The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (140): Every time there is a good friend, there is no Rong.
Wuhan has always been a place where soldiers must fight, Wu Peifu used this as an outpost to lead his troops to the south, but the Beiyang Army under his command was besieged by the Southern Army. He was not willing to surrender the two lakes in this way, and at this time, together with the Henan garrison and the remnants of the Eighth Division of the Yan clan, Wu Peifu's men once again gathered 30,000 horses, and he pinned his last hopes on the defense of Wuhan. At this time, on the north-south passage, the Yi army of the four brigades in Anhui and the Yu army of several divisions in Henan rushed to the rescue, and Wu Peifu was full of wealth in the autumn and hunting of the north and south land army flags. This "jade marshal" who has been galloping on the battlefield for half a lifetime, after several ups and downs but all of them have been defeated and won, at this time, in the face of a steady stream of reinforcements from the Beiyang Army, and the Yangtze River Graben, Wu Peifu thinks that he can let go of a fight, and if he loses, he will unload his armor and return to the field, as a general of the Beiyang Army, there is no option to flee without a fight in his creed, and he does not know that this is also the final curtain battle of the generation of Confucian generals who have been on horseback for half a lifetime.
Later, in the rumble of the cannon, Wu Peifu, who was more than half a hundred years old, inspected the defense lines of the three towns in Wuhan one after another, crossed the river to Wuchang one moment, and returned to Hankou the next, going back to and from Lawton, and dispatching strategies, which was the busiest moment in his life, and it would also be the last horse career of his life. The two main forces of the Southern Army attacked Wuchang and the land of the two Han Dynasties. The 14th Division of the Beiyang Army's defender Gao Rutong's department resisted with all its might, the southern army fought hard and the progress was frustrated, at this time, The Hubei E's Liu Zuolong Army rebelled on the defensive line, and attacked the Beiyang Army's Gao Rutong garrison, the 14th Division, which was attacked by the enemy in the abdomen, retreated to Hankou, Hanyang fell, and the commanding heights of Guishan Fell into the hands of the Southern Army, reproducing the general situation of the Wuchang Uprising shelling the whole city, and the Beiyang Army at this time became a defensive side that was painstakingly supported. The Beiyang Army, which had no intention of fighting, had to retreat, losing three cities such as Guangshui, and the elite Tian Weiqin Department of the Zhi Army that rushed to aid was also defeated in Donghuangdian, the Beiyang Army, which had built a defensive line at Jigong mountain and Hewushengguan, was once again defeated, Wu Peifu, who had been defeated like a mountain, withdrew to Xinyang in a hurry, and the last hope was that the "people from the north" had "survived very little" at this time, and the reinforcements from all sides saw that Wu Peifu's Beiyang Army was once again frustrated, and most of them watched from the sidelines.
However, Wu Peifu was still not dead-hearted, and the battle did not stop until there was not a single soldier left, he tried his best to recruit reinforcements from all sides to help the remnants of Wuchang City, at this time Wuchang City, with Wu Peifu's Eighth Division as the mainstay, after reorganization again, there were still about 20,000 horses and horses to hold the isolated city, but although under Wu Peifu's repeated solicitation, Sun Chuanfang, who was the most powerful at this time, was already unable to protect himself, and Zhang Liansheng and Lu Jinshan of the Hubei Ejun Army were unwilling to send troops because they "cared about their territory", and the Sichuan Yangsen Army could not move because it was "restrained". The various departments of the Beiyang Army that came to the aid of the North were "not close to their cronies and refused to serve", and the seemingly behemoth of the Beiyang warlord clique was actually on the verge of falling apart, and Wu Peifu began to be discouraged.
In the end, Wu Peifu, who had no troops to adjust, could only watch the remnants of Wuchang stick to the isolated city, face the siege of several times that of his own southern army, and the Beiyang Army, which had held out for more than thirty days, eventually Wuchang City fell, and the two lifelines of Wu Peifu, Hanyang Arsenal and Hubei Yuanyin, were strangled, and a generation of wizards who had been surprised by the Beiyang era for more than ten years came to an end. As the military talent of the Beiyang warlords, Wu Peifu was unwilling but helpless in the battle of the curtain, which was enough to see the root cause of the final overthrow of the Beiyang warlords, not because of the unscrupulous generals, nor the lack of soldiers, but because the belief in the conspiracy collapsed, the former Beiyang army was the Yuan family army that was united in will, and the Qing Dynasty was determined to win in the tide of the times, and the Beiyang warlords at this time, the only two remaining giants, Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zuolin, faced with wu Peifu's overthrow, hundreds of thousands of robes were defeated, but they were still playing their own small calculations.