And when Gu Weijun was negotiating with the Russian envoy Utkin on the issue of the Outer Northeast and Outer Northwest Territories, the war of Zhang Zuolin's Northwest Army's annexation of Shanxi, which lasted for two months in the northwest border region, also ended as a matter of course. The seemingly powerful Northwest Army of Zhang Zuolin was defeated, and the tenacious Jin Army counterattacked at the last moment and won, completely driving the Northwest Army out of Shanxi Province.

The attack of the powerful Northwest Army at the beginning of the battle left the Jin army at a loss, and they lost all the territory of southern Jin in three days. Later, under the organization of Yan Xishan, the overseer of Shanxi, the Jin army took advantage of the mountainous characteristics of Shanxi to harass the rear of the Northwest Army, making the Northwest Army weak. Among them, Wu Junsheng almost died because he led the cavalry to ambush him. Let everyone have a new understanding of this old Shanxi overseer, the Jin army is good at fighting defensive battles.

After a long period of unsuccessful attack, after learning that Yan Xishan had expressed his hope to receive the reorganization of the National Defense Army, in order to prevent the Jin Army from joining the National Defense Army, Zhang Zuolin broke his wrist and led the Northwest Army to withdraw to Shaanxi.

Although the battle between the Northwest Army and the Jin Army ended in the victory of the Jin Army, the war fought in Shanxi made the rich Shanxi miserable, after nearly half of the territory of Shanxi was occupied by the Northwest Army, the poor soldiers and officers of the Northwest Army almost robbed all the money and food in Jinnan and Jinzhong, except for Zhang Zuolin's order not to kill the people and rape women, leaving only a month's rations and lonely houses for the people. Two million people in central and southern Shanxi were snatched by the Northwest Army as soon as they harvested their crops, and in addition to this year's severe drought, they could not eat grass roots for a few days, and the grain was eaten. And what about next year's planting? More than two million people had to become displaced people and flock to the mountainous areas of northern and eastern Jin, or flee to Guanwai. Or run to Mongolia.

A large number of refugees went north, making Shanxi overseer Yan Xishan anxious, he desperately wanted Shanxi to be strong, his own rule was strong, Yan Xishan was not a selfish person, although the warlord wanted power and status women, etc., but the warlord was also a human being, and he also thought about the people in his hometown. Yan Xishan was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of displaced people who broke into Taiyuan City. Kneeling at the city gate and weeping bitterly, saying that it was all his own victims, and then ordered the soldiers to release the people and flee outside the northwest pass, and the rich Shanxi produced a million refugees, and it has to be said that the warlord melee brought the displacement of the people to the severe. For the first time, an officer in the Jin army proposed that the Jin army accept the reorganization of the Wehrmacht, but Yan Xishan immediately opposed it. Yan Xishan has the idea of the emperor of the soil, and he is on three acres of land in Shanxi. He didn't want a second person older than him yet. However, in the following days, under the persuasion of his staff, he offered to accept the reorganization, which really made his officers not understand. It turned out that Yan Xishan and his staff proposed the reorganization in order to disrupt Wang Maoru's plan for the reorganization of the National Defense Force, and to transfer the pressure to the central authorities by rectifying the problem of the victims. However, if the officers under Yan Xishan proposed reorganization, the nature would be different, indicating that some people had hidden dissenting intentions. Subsequently, Yan Xishan transferred those officers who supported the reorganization plan to those who were relegated, demoted those who were demoted, and promoted officers who were loyal to him.

The war between the two sides lasted for two months and was known as the Battle of Jin and Shaanxi, but the scale and intensity of the battle were far inferior to the battle in which the Wehrmacht expelled the immediate troops. But the impact of this war was very far-reaching. Zhang Zuolin underestimated the strength of the Jin army, and the Jin army was also attacked by the Northwest Army. And the Jin army also lost its elite in this battle, and the Wehrmacht was cheapened in vain. In particular, the loss of Yan Xishan's image in the hearts of the people of Shanxi is irreparable, everyone treats the leader, and only emphasizes this person's ability to deal with things, under the natural disaster, Yan Xishan did not say anything except crying, and the people resented it. In addition, the agents of the Central Intelligence Department of the National Defense Forces lit fires everywhere in Shanxi, and the commanders of the large and small guerrillas in Shanxi also began to feel that Yan Xishan was not a good master. The people complained about it, and immediately shifted all the blame to Yan Xishan, and the Shanxi Provincial Assembly began to impeach Yan Xishan one after another.

After Wu Peifu and Cao Kun returned to Wuhan, they immediately declared the independence of Hunan and Hubei from the central government, and the news of the independence of the two lakes also shocked China, and everyone looked to the Beiyang government in Beijing. At the beginning, President Yuan Shikai was most afraid of the independence of his subordinates, as long as there was a threat to independence below, Yuan Shikai had to send troops or appease, in short, let his subordinates not be independent.

President Xu Shichang was afraid that the independence of the provinces would not guarantee his presidential position, so he urgently summoned Jin Yunpeng and said what should be done at this time, Jin Yunpeng said: "Cao Er's stupidity is nothing more than holding the central government hostage, and the solution of this matter is not in you and me, but in the ......" He pointed to the north, Xu Shichang smiled bitterly, as a president who does not control the military power, Xu Shichang is really helpless.

Wang Maoru also got the news of Wu Peifu's declaration of independence in Changchun for the first time, but he laughed and said to Jiang Fangzhen that Wu Yu's independence is good, and independence is good, and he instructed Li Wenbin, director of the translation and telegraphing department, to issue a telegram, announcing the independence of Cao Kun and Wu Peifu's department, which is equivalent to treason, and announcing the establishment of the Republic of China National Court to try Wu Peifu for treason, and the chief judge is Yuan Keding, the chief judge. This trick tried Wu Peifu remotely, but Wu Peifu was not lightly beaten, and Yuan Keding did not expect that he would become a trial traitor

The top official of the national crime, reporters from all over the country went to Qiqihar to interview Yuan Keding. Yuan Keding choked his voice in the face of the swarming reporters, and said: "Independence, independence, what you say about independence, in fact, is treason!" According to the Constitution of the Republic of China, a Chinese person shall not be independent of the state. Wu Peifu, as a Chinese **, actually declared independence, didn't he want to split the country? For the crime of treason against the country, how can the soldiers and the people under his command support it? What is the national righteousness? Where is Chinese orthodoxy? ”

Wu Peifu didn't expect Wang Maoru to give him such a hand, instructed the central government to interrogate him remotely, and said that he had committed treason through the mouth of a ** official.

At this time, people were concerned about fame, especially when central orthodoxy was recognized by various countries. When the central government is weak, once the local government declares independence, the central government will continue to give power to the local government in order to maintain national unity, so that the local power will become stronger and stronger. But no one will directly announce that the other party has committed treason like Wang Maoru, this trick is a big thing to insult people's reputation, modern people only pay attention to the chastity of the name, thinking that the black cat and the white cat can catch the consumption of a good cat, but people in this era of the Republic of China pay attention to this. Wu Peifu was so accused by the central government, and sent ** officials to conduct remote trials, so he was naturally so angry that he even fell ill.

Wu Peifu ignored it, but unexpectedly, two days later, Yuan Keding, the ** official, was instructed by Wang Maoru to directly declare Wu Peifu a traitor, guilty of treason, and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Suddenly, Wu Peifu and Wu Dashuai became wanted criminals.

Wu Peifu immediately ordered his henchmen to be recruited, but he found that he only had three divisions and six mixed brigades, less than 60,000 horses, and was unable to go on a northern expedition, so he had to give up. Even though the stubborn Wu Peifu was unwilling to show his submission, there was nothing he could do in the face of the stalemate for a while, and with the propaganda of the National Defense Force's propaganda department throughout the country, the morale of the direct army was in turmoil, and every day the leaflets dropped by the plane would tell the soldiers of the direct army that the people you are loyal to are the enemies of the country and the traitors of the country.

On August 17, the ninth year of the Republic of China, Premier Jin Yunpeng of the State Council, acting President Xu Shichang, announced the dismissal of Wu Peifu as the patrol envoy of the two lakes, and together with his status as the Third Division of the Army. Under deep pressure, Wu Peifu had to declare his resignation, express his surrender and cancel independence, and after Lianghu expressed his intention to negotiate, Premier Jin Yunpeng also temporarily withdrew the wanted warrant for Wu Peifu.

President Xu Shichang didn't even dare to show up in the face of this matter, but after Wu Peifu announced his resignation, Xu Shichang took a long breath and said to his left and right henchmen: "Wang Maoru, Wang Maoru, is really a poisonous warrior and hero, and it only took one trick to make Wu Yu surrender and eliminate the conflict in the battle of Zhiwan." We're old, old. Then a tired mentality arose, as if he, the president, was the most useless. In the past, when Li Yuanhong was president, there was a dispute between the government and the court, but when he Xu Juren (Xu Shichang Zi Juren) became the president, there was no dispute between the government and the court, and even the presidential palace and the State Council together had to listen to Wang Maoru alone.

After discussing with the staff officers and staff members of the Wehrmacht, Wang Maoru of Changchun believed that at first, the strategic objectives of the Wehrmacht were set too small, and the central authorities were much weaker than expected, especially the direct army, which was called the strongest army in China, but in fact it was too far behind the European army. The Wehrmacht can rely on its advanced combat readiness and the spirit of being invincible to the enemy and invincible to the third-rate armies of Europe, and it has never been defeated in a frontal war against the army directly under the town. Therefore, the pace of the Wehrmacht is too cautious to be bold.

Yang Dujin said: "In this situation, it is better to fight in the Central Plains at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if you lose a good opportunity, how can the Qing Dynasty win the world." The banner people have ruled us for 260 years with foreign races, and as Han Chinese, we will definitely get the hearts of the people of the world when we enter the Central Plains. The other aides all agreed and supported Wang Maoru's army sweeping south, but Wang Maoru was still worried about Japan and Russia and did not respond immediately. Wang Maoru told the officers and men that it is impossible to sweep the world in one fell swoop, and all countries will never allow China to be reunified, and only by maintaining the confrontation between the governments of the north and the south can the foreign ** team not intervene in China. But the officers did not support this, and Wang Maoru got the suspicions of the officers, and there was some pressure in his heart. Even if they didn't say it, Wang Maoru understood that the belligerence in the army was prevalent, that the Wehrmacht was already interested in taking the road of militarism, and that the officers were more anxious for the reunification of the country than for any other profession.

Soldiers want the country to be strong, to defend the country by force, and to unify the country, and the soldiers are all belligerent, and the methods are simple and direct violence, but they are not really effective. Wang Maoru appeased the army and also reflected on himself, is he a little frightened, the Japanese are too heavy, if he can really decide the world in one fell swoop...... Immediately, he quickly dispelled this thought, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, war is not a game where big fish eat small fish and small fish eat, but also slowly. The adventure will be applauded, but the failure will be nothing. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )