Jagged Warlord

Others thought that Li Mohan valued talents and was thirsty for talent, but Li Mohan was planning in his heart that his wife, Duan Qirui, took tens of millions from me, and even discounted the issue of giving people, so seven people only came Six, no matter what this time, I have to make up the seventh.So, Li Mohan rang the electric bell, and directly asked the secretary to draft a telegram that was neither soft nor hard, and sent it to Beijing, calling for Xu Shangwu, the ordnance chief of the Ministry of Army, by name.

After receiving Li Mohan's telegram, I despised Li Mohan even more in my heart, thinking that this person is fussy, and every penny counts.At this time, Duan Qirui was struggling to deal with the Hunan issue, and he was too lazy to argue with Li Mohan, so he assigned Xu Shangwu, the ordnance chief of the Ministry of Army, to Li Mohan with a swipe of a pen.

Duan Qirui's list of military and political chiefs of the provinces published earlier was painstaking. On the one hand, he wanted to promote the unification of the North and the South, and on the other hand, he wanted to consolidate the forces of the North Sea.For example, Yuan Shikai's title of general and the name of governor in terms of protecting the government were canceled at the same time, and replaced by the title of governor, only one character was extracted from the two titles of governor and general to create a new term for governor.

The second is to make compromises. In this personnel arrangement, regardless of the imperial system and the anti-Yuan faction, those on the stage or the newly expelled, such as Chen Huan, are all given a certain position.Duan Qirui's original intention was to achieve military and civilian rule in each province, so only a few provinces were appointed as governors and governors, and the appointments were temporary in nature.There are only four provinces that serve as governors and military governors.These provinces are all small warlords or literati who act as military chiefs, which are of course temporary in nature.As for Duan's distribution of power in the four provinces of Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi, it simply sowed the seeds of war and created the source of chaos.Especially for Hunan, Hunan is a place where the north and the south must fight for troops, and it is more important than Sichuan, because for the Beiyang army, it is much easier to take Hunan than Sichuan.

Why didn't Duan maintain Tang Xiangming's Hunan governor and reassign him to Guangdong's investigative envoy?It turned out that two days before Duan published the list of military governors in each province, something happened in Hunan, and Tang Xiangming fled.When Hunan became independent, the Sixth Division of the Beiyang Army was in western Hunan, and Ni Yufen of the Anwu Army was in Yuezhou. Tang directly commanded a mixed brigade of the Beiyang Army, led by brigade commander Che Zhen, stationed near Changsha.At this time, part of the Guangxi army had reached Hengyang and Baoqing.Lu Rongting, as the commander-in-chief of the Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi coalition forces protecting Taiwan, drove from Guangdong to Hunan in early June and stationed in Hengzhou.

In Hunan, Zhao Hengti and others have formed two divisions of the Hunan Army, and a part of the civilian army in western Hunan has also moved to the vicinity of Changsha to form a division.This is a tense situation. Yuan Jun and the nurse cannot live in peace, and conflicts may arise at any time.Tang Xiangming's situation was somewhat similar to that of Chen Huan in Chengdu. He could neither command Yuan's army stationed in western and northern Hunan, nor command the civilian army in Hunan and the guest armies in Guangxi and Guangdong.The worst thing was that the people of Hunan hated this murderous soup butcher so much that rumors spread throughout the city of Changsha that various militiamen besieged Changsha and that the Kuomintang was going to use pistols and bombs against Tang. In the middle of the night of July 7th, Tang Xiangming left Changsha besieged on all sides.

After Tang Xiangming left, the Hunan Army had established three divisions, the division commanders were Chen Fuchu, Zhao Hengti, and Chen Zhongxun.Zeng Jiwu temporarily acted as the governor of Hunan as the first commander of the Hunan Army, and Long Zhang temporarily acted as the chief of Hunan civil affairs.Later, Cheng Qian went from Yunnan to Hunan in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Army, and his unit was also changed to the Fourth Division of the Hunan Army.Tang Xiangming's departure did not lessen the smell of gunpowder in Hunan. On July 7, the Beijing government announced that Chen Huan was the military governor and governor of Hunan.This order made Hunan more complicated.

I said before that Duan Qirui had a very bad impression of Chen Huan, so why did Duan Qirui appoint Chen as the governor and governor of Hunan?This was due to Li Yuanhong's insistence that Chen Huan must be given the post of military governor.After Tang Xiangming fled from Hunan, Duan Qirui planned to quickly send a Beiyang army to Hunan, but he had no troops to transfer. At this time, when Chen Huan withdrew from Sichuan, he still had two brigades in hand, so he sent him to Hunan nearby. , It can not only perfunctory Li Yuanhong, but also give Chen Huan a chance to take his crime and seek meritorious service.

This order immediately aroused fierce opposition from the people of Hunan. The Hunan people drove away a Beiyang warlord, and they would never allow another Beiyang warlord to come. Therefore, all walks of life in Hunan elected Liu Renxi, who was already in his seventies, as the governor of Hunan.Why push Liu?Because Liu Renxi used to be a vassal in Guangxi and had a close relationship with Lu Rongting of the Gui Army. He wanted to use Liu's relationship to obtain the assistance of the Gui Army to resist the Beiyang Army.

Lu Rongting supported the action of the Hunan people, because the Guangxi army did not want the Beiyang army to enter Hunan on a large scale.The issue of the northern army in Hunan aroused opposition from the people of Hunan, the Yunnan Army, and the Guangxi Army. People from other parties, such as Xiong Xiling and Fan Yuanlian, hoped to transfer Cai E back to Hunan, and people from the Kuomintang hoped that Huang Xing, who had just returned from the United States, would be appointed.But both Cai E and Huang Xing have no intention of being the governor of Hunan.Huang Xing recommended Tan Yankai to replace him.Tan Yankai has good popularity in all parties, but the relationship with the Beiyang Department is not deep enough.

At this time, the desperate Chen Huan knew that he was not suitable for the governor of Hunan, so he voluntarily resigned from the governor of Hunan. Duan Qirui also understood that if the northern army was forced to Hunan, it would definitely lead to war. Duan felt that the time to use troops was not yet ripe.Therefore, on July 7, he reassigned Liu Renxi as the governor of Hunan, and ordered the sixth division to be transferred from Xiangxi to Jiangxi, the seventh division to be transferred from Sichuan to Luoyang, and the third division to be transferred back to Yuezhou from Sichuan.

Duan Qirui's original plan was to send Cao Kun, the commander of the third division, to be the governor of Hunan after Chen Huan. However, Duan himself felt that his foundation in Beijing was not yet stable, and he had to rely on a reliable Beiyang general by his side to strengthen himself. position, so Cao Kun was chosen.Cao has always given people the impression that he is an "honest man", so Duan Tiao Cao is the immediate governor.At the same time, the third division that returned to Yuezhou in July was transferred back to the north in batches.

This does not mean that Duan gave up Hunan completely, because he placed another chess piece in Hunan, and he sent his in-law Wu Guangxin to lead the third brigade of the Northern Army to defend Yuezhou.This is of course a plan to ambush Wu as the future governor of Hunan.If people don't know about the affairs of the world, they don't do anything about it.The news that Duan Nei appointed Wu as the governor of Hunan immediately spread throughout Hunan. Of course, it aroused fierce opposition from the whole province of Hunan, and even publicly declared that it was to resist the Northern Army.Do not hesitate to fight.

Only then did Duan understand Hunan's toughness, so on August 8, he ordered Tan Yankai to be reassigned as Hunan Governor and Superintendent.The so-called "administration" means interim. In this order, the appointment of Tan as the governor of the governor temporarily means that a governor will be sent in the future, so the telegrams sent to Tan during this period all refer to Tan as the governor.

Tan Yankai was anti-Yuan, and he was very popular in Hunan.After the failure of Gui Chou's second revolution, he assumed all the responsibilities in Hunan, and Yuan transferred him and Zhao Hengti to Beijing.Zhao was imprisoned, and he was also under house arrest. This experience made him even more popular in Hunan.

Hunan people are very sensitive to the post of Governor of Hunan, which is caused by Tang Xiangming's excessive killings. Hunan people and even the southwestern guards are particularly resolute in opposing the Beiyang Army's re-entry into Hunan. However, the Beiyang Army has stayed in Yuezhou It is a fait accompli, so there was a tacit understanding at that time, as long as the Northern Army did not cross Dongting Lake, it seemed that the two sides could coexist peacefully.

Tan Yankai took office as Governor of Hunan on August 8.

As for why Huang Xing was unwilling to serve as the governor of Hunan, it was actually because of health reasons.After the failure of the second revolution, Huang Xing has been living in the United States, but he has never stopped sending people to promote the domestic uprising against Yuan Shikai, and raised military payments for the Yuan Hu army led by Cai E in America. In June 1916, due to repeated calls from Sun Yat-sen and Cai E, he rushed from the United States to Japan to raise funds for the domestic anti-Yuan struggle to purchase armaments.Yuan Shikai died of grief and anger that month. In July, Huang Xing returned to Shanghai from Japan.Due to Huang Xing's long-term struggle for the revolutionary cause, he became sick from overwork and eventually ruptured and bled due to varicose veins in the esophagus and stomach.According to the medical knowledge of later generations, Huang Xing's varicose veins in the esophagus and stomach ruptured and hemorrhaged, which was caused by hepatic portal hypertension. According to his multiple hematemesis and hepatomegaly before his death, it was speculated that this was a common complication of liver cirrhosis.

And Cai E's reluctance to serve as the governor of Hunan is actually because of health reasons.Cai E worked very hard in the army, and his condition worsened. Although he was treated with sulfonamide drugs sent by Li Mohan, when he arrived in Luzhou, Cai E's throat disease was so serious that he could not speak. He invited a German doctor in Luzhou Amis checked him out, but the medication was ineffective. In addition, the lung lobes were swollen and painful, dripping water was difficult to enter, his body temperature was as high as 39 degrees, and he could not sleep at night.Cai E is a responsible person. Although the illness troubled him, he felt that the army's salary arrears and the aftermath of Sichuan were extremely troublesome things, and he had to deal with them himself.Therefore, he went back to the public service due to illness, and demanded that the Beijing government pay 200 million yuan in arrears for nursing nurses.

This important information was immediately sent to Jinan by telegram through the special agents of the Military Intelligence Department that Li Mohan placed next to Cai E. Li Mohan immediately dispatched a group of German, Austrian-Hungarian and American medical experts from Shangqiu Union Medical College Hospital to form an expert team and rushed to Sichuan overnight. Heal Cai E.Laryngopathy was delayed for too long, the vocal cords were narrowed, and the condition was serious. It was necessary to go to Shanghai or abroad for specialist treatment.

Cai E himself wanted to go to Japan for medical treatment, but a long letter from Li Mohan made him dispel this idea.Li Mohan told him in the letter that the "Operation Plan against Japan" that he and Jiang Fangzhen had drawn up together had been stolen by someone close to him and handed over to the Japanese.The Japanese appreciate Cai E's plan for Japan very much, but they are also afraid that Cai E will control China's military power and implement this combat plan that will plunge Japan into a quagmire.

As a result, under Li Mohan's operation, Cai E decided to take more sulfonamides along the way and travel across the ocean to the United States for medical treatment.