Chapter 208: On and Off the Field (Middle)
On the morning of May 12, 1913, there was a huge crowd of people inside and outside Beijing, whether forced or voluntary, and many students and citizens stood at dawn on the street leading from Yongdingmen to Zhengyangmen. In their awe-inspiring or novel eyes, the 20th Division of the Seventh Army of the People's Army, under the leadership of its division commander Wang Zhanxu, slowly drove into the city from Yongding Gate with more than ten three-wheeled motorcycles as the lead.www.biquge.info
Xizhimen Street, Guang'anmen Street, Chongwenmen Street, Hepingmen Street, East Fourth Archway, West Fourth Archway, East and West Chang'an Street, etc., the troops entering the city began to pass through these places in turn. Suddenly, firecrackers rang out, gongs and drums were noisy, the ancient city of Beijing began to boil, and the sound of people's cheers gradually resounded.
At this time, everyone understood in their hearts that with the swaggering infantry of the People's Army and the cars dragging various types of artillery, there was still the era of Beiyang that had gradually moved away from them today.
The Beiyang era has come to an end, some people are happy and some are sad, there are many happy people, and there are naturally many people who are worried, but if you want to say that the person who is most worried at this moment is still Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the 27th Division of the Beiyang Army in Fengtian City in the northeast.
Zhang Zuolin, the word Yuting, born in a poor peasant family, participated in the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, although he joined the green forest, but was later recruited, after Xinhai, his unit was reorganized by Yuan Shikai into the 27th Division of the Beiyang Army, and he served as the commander of the lieutenant general. At this time, in the headquarters of the 27th Division in Fengtian City, Zhang Zuolin held the order of the People's Army sent by the Beijing War Department to demand that his troops accept the reorganization, his face was gloomy, and he felt uncomfortable.
For more than a year, he has worked hard from top to bottom, while clearing out bearded bandits and fighting against Manchu and Mongolian independence forces, and on the other hand, guarding against the Russian old Maozi and resisting the infiltration of the Japanese. Not long ago, it was hard to wait for Yuan Shikai to relent, but the news of the start of a major war between the People's Army and Beiyang suddenly came from Guannai. War with the KPA? After learning the news, Zhang Zuolin couldn't help but shake his head, this President Yuan really doesn't know what he thinks, how can the People's Army that can fight the British be so easy to get along with? Before he could digest the news, there was even more shocking news in Guannai, the Beiyang Army was defeated, Yuan Shikai announced his resignation, the two sides negotiated peace, and the People's Army issued an order to the northeast armies asking them to accept the reorganization, and began to advance to the northeast.
After coming back to his senses, Zhang Zuolin couldn't sit still anymore. Beiyang's life or death, as a side of Beiyang, he can not care, but now he has to think carefully about the future way out of the tens of thousands of brothers under his subordinates. The general trend of the Communist Progressive Party has been achieved, and more than 100,000 troops from nine divisions of the People's Army are rushing towards the northeast land, and it is impossible for him to resist hard.
Zhang Zuolin, who didn't know what to do for a while, could only find Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Jinghui, Tang Yulin and other old brothers to discuss. It's just that everyone sat together for nearly half an hour, and in addition to being restless and worried, in the end, there was no one who could make up their minds.
Zhang Zuolin was a little impatient, he raised his head and looked at everyone and said, "There is not much time left for us by the Communist Party, how to reply to this?" What do you think? ”
"Now that Beiyang has fallen, the Communist Progressive Party has all the provinces in Guannei, and the general trend of national reunification has been achieved. Zhang Xiaohuai of the People's Army led more than 100,000 troops from nine divisions of the army to the northeast from Rehe and Chahar, and this kind of strength is absolutely not something that our 27th Division can resist. After Zhang Zuolin finished speaking, Zhang Zuoxiang, who was sitting under him, stood up and said. Although this person was also born in the green forest, he has a delicate mind and can grasp a little bit of the current domestic situation.
The meaning of Zhang Zuoxiang's words was already well known to everyone, but Zhang Jinghui, who had never spoken, said at this time: "There is not only one of us in the northeast, but also the 28th Division of Feng Delin in Guangning, Wu Junsheng's Second Cavalry Brigade over there, and the patrol battalion of Malongtan in Fengcheng!" ”
"Feng Delin, Wu Junsheng, Ma Longtan and others don't know the relationship with us." Zhang Zuoxiang said this, his face was a little gloomy. Speaking of which, in the early years, these people still had a brotherly relationship with themselves, but later, with their respective high positions, because of the competition for various interests, they have long been separated from each other, and they are not monolithic. Thinking of this, Zhang Zuoxiang looked at Zhang Zuolin and further persuaded: "Yuting, the People's Army has marched to the northeast in a big way, if we resist, although the northeast is big, I am afraid that there will be no place for us to stand at that time!" ”
Zhang Zuoxiang said it to such a point, it stands to reason that Zhang Zuolin should have made a decision earlier, but he was still a little hesitant at this time. In the final analysis, it is because of the reluctance to hold the rights in their hands. You must know that according to the system of the People's Army, army generals are not allowed to meddle in local government affairs, and once they accept the reorganization of the People's Army, they will only be able to develop in the military circles in the future, instead of being a local emperor who grasps the military and government as he is now.
"It's right to follow the path of the Communist Party now, but we followed President Yuan Da before, but we offended people a lot, just in case..."
Everyone, you said a word, but it made Zhang Zuolin hesitate even more, and after a while, he made a decision, that is, wait and see for a few more days. Seeing this situation, Zhang Zuoxiang could only say goodbye and leave after sighing deeply.
There is nothing to wait and see, but it has to be when, and the result that Zhang Zuolin waited for after a few days of waiting and watching at this moment was the news that the 28th Division of Feng Delin's department was completely annihilated by the People's Army in Jinzhou.
Feng Delin, like Zhang Zuolin, naturally received an order from Beijing asking his troops to accept the reorganization of the People's Army on the spot. is also faced with such a telegram that does not give the establishment and does not seal the official position, but Feng Delin's choice is completely different from Zhang Zuolin's. With the full support of the Japanese behind him, he immediately chose to tear up the telegram in his hand and let the troops arrange several defensive lines outside Jinzhou City, preparing to stop the northward advance of the People's Army.
Of course, Feng Delin was not really arrogant and wanted to block the people's army's northward advance by himself. From a gangster to today's situation, he has tasted the wonderful taste of power, and he just wants to take the opportunity to fight here and fight for more rights and benefits for himself. He wants to show the Communist Progressive Party that he Feng is not a muddy person, and he should not use the same set to deal with the surrendered army to incorporate his 28th Division. If you want him to surrender to the 28th Division, you have to show real sincerity.
Feng Delin naturally didn't know that he made this series of actions after thinking about it, which was exactly what Zhang Xiaohuai, who led the army northward at this time, wanted. The Northeast region is now home to warlords of all stripes, large and small, as well as a large number of Japanese and Russian troops. Zhang Xiaohuai, who had made up his mind, was thinking about where to find such a chicken, but he didn't want the chicken to jump out happily by itself, how could this not make him happy.
Therefore, in the face of Feng Delin's resistance, Zhang Xiaohuai did not hesitate to order Yang Xincheng to lead the three divisions of the Third Army to attack Jinzhou.
Naturally, there was no suspense about the outcome of the battle, although the troops of Feng Delin's 28th Division had the reputation of being affiliated with Beiyang, but in fact they were local troops, lacking guns and ammunition, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. Not only were the troops completely annihilated, but even Feng Delin himself was shot and killed on the position.
The fact that Feng Delin was defeated and killed in Jinzhou once again convincingly proves to the world how big a gap in combat effectiveness there is between the local warlords and the People's Army, and an army like the Beiyang Army, which is piled up with silver!
In the face of the People's Army's obvious action of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, whether it was Zhang Zuolin in Fengtian, Wu Junsheng in Taonan, or Ma Longtan in Fengcheng, they finally couldn't sit still, and they didn't dare to wait and see. Soon, just before the People's Army approached Fengtian City, Zhang Zuolin hastily agreed to the People's Army's request for on-the-spot reorganization, and at the same time issued a telegram expressing his support for the Communist Progressive Party to form a central government. Ma Longtan and Wu Junsheng were naturally not willing to be left behind, and immediately afterwards announced that they would obey the deployment of the People's Army and support the leadership of the Communist Party.
This is the truest portrayal of the warlords in the Northeast at this time, the trend of the times, they have to accept their fate. However, as the old saying goes, blessings and misfortunes lurk, and misfortunes and blessings rely on.
Just when Zhang Zuolin, Wu Junsheng and other military leaders began to accept their fate and put on an appearance of being ready to be dealt with at any time, an order came from the General Staff of the Chengdu People's Army. These local armies in the northeast will be reorganized into the size of one army and three divisions, and their numbers will be the 52nd, 53rd, and 54th divisions of the 18th Army of the People's Army, and Zhang Zuolin, Wu Junsheng, Zhang Zuoxiang, and others will be strictly examined. After screening, he was successively appointed to the positions of corps commander, division commander, and chief of staff of the army. Peak loop turn, this is the peak loop turn in the real sense.
After this turnip and stick, as the various armies of the People's Army marched one after another, they began to be stationed in various places. , the forces in the northeast finally began to become submissive.
On 24 May, after the Third Army of the People's Army marched into Fengtian City and renamed it Shenyang, the Autonomous Government of the Communist Party and its Military Committee passed a resolution to formally establish the Northeast Military Region here, with Zhang Xiaohuai as the commander, Wang Bi as the political commissar, and Li Gengen as the chief of staff, under the jurisdiction of the Third Army, the Twelfth Army, the Fifteenth Army, the Eighteenth Army, the First Air Force Division and other units, responsible for garrisoning and defending this vast land in the three eastern provinces.
At this point, all parts of the Northeast have been preliminarily pacified. In addition to the concessions and garrisons forcibly occupied by various countries, the land of China has been reunified since the end of the Xinhai period.