Jiangxi is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Control the Yangtze River waterway, north and Anhui, ashamed of the "stream". It faces Hunan in the west, Jiangsu and Fujian in the east, and Guangdong in the south.

After the "Wushen Revolution", Zhao Bei led the republican army from Anhui to the west, and the first major city recovered was Jiujiang City in Jiangxi. However, due to the strategic focus of Zhaobei in Hubei, the Republican Army adopted a strategy of abandoning Jiangxi in the following short period of time, except for Wu Zhenhan, who briefly led the rearguard troops to hold Jiujiang, most of Jiangxi did not experience the baptism of revolution. It was successively controlled by the Manchu forces, the Beiyang forces, and the Junxian forces until the republican army freed up. Only then did Yan Xishan and Li Liejun be dispatched to lead the "eastward advance team" to sweep Jiangxi.

With the support of the Republican Navy gunboats, the eastward advance team quickly took control of the Jiujiang River and Hukou in northern Jiangxi, and then went upstream along the Poyang Lake water system to further control the entire northern Jiangxi region. Due to the limited strength of the eastward advance team, which relied entirely on the Hubei Army to provide military expenses and ammunition, it was unable to further expand the results of the war after controlling the northern Jiangxi region, and the area that lost to the south was still under the control of the Manchu forces.

Later, Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangguang, announced, "Anyway. The local Manchu regimes in Hunan, Fujian and other provinces also collapsed one after another, and the stubborn Manchu forces in southern Gan lost foreign aid and had to declare, "Anyway." "The power of the Junxian faction in Jiangxi has increased greatly, and the loss of the south has become the territory of the Junxian faction." After the outbreak of the "Hunan and Guizhou Incident", the Jiangxi Junxian faction actively responded to the Junxian forces in Hunan and Guizhou, joined hands to strangle the revolutionary forces in Hunan, and openly betrayed the revolution. It took only a short time to unify the decree of the whole province of Jiangxi, and at this point, Jiangxi was completely under the control of the revolutionary camp.

However, with the disappearance of the enemies of the monarchy. Although the two have not yet publicly broken up, the military zhèngfǔ in Jiangxi has been divided into the Yan faction and the Li faction, attacking each other, demolishing each other, and each sending a telegram to Zhao Beipai, the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, to report the other party's black state.

Although Zhao Bei was far away in Wuhan, he was also insightful about the internal struggle of the Jiangxi army. After all, the "eastward advance team" has the eyeliner laid by the commander-in-chief, and from the very beginning, this unit has been the "pole" released by the commander-in-chief. It was only temporarily lent to Yan Xishan and Li Liejun for use. Sooner or later, it will be taken under the command of the commander-in-chief.

In fact, the struggle between Yan Xishan and Li Liejun is in line with Zhao Bei's thoughts, which is also the balancing strategy he set at the beginning, otherwise, Yan Xishan would not have been appointed as the governor of Jiangxi, but Li Liejun held the position of commander-in-chief of the eastward advance team, this appointment made Yan Xishan the nominal supreme military and political head of Jiangxi, but Li Liejun was the actual supreme commander of the Jiangxi Provincial Army, and because Li Liejun also held the post of Anhui and Jiangxi patrol envoy, the two could have a tie in the army.

However, both of them are people who believe in strength. They have begun to set up and expand their own descendants, after the rebellion war, Yan Xishan has controlled 10,000 troops, Li Liejun because he is from Jiangxi, control more troops, but his troops are mostly stationed in southern Jiangxi, far away from Hubei. So strategically it is not as advantageous as Yan Xishan. And because Yan Xishan is not from Jiangxi, he is far inferior to Li Liejun in terms of popular hearts and opinions, so he is so. The two sides are evenly matched for the time being, and no one can help the other.

This is the current situation in Jiangxi, Yan Xishan controls the northern part of the country, Li Liejun controls the southern part of the country, and the already unified Jiangxi government decree is facing the danger of splitting.

This is precisely the main reason for Zhao Bei's inspection of Jiangxi, after solving the forces of the Communist Party in Hunan and Guizhou, Jiangxi has become the next province to be annexed by the commander-in-chief, and the confrontation between Yan Xishan and Li Liejun is conducive to the commander-in-chief's realization of his strategic intentions. Therefore, the commander-in-chief rushed to Jiangxi by taking the opportunity to solicit votes for the congressional election.

Yuecai Zhao Bei took the opportunity of Yan Xishan's sycophants to lead the topic to abandon the army and enter politics, but Yan Xishan immediately stated his position, but Li Liejun, who was sitting on the side, was quite disdainful of this. Crooked his mouth, this small action fell in Zhao Bei's eyes, which made him have a further understanding of the roughness between the two.

Although it is recommended that Yan Xishan run for the Senate, Zhao Bei really does not plan to drive Yan Xishan out of the army, at least not for now, after all, his Yan family is also a cadet of the army non-commissioned officer school, military talents, now is the time for the republican army to be strong, of course, the more military talents, the better, not only Yan Xishan should stay in the army, Li Liejun should also stay in the army, serve the commander-in-chief, and fight for the commander-in-chief.

But under this chaos, people's hearts are not at ease. Anyone with a little strength is dreaming of taking advantage of the chaos to make a profit, Zhao Bei and Yuan Shikai are the representatives of these people, although the strength of Yan Xishan and Li Liejun is far inferior to these two, but they are also ambitious.

At the beginning, the reason why Zhao Bei let Yan Xishan and Li Liejun make trouble in Jiangxi was just to respond to the revolutionary cause of Hubei and the four provinces. And considering that Jiangxi Cang Province is controlled by Sushan and Li Liejun, and the military and political power is concentrated in the hands of the two of them, they are trying to get rid of the influence of the Republican Army, so Zhao Bei decided to make a decisive move at this time and control Jiangxi's army in his own hands before they are yet winged.

At the beginning, Zhao Bei was delegating power, and now, he wants to take power.

Yan Xishan and Li Liejun both wanted to be the "king of Jiangxi", but the commander-in-chief would not let them succeed. For these two people, there are other arrangements for the general search order.

"Bo Chuan, I'm just joking with you, you don't have to be nervous. Even if you plan to run for the Senate of Congress, I will not approve of it, you are a military talent, and Concord is also a military talent, so let you go into politics, then it will be of great use. Although some progress has been made in the revolutionary cause, it is still far from the goal of our revolutionary soldiers, so how can you leave the army at this moment? ”

Seeing Yan Xishan's trembling appearance. Zhao Bei stood up with a smile, patted him on the shoulder, and motioned for him to sit back.

At this moment, the painting side slowly stopped, and everyone raised their eyes to see that the smoke pavilion in the middle of the Gantang Lake was close in front of them, and the painting side was docking.

"Commander-in-chief, please look, that's the hall of the Yanshui Pavilion

Li Liejun stood up and pointed to the small pier to introduce Zhao Bei.

This Gantang Lake is formed by the convergence of Lushan spring water, the lake water is clear, the scenery is beautiful, as early as more than 1,000 years ago it is the place of literati and ink travel, this Yanshui Pavilion is said to have been built in the Tang Dynasty and Yuanhe period. It has been more than 1,100 years ago and has gone through war. The original Tang Dynasty building has basically disappeared, only the dock of this boat hall still retains the remains of the Tang Dynasty, there is a stone tablet on the dock, that is, the ship pile used to bolt the ship back then, there are poems engraved on it, but the age is old, the tablet surface is mottled, and you can only see "Yuan He." waited for a few words, but the content of the poem could not be guessed

Yan Xishan and Li Liejun accompanied Zhao Bei to the dock first and stopped in front of the stone monument.

Wait for Zhao Bei to take his attention away from the stone tablet. Two strangers were found waiting on the side. It's all Tsing Yi hats, and I can't see what they're doing.

Li Liejun hurriedly stepped forward and led the two to Zhao Bei, and they introduced themselves.

"Contemptible Zhao Wenkai, now the official of the Yijun Army."

"Contemptible Ding Xiangling, now the commander of the middle lane of the Yi Army."

Zhao Bei was a little strange and glanced at Li Liejun. asked, "These two are Jiang Hanqing's subordinates?"

Li Liejun nodded and said, "It's Jiang Hanqing's subordinates." They were guests in my house the other day, and they have always admired the commander-in-chief; I heard that the commander-in-chief was inspecting Jiangxi, so he came with me, and I arranged for them to wait for the commander-in-chief at this Yanshui Pavilion. ”

Jiang Hanqing is Jiang Guidi, this person is a native of Bozhou, Anhui Province, joined the Twist Army in his early years, and later took refuge in the Korqin Prince Monk Greenqin, turned to the Twist Army as an enemy, accumulated merit and rose to the pipe belt, and was later transferred to the command of Song Qing, the commander of the Yi Army, and since then has become the general of the Yi Army, participated in the Sino-Japanese War, was dismissed due to defeat, and Yuan Shikai was training at the small station. He was briefly transferred to the New Army, but soon after Jiang Guidi returned to the Yi Army and placed him under the command of Rong Lu, the governor of Zhili.

After the "Gengzi National Change", because of the meritorious service of escorting the two palaces back to Jian, Jiang Gui was crowned the title of the prince and the young prince. Soon after, Song Qing, a veteran of the Yi Army, died. The commander of the Yi Army was vacant, Jiang Gui and another Yi army veteran Ma Yukun had a battle in the open and dark, and finally Ma Yukun won and became the second coach of the Yi Army, Jiang Gui was excluded, and was transferred away from the north, leading the eight battalions of the Yi Army about 2,000 people to the south of Pukou to train the Jiang Defense Army, at the end of last year, the Yi Army President Ma Yukun died of illness, Jiang Gui successfully took over as the President of the Yi Army, and became the third commander of the Yi Army. Then came the "Wushen Revolution." "He was ordered to lead the Yi army to fight south and attack the Xiong Chengji rebel army, and since then he has been leading the army to garrison Anhui.

It stands to reason that Jiang Guidi was the executioner of the suppression of the revolution, and he and the revolutionaries were on two paths, but such a person sent two henchmen to Jiangxi to contact Li Liejun, the general of the revolutionary army, and it was no wonder that Zhao Bei would find it strange.

"The two of you came to Jiangxi, won't they come to see the scenery?" Zhao Bei looked at the two of them

Zhao Wenkai and Ding Xiangling looked at Li Liejun.

Li Liejun muttered a few words to an adjutant, and the adjutant hurriedly beckoned the officer brought by Zhao Bei to sit in Yanshui Pavilion Cuizhaoxuan.

After waiting for the idlers to leave, Li Liejun pointed in another direction and said to Zhao Bei:

"Commander-in-chief, that's Jingbo Tower, the scenery is the best there, Commander-in-Chief might as well move to Jingbo Tower, let's talk there."

Zhao Bei nodded and led the guards to follow, but due to the captain of the guards, Tian Jinfu, suffered from heat stroke. failed to follow, so this personal bodyguard added a few more pounds of villains.

waited for Jingbo Building and ordered someone to serve tea and snacks, and Li Liejun made a brief introduction to Zhao Wenkai and Ding Xiangling's intentions.

These two henchmen of Jiang Guidi came to invite Li Liejun to go to Anhui to be an official and be the governor of Anhui.

This is very strange, Jiang Guidi asked a revolutionary to be the governor of Anhui, and people who don't know the details may mistakenly think that Jiang Guidi also joined the revolutionary party.

But Jiang Guidi did not join any party. He is still the president of Yijun, and he came to invite Li Liejun to be the governor of Anwei, because he had other plans.