1918年初,北洋代理总统直系首领冯国璋屈服于皖系首领段祺瑞的压力,一反常态,公然下令对南方用兵,并派曹锟、张怀芝为第一、二路军总司令,率大军南下。段祺瑞为加强攻鄂攻湘力量,责成在援闽中途停兵浦口的冯宝祥,率第十六混成旅由“援闽”改为“援鄂”(实则攻湘)。江苏督军、直系将领李纯看冯国璋的脸色行事,也催 At the beginning of 1918, Feng Guozhang, the immediate leader of the Northern Acting President, succumbed to the pressure of Duan Qirui, the leader of the Anhui Province. Unusually, he ordered the south to use troops and dispatched Cao Kun and Zhang Huaizhi to lead the first and second route army commanders to head south. Duan Qirui to strengthen the attack on the enemy forces attacked Hunan, obliged to stop in mid-Fujian aid Pukou Feng Baoxiang, the rate of the sixteenth mixed brigade from “aid Fujian” to “aid Hubei” (actually attack Hunan). Governor of Jiangsu, Li Feng, straight-line generals look at the face of Feng Guozhang act, but also reminders