"What? Badong is lost?"

Seeing Li Yuanhong, the person who came to convey the message, said in a lost voice. Even Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, who had just arrived in Wuhan, looked sideways. You should know that the news of the war between the Badong garrison general and the Guoshe Army has been passed back, why has Badong County suddenly been lost?

Seeing the three people surprised, the person who came smiled bitterly and didn't know how to explain, so he had to say in the end.

"According to the news that Zhang Jiarui and Wang Zhensheng returned, when defending the city, the Hubei army's commander Ma Bonde escaped at the last minute, causing chaos in the Hubei county outside the city of Badong County. At this time, the Guoshe Army took advantage of the situation to raid, and the result was that the outer positions fell into the hands of the Guoshe Army. After retreating into the city, the two regiment commanders Zhang Jiarui and Wang Zhensheng wanted to defend the city, but the soldiers had no intention of fighting. As a result, after persisting for a day, Badong County fell into the hands of the Guoshe Army..."

Although the explanation was very simple, Li Yuanhong, Feng Guozhang and others could still imagine the scene at that time from a few words.

After learning about Mabond's escape, not only the Hubei army defending the city, but I believe that even the Beiyang army, which does not belong to the same system, will suffer a great blow in morale. The soldiers have no intention of fighting, and even if the Beiyang army is much more elite than the Hubei army, they may not have much intention to defend the city.

but…

"That Ma Bond deserves to die, but why didn't Commander Zhang and Commander Wang send a telegram when he ran away?"

The first person in charge must be Ma Bond, and Li Yuanhong was sure that this was not framed by Zhang Jiarui and Wang Zhensheng, because as Ma Bond's boss, Li Yuanhong also knew very well about this guy's character. Of course, his courage was so big that he dared to escape at the last battle that Li Yuanhong had unexpectedly expected.

Although it is unlikely to shirk responsibility, Li Yuanhong did not want to take all the responsibility, so he needed to find the person who shared the responsibility. This person was Zhang Jiarui and Wang Zhensheng, who were still in Badong County at that time. Ma Bond abandoned the city and fled, and was unforgivable, but why did Zhang Jiarui and others not report this situation back at that time? As long as this is finalized, Li Yuanhong's responsibility will naturally be much less.

As for Ma Bond? He must be dead, and Li Yuanhong doesn't care about his life and death. For him, what is more worthy of concern is Yuan Shikai's anger.

However, after the person who came spoke, Li Yuanhong knew that he might have to bear all Yuan Shikai's anger with Ma Bond.

"After Ma Bonde abandoned the city and fled, the Badong defenders had problems, the two regiment commanders Zhang Jiarui and Wang Zhensheng had also thought of notifying Wuhan with telegrams from the county. However, when they wanted to do this, they found that the telegram bureau in the county had been deliberately destroyed. There was no way. Commander Zhang Jiarui and Commander Wang Zhensheng had to send a communications soldier to the neighboring Zigui County and use the telegram there to send a message to Wuhan. This happened...

The telegraph bureau in Badong County was of course done by people from the Military Intelligence Bureau.

After learning that the riots occurred in the Badong garrison, Zhu Qinglan asked several members of the Military Intelligence Bureau to sneak back to Badong and let them destroy the telegraph bureau in the county. In fact, Zhu Qinglan also thought of someone cutting the telephone pole, but Badong would soon become the bag of their National Social Army. If this is done, wouldn’t it take a lot of effort to repair it when he takes over Badong County? So Zhu Qinglan finally made a decision. When the military intelligence bureau’s people failed, he sent a cavalry regiment to cut off all the telegraph poles along the way. Fortunately, the military intelligence bureau’s people were in a smooth operation, and several people easily bombed the telegraph bureau with a few bundles of grenades...

After receiving the news that the Telegram Bureau had ascended to heaven, Zhu Qinglan ordered all attacks, took down the positions outside the county town in one fell swoop, and drove the Badong defenders who had no intention of fighting out of the county town within one day.

"It should be done by someone from the Military Intelligence Bureau..."

After hearing that the Telegram Office was suddenly destroyed, Duan Qirui, who had been sitting in his seat without saying a word, spoke.

"Military Intelligence Bureau?"

Except for Feng Guozhang, who was a little familiar with, who did not speak, everyone else, including Li Yuanhong, looked at Duan Qirui.

"That's right, both the British and Japanese once mentioned to Lord Gong Bao that Yan Guang had two intelligence agencies, one was the Military Intelligence Bureau and the other was the Military Intelligence Bureau. Just like the name shows, the Military Intelligence Bureau is in charge of the outside and the Military Defense Bureau is in charge of the inside. I believe that the Telegraph Bureau's affairs are done by the Military Intelligence Bureau."

Of course, the Japanese and British people only mentioned it, and Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang who were present at the time, did not care about this. It was not until someone came to mention that the Telegram Office was deliberately destroyed, that Duan Qirui remembered the Military Intelligence Bureau.

"This Yan Guang is indeed difficult to deal with..."

"That's right."

After hearing Feng Guozhang, who had never spoken, Duan Qirui nodded and said.

"What should we do now?"

Looking at the two people, Li Yuanhong said as if he was unintentional.

Although Li Yuanhong seemed harmless, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang did not dare to underestimate him at all, because both of them knew very well how Zhang Zhenwu died back then. What's more, why did Hubei, which had a strong atmosphere, not cause a big stir? It was because Li Yuanhong's methods were ruthless and wiped out everything in the bud.

Although he looked down on Li Yuanhong as if he pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, Duan Qirui still said slowly.

"It seems that the reinforcements heading to Badong will stop in Yichang first..."

As he said that, Duan Qirui looked at Feng Guozhang.

"Huafu, when will your Second Army arrive?"

During the second ***, Yuan Shikai reorganized Li Chun's 6th Division and Wang Zhanyuan's 2nd Division into the First Beiyang Army, led by Duan Qirui to suppress Li Liejun, Yu Yunpeng's Fifth Division, Lei Zhenchun's 7th Division, Yang Shande's 4th Division, Feng Tian Mixed Brigade and Zhili Mixed Brigade to form the Second Beiyang Army, led by Feng Guozhang to attack Jiangsu, Nanjing and other regions to attack Yuan's army (after all, Jiangsu's anti-Yuan Army has the strongest strength). Now the Second Army has just set off from Nanjing, and Feng Guozhang took a boat to Wuhan first, so Duan Qirui wanted to know how long it took for Feng Guozhang's second army to arrive.

However, after hearing Duan Qirui say this, Feng Guozhang smiled bitterly.

"Nanjing is currently renting a boat to transport it to Wuhan, but Zhiquan, you know that my second army has too many people and a lot of equipment. If you want to transport the entire second army, it may take half a month. However, if you only transport some people to come first, a week will be enough..." The Yangtze River is the lifeblood of China, and there are many people who make a living on the Yangtze River. If you only transport people and guns, it is not difficult to transport 450,000 people from Nanjing to Wuhan without carving the size of the ship.

"A week?"

Yichang and Badong are more than 100 kilometers apart. Considering that the Wuhan section of the Sichuan-Hanzhou Railway has only been built to Jingzhou (city), even if the Guoshe Army takes Badong, it will probably take 3 or 4 days to march to Yichang. 3 or 4 days is enough for the reinforcements from my side to arrive in Yichang...

"Brother Song Qing, your Hubei army already has two divisions coming to Yichang, right?"

"That's right." Li Yuanhong nodded. "Originally they were preparing to support Badong, so the marching speed was very fast. Now they are almost at Yichang." The Sichuan-Hankou Railway has been built from Wuhan to Jingzhou. The distance between Jingzhou and Yichang is only 100 kilometers, so Li Yuanhong's two divisions marched very fast.

Originally, according to the calculations of Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui, the Badong defenders could last for at least one week. During this period, Li Yuanhong's two divisions could arrive in Badong to enhance Badong's garrison ability. At that time, Duan Qirui's two divisions could also arrive in Yichang, and then from Yichang to Badong, they could block Yan Guang's Guoshe Army in Badong County. Unfortunately, because of the emergence of a Mabond, it actually failed.

"Since Brother Song Qing's two divisions are almost in Yichang, let them build fortifications on the spot. Then I send a telegram to Li Xiushan and Wang Zichun, asking them not to get off the boat in Wuhan and to transfer to Yichang directly..." Duan Qirui looked at Feng Guozhang. "Huafu, do you think you should let Tang Xiangming's fleet give Zhu Qinglan some trouble."

After hearing Duan Qirui say this, Feng Guozhang thought about it.

"It's better not to do it. Zhu Qinglan's Guoshe Army is no more miscellaneous than Li Liejun's. If Tang Xingming's fleet and Zhu Qinglan's Guoshe Army exchange fire, Tang Xingming may not be able to take advantage. And I heard that Yan Guang also built a navy in Chongqing, which is also very good in terms of strength, so let's keep Tang Xingming's fleet in Yichang."

"Okay..." Duan Qirui smiled bitterly. "I originally wanted Zhang Jiarui and the others to try the quality of the National Social Army in Badong, but I didn't expect that before they could find anything, they threw Badong away. It's really..."

Feng Guozhang and Li Yuanhong also smiled bitterly. They had never fought with the Guoshe Army and naturally wanted to know the combat effectiveness of the Guoshe Army. But what they didn't expect was that they lost Badong as soon as they fought. They really lost their wife and soldiers...

However, after hearing Duan Qirui say this, the person who came to convey the news just now spoke.

"About the combat effectiveness of the Guoshe Army, Commander Zhang Jiarui also mentioned it slightly in the telegram he sent back..."

Hearing that he said, everyone in the room turned their eyes to him.

"A brief mention? What did Zhang Jiarui say?"

"This... Commander Zhang just said in the telegram that the Guoshe Army was well-equipped and had strong firepower. He once used artillery weapons for more than half an hour to bombard the defending positions. When he sieges the next day, he even carried out fierce bombardment for more than an hour..."

To put it simply, it means that the Kuomintang and the military are very capable of spending money...

Fortunately, the people in the city had almost run away at that time, otherwise they would have been as unlucky as the defenders in the city at that time.

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