Fortunately, all the people present at the meeting were high-ranking officers of the Central Army, protégés and high-ranking disciples of Chairman Chiang, and confidants and generals. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Otherwise, once these words reach Han Fuqu's ears and eyes, I am afraid that he will immediately be so angry that he will lead his troops to surrender to Zhang Xinghan.

It is precisely because of this that Chairman Chiang dared to be furious and angrily criticized Han Fuqu.

After his anger subsided for a while, Bai Chongxi stood up and persuaded: "Bench, Han Fuqu is certainly not in good command, and he should deal with the danger of the Yellow River. Jinan, Tai'an and other important towns are fully responsible.

But at the moment, the situation is critical, and Han himself is also in Shandong, with tens of thousands of troops under his command, entrenched in most areas of central and southern Lu.

If he is held accountable at this time, I am afraid that he will be forced to jump over the wall and rebel against the water. ”

"What Chief Bai said makes sense." Chen Cheng stood up and said, "I think we should call Han Fuqu to Nanjing and ask for the guilt." ”

"There is no need to summon Han Fuqu to Nanjing, at this juncture, let's not say whether he will come.

Even if he comes, he can't only be held personally responsible, after all, he is not the only one who has lost the natural danger of the Yellow River and the strategic place. "It was Wang Zhaoming, president of the Executive Yuan, who said this, a traitor.

The implication of his words is obvious, if you want to punish Han Fuqu, then you must first punish Hu Zongnan, who also lost the natural danger of the Yellow River and caused the door of the Central Plains to open.

Wang Jingwei had an old relationship with Han Fuqu, and in his early years, he failed to fight for power and profit with Chairman Jiang, and once avoided trouble in Qingdao, Shandong, and Han Fuqu provided him with villas and money.

So the relationship between the two is still good.

In addition, he was able to take this opportunity to strike at Chairman Chiang's descendant general Hu Zongnan, so why not do it.

Chairman Jiang glared at Wang Jingwei, who was sitting at the bottom of his right, with hatred and anger, and said: "Hu Zongnan's supervision of the war is unfavorable, so he will be dismissed as the commander of the First Army and all the positions he holds, and he will go to Nanjing to be punished on the same day." ”

In the end, for the sake of the overall situation, Commissar Jiang still failed to punish Han Fuqu as he wished, because the Shandong defense line still needs him to maintain it for the time being.

Wang Jingwei was also afraid of revealing the news to Han Fuqu. will cause him to turn against him, and he will swallow the matter in his stomach.

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In Dingtao County, the East and West armies of the Northeast Army finally met here.

Zhang Tingshu and Shang Zhen led their troops to continue south, and at the same time sent a telegram to Zhang Xinghan to report the victory.

In Luoyang City, Zhang Xinghan's headquarters.

The confidential personnel of the communications department presented the telegrams of various units to Zhang Xinghan one after another.

Looking at the message, Zhang Xinghan couldn't help but nod his head from time to time.

In addition to Zhang Tingshu and Shang Zhen's troops advancing eastward and joining forces with the partial division of Shandong, they continued to attack southward.

Liu Guodong, Yang Aiyuan, and Xu Yongchang also led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to continue southward in separate routes, and the soldiers pointed directly at Xuchang, Zhoukou, Pingdingshan and other places.

The Central Army and the Henan Local Army along the way fled, and the Northeast Army and the Jinsui Army were in a state of collapse. Progress is rapid.

From Xuchang to Luoyang and Zhengxian, dozens of large and small county towns were captured by the Northeast Army and the Jin Sui Army.

Within a few days, Xu Yongchang's troops approached the periphery of Xuchang, and the next day, Liu Guodong's troops sent a partial division to assist Xu Yongchang's troops in attacking Xuchang.

All the defenders of Xuchang surrendered, and Xu Yongchang's troops took the important town of Xuchang almost without blood.

Yang Aiyuan's department also made very rapid progress, and a vanguard regiment of the department also entered the periphery of Zhoukou at the same time that Xuchang was captured by Xu Yongchang's department.

The city will be besieged soon, and the main force will be behind. Most of the defenders also surrendered, and then captured the important place of Zhoukou.

After that, he divided his troops and marched westward, and attacked Luohe with Xu Yongchang's troops who attacked Xuchang.

Two days later. Luohe and Pingdingshan were captured by the Northeast Army and the Jin Sui Army at the same time.

After Liu Guodong captured Pingdingshan, he immediately went south non-stop, and the three-way army marched in unison, directly attacking Nanyang, Zhumadian, Xinyang and other important towns in southern Henan.

Twenty-four years of the Republic of China. At the beginning of October, Zhang Xinghan led his troops from Cangzhou to the south in late August, and within a month, he leveled Shanxi and Hebei, and won the land of Hebei.

After that, he swung his division south to cross the Yellow River to this day. More than 20 days have passed, just as the Northeast Army and the Jin Sui Army are galloping across the Central Plains, invincible and brilliant.

The Shandong battlefield, which originally seemed calm and smooth, suddenly changed.

At the same time as Xu Yongchang, Liu Guodong, and Yang Aiyuan's three-way army went south to attack the Central Plains.

After Liu Jianguo, deputy commander-in-chief of the 1st Group Army, received reinforcements from Shang Zhen and Zhang Tingshu's headquarters, he immediately dispatched the whole army and moved south along the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and the canal.

In less than ten days, Zhang Tingshu, Shang Zhen and Liu Jianguo joined forces under Jining City and besieged Jining City, an important place in Shandong.

In the middle of the attack, he unexpectedly made a feint to Weifang and other places to contain the partial division that attracted the strength of the Shandong Army, but was suddenly attacked by the unknown "Shandong Army" and defeated the Qingzhou area.

A commander of the Northeast Army who led the team was wounded and captured, becoming the highest military official captured by the Northeast Army since its formation.

The defeated army, taking advantage of the wheels of the car, escaped back to Zibo City, and the pursuing troops followed and surrounded the city.

The defenders were weak, and while holding the city, they urgently sent a telegram to Liu Jianguo asking for help.

In Jining City, Liu Jianguo, Zhang Tingshu, Shang Zhen and other officers were gathering in the joint headquarters to discuss how to attack Jining, which was heavily defended by the Shandong Army.

Jining is the capital of the canal, located in the junction of the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain and the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong, at the junction of Shandong, Suzhou, Henan and Anhui provinces, and is an important transportation hub connecting East China and North China, Central Plains and coastal areas.

The strategic location is extremely important, and as far as the current situation in Shandong is concerned, Jining is already the last strategic place that Han Fuqu's Shandong Army needs to fortify.

Therefore, almost all the troops that Han Fuqu could gather in his hands now gathered here.

When the communications corps reported to him the intelligence of the defeat of Weifang on the Eastern Front, Liu Jianguo couldn't believe his ears.

Most of Han Fuqu's main forces are in the Jining area, and the Weifang area is full of small fish and shrimp, and the local security team with weak combat power will be defeated by a counterattack by a mechanized reinforcement regiment equipped with American-style German-style weapons?

How is this possible?

Shang Zhen and Zhang Tingshu were also shocked, and the former muttered: "It stands to reason that Han Fuqu's Shandong Army does not have many regular troops in the Weifang area, could it be that the Central Army suddenly went north?" ”

Zhang Tingshu analyzed: "It should be unlikely, first of all, after Han Fuqu took power in Shandong, he completely excluded the Central Army, except for Xuzhou, where the Central Army was stationed, there were almost no Central Army troops stationed in Shandong.

And if the Central Army in Xuzhou enters Shandong. Let's not say that Han Fuqu agrees with it, it is impossible to be so fast in time.

Moreover, the Secret Service does not have any warnings, so this is unlikely. ”

"It is impossible in Xuzhou, but what about Qingdao? I remember that there was a former Northeast Army Navy Shen Honglie stationed there. Shang Zhen suddenly remembered.

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Luoyang, the headquarters of the Northeast Army.

The armies of all roads are progressing smoothly, Zhang Xinghan is in a very good mood, as long as Xuzhou is taken again, the troops will be able to go south along the Jinpu line and go straight to Nanjing.

At the same time, you can also go south to Xinyang along the Jinghan Railway from the Central Plains. Coerced Wuhan.

At that time, there is no fear that Chairman Chiang will not agree to the peace talks, unless he wants to completely withdraw from the political arena.

Zhang Xinghan was sorting out his military uniform, planning to go out to comfort the Central Army that took the initiative to surrender to the city.

Suddenly, Guo Zhong hurriedly walked in from outside, and when he saw Zhang Xinghan, he saluted and said: "Boss, I just received the latest information from the Secrecy Bureau, the former Northeast Army Navy in Qingdao, Shandong Province has recently been greatly transferred, and its whereabouts are unknown. ”

"Northeast Army Navy?" Zhang Xinghan was slightly surprised.

"Yes. It is the Northeast Navy headed by Shen Honglie. Guo Zhong nodded and said: "According to the information sent by the Secrecy Bureau, since the September 18 Incident, most of the Northeast Navy has been stationed in Qingdao, ostensibly under the central jurisdiction of the Nationalist Government. In fact, Shen Honglie alone has the final say.

And Shen Honglie has always been loyal to Zhang's father and son, and after Pingjin was occupied by our army, Yu Xuezhong and other old generals of the Zhang family fled to Qingdao. Zhang Xueliang also arrived in Qingdao after returning from Europe.

In the past few years, Shen Honglie, in the name of the commander of the Fourth Fleet of the Navy, has vigorously recruited troops in the Jiaodong Peninsula area. With the main force of the navy as the backbone, the department has set up quite a number of marine units.

The strength should not be underestimated, and Zhang Xueliang was also appointed as the mayor of Qingdao by the national government two years ago. ”

Zhang Xinghan has always been busy fighting against Japan, and he really didn't take this Northeast Navy to heart.

In addition, Qingdao belonged to the sphere of influence of Shandong Han Fuqu and Chairman Jiang, and Zhang Xinghan had no time to take care of it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xinghan waved his hand indifferently and said: "No matter how much you toss, it will be difficult to become a climate, to generate electricity for the founding of the country, and to order your troops to be extra careful when they advance eastward, that is, after taking Jining, I will concentrate my forces to attack Qingdao, at that time, I will mobilize the navy and the air force to cooperate, and for now, we should still focus on the Jining war." ”

Guo Zhong nodded, and just wanted to turn around and leave, but found that a communication soldier ran over in a hurry, and when he saw Guo Zhong, he said, "Chief Guo, Jining is in a hurry." ”

"Oh? Give it to me. Guo Zhong stretched out his hand to take the telegram, read it in a hurry, his face changed greatly, and immediately turned to Zhang Xinghan and reported: "General seat, it's not good, Liu Jianguo called, the partial division of our army attacking Weifang was attacked by unknown armed forces in Weifang, and the regiment commander who led the team was injured and captured, and the loss of more than two-thirds of the troops.

Now that they have retreated to Zibo, the Shandong army and the unknown armed forces are following closely, and the attack is very urgent. ”

"What?" Zhang Xinghan was taken aback at first, and then slapped his thigh and said: "What unknown armament, this must be Zhang Xiaoliu's men and horses entrenched in Qingdao!" ”

Zhang Xinghan knew about Zhang Xueliang's arrival in Qingdao to settle down, and the Secret Bureau had reported it today.

What I didn't expect was that for more than two years, Zhang Shaoshuai, who could only smoke big cigarettes and play with women, would have signs of resurgence?

It was really unexpected by Zhang Xinghan, Zhang Xinghan never thought that just by virtue of the wreckage he showed in the 918 incident, there were still such means and abilities?

Without thinking too much, Zhang Xinghan said to Guo Zhong: "It seems that the situation in Shandong is not as smooth as imagined, it is much more complicated, you go and arrange it immediately, and we will rush to Shandong immediately."

In addition, he called Jianguo back and handed over the task of besieging Jining to Shang Zhen and Zhang Tingshu, and he immediately led his capable troops to rush to the aid of Zibo City. (To be continued......)