Chapter 313: Unlucky Chen Jiongming

Feng Guozhang has just occupied Nanjing, and he is ready to make a big effort to reproduce the glory of Beiyang. After all, the original Beiyang government was Duan Qirui in charge, and although he Feng Guozhang was the nominal president, he was just a puppet. The current Nanjing government is Feng Guozhang, who has the final say, not to mention that he is assisted by Wang Shizhen, the head of the three heroes of Beiyang. Moreover, Jiangsu, where Nanjing is located, is his foundation. Feng Guozhang is now more confident than ever.

"Reporting to the president, Premier Duan of Shandong's history issued a clear order, asking Li Chunbu of Jiangsu and Zhang Xun of Anhui to lead troops north to resist the attack of the Northeast Army." Feng Guozhang's intelligence ministry official said. Feng Guozhang left Beijing and brought out many direct officials. Therefore, he was able to set up a government frame in a very short time.

"Shandong? It seems that Brother Qirui is going to have a good fight in Shandong and Northeast China! Passing on my order, in the name of the presidential palace, I sent a telegram asking Li Chun and Zhang Xun to obey the orders of General Duan and go north to Shandong to resist the Northeast Army. At the same time, he ordered the Henan overseer Zhao Kui to lead the main force of the Henan army north to Hebei to assist Wu Peifu in resisting the attack in the northeast. Although he escaped from Beijing City ahead of schedule, and even fled far away to Nanjing, this does not mean that he does not approve of Duan Qirui's defense policy. Regarding the attack of the Northeast Army, Feng Guozhang knew very well that if the Beiyang Army could not suppress the Northeast within the two provinces of Hebei and Shandong, I was afraid that the whole situation would be unfavorable to Beiyang. After all, without the barrier of Shandong and Hebei, there are not many remaining provinces in the entire Beiyang. Although they are all provinces in the hinterland of the Central Plains, their internal relations are also complicated.

In response to Feng Guozhang's order, Li Chun chose to support it and led the main force of the Soviet army to set off north to Shandong. Now that the Northeast Army has penetrated into the hinterland of Shandong, if the Beiyang Army is unable to stop the Northeast Army, then Henan and Anhui will be the first to bear the brunt and become the focus of the Northeast Army's attack. When the battlefield burns to Jiangsu, he Li Chun may not be able to please him. After all, Sun Jun, who has been repeatedly injured, is also overstretched.

Zhang Xun received telegrams from Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui. For a while, I was in a dilemma. He had the heart to lead his army into Nanjing, which was extremely empty, and control the military and political power of the Beiyang government. But he was worried that he would anger the Beiyang bigwigs by doing so. After all, most of Beiyang's forces are still under the control of Chief Duan, and President Feng Guozhang is only superficial. After an ideological struggle, Zhang Xun also saw the situation clearly, issued a seconding statement, and led his Wuwei army north to Shandong to join the battle sequence of Duan Qirui's Northern Resistance Army.

After the two sides issued a statement on sending troops, the Nanjing Presidential Office then issued a national telegram, announcing that the capital of the Beiyang government would be moved from Beijing to Nanjing. And Wang Shizhen, the head of the three heroes of Beiyang, formally formed a cabinet under the order of President Feng Guozhang and served as the interim prime minister. Duan Qirui, the former premier of the Beijing government, was reinstated as the chief of the army, commanding the armed forces of the whole country.

Feng Guozhang's winning the title of Duan Qirui's cabinet premier at this time was also deliberate. After all, if Duan Qirui is also the prime minister of the cabinet, the work of the entire government cannot be carried out. Now let him continue to be the chief of the army, responsible for commanding the army of the whole country, so that his rights are no different from before. I believe that with Duan Qirui's heart, even if he is unwilling in his heart, he can only admit it now. After all, it is he Feng Guozhang who has the final say in the new government of Nanjing.

Just when the new government of Beiyang in Nanjing was full of ambition and wanted to do a big job, news came from Fujian that Chen Jiongming, the general of the original Guangdong army, launched the Zhangzhou Incident, led the army to break through the city of Zhangzhou, and announced the establishment of the Guangdong army in Zhangzhou!

If this news happened before, it might have been a small matter, after all, Beiyang was a behemoth at that time, Fujian was only a small border province, and Chen Jiongming's establishment of the Guangdong Army obviously meant to fight against the two Guangxi and Guizhou factions. But now that the new Beiyang government has just been announced in Nanjing, Beiyang's territory has shrunk a lot, so that any of the remaining provinces will be of great help to Beiyang's recovery of strength, so the degree of attention is naturally completely different. When something like this happens, it's just a slap in the face, ** naked ignoring the new government of Beiyang, ignoring him Feng Guozhang.

"Send a telegram to Li Cunhou. Confronting him what's going on? He is a dignified superintendent of the army in Fujian, and he holds the military and political power of a province, how can he let a person who has lost his foundation capture an important town in southern Fujian. I gave him ten days to break this rebellion anyway. Capture the thief Chen Jiongming. "As the so-called new officials take office, the establishment of the new government must also have a new atmosphere. And Chen Jiongming's action this time unfortunately hit the muzzle of the gun.

According to Chen Jiongming's original idea, he established the Guangdong Army against Liangguang, and he would definitely be appreciated by Beiyang, although it is unlikely that he will get such a high position as the Fujian Overseer, after all, Li Cunhou, the Fujian Overseer, is also a cadre of Beiyang. The roots in Fujian are also relatively deep, if it were not for the fact that Beiyang experienced a major war and transferred too many soldiers from Fujian, Chiang Kai-shek would have been able to sneak attack such an important town as Zhangzhou with 3,000 recruits would only be a joke.

Fujian, Fuzhou.

"Damn Chen Jiongming, where did he get the army to take Zhangzhou City in such a period of time. He is not in Shanghai to be his apartment at ease, what are you doing at this time! Isn't that adding to the chaos! Fujian overseer Li Cunhou was also stunned for a long time after seeing Chen Jiongming's power, and at first he was still admiring Chen Jiongming's methods. After all, Chen Jiongming is very likely to get the support of the Beiyang government and use him to deal with Liangguang. But when he received the news from the Beiyang government in Nanjing, Li Cunhou knew that Chen Jiongming might have slapped the horse's leg this time.

Zhangzhou County.

Chen Jiongming was dumbfounded. He looked at the two telegrams in his hands and felt cold sweat all over his body.

"Damn, Beiyang is spilling the anger received from the Northeast on Lao Tzu's head." Chen Jiongming said depressedly.

"General, what should we do? Beiyang and Liangguang issued a statement at the same time to punish us, and Beiyang's army has already set off in Fuzhou City! We don't have the strength to resist the enemy now! Although Chen Jiongming issued a conscription order in Zhangzhou, it has only been a few days, and the number of strong men caught is really limited, and the weapons are only a few dozen old rifles. It is still a backward thing that Chiang Kai-shek's party army looks down on, otherwise, under Chiang Kai-shek's vacancy policy, the whole of Zhangzhou may not even have a single hair left.

"What is the reaction of the two Guangzhous?" Chen Jiongming's establishment of the Guangdong Army in Fujian was aimed directly at the two Guangzhous, and of course the two Guangzhous would not be without reaction.

"I heard that the young marshal of the Gui department has made a high-profile statement, and that he himself has set off for the junction of Guangdong and Fujian. He claimed that if we did not disband the unworthy Cantonese army, Lu Yuguang would use us as a provocative enemy to carry out an armed attack. ”

"Lu Yuguang!" Chen Jiongming gritted his teeth and said. When he and Lu Rongting were competing for Guangdong, Lu Yuguang was still a hairy child who didn't have any hair, and now he is famous, and he doesn't even put a famous general like him in his eyes.

"Contact the Kuomintang Party Army!" Chen Jiongming said with some embarrassment.

"Report to the general that Chiang Kai-shek's party army has implemented radio silence. We can't get in touch with them. The intelligence officer said with a frightened face.

"I see. Contact Dr. Sun Yat-sen today. What does it mean to ask the Kuomintang? Do you want to cross the river and tear down the bridge? Chen Jiongming said cheekily.

Chen Jiongming sent four telegrams in a row, one softer than the other. Unfortunately, the Kuomintang did not react at all, as if it had not received the news. But Chen Jiongming knew that the KMT's top brass must still be on the ship now, and it was even possible that he had already set foot on the soil of Fujian.

Li Cunhou, the overseer of Fujian, moved quickly, and the Fujian army concentrated 3,000 troops in almost a few hours and set off south. The target went straight to Zhangzhou. And there are troops in the rear as support. Beiyang was furious, and Li Cunhou didn't dare to preserve his strength in the slightest.

"General, Beiyang is really moving! What shall we do? Chen Jiongming's adjutant said in horror.

"Panic what! How's our army doing? ”

"Five hundred people have been gathered in these days. But these people were untrained peasants, and there was a severe shortage of weapons and ammunition. It's not usable at all! The adjutant said embarrassedly.

Now there are less than five days before they enter Zhangzhou, and it would be good to be able to recruit about 500 strong men.

"Five hundred? Ay! If you give me some time, I can train a real army! Damn Chiang Kai-shek, he actually took away all the young men in the captured security regiment! Otherwise, General Ben would not be so passive! Chen Jiongming said depressedly.

"General, you don't want to fight the enemy, do you! We only have 500 people, and now we can't even call the soldiers, but the enemy is a regular army of 3,000 in Beiyang, and the Gui family in the south is also eyeing it. In this case, there is only a dead end to resist, I hope the general will think twice! The adjutant said with a horrified face.

"Got it! Now go and disband the party! Gather our henchmen and get out of here! Chen Jiongming said depressedly. I thought that I could use the opportunity created by the Kuomintang to win the favor of Beiyang, and then use the power of Beiyang to regain power, but unfortunately. At this time, Beiyang was beaten like a dog by the Northeast, and it was not suitable at all when he did it himself. Therefore, this is also destined for him to end bleakly this time!

"General, shall we go back to Shanghai?" The adjutant asked with a sigh of relief.

"Nope! Let's go to Hong Kong! Get out of the limelight! "Although Shanghai is good, but after all, it is still Beiyang's territory, and now his actions hit Beiyang in the face, Chen Jiongming is also afraid that the high-level of Beiyang wants to feel him, after all, in this troubled era, it is too easy for those in power to kill such an outdated warlord as themselves. Even if you hide in the concession yourself.

(To be continued)