Liu Jingxiao and Xia Gang were not allowed to fight. After they were polite, Liu Jingxiao asked: "What is the situation in Hunan now?"

Xia Gang could only smile bitterly: "After the failure to aid Hubei, the troops could no longer pay military pay... My regiment's military pay was not paid at all... Now, it's even more complicated. In the civil war in Hunan Province, Tan Yan and Yi Heng Zhao both wanted us to join their camp, and it's hard for us to be human!"

Tan Yan was the representative of the Hunan Army who negotiated with Liu Jingxiao in the Yanglou Division. Although he was a literati, he has served as the governor and governor of Hunan many times in the past twenty years, and has two basic troops under his command. Yi Heng and Zhao are the strongest internal forces in Hunan, followed by Tan Yan. Now Yi Heng and Zhao retreat to Hunan, and he cannot control his internal position within Hunan, and Tan Yan is not at ease with his current position.

Liu Jingxiao smiled and said, "It's okay... they are all from Hubei. You go get two boats and get some salt to Sichuan. I'll cover the joints in it... I'll give some military pay to my brothers!"

Xia Gang was very grateful and kept saying, "Thank you, Commander Liu!"

Now, the key to transporting salt from Sichuan is to open up the joint of Liu Jingxiao. Two ships of salt can earn thousands of oceans and solve Xia Gang's urgent needs. Liu Jingxiao asked again: "How far has the civil war in Hunan now been fighting? Who wins and who loses?"

Xia Gang shook his head repeatedly and smiled bitterly: "In one day, both of them fell into each other. This is a strange story about civil war! Now all people in China use this as a joke!"

Liu Jingxiao was puzzled, and Xu Rubing also interrupted, "In one day, the two of them were trapped in each other, what does this mean?"

It turned out that shortly after the Hunan Army returned to Hunan, Tan Yan and Yi Heng and Zhao factions had a dispute. Tan Yan attacked Yi Heng and Zhao colluded with Chen Yunjie and prepared to jointly send troops to eliminate the Hunan Army's various departments. He asked Yi to quickly dispel this idea, "Otherwise, there will be no healthy people in the country." Yi's call was: "I will never be crazy and will lead foreign troops to decay." It seems humble, but in fact it is the breakdown of the relationship between the two sides.

Soon Tan Yan gathered his troops in Hengyang and prepared to capture Changsha. Yi Hengzhao was not ruthless and immediately assembled his troops and launched troops in Hengyang.

After a fierce battle, Tan Yan's army was defeated by Yi's army and was forced to withdraw from Hengyang. On October 31, Yi's army entered Hengyang. For this reason, Yi Hengzhao held a celebration meeting in Hengyang and prepared to reward the entire army.

Halfway through the conference, a 100,000-year-old telegram suddenly came, and his old nest Changsha also brought it to Tan Yan's troops.

The one who brought his nest was Zhu Yaohua, a battalion commander under Yi Hengzhao. This battalion commander Zhu was Tan Yan's old subordinate and was deeply influenced by Tan Yan. He was personally loyal to Tan Yan. When Yi Hengzhao led the army to dispatch, he led one of his own battalions and one that obeyed his orders, and then went to Ningxiang to rush straight to Changsha.

Yi Hengzhao brought all his troops to Hengyang, and the rear was empty. The Changsha defenders only had more than a thousand troops, and there was also his own guard battalion.

Because the Hubei Army was too weak, it had always maintained a neutral attitude during the Hunan civil war and was only responsible for maintaining public order in the provincial capital. Therefore, without fierce battles, the guard battalion could only escape in panic.

Changsha City fell into the hands of the army, which was a bolt from the blue for Yi Hengzhao. He immediately packed up the army and rushed back.

This is what is known as the strange story of civil war: "In one day, both of them fall into each other!"

Zhu Yaohua's troops were preparing to welcome Tan Yan back to the province in Changsha. Unexpectedly, Yi Jun finally arrived at the outskirts of Changsha on November 2, where he had a one-day trip.

Zhu Yaohua's troops had only two battalions that had invaded Changsha City. As soon as he saw Yi Hengzhao's main force returning to the aid, he immediately withdrew from Changsha.

People from all walks of life in Hunan Province are preparing to welcome the military governor Tan to return to the province to take office. When they saw that the wind was wrong, they immediately changed to "Welcome the military governor to return to the province to inspect". Yi Heng and Zhao finally recovered Changsha, but this also gave the military a chance to breathe. Now the two sides are fighting fiercely.

When Liu Jingxiao heard this, she laughed so hard that she even tears were about to flow out. He later asked, "Brother Xia, which faction is Lu Dangping belonging to now?"

In the battle of Yanglou Si, Lu Dang pacified the fat man's big fat man and worked very hard, so Liu Jingxiao was very impressed by him. Xia Gang said: "Teacher Lu is now a neutral faction and is mediating the dispute between both sides, but everyone was thinking, wherever Commander Lu stands, he will have a chance of winning..."

After saying this, Xia Gang said again: "I heard that Premier Duan has the intention of expedition in the south. When we meet on the battlefield, we will let me go!"

Liu Jingxiao shook eyes at the people in the room and pulled Xia Gang to a small room in the cabin to speak.

Everyone knew that Liu Jingxiao had something to discuss with Xia Gang and played mahjong anyway, while others asked Xu Rubing about Liu Jingxiao.

He closed the door and said, "How can this be done! I'll tell the truth about this Nanzheng. I don't want to fight for a hundred courages. The territory I captured is not my own, it's just a waste of effort! If we really encounter it, our Hubei troops will not attack the Hubei troops and fire a gun in the sky!"

Xia Gang is indeed a real Hubei army unit, but Liu Jingxiao's Hubei Army First Division is a big mess, not an authentic Hubei army. It's just that in order to get along with each other, Liu Jingxiao said this. Xia Gang also said: "That's certain! It's certain! Several of my companies in Yanglou Department were not shot and surrendered to Brother Liu's troops!"

As soon as he said this, Liu Jingxiao suddenly asked again: "Brother Xia, I'll ask you something. Since the army cannot pay the salary, why are you still in the mood to play cards on this boat? What's going on?"

Liu Jingxiao knew the origin of Xia Gang, and Xia Gang's fortune was a bit dramatic. When the Northern Army marched south, Xia Gang was a veteran of the Hubei Army at that time. The entire army was defeated in the brigade of Xia Gang in southern Hunan. Xia Gang and the defeated soldiers fled to Changsha at night. On the way, he found a large suitcase in the paddy field. He transported the suitcase to the shore and unboxed. He found a box full of money, carried it on horseback, and hiked to protect the journey.

At this time, the Southern Army was anxious and reluctant to leave. The Northern Army defeated soldiers retreated one after another. Seeing that the banknotes were not guaranteed, Xia Gang suddenly had an idea and carried the regiment flag as the leader, shouting, "Friends, follow me, I have food here." Seeing that the regiment flag was there, the defeated soldiers thought that the commander of the troops was still in the army and were moving towards the regiment flag. After walking for a day, Xia Gang simply inserted the regiment flag at the important intersection, claiming that he was ordered to accommodate the troops and unboxing the banknotes. Those with guns were each given five yuan, and those without guns were each given one yuan. The defeated soldiers rushed to register and gathered a total of seven or eight hundred people.

Later, the army did not return to Hubei, but stayed in Hunan. Later, Wang Zichun was disarmament during the major incident. A group of graduates from Baoding Military Academy from Hubei Province were struggling to resign. When they heard that Xia Gang had a foundation in force in Hunan, they were inexplicably happy and crossed the south of the Yangtze River. Xia Gang received such a group of Baoding students, and his military appearance improved. At that time, the civil war in Hunan was in a civil war, and Changsha was inconsistent. Because the Xia army was a guest army, it did not fall to either side and only maintained the public order in Changsha, but instead stayed in Changsha for a long time.

Liu Jingxiao has heard that although Xia Gang does not learn a little literature, he is broad-minded and able to control good talents. He is also a practical person who shares the joys and sorrows with the officers and soldiers.

After hearing Liu Jingxiao's words, Xia Gang said, "I have no choice..."

It turned out that after the Hubei Army returned to Hunan, it was very discriminated against by the Hunan Army. Some Hunan Army generals said cold words to them from time to time, saying, "It's all you Hubei people who make trouble..." The Hunan Army has been owing wages for a long time. Yi Hengzhao originally promised to pay the wages after conquering Wuhan. Now tens of thousands of casualties have been killed and killed. Instead of getting an inch of Hubei, they have lost Yuezhou, so everyone complained about the Hubei Army.

Yi Hengzhao also took the opportunity to owe him military pay, intending to annex his troops. When he was defeated and retreated to Changsha, there were more than a thousand defeated soldiers in the third battalion, each of whom only gave five cents of food and cash every day. Later, even this little food and cash could not be sustained.

At this time, Xia Gang was depressed and drowsy, but he didn't expect that something would come suddenly. He said to Liu Jingxiao: "A company manager came to ask me to play on the boat and asked me to play mahjong. I had no money and didn't dare to make up my feet. The manager asked me to play and said, "We often play cards here, and we only play chips on Saturday. It doesn't matter, you can just play." As a result of the first battle, I won two land chips. I don't know how much it means. On Saturday, the manager gave me 6,000 yuan, saying that it was the money won by the commander, and asked me to go and play again that day."

Six thousand? Liu Jingxiao was also shocked. Although he now has nearly three million yuan in his hands, he is really lucky to get 6 thousand yuan a week. Good luck! Liu Jingxiao also knew that the manager had a lot of intention to ask Xia Gang to board the boat to play cards. They carried some banned private goods, and they had to be in charge of officers, otherwise they would lose all their money if they were caught. But they didn't expect that Xia Gang would have such good luck in playing mahjong.

Xia Gang continued: "From now on, I came to the boat every day to fight. Although there are wins and losses, I have to win a lot. Later, I brought my wife to fight, and she also won. Yesterday, I calculated that I have won a total of 20,000 yuan, and I finally got through the difficulties!"

Liu Jingxiao looked at the wealthy business gentlemen in the cabin. All of them were worth millions of dollars. They usually bet very much. They won 20,000 yuan for Xia Gang, and probably they were biting the mosquito.

Liu Jingxiao smiled: "Why didn't my wife come today?"

Xia Gang said: "He has paid the troops. Besides, I am glad that she didn't come today. I haven't heard that Sichuan people now say, 'Liu Jingxiao wants to play with four virgins a day, and he will rob him as long as he is a beautiful woman, whether it is a widow or a nun...' Otherwise, letting Brother Liu meet, wouldn't it ruin our friendship!"

Liu Jingxiao knew that Xia Gang was joking, so she didn't care: "Brother Xia, I want to ask you for help if I have something to do... I have a friendship with the two generals Tan Yi, so I will ask you to introduce you at that time..."

Xia Gang nodded immediately: "That's the best! The soldiers of the Hunan Army all admire Commander Liu very much, saying that you can fight and have friendship!"

Liu Jingxiao lowered her voice: "Tell the truth, to Commander Xia, this southern expedition, my troops may either enter Sichuan or Hunan. At that time, please ask the Hunan Army to help me perform the show, and everyone will not have to fight to the death."

Xia Gang immediately agreed that for the Hunan Army, among the Northern Army, Liu Jingxiao's division was a first-class infantry division. It was well equipped, had high morale, full of vitality, good at guarding and attacking. It is best not to be in a hostile position for such troops. Therefore, the proposal put forward by Liu Jingxiao was the most popular among the Hunan Army.

Seeing that the arrangement was made, Liu Jingxiao and Xia Gang came out with their hands. Xu Rubing was sitting on a sofa and discussing Liu Jingxiao's affairs with several businessmen next to her. When she heard Liu Jingxiao come out, she immediately stood up and called out softly: "Jingxiao!"

Liu Jingxiao hooked Xu Rubing's waist with a light step and introduced to Xia Gang: "I forgot to introduce it just now. This is the clumsy Jing Rubing!"

Then Liu Jingxiao stayed in the room for a long time before saying goodbye. Sichuan was rich in resources and had many profitable businesses. Now, the shipping of Sichuan River is mostly in the Shen family. As long as the ship leaves Sichuan River, it must pass through Yichang, which Liu Jingxiao guards. However, these merchants have funds and sales channels, so everyone has gained something.

It was lunch time at this time. Liu Jingxiao told her all about her experience today during the meal. Chen Xianqiao was very interested in this business cooperation and was about to go there after dinner. After listening to the conversation with Xia Gang, Guo Junqing smiled and said, "Let Secretary Xiong and Leader Xia go there!"

Liu Jingxiao also nodded, and Xiong Xi immediately transformed into Liu Jingxiao's plenipotentiary representative and followed Xia Gang back to Changsha.

Unexpectedly, Changsha City had already changed its owner. It is said that because Lu Dangping threw Yi Hengzhao into the provincial capital, Tan Yan led his troops to attack the provincial capital. Xiong Xi asked Xia Gang: "Captain Xia, didn't you say that Lu Dangping took to any aspect and the chance of winning in any aspect?"

Xia Gang was also a monk who couldn't touch his mind, so he could only say, "Yes...but Commander Lu was closer to Yi Hengzhao..."

Xiong Xi and Xia Gang spent a lot of effort to figure out the reason. It turned out that Lu Dangping had always been close to Yi Hengzhao. This neutral situation was actually for political speculation and wanted to obtain the greatest benefit.

When the two armies were fighting, he moved the Yunhu Bridge and suggested that both sides cease the war immediately, and use Xiangtan Jiangshe, the neutral district as the place for peace talks. He held a division of troops in his hand and played an important role in the civil war in Hunan, so both sides were forced to cease war and negotiate peace talks.

However, the price tags offered by the Jiangshe meeting were too different, so it was impossible to disturb the negotiations. On November 13, Lu Dangping summoned his commander Yuan Zhi to Yunhu Bridge to discuss matters and was killed by the rebels halfway. The situation of the civil war in Hunan immediately changed.

The first regiment of EFL suddenly rushed into the neutral area to fight with Yuan Zhi's regiment. The first brigade of Tanyan Fang also came to support Yuan's regiment. Afterwards, it was found that Yuan Zhi was killed because Tongqiu Yu YiFL was killed by Lu Dangping.

Although Yuan Zhi was the first regiment commander, he was very influential. The other two regiment commanders of the Lu army were both classmates from Baoding at the same time and were related to Yuan Zhi. When they heard that Yuan Zhi was killed, they cried out and led their troops to Tan Yan Yifang that night. In this way, the fourth regiment of the Ludang Plain had already returned to Tan Fang, and he had only one regiment of troops left, so he could only invest in the Yifang.

Yuan Zhi's killing also triggered his friend. Liu Ding from the Second Mixed Brigade of Hunan also joined the party. In this way, Tan Yan's troops were in great shape and rushed to Changsha. Yi Hengzhao had to flee again.

In this way, even if Tan Yan grasped the situation in Hunan, the situation was still very unstable. When he heard that Liu Jingxiao, who was stationed in Yichang, sent someone to come, he immediately came out.

Xiong Xi said as soon as he saw this, "Our division commander asked me to come, which is to reaffirm the spirit of Hunan-Hubei joint defense... He will never take the initiative to send one army and one soldier into Hunan. Please rest assured!"

Tan Yan was very happy and immediately said, "Teacher Liu is so friends! The spirit of Hunan-Europe joint defense was destroyed by Yi Hengzhao. I want to rebuild this spirit in my hands!"

There were two friends that Xia Gang met at the gambling table, both famous people from Hunan. Tan Yan’s guests immediately pointed at Xia Gang and said to him: “Xia Gang is a unit left over from Hubei. We should love them well! Otherwise, I would be sorry for the sincerity of Commander Liu and have made enemies with the people of Hubei. This is not right! We must think of a solution!”

Tan Yanshen agreed, and Xiong Xi also said: "Now Xiao Yao, the governor of southern Hubei, is from Huanggang, Hubei, and is a fellow townsman of the delegation leader Xia. If the delegation leader Xia can be more intimate with him, it will be of great benefit to the situation in Hunan!"

In fact, this was a bureau arranged by Xiong Xi. It was just that Tan Yan fell into a fascination without knowing it. He immediately set up Liuyang counties as Xia Gang's defense zones.

Of course, Xia Gang was very grateful. He knew Xiong Xi’s problem and said everything he said, and took Xiong Xi around.

In fact, Xiong Xi's mission is to explore the facts in Hunan. He returned to Liu Jingxiao and said: "According to the situation observed by Xiong, we should not enter Hunan. Although the Hunan army suffered setbacks, its spirit remains undiminished. As the saying goes, although Chu has three households, if Qin is destroyed, Chu will surely be destroyed. I think offending Hunan people is not the best strategy!"

Liu Jingxiao also agreed and asked about the details of Hunan. Xiong Xi answered happily, which made Liu Jingxiao overjoyed.

Let’s talk about Hunan. On November 22, the Duan government had no choice but to appoint Tan Yan as the governor of Hunan and the governor of the army, and Tan officially took office on the 24th. However, Duan Tiemin left an extremely powerful backup here, and Tan was not the governor, so Duan Ge always called him "Governor of Tan" in his telegram, and he had the meaning of the governor who could change people at any time.

In fact, Duan Tiemin likes to use his relatives the most, so he has long appointed the candidate for the Hunan Governor, and will only make up for it as soon as he has the chance.

Every time Hunan is in chaos, the Hunan Army will expand once. Now the Hunan Army is more than the eighth mixed brigades before the two divisions and the eighth brigades before the aid to Hubei. It has to be reorganized into four divisions and twelve garrison areas. Tan Yan entered Changsha City and encountered the old problem of being arrogant and fierce. However, the battle of aiding to Hubei left a mess. The troops generally owed more than half a year of salary, and even their own direct troops were not in charge. It was really like jumping into a big fire pit, and they could only play the trick of checks and balances.

At this time, Duan Tiemin had one thing in common with the Yan of the Discussion. Duan was unwilling to have so many troops in Hunan and wanted to reduce it into one division, one brigade and six garrison areas, which would be very convenient when the southern expedition was launched.

Tan Yan also had the idea of ​​laying off troops. Hunan now has less than 100,000 troops, with a large number of troops but insufficient funds, and the central government refused to cooperate with the funds. Therefore, he wanted to eliminate half of the troops. With Duan's consent, he merged Hunan's 24th Division into the First Division, and the 13th Division was renamed the Second Division.

But this is just a change of soup and no medicine. The actual force has not been cut. Only when the inspection is made, each division has cut 800 to eat the shortage of troops, and each garrison has 200 or 300 empty quotas, which can save 40,000 to 50,000 yuan per month.

But this reduction gave Duan Tiemin the opportunity. Chen Chufu, the commander of the Second Division of the Hunan Army, was originally the commander of Tan Yan's first division, and was demoted to the commander of the Second Division. This included Tan Yan's selfishness. The Duan government planned to leave one division and one brigade in Hunan, and the second division was in a situation of being laid off at any time. Chen has always been known for his arrogantness, so Tan put him in this situation.

Chen Natural was dissatisfied and immediately colluded with Duan Tiemin. He introduced Mei Xin, a Hunan soldier who was dissatisfied with Yan, to Duan Tiemin. Duan immediately gave him a heavy hand and allowed him to be the guard commander of Changbao.

After the chess pieces were laid, he was about to take action. On December 3, he appointed Fu Yu as the governor of Hunan and appointed Wu Xinguang, the governor of Hubei, to serve as the envoy of Sichuan investigation and prosecution.

These two are both the younger brothers of Premier Duan. Sichuan investigation and prosecution were actually the first to enter Sichuan. The Fu Governor of Hunan simply took office directly, which was Premier Duan's unification of force.

Tan Yan knew that Duan had the determination to use troops in Hunan, and Hubei was the key to the north and the south. The Hunan army stood up and defended itself, and Guangdong and Guangxi would never sit idly by. Under the order of the governor, he was determined to declare independence to the Duan government, but at this time Chen Chu was not used for his resignation. Tan Yan had to take a retreat as an advance. He retreated to Xiangxi and Hengyang with one brigade. He also sent his confidant Ding Sheng as the governor, and at the same time, he resigned from the position of governor with one brigade.

However, Duan Tiemin asked Fu Jing to supervise Hunan to do his best. Hunanese people are rich in xenophobia, but his brother happened to be from Gancheng, Hunan, so Hunanese naturally would not object. There is a road boundary within Hunan. Gancheng belongs to the west, and Chen Chufu is also a West Passerby. This is a combination of Western Passerby to rule Hunan, rather than entering the northern army, so he can naturally be welcomed by the counties of the West Passerby.

Duan Tiemin re-entered several times, so there were many brothers. Fu Jing had been the deputy chief of the navy for many years and was qualified enough. At the same time, Duan Tiemin also announced that the new governor would not lead troops into Hunan, and he would completely organize the military affairs of Hunan as a Hunanese, so that the governor could concentrate on sorting out the government affairs of Hunan.

But in the eyes of Hunanese people, this is completely different. Although Fu Yu is indeed from Hunan, he has long cut off relations with Hunan. He speaks the official language of the north and is a northern official, and has long been vassalized by the Northern Government. As for not bringing troops into Hunan, when Yang Shande was in charge of Hunan ten years ago, he declared not to bring northern troops into Beijing. What was the result? Northern troops came in a steady stream and turned Hunan into their colony. Can Duan Tiemin, a political liar, deceive the Hunan people?

Fu, who had just added the general, also issued three major policies in Beijing to govern Hunan, namely, Hunan people govern Hunan, military and civilians divide the troops, and not bring troops into Hunan. Some people advised Tan Yan to bear it for a while and served as the governor to wait for the opportunity. Tan refused and said: "I am used to being a mother-in-law and can't be a daughter-in-law!"
Chapter completed!