Republic of China: Our great warlord has many children and many blessings

After the conscription was completed, Yunnan, with Cai E as commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of the First Army, led 6,000 elite troops and 14,000 new troops into Sichuan. The First Army, with Luo Peijin as chief of staff, set up a headquarters in Kunming.

It is composed of eight departments including staff, adjutant, secretary, quartermaster, ordnance, military law, military medicine, and finance, and has direct jurisdiction over the artillery brigade, guard brigade, cavalry company, gendarmerie squadron and other departments.

There are eight regiments. Each regiment has two to four artillery pieces and two to four heavy machine guns. The entire army has very few artillery pieces and machine guns.

Of course, not only Cai E's artillery and machine guns were pitiful, but also Li Liejun's Second Army and Tang Jilao's Third Army.

With Li Liejun as the Commander-in-Chief of the Second Army, he led 4,000 elite 16,000 new troops to conquer Guangxi. The slogan was very loud. Take Guangxi first and attack Guangdong.

Tang Jiyao also served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Third Army. He was stationed in the rear and had 12,000 elite Yunnan troops in his hands. 3 Wan Xinjun responded to the defense.

An advancing army with Huang Yu as commander was also organized to take action one after another.

On New Year's Day in 1916, Yunnan Governor General Tang Jiyao and Commander-in-Chief of the First Army Cai E held a grand swearing-in ceremony in Kunming.

Standing on the rostrum, looking at the crowd of soldiers, Tang Jirao was still very excited. This was a rare opportunity.

Tang Jirao cleared his throat, took the manuscript and began to read aloud:"The traitor Yuan Shikai plots to rebel against the Republic of China and revive the monarchy. This governor serves in the Republic of China to control the Yunnan frontier. I feel sorry for the country's general sinking and hate the unruly behavior of an independent man.

Yuan held a volunteer brigade to reverently carry out heaven's punishment... and vowed to clear the Central Plains.

Defeat Yuan Shikai! Restore the republic!"

After Tang Jirao finished speaking, tens of thousands of soldiers roared.

Defeat Yuan Shikai! Restore the Republic!

Defeat Yuan Shikai! Restore the Republic!

The sound is like thunder and the momentum is very powerful.

They also don’t want to see anyone become emperor again.

When the voice subsided, Tang Jirao said again:"Now, the various units of our National Defense Army have been organized one after another.

From now on, they will set off separately to go to the front line."

Cai E led the second and third brigades of the First National Defense Army in January 1916. On January 10, with Dong Hongxun of the Third Regiment as the vanguard, the First Army Headquarters left Kunming on January 14 and marched toward Luzhou via Xuanwei, Weining, and Bijie.

The Second National Defense Army led by Li Liejun set out from Kunming on January 12 and marched towards the border of Yunnan and Guangxi.

At the same time, Ding Wei led a division and a heavy artillery brigade to Baise County, Guangxi.

It took less than a day to capture Funing County and Guangnan County on the border of Yunnan. Everywhere they went, they captured with overwhelming momentum.

No one can stand it at all.

Immediately, only one battalion was left to guard Funing County and Guangnan County.

Other armies continued to advance and attacked Qiubei County.

Due to the lack of information, Tang Jirao, Li Liejun and others did not know that Funing County and Guangnan County had been lost.

At the same time, Cai E sent troops on January 10, 1916. On January 17, he captured Yanzipo, an important place at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan. On the 18th, he occupied Hengjiang and immediately prepared to attack Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is today's Yibin area. It is rich in grain and is an important place in central Sichuan.

Therefore, Chen Huan gathered several battalions left by Zhang Yi outside the two brigades to carry out the siege. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the battle, Chen Huan also sent all his own guard battalions up.

The reason for this is to lure the enemy deeper.

In Chen Chen's tent, he looked at the telegram in his hand and laughed.

The main target this time is not Cai E, but Cao Kun.

However, Yanzipo and Hengjiang can be won by Cai E.

But Xuzhou is rich in food, so we can't give up anymore.

At present, Beiyang elites have also arrived in Sichuan, but several of them are refusing to leave in Zigong Salt Well.

Salt wells are the soul of Zigong. Zigong is the"Millennium Salt Capital", so Zigong is also an important financial place in Sichuan. Whoever is in charge of it is equivalent to holding Sichuan's purse strings.

Feng Yuxiang, Cao Kun, and Zhang Jingyao were all in Zigong and didn't want to leave.

However, the Beiyang Army was not monolithic. Feng Yuxiang and others did not want to fight. They also hoped that Cai E would force Yuan Shikai to withdraw from the imperial system and step down.

But Cao Kun and Zhang Jingyao wanted to fight because both of them wanted to be military governors in Sichuan.

Cao Kun is currently the garrison commander in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Cao Kun led the Third Division to Yuezhou. The real power is the commander of the Third Division. Although he is the commander-in-chief this time, others may not necessarily favor him.

Zhang Jingyao is the commander of the Seventh Division, and both of them are division commanders. Generally speaking, division commanders can be commanders, but there are only so many positions, so it depends on the opportunity.

Therefore, the two of them wanted to kill Cai E this time and serve as governors.

Chen Chen saw this clearly.

He sneered in his heart.

Sichuan belongs to President Shen, and you still want to be the governor. It's a beautiful idea.

However, Chen Huan was Shen Hao's man. Yuan Shikai didn't know this, and neither did Cao Kun and others.

Xuzhou is the burial place of Cao Kun.

On January 20, Cao Kun led his men to Xuzhou.

Find Chen Chen immediately.

Chen Chen's headquarters.

This time Cao Kun did not take the entire division but only Wu Peifu's brigade, but Zhang Jingyao took the entire seventh division.

In the headquarters, Cao Kun, his brigade commanders Wu Peifu, Feng Yuxiang, Zhang Jingyao, and Wang Ruxian's brigade Duan Qirui of the Eighth Division also sent an elite regiment of the Anhui clique led by their proud disciple Ding Boxiao to Sichuan.

It can be said that the stars are like clouds.

However, although Cao Kun was the commander-in-chief of the encirclement and suppression campaign against Cai E, Chen He still had the highest status.

After all, Chen Huan is known as the godfather of the Southwest Army and the governor of Sichuan, so he naturally sits in the main seat.

What's more, Feng Yuxiang can be regarded as Chen Chen's old subordinate.

Although Chen Huan is nominally the governor of Sichuan, there are still many small forces that do not obey orders, so Chen Huan also plans to take this opportunity to eliminate these forces using Cai E's hands.

Of course, these Beiyang forces also have no good impressions of Chen Huan, and even have some hatred and jealousy. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Because Chen Huan is known as Yuan Shikai’s first favorite.

At that time, Yuan Shikai's presidential status was unstable. The main threats were Huang Xing of Nanjing and Li Yuanhong of Hubei.

Chen Huan created public opinion that the republic was already established and there was no need to raise a large army. At the same time, he spread rumors that Huang Xing was deducting military pay.

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Huang Xing was angry and anxious. He applied for resignation and disbanded his troops. The alliance's more than 200,000 armed forces immediately collapsed.

Later, Chen Heng and Army Chief Duan Qirui went to Wuhan to persuade Li Yuanhong to go north, but Li Yuanhong refused to go.

Chen Huan said:"The vice president really doesn't want to go to Beijing, so he just gave us a ride."

Li Yuanhong was careless and sent the two men aboard the ship. As a result, they were taken hostage to Beijing and had to serve as Yuan Shikai's vice president, and he was firmly controlled by Yuan Shikai.

After the outbreak of the second revolution, Chen Heng adopted political co-optation, military instigation, and economic bribery to quickly pacify it.

Because Chen Huan was so powerful and did everything well, Yuan Shikai regarded him as his first favorite, which aroused the jealousy of his old subordinates in Beiyang.

Several provinces in the southwest have been semi-independent for a long time.

When Cai E was deceived into entering Beijing, it was also due to Chen Heng.

Chen Heng proposed a plan to Yuan Shikai. He spread rumors in the army, invited Cai E to Beijing alone, hired Liang Qichao as a consultant, and deceived Sichuan Governor Hu Jingyi into reporting on his duties in Beijing. This aroused mutual suspicion among the southwestern provinces and forced them to surrender.

Yuan Shikai was very satisfied and appointed Chen Huan as the governor of Sichuan, allocated 2 million military expenditures, led three brigades into Sichuan, and asked his eldest son Yuan Keding to worship him as a brother.

However, in front of Shen Hao's powerful strength, he could only give in.

Of course, Chen Huan's ambiguous change in attitude towards Yuan Shikai was also because Yuan Shikai wanted to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

If Yuan Shikai does not ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, Chen Zhen will still choose to be loyal to Yuan Shikai.

It's a pity that Yuan Shikai's move was so bad that it led to betrayal and separation.

At the headquarters, Cao Kun saw that everyone was silent, so he was the first to speak.

Cao Kun said:"Now, Cai E's army has captured Yanzipo and Hengjiang, and is now approaching Xuzhou.

I want to ask Governor Chen, when President Yuan asked you to be the governor of Sichuan, he gave you 200 Wan Dayang's funds, and three mixed brigades.

You even lost Yanzipo and Hengjiang?

Such neglect and inactivity in resistance.

You, the governor of Sichuan, are obviously unqualified.

Are you old and don't have enough energy? It's really not possible. You can Give up your seat and give young people more opportunities."

Hearing this, everyone looked up at Chen Chen, each with their own thoughts in mind.

Cao Kun was quite anxious as the governor of Sichuan.

Chen Chen said calmly:"Since Mr. Cao is so confident, I'll let you go in this battle.

You will be the leader by then."

Cao Kun was just about to speak. Zhang Jingyao was afraid that Cao Kun would steal the limelight. He also wanted to be the governor. He hurriedly said:"Since none of you are willing, I am willing to be a pawn crossing the river." Just now, Zhang Jingyao calculated in his mind that Cao Kun's brigade, plus one of his divisions, Feng Yuxiang's mixed brigade, and Sichuan Chen Chen's two Each division adds up to more than 60,000 people.

Cai E's army only numbered more than 10,000 people.

The equipment was far inferior to that of his Seventh Division.

Although the Seventh Division only has 9,000 men, Zhang Jingyao is fully confident in taking down Cai Eru..