After the victory at Hukou, the military operations of the Beiyang Army in Jiangxi were extremely smooth, and Li Chun captured Ruichang on 31 July. On August 2, it captured De'an, Jiangxi. On 8 August, it occupied Wucheng, Jiangxi, Jianchang on the 9th, Zhang Jingyao's division of the 6th Division captured Nanchang, and on the 27th, Li Chun concurrently served as the chief of civil affairs in Jiangxi. On September 29, the Beijing government ordered Li Chun to act as the governor of Jiangxi and the chief of civil affairs, marking the recovery of the whole province of Jiangxi, and at the same time, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province was also recovered under the joint attack of Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun, Sun Monkey Zi Huang Xing fled abroad, Chongqing and other independent provinces once again declared their independence and obeyed the arrangements of the central court.

Ever since Li Chun became the governor of Jiangxi and the head of civil affairs, he adopted a stern policy to crack down on Sun Monkey's rebellion against the party, banned Kuomintang organizations at all levels, dissolved provincial assemblies, arrested legislators, strictly banned mass gatherings, and closed down newspaper offices. This atmosphere of terror gradually spread to all sides, from the entire Jiangxi region, especially the southern Jiangxi region, to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and other places, dealing a great blow to the Sun bandit separatists and safeguarding the country's unity and stability.

When all parts of the southern provinces were immersed in the atmosphere of cracking down on separatists, there was a peaceful situation in Jiujiang City, and Chang Zhenbang, the guard of Jiujiang Town, implemented a policy of coercion and obedience in Jiujiang City, except for chasing down and suppressing a very small number of remnants of the Sun Party who did not repent and were bent on rebellion, and received great success.

This is not to say that Chang Zhenbang does not want to fight against Sun Monkey's gang of rebels, but the focus of his work is to reorganize the armed forces in his hands and gather the army on hand that everyone has into an effective army.

Chang Zhenbang's armed forces consisted of six Jiujiang battalions, one Lin Bao battalion, one Liu Shifa battalion, one Wenxian regiment, and one Shahe Town brigade.

Chang Zhenbang served as the division commander, Zhang Youneng was the colonel's adjutant, Zhao Laosi was the head of the guard regiment, Hua Zhongtian was the deputy division commander and concurrently the commander of the First Brigade, Liu Shifa was the director of the Military Justice Division and concurrently the commander of the Second Brigade, Zhang Youhua was a training instructor and concurrently served as the commander of the Third Brigade, and as for the other regiment commanders, most of them were selected from the Sixth Battalion of Jiujiang, except for a few who were promoted from the officers of Wenxian County, and this greatly ensured the combat effectiveness of the army and also stabilized the morale of the army.

This sudden change caused dissatisfaction among the top brass of the Central China Army, and although everyone was eager to replace him, everyone pretended to be loyal and patriotic, and interpreted Chang Zhenbang's behavior as a traitor seeking glory and betraying the entire Central China Army.

Bi Zehua also praised Chang Zhenbang's performance on the battlefield, and finally asked Chang Zhenbang to give up his official position as the envoy of Jiujiang Town for the sake of the friendship between the Central China Army and the Beiyang Army, and to serve as the deputy envoy of the town guard, and at the same time to reduce the army and restore it to the establishment of a Wenxian garrison regiment before the war. This approach attracted a lot of ridicule from the Beiyang Army, and Chang Zhenbang categorically refused, even if he agreed, now those officers under him will not agree, these heads in exchange for official positions, what is the spell He Bi Zehua returned to the past with a word? There are no doors! It's not just the officers who are dissatisfied, but also those soldiers, everyone is a soldier, but you let people lay off soldiers, it really smashes people's jobs, and even some soldiers ask Chang Zhenbang to lead troops north to destroy Bi Zehua.

Of course, this is an angry talk and a joke, Bi Zehua has a heavy army, not Chang Zhenbang can resist with a small town guard, as for Bi Zehua's disarmament

Seeing that the officers and soldiers agreed with this, Chang Zhenbang immediately replied and flatly refused, and informed the whole country to expose Bi Zehua's despicable practice of pretending to be public and private, treating the army as private property, and arbitrarily dismissing officers, and at the same time declaring that the whole country would support the central court and obey the dispatch of the central government. He also said that if the central government was afraid of Bi Zehua's obscenity, as long as he sent a telegram, Chang Zhenbang would not be said to be the guard of Jiujiang Town, and all military and official positions could be abandoned.

The central government was suddenly pushed to the forefront of the storm, no matter what the reason, if Chang Zhenbang's official position was really removed, the only little authority of the central government is afraid to be lost, and from then on, the provinces are called government officials in fact to divide the princes, this atmosphere can not be long, and the central monarchs who realized the seriousness of the consequences immediately ordered to reprimand Bi Zehua, praising Chang Zhenbang's heart of supporting the center.

Bi Zehua looked at the telegram from the central court, tore it to pieces in annoyance, and shouted that he was a traitor who would die, ignoring Zhao Yuanren's dissuasion. He ordered Tang Baichuan, chief of staff of the First Army in Central China, to temporarily take charge of the division commander of the Second Suppression Army in Jiangxi, and to cooperate with Zhou Defa of the First Suppression Army to carry out an effective crusade against Chang Zhenbang, the garrison of Jiujiang Town, and telegraphed to the whole army that whoever could seize Chang Zhenbang's head would be appointed as the envoy of Luonan Town in Central China.

As soon as this order came out, it greatly boosted the morale of the bandit army, and the facts proved that they couldn't beat the Beiyang Army and the Jiangxi bandit army, but for Chang Zhenbang, they were fearless at all, and they had worked together for so long, who didn't know who, so Zhou Defa dispatched the first bandit army in Central China from Nanchang, and Tang Baichuan dispatched the second bandit army in Central China from Jingdezhen to defend Jiujiang.

The central government strongly condemned this practice, but President Yuan did not move, and the generals of the Beiyang Army were happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

After receiving the secret report from the spies, Chang Zhenbang laughed and said after summoning the generals of the whole division in the town guard mansion: "Bi Zehua, the overseer of Central China, has long cherished the heart of secession and disobedience, and now the imperial court has appointed us to guard Jiujiang, and he dares to cross the imperial court to attack Jiujiang, and he really regards the law of the imperial court as nothing, which is tolerable or unbearable!" ”

Hua Zhongtian is also very dissatisfied with Bi Zehua's approach, since ancient times, those who have made meritorious contributions in the army will be rewarded, and those who have done so will be punished, how can there be such a reason for making great achievements but not rewarding them, so he roared angrily: "Please give an order, after all, we have the same hatred of the enemy, and destroy the enemy who is coming!" ”

Duan Huacheng, the commander of the Third Regiment of the First Brigade, stood up and said: "Lord Hua said this very well, we are the officials of the imperial court, and the brothers are soldiers of the imperial court, what kind of thing is he Bi Zehua, he dares to let the adults dismiss the army!" Wouldn't it be for me to wait for my brothers to dismiss from office? It's really unreasonable, he was originally an adult vanguard officer, exterminated the Huazhong Army, gave Bi Zehua, an old cub, a little color, and let him know that my Jiujiang man is not so easy to bully! ”

"What Master Duan said is reasonable, he Bi Zehua is the overseer of Central China, our Jiujiang belongs to Jiangxi, Li Chun doesn't care about our business, this old boy's hand is very long! I am also willing to be a pioneer for adults, and cut off the hand stretched out by this old boy! ”

Chang Zhenbang said lightly: "Since Bi Zehua's old dog looks down on my Jiujiang Army so much, then Lao Tzu will let him come as much as he wants, and die as much as he wants!" Let the people of the world not underestimate my Jiujiang Army! ”

"Your Excellency is wise!" Seeing that Chang Zhenbang had made up his mind to attack the Central China Army, the officers couldn't help but cheer loudly.

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