In the later period of the Battle of Lodro, Italy paid the price of 2,000 deaths and 50,000 injuries, and released poisonous gas bombs to the opponent's positions and supply roads, making the Austrians unable to attack and support through mountain roads, thus defending the Rodrone plain. The Italian people were unprecedentedly excited. This was probably the most outstanding time in Italy, with 2,000 deaths, but 50,000 injuries - as for how many of these 50,000 people were cheated, it is hard to say, Wang Maoru once saw an Italian general asking for a toothache.

Fake back to the rear. Marshal Barrioli felt that the Chinese had made contributions, so he transferred Wang Maoru to the front-line command as a staff adviser. Wang Maoru's strange ideas also gave him a lot of inspiration to Chief of Staff Diaz, who had originally looked down on him, such as throwing propaganda leaflets at the other side, pictorials, burning gasoline bottles, etc., training sharpshooters to harass the other side, and even provided sharpshooters of the Chinese team for use by the Italian army. The Austrians lacked cannons, which made them very troubled by these sharpshooters.

The news of Wang Maoru's victory in the Battle of Lodrone reached the country, which attracted many Chinese people to be excited. They expressed their feelings in the newspapers, calling General Shangwu a savior like China. Major newspapers reported on how brave and great the Chinese military was in the European battlefield. Especially the Battle of Lodrone under Wang Maoru was a classic of Chinese military strategists.

Someone came from Italy to the entire process of the Battle of Lodrone. The Chinese military first used the Second Division to show the enemy as weak, making the enemy mistakenly believe that the Chinese would not fight, and then led the snake out of the hole, causing the Austrian team to attack. The originally impregnable defense line became a decoration. Then closed the door and beat the dog, and wiped out a regiment of the opponent's troops. Then Wang Maoru sent his army to attack overnight, won consecutive battles, and finally attacked Huanglong and almost captured the enemy leader alive. Then Wang Maoru beat the dog in the water and wiped out nearly tens of thousands of people. Chinese media habits

Exaggeration, thousands of Austro-Hungarian soldiers were spread to the country, and they became tens of thousands, and this exaggeration was even more exaggerated among the people, becoming tens of thousands. Five thousand enemies were spread to tens of thousands. It was also exaggerated enough. In the end, it was because of the use of poison gas bombs to destroy a whole group of enemies. Of course, it is impossible to say that using poison gas bombs. Everyone thought it was a fierce battle, and described the battle in their minds as a magnificent hand-to-hand combat. Don’t you know that Chinese soldiers were holding cigarettes, drinking wine and beer in the scorching sun, waiting for the other party to be killed by poison gas.

Thanks to Wang Maoru, the Chinese people did not know the European war and didn’t even know where Europe was. This time they knew that it turned out that so many European countries had fought, and our ** team had actually fought. Eliminate more than 100,000 foreign devils...

Some newspaper experts conducted some research on Wang Maoru's military use, and gave Wang Maoru nicknames, saying that Sun Wu was reborn, Yue Fei was the second, etc. In short, the people would brag about whatever they liked to read, and then the newspapers were sold.

The essence is that the Chinese have a low international status for a long time. Once a person who can be recognized is released, they can be praised to heaven at home. In addition, Wang Maoru stayed in the propaganda office where he specially helped him promote him and praised Wang Maoru in various names, which made this kind of praise even more powerful. The heroes that Chinese people like to see are not people who are both civil war, domestic and foreign war laymen, but foreign war heroes like Fenglangjuxu. Wang Maoru appeared appropriately.

As a close friend of Wang Maoru, Yan Fu has been concentrating on learning since he faded out of politics. This time he heard that Wang Maoru had won a battle in Europe, invited a few friends to drink more glasses of wine, and wrote a poem "Breaking the Abrasion" to praise Wang Maoru's achievements.

An article by Liang Qichao, who had contact with Wang Maoru, "The Important Artifact of the Country, the General of Martial Arts", was published in many newspapers such as Xinmin Daily, Yanjing Daily, Young People, and North China Daily, which tells the story of Wang Maoru in his eyes and his contact with Wang Maoru. Liang Qichao, a predecessor in the Chinese cultural industry, is much more powerful than the propaganda done by Uraji, but the article he wrote is written in classical Chinese. Although it is good, the literati applauded, but the people were confused when they saw it. For the people, Wang Maoru in the storyteller's mouth is undoubtedly the real general of Martial Arts, and is in line with the general of Martial Arts in their hearts. Even Wang Maoru was rejected because his fourth wife was Japanese, and now he has become a glory for the country.

Wang Maoru unknowingly caused such a great response in China and received medals from Italy and France. Xu Shuzheng was so jealous that he screamed in anger.

This should have been his credit, it should have been that he led the Chinese military to fight in Europe to kill all sides. It should have been that he had won the Lombardy Hero Medal and the Warrior Medal, but now Wang Maoru took advantage and even snatched one of his divisions. How could Xu Shuzheng not be angry?

When Wang Maoru and Hathaway were traveling around Paris, news came from the country that Zhang Zuolin went to Suiyuan Province to become the governor of Suiyuan and took over the Beiyang army in Suiyuan. The total military force reached 80,000 people, and was ready to go south to Shaanxi or westward to Gansu at any time.

In March 1918, with the support of Duan Qirui of the Anhui clan, Meng Enyuan and Wang Maoru of the Northeast clan, and Jiang Guite, the elder of the Yi army, Zhang Zuolin led his army to drive away Jiang Yanxing, the direct commander of Suiyuan. Jiang Yanxing was replaced by Cai Chengxun, the direct commander of the capital, but he became the commander of the garrison in the capital, and came to Feng Guozhang in disguise. Cai Chengxun, the chief commander of the Rehe clan, was also a direct general. Duan Qirui and Zhang Zuolin were naturally dissatisfied, so after several forced forces from the governor, Zhang Zuolin became the chief commander of the Suiyuan clan.

The former Suiyuan governor Cai Chengxun was naturally unwilling to do so. He felt that his Seventh Army was not a vegetarian, so he wanted to refuse with force. Unfortunately, the President Feng Guozhang, who had always supported him, was forced by Duan Qirui, Wang Maoru, Meng Enyuan, Zhang Zuolin and Jiang Guituo, and had no choice but to transfer Cai Chengxun to Gansu as the governor of Gansu, and Cai Chengxun was also expelled. Seeing that there were several powerful figures standing behind Zhang Zuolin, Feng Guozhang had no choice but to agree to Zhang Zuolin's request.

In Suiyuan, Zhang Zuolin immediately merged and reorganized the 27th Division, 28th Division, 29th Division, 7th Army, 10,000 new recruits, a total of 80,000 people into twelve mixed brigades, namely:

Zhang Huijing, commander of the first mixed brigade of the town **

Sun Liechen, the commander of the Second Mixed Brigade of Town**

Wu Junsheng, commander of the third mixed brigade of town**

Tang Yulin, the commander of the fourth mixed brigade of the town**

Kan Chaoxi, commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade of Town**

Zou Fen, commander of the 6th Mixed Brigade of Town**

Zheng Diansheng, commander of the 7th Mixed Brigade of the Town**

Cai Yongzhen, commander of the 8th Mixed Brigade of the Town**

Wan Fulin, commander of the 9th Mixed Brigade of Town**

Cai Pingben, commander of the 10th Mixed Brigade of Town**

Niu Yongfu, the commander of the 11th Mixed Brigade of Town**

Ding Chao, commander of the 12th Mixed Brigade of Town**

After the reorganization was completed, Zhang Zuolin was ambitious and was just waiting to move south with a knife.

Suiyuan Province is Chahar to the east, Shanxi Province to the south, Shaanxi Province to the south, Ningxia Province to the west, Outer Mongolia to the north - of course, Outer Mongolia is vast and in the hands of Wang Maoru's northeastern border defense force, and Zhang Zuolin also has to use Wang Maoru. He cannot offend him, so the town will never go north. Going west to Ningxia has little strategic significance. There are many ethnic groups in Ningxia, and the most important thing is that Ningxia is too poor and not worth fighting at all. Towards the east, Chahar is the territory of the Anhui clan. Now that the Anhui clan is at its peak, he cannot afford the Anhui clan, and his colleague Chahar is not a place of Fenghao. Therefore, there are only two choices in the town: one is to attack Shaanxi and the other is to attack Shanxi.

After planning by Zhang Zuolin Town’s General Staff, the town decided to fight Shaanxi first and then Shanxi first. After all, the persimmons are soft.

Another important reason for sending troops to Shaanxi is that Shaanxi is in constant war at this time, and the Shaanxi Governor Chen Shufan was in a panic.

The Shaanxi Governor Chen Shufan, this man is a general of the Anhui clan who was born in the Tongmenghui.

Chen Shufan was from Ankang, Shaanxi. He originally wanted to become a scholar in the scientific examination, but he did not expect that when he was 18 years old, Emperor Guangxu ordered the abolition of the scientific examination. Later, Shaanxi Army Primary School was recommended to study in Baoding Army Non-commissioned officers. After returning to Shaanxi, he served as the armory's armourier. Later, the Wuchang Uprising broke out and Shaanxi was also ready to move. At this time, the people of Tongmenghui found him and asked him to join the Tongmenghui. Chen Shufan believed that the Qing Dynasty had been exhausted and he was uprising. However, after Shaanxi was restored, the Shaanxi Governor Zhang Fenghui did not pay attention to him. When he was granted a meritorious official, Chen Shufan had no official position. In anger, Chen Shufan joined the civilian army.

He formed an army. Later, when Zhang Fenghui saw that he was powerful, he appointed him as the commander of Hedong to attack Shanxi. The founding of the Republic of China, Chen Shufan served as the commander of the 4th Brigade of the ** Mixed Brigade. Soon Yuan Shikai's confidant Lu Jianzhang led the 6th Division of the Beiyang to Shaanxi as the governor. Chen Shufan changed his mind and defected to Lu Jianzhang. Lu Jianzhang disbanded the Shaanxi army, leaving only Chen Shufan's Mixed Fourth Brigade. Later, Yuan Shikai became emperor, and Lu Jianzhang committed many murders in Shaanxi, which made the people in Shaanxi angry. Chen Shufan used a trick to drive Lu Jianzhang away and annex Shaanxi. Then he took the initiative to surrender to Duan Qirui and was named the governor of Shaanxi by Duan Qirui.

The chaos in Shaanxi originated from Li Yuanhong. Li Yuanhong believed that the military and political separation should be separated, so he appointed Li Genyuan, the elder of the Tongmenghui, as the governor of Shaanxi. Later, Li Yuanhong stepped down due to the scandal of leading Zhang Xun into Beijing, and Chen Shufan expelled Li Yuanhong's subordinate Li Genyuan. The commander of the Shaanxi Garrison Army Guo Jian supported Li Genyuan, and Chen Shufan sent Hu Jingyi and Wang Feihu to encircle and suppress Guo Jian. Unexpectedly, Guo Jian was very energetic and attracted Yang Hucheng, the subordinate of Wang Feihu, and fought fiercely with Chen Shufan's army.

At this time, Sun Wen launched a war of protecting the law. Guo Jian was straightforward to establish the Jingzhan in Shaanxi to fight against Chen Shufan's army. Chen Shufan was defeated by Guo Jian. Unfortunately, Liu Zhenhua's troops from Zhensong Army in Henan entered Shaanxi. Unexpectedly, the military discipline of Zhensong Army in Zhensong Army was extremely poor, which caused the people of Shaanxi to complain. Originally, the civil strife in Shaanxi was in conflict, and the people did not support it, but Chen Shufan's army led Zhensong Army into Shaanxi, which made the people support Jingzhan instead. So Jingzhan fought harder and bigger, which made Chen Shufan's army and Zhensong Army breathless.

Zhang Zuolin held 50,000 troops in the town. After coming to Suiyuan, he annexed 20,000 troops from the Seventh Army left by Cai Chengxun. He then expanded 10,000 troops to form 80,000 troops, and became the most powerful warlord in the northwest.

At this time, Chen Shufan thought that with the friendship between the Anhui faction and the town, Zhang Zuolin was attracted to help him for free. Since the Zhensong Army could enter Shaanxi, it would be okay to call the town to enter Shaanxi. One broke the bowl and the other two fell.

At this time, I received a letter of help from Chen Shufan. It was really like a timely help. What does it mean to have a sticky bean bag fall from the sky? This is simply a golden lump falling from the sky, not just a sticky bean bag.

So Zhang Zuolin asked his general Zhang Zuoxiang to lead the tenth, eleventh, and thirteenth, and the thirteenth, the thirteenth and third mixed brigades, which had more recruits, to guard the house in Suiyuan, and personally led nine mixed brigades south to march into Shaanxi. (To be continued...)
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