Beiyang reactionaries

"warlord."

"Say."

"This is a document signed by the provincial government, let me pass it on to the general."

When Gu Pinzhen was suffering from a headache, the staff officer of the Governor's Mansion came in and handed Gu Pinzhen a document.Gu Pinzhen took it over and looked at it, her face immediately collapsed.

"what happened?"

Luo Peijin asked Gu Pinzhen beside him.Gu Pinzhen sighed, handed the document to Luo Peijin, and then said to the general below: "Mr. Shengfu (Zhou Zhongyue) signed a cooperation agreement with the Sichuan Provincial Government on behalf of the provincial government. The two parties decided to establish a school in Kunming within one year. Modern universities, and the two sides will cooperate to pave the road from Chongqing to Kunming. The rest is about the unified tax rate and economic cooperation between the two parties. Especially in tobacco tea and mineral mining, there are cooperation matters.”

"Duan Xun is really ahead of us every step of the way."

Luo Peijin put down the document and spoke with a wry smile.Originally, these bigwigs in the Yunnan army were inclined to protect the Dharma, and hoped to expel Duan Xun's power in Yunnan by responding to the Dharma protection movement.But as soon as the meeting was held, it was discovered that Duan Xun had already played chess well in many aspects.

Now that this contract has been signed with the Yunnan Provincial Government, it has tied the feet of the Yunnan Army even more.

With this contract, the Yunnan provincial government is definitely not willing to fight between the Yunnan army and Duan Xun's army.After all, according to this contract, there will be tremendous development in all aspects of Yunnan's economy and education. Zhou Zhongyue and the others must agree with this agreement very much.Without the support of the Yunnan provincial government, it is not so easy for the Yunnan army to go its own way and protect the law accordingly.Unless Gu Pinzhen directly dissolves the current Yunnan provincial government.But once this is the case, the risk is too great.

It was precisely because Luo Peijin could not respond to the guardian that Luo Peijin smiled wryly.

Gu Pinzhen snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, since Duan Xun didn't give us a choice, then we won't choose. Dinghe (Jiang Meiling), as a representative of our Yunnan Army, go to Duan Xun. Tell him, we are going to Completely wipe out the opium in southern Yunnan, and ask him to prepare money and weapons for us. As long as the money and weapons are in place, the troops will definitely go south."

Although the Dian army was in despair, there were still more than 2 people after all.This is an army of more than 2 capable of conscripting and fighting well. No matter how poor it is, it is an army that even Duan Xun cannot ignore.With the army in hand, there is the ability to bargain.

Give money, give weapons, give ammunition.

In this way, we will move. If it is not given to us, we can only wait and see.

"Okay, I'll leave right away."

128 War Begins

and so on.

Everyone is waiting.

The main thing is to wait for Fu Liangzuo.Because everyone knows that Fu Liangzuo's entry into Hunan is the most important node, and it is also the most concerned by everyone.If Fu Liangzuo didn't make any big moves after he entered Hunan, then everyone would judge that Duan Qirui was just loud and didn't want to start the Civil War.When the time comes, just be on guard against Fu Liangzuo.But if Fu Liangzuo made frequent moves after he entered Hunan, then he really wanted to force the powerful southern factions to fight.

So everyone was watching what Fu Liangzuo was going to do.

On August 1917, 8, Fu Liangzuo finally entered Hunan and entered Changsha.Tan Yankai didn't do much at this time, but directly handed over the position of warlord to Fu Liangzuo, and then left Changsha.In fact, Fu Liangzuo came to Hunan with only the vanguard, that is, the two battalions of the Eighth Division of the Army.Even if the main force of the Hunan Army does not support Tan Yankai, Tan Yankai's strength in Changsha is enough to fight against Fu Liangzuo.

However, Tan Yankai knew that there were soldiers from the Beiyang Army behind Fu Liangzuo, so he did not fight against Fu Liangzuo, and directly handed over the governor's seal to Fu Liangzuo.

Fu Liangzuo was an outsider and basically had nothing to do with the Hunan Army. Therefore, it can be said that although he holds the position of Governor of Hunan, he has not yet secured his position.But Fu Liangzuo didn't care.Within a few days of taking over as the Governor of Hunan, Fu Liangzuo issued an order to dismiss Tan Yankai's two major direct line officers from their positions.They are Liu Jianfan, commander of Lingling, and Lin Xiumei, commander of the second brigade of the first division.

These two people are currently stationed in southern Hunan, and they were specially appointed by Tan Yankai to meet Lu Rongting's troops.Moreover, these two men are big brothers of the Hunan Army, and they were senior officers of the Hunan Army in the year of [-].Are they easy to provoke.

Fu Liangzuo dismissed the two of them from their positions, which immediately angered Liu Jianfan and Lin Xiumei.When Tan Yankai was dismissed, they, as Tan Yankai's direct military officers, fought for Tan Yankai's injustice.But they only complained verbally, and they didn't think about responding to the guardians, nor did they think about fighting the Beiyang Army for Tan Yankai.

But what is tolerable and unbearable.

Let's be honest, you, Fu Liangzuo, dismissed us as soon as we entered Hunan, you are really not a son of man.The thinking of the generals of the Hunan Army is very simple. We don't want to fight the Beiyang Army, but this does not mean that we can tolerate your infringing on our interests at will.

damn it.

It's like we are made of mud.

Fu Liangzuo dismissed Liu Jianfan and Lin Xiumei from their posts, of course the two were not convinced.So on August 1917, 8, the two of them announced the independence of southern Hunan, directly saying that Duan Qirui was "running the law and breaking national discipline." Then they criticized Duan Qirui's replacement of the Hunan Governor for the purpose of conquering Hunan by force.Then he said, "Lead the children of the military and civilians in southern Hunan, declare independence, and break away from Duan Qirui's government. All military and civilian affairs are carried out unanimously in the navy, Guangdong, Guangxi, and southern Yunnan provinces."

This is the beginning of the real law-enforcement war.

Before, it was more talkative. At this time, the powerful faction in the southwest, that is, the general who controlled the army, began to resist.All the bigwigs in the Hunan Army became very nervous.After all, Fu Liangzuo can depose Liu Jianfan and Lin Xiumei today, and may depose others tomorrow.

Therefore, Liu Jianfan and Lin Xiumei decided that southern Hunan should be independent and refused to recognize the government of Duan Qirui. Wu Jianxue, the garrison commander of the first district of Hunan, Zhou Wei, the garrison commander of the second district, and Li Zhonglin, the railway garrison commander, all declared independence.Almost half of the Hunan Army's troops were rebellious.

Sun Yat-sen was overjoyed.

What happened in Hunan is definitely a booster for Sun Yat-sen's Dharma protection movement.Because it has been almost a month since Sun Yat-sen announced the protection of the law, and no one responded to Sun Yat-sen.

What made Sun Yat-sen even more embarrassing was that Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting, two marshals of the Guangdong military government appointed by Sun Yat-sen himself, refused to accept the post of marshal.It also accused Sun Yat-sen's Guangdong military government of being dictatorial.Not only the two of them, none of the cabinet chiefs appointed by Sun Yat-sen were in place.Because these people have the same meaning as Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting, they are not satisfied that all the rights of the Guangdong military government belong to Sun Yat-sen.What they want is a government agency where everyone can check and balance each other, and everyone can share power.

Later, because the appointed marshal and cabinet chief were not in place, Sun Yat-sen could only appoint a member of his own Chinese Revolutionary Party to serve as the leader of various departments.The Guangdong military government has completely become the government of the Chinese Revolutionary Party.But without the support of Lu Rongting, Tang Jiyao and other powerful factions in the Southwest, and without the support of those famous people, it would deal a greater blow to the Dharma Protection Movement.The troops that the Guangdong military government can command are very limited.

Except for the two divisions of the Yunnan Army led by Li Liejun, which entered Guangdong during the War of Protecting the Nation, and the Guangdong Army troops led by Chen Jiongming, there were no other forces.And because he didn't get Lu Rongting's support, Sun Yat-sen's situation in Guangdong was very unsatisfactory.Because Lu Rongting was the patrol envoy of Guangdong and Guangxi, Lu Rongting was the actual ruler of Guangdong.Nothing would be easy without his support.

Fortunately, these generals in Hunan suddenly fell out with Fu Liangzuo at this time, and then responded to protect the law.Sun Yat-sen immediately dispatched Lin Zuhan (Lin Boqu) as the envoy of the Hunan Labor Army to contact these troops in Hunan.

Of course, Sun Yat-sen was not the only one who took action.

The same is true for Lu Rongting.

Originally, Lu Rongting didn't want to fight the Beiyang Army so soon, so he didn't make any substantive actions.Before, it was only said to support Tan Yankai, but the troops did not enter Hunan, but just strolled on the border of Hunan and Guangxi.But seeing what Fu Liangzuo is doing now, Lu Rongting knows that he has no way out.

Duan Qirui is determined.

Therefore, Lu Rongting no longer just waited and watched, and began to actively prepare for the battle.

The same is true for Fu Liangzuo.Seeing that so many troops of the Hunan Army had rebelled, they immediately dispatched the First Division of the Hunan Army. Originally, the commander of the First Division of the Hunan Army was Zhao Hengti, but Zhao Hengti is currently in his hometown.Li Youwen, commander of the first brigade of the first division of the Hunan Army, served as the temporary division commander. Fu Liangzuo ordered Li Youwen to lead the first brigade to attack.

On August 1917, 8, Li Youwen left Changsha with the First Brigade of the Hunan Army, and went south to prepare to destroy the troops of Liu Jianfan and Lin Xiumei.But when the first brigade of the Hunan Army came into contact with Lin Xiumei's troops, the officers and soldiers of the first brigade were unwilling to fight Lin Xiumei.One after the other, they all fought back. Li Youwen's first regiment and second regiment of the first brigade all defected to Liu Jianfan and Lin Xiumei.

On August 1917, 8, the First Brigade of the Hunan Army was completely disbanded, or they all joined the French Guardian Army.Li Youwen ran to Changsha with a dozen people.On the Hunan side, with the defection of the first brigade, the momentum rose sharply.

On August 1917, 8, Zhao Hengti, who was in his hometown, quietly came to the army, resumed his post as the commander of the First Division of the Hunan Army, and participated in the Dharma Protection Movement. On August 27, Cheng Qian came to Hunan from Guangzhou.The various units of the Hunan Army gathered in Hengyang and decided to form the "Hunan French Protectorate Command", with Cheng Qian as the commander-in-chief of the Hunan French Protectorate Army.

At this time, the vanguard of Lu Yuguang's division, the reinforcement of the Guangxi Army, had also entered Hunan and arrived in Hengyang.For a while Hengyang gathered tens of thousands of troops from Hunan and Guangxi.

The situation in Hunan suddenly became tense.

The Hunan army began to concentrate on a large scale, and Fu Liangzuo did not dare to neglect at all, and asked the Beiyang army to speed up the pace of entering Hunan.Soon the troops of the Beiyang Army entered Hunan one after another.Wang Ruxian's Eighth Division, Fan Guozhang's No.20 Division, Ni Sichong's Anwu Army Twenty Battalions, Kong Fanwei's Yan Xishan Jin Army's First Mixed Brigade, Wu Peifu's Third Division's Yan Xiangwen Zhili Second Mixed Brigade, more than 4 Troops poured into Hunan.

On August 8, Fu Liangzuo appointed Wang Ruxian as the "commander-in-chief of the southern Hunan armies", and Fan Guozhang as the deputy commander, responsible for organizing and commanding operations in southern Hunan.Attack Hengshan from the front with the 28th Brigade of the 20th Division (Brigade Commander Wang Ruqin) and the No. 39th Division 40th Brigade (Brigade Commander Zhang Ji); attack Hengshan from the front with the Zhu Zehuang Brigade of the [-]nd Division of the Hunan Army and the No. .[-] Brigade (Brigade Commander Zhang Jiangong) stationed in Yongfeng (now Shuangfeng).

With the arrival of armies from both sides, the battle between the northern and southern armies was in full swing on the line from Zhuting, Hengshan to Yongfeng.

The law protection war is really about to start.

"Brother Xinye (Yang Wei), what should I do now?"

The Hunan War was about to break out, and Duan Qirui began to dispatch troops and generals, preparing to defeat these disobedient troops in the Southwest in one fell swoop.Therefore, apart from Fu Liangzuo's soldiers pressing down on the border, how could Duan Qirui forget that there is Duan Xun in Sichuan.Duan Xun currently has [-] troops in Sichuan, which is Duan Qirui's biggest bargaining chip.Therefore, Duan Qirui immediately appointed Duan Xun as the commander-in-chief of suppressing bandits in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou.

Suppressing bandits is not talking about the most common bandits in the Southwest, but the current French Guardian Army, which is what Duan Qirui calls the "rebels".

Duan Qirui asked Duan Xun's troops to enter Hunan from northwestern and southwestern Hunan to support Fu Liangzuo's actions.It is also necessary for Duan Xun to annihilate Tang Jiyao who has responded to the war of protecting the law.

Easier said than done.