"How is this possible, how is this possible......" Today's Huairentang is very strange, the generals who are standing in a room full are all speechless, but Zhang Zuolin, who is sitting in the hall, is turning over and over again.

Yang Yuting, who had just returned from the negotiation in Shanghai, stood in the front row, looked at Zhang Zuolin, who was already a little crazy, very worriedly, and shouted tremblingly: "Yushuai, don't scare us?" ”

When Zhang Zuolin heard this, he turned his head to Yang Yuting and asked, "Is it true?" Is it true? ”

Although Zhang Zuolin was small, when he was angry, there was no fear of the people present, and all the generals unconsciously lowered their heads, their eyes went straight to their toes, and they didn't dare to look at Zhang Zuolin at all.

"It's true, Yu Shuai," Yang Yuting finally mustered up the courage to reply.

Zhang Zuolin leaned on the Nanmu chair like a deflated ball, and looked at the exquisite patterns carved on the beams without saying a word. After a long time, he waved his hand to let the generals retreat, and everyone present could feel that Zhang Zuolin had a very rare gaffe.

Mourning is greater than heart death, and it is not only Zhang Zuolin who is sad. More than a month ago, who in the Feng army was not gearing up to enter the customs with ambition to dominate the world? At the beginning, it was really smooth sailing, taking advantage of the direct line and the Anhui line of sandpiper clam to compete with each other, the Feng department of this fisherman immediately benefited, and successively won most of the territory in North China such as Chahar, Suiyuan, Zhili, Shandong, etc., and the army also gathered from 200,000 at the time of entering the customs to 700,000 now. The prosperity of the Beijing and Tianjin areas also confused the generals, and the unification of the whole country by force has also become their natural goal. From top to bottom, the Feng army was screaming everywhere, as if there was no one in the world who could resist their Feng army's conquest.

However, in Zhang Zuolin's heart, he was faintly worried about the youth army in the south, because this army was too weird. It is important to know that Lu Dao had never heard of any special name for the new army in Hunan at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and before the Patriotic War, he also respected Beiyang. But there is such a freak as Wang Zhenyu and his youth army, and I don't know how he rose, let alone what his strength is so amazing, even Feng Huafu is not his opponent. What's even more terrifying is later, I don't know how the little ghost of Wang Zhenyu came to be so bold, he actually dared to organize hundreds of thousands of expeditionary forces to go to Europe to fight with the great powers, and the most actually won, and now little Japan is very taboo against them. Even for the Beiyang bigwig Duan Qirui to frantically expand his military strength, for the reason why the Feng army was so eager to enter the customs, it was because he was afraid. Fools know that once the expeditionary force that had terrified the Germans in Europe returned to China, the country would not be a question of who unified whom, but when it was unified by Wang Zhenyu. Therefore, whether it is Duan Qirui, Zhang Zuolin, or the unruly Wang Jingwei, they all reached an amazing agreement on this point, that is, they must do everything possible to let Wang Zhenyu fall before the expeditionary force returns home.

It is precisely for this reason that Zhang Zuolin adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye to the Japanese overly supporting Zhang Zongchang, the military leader under his name. It is precisely for this reason that Zhang Zuolin, who has always been shrewd, dared to jump without hesitation when he knew that the loan from Lu Dao Xiyuan was a pit. It is precisely for this reason that Fengjun, who is afraid of the name of the youth army's good fighting, dares to challenge it so unscrupulously.

All this is a big gamble, but the result of the battle of Xuzhou is unceremoniously placed in front of everyone. It only took three hours for the youth army to frantically defeat the attack force composed of more than 20,000 elites of the Zhilu coalition army. And what is even more terrifying is still to come, although the youth army did not take advantage of the situation to counterattack, but fully demonstrated their artillery level. Successfully destroyed a heavy artillery position of the Zhilu Allied Army, 33 of the 48 heavy artillery pieces were destroyed, and 213 Japanese veterans of artillery were shattered. Frightened, Zhang Zongchang withdrew the heavy artillery overnight, and the Zhilu coalition army, which was originally full of morale and high morale, was also frightened by the tragic situation ahead, that bullshit elastic defense line was simply a slaughterhouse, and rushing into it was faster than entering Zhuge Liang's gossip array. In a word, no matter how much money Zhang Zongchang gave, no matter how much threats and intimidation he had, these soldiers refused to send him to death again.

In the face of this unprecedented situation, all Zhang Zongchang can do is to withdraw his troops, and this action has to be fast, because God knows when the Dao Youth Army will counterattack.

Almost on the first day, in the direction of Henan, Sun Liechen's army quietly crossed the Yellow River, only to summon a fat beating from Lu Diping's division of the Second Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the formation lost 7,800 men. After Sun Liechen's attack failed, he heard the news that Zhang Zongchang had suffered a fiasco in the direction of Xuzhou, and immediately became honest, dispelled all the thoughts that should not be there, and ordered the headquarters to defend on the spot, and did not dare to fight the youth army.

As soon as the results of the Battle of Xuzhou came out, the whole of China and even the whole of Asia were sensational. This is not to say that no one is optimistic about our youth army, but no one could have imagined that the victory of the youth army would come so quickly and so quickly. In less than a day, Zhang Zongchang's 200,000 Zhilu coalition troops, who had previously threatened to smash Nanjing, unceremoniously retreated into Shandong after being dealt a heavy blow.

In Nanjing, the swift victory of the Youth Army immediately dissipated the dark clouds that had hung over the city, and the powerful and wealthy who had been worried about the arrival of the Feng army in the city and were ready to pack up their things and flee were now reassured. The youth army that guards itself is so powerful, so what is there to worry about and fear?

Almost overnight, the Northern Expedition to Beijing brought to the fore the voices of the Feng faction, and the newspapers and magazines sang the praises of the young army's major victories in Xuzhou and Zhengzhou. The corrupt, reactionary, and dark devilish regime of Fengjun was also regarded by the journalists as the next target to be defeated, and now it was the turn of the Beijing and Tianjin regions to make a lot of noise.

Although Zhang Zuolin was very heartbroken and sad, he still accepted Yang Yuting's suggestion, taking advantage of the fact that the situation has not completely eroded, seize the time to get what he didn't get on the battlefield through negotiations. Although Zhilu Dao's hope is very slim, but seeing that the gang of subordinates who have no intention of fighting, Zhang Zuolin can only do this, and he even told Yang Yuting that it is okay to send the name of the central government out of Lu when necessary.

Just when all walks of life and all aspects were eagerly expecting Wang Zhenyu to go north, Wang Zhenyu was in the office of the Standing Committee Building of the Tianyuan Local Military Commission Building in Wuhan to persuade his henchmen and generals to give up their plans to go north.

"I know that you don't understand, and I know that you want to complete the reunification of the country, but please keep a clear head and continue to support me. As for the reason, I can tell you clearly that my thinking is the most correct, at least for now" Wang Zhenyu brainwashed everyone present in a very confident tone.

"Let's talk about our own difficulties first, this time I believe that Fengjun's fighting spirit has really collapsed, but think about it carefully, what did they do for it? They were there to defeat us with advanced tactics when they attacked us. In fact, in terms of equipment alone, they do not lose to us, and even in terms of fighting spirit, they do not lose to us. Their defeat, like the Boxers back then, was not lost in courage, but in ignorance. On the other hand, if we attack them with our military strength, will we be sure of victory? I don't think so, and at the same time we have to risk Japanese interference. ”

Walking around the desk, Wang Zhenyu leaned his butt on the table, and continued: "But if you want to complete reunification, don't talk about reunification if you are afraid of sacrifice." The most fundamental reason why I don't let you continue to go north is that I have a big game of chess to play. Those here are the decision-makers of the Young Army, so I don't have to hide it from you. Not only did I not plan to make a northern expedition to Beijing, but I even planned to let Zhang Zuolin and his gang of bandits from the northeast continue to hold the name of the central government, and let them occupy the territory of Shandong. ”

The generals were in an uproar in their hearts, but they didn't dare to put it into their mouths because Wang Zhenyu had accumulated power for a long time, but the eyes cast on Wang Zhenyu were full of doubts.

"Hehe, there are three reasons here, everyone must keep it secret after listening. The first is that the war in Europe is almost like this, according to the latest news, after the Yankees entered the war, the German army is now only able to parry, and the Allied front has advanced to the vicinity of the Ruhr industrial area, which was unimaginable in the past, so Germany's defeat is inevitable. But after the defeat, our victorious country has a bunch of problems to deal with, such as unequal treaties, the Shandong problem, etc., etc., these problems are not so easy to solve, and if they are not solved well, it will be the fate of the national thief. Therefore, we don't want the name of the central government, and whoever likes to recite the name will go to the top of this false name. This second point is the Russian Revolution, if my analysis is correct, don't look at the fall of the Tsar, but the chaos of the Russians has just begun. If you think about it carefully, in recent decades, who has seized the most of our land among the great powers is either someone else, or Russia. Little Japan still needs to have a little face, these ** are notoriously shameless, especially the one named Putin...... cough cough, it's far away" Wang Zhenyu suddenly remembered that Putin, who was crazy about playing the three generations of Chinese leaders in later generations, was not born at this time, and hurriedly stopped, Mom, there is a chance to kill all the Russians, so that you are stillborn, alas, Ah Q again.

"We don't want the hypocrisy of Confucianism, we just want to take advantage of people's illness and take people's lives, we must take back our things, Tibet, Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia, Central Asia, these places are not taken back at this time, and it is estimated that they will not be recovered in another hundred years. Everyone must remember that we are engaged in politics and play the game of fighting for power and profit, but we must also have a patriotic heart and a basic conscience, and the interests of the country and the nation are above everything else. ”

"The interests of the state are above everything else, and the interests of the nation are above everything else." Yang Wangui took the lead in shouting, and the dissatisfaction in the general's heart was reduced a lot