After the two brothers scolded Wu Peifu bitterly, Zhang Zuoxiang immediately said: "Seventh brother, in fact, I also heard the words of Yang Yuting and Chief of Staff Yang, although it is a little ugly, but what you said is also reasonable, although we have four provinces, you are known as the king of the northwest, but the two horse armies of Qinghai and Gansu are also the people who follow the trend. Suiyuan Province is also a poor place, except for the south, the rest of the direction is controlled by the national defense forces, and you can't do anything you want. Now our money bags are empty, our guns and ammunition are almost gone, and we are blockaded by the Wehrmacht. If it weren't for the fact that the Wehrmacht didn't know our reality, I'm afraid that Wu Peifu would have called us a long time ago. ”

After the analysis of the two brothers, they are still not strong on the surface, and they can't match the Wehrmacht. Zhang Zuolin sighed and said, "Let me think about it." Zhang Zuoxiang also knew Zhang Zuolin's xingge, so he stopped being advised and went back to the house to rest. Zhang Zuolin thought about it for a night, from the day he saw Wang Maoru, he knew that this person was his rival, but he didn't expect that he was not only driven to the northwest by him, but now the northwest can't live. Taking a closer look at Wang Maoru's fortune trajectory, it is not the result of steady progress. Wang Maoru takes one step at a time, because he is young, he is only thirty-four years old this year, and he still has a lot of time to consume and wait, and he is already forty-six years old, does he have time to raise his strength and fight to the death with Wang Maoru?

The so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, look at Wu Peifu, and then look at himself, then Wu Peifu doesn't have to be where he is, doesn't he also put down his body and become the commander of the legion? The eldest husband can bend and stretch, and I, Zhang Zuolin, will never surrender to the Wehrmacht. The treatment is worse than Wu Peifu, right? Wu Peifu is the general of the defeated army, and I am the Grand Overseer of the four provinces

It was not Wang Maoru's idea to force Zhang Zuolin with heavy troops, but Wu Peifu's proposal. As a matter of fact, Wu Peifu believes that by resolving the northwest issue as soon as possible, national reunification can be achieved as soon as possible. And the troops he sent were all Jingrui cavalry on the surface, but the actual army restructuring had just begun, and most of the soldiers couldn't even recognize their commanders, so how could they form real combat effectiveness, just to scare and scare their opponents. At this moment, the Wehrmacht's combat effectiveness has declined considerably because of the reckless expansion of its forces. Except for the four main legions, the other legions have all expanded the reorganized troops. Adapt the troops regardless of the concept of fighting, jing god. In terms of armament and training, all are inferior to the old units, so the decline in combat effectiveness is also obvious. The four main forces that have not weakened their combat effectiveness are the White Tiger Legion that guards against Soviet Russia stationed in the three provinces of the Western Regions. Defend against the Russian Blue Dragon Legion stationed in Nurgan. The Vermilion Bird Legion stationed in Liaoning to guard against Ri himself, and the Qilin Legion that went south as the vanguard to defeat the direct line, as long as the four main forces are still there, it is enough to keep Wang Maoru's country stable.

The next day, Zhang Zuolin, who had white hair, asked him to give himself a bald haircut, and gathered all his subordinates and said: "I have decided to accept the reorganization of the National Defense Force and cancel the name of the Northwest Army." Many brothers hurriedly shouted. Zhang Zuolin immediately knocked on the table and shouted: "Brothers, listen to me, we can't lose our interests if we accept the reorganization." Ladies and gentlemen. Now let's discuss how to bargain with Zhang Kuian and the Wehrmacht. ”

The matter of bargaining and negotiation Zhang Zuolin was handed over to Yuan Jinkai to do, Yuan Jinkai and Zhang Kuian are the same kind of sharp-tongued staff-type characters, and the two will meet each other in chess. After Zhang Kuian learned that the Northwest Army was short of money, he was not in a hurry to negotiate and negotiate immediately, so what if he was asked to do it for three or four months? A few days later, Zhang Zuolin had no choice but to use spare military funds to give pensions to the soldiers. The negotiations continued, and Yun Lishan learned a lot from Zhang Kuian, especially the kung fu of nourishing qi. This Zhang Kuian is really good, calm down, everything will be decided later. Yun Lishan was responsible for collecting intelligence and making full use of his expertise to serve the negotiations.

However, the Northwest Army couldn't hold its breath at first, because the Northwest Army had to cut its expenses because of the lack of military funds, which directly led to the deterioration of the army's food treatment, and some soldiers became angry, which gradually led to a mutiny among the soldiers in the army. Although it was suppressed by Chief of Staff Yang Yuting and Military Police Commander Qin Hua, it also exposed the biggest problem of the Northwest Army, lack of money, lack of money.

How could what happened in the Northwest Army escape Zhang Kuian's eyes, and it was Zhang Kuian's idea who secretly contributed to the trouble in the Northwest Army. He guessed all the opinions put forward by the Northwest Army and refuted them one by one, the reorganization of the Wehrmacht was for the purpose of establishing a national army, not a private army, and everyone was under the command of the General Staff, how could the Northwest Army be an exception? However, Zhang Zuolin asked Wang Maoru to be the commander of the legion and immediately allowed it, and gave Zhang Zuolin the title of the legion, called the Phoenix Legion.

The so-called phoenix, that is, the king of birds, from another aspect, Zhang Zuolin accepted the captain of the Phoenix Legion, which also means that he was named king. When the Northwest Army was impoverished, Wang Maoru gave a heavy salute, in order to avoid falling into the dispute in the Northwest, and to settle many ethnic minorities in the Northwest while settling the Northwest Army. Wang Maoru sent 100,000 troops into the northwest, if Zhang Zuolin really wanted to be a Taliban and hide in a cave on the high slope of the loess, only one northwest would be enough to drag down Wang Maoru's national defense army.

Zhang Zuolin was very satisfied with the title of the Phoenix Legion, and when asked how many troops he would have, Zhang Kuian smiled and said: "Marshal, how many soldiers do you have now?" ”

The number of military strength is the biggest secret of the party, how can it be shown lightly, Zhang Zuolin increased the number of his army by half on the basis of the number of his own army and said confidently: "it, there are not many people, and there are only 100,000 troops." Haha, haha, the bunnies are competitive. ”

Zhang Kuian smiled dumbly, he knew how many people Zhang Zuolin had under his command, and the 100,000 army was counting the army of the people and the two horses in the northwest. Today, Zhang Dashuai's descendants have only more than 40,000 troops, and counting more than 10,000 people in the three brigades in Suiyuan, they are only 50,000 guns at most. And these 50,000 troops lack guns and ammunition, military rations and silver, not to mention fighting, even if they don't fight, it is already the ultimate to be able to hold on until the New Year. He smiled slightly, and sighed: "No wonder the marshal is so confident, only 100,000 troops...... I don't know how much the monthly military salary is. ”

Yuan Jinkai diverted the topic and said: "Brother Dingguo doesn't know how to teach about the restructuring?" If it is according to the conditions of the elder brother of Dingguo, our army can only fight to the death. ”

Zhang Kuian said: "The army is restructured, the whole team is unified, and the soldiers no longer interfere in politics and people's livelihood, which is the basic condition." If you want to hold the army in one hand and the people in the other, and want to be in your own kingdom, not only the handsome will not agree, but the people of the whole country will not agree. Xiushuai is raising Jing at this time, and within three years, the whole country will be reunified, and the country will become a new Chinese country. Yushuai, you know better than me that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and there is only one king in this Republic of China, and that is Xiushuai. Now Xiushuai has taken advantage of the right time and place, and swept the northwest army but collapsed. Ran Xiushuai and Yu Shuai went out of the Northeast together, and the nostalgia was deeper, he was unwilling and didn't want to meet you in battle, and in the end, both sides were hurt. Yu Shuai, the major event of the country of soldiers, the place of life and death must not be ignored. ”

Now that both sides are willing, it is easy to talk, Zhang Kuian and Yun Lishan are in control of the situation on the one hand, and talk to Zhang Zuolin's representative on the other hand.

In fact, the focus of the dispute between the two sides was the issue of taxes in Shaanxi and Suiyuan, where the warlords seized all the taxes in their own hands, while zhongyāng collected all the taxes, including land taxes (agricultural taxes), salt taxes, tobacco taxes, and other exorbitant taxes. Zhang Zuolin's subordinates are worried that they will hand over power and their families will not be able to support them, how can they be used to a luxurious life?

However, even though the senior officials of the Northwest Army were unwilling to relinquish power, the National Defense Army was heavily pressurized, with the Xuanwu Corps in the north and the 27th Division of Yan Xishan in the east, which had a strong sense of revenge. The Shanxi people also actively supported the attack on Shaanxi, and the revenge mentality made the whole army of the 27th Division eager to fight. In the south of Shaanxi, the Qilin Legion also gradually began to show its hideousness, and after eliminating the bandits in northern and eastern Henan, the tentacles of the Qilin Legion began to extend to the west of Henan.

When Zhang Zuolin hesitated to bargain, Premier Jin Yunpeng formally proposed to President Xu Shichang the decision to resign as army chief. Wang Maoru reciprocated the favor by spending money to buy rice from Siam (Thailand) and other South Asian countries and states for Jin Yunpeng to help him relieve the people, and because of the bumper harvest in Northeast China, the resettlement of refugees also had a place to go. Under the joint position of the two, Jin Yunpeng relieved the people affected by the drought in the five provinces of Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and Jin, and millions of people lived, and the newspapers praised him and called him the Bodhisattva Prime Minister.

Acting Army Chief Wang Maoru succeeded him as Army Chief Naturally, no one objected, and this time the Anfu Congress was dissolved, and the country was in a state of no parliamentary supervision, Xu Shichang did not even need to go through the guò Congress for approval, Wang Maoru took office without hindrance. As the largest warlord in China, after annexing the direct and Anhui lines, the National Defense Forces now have a total of 28 divisions and 30 armed brigades, with a total strength of 750,000 troops.

However, 70 percent of Zhongyāngzhèngfu's financial expenditure was invested in the army, which was really unbearable. In order to ensure fiscal revenue and expenditure, Wang Maoru forced all jurisdictions to use the renminbi, banned silver and gold transactions, unified the chaotic Chinese financial system, authorized Zhang Hongyang and Song Ziwen to adopt a policy of economic pressure sanctions, guaranteed that Huaxia Bank is the only legal currency issuing bank in China, guaranteed that the renminbi is the only legal currency in China, and imposed high taxes on the use of other countries' currencies, severely punished tax evasion and tax evasion merchants and officials, and severely suppressed and cracked down on the phenomenon of collusion between officials and businessmen. (To be continued.) )

ps: (ps: the update is late, sorry, the west gate set up a stall, hehe)