When Cai Yi was in full swing to defeat Cao Kun, Feng Yong's reprimand telegram was also sent to the First Brigade. made the nervous Qian Yansheng nervous all of a sudden.

Since the First Brigade accepted Li Jun's orders, Qian Yansheng led the 1st Brigade of 12,000 elite soldiers into Shaanxi quietly. And in a few months, it swept through the northern part of Shaanxi and occupied the important military town of Yulin.

Although Chen Shufan, the overseer of Shaanxi, regarded Shaanxi as his personal territory, he had to say that Chen Shufan was really ambitious and talented. Although there are quite a few troops in hand, their combat effectiveness is really average, and their ability to do government affairs is really average, and although it cannot be said that the people are not living in poverty, it also makes horse bandits rampant, and the life of the people is extremely difficult. At present, Shaanxi does not have the wealth of Qinchuan in the next 800 miles. Although the population is large, it is difficult to form large-scale settlements because of the fragmented terrain of the Loess Plateau. This kind of terrain has created the dispersion of Shaanxi's towns and villages, coupled with the difficulty of transportation. Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is just a beautiful title. In order to maintain his rule, Chen Shufan's Shaanxi Qin army maintained a scale of 30,000 people all year round. Even if the local security regiment is added, in terms of military strength, it is still not a reckless force against Shaanxi. However, because of the dimness of Chen Shufan's rule, corrupt officials and local gentry in various places acted in cahoots, speculated, and collected taxes indiscriminately. Fortunately, in recent years, the Qinling Mountains have been relatively smooth, and the common people have relied on the wild vegetables and leaves in the field every year, and there has finally been no large-scale starvation death. It's just that the grain that the people have worked so hard to grow is barely enough to pay taxes. Even so, Chen Shufan was not satisfied, he was bent on recruiting another 20,000 troops and gathering 50,000 people, because of the war in the southwest of Beiyang, Beiyang suddenly transferred hundreds of thousands of elite troops, which was a heavy pressure on Chen Shufan. Because although Chen Shufan didn't have the heart to fight against the Beiyang government, he also knew Duan Qirui's ruling thoughts. 'Unification of the whole country by force. Although he is still nominally a person from Beiyang, in the eyes of Chief Duan, he who is disobedient has already been completely different from the three governors of Beiyang. The three governors of Beiyang are the target of General Duan's wooing, and he Chen Shufan is likely to be the target of elimination. Of course, before the big warlords like the Northeast and Southwest did not distinguish the winners and losers, neither Beiyang nor other big forces would come to him for trouble with Chen Shufan. But once the domestic military power game comes to an end, it will be time for these petty warlords to be swept away.

It's just that Chen Shufan may not be able to wait until the domestic situation is completely clear, because he has two unhappy things now. And they are two things that make Grand Overseer Chen feel extremely tricky.

That is, there are two forces in Shaanxi, which he regards as his own back garden. Although he is not afraid of any of these two forces compared to strength, he can't stand the strength behind others.

Li Chun's division of the Beiyang Army, which occupies the Ankang region of Shaanxi. Although this side makes Chen Shufan tired, it is not unbearable, after all, his old Chen is still nominally from Beiyang, and Governor Li Chun was beaten by the Southwest New Army, and it is not impossible to rest in his old Chen's territory, but he Li Chun can't be too inappropriate that he is an outsider! The counties around Ankang have been replaced by people from Beiyang. Chen Shufan's were all disarmed by them. nnd, it's really a tiger who doesn't threaten you and I'm a sick cat! Although Lao Chen is not treated by Chief Duan, Li Chun's current situation may not be better than him. Chief Duan begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother that he had brought the army, so that Li Chun had defeated most of them in a battle, although Li Chun also claimed to have 30,000 soldiers, but in fact they still had 20,000 people. Otherwise, Li Chun wouldn't have jumped over the wall in a hurry to catch a strong man in Gansu! The greasy in this can also fool President Duan in Beijing, but he can't hide his old Chen's eyes.

Compared to Li Chun, the head of the three governors of Beiyang who struggled for self-preservation. The power hidden in the Yulin area in northern Shaanxi made Chen Shufan's egg hurt. Grandma, I know that you are hiding it with your heart, and you want to sneak into my old Chen's back garden, but you don't want to think about how an army of more than 10,000 people can hide. What's more, you bandits are still making a big splash to suppress bandits. None of those horse bandits have any connection to my old Chen's Overseer's Mansion. If Lao Tzu hadn't been afraid of attracting the army from the northeast, he would have sent a large army to drive you out.

In the final analysis, these two things are still the strength of his Chen Shufan, and if he has the strength of the Gui family, he will not let Beiyang and Northeast China be so presumptuous.

"Is there any movement in the Northeast Army in the north?" Chen Shufan's face turned very bad.

"No, after they eliminated the horse bandit Liu Heishui, they stopped completely. Overseer, what do you mean by sending such a detachment to the Northeast? Is it to protect trade routes or to deal with us? Chen Shufan's old classmate Liu Shilong said suspiciously.

Since Chen Shufan became the governor of Shaanxi, he actively fostered his personal forces and cracked down on the revolutionary forces, and he promoted his classmates and fellow villagers Liu Shilong, Zeng Jixian, Zhang Baolin, Zhang Feisheng, and Zhang Danping to regiment commanders and brigade commanders, while Hu Jingyi, a Kuomintang figure who had made great contributions to Yuan Zhulu, was only appointed as the regiment commander, Gao Jun was the deputy regiment commander, and Cao Shiying's department was not even a regular army. Chen Shufan's cronyism caused the entire Qin army (Shaanxi army, as it is conveniently called, to use the Qin army) to be full of internal contradictions. Although Hu Jingyi is only a small regiment leader. But as a revolutionary hero, his prestige in the Qin army is extremely high, which is also the reason why Chen Shufan was jealous of him and only let him be a small regiment commander.

"Protecting trade routes? It may be a reason, but now they certainly have more than just these ideas. Damn the Northeast Army. It is so open to occupy the Yulin area. Chen Shufan hated it so much, but there was nothing he could do, and he really lacked the courage to let him go to war with the Northeast. After all, Shaanxi borders Mongolia in the northeast, and Chen Shufan has no time to hide from them, let alone get over by himself. Chen Shufan's Qin army was not Beiyang, and it did not have the strength of Beiyang. Even if he knew that the enemy was only more than 10,000 people, his 30,000 army did not dare to make the slightest move.

"Overseer, or let's keep this matter a secret from Chief Duan. Now the form is becoming more and more clear, the most powerful in the world is Beiyang and the Northeast, and we can't enjoy the Northeast set. Therefore, we can only surrender to Beiyang, and General Duan is now in the middle of the day, and Vice President Feng Guozhang has been suppressed. And now that Beiyang is the time to use troops, we will definitely be appreciated by Chief Duan for taking refuge in the past. There is a saying that 'it is easy to put the icing on the cake, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow.' Now Chief Duan has just lost the battle in the southwest. It is when we need troops, and it is when we send charcoal in the snow. Liu Shilong said. As Chen Shufan's old classmate and confidant, Liu Shilong also acted as Chen Shufan's dog-headed military advisor.

"Take refuge in Chief Duan? What if he sends us to the front? Southwest Cai is not a vegetarian. Although the Overseer had not fought against him, Cai Ye's name was too great. Hundreds of thousands of troops in Beiyang have suffered, not to mention our tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers. In the final analysis, Chen Shufan is still selfish, that is, he does not want to be suppressed, and he does not want to give up the military rights in his hands. I don't want to go to the battlefield but die.

"Overseer, why are you so confused! Wouldn't we have a good chance right now! A partial division of the Northeast Public Security Army is stationed in Shaanxi, and I am afraid that it is a great threat to General Chief Duan. He can let it go, and if we take refuge in the past, there is a great possibility that we will be left here to spy on the Northeast Army. Liu Shilong said with a smile. If this guy takes another feather fan, he really has a bit of a wise man's taste.

"That's right! How I didn't think of that. Grandma's. This Northeast Army is really too deceitful. Since we can't afford to offend, let's let Chief Duan deal with it! Chen Shufan said with a bright face. You must know that the two armies that entered Shaanxi made him worried. Now that I can solve it all, of course, it is much more comfortable.

Yulin County.

Qian Yansheng, who has always been arrogant and domineering, has turned his old face into the color of pig liver.

"Ahem, commissar, I'm sorry, it's all my old money's fault. If I hadn't stopped you, the young marshal wouldn't have reprimanded you! "Originally, when the First Brigade seized the first batch of things, Political Commissar Zhou Bo had to make a detailed list and then report it to the Northeast Headquarters. But he was stopped by Qian Yansheng, and at first he just digested this little thing by himself, and he didn't know how to report it to the top. It's just that the more and more seizures were made later, Zhou Bo didn't know whether to report it or not. When he decided to report it for the second time, Qian Yansheng suppressed him as a brigade commander. Because since they entered Shanxi, even if they were in a state of war, Qian Yansheng had the final decision on the troops. In addition, although the headquarters took back the right of the generals to expand the army independently, the 1st Brigade did not expand the army independently, but reorganized the captured horse bandits into a supplementary force of the 1st Brigade. In this way, it is possible to continue fighting without violating the regulations. It's just that they didn't expect that there were so many horse bandits on the Loess Plateau, and in just a few months, in addition to eliminating nine large horse bandits, they also killed more than a dozen small horse bandits. The prisoners and the local youths who came to join the army added up to more than the original strength of the first brigade. It wasn't until Feng Yong's sternly worded rebuke came that the two of them woke up from a dream, and it seemed that they were in a big disaster.

"Brigade commander, it's not your responsibility, it's me who didn't stick to my principles. I should have reported it to headquarters at the time of the first seizure. Zhou Bo was very calm. When something happens, self-pity is useless, it's better to think about how to make up for it.

"I have already reported the current details of the 1st Brigade to the young marshal in the form of an urgent telegram, and I believe that it will not be long before there will be a callback. I also defended you in the message. I believe that the young marshal is definitely not an indiscriminate person. Qian Yansheng comforted.

(To be continued)