In Lanzhou City, Li Jun's expression was a little tired. However, what made him excited was that the situation in the Ganning region was finally on the right track, the relationship between all aspects was basically sorted out, and the provincial government began to implement the political system in the northeast.

Although Li Jun served as the commander-in-chief of the Western Theater, he did not lead the army westward this time, which is also what Feng Yong meant. Li Junxijin can indeed be foolproof, but it will greatly suppress the ability of others. Zhang Xiaoshan is Feng Yong's confidant and favorite general, and Feng Yong has cultivated him in a commanding style from the beginning. Therefore, Feng Yong handed over the combat power of Xinjiang to Zhang Xiaoshan this time, which was also Zhang Xiaoshan's independent command of such a large-scale battle. In Feng Yong's heart, Li Jun and Zhang Xiaoshan are different. As the dean of the Northeast Political Council, Li Jun will not be able to be in the army once there is no war in the future. Even if Li Jun still stays in the security army in the future, with his ability and strategic vision, he is also standing at the highest level of decision-making, and he is also thinking about the way out of the Northeast security army, and it is impossible to personally lead the army to garrison one side. This is not that Feng Yong distrusts him, because Feng Yong has always strictly adhered to the separation of military and political affairs in the system of Northeast China. Except for the commander in wartime, who has great power in both military and political affairs, in normal times, the commander of a military region like Zhang Xiaoshan is a military post and has no right to interfere in the administrative affairs of the northeast region.

This time when he went west to Xinjiang, there was no big enemy, and Yang Zengxin, the overseer of Xinjiang, was a person from Beiyang, but he was not a hardcore. Although Xinjiang was nominally subordinate to the Beiyang government, it was in fact the private kingdom of the overseer Yang Zengxin.

Yang Zengxin, a native of Mengzi, Yunnan, was a political figure in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Yang Zengxin was born on March 6, 1864. In 1888, he was raised in the middle of the year, and the following year he was a member of the Lianjie Jinshi. In 1900, he served as the Gansu envoy and the general office of the Wubei School. In 1907, he entered Xinjiang and served as the general office of the Xinjiang Army Primary School, and also served as the senator of the Supervision and Training Office. In 1911, he was promoted to the post of envoy of the town and the envoy of the law. After the establishment of the Republic of China, he was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the governor and chief of civil affairs of Xinjiang. Yang Zengxin supported Yuan Shikai as emperor and was awarded the title of first-class earl. After Yuan's death, he served as governor of Xinjiang for a long time. Yang took charge of Xinjiang and first used the means of "peace negotiation" to defeat the rigidity, abolished the Ili Provisional Revolutionary Government established during the Xinhai Revolution, and appointed the governor of Xinjiang to serve as the military commander of Ili; Later, he sent troops to defeat the invading army of Imperial Russia, quelled the chaos, changed the Altay Special Zone to Ashan Road, and completed the unification of Xinjiang. During his 17 years in Xinjiang, Yang firmly believed in Li Dan's political ideology of "a small country and a widowed people", pursued a ruling policy of "ruling by doing nothing", rectified the rule of officials to "eliminate troubles before they sprouted", reduced soldiers, rewarded land reclamation, advocated feudal superstition, obstructed the establishment of schools and the dissemination of science and culture, advocated "disputes do not ask about the affairs of the Central Plains" and "the troubled people have grown into the ancient people", and ruled the people of all ethnic groups with the policy of seclusion and self-control and foolishness, so that all aspects of Xinjiang were stagnant. With regard to the foreign invading forces that coveted the border areas from time to time, they recklessly responded to the situation, tried to protect themselves, and safeguarded peace in the border areas.

Feng Yong's rebirth had little impact on Xinjiang, and now this time is the peak of Yang Zengxin's rule in Xinjiang. But even so, Yang Zeng's new troops are not many, only less than 20,000 people, and these troops still have to defend the huge Xinjiang region, and the troops that can be drawn for field battles are really limited. And there is another point, Yang Zengxin's political tendency is not clear, the Northeast has sent a delegation to lobby him, Yang Zengxin's attitude is very ambiguous, and there is never a clear attitude. Although the northeast occupies the Ganning region and cuts off Xinjiang's connection with the central government, Yang Zengxin's government and army do not rely on the Beiyang government for survival, so the threat to him from the northeast is limited. And since the outbreak of the civil war, Yang Zengxin's attitude has become more ambiguous. Feng Yong also understood Yang Zengxin's thoughts, although the Northeast was powerful, it was not a central government, but a local armed force. Moreover, the strength of Beiyang is not weak now, if the Northeast and Beiyang are dead, it is not yet known who will lose and who will win, and Xinjiang, as a border land, can not participate in the melee in the Central Plains or not. Yang Zengxin saw this very clearly.

Yang Zengxin looks at this issue as a politician. Especially when he heard that Beiyang and Northeast China were facing each other on the Chahar front, he thought that Northeast China could not threaten Xinjiang for the time being. The attitude is even more ambiguous. The reason why Yang Zengxin did not clearly oppose the conditions of the Northeast was not that he Yang Zengxin could not give up the family business in his hands. On the contrary, there is nothing he can't give up with his current life. Even if he has absolute rights in Xinjiang, Yang Zengxin is not blinded by rights, on the contrary, Yang Zengxin is extremely visionary and capable. Otherwise, he would not have ruled the troubled Xinjiang for 17 years.

After Yang Zengxin ruled Xinjiang, he already had the idea of cutting the army, but when the northeast conquered the Ganning region, Yang Zengxin keenly stopped disarmament, and even expanded the army from 18,000 to 20,000. In Yang Zengxin's eyes, this kind of invasion in the Northeast belongs to the riot army. After all, without the authorization of the government of the Republic of China, it would be a mistake to use a large army to fight privately. At that time, Yang Zengxin was also ready to send troops to support Ganning Ma Jiajun at the request of the Republic of China government. However, things never turned out what he expected. Who would have thought that the Beiyang government, which has always been strong, would compromise with the Northeast. It also handed over the ruling power of the Ganning region to the hands of the northeast. According to the later changes in the form of the Republic of China, Yang Zengxin judged that the Beiyang government was exchanging the military and political power in the Ganning region for the northeast's support for the Beiyang government's declaration of war on Germany.

Such a result made Yang Zengxin a little difficult to accept. But it also recognized the strength of the Northeast. In the Beiyang government, both Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang are extremely arrogant people, if it weren't for the strong strength of the Northeast, how could they compromise with the Northeast. This gave Yang Zengxin, who had originally fully supported the Beiyang central government, a new idea.

After all, although Xinjiang has a vast territory, it has a sparse population, and in addition, there are many ethnic groups, ethnic contradictions are acute, and local law and order are extremely unstable. The soldiers of the army are also of many nationalities, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the army in the Central Plains. Moreover, the performance of the Northeast Security Army in the Ganning area also gave Yang Zengxin a glimpse of the strength of the Northeast Army. Therefore, when the situation was uncertain, Yang Zengxin chose to wait and see. After all, such conditions in Xinjiang are suitable for him to wait and see. For the old man who has been in the political game for many years, Yang Zengxin also understands the consequences of standing on the wrong team.

However, Yang Zengxin did not expect Feng Yong to have such ambition and courage, and when the northeast was facing the pressure of the Beiyang army, he did not let the army in the Ganning region advance eastward, but marched westward and entered Xinjiang.

Yang Zengxin panicked at this moment. The Northeast Army marched one hundred and fifty miles in one day. The county towns that dared to resist along the way were slaughtered, and this time the Northeast reversed its former mild-mannered state and became murderous. It's as if they don't treat the people of Xinjiang as human beings at all. Telegrams for help from counties along the way in Xinjiang were delivered to Yili like snowflakes. Look at the three slaughtered counties with conclusive evidence. Yang Zengxin's hair turned gray most of the time overnight.

"O iniquity! This is iniquity! Batuu! Now you immediately go to the Northeast envoy and ask the Northeast Army to stop its march immediately, and everything is negotiable. Yang Zengxin shouted angrily.

He didn't expect the Northeast to suddenly launch an attack on Xinjiang, and he was so desperate, although the Northeast did not have a good reputation in Guannai because of the land policy. However, high-level officials like Yang Zengxin are still aware of the actual situation of the Northeast Security Army. Through his understanding, the Northeast Security Army has rules than any other army in the country, and this kind of massacre has never happened at all. Of course, killing prisoners on the battlefield is nothing. After all, there are really no forces that shout out preferential treatment of prisoners now, and the fate of prisoners of war depends on the mood of the victorious side. And preferential treatment of captives also requires strength.

Although Yang Zengxin did not agree to the conditions of the Northeast to change banners, he did not drive out the envoys of the Northeast, and now the envoys of the Northeast are being served by him with delicious food and drink. Yang Zengxin still has the tactfulness of the old bureaucracy, and he rarely does things absolutely.

"See the Overseers, I wonder why the Overseers have summoned us urgently?" Liu Huachun, head of the Northeast delegation, asked. Although Yang Zengxin entertained them with delicious food and drink, he did not let them contact the Northeast Headquarters. Although it is not considered a house arrest, I am afraid that they are also worried about revealing the truth of Xinjiang. So now, Liu Huachun didn't know that the security army had entered Xinjiang.

"Commander Liu, the old man invited you to come this time, hoping that you could call Young Marshal Feng to stop the march and stop slaughtering the city!"

"March, slaughter the city? Overseer, what does that mean? Liu Huachun paused for a moment, but then a flash of joy flashed in his eyes. I didn't expect such a big thing to happen during the time I was trapped in Yili.

"Commander Liu, the Ming people don't say secret words, your army of tens of thousands of troops invaded Xinjiang yesterday. Several county towns have been broken in a row, and three county towns have been slaughtered. I don't know where Xinjiang offended Major Marshal Feng, but I hope that Regiment Commander Liu can stop the massacre from happening, after all, this is a matter between high-level people, and the people of Xinjiang are innocent. Yang Zengxin's face was very bad.

Liu Huachun shook his head without hesitation and said: "It's not that I don't help the overseers, no one in the northeast can question the young marshal's orders, since the army has been dispatched, if the overseers don't come up with an answer that satisfies the young marshal, the army will not stop for a day." Therefore, whether the people of Xinjiang will suffer from the war or not, the decision is not in our hands, but in the hands of the overseers! Liu Huachun said solemnly.

"This?" Yang Zengxin fell silent.

"Overseer, I'd like you to borrow your radio, we're at war right now, but it's unclear what happened. However, I would like to advise the Overseers that the will of the young marshal should not be violated. ”

The expression on Yang Zengxin's face became even more bitter. This time, he did not prevent Liu Huachun from contacting the Northeast, after all, he also wanted to know if Feng Yong's conditions in Xinjiang had changed now.

(To be continued)