In the north of Tianjing Pass, inside a large marching tent. Ai Sui Chuan Xing

Zhang Xinghan, Sun Chu, Guo Zhong and other Northeast Army, Shanxi Sui Army generals and Du Yuming, Wang Yaowu, Zhang Lingfu and other Central Army generals were drinking and talking.

Since both sides deliberately avoided some political topics and only talked about military matters, everyone had a great time talking.

Some of them have been classmates for many years, and some have fought side by side in the Northern Expedition.

After a few glasses of wine, the atmosphere became lively.

Regarding the performance of the Northeastern Army in recent years, everyone expressed their high appreciation from a purely military standpoint.

Full of praise, Du Yuming and others also expressed their sincere admiration for the founder of the Northeastern Army. Of course, this was under the premise of putting aside political grudges.

Inadvertently, Zhang Xinghan said that if there is an opportunity in the future, he hopes to fight side by side with them and deal with the outside world together, and everyone also showed a high level of interest.

During the banquet, Zhang Xinghan cordially took Zhang Lingfu's arm, held up his wine glass and said drunkenly to everyone present: "Since I started the army in Shenyang, I have fought against the Japanese, resisted the Russians, and fought hundreds of battles. I have experienced countless life and death encounters. There are no less than a hundred famous generals, but as of now, the only person Zhang admires in his life is Zhang Lingfuer!"

After Zhang Xinghan said these words, everyone present changed their colors and became an uproar.

Whether it's the truth or drunken talk, as the saying goes, you tell the truth when you're drunk.

Zhang Xinghan's high evaluation of Zhang Lingfu was enough to make him famous all over the world.

But as the captured central military generals, they didn't see it that way. As Zhang Lingfu's boss, Wang Yaowu was worried that this matter might have an extremely negative impact on Zhang Lingfu's future future.

As a person from the third generation of Huangpu, he knew very well how suspicious their president Jiang and Chairman were, yet Zhang Xinghan showed such enthusiasm and kindness to Zhang Lingfu.

Even if Zhang Lingfu is still loyal to Chairman Chiang, it may be difficult to eliminate the grudge in Chiang's heart.

Tang Enbo, who was the backbone of the generals of the Huangpu Clan, was angry about this and believed that Zhang Lingfu had been won over by Zhang Xinghan and had betrayed their principal Chiang.

I silently made a note in my mind, secretly thinking that when I have the chance to escape, I will severely accuse Zhang Lingfu of you to the Chairman.

Tang Enbo's reaction was partly because he hated Zhang Lingfu for betraying his loyal and loyal Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, but more importantly, he probably was jealous of Zhang Lingfu's dazzling performance in the battle of Hebei.

He was deeply afraid that Zhang Lingfu, a junior fellow in the fourth phase of Huangpu, would be favored and his status would surpass his own in the future.

Zhang Lingfu himself was both surprised and delighted. His personality was very aloof, but Zhang Xinghan had few contemporary soldiers whom he could honestly admire.

Moreover, Zhang Xinghan's achievements are already beyond the reach of many Huangpu generals.

Being able to receive such praise from Zhang Xinghan in front of everyone, you can imagine how Zhang Lingfu felt in his heart.

He was overjoyed, and while slightly drunk, he raised his glass and said unintentionally: "Lingfu also admires the general's life and deeds, as a man should do. If given the opportunity, he is willing to lead a brigade like the general, sweep away the Japanese islands, and lay waste to Tokyo!"

This banquet, where everyone had their own thoughts, finally came to an end at ten o'clock in the evening.

After Wang Yaowu took the somewhat drunk Zhang Lingfu away, he found a place where no one was around and scolded him in a low voice: "Lingfu, what you did today has ruined all your past achievements."

Zhang Lingfu looked at his superior and senior with drunken eyes, and asked in confusion: "Master, what do you mean by this?"

"Zhang Xinghan has attracted so much love to you. Once the news comes to the committee, the committee will be suspicious. What do you think the committee will think?" Wang Yaowu lowered his voice.

Zhang Lingfu might be a little dizzy, but he said without thinking: "Lingfu is loyal to me, and the sun and the moon can teach me, so I won't misunderstand you.

Master, Zhang Xinghan is also an outstanding figure in this world, and I cherish the same feelings as him and there is absolutely no difference of heart!"

"Oh, I hope so. You'd better take care of yourself." Seeing this, Wang Yaowu could only sigh helplessly.

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Two days later, Liu Guodong, Shen Ke, Zhang Tingshu, Xu Yongchang, Shang Zhen, and Yang Aiyuan led the Northeast Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army coalition, totaling more than 200,000 troops, arrived at Tianjing Pass. By now, the Northeast Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army gathered in southern Shanxi had exceeded two Fifteen thousand people.

In the past two days, Liu Jianguo was ordered to lead his troops to capture Jiyuan, Jiaozuo, Xinxiang and many other counties north of the Yellow River.<

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Zhongyang's army completely retreated to the south of the Yellow River.

After the army rested at Tianjing Pass for a day, Zhang Xinghan held a swearing-in meeting on the spot, and then left Sun Chu to command 10,000 Shanxi-Sui Army and 10,000 Northeastern Army to garrison Jincheng, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo and other places.

More than 30,000 central yang army prisoners were also temporarily dispersed and taken to various cities for separate custody. As a precaution, each branch of the Secrecy Bureau in southern Shanxi sent agents to assist the local garrison in their custody.

With Commander Shang Zhen leading 5,000 Shanxi-Sui Army and 5,000 Northeastern Army as the vanguard, the economic resources went south, preparing to cross the river to attack Luoyang.

Zhang Xinghan, Liu Guodong, Zhang Tingshu, Shen Ke, Xu Yongchang, Yang Aiyuan and other senior generals and officers led the army to follow up.

At the same time, he moved his headquarters to Jiyuan County.

After stationing in Jiyuan, Zhang Xinghan ordered Liu Jianguo to lead three divisions eastward to Dezhou, join forces left behind in Dezhou, Liaocheng and other places, and prepare to attack Shandong to contain Han Fuqu's troops.

Coordinate the main force of the Northeast Army to attack the Central Plains.

Since the Yellow River Railway Bridge had been blown up previously, Zhang Xinghan ordered the navy to dispatch transport ships up the Yellow River.

However, the water level of the Yellow River was low, large ships could not enter, and small ships were unusable, so we had to give up.

In the end, Zhang Xinghan mobilized the bridge tank units attached to the tank regiments directly under each division of the 3rd Army to form a bridge tank group.

At the gap in the damaged section of the Yellow River Railway Bridge, bridging tanks were used to re-clear the railway bridge.

Immediately, Shang Zhen led 10,000 forward troops and drove across the Yellow River in a mighty manner.

Due to the annihilation of the 4th, 25th, and 51st Divisions, Hu Zongnan was seriously short of troops. After all, the area he wanted to garrison included Xi'an and the huge Henan Province.

In addition, the Northeastern Shanxi-Suiyuan coalition forces had strong fire support from the air force, and Shang Zhen's forward troops were able to easily defeat Mengjin.

It opened up a bridgehead for the main forces to march into the Central Plains.

The situation has developed to this point. Chairman Chiang left Hu Zongnan in the south to guard the major large, medium and small cities along the Yellow River. He did not expect that Hu Zongnan could really hold back the Northeastern Army on the north bank of the Yellow River and protect the Central Plains from danger.

The only requirement is that he can persist as long as possible, delay the advance of the Northeast Army, and slow down the process of the fall of the Central Plains.

Buy more time for the main force of the Central Yang Army and the main force of the Guangxi Clan to return to the south of the Yangtze River to build a defense line.

But when the two to three hundred thousand combined troops of the Northeastern Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army really made a move to move south in a large scale.

All the Central Plains garrison generals, including Hu Zongnan himself, panicked, and large-scale retreats occurred in Kaifeng, Luoyang, Zhengxian (Zhengzhou) Lankao and other important places along the river.

These people who retreated were not the defenders, but the families of officials, their concubines, and the wealth and wealth they had plundered, along with huge amounts of ill-gotten wealth.

For a time, carriages and cars were crowded on the official roads in various parts of the Central Plains heading south, and scenes of people turning their backs on their horses occurred everywhere.

The officers were busy moving and escaping, so ordinary Japanese soldiers had no sense of fighting.

Moreover, these officials often deduct military pay at every level, and the grassroots officers and soldiers have long been complaining and suffering unspeakably.

Agents from the Northeast Army Secret Bureau lurking in various places reported the situation to Zhang Xinghan in a timely manner.

Zhang Xinghan asked Shen Xingye to instruct the agents to take the opportunity to stir up trouble, so as to cause as much chaos as possible to the central yang defenders in various places.

At the same time, he ordered Liu Guodong, Xu Yongchang, Shang Zhen and others to lead the army to speed up the march.

In less than half a month, the coalition forces were so powerful that they successively captured Luoyang, Zhengxian, Kaifeng and other important places in the Central Plains.

When the Northeast Army approached the city, most of the defenders surrendered without a fight. Their commanders had already fled in advance. In addition, the agents had been promoting the policies and treatment of the Northeast Army in these days.

Therefore, when the tanks and chariots of the Northeastern Army arrived, they all surrendered.

The battle to cross the river progressed more smoothly than anyone imagined, and the natural dangers of the Yellow River, which Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi had high hopes for, did not even play a single role.

Seventeen days later, Zhang Tingshu and Shang Zhen led their troops to capture Lankao City.

Zhang Xinghan immediately ordered them to lead his troops eastward to Shangqiu and prepare to attack Shandong.

In the past half month, Liu Jianguo led three divisions with more than 50,000 troops to cross the Yellow River from Dong'e County and Qihe County to the south.

The troops attacked Jinan in two groups. Han Fuqu led his troops to fight to the death, but was defeated miserably by Liu Jianguo, who had absolute superiority in land and air force.

In just one week, Liu Jianguo captured Jinan City, and Han Fuqu fled south in a hurry.

After conquering Jinan City, Liu Jianguo obeyed Zhang Xinghan's order and divided his forces to capture Zibo, Tai'an and other important places in northern Shandong.

After winning the battle, he marched west from Tai'an to Heze and other places, preparing to join the friendly forces attacking the Central Plains.

At the same time, we marched towards Jining, Laiwu and other places to prepare for the attack on Xuzhou.

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In the city of Nanjing, within half a month, the situation in the Central Plains and Shandong Province had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Chairman Chiang Kai-shek was furious in the meeting room of the Military Commission.

"Nang Xipi, this bastard Hu Zongnan, what does he do for a living? He actually lost several strategic locations in a row within half a month.

After all, he still has 60,000 to 70,000 horses and horses, which is 60,000 to 70,000 pigs. If Zhang Xinghan were to chop them down, he wouldn’t be able to kill them all in half a month, right?”

Chairman Chiang was furious, and all the senior generals of the Central Army present at the meeting were silent. No one dared to intercede for Hu Zongnan at this time. After all, his performance in this battle was too poor.

Unexpectedly, after Chairman Chiang cursed him, he changed the subject and said: "Han Fuqu's tactics in Shandong were also a bastard's style. An army of hundreds of thousands, relying on the natural dangers of the Yellow River, unexpectedly lost Jinan and Tai'an in succession within half a month.

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