After this battle, most of the old Gui army broke the southern border, and less than 6,000 people fled back to Wuzhou. Xu Xiangqian's wounded soldiers collected from the old Gui army nearby had more than 20,000, which was a great harvest. Chen Bingkun and Tan Haoming who returned to Wuzhou were worried that Lu Rongting would punish them, but when they saw the withdrawn Lu Rongting's army, a heart that was raised to their throats was relieved.

After the baptism of successive wars, Lu Rongting's main force was 60,000, and only more than 3,000 people fled back. The others either died or surrendered, and the old Guangxi army was basically wiped out.

When the news of the Seit Army participating in the war and its military numbers were passed to Lu Rongting, he stood there for a long time and did not speak out. Lu Rongting, who was originally quite arrogant about his strength, realized that he was simply a frog in the well. Compared with the Seit Army, his strength was not enough.

Even the tip of the iceberg shown by the Sit Army was no longer something that Lu Rongting could resist, so he also lost the idea of ​​revenge. After consulting several of his confidants, everyone agreed that even when the old Gui army was in its prime, it would be difficult to resist the mere division and regiment sent by the Sit Army, let alone continue to resist with the remaining thousands of people.

Their final decision was to admit defeat, give up the opportunity to make a comeback, break away from the civil war, and find a place to enjoy his old age. Among the old Guangxi clan, which was full of factions and internal disputes, all the senior generals unified their thoughts for the first time, but this time it was to surrender and surrender, which had to be said to be a great irony.

As early as when the old Guangxi army sent troops to eastern Guangdong Province, Sun Wenhai, who was overseas, received the news. He immediately set off to return to eastern Guangdong Province. He hoped to call on the local people to rise up and resist Lu Rongting's annexation to cooperate with Chen Jiongming's troops' counterattack.

When Sun Wenhai arrived in eastern Guangdong Province, he was surprised to find that Lu Rongting had withdrawn his troops. Only then did he realize that Li Zongren, the three heroes of the new Guangxi clan, Bai Chongxi and Huang Shaoxi joined forces to raise an army and seize control of western Guangdong Province in one fell swoop. Sun Wenhai did not have time to be glad that he had gained freely, so he immediately devoted himself to appease the hearts of the local people.

Chen Jiongming, who returned from Kuaiji Province, also took the initiative to cooperate. They must first stabilize the military and people's hearts of eastern Guangdong Province, and when Lu Rongting and the Xinguang clan were both defeated, they would send troops to seek benefits. Chen Jiongming never expected that before he had time to mobilize the logistics supplies for the dispatch of troops, Lu Rongting and many of his confidants came to the western Guangdong province to voluntarily step down, and the Xinguang army fully received the notice from western Guangdong Province.

According to the unwritten laws of domestic warlords, warlords who take the initiative to step down can retain their private property, go to the concession or abroad to be a residence, and spend the rest of their lives safely. Li Zongren will not break this unspoken rule, because one day he may be defeated and he will always leave a way out for himself. Therefore, the new Guangxi clan expressed that he welcomed Lu Rongting's step down. The new Guangxi army entered the Wuzhou area and received thousands of remaining old Guangxi soldiers. At the same time, he gave Lu Rongting and others gifts to leave the country with their private property.

The ever-changing situation of the Guangdong-Guangxi War and the final dramatic resolution made the major warlords in China unable to react, but the person who was most worried was not Lu Rongting, but the three major factions of the Northern Army far away in Beihua City.

Although Lu Rongting was defeated and stepped down, he put down his burden, died of his ambition to dominate the world, and went to Guanghai City Concession to be a public residence with a normal heart. However, the Northern Territory faction, which originally had the initiative in the domestic situation, is now facing a serious problem.

The Sit army finally intervened in the domestic battlefield. Although they only sent 30,000 auxiliary troops from the army and the air and navy, this was a dangerous signal, a signal that the Sit army was about to unify the Hualan Kingdom. Although the Sit army quickly handed over western Guangdong Province to the new Guangxi clan in the name of extermination of the oppressing warlords and returning power to the people, and voluntarily withdrew from this area, which put Duan Ruiquan under great pressure.

If there is a first time, there will be a second time. Who knows when the Western Special Zone will give its Anhui faction this excuse to eliminate oppression and return the people. The huge pressure made Duan Ruiquan, who was originally calm, lose his innocence. Now his only hope is to unify the eastern part of Hualan Kingdom, and to compete with the Western Special Zone with his huge human and wealth advantages. The biggest obstacle before him is the Zhili and Fengtian factions that have been united together.

At a secret meeting within the Anhui clique, Duan Ruiquan quickly announced the secret decision to start a war against the Zhili and Feng cliques. Although Xu Shuzheng, who had changed his mind, tried his best to dissuade him, he could not change Duan Ruiquan's decision. At this moment, he had already made a desperate attempt to let go.

The Anhui troops began to prepare for battle in full swing, but this secret was soon discovered by the Zhili and Fengtian clans. Even if the meeting was a secret meeting and even the records were not kept, there was no risk of leaking the oral. However, the preparations for such a war must be quite different. If the Zhili and Fengtian clans could not detect it, they would be blind and deaf.

Cao Kun and Zhang Zuolin received notifications from their subordinates that the Anhui army was preparing weapons, and the main forces of the Anhui army in Qi, Lu and Jiangbei provinces were showing signs of moving towards Zhili. In addition, Fu Liangzuo, the important minister of the Anhui faction, met secretly with the Japanese envoy, and then some personnel from the Anhui faction withdraw huge sums of more than three million Japanese dollars from the Japanese bank in batches.

All this news shows that Duan Ruiquan seemed to have shown signs of taking action, and both the Zhili and Fengtian factions became nervous. Cao Kun and Zhang Zuolin quickly issued various orders, and the army of the Zhili and Fengtian factions also began to prepare for war. The atmosphere in Zhili was extremely tense for a moment.

The Zhifeng and Feng teams have always wanted to take the initiative because they knew very well that the Anhui team had 120,000 veterans in the war. Once these people burst out with energy, their power was unparalleled. They were not comparable to those of them who had never fought. However, under the strong military pressure of the Anhui team, the senior executives of the two teams were unable to make up their minds to take action, but an emergency soon gave them a surprise.

It turned out that after the war army returned to China, Duan Ruiquan learned from Xu Shuzheng that Wu Ziyugang's fierce combat style and the rapid breakthrough ability of the Sit Army armored troops. Such powerful military force shocked Duan Ruiquan. In order to prevent possible raids from the Sit Army, he deployed six infantry divisions from eight infantry divisions composed of 120,000 veterans on the front lines of Zhangjiakou, Central and Southern Provinces, Central and Nanyuan Provinces to prevent the local garrisons from being quickly defeated during the battle with the Sit Army.
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