As the army under the command of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi approached Wuhan in triumph, the armies under Tang Shengzhi were defeated, and the Hunan Laochao was also attacked by the menacing Li Jishen and Huang Shaohong. Lu Diping's Second Army, which is located in Yichang in the west, has been secretly persuaded by Li Zongren to prepare to attack Wuhan, and the generals under his command Li Pinxian, Liao Lei, and Ye Qi from Guangxi also have no fighting spirit and advocate peace.

Bai Chongxi is worthy of the title of Xiao Zhuge , using the old classmate and Guangxi fellow Ye Qi was sent by Tang Shengzhi to negotiate peace, and skillfully used means to make Ye Qi a book thief Jiang Gan, Ye Qi went back and truthfully told Tang Shengzhi that Zhang Guowei, the deputy commander of the Eighth Army, had been bribed by Bai Chongxi and frequently secretly contacted the enemy Cheng Qianbu on the opposite side.

When Li Zongren received the telegram, he immediately issued a wanted warrant in the name of the special committee, listing more than a dozen charges against Tang Shengzhi, such as conspiring with the enemy, expropriating and expropriating the country, privately dividing the state treasury, and framing Zhongliang.

Tang Shengzhi knew that Li Zongren would never let himself go easily, and there were still so many enemies waiting to fall into the well, so he had to take thirty-six plans as the best plan, temporarily avoiding the limelight and waiting for a comeback. In the early morning of the following day, accompanied by his adjutant Gong Hao, he secretly boarded the passenger ship "Mimemaru" and left Hankou, where he was escorted into exile by the destroyer "Pufeng".

Before getting on the ship, Tang Shengzhi held an emergency military meeting, and did not blame Li Pinxian, Liao Lei and Ye Qi and other generals, but earnestly told his generals to return to Hunan to preserve their strength, and waved their hands to let everyone leave, the master and slave were reluctant, shedding tears and saying goodbye, Tang Shengzhi only left Zhang Guowei who was still in a dream, Zhang Guowei did not have time to ask Meng Gong what instructions he had, he was strangled to the ground by several of Tang Shengzhi's personal guards, Tang Shengzhi rushed to the dock after this evil breath.

On the twelve, the Hunan army that lost its commander all withdrew from Wuhan and retreated to Hunan, Cheng Qian's Sixth Army, Hu Zongduo's Nineteenth Army and Ye Kaixin's Forty-fourth Army immediately occupied the three towns of Wuhan, Xia Wei led the Seventh Army to chase until Xianning at the junction of Hunan and Hubei before stopping, and Tao Xun's Eighteenth Army killed to the west of Hubei.

Li Pinxian and He Jian hurriedly telegraphed the whole country, asking for a truce from the fighting, and Li Zongren, who was full of ambition, felt that the soldiers urgently needed to rest and recuperate after the fierce battle, and at the same time it would take time to send troops to occupy Hubei in Nuoda, so he acquiesced in the manner, transferred Chen Tiaoyuan's 37th Army back to the Anhui battlefield, and returned to Nanjing to command the overall situation, paying close attention to Chiang Kai-shek's every move who had just returned to Shanghai.

However, Li Zongren still ignored the tremendous energy of Wang Jingwei, who was squeezed out by him, ignored Chiang Kai-shek's superb political methods, and overestimated his own strength and prestige.

With the return of Chiang Kai-shek, a large number of depressed and unambitious Kuomintang veterans who had been excluded slowly gathered around Chiang Kai-shek.

Wang Jingwei, Zhang Fakui, Huang Qixiang, Chen Gongbo, Li Fulin and other military and political giants saw that the Gui family took Wuhan so quickly and was about to dominate the two lakes, and knew that their nest Guangdong would soon be under the butcher's knife of the Gui system, especially Li Jishen's tough attitude and Huang Shaohong's secret drive of the two divisions to Wuzhou in the upper reaches of the Xijiang River.

Therefore, Zhang Fakui and others, who had long shouted "Cantonese people governing Guangdong," could no longer sit still, and Wang Jingwei, who had been squeezed out of the center of the political arena by Li Zongren, held a grudge even more.

Dark clouds and lightning thundered everywhere throughout China, and on November 12, Chiang Kai-shek held a grand commemorative rally in Shanghai to commemorate the birth of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, so as to promote his political ideas; Feng Yuxiang also convened a meeting of tens of thousands of people in Zhengzhou, and gave an impassioned revolutionary speech full of "Feng's style and passion", calling on the people to follow him on the revolutionary road, but also did not forget to loudly call on Li Zongren to lead the Northern Expedition and call on Chiang Kai-shek, who had just returned to China, to reinstate himself as soon as possible and take on the heavy responsibility of revolution again, the implication was that Li Zongren, who had not given a penny to the Northwest Army for several months, was simply not qualified to be the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army; In Guangzhou, Wang Jingwei, who claimed to be the successor of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, held a grand parade to celebrate, and before the thousands of soldiers and civilians who supported Wang Jingwei had not taken a few steps, they were interrupted by the political slogans shouted by as many as 80,000 workers and citizens, and by the workers and citizens who had confiscated their weapons and banned the assembly by Zhang Fakui and Huang Qixiang, who had launched a large-scale petition activity.

Only the autumn breeze in Nanchang is cool, the sun is shining, there is a jubilant atmosphere everywhere, initiated by the provincial chairman Zhu Peide, the people from all walks of life in Nanchang participated in the activities to commemorate the birthday of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the people who have gradually improved their living standards have shown great revolutionary enthusiasm, the army, students and people from all walks of life have marched in a neat and orderly manner, and the grand occasion is unprecedented, and it seems that everyone has a good hope in their hearts.

The procession walked from the Gongyuan Courtyard on the west side of the East Lake to the Zhuangyuan Bridge, and was attracted by the exquisite buildings that had just been expanded to the south of Baihuazhou and reflected in the blue waters of the East Lake.

This belongs to the "Jiangnan Enterprise Group" of the western-style building in more than two months of expansion, has become the focus of Nanchang citizens' heated discussions, all kinds of rumors and speculation make this fresh "nightclub" appear mysterious and attractive, we vaguely know that the tall building three-story main building is a nightclub and a hotel, the two-storey annex building on the left is "Nanchang Guoshu Museum", the two-storey annex building on the right is a Western restaurant and café, but no one knows what the nightclub in the main building is, all the rumors continue to arouse people's curiosity more and more.

After the parade, by noon, tens of thousands of people flocked to the three-story western-style building covering an area of more than 2,100 square meters to have a glimpse.

The colorful flags and ribbons hanging high around the western-style building, fluttering in the wind, from the hands of Mr. Yan, the first calligrapher of the city, "Jiangnan Nightclub" five glittering big characters, neatly inlaid on the tall carved arched lintel of the main building, the gate with the magnificent four Romanesque columns on both sides is full of the festive flower basket of "opening auspicious", the happy payment of the flower basket is all "Jiangxi Provincial Political Axe", "the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army", "the New Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army", "the New Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army", "Jiangxi General Chamber of Commerce", "Nanchang General Chamber of Commerce". ", "Jiangxi Provincial Security Command" and other prominent units, the most subordinate is also "Jinxian County Political Axe", which shows how deep the background of this nightclub is.

The beautiful parking lot in front of the nightclub erects three flagpoles more than 20 meters high, the national flag flutters on the flagpole, and a big red signboard with a height of five meters and a width of three meters stands under the flagpole, on which the opening announcement and the premiere announcement at eight o'clock tonight are written in golden font The performance turned out to be the finale of tonight, and there are also "more than 50 kinds of snacks, flavor snacks", "more than 30 kinds of Chinese and foreign famous wines" and extremely fresh service items, etc., like a bombshell, in a blink of an eye, the sound spread all over the streets and alleys of the city, and after a while, the whole city knew that tonight's performance dignitaries gathered, all of them participated with invitations, and there were no tickets to buy, so hundreds of rich children who spent a lot of money began to jump up and down, looking for invitations all over the city, The transfer price of an invitation card for an ordinary seat in the hall immediately rose from twenty yuan to fifty yuan, and it was still rising wildly.

At the closed gate of luxury, eight heavily armed security guards stood guard majestically, singing fluttered in the nightclub, the atmosphere was relaxed, a dozen beautiful Belarusian ballet dancers on the stage were rehearsing for the last time to the accompaniment of the band, and five or six tall Americans in their twenties and thirties had just finished beating jazz and singing American country songs, and An Yi, who could speak a few words of broken English, was joking in a low voice.

In the first two rows of round-table auditoriums, there are more than 30 old brothers of An Yi's reading master, among which there is an old Han Tou who opened a tavern in old Nanchang to make wine, this guy has a mottled Qin Qin on his knees, Chang Baofang, deputy director of the Lieutenant Colonel of the Nanchang Recruitment Office of the First Army sitting next to him, leaning on the erhu at his feet, and sitting in front of several brothers in the front row are playing dulcimer, suona, gongs and drums and other common musical instruments in rural festive temple fairs, among which there is a big wooden fish knocked by a monk.

At this time, more than 30 brothers were all fascinated by the slender and toned thighs, charming faces, and water-like figures of the White Russian girls on the stage, staring at the girls spinning on the stage stupidly, and they were reluctant to blink.

In the private room on the left side of the oval second floor, Gu Chang, who was wearing a silver-gray exquisite suit and a top hat of the same color, was handsome and elegant, and was watching the rehearsal with his beloved girl Zhou Ruoting and Feng Jieyun, who was as beautiful as a fairy.

The sharp-eyed Zhou Ruoting looked down at Gu Changfeng's eyes that hated iron and steel, suddenly covered her small mouth, "giggled" and laughed, Feng Jieyun, whose gentle eyes had been condensed on An Yi, was awakened by Zhou Ruoting's laughter, thinking that she was laughing at herself for looking at An Yi stupidly, and her pretty face suddenly turned crimson.

Feng Jieyun leaned in and was about to pinch Zhou Ruoting to show revenge, Zhou Ruoting hurriedly grabbed her hand and whispered in her ear, Feng Jieyun immediately looked at the stupid appearance of the thirty brothers below, couldn't help but cover her lips with her hands, and retreated into the depths of the box.

The two beauties laughed wildly, their temples trembled, and Gu Changfeng on the side made his face red, but fortunately, after the ballet rehearsal, the Russian conductor who directed the "Veteran Art Troupe" and another composer called for the brothers to come to the stage for rehearsal, Gu Changfeng breathed a sigh of relief, and asked the two girls to go down and sit down together for a while, because Gu Changfeng was going to play the flute on stage later, and Shen Fengdao was going to play the guzheng, which was one of the accompaniment instruments for singing, just like An Yi's accordion.

(To be continued)