Changsha.

A large number of troops were crowded in Changsha City, bustling and dense. At first glance, there were soldiers everywhere.

The final battle in Hunan kicked off in Hunan!

The Northern Expeditionary Army did not rush to take advantage of this time to attack, but completed its encirclement there in a hurry, and even deliberately gave the Beiyang Army time there.

Once Wu Peifu wants to really stick to Changsha, whether he finally surrenders or not, he has no way out! He and his troops will be trapped in Changsha, and there will be no place to leave the battlefield.

Just as the army entered Changsha one after another, a man in a gray cloth robe walked over slowly.

"Stop, what are you doing!"

"I'm your Yushuai's friend." The man smiled

"Here, put two machine guns," Wu Peifu pointed to the map of Changsha and kept commanding.

"Report, there is a person who claims to be an old friend of Yushuai who asks to see him."

Wu Peifu didn't raise his head, since he became an official, there are too many people who claim to be his relatives and friends, but when is it now, that person doesn't look at it, what is the use of coming to himself now? As he commanded, he said:

"Let him in, and that's it."

Carefully and carefully deployed troops on the map for defense, and after a while, the gray cloth robe walked in, and when he saw that the headquarters was busy, he didn't speak, and found a place to sit down.

Wu Peifu didn't notice that there was an extra person in his headquarters, and he was busy there for more than half an hour, and then he finished ordering all the defensive deployments in Changsha. I took a sip of water from my cup, and suddenly remembered something:

"What old friend of mine is that?"

"Yushuai, there."

Looking in the direction of his finger, he saw the gray cloth robe sitting there, Wu Peifu was stunned at first, and then laughed: "Zhang Xiaohuai, Zhang Yunnong!" ”

Zhang Xiaohuai got up with a smile: "Yushuai, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Wu Peifu hurriedly asked people to serve tea and asked Zhang Xiaohuai to sit down again: "Yunnong, I heard that you became the deputy commander-in-chief of the Hunan battlefield of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Sun Chuanfang, who was still fighting, had no power to fight back at all. What's the matter, a person came to Changsha today to arrest me? ”

"Yes, if Yushuai's soldiers don't stop him, brother, I will definitely take Yushuai away from Changsha." Zhang Xiaohuai said with a smile: "It's a pity that I'm afraid that as soon as I make a move, Yushuai's third division will tear me to pieces." ”

Wu Peifu laughed "haha": "My third division can move anyone in the world, but you Zhang Yunnong can't move!" When I first entered Hunan, I tried every possible way to invite you out of the mountain, but you would rather be a little bureau chief than help me. Who would have thought that Wang Hengyue would only enter Hunan, and you would become his deputy commander-in-chief, it seems that my old Wu is still inferior to Wang Hengyue. But then again, it's still you Zhang Yunnong who sees people accurately, and the Northern Expeditionary Army is going to win in the end. ”

Zhang Xiaohuai smiled slightly.

Wu Peifu changed his words as he spoke: "Wang Hengyue asked you to come?" ”

Zhang Xiaohuai nodded, did not deny it at all, and took out a letter: "The president asked me to hand it over to you personally." ”

Wu Peifu took the letter and saw the words "Yushuai personally opened" written on it, and was stunned at that time, how could there be such a letter on the envelope in the world?

After opening the letter and reading a few lines, I felt like I couldn't laugh or cry at that time. Where is this writing a letter, between the lines, it is simply pulling a homely routine there.

"I said Lao Wu, there is you Yushuai in the north, and I am Hengshuai in the south, we are two handsome, and we have never met, I thought, we have to see each other, get a pot of wine, a few side dishes, drink a good breath, brag, chat about big things, Cao Cao has cooking wine and talking about heroes, we might as well learn from the ancients

Okay, that's all there is to it, let's get serious. This battle has been fought almost now, you said that you lost and lost, what was the surprise of the last defeat? You want to defend Changsha to the death, but you just want to end the war with dignity, Lao Wu, what I said is not wrong at all, right?

You have to tell me decently and directly, what are you going to do with that effort? In this way, Zhang Xiaohuai, I will transfer him back to serve as my army commander-in-chief, and I will appoint you as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Sun Wu Corps of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and the third division will still be under your command, and it will be changed to the third independent mixed division of the National ** Army. There are independent numbers in my troops, except for the first independent mixed division of my old army, and that's yours. I'm going to be mad if you say it's not decent enough. …,

Lao Wu, let's talk from the bottom of our hearts, what is the scenery of our own people beating our own people? Even if I wipe out all your third division, it's just my own people beating my own people, and there's nothing to show off. Didn't you say in the song you wrote that until now, the Japanese are in charge of the rampant and the wind and clouds. Jiawu service, land cutting, Jiachen service, sovereignty falls, the country is the same, and the Yi people are borrowed. He was ordered to raise the brigade and restore the old mountains and rivers in World War I! How heroic! Lao Wu, the Japanese are spreading wilderness everywhere in our country, and the heart of China will not die, and those great powers regard our country as their own backyard, come and go whenever they want, do we still have national sovereignty? Do those of us who are soldiers still have any dignity?

Therefore, reunification must be reunified, and without reunification, how can a strong country be said? Without unity, how can we defend national sovereignty? Lao Tzu has worked so hard, are you really for yourself? I watched the great powers run rampant on our land, and I felt sorry for that!

Even if your third division can hold Changsha for ten or eight years, I will still look down on you. Guarding Changsha is a fart, if you have the ability, let's guard the country together. No, let's go abroad together in the future.

I know what I think and say, and this letter is written in a completely indecent manner, and I will write it, and you will read it. You're from a show, don't laugh at me.

At present, the situation outside the customs is becoming more and more serious, and the Japanese people are eyeing it fiercely. Also, the Russians are also bullying us Chinese there, you say that if the country is not unified, can we really protect our own people? I don't say anything big, just one reason, anyway, whoever wants to bully our own family will not work. He beats us, and we beat him up ***!

That subordinate of yours, Sun Chuanfang, beat up the Japanese instructor Okamura Ningji when he was studying in Japan, and now he is a teacher, why doesn't he have the courage at the beginning? I don't think so, we're all focusing on the civil war, do you think that's right?

That's what I thought. After the reunification of the country, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, and the Hunan Army will all be reorganized into the National Defense Army, and they will be unified with the outside world. Let's stop fighting with our own people, if we want to fight, we will fight with foreigners.

The European war is over, and people are fighting in all directions in the air, sea, and ground, but what about us? It's still the old operational thinking here, this can't work, it's backward! The elite Beiyang Army that President Yuan single-handedly trained back then, now you can pull one to the European battlefield to try. People first came to the plane to bomb it, and then the artillery to bomb it, and then the armored vehicles rushed up with a hula, you see how long our Beiyang Army can resist.

Don't believe it, I also used the plane on the battlefield in Hunan, and you have seen this power with your own eyes, if we don't unite as one and work hard, it will be too late!

Okay, Lao Wu, I'm done with what I should say, and you can do the rest yourself. Hurry up and pull your troops out of Changsha and help me unify the whole country. I will soon leave from Canton to see my troops at the front. When the time comes, let's have a good drink, you have to still have a breath in your heart, even if you are angry at me when you drink.

Come on! Come on!! Come on!!! It's too late, let alone eating meat, and you won't have your share of the soup! ”

Wu Peifu held this first strange letter in the world in his hand, and he didn't say a word in a daze.

There was no letterhead on the letter, no inscription, and some places were scribbled and altered, and there was no writing style at all, but Wu Peifu didn't have the idea of sneering at all, on the contrary, his heart fluctuated.

Wang Hengyue didn't regard himself as an outsider, but as if he regarded himself as an old friend who hadn't seen him for many years, and he was talking about his heart without any scruples.

In the letter, Wang Hengyue said whatever he wanted, and he did not hide it at all, and there was sincerity and frankness between the lines, and there was no domineering attitude of a winner.

This is the first strange letter in the ages, and the person who wrote the letter is also the first strange person in the ages!

Wang Hengyue gave himself enough face!

These are still secondary, the key is Wang Hengyue's heart to serve the country in the letter.

"Up to now, the Japanese are in charge of the situation and evil. Jiawu service, land cutting, Jiachen service, sovereignty falls, the country is the same, and the Yi people are borrowed. He was ordered to raise the brigade and restore the old mountains and rivers in World War I! ”

Seeing the decline of national sovereignty, he was also distressed, and Wang Hengyue's letter expressed his heart.

Zhang Xiaohuai saw that Wu Peifu had finished reading the letter: "Yushuai, I have received an order to transfer me to the post of chief of the army of the National Government, I am promoted, and the rest will be handed over to you, don't shirk it anymore." ”

Seeing that Wu Peifu didn't speak, Zhang Xiaohuai only refused to agree: "Yushuai, time is running out, the sooner the unification of force ends, the better, the president is sincere to you." ”

"No, no, Yunnong, you misunderstood, it's not that I don't know how to lift, but I'm thinking about what kind of person the president is." Unconsciously, Wu Peifu's name for Wang Hengyue also changed.

"I haven't met the president either, but I'll see soon. He is very young and full of determination, and he wants to work under such a person, and it is not in vain for you and me to do it! ”

Wu Peifu nodded, and suddenly said loudly:

"Pass the order, the whole army!"

This is August 28, 1919!