If Guangdong's wealth is ten, then at least eight and a half of them are in the Pearl River Delta, Cheng Fu agrees with this statement, especially his soldiers recruited from the poor mountains and rivers of Ganzhou have become bandits overnight in the metropolis of Guangzhou, making him from a warlord with 20,000 mercenaries to a commander of a reinforced regiment with no more than 1,000 people directly under him, including more than 4,000 people stationed in the old nest. However, all this became a thing of the past, because less than 24 hours after the incident, when the rebels were still enjoying the fruits of victory, a rumbling sound like thunder came from Huangpu Port, and the torrent of iron-gray steel slowly but resolutely poured into this pearl of South China. Soon, except for the concession area of Shaji, the city of Guangzhou was filled with the smell of diesel.

"Report Junzuo, our division has entered the Yuexiu District and controlled the passages to the north," Chu Fangyuan, the commander of the 77th Division of the Ninth Army's rapid response, reported to an officer who was looking at a map.

"Division Commander Chu, your unit is the first unit of our army to arrive, and your task is to control the passage to the north as soon as possible and intercept any bandit troops who try to return to Jiangxi, understand?"

"Yes, Junzuo, our department must take Yuexiu Mountain as the axis, spread a big net, and never let go of a criminal bandit army fleeing north."

"Very good, when the situation in the city is stabilized, it is estimated that around 12:00 tomorrow morning, I will mobilize the artillery cluster directly under the group army to Yuexiu Mountain, and your department will be responsible for answering and defending. Go ahead. The officer waved his hand, and Division Commander Chu saluted and left the headquarters.

"Give me access to the 12th Division, and ask them if they have passed through Haizhu?"

"Yes, Junza." The staff officer under his command immediately took the microphone of the signal corps and began to call the 12th Infantry Division, which had been on the road for two hours.

"The 17th Jibu Division has already taken control of the Baiyun area, and Chen Jiongming's first division has made a tentative march to our unit from the Huizhou area this afternoon, but it has already annihilated a company of our 17th Division, and the remnants of less than a regiment have returned to Huizhou. The 17th Division asked for instructions on whether to pursue? Brigadier General Fang Yuguang, chief of staff of the expeditionary force, reported.

"The tiger of the 17th Division is quite capable of fighting. Forget it, Chen Jiongming is not the target of our operation this time, and they don't have to be killed anymore if they retract. The key is to control Guangzhou and the prefectures and counties of Foshan, Xiangshan, Jiangmen, Dongguan, and Zhaoqing in the south. Let the 17th Division complete the defense of the eastern front as soon as possible, and send troops to Dongguan and Foshan after controlling the urban area. The officer smiled and put down the red and blue pencils, thanks to the fact that the expeditionary force had just arrived in Hong Kong, and with the help of the ro-ro ship directly ashore from Whampoa, the revolutionary party was caught off guard, and the Cheng Fu department, which had become a bandit, did not resist at all, and the sporadic firefights became sparse.

"By the way, Chief of Staff, how are you talking with Guangzhou Shang? What are their plans for the next step of law and order purge? ”

"They are very cautious, they hope that we will not be stationed in the urban area, it is better to station troops in several surrounding districts, they also plan to engage in the autonomy of the Chamber of Commerce, but the military salary of the army can be shared."

", is the Wehrmacht's salary something that they Cantonese can meddle with?" As if remembering something, the officer's face was a little embarrassed, "By the way, Lao Fang, isn't your ancestral home from Guangdong?" Why don't these fellows believe you? ”

"Commander Lan, they don't think I'm their countryman, and they think I'm a northerner like you." Chief of Staff Fang said helplessly.

"Ah, isn't your home from Meizhou, Guangdong?"

"But Guangzhou thinks that Qingyuan is a northern Yankee."

"I'm rubbing, what kind of geographical concept is this?"

The two chiefs grinded their teeth here and did not delay the advance of the troops, and in the face of a large number of "watchtower" tanks and ironclad vehicles in the eyes of the soldiers, the rebels consciously put down their weapons, unless a few of them had not woken up from their hangover. But the moment they raised their guns, they decided that they didn't have to wake up again.

"My troops, these damn Northerners, they're really going to kill them all." Cheng Fu, who was watching with a telescope on the roof of a factory building in Shahe, only felt that it was black and black in front of him, and his mouth was salty.

The groups of ironclad chariots in front of him were followed by the Wehrmacht with bright bayonets and guns, and their brave and warlike Hunan and Jiangxi warriors were like piglets to be captured, occasionally a few gunshots, several to dozens of soldiers wearing gray homespun uniforms were beaten into a puddle of flesh by a fierce machine gun fire or small-caliber artillery fire, and then were run over by the wheels of the ironclad chariots, although the sound of bones shattering could not be heard, but it seemed to be constantly ringing in his ears, making Cheng Fu feel boundless despair.

"Sir, sir, ironclad car, ironclad, here, here, here." Hearing the stumbling report of a soldier from the guard company, Cheng Fu didn't even turn the telescope, but just said indifferently, "It's all over." "I took the binoculars off my neck and threw them away like garbage, and threw them off the roof of the factory, and the crisp sound of glass breaking came from the ground, leaving behind a glass ballast reflecting the sunlight and a group of soldiers who were looking blankly at the division commander who raised their pistols to kill themselves.

"Cheng Fu caught?" Lan Tianwei asked.

"Well, the old boy didn't run, probably knowing that Yuexiu had been cut off by us, and he was in the factory area of Shahe with a company of guards, and he wanted to commit suicide, but he was stopped by the adjutant, and then he was arrested by a patrol of the 77th Division." The chief of staff of the party returned.

"Okay, I'll send it to the boat in the afternoon, and let Yu Jian and them bother to go." What's wrong with those guys in the merchant group, and they still refuse to disarm? ”

"You think these Cantonese guys are all vegetarians, and one guy almost pointed at my nose and scolded, saying that we are Tian Deng."

"Don't say it, it's really a bit of a meaning" Lan Tianwei smiled, "Old Fang, let's already salute first." ”

"Why, you're planning to use force. Forget it, I'm also considered to have done my best. Mr. Lan, you decide, I will obey the order. ”

"Since that's the case, then don't let the people of Guangzhou City wait any longer...."Lan Tianwei's smile was like a fox who had just stolen a chick. Fang Yuguang pouted, who let these old Guang people not know each other, now they may even take their lives, and they are waiting to clean up the mess, but they have to be busy.

Yesterday, the Fourth Column of the Expeditionary Force of the Chinese National Defense Force went to quell the chaos at the request of the citizens of Guangzhou, and completely annihilated the Cheng Fu bandit army and the merchant groups that took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, annihilated 3,000 enemies, captured 20,000, and fixed Yangcheng in just 24 hours. Everyone, come and read the newspaper," a little newspaper boy shouted loudly on the stone road of Shanghai, and almost all the citizens around him were selling newspapers, and a burly young man in a suit and hat bought a newspaper, looked at it twice, and hurried into an alley facing the street.

"Mr. Hu, Guangzhou has been...."The young man couldn't say anything anymore, and the middle-aged man in the attic put down the tea bowl in his hand and smiled gently.

"It doesn't matter, in fact, it was lost a long time ago, but Cheng Songyu himself was not good and changed hands again." The middle-aged man's forehead was shining, and the young man didn't care when he saw that he knew that his husband was not uncaring, this was the last big city of the revolutionary party, was he going to wander overseas?

"What's wrong with where you are? Any news? The middle-aged man asked

"Not yet, but I heard that there was an exchange of fire with the north, and there was no movement after a company was killed or wounded."

"I'm still a student of the Prime Minister. Forget it, let's not talk about them, what are you going to do, come with me to the United States? Maybe I can ask Brother Situ to recommend you to go to military school. ”

"Thank you, sir, for your kindness, I'll still stay, I think the revolution is just a temporary low tide, and after a while, I will reorganize the ten-member group and fight these northern Yankees to the end. When the time comes, I will ask him to provide guidance and assistance overseas. ”

The middle-aged man didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded, the revolutionary party has lost its family dog, and with such a young man, maybe the revolutionary party still has a chance to rise again.

"Chen Jingcun accepted the adaptation, and tomorrow the 13th Jibu Division will go to Shantou to take over Chen's department." General Staff Duan stood in front of the table, his waist was straight, so that Lao Duan could stand and report, needless to say, it must be Wu Chenxuan and General Wu who were sitting behind the desk.

"Well, what's going on with Cheng Dequan." Wu Chenxuan was not surprised by Chen Jiongming's choice, strictly speaking, he was not a separatist warlord who pursued personal interests or the interests of a small group. Chen Jiongming's political proposition is that the "inter-provincial autonomy" system of the provincial constitution is modeled after the federal system of the U.S. Constitution, but in the case of northern autonomy, the most powerful thing in the hands of the revolutionary party is the central government's general righteousness, so his proposition is out of step within the revolutionary party, and the revolutionary party believes that this kind of inter-provincial autonomy will essentially lead to disguised warlord secession. However, Wu Chenxuan felt that this person was a practitioner of China's federal constitutionalism, and he was just making the mistake of copying the American system.

Later generations also had conflicting evaluations of this man. Regardless of whether it is the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, Chen Jiongming is always described in textbooks as "against the party", "rebel", and "traitor". But judging from the investigation report on Chen Jiongming received by Wu Chenxuan, this person is more like a puritan who pursues an ideal system. 1 "Shanghai New Declaration" commented on Chen Jiongming: "Chen is resolute, resolute, and taciturn, and his private morality can be a model for the power of the north and the south. Zhang Taiyan praised Chen as "Qing Cao is absolutely unattainable in the times, and it is impossible to obtain it in Guangzhong". When Qiao Fu was alive, he also said frankly that Chen Jiongming "is not a woman, don't be comfortable, hard-working and frugal, I am not as good". In September 1933, when Chen Jiongming died, Hong Kong's "Industrial and Commercial Daily" commented: "The Kuomintang has died an enemy, and China has died a good person."

"Cheng Dequan has been electrified to go to the wilderness, and now he has arrived in Shanghai, and it is estimated that he will go overseas. Both the troops and the defense area have been handed over to the Fujian garrison, who do you think this will make to deal with the aftermath? ”

"Don't bother the two masters, let Jingyu take care of it more. Let's do the rest as planned. Wu Chenxuan picked up the report, signed his name, and General Staff Duan left the headquarters office satisfied.

Wu Chenxuan looked at the information he had just received in his hand and Yu Jian's request, Hu Chuanru lived in seclusion in Shanghai, and seemed to have plans to go abroad to virtue, so he asked whether to arrest or eliminate him. Wu Chenxuan took a sip of coffee, the bitter feeling drove away the sleepiness, and wrote a few words on Yu Jian's request.

"Xiucai rebelled, and it didn't work out for three years. That is, there is no harm, let him go. ”