Chang Kaishen ordered the local warlords to disarm last year, and only Zhang Xueliang was really laying them off. Originally, the number of the Northeast Army was as high as more than 400,000, but Zhang Xueliang made a big effort to streamline the administration of the army, and finally reduced it to only 280,000 regular troops, of which 160,000 belonged to the elite, and the remaining 120,000 were local garrison troops, and the more than 100,000 that were cut off were all turned into cantonment army.

This is a rare feat in the Republic of China, whether it is the central government or local warlords, they are all trying to expand the army, but Zhang Xueliang is in the great disarmament.

After the disarmament, the Northeast Army has not been weakened, and its combat effectiveness has actually increased. Zhang Xueliang also tried every means to train the new army, which far surpassed the ordinary warlord troops in terms of military quality and weaponry.

What does this mean?

It shows that Zhang Xueliang's control over the Northeast Army has far surpassed Zhang Zuolin, at least on the surface, he can easily command any unit of the Feng Army - Zhang Zuolin has to pay benefits to transfer troops to fight, and some army leaders are disobedient.

How to say it, only in terms of military training ability, Zhang Xueliang can be ranked in the forefront among many warlords in the Republic of China, and it would be more perfect if he did not personally command the battle.

Zhang Xueliang smoked a cigarette and said: "Lao Jiang still wants to fight, so he invited me to completely kill Yan Baichuan (Yan Xishan) and Feng Huanzhang (Feng Yuxiang), and then go south with him to deal with Li Delin (Li Zongren), Bai Jiansheng (Bai Chongxi) and Chen Bonan (Chen Jitang). ”

"How did you respond?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"Of course it's a refusal, I entered the customs to calm down the war and hope for peace in the country as soon as possible," Zhang Xueliang shook his head helplessly and said, "Lao Jiang is addicted to fighting, and he will not give up until he destroys local forces." If he did it according to his idea, at least hundreds of thousands of soldiers would have to die before he could be peaceful. ”

Zhou Hexuan nodded and said, "That's true, his desire to control is too strong, but it's a pity that his ability can't keep up." ”

Zhang Xueliang said: "Lao Jiang is really generous this time, he handed over the territory of the eight provinces of Hei, Ji, Liao, Jin, Cha, Re, Sui, and Hebei, plus the three cities of Beiping, Tianjin, and Qingdao, to me for moderation, and also asked me to deal with the aftermath of the Central Plains War. ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "There is a conspiracy? ”

"Of course there is a conspiracy," Zhang Xueliang said with a wry smile, "He asked me to deal with the aftermath, but he ordered me to dismantle sixty percent of the troops of the Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army, obviously trying to provoke contradictions between me and those warlords and generals." Taking advantage of the fact that I was too anxious to make a move, I returned to the south and completely wiped out the Gui army. ”

Chang Kaishen is really addicted to war, obviously the Nanjing government's finances have collapsed, and he still wants to drive out the Gui warlords. Under the pretense that there was no money and food, various taxes were specially added for this purpose, which made the southern heavens angry and resentful, and he saw that he really couldn't fight it before he stopped.

Letting go of the Gui warlords, Chang Kaishen did not stop, and set his sights on the red zone again, and launched many encirclement and suppression of the red zone.

However, the drunkard's intention is not to drink, Chang Kaishen's encirclement and suppression of the red zone is really a plan to kill three birds with one stone: first, of course, it is to eliminate our party; second, to dispatch the newly incorporated miscellaneous troops to fight and weaken and control the miscellaneous forces; Third, wherever the encirclement and suppression goes, Chang Kaishen's military tentacles will extend to wherever he wants, and he will take the opportunity to expand his actual territory.

Simply summarized into eight words, Chang Kaishen played "driving the wolf and devouring the tiger, and the fisherman profited".

Zhang Xueliang didn't want to play games with Chang Kaishen, he said: "I'm working with Lao Jiang, cutting some miscellaneous cards with weak combat effectiveness, and then reorganizing and merging the previous batch, and secretly keeping them with a different number." ”

"This is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people." Zhou Hexuan said.

If disarmament is forcibly carried out according to Chang Kaishen's orders, those northern generals who have just defected are estimated to have to pull the flag and rebel again, and they don't know how long the war will last.

Of course, Zhang Xueliang also took the opportunity to greatly buy people's hearts, and if he did this, whether it was the generals of the Northwest Army or the Jin Sui Army, they would owe Zhang Xueliang someone to please. In fact, in the future, the generals of any faction in the north will be happy and convinced of Zhang Xue's conscience.

Take Sun Dianying, the captain of the Golden School, for example, later the central government wanted to send Sun Dianying to Duolun, but he didn't listen to anyone who gave the order, and Zhang Xueliang did it with a greeting.

A few days ago, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Wang Zhaoming held a meeting in Zhengzhou, jointly issued an armistice telegram, and then left Zhengzhou to return to their hometowns. After Chang Kaishen led the army to occupy Zhengzhou, he did not continue to pursue with all his might, but brandished silver to buy the enemy generals, handed over the north to Zhang Xueliang to deal with, and at the same time mobilized a large army to go to Hunan to fight the Gui army.

Many generals of the Northwest Army hated both Yan Xishan and Chang Kaishen, which cheapened Zhang Xueliang for nothing. Zhang Xueliang didn't pay any money at all, so he successfully incorporated many troops, and the military strength grew rapidly.

Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang saw that they had no skills to return to the sky, and Chang Kaishen forced them to go into the wilderness, so the two could only do so - they each handed over the military and political power to their henchmen, and prepared to travel abroad to avoid the limelight after going to the wilderness.

In fact, Feng Yuxiang has not given up, and he has made all kinds of small actions in private, but the overall situation has been decided, and many of his plans cannot make waves at all.

The civil war, which mobilized more than 1.1 million troops, consumed 500 million yuan, killed and wounded 300,000 people, and spread to more than 20 provinces, has finally come to an end.

The biggest beneficiary is not Chang Kaishen, who is clamoring for disarmament, nor Feng Yuxiang, who is reckless and wants to fight, not to mention Yan Xishan, who is better than a monkey in abacus, but Zhang Xueliang, who waits for the time to be ripe before making a move.

Zhang Xueliang now nominally owns the territory of eight provinces and three cities, and controls hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command. Replaced by careerists like Zhang Zuolin, it is estimated that they have begun to plot to dominate the world and pull Chang Kaishen down.

Zhou Hexuan poured cold water on Zhang Xueliang and said: "Brother Han Qing, you transfer all the elites of the Northeast Army to the pass, and the defense of the three eastern provinces is empty, so it is better to transfer back to guard against the Japanese Kwantung Army as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Xueliang was puzzled: "I want to too, but now the territory is too big, and we must disperse our forces to guard it, otherwise we will not be able to control those large and small warlords." ”

Zhou Hexuan was silent, because he couldn't refute it at all.

Shanxi, Suiyuan and other northwestern provinces, Zhang Xueliang is definitely unable to control, and can only let Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan's old subordinates manage. But North China is different, Zhang Xueliang only needs to spend two or three years to govern, and North China, like Northeast China, can become his stable territory.

Suppressing bandits, quelling chaos, garrisoning, and garrisoning...... There are too many things that need the elite of the Northeast Army, and it is impossible for Zhang Xueliang to sit idly by and ignore the new territory for the sake of the security of the Northeast.

After all, the invasion of the Japanese Kwantung Army was just Zhou Hexuan's speculation, even if Zhang Xueliang believed it, he couldn't use this to convince his subordinates.

Zhou Hexuan said: "No matter what, at least 30,000 elites must be sent back to the Northeast." ”

Zhang Xueliang nodded and said: "Then we have to wait for the aftermath to be solved, and I can't do it at all now." ”

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