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On June 21, 1917, Li Yuanhong, the president of the Beijing government, issued a national telegram to persuade Beiyang to surrender. And make a promise. Of course, Feng Yong's promise of Feng Guozhang as the president of the Republic of China will certainly not be said on the surface, and these things can only be traded privately. But Li Yuanhong has already thrown an olive branch to Feng Guozhang on behalf of Feng Yong.

For a time, the whole country turned its attention to Beiyang. Now the Battle of Xu Beng is still in full swing, the advantage of the national defense force is getting bigger and bigger, and Beiyang is still unable to open up the situation despite the loss of huge troops, and the form it is facing is becoming more and more severe. The Beiyang generals are also waiting to see the decision of the Governor's Palace. Now that the form of war in the whole country has put Beiyang under devastating pressure, if Feng Guozhang really surrenders to the Beijing government, although they may not be able to be reused, at least they don't have to pin their heads to their belts. The Huaihai battlefield is too cruel. In just a few days, more than 200,000 people have been killed or injured. You know, that's 200,000 people. You don't feel like looking at the numbers, but it's incredible how many people are standing in front of you.

But to everyone's expectations, the Beiyang Governor's Office did not express any opinion on this matter, neither the Beiyang Governor Feng Guozhang nor the Beiyang Premier Wang Shizhen did not show up. Some people tried to figure out the internal decisions of Beiyang through connections, but they did not get any useful information from the beginning to the end. This time is confusing.

For two whole days, Beijing did not get any response, Feng Yong finally lost patience, and he gave the front line an order to increase the offensive, destroy Beiyang as soon as possible, and realize the unification of the whole country.

With Feng Yong's order, on the Jiangsu battlefield, Guo Shanhu's army finally moved again after revising for so long, concentrating more than 200,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on Huai'an City, where Cao Kun's main force was located, and a fierce offensive and defensive battle broke out between the two sides. After the last defeat of Cao Kun's troops, there were a lot of troop losses, and they were replenished a lot later. The number of troops swelled to 300,000. The reinforcements of the Fourth Army had already arrived, and the Wehrmacht had already gained an advantage in the ratio of strength between the two sides, all of which made Cao Kun much more cautious.

Hubei, after the capture of Wuhan, the Second Army was slightly amended, leaving troops to defend the city, and began to attack the entire Hubei Province. After the fall of the Beiyang Army in Wuhan, the entire Beiyang forces in Hubei Province were almost completely lost. But what made Zhen Zhen feel a headache was that after Feng Guozhang issued an order to independently recruit troops and resist the national defense forces in the Lianghu area, in a very short period of time, countless civilian armed forces appeared in the Lianghu area. These forces have more than a dozen people on the ground and dozens of people, and there is no threat to simply take out any of them, but the two lakes area is already a large population, and if it is not controlled, it will definitely develop into a huge hidden danger in the future. Especially in Hunan, Hunan is the nest of the Hunan army, although Zeng Guofan has been dead for many years, but Zeng Wenzhenggong's influence in Hunan Province is still extremely strong. Zeng Guofan started with regimental training, and became a famous Hunan army, turning the tide, exterminating the Beiyang Army, and continuing to write the Manchu Dynasty for decades, which made the Hunan folk full of regimental training culture, but after the fall of the Hunan army, whether it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty or Beiyang, there were restrictions on the regimental training culture, and now Feng Guozhang's order is equivalent to letting go of this restriction, and in a short period of time, there have been large and small regimental exercises among the Hunan people, who doesn't want to become a world-famous figure like Zeng Guofan.

The Second Army had more than 100,000 men fighting across the Yangtze River, but it was too small compared to the Lianghu region. All this made Zhen Zhen feel a little anxious. If we do not control this hidden danger in the two lakes area, it will become a cancer that is difficult to eradicate after a long time. ...It's good now. With Feng Yong's order to attack Beiyang in an all-out way. In the face of this situation, Zhen Zhen gave up the occupation of the Lianghu area, quickly concentrated the elite, and entered Jiangxi along the Yangtze River, and went straight to Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province.

The Beiyang Army in Jiangxi quickly concentrated and wanted to block the offensive of the Second Army. However, at this time, almost all the elites of Beiyang were concentrated north of the Yangtze River, and there were really no troops in Jiangnan that could handle it. Therefore, the Wehrmacht's attack momentum, the Beiyang Army could not resist at all.

However, Feng Guozhang gave a death order to the front-line troops, asking them to delay the advance of the Wehrmacht at all costs.

Just when Beiyang was anxious about the attack of the Second Group Army, Li Zongren of Liangguang suddenly telegraphed the whole country, and the Xingui army was officially renamed the 31st Army of the National Defense Army, and Li Zongren served as the commander of the National Defense Army, obeyed the orders of the National Defense Force Headquarters, and led 50,000 elite troops under his command to immediately set off for the Northern Expedition. On the same day, it invaded the territory of Jiangxi, and soared into more than 100 miles in a daytime, and even went down to the three county towns of Beiyang, which was fierce and powerful for a time. The Beiyang Army, faced with this form, was under unparalleled pressure. Together with Li Zongren's 50,000 men, the local defense forces in Jiangxi Province alone have invested more than 200,000 people, most of whom are elite. Under the pressure of the Wehrmacht, the Beiyang Army in Jiangxi completely collapsed, except for a small number of officers and soldiers loyal to Beiyang, everyone else surrendered to the Wehrmacht, and later, the entire Jiangxi territory did not encounter the slightest resistance. Some county towns have even heard the wind and fallen. The Wehrmacht did not entangle at all, leaving a part of the troops to guard the city and maintain local law and order, and the army still firmly advanced towards the center of Beiyang power.

With the Northern Expedition of Li Zongren in Liangguang, only one side of the military power in the whole of China has not yet made a statement, that is, the Kuomintang army entrenched in northern Guangdong.

Shaoguan, Guangdong.

It was here that the high-level meeting of the Kuomintang was held. The Kuomintang party headquarters had already moved back to Shaoguan from Hong Kong. Sun Wen, Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai, Chiang Kai-shek, the five giants of the Kuomintang gathered. At the same time, there were some veterans of the League period, but they did not have much power in the Kuomintang, and this time they only came to observe.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have seen the national form. A decision must now be made as to where our party and army will go. Sun Wen said in a deep voice. A month earlier, he had visited Li Zongren, hoping to win over this officer of the Gui Shaozhuang faction so that he could join the revolutionary wave. However, Li Zongren had already had a heart, so naturally he did not accept Sun Wen's solicitation. On the contrary, Li Zongren's last words caused Sun Wen a great crisis, and during this time, he also frequently discussed the way out of the Kuomintang with the Kuomintang bigwigs. It's just that opinions within the Kuomintang have always been unanimous. Until now, the Kuomintang has not had a unified decision.

"I don't agree to compromise with the Wehrmacht, and the current government in Beijing is a complete copy of the Beiyang government. The Beijing government seems to be democratic, but all the power is concentrated in the hands of the young marshal Feng Yong, this is the dictatorship, who can guarantee that Feng Yong is not the second Yuan Shikai. We, the Kuomintang, as a revolutionary force, must be vigilant enough against these dictators. Wang Jingwei spoke first.

Sun Wen frowned, and Hu Hanmin was silent. Liao Zhongkai opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he never opened his mouth when he looked at the solemn atmosphere.

"Kai-shek, what is your opinion?" Sun Wen said to Chiang Kai-shek, who was expressionless. On the surface, the meeting was to discuss the way out for the Kuomintang, but the main issue in the world was the handling of the party and the army. After all, it is the armed forces that really make the Beijing government jealous.

"Sir, do we have any choice now?" Chiang Kai-shek asked rhetorically. One sentence plunged everyone into a deeper silence.

"Yes! We have run out of options. At present, we have only three ways to go: First, disband the party army, temporarily transfer the Kuomintang forces abroad, observe the situation at home, and determine the next policy. The second is to surrender the party army, and we, the Kuomintang, will submit to the Beijing government. With our influence, the Beijing government will at best limit our development, and it will definitely not be wiped out anytime soon. The third is to resist to the end, and when the war in the Central Plains is over, that is, when the Wehrmacht army fights, with the party army without the slightest hope of victory, the result will definitely be the annihilation of the whole army. It is not known whether we will be able to escape from the all-pervasive spy forces of the Wehrmacht. How to choose, everyone has their opinions. Hu Hanmin said in a deep voice. Hu Hanmin has a rather dark personality and rarely speaks, but he is sensitive and analytical. …,

Sun Wen looked at Wang Jingwei, Sun Wen tended to make peace with the National Defense Force, because he had been in contact with Feng Shaoshuai and had some understanding of Feng Yong's character. To be honest, Sun Wen also admired Feng Yong's courage, and even admired his vision of looking at people. He believed that as long as the Kuomintang did not aim to overthrow Feng Yong's rule, Feng Yong should be able to tolerate the Kuomintang. It's just that the army is absolutely untouchable. Major Marshal Feng has extremely strict control over military power, and the thinking of the army is firmly grasped, and any behavior that touches on command power will be attacked by Feng Yong's thunder.

"Sir, I think we can disband the party army and transfer part of the Kuomintang forces abroad, so that if the situation changes at home, the revolutionary forces will not be completely annihilated." Wang Jingwei thought for a while and said.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was sitting on the ground, shrank his pupils, and a flash of sharpness flashed in his eyes. He is the commander of the party and the army, and when Wang Jingwei said this, it was clear that he wanted to cut off his military power.

"This ......" Sun Wen was a little moved, yes, they all understand the truth that all eggs can't be put in one basket. It is a good choice to let some of the Kuomintang elites go abroad to preserve their strength.

"Sir, I suggest that we divide into two groups and let Zhao Ming take a part of the Kuomintang elite to go overseas to observe the situation at home, and at the same time serve as a reserve force for the Kuomintang. We can stay and develop the rest. Liao Zhongkai suggested.

Sun Wen nodded, thinking that this was very good. Based on Sun Wen's understanding of Feng Yong, the only Kuomintang force that attracted the Beijing government was the Kuomintang army. Now that the party army has a stable territory, the troop has been greatly expanded. In just a few months, the number of troops quadrupled to nearly 20,000. Two divisions were formed. Of course, the divisions of the party army are all small formations, and the establishment of one division is barely equivalent to a brigade of the Wehrmacht. Although the party army has the support of the Kuomintang in the rear, although the influence of the Kuomintang is great, the financial resources are not strong, and it is already the limit to be able to arm an army of 20,000 people.

Chiang Kai-shek sat there quietly, watching several Kuomintang bigwigs enthusiastically discuss how to divide forces in order to preserve as much Kuomintang vitality as possible. Suddenly I felt that everything was so interesting.

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