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Chapter 290 Robbery (Part 1)

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    Zhang Zuolin was very happy that Xu Shuzheng came to serve.  At least, in this troubled world, he could finally be considered a figure and truly relied on by those in power.

    Although Zhang Zuolin was born in the green forest, he had long had great ambitions. He supported his troops outside the pass and was waiting for the opportunity to conquer the Central Plains.  However, no matter whether Zhili, Anhui or Yuan Shikai were alive, they were on guard against Fengtian's army. Fengtian's army has always been unable to take a step outside the pass.  Now that the situation is stronger than others, Duan Qirui is sick and hastily sought medical treatment. Of course he is happy to "invite" him out of isolation.  After hearing the news, I was already eager to give it a try.

    On the contrary, Zhang Hanqing was surprisingly calm. In private, he directly asked Zhang Zuolin: "Father, do you think that with the current strength of our two provinces, Feng and Hei, how much trouble can we stir up in the internal political situation of Guan?"

    Zhang Zuolin was silent.

    Zhang Hanqing smiled slightly and said: "Although the strength of the Zhijiang and Anhui factions are about the same, they far surpass us. Although we have the strength of five divisions on the surface, the 27th Division and the First Division have to take care of two provinces.  The situation, and the 28th Division has just surrendered, and the people's hearts are unstable; although the 29th Division of the second uncle has been assigned to our camp, it is in the black province and is on its own. To be honest, such a small amount of troops has no decisive impact on the overall situation. At present,  The situation in Anhui and Anhui, no matter who is better or worse in the end, is wary of us. If we rashly join any of them, we will become a vassal and lose our independent status. Although the current situation in Northeast China is unpredictable, it is generally beneficial to us.  . What I mean is that you don¡¯t have to be conceited. If it¡¯s profitable, you can gain, and if it¡¯s unprofitable, there¡¯s no harm. In short, the first priority is to strengthen yourself.¡±

    The Guard Division has become Zhang Zuolin's general reserve team, and they are not usually used to settle accounts.

    Zhang Zuolin is also the best among people. These things were originally in his mind and they naturally hit it off.  So the father and son discussed it and decided that Zhang Hanqing would be the one to blame.  Anyway, the general principle is "don't let the hawk out when you don't see the rabbit."

    When meeting Xu Shuzheng, Zhang Hanqing was naturally present. As soon as the two sides turned to the topic, Zhang Hanqing deliberately said to Zhang Zuolin: "Father, you have a destiny to govern, so you should send troops outside the customs. However, there are currently insufficient armaments. If we act in a hurry, if something goes wrong, it will be a disaster."  It becomes an excuse for others to interfere in the political situation and leads to chaos." Zhang Zuolin also reacted very quickly, deliberately making things difficult and said: "I also know this, but the current situation in the capital is extremely critical. If we wait for supplies, I am afraid that the opportunity will be missed and the governance plan will be undermined.  "

    Xu Shuzheng was already prepared for the double act between Zhang and his son.  If you want to impress the cunning Zhang Zuolin, how can you do it without some homework?  He was ordered to go outside the customs to summon troops to Beijing. He was well aware of Lao Zhang's character of "not getting up early without profit", and knew that Zhang Zuolin would never accept the call if heavy profits were not allowed.  In fact, if Fengjun does not enter the customs, the situation in Beijing will not be overwhelmingly in favor of the Anhui clique.

    ??For Zhang Zuolin, the earthly emperor of Fengtian, the best gift is none other than weapons.  Xu Shuzheng had served as deputy minister of the Ministry of War and knew the details of Duan Qirui's purchase of Japanese arms. At the same time, before he handed over his post as deputy minister, he had left several blank official documents of the Ministry of War stamped with customs seals, so he decided to rob  A batch of arms was exchanged for Zhang Zuolin sending troops into the customs.  However, Duan Qirui is a headstrong person. If you ask him for instructions in advance, he will definitely not allow it. You can only take action first and then talk about it.

    Xu Shuzheng negotiated with Zhang Zuolin on the condition of supporting He Zuolin as vice president and dividing the arms. He said: "This time, three-quarters of the arms acquisition will go to Yushuai and one-quarter to Xu. As long as Yushuai's army uses the main force  Just move into Tianjin and Langfang and force Feng Guozhang to resume all his duties as Prime Minister Duan."

    Since there is a rabbit, of course it will fly.  After receiving Xu Shuzheng's promise, Zhang Zuolin readily agreed and immediately sent troops into the pass.  Entering the Pass this time, Fengjun took Zhang Zuoxiang as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.  Although Zhang Hanqing was nominally an assistant, he was actually responsible for all internal policies. This was just because of his limited qualifications and he needed a veteran like Zhang Zuoxiang to calm the situation.

    After the news of Fengjun¡¯s entry into the customs came out, Feng Guozhang was of course the most uneasy.  Fengtian is located behind Beijing. It can arrive at any time in the morning or evening.  As early as Yuan Shikai's time, he had looked at the forces outside the Guan Dynasty with admiration and tried his best to be gentle.  Feng Guozhang couldn't help but think that Li Yuanhong was ousted from power after Zhang Xun led the braided army to Beijing a year ago. Now that Fengjun has entered the customs, the old drama may happen again.  He was a president with no troops and no power. He had no control over Beijing. He had a premonition that he might be expelled or put under house arrest at any time. Therefore, he calculated thirty-six strategies and still used walking as the best strategy. He secretly arranged a second "Southern Tour"  , planning to go south from Jinghan Road to Hubei, but how could the Duan people let the tiger go back to the mountain?  Of course he is not allowed to leave Beijing.

    In order to ensure that "soldiers are valuable and speedy", the Beijing-Fengtian Road train was detained by Fengjun to transport troops on February 24, 1918; on the 25th, Yang Yuting, the general counselor of the Fengtian Military Governor's Office, led troops to Luanzhou.  After the main forces of the five brigades were forcibly stationed in the Pingjin area, a headquarters was set up in Tianjin Junliang City, with Zhang Zuolin as commander and Xu Shuzheng as deputy commander and acting commander.?.

    On the same day, Zhang Jinghui's troops from the 53rd Brigade of the 27th Division of the Fengjun Army arrived in Qinhuangdao, where there were more than 30,000 rifles and ammunition shipped by the Japanese government in the first batch according to the Sino-Japanese Ordnance Loan Agreement, which had also been transferred to Zhang's family for a long time.  A piece of fat from the father and son's "fayan"!

    This arms was originally a new Japanese-made firearm that Duan Qirui painstakingly acquired after some hard work (at this time, China was unable to manufacture suitable weapons on its own. Usually, the firearms were purchased from Japan and the artillery was from Krupp, Germany)  , originally borrowed 20 million in the name of participating in the war against Germany in the late World War I, and used it to train three divisions and four mixed brigades of the participating armies. This is the first batch.

    The person responsible for guarding this batch of firearms is the Changdesheng Department of Jiang Guiti, a peripheral force of the Anhui clique, Yijun.  The Yi Army was a branch of the Huai Army and relied on the Anhui Clan during the feud over the government.  As the "General Zhaowu" with an army of 100,000, Jiang Gui supervises the military affairs of Rehe and is also the governor of Rehe. Jiang Gui's title is old and spicy.  Duan Qirui originally thought it would be a safe thing to transfer this batch of arms to Beijing through his territory, but who knew that Feng Jun, who had always supported Prime Minister Duan, would want to take advantage of this batch of arms as soon as he came out of the border!  What about the promised alliance?

    Who is to blame?  At the Tianjin Governor's Army meeting, Jiang Guiti had already fallen out with Zhang Hanqing.  There is no possibility of reconciliation after the Guards Division incorporated Yijun Song Jiuling's troops. Besides, compared with 30,000 firearms, the boat of friendship can easily overturn, not to mention that the two sides have no friendship at all!

    Chang Desheng, the commander of Yijun stationed in Qinhuangdao, could not have imagined that Fengjun would dare to risk the disapproval of the world and target Duan "Zhongxin".  Moreover, strong dragons do not overwhelm local snakes. Qinhuangdao is also a territory under Rehe¡¯s control after all!  It was originally thought that when Fengjun sent troops to Tianjin, Qinhuangdao was just a borrowed one. However, Fengjun seemed to have been prepared for it. As soon as the vanguard troops entered the city, the vanguard rushed to surround the "munitions warehouse in the south of the city", where the 30,000 rifles were stored.

    Although Yijun had glory in history, it was now a corrupt and decrepit army.  Faced with Feng Jun's menacing attitude, only one recruit mustered up the courage to question Feng Jun's "bad behavior." However, Feng Jun's leading platoon leader, who had already accepted the order, raised his gun and beat him to the ground. However, he was always arrogant.  The Yijun garrison suddenly lost their voices. You must know that they have the strength of a reinforced company!

    There was no way, whether intentional or not, the heroic deeds of the Guard Brigade in suppressing bandits had been widely spread in the Northeast, and Song Jiuling was deeply shocked.  With more people and greater power, it is possible to be tough. Anyway, it is normal for Yijun, who has no preparations for war, no determination to fight, and three already decayed, to collectively become cowardly.

    Fengjun quickly took over the warehouse and treated it as if no one was there.  This made Yi Jun seem to feel humiliated, and they all picked up their weapons to save some face.  However, Fengjun's successors swarmed in, and it quickly became a situation where Fengjun had a numerical advantage.  As a result, the courage I had finally built up was lost again.  This time, I couldn't get up again.

    Faced with such a major drastic change, Chang Desheng had no reason not to express indignation and protest.  While he ordered his garrison to enter a state of combat readiness, he went to the south of the city in person, intending to negotiate with force.  If Fengjun was allowed to snatch this batch of arms, not only would it be difficult for Duan Qirui to deal with him, but Yijun's reputation would be completely ruined from now on.

    But what made him dumbfounded was that Fengjun had already been prepared. Not only did soldiers with guns and live ammunition blockade the entire warehouse, but they also set up several cannons and put up a posture of "resistance" with force.  According to the strength of an integrated brigade in Fengjun, it is said that it was still under the 27th Division founded by Zhang Zuolin. It was definitely impossible for Desheng's two battalions of less than 2,000 "double spearmen" to win with force.

    Jiang Guiti allowed the people of Rehe to grow opium, making Rehe a nationally famous tobacco growing area.  Because he was born in poverty and grew up in the military, he still retained his vigorous style and simple life to some extent. At the same time, he also attached great importance to the combat effectiveness and military appearance and discipline of the army. Therefore, Yijun's combat effectiveness was still considered a force in the early Republic of China and should not be underestimated.  However, as he entered his twilight years, Yijun also seemed to have entered his twilight years. Due to insufficient military pay and the influence of many years of comfortable life, Yijun has gradually deteriorated. Opium smoking has become a sight in the military. It is also the earliest Chinese title "Double"  "Lancers" local troops (the more famous one is the Guizhou Army).  Today's Yi Jun's mental outlook is no longer what it was yesterday, and is far from the same level as the well-trained Feng Jun.

    Chang Desheng is not afraid of a surprise attack by the Fengjun. At least for now, everyone is still following the banner of the Central Committee - Duan Qirui, although Duan has nominally deprived him of the title of Prime Minister and Chief of the Army.  position.  It would be too unethical to kill someone after obtaining a gun from Feng Xi. This will shock Beiyang!  He was prepared to use the method of civil dispute rather than physical combat to resolve the matter.

    But what he met was the young marshal.

    A young marshal dressed in a yellow woolen coat and uniform accompanied by Major General Zhang Jinghui, the brigade commander, greeted Chang Desheng.  Zhang Hanqing, who was in charge of foreign affairs for the first time, tried his best to maintain his elegant image, but the heroic spirit he expected was overshadowed by his age, which was helpless.  Who told him to be so handsome naturally?  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)?No way.  Who told him to be so handsome naturally?  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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