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"Since the Revolution of 9, the central government has collapsed, the four directions have been restless, heroes and Xiaoxiao have risen together, and the people have suffered because of this, and they don't know when the end will be? However, there are only a handful of people who act like Zhang, the supervisor of military affairs in Shandong. Although the supervisor is from Shandong People in China, however, regard their parents in their hometown as Zou Gou, who plunder and plunder without any intention of compensation. Most of the soldiers under his command are blind bandits, and they regard robbery as a routine and adultery as a pastime. All kinds of evil deeds, how is this man's army different from animals? In the history of China, Dong Zhuo, An Lushan, and Shi Siming cannot be compared with them. However, this generation is not only not ashamed but proud, and regards human life as worthless with its own selfish desires. While harming Qi and Lu's fathers and elders, they do not forget the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River Today, more than 4 troops will go straight to Xu Yu's place, and then map the land in the south of the Yangtze River. If it succeeds, will our country still have a tomorrow? Fortunately, there are many heroes in the land of Qilu, and they rose up one after another to resist the bandits, making it late It has been too late to go south. However, the world is the world of the world and the people of the world. Are we, the princes in the south, going to sit and ignore Zhang Zongchang and his like, and repeat the mistakes of the old Nanming?" This is forged with iron shoulders. A passage from an article published in Tianjin by Shao Piaoping, the first reporter of the Republic of China who is famous for his articles, after his interview in Shandong.Although this article was written in classical Chinese, it successfully exposed many evil deeds of Fengjun after entering the customs, and aroused the anger of the people across the country, which was beyond Fengjun's expectation. On September [-], with the acquiescence of the concession authorities, the law enforcement team of the Fengjun stationed in Tianjin changed into casual clothes and entered the concession. . .

But let’s go back to the background of this article, the famous Yimeng riot in history.

Yu Sanshuan, an officer of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces, forcibly snatched the "Golden Buddha", which eventually triggered a riot of [-] villagers, and many bandits in the Yimeng Mountain area who refused to accept the surrender of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces also chose to stand on the side of justice this time. They will starve to death if they resist the Zhilu coalition forces).So, the next thing was lively. The rebel army elected Sun Meizhu, a well-known intellectual in the Yimeng area in the late Qing Dynasty and also a bandit leader, Sun Meiyao brothers and family uncle Sun Guizhi as leaders.The banner of "walking for the sky" was raised, and the "Shandong Jianguo Autonomous Army" was formally formed, and Sun Meizhu was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Route Allied Forces.Then they captured Lincheng, Feixian, and Cangshan, and approached Zaozhuang. The rebel army expanded by [-], and its momentum approached the White Wolf three years ago.The troops of Xu Kun's two divisions were too scattered and still concentrated, and they could only stare blankly at the snowballing rebel army.

At this time, Zhang Zongchang, who had just defeated Wu Peifu in Shangqiu by relying on his strength and equipment advantages, heard the news that he had lost his way. He immediately scolded Xu Kun for his incompetence while commanding five divisions to turn around and come back to suppress.

These five divisions are not Xu Kun's recruit divisions, they are all elites selected by Zhang Zongchang from the prisoners of the Zhiwan Army, and there are about 3000 deserters recruited by him from Russia.Such an army is naturally not something that Sun Meizhu's level of armed forces can fight against, but Sun Meizhu was obviously dazzled by the victory and insisted on fighting Zhang Zongchang.As a result, the battle lasted only one day on August', and one hundred thousand rebels were wiped out. Sun Meizhu was seriously injured and died shortly after breaking through. The rest fled back to Yimeng Mountain under the leadership of Sun Meiyao and Sun Guizhi. . .

Zhang Zongchang was also a ruthless man. He ordered that the heads of the [-] rebel prisoners of war who had finally been captured be chopped off, and then they soaked them in lime and built "Jingguan" by the side of Zaozhuang Station.The so-called Jingguan is a high mound formed in ancient times to show off martial arts, gather enemy corpses, and seal the soil.But what time is it now? In the sixth year of the Republic of China, the emperor was gone. Zhang Zongchang played this trick in a foolish way. He intended to scare his enemies, but the result exceeded Zhang Zongchang's expectations.

On August 8, though, there has been no vote on whether the Beijing government should be considered the central government.However, the two chambers of the National Congress, which are accustomed to quarreling, seriously passed the "Resolution on Sending Troops to Shandong and Henan to Punish Violent Soldiers" proposed by Zhang Taiyan and Cai Yuanpei.

According to the wishes of the congressmen, the military committee of the national government is authorized to carry out war mobilization today, and the youth army is dispatched into Shandong and Henan.Carry out military strikes against the notorious security forces that have committed numerous crimes. At the same time, they do not recognize Zhang Zongchang and his troops as legal armed forces, and do not accept the surrender of officers of any level in the Ministry.

The next day, the resolution came into effect after being signed by Wang Longzhong, Wang Longzhong, and Xu Chongzhi.

9月1日，青年军发布紧急动员令（其实暗中的动员在8月10日就已经开始了）。一共八个野战师约20万军队被命令在淮河南岸进行战备集结，战事已经到了一触即发的地步。。。

The reaction of the great powers is also very interesting. Because of Zhang Zongchang’s atrocities and Feng’s brutal performance after entering the customs, the envoys of Britain, France, Russia and the United States rejected Japan’s request to intervene in the National Government. Zhu Erdian, who has always been unimpressed by the National Government, is very rare. "Given the performance of Fengjun, we don't think they are a good choice to control China, and we don't think they are an army that belongs to a civilized society," he said.

In fact, Zhang Zongchang's atrocities also caused dissatisfaction among many people in Fengjun. They proposed to Zhang Zuolin to replace Zhang Zongchang. Now it is Zhang Zuolin's turn to feel a headache.

However, for Zhang Zuolin, who was born with a beard, Zhang Zongchang's almost beastly behavior was not too serious. Back then, there were many people with beards that were more beastly than this.What really worried Zhang Zuolin was Wang Zhenyu from the south. After all, he was the one who defeated the great powers.Zhang Zuolin has never seen someone who has seen the Russo-Japanese War. He has seen the battle between the Russians and the Japanese. In his opinion, although the Japanese defeated the Russians, from Zhang Zuolin's point of view, it was completely wrong. Little Japan bullied others by relying on its large number of people. In reality, Little Japan did not take advantage of it, and even suffered a lot.But according to the newspaper, Russia's elite troops were defeated by the Germans in Europe.Calculating according to this logic, can it be concluded from this that the youth army in the south is even more powerful than the Japanese after being equipped with advanced equipment?

Thinking of this, Zhang Zuolin shuddered. In fact, he didn't really want to continue going south to fight with the youth army. He was very satisfied to capture Beijing, and it was an unexpected harvest to win Zhili, Shandong, and Henan provinces.But for some unknown reason, those little Japanese kept urging themselves to continue going south under the guise of supporting China's unification, and they also promised to continue to pay half of the balance of Nishihara's loan that had not been paid to Duan Qirui to Zhang Zuolin's government.Zhang Zuolin was very happy at the beginning, but later he cursed Little Japan for nothing, shit, doesn't this mean that Lao Tzu has inherited all the obligations of Duan Qirui's government?Taking half of the money, but having to bear all the debts, Little Japan is too smart.But Zhang Zuolin didn't dare to say anything more, now he had to rely on the support of Little Japan.And if China is really unified, then veteran Zhang really doesn't have to worry about repaying the Xiyuan loan.

So these days, Zhang Zuolin is not very concerned about what happened in Shandong. There are only two things he really cares about. The first is to form a new elite army. Things are going very smoothly so far.Zhang Zuolin used the name of the Northeast Frontier Army, and the commander of the frontier army was his old brother Zhang Zuoxiang. Among the many generals in the Feng family, this man and Wu Junsheng were regarded as Zhang Zuolin's most trusted and reliable right-hand men.Zhang Zuolin of the border defense army gave ten divisions, temporarily planning to have 25 people, and Zhang Zuolin appointed his eldest son, 16-year-old Zhang Xueliang, as the deputy commander of the Northeast Frontier Defense Army and the rank of lieutenant general.

The second thing is to pay attention to the dynamics in the south. In fact, although Zhang Zuolin's fighting skills are a bit trendy, his strategic vision is still one of the best among democratic leaders. A little more prominent.In the view of Zhang Zuolin and Yang Yuting, as long as the southern national government maintains a neutral attitude during the Zhiwan War, then the territory of Henan and Shandong will definitely be obtained, and then they will be caught off guard by taking advantage of the opportunity of the main southern army's expedition to Europe. Maybe I can really unify China.For this reason, Zhang Zuolin also played a big trick, sending Liang Shiyi, who had recently defected to him, to go south to Shanghai to negotiate with the Nationalist government, and put forward the so-called peace proposition.The first point is that the southern national government recognizes the Beijing government as the central government, and the second point is north-south cooperation, and the central government continues to recognize the southern national government.The general meaning is that everyone will not have to fight in the future. In short, you are right if you believe it.In addition, the Japanese participated in planning the assassination of Wang Zhenyu. Otherwise, where would Kenji Doihara get thirty gold bars for Wang Jingwei?

It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. The assassination plan planned by Wang Jingwei ended in failure because of Mei Yunping's unexpected episode.Wang Zhenyu also saw through Zhang Zuolin's trickery, and he secretly issued a secret mobilization order through the Military Commission. Fourteen of the 21 divisions of the Southern Nationalist Government began to mobilize at full strength and assembled on a large scale towards the south bank of the Huaihe River.The military factories under the Ministry of Armaments began to work overtime to produce weapons and ammunition. On September 9, Wang Zhenyu issued a formal mobilization order based on Zhang Zongchang’s atrocities in Shandong, and then directly established the Northern Expedition Army Headquarters. He served as the commander-in-chief, Bai Chongxi as the chief of staff, Jiang Baili as the deputy chief of staff, under the jurisdiction of five armies and 1 divisions, Tao Zhiyue, Lu Diping, Cheng Qian, Song Haomin, and Yu Zuobai as the army commanders.

On the day when the mobilization order was issued, Tao Zhiyue, commander of the First Army of the Northern Expedition Army, led three divisions of the First Army and quickly stationed in Xuzhou along the railway with heavy equipment.When the news spread to Beijing, Zhang Zuolin cursed angrily: "This is not mobilized today, this is not standing up for the people of Shandong. There is someone more shameless than me, Lao Zhang, and this time I will be wronged."