Back to the Republic of China as a commander

On August 8, Zhang Zongchang, the new superintendent of Shandong, the de facto military superintendent, set a new record in the period of the democratic separatist regime, which has never been seen before or since.Counting from the day of his inauguration, in less than five days, he and his army made the whole province of Shandong uneasy.

If it is said that Zhang Zuolin's direct line troops are only concentrated in the Beijing-Tianjin area for rape and looting, then Zhang Zongchang's army does not have a scope limit, as long as they can go, wherever they go, they will rape, rob and even torture and kill the people. Everywhere.The level of brutality even the Japanese advisers who accompanied the army could not stand it. Okamura Neiji, one of the Japanese advisers accompanying the army, wrote in his report with the army: "It is hard to imagine that General China, who was nodding and bowing to us Japanese a few minutes ago, almost Minutes later, he yelled at his unarmed compatriots in a majestic manner. His contempt for the dignity and lives of his compatriots has reached a heinous level. Throughout Shandong, the atrocities of the Chinese army can be seen everywhere. Even Zhang Zuolin, who is far away in Beijing, heard After the Shandong gentry jointly filed a lawsuit, they also authorized General China to organize their own army as the Zhi-Shandong Allied Army instead of displaying the name of Fengjun. It is rare in the world for an inferior nation like China to be cruel on the outside and cruel on the inside, and I am more and more convinced , as His Majesty's loyal warriors, we will be able to conquer this inferior China for His Majesty, Long live His Majesty..."

Zhang Zongchang doesn't care what others think of him, he just said one word, cool.

Zhang Zongchang, named Xiaokun, is 36 years old.A native of Laizhou Fuye County (now Laizhou City), Shandong Province.Born on March 1882, 3 (the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar), because this day is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, and there is a folk saying that "the first day of the first day is the official of the fifteenth day", so Zhang Zongchang was named The nickname is "Dengguan".Zhang Zongchang received a short private school education when he was young, which laid the foundation for Zhang Zongchang to be able to read and write later.The school teacher Zhu Xiude named him Zhang Zongchang, which meant the prosperity of the Zhang family.

But no matter how good the name is, it doesn't mean the best life. Zhang Zongchang, in his youth, often had no food and clothing, and suffered from hunger and cold.In order to make ends meet, Zhang Zongchang let go of cattle, and worked as a musketeer and wine teller.The painful childhood life not only made him taste the coldness of the world prematurely, but also honed his will, strengthened and improved his ability to adapt to the harsh environment. In 1897, there was another famine year in Jiaodong area, and the people were in dire straits, so Zhang Zongchang escaped from the famine.During his wanderings in the Northeast, he worked odd jobs, worked long hours, and herded cattle for the wealthy family. In 1899, Zhang Zongchang was recruited to work as a road builder on the Middle East Railway.During this period, he worked as a stevedore and a road switchman. Because Zhang Zongchang was tall, brave to do heavy work, magnanimous, and valued righteousness over profit, he had great prestige among the workers and gradually gained the favor of the Russians.And learn to speak Russian fluently and with accurate pronunciation.Later, he went to Siberia to pan for gold as the chief foreman.When he was the chief foreman in the gold mine, he not only learned excellent gold panning skills, but also trained himself to be an outstanding hunter of wild beasts, and developed extremely accurate marksmanship.In the Northeast dialect, this person's life experience is very strong, and it can be said that he has experienced the indifference and suffering of the world.

Afterwards, Wang Zhenyu was even more surprised. Zhang Zongchang was a rogue when he was a teenager. During the 1911 Revolution, Zhang Zongchang led the Lvlin brothers to seek refuge with Hu Ying, the governor of the Shandong Civil Army, and then moved to Shanghai with the army and became the governor of the Shanghai Army. The head of the recovery army under Chen Qimei, the governor of the government. In 1913 (the 2nd year of the Republic of China), he served as the commander of the third division of the Jiangsu Army.In the same year, during the Second Revolution, Zhang Zongchang was ordered to go to Xuzhou to resist the attack of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army. He defected before the battle and became the subordinate of Feng Guozhang of the Beiyang Army.

During the War to Protect the Nation, Zhang Zongchang served as the commander of the First Division of the Jiangsu Army, but was left behind by Feng Guozhang when he was fighting in the Tongling area.As a result, after being beaten up by Tao Zhiyue's subordinates, Zhang Zongchang and his ten thousand guns obediently became prisoners.But Zhang Zongchang kept his eyes open, changed into a soldier's attire, and he was very good to his soldiers, so the youth army failed to catch this big fish from the prisoners of war, and Zhang Zongchang became a leaked fish. was successfully repatriated.At this time, Zhang Zongchang had no place to stand in Jiangsu, so he had to go north to Baoding, the provincial capital of Zhili, to join Cao Kun, the patrol envoy of Zhilu and Henan.Cao Kun originally wanted to take Zhang Zongchang in, but Wu Peifu and other generals could not tolerate this bandit-born teacher. In a rage, Zhang Zongchang and Xu Kun, a frustrated officer under Cao Kun, went to Fengtian to join Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang and his son. Go to Feng Department.

After taking refuge in the Feng family, Zhang Zongchang could only start from scratch, first serving as the commander of the gendarmerie battalion.Soon, with the support of the Japanese, Zhang Zuolin squeezed out Jilin Governor Meng Enyuan, which led to Jilin Army Brigadier Gao Shibin (the former Jilin Governor Meng Enyuan's nephew) and Hu bandit Lu Yonggui to fight Zhang Zuolin.At that time, most of Zhang Zuolin's army had just been formed, the training was still going on, and the equipment had not yet arrived. It was a situation where there were no soldiers to send, so he decided to send Zhang Zongchang to lead the gendarmerie battalion to fight.This was originally a contest of disparity in power, but because many of Lu Yonggui's big and small leaders were fellow villagers who went to the Guandong with Zhang Zongchang, Zhang Zongchang organized the bandits into three regiments without bloodshed.Zhang Zuolin was very happy and appointed him as the commander of the third brigade of the Jilin Provincial Defense Army and the guardian of Suining, Jilin Province.In this way, Zhang Zongchang had a foothold.Before long, Zhang Zongchang had nearly ten thousand horses.

Due to the large number of people and guns, Zhang Zongchang's military expenditure was huge. Although Zhang Zuolin continued to allocate funds from Fengtian, he could not make ends meet. Helplessly, Zhang Zongchang asked soldiers to grow opium in his jurisdiction to make up for the shortfall.This incident aroused dissatisfaction among the various departments of the Fengjun Army and asked Zhang Zuolin to disband the team. In the spring of 1917, Zhang Zuolin took advantage of the military exercises and sent reviewer Yang Yuting to Zhang Zongchang's third brigade, called the reviewer, but actually dismissed.Once when he was inspecting Zhang Zongchang's troops, he bumped into each other twice, and the words went wrong, Yang Yuting opened his mouth to curse, and the mother-fucking voice continued.Unexpectedly, Zhang Zongchang said: "You fuck my mother, you are my father!" Then he knelt down to Yang Yuting, which made Yang Yuting, who was three years younger than Zhang Zongchang, blush, and the purge was over.Obviously, this kind of quick-wittedness has to be matched with an extraordinary thick-skinned.Zhang Zongchang tried to win over Yang Yuting again. As a result, Yang Yuting not only failed to dismiss him, but instead spoke good words for Zhang Zongchang in front of Zhang Xueliang and Zhang Zuolin. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin loved Zhang Zongchang and immediately transferred him from Jilin to Shenyang. The Zongchang Department was changed to the third brigade of the Fengtian Army, with four regiments under its jurisdiction.This is Zhang Zongchang's life trajectory within a year after the end of the War to Protect the Country. . .

The subsequent story deviated from the original historical track. Zhang Zongchang became the second beneficiary of the Fengjun's entry into the war, and the first was naturally Zhang Zuolin.But compared to the return on investment, Zhang Zuolin will suffer a big loss.Zhang Zongchang insisted on expanding the strength of a brigade to 20 people, and became the second leader in the Feng faction.After Zhang Zongchang took sole control of Shandong's military and political power, he took advantage of Shandong's wealth and vigorously expanded his armed forces. However, Zhang Zongchang seemed to be a little confused about how much he had expanded. Now he has a very good nickname: "Three I don't know." General".Specifically, I don't know how many soldiers there are, how much money I have, and how many women I have.

This is really not because of Zhang Zongchang's hypocrisy, but because of this man's nature.Zhang Zongchang's recruitment was very simple, with a set of military uniforms and a single shot of weapons. There was no standard system for the youth army, and there was no political and ideological education.The task Zhang Zongchang gave to the officers under him was very simple, as many soldiers as you can get, you are an officer, so Zhang Zongchang's troops sprung up like mushrooms after rain.At first Zhang Zongchang was very interested in assigning numbers to these troops, but later he got annoyed and asked his staff officers to issue numbers in order.Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible to know how many troops he has. According to the estimates of some Shandong officials at the time, Zhang Zongchang's army was between 25 and 40, which is a rather terrifying number.

As for not knowing how much money he had, it was because Zhang Zongchang was afraid of poverty when he was young, so once he was in power, he would naturally scrape the ground desperately.In addition, although he is from Shandong, he left home when he was young, and hang out outside the customs all year round, so his feelings for his fellow villagers are naturally very shallow.In just one week, Zhang Zongchang sent money to the Nippon Zhengjin Bank in Dalian no less than ten times. In addition to the gold, silver, jewelry, and antique calligraphy and paintings accumulated at his home, he himself could not say how much money he had. clear.It is worth mentioning that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. In Zhang Zongchang's army, the officers also followed suit. What is strange is that such an army is often very effective in combat.After all, for people without culture and beliefs, the temptation of money always exists.

As for how many women there are, this also reflects that our classmate Zhang Zongchang is really busy. He married five concubines after seven days in Shandong. Wang Zhenyu could only pay homage to this. . .

Just behind Zhang Zongchang's spring breeze is the heavy suffering of the people of Shandong.If it's just Zhang Zongchang, it's okay, he only eats three meals a day, sleeps on a bed, and it's impossible to fight a bloody girl for 24 hours.But apart from Zhang Zongchang himself, there are hundreds of thousands of little Zhang Zongchang, big and small. Now that the people of Shandong quit, are they going to give the big guy a way to survive?Shandong people are indeed honest and simple, but that is when they can survive, and when they cannot survive, you will know why Liangshan heroes made their fortunes in Shandong. . .

For a while, the land of Qilu was in a state of turmoil, but Zhang Zongchang was still tinkering with his dream of winning Henan before Sun Liechen.