At the time of the Northeast War, the South did not survive this winter quietly.

Duan Qirui is still making the last effort to eliminate the Protector Army, but the Anhui system has cast the net too big, Duan Qirui sent his brother-in-law Wu Guangxin to Sichuan to serve as the Sichuan Investigation and Handling Envoy, which annoyed the warlords of Sichuan. But Duan Qirui sent people to take over Sichuan, which made Sichuan very angry, and the Qianchuan coalition army joined hands to defeat Wu Guangxin, and announced that the Sichuan army would join the Protector Army. And all parts of the country have also set off the Dharma Protector **, Li Tiancai declared independence in Xiangyang, Hubei, and established the Hubei Dharma Protector Army. Guo Jian became independent in Fengxiang, Shaanxi, and announced the establishment of the Shaanxi Protector Army. Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Gansu and other places have appeared one after another, so that Duan Qirui, who was already tired of coping, was even more helpless. At the same time, Duan Qirui, who was under internal and external attack, wanted to force Feng Guozhang to approve his use of troops on the grounds of resignation, but Feng Guozhang directly accepted his resignation.

After Duan Qirui reluctantly stepped down, President Feng sent an envoy to contact the Gui faction of the Protector Army.

Although the name of the Protector Army is the Protector of the Law, it is actually a war between warlords, a war between the warlords of the southwest and warlords in various places against the warlords of Beiyang, so after obtaining Hunan and Sichuan, the old mainland of the Gui family Rong Ting immediately realized the truth that the people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and now the Gui family sits on Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, and part of the territory of Sichuan and Jiangxi, and immediately stopped. So far, the mutual demolition of the Beiyang Army is the biggest reason for the successive victories of the Gui family. Therefore, he knew that if he didn't stop, the warlords of Beiyang would go south in a fit of rage, and Hunan, which was won by the Gui system, would be lost. And Tang Jiyao of the Yunnan system also felt that this war to protect the law was not fought in vain, why, because his Yunnan system has now sat on Yunnan, Sichuan, and Xikang. The four provinces of Guizhou are also really fat. After getting the benefits, President Sun Wenda's eyes were hot. He demanded the withdrawal of military power, and brazenly announced that the command of the troops of the Protector Government was all under the command of the Provisional Presidential Command, and that Sun Wen commanded the army as the sole legitimate leader.

Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao were not happy now. For Mao, we shed blood and sweat in front, and you shouted two words in the back, and then you want to take away our military power?

Not only Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao were not happy, but most of the Kuomintang veterans were also unhappy, because Sun Wen also wanted to set up a big presidential office, which was full of Sun Wen's descendants, all of whom were the backbone of kowtowing to Sun Wen by their handprints in Japan and swearing allegiance, and none of the Kuomintang veterans were there. So everyone united, squeezed out Sun Wen, and finally drove the provisional president away.

Lu Rongting, Tang Jiyao and Feng Guozhang reached an armistice agreement. It is "not down Changsha in the south and not up to Yueyang in the north", which means that the Beiyang Army does not go south to fight Changsha, and the Protector Army does not go north. But there is only one fork in the middle, that is, Cheng Qian, this guy is a rat feces stirring up a pot of soup. The good peace has been ruined!

It is said that after the Gui army entered Hunan and was overwhelmed, coupled with the internal strife of the Beiyang Army, Fu Liangzuo, the governor of Hunan, and Zhou Zhaoxiang, the governor of Hunan, were so frightened that they fled from Changsha, and Cheng Qian took the opportunity to sneak into Changsha. Cheng Qian himself is from Hunan, so he was promoted by the Hunan gentry as the acting governor of Hunan, but he didn't expect that his ass was not hot. Tan Yanmin, the former overseer of Hunan (expelled by the Beijing government to work as a duke in Shanghai and defect to Lu Rongting) and Tan Haoming, a general of the Gui family, strongly objected, and Cheng Qian had no choice but to resign and serve as the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Protector Army, who only commanded a brigade and a few battalions of his own.

Cheng Qian took advantage of the peace talks between the north and the south to lead his subordinates to attack Yueyang Mansion in the hands of the Beiyang Army, and finally defeated Li Kuiyuan's division of the 11th division of the Beiyang Army and Wang Jinjing's division of the second division of Hunan in a bloody battle for four days and four nights.

This provoked the warlords of all sizes in Beiyang, and took the opportunity to launch the Overseer Army again to force Feng Guozhang to fight. You see, your lord is peaceful, but the other people's protectors do not advocate peace, and when they see that you are peaceful, they will beat you in turn, Feng Guozhang didn't expect that he was negotiating with Lu Rongting here, and he was attacked by a sneak attack over there, which immediately made him very embarrassed.

The Overseer Corps regards Duan Qirui as the boss, although Duan Qirui is in the wilderness, he is still ambitious and has unlimited potential, even Wang Maoru and Zhang Zuolin, the two people who are fighting, also telegraphed to support the Overseer, not to mention others. Duan Qirui's henchman Xu Shuzheng, the military master of the small fan, actively planned, he thought that at this time, the direct forces were strong, and if only the Anhui family was in trouble, it would be difficult to resist, so he was ready to unite the northern and southern forces to force the direct Feng Guozhang, and enable Duan Qirui to go out of the mountain here.

Xu Shuzheng first found the overseers of the Anhui line, such as Zhang Huaizhi, Ni Sichong, Lu Yongxiang, Li Houji, Yan Xishan, Jiang Guidi, Tian Zhongyu, and then found the direct overseers Cao Kun and Jiang Yanxing, these two also watched the Beiyang Army being beaten by the Southern Army, but the boss Feng Guozhang still didn't let him fight back, and he was already angry, so he agreed to Duan Qirui to go out of the mountain, after all, the direct family is not all "pacifists" like Feng Guozhang.

In order to increase his influence, Xu Shuzheng found the most powerful person in the north, and the original plan was to win over Zhang Zuolin, but what he didn't expect was that a few days ago, Zhang Zuolin was driven out of Shenyang City by Wang Maoru, and he was in Jinzhou to lick his wounds. So Xu Shuzheng had to transfer the target of the reinforcements he was trying to attract to Wang Maoru, and Wang Maoru was the person he didn't want to contact the most.

Wang Maoru was originally under Xu Shuzheng, and was repeatedly attacked and excluded by Xu Shuzheng, Xu Shuzheng forcibly merged Wang Maoru's flight team garrison into the Henan New Army, and made him the head of the general affairs department. Later, Wang Maoru was repeatedly attacked and excluded, and even accused, all because of Xu Shuzheng's secret arrangement, Wang Maoru had to hold Yuan Keding's thigh and run to the north to train a brigade of border guards.

After Xu Shuzheng was removed from office because he opposed Yuan Shikai's proclamation as emperor, Wang Maoru developed rapidly in the north, defeated Xu Lanzhou, expelled the pigtailed marshal Zhang Xun, and recovered Beijing, and after the recovery of Beijing, it was this small fan military division who secretly instigated Duan Qirui to suppress Wang Maoru's development and drive him back to Heilongjiang.

And when the Anhui system was in trouble and was attacked by the Protector Army, and Xu Shuzheng was busy dealing with the south, Wang Maoru took the opportunity to win over Meng Enyuan, and the two armies of Heiji merged. When Wang Maoru recovered the Middle Road, it was Xu Shuzheng and Zhang Zuolin who secretly planned for the Russians to attack Wang Maoru's headquarters, and Wang Maoru almost died here. Xu Shuzheng pulled out his hand and was just about to deal with Wang Maoru, but then the Anhui system was attacked, Duan Qirui lost the post of prime minister, and Xu Shuzheng only fell to the post of chief of staff of the planning office of the participating army, which is naturally the brand of the Anhui department. Wang Maoru also defeated Zhang Zuolin when the Anhui Department did not come to make trouble, forcing Zhang Zuolin to have to lead his troops out.

It can be said that Wang Maoru and Xu Shuzheng have been fighting wits and courage together for six years, and the Republic of China has only been seven years now, and the two have been fighting wits and courage for six years. Perhaps it was Xu Shuzheng's pressing step by step that made Wang Maoru more and more courageous. Seeing that the opponent was getting bigger and bigger under his repeated blows, how could Xu Shuzheng be comfortable to the eyes. But for the development of the Anhui system, he had to ask Wang Maoru for help, after all, the Northeast Frontier Army has 300,000 horses, and if they enter the customs, they can decide the world in one fell swoop.

The inauguration ceremony of the governor of Northeast China held by Pu Ji for Meng Enyuan invited Chinese and foreign guests, provincial dignitaries, celebrities, gentry and many other people, and Xu Shuzheng was also invited. Coincidentally, for the development of the Anhui system, Xu Shuzheng had to ask Wang Maoru to send troops to assist, so he happily came to Changchun.

After the inauguration ceremony, a welcome banquet was held as usual, Wang Maoru, as Meng Enyuan's most important assistant, his role is equivalent to Cao Kun to Feng Guozhang, Wu Peifu to Cao Kun, Xu Shuzheng to Duan Qirui, naturally one of the protagonists. Moreover, Meng Enyuan is getting older and older, and he relies on a think tank to deal with things, and half of the people in this think tank are Wang Maoru's descendants. Their construction yì naturally also represents Wang Maoru's construction yì. Therefore, at this time, winning over Wang Maoru has also become the key to all forces in various provinces. The representative directly dispatched by the family was actually Wang Maoru's rival and friend Liao Zhipeng.

Liao Zhipeng is now the director of the Liaison Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an adviser to the Presidential Office and a liaison officer in the Northeast, and I don't know how Feng Guozhang knew about his relationship with Wang Maoru, so he made Liao Zhipeng a liaison in the Northeast specifically to win over Wang Maoru.

"Brother Feihong." Wang Maoru said with a smile, went up to a bear hug, and said, "I haven't seen you for many years, but you have lost a lot of weight." ”

Liao Zhipeng coughed twice, his face turned rosy, and said, "Brother Xiusheng, you are getting more and more energetic." ”

Wang Maoru hurriedly said: "You are ...... this"

"Alas, I visited Tibet last winter, and I didn't adapt to the climate and sat down to get sick." Liao Zhipeng shook his head and said bitterly: "I can't torture this cough for a year, I was originally recuperating at home, if it wasn't for looking for you, how could I come here in the winter." ”

Wang Maoru said: "Looking for me? What's the matter? Or is it for the sake of sending troops to Europe? Well, I'm going to send troops in March, but I'm just going out for a walk, not for war, and I'm going to take command of the expedition myself. ”

Liao Zhipeng shook his head and said, "It's not for this." ”

"That's ......"

"Xu Shuzheng, have you seen it?"

"I just met, he came late, and he hasn't talked in detail yet. What's the matter, Feihong, if you have something to say, although we are rivals in love, we are also friends. Wang Maoru said with a smile.

Liao Zhipeng laughed, coughed a few times, and relieved himself before saying: "Xu Shuzheng is jumping up and down now, the purpose is to force President Feng Da to restart Duan Qirui's departure from the mountain. ”

Wang Maoru nodded and said, "I understand this, if it were me, I would also let Governor Meng go out of the mountain, hehe." ”

Liao Zhipeng said: "Indeed, but on behalf of President Feng, I should still win you over, the Republic of China can't stand the toss." You see that it has been seven years since the founding of the Republic of China, but that year has stopped? The most stoppable thing is the Northeast, but isn't there several wars in the Northeast? Don't say anything else, you Wang Xiusheng have been in the Northeast for a few years, and there was no war that year? The territory is getting bigger and bigger, and the personnel are fighting more and more, but there are more and more widows and orphans. ”

Wang Maoru laughed and said, "You are so sharp-toothed, I don't listen, I do things, I just look at it and don't look at anything else." If President Feng wants to win me over, he must also do some good. ”

"You guy, you have to take advantage of it, and you have to take advantage of it if you don't have it, you really can't do it." Liao Zhipeng smiled bitterly.

Wang Maoru spread his hands and said, "Then you see, you don't take advantage of the bastard." ”

Liao Zhipeng shook his head and said, "You, you, you are a general of the Republic of China, how can you be so ungenerous." ”