What does it mean to sit on a mountain and watch the tiger fight? This one in the south is the best embodiment of this. Sun Cannon, who owns Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, waited until the direct line was almost finished cleaning up the Feng system, and then he shouted the Northern Expedition with the banner.

Duan Qirui's main military force of the Anhui system is currently only Lu Yongxiang of Zhejiang, and Lu Dujun originally wanted to take the naval warship stationed in Shanghai to rush north to help, but the navy in Shanghai is no longer optimistic about the Anhui system internally, and clearly expressed its support for the direct line. So angry that Lu Dujun almost vomited blood, you ate me, drank me, and sold me at a critical moment.

If it weren't for the persuasion of all forces, Lu Dujun almost fought with this group of navies in Shanghai. Although he was pulled aside by foreigners and various forces afterwards, Lu Dujun really couldn't do anything with these Shanghai Navy.

Standing behind them was the Qi Inspector Army, who had been making small movements, and Lu Inspector knew this, but he didn't expect that seeing the direct line's victory in the north, these navies actually threw themselves into the direct line, completely ignoring the feelings of the Anhui system.

Although the navy in the south of the Yangtze River is said to be not only the Shanghai Navy, but also the Fujian Navy and the Zhejiang Navy, but the glory of the Fujian Navy is already the old Huang calendar, as early as after Yuan Shikai hung up, a wave of Fujian Navy took warships to Guangzhou to throw Sun Cannon, and now the entire Fujian Navy is an empty shelf, if it were not for the support of Zhao Yun, a wealthy man who looked down on Fujian because of the Fujian Submarine School, it is estimated that he would not even be able to take out the maintenance costs of the warship.

And the navy in the hands of the Zhejiang army is the torpedo boats that Zhao Yun bought for him, do you want to use torpedo boats to send the army from Zhejiang in the south to Jixian in the north? This is obviously impossible, so the Zhejiang army can only fight the direct division of Sun Chuanfang nearby.

As for the Qi Overseer, in addition to being able to make trouble behind his back, Lu Yongxiang never took him seriously in frontal combat, and this often defeated general was too good to be his opponent.

As a result, the two allies on whom the Feng family relied could only make trouble south of the Yangtze River, and could not even cross the Yangtze River, let alone the Yellow River.

Then in the north, no one jumped out to oppose the direct line, against Wu Peifu? Yes, near the Yellow River, there is one.

Henan overseer Zhao Kui, this person before the war "secretly" did the Feng Department of internal response, but this "secret", he is very high-profile, although Wu Peifu did not catch his pigtails, but because of the high probability of its response to the Feng Department, so he was stumped early, on the bright side, Feng Yu led the troops from Shaanxi into Henan, and the main force of Jiangsu stationed in Xuzhou led but did not start, Zhao Wei looked dead and could not move.

Secretly, he vigorously wooed his cronies and subordinates around him, and then used these people to spread rumors to him after the war in Jixian County, saying that Wu Peifu had died in battle.

Hearing that Wu Peifu was hanging, Zhao Wei didn't distinguish between the true and the false, and immediately ran out to announce the telegram, counting the sins of Wu Peifu and Feng Yu, but as soon as the Feng army was defeated, he and his younger brother Zhao Jie's Hongwei army were all disarmed, and nothing was done. The Henan Overseer was changed to Feng Yu, who had made great contributions to this matter.

There is a saying that if you are not afraid of a god-like opponent, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate. Zhang Beard was unfortunate that he had unreliable allies. But the more humiliating thing is still to come, Wu Peifu will arrange the first move, Zhang Huzi is not stupid, and also arranged two divisions of Zhang Jinghui to be stationed in Jixian County, but the problem is that if these two divisions are reliable, they can still have some results, but Zhang Jinghui's team is not Zhao Yun's team of those camp soldiers who only listen to Zhao Yun's orders to fight and do not understand feelings, and the two divisions shouted the slogan "Chinese people do not fight Chinese people" as soon as the war began, and they surrendered to the direct army without firing a shot.

Don't talk about Zhang Huzi, as long as the warlords who saw the news almost vomited blood, two divisions! Ten thousand people! You think it's an ornament!

The results of this opening contest proved that in terms of command, Zhang Huzi was not Wu Peifu's opponent, whether it was the method of leading troops or overall planning, Zhang Huzi was slightly inferior; As for the soldiers, although they have all seen blood, there is still a big difference between those who go to the east and the west every day to fight against the provinces and the army that has nothing to do to suppress bandits.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, the defeat of the Feng system is a sure thing. As the saying goes, there are few people who put the icing on the cake and many people who fall into the well. No, President Xu Shichang appeared and pretended to issue four orders: 1. Liang Shiyi, the culprit who provoked discord in Zhifeng, was wanted and dissolved the Liang cabinet (at this time, Liang Shiyi had already gone to Japan and went to relax); 2. The Feng army withdrew from the gate on the same day, and the direct army returned to the original defense (yes, is there still a Feng army in the pass?). ）；

3. Revoke Zhang Zuolin's original and part-time positions, and wait for the central government to investigate and deal with it (which, it seems that as long as there are soldiers under his command and there is territory, he can appoint himself to an official position);

4. Appoint Wu Jun to be promoted to the Fengtian Overseer (on this reliable point, but such an obvious means of separatism, will Zhang Huzi give in?) ）。

Sure enough, after Zhang Zuobeard received the telegram, he immediately sent someone to find Wu Junsheng and handed him the telegram. Nonsense, there are people around Zhang, and if you want to "dare", then you will die. As a result, Xu Shichang's four orders were useless.

"The Great War of Naobong is over?" Looking at the newspaper, Zhao Yun asked the only think tank around him in a daze, Deputy County Magistrate Xu. Hearing that Zhifeng was fighting, Zhao Yun, who felt that he was unaware of the market, pulled Xu Fatzi back in time, anyway, there are so many bigwigs in Nanjing, as long as they control the military power, no one can make trouble.

"It should be the end, right?" Deputy County Magistrate Xu said uncertainly, "Maybe Zhang Dashuai still has a backhand, right?" As the "number one" staff member beside Zhao Yun, Xu Fatzi himself was confused, calculating how much he could be greedy for this project money, it was no problem, but calculating the battle between the two armies, what is this? All right! These two things are related to arithmetic, but it's only been a few days, and the two gangs of people add up to more than 240,000 people, so soon there is no movement? Deputy County Magistrate Xu muttered, "It's over like lightning." ”

Hearing Deputy County Magistrate Xu's muttering, Zhao Yun suddenly thought of a word, is this war considered a blitzkrieg!

Sure enough, compared with those foreign blitzkriegs, the domestic war in China was much stronger than the thunder and rain, and as Zhao Yun expected, the matter was not over yet, and the Zhifeng War was just the beginning of a series of domestic wars in China. Sun Artillery, who had allied with the Feng faction, again ordered the Northern Expedition on May 4.

Didn't Sun Cannon know that the Feng family had been defeated by the direct line? NO, NO, Sun Cannon has been in secret contact with the warlords of Feng and Anhui and formed a triangular alliance. Sun Cannon deeply felt that this was a golden opportunity to unite with the warlords of Feng and Anhui and attack his direct line, and he must immediately send troops to respond. But to everyone's surprise, Zhifeng started the war, and in just one week, the huge Feng army was defeated by Wu Peifu, and the wolf bèi retreated outside the pass, and the plan of attacking the direct line from the north and south came to naught. But the Northern Expedition in the south was like an arrow on the bowstring of the full moon, and it had to be sent.

Sun Yat-sen held a meeting in Guangdong, announced that "aiding the service will save Guangdong", and decided to swear to the Northern Expedition. Its Northern Expedition plan was to attack Jiangxi first, and after conquering Jiangxi, it would go down the river to occupy Anhui, and then join forces with the Zhejiang-Shanghai coalition army in Nanjing, and then go north along the Jinpu Road, and join the Feng army to attack Jixian County and overthrow the direct line.

In fact, as early as February 1922, Sun Yat-sen had a plan to break through Hunan and march into the Northern Expedition. However, due to the successive military disasters, both the officials and the people of Hunan were very war-weary, so they declared to the outside world to protect the territory and the people, and openly rejected the false way of the Northern Expeditionary Army. As a result, the plan to enter the Northern Expedition to Hunan fell through. In March of the same year, Sun Yat-sen held a meeting in Guilin and decided to return to Guangdong from Guangxi and divert the expedition to the northwest of Jiangxi.

This change plan ordered all the troops in Guizhou to return to Guangdong, dive to the division, and gather in Wuzhou. Sun Yat-sen swore an oath to the three armies in Shaoguan and pointed to the north.

It was precisely because Sun Cannon had the Northern Expedition plan early that he purged the unstable Fujian Navy around him, and smashed his strongest naval advantage into a broken tank in one fell swoop. For a while, don't expect the navy to be able to make a difference on the way to the Northern Expedition.

However, the nature of this Northern Expedition, from the time Sun Cannon formed an alliance with Feng and Anhui, had already been degraded from a righteous and awe-inspiring war to an ordinary domestic warlord war.

But in any case, Sun's cannon moved, and so did Lu Dujun's army in Zhejiang. This didn't even have time to eat Zhao Yun's piece of fat, so Lu Inspector Jun hurriedly joined forces with the Northern Expeditionary Army to flank Chen Guangyuan, the Jiangxi Overseer.

Seeing his allies working so hard, in order to save a little face in front of the alliance, Zhang Zuolin declared Manchurian and Mongolian independence on May 5. Then he sent his general Sun Liechen as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, commanded the Feng army to launch a counterattack in the area of Qinhuangdao, and at the same time ordered Timur in Chechnya to wave his troops south to attack the direct army.

"Attack now?" Zhao Yun received an inquiry from Timur and was puzzled. Although Zhang Huzi had already counted Timur as a Fengjun before, he only let Timur go south today, and did not set a time. And because of the road, although Timur also obeyed Zhang Huzi's order to lead nearly 10,000 Mongolian iron horsemen to Inner Mongolia, even if this meeting has not reached the periphery of Jixian County, even the Great Wall has not been seen.

Speed is life! Timur, who knew that Feng was being defeated, led more than 100 elite Mongolian cavalry with one person and five horses, and rushed to the south as the vanguard, and behind him was a camp of all kinds of cavalry.

Only in the afternoon of the day he received the order, he rushed to the vicinity of Chengde, and did not encounter the main force of his direct line near Chengde, but first took over the defeated troops of the defeated Rehe Province.

In fact, they didn't see their people, but they heard their voices first, and this group of defeated soldiers felt about 4 or 500 people while desperately fleeing, while crying at the top of their throats, but behind them were only 50 or 60 direct troops.

There were many people in this Feng army, but in front of the pursuing soldiers, no one dared to turn back to face the battle, they all lost their armor and abandoned their weapons, and many people shouted desperately: "Zhang Dashuai is defeated, defeated!" Run, everyone! ”