Seeking to get two wides? Take Guangdong first? Everyone couldn't help but exclaim in unison.

This answer made Sun Yuanqi feel frightened, but Yang Du was still unconscious: "Liangjiang (including the current Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Shanghai) is the world's cultural and wealthy. The importance of Beiyang lies in status and elite soldiers, and the importance of Nanyang lies in talent and wealth, and the two complement each other. If the Beiyang system occupies the two rivers this time, it will be like a tiger with wings and cannot be copied, so Yuan Xiangcheng is determined to win the two rivers. If we don't take the opportunity to expand our territory, we will definitely lose the battle in the future.

"We have Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Sichuan and half of Huguang in the north, just like the big dragon in Go has a true and a false two eyes, dead and alive is still unknown, you must create another real eye to live all the life, and this real eye is Liangguang (including the current Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan). Liangguang faces the South Seas, occupies the benefits of foreign trade, foreign banks are lined up, foreign businessmen gather, after the former Qing Daoguang has been among the Huguang above, becoming the eight governors of the Tanhua. Among them, Guangdong is the most victorious, if we have this place, the north and the south are connected into one gas, Yuan Xiangcheng is tied up, and it is difficult to have room to move! ”

Jiang Zhiqing said: "What the gentleman said is wonderful. If we get two Guangzhou, we can also connect Fujian and Zhejiang in the north, it is said that Mr. Sun has been set up in Jiangsu, so Yuan Xiangcheng is not enough to worry about! It's just that Changsha to Guangzhou is not less than 2,000 miles, even if the road is unimpeded, the daylily should be cold when we get there! Moreover, once the two Guangzhous are attacked, they will start from Jinxi in the north and Hunan and Guangdong in the south, and the defense line will be as long as 10,000 miles, and heavy troops need to be stationed everywhere. Always beware of Yuan Xiangcheng's ghost tricks. I'm afraid we can't do it! ”

Yang Du smiled: "Answer the first question first." Although Anhui was only able to seek the fall of Yuan's army, it was not easy for Yuan Xiangcheng to take all the two rivers! As I said earlier, Li Xiehe of Jiangxi Province is not an easy person. It is quite prestigious in Jiangxi, and the Jiangxi army is not afraid of death, which may not be solved overnight. In addition, Jiangning is the former Provisional Republic of China government station, Bai Liewu, Huang Keqiang and others from Anhui after the retreat must be held here, there is the Yangtze River here, the rivers and ditches in the territory are dense, and the Beiyang Army is difficult to take off guard for a while. So the fighting should not end in the next month.

"Although Changsha is nearly 2,000 miles away from Guangzhou. However, railways have been laid from Changsha to Zhuzhou and from Shaoguan to Guangzhou, and the road required to walk is less than 1,000 miles from Zhuzhou to Shaoguan, and the rapid march is enough for half a month to arrive. Concentrate superior forces. It should take half a month to cleanse Guangzhou and the surrounding areas, I believe it should be more than enough. As for other prefectures and counties in Guangdong Province, they don't bother to wait until the establishment of the governor of Guangdong before slowly suppressing it. ”

Chen Xunen reminded at this time: "Mr. Huizi, as far as I know, there are two divisions and one mixed brigade of the regular army in Guangdong. 30,000 or 40,000 troops; However, only more than 10,000 people of the Second Division of the Hubei Army have entered Hunan now that our army has invaded Hunan. There is a huge disparity in the number of the two, so I am afraid that it will be difficult to concentrate superior forces in the short term to cleanse Guangzhou and the surrounding areas, right? ”

"Yes, Guangdong does now have the First Division, the Second Division, and the Fifth Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army, but Yan He only knows one of the military deployments in Guangdong, but he doesn't know the other!" Yang Du replied confidently: "First of all, although there are many garrisons in Guangdong, there are not many troops stationed on the front line of Shaoguan and Guangzhou. According to the preliminary investigation, it was Zhang Zicao (张我quan) who was stationed in Shaoguan. I have the right to myself, the name is so domineering! Separate brigades. Stationed in Guangzhou were three infantry regiments of the 1st Division of Zhong Bo'an (Zhong Dingji), two infantry battalions of the 2nd Division of Su Ziqi (Su Shenchu), an artillery regiment, and an engineering baggage battalion. The rest of the units were stationed in Huizhou, Gaozhou, Lianzhou and other places, and these troops were not at the disposal of the division and brigade commanders.

"Secondly, although there are many soldiers in Guangdong, the army is not evenly united, and the division and brigade commanders of these troops have no intention of courting Yuan, and some even collude with Yuan Xiangcheng for a long time; As for the middle and lower rank officers, there were no revolutionaries in the first division, and although there were not many in the second division, only the independent brigade had the most. However, in response to the feelings of Li Xiehe, the governor of Guangdong, Hu Zhantang (Hu Hanmin), prepared to transfer troops from the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, and the Independent Brigade into three detachments, and rushed to Jiangxi by land to support Yuan. Among them, the independent brigade is stationed in Shaoguan, which is the closest to Jiangxi, and is about to move northward in the near future, which will virtually reduce a lot of pressure on our army.

"Third, we are not the only ones who have the idea of Guangdong. It is reported that Yuan Xiangcheng is preparing to appoint Long Zicheng (Long Jiguang) as the envoy of Guangdong Town, and lead the 'Ji Army' from Wuzhou, Guangxi to the east to fight the rebellion. The Ji army is Long Zicheng's private soldier, with more than 10,000 soldiers, and is quite combat-powerful, which will inevitably involve part of Guangdong's troops. The reason why we want to resolve the Hunan issue through negotiation this time is that we want to borrow the First Division of the Hunan Army to go south. Otherwise, we will bomb the Hunan Governor's Mansion and military camps indiscriminately, and wouldn't it be simple and easy to solve the problem of Hunan Province? ”

Chiang Kai-shek said: "It's still the same question just now, Mr. Huizi borrowed all the Hunan soldiers to go south, once Yuan Xiangcheng turned his face, wouldn't it be easy for Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong to be broken by each other?" ”

Yang Du shook his head: "After this battle, the ammunition and food reserves before the war will be exhausted, and Yuan Xiangcheng will not be able to start another war within a year, because his money bag can only sustain this war, and this is still under the premise that he embezzled part of the big loan for the aftermath." If he forcibly starts a war, as long as we barely hold out for a month, he will collapse without a fight!

"Of course, we can't pin our hopes entirely on Yuan Xiangcheng. "The Art of War" also said: "The art of war, do not rely on the enemy not to come, and treat me with me; Don't be afraid that the enemy will not attack, and I will not be attacked. After reaching a peace agreement with Tan Zuan, Baixi could issue an order to convene students from Hunan and Hubei provinces to reorganize the First Division of the Hunan Army and completely eradicate the hidden dangers in the province. ”

Sun Yuanqi bowed slightly: "The key now is how to reach a peace agreement with Tan Zuan as soon as possible?" ”

Yang Du nodded and said, "That's right!" The focus of this attack on Guangdong was the word 'fast', which coerced the First Division of the Hunan Army to invade Guangdong with lightning speed, occupied Guangzhou before Yuan Xiangcheng noticed it, and forced the provincial council to be elected as the governor. If we are entangled in Hunan for too long, causing Long Zicheng to occupy Guangzhou first, we will give up all our efforts! ”

Sun Yuanqi pondered for a moment and replied: "As for Tan Zuan's peace negotiation conditions, in my opinion, it is okay to give him the position of governor, and other conditions can also be discussed, but we have three principles: First, this time to go south to Guangdong, the First Division of the Hunan Army must cooperate with the actions of the Second Division of the Hubei Army, and the specific combat plan can be discussed in detail by Huizi and Liu Bocheng, Yin Shuoquan and Zhao Yiwu. At the end of this battle, the army of Hunan Province must be selected and reorganized, among which the commander of the first division of the Hunan Army can be continued by Zhao Yiwu, or Tan Zuan can recommend another candidate, but the deputy division commander and the brigade commander of the first brigade must be appointed by us!

"Secondly, the provincial tax in Hunan Province, the Metropolitan Government can withhold 30% of the local financial resources for its own use, and the other 70% must be paid. Of the seventy percent handed over, one to two percent will be returned to the local government as compulsory education funds, and the rest will all be handed over to the state treasury, so we will not touch it at all. lest Yuan Xiangcheng think that we are enriching our own pockets and plotting against us.

"Third, the Hunan Governor's Office can appoint officials in the province below the county level by itself, and then report to us for archiving; But officials at or above the county level, he Tan Zuan only has the right to recommend, not the right to decide, and the final result needs to be approved by us. Huizi, Changqing, what do you think? What else to add? ”

Yang Du shook the folding fan and replied: "Military power, financial power, and personnel power, as long as we hold these three things firmly, Tan Zuan can't make any big waves." Everything else is just a minutiae, so don't mention it. ”

Yang Yongtai said: "My lord, do we want to stipulate that Tan Zuan must join the New China Party?" ”

Sun Yuanqi was stunned: "Let Tan Zuan join the party?" ”

"Exactly! When the adults were the chief of education in the cabinet of Cho Chi-an, didn't the Kuomintang force the adults to join the Kuomintang by threatening them with a purely political party cabinet? In the end, it was the adults and the stingers who announced their resignation from the cabinet in anger, and Zhang Jizhi chose to rebel against the party. Since their Kuomintang has done the first year of junior high school, our New China Party has done the fifteenth! Yang Yongtai said confidently, "What's more, after Tan Zuan joins the New China Party, we can also use party discipline to restrain him and add an extra layer of insurance to Hunan's long-term peace and stability?" ”

I have to say that Yang Yongtai's proposal is very tempting, but Sun Yuanqi thought about it again and again and rejected his proposal: "The twisted melon is not sweet!" We can suggest that Tan Zuan join the New China Party, but not by forcing him, lest he have a rebellious mentality. ”

After everyone agreed, Chen Xunen drafted a telegram and quickly sent it to Zuo Gongxian and Zeng Guangxi, who were far away in Changsha, Hunan, entrusting them to come forward to negotiate with Tan Yanmin and negotiate the matter of surrendering to Cheng as soon as possible.

In the days that followed, there were frequent exchanges of telegrams between Beijing and Hunan provinces, and basically each clause had to go back and forth between the north and the south several times. Of course, the negotiations were ongoing, and the 2nd Division of the Hubei Army, which had broken into Hunan, did not sit idle, but rushed straight to Changsha at the speed of a rapid march, and finally arrived outside Changsha on the afternoon of the sixth day after the start of the battle, and set up a mortar and firing a cannonball symbolically into the city.

The sudden sound of the cannon became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

At the last moment, Tan Yanmin finally signed the peace talks. Subsequently, he sent a telegram to the whole country, officially announcing that Hunan would change its flag and banner, cancel its independence and support the central government, and that the soldiers of Hunan Province would lay down their arms and surrender to the Second Division of the Hubei Army stationed in the province and accept the reorganization; He also claimed that he would quit the Kuomintang and join the New China Party from now on.

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was shocked. (To be continued.) )

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