After hearing Wu Peifu's words, Cao Kun nodded. The strength of the East China Army is indeed the strongest in China at present, and they can defeat the provinces with their equipment.

Moreover, the equipment of the East China Army was not bought from foreigners, but made by them themselves, not to mention that they were very rich.

Now the East China Autonomous Government has occupied the richest areas in Jiangnan. Not to mention this, the industry developed by the East China Autonomous Government alone is beyond the reach of China.

All the situation shows that the central government is completely unable to suppress the East China Autonomous Government Government at this time, but the central government has to act according to the face of the East China Autonomous Government Government Government Government Government.

Since the East China Autonomous Government Government supports the central government's military-political separation, and it also uses force to attack Zhang Zuoshuang. Once the Northeast achieves military-political separation, which local military-political supervision dares to disobey? Baidu Tieba Xiaoyi hits

Once the military and political separation are separated and the central government is in control of power, Yuan Shikai will do whatever he wants. If he is secretly making trouble now, Yuan Shikai will not be allowed to wear small shoes for them in the future.

Cao Kun, who figured it out, urgently ordered the Third Division to speed up the marching and chase the East China Army.

As we entered Shanhaiguan, the road conditions were not so easy to walk. The East China Army's convoy gradually slowed down and we waited for the engineers in front to repair the road.

At this time, Cao Kun led the Third Division to follow along, which surprised the four mixed brigades of the East China Army.

Before, they saw Cao Kun's third division being slow on the road. They probably couldn't catch up if they stayed here for a day, but they didn't expect to catch up.

As for Ni Sichong, he was slowly behind with his troops!

This political chameleon obviously did not understand the situation and the direction of the wind this time, and was in conflict with the military-political separation caused by Yuan Shikai! Therefore, just like Cao Kun before, he planned to release water to Zhang Zuoshuang.

As the sky gradually became dark, four mixed brigades of the East China Army planned to camp on site. Cao Kun's second division also set up camp behind and began to bury pots and make rice.

Seeing the smoke rising from the Beiyang Army's barracks, Zhang Yi, the commander of the First Mixed Brigade, asked the other three brigade commanders to discuss it, and decided to send some supplies to Cao Kun and the Third Division.

The Beiyang Third Division showed that it was quite sincere in combat, so the other three brigade commanders did not object. Anyway, there were too many cans in the army, which was enough for four mixed brigades to eat for two months. If it was not enough, the military headquarters would also send it to the logistics forces.

Soon, the East China Army sent a convoy outside the military camp of the Third Division.

When Cao Kun heard that Zhang Yi, the commander of the First Mixed Brigade of the East China Army, came, he was shocked and hurriedly took Wu Peihu and others to welcome the East China Army's convoy and left the barracks. When Cao Kun saw that the convoy had at least twenty trucks.

"I don't know if Brother Zhang is coming, I'm really in a bad mood to welcome you. Don't be surprised." Cao Kun quickly met him and said to Zhang Yi outside the camp.

Zhang Yi laughed heartily and said, "It's okay, we took the liberty to visit. I saw you cooking just now, and some brothers in our military camp wanted to eat. I brought some food to exchange for some rice, flour and other things with your Third Division."

Change food?

This made Cao Kun and Wu Peihu and others behind him very puzzled. They didn’t see the East China Army making rice! They didn’t even see half a wisp of smoke, why did they bring food here?

When the truck's carriage was opened, Cao Kun and Wu Peihu saw that the back of the carriage was filled with cans.

"Can! Only these officers from the Third Division are familiar with Situo. Canned food produced in East China is seen in major cities across the country. They have money, so they naturally buy some to enjoy it from time to time.

Seeing so many canned food, the eyes of the officers of the Third Division lit up. A brigade commander swallowed his saliva and asked, "Do you usually eat this?"

"I rarely eat it in the military camp when I train in the military camp. I eat it when I go out for exercises and combat. My brothers are tired of it." Zhang Yi smiled.

"That's thank you brother Zhang." Cao Kun said quickly, and Wu Peihu immediately called the officer next to him to ask someone to get the canned food in the van.

When they started moving, they realized that there were many kinds of canned foods in the East China Army, the most of which were canned beef, as well as nutritional canned fruits, which were all available, and many of them were not even available on the market.

The luxury of the East China Army surprised them, and there were dozens of boxes of vitamin tablets. Cao Kun listened to Zhang Yi saying that the effect of this vitamin tablet was not very good.

"People who lack vitamins will have their lips sunken, and they won't be able to take this." Seeing that they didn't understand, Zhang Yi explained one-sidedly.

Vitamin tablets are an indispensable thing for the East China Army during the war. After all, most canned foods are meat-eating. Although there are fruits, if the battle is tight, it does not mean that there are always fruits that can be eaten. Therefore, it is necessary for the East China Army to make biocides. Long-term lack of vitamins can easily lead to symptoms such as night blindness.

Canned rice, this is really a cheap thing.

The Third Division sent canned food to the soldiers, and the soldiers almost swallowed their tongues while eating the canned food.

"This is beef!"

"Do they usually eat this?"

"Yes! I heard that they are tired of eating, so they want to eat our rice and noodles!"

"It would be great if I could eat it every day."

"Hey, these Southerners wanted us to be cannon fodder in front to give us a gift, right?"

"God knows." Xiao Yi, a Baidu Tieba, hits with his hand

The soldiers below were talking, envious of the good treatment of the East China Army, and were afraid that they would be sent to the front as cannon fodder. This concern made many soldiers of the Beiyang Third Division agree with it.

Zhang Zuoshuang was already in a crazy situation. When he learned that the East China Army was going to form a coalition with the Beiyang Army to destroy his Fengtian Army, he begged his grandfather to ask for 20,000 38 large bulwarks from the Japanese like a grandmother.

At the same time, bandits on the mountains of the northeast are still recruiting men in the northeast.

With the promise of high-ranking officials and generous salaries, bandits from all over the Northeast defected to Zhang Zuoshuang. Zhang Zuoshuang himself was a bandit, and those bandits were not afraid of being excused by Zhang Zuoshuang.

As for the East China Autonomous Political Mansion... I have heard of it, but there is no concept for these bandits. They are still very unfamiliar with the East China Autonomous Political Mansion.

After urgently mobilizing bandits from the Northeast and drawing a large number of strong men, Zhang Zuoshuang decided to take the initiative. He had reached an agreement with Ni Si and Cao Kun.

Both of them decided to let him go, but what Zhang Zuoshuang didn't expect was that Cao Kun and Wu Peihu had already changed their minds and wanted to fight.

Zhang Zuoshuang was afraid of the coalition forces, but if he faced the East China Army alone, he didn't know how strong the East China Army was, but he thought it wouldn't be too strong.

With this thought, Zhang Zuoshuang marched towards Shanhaiguan with the 50,000 troops he had pieced together, intending to block the coalition forces outside Shanhaiguan.

At the same time, after a few days of march, the East China Army also arrived at Shanhaiguan.

Shanhaiguan is known as the world's most powerful pass. It is located in Qinhuangdao in later generations. It is also because Wu Sangui, who guarded Shanhaiguan, opened Shanhaiguan and put the Qing Dynasty inside the pass, which led to China's dark regression era for more than 260 years.

Zhang Zuoshuang rushed outside Shanhaiguan in advance, and laid a line of defense between the two rivers along the Shihe River outside Shanhaiguan, facing away from the Dog River.

Zhang Zuoshuang is not very good at placing troops, but there are some Japanese soldiers in Zhang Zuolin's army guiding them, so this defense line is built with model and inappropriate.

In the narrow corridor, the two sides officially encountered each other on the ninth floor for three days.

Four mixed brigades drove to the other side of the Shihe River. On that day, friends were shot in all artillery and launched a fierce shelling on the other side of the Shihe River at dusk that day.

One hundred and forty-four cannons fired together, and that scene was absolutely shocking.

The horizon in the distance was illuminated by violent flames. Every shell could clearly see dazzling flashes on the horizon.

Although the 50,000 Fengtian Army dug trenches in the Shihe area, and then amateurs are amateurs after all, how many trenches can a group of mobs dig out that can withstand artillery shells?

Cao Kun, Wu Peihu and others were listening to the rumbling sound of cannons on the front line and watching the flashes on the horizon in the distance, and their hearts were extremely shocked. Such artillery fire was enough to destroy the willpower of an army!

At the beginning of the shelling, the Fengtian army was killed and injured. The shelling lasted about twenty minutes, and four mixed brigades sent an engineer to break into the front line and began to build a floating bridge.

The stone river is not big, and it is very easy to build a pontoon bridge.

The artillery fire that stopped began to bomb the opposite shore where the engineers built the floating bridge. The Fengtian army there was so blown that they dared not look up. Some bandits and men were blown up by the cannons and even ran back frantically regardless of their constraints.

These deserters were arrested and shot by Zhang Zuoshuang, but they were shot in the dark, and many of them really ran away.

The engineer quickly built the floating bridge. Cao Kun was waiting for the East China Army to let them rush in the front! After all, with such fierce artillery, it was nothing to rush in the front as cannon fodder, after all, it could be won.

However, what they did not expect was that the East China Army actually rushed first.

The First Mixed Brigade first crossed the river, like the other side of the Sharp Stone River. The artillery fire behind began to cover the First Mixed Brigade with Xu Jin's firepower.

This kind of infra-cannon coordination tactic has been trained many times. Due to the existence of walkie-talkies, it is rare to accidentally bombard friendly forces.

"Call the howitzer battalion, there is a dark castle in front of it, the coordinates are..." A scout crawled on the ground, looking at a dark castle spraying with muzzle flames in the distance, picked up the walkie-phone on his back and called for fire. Baidu Tieba Xiaoyi called with his hand.

Less than a minute after the scout called, the shells fell down in the sky with the sound of Weiyo falling down, and then made a loud noise.

"Did you hit the target?" The artillery position used a walkie-talkie to contact the scouts on the front line.

"Deviate from the target, please correct the zombies, left..." The scouts had not been blown up two hundred meters away, so they reported the zombies.

"Mingzi"

On the artillery expropriation, an artillery company of the howitzer battalion began to correct the elements, and the artillery bombardment continued to unfold soon.

Six shells flew past the sky one after another and hit the dark castle accurately. After six loud noises, the dark castle quickly turned off and disappeared.

"Breaking, breaking, breaking."

The company commander on the position fired a flare into the distance, shouted with his arms, and rushed up with his soldiers in the company.

The Feng army had long been bombarded by ferocious cannons, and they could not even attack the dark and lit ones.

The East China Army was well-prepared, with flares set off one by one, and artillery bombarded in front, and infantry slowly advanced behind, and soon tore a large hole in the Fengtian Army's position.

The East China Army, which had torn open the defense line of the Feng army, began to circumvent the defense line on both sides of the Feng army, encircled the Feng army and annihilated it.

Four mixed brigades crossed the river one by one and rushed to the battlefield to fight. The Fengtian army, whose defense line was torn open, was already in a state of no command.

Zhang Zuoshuang was in charge of command behind Gouhe, but at this time his army was in chaos, and his command was not carried out at all in the darkness. The irregular messengers even ran halfway through the fire in front of him and turned around and ran into the dim night.

The result of an army's defense line being torn open is very terrifying. If the gap cannot be blocked in time, then you can only retreat to the second line of defense. If you do not retreat... Once surrounded, the supply will be cut off, and it will be attacked from both sides and it is very easy to eliminate it.

Zhang Zuoshuang had no consciousness, but the Japanese in the Fengtian army had this consciousness and hurriedly asked Zhang Zuoshuang to retreat the army to the second line of defense.

Zhang Zuoshuang followed the guidance, but the front line was already extremely chaotic at this time, and even the soldiers could not find generals, and the generals could not find soldiers. Baidu Tieba Xiaoyi hit him

Four mixed brigades of the East China Army, which were moving rapidly, rushed across the Shihe River and quickly surrounded the Fengtian troops who had no time to retreat. They rushed out from behind these Fengtian troops, beat them to the point of running away without knowing where to run, and some even jumped into the Shihe River.

Cao Kun's 3rd Beiyang Division looked behind for a long time and found gunfire on the front line. When they realized it, four mixed brigades of the East China Army rushed across the Shihe River.

Wu Peihu looked at it for a long time and suddenly became anxious. This was a good fight! It would be a hard work to fight anytime, so he quickly suggested that Cao Kun cross the river to fight.

Cao Kun only realized it now and quickly ordered the whole army to cross the river.

Along the floating bridge built by the East China Army, the Beiyang Third Division also crossed the Shihe River. The officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Third Division shouted and rushed to the front line. After running for a long time, they were uh... Most of the Fengtian army had been annihilated.

Many Fengtian soldiers had already raised their hands and climbed out of the tofu trench, and many Fengtian soldiers had already scattered to the second line of defense.
To be continued...