Before the outbreak of the Battle of Hunan, the Songhu garrison made Lu Yongxiang start a "crusade" against Li Houji!

The Northern Expeditionary Army under the command of Yang Sen and Yang Jie also began to deploy troops in Zhejiang, ready to seize this rich land at any time.

At this time, Li Houji was a little panicked.

It turned out that in his vision, once he captured Zhejiang, his main force was still there, plus Zhejiang, with the rich land of Zhejiang as the source of military salaries, and backed by Shanghai and Jiangsu, or could barely fight with the Northern Expeditionary Army.

But who would have thought that now that the Northern Expeditionary Army has not yet arrived, Lu Yongxiang in Shanghai has already come to "crusade" against him.

Two-way attack, can Zhejiang still hold it?

In a panic, Li Houji arranged defenses and prepared for the worst, while secretly making contact with the Northern Expeditionary Army, trying to sacrifice some of his own interests in exchange for most of his own interests.

It is a pity that the current Northern Expeditionary Army has already drawn up a plan for peace talks formulated by the president himself, and negotiations are possible, but the main premise is that they must accept the request of the Nationalist Government, abandon the army, and only serve as the provincial governor, and take the term of one year.

This point made Li Houji unacceptable. The army means everything for these warlords, big and small, and the loss of the army will soon lose everything.

Just when Li Houji was hesitating, Lu Yongxiang's troops had already arrived!

In July, Lu Yongxiang used He Fenglin to defend Shanghai, and he personally led two divisions to attack Zhejiang, and on September 11, Lu Yongxiang launched an attack on Jiaxing.

On the 12th, the two armies launched a tentative attack in Jiaxing, and as soon as they came into contact, the two armies took the initiative to separate and confront each other with Jiashan as the center.

In Jiashan, the Zhejiang army arranged by Li Houji was personally guarded by his confidant Li Saiyuan. In Longquan, Li Houji personally defended the Northern Expeditionary Army with his own defeat and retreat to Zhejiang's Fujian army.

The vanguard of the Northern Expeditionary Army, with Tong Baoxuan's subordinate Lin Zhiyuan's 42nd Division as the vanguard, quickly entered the territory of Zhejiang.

In this way, it became the trend of the Northern Expeditionary Army and Lu Yongxiang's army encircling Zhejiang.

Until this time, Li Houji was still lucky, he hoped that his two groups of men and horses could block the enemy's march, let himself gain a firm foothold in Zhejiang, and obtain the right to bargain with the national government!

However, his hopes were soon ruthlessly shattered!

On July 18, as if agreed, the Northern Expeditionary Army and Lu Yongxiang's army launched an attack on Zhejiang at the same time.

Li Houji first abandoned Tong Baoxuan, and then took advantage of Yang Shande's serious illness to seize the position of Zhejiang overseer, and killed the former Zhejiang overseer Yang Shande alive, which made his reputation in Zhejiang already very bad.

As soon as the war broke out, the Zhejiang army on the front line was defeated, and there was no intention to respond to the battle, only on the 16th, Zhejiang lost the battlefield of Jiashan, and they were defeated in Jiaxing.

On the 20th, Li Saiyuan concentrated all his forces and fought a decisive battle with Lu Yongxiang in Jiaxing. But still like the Battle of Jiashan, Zhejiang had no intention of responding to the battle, and Li Saiyuan was defeated again in the decisive battle of Jiaxing.

When the battle came to this, Li Saiyuan had no intention of continuing any longer. He quickly gave up Jiaxing and retreated to Tongxiang, settling the army's heart while making a posture of defending Tongxiang.

Li Houji, who is in Hangzhou, is so confused, how can this happen? At the same time as the decisive battle of Jiaxing failed, his troops in Longquan were also hit hard by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and they abandoned Longquan in just one day.

An even heavier blow then fell on Lee's head.

On July 21, Li Houji's confidant and cousin Li Saiyuan telegraphed in Tongxiang and announced that he would accept the leadership of the National Government!

This news blew up Li Houji like a thunderbolt. He would never have imagined that his cousin, whom he trusted so much, would betray him!

In fact, when Li Houji betrayed Tong Baoxuan and the Min army, he should have expected that this day would come sooner or later. He can betray others, and others can betray him!

Yang Sen quickly expressed his acceptance of Li Saiyuan's surrender, and announced the reorganization of Li Saiyuan's Zhejiang Army into the 43rd Division of the National ** Army, and ordered it to hold Tongxiang and threaten Hangzhou.

This is not only Li Houji, but even Lu Yongxiang is in a very embarrassing position!

Originally, he fought Li Houji, but with Li Saiyuan's surrender, he was no longer facing the Zhejiang Army, but the National ** Army!

If you continue to attack Tongxiang, you will be openly opposing the National Army, and you will soon let the National Army target you.

What to do?

Lu Yongxiang is in a dilemma, the attack must not be attacked, retreat to Shanghai? The march in vain wasted so much military salary, and I was really unwilling. …,

The Northern Expeditionary Army did not have so many scruples, and the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had obtained Longquan, quickly advanced in the direction of Jinhua. Li Houji's descendant Fujian army was defeated all the way and was unable to form an army.

Finally, Li Saiyuan still had some feelings in mind, and did not directly attack Hangzhou, which gave Li Houji some respite.

But now the situation is not critical, according to the current strength and morale of the two armies, Jinhua will soon be lost, and then the Northern Expeditionary Army, which is advancing all the way, will soon advance to Hangzhou!

Li Houji no longer has the strength to continue to hold on, and at this time, he has less than one mixed brigade left in his hands!

The Northern Expeditionary Army even closed the door to peace talks!

There is only one last way left for Li Houji: to go to the field!

On July 26, the fatal blow to Lee Houji happened:

The Zhejiang Federation of Commerce announced its support for the Northern Expedition of the National Government and provided 1 million military funds for the Northern Expeditionary Army!

Although it was only a Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, the blow it brought to Li Houji was no less than the annihilation of several divisions.

This means that the Zhejiang consortium has abandoned the "outsider" Li Houji and completely turned to the Northern Expeditionary Army!

In fact, the Zhejiang consortium did not treat Li Houji, who seized the position of the Zhejiang overseer, as its own person at the beginning, but when the Northern Expeditionary Army was in full swing on the front line, Li Houji was completely abandoned.

The most important thing for businessmen is profit!

With a military fiasco and the loss of financial support, Lee Hou-gi has no choice!

On the 28th, a large number of representatives of Zhejiang banks, including Zhejiang Industrial Bank, Industrial Bank, and Zhonghua Donglu Bank, arrived in Jinhua one after another to persuade the local defenders to lay down their arms.

On the same day, under the persuasion of representatives of these consortiums, the defenders of Jinhua announced their surrender.

In the Battle of Zhejiang, these consortia played an important role, although sooner or later Jinhua would fall into the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army. But the Jinhua defenders did so, but they prevented them from continuing to flee to Hangzhou, so that Li Houji could continue to have illusions.

On the 30th, the General Headquarters of the Hussar Corps of the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Jinhua and met with representatives of these Zhejiang consortiums.

During the meeting, Yang Sen accepted a million yuan grant from the Zhejiang Consortium to the Northern Expeditionary Army, and expressed his friendship with the Zhejiang Consortium on behalf of the President and said that he would ensure their interests in Zhejiang.

This undoubtedly makes the representatives of these consortiums very satisfied.

The influence of the Zhejiang consortium, or more accurately the "Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortium", is very large.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the transformation of Qianzhuang into a modern bank began, and in this process, in addition to the gradual impact of the Qianzhuang industry and the gradual influence of the business dealings with foreign banks, and the new industry and commerce could only produce new requirements for the Qianzhuang, there were two major events that had a great impact on this transformation. In 1897, Sheng Xuanhuai founded China's first bank, China Commerce Bank, to the eve of Xinhai **, China Commerce Bank's capital plus deposits and the issuance of banknotes, the funds that can be used reached 10 million taels, far more than any money bank at that time, which gave the money bank industry a huge shock and a sense of crisis.

However, at the same time, Yan Xinhou, Ye Chengxin, and Zhu Baosan, who were from Ningbo, invested in China International Commercial Bank and served as chief directors, marking the beginning of the march of Qian Zhuang people into modern banks. In 1904, Lu Zhonglin, the secretary of the household department of the Qing court, was instructed to establish the household bank of the Qing Dynasty, because the treasury was empty, private capital was invited to join the shares, and the originally invited Shanxi ticket number unanimously refused to buy shares, and as a result, the household bank should be organized by the silk merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In 1908, Hubu Bank was renamed Daqing Bank, and its capital expanded to 10 million taels, most of which was controlled by merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At the same time, it also independently invested in the establishment of a large number of banks, such as Siming, Zhejiang Xingye, Zhejiang Industrial, Zhonghua Donglu, Zhonghua Quangong, China Reclamation, and Chinese Enterprises. In the process of expanding the banking business, non-Ningbo businessmen and capitalists had close contacts with it, and the scope of fund-raising gradually expanded from a single Ningbo nationality to Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangsu nationality!

So far, the banks controlled by people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang have become the most important force in Shanghai's financial circles, and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium has been formally formed.

And now, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium has completely fallen to the side of the national government!

The double blow of military and economic made it impossible for Li Houji to hold on any longer.

On August 2, 1919, Lee Hou-gi announced his resignation.

On the same day, Yang Sen announced that he would accept Li Houji's entry into the wilderness, and made it clear that he would ensure the safety of Li Houji's personal life and property, and that Li Houji would still be responsible for the security of Hangzhou after the Northern Expeditionary Army did not enter Hangzhou.

On August 9, after full preparations, the forward troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Hangzhou, and Li Houji walked out of his Overseer's Office.

At this point, another warlord who once dominated China stepped down.

Li Houji then left Zhejiang, arrived in Hong Kong via Shanghai, and like the previous governors and overseers of the army on summer nights, Li Houji left the military and political circles and became a carefree and comfortable apartment.

There is no longer any need to care about military victories and defeats, political battles and covert battles. Maybe Yugong is the best choice for them.

Zhejiang, which fell into the hands of the Nationalist Government, was stationed in Jiaxing with Lu Yongxiang's troops.

The Northern Expeditionary Army does not seem to have expressed any opinion on Lu Yongxiang's stationing in Jiaxing, and they even adopted a tacit attitude, which is indeed very puzzling.

Yang Sen and Yang Jie are waiting, and the Northern Expeditionary Army is also waiting for something, and it is also a sudden change.

In fact, Lu Yongxiang, who was stationed in Jiaxing at this time, didn't know why he also had a very strange feeling in his heart! N）