Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 354: Guangdong and Guangxi Incident

Tang Qiuli wrote the reply message, read it silently, feeling quite satisfied, and then handed it to Mei Ting, who was waiting aside. Mei Ting served as the chief secretary, and she handled all of Tang Qiuli's incoming and outgoing messages and letters.

After reading it, Mei Ting burst into laughter, handed the message back to Tang Qiuli, and said, "Qiu Li, isn't this good? After all, you are also a serving general and a senior official of the National Government, so you are not afraid of losing anything."

To show off your decency and make others laugh?"

Tang Qiuli shook his head and said, "Mei Ting, this is a minor matter. I just took my identity into consideration. Otherwise, I would have scolded this guy to death on the spot to save him from becoming a traitor and bringing shame to his ancestors. You don't know, with

This kind of people can't make sense and can only talk with their fists, so they just follow this trick, and the original text will be reproduced."

When Yin Rugeng received Tang Qiuli's call back, he was so angry that he almost fainted on the spot. His face was livid, his lips were white, his hands and feet were shaking wildly, and he yelled: "Tang Qiuli, my son, spoke rudely, how dare you humiliate me like this, I'm done with you!"

After saying that, he tore the telegram to pieces in just a few seconds, lost his temper, and got angry. So what could he do? The Japanese masters wanted to act with caution, and it was impossible to send troops. Yin Rugeng was so angry.

There was no other way, so an order was given to the Jidong Security Corps and all the troops to stay in place and close the city gates. The scattered troops immediately shrank to a few central towns and no conflicts or disputes were allowed with the troops of the ** division.

You have to be able to not fight back when hit or scolded, and as long as it doesn't mean to kill your head, you can tolerate anything. Why wouldn't Yin Rugeng want to fight, but his strength is obvious, and he doesn't have the backing of the Japanese, and the Japanese army.

If they fight each other for less than one round, I will lose all the wealth I have managed to save, and I will not be able to use it to become a local emperor in the east of Hebei in the future.

Yin Rugeng was really frightened. Last year, the military commander passed by, and with a casual wave of his hand, his security team of more than 10,000 people disappeared into thin air, and his brother-in-law also lost his life.

Yin Rugeng couldn't fight and couldn't afford to pay. The troops led by Liu Tiehan moved unimpeded across the land of eastern Hebei. Wherever they went, the Jidong Security Corps closed the city gates tightly, occupied several central towns, and covered the vast countryside.

Completely to the troops of the ** Division.

Liu Tiehan immediately deployed his troops in the Tangshan, Qianxi, Kuancheng, Pingquan, and Daolden areas. In terms of strategic situation, he had blocked the land passage of the Japanese army in Northeast and North China. Of course, this was only a strategic situation.

Once a war breaks out, the troops led by Liu Tiehan will become a lone army, caught between the Japanese troops in North China and Northeast China, and will be in a worrying situation. Tang Qiuli also knows that this is a dangerous move. He just wants to tell the Japanese that the entire

I have troops in the Jicha area. If you want to take action, you should think carefully about it.

To be on the safe side, Tang Qiuli formulated a contingency plan for Liu Tiehan's troops. Once there was a danger of being encircled by the Kwantung Army and the North China Japanese Army, the troops would immediately go north to the Chabei Grassland and enter the Inner Mongolia Plateau, waiting for an opportunity to return to the northeast. Under the influence of the Kwantung Army,

There was a big commotion in the hinterland, so the Kwantung Army did not dare to send more troops to join the North China battlefield. Then, Liu Tiehan's troops withdrew from the northeast and attacked the weak areas of the Japanese army in the Jehol area, threatening the Japanese rear in northwest Peiping.

In order to achieve this goal, Liu Tiehan's troops were required to infiltrate the 7th and 8th Infantry Brigades, the 4th Artillery Brigade, the 4th and 5th Cavalry Brigades, etc., totaling about 36,000 people, with altimeter mobility capabilities.

, the intelligence network spread all over Hebei will promptly notify Liu Tiehan of all movements of the Japanese army.

Fight quickly, retreat quickly, and leave with one strike. This is why Tang Qiuli asked the mature and steady Liu Tiehan to command this army and sent two cavalry brigades. For this reason, Tang Qiuli used more than 600 vehicles to drive Liu Tiehan

The tough army has completely transformed into a mechanized army. It can march hundreds of kilometers overnight at an astonishing speed.

Unless the Japanese army is also a mechanized force, it would be better to attract part of the Japanese army to the Inner Mongolia Plateau far away from the Pingjin battlefield, which directly weakens the overall strength of the Japanese army in North China. If the pursuit force sent by the Japanese army is weaker than Liu Tiehan's force, they will be captured on the spot.

He eats them, and if the troops are too strong, he drags them away. The vast and vast Inner Mongolia Plateau provides a huge place for strategic maneuvering.

After deploying the troops, Tang Qiuli really hoped that the Japanese would follow his own pace and change their deployment accordingly, so that his work would not be in vain.

However, the Japanese army in North China was determined to form a superior encirclement force over Pingjin and Tianjin. They refused to be moved by Tang Qiuli's deployment and instead concentrated their main forces in the triangle area of ​​Pingjin, Tianjin and Baoding.

In the Pingjin area of ​​North China, a complex situation was formed in which we were surrounded by enemies, and we were surrounded by enemies. Neither the Japanese nor Tang Qiuli had any intention of taking the initiative to attack, and a delicate temporary balance appeared in the situation.

In September and October of the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army in North China made no major moves. The Japanese division troops still followed the original deployment and adopted a wait-and-see strategy.

The Japanese did not take action, but the Chinese themselves started to make trouble, and the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident broke out. In fact, the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident had already begun to take shape in June of this year, and it was full of gunpowder.

Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, the leaders of the New Guangxi clique, joined forces with Chen Jitang, the powerful local figure in Guangdong, to openly oppose Chiang Kai-shek, put forward the theory of "scorched earth resistance," and attacked the central government headed by Chiang Kai-shek for "doing nothing" and watching the loss of large swathes of the country.

China has entered a state of "half-death".

In fact, Li Bai from the New Guangxi faction and Chen Jitang from the Cantonese faction used the name of the anti-Japanese movement to resist the political incident of Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the National Government. The political incident almost triggered a civil war, but in the end the two sides reached a political compromise and ended in peace.

Finish.

At this time, Chairman Chiang put all his energy and thoughts on the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident. On the one hand, he mobilized troops and prepared generals to use force to deal with the powerful local factions in Guangdong and Guangxi, which had been in a state of semi-revolution since the Republic of China.

On the one hand, they used various means to bribe, divide and disintegrate, use coercion and inducement, and finally opened a gap in the camp of Chen Jitang, the weakest link in Guangdong and Guangxi, the Southern King of Guangdong.

In July of this year, Huang Guangrui, commander of the Cantonese Air Force, led more than 70 aircraft to rebel against Chen and surrender to Chiang. Yu Hanmou, commander of the First Army of the Cantonese Army, sent a call to support the Nanjing regime and threatened Chen Jitang to step down. He immediately left Guangdong and far away.

When he went to Hong Kong, General Li Hanhun, another member of the Cantonese clique and commander of the Second Army, believed that Chen's "so-called talk of resisting Japan and saving the country was simply an open lie", so he "hanged the seal and sealed the gold" and rode back to Han alone.

Missing.

Because the New Guangxi Clique was different from the Cantonese Clique, a group organization with Li Bai as the core was formed during its formation process. The centripetal force was very stable. Chiang Kai-shek failed to bribe and divide the New Guangxi Clique. There were actually no military or political figures within the New Guangxi Clique who defected to Chiang Kai-shek.

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Huang Shaohong, the third person in the New Guangxi clique, although he devoted himself to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek's central government in Nanjing, he was "in the Cao camp and his heart was in the Han Dynasty". He secretly communicated with Li and Bai and echoed each other from afar.

Out of strong indignation against Japan's invasion of large areas of Northeast China and North China, and sympathy for the New Guangxi clique, all walks of life and local powerful factions across the country began to lean towards the New Guangxi clique, and there was a call for a peaceful settlement of the Guangxi and Guangxi incidents.

At the end of September, the central government and the local powerful factions of the Guangxi clique reached a reconciliation. The Nationalist Government and the Military Commission issued an order. The positions of Li and Bai and the officials of the Guangxi clique remained unchanged. The new Guangxi clique officials took office in Nanning grandly and declared their obedience to Chiang Kai-shek.

Chairman of the Central Government.

The Guangdong-Guangxi Incident lasted for more than four months, and after the two sides deployed up to 800,000 troops for a confrontation, it ended without a single shot being fired.

The smooth settlement of the Guangdong-Guangxi Incident, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek was the biggest winner. It can be described as "without firing a shot or bullet, without any bloodshed." Not only that, he also picked up nearly a hundred aircraft and countless weapons, equipment and soldiers.

Although the New Guangxi clique was not injured, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek weakened the New Guangxi clique from a political faction that could influence the whole country to a local powerful faction. From then on, it could only settle in a corner of the southwest without making any big achievements.

The worst loser was Chen Jitang, the Southern King of the Cantonese faction. Not only did his men disperse and defect, and his power was uprooted, he was also forced to live in an apartment in Hong Kong. From then on, he faded out of China's political arena and became unknown, ending up on an isolated island in Hainan.

After the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident was resolved, Chairman Chiang's prestige was at its peak. Looking around, he no longer had any rivals. In the Central Plains War, he crippled Feng Yuxiang of the Northwest Army, Yan Xishan of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Clique, and the southwestern provinces to pursue and suppress the Red Army. The tentacles of the Central Committee

It has reached wherever it has reached and taken root.

The Japanese drove Zhang Xueliang, the strongest member of the Northeast Army, out of his hometown for him. He lost his territory and had to rely on others. The so-called "fallen phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken". It will not make a difference. The claws of the new Guangxi clique are just about to reach.

The hinterland of the Central Plains was cut off, retreated to the southeast, and had to accept the leadership of the central government.

Chairman Chiang Kai-shek can finally put all his energy and thoughts into the northwest, where his most serious enemy and sworn enemy, the Red Army led by Zhu Mao, is still ceding territory to the north of Shaanxi and establishing a new imperial court.

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Regarding the solution to the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident, Tang Qiuli had already known the outcome. Therefore, as soon as the Guangdong and Guangxi sides started to make a fuss, he received a telegram from Chief Yan of Shanxi Province. In the telegram, Chief Yan asked about his attitude towards the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident.

His tone.

Tang Qiuli remained instinctively wary of the calculating Chief Yan. He called back and said that it was disrespectful for Guangdong and Guangxi to pit their localities against the central government. He wanted to monitor the localities and firmly stand with the central government headed by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.

On one side, he quickly blocked Commander Yan's mouth.

Tang Qiuli was still sincerely happy with the way the Guangdong-Guangxi Incident was resolved. Although it was the result of political compromise, after all, it avoided a major civil war and avoided the internal consumption of China's national defense forces.

If the Guangdong, Guangxi and then the Nanjing government fight, only the Japanese will be happy. They will provide both sides with free guns, ammunition and large sums of money. The more intense the fight, the better. It is best if both sides die together, and the Japanese can reap the benefits.

Without any effort, you can securely occupy the entire China.

It is certain that the final result of the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident will definitely disappoint and anger the Japanese government.

When receiving information about the Guangdong and Guangxi incidents compiled by the intelligence department, a certain person was having a picnic and barbecue with his beloved woman and a group of guards in a deep canyon in the Taihang Mountains.

(To be continued)