Chapter 226: Iron Blooded Soul
Subsequently, the Fujian Provincial Government issued a telegram calling on the two sides to remain calm and resolve the dispute through negotiations. The statement pointed out that the greatest enemy of China at present is imperialism, and once again advocated that all political parties and strata of the country should stop the civil war, unite with the outside world, and refrain from doing things that make relatives and enemies happy.
Looking at such a power-up, Jin Zhao couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, how could he look so similar to the tone of the Celestial Empire in his previous life! Every time there is a major international event, the Celestial Empire always seems to issue a similar statement, calling on both sides of the conflict to calm down and maintain peace.
In mid-June, however, Chiang mobilized his troops and prepared to settle the two Guangxi by force. The Guangdong and Guizhou armies, on the other hand, dispatched 300,000 horses, more than 100 aircraft, and more than 20 inland river ships to attack Hunan first. But at that time, He Jian in Hunan had already thrown himself into the central government, and worked with the central army to block the Guangdong and Guizhou armies. The two armies of Guangdong and Guizhou were suspended in southern Hunan and did not advance again.
In fact, Lao Jiang had long wanted to get rid of the powerful Southern Heavenly King Chen Jitang, but he had been busy suppressing bandits before and couldn't spare his hand. Now that the Red Army has been driven to northern Shaanxi, its destruction is only in the moment (of course, Lao Jiang thinks so in his heart). At this time, Lao Jiang could finally free his hands to clean up Chen Jitang, but Lao Jiang still needed an excuse, and Hu Hanmin, the old guy, suddenly hung up very consciously at this time, which made Lao Jiang can't help but exclaim excitedly, die well! So Lao Jiang took the opportunity to attack.
Lao Jiang also knew in his heart that Chen Jitang could not sit still and would definitely rebel, but what Lao Jiang was waiting for was their rebellion, so that Lao Jiang could openly and openly raise the banner of counterinsurgency and solve the problem of Guangzhou-Guangxi by force. The military strength of the two Guangxi is strong, but Lao Jiang is not worried about this, because long before, Lao Jiang began to secretly buy Chen Jitang's subordinates and divide Chen Jitang's strength.
As soon as the two Guangxi were in trouble, Yu Hanmou, the commander of the First Army of the Guangdong Army, secretly contacted Lao Chiang, and then issued a telegram announcing his return to the central government. Lao Jiang promised to use Yu Han to govern Guangdong after Chen was overthrown. On 4 July, dozens of Guangdong Air Force planes flew out of Guangdong to surrender to Chiang, and the strength of the Guangdong army was greatly damaged. The three leaders of the new Gui faction hurriedly met with Chen Jitang to discuss, unify the military and government, finance, and arrange the already unstable Guangdong army on the inner line, while the Gui army on the outer line.
On July 13, the Second Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Congress Party decided to abolish the Southwest Executive Department, and the Military Commission announced that Chen Jitang would be removed from his post and replaced by Yu Han. At the same time, in order to divide Yuegui, it was announced that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's positions remained unchanged. However, the new Gui faction was not fooled, and tried his best to support Chen Jitang, suggesting that Chen Jitang immediately grasp the money, food, weapons and reliable troops, retreat to western Guangdong, with his back to the Gui faction, and at the same time prepare to send the Gui army into Guangdong to stabilize the situation in Guangdong, but the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.
However, Yu Hanmou, who had received the benefits, worked even harder to serve Lao Jiang, and issued an ultimatum to Chen Jitang on the 14th, ordering him to leave Guangdong within 24 hours.
At the same time, the troops were sent to attack Guangzhou, and Chen Jitang's Second Army retreated without a fight, preparing to meet Yu Hanmou to replace Chen Jitang, and Chen Jitang's army was in turmoil. Bai Chongxi immediately telegraphed to Chen Jitang that the situation was critical, and advised Chen Jitang to spare no money and use money and official positions as bait to quickly stabilize the morale of the army. However, only a few days later, Chen Jitang's Guangdong Air Force under the leadership of Commander Huang Guangrui all went north to surrender to Chiang, Chen Jitang was already disheartened and determined to go into the wilderness, so he no longer paid attention to Bai Chongxi's proposal. On the 18th, after making proper arrangements for transitional government and military affairs, Chen Jitang went to Hong Kong and faded out of politics. Chen Jitang's closest confidant, Chen Hanguangshi, was ordered by Chen Jitang to enter Gui, and attached hundreds of thousands of yuan in military expenses. However, Chen Hanguangshi was unwilling to enter Gui and was absorbed by Yu Hanmou's department, so far, Chen Jitang's power in Guangdong was uprooted, except for hundreds of thousands of military expenses owned by the Xingui family, all of which were taken over by Yu Hanmou.
Chen Jitang fell, Lao Jiang immediately threatened the Xingui system, Gu Zhutong led Xue Yue and other troops from Guizhou to advance, Yu Hanmou's department from the Leizhou Peninsula to advance, Chen Cheng's troops from the Xijiang River up the river, He Jian's Hunan army from the Hunan and Guizhou border to spy on Guilin, the situation of the new Gui system was critical. The Xingui department immediately mobilized the province's reserve troops to prepare for the battle with the militia system, and the formed army expanded its strength to 44 regiments, and there were still nearly 100,000 local militia regiments. A total of about 200,000 troops, according to the danger. At the same time, in order to win the support of public opinion, all the instructors and advisers within the Gui Army were expelled. Because the new Gui system is different from the Guangdong system, in the process of its formation, a group organization with Li Bai and the two people as the core was formed, and the centripetal force was very stable.
The Xingui Department firmly grasped the banner of "resisting the Chinese army" and strived to trap the central army in injustice in public opinion. After June, Guangxi said that the new Gui system acquiesced, and there were anti-protest demonstrations and rallies in Guangxi, with great momentum. A large number of people from the cultural and media circles were also invited to come to Guizhou by the Xingui Department. The new Gui system has the upper hand in public opinion.
On July 15, the Nanjing political axe sent a telegram to the whole country, announcing that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi would be transferred abroad, and they would be promoted and surrendered secretly, but at the same time, Huang Shaohong, who originally belonged to the Xingui faction but had already defected to Chiang Chiang in the Central Plains War, was in charge of Guangxi in an attempt to divide the Xingui faction. Li Bai and the others refused to take up their posts, while Huang Shaohong secretly communicated with the Gui family, and actually publicly expressed his unwillingness to take office. The Liangguang incident reached an impasse.
At the end of July, out of strong indignation against the imperialism and sympathy for the new Gui lineage, powerful factions from all walks of life and localities across the country began to lean toward the new Gui lineage. Feng Yuxiang personally went to Lushan to persuade Lao Jiang to resolve the Liangguang Incident peacefully, and even Cheng Qian, Liu Fei and others within the Jiang faction openly claimed to be the first to resist. Jin Zhao also sent three reports to Lao Chiang, suggesting a peaceful settlement of the Liangguang Incident. In addition, Zhang Xueliang of the Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng of the Northwest Army (Shaanxi Army) had secretly reached an armistice agreement with the Red Army at that time.
At the beginning of August, Jiang and Gui kept sending people to test each other, and Liu Fei, Zhu Peide, Cheng Qian, Ju Zheng and others kept going back and forth between Nanning and Guangzhou, persuading both sides to take a step back. In the end, the new Gui department proposed that the central government stop attacking the localities, maintain the status quo in Guangxi, and say that if the people go further, they will immediately fight an all-out war of resistance, and Guangxi will immediately send troops to the war. On this basis, the Xingui faction announced that it would obey the leadership of Jiang Zhi and would no longer compete for the central government. The battle between the two sides in front of and behind the scenes continued until early September, when an agreement was finally reached.
On September 4, the Nanjing Political Axe and the Military Commission issued an order that the positions of Li Bai and the officials of the Gui family remained unchanged, and the new officials of the Gui family took up their posts in Nanning and declared their obedience to the Central Committee of Chiang. At this point, the Liangguang incident was resolved. In mid-September, Lao Chiang and Li Zongren met in Guangzhou, and the contradiction between the Xingui faction and the Central Army was temporarily resolved. After more than three months and a confrontation of up to 800,000 troops dispatched by both sides, the Liangguang Incident finally ended without firing a single shot.
Fuzhou City, the headquarters of the Seventh Route Army, Jin Zhao was sitting in his office and was reviewing documents, when Adjutant Xu Wenqiang walked in and said softly, "General seat!" General Li Hansoul asks to see! ”
"Oh!" Jin Zhao raised his eyebrows, and then a trace of excitement appeared on his face, and he hurriedly said, "Please!" No, I went to greet him personally, and as he spoke, he straightened out his military uniform and walked out quickly. ”
Li Hansoul was originally the deputy commander of the Third Army of the Guangdong Army, concurrently the commander of the Third Division of Reading Force, and a member of the appeasement committee of the Northern Guangdong Region. After the outbreak of the Liangguang Incident, Li Hansoul believed that at a time when the situation was serious, the domestic beans were frying each other, which was very unfavorable to the unity and resistance, and he believed that Chen Jitang's self-kindness was his personal favor, and his resistance to the central government was a public enemy. After repeated persuasions to no avail, he "sealed the gold seal" and resigned to go to Hong Kong. Three links of well power generation and literature: one is to persuade Chen Jitang to rest the army and form a joint defense against foreign insults; First, it is submitted to the head of the Central Committee of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China, clarifying the inside story of the Southwest Army, and asking for a unified plan to unite the War of Resistance; First, it is difficult to invite the generals at all levels in Guangdong Province to be in a difficult situation, and they must not be complied with. After the telegram was issued, the impact was very great, and Chen Jitang betrayed his relatives and left the wilderness to go to Hong Kong.
After Jin Zhao learned of this, he admired Li Hansoul very much, and once publicly said, "If the generals of the whole country are like General Li Hansoul, who understand the righteousness and put the overall situation of the country first, how can I be afraid of the Oriental Japanese Invaders!" At the beginning of 1936, that is, before the outbreak of the Liangguang Incident, there was an incident in Shantou where the army was killed, which caused an uproar. At the same time, he and his soldiers wore armor and swords to guard the front line of national defense in the Chaoshan region on the edge of the South China Sea. And it was this incident that brought Li Hansoul into Jin Zhao's sight, Jin Zhao thought that Li Hansoul was a real soldier with a blood surname, so he had a heart of love.
Soon after the outbreak of the Liangguang Incident, Li Hansoul hung up his seal, and Jin Zhao immediately sent someone to Hong Kong to contact Li Hansoul, hoping that Li Hansoul could go to Fujian to take up a post and serve the country. Li Hansoul is stationed in the Chaoshan area, adjacent to Fujian, so he naturally saw the changes in Fujian in the past two years. also knows that although Jin Zhao is young, he has a warm blood and sincerely resists. Since Fujian expelled all overseas Chinese and frightened off the navy, no one dared to doubt the anti-Japanese attitude of the Fujian Provincial Government. After receiving Jin Zhao's invitation, Li Hansoul happily rushed to Fujian.
Jin Zhao personally welcomed Li Hansoul into his office, and the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Jin Zhao immediately said directly, "General Bohao (Li Hansoul's character Bohao), now that the country is in danger, my Fujian Province is actively preparing for war, in order to be able to expel Yue Kou and return my mountains and rivers!" I intend to invite the general to come to Fujian to take up his post and serve the country in the future, I don't know what the general wants! ”
Li Hansoul didn't expect Jin Zhao to speak so directly, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, "I heard that Commander-in-Chief Jin once predicted that a full-scale war of resistance would break out within three to five years, I don't know what the basis for the commander-in-chief to make this judgment?" (To be continued.) )