In fact, since the beginning of the Southern War, Britain, France and other countries were not optimistic about the Deyou court. After all, Britain, France and other countries were old players in the game of great powers and had a clear view of the advantages and disadvantages of both sides. But Pu Wei and others felt good about themselves and did not listen to advice and insisted on launching this war. Naturally, all countries could not sit idly by and watch the Deyou court completely defeated by Yuan Shikai. Bijing countries have now invested significant capital in the Deyou court. Once the Deyou court was completely defeated by Yuan Shikai, wouldn’t these investments be wasted!

However, Britain, France and other countries cannot go on the battlefield in person. Everyone knows that the East China Government is eyeing it. Once countries interfere, the East China Government will inevitably take action. Therefore, after negotiations between Britain, France and other countries, they decided to let the Fengde court in Fujian take action to support the Deyou court and work together to defeat Yuan Shikai. At the same time, they also took this opportunity to repair their relations with Japan. Because behind the Fengde court is Japan's support, so if the Fengde court wants to send troops to support the Deyou court and work together to defeat Yuan Shikai, they naturally have to negotiate with Japan first.

Originally, Japan secretly supported the Feng German court and occupied Fujian, which made Britain, France and other countries very dissatisfied, and the relationship between the two sides also dropped sharply. However, Britain, France and other countries still needed Japan to restrain the East China government, so this situation could not be maintained for too long. It just happened to take this opportunity to improve the relationship between the two sides and bring the relationship back on track.

So after consultation, Britain, France and other countries offered a condition to Japan to urge the Fengde court to send troops to participate in the war in accordance with the requirements of Britain, France and other countries, and to attack Yuan Shikai, and after the war, they promoted the Deyou court and the Fengde court to work together to deal with Yuan Shikai; at the same time, Britain, France and other countries recognized Japan's interests in Fujian, and this attack, the Jiangxi area captured can be regarded as Japan's sphere of influence; in addition, the cooperation and investment between Britain, France and Japan were restored.

After receiving the reconciliation conditions from Britain, France and other countries, Japan was also very happy. This time, the bet was right again. In fact, the Japanese government is also facing huge pressure. The relationship between Japan and Britain, France and other countries has deteriorated. Not only did it stop investing in Japan, but many cooperations were also frozen. Although Japan obtained Fujian, its gains were limited. After all, Fujian is not an economically developed province. At the same time, the East China government is watching, and Japan dare not do anything randomly. Therefore, many people in Japan believe that supporting the Fengde court is really not worth it.

In addition, when Japan expanded to Zhejiang, it was blocked by the force of the East China Government. It was the Japanese Navy. Under the forcibly blocked by the fleet of the East China Government, it did not approach the Fujian waters at all, which caused great storms in Japan. They accused the navy of being weak and incompetent, and the navy was also very aggrieved and publicly complained about itself. After the Far East War, the navy did not add a new warship, so how could it confront the fleet of the East China Government? Therefore, the Japanese cabinet was forced to agree to rebuild the navy, but if the Japanese Navy wanted to rebuild, it was inseparable from the support and help of Britain. Now the relationship between Japan and Britain is dead! How to find Britain to help? So the navy also strongly demanded the cabinet to repair its relations with Britain as soon as possible.

Now Britain and France have taken the initiative to propose reconciliation, and the conditions offered are very generous. Not only do they recognize Japan's interests in Fujian, but they are also willing to resume cooperation and investment with Japan. In addition, the places occupied by the Feng German court can also be classified as Japan's sphere of influence in China. It can be said that Japan has no room for such conditions, not to mention that the Japanese cabinet is under tremendous pressure.

In fact, before the Southern War began, some people in Japan thought that this was a great opportunity to take the opportunity to expand the territory of the Fengde court, which in fact was to expand Japan's sphere of influence in China. Now, not only can we send troops to seize territory with justification, but we can also sell face to Britain, France and other countries and repair relations with Britain, France and other countries. Why not do it? So Japan quickly agreed to the conditions of Britain, France and other countries. Of course, these are transactions between Britain, France and Japan. Not to mention Yuan Shikai, even the Deyou court knew nothing about it.

However, Britain, France and other countries only asked the Fengde court to prepare for sending troops. When to send troops, they still had to obey the arrangements of Britain, France and other countries. This made Japan suspicious again. Did Britain, France and other countries want the Fengde court to fight with Yuan Shikai and wait to reap the benefits of the fishermen? But as the war progressed, it was obviously not like that. Because of Yuan Shikai's plan to lure the enemy, the Japanese also saw it very clearly. Obviously, Britain, France and other countries were waiting for the Deyou army to be defeated by Yuan's army and then let the Fengde court attack.

In fact, Britain, France and other countries wanted to use Yuan Jun to teach Pu Wei and others a lesson, so that they could wake up and know how much they were. Anyway, there was a backup plan for the Fengde court, so there was no need to worry that the Deyou court would be completely defeated.

Sure enough, the Yuan army jointly attacked the Deyou army in Fengcheng County and won a great victory. However, the Yuan army's counterattack was dragged on and missed the opportunity one after another, so it eventually formed a situation of resistance. Pu Wei mobilized reinforcements to rescue Changsha on the one hand, and on the other hand, he could only ask for help from Britain, France and other countries. It was only then that Britain, France and other countries felt that the time was ripe, so he issued a request to advance to Japan.

After the establishment of the Fengde court, it naturally formed its own army. Of course, the Fengde army was only established according to the Japanese army's organization, and the organization was organized at all levels as: squads, squadrons, brigades, brigades, divisions, and weapons and equipment were also supplied by Japan. However, the Fengde court only had Fujian province with a population of only more than 10 million, so it was impossible to form too many troops. It only organized 2 divisions and 3 brigades, totaling about 54,000 people. Of course, all commanders above the brigade were held by the Japanese, and there was also a special army, totaling about 1,000 people, all composed of Japanese troops. It was caused by Japan's secretly transporting soldiers to Fujian. The main reason was that the Fengde army's combat effectiveness was too weak and the troops were too small, so it was necessary to have a strong combat-capacity army as the backbone of the entire army.

According to Japan's plan, he only wanted to form a gang with a number of between 2,000 and 3,000 people. However, Japan was also afraid that the scale would be too large and would attract interference from the East China government, so he still controlled the number of this army to about 1,000 people.

After reaching a settlement agreement with Britain, France and other countries, the Fengde court immediately dispatched troops to prepare for battle, so the movement was not small. Yuan Shikai also installed spies in Fujian, so he naturally reported it back to Yuan Shikai. Of course, Yuan Shikai did not know the agreement reached by Japan and Britain, France and other countries, but he also had a cooperative force in the southeast of Jiangxi to prevent Fujian's attack. At the same time, Yuan Shikai did not dare to transfer all the reserve troops to attack Changsha. It was not all indecisive and cautious, but to make it necessary to keep a hand for himself.

At this time when the Southern War was in progress, Japan also believed that it was the best time to send troops, because at this time the Yuan army was attacking Hunan with all its might. Jiangxi's defense was empty, and even if the Yuan army returned to the aid, it would be too late. Moreover, once the Yuan army returned to the aid, the Deyou army would inevitably pursue it. Yuan army was attacked from both sides and would inevitably be defeated. Therefore, if troops were sent to attack Jiangxi at this time, there was a high chance that the entire Jiangxi Province could be captured in one fell swoop, which would expand the strength of the Fengde court, and of course Japan could also make a profit.

At this time, Britain, France and other countries asked the Fengde court to send troops to attack Jiangxi, so they just followed the situation and sent troops to attack Jiangxi. The emperor Pu Jun, who was famous for the Fengde court, and the regent Zaiyi, were simply ignored.

The Fengde Army dispatched two divisions, one brigade, and about 35,000 troops to launch an attack on Jianchang Prefecture in southeastern Jiangxi. Although the Yuan army stationed one assistant in Jianchang Prefecture, there were five counties under Jianchang Prefecture, Nancheng, Xincheng, Guangchang, Nanfeng and Huxi. Only by relying on the forces of this assistant, they could not defend at all. Therefore, Zhang Xun, the sixth leader of the Jianchang Prefecture, could only concentrate his troops and defend Nancheng County, the capital of Jianchang Prefecture.

The Fengde Army concentrated two divisions to attack Nancheng County. Although Yuan's army fought to the death, the disparity in strength was too great. Moreover, the actual commanders of the Fengde Army at all levels were Japanese officers. Not only did they have rich practical experience, they rarely made big mistakes in command and combat, and they were also very strict in the management of the army. Therefore, the soldiers of the Fengde Army did not dare to avoid the fear of war, and could only fight hard. Zhang Xun's ability was only considered to be medium in the Beiyang Army. As a result, the two sides fought fiercely for three days, and Yuan's army could not resist and was captured by the Fengde Army. Zhang Xun led the defeated troops to retreat to Fuzhou to guard and asked Yuan Shikai for help.

After the Fengde army captured Jianchang Prefecture, it transferred a brigade from Fujian to garrison Jianchang Prefecture. The army continued to advance south and captured Ningdu Prefecture, and then attacked Ganzhou Prefecture, the southernmost end of Jiangxi Province.

After receiving Zhang Xun's emergency, Yuan Shikai did not dare to neglect it. At the same time, he completely gave up his plan to capture Changsha and occupy Hunan Province and prepared to return to Jiangxi. However, although Yuan Shikai lacked practical experience, he also knew that withdrawing troops was one of the most difficult items in military operations. Because when the two armies were fighting each other, one side of the withdrawal was easily pursued by the other side. Therefore, the best way to withdraw troops was to divide the troops into two groups, cover each other, and retreat in turn, but this would greatly increase the speed of withdrawal.

Jiangxi is now in a tight situation, so naturally he cannot tolerate Yuan Shikai retreating slowly like this. Therefore, Yuan Shikai could not help but regret it. If he had known that the Fengde army's attack was so rapid, he would have withdrawn earlier, or if he had listened to Duan Qirui's advice, he would have conquered Changsha long ago, so he would not have to be careful about withdrawing troops.
Chapter completed!