Chapter 455: Beijing Purge

readx; As Chen Jingyun once again emphasized the importance of eliminating private armed forces and bandits to domestic stability, the field units of the Nationalist Army, including those local garrison regiments, that had not participated in the operations on the front lines in Henan and Hubei, once again launched a vigorous large-scale operation against bandits and private armed forces, especially the newly occupied areas of the Nationalist Army, including Zhili and the northeast region. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although these operations against bandits and private armed forces are far less massive and intense than regular operations, they are not small, and the units under the 10 th Army in Northeast China alone have dispatched more than 20 operations at or above the battalion level, and tens of thousands of bandits or private armed forces have been defeated. Among them, the Second Cavalry Division under the Tenth Army of the National Army, that is, Wu Junsheng's troops have marched from the northeast to Mongolia, preparing to clear some armed forces in Mongolia, and at the same time, Huang Anyuan's First Cavalry Division has also left the territory of Zhili and marched towards the direction of Outer Mongolia.

After the Xinhai Revolution, the Tibetan Buddhist living Buddha of Outer Mongolia rebelled to establish the 'Great Mongolian State' and established himself as the 'Yueguang Emperor' in this Chinese turmoil, which was naturally inseparable from the support of Russia. The Qing court did not have the strength to quell the rebellion at that time, and after the establishment of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang political axe, he also wanted to pacify the warlords in the south, and Outer Mongolia was put behind by Yuan Shikai, and the reason was simple, because Outer Mongolia itself had no strength, and it actually depended on the Russians to solve the problem of Outer Mongolia. If the Russians made up their minds to keep this 'Great Mongolia', with the power of Yuan Shikai at that time, they would not be able to recover Outer Mongolia smoothly, so they were prepared to delay it first and wait for Chen Jingyun and Tang Jirao and others in China to deal with this matter, otherwise it would be irrational to provoke the Russians when the army was still fighting a decisive battle with the Nationalist Army in the south.

However, Yuan Shikai didn't expect that the Beiyang Army would fail!

The Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army were defeated in the decisive battle for the central political axe in China, and the victorious Nanjing Republic of China is the only central political axe in today's China.

Chen Jingyun does not have as many scruples as Yuan Shikai, and the great enemy of Beiyang has been completely defeated, as for the remaining warlords in Hubei and other places, although they are also in the way, they can no longer stop the strong rise of the national army, and at this time, the national army also has certain conditions to recover Outer Mongolia.

Of course, Chen Jingyun didn't expect to recover Outer Mongolia now, he only sent cavalry troops into the direction of Inner Mongolia to clear out bandits and suppress the Mongolian princes who were ready to move in the direction of Inner Mongolia, and at the same time to prepare for the recovery of Outer Mongolia in the near future, and this soon refers to the outbreak of World War I.

Now, the main task of Huang Anyuan and Wu Junsheng's cavalry troops is to eliminate those bandits and private armed forces.

Since the expansion of the local garrison regiments by the Nationalist Army last year, the local garrison units of the Nationalist Army are no longer limited to deploying one garrison regiment in each of the two major cities in each province, but have further penetrated deep into the small and medium-sized cities, setting up garrison companies in small cities and garrison battalions in medium-sized cities. These new garrisons, in addition to the existing garrisons, further increased the number of garrisons in the provinces.

In fact, to some extent, the increase in this part of the garrison is to replace the local armed forces and private armed forces that have been eliminated by the crackdown, after all, the garrison regiments of the national army were only deployed in a few large cities, and although the police have also been established in those small cities and county seats, many counties will organize their own armed organizations such as militia groups and security regiments. After Chen Jingyun removed these armed forces and eliminated them, he naturally had to supplement the garrison troops and station them in the local area, otherwise the local people would lose their protection, and those few policemen alone would not be able to effectively maintain local social stability.

Taking Anhui as an example, Anhui has been organized into a garrison of five regiments, and these troops are scattered and deployed in large, medium, and small cities, with a total strength of nearly 8,000 people. Of course, don't look at the number of people, but it is unrealistic to expect them to fight in the field with the enemy, and these garrisons are more like armed police.

In this large-scale clean-up activity, Li Jimin of Yanjing was not idle, although there were no large-scale bandits around Yanjing, not even large-scale private armies, but this does not mean that Li Jimin has nothing to do.

After entering Yanjing City, the first army under Li Jimin was fully in control of Yanjing City, in view of the fact that Yanjing was the capital of Beiyang political axe and a large number of former Qing relics and important people in Beiyang gathered in the city, so Li Jimin carried out large-scale control and purge according to Nanjing's orders as soon as he entered Yanjing.

In addition to some Beiyang officers and generals who defected from the beginning, a large number of Beiyang officials and officers were arrested, and some of them with great influence were also placed under house arrest although they could not be arrested publicly.

In addition to purging the remnants of Beiyang, Li Jimin also did not hesitate to send troops into the Forbidden City, and drove Pu Yi out, and let Pu Yi move to another residence and be placed under house arrest. 、

At this time, it was not Li Jimin's arbitrariness, but Chen Jingyun's order, although the peace talks between the north and the south during the Xinhai Revolution reached a preferential treatment of the Qing royal family, but Chen Jingyun was not Yuan Shikai, it was Yuan Shikai who promised to give the Qing royal family preferential treatment, but he Chen Jingyun didn't want to be the Republic of China, there was still a small group of people in the Forbidden City who sat on the emperor's dream every day, and he didn't want the influence of the Qing royal family to continue, and finally let him say, "I found some opportunity to do something like Manchuria, Chen Jingyun of the puppet Manchukuo in later generations would never let him appear again, if he wasn't afraid of bad influence, he would have ordered Li Jimin to kill Pu Yi directly, lest he be used by himself when he grows up. But after all, he failed to do such a thing, not because Chen Jingyun was soft-hearted, but because he directly killed Pu Yi, a child, which was easy to cause a bad impact.

In order to achieve the effect of driving Pu Yi out of the Forbidden City and purging the remnants of the former Qing Dynasty and Beiyang, Chen Cai of the Investigation Bureau personally went to Yanjing to instruct the Investigation Bureau to carry out its work. It doesn't matter what the truth is, what matters is that Li Jimin drove Pu Yi out of the Forbidden City that day and arrested a large number of former Qing Dynasty remnants under house arrest.

Immediately after the Nanjing Republican Axe announced the abolition of the preferential treatment regulations of the former Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City was nationalized, and it was ready to be converted into a national museum, and announced that any tourist could go to sit on the dragon chair as long as he paid for the admission fee, and there was no distinction between people and dogs.

At this time, a large group of Manchu remnants cried bitterly, scolding Chen Jingyun, a traitor and thief, but I didn't see them really hang themselves for Pu Yi or hit the muzzle of the gun in the hands of the soldiers of the National Army, one by one can only shout in their mouths, and scold in the newspaper, but maybe these people are still hesitant to wait for the Forbidden City to be changed to the National Museum, do they also spend some tickets to visit and then sit on the dragon chair?

In addition to dealing with Bauhinia City and Puyi, Li Jimin also had his troops cooperate with Chen Cai's Investigation Bureau to carry out a large-scale purge in Yanjing City, and a large number of people who opposed the Nanjing Republican Axe and Chen Jingyun were arrested and then shot on various charges, the most widely used charge was "treason!" ”

Speaking of which, the word treason has been used quite widely in the early years of the Republic of China in the past few years, Sun Wen, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others are all staring at such a hat, and a large group of people in Nanjing Republican Axe were also charged with treason by Yuan Shikai, Chen Jingyun, Shen Gang and even Zheng Zuyin all have such a hat. In the same way, Chen Jingyun also charged Beiyang, who did not show weakness for the big vote, with treason, and Yuan Shikai was naturally the biggest one. However, Duan Qirui and Li Yuanhong and others took the initiative to surrender, so that a large number of Beiyang people were exempted from the charge of treason, and even many people directly entered the Nanjing Republican Political Axe, such as Zhou Xuexi, the chief of the Finance Department in the Beiyang Cabinet, who immediately agreed when Duan Qirui was planning to surrender, and attracted a large number of important officials in the political axe to join them, so after the National Army entered Yanjing City, in order to initially stabilize the situation in Yanjing City, Duan Qirui and Li Yuanhong were ready to go to Nanjing to meet Chen Jingyun and serve in Nanjing, And Li Jimin couldn't let Yanjing stay in the state of an officer all the time, so Chen Jingyun invited Zhou Xuexi, who had great prestige among the many surrendered officials in Beiyang, to serve as the mayor of Yanjing Special City, responsible for calming people's hearts.

Zhou Xuexi rose, and some were arrested and shot by the Nationalist Army for treason, but more of them hid in the concession, such as Premier Zhao Bingjun who found an opportunity to sneak out of Yanjing City and then sneaked into the Tianjin Concession.

In any case, Yanjing City is now in the hands of the National Army, and when Li Jimin clears Yanjing City almost, the long-planned northern tour of the Nanjing Republican Political Axe is also ready to begin, and on May 15, Chen Jingyun's special train departed from Nanjing North Railway Station, preparing to patrol north along the Jinpu Line, and will pass through Bengbu in Anhui, Xuzhou in Jiangsu, and Jinan in Shandong and finally arrive in Yanjing.