Chapter Seventy-Seven: Squatting
Of course, what the acting commander didn't expect was that the retreat he had thought of was of course Sun Valve's retreat, and the two of them wanted to go together, Sun Valve, on the one hand, sent his men to Jinan to meet Zhang Zongchang, and first obtained Zhang's understanding of him; went to Tianjin to see Zhang Zuolin, and after the meeting, Sun Chuanfang only said "I'm sorry for the handsome", so Zhang Zuolin turned enemies into friends, and first solved the biggest problem now. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Before the Feng army went south, Sun Chuanfang and Wu Peifu discussed the matter of fighting thieves and conscripted Zhang Zuolin. Now that he can't defeat the National Revolutionary Army, he has no choice but to come to surrender, and his lips are cold, so he has to discuss with Sun Chuanfang to establish An Guojun. He was appointed commander-in-chief, with Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zongchang as deputy commanders. Sun Chuanfang got his wish and returned to Nanjing with a smile, followed by Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu coalition army.
On the one hand, the war on the front line was tight, and on the other hand, there was a fire in the backyard, and Sun Chuanfang came back from Beijing to learn that the funds raised had not yet arrived, and the 10 million yuan that was originally promised in Shanghai was not seen at all. This made Sun Chuanfang very annoyed, and then received a telegram from Song Ming in Shanghai, asking if the money had arrived, Sun Chuanfang was very angry, and directly took a telegram over: Come to your mother, hurry up and send it over!
But the current Shanghai is no longer the Shanghai it used to be, and Jin Tong has been assassinated. On the one hand, there were those people in the Navy Department who deliberately wanted to conceal the matter and want to take over the power, but unfortunately the people were not in harmony, and the news still leaked out, on the other hand, now that the war is tense, the news is easy to be blocked and interrupted. So, three days is already a lot of time.
After Sun Chuanfang learned the news, he was shocked and very angry, on the one hand, he asked Shanghai to contact various forces to hunt down the murderer, and on the other hand, he quickly contacted Yan Buwen to get the money. Strive to complete all preparations before the end of November, in the hope of fighting to the death with the revolutionary army. At the same time, Sun Chuanfang also planned to leave some troops in Shanghai, and if he was defeated, he could retreat to Shanghai, but if he couldn't, he could still take a boat north. But of course, this is an afterthought, and now Sun Chuanfang doesn't think that the nearly 200,000 troops that he and Zhang Zongchang have gathered now can't beat the small 100,000 troops.
In addition, Dai Cheng, another commander of the Shanghai garrison arranged by Sun Chuanfang, had already begun to rush to Shanghai, and the dream of the acting commander in Shanghai had not been long before he was defeated by reality. At the same time, after Dai Cheng came to Shanghai, he found that the acting commander had secretly detained Song Ming, the deputy governor who had come to Nanjing to do business, so he was angry and executed the acting commander on the spot. On the other hand, he began to rectify military discipline, and at the same time dispersed his troops, intensively inquiring about the traces of Yan Yan.
Dai Cheng looked at the map on the wall at the command headquarters, and the portrait that was not heard by him, fell into deep contemplation, and then suddenly laughed, then with a serious face, and sneered soon after: "This guy is really bold, dare to shoot lice on the tiger's head!" ”
The map on the wall has marked all the railway stations that must be passed in and out of Shanghai, and similarly, the places where Yan Buwen once appeared have also been counted, and basically all the places are guarded. But now that nearly half a month has passed, it is even more difficult to find a person than to ascend to the sky, and it is this cunning and treacherous businessman who has turned them around. However, Dai Cheng believes that Yan Buwen has not left Shanghai yet, because Dai Cheng got a news that January 1 is the day when Yan Buwen and Duo Duo, the young master of Duo Yunxuan, are engaged, so in less than a month, Yan Buwen will definitely not leave Shanghai. And yesterday, I received a report from someone who met Yan Buwen, and all signs show that Yan Buwen is still in Shanghai.
However, he was very cunning, and the Xinglong newspaper office had moved to the public concession, and it was also found that he had a fiancée before, but his fiancée's parents also moved to the public concession. Yan Buwen everything belongs to the public concession, which also makes Dai Cheng sneer: "Do you think the public concession is guilty and safe?" It just takes a bit of effort to find you. ”
Dai Cheng sent people to squat at the door of the Xinglong Newspaper Office in the Public Concession day and night, but Yan Buwen did not appear once, and even made people think that he was no longer in Shanghai. However, after careful analysis, Dai Cheng only thought that it was a set of tricks, and he did not relax, on the contrary, he also increased the intensity of the search. The closer he got to that engagement banquet, the more Dai Chengcheng felt the dawn of victory.
What kind of person is Duo Yunxuan, Yan Buwen's engagement banquet with Duo Yunxuan's daughter Duo Duo can be said to be a major event that has caused a sensation in Shanghai's business community, and Yan Buwen dares not to appear? Time is getting more and more urgent, and now Nanjing's financial resources have been squeezed clean, and it has extended its tentacles to the surrounding areas, but the economy of the surrounding areas can no longer afford to support this huge army that always loses battles, so the 10 million in Yan Buwen's hands is very important, 10 million is equivalent to two or three months of military spending, as long as it withstands this cold winter, the National Revolutionary Army will decline and deplete itself, and live up to the current arrogance of devastation.
In addition to this, Dai Cheng also began to practice with a group of his own forces in the French Concession, and continued to borrow high amounts of money in the name of Sun Chuanfang. Rao is like this, and it is only a million, which is a drop in the bucket. The more Dai Cheng arrived at the end of December, the more urgent he became. Finally survived December, January 1 came, New Year's Day, since the founding of the Republic of China, has been using the solar calendar January 1 as New Year's Day, on this festive day. The forces on all sides were very happy, and Sun Valve's side resisted the last wave of attacks of the revolutionary army in the old year of the solar calendar, and the revolutionary army thought that most of Sun Valve's military strength had been consumed, and it would be completely wiped out within three months. For the businessmen here in Shanghai, all kinds of activities come one after another, and worshipping the mountains and seeking Buddha is also indispensable.
Duo Yun Xuan, a middle-aged man who founded "Duo Yun Xuan", did not go to the City God Temple for a rare time this year, but arranged a very large engagement feast at home. For his daughter, who is also his own treasure, he has set a lifelong event. In the morning, celebrities from all walks of life rushed to go, in order to meet the request of their daughter, they chose a rather prosperous, elegant Western-style hotel, the whole hotel was chartered, although it is not the top, but all aspects are more exquisite, and it is also very suitable for the taste of Duoduo.
Among the celebrities from all walks of life, there are also some ill-intentioned people, who follow the people all the way into the hotel, a total of about ten or twenty people, and quickly separate after entering, and then search each room, this hotel is really not small, so that these ten or twenty people are easy to find.
And in an inconspicuous hotel room, a few maids who were busy around were holding clothes for a man, and then selected a few pieces and asked, "Mr. Yan, what do you think of this one?" ”