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Just as Zhao Zhenzhong returned to Shiqiao Cement Factory to urge the technicians and workers to speed up production, the Zhejiang-Feng War broke out as expected.

After winning the Second Zhi-Feng War in October last year, the Fengtian warlord Zhang Zuolin appointed Fengtian generals Li Jinglin, Zhang Zongchang, Jiang Dengxuan, and Yang Yuting in the name of the central government through the Duan Qirui government he supported. The Fengtian warlords immediately commanded 11 divisions to enter the important places of four provinces and controlled the entire line of the Beijing-Feng Railway and the Jinpu Railway. It posed a serious threat to the National Army under Feng Yuxiang's headquarters, the Zhi-Feng forces in the Yangtze River Basin and other local warlords. Under the pressure of the Fengtian army's frontier, the Zhi-Feng Warlords and Zhejiang Military Affairs Supervisor Sun Chuanfang secretly contacted Feng Yuxiang's headquarters in the north, as well as local warlords such as Jiangsu and Anhui to jointly fight against Feng.

On October 8, 1925, Sun Chuanfang convened representatives of five provinces in Hangzhou to hold a secret meeting, forming a alliance of five provinces, preparing to launch a war against Fengfeng. On October 10, Sun Chuanfang mobilized four divisions and six brigades of Zhejiang Army in the name of preparing for the autumn exercises, and secretly deployed and prepared to attack the Fengfeng army.

On October 15, the battle began and the Zhejiang-Feng War broke out.

The Fengtian clique had noticed the outbreak of the war in advance and took countermeasures. In order to shorten the front line and concentrate troops, the Fengtian clique withdrew from Shanghai in advance from October 14.

On October 16, the Zhejiang Army occupied Shanghai, and then successively captured Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and other places, and advanced to Nanjing. At this time, the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 10th Divisions of Jiangsu responded to the Zhejiang Army and surrounded the 8th Division of the Fengtian Army stationed in Nanjing. Yang Yuting, the Fengtian warlord who was the supervisor of the military affairs of Jiangsu at that time, led his confidants to flee Nanjing.

After entering Nanjing on October 20, the Zhejiang Army and the Soviet Army took advantage of the victory to advance northward and forced the Fengtian army to retreat to Bengbu, Anhui. The 1st Brigade of the Anhui Army issued a telegram to operate in concert with the Zhejiang Army and arrived at Linhuai Pass from Si County. Jiang Dengxuan, the Fengtian warlord who was the supervisor of the military affairs of Anhui, was forced to resign.

Faced with the aggressive offensive of the coalition forces of the five provinces commanded by Sun Chuanfang, the Fengtian army had to continue to retreat north. Zhang Zuolin was eager to transfer four divisions from the Northeast and two other mixed brigades into the pass to reinforce, and appointed Zhang Zongchang as the commander-in-chief of Zhilu, Jiangsu and Anhui defense to defend Xuzhou. Zhang Zongchang then dispatched troops to deploy troops in Pi County, Dangshan, and Suxian County, Anhui to fight against the coalition forces of the five provinces commanded by Sun Chuanfang.

Zhejiang and Feng sides fought a series of battles in Anhui and northern Jiangsu. Zhang Zongchang's troops retreated step by step. Shi Congbin, the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, was also defeated and captured, and was later ordered to be killed by Sun Chuanfang. Zhang Zongchang's armored train convoy, which Zhang Zongchang relied most, and the Belarusian mercenaries were wiped out under the fierce attack of Sun Chuanfang's troops.

Just when Sun Chuanfang commanded the coalition forces to surround Xuzhou from the east, west and south, and Zhang Zongchang mobilized the Fengtian army to prepare for a decisive battle, Feng Yuxiang from the north commanded the National Army to march towards Zhili Daming and western Shandong, threatening the rear of the Fengtian army. In order to preserve its strength, Zhang Zuolin sent Zhang Zongchang to retreat to Shandong.

On November 7, the Feng army retreated to Tancheng, Taierzhuang, Hanzhuang, and Lincheng. On November 8, the Zhejiang-Suzhou-Anhui coalition forces occupied Xuzhou, and the Battle of Zhejiang-Feng was declared over.

The two warlords of Zhejiang and Fengtian warlords were in Jiangsu and Anhui, and the battlefield was not in Shandong, so the people of Shandong did not have to suffer from war. This understanding usually has nothing wrong, but it is not applicable to Zhang Zongchang's troops.

Zhang Zongchang was born in 1882 in a poor family in Ye County, Shandong. When he was young, he was forced to go to Guandong because of his poor family. When he was in the Northeast, Zhang Zongchang first worked for people, and later defected to the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. During this period, he also formed friendship with many bandits. After the war, he encountered the Tongmenghui who went to Vladivostok to recruit soldiers. Zhang Zongchang colluded with a group of bandits who had been tricked to sneak into Shanghai to join the Revolutionary Army. He also became the cavalry commander of the Restoration Army, thus starting his career in the army.

After being defeated by Feng Guozhang in the War of Resistance against Yuan, Zhang Zongchang led his troops to surrender and became the commander of the lieutenant general in Feng's army. After Feng Guozhang's death, Zhang Zongchang defected to Zhang Zuolin again. During the First Zhi-Feng War, Zhang Zongchang was defeated in Shandong and led hundreds of remnants to flee back to Fengtian. Later, Zhang Zongchang took the opportunity to take in a large number of Tsarist Russian soldiers and many bandits who escaped from the Soviet Union, and greatly expanded his strength. Soon, Zhang Zongchang's team grew stronger.

Because the team was filled with Belarusian defeated soldiers and bandits and other desperate people, and in addition to the full double pay for the Belarusian soldiers, other subordinates of Zhang Zongchang's troops were often deducted from military pay. Zhang Zongchang also wanted to indulge his subordinates to loot, and his military discipline was the most corrupt among the Fengtian army. Zhang Zuolin also wanted to lay off Zhang Zongchang's troops because of the discipline issues of Zhang Zongchang's troops, but in the end he was left because his combat effectiveness was relatively fierce among the Fengtian teams.

During the Fengtian Army's autumn exercise in 1923, Zhang Zuolin wanted to take the opportunity to disband Zhang Zongchang's troops. Before the exercise, Zhang Zuolin told the military exercise school members Zhang Xueliang, Li Jinglin, Guo Songling and others: "It's too unreasonable to spend more than one million military expenses every year, but they are raising this team to grow opium. If this exercise is not good, they will be dealt with and dismissed."

Zhang Zuolin wanted to dismiss Zhang Zongchang's team, because Zhang Zongchang's army was established late and the bandits were not removed, even old bandits like Zhang Zuolin were disliked, and the degree of corruption in his department's discipline can be seen. In addition, Zhang Zuolin hated planting big smoke, and Zhang Zongchang's troops were using the lack of military pay as the main means to raise military pay. In addition, Yang Yuting also opposed Zhang Zongchang's group of defeated soldiers and bandits wanted to get rid of them. It was not surprising that Zhang Zuolin said such words before the exercise.

However, Zhang Zongchang's troops were all desperate people, and the fearless style and strong combat effectiveness of their troops during the exercises made Zhang Zuolin dispel the idea of ​​being the general and dismissing him.

When the troops were sent into Jiangsu and Anhui to fight against the coalition forces commanded by Sun Chuanfang, Zhang Zongchang's troops would fight, forcibly trade, robbery, steal, tease, and even rape women, and other evil deeds occurred from time to time.

There were many subordinates of Zhang Peirong, the governor of Yanzhou, who asked his family to be fair because they were harmed by the soldiers of Zhang Zongchang. Zhang Peirong came forward to negotiate with the evil Belarusian army, but he was angry and returned. Seeing that Zhang Zongchang's army was passing through, Zhang Peirong could not afford to offend him, so he had to appease his subordinates and let them endure it for the time being.

When Zhang Peirong learned that the army ahead was defeated and his former old boss Shi Congbin was captured and killed by Sun Chuanfang, he felt sad and sad, but he was a little relaxed. The reason was very simple. The Russians with the most corrupt military discipline were wiped out this time, along with the armored train, and they were defeated again. This time, these soldiers should not be ashamed to create the situation of corrupt military discipline when the army went to war, right?

The result made Zhang Peirong even more embarrassing. Although there were no Russians rampage this time, the defeated soldiers from bandits from outside the pass were even more unscrupulous than when they crossed the border last time. They even made Zhang Peirong's nose feel unreasonable.

It was precisely because of the poor discipline of Zhang Zongchang's troops that he looted a lot when passing through Yanzhou, which led Zhang Peirong to fight back in the next battle and led his troops to declare a conspiracy.

Also dissatisfied with the military discipline of Zhang Zongchang's troops, the 24th Division headed by Fang Zhenwu near the Grand Canal was also ravaged by the 24th Division.

Fang Zhenwu participated in the Tongmenghui in his early years and participated in the Anqing Horse and Artillery Camp Uprising led by Xiong Chengji in 1908. After the failure of the Second Revolution, he fled to Japan and entered Shangwu School to study military affairs. In 1917, he returned to Guangzhou and served as the commander of the Marine Corps of the Military Government of the Republic of China. In 1921, Sun Yat-sen raised troops to the Northern Expedition. Fang Zhenwu led his troops to go to Beijiang with Xu Chongzhi. However, due to Chen Jiongming's rebellion, the Northern Expedition failed. Fang Zhenwu led his troops from Jiangxi to southern Anhui under the banner of the Northern Expedition and fell into trouble. In helplessness, he prepared to go to Zhejiang to join Lu Yongxiang, but the Kaihua team in western Zhejiang was disarmed by Lu Yongxiang.

In 1924, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War broke out, and Fang Zhenwu defected to Lu Yongxiang again and was appointed as the commander of the Random Movement. After Lu failed and stepped down, Fang went to Tianjin to join Zhang Zongchang, the commander of the Second Army of the Feng Army, and was appointed as the commander of the Major General of the Feng Army's Advance Second Detachment.

In May 1925, Fang Zhenwu led his troops to northern Jiangsu and Shandong, and was expanded to the Sixth Brigade of the Shandong Army by Zhang Zongchang. In the autumn of the same year, Fang Zhenwu was promoted to the commander of the 24th Division. Fang Zhenwu was well-managed and had strict military disciplines, and was an alternative to Zhang Zongchang's team. In order to control Fang Zhenwu's team, Zhang Zongchang sent some confidants to serve important positions, which were hindered everywhere. Some of Zhang's subordinates, such as Cheng Guorui and others, discriminated against Zhang's direct descendants, and regarded themselves as Zhang's direct descendants, and looked down on Fang's "half-way monk". Fang Zhenwu was even more disgusted with their bandits and soldiers' style.

This time, seeing Zhang Zongchang's troops passing by, the tragic situation after being ravaged by soldiers and gangsters, and being excluded and restrained by Zhang Zongchang's direct bandits on weekdays, Fang Zhenwu was full of resentment and anger. He publicly said to Su Zhichen, Ruan Xuanwu, Zheng Zhi and other confidant generals: "We have been revolutionizing for many years and have followed Mr. Sun for many years, but today we are in such a bandit army. It is really unbearable. It is said that rabbits do not eat grass by the nest. Zhang Zongchang, as a Shandong native, indulges those bandits from outside the pass. The soldiers and gangsters are so harmful that they have no local friendship."

Su Zhichen, his subordinates, advised: "Mr. Now we are surrounded by bandits from Zhang Zongchang. It's not a time to act rashly. Let's just bear it for a while and wait until we have the chance."

Fang Zhenwu was silent and had to suppress his anger for the time being, but he had the idea of ​​finding the opportunity to leave Zhang Zongchang's troops.

Although Zhao Zhenzhong, who is busy with factory production and public assistance in Shiqiao area, trains newcomers, knows that Zhang Zongchang's military discipline is corrupt, he does not expect it to be so bad.

In addition to the Fifth Division and other Shandong troops, many of the other teams of Zhang Zongchang were bandits of all sizes recruited from outside the pass and from all over Shandong. They had not been bandits in their original state, and this defeat did not gain benefits from the south, so the defeated soldiers became even more violent on the way back to the mainland of Shandong, and wherever they passed, they were like locusts crossing the border.

After receiving the news that Zhang Zongchang's troops carried out animal acts such as plundering, burning, killing, and rape of women in Xintai, Laiwu, Mengyin and other places, Zhao Zhenzhong ordered several companies to guard against small groups of defeated soldiers to enter the activity area of ​​his team, while sending small groups of troops to Laiwu, Xintai, Mengyin and other places to take in many years of children who have become orphans due to disasters, military disasters and bandit disasters.
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