Jagged Warlord

Li Mohan put away his smile, and said seriously: "Wu Ziyu, in terms of military rank, I'm Lieutenant General and you are Major General. In terms of position, I'm Army Chief and you are Brigadier Commander. Is that how you talk to me?"

Wu Peifu originally planned to scold Li Mohan and wish to die, but after seeing Li Mohan, he disrupted the plan, and felt a little embarrassed for a while, Wu Peifu hesitated for a moment, then stood up and saluted Li Mohan.

"Wu Ziyu, I know that you are a general, and also a talented person who has the righteousness of the country and the nation in his heart, so I hope you~~" Li Mohan just opened his mouth to persuade him to surrender, but Wu Peifu interrupted him.

"I, Wu Peifu, am a man of poetry and books. Loyal ministers don't care about two masters. If you want to kill or cut, give me a good time. I, Wu Peifu, will never be the generation of Qin Mu Chu."

Li Mohan asked rhetorically: "A loyal minister does not serve two masters? What is your so-called 'lord'? Yuan Shikai? Duan Qirui? Or Cao Kun?"

Wu Peifu replied: "Both Yuan Gongbao and Cao Dashuai have been kind to me. As for Duan Qirui~ I just obey the command of the chief Cao Dashuai."

Li Mohan said: "You are so confused. Now that the Republic of China is over and the emperor is gone, how can there be masters and slaves? Besides, you said that you have read poetry and books. Don't you know that the people are the most important, the society is second, and the king is the most important thing." Is it reasonable to be light?"

Wu Peifu's brain turned quickly, and he asked: "Does your Excellency mean that you put the people first? Then this time, your Excellency led troops to Beijing to punish the people for crimes instead of fighting for power and profit?"

"Of course." Li Mohan answered Wu Peifu affirmatively. He said, "Of course I am punishing the people. Duan Qirui's crimes have been announced to the world through telegrams. Ziyu, have you not seen it?"

"Dang~" Wu Peifu wanted to blurt out the answer, but swallowed it halfway through. He coughed and made a demonstration, and then asked, "I don't know what you have done to put the people first and the people first." What about the matter?"

"That's a lot." Li Mohan recounted his deeds from starting in Jiaozuo to expelling the Japanese army in Shandong, using commercial wars to attack the Japanese merchant economy, supporting national industry and commerce, and sharing land for farmers to reduce rent and so on.Originally these were real facts, Wu Peifu had heard about them a long time ago, coupled with Li Mohan's vivid description, Wu Peifu was completely speechless.

Li Mohan took the opportunity to ask back: "Then what did Duan Qirui do? I won't talk about his quarrel with President Li. This is their personal grievance. However, he betrayed the country in order to borrow money from the Japanese." Rights, betraying the rights of the people, this crime alone can be called a traitor."

Wu Peifu thought for a while, and finally found a reason to fight back. He said: "I heard that you are the leader of your national party, and you are also a talker in your national party. Isn't this the same as the emperor in ancient times? Who can guarantee Can you do better than Yuan Gongbao and Duan Zhiquan?"

Li Mohan replied: "Yes, I am the leader of our party and our army, the backbone of the SS and the National Party, and the leader of this group. However, I can pat my chest and say that my subordinates respect me and obey me." , serving me is not allegiance to me personally, let alone unconditional blind obedience. Our group is a collective united in order to realize our own ideals. The relationship between me and them is, in general, between superiors and subordinates The relationship, in essence, is a relationship between comrades, but it is definitely not the relationship between master and slave. He never thinks that I am their master, and we do not think that they are my slaves. They obey me, in fact, obedience is the right way It’s just that this line happened to be discovered and pointed out by me. Saving the country and the people is the only starting point and purpose of my combination with them.”

"Comrade relationship? What kind of relationship is this? Fellowship? Clique?" Wu Peifu asked

Li Mohan said with a smile: "The so-called comrades are those who have the same aspirations and beliefs, and are willing to work hard together towards the common goal. Ziyu, the book says that if you are poor, you will be alone, and if you are rich, you will benefit the world. You have a literary and military strategy, If you can serve the country and the people wholeheartedly, you will definitely be famous in history, why do you have to be a group of independent thugs and house slaves?"

Wu Peifu was silent

Li Mohan pursued the victory, "I appreciate your military talent, and I also value your integrity. I can tell you frankly that I have already understood the defense and layout of your organization in Langfang. It can be said to be very exquisite. If it is not for our party The guards are slightly better in terms of weapons, equipment and tactical concepts, and the outcome is still unknown. Our Chinese soldiers should unite to unify the country internally and fight for national power externally. If this is the case, death is also the soul of the country. But if You only think about your personal glory and wealth, and you serve the foolish loyalty of some short-term traitors, which makes the country fall into war, the people's life is difficult, and foreigners take the opportunity to invade and occupy our land. May I ask, what face do you have when you die to see your ancestors? ?”

"I~~" Wu Peifu hesitated to speak

"Think about it carefully. I wrote this book. Take it and read it. It will be helpful to you." Li Mohan snapped his fingers, and Guo Side immediately handed over a beautifully printed "My View on Nationalism" ".

"Send Ziyu to rest." Li Mohan stood up and left without looking back.

Wu Peifu took "My View on Nationalism" and followed the guards honestly. On the way, Wu Peifu began to think about what Li Mohan said, and also began to think about his own future.

……Dividing line……

With the destruction of the Eighth Division and the Third Division, the power of the Beiyang Army in Hebei was greatly weakened.Feng Yuxiang took his No.16 division to chase Wu Changzhi and Tian Wangwang all the way to Cangzhou, where Wu Changzhi and Tian Wangwang were surrounded by the SS troops going north.The two chose to surrender in desperation. According to the "Regulations on the Management of Prisoners", Wu Changzhi and Tian are expected to be dismissed from their posts and sent to the state-owned farm for labor reform.Some of their subordinates were incorporated and some were dismissed.

Yang Yide from Tianjin also immediately sent a telegram to the capital to pledge his allegiance to Li Mohan and Li Yuanhong.For the sake of stabilizing people's hearts, Li Mohan didn't deal with Yang Yide too much, but just reprimanded Yang Yide with a harsh telegram.

Although Duan Qirui was defeated in Hebei, he took a group of cronies and went south to Nanjing, where he met Feng Guozhang and planned a counterattack.And Li Mohan also began to take measures to stabilize people's hearts and prepare for the next stage of the war. Li Mohan's first strike was Fengtian's Zhang Zuolin.

Zhang Zuolin was on the side of Duan Qirui in the dispute between the government and the court. When Duan Qirui was swearing-in at Machang, Zhang Zuolin also planned to raise troops in Fengtian.However, Li Yuanhong also made preparations before, secretly wooing Feng Delin.With Feng Delin's restraint, Zhang Zuolin felt like a thorn in his back, and could only stand still.This time, Li Mohan adopted the same method, wooing Feng Delin and suppressing Zhang Zuolin.

Among Zhang Zuolin's opponents in his early years, Feng Delin was the most important one. Not only did he debut earlier than Zhang Zuolin, but his strength was once above Zhang Zuolin's.Until Zhang Zuolin was named the commander of the 27th Division, Feng Delin was also named the commander of the 28th Division at the same time, and his power was still between Zhang Bozhong and Zhang Bozhong.It is said that in 1916, Yuan Shikai originally had the idea of ​​letting Feng Delin rule Fengtian, but when Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin conspired to drive Duan Zhigui away, Feng Delin played a black face, which annoyed Duan Zhigui. After arriving in Beijing, he "protected" in front of Yuan Shikai Zhang demoted Feng", which made Zhang Zuolin win in the end.This statement also reflects Feng Delin's extraordinary power from one aspect.As the saying goes, one mountain cannot contain two tigers, and the two forces Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin will inevitably compete for a high and low.

The agents of Fengtian's SS Military Intelligence Department immediately sent the news to Li Mohan in Beijing with a secret telegram. Li Mohan immediately sent a secret telegram to Feng Delin, promising that Feng Delin would try his best to contain Zhang Zuolin as much as possible with the position of Feng Delin's warlord.

Feng Delin got Li Mohan's secret telegram, and immediately started to act. It happened that Zhang Zuolin's confidant, Tang Yulin, the commander of the 53rd brigade, fell out with Zhang again.

The fuse of Zhang and Tang's emotional breakup was the friction between Fengtian police chief Wang Yongjiang and Fengtian military circles, and Zhang Yiwang was caused.During the Russo-Japanese War in the 30th year of Guangxu, Wang Yongjiang once served as the Liaoyang police, which was appreciated by Zhao Erxun. He wanted to be given the post of civil affairs department, but Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the military at that time, opposed it.When Zhang himself presided over the Fengtian military administration, he also regarded Wang Yongjiang as highly as Zhao, and gave Wang the power of the police administration to rectify the province's police affairs. Tang Yulin and other direct soldiers were deeply dissatisfied with this. Rejecting the king's participation as a show of arrogance, Tang's army often clashed with the police for gaps.When the incident got to Zhang's ears, Zhang Zuolin didn't protect his shortcomings at all. He severely punished the officers and soldiers who caused the trouble, and summoned Tang and others to give lectures and reprimanded him. Tang felt embarrassed.

The discord between Zhang and Tang was exactly Feng Delin's opportunity, and he tried his best to provoke it.Feng Delin immediately sent his confidant Zhang Haipeng, commander of the 28th Brigade of the 55th Division, to sneak into the 27th Division and instigate a mutiny.

But Zhang Haipeng did not keep secrets, and Zhang Zuoxiang knew about it.So Zhang Zuoxiang invited some senior officers of the 27th Division to talk, and asked everyone to focus on the group. The officer of the 27th Division also believed that it was okay to deal with Wang Yongjiang, but not against Zhang Zuolin. Tang Yulin was therefore isolated and led two companies to flee to Xinmin Village.Zhang Zuolin was grateful for the friendship in the past, and at the same time, he heard that Tang Yulin had regrets, so he sent Wu Junsheng to accept Tang Yulin.Tang Yulin knew what was wrong and sincerely repented. Zhang Zuolin planned to use another job to see the effect.

Seeing that one plan failed, Feng Delin made another plan. Feng Delin forged a telegram sent by Li Mohan to Tang Yulin, saying that he would support Tang Yulin to replace Zhang Zuolin.He also deliberately let Zhang Zuolin's men find out.Sure enough, after Zhang Zuolin's spies found out that Tang Yu had colluded with Li Yuanhong and Li Mohan and planned to recruit an army to replace Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuolin stopped using Tang Yulin and completely left Tang Yulin in the cold.