1928: The Rise of Giants

Chapter 327 The war broke out

September 18, the 1929th year of the Republic of China (3).

The Military and Political Department of the Jinling National Government and many other departments jointly issued military orders to attack the Guangxi clique.

On the same day, the principal ordered the National Army soldiers to advance towards Jiangcheng in three directions. At the same time, he deceived Li Jishen, the leader of the pro-Guangxi political branch, to Jinling and arrested him. He also used Tang Shengzhi to dismantle Bai Chongxi's troops stationed in the north and bribe a large number of Guangxi troops on the front line. Generals, let them defect during key battles.

The Jiang-Gui war officially broke out, but the battle was fought very funny.

Shortly after the war began, He Jian, a general from the Guangxi clique, suddenly announced his support for the Jinling National Government. Only the principal followed suit, and then Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui defected before the battle.

Only three or four days after the war broke out, the three generals under Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were all bribed by the principal!

Only a week after the war started, Li and Bai decisively abandoned Jiangcheng and fled northwest.

Faced with such a war situation, Feng Yuxiang, who was gearing up in the north, was extremely confused.

After the national deployment meeting, they agreed to fight back against the principal together. Now, he resigned from the position of Minister of the Military and Political Department of the Nationalist Government and is training troops. The war here has not started yet, but all the allies have collapsed!
In order to respond to the principal's military order, Chen Zhengde wrote tens of thousands of words in the Republic of China Daily. An article satirized the Shanghai Bund General Chamber of Commerce, saying that these businessmen did not care about the hatred of the family and the country, they only wanted to make money, and they were not willing to pay at the critical moment. Supply the army.

It is obvious that the principal and others want to crack down on the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols in Shanghai. However, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols who hold a large amount of assets and liquidity are not afraid.

They joined together and first asked Yu Qiaqing to organize a petition group to go to Jinling to appeal. Then they bribed public opinion and built momentum, saying that the principal was a dictator and not worth following.

At the Shanghai Bund General Chamber of Commerce, Feng Shaoshan and others made the most noise, and even came up with the idea of ​​asking workers to go on strike.

Resisting and resisting is nothing more than not wanting to spend money in vain and let the principals use their gold, silver and jewelry to fight the civil war.

At this time, Hu Shi couldn't stand it anymore and was extremely angry. He directly wrote an article in the newspaper to start a fight, started a battle with Chen Zhengde, and even published an article publicly questioning Mr. Sun's theory. He was instantly drowned in the saliva of the group of imperial literati of the National Government.

When things got to this point, all the celebrities in the cultural world knew that Hu Shi had lost his mind and was too passionate. No one dared to speak to him from his standpoint anymore. The declarations and news newspapers that were initially willing to publish his articles also stopped and no longer supported him. .

Who allowed you to blatantly oppose the late Mr. Sun’s theory?
At this time, only the magazine "Crescent" owned by Xu Zhimo and others dared to continue publishing, and they were also a group of people who were not afraid of death.

But no one expected that the scolding war here was still going on, and the Guangxi clique was defeated so quickly that the Kuomintang army approached Jiangcheng in early April. Not long after, the Guangxi army in the two lakes completely collapsed, and the remaining Just the finishing touches.

The National Army was able to capture the Guangxi Clan so smoothly, including the advice of German military adviser Colonel Max. After the war started, Song Ziwen came over to provide funding for the Huade military cooperation project, and then kindly invited Max to the Ministry of Military Affairs for military guidance.

Last time he went to Jinling, Max took the plan letter given by Ye Luo and won the heart of the principal, so he was talked about by the principal. This time he went to the army, and Max was also very excited.

He had already been expelled from Germany's military circles due to previous incidents, and he was ambitious and wanted to use the war situation here to clear his name.

Compared to watching them hammering screws every day in the suburbs of Shanghai Beach County, frontline war was obviously more attractive to him. After the nominal head of the Hua-German military cooperation project left, the entire project was completely controlled by Ye Luo. With those military experts and industrial experts on hand, Ye Luo worked intensively to prepare for the formation of the arsenal guard team.

At this time, the combatants that Ye's investment can produce mainly come from these places -

It was first established and has always been controlled by Ye Hao. The top management is composed of a group of loyal old members of the Ye's Labor Federation. Ye's Security is mainly responsible for the security work of other companies under Ye's Investment.

Yip's Sports was restructured from the Jingwu Sports Association and later merged and acquired many martial arts halls in Shanghai and surrounding areas. The person in charge is Huo Ting'en. It is mainly responsible for assisting the stability of Yip's Security Company and serving as a training base for combatants. It can be called the "Whampoa Military Academy" invested by Ye.

The factory guard was composed of some gangsters, bandits, water bandits, and demobilized soldiers who were later recruited and had certain combat capabilities, but did not have much internal work experience in the Ye family, and even idle people who could not even check their resumes. Mainly responsible for maintaining the safety and stability of all factories under Ye's Investment, the person in charge is Wu Shikui.

Composed of some backbones from Ye's security and powerful former soldiers, the park guard team is mainly responsible for the security work in the Ye's Industrial Park. The person in charge is Heng San.

The Ye's convoy guard group is composed of martial arts masters and former members of the Jingwu Sports Association who are the most skilled and good-hearted. Some of these people also participated in important events such as killing French soldiers and lurking on the Jiang Anlun. The person in charge is Chen Zhen.

The last group of people are scattered in the Songhu Police Department, the two concession patrol houses, the core positions of major gangs, and even some are lurking in the military and political circles of the National Government. They are the most elite employees deliberately selected by Ye Luo personally last year, and spent a lot of time on contacts. and money to send them one by one to the places where they were needed.

Among them, Ma Yongzhen, the second-in-command of the Songhu Police Department, Ding Li, the acting director of the Nitrate Mine Administration Bureau, and Xu Wenqiang, the Chinese inspector of the French Concession Patrol Room, are among the best.

And now, with this group of military experts from Germany, and Max also preparing to transfer a large number of German ordnance equipment, war machines and military education to the country, Yeluo will naturally not miss this benefit.

Historically, as Germany came under fascist rule, started World War II, and became one of the enemy countries, the vast Sino-German military cooperation also officially came to an end. However, none of the military advisers who succeeded Max after his death chose to stay in China. He took away the materials and technology, and finally benefited Song Ziwen, which became the basis for him to form the tax police group.

Ye Luo doesn't expect to be able to take away the tax police corps, but there is no problem in sharing its most sophisticated weapons and equipment and military education.

Moreover, he has the big sign of military cooperation as a cover, and he already has several arsenals in hand that require guards to maintain security, so he is not afraid of telling the truth.

Of course, if you want to support almost a regiment of high-quality troops, one problem cannot be avoided, and that is, money, money, money!
(End of this chapter)