Frightened by the Seventh Division, and at the same time the Wehrmacht occupied the north of the Yellow River, Zhang Shuyuan, the overseer of Shandong, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately announced that he would join the Wehrmacht in a high-profile manner, and hoped that he would serve as a corps commander. Zhang Shuyuan's excessive request was naturally rejected by Wang Maoru, who sneered and said, "Who does he think he is?" Legion Commander? Insatiable! ”

In the Battle of Zhiwan, Zhang Shuyuan swayed left and right, Duan Qirui hated him deeply, and this time he hoped to get rid of Zhang Shuyuan by Wang Maoru's hand.

After three days of inspection at the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Arsenals in Northeast China, Duan Qirui returned to Beijing, and immediately after returning to Beijing, he found Wang Maoru and demanded that warlords like Zhang Shuyuan, who only knew how to protect themselves, should not be tolerated. He was annoyed that Zhang Shuyuan did not send troops during the Battle of Zhiwan, when Zhang Shuyuan was afraid to fight Wu Peifu under the pretext of strictly guarding against the Jiangsu direct army. At the instigation of Duan Qirui, the Shandong Provincial Council impeached Zhang Shuyuan for embezzling 3 million silver dollars in military spending, and the pressure came, and Zhang Shuyuan had no choice but to announce his resignation. Xu Shichang, under the leadership of Duan Qirui and Wang Maoru, agreed to remove Zhang Shuyuan from his post as overseer of Shandong. ""The fastest update, full text hand-typed

After Zhang Shuyuan was dismissed as the overseer of Shandong, there was no owner of Shandong for a while, and everyone wanted to be the overseer of Shandong. Shandong is the territory of the Anhui system, and the Anhui system has defected to the national defense force at this time, so whether this Shandong is the responsibility system of the army or the provincial governor responsibility system has become a question. Baidu search "" to see the latest chapters

The Anhui system and the old Beiyang naturally hope that the overseer is responsible, because they can grasp the military and politics, but the people of the national defense force don't think so, Yong Xingbao said: "At this time, the Republic of China, just like the Holy Roman Empire in the West, is a nominal country, and there are many small federal states. This overseer is the king. If China is to become a true state, it is necessary to learn the methods of German unification and eliminate these kings. Despite the fact that our army has just occupied Zhili. At this time, it was tentacles that Shandong was a little greedy. can change the thought, if you don't take the fat in your hand, you will work hard thousands of times in the future. ”

In order to control Shandong, Duan Qirui actively hoped that Xu Shuzheng would serve as the overseer of Shandong. But Wang Maoru said: "The word overseer is gone, the era of military rule has disappeared, and the form of officers giving money to reward their subordinates has long since become the dust of history, the land under my jurisdiction." Military personnel and politicians must not collude with each other, and politicians who mobilize the military are intent on rebellion. If a soldier serves a politician, he is also a rebel. Wang Maoru naturally understood his thoughts, and he just wanted to control the army in Shandong, but it was a pity that Wang Maoru could let him get his wish. But then Wang Maoru felt the pressure of the Anhui system. After all, Beijing is not his territory. The Japanese minister to China, Yukichi Kohata, visited Xu Shichang and said that the situation in Shandong was related to the interests of the Japanese Empire, and if the political situation in Shandong changed too much, the Japanese Empire would take the initiative to carry out armed intervention with the army.

Xu Shichang, who was under pressure from Japan, had no choice but to summon Wang Maoru to the presidential palace overnight to express the Japanese minister's intention to him. Wang Maoru clenched his fists in anger and said angrily: "It's too much to deceive people!" ”

Xu Shichang persuaded: "Xiusheng, in the current situation, there is nothing my country can do." Unless ......"

Wang Maoru was angry for a while. He calmed down and said, "The great president is Mingjian." Something to talk about. ”

Xu Shichang was silent for a while and said: "The National Defense Force has to fight to the death with your direct family, can you live or die?" ”

Wang Maoru said: "The direct line doesn't know how to advance or retreat, like a vicious dog, if you don't hurt him, I'm afraid he will do a lot of trouble." ”

Xu Shichang sighed, turned around and left, as a president, Wen was held by the parliament, Wu was held by the National Defense Force, and civil affairs was held by his subordinates, which can be said to be extremely wretched.

Wang Mao wanted to deal with Wu Peifu, who was directly related to him, at this time, it was really not appropriate to provoke the Japanese, so he discussed with Duan Qirui that Shandong could continue to implement the supervision responsibility system, but this person should be a satisfactory candidate for the National Defense Army. is from the Anhui family and a satisfactory candidate for the National Defense Army, Duan Qirui thought left and right for a long time, and finally mentioned a person, Tanaka Yu. This person is the former Chahar commander Tanakayu, who was beaten by Mao Ziping and abandoned his armor and was forced to go into the field because of the explosion in Chahar, and now he has become an apartment in Tianjin and opened a department store. Wang Maoru has a good impression of this person, and he has been scared by the National Defense Army several times before and after, but he is a person who is easy to clean up. If he is the overseer, it is estimated that it will be very difficult to reorganize the whole ** team in the future, so he agreed to mention that Tanaka Yu would serve as the overseer of Shandong.

Subsequently, Wang Maoru hinted to the central government, with the cooperation of Duan Qirui, to force President Xu Shichang to order the dismissal of Gong Bangduo, the commander of the Jiangsu Sixth Division. After the power was called, Gong Bangduo was forced to go into the field, and at the same time, the Coast Guard sent two cruisers to Nanjing in advance, shelled the positions of the Sixth Division, and the Sixth Division was forced to stay away from the city of Nanjing. And Gong Bangduo's fate also left the Sixth Division leaderless, and its deputy division commander had to choose to surrender and accept the command of the Jiangsu Governor's Office, thus causing the rebellion in Jiangsu

Quell. After Zhang Qian's war, he had a great prestige in Jiangsu, which also calmed down the controversy over whether Zhang Qian could be the governor.

In order to repay Wang Maoru's support, Zhang Qian originally proposed that Feng Yinbin be the commander of the Jiangsu Army, but Feng Yinbin killed Qi Xieyuan after all, and the officers in the Jiangsu Army were inevitably dissatisfied. And although Feng Yinbin is the grandson of Feng Guozhang, he has a bad reputation for murdering Shangguan after all. Under Wang Maoru's hint, Feng Yinbin temporarily served as the director of the Jiangsu Army Preparatory Office to prepare for its army restructuring. In this way, in another way, Feng Yinbin obtained the command of the Jiangsu Army and became the youngest general in the Republic of China at the age of 22.

Originally, the grandson handed over to Feng Guozhang by the Jiangsu Army was a good thing for the direct line, after all, it was Feng Guozhang who created the direct system, so that the current direct line is strong, but it is a pity that this Feng Yinbin is Wang Maoru's person. Cao Kun sent people to Jiangsu to woo Feng Yinbin, but Feng Yinbin, a young man, categorically rejected Cao Kun's invitation, and at the same time he contacted Chen Guangyuan, the overseer of Jiangxi, and Wang Zhanyuan, the former overseer of Hubei, hoping that the three governors of the Yangtze River would once again advance and retreat together.

It can be said that Feng Yinbin was one of Wang Maoru's most successful spies, and he almost single-handedly split the direct line, and even Wang Maoru did not expect Feng Yinbin to achieve such results in Jiangsu. Jiangsu Provincial Governor Zhang Jian and Jiangsu Army Chief of Staff Yang Chunpu jointly announced the return of the Jiangsu Army to "central" command.

Jiangsu returned to the republic from the state of independence, and at this time, the coast guard of the Wehrmacht also arrived under the city of Nanjing, and the guns of two 10,000-ton battleships were facing the Jiangsu army barracks, so that those who had strange ideas had to give up the idea. The commander of the Coast Guard, Ren Guodong, received an order from the General Staff of the Wehrmacht to immediately crush the Jiangsu Army as soon as Feng Yinbin suffered any damage, so twenty-three battleships, all their guns were pointed at the east of Nanjing. Under the pretext of military training, Ren Guodong conducted a simulated training of naval attacks on land in Nanjing, and the main cannon of the battleship Asterisk Old Man blew up a crater nearly seven meters wide and two meters deep, which really frightened everyone, even Ren Guodong himself.

The Qilin Army was temporarily blocked north of the Yellow River, but Zhao Zengfu and his men did not stop, and the contradictions between the Wehrmacht and the direct line could not be resolved, and the Wehrmacht took the initiative to provoke trouble, and several frictions broke out between the two sides along the Yellow River In order to carry out a decisive battle, the new 20th Division and the Shandong Army assisted the attack. In order to make up for the shortage of troops, Wang Maoru specially transferred the Eighth Division, known as the Guards Division, from Shenyang to Beijing to fully accept Beijing's defense.

The Wehrmacht Kirin Legion rests and waits for the final blow. Wu Peifu also knew that the National Defense Force would never give up, actively prepared for war, mobilized a large number of troops from the rear, and asked for help from the Kuomintang troops in Hunan. At the same time, one of Zhang Zuolin's troops also secretly changed their outfits and advanced towards Henan, in a vain attempt to muddy the deep waters.

With the arrival of the Eighth Division in Beijing by train from Shenyang, the Qilin Regiment was even more worried. Due to the dry weather and lack of rainfall, the Yellow River was cut off, and the river was dry and hard. Zhao Zengfu thought that the decisive moment had come, and sent a secret telegram to Wang Maoru for a decisive battle, Wang Maoru was discussing the situation of Beijing's defense with Wang Qiyuan, the commander of the Eighth Division, and received a telegram from Zhao Zengfu: "If you are ready, I will give your full support." ”

Zhao Zengfu believes that at this time, the national defense army occupies the advantages of the time, place and people, the Yellow River is dry and cut off, the national defense army occupies the geographical advantage, Wang Maoru stays in the central government after the national defense army becomes the national army, the national defense army occupies the time, the Qilin Legion was mobilized by Wu Peifu to lose the opportunity, Zhao Zengfu while rendering the situation in the army, while holding down the army, the soldiers and officers sought to fight strongly, and occupied the people. At this time, Wang Maoru's telegram was completely set on fire to the Qilin Legion. Zhao Zengfu waved a telegram and said to all the officers: "Everyone, in this battle, our army has a chance to be ashamed, you can be optimistic about the words of the handsome, if this battle is humiliating, how can you and I raise our heads in front of other army commanders and division commanders?" How to gain a foothold in the Wehrmacht? ”

Stimulated by Wang Maoru and Zhao Zengfu, the Qilin Legion worked together.

On July 25, the ninth year of the Republic of China, the total strength of the prepared Qilin Army reached 120,000 troops, and the troops were divided into four routes, respectively from Wushe County, Fengqiu County, Zhili, Changyuan County, and Heze in Shandong Province to the south of the Yellow River, and launched a general attack with the help of airplanes and more than 200 airships, and conquered Kaifeng, the headquarters of the direct line, in one fell swoop within three days. Wu Peifu, who was good at using artillery and strange soldiers, had nowhere to hide under the monitoring of the airships in the sky, but could only lead the army to slowly withdraw to Xuchang County, Henan, and achieved an unprecedented victory for the national defense army in the face of absolute strength.

No matter how talented a tactician is, he will suffer in the face of great power, just as a genius child has no way to fight a strong man. Wu Peifu felt helpless, no matter how he calculated, but the rain of bullets from the Wehrmacht swept over, and no matter how useful the strategy was, there was no more useful strategy. (To be continued.) )