readx; Chapter 505: Pacify the Southwest

Xie Ruyi's surrender brought a serious morale blow to the entire Hu [***], you must know that Xie Ruyi is not an ordinary person, he previously served as the commander of the Seventh Army, with the rank of lieutenant general. After Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting announced the establishment www.biquge.info of the Protector, he was appointed commander of the First Army, the supreme commander of the Battle of Changsha, and promoted to the rank of general.

It can be said that he is the second person under the Dian Army after Tang Jiyao, and in the entire [***] system, he is also no different from Lu Rongting and Duan Zhigui.

After Xie Ruyi spent more than ten days in the glorious scenery, the more than 100,000 troops under his command quickly collapsed, and today there are only more than 20,000 people left. Disheartened, he didn't have the heart to resist at all after the Nationalist Army arrived in Huaihua, but took the initiative to announce his surrender, and Lin Chengkun did not embarrass this dangerous opponent who had once forced him, but gave him quite decent treatment, and prepared to escort him to Changsha and escort him back to Nanjing.

After Xie Ruyi learned that he was about to be escorted to Nanjing, he thought that after being escorted to Nanjing, he would definitely be regarded as a typical traitor, and he would have to bear the crime of treason, as a soldier, he could announce his surrender for the surname of more than 20,000 soldiers under his command, but he still had the honor of a soldier, he fought for the republic, and he would never want to see the day when he was saddled with treason. For this reason, he committed suicide by swallowing a gun on the second day of announcing his surrender, and left a suicide note saying that he had come to Xinhai to oppose the Qing Dynasty for the republic, led troops into Sichuan to aid the Sichuan Revolution, and sent troops to rebel in Pingzang Province the year before last, and believed that he had fought for the republic of China all his life, and the same was true of the First Battle of Changsha.

'In the first battle of Changsha, more than 100,000 Yungui children sacrificed for the republic, how could Yi live alone. When I leave, I only hate the blood of 100,000 Yungui's children and can't bring a republic to the country, cherish it, hate it!

After learning that Xie Ruyi committed suicide, Chen Jingyun felt very strange when he read Xie Ruyi's suicide note. From the bottom of his heart, he has no hatred for Xie Ruyi or even Tang Jiyao, and he can't even talk about the word disgust, more often than not, he regards Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting as enemies, but as opponents, opponents who compete for hegemony in Kyushu. As for Xie Ruyi, he is even less disgusted, on the contrary, he still maintains considerable respect for Xie Ruyi who sent troops into Tibet to quell the rebellion a few years ago.

However, sometimes personal thoughts are worthless, although Chen Jingyun has a good impression of Xie Ruyi, but he will not do anything inappropriate because of this, so he just said that after sighing, he threw down the telegram.

Xie Ruyi's death did not stop the fact that the Nationalist Army swept through the southwestern provinces.

When the Nationalist Army marched in Guangxi and Guiyang, the Sixth Division of the Nationalist Army, which had been preparing for a long time, and other troops also launched an attack on Duan Zhigui's troops in eastern Sichuan, Duan Zhigui was different from Tang Jiyao and others, he did not send the main force to eastern Sichuan, and tens of thousands of the main forces under his command stayed in Yucheng, originally according to his idea, the main force of the Nationalist Army was naturally blocked by the Gui Army and the Dian Army, so his enemy would be tens of thousands of Nationalist troops at most, and it would not be difficult to block it at that time. It's a pity that he overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Dian army and the Gui army, less than a month after the start of the war, Hunan was occupied by the Nationalist Army, and Guangxi was also occupied by a small half, and more importantly, the main forces of the Dian Army and the Gui Army were lost, and then they could not effectively block the offensive pace of the Nationalist Army, in this case, Duan Zhigui had to consider his next move.

So after thinking about it for a long time, Duan Zhigui finally made an important decision, that is, to negotiate with the Nationalist Army before the Nationalist Army attacked Yucheng, and try to get better conditions for himself, as for the idea of monopolizing Sichuan, he also knew that it was unrealistic. However, he can't dominate Sichuan, but if the conditions given by Chen Jingyun are favorable enough, then he Duan Zhigui doesn't mind living under others.

Chen Jingyun launched the Southwest Campaign this time in order to fundamentally eradicate these warlords, but if Duan Zhigui can really give up Sichuan and completely surrender to the Cheng National Army, Chen Jingyun does not mind letting Duan Zhigui continue to maintain glory and wealth.

When both sides had similar intentions, secret negotiations soon began, and a secret agreement was reached in just two days, and it was only a verbal agreement. Duan Zhigui gave up the rule of Sichuan, but maintained the position of commander of the Eleventh Army, and the two divisions of the Eleventh Army and one mixed brigade maintained the number, but they would be reorganized according to the same Beiyang Surrender Army, in other words, except for Duan Zhigui who continued to be the commander of the Eleventh Army, and kept two division commanders and one brigade commander, the other middle and low-level officers were all replaced.

Everyone sees how Chen Jingyun treats the surrendered generals, Cao Kun, Xu Shuzheng and others are still in good condition, He Zonglian even won a silver double sword medal because of his outstanding performance in the Qingdao Campaign, so Duan Zhigui still expressed satisfaction with Chen Jingyun's conditions, and even Duan Zhigui compared the treatment of Duan Qirui in the next section, and felt that his treatment was much better, although Duan Qirui was the executive secretary of the General Staff, but the actual power was gone, and he Duan Zhigui kept the position of commander of the Eleventh Army, and he is still a general who sits on one side.

As soon as the two sides reached this verbal agreement, Duan Zhigui issued a telegram in support of the central government on November 20, and at the same time, his Eleventh Army also began to attack the Dian army in southern Sichuan, which was also part of the agreement, since he wanted to keep the position of commander of the Eleventh Army, then Duan Zhigui had to show his skills.

Duan Zhigui's halfway rebellion made the already crumbling New Republic of China fall apart, and even Sun Wen did not have the kind of passionate fundraising speech that he used to say, although the soldiers of the Nationalist Army were still in Guizhou and did not spread to Yunnan, but Kunming was still filled with a desperate atmosphere! The situation in Guilin, Guangxi is even worse than Kunming, Yunnan has not yet faced the flames of war, but at this time Guangxi has been in flames, the loss of Wuzhou suddenly pushed Guangxi to the brink of a comprehensive collapse, the Twelfth Army of the Nationalist Army attacked everywhere, its 14th Mixed Brigade went north to occupy Hezhou, and a regiment of the 11th Division went south to Nanning, and Long Jiguang's 24th Division should be combined with the outside, and the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the Gui Army in Nanning was defeated.

The Gui army was also defeated in Hunan a long time ago, and the remnants of the fleeing army finally gathered in Guilin, while the 12th Division and the 14th Division and more than 10,000 remnants retreated to Liuzhou. In a short period of time, the Gui army had less than 30,000 people left, and only the remaining Liuzhou and Guilin survived.

The troops composed of defeated soldiers in Guilin were simply unable to carry out defenses, and the soldiers below also knew that defeat was imminent, and the number of deserters was increasing day by day, and the soldiers who remained did not think about how to fight, but instead looted in Guilin with guns. The order in Guilin has collapsed, and even Lu Rongting is no longer in control.

On November 25, as the Nationalist army approached Guilin, the Gui army in the city was in chaos, so Lu Rongting finally took more than 2,000 people from the Fifth Army Teaching Corps, his only descendant unit in Guilin, to Liuzhou south, originally he wanted to go to Liuzhou and then take the remnants of the 12th and 14th Divisions and the 7th Mixed Brigade to the west of Guangxi, and then enter Yunnan. But before he reached Liuzhou, the main force of the 11th Division had already arrived in Liuzhou and launched an attack on Liuzhou.

Lu Rongting did not risk going to Liuzhou again, but directly turned west to Yunnan, as Lu Rongting expected, Liuzhou only resisted for two days before it was declared lost, the more than 10,000 remnants of the Gui army were defeated, except for a small number of routs who escaped, most of them were annihilated by the 11th Division.

Two days later, the Nationalist Army captured Guilin, Wuzhou, Nanning, Liuzhou were lost successively, and now Guilin was also occupied by the Nationalist Army.

Guangxi can't stop it, Guizhou is not much better, Tang Jiyao arrived in Guiyang with the twentieth division, the whole Guizhou has fallen into the precursor of the collapse of the front, although Tang Jiyao gathered some of the remnants, but in the end the twentieth division was added together, Tang Jiyao only had more than 40,000 people in his hands, and at this time Duan Zhigui's eleventh army had sent troops from Chengdu and Yucheng to attack the Dian army, and the remaining troops of the Dian army in Sichuan could not resist the successive routs, under the rout on all sides, Tang Jiyao also thought that he could not stop the national army in Guizhou, so he immediately retreated to Yunnan with more than 40,000 remnants.

By the time the southwest was carried out in December, Guangxi and Guizhou had fallen under the control of the Nationalist Army, the main force of the Nationalist Army had approached Yunnan, and Duan Zhigui's Eleventh Army had also cleared the remaining troops of the Dian Army in Sichuan.

Up to now, it is no wonder that the new Republic of China has failed politically or militarily, and even the capital for peace talks has not been left, and no one in Kunming, Yunnan Province wants to pray for peace talks with Chen Jingyun, and even Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao have successively sent telegrams to Chen Jingyun, expressing their willingness to obey the central government of Nanjing, and all they want is Chen Jingyun to let them go, but these two people are the same as Duan Zhigui, in this southwest rebellion, Duan Zhigui is at most an accomplice, But Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting were the core, and they did not have Duan Zhigui's cheerfulness when they prayed for peace talks, but Duan Zhigui said at the beginning of the peace talks that he took the initiative to give up the right to rule Sichuan, and even stated that as long as he kept his position as commander of the Eleventh Army, then the Eleventh Army could leave Sichuan in accordance with the reorganization of other Beiyang troops and obey the dispatch of the State Military Commission.

And Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting only said at the last moment that they would give up part of the territory, but they still wanted to keep their surname, for example, Tang Jiyao said that as long as he kept Yunnan, he could give up those territories in Guizhou and Sichuan.

This caused Chen Jingyun to not even bother to negotiate peace, and was ready to clean up the matter directly, and this can also deter latecomers.

In mid-December, when the Seventh Division of the National Army approached Kunming, a large-scale mutiny broke out in Kunming, and a group of generals of the Dian Army who were unwilling to fight to the death led their troops to conquer the residence of the prime minister of the New Republic of China, that is, Tang Jiyao's official residence, and captured Tang Jiyao and a group of other core high-ranking members of the Yunnan army.

Tang Jiyao did not commit suicide after being captured like Xie Ruyi, but was obediently escorted to Nanjing, and then was tried in public, and finally sentenced to be shot for treason, along with Tang Jiyao was shot for treason, and more than 200 former military and political dignitaries in the political axe of the new Republic of China, basically except for those generals who surrendered voluntarily, the other people who were caught were shot, and Chen Jingyun has always been unsoft on the enemy, so those who were convicted of the former escort [***] dignitaries basically ended up with one end, that is, they were shot, No one has access to the benefits of being detained.

Compared with Tang Jiyao's misery, Lu Rongting's luck was much better, under the protection of more than 2,000 people, he went all the way to the Sino-Vietnamese border under the pursuit of the 11th Division of the National Army, and entered Vietnam with his more than 2,000 teaching regiments. After Lu Rongting entered Vietnam, he did not go into exile like Sun Wen and others, but actually planned to take root in northern Vietnam, and fought several battles with the French army that came to encircle and suppress, France was dealing with the war at home, and there were not many troops in Vietnam at all, so after the encirclement and suppression were unsuccessful, he simply turned a blind eye and left it alone, and Lu Rongting, who had taken root in northern Vietnam, recruited the old department while expanding his strength, and spread his power to the Burmese region in a short period of time, and also planted a large number of special opium in order to raise the army. There is a lot of momentum in the direction of drug lords......

With Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan successively incorporated into the rule of the central political axe in Nanjing, Duan Zhigui of Sichuan also obediently accepted Chen Jingyun's order, and after the reorganization of the 11th Army, the 31st Division was transferred to Guangdong, while the 32nd Division was transferred to Hubei, and the 1st Mixed Brigade of Sichuan was reorganized and obtained the number of the 6th Mixed Brigade, and was immediately ordered to be stationed in Tibetan Province. Duan Zhigui's 11th Army was transferred to Shandong to accept the troops of several other national armies.

Although Duan Zhigui lost his previous glory, he finally maintained the rank of general and the position of commander of the Eleventh Army, which was much better than Yan Xishan, Tang Jiyao, Lu Rongting and Lu Jianzhang, Yan Xishan was defeated and entered Shaanxi, and Shaanxi was also captured by the National Army, Yan Xishan and Lu Jianzhang both fled, Lu Jianzhang was nowhere to be found, and Yan Xishan successfully absconded all the way to Wuhan and arrived at the Shanghai Concession on the warship, and then fled to the Legation.

After the recovery of Shanxi and Shaanxi, the Nationalist Army did not stop the pace of westward advance, but continued to advance westward, accepting Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang Province.

After 1914, the Nationalist Army has actually controlled the whole country militarily, although the troops in the western region are extremely weak, there are still a large number of illegal armed forces in the local area, but the important cities in the western provinces have been controlled by the Nationalist Army, and those illegal armed forces are too small to affect the overall situation, and the next thing is to carry out a big sweep to eliminate a large number of illegal armed forces in the southwestern provinces and western provinces, such as those small warlords and bandits.

When the large-scale clean-up campaign was launched, the first congressional election and presidential election of the Republic of China also officially began!