Jining City, Han Fuqu's temporary headquarters.

Han Fuqu was drinking to drown his sorrows. The situation in Shandong was so sluggish that all his hard work over the years was about to come to nothing.

In addition, he and Chairman Chiang have already had deep grudges over the years, so once the Shandong territory is lost, the territory and the army are lost, Chairman Chiang will never tolerate him.

It was not that Han Fuqu had never thought of surrendering to Zhang Xinghan, but because he had no chance, he surrendered rashly and lost face. Furthermore, he was worried that Zhang Xinghan would cross the river and burn the bridge.

After all, he was a high-profile opponent of this reorganization war.

"Chairman, Chairman, I just got the news that Zhang Hanqing's Qingdao Army was defeated and he himself was captured by the Northeast Army. Now the entire Jiaodong Peninsula has fallen into the hands of the Northeast Army." An adjutant ran in to report in a panic.

Han Fuqu, who was already half-drunk, was shocked when he heard this. He stood up and said swaying slightly: "What did you say? Zhang Xueliang was defeated and captured?"

The adjutant nodded in confirmation.

Han Fuqu suddenly said as if he were mourning for his heir: "It's over. This Shandong war is completely over. All my years of hard work! It's just over."

The adjutant said: "Chairman, please don't be too upset. I have received a personal letter from the Commander-in-Chief of the Northeast Army Zhang Xinghan."

"What? Zhang Xinghan's autographed letter?" Han Fuqu became more energetic after hearing this and asked hurriedly: "Where is the letter? Give it to me quickly!"

The adjutant handed it to him. Han Fuqu took it in his hand and looked at it for a while, but then handed it to the adjutant with some embarrassment and said, "Read it to me again."

The adjutant held back his laughter, took the message, and read it in a decent manner.

After hearing this, Han Fuqu said with mixed feelings: "Zhang Xinghan actually took the initiative to write a letter to me asking for surrender. This is somewhat sincere."

"Chairman, do you mean to accept the adaptation?" the adjutant asked.

While Han Fuqu was hesitating, his good friend and chief of staff Li Shuchun arrived.

Han Fuqu quickly waved to him and said: "Chief of Staff, come on, come on, tell me, shall we fight or surrender?"

Immediately, he asked his adjutant to hand Zhang Xinghan's letter to Li Shuchun.

After Li Shuchun finished reading, Han Fuqu asked: "How is it? What do you think?"

Li Shuchun said: "Chairman, it is the general trend to support reorganization. Now Zhang Gong controls the entire North China, Northeast China and North Korea, and also occupies the Central Plains. He has millions of troops under his command.

He also made illustrious military exploits in the Anti-Japanese War, was highly prestigious at home and abroad, and won the hearts of the people.

The reorganization is now widely expected.

Moreover, in terms of military affairs, the war situation in Shandong has become settled and irreversible. The chairman should have chosen the outcome of the peace talks long ago. Otherwise, once the city of Jining is destroyed, everything will be over."

"We have long since surrendered. Zhang Xinghan may really be able to find a position for you, Chairman, after the reorganization is successful. It's too late and the result is really hard to say. Chairman, don't hesitate. Call him immediately to support the reorganization and inform Zhang Gong."

Han Fuqu was already a little moved. When Li Shuchun said these words, he nodded quickly and said: "Okay, just do as the chief of staff said, and immediately give an order to Sun Tongxuan. All troops should stop the confrontation, raise white flags and surrender, and also make an announcement about the power supply.

I’ll leave it to you, Staff Officer Li, to handle it yourself.”

Li Shuchun and the adjutant lowered their heads in response, turned around and quickly took the order and left.

In late October of the 24th year of the Republic of China, Han Fuqu led his remaining troops to surrender to Zhang Xinghan's Northeastern Frontier Force, and issued a telegram supporting the reorganization and accusing the Nationalist government of corruption.

After Shandong was completely pacified, Zhang Xinghan sent Han Fuqu to Jilin to live temporarily. Like Zhang Hanqing, he was monitored secretly by the Secrecy Bureau.

The remnants of Han Fuqu's Shandong Army and Shang Zhen's troops were reorganized into one division. Shang Zhen served as the commander of the army, with two Class A divisions under his jurisdiction, with about 50,000 people. Li Shuchun and Sun Tongxuan served as division commanders and were under the control of the First Army.

After pacifying Shandong, three days after Zhang Xinghan surrendered at Han Fuqu, he led four divisions and a hundred thousand troops from Linyi and Zaozhuang to march towards Xuzhou in two directions.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, Chairman Chiang followed the advice of Bai Chongxi and others and ordered the defenders in the Xuzhou area to withdraw southward.

At the end of October of the 24th year of the Republic of China, under the order of Zhang Xinghan, Xu Yongchang and his 30,000 troops were stationed in Xinyang to intimidate the three passes of Yiyang.

Yang Aiyuan and Liu Guodong led an army of 100,000 people from Zhoukou, an important town in eastern Henan, to march eastward along the Yingshui River. Within a few days, they descended from Shenqiu, Xiangcheng, and Jieshou to Fuyang, an important town in northern Anhui.

At the same time, Zhang Xinghan sent Zhang Tingshu to lead an army of 15,000 troops to pursue the Central Army who fled south in the Xuzhou area along the Jinpu Railway.

We also arrived at Huaiyuan, an important town north of the Huai River, which is already the Central Army's Huai River defense line area.

The two sides engaged in a fierce battle. In the end, Zhang Tingshu suspended the attack due to lack of troops and waited for the arrival of the army.

Five days later, Liu Jianguo, together with Yu Xuezhong, Li Shuchun, Sun Tongxuan and others, led the main force to arrive at the Huaiyuan front line along the railway.

According to the battle plan formulated by Jiang Baili and Zhang Xinghan, they began to divide their troops and march westward along the Huaihe River. At the same time, Liu Guodong and Yang Aiyuan also divided their troops and marched eastward.

In early October, all the strongholds and support points of the Central Army north of the Huaihe River were basically wiped out.

Confronted with 200,000 Central Army troops across the river.

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Nanjing, Military Commission Operations Department.

Bai Chongxi stared at the map and said in confusion: "According to the information sent back by Gu Zhutong from the front line, the Northeast Army's strength north of the Huaihe River has exceeded 200,000, of which less than half are truly elite. But it's not like they haven't even had a decent attack for many days.

For the Northeast Army, which has absolute superiority in land, sea and air firepower, their actions are really intriguing. What does Zhang Xinghan want to do?"

Sitting at the conference table, Chairman Chiang and Chen Cheng and other important officials and senior generals of the National Government were also confused.

Even Bai Chongxi, as smart as Zhuge Liang, could not guess Zhang Xinghan's real intention, let alone them.

Chen Cheng said: "Could it be that Zhang Xinghan thinks that the troops are insufficient and is deploying powerful reinforcements from Kyushu Island, North Korea and even the Northeast? After all, the Shandong Army and the Jinsui Army are newly attached, and their combat power is incomparable to the real Northeast Army. "

Bai Chongxi nodded slightly and said: "I don't rule out this possibility, but this is not like Zhang Xinghan's style. Even if the real Northeastern Army on the north bank of the Huaihe River is less than 100,000, he should not be too timid to attack our army."

Chairman Chiang who was silent now said: "Jiansheng, you have forgotten one thing. The Shanxi-Sui Army and the Shandong Army have just surrendered, so how can Zhang Xinghan rest assured that he will use all his strength to attack our Huaihe defense line.

What if the losses of their elite troops reach a certain level? Who knows that the Jinsui Army and the Shandong Army will not rebel again?

As for driving the Jin-Sui Army and Shandong Army to serve as cannon fodder, it is even more difficult.

In short, in such a short period of time, it is impossible for Zhang Xinghan to really tame the miscellaneous troops of Yan Baichuan, Han Fuqu and even Zhang Hanqing to the same level as his direct Northeastern Army."

Bai Chongxi nodded unequivocally. He looked meaningfully at Chairman Chiang who said this, and thought to himself, you do understand people. In this regard, I am afraid no one can compare with you, President Chiang.

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Qingdao, Marshal's Mansion.

Zhang Xinghan was getting together with Jiang Baili to repeatedly discuss the battle plan they had formulated.

Guo Zhong strode in and said: "General seat, staff seat, the Navy just sent a secret message. They have arrived at the sea outside the Yangtze River Estuary and can launch an attack at any time."

Before Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili had time to react, Guo Zhong added: "However, they said that due to the restrictions in the waters of the Yangtze River, it may be difficult for our military's warships above 10,000 tons to participate in this battle.

The most important one is probably the battleship Wei Qing, which is a big thing, with a tonnage of over 50,000 tons."

Zhang Xinghan said with a regretful expression: "Then let it stay in the open sea and keep an eye on any Chinese and foreign ships in Shanghai Port."

Jiang Baili said: "With the strength of our naval fleet, even without the battleship Wei Qing, it will not be a problem to break through the weak defense of the Central Army.

The key is that after the naval fleet arrives in Nanjing waters, it should immediately dispatch marines to land, and then the naval fleet should block the large and small ferries within two hundred miles upstream and downstream of Nanjing waters to prevent the Central Army on the north bank from rushing to Nanjing."

"This shouldn't be a problem. I have asked Gao Zhihang to dispatch 300 fighter planes to participate in this beheading operation. With their assistance in the air, none of the hundreds of thousands of Central Army troops north of the Yangtze River will even think about the Yangtze River." Zhang Xinghan was confident.

Full of truth.

Jiang Baili nodded slightly and said: "Then the next step is to see the joint operation between the airborne brigade and the Marine Corps. According to the information sent back by the Secrecy Bureau, there should be about one division of the garrison in Nanjing now, and there are also a large number of military police and military police in the city.

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The total strength should be about 20,000.

The strength of our army is about 5,000 to 6,000 troops of the original Qingdao Marine Corps that was just reorganized this time. Including the airborne brigade, there are about 7,000 troops. Although the strength is somewhat insufficient.

But we have strong firepower assistance from the navy and air force, and it is a surprise attack, so the possibility of success is very high.

In addition, the nearest reinforcements to Nanjing are in Changzhou, which is more than 120 kilometers away from Nanjing.

As long as we dispatch a few more planes to carry out air strikes and sabotage them during their march, we can greatly delay their time to reinforce Nanjing, which should be enough for us to do whatever we want to do."

"Chief of Staff, don't forget one thing, that is, once our troops suddenly arrive at the gates of Nanjing and surround them, the dignitaries in Nanjing will definitely be panic-stricken. At that time, someone will naturally persuade Chairman Chiang to step down or agree to reorganization.

New government." Zhang Xinghan said.

"The commander-in-chief is wise. Once the reorganization is successful, our army's efforts in the past few months will be in vain." Jiang Baili said with rare praise.

"Now there is one thing. I would like to hear your opinion, Chief of Staff." Zhang Xinghan paused and said: "How will Chairman Chiang be treated if our military's strategic intentions are successfully realized?"

Jiang Baili said: "Chief Sir, please forgive Baili for making it clear that although the National Government is in ruins, Mr. Jiang also has its advantages. His presence is conducive to unity and stability of the new government.

It is especially important to appease the nearly one million Central Army troops. In addition, it can also show to the powerful factions in the southwest that you are sincere in reforming and are not motivated by selfish desires.

Not to mention harming them in vain, so as to dispel their concerns and make them comply with the general trend of reorganization and agree to the reorganization to avoid the pain of war in the southwest again.

Therefore, I suggest that the president can choose those Republican elders who are sincere for the country and have been honest throughout their lives to be in power with Mr. Chiang, and discuss all major military and national affairs."

Zhang Xinghan nodded when he heard this and said: "What the chief of staff said makes sense, and that's what I planned too." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is mine.
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