No one expected that after recovering Jianchang Prefecture, Wang Shizhen did not continue to advance south and attack Ningdu Prefecture, but left Zhang Xun to guard Jianchang Prefecture, led the third town himself to attack Fujian eastward, and occupied Shaowu Prefecture.

After receiving this news, the Japanese commander of the Fengde Army was shocked, because the garrison in Fujian is quite empty now, and the regular army has only one brigade, and it is impossible to resist the third town led by Wang Shizhi. No wonder Yuan Shikai was not in a hurry to attack Ganzhou Prefecture, but was waiting for Wang Shizhen to invade Fujian.

The Japanese commander of the Fengde Army had to admit that this move was indeed very clever to attack him and rescue him. Therefore, although he knew it was a plan, the Fengde Army had to return to Fujian. Otherwise, if Wang Shizhen was allowed to enter like this, it might not take long to attack Fuzhou Prefecture. So the Japanese commander of the Fengde Army immediately ordered the division stationed in Ningdu Prefecture to return to the aid immediately and enter Taining County to threaten Wang Shizhen's flanks, but do not attack the Yuan army easily. As long as Wang Shizhen's army is restrained, he will not dare to enter directly, and attack Fuzhou Prefecture. He also ordered the brigade stationed in Fujian to give up other places and concentrate troops to guard Fuzhou Prefecture, and there is no way to lose.

The troops stationed in Ningdu Prefecture withdrew and Ganzhou Prefecture could no longer defend. Therefore, the Japanese commander of Fengde Army decided to lead the army from Ganzhou Prefecture and retreat to Fujian through Tingzhou Prefecture. At the same time, in order to restrain Yuan's army, he contacted the Deyou court and asked the Deyou court to send troops to hold Yuan's army.

Sure enough, after the orders of the Japanese commander of the German army, the Fengde Army division stationed in Ningdu Prefecture immediately set off, abandoned Ningdu Prefecture, and withdrew back to Fujian. However, as soon as he entered Fujian Province, he received news that Taining County had been occupied by Yuan's army.

It turned out that after Wang Shizhen occupied Shaowu Prefecture, he did not continue to march and attacked Fuzhou Prefecture, because the purpose of invading Fujian was to mobilize the Fengde army, not to occupy Fujian Province and completely destroy the Fengde court. Bi Jing, with the current strength of Yuan Shikai, was not enough to completely occupy Fujian Province. Moreover, Britain, France and other countries, as well as the Deyou Prefectures, would not sit idly by and watch the Fengde court destruction, so that Yuan Shikai would occupy Fujian Province in this way and expand his own power. Therefore, as long as he could give the Fengde army a heavy blow and occupy several prefectures adjacent to Fujian and Jiangxi, it would be a very good result.

So Wang Shizhen immediately sent troops to occupy Taining County, because this was the only way for the Fengde army in Ningdu Prefecture to withdraw its troops and return to aid. Yuan's army seized Taining County, forcing the Fengde army to fight the Yuan army at this time.

As a result, the two sides fought fiercely in Taining County. They fought for two days in a row. Since the troops of both sides were basically equal, they had a victory or defeat, and the battle situation was still stalemate. On the 4th day, Zhang Xun led the Sixth Association of Yuan Army to the battlefield, changing the combat power comparison between the two sides. It turned out that this was Wang Shizhen's plan. He first attacked Fujian and occupied the Fengde army's withdrawal and return to aid, forcing the Fengde army to fight to the decisive battle. At the same time, he notified Zhang Xun, who was stationed in Jianchang Prefecture, to come to reinforce. As a result, under the attack of Yuan army, the Fengde army was defeated, with more than 5,000 casualties.

After defeating the Fengde Army, Wang Shizhen immediately ordered Zhang Xun to withdraw back to Jiangxi Province and divide his troops into two groups. One group still returned to Jianchang Prefecture, and the other group immediately seized Ningdu Prefecture, which was given out by the Fengde Army, and led his troops to set up positions between Taining and Jianning counties.

The Japanese commander of the Fengde Army withdrew from Ganzhou Prefecture, Yuan Shikai naturally would not let go and led the army to pursue him. However, the Fengde Army's retreat was very organized, covering each other and slowly retreated. Therefore, although the Yuan army fought fiercely with the Fengde Army several times during the pursuit, they all suffered casualties, and no one took much advantage. However, in this way, the Fengde Army's withdrawal speed slowed down, and it had not withdrawn from Ganzhou Prefecture in 6 or 7 days. However, Yuan Shikai felt confident. After all, Wang Shizhen had already attacked Fujian Province at this time, and the other party should be anxious, and it depends on how long the other party could spend with him.

Just when the Fengde army retreated to Huichang County, less than 10 kilometers away from Fujian, news of the Battle of Taining came. Yuan's army won a great victory and defeated the Fengde army. The Japanese commander of the Fengde army's goal of restraining Wang Shizhen was completely lost, and there was no more force to stop Wang Shizhen's attack. Yuan Shikai was very happy when he heard the news and knew that the victory was in hand, so he immediately ordered the entire army to attack Huichang County, trying to wipe out the Fengde army.

After receiving the news, the Japanese commander of the Fengde Army had a pale face. Because the defeat was decided, let alone capturing Jiangxi and expanding the territory of the Fengde court, it would probably be difficult for Fujian Province to protect it. In addition, the Yuan army is still pursuing the Fengde army with all its might. It seems that the Deyou army did not attack. I also couldn't understand. Does the Deyou court plan to watch the Fengde court be destroyed by Yuan Shikai in this way, but doing so will only expand Yuan Shikai's strength, and what benefits will it do to the Deyou court!

At this time, the Fengde court in Fuzhou was in chaos. Zaiyi, Puyi and his son had become frightened birds. They were frightened every day. Whenever there was a turmoil, they were frightened and frightened. They were frightened to help Japanese consultants every day, either begging Japan to send troops to rescue Fujian, or begging the father and son to escape to Japan for refuge.

In fact, the Japanese advisers of the Fengde court were also in a state of great concern. They all knew very well that Japan could not send troops to rescue Fujian, because the East China Government was eyeing it. Not to mention that Japan could not send troops, even if it sent troops, it would definitely be intercepted by the East China Government fleet and could not reach Fujian at all. Therefore, now we can only rely on the Deyou court to send troops to attack Yuan Shikai, so that Yuan Shikai could withdraw his troops.

However, Japanese consultants were politicians after all, and soon understood what was going on. It was not that Deyou's court was unwilling to send troops to help, but that Britain, France and other countries were using Yuan Shikai to teach the German court a lesson. In fact, it was just a lesson for Japan. It was probably when Britain, France and other countries released their intention to reconcile with Japan. Japan thought that its adventure was successful and finally forced Britain, France and other countries to make concessions, but unexpectedly entered the trap of Britain, France and other countries step by step.

At this moment, the Fengde Army in Ganzhou Prefecture finally withdrew from Fujian Province, but there was only one division that retreated to Fujian. It turned out that the Japanese commander of the Fengde Army could only use the tactic of cutting off his arm and leaving a brigade to guard Huichang County. In fact, he was used as cannon fodder to cover the retreat of other troops.

A brigade naturally could not resist Yuan Shikai's attack. Three days later, Huichang County fell, and all the Fengde Army guarding Huichang County, except for the fallen soldiers, all the others surrendered. However, the Fengde Army still preserved a complete division and took advantage of the past few days to retreat to Changting County, the head of Tingzhou Prefecture, and set up defense lines to resist Yuan's attack. After Yuan Shikai captured Huichang County, he continued to march and headed straight to Changting County.

The battlefield was naturally in full swing, and at the diplomatic level, there were also surging turbulent flows. The Fengde court sent more than a dozen emergency telegrams to the Deyou court, asking the Deyou court to send troops to attack Yuan Shikai. At the same time, the Japanese consultants of the Fengde court also sent continuous powers to the consuls of the British, French and other countries in Deyou court, and Chen Ming's interests, but Britain, France and other countries just agreed, but they did not take any actual actions.

The Japanese also knew that Britain, France and other countries were forcing Japan to submit and share the interests of Fujian with all countries. At this time, both Yuan troops were captured. Wang Shizhen attacked Tingping Prefecture and occupied the two counties of Jiangle and Shunchang; Yuan Shikai also captured Ninghua and Qingliu counties, and connected with Shaowu Prefecture.

Seeing that the situation in Fujian was in danger, Britain, France and other countries took advantage of the situation to force Japan to submit, they decided to take a risk and take another bet. First, the Japanese government officially issued a warning to Yuan Shikai, saying that Yuan Shikai's military actions had seriously damaged Japan's interests in Fujian Province, and demanded that Yuan Shikai stop military operations immediately and withdraw his troops from Fujian Province. Otherwise, the Japanese government would send troops to Fujian to interfere with the situation in Fujian by force.

After receiving a warning from the Japanese government, Yuan Shikai didn't care at all, because he knew very well that if the Japanese government wanted to send troops to Fujian, the East China Government would never sit idly by. Even if the East China Government had the guarantee, what else could he be afraid of? Yuan Shikai was very dissatisfied with Japan, so he refused the warning from the Japanese government without hesitation, claiming that if the Japanese government wanted to send troops to Fujian, he would be the leader and fight to the death with him.

Sure enough, just one day later, the East China Government also issued a public statement saying that if the Japanese government wants to send troops to Fujian, it means a full-scale war between the Japanese government and the East China Government. At that time, the East China Government will not only send troops to Fujian, but will also send troops to attack Japan's mainland. Therefore, the Japanese government is asked to warn and act cautiously and do it themselves.

In fact, the Japanese government had no intention of sending troops to Fujian, and there was no hope that this warning would scare Yuan Shikai. Instead, it was for Britain, France and other countries to show it. The meaning was that if you didn't care, Japan might go to extremes. Britain, France and other countries needed Japan to restrain the East China government, so it would definitely not allow Japan to go to full war with the East China government now, so it would not be ignored.

As expected by the Japanese government, Japan's warning and the statement of the East China government did make Britain, France and other countries nervous. Although they all estimated that the Japanese government might be pretending to behave and would not really send troops, they could not help but prevent Japan from taking risks in the end. Moreover, the current situation is almost the same. After all, Yuan Shikai cannot really destroy the Feng German court. In fact, Britain, France and other countries do not care about the interests of Fujian, and mainly require Japan to surrender. Even if Japan is still unwilling to surrender, Britain, France and other countries still have ways to cure Japan.
Chapter completed!