At the same time that Luo Yaoguo went north to defend the GCD for his territory and army, Chiang Kai-shek also fought for the Kuomintang in the southwest. A war in the Southwest, which did not exist in another time and space, was instigated by the wings of a butterfly.

The trigger for this war was the Guangxi Civil War, which was fought by the Commander-in-Chief of Guangxi, Yang Ximin, and the Governor of Guangxi, Liu Zhenhuan. The Yang-Liu War broke out in September 1923 at the instigation of Chiang Kai-shek. Guangxi Commander-in-Chief Yang Ximin and Governor Liu Zhenhuan used to have a good relationship, and their relationship had always been very harmonious until they took over Guangxi. However, after Lu Rongting in Guangxi was driven away, the contradiction between the Yunnan and Guizhou armies became bigger and bigger. It turned out that when they were in Guangdong, Yang and Liu had to huddle together to keep warm because they were surrounded by a group of Cantonese Yankees. But now that he has obtained a province in Guangxi and has begun to be the master of his own house, the question of who will be the boss and who will be the second will be immediately put in front of him.

Yang Ximin of the Yunnan army has a force of more than 10,000 people, and it seems that this boss should be done by him. However, Liu Zhenhuan of the Gui Army is the head snake of Guangxi, and those bandits and militia groups in Guangxi are willing to do anything with him, so it didn't take long for Liu Zhenhuan's troops to expand to more than 10,000 people, which was on par with Yang Ximin. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek sent He Chengjun, who was transferred back from Fujian, to tell Liu Zhenhuan the story of Guiren's rule of Gui. How powerful He Chengjun's mouth is! How can Liu Zhenhuan withstand him flickering around his ears every day? So, Liu Zhenhuan began to make a small report to Mr. Zhongshan, saying bad things about Yang Ximin. And these small reports, I don't know how to go around Zhu Peide and Fan Shisheng and arrive at Yang Ximin.

When Yang Ximin saw this situation, he naturally had to think of countermeasures, so he asked his henchman Hu Sishun to discuss.

"Min Gong, the current situation is always unfavorable for us. There are people in the DPRK with the surname Liu, and their Bai Chongxi of Guangxi is now the deputy chief of the general staff, a popular man around Chiang Kai-shek, while Mr. Zhongshan only listens to Chiang Kai-shek and Xu Chongzhi. Hu Sishun told the boss about the unfavorable situation he had come up with. Our Zhu Yizhi in Yunnan is an honest man, how can he win Bai Chongxi? In my opinion, the status of our Dian army in Mr. Zhongshan is not as good as the other, so it is better to consider the proposal of the joint marshal (Tang Jiyao), right? ”

It turns out that Liu Zhenhuan's small report is not all groundless, and Yang Ximin and Tang Jiyao in Yunnan really have some contacts. In fact, Yang Ximin was originally Tang Jiyao's subordinate, but in the first two years, he followed Gu Pinzhen to oppose Tang Jiyao and drove Tang Jiyao from the position of Yunnan overseer, and later Tang Jiyao took advantage of Gu Pinzhen's response to Mr. Zhongshan's Northern Expedition, and suddenly returned to his nest, killed Gu Pinzhen, and regained power. At that time, Yang Ximin was leading troops in Guizhou, and because he was afraid of being liquidated by Tang Jiyao, he had to lead his troops to take refuge in Mr. Zhongshan.

"The co-marshal is not very easy to get along with." Thinking of Tang Jiyao's hot hands, Yang Ximin felt a chill down his spine. "Why don't I go to Guangzhou in person and explain things clearly to Mr. Zhongshan?"

Hu Sishun sneered: "The current Mr. Zhongshan is not the Mr. Zhongshan of the past, since he returned to Guangdong, he has been tightening his military power, and now not only the military salary is paid to the regimental level, but also the transfer of a battalion of soldiers must be approved by the General Staff of Lao Shizi and the Ministry of Military Affairs!" In this way, aren't we, the commanders and commanders, an empty shelf? It doesn't matter if those Cantonese guys are his sons and nephews, why should we Yunnan people suffer from this kind of bird anger! ”

"It's not good to be so hasty in this matter, you and I are both people who have betrayed the commander-in-chief, and Mr. Nakayama is not sorry for us." Yang Ximin did not know that he had fallen into Chiang Kai-shek's calculations, and he was still hesitant.

Hu Sishun was determined to defect to the old master, but because most of the troops were under the control of Yang Ximin, he would become the commander of the bare pole army if he didn't pull Yang into the water. So, in order to pull Yang Ximin into the water, Commander Hu Jun's mind turned around and came up with a clever plan. "Gong Min, why don't we test Mr. Zhongshan and see what he does to us? How is it? ”

"What kind of temptation?" Yang Ximin seemed to be somewhat interested.

"We can declare a crusade on the grounds that Liu Zhenhuan betrayed the revolution, and if Mr. Zhongshan values us, he will naturally order us to be appeased, and then we will get off the donkey and continue to make a revolution with him." Hu Sishun didn't say another result, hum, the other result is, of course, that Mr. Zhongshan sent a large army to crusade, so Yang Ximin took refuge in Tang Jiyao and relied on Tang's assistance to confront Mr. Zhongshan.

"Okay, that's it!" Under Hu Sishun's bewitchment, Yang Ximin finally made up his mind to do something that he would regret for the rest of his life.

As soon as Yang Ximin's crusade order came out, Mr. Zhongshan's Generalissimo Office immediately ordered Yang to be dismissed from his official position, and ordered him to immediately go to Guangzhou to explain the reason to the Generalissimo's Office. Subsequently, Liu Zhenhuan of Guilin also announced a crusade against Yang Ximin, saying that he colluded with Tang Jiyao in Yunnan in a vain attempt to attack Guangdong, and the Generalissimo's Office did not punish Liu Zhenhuan for what he did. This is tantamount to admitting Liu Zhenhuan's accusations against Yang Ximin in disguise! At this point, Yang Ximin had no way out except to complain to himself, so he had to send a messenger to Kunming to ask Tang Jiyao for help.

Tang Jiyao and Yan Xishan are classmates, both graduated from the sixth phase of non-commissioned officers, both of them are experts in internal affairs, and they are not good at fighting. However, Yan Laoxi has benefited Shanxi all these years, devoted himself to the economy, and did not participate in the warlord melee, and is a model among warlords. And Tang Jiyao is a soft persimmon without self-knowledge, obviously a soft persimmon, but he thinks he is very hard, he is dedicated to fighting the civil war, and he is expanding everywhere, but the soft persimmon is always a soft persimmon, Tang Jiyao expands and expands, and the territory is not big, and his brothers have died a lot. So much so that in 1921, Gu Pinzhen took advantage of the war-weariness of the troops to launch a mutiny and overthrow, and it was not until the next year that he returned to Yunnan with the support of Long Yun and other old generals to regain power.

Tang Jiyao, a militant who took back Yunnan, still did not recognize the fact that he was a soft persimmon, and immediately expanded the Yunnan army under his command into "Jian[***]", and assumed the post of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces for the founding of the seven provinces of Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi! At the end of 1922, the Sichuan-Guizhou coalition army was reorganized. And in March 1923, using Liu Xianshi, who failed in the internal strife in Guizhou, as a signboard, he sent his elder brother Tang Jiyu as the southeast Xuanfu envoy and the former commander-in-chief of the Yunnan-Guizhou coalition army, and led the army into Guizhou. On March 12, Guizhou Governor Yuan Zuming led his army to retreat into Sichuan, and Guizhou fell back into the hands of Tang Jiyao. After taking Guizhou Province, Tang Jiyao took Tang Jiyu as the supervisor of Guizhou's aftermath and Liu Xianshi as the governor, divided Guizhou into five districts and ten subdivisions, and set up garrison commanders to carry out strict control.

Soon after, the two armies of Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan sent by Mr. Zhongshan drove away Lu Rongting in Guangxi and became neighbors with Tang Jiyao. Tang Jiyao, who took Guizhou, faced the problem that his troops were pinned down by Guizhou and he had no troops to invade other provinces. So he tried to recruit the old ministry to see if he could bring Yang Ximin back, so that Guangxi might also fall into Tang's hands. Tang Jiyao gave Yang Ximin the price of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Founding Alliance and the superintendent of Guangxi, while Yang Ximin wanted to swing between Sun and Tang in order to achieve the goal of seizing Guangxi. As Mr. Zhongshan gradually regained military power, Yang Ximin and Hu Sishun, who felt that their situation was not good, accelerated the pace of contact with Tang, until October 1923, Yang Ximin, who was designed for Chiang Kai-shek, completely threw himself into the arms of Tang Jiyao and was electrified as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Founding Alliance.

Chiang Kai-shek learned of Yang Ximin's appointment as deputy commander-in-chief of the Founding Alliance on the way to Guangxi, and he personally led the army to Guangxi on the third day of the opening of the Whampoa Military Academy. According to Chiang Kai-shek's plan, Bai Chongxi led a total of three divisions, the 8th and 11th Guangdong and Gui 1st Divisions, to form the Northern Route Army, which entered Guangxi from Wuzhou, and then advanced north to "reinforce" Liu Zhenhuan in Guilin. Zhu Peide led two Yunnan armies from Qinzhou to the north into Nanning. Chiang Kai-shek himself, together with An Yi, led five divisions and two artillery regiments to march to Guangxi along the line of Zhanjiang and Qinzhou.

Yang Ximin, who betrayed Mr. Zhongshan, did not sit still, or passively waited for Tang Jiyao's reinforcements, but sent Hu Sishun's army to deal with Liu Zhenhuan who was entrenched in Guilin first. There are more than 10,000 people under this Liu Zhenhuan, but there are not many who can really fight, this so-called "Gui army" is just a hodgepodge of bandits and militias, and it is not the same thing as the elite soldiers brought out by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, so Yang Ximin will send more than 7,000 Hu Sishun's army to expel them.

According to Yang Ximin's calculations, Tang Jiyao got the news that he was going to defect first, and naturally Yunnan's reinforcements should be one step ahead of Guangdong's crusading army, and with Tang Jiyao's support, he still has great hope of keeping Guangxi. However, Tang Jiyao has a lot of ambition and greed, and he will definitely grab land as soon as he enters the country, and the best territory in Guangxi is nothing more than Nanning, Liuzhou, and Guilin, so Yang Ximin plans to concentrate his forces to ensure that these three cities are not lost.

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