readx; Since Xinhai, Hunan has been extremely low-key, that is, the assassination of Jiao Dafeng caused a stir in the first few days of the Xinhai Revolution, and since then Hunan has not appeared in the national situation, so that the world has almost forgotten the province of Hunan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, this is not that Hunan wants to be low-key, but it is really not high-profile, during the Xinhai Revolution, after the Hunan uprising, Jiao Dafeng overshadowed many powerful factions for a while, and within a few days tens of thousands of rioters and quickly sent reinforcements to the Hubei army and the Jiangxi army, such a violent speed and high-profile posture made other warlords in the country unreachable. However, within a few days, the high-profile Jiao Dafeng was killed by his rebels, and then the constitutionalist Tan Yanmin became the governor of Hunan and controlled the military and political power in Hunan. However, although Jiao Dafeng died, the power of the revolutionaries did not dissipate, but continued to fight with the gentry and merchant class such as the constitutionalists.

The most obvious example is that after Jiao Dafeng's death, Hunan's military power fell and was controlled by several major army leaders, and then Tan Yanmin also tried to reorganize the provincial army and train four divisions of the Hunan Provincial Army. However, although these four divisions were formed, they were still controlled by the former army generals, and Tan Yanmin did not have any direct army strength at all, so he could only use political means to balance and ensure his position as the governor of Hunan.

But not everyone has a means like Yuan Shikai to be able to play a balance and play to the obedience of his generals, Tan Yanmin obviously does not have such means and courage, so two years have passed, Hunan is still in a similar state as when the Xinhai Uprising was made, although Tan Yanmin is the governor of Hunan, but in fact he has not been able to control the entire situation in Hunan, although the generals below ostensibly obey Tan Yanmin's orders, but more to protect themselves in the gap between the Gui army, the revolutionaries, and the Dian army.

After all, Tan Yanmin's slogan of Hunan people governing Hunan is beneficial to the overall interests of Hunan, none of them want Hunan to fall into the control of other military forces, especially the Gui army has always been eyeing Hunan, if it were not for the limited strength of the Gui army, and it has always needed to maintain the main force defense in Guangdong and the border between Yunnan and Guangxi, and could not deploy more troops to attack Hunan, I am afraid that Lu Rongting would have sent troops to Hunan a long time ago.

You must know that although Lu Rongting wants to annex the whole of Guangdong, he also wants Hunan. However, the Nationalist Army has always maintained tens of thousands of troops in Guangdong, and the Third Division has never left after capturing Guangzhou, even when the Nationalist Army was in danger during the war in southern Jiangsu last year, Chen Jingyun did not transfer the Third Division to the north, and even the Tenth Division was not transferred at that time, that is, to prevent the landing of Rongting.

And if Lu Rongting wants to draw troops to march into Hunan under the attack of the Yunnan army and the national army, then there is almost no need to think about it, Tang Jiyao and Chen Jingyun will definitely join forces in Guangxi. If the Gui army has the intention of occupying Hunan to further expand and thus control Guangxi, Hunan, and western Guangdong, the Gui army, which has greatly increased its strength, will be a big problem for the Yunnan army and the national army, and whether it is Chen Jingyun or Tang Jiyao, it will be unbearable.

Expansion of any of the three southern warlords would cause resentment among the other two. In addition to the strong power of the Nationalist Army, Chen Jingyun's continuous expansion was also because the expansion direction of the Nationalist Army did not involve the southwest defense line, and Zhejiang and Southern Jiangsu, which were occupied in the early stage, had no direct contact with Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting, and when the Nationalist Army occupied Jiangxi and southern Anhui, the Nationalist Army was already powerful and comparable to the Beiyang Army, and it was useless for Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting to oppose it.

The expansion direction of the Dian army is placed in Sichuan, if Sichuan can be taken, the Dian army will also increase in strength, but Sichuan is now a quagmire, the Dian army stepped into not only did not take it, but has been supported there, and several Sichuan warlords supported by Yuan Shikai united to fight against the Dian army, so that the Dian army invested all its strength to take Sichuan, nor did it retreat.

However, if the Gui army wants to expand, it has already been tried in Guangdong, and caused a conflict with the Nationalist Army, although it has calmed down now, but the contradiction between the two families exists, if Lu Rongting at that time marched into Hunan, not to mention the resistance of Hunan itself, the possible reaction of the Dian Army and the Nationalist Army alone is not something that Lu Rongting can bear.

The Gui army did not dare to go north to Hunan easily, which is the biggest reason why Hunan, the weakest of the several warlords in the south, has survived to this day.

However, Hunan, which has been calm, has now undergone a change, the pressure of the Gui Army in the south and the Nationalist Army in the east made Tan Yanmin almost out of breath, and Yuan Shikai in the north also bribed those generals in Hunan, three of the four division commanders have thrown themselves into Yuan Shikai, and there were many revolutionaries in these armies, after Chen Jingyun took the initiative to send troops to Jiangxi, he was regarded as a revolutionary traitor by many revolutionaries, and many revolutionaries simply threw themselves to Yuan Shikai in order to resist Chen Jingyun.

To a certain extent, the Nationalist Army's march into Jiangxi can also be an important reason why many generals in Hunan completely fell to Yuan Shikai. In addition, Yuan Shikai was willing to spend money, and in order to buy the Hunan army, he directly set a clear price, how many division commanders, how many brigade commanders, and how many regiment commanders. It was also promised that a Central Army division would be organized and trained in Hunan, and that the soldiers and officers would be drawn from the four divisions of the Hunan Army, and that all treatment would be emulated from other Central Army divisions, and that the central government would directly provide logistical supplies. That is to say, after joining it, it is equivalent to entering the Beiyang Central Army system, which is a temptation that many Hunan generals cannot refuse.

Sometimes, the name of the central is really tempting.

So after this co-optation, Yuan Shikai successfully co-opted three of the four division commanders, and many other middle and senior officers were also co-opted, and a few who opposed it were either killed or expelled, for example, Lin Lin, one of the four division commanders, was directly killed by his subordinates, and then his officers supported a brigade commander as the division commander and declared their allegiance to the central government.

The vast majority of the troops in Hunan Province fell to Yuan Shikai, and Tan Yanmin, who was the head of Hunan, also knew that he had no choice but to continue to sway, maybe he would have to hide in the concession as a public servant like everyone else, so after talking to the envoy sent by Yuan Shikai, a relevant agreement was reached, and it was naturally impossible for the Hunan Provincial Protector and Governor to be the governor anymore, but Yuan Shikai promised to leave him a position as the governor of Hunan. Tan Yanmin didn't lose much when he thought about it, although he concurrently served as the Hunan Protector Envoy before, his troops didn't listen to him, and he was no different from the current governor. Now he is a veritable governor.

After the two hooked up, Tan Yanmin suddenly issued a telegram from Shimono and resigned from the position of Hunan military envoy and governor, but Yuan Shikai announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Yang Shande, commander of the Fourth Division, as the Hunan Provincial Military Envoy, and retained Tan Yanhong as the governor of Hunan Province. As soon as the appointment was issued, Yang Shande took the Fourth Division of the Central Army from Wuhan, and then stationed in Hunan to prepare merchants, which had already taken over the command of the four divisions in Hunan, and then directly ordered the four divisions of the Hunan Provincial Army to carry out relevant parts and prepare for the attack of the Gui Army and the Nationalist Army.

Hunan's move to Beiyang surprised many people, at least Chen Jingyun didn't expect this to happen!

"It seems that I despise Tan Yanmin!" Chen Jingyun, like everyone else, did not feel too much threat to Hunan, which had always kept a low profile, and thought in his heart that Tan Yanmin, a politician, would always be a turtle with a shrunken head, waiting for the domestic situation to be clear, but he did not expect that before the war between the National Army and the Beiyang Army broke out, Hunan had already fallen to the Beiyang Army, which caused some trouble to the overall strategy of the National Army.

"When we sent someone over before, he kept promising that if there was a big war, he would declare neutrality and would never join any side!" Jiang Fangzhen, who was in charge of contacting Tan Yanmin, was also angry, thinking that Jiang Fangzhen had a few good classmates and friends in the Hunan army, and was ready to win over Tan Yanmin through them, but Tan Yanmin was indifferent in the face of the national army's wooing, and said that he would be neutral and would not join any party, and he was even more stubborn than Lu Rongting. Although Lu Rongting has not yet agreed to join the national army, he just wants benefits and waits and sees, and he does not dare to say that there is no way to retreat if he is dead, and he always responds vaguely to the pull of the national army. However, Tan Yanmin directly and explicitly rejected Chen Jingyun's wooing, and promised to be neutral.

"Commander, do you want to let Jiangxi and northern Guangdong move, this Hunan is neutral, but now it is thrown to Beiyang, and when Yang Shande's Fourth Division is together, then the hinterland of Jiangxi and Guangdong will be greatly threatened, maybe Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao will also fall to Beiyang at that time!" Jiang Fangzhen is far less powerful than a few of his classmates and friends in the national army system, he has always served as the director of the education department, he controls the national army military academy education, and then the army training system and other systems, doing more civilian work, unlike Chen Yi who has now served as the director of the Operations Department, and even Wen Jizhong, who he recommended, has become the brigade commander of the first mixed brigade and leads the army outside. He was also listening to most of the important operational meetings in peacetime, and rarely put forward any actual operational plans or ideas.

And I want to take the initiative to put forward ideas to Chen Jingyun like this today, this is the first time!

People are self-motivated, the national army has now become a scale, and Jiang Fangzhen, as one of them, can also feel the potential of the national army, and knows that the national army has the ability to compete with Beiyang for the world. However, Jiang Fangzhen was extremely dissatisfied with the promotion of the Kuomintang in the army, and until now he has not joined the Kuomintang Socialist Party, and has repeatedly told Chen Jingyun that the army should be the army of the state, not the army of a certain party, let alone a private army, and demanded that the party be eliminated in the national army and the state army should be implemented. But Chen Jingyun just listened to these suggestions, just kidding, he also counted on the National Socialist Party to provide the combat effectiveness of the national army, and even more counted on using the National Socialist Party to control the army as a sharp weapon, nationalize the army, and wait until he died.

Jiang Fangzhen disliked the National Socialist Party, but he had nothing to do in the face of the strength of the National Socialist Party, but he did not resign without saying a word, he still sat firmly in the position of director of the Department of Education, and tried to use his own way to slowly influence the army of the National Army from military academy education and other means.

After a long time, Jiang Fangzhen deeply felt that his influence was too small, and he was also the director of various departments under the General Staff, and the directors of the Operations Department and the Strategy Department were much more effective than him, especially the directors of the Operations Department, most of whom had become important people in the National Army. If Jiang Fangzhen wants to influence the Nationalist Army with his ideas, then he needs to have enough influence to do so, and it is obvious that the position of the director of the Department of Education cannot accomplish such a move. Slowly, Jiang Fangzhen also had a mind, showing his military talent in front of Chen Jingyun, trying to ascend to a higher position and work hard for the nationalization of the army in his heart.

Jiang Fangzhen's mind changes Chen Jingyun naturally didn't know, he was not a roundworm in Jiang Fangzhen's stomach, he knew everything Jiang Fangzhen wanted. But judging from Jiang Fangzhen's recent performance, Chen Jingyun still roughly guessed some of Jiang Fangzhen's ideas, and he didn't say anything, after all, Jiang Fangzhen's military talent is there, and now the national army is huge, and it is when there is an extreme shortage of qualified senior generals, if Jiang Fangzhen is willing to lead troops in the army, Chen Jingyun is still willing to give him a chance.