The survival wisdom of the Beiyang Era (301): The sky is dry and dry, be careful of the candles.
On October 11, 15th year of Beiyang, the city of Wuchang was destroyed. Sun Chuanfang, who learned the news, began to understand that this time it seemed to be a bit of a joke. Five days later, the "backyard fire" confirmed his idea. As the "King of Grass" among the local warlords in Zhejiang, Xia Chao suddenly ordered his garrison to deploy around Songjiang and Jiashan on the same day, and at the same time demolished a section of railway connecting Songhu to prevent Sun Jun, who was stationed in Songhu, and at the same time, the camps of Sun Chuanfang's concubines in Hangzhou were also surrounded and disbanded. Not only that, Xia Chao also secretly contacted Chen Yibu of the First Division of the Zhejiang Army stationed in Xuzhou, as well as Zhou Fengqi, the Third Division of the Zhejiang Army, who was following Sun Chuanfang in Jiangxi, to withdraw to Zhejiang, making it clear that he wanted to establish himself as king in Zhejiang.
However, Sun Chuanfang was also a person who had experienced the storms and was tired of dealing with the war between Jiangxi and the Southern Army, so he adopted the "strategy of delaying the army". On the one hand, on the surface, he was in favor of the Return of the Zhejiang Army to Zhejiang, but on the other hand, he urgently dispatched the men and horses of the two brigades to longhua and Songjiang, ordering them to temporarily garrison the junction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and not to march to Zhejiang again, only after Sun Jun's arrival did Xia Chao understand it and hurriedly led his troops to retreat to Jiashan. Sun Chuanfang, who had been properly arranged, began to attack Zhejiang on a large scale, and although Xia Chao also went to Jiashan to arrange defenses, but these local troops lacked combat experience, Sun Jun successively conquered Jiaxing and Changxing, and the forwards arrived at Linping. Xia Chao led the remnants to retreat to Yuhang and entered the Sun army in Hangzhou, Sun Chuanfang ordered to continue to pursue Xia Chao, and found dozens of defeated soldiers on the Yuhang Highway, the two sides shot at each other, Xia Chao was shot and killed, and wanted to become a "grass king" on one side.
In fact, as early as the beginning of Sun Chuanfang's detection of the fire in the backyard, Xia Chao had secretly contacted the Southern Army, but he was anxious to eat hot tofu, and Xia Chao hoped to recruit the two divisions of the Zhejiang Army, the Third Division of the Zhejiang Army in Jiujiang' Zhou Fengqi Department was monitored by Sun Jun, and Chen Yi of the First Division of the Zhejiang Army was wavering. Pulling the flag and firing the cannon in advance is definitely not a mature eunuch role, so Xia Chao was quickly defeated and killed, and wanted to appear on stage but ended hastily. However, although Sun Chuanfang solved the fire in the backyard, on the battlefield in Jiangxi, he successively lost a large area of Ganxi and Gannan, and the Nanxun Road was also cut off by the Southern Army, sun Chuanfang's five-provincial coalition army began to fall into a state of chaos, seeing that the army was defeated like a mountain, Sun Chuanfang had to take the decisive Sichuan ship to the south, and the all-round coalition army in Jiangxi began to rout, and the Jiangxi War ended with a comprehensive collapse of the five-province coalition army.
In the end, Sun Chuanfang's brother Zhou Yinren in Fujian had a bad life, although there were three divisions and two brigades under his command, but the strength of the local warlords could not be underestimated, and the Zhou Yinren were defeated one after another under the condition of communicating with the southern army, and after holding out for two months, they had to lead the rest to retreat into Zhejiang. At this point, Sun Chuanfang's five provinces were only left with the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, and it was also in a state of grass and trees, and the remaining three provinces were about to collapse like snow mountains in the spring, and all Sun Chuanfang could do was divide the local warlords in Zhejiang. Chen Yi, commander of the First Division of the Zhejiang Army, was transferred back to Zhejiang, but his men and horses were still stationed in Xuzhou. Because of the suspicion, the contradiction between Sun Chuanfang and the local warlords in Zhejiang was also more acute, and the alliance of the five southeastern provinces that had been in the middle of the day was about to collapse, and Sun Chuanfang, the commander of the five provinces, had to turn his attention to the north, where there was the most powerful force of the Beiyang warlords, that is, the warlords of the Feng clan under Zhang Zuolin, who had been fighting fiercely.