readx; Shanxi's course in recent years is generally the same as other provinces controlled by warlords, heroes from all sides rose in the great wave of the Xinhai Revolution, from the Wuchang Uprising to today, in fact, it only adds up to three or four years, but it is such a short period of time that many romantic characters continue to appear, and then they are quickly piled up on the beach by latecomers, the most obvious example of which is nothing more than the dispute between the National Army and the Beiyang Army in recent years, Yuan Shikai and Chen Jingyun in order to fight for central control and a series of civil wars. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Among the many warlords that emerged in the Xinhai year, there are no more left after the big waves, the biggest warlord of the year, Yuan Shikai, has died of illness, and the Beiyang Army, which was already facing collapse after his death, was completely divided, some military and political dignitaries followed Duan Qirui and threw themselves into the system of the National Army, and a small number of them continued to the west, for example, Lu Jianzhang now ran to Shaanxi and pulled out a force of nearly 10,000 people, and some remnants followed Duan Zhigui into Sichuan, However, most of the Beiyang generals had to flee to Lend-Lease because of the defeat, and some of them were captured, and in general, Beiyang as a military bloc system has been declared extinct, and even Duan Zhigui of Sichuan does not dare to play the slogan of Beiyang now.

After the death of the Beiyang Army, Zhang Zuolin and Wu Junsheng, the small warlords who seized the northeast, also had to succumb to the huge military strength of the National Army, a stubborn Feng Delin who resisted to the end had been defeated and died, Zhang Zuolin and others surrendered, and the department was reorganized into the National Army. It was one of the main new armies of China at that time. After Xinhai, Jiang Gui led the left army of the Wuwei Army to support Yuan Shikai, so he reciprocated the favor, Yuan Shikai appointed Jiang Gui as the commander of Rehe, and concurrently served as the commander of the Yi Army, and the Yi Army also determined the formal establishment of 26 battalions, three battalions of the horse team, one outpost, and two battalions of the artillery team, known as 100,000 people, but this is just a title, and the real fight is completely incomparable with the Beiyang Army and the National Army, which costs a lot of elite troops. When the Nationalist Army surrounded Yanjing, Jiang Guidi of Rehe also sent nearly 10,000 troops under his command to reinforce Yanjing, but before he reached Yanjing, he was blocked head-on by a regiment under the Ninth Division of the Nationalist Army at that time.

At that time, the 93rd Regiment of the Ninth Division of the National Army was only supported by the mountain artillery battalion, and at that time, there were nearly 10,000 Yi troops who came to reinforce Yanjing, and more than 30 old and new artillery, both in terms of strength and the number of artillery, which was far superior to the 93rd Regiment that was fighting at that time, and the only advantage of the 93rd Regiment was machine gun and mortar fire. Originally, the task of the 93rd Regiment was only to block the reinforcements of the Yi Army, but the combat effectiveness of the Yi Army sent by the 93rd Regiment to attack was too poor, so it took the initiative to attack, and as a result, it drove nearly 10,000 Yi troops north for dozens of miles like driving sheep, and the Yi Army lost all its heavy weapons when it fled. Although there were no casualties on both sides in this battle, the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides was already visible.

When Yuan Shikai died, Duan Qirui decided to negotiate peace, and Jiang Guidi did not resist to the end, but also surrendered when the Ninth Division was approaching Rehe.

Originally, according to the old calendar of the Nationalist Army's handling of the Beiyang Surrender Army, whether they were captured or surrendered on their own initiative, the soldiers of the Beiyang Army were all persuaded to join the Nationalist Army as much as possible, and the middle and low-ranking officers were generally directly transferred to other units to serve, while the middle and senior officers were taken prisoner, and those who did not cooperate were directly sent to Nanjing under house arrest. However, a small number of exceptions, such as Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng, allowed them to continue to hold senior positions according to the terms negotiated in advance. Although Jiang Guidi surrendered, he obviously did not belong to the same kind of people as Xu Shuzheng, so after handing over military power, he rejected Chen Jingyun's suggestion to invite him to Nanjing to serve as a senior military adviser to the General Staff, but patted his ass and went to the Tianjin Concession to enjoy life.

After Jiang Guidi handed over military power, the Nationalist Army completely controlled the surrounding areas of Zhili, and the northeast has been largely pacified, so among the northern provinces, there is only one place left in Shanxi, which is free from the control of the central political axe in Nanjing, as for Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang Provinces and other areas, the Nationalist Army's troops have not yet arrived, and for a time it is only superficial surrender and cannot be actually controlled.

The course of Shanxi in recent years is similar to that of other provinces, first the revolution broke out, and then a few people who held military power controlled the real power, although Yan Xishan in Shanxi was defeated and retreated by the Beiyang Army in the early stage, and even Taiyuan was lost, but later the north-south peace talks saved him, after the north-south peace talks, Yan Xishan kept the position of the governor of Shanxi, and also began to throw himself to Yuan Shikai's side in order to protect himself, and also according to Yuan Shikai's rectification of the provincial army, the Jin Sui army under his command was reorganized into the Shanxi Provincial Army, with two divisions and two brigades. After Beiyang was defeated by the Nationalist Army, Yan Xishan chose to surrender to the Nationalist Army, and Chen Jingyun awarded him the rank of Army General and gave the Tenth Army and the 24th and 25th Divisions the numbers. So the Jin Suijun changed the number, that is, it became the Tenth Army of the Central Army.

Looking at the strength of the 10th Army in Shanxi, it can be found that Yan Xishan's 10th Army is based on the 24th Division and the 25th Division as the main force, and the predecessors of these two divisions are the first division and two brigades that Yan Xishan reorganized when he started. Therefore, when Yuan Shikai ordered the provinces to reorganize the army, Yan Xishan also took advantage of the situation to revoke those messy numbers, or the previous one division and two brigades as the core and reorganized into two divisions, and then Yan Xishan accepted Chen Jingyun's Tenth Army number, these two divisions were also converted into the 24th Division and the 25th Division, plus the Shanxi First Mixed Brigade and the Shanxi Second Mixed Brigade under Yan Xishan, which constituted the Jin Sui Army, that is, the main field strength of the Tenth Army, and the actual strength was about 40,000 people

Although he had tens of thousands of troops in his hands, Yan Xishan had always been insecure, and he was afraid that Chen Jingyun, the senior of the fifth phase of Lu Shi, would send an army into Shanxi every day. In addition to strengthening his own strength, Yan Xishan also sent his cronies to Yunnan, Guangxi and even Sichuan to find Duan Zhigui, Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao respectively, what he did was nothing more than to obtain a promise to advance and retreat together.

In the secret telegram sent by Yan Xishan to Tang Jiyao, the word "cold lips and cold teeth" was mentioned more than once.

However, although everyone understands this word, but it takes great courage to really do it, to let these four warlords who have no small contradictions in themselves form an alliance of advancing and retreating together, the difficulty is not ordinarily small, and the mutual trust between warlords is extremely limited, so the main reason why the three major warlords in the south, including Chen Jingyun, formed a temporary alliance is that in addition to the common enemy of the Beiyang Army, the most important thing is that the Dian Army and the National Army were thousands of miles away from each other in the southwest and the southeast coast. Therefore, the alliance of the two parties has a geographical basis, and after the Dian Army and the Nationalist Army united, Lu Rongting also had to join this alliance, otherwise the Nationalist Army and the Dian Army would join forces to destroy Lu Rongting before the Northern Expedition and the march into Sichuan.

And today, there are still three major warlords in the southwest, needless to say, the contradiction between the Dian army and the Gui army has not stopped since the Xinhai year, and what is more serious is that the Yunnan army is still fighting with Duan Zhigui's Sichuan army in Sichuan, if you want Tang Jiyao to agree to the alliance, it is very simple Duan Zhigui either let Yucheng out, or let Chengdu out, as long as Duan Zhigui is willing to give up one, then Tang Jiyao does not mind stopping the war in Sichuan, if not, then he decided to occupy Sichuan before the national army defeated the Gui army.

The capture of Sichuan is something that the Yunnan army has been working hard from the Xinhai year to the present, and the secret agreement between Tang Jiyao and Chen Jingyun was also the capture of Sichuan by the Yunnan army. When the Nationalist Army was in the Northern Expedition, the Dian Army had been working hard to conquer Sichuan, but unfortunately it backfired, the Dian Army had invested as many as 100,000 troops for Sichuan, and spent countless military expenditures, but unfortunately it had not been able to take it, and after Duan Zhigui led his more than 20,000 Beiyang elite soldiers into Sichuan, the Dian Army was even more depressed.

As for the life and death of Yan Xishan in Shanxi, although Tang Jiyao knew the truth of cold lips and teeth, it was impossible for him to unconditionally agree to advance and retreat with Yan Xishan. Of course, if the Nationalist Army puts on a posture to sweep away all the warlords by force, he Tang Jiyao will have to temporarily put aside the Sichuan dispute, and then fight against the Nationalist Army with Lu Rongting and Duan Zhigui.

But now, it's not like there hasn't been a fight yet! Could it be that when the fight has not started, Tang Jiyao will be allowed to start a war against the central government, Tang Jiyao does not have the courage for the time being.

While the four major warlords in the country were exchanging various interests for the sake of unity, the Nationalist Army had quietly completed the transfer of troops, and a large number of main forces were transferred from the coastal provinces to Zhili, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong on the Jinghan Line, and it took the Nationalist Army more than a month to complete this strategic movement, which continued from Zhili to Guangdong, forming a front that stretched for thousands of miles with more than 300,000 troops.

However, according to the operational plan initially drawn up by the General Staff, in the southwest direction, the main attack was to be slow, and no effort was made to attack quickly, but for Shanxi, it was required to take it in the shortest possible time, and then the main force of the army would move south to completely solve the three warlords in the southwest. For this reason, the Nationalist Army has deployed more than 60,000 troops along Shanxi, and the so-called goal is to concentrate the greatest strength and firepower superiority in a short period of time and quickly conquer Shanxi.

After the completion of military preparations, political matters also surfaced, and the major newspapers under the control of the National Socialist Party began to report on the problem of warlord secession, saying that now that China wants to be reunified, then the problem of warlord secession has to be solved, otherwise each province has its own army, and even the treasury will not be handed over to the central government.

In the past few years, there has been a Cai Yi, and whether it is Tang Jiyao or Lu Rongting or Yan Xishan or Duan Zhigui, they are not Cai Yi, otherwise they would not be able to go today, so they are naturally indifferent in the face of the large-scale public opinion offensive of the National Socialist Party, but in order to compete for the hearts of the people, Tang Jiyao still has some thoughts, and he issued a telegram declaring: Resolutely support the political axe of the Nanjing Central Committee and resolutely support the leadership of President Chen!

It is the same as who opposes Chen Jingyun and wants his life, but there is no actual action except for these scenes, on the contrary, it may be a tacit understanding, Duan Zhigui and Tang Jiyao have stopped the war without any peace agreement, and the troops that the two sides have fought for around Chengdu have rushed to the eastern Sichuan region one after another, and the Sixth Army led by Tang Jiyao himself has deployed more than three divisions of troops in Hunan, and troops have been deployed in areas close to Hubei.

On October 6, Chen Jingyun issued an order to Yan Xishan's 10th Army on the grounds that the rebellion in Outer Mongolia was strong and the local troops were insufficient, asking them to immediately go to the Outer Mongolia region to suppress the rebellion in Outer Mongolia! And when these reasons are clear, he will find an excuse to start a war, even if he is stupid, he can see that if he leaves Shanxi with his troops and goes to the bird place in Outer Mongolia, it will be completely finished, so he contacted the three major warlords in the southwest while preparing for war, Tang Jiyao, Lu Rongting and Duan Zhigui.

On October 8, Chen Jingyun dismissed Yan Xishan from the post of commander of the 10th Army on the grounds of disobeying military orders, and also appointed Kong Geng, commander of the 24th Division, as the new commander of the 10th Army! And Kong Geng, the commander of the 24th Division, has always been Yan Xishan's main competitor in Shanxi, and Chen Jingyun's trick is to sow discord. However, Kong Geng Xing may not be as bold as Chen Jingyun imagined, and even sent a telegram saying that he was useless and refused the post of commander of the Tenth Army, which made Chen Jingyun a little disappointed, he obviously heard from the people at the Military Intelligence Department that Kong Geng, who has become more powerful in the past year or so, has had many contradictions with Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan has repeatedly wanted to transfer from the post of commander of Kong Geng's 24th Division in order to suppress this person who has a major threat to his powerful position, but the Jin Suijun is also the same as other warlord troops, and the soldiers are generals. Yan Xishan can say that the Jin Sui Army is his, but Kong Geng can also say that the 24th Division is his, and Shanxi has always been facing huge pressure from the Beiyang Army or the National Army, so Yan Xishan did not have the courage to do the thing of destroying the Great Wall and forcibly evacuating Kong Geng. But the contradiction between these two people is becoming more and more obvious, Chen Jingyun originally wanted to provoke Yan Xishan to chaos before fighting, and he didn't know what method Yan Xishan used or what kind of ideas Kong Geng had, but it didn't work.

However, regardless of whether Kong Geng accepts the post of commander of the Tenth Army or not, in fact, it doesn't matter anymore, if he accepts it, there will be a split of senior generals in the Jin Sui Army, and if he doesn't accept it, it won't be a big problem, anyway, the National Army has officially marched to Shanxi.

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