The true biography of Yaqiao, the first chivalrous king of the Republic of China

Chapter 14

That day, it was already dark, so Wang Yaqiao, Hu Baoyi, Hu Zongnan and Dai Chunfeng rode back to Baque Temple.Fang Zhenwu and Yu Yanong, who were on duty, led a few people to greet them quickly.Fang Zhenwu held the reins of the big black horse and asked, "Brother Ninth, how did you go this trip?"

"Ask them." Wang Yaqiao said "hehe", got off his horse, and pointed at several other people with his whip.

"Happy!" Hu Baoyi echoed.

"Brother Zhenwu, this is the stewed vegetables specially processed by the restaurant, and there is a large bag of fried peanuts for you as a reward." Dai Chunfeng handed the cloth bag to Fang Zhenwu and said.Dai Chunfeng can speak, and in private he calls Wang Yaqiao the eldest brother and the eldest brother short, and in crowded places, he calls him his position.He knows that Wang Yaqiao also likes him to do so.

"Everyone has enough food and drink, go to bed early. Get up on time tomorrow and go to exercise! We have to step up training. I guess it won't be long before Qi Xieyan will call at the door. Don't take it lightly." Wang Yaqiao confessed.

The Anhui Clique and Zhi Clan, Lu Jun and Qi Jun have been fighting openly and secretly in Shanghai for many years, and it is only a matter of time before war breaks out.The assassination of Xu Guoliang was like adding fuel to the fire. The contradiction between Qi and Lu was unprecedentedly sharp. The Zhili warlord and President Cao Kun ordered Wang Yaqiao to be wanted, and ordered Jiangsu Governor Qi Xieyuan, Fujian Governor Sun Chuanfang, Jiangxi Governor Lu Diping and Anhui Governor Ma Lianjia to mobilize 20 troops attacked Zhejiang; Lu Yongxiang actively prepared for the battle after obtaining the support of Sun Yat-sen and Zhang Zuolin.He devoted all he had, and sent six divisions, a special column, and an artillery regiment, about 10 people, to the northern Zhejiang area to stand ready.He also ordered the Shanghai Arsenal to manufacture 2 shells within a limited time limit, secretly ordered 12 fighter planes and 10 tanks from France, and equipped Wang Yaqiao's special column with 500 German-made pistols.Wang Yaqiao handed over 300 people to Fang Zhenwu as armed plainclothes, and put them under the command of Commander Yang Huazhao. The other half were divided into 4 death squads, ready to fight the enemy hand-to-hand at any time.

On September 1924, 9, the Qi army launched an offensive, seized Jiading Anting Station, the west gate of Shanghai, and advanced to Huangdu, the Zhe army defense area.At 2 a.m. the next day, the two armies officially exchanged fire, and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War (also known as the Qilu War) broke out in an all-round way.Lu Yongxiang energized the establishment of the Zhejiang-Shanghai Allied Forces, and he served as the commander-in-chief.He Fenglin, the commander-in-chief of the First Army, Chen Leshan, the commander-in-chief of the Second Army, Zhang Zaiyang, the commander-in-chief of the Third Army, and Wang Yaqiao, the commander of the Zhejiang Special Column.

From September 9rd to 3th, within a week, Qi and Lu armies fought fiercely in Anting, Huangdu, Kunshan, Yixing and Liuhe.The Battle of Anting was the most tragic.Lu Jun pre-buried landmines in the Anting area. When the troops were unable to resist, they led Qi Jun to the minefields; However, after evading the first minefield, there were no cattle to drive. Therefore, in the second minefield, the Qi army was blown to pieces of arms and legs, and suffered heavy casualties.

In the early days of the war, the Lu army waited for work with leisure, and occupied the land and people, and repelled the attacks of the Qi army time and time again.Lu Yongxiang had both an air force and a navy, and he received the support of Sun Yat-sen and Zhang Zuolin. Therefore, he dispatched all his troops, determined to drive Qi Xieyuan's forces into the Huangpu River.Not to be outdone, Qi Xieyuan launched a fierce attack with the support of President Cao Kun.The first route to attack Shanghai was commanded by Gong Bangduo, commander of the Sixth Division and concurrently serving as Jiangning's guard envoy.The second route was commanded by Chen Tiaoyuan, commander-in-chief of bandit suppression in the four provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan, and fought against the Zhejiang army in Yixing.The third route to attack Guangde was commanded by Wang Pu, the guard envoy of southern Anhui.Qi Xieyuan served as the commander-in-chief of the above three routes.The fourth attack on Xianxialing was led by Sun Chuanfang in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Fujian-Zhejiang Allied Forces.

As soon as the battle between the Qi army and the Lu army started, Sun Chuanfang, the warlord of the Zhili clique and the governor of Fujian, sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight without sending a single soldier; He announced in a loud voice: "On this day next year, please watch the Qiantang tide." Sun Jun concentrated his forces to sneak attack Lu Jun's rear.Faced with the enemy, Lu Yongxiang hurriedly mobilized the artillery regiment and ordered the regiment leader Zhang Guowei to intercept it.And Zhang Guowei has followed Lu Yongxiang for many years, but has not been reused, and has long been dissatisfied.He and Sun Chuanfang were classmates at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and they had a good personal relationship. On September 9, before the two armies fought, Zhang Guowei raised the white flag and contributed a map of the Lu army's defense.Sun Chuanfang was very happy, and immediately promoted him to the commander of the artillery, ordered him to turn the muzzle and pour shells on the Lu army's position... On the 8th, Sun Chuanfang's troops occupied Jiangshan County; on the 16th, Hangzhou fell.Under the attack of Qi, Sun and other armies, Lu Yongxiang had to shrink the front line and transferred the headquarters of the Zhejiang-Shanghai Allied Forces to the Shanghai Longhua Songhu Defense Army Mission.

Wang Yaqiao collected the remnants, plus his own troops, thousands of people, and was ordered to guard the Songjiang River in Shanghai to resist the joint siege of Sun Chuanfang and Chen Tiaoyuan.His younger brother Wang Shuqiao recalled in "The Four Provinces' Attack on Zhejiang":
(Sun, Chen) The army marched to besiege Songjiang and started a fierce battle. Wang Yaqiao went to the city to command and called on the whole army to live and die with Songjiang. The bloody battle lasted for more than forty days. The left and right guards Zhu Shanyuan and Zheng Ruzhong were shot to death. In the end, there was no food inside and no food outside. With reinforcements, the Songjiang River is in jeopardy.So they broke through the siege and retreated to Longhua.The Battle of Songjiang was a major battle for the four provinces to attack Zhejiang, and it was also the last battle.

On September 9, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War ended, Qi Xieyuan won, and concurrently served as the Songhu Army Expansion Envoy; Sun Chuanfang also served as the Zhejiang Military Affairs and Fujian-Zhejiang Tour Envoy.Lu Yongxiang raised 27 million travel expenses from the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and fled to Japan with He Fenglin.

The war in the south is in full swing, and the artillery in the north is sounding. On September 9, in order to support Lu Yongxiang, the Feng Faction launched an attack on the Zhi Faction at Xifengkou. On the 12th, Zhang Zuolin issued an ultimatum to Cao Kun: "I will use the plane to greet your daily life, and wait for the final answer." On the 15th, the second Zhifeng War officially broke out.Feng Yuxiang was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the third army of the "Rebel Army", and went out to Gubeikou to face the Feng army.When Wu Peifu fought fiercely with the Feng army on the front line of Shanhaiguan on the Great Wall, he renamed his army "National Army" and led his troops back to Beijing secretly from the front lines of Gubeikou and Miyun; With the cooperation of Sun Yue, Beijing was occupied, Cao Kun was imprisoned, and a coup d'état was launched in Beijing; on the 18th, Feng Yuxiang held a political and military meeting, and decided to invite Duan Qirui, a veteran of the Anhui warlords, to be in charge of the "Interim Government of the Republic of China", and invited Sun Yat-sen to Beijing The Commonwealth is.Sun Yat-sen accepted the invitation and issued the "Northern Expedition Manifesto" on November 10, reaffirming the purpose of the Northern Expedition: "Not only to overthrow the warlords, but especially to overthrow the imperialism on which the warlords depend for their survival."

Lu Yongxiang, who was in a depressed mood, wept with joy when he heard the news that the Anhui clique had regained power. He immediately bid farewell to Dongying and set off to return home.Soon, he was appointed by Duan Qirui as the Xuanfu Envoy of Jiangsu and Anhui, and led part of the Feng army and the armies of Lu, Anhui, Shanghai, and Zhejiang to go south to defeat Qi Xieyuan and avenge himself.Qi Xieyuan had to follow in Lu Yongxiang's footsteps and fled to Japan. On January 1925, 1, after Lu Yongxiang arrived in Nanjing, he organized the Xuanfu Army and was also the supervisor of Jiangsu military affairs. In August, he had seen through the world, resigned voluntarily, stayed away from the struggle, and went to Beijing to serve as a director of the Palace Museum Board of Directors, basically withdrawing from the political arena.

After Wang Yaqiao's troops broke through the siege, Fang Zhenwu and Yu Yanong led a few backbones to Tianjin, where they defected to "General Dog Meat", Zhang Zongchang, commander of the First Army of the Fengjun Xuanfu Army, and was appointed as the major general commander of the Fengjun's second advance detachment. At the end of 1924, Zhang Zongchang was stationed in Shanghai.Fang Zhenwu expanded the army into a training battalion. All the recruits were recruited from his hometown of Shou County and Fengtai. The company and platoon leaders were all his old subordinates in Huzhou.

Wang Yaqiao was going to Guangzhou to meet Sun Yat-sen and report on the lessons learned from the failure of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War.There is no Dai Chunfeng in the list of peers.But Dai Chunfeng called "big brother long, big brother short" and wanted to go to Guangzhou with him, hoping to find a chance to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy like his third brother Hu Zongnan.

It turned out that in mid-March 1924, Hu Zongnan received a notice to go to Guangzhou to take the first exam.After being admitted, he wrote to Wang Yaqiao, saying: At that time, there were more than 3 students who took the exam. After three days of the exam, 1200 students were enrolled and 3 students were admitted.Due to his short stature, less than 350 meters, he missed the exam.At that time, Liao Zhongkai was the Secretary-General of the headquarters of the Grand Marshal of the Navy and Army, and was responsible for assisting in the preparation of the Whampoa Military Academy.Seeing that Hu Zongnan was short and tall, he was specially approved to take the exam, and he was admitted.

Therefore, Wang Yaqiao took He Dingjiu, Dai Chunfeng and others, disguised as traders, and took a rough sea ship for several days to Guangzhou.Later, with the help of Major General Li Jishen, Director of the Coaching Department of Whampoa Military Academy, he sent Dai Chunfeng to the Cavalry Division of the Sixth Phase of Whampoa. Chiang Kai-shek's loyal eagle dog.

It's not that friends don't get together.Wang Yaqiao vowed to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, the lone husband and traitor, but Dai Li vowed to defend the "revolutionary leader" Chiang Kai-shek. The road between enemies was narrow, and the two turned against each other, thus staged the most thrilling life-and-death fight in modern Chinese history...

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