Yan Xishan was originally scheduled to arrive in Nanjing by plane on the morning of 25 July, but Wu Xiaoliang arrived at the airport early with Jiang Zhongzheng and other important members of the Nationalist Government, but they waited until sunset and did not wait for the landing of Yan Laoxi's car.

Many people are complaining that the dignified members of the Military Committee and the generals of the National Revolutionary Army are so unpunctual and make everyone wait stupidly at the airport, what does this mean, but Wu Xiaoliang does not think that this is Yan Xishan deliberately putting up a show, with his Yan Laoxi's shrewdness, he will definitely not add to such a meaningless matter, tonight should be very meaningful, and even he has no intention of arriving in Nanjing before the situation is clear.

As soon as this idea popped up in Wu Xiaoliang's mind, he almost immediately affirmed that this was the reason why Yan Xishan did not appear for a long time, if he arrived at this time, he would definitely not be able to stay out of the matter, standing in line was a big difficult problem in front of him, and he could not bypass it at all, once he chose the wrong side, the consequences were very strict, even if he did not choose, maneuvering in the cracks of all forces was tantamount to walking a tightrope, and if he was not careful, he would have to fall into the fire pit, so it was better to wait for the situation to be clear and then come to Nanjing, and directly stand on the side of the victor, Make the icing on the cake.

The temperature in the humble terminal of the military airport was very low, and dozens of party-state members and their entourage suddenly crowded in the small space.

Outside the wide transparent glass window, the sky was terrible, and a light snow could be faintly seen.

"Can the plane still land in this kind of ghost weather?"

It was Zhang Xueliang who spoke, his eyes showed a trace of worry, standing on the right half a step behind Wu Xiaoliang, his voice was very low, but it just made Wu Xiaoliang hear clearly, at this moment, he had completely given up the idea of standing on Jiang Zhongzheng's side, this rather willful Zhang Dashao finally bowed his head in the face of the cruel reality, chose to compromise, and cooperated with the competitors he had been in place before.

In response, Wu Xiaoliang ordered Li Zejun to withdraw all the forward troops that had advanced to the southern suburbs of Beiping to the south to Shandong, which was regarded as letting him go, in Zhang Xueliang's view, this was Wu Xiaoliang's mercy, and in fact, Li Zejun could not really put into the battle There are not many troops, not more than two brigades, the reason why Wang Yizhe was able to defeat Wang Yizhe in one fell swoop, one is to take advantage of the surprise attack, and the other is that the power of the Shandong army's artillery is really unimaginable, and once the Northeast Army comes to its senses, there is no way to retreat behind it, It will inevitably arouse the determination to fight to the death, and the 57th Division will certainly not bargain for bargains at that time, and even if it can overcome many difficulties and achieve a final victory, it will pay an extremely heavy price.

This is not what Wu Xiaoliang wants to see, the Shandong Army, especially the 57th Division, is the elite tempered by the Songhu War, he doesn't want to be consumed in the meaningless civil war, so for the Northeast Army, he has always held the strategy of fighting and pulling, as long as Zhang Xueliang is on his side, it is easy to say.

"Yan Baichuan won't come."

"What, it's not coming, didn't he just send a telegram saying that he was going to come in person."

Zhang Xueliang was very surprised by Wu Xiaoliang's statement, although Yan Xishan was shrewd, he would not go back on his word in this kind of matter, not to mention that he had no reason to break his word at all, and whether he came or not would not fundamentally threaten his interests.

"At least until the situation becomes clear, he won't come to Nanjing."

Wu Xiaoliang added.

As if to make a footnote to this sentence, Jiang Zhongzheng's attendant military attache pushed the door from the outside, bringing in a few pieces of snow that were gradually getting bigger, and there was also a thin layer on his body, and he hurried to Jiang Zhongzheng before he could shake it off and whispered.

The originally noisy hall was suddenly quiet as the military attache entered, and the sound of needles falling to the ground could be heard, and dozens of eyes followed behind the military attaché until Chairman Chiang.

A moment later, Jiang Zhongzheng let out a cold snort.

"It's all gone, Yan Baichuan won't be here today." Then he underestimated as if talking to himself, "This ghost weather, even if he wants to, he can't come." ”

"Let's go, go back to the city." This sentence was spoken to the attendants beside him.

When passing in front of Wu and Zhang, Jiang Zhongzheng's footsteps seemed to slow down for a beat, and then he sped up a few steps and went without squinting, but he didn't even look at the two of them.

Zhang Xueliang is obviously a little disappointed, he still has a good sense of this alliance brother, but the interests are current, he must have a choice, as for the reason why Yan Xishan did not come, how smart he is, he immediately understood the meaning behind this move, he said that he would come in person, that is because he Yan Laoxi misestimated the situation, Feng and Jiang and the two armies coincidentally attacked the Shandong army in Henan, it seems that the battle situation has been decided, which Cheng wants to turn around, and if he says it, he has to pull it back again, observe and observe.

It's really an old fox, Zhang Xueliang secretly scolded himself, and then the worry in his eyes became even stronger, he was not worried about Yan Xishan, but Yan Xishan's statement made him very disappointed, the original plan to win him over to join the Northeast Army and the Shandong Army fell through, and he could only be won by the situation on the battlefields of Henan and Anhui when it became clear.

Yan Xishan didn't come, he put on such a big battle in vain, and waited for another day, someone had already started to scold his mother, and with the sound of scolding his mother, the dignitaries rushed out of the crowded terminal hall, Zhang Xueliang took half a step forward and stood side by side with Wu Xiaoliang.

"Yan Laoxi's head is tight, I can't count on him, how should we deal with it next."

In Zhang Xueliang's consciousness, if there is no third-party intervention, it will be difficult for the Northeast Army and the Shandong Army to compete with Jiang Zhongzheng, not to mention that his Northeast Army is newly defeated, severely injured, and it is difficult for him to recover his combat effectiveness on the battlefield in a short period of time due to low morale, so the current battlefield is not so much that the two companies are joining forces to fight against Chairman Chiang, but that Wu Xiaoliang is fighting against him with his own strength, and all he can do is to watch from the wall and shout and cheer, which really makes him blush a little.

"It doesn't hurt if you don't come, the key depends on ourselves, the teams of Qianting and Yiru should already be in place, and we should see each other in the next few days."

Iron also needs its own hardness, Wu Xiaoliang has never been so confused as to put the hope of victory on others, this is the most unreliable, no one will dare to take risks for others to take the fire, it is not easy for these bigwigs to be icing on the cake, and it is a fool's dream to expect them to send charcoal in the snow.

While Zhang Xueliang was still full of worries about the prospects, a major battle in Suxian, more than 500 miles north of Nanjing, had just begun, and the rumbling cannons seemed to tear the earth apart.

This is a positional offensive and defensive battle without any fancy fancy, as the artillery sound becomes more and more dense, the fine snowflakes scattered in the originally gloomy sky have also turned into goose feather snow, and it is almost impossible to see from a few meters away from the bottom of the visibility, but the battle has not ended because of the bad weather, after the shelling is confused, the shouts of killing all over the mountains and fields rise to the sky, and it seems that a black tide is surging southward, and it is directly hitting the repeated impact on the embankment.

This is Dong Haibin's 17th Division in the first attack on Suxian, Dong Haibin as early as the Beiyang era was originally a battalion commander of Yuan Shikai's model regiment, and later in the Baoding Military Academy and Wu Xiaoliang acquaintance, is not a fight, do not know each other, after the oath of the horse factory became Wu Xiaoliang's subordinates, although there was a different heart, but after all, it was still accepted by Wu Xiaoliang.

Until the Fourth Mixed Brigade aided Hunan and Wu Xiaoliang returned to Beijing alone, Fu Zuoyi dismantled the Taiwan Dove and split the Fourth Mixed Brigade, he left the army and returned to live in Tianjin, until Wu Xiaoliang returned to the field ten years later, and then joined the army again.

At the beginning of the Songhu War, the entire Jianghuai region was in chaos, all the troops, whether it was a miscellaneous or the central army were all transferred to the vicinity of Nanjing to deal with the Japanese, after Wu Xiaoliang left, Dong Haibin was ordered to form the 17th Division, and it was in Lunan that the army was formed, and it was at this time that there was a mutiny in Xuzhou in the south, and there was no team within a radius of hundreds of miles except for his 17th Division to quell the rebellion, so he thought that this was a golden opportunity, and Xun led the 17th Division that had just been formed to attack the Xuzhou rebels.

The rebels did not initially put this seventeenth division composed of new recruits in their eyes, they are all veterans of a hundred battles, so they are arrogant, this team was originally subordinate to Sun Chuanfang's part of the people, about the size of a division, and later was incorporated on the way to Jiang Zhongzheng's Northern Expedition, after successive reorganization and dismantling, it has been downgraded to the security brigade of the Jiangsu Provincial Defense Army, although the establishment is a brigade, but due to the problem of arrears of military salaries, there are too many deserters, and the actual number of men and horses has long been less than a brigade.

At that time, the Japanese army invaded Shanghai and the war broke out, and Jiang Zhongzheng transferred the 3rd Division of Liu Zhi's First Army, which was originally stationed in Xuzhou, and these people took the opportunity to mutiny and occupy Xuzhou under the instigation of some officers who were extremely dissatisfied with the old Chiang.

The power of the Oriental people is well known, they think that Lao Jiang offended the Oriental people, I am afraid that Nanjing will not be guaranteed, and there is no energy to take care of Xuzhou's affairs, at this time, I am sorry for such a great opportunity given by God, which Cheng thought, Lao Jiang is not able to care about the mess in Xuzhou, but there is a guy named Dong Haibin in the north who actually wants to get a piece of the pie.

The battle was fought without technical content, hail of large-caliber shells hit over, continued, and then the infantry charged, after repeated twice, the Xuzhou rebels were quickly frightened by this terrifying formation, raised the white flag and surrendered, so Xuzhou easily fell into the hands of the Shandong army.

Xuzhou is located at the intersection of Longhai Line and Jinpu Road, is a transportation hub and military town, in the hand is equivalent to pinching the two railways that run through the east and west and north and south, and stand the gateway of Anhui, in the future, some people want to hit Shandong from the south, whether it is from Jiangsu or Anhui to the north, can not bypass Xuzhou.

It was precisely because Dong Haibin occupied Xuzhou that after Chen Cheng led the 11th Division to the north, he had to be stationed in Bengbu, which was Chen Cheng's unexpectedness that the Shandong Army would dare to take the initiative to pick up the tiger whiskers of his 11th Division and blatantly attack Suxian.

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