Xia Chao's mistake lies in the fact that he thinks that since he has broken through the Hangzhou base camp of the Zhejiang army, as long as he publicizes, all the Zhejiang people and the Zhejiang army will immediately defect, and he will be the biggest hero of the recovery of Zhejiang, and he will definitely be at least the governor of Zhejiang Province in the future. However, then Lu Yongxiang organized an army in Yuhang County in the rear, and after Xu Shuzheng shot and killed several eager officers on the front line, the Zhejiang army stabilized.

At this time, Xia Chao began to preach national reunification to the citizens of Hangzhou with the police force as his backer, and hoped that the citizens of Hangzhou and even the people of Zhejiang would support national reunification. The people of Zhejiang enthusiastically supported Xia Chao against Lu Yongxiang's army, and the Zhejiang army was abandoned by the people of Zhejiang, and Lu Yongxiang organized an army to attack Hangzhou three times, but they were all repulsed. However, Xia Chao's attack also suffered heavy casualties, and he had to retreat to Hangzhou City to wait for the rescue of the National Defense Army, and he also underestimated Lu Yongxiang's organizational ability.

Xia Chao issued a telegram in Hangzhou announcing his appointment as the overseer of Zhejiang, and ordered the Zhejiang Army to lay down its arms and not to resist the national defense forces, and the people of Zhejiang and even the Zhejiang government fully supported the reunification of the country and unconditionally obeyed the administrative orders of the central government, and the financial taxes of Zhejiang Province belonged to the central government

Due to Xia Chao's propaganda, the people in the Zhejiang army were panicked, and some Zhejiang counties also broke out in the poison uprising, under the fire of the Central Intelligence Department, various counties in Zhejiang announced their support for Xia Chao, a native of Zhejiang, as the overseer of Zhejiang, and expelled Lu Yongxiang, a native of Shandong.

On November 28, the ninth year of the Republic of China, Wu Guangxin, the 25th Division of the National Defense Army, arrived in Changxing County, Zhejiang, and cooperated with Zhu Xi's division of the 24th Division and the 1st Division of the Zhejiang Army anyway, and launched an attack on Zhang Zaiyang and Yang Huazhao's headquarters of the Zhejiang Army. The Zhejiang army fought and retreated. Suddenly, he learned that there was a military coup in Hangzhou, and the chief of the police, Xia Chao, captured Hangzhou, and Lu Yongxiang was forced to flee to Yuhang in panic. Zhang Zai, Yang and Yang Huazhao were both dumbfounded. I don't know what to do, we are fighting in front, why are we losing our hometown in the rear.

At this time, Xia Weimin, who was in the national defense army anyway, went to the rear headquarters of Wuxing County to lobby Zhang Zaiyang and Yang Huazhao, saying: "Lu Yongxiang's poisonous Li is unpopular, do you want to accompany him to the burial?" He pointed to the south of Taihu Lake on the map: "The Qilin Regiment of the National Defense Army is going south, and the Generalissimo Shangwu is personally conquering Zhejiang." Swept away my Zhejiang army? Ladies and gentlemen, even the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also went to Nanjing to greet the generalissimo of Shangwu. Ladies and gentlemen, people go to high places and the water flows to low places. Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your family, right? Lu Yongxiang committed treason, which is a capital crime, if you resist. It's a dead end. After a little consideration, Zhang Yang and the others thought about it. Immediately declared an uprising and joined the Wehrmacht, and then marched to Yuhang with Ge Qisheng Beiyang 6th Mixed Brigade who was heading south.

At this moment, Lu Yongxiang, who fled to Yuhang, never dreamed that he would one day be so wolf-like, and if the Wehrmacht did not exert its strength, once it was like a thunderbolt, and what he did not expect was that the army formed by the rest of the warlords would be so desperate when they besieged him. Originally, Lu Yongxiang also wanted to send Yang Yuxun to the 25th Division and the 26th Division to send heavy gifts and contact, hoping to show mercy to the face of the Anhui department.

Unexpectedly, Wu Guangxin saw that Zhu Xi's 24th Division captured Yixing like a bamboo. Xia Chao led the police corps to capture the city of Hangzhou, and Chen Guangyuan launched an attack on the Zhejiang army in Fujian and Jiangxi. And the Qilin Legion of the National Defense Army is also slowly moving south, and the Zhejiang Army is embattled and is about to fail, how can Wu Guangxin let go of such an opportunity to pick up cheap. Therefore, the 25th Division launched an attack on the Zhejiang army, which also belonged to the Anhui system, in the spirit of beating the water dogs, and even turned away his old friend Yang Yuxun, threatening to distinguish between public and private, and Yang Yuxun was a personal friendship, but it was a battle for national reunification with the Zhejiang army, and there would be no favoritism.

At this time, on the southern front of Zhejiang, the 5th Mixed Brigade of Zhejiang was stationed in Xianxialing, sniping at Chen Guangyuan of the 31st Division of the National Defense Army. The terrain of Xianxialing is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Chen Guangyuan had to attack Xianxialing on his back, but was blocked by Zhejiang.

The 31st Division sacrificed nearly 2,000 men but could not break through Xianxialing, and Guo Shusheng, the commander of the 5th Mixed Brigade, threatened that even the three divisions could not break Xianxialing. However, only two days later, Zhang Guowei, commander of the engineer battalion of the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Zhejiang Army, surrendered to Chen Guangyuan, and the 31st Division easily obtained the deployment map of Xianxialing, and broke through the defense line of the trench in the southwest of Zhejiang overnight, killed Guo Shusheng, the commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade, occupied Quzhou, and used this as a breakthrough to sweep through southern Zhejiang, attacking from south to north. Sun Liechen's 29th Division, Zhao Zengfu's Qilin Corps set out from Nanjing, captured Zhenjiang, Danyang, Wujin, Jiangyin, Wuxi, Changshu, Kunshan, converged with the 6th Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army anyway, Ge Qisheng Division, continued to the south to capture Wujiang County, Jiashan County, Jiaxing County, and joined the 24th Division and the 25th Division, and marched to Hangzhou with a momentum like a bamboo.

Three days later, part of the Zhejiang army on the periphery of Hangzhou surrendered to the Xia Chao police force in Hangzhou, Lu Yongxiang's department urgently gathered more than 20,000 people and retreated to Yuhang County again, Lu Yongxiang sent Xu Shuzheng to the Japanese consulate in Shanghai to ask the Japanese for help, and the morale of the front-line soldiers of the Zhejiang army was low

After statistics, the Zhejiang army had 80,000 troops before the war, and now there are less than 30,000 people, almost all the artillery and other heavy weapons have been lost, and the Zhejiang army is about to collapse. Lu Yongxiang turned all his hair white overnight, and he inspected the position for three days in a row to calm the morale of the army, and gave all the soldiers who stayed behind a "shock fee" of two oceans, so that the soldiers would stay and not abandon their guns and run away.

Just as the Wehrmacht was preparing to annihilate the Zhejiang Army in one fell swoop, a heavy rain stopped the Wehrmacht, and the heavy rain became heavier and heavier, and it actually rained for a week. During this period, Xu Shuzheng went to the Japanese consulate in Shanghai to ask for help, but the Japanese had no choice at this time, but instead asked Lu Yongxiang for 2 million military salaries. Xu Shuzheng was so angry that he pointed to the Japanese consul's nose and asked, "What did you say before the war?" What do you guys say? ”

The Japanese consul in Shanghai, Kobayashi Yi, said angrily: "Xu Jun, don't you feel ashamed of your army? There were several armies that were defeated and destroyed, and almost all of them surrendered in the first battle, which is really a shame for being a soldier. ”

Xu Shuzheng was angry in his heart, but he couldn't refute it, it was absolutely impossible for the whole army to die in a civil war, as long as the army suffered more than 20 percent casualties, it was possible to cause the army to defect, and the soldiers were not fools, they just changed their masters to eat. Xu Shuzheng returned to Yuhang from Shanghai in a huff, and was almost caught by Xia Chao's people on the way, so he returned to Yuhang in a thrilling way.

Lu Yongxiang was depressed after learning of the abandonment of the Japanese, Xu Shuzheng said that it was better to find the Southern Revolutionary Government or the Yunnan Army and the Guizhou Army again, and Lu Yongxiang assigned Xu Shuzheng to go south to ask for help. He sat in the Yuhang County Ya, feeling abandoned by everyone, and also felt the pain of betrayal by the Japanese, Lu Yongxiang drank sullen wine, and his son Lu Xiaojia was by the side, watching his father turn white overnight.

"Shinoka, is it wrong to be a father?" Lu Yongxiang still didn't understand why Wang Maoru was so aggressive, Yang Yuxun walked in, Lu Yongxiang looked at him and said, "Qishan, what do they say." ”

Yang Yuxun smiled bitterly, Lu Yongxiang let out a long sigh, and Yang Yuxun, the secretary general of his confidant, said: "I heard the overseer ask the eldest prince just now? ”

"yes." Lu Yongxiang sighed, "In just fifteen days...... If God hadn't helped me for a while, I would have been a captive by now, right? ”

Yang Yuxun said: "When I first introduced the support of the Japanese, I once persuaded Zhenshuai, the Japanese are not trustworthy, and they are the most difficult, like bloodsucking locusts, they can turn Zhenshuai into their dependence." The Japanese also did not have good intentions, why did they agitate Zhenshuai to fight against the Wehrmacht, firstly, to cause chaos to the Wehrmacht, and secondly, to see that our Zhejiang Army was close to the British and interfered with the British. Just after Zhenshuai reached an agreement with the Japanese, the British had already abandoned us. Otherwise, the Wehrmacht hit Shanghai, why didn't the British say a word? They are sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, for the British, it is nothing more than changing a medium ** valve. Alas! It's too late, it's too late. (Lu Yongxiang's original name was Lu Zhenhe, so he was called Zhenshuai by his subordinates)

Lu Yongxiang shook his head and said coldly: "Who would have thought that things would take such a sharp turn for the worse, and the Japanese would betray us." ”

Yang Yuxun said: "After the expansion of the army, the combat effectiveness of our army has been sharply reduced by half, and the harm of reckless expansion is far greater than the mistake of strategic command. ”

Lu Yongxiang said: "At this time, we should also consider the aftermath, and bother Lao Qishan to go to Nanjing again to see how Wang Maoru treats his old friend." ”

"Zhen Shuai means ......"

Lu Yongxiang nodded and said: "It's all because I was not greedy enough at the beginning, and I couldn't complain about others, if I accept the reorganization after the expansion of the army, at least I can't run away from the position of commander of the army." Remember, Shinoka, you can't be too greedy. ”

Lu Xiaojia hurriedly said yes.

Yang Yuxun asked, "What do you ask Zhenshuai to pass on to me?" What is the bottom line of our military's negotiations? ”

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Lu Yongxiang couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of this scene, knowing that he regretted not starting today.

It was Lu Xiaojia who screamed and said: "My family's money, my family's land, and my family's factory must not be without." And my dad wants to be the governor of Zhejiang! He turned to Lu Yongxiang and said, "Dad, our family can't live without money." By the way, it's best that you can be the chief of the police, the chief of the Shanghai police, so that our family can still walk sideways in Shanghai in the future. ”

Yang Yuxun said: "Such conditions are not too much. ”

Lu Yongxiang said: "Qishan, if the negotiation is not ideal, the Lu family can not need money, can not have power, as long as my father and son return to their hometown in Jiyang, Shandong Province safely to be a farmer." ”

Lu Xiaojia immediately said: "Dad, no, we can't let go!" His eyes widened, let go? Delegate? This is unimaginable for a gentleman like him, without power, how can he be majestic in front of all the singers in the Shanghai world in the future. (To be continued.) )