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Driving Feng Yuxiang to the corner of southern Henan is not Zhang Hanqing's ultimate goal. He is most interested in Feng Yuxiang's Five Tiger Generals and Thirteen Taibao. There are different opinions on how the "Thirteen Taibao" was called in the Northwest Army, but it is generally believed that it was around 1917 when Feng Yuxiang was the commander of the Army's No.At that time, the Feng Department had four regiments of infantry, one regiment of artillery, one battalion of cavalry and one battalion of engineers.Li Mingzhong is the commander of the first infantry regiment, Zhang Zhijiang is the commander of the second regiment, Zhang Shusheng is the commander of the third regiment, Zhang Weixi is the commander of the fourth regiment, Lu Zhonglin is the commander of the artillery regiment, and Liu Yufen is the chief of staff. All officers of the .16 Mixed Brigade were Feng Yuxiang's confidantes, which was the beginning of the formation of Feng Yuxiang's military group.The so-called "Five Tiger Generals" refer to the original five regiment leaders including Song Zheyuan, Lu Zhonglin, Zhang Zhijiang, Liu Yufen, and Li Mingzhong.They have been with Feng Yuxiang for a long time and have great prestige in Feng's department.Because of his diligence and studious, he worked hard and gradually came to the fore. He served successively as a supervisor, battalion commander, and regiment commander, so that he can fully display his ability to govern the army.

During Feng Yuxiang's tenure as the guard envoy of Xiangxi, while recruiting soldiers and cyber cadres, he placed Lu Jianzhang in the No. 16 mixed brigade and squeezed out the troops one after another.Most of the recruits he recruited according to his own standards were tall, strong, simple in style, able to bear hardships and stand hard work, and easy to accept organization and training.He broke the stereotypes and bad habits of the general army at that time, created a unique method of training troops, and trained a group of young officers who were able to recruit and fight well.Namely: Han Duofeng, Commander of the Machine Gun Battalion, Sun Liangcheng, Commander of the Second Battalion of the First Regiment, Han Fuju, Commander of the First Battalion of the Third Regiment, Shi Yousan, Commander of the Second Battalion of the Third Regiment, Zhao Xipin, Commander of the Third Battalion of the Third Regiment, and First Battalion Commander of the Fourth Regiment Liu Ruming, Tong Linge, Commander of the Second Battalion of the Fourth Regiment, Sun Lianzhong, Commander of the Artillery Battalion, and the rest are also battalion-level officers.These battalion-level officers are especially trusted and relied on by Feng.The officers and soldiers of Feng's Ministry were envious, so they borrowed the story of Li Keyong's doting on the Thirteen Taibao from the Peking Opera "Zhulianzhai", and named 13 officers including Han Fuju and Sun Liangcheng the "Thirteen Taibao".The connotation of this name is both joking and ironic.

"Taibao" was originally the name of an official position in ancient my country, and it was an official who assisted the prince.The so-called Taibao in the Northwest Army is obviously a metaphor, referring to the 13 officers who assisted Feng Yuxiang.These 13 officers were all single-handedly selected by Feng Yuxiang. They followed Feng for a long time, and they were relied on by Feng.The 13 officers are: Sun Liangcheng, Sun Lianzhong, Han Fuju, Han Duofeng, Tong Linge, Liu Ruming, Shi Yousan, Zhang Weixi, Cheng Xixian, Guo Zhigang, Wen Chenglie, Ge Jinzhang, and Zhao Xipin.In terms of age, most of Feng Yuxiang's 13 "taibao" were born around 1890, younger than Feng Yuxiang.In terms of origin, they are all from the north (north of the Huaihe River). For example, Shi Yousan is from Jilin Province, Guo Zhigang is from Mengcheng, Anhui Province, Han Fuju is from Hebei, and Han Duofeng is from Shandong. I call them all for northerners.In fact, most of the members of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army were also from the north.The reason why the "Thirteen Taibao" of the Northwest Army gained Feng's trust and reliance was that these people inherited the tradition of the Northwest Army and were able to endure hardships. There were two main reasons. A certain level of education.In all fairness, Feng Yuxiang's "Northwest Army" is the most effective among the troops of various warlords in official history.

However, the truly large-scale "Northwest Army" was gradually formed after the "Beijing Coup" and Feng became the commander of the National Revolutionary Army to monopolize the Northwest. At this time, Feng's forces were far from reaching that scale because they had no room for development.

Among these generals, Zhang Hanqing is most familiar with Song Zheyuan, Tong Linge, Zhang Weixi, and Han Fuju.At this time of sudden change, Zhang Hanqing decided to start with Zhang Weixi first.At this time, he was stationed in Lu'an and was joining the vanguard of the People's Army.

Zhang Weixi had read books for several years in his childhood, and after he joined the army, he was diligent and studious, reading military books extensively, and was known as a "Confucian general" in the Northwest Army.He is not only eager to learn, but also organizes reading clubs for his subordinate officers at any time, and personally urges them to study culture and study martial arts books.When Zhang Weixi was the battalion commander, Feng Yuxiang commissioned him to compile a "Sergeant Service Book", which was used as the normative guidelines for the duties and tasks of the squad leader in the company during peacetime and war.This is because Zhang Weixi was born as a soldier and has rich practical experience in sergeant service. Therefore, this book is well written and is highly appreciated by Feng Yuxiang.Zhang Weixi was overworked to write this book, which affected his eyesight and became myopic.At that time Mr. Feng's No.16 mixed brigade, from the brigade commander down to the cook, no one in the whole brigade wore glasses.When Zhang Weixi asked Feng Yuxiang for instructions on making glasses, Mr. Feng asked him how far he could see without glasses?He replied that he could see five or six meters.Since then, two nicknames have been given to him in the army: "Liu Mi Da" and "Zhang Xiazi".

Zhang Weixi is good at training soldiers. He has unique features in training soldiers, and he is rarely better than his peers in the Northwest Army.During each year-end review, Zhang Weixi's department is among the best, whether it is subject, art, playground, field or internal affairs, health, military discipline, and morality.

Such a talent is not tolerated by Feng Yuxiang.According to the "Fengqing Bureau", the reasons are as follows:

In the spring of 1921, Feng Yuxiang learned that Wang Zhanyuan, governor of Hubei Province, who had had a feud with him, would take the Jinghan Road train from Wuhan to Beijing for official business. He paid back half a year's outstanding food and salary for the whole trip.Since Zhang Weixi and Wang Zhanyuan were fellow villagers in Guantao County, Zhang Weixi secretly revealed this secret plan to Wang Zhanyuan.Wang Zhanyuan then diverted to Nanjing by boat, and then took the Jinpu Road train to the north.Regarding Wang Zhanyuan's sudden diversion, Feng Yuxiang concluded that someone had leaked the secret. After various investigations, he found out that it was Zhang Weixi who did it.But first, it is inconvenient to publicize the matter; second, because the army is about to march into Shaanxi to fight, Zhang Weixi is the regiment commander, and he is a brave general, so Mr. Feng for the time being held back.When Feng Brigade entered Shaanxi to fight Puyang Village, because of Zhang Weixi's insensitivity, he was deceived, and a man from a brigade who was at his fingertips escaped with a gun. So Feng settled his old and new accounts with him, and removed Zhang Weixi as the head of the regiment. .After being promoted to the commander of the 11th division, Zhang was appointed as the director of the division's repair equipment department, which is a kind of demotion and demotion treatment.

Zhang Hanqing took advantage of this, and he sent Yu Xuezhong to meet Zhang Weixi at night to persuade him to surrender.Yu Xuezhong met Zhang Weixi once in Wuhan. At that time, he was only a battalion commander. In less than two years, he became the regimental commander and brigade commander. Now he is the major general commander of the 8th division with 3 people in charge. Well, it is estimated that it will not be long before the third star will make his star brilliance even brighter.The two had cherished each other many years ago, and when they met at this time, they felt very sad.

Zhang Weixi is still waiting for Feng Yuxiang to call again: the officers and soldiers trained by Feng, especially the officers, are not easily allowed to go away.If you make a mistake, you may be dismissed or demoted. After a period of time, you can still restore the original position and rank, and the promotion will not be affected.

But Yu Xuezhong brought Zhang Hanqing's admiration for him, but he was very tempted.Zhang Hanqing promised: As long as Zhang Weixi is willing to join the People's Army, he will immediately become the rank of major general brigade commander.With the example of Yu Xuezhong, Zhang Weixi couldn't help but feel moved.

Feng Yuxiang was born as a commoner, so he was able to get close to the lower ranks and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, thus gaining the support of the lower ranks.But Feng's method of leading troops is feudal patriarchal style, even the senior officers above the division commander are called around like children, like Han Fuju who was beaten by Feng in front of the soldiers after he became the division commander 40 army sticks, no mercy.This method of leading troops, coupled with other factors, led to the subsequent betrayal of Feng's officers.Zhang Weixi was also slapped in public, and he was very dissatisfied with Feng Yuxiang's discipline deep in his memory.

Zhifeng has been at a disadvantage in the fight, instead of being a defeated general under Feng Yuxiang's tent, how can he start anew and open up a new world?So on a dark night, Zhang Weixi defected to Zhang Hanqing.