In the sixth year of the Republic of China, on September 11, 1917, the battle of Xuzhou, which attracted the attention of the whole country, finally began.

Before the start, Zhang Zuolin patted the table at the meeting of senior generals within the Feng department and made a decision: "This victory or defeat is related to who belongs to the country, and I hope that all departments will sincerely unite and work together, otherwise we will have a way to escape back to the Guanwai......"

It's a pity that Zhang Zuolin is not a traverser, otherwise he would not have mentioned the four words of sincere unity first, and he should not mention the road of escaping back to Guanwai second. In history, all the most reluctant who shouted sincere unity tossed themselves to death first, and all the most reluctant who left a way out would find that they had no way out.

But what kind of person is Zhang Zuolin, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp that can stand out in the Northeast beard and finally mix with the highest throne of the Republic of China. Therefore, this side has made up its mind to fight, and the other side has not forgotten to send people to engage in some kind of peaceful reunification negotiations with the Nanjing Nationalist Government, according to Zhang Lao's own intentions, that is, to take the opportunity to confuse the fools in the south and make a cover for Zhang Zongchang and Sun Liechen's next offensive.

It can be said that such peace talks were insincere from the beginning, but within the Nanjing Nationalist Government, the Guangfu Hui faction represented by Zhang Taiyan thought that they saw a kind of hope.

On September 4, at the meeting of the two houses in Nanjing, Zhang Taiyan, in his capacity as vice chairman of the National Government and president of the Supervision Yuan, delivered a famous speech on "How to Seek Unity in Checks and Balances": "Our national government is already the very best government of the Republic of China to this day, and the decision-making and implementation of our two houses fully reflect our will. But why do we still think this government is not **? What's the problem? We have always been puzzled, after knowing the incident of Wang Jingwei's assassination of the king, we know why we feel that our government is not **, in the final analysis, there is only one reason, the army has too much power, and it has overridden the government. I have no opinion on the military council in Wuhan here, but I am full of concern. For the time being, there is nothing wrong with the military council led by Wang Zhenyu still trying to maintain the authority of the Nationalist government. But if one day, Wang Zhenyu's personal thinking changes, or the top decision-maker of the Military Commission changes, whether our ** can continue, and whether our national government can still be a ** government, this is what I am most worried about. Therefore, we should take the initiative in the next talks on the peaceful reunification of the North and the South, unite the armed forces of the North and the armed Forces of the South, and form a balanced ecological environment in our military system. At this time, our national government can successfully upgrade to the central government under the premise of completing the reunification of the motherland, and China can become more prosperous and ......powerful."

After Sun Wen was forced to retire from illness, the political situation within the Kuomintang Socialist Party, which was called a political party but was actually an alliance, changed greatly. First of all, the alliance system, which was originally in the position of the leading boss, was divided, and the faction led by Hu Hanmin and Xu Chongzhi chose to stand firmly on Sun Wen's side, which was called "Sun Wen's system". Xiong Kewu, Cheng Qian and others, who originally belonged to the Huang Xing line, chose to take refuge in Wang Longzhong, which was called the "Huang Xing line" according to its origins. The most direct result of the split of the alliance system is the strong rise of Zhang Taiyan's Guangfu faction and Xiong Xiling's and Liang Qichao's progressive party faction within the national government.

Now, Zhang Taiyan, who holds the power of civil affairs and government supervision, openly put forward the political slogan of forming a coalition government in Nanjing, under the pretext of merging the Fengjun Army and the Youth Army to form a national army. Not to mention, as soon as such an idea came out, there was really a big market in all walks of life in Nanjing, after all, in everyone's opinion, it was better not to fight the civil war.

And in Wuhan, almost on the same day, Wang Zhenyu, who was used to being the shopkeeper, was taking his four sons, twelve-year-old Shen Quan, five-year-old Wang Jingye, and Wang Jingwen and Wang Jingwu, who were already just trotting. In fact, Wang Zhenyu also has a child, the daughter Wang Siyun, who was born at the end of May, and she will be satisfied with drinking milk and sleeping every day.

Wang Zhenyu is busy with things on weekdays, and rarely has time to interact with his children with parent-child, so he finally arranged such a day to take his four children to visit the Wuhan National Zoo that has just been completed.

Wang Zhenyu is very unhappy about this, in fact, there is nothing against himself, as a political figure, Wang Zhenyu still has this belly. But Zhang Taiyan shouldn't have disgusted Wang Zhenyu when he was with the child, he was really a little unhappy.

"Secretary Chen, send a telegram to my uncle, the corruption in our national government has become more and more serious recently, and we need to punish it. In this way, set up an Independent Commission Against Corruption, appoint Chen Jiongming as the director, and assign the picketing power of the Civil Service Commission to this department. In addition, our delegates were assigned to initiate a proposal against the concurrent of a National Government official in a subordinate unit of the National Convention. I think this president of the Supervision Yuan can give Xie Zhi or Zou Lu of Sun Wen's family, and send someone to Shanghai to meet Sun Wen, so that he can recuperate for this year with peace of mind. ”

"Dad, why don't you stand up for that tiger" Wang Jingye's immature Tongyin quickly pulled Wang Zhenyu back to the role of his father.

"Silly boy, because the tiger also needs to take a nap." Wang Zhenyu said to his son very lovingly......

With a few easy words, Wang Zhenyu's Guangfuhui department, which had just taken the lead in Nanjing, immediately suffered a heavy blow and had no choice but to hand over the personnel and supervision powers of the Nationalist Government. And the "Sun Wen Department", which has been silent for more than a month, also unexpectedly gained two important positions, and even Hu Hanmin couldn't understand what Wang Zhenyu's idea was.

It seems that heroes cherish each other, or it may be a heart, just when Zhang Taiyan felt uncomfortable, Zhang Zuolin stepped on it unceremoniously. On 10 September, after almost a week of tepid talks on the peaceful reunification of the North and the South held in Shanghai, major changes suddenly took place. Yang Yuting, the representative of the North, suddenly proposed that the Beijing government was the only legitimate central government of the Republic of China. In order to promote the peaceful reunification of the north and the south, it is natural to abolish the local government of the Nanjing Nationalist Government. At the same time, the illegal militia of the Al-Shabaab was disbanded, and the southern provinces awaited acceptance by the central government. At this time, the deputies in the south headed by Wang Zhengting were immediately dumbfounded, what is the situation, wasn't it okay yesterday? Why did it suddenly change today? After Wang Zhengting's continuous questioning to no avail, he had no choice but to report the matter to Nanjing and Wuhan.

Zhang Taiyan, who was convening a meeting of colleagues from the Guangfu Society at his official residence at that time, heard the news and angrily scolded Zhang Zuolin for being shameless and hopeless in China. In addition to being emotional, my heart almost stopped.

After Wang Zhenyu learned the news, he smiled very lightly: "Send a telegram and tell the whole country that it was he, Zhang Zuolin, who destroyed the peace." Let the gang of boys on the front line be ready to fight, let the brothers fight harder, don't let Fengjun always feel that only they are men in the Northeast, and those who only talk ruthlessly and love to play personality are generally undercleaned up, and they must be cleaned up well. ”

On September 11, in Beijing, Zhang Zuolin announced that due to the refusal of the Southern Nationalist Government to be peaceful and reunified, he would be ordered by President Xu Shichang to cancel the status of the regional government of the Southern Nationalist Government from now on, and from now on it would be regarded as a rebellion.

However, the day before, Wang Zhenyu sent a telegram: "Who is Zhang Zuolin? In the northeast, there are a dozen robbers who steal the country's vital information, and the people are like mustard, and they are desperate to steal the country. If such a scourge is allowed to spread, our nation will perish. Therefore, Wen Zheng is now a puppet, bearing the rise and fall of the world, raising troops for the people and the country. ”

Zhang Zuolin watched Wang Zhenyu's telegram, although he revealed the truth to people, he was not angry, but he was not to be outdone, and after issuing the crusade order, he also followed Yuan Shikai's tone that day and replied to Wang Zhenyu alone: "I look at Wang Wenzheng and his ilk, since the three years of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty, the left is a rebellion, and the right is a troublemaker. Since the beginning of the Republic of China, there has been no day of peace and the country, Yuting now lives in the central place, for the livelihood of the world, and it is impossible for this generation to continue to make trouble. On the day when our army breaks the thief, the head of the thief will be determined to thank the world. ”

After Wang Zhenyu saw this power, he didn't need Chen Bui anymore, and personally replied: "Zhang Zuolin, male, Han nationality, 42 years old, Xixiaowatun, Majiafang Village, Jiazhangsi Township, Haicheng County, Fengtian Province, is known as Lao Pimple. Tall 4 feet 8 inches (1.62 meters), he has been a disaster in the Northeast for many years, and recently wandered to the Zhilu area to continue to commit crimes. Same-day ......"

Seeing the telegram written by Wang Zhenyu, Chen Bui, who couldn't cry or laugh, still wanted to persuade his own handsome man that the telegram would not be sent like this.

Wang Zhenyu waved his hand and said: "Just send it like this, this is God's reply......"

Sure enough, when Zhang Zuolin saw this power, he was stunned at first, then pondered, and scolded: "Mom, this Wang Zhenyu is not a thing, is it so harmful?" Is he playing by the rules? Mom, dare to want Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu ......" Lao Tzu for a long time, Zhang Zuolin shouted loudly at the top of his throat: "Go, give Lao Tzu a reward of 300,000 yuan, Lao Tzu wants this Wang Zhenyu's head ......"

The war of words can be regarded as unprecedented at this level, but everyone's mind is still focused on the entire battlefield, joking, this is really a decisive battle that will determine China's fate and future