Chapter 435 Guangdong Incident (I)

Beijing, Nanyuan, Army and Navy Joint Staff Office.

The Army-Navy Joint Staff Office is a new institution that has just been established. In fact, this is a frame set up by Zhao Bei, president of the Republic of China, in preparation for the "joint staff of the army and navy." Modern warfare stresses the coordination of various services and arms, and now there is no independent air force, otherwise, this would be the "joint staff of the army, navy, and air force."

Although the current organization is only a division-level unit, and the staffing is not large, although the sparrow is small, it is complete, and basically the prototype of the future army and navy joint staff has already appeared in the Nanyuan barracks, and the current top official of the army and navy joint staff office is the director, and the current director is Lan Tianwei, and there are two deputy directors under the director, who are in charge of the army and navy, and the deputy director in charge of army affairs is Zhang Xiaozhun, a classmate of the Japanese noncommissioned officer school of Lan Tianwei, and the deputy director in charge of naval affairs is the former "Haichen" Lu Ping, the captain of the cruiser, a division chief and two deputy divisions of the Army and Navy Joint Staff Office, and in addition to Zhang Xiaozhun, who had sat on the cold bench in the Beiyang Group for a period of time, the other two senior officers were all from the Republican Army Group, so we can see what kind of organization this Army and Navy Joint Staff Office is.

The Joint Staff Office of the Army and Navy is the organ used by Zhao Bei, President of the Republic of China, to gather military power, and the establishment of this organ can be regarded as an important step for the center to straighten out the relationship between the army and the navy, and also an important step for Zhao Bei to digest the military strength of Beiyang. Moreover, it is a righteous and bright conspiracy, and others have no excuse to point fingers at the setting up of this institution, plus the current power of the War Department and the Navy Department has not been significantly weakened, Duan Qirui and Tang Xiangming really have no complaints, at least on the surface.

The reason why the office of the Army and Navy Joint Staff Department was chosen in the barracks of the 100th Division of the Nanyuan National Defense Force was also to avoid overly stabbing the officers in the War Department and the Navy Department, and the establishment of the Army and Navy Joint Staff Office in the Nanyuan Barracks also made it convenient for Zhao Bei to preside over some military reform work here, and there were many fewer constraints.

However, after all, the Nanyuan barracks is a little far away from the presidential palace, and if there is nothing to do in normal times, Zhao Bei will not often run to Nanyuan, and the work of the army and navy joint staff office will not be very busy.

Today, however, the Nanyuan barracks has become bustling with traffic, with many cars coming from Beijing and a large number of officers rushing to the Nanyuan barracks on horseback, for a very simple reason, because General Zhao Bei, president of the Republic of China and commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the Republic of China, held an important military meeting at the joint staff office of the army and navy to discuss measures for the "Guangdong incident" in order to stabilize the situation in Guangdong as soon as possible.

Just the day before yesterday, news came from Guangzhou that the "Gui Army Aiding Guangdong," which had been stationed in the suburbs of Guangzhou for a long time from Guangxi to Guangdong, had been stationed in the suburbs of Guangzhou for a long time in the Yantang Barracks, and under the pretext that Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong, had "extorted violently," the Gui Army attacked Guangzhou under the pretext of "saving the people from fire and water" under the command of Long Jiguang, the "commander of the Gui Army Aiding Guangdong." In the 'engagement' battle, both sides used heavy weapons, including heavy machine guns and field artillery, and fought fiercely for a day and a night under the city of Guangzhou.

At the same time, some ** troops loyal to the League in southern Fujian and eastern Guangxi also began to 'advance' to the border of Guangdong Province, carrying the banner of the so-called "aiding Guangdong and driving Zhang" in an attempt to join forces with the Gui army of the Longji Guang Department in Guangzhou, and 'forced' Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong, to go into the wilderness.

The newspapers controlled by the League called this sudden incident the "Second Guangdong Incident," but the Pioneer Daily, which is currently actually the central mouthpiece, unceremoniously called it an "armed rebellion," and the final political communiqué issued by the Presidential Office took the golden mean, saying that the incident had become the "Guangdong Incident," and this position was also impartial, at least on the surface.

At present, the transfer of power between the Beiyang clique and the United Front has not yet been completely completed, and the incident in Guangdong at this time is a severe test for the central government, and if the measures are not taken properly, it is very likely that the central government will advance and retreat. Therefore, neither Zhao Bei, president of the Republic of China, nor members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the National Assembly dare to take the "Guangdong incident" lightly, and the Shanghai National Assembly yesterday formally passed a resolution authorizing the central authorities to adopt "resolute measures" to quell the "chaos" situation in Guangdong.

Today, Zhao Bei convened a military meeting in response to the resolution of the National Assembly to formulate a military action plan, with a view to ending the 'chaos' situation in Guangdong as soon as possible, and to take the opportunity to bring this excessively "autonomous" province back into the scope of the central authority, further establish the central authority, and deter local powerful factions.

In addition to the high-ranking officers of the War Department and the Navy Department, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce also sent personnel to attend the meeting in order to provide logistical support for the smooth development of the military operation, which was mainly the preparation of ships and other means of transport.

War Department Chief Duan Qirui was the first senior general to drive to the Army and Navy Joint Staff Office, and his Ford car was the special car used by Zhao Bei in Wuhan, Zhengzhou, and other places.

In fact, Duan Qirui is still a little proud, now in Beijing, there are not many Chinese officials who are qualified to allocate cars, and even the Admiralty Tang Xiangming still relies on horse-drawn carriages to travel, so he is a relatively beautiful Beiyang general, although the weather is getting colder and colder. But every time he went out in this American-made car, as long as it didn't rain, Duan Qirui would always order the driver to put the canopy away, so that Chief Duan could sit in the open-top car and look majestic, but he suffered those guards.

Now riding this car to the Nanyuan Barracks, Duan Qirui still didn't put up the canopy, so when he arrived at the Nanyuan Barracks, his face was already red, not excited, but windy.

When they arrived at the barracks, the Army-Navy Joint Staff Office, which had been ordered to greet the high-ranking officers, had sent someone to wait at the 'gate' of the barracks, and the leader of the team was none other than Zhang Xiaozhun, deputy director of the Army-Navy Joint Staff Office.

To be honest, when he saw Zhang Xiaozhun come over and salute himself, Duan Qirui was still a little embarrassed, when Zhang Xiaozhun served in the Beiyang Army in the past, although Duan Qirui deliberately promoted this young Zhuang officer who had learned everything from east to west, but because of those "rules" in Beiyang, Zhang Xiaozhun was useless in the end, and later, although he was nominally the commander of the Gyeonggi garrison for a few days, in fact he was still the follower of the deputy commander Duan Qirui.

After Zhang Xiaozhun defected to the United Front, he was immediately entrusted with important tasks. This is of course the reason why Commander-in-Chief Zhao attaches great importance to talents and meritocracy, but it may not be without the purpose of embarrassing Beiyang.

Duan Qirui didn't get up, just sat in the car and nodded, and asked, "Is Chief Tang of the Admiralty here?" ”

"Not yet. Just now, the Admiralty called and said that there were still some affairs on the fleet's side that needed to be decided by Chief Tang, so Chief Tang was still in the Admiralty. Chief Duan, if you don't count the officers of the Joint Staff Office of the Army and Navy, you are the first general-level officer to rush over. ”

Duan Qirui looked into the barracks, and indeed he didn't see officers with higher ranks than him, but he saw a few cars in the barracks, but he didn't know who it was.

"It's better to come early than late. I'm also old, old arms and old 'legs', this action is not as sharp as you young people, and the days of card hours have long passed. ”

Duan Qirui was also a little lonely, seeing that Beiyang was withering like this, he was powerless, and he could be regarded as experiencing the helplessness of the sentence "Lian Po is old, can he still eat".

Zhang Xiaozhun instructed the adjutant to lead Duan Qirui's car to the designated place, and before the engine was turned off, Duan Qirui saw another car "click" into the barracks, parked side by side with his car, but the passenger in the car was an old acquaintance Duan Zhigui.

"Xiangyan, when did you 'get' a car? And whose cars do they belong to? Duan Qirui was a little curious, asked Duan Zhigui a few words, and pointed to the cars parked not far away.

Duan Zhigui took off the pair of pilot's goggles that covered his eyes and said, "This is not my car, this is what I borrowed from the flight team, and this mirror is also borrowed from the flight team." Several cars over there are also flying teams, and this is a new car that has just been bought from the United States, and I heard that a batch of engines has been bought, and a batch of gasoline. ”

"You're from the flying team?"

Duan Qirui suddenly realized that Duan Zhigui was now the deputy commander of the 100th Division of the National Defense Force, and there was a flying detachment in this infantry division, and now they were training how to carry out air attacks and aerial reconnaissance and liaison under the guidance of the army.

"I'm an idler, if I don't go around, do I have to get sick? Zhiquan, if you have time in the future, don't stay bored in the house all the time, come out with me for a walk, so that our jobs haven't been smashed yet. ”

Duan Zhigui jumped out of the car, walked to Duan Qirui's car, pulled the car 'door' for him, and muttered a few words at the same time.

Duan Qirui also smiled bitterly, of course he understood why Duan Zhigui said these 'whining' words, although Duan Zhigui is now the deputy commander of the 100th Division of the National Defense Force, but he does not have the slightest power in his hands, this unit has actually become a unit of the United Front. In the past, those middle and lower-level officers of the Beiyang Army also changed their positions under the grace and power of the division commander Zhang Yukun, and they ignored the old boss of the past, in such a situation, Duan Zhigui had to travel around all day long, and did the shopkeeper, recently, his deputy division commander Duan is a frequent visitor to the antique shop in the capital, although Duan Zhigui is so slack, but this move did not cause President Zhao's disgust, perhaps, President Zhao's original intention was to make Deputy Division Commander Duan's plaything lose his mind.

Of course, in return for Duan Zhigui's deferential attitude, Zhao Bei has also nominated Duan Zhigui as an "alternate general affairs member" to the United Front General Affairs Committee, and also gave him an additional "allowance for injuries caused by work", otherwise, with the current military salary, Duan Zhigui would not be able to walk around the antique shop often.

The "work-related injury allowance" is a little inauthentic, Duan Zhigui did fall while riding a horse a few days ago, and injured his knee, but it was not "because of business", it was completely "because of" private "", at that time, Duan Zhigui rushed to Shandong to tie up the newly appointed Shandong Governor Wang Zhanyuan, because he was in a hurry, the road slipped and fell, obviously out of ' Private people went out, but they received the allowance from the center, this is the truth, Duan Qirui, as the army commander, of course knows the reason, and Zhao Bei also knows the reason why Duan Zhigui fell and was injured, but President Zhao is pretending to be confused, and others are naturally not easy to say, who made Duan Zhigui clever, follow the president step by step, and shout for the president's new policy from time to time, of course such a person will be rewarded!

In the past, Duan Qirui also despised Zhao Bei's ability to govern, but now, he didn't dare to despise it, governing the government first and governing the people, Zhao Bei can tame Duan Zhigui, the former "His Royal Highness the Beiyang Cadre", then, he will definitely be able to tame the Beiyang Army, this, Duan Qirui has no doubt, and he also admires it.

"I don't have as much time as you, I'm the chief of the army, and now I'm going to form and reorganize the Wehrmacht, and I'm not in the mood to hang out with you."

Duan Qirui also got out of the car, walked to the 'door' of the barracks, and talked to Zhang Xiaozhun, those senior officers who entered the barracks one after another saw Duan Qirui, and everyone was polite, and they all stepped forward to say hello, whether it was a Beiyang officer or a RUF officer, this military salute was not ambiguous.

After waiting for a few minutes at the 'gate' of the barracks, Duan Qirui raised his head and looked into the distance, only to see a convoy of five cars coming with billowing yellow dust under the escort of the cavalry of the brigade.

This posture looked familiar, and Duan Qirui understood that Zhao Bei was coming.