Since Zhejiang and Shanghai are bordered by the Yellow Sea in the east, coastal defense has always been extremely important, and Xu Shuzheng, chief of the general staff of the Zhejiang Army, believed that naval protection was indispensable, and built a navy against the Wehrmacht Coast Guard. At this time, there were still some Wehrmacht Navy ships in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province stopping to recuperate, and more importantly, there were also contradictions within the Wehrmacht Coast Guard at this time.

The contradiction of the coast guard lies in the battle for naval command, Shen Honglie, chief of the general staff, is a native of Hubei and graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy, while the Chinese navy has always been dominated by Fujianese, and the Fujian people are originally united, and the Fujianese people abroad are very united, and they are also in a group at home. In the navy of the Republic of China, there was a struggle between Fujian people and non-Fujian people for power, and in Shihou, Guangdong, there was a struggle between Fujian people and Guangdong in the national navy.

After the Navy Department of the Republic of China was merged into the War Department, the naval commander Lin Jianzhang was originally dissatisfied with Wang Maoru, but because he was dissatisfied with Shen Honglie's suppression of the Fujian people, he was angry with Wang Maoru. Among them, what really aroused Lin Jianzhang's heart was that the captains of the two battleships of the Wehrmacht, the Old Man Star and the Revenge, were not appointed by Jingyàn veteran Fujian naval officers, but by two classmates of Shen Honglie who studied in Japan.

With the assistance of the Japanese, Xu Shuzheng went to Beijing to rebel against the naval commander Lin Jianzhang, who sent his henchmen and others south to Zhenjiang to plot against the cruiser "Haichou", the destroyer "Jiankang", the gunboat "Yongji", the transport ship "Jing'an", the torpedo boat "Chen", and the torpedo boat "Lie" to throw themselves into Zhejiang and Luzhou.

What made Wang Maoru intolerable was the rebellion of warships such as the cruiser Haichip, in his opinion. The navy was in the bag, and this mutiny on the Sea Chip made him unbearable, and he couldn't bear Lu Yongxiang anymore. tolerated Lu Yongxiang before because of his old friendship. And Wang Maoru believes that the important thing in the war of domestic reunification is not to fight, but to talk, which Cheng thought that Lu Yongxiang was so unrighteous, accepted Japanese aid to expand the army privately, and also co-opted the navy, which was tolerable or unbearable.

On November 1, the ninth year of the Republic of China, Wang Maoru convened an emergency military meeting. At that time, the meeting was attended by representatives of the National Defense Army's Qilin Legion, Phoenix Legion, and Ghost Car Legion. and five divisions in the Central Plains: Zhu Xi's division, Chen Guangyuan's division, Sun Liechen's division, and Wu Guangxin's division. Zheng Shiqi Department. A large number of deputies, including Yong Xingbao, deputy chief of the general staff of the National Defense Forces, rushed to Beijing to attend a conspiracy meeting to discuss how to crusade against Lu Yongxiang. At that time, the commander of the Wehrmacht Coast Guard ordered a strict investigation of naval officers and wanted Lin Jianzhang, who was arrested and imprisoned when he left Beijing in a hurry.

On November 10, the ninth year of the Republic of China, Ren Guodong, commander of the Coast Guard, immediately returned to Wuhan. He led more than 20 ships, including the Old Man Star battleship and the Revenge battleship, down the Yangtze River. Straight to Shanghai. After Zhu Xi, the commander of the 24th Division, returned to Nanjing, he ordered the army to reorganize and prepare for a war. Chen Guangyuan, commander of the 31st Division, moved his troops to the east with the navy of Leping in Jiangxi and Shouning in Fujian and Wu Guangxin's division in Fujian, and the Qilin Army and the 29th Division of Sun Liechen's division immediately moved south.

At that time, the Wehrmacht consisted of one corps and four divisions, and since the Wehrmacht army downsizing plan had not yet been implemented, the total strength of the southbound troops of seven divisions totaled 180,000. When the army moved south, the total strength of the Zhejiang army was 80,000 on the surface, but the actual number was even smaller, and it was surrounded on all sides.

East, under attack by the Wehrmacht Coast Guard.

West, attacked by Wu Guangxin's headquarters of the 25th Division.

South, attacked by Chen Guangyuan's headquarters of the 31st Division.

In the northwest, it was attacked by Zhu Xi's division of the 24th Division.

North, under attack by the Wehrmacht Kirin Legion.

The more Lu Yongxiang and Xu Shuzheng analyzed, the more cold sweat they became, the war had not yet started, and Lu Yongxiang's defeat was decided in the absence of foreign aid.

Before expanding their forces, Lu Yongxiang and Xu Shuzheng were blindly optimistic that they would rely on the support of the Japanese and contact the southeastern warlords to fight against the Wehrmacht against Wang Maoru. However, when Wang Maoru really did it, Lu Yongxiang was dumbfounded, and the Japanese government did not directly send troops to reinforce it, some people in the Japanese military were unwilling to do anything with the Chinese Defense Forces, and only some naval officers clamored to interfere in China's internal affairs, but the army suddenly became silent. And Lu Yongxiang was trying to win over but ran into walls everywhere, and in Shihou, who was about to fight, he threw Lu Yongxiang aside one by one.

In order to obtain foreign aid, Lu Yongxiang had no choice but to urgently issue a rescue order to the Guangdong Revolutionary Government in the south, hoping that Sun Wen Nénggou would send troops to attack Fujian, so that Chen Guangyuan, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Army, who attacked the national defense army in southern Zhejiang, immediately refused, for the sake of Lu Yongxiang offended the national defense army, Chen Jiongming was a military idiot. Sun Wen originally thought about it a little, but the Kuomintang officer staff immediately hugged him

Touching his thigh and saying President, we really can't do this, it's thankless and offends people, Sun Wen dispelled his thoughts.

In order to cooperate with the national defense forces in reunifying China, on November 17, the ninth year of the Republic of China, The President of the Republic of China President Xu Shichang announced that Lu Yongxiang would be removed from the post of Zhejiang overseer, and that Zang Zhiping would be the commander of the Zhejiang Army, and that Premier Jin Yunpeng would initiate a state prosecution to prosecute Lu Yongxiang for treason for splitting the motherland, and appoint Zhejiang Police Commander Xia Chao as the superintendent of Zhejiang. At the same time, the president announced the dismissal of He Fenglin from the post of envoy to Songhu and the post of commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade of the Central Committee, and Ge Qisheng, deputy commander of the brigade, to serve as the commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade and the envoy of the Songhu Guard.

After the president dismissed Lu Yongxiang and He Fenglin's Zhejiang overseers and Songhu town guards, the two expressed their refusal to accept the presidential decree and declared the independence of Zhejiang and Shanghai. Although the two are only for the interests of Ziji, the official tone on the surface is full of fighting, independence is democracy, and unity is dictatorship, but no matter how shrewd the two are, they can't withstand the cruelty of reality.

In November of the ninth year of the Republic of China, when Lu Yongxiang and He Fenglin issued an independent telegram, a military coup occurred in Shanghai, and Ge Qisheng, deputy commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army, seized power in one fell swoop when He Fenglin went to Hangzhou to attend the officers' meeting, captured and imprisoned all He Fenglin's henchmen, and charged the Sixth Mixed Brigade.

Subsequently, Ge Qisheng announced that the power was on, Shanghai County was restored, and Shanghai County accepted the jurisdiction of the central government. Ge Qisheng announced that he would accept the post of Songhu Protector and support the central government, and the Sixth Mixed Brigade would crusade against Lu Yongxiang and He Fenglin.

When Lu Yongxiang had just sent He Fenglin to Shanghai to collect the old headquarters and was about to send troops to Shanghai, inside Zhejiang, Zhejiang Police Commander Xia Chao led the police corps to attack Lu Yongxiang's Hangzhou headquarters.

Lu Yongxiang's soldiers were not many stationed in Hangzhou, and most of them were stationed on the front line, so the temporary recruits rushed to the battle and were quickly defeated by the well-armed police corps. Lu Yongxiang didn't expect that Zhejiang's war of independence would start for Méiyou, and the internal battle would be fought first.

At this time, Wang Maoru, commander of the National Defense Forces and acting chief of the Army, announced that since Lu Yongxiang declared independence, the National Defense Forces officially fired the first shot in the war of reunification.

Wang Maoru announced the unification war, officially launched, and personally flew to Nanjing to command the operation, and the 24th Division of the National Defense Army, the former Jiangsu Army Zhu Xi's headquarters launched an attack on Xia Weimin's division of the first division of the Zhejiang Army in Yixing, Jiangsu.

The 24th Division held high the banner of national reunification and rushed to the position of the First Division of the Zhejiang Army, while the Air Force flew in at the same time, and in the face of the gray uniformed Zhejiang Army, Pan Shulong, commander of the Second Bombardment Brigade of the Air Force, led 24 Kirin-1 bombers to drop a total of two tons of bombs on the unprepared First Division of the Zhejiang Army. The 1st Division of Zhejiang was hit by the double blow of the National Defense Army, the Army and Air Force, and the independence of the Zhejiang Army was not the will of the army and the people.

Xia Weimin, the commander of the first division of the Zhejiang Army, stopped the deserters with two heavy machine guns in the rear, but those soldiers saw that they couldn't go, so they knelt on the ground and cried bitterly and begged that the division commander should let the brothers live, and that the artillery and the plane of the National Defense Army, our brothers hit the stone with their heads. Xia Weimin thought about it for a while, said that we were anyway, and then immediately announced that all the soldiers of the Zhejiang First Division would immediately lay down their arms and surrender to the Wehrmacht. Xia Weimin himself is not the kind of person who can fight tough battles, the Zhejiang army has never had a large-scale war, Xia Weimin because he can be a man and see the wind and make the rudder, which is all the way to the commander of the first division of the Zhejiang army, this time he also saw the wind and the rudder, and led the army to surrender to the national defense force.

On November 24, the ninth year of the Republic of China, Xia Weimin, the first division of Zhejiang, took the lead in throwing himself into the arms of the national defense army, and counterattacked to help the national defense army win the victory of the Wujiang Campaign.

On November 25, the ninth year of the Republic of China, 21 warships of the North Sea Fleet of the National Defense Coast Guard arrived in Jiangyin, and the soldiers of the Jiangyin Fort immediately raised the white flag and surrendered. The next day, the North Sea Fleet arrived in Taicang down the river, the captain of the Haichou Min Xuelin was assassinated by the crew and killed, the sailors of the Haichou launched an uprising, and the commander of the Songhu Navy, Zhou Zhaorui, fled into Shanghai in a hurry, but was captured by Ge Qisheng, the new Songhu Protector. On the 28th, the Wehrmacht's North Sea Fleet moved south along the waterway to the sea off Jinshan County and entered the waters of Pinghu County, Zhejiang. Subsequently, the North Sea Fleet drove all the way to Hangzhou Bay, shocking the Zhejiang army.

On November 27, the ninth year of the Republic of China, Xia Chao, the chief of the Zhejiang police, led the army to capture Hangzhou, and Lu Yongxiang was caught off guard and was almost captured by Xia Chaosheng. Lu Yongxiang fled from Hangzhou and arrived in Yuhang, where he reorganized his army in a panic to hold the front. And Xia Chao made a mistake at this time, he was the chief of the Zhejiang police, not an army officer, and he didn't fight the tiger to death, méiyou took advantage of the situation to keep chasing but drove Lu Yongxiang out of Hangzhou, so he stopped the pursuit. (To be continued.) )