The failure of the Shandong issue at the Paris Peace Conference wiped out all the achievements of Beiyang Political Axe in sending troops to Russia and recovering Mongolia, and then Beiyang's prestige fell to the bottom.

Here's your chance!

For Wang Hengyue, who is the political axe of the Southern People, the opportunity he has been waiting for has arrived: the Northern Expedition!

Militarily, the southern political axe has completed preparations, and economically, the southern political axe has also completed preparations, and now, Wang Hengyue is only waiting for a political opportunity, or more precisely, an excuse!

And Beiyang finally sent this excuse to Wang Hengyue!

Northern expedition!

At the beginning of the Paris Peace Conference, Wang Hengyue had already issued the "April 12 Statement" in Guangzhou. In the statement, Wang Hengyue strongly condemned the failure of Beiyang at the Paris Peace Conference, and solemnly affirmed that due to a series of clumsy performances in political negotiations, Beiyang's political axe can no longer represent the current China at all!

And this "4.12 statement" was extremely harshly worded, and it did not leave any face for the Beiyang political axe. And in this statement, everyone also seems to have a vague sense of something.

After the "April 12 Statement" was issued, Jiang Baili, the chief of the National Axe Army, suddenly ordered that the National Revolutionary Army be divided into several large corps:

Wumu Regiment, Commander-in-Chief Wang Mingzhang, Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi; Hussar Corps, Commander-in-Chief Yang Sen, Chief of Staff Yang Jie; Sun Wu Corps, Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhaocheng, Chief of Staff Li Zongren!

This is exactly the same as the three-way troop dispatch plan that was previously formulated.

Among the six commanders of the Three Route Corps, the oldest was Yang Sen, who was Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of thirty-five; The youngest were Wang Mingzhang and Bai Chongxi, both of whom were only twenty-six years old at the time.

Liu Zhaocheng: 27 years old; Li Zongren: 28 years old; Yang Jie: Thirty years old.

Such a young combination is surprising and worried. Although Liu Zhaocheng, Yang Sen, and Wang Mingzhang had excellent records before, everyone had no idea whether Reading Li could command a legion equally well.

The Beiyang side also quickly felt the breath of the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, and urgently dispatched troops to cope with the situation.

It's just that the Beiyang side couldn't imagine that Wang Hengyue would either not fight, or if he wanted to fight, he would send troops at the same time in three ways, and conquer the world in one fell swoop!

May 3, 1919, Guangzhou.

All the citizens gathered on the streets of Guangzhou on this day, and the loudspeaker was quiet, but everyone's eyes fell on the loudspeaker.

Soon, an important announcement will be broadcast!

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the voice of Wang Hengyue, president of the Southern Nationalist Axe, finally sounded in the loudspeaker:

"The failure of the Paris Peace Conference is not only the failure of the Beiyang political axe, but also the defeat of China, which makes China, which is suffering, even more miserable, poor and backward!

Today, the hardships of the Chinese people have reached an extreme. The peasants worked hard for a year, sweated hard, provided for the plundering of the soldiers and bandits, paid taxes and miscellaneous taxes, were overwhelmed, worked hard for a year, could not have a full meal, sold their fields and cattle, barely survived, and survived. As for the peasants in Zhilu, Henan, Jingzhao and other provinces and regions, the soldiers and bandits passed, the villages were in ruins, the old and weak died in the ravines, and many of them were captured in the prime of life, the men were cattle and horses, and the women were wiped out of silver

In ordinary times, it is said that there is a worry of losing work, and when the disaster comes, it will inevitably become a list of hooligans to speak of businessmen, and they will be oppressed by foreign merchants selling foreign goods and trafficking in local goods, and they will be exploited by warlords and bandits, heavy taxes, and robberies and hidden extortions inside, and they will rarely get tithes. Scholars are cut off from their funds because of the plague of bandits, and they are unable to advance their studies

Warlords everywhere do not use the Yasukuni disaster to save the people, but instead use it to slaughter the people and fight for fame and wealth for the warlords because they are being raised by the warlords. As for the industrial entrepreneurs, who used to be the wealthy in society, but now they say that they do not sell well, have no profits, their factories are closed, their costs are sluggish, that is, they are reluctant to start business, and they are trapped in extortion of taxes and cannot support them, that is, they do not surrender to the warlords, that is, they beg for foreign businessmen, and not only do they no longer own their business, but they also lose most of their capital.

All in all, in today's China, except for a small number of warlords, bureaucrats, compradors, and chaebols, the people of the whole country have the worries of being old and weak to be fed, and when they leave, they have no place to start a business and earn a living. Imperialist economic aggression and exploitation have been enormous for decades.

Up to now, the blood of the Chinese people has been exhausted, and only skin and bones remain, he is the creditor, and I am the debtor; He sat down without work, and I ended up being a cow and a horse; He is the master of the economy, and he has full authority to command and command; I am a slave to the economy, and I am driven to the position of it. Imperialism exploited China's shortcomings economically, and even more politically, it took advantage of the evil of selling [***] valves, resulting in crimes that are difficult to describe in writing.

The imperialists enable both the warlords to steal power and the warlords to sell the country; Even if the warlords forever staged the battle over the wall, causing our people to suffer from the sword, they also made the warlords oppress the revolutionary movement and wanted our people to never have self-determination. Even if there are bandits in warlord-style politics, bandits will become warlords, and the warlords will continue to live and the people will suffer endlessly. It is no wonder that the Chinese peasants cannot be satisfied with the villages, the workers cannot be satisfied with the city, the merchants cannot be satisfied with the travel, and the intellectuals cannot be satisfied with the school buildings.

As the degree of imperialist aggression deepens and the tyranny of the warlords intensifies, the hardships of the Chinese people throughout the country will naturally increase.

After years of warlord warfare in the north, the political axe of Yanjing existed in name only, and in the past, it was not difficult to turn thousands of miles of land into ruins, and tens of thousands of people turned into worms and sand, which was just a political and economic slave.

At this juncture, the Chinese National Socialist Party is well aware of the causes and consequences, and is well aware of the root causes of the hardships of the Chinese people. We are well aware that the only need for China at present is to build a unified political axe. The establishment of a unified political axe will be enough to resist the intimidation and oppression of imperialism externally, and it will be sufficient to put an end to the scourge of warlords and the country and the people!

If the political axe of reunification is not established, external disasters will become more and more serious, internal strife will be worse, and the hardships of the Chinese people will be as deep as water, like fire and heat, and the Chinese people will have nothing to worry about

If the forces of the imperialists and the sellers are not overthrown, not only will there be no hope for the construction of a unified political axe, but the revolutionary base area, to which the Republic of China is the only hope, will be attacked by the imperialists and the sellers. In order to realize the only needs of the Chinese people, unify the building of the political axe, and consolidate the base areas of the national revolution, our party cannot go out of its division to eliminate the forces that sell the [***] valve. This party asks for the people's life, destroys the country, succeeds or fails, and does not hesitate to make any sacrifices. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Hengyue's tone in the loudspeaker was slightly aggravated:

"On the occasion of the life and death of the country, President Wang Hengyue and all the officers and men of the National Revolutionary Army are determined to go on the Northern Expedition, unify the whole country, build a republic, restore the people's livelihood, strengthen the country, and strengthen the nation. If the Northern Expedition fails, the troops will not be withdrawn!

May the people of the whole country sympathize with the Party's doctrine and political program, and change their sympathy, and then sympathize with the Party's teachers, sponsor the Party's teachers, and participate in the Party's battles; The overthrow of the warlord forces will be more and more rapid, the construction of a unified political axe will be more secure, and the success of the national revolution will be more and more imminent.

Long live the construction of a unified political axe! Long live the success of the National Revolution! Long live the freedom and liberation of the Chinese nation! Long live the National Revolutionary Army! ”

"Hooray! Banzai!! Banzai!!!! ”

When Wang Hengyue's last word settled, Guangzhou suddenly erupted into a tidal wave!

Northern Expedition, Northern Expedition!

The sound of this majestic mountain and river finally resounded throughout the country on this day!

Northern Expedition, Northern Expedition!

Guangdong, May 3, 1919, Hussar Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army.

Yang Sen slowly pulled out the command knife:

"The president swears to the Northern Expedition, the unification of the armed forces, the hussar corps, the upper and lower are concentric, the revolution is not successful, the troops are not withdrawn, the Northern Expedition!"

"Hooray! Banzai!! Banzai!!! ”

Sichuan, May 3, 1919, Wumu Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army.

Wang Mingzhang's loud voice sounded in the ears of every soldier:

"Unification by force, swear to the Northern Expedition! Wang Mingzhang, commander-in-chief of the Wumu Legion of the Northern Expedition, hereby swears that the Northern Expedition will not succeed and bury his bones elsewhere; If the Northern Expedition fails, you won't return to your hometown! All the soldiers of the army, one heart and one mind! Wumu Legion, Northern Expedition! ”

Guangxi, May 3, 1919, Sun Wu Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army.

Liu Zhaocheng looked at the time, and then put away his pocket watch.

The soldiers had already gathered, all waiting for the commander-in-chief's command.

This road is the real key to the Northern Expedition, and it will also be the place where there are the most vicious and bloody battles, and this road will be a major challenge for the young commanders Liu Zhaocheng and Li Zongren.

What they are facing will be the most elite troops in Beiyang, and the most capable commander in Beiyang!

The Hunan battlefield will be the center of gravity of the entire Northern Expedition!

Liu Zhaocheng, this genius military strategist, this young officer, is very calm and calm at this moment:

"Remember today, today, will be the beginning of a new era. The president swore to the Northern Expedition, and all of us have been waiting for this day for a long time, and now this day has finally come. I declare—"

Little by little, he slowly drew his command knife, and then the blade turned north, word by word; "North-Raid!"

On May 3, 1919, the National Revolutionary Army launched the Northern Expedition on three routes!

On May 3, 1919, Wang Hengyue officially took the step of unifying the whole country by force!

On May 3, 1919, this day shocked the whole of China!

Northern Expedition, Northern Expedition!

(To be continued)