Beiyang reactionaries

The most difficult thing is actually the National Assembly, because most of the members of the Nationalist Party are members of the National Assembly.However, Xu Shuzheng went out and not only got rid of Liang Qichao and Tang Hualong's Progressive Party, but also got rid of many swinging Kuomintang MPs.

As long as the cabinet meeting and the Congress are settled, then Duan Qirui can use this power to force Li Yuanhong.It can even make Li Yuanhong lose all face and prestige.Duan Qirui will have to see when the time comes, Li Yuanhong will continue to be the president with He Yanmian, and he will compete with him for government power.

Xu Shuzheng can solve the matter so beautifully, how could Duan Qirui not like Xu Shuzheng.

"This cabinet meeting allows all the warlords who have entered Beijing to attend."

"Yes."

On April 1917, 4, just before the start of the cabinet meeting, the Provincial Warlords Meeting took the lead in Beijing.The provincial governors and provincial representatives unanimously agreed with Duan Qirui's foreign policy, and signed the paper "Approving the Premier's foreign policy".Issued a statement in support of Duan Qirui, putting pressure on Li Yuanhong again.

A sensation in the whole country.

Duan Xun's military operations in Yunnan have a lot of influence, but after the military governor's meeting is held in Beijing, this influence is much greater than that in Yunnan.The Overseer Corps had held several Overseer Meetings in Nanjing before.But after all, Nanjing is far away from Beijing, so it is not considered the political center of China.

But now that these warlord regiments have come to Beijing to openly hold a warlord meeting, the problem is big.Because this means that the conflict between Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui has reached the most acute moment.And as the Overseer Corps is so blatantly interfering in national policy, criticism of the Overseer Corps is also growing.

Of course there is a lot of criticism, but who cares about these warlords.For them, public opinion is nothing.As long as they have guns in their hands, they don't care about this.Even Duan Qirui, who is known as a politician with good political integrity, doesn't care about those public opinions, let alone those local warlords of the Beiyang Army.Therefore, the Overseer Corps still does its own thing in Beijing.

On April 1917, 4, the cabinet meeting was held in Beijing.

The Overseer asks to join the meeting.

The bigwigs in the cabinet certainly disagree.Although most of the current cabinet chiefs are from the Beiyang system, most of them are scholars.They support Duan Qirui's ruling, but their background determines that it is impossible for them to agree to these local warlords to participate in the cabinet meeting.Many cabinet chiefs opposed the Overseer Corps because of civil and military conflicts. They all believed that warriors could not interfere in politics.

This suddenly angered these local warlords who came to Beijing.One of Duan Qirui's "Four Diamonds" (Jin Yunpeng, Xu Shuzheng, Qu Tongfeng, Fu Liangzuo), Fu Liangzuo, who is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of the Army, immediately shot back: "Soldiers are also members of the nation. How can you express opinions on state affairs? Is it meddling in politics? The president is so afraid of the opinions of the soldiers, could it be that he has a ghost in his heart?".

The Legion of Overseers is determined to go its own way and must attend the cabinet meeting.Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng supported him one after another, causing most of the cabinet leaders to be absent from the cabinet meeting.There were only three cabinet members attending the cabinet meeting: Cheng Biguang, chief of the navy, Zhang Yaozeng, chief of justice, and Gu Zhongxiu, chief of agriculture and commerce, less than a quarter of those who should have attended the meeting.Except for the three of them, the rest are all soldiers, to put it bluntly, they are all generals of the Beiyang Army.

Therefore, the proposal to join the war was passed smoothly.

The approval of the cabinet meeting dealt a great blow to Li Yuanhong.Because Duan Qirui was fulfilling his ideas step by step, relying on this incident kept embarrassing Li Yuanhong.

At this time in Beijing, everyone can see that Duan Qirui is truly capable.When fighting with real swords and guns, Li Yuanhong's disadvantage is very obvious.That is insufficient strength, unable to fight against Duan Qirui at all.

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"Revoke the designation of the Third Division of the Yunnan Army, and let Zepu (Yu Enyang) be the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Force?"

Over there in Beijing, those warlords made a mess.Duan Qirui took advantage of these local warlords to push forward step by step, passed the cabinet, and now has begun the process of entering the Congress.

At this time, the southwest side is not stopping.

Duan Xun's troops entered Yunnan one after another, and the number of troops entering Yunnan has exceeded 2.Fang Dingying's Fourth Mixed Brigade, Song Tiancai's Independent Brigade of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army, and Guo Songling's Armed Police Army First Brigade, a total of three brigades entered Yunnan.Li Weiru's Sixth Division of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army was stationed in the defense area of ​​the original Fourth Mixed Brigade, ready to respond at any time.

Li Weiru's Sixth Division of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army is not only a reserve force, but also to monitor Yu Enyang and Huang Yucheng.Although Deng Hanxiang reached an agreement with them, Duan Xun was afraid that they would suddenly change their minds.At that time, their two troops may cut off the retreat of Duan Xun's troops anytime and anywhere, and that would deal too much blow to Duan Xun.

Therefore, Li Weiru's troops are also monitoring them.Once there is any disturbance in their troops, Duan Xun will let Li Weiru's troops enter Yunnan.Fortunately, looking at it now, Yu Enyang and Huang Yucheng have no such thoughts.

As far as the front line is concerned, Duan Xun's troops are progressing smoothly.After Tang Jiyu's troops were defeated, they withdrew to Kunming overnight, and Duan Xun's troops had also arrived in Kunming.However, after all, Tang Jiyao has ruled Yunnan for many years and has a deep foundation in Yunnan.In Kunming, he gathered the first division of the Dian army of his direct line and the second division of the Dian army of Luo Peijin.

Although Tang Jiyao knew that when Duan Xun's troops entered Yunnan this time, no matter whether it was Yu Enyang or Huang Yucheng, they gave way and did not fight Duan Xun's troops.It can be said that the two of them showed their attitudes with actions.

But Tang Jiyao was still not reconciled, so he deployed heavy troops in Kunming.

With the First Division of the Yunnan Army, the Second Division of the Yunnan Army, and some other troops in Kunming, Tang Jiyao still has more than 2 elite forces in his hands.Fang Dingying and the others did not storm Kunming, because if they wanted to storm Kunming, the casualties would be too great to take risks.

In order to end the situation in Yunnan as soon as possible, Deng Hanxiang once again found Gu Pinzhen who had left Kunming, hoping that Gu Pinzhen would stand up and express his attitude clearly, so that Tang Jiyao could completely give up his fantasy.Gu Pinzhen was also thinking about how to clean up the current situation.Gu Pinzhen had no such idea of ​​helping Tang Jiyao and Duan Xun's troops fight.

Since Duan Qirui appointed Gu Pinzhen to take over the position of Yunnan Governor, Gu Pinzhen and Tang Jiyao have been at odds.Even if he really helped Tang Jiyao, Tang Jiyao would not spare him afterwards.But it doesn't help Tang Jiyao, but Gu Pinzhen doesn't want to be attached to Duan Xun either.

Gu Pinzhen couldn't let Yunnan become Sichuan's attachment, so he tried his best to fight for Yunnan's interests.

"General Gu, the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan have cooperated in banning smoking, but Yunnan is not only flooded with opium, but also has a lot of bandits. Therefore, while banning smoking, there is also a need to suppress bandits, which cannot be dealt with by ordinary police stations. The army must come forward to accomplish both. The anti-smoking work can also complete the work of suppressing bandits. Therefore, we propose to establish the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Supervision Office, which has two provincial troops under its jurisdiction. We believe that General Yu Enyang is the most suitable commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking troops. General Yu Enyang also believes that in order to To shape the honor of the Yunnan Army, Yunnan must fight hard to ban smoking. He is willing to take up this position."

"Zepu (Yu Enyang) has already agreed?"

"Yes."

Gu Pinzhen didn't show any surprise.

Gu Pinzhen was watching the development of the situation with a cold eye, and had already thought about these things.The three Yu Enyang brothers are currently related to Sichuan, and Gu Pinzhen can still get this information.It was no secret to Gu Pinzhen that Yu Enrong became a collaborator of Chuanyan, and that Yu Enci was going to be the director of the Sichuan Wanxian Special Economic Zone Planning Bureau.

Although there was no unexpected expression, it still made Gu Pinzhen feel bad.Although he didn't want to be attached to Duan Xun, Duan Xun's hand had already fully penetrated Yunnan's military affairs.Yu Enyang, a major general of the Yunnan Army, holds the elite unit of the Third Division of the Yunnan Army. Once he cooperates with Duan Xun or joins Duan Xun, Duan Xun's popularity in Yunnan will greatly increase.

"General Gu, General Duan is very dissatisfied with the current situation in Yunnan, because there is still no progress in Kunming. If there is still no result within a few days, then we can only send my [-]th Division Independent Brigade into Yunnan."

Gu Pinzhen, who had been thinking all the time, frowned immediately when she heard Deng Hanxiang's words.

The 4000th Division Independent Brigade, although it is announced that this is the establishment, but Gu Pinzhen knows that this is not a brigade.This is the title on the outside, but this army still has its own establishment in Sichuan, called the Second Division of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army.That is a reorganization division with [-] people, and it is also one of the most direct and elite troops of Duan Xun's army.If Shang Zhen's Second Division of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army entered Yunnan, the situation would be even worse.

Now Duan Xun's influence in Yunnan is not small, Gu Pinzhen can't let Duan Xun continue to send troops.Once Duan Xun's troops entered Yunnan one after another, it is not certain who will have the final say in Yunnan in the future.Therefore, Gu Pinzhen immediately said: "General Deng, the war in Yunnan cannot be delayed. The longer it is delayed, the more serious the damage will be to our Yunnan. I will leave immediately, and I want to talk to brother Rongxuan (Luo Peijin)."

When Deng Hanxiang heard Gu Pinzhen's words, he immediately smiled and said, "General Gu, it is also our idea to restore stability in Yunnan as soon as possible."

106 Yunnan problem

"Xiao Zhai (Gu Pinzhen), you still dare to look for me at this time?"

Luo Peijin's eyes were bloodshot, and his face was full of fatigue.But the eyes staring at Gu Pinzhen were sharp, even with some anger.Luo Peijin is also under a lot of pressure these days, because the situation in Yunnan is very bad.

Originally, the Dian army was powerful in the southwest, even if it was not as good as Duan Xun's army, but it wasn't something anyone could squeeze if they wanted to.If the Yunnan Army was weak, the Beiyang Army headed by Duan Qirui would have already started.How could it be possible that he has been forbearing since the year of Xinhai and has not done anything until now.

Moreover, in order to weaken the influence of the Yunnan Army, they continued to make some small moves.Including after the success of the Revolution of [-], the transfer of Cai E and the assassination of Xie Ruyi were all aimed at weakening the strength of the Yunnan Army.It can be seen that the Beiyang Army is afraid of the Yunnan Army.

However, the Dian Army currently has too many internal conflicts.

Several bigwigs of the Dian Army are constantly dirty with each other, which has caused the Dian Army to be in a de facto state of division.Needless to say, Tang Jiyao and Gu Pinzhen, Tang Jiyao and his closest comrade-in-arms, Yu Enyang, had a falling out, which caused Yu Enyang's Fourth Division of the Dian Army to stand still in Wuding, and even gave way to Duan Xun's troops.Zhao Youxin took his Fifth Division of the Dian Army to watch coldly, watching the current development of the Dian Army's situation without getting involved.

If it weren't for this, Duan Xun only had three brigades entering Yunnan. Even if these three brigades were all powerful brigades, they wouldn't be able to attack all the way to the city of Kunming.Now there are quite a few troops in Kunming, including Tang Jiyao's most direct descendant of the First Division of the Dian Army, Luo Peijin's Second Division of the Dian Army, and the defeated Tang Jiyu Dian Army's Third Division, as well as some trivial other troops in Kunming.

But Luo Peijin still didn't dare to be careless. These days he led his troops to fight Duan Xun's troops, and he didn't dare to close his eyes for days and nights.Duan Xun's troops did not attack the city on a large scale, but the small-scale exploration has not ended.

Very strong.

After fighting against Duan Xun's troops, Luo Peijin was also very impressed.Although Duan Xun also fought against Duan Xun in the War of Protecting the Nation, Duan Xun was defending and the Yunnan Army was attacking.Therefore, at best, it can be seen that the defensive position of Duan Xun's troops is very good.And this time in turn, Luo Peijin can clearly see the tactical capabilities of Duan Xun's troops.Assault tactics are used with fire and innocence, and every attack is a taste of it.Use this attack to find weak points in the defense of the Yunnan Army.

Because of the high tension these days, Luo Peijin has a bad temper.Watching Gu Pinzhen speak coldly.Although Luo Peijin's status in the Yunnan Revolutionary Party and the Yunnan Army is much higher than that of Gu Pinzhen, in fact, everyone was a classmate of the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy.

"Brother Rongxuan (Luo Peijin), let's sit down and talk."

"Humph."

Luo Peijin snorted coldly, but sat down anyway.If Tang Jiyao was here, he might have tied Gu Pinzhen directly, but Luo Peijin couldn't do that yet.Although he was angry that Gu Pinzhen was hooking up with the Beiyang Army, but we were classmates and had fought in the same trench. In fact, there was not much dirtyness in the past few years, and the relationship was not too bad.

"Brother Rongxuan, I really don't want to argue, but I still want to say it. I didn't expect that Duan Qirui would appoint me as the military governor of Yunnan. I guarantee on my honor that I have absolutely no relationship with Duan Qirui, and What kind of deal did Duan Xun do?"

Gu Pinzhen patted her chest to assure her, but Luo Peijin still looked suspiciously.