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Chapter 448 The confusing situation

Hu Jialin and his sister Sun Lan'er's wedding is very grand, 600 tables of sumptuous banquet from the east street entrance of Botou Town to the west street entrance of the town, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have to be divided into several batches to go to the banquet to arrange it, the moving story of the husband and wife, soon spread throughout the entire Cangzhou area, become a good story in the troubled times, the infatuation and bumpy years of the two, more attractive than Hu Jialin's outstanding military exploits and the glory of returning home. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Chengzhu and his entourage bid farewell to An Yi and Hu Jialin and his wife, and rushed to Hengshui under the escort of 300 iron guards, and will lead the cavalry that left for Hengshui in advance to take a train south to Xuzhou that night.

Due to the collapse of the war situation and the heavy losses of all the units under his command, Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the Feng army, was helpless, and finally issued an order to retreat on all fronts in pain, and then telegraphed the whole country to request a truce, and the Northern Expedition entered the final stage.

Because the First Group Army had no new combat missions, the officers and men of An Yi's Independent Division were able to continue to stay in Botou Town, south of Cangzhou, to recruit troops, and the scattered troops of the Zhilu Army hidden in various parts of Cangzhou were joined one after another, and groups of heroic men came to defect one after another.

On 1 June, Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, completed his meeting with Yan Xishan, commander of the Third Group Army, and then went south from Shijiazhuang to Zhengzhou, where he once again met with Feng Yuxiang, commander of the Northwest Army, who held a strong army and played a pivotal role in the camp of the revolutionary army.

On 2 June, Zhang Zuolin, commander of the Feng Army, announced that he would withdraw from Beijing and leave the customs, saying that state affairs would be subject to the people's ruling. As soon as this telegram came out, it immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the Japanese government and the strong reaction of the Japanese army, and the Kwantung Army immediately intensified the mobilization of troops, tightly blocked the communication arteries leading from the Great Wall to the outside of the Guan, and claimed that it would deal a devastating blow to any revolutionary army that dared to leave the pass and enter the northeast, and the Japanese Third Division, which forcibly landed in Qingdao, ordered the squadron to withdraw from the Qingdao area and the Jiaoji line 20 kilometers away, and the European and American teams gathered in Tianjin then entered a state of combat readiness.

On 3 June, after consulting with Feng Yuxiang, Commander-in-Chief Chiang returned to Nanjing by train from Zhengzhou, and then sent a secret order to the former enemy's general headquarters of the First Army to withdraw southward in batches.

In the early morning of 4 June, on his way back to Mukden, when the special train he took arrived at the bridge cave at the intersection of the Jingfeng and South Manchurian railways near Huanggutun, it was blown up by a bomb planted in advance by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the last ruler of the Beiyang military regime was seriously injured and died at the age of 53 on the same day. Wu Junsheng, the general of the Feng army and known as the first senior staff member of the Feng army, was killed at the same time. The Feng army command suppressed the news and kept it secret, but the top brass of the Feng army had already learned of the shocking news, and the people's hearts were immediately disheartened and panicked; On the same day, the Nanjing Nationalist Government suddenly and unexpectedly appointed Yan Xishan as commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Tianjin garrison, which aroused strong dissatisfaction from Feng Yuxiang, commander of the Northwest Army, and the relationship between the Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army, which originally belonged to the same camp, suddenly became delicate, and small frictions and tensions broke out everywhere, and the whole situation suddenly became confusing and full of unknown variables.

On June 6, all the flags of Beijing were replaced, and the blue sky and white sun flags were hung throughout the city, indicating that this thousand-year-old capital has since been included in the embrace of the national government. General Feng Yuxiang's Second Army Han Fuju's Department took the lead in driving to Nanyuan on the outskirts of Beijing, Liu Zhenhua's troops gathered on the front line of Langfang and Yangcun, General Yan Xishan's Third Army was not to be outdone, Xu Yongchang led his troops to control the Changxindian line, and Tan Qinglin's troops occupied Lugou Bridge, the gateway to the capital; The three armies of the Fourth Group Army led by Bai Chongxi of the Gui Department also left Henan and entered Zhili at this time, took a special train, and drove into the Beijing-Tianjin line at high speed, and the situation in the entire region became more and more chaotic.

On 8 June, the former commander-in-chief of Yan Xishan's Third Army, Shang Zhen's Division, entered the city of Beijing, and the Bao Yulin Brigade of the Feng Army withdrew to the north of Tongzhou, where it was disarmed by the Han Fuju Division, which had already turned north. Yan Xishan, who arrived in Baoding, saw that the friction between the Second and Third Group Armies was getting worse and that there was a possibility of an exchange of fire at any time, so he immediately cut off the telegram to the whole country, immediately assumed the post of commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Tianjin garrison, and appointed his generals Zhang Yinwu as the commander of the Beijing garrison and Fu Zuoyi as the commander of the Tianjin garrison, thus encapsulating the military and political power of Beijing and Tianjin in one fell swoop; Feng Yuxiang, who was only assigned to the Chongwenmen Tax Administration Office in Beijing, was greatly dissatisfied, but he did not dare to openly oppose the opinions of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, so he postponed his entry to Beijing under the pretext of illness in a fit of rage, and privately sent a telegram of inquiry to Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, asking him why he had rebelled.

However, Commander-in-Chief Chiang sent a telegram to the whole country the next day, announcing his resignation from the posts of commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and chairman of the Central Political Conference with immediate effect on the grounds that "the reunification of China has been completed due to the struggle and sacrifice of the people of the whole country" and "the establishment of the northern capital and the completion of the military affairs."

At present, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren, the three group armies, with up to one million troops, are crowded into the Beijing-Tianjin area, and they are plotting with each other how to divide their interests, but Chiang Kai-shek announced his withdrawal at this time, which immediately made Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren at a loss.

Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan both said that if Chiang Kai-shek was not reinstated, they would also retire, and all parts of the country called Nanjing to ask Commander-in-Chief Chiang to stay in office.

At this time when the world is boiling and the future is uncertain, Botou Town, where An Yi's Independent Division is stationed, is a happy place, a quiet and peaceful scene, 3,000 newly enlisted Cangzhou soldiers put on the new military uniforms of the revolutionary army transported by train, and under the guidance of Zhao Rui, the head of the teaching regiment, and the soldiers of the first battalion, they went to Hengshui, and returned directly to the base camp of the independent division on the other side of Nanjing City by special train.

More than 200 members of the Hu family and more than 500 members of the seven martial arts families who have made up their minds to move south are preparing to move to Lao Nanchang, seeing that Commander-in-Chief Jiang announced his departure again, the situation in the country is like a mess, and more than ten elders of the eight families are all gathered in the main hall of the Hu family, asking An Yi to explain the current situation and guide the maze, otherwise there is no bottom in his heart.

An Yi, who had already analyzed all this clearly and thoroughly, did not care, politely invited everyone to sit down, and reported in detail the current political situation and the situation in Nanjing, Shanghai, Nanchang and other places to a group of elders, and then told everyone in detail about the strength of his Jiangnan enterprise group, the 15,000 soldiers under his command with the brand of "Jiangxi Security Command", the more than 14,000 officers and soldiers of the Yin Jinan Garrison Division stationed in the old Nanchang, and the main force of 18,000 independent divisions stationed on the other side of Nanjing City.

Let's not say that Commander-in-Chief Chiang will not go into the wilderness, even if Commander-in-Chief Chiang does go into the wilderness, we have an industry worth tens of millions of dollars, more than 40,000 well-equipped soldiers, stable and rich territories such as the Nanchang region and the Jiujiang region, and various friendly armies distributed in the north and south of the great river. This remark was simple and reasonable, and soon made the apprehensive elders smile, and immediately went back to speed up the preparations for moving south.

Hu Jialin's uncle and father also sighed, and when they saw everyone disperse, Uncle Hu asked softly: "The words of the virtuous nephew have untied the knots in the hearts of the parents, but I don't know what the virtuous nephew thinks about the future situation?" Now that the interests of the three parties of the revolutionary army are unevenly distributed, and the smell of gunpowder is getting stronger, will there be chaos in the north again? ”

An Yi thought for a while, and said solemnly: "Chaos is definitely chaos, but I just don't know when this powder keg will explode?" Uncle has also seen the current situation, the death of Zhang Dashuai of the Northeast Army has been confirmed, and the Japanese will definitely intensify their efforts and force the Northeast Army to completely surrender, even at the expense of fighting each other, everything can only depend on Zhang Shaoshuai, where will his 300,000 Northeast Army go, it is difficult to predict!

Secondly, General Feng Huanzhang's Northwest Army and General Yan Baichuan's Jin Sui Army fought very fiercely for the relatively rich territory in the Beijing-Tianjin region, and General Li Delin and General Bai Jiansheng were unwilling to be excluded from the situation, and they wanted to insert a pole again, and now more than one million troops are crowded on the ground in Zhili and Beijing, even if the battle cannot be fought in the end, they will exploit and squeeze the people of Zhilu and Beijing and Tianjin in order to raise troops. The north has experienced wars for many years, and it has reached the point where the people are not able to make a living, and if they raise so many troops, can the people have a good life? ”

Everyone's faces changed, they nodded in unison, and An Yi continued: "Actually, Commander-in-Chief Jiang announced his departure at this time, which is far from being as simple as it seems to ordinary people, there are several important reasons in it, the little nephew will talk to the eldest uncle and the second uncle, just finish listening to it, don't spread it:

First, Commander-in-Chief Chiang's statutory term of office has expired, and it is normal for him to announce his resignation. Second, although Commander-in-Chief Chiang was the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, although it was only in honor, the revolutionary army unified the rest of China's territory except for the northeast, which made his prestige skyrocketing, and even if it was not a real national unification, it could be regarded as completely eliminating the northern government, so that there was only one unified central government in Nanjing, and the European and American powers could not openly support other warlords to split China, and even the Feng warlords who were strongly supported by the Japanese became unreasonable.

When Commander-in-Chief Chiang became famous, he announced that he would go into the wilderness and throw out a desolate and ruined mess, who in the whole country could clean up at this time except him? Who else can the people of the whole country believe but him? In the past few days, everyone has also seen that more than 100 generals from all walks of life across the country, including Feng Huanzhang, Yan Baichuan, Li Delin, etc., have called to retain Commander-in-Chief Jiang and telegraphed the whole country to express their obedience to his leadership, all for fear that Commander-in-Chief Jiang will really pick on his son and quit, and even the little nephew has also telegraphed the whole country to join in the fun, haha! The commander-in-chief's trick of retreating into advance is really clever!

Third, this is also a very important point, when Commander-in-Chief Chiang repeatedly stated the reasons for his resignation, he put forward the wish of 'building the country with the party, disarming the country, developing the economy, and restoring the people's livelihood', which won the strong support of the people from all walks of life across the country, and the warlords were forced to express their approval by public opinion, which means that the next step is to reduce the strength of the whole army, and the strength of the major warlords will also be reduced, and from then on, the strength of the local warlords will be weakened step by step, and the army will be slowly put back under the leadership of the central government, and finally the complete unification of military orders and government decrees will be completed. This is the greatest purpose of Commander-in-Chief Chiang! ”

Everyone nodded again and again and suddenly realized, and they all said that Commander-in-Chief Jiang was calculating. Father Hu sighed, and suddenly remembered that An Yi was desperately expanding the army these days, and even his son had set up a pro-military camp full of Cangzhou children, and he was afraid of being burdened by disarmament, so he hurriedly asked An Yi:

"Virtuous nephew, when it comes to disarmament, I'm worried again, in the past ten days, you have recruited more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, will they also be dismantled? So many children were discharged from the army just after enlistment, how can they be embarrassed? There are also the cavalry of Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong, the two virtuous nephews, after all, they are the troops they have just attached, can they continue to survive in this wave of layoffs? ”

An Yi smiled slightly: "Second uncle, please rest assured, no matter how we disarm, our independent division will not be moved, only the local troops and the troops of various warlords will be dismantled, our independent division is not only a model army of the whole army, but also Commander-in-Chief Jiang's own descendants, even if we are willing, Commander-in-Chief Jiang is reluctant!" Taking 10,000 steps back, even if we really cut the independent division, we can also turn the entire regiment into the Jiangxi Provincial Security Force, and we only need to change the name of the place, and there will not be much of a problem. As for my eldest brother Chengzhu's cavalry division, it will not be reduced, but will increase the troops, because the cavalry in the army belonging to the central government is already pitiful, and in recent days, how can the few loose cavalry divisions that have been attached to and newly established in recent days be compared with the battle-hardened iron cavalry of my brother Chengzhu? If the revolutionary armies of the north and the south fight one day, and Commander-in-Chief Chiang does not have one or two cavalry in his hands, will it work?

On the day of Brother Hu's wedding, under the auspices of the eldest uncle, the second uncle and the three elders of Cangzhou Ground, the little nephew and Brother Hu, Brother Chengzhu, and Brother Jinlong have married Jinlan, and the little nephew will definitely not let his eldest brother's army be damaged, not only will he speak for Brother Chengzhu in front of Commander-in-Chief Jiang and the Central Military Commission, but will also give him batches of advanced weapons and equipment, so that his cavalry division will become the most powerful cavalry army in the country, so as to better ensure our own interests and the safety of our families, the stronger the right to speak. ”

At this time, Hu's father and uncle finally completely relieved their hearts, and praised An Yi, who was young but had such a deep city and foresight, and Hu Jialin, Lu Guang and other brothers also laughed happily.