Since the First Division was already at full strength in accordance with the reorganization plan drawn up in Xiaogan, these recruits could not be trained in the units under which they were assigned to the First Division. Therefore, in order to facilitate management, Tao Rong organized all the new recruits who joined the Fourth Route Army into a temporary teaching team, which consisted of two brigades, one brigade was newly recruited real recruits in Zhengzhou, and the second brigade was the people of the Northwest Army.

At present, the Fourth Route Army stationed in the Zhengzhou area has exceeded 70,000 people. At this time, the population of Zhengzhou was only a little more than 100,000 people, and suddenly there were so many people, and the amount of vegetables, meat, and horse feed needed for horses to chew every day was huge, which brought great pressure to Zhengzhou's non-staple food market.

The Fourth Route Army was better when it first arrived in Zhengzhou, but it will not work in the past few days, prices have begun to rise, and the regiments of the 1st Division have begun to ask for an increase in food expenses. Especially the priceless rise, and the common people have already begun to complain.

After the director of logistics reported to Tao Rong, Tao Rong had no good way, so she had to take the director of logistics to find Song Zhewu.

After listening to the reports of the two, Song Zhewu said with a smile: "It's okay, the market will adjust itself soon." ”

"The market regulates itself?" Tao Rong and the director of logistics were a little puzzled.

Seeing that the two were puzzled, Song Zhewu knew that the word market regulation was a little difficult for the two soldiers, so he explained: "It is the adjustment of economic activities caused by price changes caused by changes in market supply and demand. It is the manifestation of the law of value regulating the production and circulation of commodities. To put it simply, the prices of vegetables and meat and other commodities in the Zhengzhou market are now rising, and the prices of the surrounding counties and townships are lower than those in Zhengzhou. ”

Seeing that Tao Rong, Zhao Fengwu, and the director of logistics were all looking at him with wide eyes, Song Zhewu said with a smile: "Don't look at me like this, this is the most basic economic law, these are not of much use to us now, and you soldiers don't need to think about it." However, once we have our own territory, economic issues will attract our attention. In my opinion, the self-procurement of various units will be temporarily abolished, and the logistics office will designate a few large businesses for them to make centralized purchases, and the logistics office will allocate them to the various units to avoid raising prices. Since it is purchased in large quantities from them, the price is naturally lower than the market price. ”

After the designated unified procurement of several large merchants, although the purchase price of the Fourth Route Army has declined, but due to the large number of materials purchased by the Fourth Route Army, these merchants still make a lot of money, in order to earn a greater price difference, they have gone out of Zhengzhou to purchase farther places, and even went to the Kaifeng area.

After only three days, prices in the Zhengzhou market have basically returned to their previous levels.

Time always blinks to the middle of May, unlike Song Zhewu's comfort and leisure in Zhengzhou, the forces of all parties in China during this time are in full swing.

After Chiang Kai-shek drove Li and Bai back to Guangxi, he still refused to give up, saying: "The purpose of this time is not only to crusade against Li and Bai, but also to ensure that after Li and Bai are eradicated, there will never be any traitors who will rise up after Li and Bai." In order to completely eradicate Li and Bai, and at the same time to deter all forces, Chiang Kai-shek drew up the "Second Phase of the Operational Plan for the Rebel Army" on 14 April, stipulating: "With the aim of fundamentally eradicating the Gui rebellion, Guangxi will be attacked by the three routes of Hunan, Guangdong, and Yunnan." On the Hunan side, He Jian led the Fourth Route Army from Yongzhou, Daoxian, and Xinning in western Hunan to the northeast of Guangxi; After Chen Jitang's Eighth Route Army assembled in Zhaoqing, it marched to the eastern part of Guangxi; Long Yun led the 10th Army from the Yunnan-Guizhou border to the southwest of Guangxi, and attacked Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi on three routes. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also appointed Yu Zuobai as chairman of Guangxi Province, Li Mingduan as the Guangxi commissioner, and Yang Tenghui as the deputy commissioner for Guangxi.

At the same time as the military deployment, Chiang Kai-shek also continued to use the means of disintegrating the Gui system. Although he wanted to put Li and Bai to death, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi had already escaped from the tiger's mouth and sneaked back to Guangxi's lair, but he couldn't do anything for a while. When Li and Bai returned to Guangxi, it was like a dragon swimming into the water, and it was only a matter of time before the clouds and rain again, and this was exactly what Chiang Kai-shek was most worried about. Therefore, while Jiang continued to attack Gui, he instigated Huang Shaohong, chairman of Guangxi Province, one of the three giants of the Gui family, to turn against Li and Bai in an attempt to squeeze Li and Bai away.

Soon after Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi returned to Guangxi, Chiang Kai-shek contacted Huang Shaohong through Chen Jitang and Chen Mingshu in Guangdong, in an attempt to divide the relationship between Huang Shaohong and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.

Huang Shaohong is the core figure of the Gui Department in the grass-roots period, Li Zongren pulled the flag, Huang Shaohong joined the gang, this was the initial strength of the Gui Department, and when the Northern Expedition, Huang Shaohong saw no future in Li Zongren and turned to Shen Hongying - to be honest, this kind of thing is absolutely intolerable to ordinary people, but Li Zongren endured it, and he was able to continue to maintain a cooperative relationship, because of this, Huang Shaohong was also dead set on Li Zongren from then on. Therefore, of course, Huang Shaohong, who is sitting in Guangxi, will not have any disagreement with Li Zongren, which Li Zongren knows very well in his heart - Huang Shaohong is not Han Sui, and Li Zongren is not Ma Chao, so it is absolutely impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to succeed if he wants to follow Cao Ying's counter-plot.

In mid-to-late April, Chiang Kai-shek sent Xiang Hanping twice to Guangxi to meet with Huang Shaohong to discuss a peaceful solution. Huang Shaohong put forward four suggestions: '1. Immediately restore Li Jishen's freedom. 2. Withdraw the investigation and handling of Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Li Jishen. 3. Give Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi the name and travel expenses for overseas investigations. 4. The deployment of the Guangxi troops was handled by Huang Shaohong with full authority.

Naturally, Chiang Kai-shek could not agree to such conditions. In mid-May, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized the Hunan army, the Guizhou army, and the Yunnan army to attack Guangxi. The Gui army won successive victories in Guilin and Liuzhou, defeating the Hunan army, the Guizhou army, the Yunnan army and other departments. Chiang Kai-shek quickly mobilized Li Mingrui, Yu Zuobai, and Yang Tenghui's former Gui army to go south to Guangdong and west to attack Guangxi. Due to the strong combat effectiveness of Li Yuyang's troops, they quickly captured Wuzhou. Guiping's defender Wei Yunsong abandoned the city, and the Gui army was no longer able to fight. Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Huang Shaohong had no choice but to announce their departure from the opposition and leave Hong Kong.

For Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek did not slow down by half a point because of the crusade against Guangxi. Dispatching troops from all walks of life into Henan was not only the troops of the Central Army, but also ordered Tang Shengzhi's Sixth Route Army to be stationed in Zhumadian, Ruzhou, Dengfeng, and Xinmi to prepare for the Northwest Army.

On the one hand, he continued to spread rumors that Feng Yuxiang colluded with Soviet Russia, and wantonly created public opinion to attack Feng Yuxiang. At the beginning, Feng Yuxiang was dismissive of these rumors, according to the rumor spread by Chiang Kai-shek, he, Feng Yuxiang, is now the biggest red element in China, and even the Zhu Mao Red Army, which is still making trouble in Jiangxi, is not as red as Feng Yuxiang. But seeing that the news in the newspaper was getting more and more outrageous, Feng Yuxiang couldn't sit still in the end.

Feng Yuxiang sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek on 18 April, asking him to come out and refute the rumors: "Today, the Central Committee and many local newspapers and periodicals have spread rumors to slander Feng for colluding with Soviet Russia and not benefiting the party-state. In order to eliminate rumors and restore Feng's innocence, the central government should quickly dispatch a responsible officer to investigate the truth and find out the truth. Chiang Kai-shek replied to Feng Yuxiang on the 22nd and said: "My generation has shared weal and woe, and we know each other very well. On May 4, Chiang Kai-shek met with Feng Yuxiang's deputies in Nanjing, and asked Feng Yuxiang to come to Nanjing to discuss matters and not mind the rumors. After that, Chiang Kai-shek urged Feng Yuxiang to enter Beijing several times. However, Feng Yuxiang said that he would not go to Nanjing, but only telegraphed Chiang Kai-shek to send a representative to Tongguan to discuss everything. Even when Chiang Kai-shek's reply telegram was published in the newspapers, the secret struggle between the two sides had turned into an open dispute.

On 7 May, Chiang Kai-shek issued a proclamation entitled "Peaceful Reunification Is the Only Hope for the Nation's Political Axe," in which he said murderously: "If we want to eliminate civil strife, we must eradicate the warlords, and if we want to eradicate the warlords, we must fundamentally extinguish the idea of feudal territory." The spearhead is pointed at, and a discerning person can see at a glance that this proclamation is actually a mobilization order to ask Feng.

Feng Yuxiang also refused to show weakness, and ordered Pang Bingxun to start demolishing the railways east of Gongxian and blowing up the bridges on the 15th. Chiang Kai-shek immediately called Feng Yuxiang to ask him the reason for blowing up the bridge and destroying the road, and Feng Yuxiang replied with a-for-tat telegram, refuting the accusations against him and continuing to sabotage traffic.

Song Zhewu sighed secretly, he still has too shallow foundation, otherwise he can pull Han Fuyu's people over now. However, although he was very helpless about this matter, there were still some things to prepare, and he ordered the Second Regiment, the Cavalry Brigade, and the Guard Brigade to be ready to set off at all times.

Song Zhewu estimated that Han Fuyu had defected to Feng Yuxiang in the past few days.

Han Fuyu followed Li Xingzhong and Wei Fenglou all the way west to Shaanzhou. As soon as he arrived in Shaanzhou, Li Xingzhong came to Han Fuyu with Feng Yuxiang's telegram. The telegram was sent by Feng Yuxiang in Huayin, Shaanxi, and the content was that Han Fuyu should immediately come to Huayin for a meeting.

Although Han Fuyu had the intention of recapturing the 20th Division, at this time not only Cheng Xinming's 22nd Division, but also Liang Guanying's 21st Division and Wei Fenglou's 23rd Division, especially according to Han Fuyu's chief of staff of the 20th Division, his old partner Li Shuchun told him that Sun Liangcheng in Shandong had withdrawn westward and would soon arrive in Shaanzhou. Seeing that there was really no chance, Han Fuyu had a secret discussion with Li Shuchun before he was reluctant to leave Shaanzhou and go to Huayin step by step.

As soon as Han Fuyu arrived in Huayin, he was called by Feng Yuxiang. As soon as Han Fuyu entered the house, before he could see the situation in the house, Feng Yuxiang shook over a telegram and said with a cold face: "Take a look!" ”

(To be continued)