In the early morning of the next day, the cold wind howled, and a white flag floated in the city of Yinchuan. According to Ma Fuxiang's negotiations with the "Anxi Army", the defenders of Yinchuan hung their heads and lined up in a loose queue to go out of the city to surrender.

Ma Hongbin also laid down his arms after receiving the order, and for a time the Pingluo defenders Ma Hongkui's troops also settled peacefully. The cities in the northeast of Ningxia have gone down without a fight. On December 7, the left and right route armies of the "Anxi Army" joined forces in Zhongwei, Ningxia, an important city in the north of the Yellow River.

In the middle of winter, it was not easy to replenish the logistics of the "Anxi Army", so Zhang Hanqing, Guo Songling, and Han Linchun sent various units to defend important areas, and sent people to negotiate with various forces and factions in Lanzhou in order to seek a peaceful settlement in Gansu.

On the occasion of this recuperation, Zhang Hanqing issued a series of well-known programmatic documents and carried out the world-famous reorganization of the army in the middle guard. This reorganization is the culmination of the previous changes of the Guards Division and the First Division in Northeast China, and it is also the first time that the banner of "the party is in charge of the army" has been completely displayed.

The Anxi Army Command was renamed the Northwest People's Army and was subordinate to the Military Committee of the People's Party and its Northwest Branch. The Northwest Military Committee was formed with Zhang Hanqing concurrently serving as chairman of the People's Party's Northwest Military Commission and then commander-in-chief of the Northwest People's Army, Han Linchun as vice chairman and deputy commander, Guo Songling as chief of the General Staff, Wang Yizhe as director of the General Political Department, Pei Chunsheng, former deputy commander of the First Division of the Feng Army, Qi Enming and Song Jiuling, commanders of the Independent Brigade, and Zhang Chengde, commander of the "Anmeng Army" Cavalry Brigade, as members.

This was the first time that the People's Army was born in the name of the Feng Army, marking that Zhang Hanqing had become a completely independent pole of the Feng line. He stressed that the army is the party's army and upheld the people's party's absolute leadership over the army.

In order to distinguish it from the five-color flag of the Feng Army, Zhang Hanqing personally designed the military flag of the People's Army: it was designed as a yellow star red flag like the party flag, but it was missing four small stars around it, and under the yellow star, a sword and a gun crossed arch guard shape was added---- which means that the army is defending the People's Party, and the party and the army are closely related.

The purpose of the People's Army is to "defend the country and defend the people", which is different from the army that mainly emphasized that the Fengjun is the "people of the Northeast" during the New Deal in Northeast China. Because Zhang Hanqing's eyes have been directed to a broader world, his army has not only to protect the northeast, but also to defend the whole of China. Protecting the country and the people is the most lofty goal and the source of combat effectiveness of all Chinese and foreign armed forces.

In terms of system, it is necessary to implement the establishment of branches at the company level, and gradually expand the proportion of People's Party members in the army. Clarify the responsibilities of the Political Department established under the Ministers: responsible for political, military, and foreign policy propaganda, morale boosting, war mobilization, promotion, and ideological education. Wang Yizhezhi's student army originally existed as a backbone, but now it is directly dispersed and distributed to various ministries, and these students, who have experienced the baptism of war and have a revolutionary theoretical armed brain, quickly transformed all kinds of old troops into loyal fans of the People's Party.

All divisions, brigades, and regiments practice the centralized system under the leadership of the party committee, and major policy decisions must be approved by a majority of the chief and deputy chief of staff, chief of staff, director of the political department, and director of logistics. In the case of political matters, the Director of the Political Department has the final veto power.

Emphasizing uniformity among officers and soldiers, establishing a "Soldier Management Committee" at company headquarters, prohibiting corporal punishment of soldiers, and experimenting with the sergeant system.

It is necessary to raise the literacy rate of officers and men, follow the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention," and establish a new-style people's army. All defective, reorganized, and newly promoted troops need to be given policy guidance by the People's Party and a political department should be set up to strengthen management.

The various restructuring matters revolve around one principle: the party governs the military. In the past, in the northeast, because the veteran generals of the Feng family were self-contained, they could not fundamentally solve the problem of controlling the armed forces in the short term, but now, in this place that is not far away from the central government and is completely controlled by Zhang Hanqing, it is possible to realize the principle of "the party's absolute leadership over the army" that he adheres to, and this is also the beginning of Zhang Hanqing's official declaration that "the people's army is an army led by the people's party."

In addition, Zhang Hanqing also decided that, with the exception of the three eastern provinces, all localities controlled by the People's Party would adhere to the spirit of "reorganization of the central guard" and carry out such reorganization and training of the units under their control.

Now it is time to put the party's management of the government on the agenda. Hung Yen and Mongolia, which were completely laid down by Zhang Hanqing, have already implemented the idea of "the party is in charge of the government" in their actions, and in Zhongwei, this practice has risen to the theoretical level.

In the "Measures for Exercising Party Management in Areas Controlled by the People's Army," Zhang Hanqing clearly proposed that, in accordance with the formulation in the manifesto and organizational measures for the founding of the People's Party, a system of collective leadership of the provincial party committees under the leadership of the provincial party committee should be established in the controlled areas such as Hung Yen, Mongolia, and Ningxia, and that it should be implemented from top to bottom in cities, counties, townships, and villages.

In order to increase the power of the party, the provincial party secretary of the province where the provincial garrison is located will also be the first secretary of the army.

The "reorganization of the central guard" has established the position of the People's Party in the army and government, enhanced the fighting spirit of the middle and lower strata, especially the soldiers, and strengthened its status in the hearts of the people. Its impact was far-reaching, and even at the time, it deeply shook the Kanwai and the outside world.

The old-fashioned faction, represented by Zhang Jinghui and Tang Yulin, was very disgusted with Zhang Hanqing's practice---- these old-style soldiers were accustomed to saying what they said, and they did not realize the tremendous potential and role of the People's Party at the beginning, and the army's practice of centralism not only divided their military powers, but also restricted their various privileges.

They already had a lot of complaints about the subtle influence of the People's Party in the northeast and in the Feng army, but now they want to divide power even more openly and openly and set up a so-called director of the political department to suppress their power, which is difficult for them to agree to in any case. They oppose it under the pretext that the army is not allowed to engage in so-called cooking, that when the time comes, that the order will be multi-forced, or that disagreement will affect the reliability of the army.

The non-commissioned officer faction led by Sun Liechen, Zhang Zuoxiang, and Yu Zhen was loyal to Zhang Zuolin and loved Zhang Hanqing, although they were puzzled by this, but they did not say anything. The young marshal faction headed by Jiang Dengxuan and Mi Chunlin, and the local powerful faction headed by Wang Yongjiang and Zhang Guogan greatly appreciated Zhang Hanqing's adaptation, and they shouted loudly that they would promote this practice throughout the northeast.

Zhang Zuolin is not worried that Zhang Hanqing will have different aspirations---- his father and son will succeed, he has always cultivated Zhang Hanqing as the future heir, if the Zhongwei adaptation can really increase Zhang Hanqing's control over the army, he will definitely give his full support---- he relies on conspiracy and banditry to get the support of everyone, Zhang Hanqing is civilized, and it is difficult to succeed in panicking if he follows his old path.

But he was afraid that it would affect his dominant position, and if the army was turbulent and Zhang Hanqing couldn't control the army, his years of hard work would be in vain. I had the heart to ask for the opinion of my old partner Wu Junsheng, but Wu Junsheng was very calm: "Dashuai, everything is up to you, my Wu Da tongue will always be the only one for you." ”

After weighing it again and again, Zhang Zuolin telegraphed and ordered the "reorganization of the central guard" to be limited to the northwest, and the military establishment of the northeastern provinces to remain the same.

Regarding Zhang Hanqing's "Zhongwei adaptation", all parties reacted differently. The main powerful factions, such as the Zhizhi and Anhui factions, believe that the armed forces should be nationalized, and that political parties should only be organizations participating in political affairs, and that if all parties are allowed to have troops loyal to themselves, even if a president is elected in accordance with legal procedures, it will still be a new round of splits. They mobilized the masses and students in Beijing and Tianjin who did not know the truth, and they raised a group to denounce him, clamoring for Zhang Hanqing to be a new-style warlord.

Sun Yat-sen, on the other hand, felt bitterly that he had no military power in his hands, and as the premier of the Kuomintang, he could not realize the decrees, and profoundly realized that the party must be supplemented by armed forces, which was also in line with his concept of governing the country through military administration and training to transition to constitutional government, so he repaid his support and understanding.