whoever made the two warring parties belong to the Beiyang family, and whoever had no old classmates.So Duan Qirui got this extremely dangerous news at the last moment. You must know that at this time, besides the personal guards and staff officers, there are not enough guards around the old Duan.Lao Duan was also a very bachelor, and he knew at a glance that he was in danger, so he immediately withdrew decisively.As a result, when Wu Peifu led his troops to Tuanhe, he was completely in vain, and he was very depressed on the spot: "Damn it, it's best not to let me find out which bastard betrayed the brothers? Get out!"

Almost at the time when Wu Peifu made a surprise attack on Tuanhe, the Anhui army focused its attack on the West Road (along the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway from Beijing to Baoding), and Duan Zhigui commanded Qu Tongfeng's 1st Border Defense Army Division, Liu Xun's Army 15th Division, and the Frontier Defense Army's 3th Division. The 5th Mixed Brigade of the 9rd Division of the Army, two battalions of the 13th Division, and the heavy battalion of the [-]th Division were deployed in the north of Zhuozhou, Gu'an, and Laishui. They attempted to go south along the Jinghan Road, first to capture Baoding, and then continue southward.

The "Rebellious Army" organized by the direct line, with Wu Peifu as the former commander-in-chief of the enemy and the commander-in-chief of the West Road, deployed its main force, the 3rd Division, and the 2nd and 3rd Mixed Brigades to the south of Yixian, Laishui, Zhuozhou, and Gu'an , Fight against the attack of the Anhui Department.

After Wu Peifu's plan to catch Duan failed, he commanded the troops to face the attack of the Anhui army on the front line of Liulihe and Zhuozhou, avoiding its sharp edge, and voluntarily withdrew from Gaobeidian, and took part of it to the left three roads: taking Gu'an as the The middle road, Zhuozhou and Gaobeidian are the west road, and Langfang and Yangcun are the east road. Stand by and prevent the Anhui army from advancing south.

On the same day, two regiments of the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Northwest Frontier Defense Army and the 3rd Division of the Frontier Defense Army under the command of Commander-in-Chief Xu Shuzheng of the East Route Anhui Army, and the 9th Division from Liangzhuang and Beijimiao to Yangcun with Cao Ying as the commander-in-chief The Zhijun army on the East Road launched an attack. The Zhijun army erected cannons on the railway bridge and fired artillery shells at the attacking Anhui army.

The battles on the 14th and 15th were very ordinary. On the one hand, the Anhui army was too powerful, and the Zhi army was naturally on the defensive after the night attack failed.However, the combat effectiveness of the Anhui Army obviously fell short of Duan Qirui and Wu Peifu's estimation. From the perspective of the two warring parties, they obviously overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Anhui Army.The Anhui army's offensive looked menacing and well-organized, but it gave the Zhi army the feeling that it was weak and disorganized.

Now even Xu Shuzheng saw the problem, and he couldn't help cursing in his heart: "If I knew it at the time, I should stick to the principle and not send so many related households in. At the critical moment, every one of these sons who are reliable is him." The mother who dragged her feet."

However, Xu Shuzheng was not someone to wait for nothing, he quickly thought of a way. . .