"Since the Revolution of 1911, the central government has collapsed, and the world has become restless. The heroes and the sluts have risen together. The people suffer and suffer. However, like the Shandong Military Supervisor Zhang, there are only a few people who act. Although the supervision is a Shandong person, he regards his hometown parents as Zou Gou, and has no intention of robbery. Most of his soldiers blindly make up for the robbery, regard robbery as a common place, and rape is fun to play, all kinds of evil deeds. What is the difference between this person's army and animals? In contrast, my Chinese history is not Dong Zhuo, An Lushan, and Shi Siming, who cannot be compared with him. However, this generation is not ashamed but proud, but regards human life as grass with his own selfish desires, and harms the elders of Qi and Lu, and does not forget the rich land of Jiangnan. Now, more than 300,000 troops have started, heading straight to Xuyu, and then seeking the land of Jiangnan. If you get it for it, you can get it for it. I am still going to have a future for our country. Fortunately, there are many heroes in Qi and Lu, and they have revolted to fight against the violent bandits, which has been slow to go south. However, the world is the world of the world. Do we, the Southern Dukes, have to sit down and ignore Zhang Zongchang and turn a blind eye to repeat the mistakes of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the past?” This is a passage from Shao Piaoping, the first reporter of the Republic of China who is famous for his iron shoulders and harshly writing articles in Shandong. Although this article is classical Chinese, it successfully exposes many evil deeds of the Fengtian army after entering the pass, arousing the anger of the people across the country. This was something the Fengtian army could not have imagined. On September 4, the Fengtian army law enforcement team stationed in Tianjin changed into casual clothes with the concession authorities acquiesced, forcibly arrested Shao Piaoping and escorted Beijing, which caused an uproar here across the country.

However, I will return to the background of this article, the famous Yimeng riot in history.

Because the officer of the Zhilu coalition army, Yu Sanshuan forcibly robbed the "Golden Buddha", eventually triggered a riot among 30,000 villagers. Many bandits in the Yimeng Mountain area who refused to accept the surrender of the Zhilu coalition army this time also chose to stand on the side of justice (if they did not resist the Zhilu coalition army, they would starve to death), so the next thing became lively. The rebel army elected the famous intellectual scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, the late Qing Dynasty scholar, and the bandit leader Sun Meizhu, Sun Meiyao brothers, as well as the bandit leader Sun Meiyao, and As the leader, Sun Guizhi, the clan's uncle, raised the banner of "playing the way for heaven" and formally formed the "Shandong founding Autonomous Army", and Sun Meizhu was appointed commander-in-chief of the Five Routes Alliance. Then they captured Lincheng, Feixian and Cangshan, and headed towards Zaozhuang. The 100,000-strong army expanded by the rebel army, which was nearly as powerful as Bailang three years ago. The army of the two divisions under Xu Kun was too scattered and was still concentrated, and they could only stare at the rebel army that grew stronger like a snowball.

At this time, Zhang Zongchang, who had just defeated Wu Peifu in Shangqiu with his military strength and equipment advantages, heard the news that he had made a mistake in his retreat. He immediately scolded Xu Kun for being incompetent and commanded the five divisions and turned back to suppress him.

These five divisions are not the new recruits in Xu Kun. They are all elite soldiers selected by Zhang Zongchang from the prisoners of war in the Zhi-Anhui Army. There are about 3,000 deserters he recruited from Russia. Such an army is naturally not something that Sun Meizhu can fight against. However, Sun Meizhu was obviously blinded by victory and insisted on fighting with Zhang Zongchang. As a result, the battle lasted only one day on August 27, and the hundred thousand rebels were destroyed. Sun Meizhu died shortly after breaking through with serious injuries. Under the leadership of Sun Meiyao and Sun Guizhi, the rest of the troops fled back to Yimeng Mountain,.

Zhang Zongchang was also a ruthless man. He ordered the 500 prisoners of war who had finally caught were cut off all the heads of the 500 prisoners of war in the rebel army. Then, soaked with lime, and started building "Jingguan" next to Zaozhuang Station. The so-called Jingguan was a high tomb made by showing off his martial arts in ancient times to gather enemy corpses and seal the soil. What era is now? In the sixth year of the Republic of China, the emperor was gone. Zhang Zongchang actually used this trick with a clever move. His original intention was to scare his enemies, but the result was beyond Zhang Zongchang's expectations.

On August 30, although there was no vote on whether the Beijing government should be regarded as the central government, the two houses, which were accustomed to quarrels and disputes, passed the "Resolution on Sending Army in Shandong and Henan and Punishing Violent Soldiers" proposed by Zhang Taiyan and Cai Yuanpei very seriously.

According to the wishes of the members of the parliament, the Military Committee of the National Government was authorized to mobilize the war on the day, dispatching young troops to enter Shandong and Henan, and launching military strikes on the notorious Anguo Army, which committed numerous crimes and was not recognized as legal armed forces, and did not accept the surrender of officers of any level of the department.

The next day, the resolution came into effect after being signed by Wang Longzhong, Wang Longzhong and Xu Chongzhi.

On September 1, the Youth Army issued an emergency mobilization order (in fact, the secret mobilization began on August 10). A total of eight field divisions and about 200,000 troops were ordered to carry out combat preparations on the south bank of the Huai River. The war was about to break out.

The reactions of the great powers were also very interesting. Due to Zhang Zongchang's atrocities and the brutal performance of the Fengtian army after entering the pass, the envoys of Britain, France, Russia and the United States of England, France, Russia and the United States rejected Japan's request to interfere with the National Government. Zhu Erdian, who has always been unaware of the National Government, said very rarely: "In view of the Fengtian army's performance, we do not think that they are a good choice for them to control China, and we do not think that they are an army of civilized society."

In fact, Zhang Zongchang's atrocities also aroused the dissatisfaction of many people within the Fengtian Army. They proposed to Zhang Zuolin to replace Zhang Zongchang. Now it is Zhang Zuolin's turn to feel a headache.

However, for Zhang Zuolin, who was born with a beard, Zhang Zongchang's almost beastly behavior was not very serious. At that time, there were many more beasts in his beard than this. What really made Zhang Zuolin worried was Wang Zhenyu from the south. After all, he was a person who defeated the great powers. Zhang Zuolin had no knowledge and had seen the Russo-Japanese War. He had seen the battle between the Russians and the Japanese. In his opinion, although the Japanese defeated the Russians, from Zhang Zuolin's perspective, it was entirely because of the bullying of the Japanese. In fact, the Japanese did not gain much advantage in fighting, and even suffered a lot of losses. However, according to the newspaper, the elite Russian troops were defeated by the Germans in Europe. According to this logic, can it be concluded from this that the fighting power of the young army in the south was even stronger than that of the Japanese after being equipped with advanced equipment.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zuolin was shuddered. He actually didn't want to continue to go south to fight with the Youth Army. It was very satisfying to be able to capture Beijing. He could win Zhili, Shandong and Henan provinces again. However, the group of Japanese people were urging themselves to continue to go south under the guise of supporting China's unification, and also promised to continue to pay half of the loan from Xiyuan that had not been paid to Duan Qirui to Zhang Zuolin's government. Zhang Zuolin was very happy at first, but later scolded the little Japanese in his heart that was not a good person and grandma's. Isn't this the same as I inherited all the obligations of the Duan Qirui government? He took half of the money but had to bear all the debts. The little Japanese was too smart, but Zhang Zuolin didn't dare to say anything more. He now had to rely on the support of the little Japanese. And if China was really unified, veteran Zhang wouldn't be worried about not paying the money from Xiyuan loan.

So these days, Zhang Zuolin was not very concerned about what happened in Shandong. He only had two things he really cared about. The first was to form a new elite army. This was the capital for his elder General Zhang to monopolize power and fight for the world. This matter is currently going very smoothly. The troops trained by Zhang Zuolin use the name of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force. The commander of the border defense force was his old brother Zhang Zuoling. Among the many generals in the Fengtian clique, this person and Wu Junsheng were regarded as Zhang Zuolin's most trustworthy and reliable right-hand man. The border defense force Zhang Zuolin gave ten divisions to the organization, and temporarily planned to form 250,000 people. Zhang Zuolin appointed his eldest son, Zhang Xueliang, who was only sixteen years old, as deputy commander of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force, and the rank of lieutenant general.

The second thing is to pay attention to the dynamics of the south. In fact, although Zhang Zuolin's war skills were a bit turbulent, his strategic vision was still one of the best among the warlords of the Republic of China. In particular, he was equipped with Yang Yuting, known as the Little Zhuge, which was even more prominent. In the eyes of Zhang Zuolin and Yang Yuting, as long as the southern National Government always maintained a neutral attitude during the Zhi-An War, Henan and Shandong would definitely get the territory. Then, he took advantage of the opportunity of the southern main army's expedition to Europe and caught them off guard. Maybe he would be the one who was the one who was caught off guard. It was really possible to unify China. Zhang Zuolin also made a big fool for this and sent Liang Shiyi, who had recently defected to him, to negotiate with the National Government and put forward the so-called peace proposal. The first point is that the Southern National Government recognizes the Beijing government as the central government, and the second point is cooperation between the north and the south. The central government continues to recognize the Southern National Government. The general meaning is that everyone will not have to fight in the future. In short, you believe it. In addition, the assassination of Wang Zhenyu was planned through the participation of the Japanese. Otherwise, where did Kenji Doihara get thirty gold bars for Wang Jingwei?

Unfortunately, people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. The assassination planned by Wang Jingwei ended in failure because of the unexpected episode of Mei Yunping, and Zhang Zuolin's big deception was also seen through Wang Zhenyu. He secretly issued a secret mobilization order through the military committee. Fourteen divisions of the 21 divisions of the Southern National Government began to mobilize full force and gather on a large scale towards the south bank of the Huai River. The military factories under the Military Department began to work overtime to produce weapons and ammunition. On September 1, Wang Zhenyu issued a formal mobilization order based on Zhang Zongchang's atrocities in Shandong, and then directly established the General Command of the Northern Expedition Army, personally served as commander-in-chief, Bai Chongxi was appointed as chief of staff, Jiang Baili was appointed as deputy chief of staff, and 14 divisions under his jurisdiction, Tao Zhiyue, Lu Diping, Cheng Qian, Song Haomin, and Yu Zuobai were appointed as military commanders.

On the day the mobilization order was issued, Tao Zhiyue, the commander of the First Army of the Northern Expedition Army, led the third division of the First Army to quickly enter Xuzhou along the railway with heavy equipment. The news reached Beijing. Zhang Zuolin was so angry that he cursed: "This was not mobilized today, this was not for the people of Shandong. This was a premeditation. Mom was so stupid. I really didn't expect that there were more shameless people in this world than me, Lao Zhang. This time I was defeated."
Chapter completed!