4th month, 16th day, 60,000 soldiers from the 2nd Army and the Imperial Guards were approaching Baoding. The remaining 200,000 or so Beiyang forces were shocked three times in a day.
At this moment, the 3rd and 4th armies had already suppressed them, but they would always cut off their tails to survive, and successfully delayed the people's army. Although they also wanted to go south, the gap between them and the people's army was too big. They could only rely on walking, and the people's army they were facing already had a small portion of mechanized troops. Every time, it was these troops who would catch them, and then the army would quickly attack. Therefore, after a few losses, they successfully reduced their numbers from 300,000 to 200,000. Now that there was an even more ferocious one coming from the north, how could they not be afraid?
Baoding's Beiyang Army had just escaped from the front line. There were 100,000 of them, but they did not have any heavy firepower! Right now, they could only ensure that the soldiers had bullets. Such an army would find it difficult to win against an entire division of the People's Army, let alone an entire army.
"What should we do? Tell me! Now that the other party's knife is pointing at our chests, what should we do?”
The Beiyang generals in the city were already disheartened. He couldn't beat them, nor could he escape. What else could he do? It was just that this decision was hard for everyone to make. They couldn't just say that they would join the People's Army and continue working, right? It seemed that people did not allow this.
When the people's army surrounded the city, everyone dispersed and called it a battle arrangement. However, the reality was that when the people's army came up, everyone immediately surrendered.
Generally speaking, the People's Army had come this way. Only in the southern Hebei area did they encounter the army led by Wu Peifu. Then, the two armies exchanged blows, and the People's Army used advanced weapons to defeat him.
After that, the Second Army and the Imperial Guards stopped in southern Hebei and reorganized the surrendered troops. The Third Army and the Fourth Army continued south.
The First Army seemed to be lacking in strength against the 200,000-strong Northern Army. At the beginning, they could only defend. Later on, when the news of the victory in the north came, the morale of the opposing Beiyang forces began to waver, and they became less active in battle.
When the two armies of the People's Army, which numbered close to 200,000, marched south, the Beiyang Army in Henan finally began to retreat. The army was running south in a disorderly manner. They had all received instructions from the higher-ups to head south. However, the two factions that were temporarily put together did not have a unified command. Everyone wanted to run faster and let the people behind feed the wolves. Therefore, the people's army started a race with them for hundreds of miles.
The entire month of April was filled with news of the war between the People's Army and Beiyang. Both inside and outside the country paid close attention to it, and all the newspapers were fighting to report it.
Something funny happened. For example, the headlines of the Southern News reported," The People's Army is struggling to resist, Beiyang is about to win." The next day, when they received news from the North, they used the headlines," The People's Army is fighting back, Beiyang is about to be destroyed." Then, it caused a lot of ridicule. Some said that he was fickle, while others said that his report was distorted and violated the authenticity requirements of the newspaper reporters.
These were all small matters, but people could see the fact that the People's Army was about to rise to become the country's number one force.
In May, the war in the north basically stopped. Although the First, Third, and Fourth Corps of the People's Army had more than 200,000 troops, they stopped after occupying Henan and Shandong.
After the 5th Army lost their mission to protect the base camp, they began to counterattack. Three divisions as the main force, plus some local troops, a total of 100,000 people, attacked the Gan army westward. After entering May, they had basically occupied Lanzhou and Ningxia, but to completely occupy such a vast western region, this amount of troops was not enough.
It was not that they did not want to fight, but that they could not fight for the time being. After nearly a month of fighting, the people's army had been outnumbered. All the officers and soldiers were exhausted and needed to rest. In addition to Nie Wenzhou's order to reorganize, all the troops and military schools began to transfer elite officers to form the backbone of the new reorganization army, in order to quickly recruit the nearly 500,000 surrendered soldiers.
The original main force was temporarily not moved, and many veterans were added to the main force to ensure the combat strength of the original main force. All the main forces were upgraded to a group army. Apart from the original army as the main force, each army group would have 180,000 soldiers in addition to the 100,000 surrendered soldiers.
They did not lack ammunition, but they did not have that many weapons. The newly reorganized troops used their original weapons, and at most, they were equipped with mortars and machine guns. In any case, there weren't any strong opponents left, so this kind of weapon was considered acceptable in the country.
When the People's Army and Beiyang Army were engaged in a decisive battle, the other forces did not sit still. Tang Jiyao and the Sichuan army in the southwest started fighting. The two sides were in full swing, and the Gui army and the Yue army were constantly in friction. In short, the whole country was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
Jinling
The location of the Ancient Capital was now used as a capital city. After the higher-ups of Beiyang came here with the help of the foreigners, they announced that they would re-establish the center here. After that, the president and prime minister would take their positions, and the generals would take their positions.
He had done some work on his face, but his inner parts were riddled with holes. Due to the huge amount of funds spent previously, they were short of funds when they wanted to expand the army.
After checking his belongings, he realized that there were only about 200,000 troops in the south. Only Hubei still had 80,000 people, and Hui Province still had 50,000 people who had retreated. However, how could such a small number of soldiers be enough?
It was impossible to protect the north. There were no troops to rescue them now. They could only withdraw them across the river and rely on the river to resist.
The expansion of the army was inevitable. However, expanding the army required weapons and pay. However, there was not much money left. He had to think of a way!
The Westerners were also well aware of this, so they also came because of the fishy smell.
"Mr. President, I heard that your country is currently lacking funds for military expansion. We can think of a way to support it.”
"Oh, then how can you help me?”
"This is simple. These are the details we have listed.”
This look made her tongue tremble and she couldn't speak. On it were written,"With the country's finances as the guarantee, it will be managed by the various countries." The priority of each country in the construction of the southern railway; Countries to re-negotiate the customs, need to hire soldiers from various countries as instructors, etc. These were all obligations, but all they had to do was approve huge loans, open up the export of weapons, arm millions of troops, send the navy into the Yangtze River waterway, and guarantee that the river would be ruled.
This seemed like a difficult task, but in fact, only sending out the navy was their responsibility. The loan was secured, and the money was used to buy weapons from various countries and then arm their own armies. In other words, I will borrow money from you, buy things from you, and then hire you to protect me. Then, the entire country will become a puppet.
After vaguely dismissing the foreigners, everyone in Beiyang was stunned by such conditions--this was no different from subjugation.
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