Chapter 46: The Wind Rises in Southern Hebei (9)
As soon as this matter was dealt with, Xiao Guodong began to report to Song Zhewu one by one about the handling of all the things after the war: "After all the minor and serious wounded of the security army are dealt with in the field hospital of the first division, all arrangements will be made to send them back to the Laiyuan security army hospital for further treatment; The bandits and the seriously wounded of the 26th Brigade and 55th Division of the Northwest Army were also sent to Laiyuan for treatment; Minor wounded continued to be treated in the field hospital of the 1st Division. According to your request, officers under the age of 30 and soldiers in their 20s of the 26th Brigade and the 55th Division are being asked one by one whether they would like to join our security forces. 24 75mm mountain guns, all mortars, some new light and heavy machine guns, and all ammunition had to be brought back to Laiyuan. In addition to food, all other supplies must also be brought back.
Song Zhewu turned around on the battlefield just now, and the weapons of both the bandits and the Northwest Army were not very good. In addition to those mountain guns, that is, dozens of light and heavy machine guns, he can also see it. These people and guns must be returned to Shi Yousan and Han Fuyu in the end, whether it is Shang Zhen or Chiang Kai-shek, he will want to do so. Moreover, the key is that Song Zhewu doesn't want to tear his face with the Northwest Army now. So he wanted to pick up some of the good ones first, and this idea was something he and Xiao Guodong had already discussed. These soldiers of the Northwest Army can be said to be elite soldiers, as long as they are pulled back and trained a little, they can immediately join the security army. So he won't give it all back. As long as the guns are returned, personnel Shi Yousan and Han Fuyu will not care anymore, and they can recruit again. The reason why the age limit was strictly imposed was that Song Zhewu was preparing for the war eight years later. Eight years later, these people are in their 30s, in the prime of life, and have years of good training. With them as the backbone, he can ensure that the troops have strong combat effectiveness, and only then can they have the strength to fight the little devils head-on.
Xiao Guodong arranged these works in an orderly manner, and Song Zhewu was very satisfied. After thinking about it, he said to Xiao Guodong: "I have to trouble the chief of staff to send a telegram to Beiping and Nanjing. In addition to reporting on the battle situation, it is also necessary to pay attention to the following points: The 1st, 26th and 55th Divisions crossed the border and took the initiative to attack our troops. Second, our department suffered many casualties, and Han Fuyu and Shi Yousan wanted to return people and guns, and asked them to compensate us for the loss of 1 million oceans. Third, this point is only to tell Nanjing, Zengjiazhai bandit leader Liu Yuru, is Sun Dianying's old department, we have obtained a batch of ancient books, calligraphy and paintings in Zengjiazhai, how to deal with it, please Chairman Jiang to show me. ”
As for how to define what a national treasure is, Xiao Guodong knows Song Zhewu's thoughts. Although he did not agree with Song Zhewu's assertion, he also admitted that there was some truth in what he said as a junior who had undergone earth-shaking changes in his ideology in the past few years. Xiao Guodong is also from a family in Jiangnan, and he is very interested in antiquities and treasures, he has long made up his mind, although Song Zhewu has drawn a line, but how to be firm is for him to be responsible for doing it, and he will try his best to make Song Zhewu a little more relaxed.
Unlike Song Zhewu and others who casually talked about fishing for people, guns, and money, at this time in Kaifeng, Henan, in the office of Han Fuyu, chairman of the provincial political axe, it was gloomy. Han Fuyu sat deep on the sofa with a gloomy face, his eyes fixed on the few telegrams on the table in front of him, he had been sitting like this for a whole hour.
These telegrams were sent by his 55th Division, Hebei Provincial Chairman Shang Zhen, and his brother Shi Yousan. These telegrams all tell the same thing, that is, Song Zhewu of the little-known Hebei Security Army completely annihilated the 26th Brigade and most of his 55th Division in just two hours with the strength of one division.
This so-called 55th Division is now his lifeline! Feng Yuxiang kindly elected him as the chairman of Henan Province, but dismissed him from the post of commander of the 20th Division and let Shi Jingting, the chief of staff of the Second Group Army take over, and as soon as this Shi Jingting arrived in the 20th Division, he wantonly purged his old subordinates in the 20th Division, which was clearly to seize his military power. The provincial chairman looks imposing and powerful, but he is not stable. As long as that day is transferred by the Nanjing side, he will have to obediently change his post and withdraw from the domestic political arena. He Han Fuyu is only 40 years old this year! Fortunately, he received information in advance, and under the pretext of downsizing, he organized some of his backbone troops and set up some local security forces in Henan under various pretexts. This so-called 55th Division was formed by him by removing a regiment of Li Hanzhang's brigade from his henchmen. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he got up irritably and spun around the room in quick circles. Not only was he angry at the damn commander of the 55th Division, but he actually let most of the local troops of the Hebei Security Army be killed in one look. What's even more angry is Feng Yuxiang, he Han Fuyu is not the Qiu Ba who only knows how to fight and kill under him Feng Yuxiang, he knows very well that in such a troubled world, only with guns and people in his hands can he want wind and rain. Feng Yuxiang did this, obviously unloading the mill and killing the donkey. Thinking that he Han Fuyu had been under him Feng Yuxiang in Liaoyang since 1910, from secretary, company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, and division commander, this step was all earned by him Han Fuyu's blood and sweat, and even hard work, not by him Feng Yuxiang for nothing. In November 1924, when the Nationalist Army attacked Tianjin, it was he Han Fuyu who led the death squad to attack Tianjin first, and was promoted to the commander of the First Division of the First Army and the commander of the Tianjin garrison. In 1926, Feng Yuxiang was forced to go to the Soviet Union, and he defected to Yan Xishan, which was also a helpless move. But he also preserved the greatest force for the Northwest Army, and as soon as he Feng Yuxiang returned to China, he pulled Shi Yousan, Chen Xisheng and others back to his hands. In July 1927, the Second Army marched into Hebei, and it was he who led his troops from Luoyang, crossed the Yellow River, and defeated Jin in Yuxian in September. In late October, Zhang Zongchang of the Feng Department invaded eastern Henan on a large scale, and it was he Han Fuyu who led his troops to break the enemy army between Lankao and Kaifeng. In November, he served as the commander-in-chief of the middle of the Second Group Army, and defeated the Zhilu coalition army again. In December, he cooperated with the First Army to attack Xuzhou and eliminate the main force of the Zhilu coalition army. In April 1928, 12 divisions of the Feng Army attacked Henan. It was he Han Fuyu who led his troops to defeat the Feng army, captured Yanjing Nanyuan, and became the first Northern Expeditionary Army to reach Yanjing. However, what he Feng Yuxiang thought was still simple, his Han Fuyu's troops were so easy for others to say that they could take it, and now the 20th Division stationed in Luoyang and Zhengzhou is now clear about what happens every day, at least he also knows that it is a ** Cheng, even now, as long as he gives an order, the 20th Division will return to his side. Nanjing's old Jiang understood this better than Feng Yuxiang, and now his provincial political axe included Lu Zuo, the representative sent by Nanjing to win over him. Thinking of this, Han Fuyu's irritable mood slowly calmed down a little.
Many people mistakenly think that Han Fuyu is an illiterate martial artist, but in fact, Han Fuyu was born in a scholarly family, and has a deep foundation in Chinese culture, not only good at calligraphy, but also writes very literary articles. Han Fuyu entered a private school when he was a child and studied with his father for seven or eight years, and was good at poetry and writing, especially calligraphy. Han Fuyu was able to go to the county government office as a teenager to "write", and after joining the army, he was appreciated by Feng Yuxiang as a secret book, all thanks to his good calligraphy, Han Fuyu's calligraphy was even praised by the Kuomintang veterans and calligraphers Yu Youren. Han Fuyu had participated in the Luanzhou Uprising, and later generations, in 1937, the national political axe approved the establishment of the "Xinhai Luanzhou Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Cemetery" in the western suburbs of Yanjing, and the inscription of the monument "Xinhai Luanzhou Revolutionary Martyrs Clothes and Tombs and Preface" was written by Feng Yuxiang arranged for Han Fuyu. Lu Lizhi, who was sent by the Nationalist Political Axe to work in Shandong for a period of time and served as the chief senator of the Gansu Provincial Government, wrote an article in "Yanhuang Chunqiu" in 1994, talking about his feelings after contact with Han Fuyu. He said that when he first met Han Fuyu, "I felt that the world had misunderstood him." He also said: "Based on my personal observations, according to his various attitudes towards others, his conversation and confession, and his mentality, I think Han is an extraordinary person." Among the so-called 'Confucian generals' of the Kuomintang at that time, it was difficult to find a second person. ”
He knew that now was not the time for him to rush to the fire, and that the first problem now was to get his captured man back with a gun. It is absolutely impossible to come to the hard, don't say that he is not the commander of the 20th Division now, and even if he is, it is not something that can be solved by force. Although his division is not comparable to the 20th division, it is by no means comparable to ordinary local troops. It was such a division that was beaten and fled by the Hebei Security Army, which had just been established for more than two years, in half an hour, and it even ran more than 40 miles in one breath to stabilize its position. Han Fuyu did not believe at all what the divisional chief of staff of this division said in the telegram that it was he who worked hard to gather troops and repel the division of the security forces, and he even believed that it was the people who took the initiative to stop the pursuit. After running for dozens of miles, not to mention heavy weapons, how many rifles are left? What to use to repel the security forces.
At present, the domestic situation is very delicate, and Nanjing, on the one hand, is actively preparing to take action against the Gui system; On the other hand, he has won over Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang, the two most powerful factions in China, and has even begun to win over them, middle and senior officers. What is ridiculous is that Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang, two self-righteous fools, not only refused to help the Gui family, but also wanted to get a piece of the pie, didn't they know that the next target of Lao Jiang in Nanjing would be them. Now the powerful factions of all sizes in the country are sheltered from the rain and wind in the shack built by the three pillars of the Gui system, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Sui Army. It's ridiculous, how many of these self-proclaimed pillars of the party-state, big and small, can see through this?
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