On the evening of April 1, in the headquarters of the Jiujiang Crusade Army, Zhengzhi sat proudly on his mahogany high-backed chair, and there were three people in the room, including He Yingqin, Yang Yongtai, chief of the general staff of the crusading army, and Lin Wei, chief of the general staff. Originally, this was a military operation, and Yang Yongtai did not have to come, but this time there was something different, Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui were single-handedly plotted by Yang Yongtai, Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff, and some problems still needed to be dealt with by him personally.

Chiang Kai-shek came to them to discuss the matter of He Jian in Hunan and Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui in Wuhan asking for electricity.

Chiang Kai-shek picked up a glass of boiled water on the table and took a sip lightly, and said in a voice that couldn't hide his joy: "I want you to come, there are two main things, the first thing is He Jian from Hunan, who sent a telegram today, making it clear that he would immediately electrify to the central government; The second thing is that Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui want to power in advance, this is the Fourth Route Army Song Wenge's troops have already arrived in Xiaogan, north of Wuhan, at noon today, and have already handed over the fire, Yang Tenghui can not stand it. As for He Jian in Hunan, you don't know his question very well. At the beginning of March, he sent Zhang Muxian to Nanjing to meet Dean Tan and me, to express his gratitude to me for making him the acting chairman of the province, and to complain about his difficulties in Hunan. Because Lu Diping, who was driven away by them, was Tan Zuan's old department, they asked him to forgive him for the reversal of Lu, and pretended to resign. He sent another telegram to Zhu Yizhi (Zhu Peide), telling him that "Hunan is unbearable to suffer from another war, and is willing to protect the territory and the people." If the Gui system is to be resolved by force, please take care of the disaster area and do not enter the territory of Hunan. "And asked Zhang Muxian to chase me to Jiujiang and bring a handwritten letter. In the letter, he said: "I dedicate myself to the party and the state, dare not go outside, and I am willing to be sincere and always support. "I handed over Zhang Muxian one by one warrants, appointed any key as the commander-in-chief of the 5th Route Army of the rebel army, and allocated 700,000 yuan for support. However, this He Jian still has his own abacus, and he did not immediately electrify to take up the position of commander-in-chief of the 5th Route Army, he still wants to see, now that Cheng Qian has been electrified, Wen Ge has sent troops to Wushengguan, plus Zhu Peide, Jingfu and Wen Ge have been overwhelmed by the army, and the defeat of the Gui system is a foregone conclusion, so the power generation is required to be electrified. As for Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui's request for early power, it was Yang Tenghui who was hurt by Wen Ge. Speaking of this, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't hide his joy and showed a slight smile!

Several of them knew about Zhang Muxian's visit to Jiujiang to see Chiang Kai-shek, but the specific content was not very clear, but they could all guess Zhang Muxian's intention. Even so, they were still very happy to hear the news that He Jian was going to power up, but the mood of the three of them was different.

He Yingqin's mood was a little complicated, at the beginning, he was very worried about crusading against the Gui family, in addition to the strength of the Gui family itself, he was also worried that Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan would take the opportunity to make trouble. But now it turns out that Chiang Kai-shek's judgment is unusually accurate. Yan Xishan has now telegraphed to express his support for the central government's crusade against the Gui faction, and nominally sent Song Zhewu, the Fourth Route Army, to participate in the crusade; Although Feng Yuxiang has not yet made his attitude clear, he can be regarded as accepting the fact that the central government is crusading against the Gui family, and sent 100,000 horses and horses of Han Fuyu's Third Route Army to garrison Wushengguan. Although he was still waiting and watching, the current situation was obviously favorable to the central authorities, and Feng Yuxiang did not dare to make any moves against the central authorities at this time. Thinking of Chiang Kai-shek's series of unbelievable and dazzling combination punches in the past few months, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were at a loss and exhausted to deal with them, and they almost didn't have a real battle against each other, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi lost, and now even a blind man can see that the defeat of the Gui family has been decided. He was very annoyed, and he was annoyed that the last time the Gui faction forced Chiang Kai-shek to go into the wilderness, he did not resolutely support Chiang Kai-shek, and it was precisely because of his ambiguous attitude as the No. 2 person in Whampoa that he crushed Chiang Kai-shek's last line of defense and prompted Chiang Kai-shek's gloomy downfall. The reason why Chiang Kai-shek still reused him after his comeback was that he knew that this was Chiang Kai-shek's order to maintain the unity of the Whampoa department, at least on the surface, and this unity was mainly for people outside the Whampoa department. He now deeply realized that he was too far behind Chiang Kai-shek in terms of political maneuvers and intrigues, and he regretted that he had lost his mind at that time. He secretly reminded himself that as long as Chiang Kai-shek was still in the day, he would never move any more crooked thoughts!

Yang Yongtai was secretly proud in his heart, and the initiator of all this was him, Yang Yongtai and Yang Changqing. It was he who gave Chiang Kai-shek the idea of "cutting the feudal domain" at this time; It was he who made a proposal to Chiang Kai-shek, suggesting that Tang Shengzhi should come back to deal with Bai Chongxi in Hebei; Or did he personally go to Hong Kong to win over Yu Zuobai, the former general of the Gui family, and then lure Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui down. This time, it can almost be said that he solved the Gui family bloodlessly, and most of the credit was made by him Yang Yongtai.

Lin Wei was full of admiration for his chairman, the Gui family, who was still a behemoth more than ten days ago, was defeated by Chairman Jiang's almost seamless series of clever moves, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the Gui family were defeated before they could finish a round. He believed that only a leader with superb political wisdom like Chiang Kai-shek, who was now full of new warlords, could have the ability to suppress and finally solve them, so that China could truly end the civil strife and achieve national reunification in the true sense.

Yang Yongtai was very happy to see Chiang Kai-shek, and decided to pat Chiang Kai-shek's ass at the right time, and said with a smile: "The chairman of the committee is really 'strategizing and winning a thousand miles'!" prompted Tang Shengzhi to go out of the mountain, forced Xiao Zhuge Bai Chongxi to flee to the sea, and destroyed the 100,000 troops of the Gui system in Hebei; successfully instigated Guang Chen Mingshu and Chen Jitang to throw themselves into the central government, decomposed the alliance between Guangxi and Guangzhou, and caused a fire in the backyard of the Gui Department; Pulling through Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui, the eastern defense line of Wuhan is in vain. Up to now, Li Zongren was still in the dark, not knowing that his Seventh Army had become like fish and meat, and thinking that several of his armies could be on top of Liu Jingfu's Second Route Army in the east. As soon as Cheng Qian telegraphed to the central government, with his prestige in Hunan, half of the Hunan problem would be solved, the door of Hunan would be opened, and Zhu Peide's First Route Army would be able to drive straight into Hunan. is still this He Jian clever, as soon as he calls Gui again, Gui is only left with Ye Qi's troops in Hunan, and it can be said that Hunan has been solved. Now, as long as the chairman agrees that He Jian, Li Mingrui, and Yang Tenghui will be telegraphed immediately, Xia Wei's Seventh Army can be said to be non-existent. The remnants of Gui's troops in Wuhan, Hu Zongduo's 19th Army and Tao Jun's 18th Army will immediately become lone troops, and they will by no means be the opponents of our two armies. Looking at it now, even without Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army, we can take Wuhan. ”

Chiang Kai-shek smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Changqing, don't compliment me, this crusade against the Gui family is your first credit." As for Wen Ge's Fourth Route Army, it is absolutely necessary, and only with them can we ensure that we take Wuhan as soon as possible, and only then can we more reliably ensure that Feng Huanzhang will not dare to act rashly. Li Zongren knew that they were not the opponent of the central government with their own strength, but they still dared to give it a go, that is, as long as the war dragged on, Feng Huanzhang and Yan Baichuan would not be able to bear the loneliness, and if they wanted to cause trouble, he would have a chance. But now his abacus is about to fail, and he has no capital to drag it out. You see, how to deal with the power request of He Key is in our best interest? ”

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