Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Apart from the direct lineage, the next most chaotic one is the Feng lineage.This time Zhang Zuolin raised 20 troops to enter the customs under the instigation of the Japanese.Throughout the history of the Republic of China, when it comes to the means of pulling the team, Zhang Zuolin takes second place, and no one dares to rank first.Although Feng Jun's fighting skills are a bit trendy, but the speed of pulling the team is not amazing.

For example, this time, the generals Sun Liechen, Zhang Jinghui, Li Jinglin and the little-known Zhang Zongchang who followed Zhang Zuolin into the customs all became great warlords in just ten days.Among them, Zhang Zongchang, a native of Shandong, was the most powerful. Zhang Zuolin said to him, "You set up a banner yourself, and I will pay you as much as you can recruit. I will just shoot when the time comes."

Zhang Zongchang is also a character, he would have hesitated a little when he heard the commander-in-chief say this, and he directly led his team of 6000 people into Tianjin, robbed the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau and other key departments, and robbed 7 rifles alone.Then Zhang Zongchang went all the way south and only rushed to Baoding. He happened to meet Li Jinglin's defeated soldiers, and gathered part of Li Jinglin's troops indiscriminately.God seems to take special care of our dog-meat general (Zhang Zongchang's nickname), and when Zhang Zongchang ran to Baoding Mansion with [-] horses, hey, Feng Yuxiang had already taken the [-]th Division to follow Wu Peifu.So Zhang Zongchang captured Baoding with a single shot, and incidentally sent a telegram to Zhang Zuolin: "Report to Commander, after three days of bloody battle, the Ministry of Staff killed [-] rebels, and conquered Baoding Mansion for you, Commander."

Zhang Zuolin is busy going to Beijing now, so naturally he can't take care of this, so he immediately called back to reward him.

By the time Zhang Zuolin marched into Beijing with his own guards on August 8, Zhang Zongchang plundered the arsenal of the Zhili lineage in the Baodingfu area and gathered the defeated soldiers of the Zhili lineage and Anhui lineage, which had grown to a scale of 1 people. , now it was Zhang Zuolin's turn to be dumbfounded.Afterwards, Zhang Zuolin couldn't help turning his head around and said, "Zhang Zongchang is amazing!"

According to statistics from the Army Department of the Beijing Government afterwards, during this large-scale march, the entire Feng clan expanded from the initial 20 people who entered the customs to a full 40 people, and half of the expansion came from the fact that Feng Faction only entered the customs. Zhang Zongchang, the commander of the army.

Next came the Anhui Faction, and Xu Shuzheng was also a talent. He knew that Beijing could not stay here, so he received Duan Qirui's order and immediately counted the Anhui Faction troops in the city. The establishment of a division did not hesitate to get on the train and take the Beijing-Puzhou line and fled from Beijing to Jinan overnight. However, most of the more than 5000 people Xu Shuzheng did not take away were the former Hubei army brought into Beijing by Li Yuanhong, which was very politically unreliable. Xu Shuzheng's existence was naturally the object that Xu Shuzheng gave up first.

These Hubei soldiers didn't seem to take this change seriously, but they soon realized how powerful it was. As soon as the Feng army entered the city, they invited these army officers above the company level to have dinner.Then the very standard Hongmen Banquet, these officers were all detained, and the drama was adapted by the soldiers from the Northeast surrounding the barracks and disarming.

No matter from which point of view, the Feng family is the ultimate beneficiary of the Northern War. On August 1917, 8, Zhang Zuolin ordered the dissolution of the National Assembly, and then proclaimed himself the Commander-in-Chief of the Anhui Army and the Grand Marshal of the National Army and Navy. , Qian Nengxun of the Anhui Department was appointed Prime Minister.So far, Zhang Zuolin has also broken the record of Wang Zhenyu's rise, from being the commander of the 1th Division of the Army in Yuan Shikai's era, to taking over Beijing in less than a year and becoming a role with national influence.For this reason, Zhang Zuolin was also on the cover of the American Time magazine for the second time after Li Hongzhang, which made Wang Zhenyu envious for a while.

But Zhang Zuolin's appetite is not here. He has expanded to 50 guns like a balloon, and he has issued an order to Fengjun to continue chasing the Zhijun at his temporary residence in Beijing, Shuncheng Palace.After all, Zhang Zuolin came here under the guise of helping the Anhui faction, if the Anhui army was killed, it would be too ugly.However, Zhang Zuolin has never been a person whose righteous name can lock his hands and feet. In the name of maintaining the stability of the Shandong region, he directly appointed Zhang Zongchang as the military affairs supervisor of Shandong, and asked him to lead troops into Shandong. Duan Qirui in Tianjin was so angry. It was completely crooked, and Xu Shuzheng, who had just arrived in Jinan, and Zhang Huaizhi, the current Shandong governor, immediately fell into a very embarrassing situation.At that time, Zhang Shuyuan, the commander of the Fifth Division of the Anhui Army, who belonged to the Deputy Military Affairs Office of Shandong Province, was the first to jump out and clearly opposed Zhang Zongchang's entry into Shandong. . .

At the same time, Zhang Zuolin also appointed Sun Liechen, Li Jinglin, Zhang Jinghui, and Tang Yulin as the commanders of the first to fourth crusade armies, each with three regular divisions of about 30 troops to crusade against Wu Ziyu in Henan.Zhang Zuolin also played a trick here. He appointed Zhang Xun, who was stationed in Xuzhou, as the governor of Henan.It can be regarded as making the pool of water in Beiyang more muddy. . .

At the same time, Yan Xishan, the governor of Shanxi, sent a telegram to support Zhang Zuolin, and then Rehe and Chahar were occupied by the Fengjun, and the Fengjun's control area expanded rapidly.

In view of Zhang Zuolin's outstanding performance, the Japanese side was very satisfied. Under the instruction of the Japanese military cabinet, it urgently provided basic equipment enough to arm 15 troops to the Feng Faction.Of course, these were not given in vain. Japan began to set its sights on the Outer Mongolia region, where the control of the Russians was getting weaker and weaker. The Manchu independence movement never went far. . .

Following Yuan Shikai's death, there was an open break within the Beiyang faction, and it wasn't just the northern regions that were in chaos.

In Tibet, after more than 50 days of hard marching, on July 7, Liu Xiang's 15 "rebels" arrived in Qamdo.Because of the guise of supporting the Communist Party, the Panchen Lama and the Reting Living Buddha, and the removal of the British secret agents who deceived the Tibetan Buddha, they returned the Tibetan Wannian Buddha Kingdom.And under this guise, the Tibet Buddha Rescue Army was formed, Suo Guanying was appointed as the commander of the army, and 4000 armed forces were organized to act together in western Sichuan.During the march of more than 50 days, the attitudes of the Tibetan nobles along the way were very complicated. Those who were weaker and loyal to the Potala Palace did not dare to stop the Han army of such a size.The powerful aristocrats with mediocre loyalty adopted self-protection strategies one after another. Since Grand Buddha had to rely on the [-] new Tibetan troops trained by the British to rule Tibet, it was natural for everyone to use their own troops to defend Tibet. Buddha.What's more, some aristocrats who lack strength but are ambitious have chosen to join Suo Guanying's Tibet Buddhist Rescue Movement. All this is the result of Chen Shao and Liu Xiang's repeated planning and instigation.But this effect will be discounted when it comes to Qamdo, because the thirteenth emperor did not hesitate to send the ten most elite Tibetan regiments under his command to Qamdo. He firmly believes that these ten thousand Tibetan soldiers who have been ordained by him It must be able to defeat the Han army.So in Europe, Britain and China are allies, but on the Tibet issue, the British do not intend to be ambiguous.Whitehall played football and authorized Jurdian, the first ambassador of the British Empire to China, to handle the matter with full authority.Naturally, Zhu Erdian, a colonialist, fearlessly ordered Bell and the others in the Lhasa office to think of a way. In any case, they must delay the time for the squadron to enter Tibet, and wait for the civil war in the north to end before conducting diplomatic mediation.Bell was very annoyed by Zhu Erdian's order. The strength of the entire office was only one hundred Sikh soldiers and twelve British officers. No money to buy.And as the European war has entered a white-hot stage, India can no longer provide much assistance at all.

But as a conscientious British diplomat, Bell did not give up. He bravely took the 110 people from the office to Qamdo to supervise the war.This restored the morale of the Tibetan army a lot. After all, the British gave a very strong impression on the Tibetans, and the Han army defeated them two years ago.

Liu Xiang's troops marched day and night under the condition of extreme decline in physical strength, and waded through many piercing glaciers. After 11 consecutive days of forced marching, they captured the Jiasangka Iron Chain Bridge in the northwest of Leiwuqi, Tibet on the 17th, and took control of the The key to moving forward.The cavalry detachment on the outer wing was marching, braved the snowstorm, and when they climbed the Yonggala Mountain at an altitude of 5 meters and the Mogeri Peak at an altitude of 0 meters, the mountains were high and lacked oxygen, and the men and horses had difficulty breathing. The officers and soldiers had to take care of the horses, They helped each other to move forward, and passed the two snow-capped mountains with great difficulty.Many places on the mountain are covered with snow half a person deep, and some areas need to be crawled through.After 5400 days of continuous progress, Liu Wenhui personally led the leading second company of Qizhi to occupy the Zhiya Bridge at 5 o'clock on the 13th, cross the Angqu River, captured Zemei at dawn on the 5th, and captured Leiwuqi, an important land west of Qamdo on the 16th, killing and wounding And captured more than 17 people from a company of the Seventh Regiment of the Tibetan Army.

In order not to give the Tibetan army a chance to breathe, all the troops endured the pain of thin air, hunger, cold, and fatigue. They traveled day and night, fought continuously, and won consecutive battles.In the pursuit of the left attacking force on the northern line in the direction of Gangtuo, Yu Tongpu wiped out the Tibetan army by nearly one armor (a small company).The Sichuan army divided into five groups and besieged the main force of the Tibetan army in Qamdo

From July 7 to 16, the Battle of Qamdo lasted 24 days and fought more than 9 battles. A total of more than 10 Tibetan troops were wiped out and 5700 people were captured.In total, there are 00 generations of all the books and 5 generations of most of the books. 3 Daimoto uprising.A total of more than 1 senior officials above Daiben were captured, including 12 British Bell who served in the Tibetan army (the integrity of the British is not as good as all the Sikh soldiers who died in battle).It can be said that in the Battle of Qamdo, the main force of the Tibetan army has been wiped out.

In fact, it is not that Liu Xiang's army is so capable of fighting, but that the Tibetan army is more like being massacred in front of the Sichuan army's grenades and mortars.

Since the entire battle into Tibet, Liu Xiang's Sichuan Army suffered no more than 1300 casualties. In fact, most of them were forced to return to Sichuan because they could not adapt to the plateau climate. . .