Jagged Warlord

In the governor's mansion in Hubei, Wang Zhanyuan sat alone on the chair and smoked, while his soldiers were moving his belongings back and forth.

"I tell you to be gentle. This is a vase from the Ming Dynasty. You can't afford to pay for it if you plan to." Wang Zhanyuan's wife put one hand on her hips, and with the other hand, she ordered the soldiers to carry large wooden boxes.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the Northern Army sent an envoy." Chief of Staff Yang Yinrong came to report

"What is it?" Wang Zhanyuan asked

"This man's name is He Guoguang, and he was originally the staff officer of Nan Yuanchao, the commander of the cavalry regiment." Yang Yinrong replied

Wang Zhanyuan was furious, and shouted: "It's really fast to change the court, pull it out and kill it."

Yang Yinrong, who was admitted to the Imperial Academy in the fourth year of Guangxu, is a very traditional staff member. He said: "Commander, the two armies are fighting without killing each other. Doing so will damage your prestige, Commander."

Wang Zhanyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he was pressed and beaten, how could he get such a reputation?But facade work still needs to be done.So he said, "Let him come and see me."

"Yes."

Not long after, He Guoguang, dressed in the uniform of the SS, walked in. He raised his right arm and saluted Wang Zhanyuan, "Major of the SS He Guoguang, I have seen Governor Wang."

Wang Zhanyuan scolded: "Good boy, I will take you well, why do you join the enemy?"

He Guoguang laughed, and replied: "What Wang Dujun said makes no sense." He Guoguang, courtesy name Yuanzhang, was born in Puqi, Hubei.His boss, Nan Yuanchao, is also from Hubei.

At that time, the troops led by Wang Zhanyuan were divided into new and old factions.The leader of the new faction is Sun Chuanfang, commander of the Second Division and commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.Sun is from Licheng, Shandong Province, and he is from the same hometown as Wang Zhanyuan, and he is reused by Wang Zhanyuan.The leader of the old school is Nan Yuanchao, commander of the Second Mixed Brigade and commander of the Wuhan Garrison.Nan is from Xishui, Hubei. He was in the same hometown as Kong Geng, the chairman of the Beijing King Expulsion Conference at that time, and of course had contacts from time to time.In addition, Jiang Zuobin and Li Shucheng, who advocated expelling the king from the north and the south, also had personnel contacts with the south.Therefore, there are many contradictions between the old and the new factions, and there are often frictions.At that time, the voices of the Hubei people ruling Hubei between Beijing and Shanghai were very loud, and the Southern brigade department reused the Hubei people He Guoguang and others to give the new faction an excuse.Li Mohan's Military Intelligence Department took advantage of this opportunity and broke into the Second Division of the Beiyang Army.

Wang Zhanyuan knew it was unreasonable, so he lost some momentum and said, "Since you are an envoy, what are you going to say?"

He Guoguang said: "I'm here to give you two options for Dujun Wang."

"What do you mean?" Wang Zhanyuan asked

He Guoguang replied: "First, Governor Wang announced his support for Prime Minister Li and President Li Da. Then you can keep at least one-third of your property, as well as the safety of you and your family; if you are promoted to a higher level, go to the capital for another Appointment; it is also recorded in the history books that your Excellency declared righteousness, and resolutely acted righteously to save the people of Hubei from military disasters."

Wang Zhanyuan said disdainfully, "What about Er?"

"Two?" He Guoguang smiled and said, "Your Excellency probably won't like it. That is, your Excellency persisted until the end, and the Second Division of the Beiyang Army was wiped out. Naturally, you, Governor Wang, will die. All your property will be confiscated, and your family will also He was imprisoned in a reform-through-labour farm. It will be written in history books: The traitor and warlord Wang Zhanyuan, for his own self-interest, disregarded the life and death of the people, so that the lives of the people in Hubei were devastated. Prime Minister Li Mohan led the Central Army to judge south, and killed the traitor Wang Zhanyuan.”

"Damn it." Wang Zhanyuan slapped the table at the beginning, "Does that kid Li Mohan think I was scared?"

"Then Governor Wang means to resist to the end?" He Guoguang asked

"So what?" Wang Zhanyuan pulled out the gun from his waist and pointed it at He Guoguang, "Maybe I can't beat Li Mohan, but I will shoot you first."

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It was too late to say it, and it was soon, when the Chief of Staff Yang Yinrong standing beside Wang Zhanyuan pulled out his gun and aimed a shot at Wang Zhanyuan's head.Wang Zhanyuan didn't even hum, and his brain and plasma splashed all over the floor.

"Commander, don't blame me. If there is a way to heaven, you don't go, and if there is no way to hell, you break in." Yang Yinrong put his gun back, and said to He Guoguang with a smile: "The chairman is right, these feudal warlords are stubborn and ignorant. If we don’t understand them clearly, it will be difficult for China to become prosperous and strong.”

He Guoguang couldn't laugh, "You killed Wang Zhanyuan, but do you have the confidence to control his subordinates?"

Yang Yinrong said: "These Beiyang soldiers are not the SS. They serve as soldiers for the sake of military pay. For them, whoever is paid is not paid? Whose soldier is not a soldier?"

Wang Zhanyuan meant that the Second Division of the Beiyang Army had no leader. Yang Yinrong stood up, gathered some of the remnants, and announced his support for the Beijing government, Li Mohan and Li Yuanhong.Other diehard members of Wang Zhanyuan fled along the Yangtze River to Jiangxi or to Hunan.

Li Mohan took Hubei and Anhui easily, which made Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang in Nanjing extremely panicked.At the same time, it also made the Japanese start to worry, because Li Mohan hated Japan and was pro-American. If Li Mohan were allowed to become the supreme ruler of China, the Japanese invasion plan would encounter unimaginable resistance.

Originally, Duan Qirui was close to Japan, and Feng Guozhang was close to Britain and the United States.Now the British have no time to talk to Feng Guozhang, and the Americans are on the side of Li Mohan, which forces Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang to bet all their treasures on the Japanese.

The contact person between the Japanese government and Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang was Nobuo Tian who helped Zhang Xun organize the Japanese Volunteer Team.

……Dividing line……

With a long blast of the whistle, a blue-steel locomotive imported from Belgium dragged a few short carriages into Jinan Station.Behind this train, there is another train with a strange appearance, which is covered with rivet-filled steel armor from the beginning to the end. There are two locomotives one behind the other. The dark muzzles of three or four 75mm field guns.There are firing holes on the carriages, and the muzzles of the 37mm battalion guns and Maxim heavy machine guns protrude. This is a powerful armored train.The reserve army fought along the Jiaoji line. With such an armored train, the control of the railway was even stricter.

Cai E came out of the carriage with a serious expression on the platform to greet the officers who came from the General Staff, and shook hands with the officers who greeted him one by one.Afterwards, Jiang Fangzhen and Feng Yuxiang also came out of the carriage one after another.

The car sent them to the Governor's Mansion, where Ma Qian'an and a group of officers from the Shandong Garrison were already waiting.

Jiang Fangzhen shook his cloak and said to the officers present: "According to the intelligence, the Japanese have decided to support the two warlords Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang in their confrontation with the central government. Since this is the case, the Prime Minister said that coming and going will not be indecent." Also. Since the Japanese want to intervene, then we have to hug some of his beards. What is this beard? It’s Qingdao.”

As soon as this remark came out, the officers present were all excited.However, the excitement is the excitement. Qingdao is a fortress that looks like an iron hedgehog. During the German occupation period, the Qingdao fortress had neat firepower on the land and sea, and the fortifications were extremely solid.Now, after the Japanese got Qingdao, they set about repairing and adding some defensive facilities.Although the equipment of the SS and the Wehrmacht has been greatly improved, if the Japanese army really guards the Qingdao Fortress, the SS and the Wehrmacht can only use human lives to fill it!

After Ma Qian'an became the governor of Shandong, his figure was slightly fatter, but as Li Mohan's hardcore, he said loudly: "Qingdao was seized by the Japanese in the first place, and should have been returned to us long ago. Let's get ready to go to war with the Japanese." ! For the integrity of the country, for the future of China, no matter how great the sacrifice is, my surname Ma is absolutely unambiguous."

Jiang Fangzhen said: "It is of course a good thing to have determination, but what we are facing is not the sluggish Beiyang army, but the rising Japanese army. Although I don't think their combat methods are very clever, they are still a big power." The country's army. Therefore, we are going to attack Qingdao, and the task at the beginning is not easy. When the battle begins, we must immediately expel the Japanese army's cover and sentry forces near Qingdao, and at the same time cover our own artillery into the firing position. Approach the fortresses to the starting position of the attack, and then clear the outer forts before attacking the core! All of this takes time, a large number of shells and explosives are piled up, and the soldiers charge desperately. Only when the attacking troops After the position, a full-scale attack will be launched, and the peripheral forts and core forts will be attacked at the same time. Only by occupying the core of Qingdao Fortress in one fell swoop can the resistance of the Japanese army be crushed and Qingdao truly captured. Otherwise, once the Japanese army recovers, their navy will soon A large number of troops can be transported from the mainland."

Cai E added: "There is also North Korea. The Japanese can easily use North Korea as a springboard to attack the Northeast of our country. As we all know, the Northeast has just been brought under the control of the central government, and the central government's roots there are not deep. Therefore, we must fight quickly. Make a quick decision, take Qingdao as quickly as possible, and then make this issue a national issue and let Britain, France and the United States contain Japan."

Ma Qian'an said: "Now that Britain, France and the United States are participating in the European war, can they contain Japan?"

Jiang Fangzhen said: "According to the Premier's speculation, the European war will end in September to October this year. Now it is July, and we still have time to prepare."

Feng Yuxiang, who has been unable to intervene, said: "Actually, I think that the only way is to launch a full-scale diversion attack on the support points of the five infantry fortresses, drill in from all directions, cut off the connection between the infantry fortresses, and occupy their communication trenches. At the same time, the combat engineers directly Pointing to the north fort, the other three forts also launched a diversionary attack at the same time! As long as the combat engineers can destroy their command organization and occupy their core, the rest of the Japanese army may not resist to the end! A city without defense."

Ma Qian'an said: "Although the divisions we have formed recently in Shandong are mostly recruits, don't forget that there are cannons and shells in the Jinan arsenal. I pulled out all the cannons that can be used, at least one or two hundred , so don’t worry about ammunition.” Ma Qian’an said mysteriously, “In addition, we also have special shells in storage.”