Chapter 14 The Battle of Hubei and Feng begins
This incident was caused by the E army himself, but it ended up ruining his own position.
On March 7, 1987, the Army Department controlled by the Hubei clique was about to send a telegram to the various departments of the Hubei army and issued a general mobilization order to attack the Fengtian army. However, in order to keep the secret, this telegram did not say who the enemy was, and it caused a big storm.
At that time, there were two Hubei troops stationed in Shandong, mainly Wang Ziqi's 5th CSR Division and the affiliated Shandong First and Second Mixed Brigades. In addition, there was also the Hubei Army next to Shandong, which was Zhang Ke's unit in the new Second Division of the CSR Division.
Zhang Ke received a telegram, although he was not sure who the enemy was, the rude man was eager to prepare for combat and sent troops to seize Jinpu Road trucks in preparation.
When Wang Ziqi saw it, he immediately understood that he had asked me to deal with Zhang Bei, so he ordered the Lu army to demolish the railway tracks on the Jinpu Road.
Zhang Ke also woke up. It turned out that your Lu army was unstable. It seemed that my chance to be the governor of Lu had come, so he ordered the troops to open fire on the Lu army.
Wang Ziqi was not polite, and both sides quickly started to fire locally.
Fortunately, these two like to play telegrams and wars the most. Peiping quickly learned about the situation and immediately sent a telegram saying: "The flood washed away the Dragon King Temple, and the people beat their own people!" Finally, the conflict was stopped.
However, Wang Ziqi was worried about Zhang Ke, fearing that he would never come back after leading his army out of Lu, so he refused to send one army and one soldier to the battle.
Zhang Ke also had the intention of not leaving love. Although the two sides ceased, the confrontation on the front line did not stop. As a result, some security forces on both fronts prepared two pairs of armbands, and they would wear armbands of each side when they encountered the troops.
But what is more important is that the orders that were originally secretly propaganda are now known to everyone, and the Fengtian army has also stepped up preparations for war. Because of this reason, Liu Jingxiao's troops received full military pay for the first time.
However, peace has not yet reached the point of despair. The current Prime Minister of the Cabinet Cheng Yunpeng happened to be Zhang Buyun's father-in-law. According to information from Peking, the order of the Hubei clique had actually come down long ago, but Cheng Yunpeng refused to sign up for his daughter.
However, the two major forces, Zhili and the South, remained neutral and did not express their opinions on this issue. Therefore, the Hubei clan did not dare to send troops, so as to avoid being attacked from both sides. The Fengtian clan was also fighting for it. The envoys and telegrams sent by the Fengtian army to various provinces in the south increased several times compared to usual, and the envoys from Baoding and Nanjing were gathering.
However, the direct forces did not decline greatly in the 1970s. The provinces that could control were only Hebei and Jiangsu, and they were not yet rivals of the Hubei system.
The south wants to attack the Central Plains in the north, and first solve the problem of Hunan using the route. You must know that the shortcut to the southern northern expedition takes Hunan and then take the opportunity to sweep the two lakes. Then the army will join Wuhan and go down the river, and the southeast can be obtained easily. If you do not go through the northern expedition of Hunan, you can only go through the northern expedition of Jiangxi. However, historical experience shows that the northern expedition of Jiangxi is a path of failure.
Although Hunan belongs to the same front as the south, after the north and the south retreated from Hunan, after Hunan's military disasters over the years, both the authorities and the people were very disgusted with war and demanded protection and calming the people. They publicly refused to transit the Northern Expedition Army in the south. If the south wants to fight in the north, the first thing they face is Hunan, the former comrade-in-arms.
In addition to publicly refusing the Southern Army to transit, Hunan also sent envoys to Guangzhou to ask the Southern Army to take advantage of Jiangxi to fight the northern expedition. One army and one soldier cannot be sent to Hunan, otherwise it will be counterattacked by the Hunan Army.
On the other hand, envoys were sent to Hubei. Ding Chong, the commander of the two lakes, and Wang Zichun, the governor of Hubei, hosted the envoys with high qualifications. The two sides reaffirmed the Hunan-Hubei Joint Defense Treaty. Hubei also sold a batch of Han-made arms to Hunan at a preferential price. On the other hand, Jiangxi also reaffirmed the Hunan-Jiangxi Joint Defense Treaty and devoted its main energy to deal with the Northern Expedition Army in the south.
However, March 19th was a bolt from the blue for the Fengtian army. The southern provinces unanimously sent telegrams to fight Zhang Buyun's crime of harming the country and the people, and raised the issue of Shaanxi again, demanding the replacement of Shaanxi Governor Chen Shuliang. At the same time, the armistice was in Shaanxi from now on, and the troops withdrew from Shaanxi.
In this telegram, there are a total of the governors from five provinces: Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Annan. They have a lot of momentum and no one announced that they will sign the sign afterwards. In this way, the Fengtian faction was completely at a disadvantage in public opinion.
Therefore, the situation suddenly changed. In the afternoon of the same day, two governors from Hebei and Jiangsu led the division commanders of the direct army to announce that the unity between Hubei and Fengtian was announced, and they said a few words to Zhang Buyun without any pain. Chen Yunjie, the new commander of the third division of the direct army, sent a telegram to accuse Zhang Buyun: "... He talked about morality and acted as a bandit, and thought that the whole world could deceive, and listened to his words and observed his actions. However, he did not know that the lungs and livers were as if they were seen. The facts were there, and they wanted to cover up the truth, and they were only tired and clumsy..." Zhang Buyun was so worthless.
The next day, Cheng Yunpeng's cabinet announced its resignation. The biggest factor in the formation of the cabinet was the cooperation between Hubei and Fengtian to solve the Shaanxi issue. Now the Cheng Cabinet no longer needs to save it.
The first order for the new prime minister to take office was to remove Zhang Buyun from his part-time job as a Rouran Strategy Commander and serve as a full-time inspector of the three eastern provinces.
Zhang Buyun naturally gave up the fat piece in his hand, especially the key to Rehe, which is both inside and outside the pass. He has always been a key national defense site. Chahar Province has always been a key trade site, with frequent trade transactions and taxes from the Guomeng area. It is also a very important financial source of the Fengtian faction. Although Suiyuan is poor, it is also a key national defense site. His specialty is to disguise public opinion.
Therefore, the telegrams and snowflakes in the three special areas are generally sent to various places, with only one content: Lord Zhang Buyun, who loves people the most, remains as the position of Rouran's manager. As for the automatic public gatherings held by counties and cities, there are more people. However, according to the Shanghai declaration, those who attended the gatherings were all unemployed vagrants and beggars who collected money. As for the price? Each person is two cents a day.
Of course, the newspaper was also opened by the news inspector. The report was just a matter of being taken away by the inspector. The cadres below took the initiative to present it to Liu Jingxiao for reference.
However, Liu Jingxiao knew about this without reading the newspaper, because many officers and soldiers in his army were wearing plainclothes and ran to the rally to earn some extra money. As a result, the convener felt that there were too many people coming, and the rally was not effective. They only sent more than 100 people and stopped sending them. As a result, the officers and soldiers had a big fight with the convener, and finally started a fight. Lieutenant General Feng De, who was rushing to deal with the disposal, protected the other party and sent people to scold the officers and soldiers who were all useless.
However, the central government seemed to be determined. On April 2, the order to attack Zhang Buyun was finally issued.
The Fourth Hubei-Venglish War officially began.
Chapter completed!