Chapter 43: Drive Zhang
Taking advantage of this east wind, the Zhi army began to automatically withdraw defenses. Before leaving, they said goodbye to the generals of the Southern Army. Chen Yunjie said "Hunan affairs and Hunan people are self-determination" to the generals of Hunan Province. Since he intends to compete for the Central Plains, he naturally does not care about this small Hunan territory.
In the eyes of others, he returned north with a lonely army and ventured north from thousands of miles away, which was actually a huge risk. However, the central government owed military pay for eight months, but he had the remaining money to train and participate in the war. Which of the soldiers of the two armies in the northwest, wasn’t the soldiers of the direct army angry?
Before leaving, at the instruction of Duan Tiemin, the Cheng Cabinet finally admitted the facts and ordered the Zhi army to retreat north. This was also the last order issued by the Cheng Cabinet, which was good to Zhifang.
Premier Cheng is also very miserable. He was born in the Hubei clan, but sometimes he could not unite with Zhifeng clan. He repeatedly asked for leave and resigned, but eventually resigned as the Prime Minister of the State. Duan Tiemin simply became the boss and refused to come out. He had to be the foreign minister acting as the Prime Minister for the time being.
Before Chen Yunjie withdraws defense, the military discipline is as strong as a warning, and orders soldiers not to ask for leave without reason, not to pay credit to merchants, and not to take every grass or tree among the people. Hundreds of family members of the army have sent people to escort the north. In just one week, the vanguard has arrived in Changsha.
Chen Yunjie was a famous general of the world. When he set off, he made a "ramp formation" arrangement. The main third division was in the middle. There were cover teams on both sides of the Xiangjiang River. There were reconnaissance lines in front and temples behind. It can be said that it was a rigorous point. He set sail and sang the entire army. Although the lyrics were not neat, they were very tragic.
Although Duan Tiemin sent more than ten telegrams a day to ask Zhang Ke to intercept the Zhi army, when he passed Changsha, Zhang Ke was still afraid that he would come ashore to seize the general's seal, so he equipped strong soldiers on the right wing of Xiangjiang in advance, and only made a defensive posture. Although Duan Shiwan's urgent telegram came like snowflakes, he was already grateful to see that Chen Jun did not land, so he did not have the courage to attack and let them leave.
Then he passed Yuezhou and passed Hankou. Chen Yunjie wrote a long poem "Return to Defense". He arrived in Hankou soon and abandoned his boat and landed. He prepared his vehicle to return to the north. Although Hubei Governor Wu Xinguang was a key player in the Hubei regime, he was currently nostalgic for the warmth of Furong tent in Beijing. The Hubei Provincial Army was unable to stop it and allowed the Third Division to continue to return to the north.
Although he sent a telegram to Zhang Ke to prevent the defense in the Zhijun Defense Zone, Chen Yunjie and the Hunan Army had an agreement and handed over to the Hunan Army to prevent the defense. When Mu Qiongyin arrived, the Hunan Army generals were holding a meeting of the enemy. At that time, Zhang Ke's troops claimed to be 70,000, while the Hunan Army's number was only one division, and there was less than three thousand guns and insufficient food and ammunition. This battle seemed to have no chance of winning.
The large number of guns, ammunition and military pay brought by Mu Qiongyin was not large, but it can be said that it solved the Hunan Army's urgent need. Ms. Mu donated another 50,000 yuan in private money. The morale of the Hunan Army was beyond everyone's expectations. The officers and soldiers won consecutive battles and conquered several cities in a row to Hengyang.
After Zhang Ke received the news, he withdrew his military family on the one hand, and the other hand called the Northern Government to issue an order to attack, and sent his younger brother Zhang Tang as the commander-in-chief of Aiheng.
This Zhang Tang was obsessed with Mr. Zhuge's style since childhood. He wore a gossip and a feather fan in his hand. He said to his subordinates: "Do I look like Mr. Kongming?"
The subordinates said: "Elephant! Elephant is so great! It's Kong Ming's rebirth!"
However, Zhang Qi has a hobby, who likes to break into the homes of wealthy people and then borrow some valuables to go home to study and appreciate them. Hunanese people all mocked him: "Kong Ming is a thief!"
Today, Mr. Kong Ming led his troops to fight, so he was naturally extraordinary. Zhang Keyi gave up his position as the commander of the division. Zhang Tang was passionate and had the spirit of not returning until he defeated Loulan. He set out in an eight-person sedan chair with two big lanterns hanging behind the sedan chair, with four big words "Commander-in-Chief Zhang" written on the four big words "Chief-in-Chief Zhang" written on it. The guards were filled with hundreds of people.
When people in Changsha saw such a majestic attitude, they were always worried that the Hunan Army would lose to Zhang's army. Then Mr. Kong Ming did show amazingly that the Hunan Army defeated Hengyang in one battle, and Baoqing was born in the second world, and the Northern Army retreated in the third world. Before Zhang Tang's troops could see the shadow of the Hunan Army, they had already fled back to Changsha. They didn't even sit in the sedan chair carried by eight people, and were covered in mud.
Zhang Ke had no choice but to ask the central government for money and requested President Xu to issue an order for the attack as soon as possible to attack the Southern Army that invaded Hunan Province. Regarding the defeat, he said: "To protect peace, our army will make every effort to defend..."
Mu Qiongyin had a lot of insights. She called on behalf of the Hunan Provincial Parliament and said: "...The Hunan people complained with grief, but they were unable to die, and they could not survive, so they started to decide for themselves. This was for self-defense, purely for people's problems, and had no opinions of the north and south..."
This idea is very clever, and it isolates the Hunan issue from the most critical issue of the north and south. At this time, Hunan was already launched by the whole province, and the people spontaneously intercepted Zhang Jun. Seeing that something was wrong, Zhang Ke immediately asked the Provincial Chamber of Commerce for military pay of 1 million yuan, otherwise it would burn Changsha.
However, the Hunan Army advanced rapidly and rescued the crisis. The next day, Zhang Ke immediately fled from Changsha with his troops after sending a power-up: "I am a martial artist, why are you afraid of killing the enemy?"
This victory or defeat depends on the concept of soldiers. In order to save themselves, everyone in the Hunan Army held the concept of being burned with jade and stones, while everyone was full of money. They were thinking about how to go home and become a rich man, so they naturally became defeated.
Zhang's army collapsed all the way north, burned, killed, robbed, and retreated to Yuezhou less than 10,000 people were captured by the Hunan Army. Since the Republic, there has been a practice of exempting generals and officials from death. However, the murdered people in various places accused Zhang's army of various crimes, and even a large number of people were tragic in front of the Hunan Army headquarters, wearing maroons, asking the Hunan Army to punish him with a death sentence. Otherwise, they would commit suicide collectively in the General Office and would not survive. The public opinion was difficult to violate. The Hunan Army then organized a military court trial and sentenced him with a death sentence soon. There was no objection to this matter between the north and the south.
Both sides of Zhi and Hubei were mobilizing troops and preparing to make a final attempt, while Zhang Buyun played the role of Mr. Hao, traveling between Beijing and Baoding, building a bridge for Cao Ming and Duan Tiemin, and making the final peaceful efforts.
In order to thank Zhang Buyun, this good man, E Fang was willing to agree with the vice president. Cao Ming proposed the following conditions: Abolish the Anfu faction, Xu Youzheng was resigned, Cheng Yunpeng was resigned, and the third general of Anfu, who belonged to the Hubei faction, was revoked, and the border defense army was reorganized and the army headquarters was directly under the jurisdiction of the Army.
The so-called border defense army is the original participating army. Since the Western war has ended, the participating army has no meaning to continue to exist. However, Xu Youzheng has just changed his name.
However, Cao Ming and Zhang Buyun felt that Xu Youzheng's resignation was too strict, so they canceled this one. After arriving in Beijing, Duan Tiemin said that he could consider it, but Cheng Yunpeng was stuck between the two sides and was unwilling to be a man and was unwilling to be reinstated. The problem of the third general An Fusan was also successfully resolved, but the two sides had a dispute over the issue of the border guards.
Chapter completed!