Even Ji Jinchun didn't agree with Zhang Hanqing's approach, he said in his heart: "Young marshal, Gao Shifu is ruthless and ambitious, he asked for a sky-high price when I besieged the city on three sides, just to buy time to prepare for his defense. We treat it with sincerity, but we just throw a charm to the blind, and I don't think it's of any use. ”

It was Zhang Hanqing's turn to laugh. He looked at the uneven Zhang Jinghui, the disapproving Wu Junsheng, and the sincere Ji Jinchun, and said with a smile: "How could I not know the story of throwing money to fight fires? The slow movement of our army has already given the Gao army a precedence, and it is not advisable to storm Changchun. That being the case, it doesn't matter if he is given time to strengthen his defenses. Gao Shifu's reliance is nothing more than that we are worried about the lives of the provincial capital of Changchun and dare not fight. In addition, he also has a strong reinforcement, that is, Hu bandits. If the two are combined, it will be our biggest nightmare. He's playing procrastination with me, and I'm hoping to drag it out for a while. After calling back and forth a few times, it is estimated that at this time, Lu Yonggui's soldiers and horses have been almost solved, right? ”

Dare to be affectionate, the young marshal deliberately showed weakness to the enemy, but he had another move.

Everyone's surprised!

Wu Junsheng has been suppressing bandits in Jihe and Hei provinces for many years, and he knows very well that the mountains outside the Guanhai are deep and dense, and it is also a place where the forces of the former Qing Dynasty, Belarusians, Japanese, Koreans, and other factions are mixed, and it can be said that the time, place, and people are indispensable. Lu Yonggui is not so much a bandit as a tyrant in southern Jilin. He had the support of the Japanese behind him, and he had a force of troops that was said to be in the tens of thousands, and his men were all habitual criminals who had crossed mountains and mountains, and he had a beard with skilled marksmanship. They killed people like hemp, and the former Qing government failed to move the slightest bit of encirclement and suppression several times, but on the contrary, it became bigger and bigger. In terms of combat effectiveness alone, the average local army is really no match for it.

This is also the reliance of Gao Shifu. He started an incident in Changchun, and Lu Yonggui responded in the southeast, and the whole of Jilin became chaotic. At this time, if there is a little bit of trouble, the situation will change again. If Zhang Hanqing wants to crush Gao Shiwei's fighting spirit, the Hu bandits must be eliminated, and he wants to carry out land reform in the whole northeast, so this group of bandits must be eliminated first. Otherwise, it is difficult to imagine that unarmed working groups can operate effectively in places where bandits gather. What's more, under the whole world, it is not the king's land. On the territory of the Zhang family, there can't be another overlord!

The unpleasant cooperation with the old faction of the Feng family made him desperate to carve out his own world, and the guard division that he relied on as the Great Wall was reconsidered at this time, and the target was Lu Yonggui's gang. The Guards Division started out as a bandit, but it was on the steppe at that time. In the Northeast, there are still many things to do in the future, and it is also a matter of course to be familiar with the white mountains and black waters, so it will suppress bandits again.

Napoleon's evaluation after the Battle of the Egyptian Pyramids became famous all over the world: "Two Mamluks can definitely win three French soldiers, and a hundred French soldiers are evenly matched with a hundred Mamluks; Most of the 300 French soldiers could defeat 300 Mamluks, while 1,000 French soldiers could always defeat 1,500 Mamluks. ”

The combat quality of a soldier is not formed in a day or two, and the Guards Division has a strong desire to fight and determination to win, which is his strong point, but the weakness is also obvious: it has not been formed for a long time, and its individual combat ability may not be as good as that of many bandits. But as a well-trained team, as long as the technique and tactics are right, it is very possible to win the battle.

After a two-day trek, the Guards Division came to the junction of Jilin and the southern part of Fengtian, and the vanguard fought with the Hu bandits on the banks of the Hunjiang River and in the Tonghua area at the foot of Longgang Mountain. In the initial stage, the operation was slightly unfavorable.

The bandits have lived in the local area for many years, are familiar with geography and humanities, and the bandits all use horses, giving full play to the advantages of guerrilla warfare. However, because the Guards Division was not familiar with this mode of operation, it suffered several small losses---- and when it fought against the Babu Zabu bandits, it was all in the vast steppe, with an unobstructed view, and the battle relied on courage and equipment.

The advantages of the equipment here could not be brought into play at all: the mountain artillery was not easy to carry, and there was no need to attack the city and seize the land, so it was not brought at all. The courage of the Guards Division is there, but for the enemy to rely on the speed of the horse and shoot to change places, it is a burst of harassment and surprise attack, and no matter how great the courage is, it cannot exert its combat effectiveness, but gives rise to a stomach full of resentment and anger.

Fortunately, Zhang Hanqing met a person when he was in Tianjin, so that the suppression of bandits made rapid progress. This man is famous in history, but this name is notorious, infamous, and infamous.

This person is Zhang Hanqing's family, named Zhang Zongchang. However, he is from Shandong and has nothing to do with Zhang Hanqing.

It was not Zhang Zongchang who Zhang Hanqing was looking for, but the young marshal he was looking for first. In view of Zhang Zongchang's bad performance in history, as long as there is a slight possibility, Zhang Hanqing will not use him.

Zhang Zongchang was born in a poor family, and his mother Zhu was young and a figure among the women. She was born tall, strong and sturdy, nicknamed "Big Feet", is a famous local "female single", once broke into the Kanto alone, ran all over the three passes and six docks, and was well-informed; Later, when he returned to his hometown, he called himself "Huang Er Immortal Gu" and became a witch, and since then he has been called a witch. After Zhang Zongchang was born, his family was still very poor, and when he was a teenager, Zhang Zongchang followed the bandit leader to eat with the acquiescence of his mother Zhu Witch. When he was sixteen years old, when Imperial Russia invaded the Northeast and was building the Eastern Railway, Zhang Zongchang received strong support from his mother and went to the east with a group of fellow villagers to build roads, which increased his knowledge. He was once reduced to a bandit, and then exiled to Vladivostok.

Later, the railway was not repaired, and Zhang Zongchang returned to his hometown, continued to be a bandit, and pulled up a group of men. After the Wuchang Uprising in Xinhai, Hu Ying, the governor of the Shandong People's Army, went to Shanghai and served as the head of the cavalry independent regiment of the Guangfu Army. In 1912, he served as the commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment and the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of Jiangsu Province. In July 1913, he took refuge in Feng Guozhang and successively served as the supervisor of the Jiangsu Army Officer Education Corps, the deputy chief of the Jiangsu General's Office, and the commander of the Jiangsu Third Division. When the whole country was against Yuan, he was sent to Xuzhou to defend Yuan Shikai's southward Beiyang Army, but he defected on the front line and surrendered to Feng Guozhang, the Beiyang general who was also his old boss, and since then he has become a direct part of his family. After Feng Guozhang became president, he relied on him very much and appointed him as the chief military attache of the presidential palace, which shows that the trust is not ordinary.

On the surface, Zhang Zongchang is smooth sailing, but in private, he is worried about his future.

Premier Duan became more and more disliked for him, the second brother of the president, and when the dispute between the government and the court reached a high tide, President Feng had already fled from Beijing and went south to his old territory, but he was blocked in Bengbu and failed to make the final trip. At this time, Anhui politicians had already established the "Anfu Club" to plan a new presidential election. According to the situation, Feng Guozhang's hope of continuing to be elected is basically zero---- what will he do when the time comes?

Zhang Zongchang has traveled south and north for many years, has seen countless storms, and it is his advantage to make friends to take precautions. Once the Anhui family gains power, they have no foundation in the direct line, and they are afraid that there will be no place for them in the future. It just so happened that Fengtian Marshal Zhang Hanqing was in Tianjin for disaster relief, as a rising star in the political arena of the Republic of China, Zhang Zongchang is also a discerning person, and he is used as a ladder close to Feng.

But Zhang Hanqing knows Zhang Zongchang and his people in history, and no matter whether it is a new or an old school, he will not tolerate such a figure joining, and in his mind, the military and political cadres of the People's Party in the future must not allow careerists, speculators, and villains like Zhang Zongchang to mix. Therefore, Zhang Hanqing politely rejected Zhang Zongchang's olive branch.

However, the unfavorable situation of exterminating Lu Yonggui reminded Zhang Hanqing that three years after the official history, he still relied on him to destroy the Hu bandit army with only one gendarmerie battalion. Of course, after Zhang Zuolin's rectification in the Northeast, the living environment of the bandits was greatly restricted, and Lu Yonggui did not have many followers left at that time, so he had this opportunity.

That's when he relied on a face.

Yes. Because many of the big and small leaders under Lu Yonggui were fellow villagers who broke into the eastern part of the country with Zhang Zongchang back then, with this relationship, it was originally a battle with a huge disparity in strength, but Zhang Zongchang's soldiers were bloodless, that is, the Hu bandits were incorporated into three regiments.

Now, the love of incense is still there, and while Zhang Hanqing is waiting for Meng Enyuan, he also sent someone to invite Zhang Zongchang and ask him to contribute to the Feng Department. Now Zhang Hanqing is far more famous than a year ago; Zhang Zongchang, on the other hand, once again faced a life choice: Feng Guozhang knew that he had no hope of being elected, so he resigned by telegram on August 13, 1918.

If the president leaves, the next president will never use him as the chief of the guard. Where do I go from here?

It's time to find a way out for yourself. It was Zhang Zongchang who received Zhang Hanqing's overtures and immediately rushed to Jilin non-stop. After accepting Zhang Hanqing's arrangement, he immediately threw himself into the just cause of suppressing bandits with full enthusiasm.

Not to mention, snakes have snake paths, and rats have rat paths. The bandits who were having a good time fighting with the guard division had a very enthusiastic attitude towards Zhang Zongchang's arrival, and Zhang Zongchang also successfully moved many bandits with his incorruptible tongue.

The gist of it is that Zhang Zuolin quickly and neatly took Jilin, integrated the resources of the three eastern provinces together, and doubled his strength. Seeing that the Northeast is already Zhang Zuolin's confined, it will be a loss sooner or later to fight against him, it is better to take advantage of the opportunity to recruit An to come ashore as soon as possible, maybe he can be sealed as an official and a half-post, no better than being a bandit? They don't have the slightest shadow from the bottom of their hearts about "Congliang", and the well-known Zhang Zuolin is handsome, aren't they all born with beards?

Of course, in order to get rid of the bandits as soon as possible, Zhang Hanqing also made some conditions. Like the distribution of food and land, it also gives some expectations, those bandits who go up the mountain because of poverty, at least understand that there is a way back, and when resisting, it is not like fighting to the death for survival. Bandits who did not want to be peasants could still serve as soldiers and be paid, but they had to be reorganized. Those who are no longer willing to accept Zhao'an are determined to be bandits, and the guns in the hands of the guard division are picked up for them.