The conquest of Huizhou caused a sensation in Guangzhou, and colorful flags fluttered throughout Guangzhou, and the staff, students, workers, and citizens of various organs and schools spontaneously took to the streets to wave flags and parade in celebration, and the pickets of striking workers in Guangdong and Hong Kong even organized a number of cars to carry a large number of firecrackers to tour the city's highways and set off firecrackers along the way.

The newly established Nationalist Axe was even more excited, and Wang Jingwei even sent a telegram to commend Chiang Kai-shek, saying that he was ordered to go eastward, supervise the soldiers, and break through the fortified city. Chiang Kai-shek's prestige rose further.

"Since this road is not working, then there is only change." In a private room on the second floor of the Yunwuju Teahouse, Wu Chaoshu looked at the cheerful procession on the road downstairs, lowered the curtains and turned around and said to Wu Tiecheng with a smile. Wu Chaoshu once left Guangzhou to live in Hong Kong after the Liao case, and later saw that the rumors passed, Wang Jingwei also sent someone to invite him back, and he returned to Guangzhou, but this time he came back and found that things were wrong, the original Sun Ke and Hu Hanmin had already left Guangzhou, and the rest were some small characters who were far away from the center, and they were all desperate for the current situation in Guangzhou, and some had planned to leave Guangzhou to go to Shanghai, but Wu Chaoshu thought that things were still in place, and they had not reached the most desperate moment.

"Well," Wu Tiecheng didn't ask how to change, he was a member of Sun Ke's faction, after Sun Ke left, there was more and more discussion about him in the party, especially after the Liao case, the arrest of the murderer was not effective, most of the suspected murderers were at large, and he was blamed a lot, and he felt that he might not stay in the position of public security chief for a long time. Today, Wu Chaoshu suddenly invited him to tea, but when he came, he found that in addition to Wu Chaoshu, there were Lu Shanming, the editor of the former Republic of China Daily, Ji Yuan, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Guangzhou Group Daily, and a middle-aged man he didn't know.

"It seems that Yun Lao has made up his mind in his heart, why don't you say it and let me wait for peace of mind." Lu Shanming said slowly that he had resigned as the editor of the Republic of China Newspaper and was about to go to Shanghai to take up a post in the Republic of China Newspaper.

"Song Hao, you shouldn't go, what are you going to do, leave Guangzhou to them?" Ji Yuan said.

"What else can you stay? It's better to go north to join Mr. Zou and them and create another situation. Lu Shanming asked rhetorically. Ji Yuan was speechless for a while, turned his head and asked Wu Chaoshu for help:

"Yun Gong, what do you say we will do in the future?"

"Yun Gong, I advise you to go too, let's go, we don't want this place, let them go." Lu Shanming said angrily.

"Let's go? Where to go? Wu Chaoshu said with a smile: "Defeat Chen Jiongming, eliminate Deng Benyin, Guangdong is becoming more and more prosperous, I am reluctant to go." ”

"It's still Yungong who is powerful, Guangdong is thriving, it is the moment for us to show our ambitions, how can we leave lightly." The middle-aged man took the cigar from his mouth and sighed softly.

After instigating Liu Yang's rebellion, Li Yanguo wanted to come to Guangzhou to have a look, but he didn't expect Liu Yang to completely fail in just a few days, although he also judged that Liu Yang would be defeated, but he still didn't expect the defeat to be so fast and so thorough. Frustrated, he went back to Shanghai, he watched in Shanghai for a period of time, and felt that Duan Qirui regained this time, and there was no longer the heroic style of the boss of the Anhui system, and the internal contradictions of the Feng department were numerous, and the anti-Feng voice in Jiangnan was gradually rising, and the inaction of the Beiyang political axe in the May Incident compared with the time of the national political axe, so that he concluded that the future world was in the south, so he deliberately befriended the Kuomintang in Shanghai, and after being introduced by Ye Chuling to join the Kuomintang, he went to Guangdong to find Wu Chaoshu. Wu Chaoshu talked with him several times and thought that he was a talent, so he recommended him to the Central Party Department for propaganda work. Today is also the first time he has met Wu Tiecheng.

"With each victory, the influence of Soviet Russia increases by one point, and I don't know whether to celebrate or be discouraged." Wu Tiecheng said with a wry smile that he knew the details of these people, so he did not deliberately hide his claims.

"Meet, I should be congratulated, I firmly support the defeat of Chen Jiongming." Wu Chaoshu hurriedly swallowed the tea in his mouth, and then said with a smile.

"It's good to eliminate Chen Jiongming, but this front door rejects the tiger and the back door enters the wolf, alas..." Although Jiyuan refused to leave Guangzhou, he didn't know what to do.

"Brother Jiyuan is too pessimistic, he forgot a word, and if a strong enemy goes, he will be suspicious." Li Yanguo said leisurely.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Lu Shanming is a little energetic now. Wu Tiecheng looked at him puzzled, Wu Chaoshu nodded: "If a strong enemy goes, he will be a suspect, Yan Guo said it well, and he is worthy of being a talented student of this Imperial University." ”

"Where, where, in fact, Yun Gong has already made up his mind in his heart, and I will still listen to Yun Gong's dispatch." Li Yanguo's face was humble, but his tone was a little proud.

Wu Chaoshu glanced at him lightly, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Yan Guo is very smart, why use me to make plans, but after all, you have only been in Guangzhou for a short time, and your understanding of the situation in Guangzhou is still not as good as mine." ”

"Yun Gong is very right, and I ask Yun Gong for advice." Li Yanguo knew that Wu Chaoshu had seen through his pride, and was reminding himself that if he wanted to do great things, he must be humble.

Wu Chaoshu no longer sold Guanzi, and said in a whole spirit: "After the Liao case, the momentum of our comrades and others has declined, and the momentum of Soviet Russia and the Communist Party has flourished. Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei were, after all, comrades of our party, and they were deceived by the Communist Party for a while; After the elimination of Chen Jiongming, the Communist Party will inevitably be unscrupulous and undermine our party's programmaticism, and at that time, more and more comrades in the party will wake up, and Comrade Wang Jianger will also wake up. Therefore, what we need to do now is to continue to expose the Communist Party and preserve a trace of vitality for our Party in the future. ”

"So how?" Lu Shanming, after all, was a literati and was slow to respond to such political tactics.

"When you get to Shanghai, tell Haibin (i.e. Zou Lu) and Zhesheng (i.e. Sun Ke) that they are in charge of the activities outside, and we are looking for opportunities inside. Don't look at Chiang Kai-shek's strong and resolute appearance in front of him, he is stubborn and suspicious inside, and we can make a fuss about this. At this moment, Wu Chaoshu had no smile on his face, and his eyes revealed a cunning and ferocity.

Despite the constant telegrams, the casualties of the besieging forces also made Chiang Kai-shek's heart ache, especially when it was clearly avoidable, which made Chiang Kai-shek especially difficult to let go, and he felt a trace of resentment towards Roga Juefu, and the seeds of doubt were planted in his heart.

The next day, Chiang Kai-shek led the headquarters into Huizhou to do the first thing was to mourn the fallen soldiers, and Director Zhou, director of the Political Department of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, read out the memorial speech, and then Chiang Kai-shek delivered a speech, although he hated Luo Jia Juefu in his heart, but Chiang Kai-shek still highly praised Soviet Russia, called on the Chinese revolution to learn from Soviet Russia, take the road of Soviet Russian revolution, and still shouted "Long live the Soviet Russian revolution", "Long live the three major policies", and "fight imperialism" at the end of the speech.

The General Headquarters then issued two proclamations: First, it was forbidden to collect relics. After Yang Kunru's troops were defeated and retreated, a large number of guns and ammunition were left in Huizhou City, and all those who found them must be handed over to the Eastern Expeditionary Army within two days. Second, the demolition of the city wall of Huizhou, the strategic location of Huizhou is very important, but the geographical environment is very dangerous, no matter who occupies it, the east can threaten Chaomei, and the west can be the base for attacking Guangzhou, so it must be placed under the control of the national political axe, and the demolition of the city wall will eliminate any possibility of threatening Guangzhou with Huizhou.

But at the military conference in the evening, Chiang Kai-shek insisted that the original battle plan be revised. According to the original plan, after conquering Huizhou, Cheng Qian will lead the left army to attack Heyuan through Shigongshen, Li Jishen will lead the right army to attack Hailufeng, and the middle route army will respond to the left and right roads, and attack Sanduozhu from Pingshan Ruins. Now Chiang Kai-shek wants to make revisions, he transferred the right route army Li Jishen to the north, the middle route army to the south, and the left army Cheng Qian's division to go to the middle, but in order to make up for the lack of troops in Cheng Qian's department, he also transferred the headquarters of the guard army Ouyang Ju (that is, Wu Tiecheng's department, Wu Tiecheng was also the director of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau, did not participate in the Eastern Expedition, and was led by the deputy division commander Ouyang Ju) to Cheng Qian's command.

More importantly, after the adjustment, the attack route of the Right Route Army was changed, and it was changed to take Heyuan-Longchuan-Wuhua and Xingning to go straight to Chaoshan, so as to realize the detour of the left flank. The Middle Route Army went out of Zijin, attacked Wuhua with the Left Route Army, and then made a detour to the south together.

On the one hand, he thought that the defeat of the Huizhou Eastern Expedition would be more than half of the victory, and the remaining enemies had lost their courage and did not dare to confront each other head-on; On the other hand, he also felt that Chiang Kai-shek had opinions about him in the Battle of Huizhou, and he had to give Chiang Kai-shek face this time.

However, Li Jishen objected, according to this plan, Li Jishen's department should be transferred from the right wing to the left wing, and he had to take a detour to Wuhua Xingning, which is the lair of Lin Hu, and although the fortifications are not as strong as Huizhou, they are not much weaker.

"Such a large-scale movement in front of the enemy is likely to cause confusion in the troops, and it will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of. After Chiang Kai-shek introduced the new plan, Li Jishen had already made up his mind in his heart.

"It doesn't matter, Huizhou will go down in two days, the enemy is frightened, and when they react, our deployment has been decided." He Chengjun, the commander of the army, retorted. He Chengjun was a talent that Chiang Kai-shek had recently poached from Shanghai, and he was originally a figure of Sun Ke's prince's faction, and after Sun Yat-sen reorganized the Kuomintang, he returned to Shanghai.

"Brother Xuezhu, it's too risky." Li Ji looked at He Chengjun coldly, he was very disgusted that He Chengjun had stammered Chiang Kai-shek so quickly, so his tone was a little unpolite.

Hearing that Li Jishen was not polite in his tone, He Chengjun glared at him with a pair of small eyes and said unceremoniously: "Adventure? Hmph, fighting a war is an adventure, I don't want to take risks, go home and pick up the child, it's so safe. ”

He Chengjun joined the League in 1904, and his qualifications were much stronger than Li Jishen, but he had always served as a staff member, and he had never commanded the army alone, and he had good friendships with Tan Yankai, Zhu Peide, and Sun Ke, so he was not afraid of Li Jishen at all.

"You!" Li Jishen was furious, pointed at He Chengjun and scolded: "What are you to dare to talk to me like this." ”

He Chengjun didn't show weakness and stood up, and at this time, Director Zhou saw that something was wrong, and immediately stood up to play a round: "Commander Li, Senator He, let's discuss the next battle plan, there is no need to be so tense, and it will not have a good impact if it is passed out." ”

Chiang Kai-shek was very unhappy in his heart, but he had to open his mouth in this case: "Brother Xuezhu, Brother Ren Chao, sit down, what kind of system is this, you are all senior generals, you want to fight, what should the division commanders and brigade commanders below do?" ”

Li Jishen snorted coldly and sat down, since Chiang Kai-shek had spoken, he had to give face, and of course He Chengjun sat down faster.

"Jingzhi, what do you think of this battle plan?" Chiang Kai-shek asked He Yingqin, who was silent.

"The Headmaster's goal is to annihilate the enemy completely, and I think it's a beautiful plan." He Yingqin was telling the truth, but his identity was Chiang Kai-shek's subordinate, so his persuasiveness was not so strong.

"Brother Songyun, what is your opinion?" Chiang Kai-shek asked Cheng Qian again.

"I'll just mention one thing, isn't the roundabout distance too far." Cheng Qian thought about it seriously and asked, he really didn't have any opinion on this plan, compared with the original plan, there was one more division of troops under his command, and his interests were not lost, so he considered the problem purely from a military point of view.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded and asked Chen Zhuo to explain.

Chen Zhuo stood up, picked up the baton, pointed to the map and said: "After the battle of Huizhou, the enemy forces concentrated near Huizhou will inevitably retreat, and they believe that the operational direction of our army in the next stage will inevitably be like the one in the Eastern Crusade, along the southern line through Hailufeng, to attack Chaoshan, and they think that the main force of our army is the First Army, that is, the student army they say, that is to say, they think that the First Army will inevitably take this road. As he spoke, he used his baton to draw a line on the map from Coastal Lufeng to Chaoshan.

"The enemy will inevitably gather the main force on this line or attack our army from the flank and rear as in the Battle of Mianhu, and we will plan accordingly, using the first army as a bait to attract the enemy, and the fourth army as the main force to detour to Xingning Wuhua, and the troops led by Cheng Commander will go out of Zijin and attack Wuhua together, and then go south in two ways, the fourth army will go to Wuhua Jieyang, and Cheng will command to go to Meixian to take Chaozhou. Two detours, completely annihilating Chen Junyu against the Chaoshan area. ”

(To be continued)