At 10 a.m. on October 24, the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919 AD), the official residence of the chairman of the National Government was located at the gate of the Daxing Palace in Nanjing.

"Squeak ......" With the screeching sound of violent friction between the tires and the road surface, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, climbed out of the car wearing a pair of pajamas and rolled with a belt, and his driver was so frightened that the driver hurriedly braked suddenly.

The soldiers of the Presidential Guard of the Nationalist Government, who were guarding outside the Daxing Palace, were also startled, and thought that something important had happened, so they immediately raised their guns and asked, "Who is it?" ”

Wang Jingwei hurriedly got up, didn't bother to pat the dirt off his pajamas, and shouted at the guard: "I'm Wang Zhaoming, I have the right to meet Chairman Sun at any time, get out of the way for me......"

Sun Wen also walked to the living room in pajamas and with the support of Song Qingling, he couldn't help but yawn and said, "Zhaoming, it's only ten o'clock in the morning, why are you coming to me in such a hurry?" ”

Although the Nationalist Government did not have actual military power, the civil and administrative powers were truly held in the palm of its hands. In addition, Wang Zhenyu has made money and has strong policies over the years, so the national government is still very busy. In particular, Sun Wen, chairman of the National Government, has a large number of documents and decrees that need to be signed and put into effect every day, and he also has to prepare for the general election in the second half of next year. For this reason, Chairman Sun, who has a lot of opportunities, specially changed his work time, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. is his sleeping time, and from 2 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next morning is his working time. When Wang Jingwei came, he had only slept for less than two hours, so he was naturally in poor spirits. But Wang Jingwei didn't care about these anymore, he shouted emotionally: "Sir, the fight has started, the fight has started." ”

"Don't worry, say slowly, what's the fight?"

"It's Shandong, it's Shandong, and the Japanese army in Qingdao issued a notice, and last night, Wang Zhenyu's army suddenly attacked the Japanese army, killing more than 40 Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese have already issued a solemn statement that they will be in a state of war with our national government from now on.

"Ah......" It was not Sun Wen who was surprised, but his young wife Song Qingling.

Sun Wen didn't squeak, but patted his wife's hand very calmly and said to the part-time secretary: "Go and invite Mr. Hu and Mr. Liao, I want to have lunch tea with them......"

And at the Qingdao Shandong Dispatch Army Headquarters, Yuheng Yicheng was frantically scolding Honjo Fan through the telephone line, "Yaga, waste, actually a small team of imperial samurai was killed by the Shina people, Honjo-kun, is this how you serve His Majesty the Emperor?" …… Immediately send troops to take disciplinary action against this Chinese army that dared to offend and desecrate the imperial army, and all of them died. ”

In Jurentang, Beijing, Zhang Zuolin's mood at noon that day was not ordinarily good, he even ate two more bowls of rice, and he didn't forget to call Yang Yuting to eat together: "This time I see how arrogant Wang Zhenyu can be, I thought about how to find an excuse for the Japanese to beat him." Well, before I could find it, he went to provoke the Japanese himself. Neighbor Ge, you immediately send a telegram to Sun Liechen and Zhang Jinghui, the military operation in Shanxi will speed up for me, doesn't he Yan Laoxi like to dance on eggs? Then I'll smash his eggs and see how he jumps? ”

In Tokyo, Prime Minister Tai Hara, who was full of melancholy, looked at his War Minister Tanaka Yoshiichi and said with great dissatisfaction: "What's going on?" Why did so many imperial troops die? ”

Tanaka Yoshiichi smiled very unruly: "This is normal, the Tyrannical Clan has carried out an extremely shameful sneak attack, these brave samurai have been loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, Your Excellency Prime Minister, I think it is time to consider using the navy, we should strike at the Southern Branch Nationalist Government in an all-round way, and no longer care about the thoughts of the British and American powers." As long as we can crack down on the rebel army in South China, then I believe that high-level people in South China, including Sun Wen, will seek to cooperate with the empire and jointly clean up the lawless warlords in South China. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Yuan Jing to express his position, Tanaka Yoshiichi, who was full of lightheartedness, got up and bowed very rudely and left. The angry Yuan Jing sighed in his heart and said: "This person is a devil at all, and in order to achieve his goal, he doesn't take the life and death of the people seriously at all......"

However, despite his dissatisfaction with Tanaka and the military department, Hara Kei instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lodge a strong protest and told Britain, France, and the United States that in view of the atrocities committed by the Chinese army, the Empire of Japan considered going beyond the boundaries of Shandong and carrying out a punitive operation against the whole of South China......

Even the British minister Zhu Erdian couldn't help frowning: "Don't these righteous-looking Asian dwarfs know that their army was killed on the territory of the Chinese?" Do they think that the Chinese army is the one who ran to Tokyo to kill? ”

However, no matter how hateful the Japanese were, Zhu Erdian still proceeded from the overall interests of the great powers in China, and chose to send a note to the two governments of Beijing and Nanjing at the same time, demanding that they immediately accept the mediation of the great powers and agree to accept the investigation. However, until this time, the British did not agree to the Japanese fighting beyond the boundaries of Shandong, and joked that the British had no interest in turning the British Empire's investment territory in China into a place of war between China and Japan.

As Wang Zhenyu mentioned in his speech to the senior officers of the Youth Army: "There is no justice and justice in this world at all, and all right and wrong are only between victory and defeat......

Li Weidong is a very bold guy, after killing so many Japanese in Gaoxinzhuang, he did not choose to retreat immediately like ordinary people, and hid as far away as possible. Because his intuition told him that the Japanese would definitely not give up after losing so many men at once, and at this time, if such a few people played for their lives, they would not be able to escape. So Li Weidong did the opposite, and together with Gao Qiang and other locals, he advanced towards the hinterland of the Japanese army.

This trick really surprised the Japanese, and the result was naturally that Honjo Fan dug three feet into the ground and didn't find Li Weidong and them, Honjo Fan could only jump angrily about this, and then send the waste title obtained from Yuheng Yicheng one level at a time.

As a result, the Honjo Fan Division became a waste division, and the waste division gave up the task of searching for the small Chinese army, and began to cross the Jiaolai River and march in the direction of Jinan.

Zhang Zizhong naturally received the news, in order to avoid the loss of a small force, except for the ninth company, which lost contact because of the sudden attack, the other squads asked to retreat to the Linzi defense line. Zhang Zizhong's intention was obvious, to avoid the small force from dying in vain in the face of the absolutely superior Japanese army.

Later generations have such an evaluation of this period of history of the Republic of China, warlords are all over the place, but there are Wang Zhenyu and Yan Xishan, two who like to engage in construction, so China not only did not become weaker and weaker because of the civil war, but became stronger and stronger in the war, which cannot but be said to be a miracle. However, it is the same construction, and there is still a difference in actual operation. Yan Xishan is engaged in construction behind closed doors in Shanxi, which is a bit of a homesteader farmer, and this speed is naturally not fast. And Wang Zhenyu is different, from mobilizing the major business gangs in Hongjiang to tap the potential internally, to contacting Luxembourg with the help of external forces, and finally "colluding" with Britain and France to obtain resources, every step is unscrupulous, and the development speed achieved under such conditions is naturally not comparable to that of Yan Xishan, a small tyrant. Then again, if Yan Xishan and Wang Zhenyu are like a bird, they wouldn't dare to fight Shanxi's idea if they borrowed ten daring people?

With a body of meat and no sharp teeth, who doesn't slaughter such a pig?

Under the three urgings of the Beijing side, the Feng army naturally attacked hard, and there was some meaning that it did not hesitate to suffer casualties. Yang Yuting, chief of staff of the Feng Army, also came to the front line to supervise the war, and the people did not come empty-handed, they brought a full 3 million Xianyang, saying that they would pay the whole army if they conquered Shanxi, and it was the current ocean. You must know that Fengjun is now paying and issuing tickets that are depreciating every day, and ten yuan in the morning may be able to buy three catties of pork, but in the evening you may only be able to buy three apples, and the next morning, three apples may cost 100 yuan to buy.

So as soon as Yang Yuting said that he had discovered the ocean, the morale of the Feng army was immediately raised.

The reward of the Jin army is more real than that of the Feng army, Yan Xishan has withdrawn the entire provincial treasury, as long as the Feng army can be blocked, not to mention anything else, according to the head, one hundred and fifty yuan per person is now the ocean. On the one hand, the Jin army was quite convinced of Yan Xishan, and on the other hand, they also knew that these Feng troops were not good at coming like locusts, and from the perspective of protecting the countryside, they couldn't help but fight hard.

So Shanxi was immediately beaten into a scorched earth, but generally speaking, the Jin army was at a disadvantage, no way, when have you ever seen a sheep in front of a wolf and still play at a super level.

When the battle came to this, Yan Xishan didn't have any temper, he had two things to do in the past few days, he went to the office in the morning to listen to yesterday's defeat report, and went home in the afternoon to drink tea and chat with Yang Yongtai, the representative of the south, in fact, to discuss how to make a job in the national government in the future.

In fact, everyone has no opinion on the overall direction, and the main problem is still in the treatment. Yan Xishan is not a rich man in Shanxi, his thinking is very clear, he still wants the territory and the army. And Wang Zhenyu, who is obviously determined to complete the reunification of the whole country, will not allow the emergence of a state within a state in China in the future, let alone the existence of warlords. The only thing that the Nationalist Government can provide to Yan Xishan is high-ranking officials Houlu, and as for the rest, I'm sorry that there is no more.

This Yan Xishan naturally quit, after all, the Jin army is still trying to resist, and his family background is basically still there, and the luck psychology makes him always fantasize about breaking through the situation. And Yang Yongtai was surprisingly not persecuted, he drank tea every day, chatted all over the world, and finally said goodbye and left. Although the youth army of the five divisions pressed in the Zhengzhou area built a pontoon bridge to cross the river, they insisted on sitting still and not messing around, and they did not cross the river without Yan Xishan's invitation anyway. Not to mention, this gentlemanly style still moved Yan Xishan very much.