young marshal spring and autumn

Military is the continuation of politics.While chasing Tian Zhongyu fiercely politically, Zhang Hanqing has already set his sights on this piece of fat in Shandong——without him, if he controls this place, the direct line is really the turtle in the urn.Relying on the two places of Henan and Hebei alone, as long as Zhang Hanqing's strategy does not go on business, and there are no major international policy fluctuations towards China, Wu Peifu must be on the decline in time.

The Feng army stationed in Dezhou took the opportunity to march south. The striker in charge of attacking Shandong was Zhang Zongchang, known as "General Dog Meat" (Zhang Zongchang was addicted to gambling and played with dominoes all day long. The local people called playing Pai Gow "eating dog meat", so Zhang Zongchang Zongchang was nicknamed "General Dog Meat".) He was also known as the "Demon King of the Confused World" because of his many murders, which shows that he has a lot of bad deeds and is full of crimes.Also known as the "three unknowns" general, that is, I don't know how many soldiers I have, I don't know how much money I have, and I don't know how many concubines I have.Just as Jiang Menglin once wrote in the book "Western Tide": "This notorious warlord is as strong as a cow, as stupid as a pig, and as violent as a tiger. His claws will stretch out at any time to anyone he doesn't like. Or any pretty woman he covets, and that countenance is truly daunting."

When he was young, he crossed the Kanto, worked as a bandit, and took refuge in the Revolutionary Army and the direct line Feng Guozhang. Because he failed to attack the Southern Army, he turned to Cao Kun, but Wu Peifu and other generals could not tolerate this bandit-born division commander. Zhang Zongchang and Xu Kun, a frustrated officer under Cao Kun, went to Fengtian to join Zhang Zuolin.

After taking refuge in the Feng family, Zhang Zongchang could only start from scratch, first serving as the commander of the gendarmerie battalion.Soon, Jilin Army Brigadier Gao Shibin (nephew of former Jilin Governor Meng Enyuan) joined forces with Hu bandit Lu Yonggui to fight Zhang Zuolin.Zhang Zuolin also despised Zhang Zongchang's bandit habits, and wanted to get rid of him with excuses, 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, and Zhang Zuolin I am very pleased to appoint him as the commander of the third brigade of the Jilin Provincial Defense Army and the guardian envoy of Suining, Jilin Province.In this way, Zhang Zongchang had a foothold.Soon, during the Russian Civil War, the White Russian Guards were defeated and fled to China. Most of them took refuge in Zhang Zongchang. Before long, Zhang Zongchang had nearly [-] troops.If the troops he led would be very fashionable today, they could be called the "Foreign Legion", including the White Russian Army who had been converted to Chinese nationality, as well as soldiers from Japan, North Korea, and France. It is said that these "foreign soldiers" had participated in the European war, sophisticated new tactics, good at fighting without military discipline.Zhang Zuolin put Zhang Zongchang at the forefront, originally to let him be cannon fodder.

But I didn't expect Zhang Zongchang to be lucky one after another, and without firing a single shot, he took over the entire territory of Shandong-the 4th Division of the People's Army was fully armed and guarded in Jinan. Wu Peifu had to break through the natural danger of the Yellow River if he wanted to help.Chen Tiaoyuan, the guard envoy of Xuzhou of the Zhijun Army, was originally a general of Zhang Zongchang. He received many favors from Zhang Zongchang.At this time, the People's Army was busy taking over the Jiaoji Railway, and Zhang Hanqing was busy with the northern election and the reorganization of the Fengjun.

As a martial artist, Zhang Zongchang has no ability to govern Lu, but he is very good at winning people's hearts.One day, a miscellaneous army came to serve, and Zhang commanded to allocate 20 oceans.However, the leader of the miscellaneous army added a vertical line to the word "one", so "ten thousand oceans" became "one hundred thousand oceans". When Shi Shiran went to the military supply office to collect the money, he found something different. Nodding and saying yes, the Military Supply Department allocated [-] oceans.Afterwards, when Zhang Zongchang summoned the leader, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother! It's a good thing you only added one vertical. If you add two verticals, wouldn't it be [-] oceans? The Military Supply Department may not be able to pay for a while. Money, There will be more in the future, my brother will have to work hard!" The boss really did his best to serve him, and he even saved Zhang Zongchang in times of crisis, and made great contributions again and again.

Although Zhang Zongchang is rude, he also has a "people-oriented" thought.When he was the governor of Shandong, there was a severe drought. He went to the Dragon King Temple in person, but instead of worshiping and praying for rain, he slapped the clay dragon king on the cheek and scolded sharply: "Bastard! You don't rain, you will kill me." It’s so hard for the common people!” Then he ordered the artillery regiment to set up nineteen cannons on Qianfo Mountain in Jinan, blasting the sky with live ammunition.He originally just wanted to vent his anger, and didn't want it to really rain heavily.Zhang Zongchang's success in praying for rain in a very special way does not show that he has a shrewd mind, but only shows that he is very lucky.

Zhang Zongchang felt that since he was the parent official of the sage Confucius, it was useless to come to Shandong if he didn't show some elegance.So, on the spot apprenticeship with a teacher.After a lot of hard work, Zhang Zongchang's skills improved greatly, and soon he published a collection of poems and distributed them to all his friends.It is said that "Young Marshal has many talents, but he only wrote two poems. My old man Zhang is not as good as the Young Marshal, so naturally he wins with more." In a century of China, there are many poets, but poems like Zhang Zongchang are still passed down and are still remembered by people. Poets are few:

"Tour of Mount Tai": From a distance, Mount Tai is dark and murky, the top is thin and the bottom is thick.If Taishan is turned upside down, the bottom is thin and the top is thick.

"Ode to Lightning": Suddenly there was a flash of lightning in the sky, and it was suspected that the Jade Emperor wanted to smoke.If the Jade Emperor doesn't smoke, why is there another lightning?

"Laughing at Liu Bang": When I heard that Xiang Yu was able to pull up the mountain, Liu Bang was so frightened that he was about to flee.It's not my little Zhang Liang, my grandmother has already returned to Pei County.

After Zhang Zongchang entered Lu, his affairs expanded, and soon after, he organized a division of Hara Tian Zhongyu under his command.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 desperation, Zhang Zuolin sent Guo Songling, chief of staff of the North China Army, to Zhang Zongchang's department, taking advantage of the exercises of various army departments.Once when inspecting Zhang Zongchang's troops, they bumped into each other twice, and the words went off the rails.Unexpectedly, Zhang Zongchang said: "You fuck my mother, you are my father!" Then he knelt down to Guo Songling, which made Guo Songling, who was many 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 Hanqing couldn't laugh or cry when he heard about it, but in order to control the intervening army and white bandit army in the Northeast and Far East, such an army must exist now, and perhaps only a ruffian like Zhang Zongchang can control such an army.Based on the principle of making the best use of one's ability, Zhang Hanqing does not want to touch him at present.

Zhang Zongchang tried to win over Guo Songling again, but Guo Songling 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 a lot, and a month later, he officially named Zhang Zongchang's department the "United Corps", which has a total of 1 "foreign corps" and 8 Chinese soldiers.However, because this old rough general had ruined Fengjun's image, Zhang Hanqing still transferred the "United Corps" to Tianjin and prepared to govern it himself.