Chapter 401: The Great War Cloud
The situation in Shandong tends to be stable, but Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Guangxi and other provinces have an undercurrent surging, Wu Xiaoliang is keenly aware of this trend, he knows that this is the prelude to the Central Plains War a year later, and the tragedy must not be repeated again, the Central Plains War Jiang, Feng, Yan, Li four major warlords melee, the major warlords invested a total of more than 1.4 million troops, more than 300,000 casualties, is the largest and most tragic war since the founding of the Republic of China after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, after this war, Henan has become the hardest hit area, Millions of people in the Central Plains have been left homeless, and the country has further declined in the chaos, and Japan, which is eyeing it closely, smells an opportunity to take advantage of it.
An important condition for the outbreak of the Central Plains War is the alliance between Feng and Yan, before Yan Xishan successfully separated Jiang and Feng through the disarmament and downsizing, and now he wants to pull Feng to fight Jiang, Wu Xiaoliang believes that as long as the possibility of the two forming an anti-Chiang alliance is destroyed, the tragedy of the Central Plains million people war and bloodshed will be avoided, but what he does not know is that according to the original history, Feng Yuxiang first proposed to pull Yan to fight Jiang, and ventured to Shanxi to persuade Yan Xishan, but he was unexpectedly placed under house arrest by Yan Xishan in Jian'an Village.
But there was a little deviation in this life, Feng Yuxiang, who was supposed to go to Shanxi, got a message that gave him a headache, and postponed the trip to Shanxi, it turned out that Han Fuyu, who was driven to Henan by Wu Xiaoliang in Shandong, gathered the remnants, and actually defeated the security forces of Sun Liangcheng, chairman of Henan Province, in one fell swoop, and entered Kaifeng, and the two subordinates had internal strife, Feng Yuxiang naturally could not stand idly by, so he took someone to Kaifeng to mediate the contradiction between the two.
Han Fuyu had long been resentful of Sun Liangcheng's behavior of stabbing him in the back at a critical moment, and he was angry with Sun Bu without leaving any affection, and annihilated him in Zheng County, and captured Sun Liangcheng himself in Zheng County on the same day, and when Feng Yuxiang arrived in Kaifeng, Han had already in fact controlled most of Henan, and Han Fuyu was very dissatisfied with Feng Yuxiang's previous reduction of his military power, and rejected Feng's plan to let him go east into Shandong and give him Shandong.
Feng Yuxiang felt that his generals were out of control, and decided to teach Han Fuyu a lesson by force, and immediately ordered Song Zheyuan's department and Sun Lianzhong's department to go east out of Tongguan and enter Henan to expel Han Fuyu.
Wu Xiaoliang saw a hint of an opportunity to divide Feng Yuxiang, so that he couldn't take care of pulling Yan to fight Jiang, so he returned the 20,000 Han troops who had not had time to be dismissed before and put them back in Henan.
Han Fuyu felt a great crisis, so he sent someone to beg Feng Yuxiang for mercy, saying that he had made Zhizhi sit down in such a foolish thing as disobeying Junzuo, hoping that Feng could give him a chance, and then he would definitely change his mind and be a new person.
Feng Yuxiang was originally extremely disdainful of this, but it happened that the Gui warlord Li Zongren saw the breakdown of the relationship between Jiang and Feng, so he couldn't wait to strike first and occupy the land of the two lakes.
Jiang Zhongzheng's move is actually not superfluous, although the Feng family can independently assess the Gui system without connecting with him, but if Feng is pushed to the side of the Gui family because of this, the future will be full of uncertainties.
He Yaozu, the former commander of the 40th Army, who was deserted and scattered due to the Jinan tragedy, took Jiang's generous conditions to Huashan, Shaanxi Province to meet Feng Yuxiang.
"Greetings to Minister Feng on behalf of Commander-in-Chief Chiang." At that time, Feng Yuxiang was the Minister of Military Affairs of the National Government, so He Yaozu called him Minister Feng, Feng Yuxiang was the most impatient with this set of red tape and liked to get straight to the point.
"Brother Guiyan's courtesy, you can just say what conditions Jiang has for someone."
Although Feng Yuxiang and Jiang Zhongzheng changed from using each other to being suspicious of each other and attacking each other, they had a very good impression of this Jiang Jun's descendant, and the two of them had a pleasant relationship several times, so they spoke more bluntly.
This is also one of the reasons why Jiang Zhongzheng sent He Yaozu to persuade Feng Yuxiang.
He Yaozu arched his hand and smiled: "Brother Huanzhang is still fast-talking, Gui is Li rebelled, and Commander-in-Chief Jiang promised to come down, as long as Brother Huanzhang attacks Hunan along the Jinghan Line in Hubei to fight the rebels, after the success, you will be the chairman of the two lakes and the premier of the Executive Yuan." ”
It has to be said that Jiang Zhong made a bloody investment, not only handed over the rich Huguang Province to Feng Yuxiang, but also promised the post of Executive Yuan, which is roughly equivalent to the premier of the State Council during the Beiyang period, and commanded the national government affairs organs, and his power is not small.
With such generous conditions, who could refuse, Feng Yuxiang immediately laughed and promised to send troops.
"Brother Guiyan, please tell Commander-in-Chief Jiang that I, Feng Yuxiang, will send troops tomorrow to help the Central Committee quell the rebellion."
Li Zongren's anti-Chiang brought a respite to Han Fuyu, Feng Yuxiang immediately accepted Han Fuyu's plea, ordered Han to go south to attack Wuhan, and promised to be the chairman of Hubei Province.
So Han Fuyu immediately received the order, and at the same time reorganized the original subordinates, and incorporated Sun Liangcheng's department, and forcibly recruited strong men in Henan, and the size of the army quickly swelled to nearly 100,000 people, and attacked Wuhan, Hubei in March.
Wu Xiaoliang was surprised after receiving the news, and secretly helped Han to contain Feng Yuxiang's action actually caused an unexpected effect, he thought that since Jiang Feng cooperated again, the possibility of a major war in the Central Plains would be greatly reduced, so he no longer paid attention to their small-scale scuffle, but buried himself in Shandong's education and industry, and the two carriages went hand in hand.
The reappointed members of the Shandong Provincial Government saw that the new chairman was different from the style of other warlords who had invested a lot of money in industry and education since they took office, and they all felt that this was a feudal official who really wanted to do something practical.
In just half a year, in Shandong, a land where there was almost no heavy industry, towering chimneys were erected, black smoke billowed over the city, and railway freight was busy and crowded.
In addition to the investment in industry and education, Wu Xiaoliang organized the original troops in Shandong, plus the newly recruited soldiers, into two divisions and one brigade, of which Wu Xiaoliang was appointed commander of the 17th Division, Li Zejun was the commander of the 57th Division, and Li Youting was no longer the secretary general and was appointed commander of the independent brigade.
These two divisions and one brigade, of which the 17th Division led by Wu Xiaoliang was stationed in Jinan to control the junction of the Jinpu Road and the Jiaoji Railway, and the 57th Division was moved to the Jinpu Road in Ziyang and Lunan.
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