The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Just two days before Zhou Hexuan was shot, Feng Yuxiang swore an oath to reorganize the army in Wuyuan, announced that he would be the commander-in-chief of the National Army and the coalition forces, and formally joined the ranks of the National Revolutionary Army.

In fact, Feng Yuxiang was not on the front line at all when the national army carried the Zhifeng coalition forces for two or three months. He announced his resignation earlier, and went to the Soviet Union to study and investigate. This time he returned to China just to clean up the remnants of the army, and made a comeback with great ambition.

Compared with the mighty National Revolutionary Army, the Beiyang warlords looked powerful, but in fact they had serious internal strife, like a sick giant.

Let’s start with a few months ago, Zhang Zuolin’s subordinate Li Jinglin, Wu Peifu’s subordinates Jin Yun’e and Tian Weiqin conspired with Feng Yuxiang and Sun Chuanfang to form an alliance. They discussed that Sun Chuanfang marched into Shandong to expel Zhang Zongchang, Li Jinglin occupied Tianjin to prevent Feng's army from going south, Jin Yun'e marched into Shanxi and Feng Yuxiang pinched Yan Xishan, Tian Weiqin sent troops to Nanyuan, Tongzhou and Feng Yuxiang jointly drove Zhang Zuolin back to the northeast.

After a series of actions, Zhang Zuolin successfully eliminated Li Jinglin, Wu Peifu also dismissed Jin Yun'e, and each cleaned up the internal traitors before finally gaining a firm foothold.

However, in the face of successive victories of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the infighting among the Beiyang warlords continued——

When the Northern Expeditionary Army attacked Hubei, Sun Chuanfang did not go to help. His wishful thinking is: let the Northern Expeditionary Army and Wu Peifu dog bite the dog, and then clean up the mess after both losers. In the name of "aiding Wu", he took advantage of the trend to occupy Wu Peifu's Hunan and Hubei sites, and then his five-province coalition could expand to seven provinces.

As for Zhang Zuolin, he said that he sent troops to the south to support Wu Peifu, but in fact he wanted to seize the territory of Zhiyu and Henan provinces from Wu Peifu, and then spy on Hunan and Hubei, and expand Fengjun's power to the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhang Zuolin's strategy is: take advantage of the opportunity when Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang were severely injured by the Northern Expeditionary Army, destroy Wu in the name of "aiding Wu", destroy Sun in the name of "aiding Sun", and finally wipe out the Northern Expeditionary Army, thereby capturing the entire world.

Well, the ideas are all good.

After Wu Peifu's main force was defeated by the Northern Expeditionary Army, Zhang Zuolin felt that the time had come, and immediately appointed Zhang Zongchang as the commander-in-chief to assist Wu Peifu, and actively went south to support Wu Peifu.

Wu Peifu was not a fool, he repeatedly declined Zhang Zuolin's kindness, saying that he still had more than 100,000 troops on the Beijing-Hanzhou line, and he would kill the rebels in the south in minutes, so he wouldn't bother the big brothers in the northeast.

Zhang Zuolin is enthusiastic and insists on helping.

Because Beiping was under the joint management of the two factions, Zhang Zuolin first forced out Wu Peifu's general, Wang Huaiqing, commander of the Beiping garrison, and replaced it with Yu Zhen, a general of the Feng Dynasty. Then he threatened Du Xigui's cabinet with "suffocating sound". Du Xigui, the acting prime minister, gave up his seat to Gu Weijun before his butt was hot.

Zhang Zuolin thus controlled Beiping alone and became the real master of the Beiyang government.

At the same time, Zhang Zuolin ordered Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu to go south along the Beijing-Han Railway and occupy the Baoding and Daming areas controlled by Wu Peifu.

When Zhou Hexuan was assassinated, Chu Yupu was "supporting" Baoding, but unfortunately Wu Peifu's defenders did not accept "support".

Just like paying for a meal, one said: "I'll treat this meal!" The other said: "I'll treat it, I'm in a hurry with whoever pays."

Then the two sides fight...

Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu supported Wu Peifu's Baoding garrison with enthusiastic artillery fire, bringing spring-like warmth to the allies, and Baoding was supported in a few days.

Then Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu quarreled again.

The reason is the uneven distribution of spoils.

One of the characteristics of warlord melee is that the casualty rate on the battlefield is very low. After a big battle is fought, the mountains and plains are full of routs. For the victor, this is a good opportunity to expand the army. Both Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu started their fortunes by gathering defeated troops.

In the coalition command room.

Zhang Zongchang patted the table and said: "I am the commander-in-chief who aided Wu, and Baoding was rescued by me, so it stands to reason that the majority should be divided!"

Chu Yupu was also unambiguous: "I am the commander of the aid to Wu, and I am the commander of the aid to Baoding. No matter how you say it, I should get 60%!"

When the two were quarreling, Chu Nanxiang suddenly came in and reported, "Marshal, the urgent call from Tianjin is from Chang Zhiying."

Chu Yupu grabbed the telegram and read it, and suddenly became furious, kicked away the chair and said, "Nonsense!"

"What's the big deal?" Zhang Zongchang snatched the telegram curiously, and laughed out loud after reading it, "Hahahaha, Shorty Chu, your brother is really a fucking talent! I'm convinced."

Chu Yupu laughed angrily, and said, "This is not my brother, he is clearly a stupid pig!"

Chu Yupu had no reason not to be angry, because his own brother was so stupid.

If it was Chu Yupu, he would not care about foreigners at all, and would directly send soldiers wearing plain clothes and carrying short guns, rushing into Zhou Hexuan's house, arresting them, and then shooting them secretly as red elements. How can there be any assassination? It's just taking off your pants and farting, it's superfluous!

Even if things were revealed and the British were hurt, Chu Yupu would not leave Tianjin in fright. To push Du Xiaoshan out as a scapegoat is to kill him, which has nothing to do with the assassination. Do the British really dare to send troops to arrest people? In the end, it will definitely be nothing.

What made Chu Yupu most angry was that Chu Yufeng actually mobilized the Tianjin defenders privately, saying that he was going to lead the troops to the front line to fight. This shit is joking, mobilizing troops privately is a serious crime, assassinating someone is nothing compared to disobeying military orders.

Fortunately, now is the time for employing people. If Chu Yufeng led the defenders away in normal times, it is estimated that Zhang Xueliang would occupy Tianjin with his back foot. Tianjin is the foundation of Chu Yupu. He entrusted the responsibility of guarding the lair to his brothers, but he didn't expect Chu Yufeng to be as stupid as a pig.

From the beginning to the end of the incident, Chu Yufeng did not do a single thing right, and the mud could not support the wall.

Chu Yupu helplessly supported his forehead and said: "Nanxiang, you should go back to Tianjin immediately to help my brother clear the young commander and the British. By the way, I told Zhou Hexuan that this matter is over, I don't want to pursue it anymore, let him also Don't make trouble anymore. Otherwise, even if he flies into the sky, I will break his wings!"

"Yes, Marshal! I'll do it right now." Chu Nanxiang raised his hand as a military salute, then bowed and retreated.

Chu Yupu called Jia He again: "You send a telegram to my brother right away, telling that bastard to lead his troops back to Tianjin immediately! Tell him to be more honest, and if he dares to cause trouble again, I will go back and skin him!"

After Jia He left, Zhang Zongchang was still laughing: "Hahaha, people always say that Zhang Zongchang is as stupid as a pig. Compared with your brother, I really can't compare."

"Have you laughed enough?" Chu Yupu said angrily, "Let's continue to discuss how to divide the rout."

"Let me take it easy, hahahaha, I'm almost out of laughter." Zhang Zongchang slapped the table while laughing.