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Chapter 529 Thoroughfare

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    Zhang Hanqing¡¯s entry into Hubei so quickly was a big shock to all parties.  Especially the 5th Infantry Division, which marched for five consecutive days, covering nearly 800 miles, and managed to escape on two legs.  It was in this battle that the 5th Division gained the reputation of "Scud", and Li Jinglin became one of the five tiger generals of the Fengjun Army, attracting the attention of all parties.

    As the first Chinese to appear on the cover of Time Magazine in the United States, Wu Peifu was once called "the biggest man in china", which can be translated as "the strongest man in China". He was the agent of British and American imperialism in China.  They believed that Wu Peifu was an ideal candidate and called him "the great hero of New China", better than Zhang Zuolin.  They spared no effort to support Wu Peifu, providing guns and money to sending consultants, organizing and training aircraft fleets.

    Hubei has always been the sphere of influence of the Zhili clique, and Wu Peifu has always regarded it as his own backyard.  The successive losses of Hankou and Wuchang made warlords from all sides doubt Wu's strength, and Britain, the United States and other countries also expressed deep concern.

    And Zhang Hanqing, who once again made a splash, is now bargaining with the Central Committee for the legal status of being stationed in Hubei. He wants to be appointed as the inspection envoy of Shaanxi, Gansu and Hubei, so that his intervention in the situation in Hubei will be legally justified.

    Wu Peifu clearly denied it.  Regardless of how much benefit this will bring to the development of the People's Army, it is unacceptable for Zhang Hanqing to serve as a patrol envoy for three provinces as a junior.  Even if you want to run your own business for many years, you can only serve as a deputy envoy to inspect Shandong and Henan. In fact, you can't control Shandong!

    But the influence of the Feng clan was so great that he never expected.  First of all, Zhang Zuolin spared no effort to do this, saying that the People's Army was entrusted by the people of Hubei Province to defeat Wang Zhanyuan. At this time, it was also stabilizing the Sichuan and Hunan border. Its contribution was not small, and it was natural to be awarded the post of patrol envoy.

    Business people in Beijing and Tianjin have also launched petitions to put pressure on them, believing that Zhang Hanqing has the finishing touch and will be able to stabilize Wuhan's economy, which is on the verge of collapse. The chief ministers of the central government and peripheral figures also continue to exert pressure, believing that Hubei is now on the verge of collapse.  In the provincial situation, no one but Zhang Hanqing can be accepted by all parties.

    ??And Wang Zhanyuan and Wang Chengbin, both of the direct lineage, also spoke for Zhang Hanqing, which is a bit confusing.

    Since Wang Zhanyuan went north to Tianjin, his exaggeration also caused Wu Peifu's reputation among the Zhili to plummet.  No matter how you put it, Xiao Yao, who was very close to the south, took the train south but did not run across the two legs of the People's Army, which was farther away. No explanation will work, and it can only be understood as killing someone with a borrowed knife.  However, they are both from the same lineage, and at this critical moment, the coach still did such a thing that made people hate each other, which can't help but make people doubt Wu's caliber.  Based on this anger, Wang Zhanyuan strongly supported everything Wu Peifu opposed, and even made him feel disgusted.

    The direct line originally had three major tributaries: Wu Peifu, Wang Zhanyuan, and Wang Chengbin. Now that Wang Zhanyuan has fallen, Wu Peifu's power is even more prominent.  As the mayor of Beijing, Wang Chengbin was extremely afraid of this. He kept conveying his sincerity to the Feng clique and persuaded Cao Kun not to turn against the Feng clique at this time.  At present, Hubei is in fact occupied by the People's Army, and a nominal patrol envoy's position cannot change anything.

    Under this circumstance, the central government approved the appointment of Zhang Hanqing as the patrol envoy to Shaanxi, Gansu and Hubei.  This made Zhang Hanqing the third patrol envoy to serve in three provinces in the history of the Republic of China after Zhang Zuolin and Cao Kun, and his power and influence was even greater than that of Cao Kun.

    At this time, the situation in Hubei was complicated: the Northwest People's Army controlled various cities along the Han River Basin in northwest Hubei: Xiangfan, Yicheng, Zhongxiang, Jingshan, Yingcheng and Xiaogan.  After the 4th Cavalry Division entered Hankou and Wuchang, the 3rd Division effortlessly captured Jingmen. A Zhao Minggao Brigade was ordered to be transferred to Yichang to join the Wang Jinshan Department of the Hubei 3rd Mixed Brigade and the Zhao Ronghua Department of the 18th Mixed Brigade.  Together with the Sichuan Army.

    After Wang Zhanyuan stepped down, Zhao Hengti had no excuse to invade. Zhang Hanqing, the patrol envoy of Shaanxi, Gansu and Hubei, and Xia Shoukang, the governor, ordered the Sun Chuanfang Department of the 18th Hubei Division and the Wang Ruqin Department of the 8th Division to defend Puqi, and sent representatives to negotiate for peace with Hunan.  He personally led a brigade of the cavalry division from Han River to supervise the battle.  Han Linchun was stationed in the provincial capital to reorganize the Hubei 2nd Division and arrange defense matters.

    When Zhang Hanqing arrived in Yichang, the Hubei army was almost completely defeated.

    Originally, the reinforcements from Wang Jinshan and Zhao Ronghua should have had a numerical advantage, but they were defeated by the Sichuan army.  However, when Zhang Hanqing came to Yichang to inspect the front line, the battlefield was still going on.  A team of hundreds of people, regardless of the fleeing friendly forces around them or the pressing Sichuan army, resolutely stood firm on the front line. Just when the Sichuan army was trying to get some momentum, a beautiful counterattack suddenly came out, and they suddenly saw victory in sight.  The Sichuan army was stunned.

    Because there were few people, this unit was unwilling to fight and quickly retreated to its position to stabilize its formation.  Then they used the discarded machine gun groups on the front line to form a fire net and beat back the second wave of attacks by the Sichuan army.

    These two confrontations bought time for Zhang Hanqing's reinforcements.  ?When Ronghua heard that Zhang Hanqing had arrived at the front line, he hurriedly packed up his defeated troops and returned to the front line, finally turning the situation around.

    For the tiger generals on the battlefield, Zhang Hanqing never hesitated to praise him.  This force of almost only one battalion was able to block the charge of no less than 2,000 Sichuan troops. The officer's courage and ability are worthy of admiration.  Zhang Hanqing asked Zhao Ronghua: "Who is the officer in charge of the army that blocked the Sichuan army?"

    Zhao Ronghua said without hesitation: "Yu Xuezhong." He could call out the name because he was his relative better than his brother.

    ? 18 Zhao Ronghua, the commander of the Huncheng Brigade, lost his father when he was young, and was raised by Yu Xuezhong's parents.  After Zhao Ronghua was promoted to brigade commander, he invited Yu Xuezhong to serve as the artillery battalion commander of the brigade.  It was originally just an idea of ??repaying a favor, but I didn't expect that I got his desperate help in this situation.

    What Zhang Hanqing was happy about was not winning the battle, but finding Yu Xuezhong, an outstanding general who was favored by Wu Peifu, Zhang Xueliang, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong and others.

    Originally, it was Wu Peifu who took a fancy to Yu Xuezhong this time in official history, but in the end Yu Xuezhong defected to the Feng clique.  Historically, Zhang Zuolin and his son also had great trust in Xuezhong. After the "9-18" incident, Zhang Xueliang was charged with "non-resistance" and resigned.  Before going to Europe and the United States for inspection, Zhang Xueliang handed over the entire Northeast Army to the command of Yu Xuezhong.

    When Zhang Xueliang was preparing to launch the "Xi'an Incident", Yu Xuezhong once asked Zhang Xueliang: "If you do this, how can you do it well?" Zhang replied: "Just do it, why worry so much?" Yu said: "Just do it.  You must work hard to the end and never give up halfway." Later, Zhang Xueliang, who "gived up halfway", was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek.  Before accompanying Jiang on the plane, Zhang Xueliang once again handed over most of the Northeast Army and his own property to Yu Xuezhong.

    From then on, Yu Xuezhong put the kindness of knowing and meeting him first, and always used Zhang Xueliang's interests as his criterion for making decisions. He even went against the trend for this reason: He once risked "offending Long Yan" and went to Nanjing four times.  He met with Chiang Kai-shek and asked for the release of Zhang Xueliang, but was never successful; after the end of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Mao Zedong personally named him to be the leader of the condolences delegation to Korea, but he refused this great honor because he felt that he was "low-key in everything.  Zhang Xueliang's life will be easier." He once said to his subordinates: "Deputy Commander Zhang asked me to take care of the Northeast refugees, defend North China, and resolutely withstand the Japanese attack.  Return the military to him." On Zhang Xueliang's 90th birthday, he was filled with emotion after hearing these words over and over again, and said: "I will never forget Yu Xuezhong, he is my right-hand man."

    Chiang Kai-shek also admired Xuezhong quite a lot.  Chiang had a habit of writing comments about his generals in a small notebook he carried with him.  He admired Xuezhong quite a lot and said that he had "bright eyes, loyalty to people, and was a talented general." This is why Chiang Kai-shek "annihilated" Yang Chenghu and put Zhang Xueliang under house arrest, but spared Xuezhong and allowed him to "take advantage of his crime and make meritorious service."  one of the reasons.

    After liberation, Yu Xuezhong asked Zhou Enlai for instructions on how to deal with the property left by Zhang Xueliang.  Zhou Enlai, it¡¯s up to you to decide.  Yu Xuezhong then used the court to properly distribute the property to Zhang Xueliang's relatives in mainland China, without taking any money from him.

    In official history, it will be 5 years before Yu Xuezhong follows Zhang Hanqing. Since Wu Peifu "gave up" this opportunity, of course he will "grab the beauty."  As the patrol envoy of Shaanxi, Gansu and Hubei, he greatly praised Yu Xuezhong and said: "Let Battalion Commander Yu follow me as the regimental leader."  In order to express his goodwill towards him, he also reused Zhao Ronghua and turned a deaf ear to his defeat. Instead, he said that he would petition the central government to promote him to division commander.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  In order to gain Yu Xuezhong's loyalty, no matter how mediocre Zhao Ronghua is, Zhang Hanqing will let him fly into the sky in the wind.

    In order to resolve the dispute in western Hubei as soon as possible, Zhang Hanqing planned to stabilize Liu Xiang first, and then return to clean up the Hubei situation.  So Liu Xiang called Liu Xiang and said: "Commander Liu is the military envoy of Chongqing and has a busy job. Since Wang Zhanyuan has been expelled, the people of Hubei Province should complete the autonomy matters. The Sichuan army's entry into Hubei is unreasonable. Xueliang called on the 30th to express his will.  Protect the autonomy of Hubei Province from interference. If the Sichuan army is determined to fight again, it should call the central government and give an explicit order to attack it." Privately, a representative was sent to contact Liu Xiang: "The autonomy of Hubei Province is a foregone conclusion. If Liu Buyi  We have agreed to withdraw from Hubei and call the Beijing government to ask Brother Yu to assume the position of military governor of Sichuan."

    Liu Xiang originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to expand his territory when the Hunan-Hubei War broke out.  At this time, Zhao Hengti of Hunan Province stopped his troops, and the political situation in Hubei Province was decided. He would not be able to attack Yichang for a long time. Marshal Feng Jun personally commanded the troops for a long time to win, and reinforcements had arrived. It was difficult to predict further progress.  Moreover, the Feng faction has controlled the Central Committee and has strong strength. Since it is located in Dongchuan, it must not have the strength to resist, and its reputation is not justified.  It's better to stop the army here, which will not only betray the young commander's face, but also have the dignity to withdraw from the remote and useless place in western Hubei.  Therefore, on the grounds that "since Hubei Province is safe, we should withdraw our troops as agreed, in order to live up to our original intention of aiding Hubei", we led our troops to withdraw from Zigui and returned to Badong one after another.

    With the Third Route Army retreating one route, it will be much easier to deal with the other two routes.  Zhang Hanqing divided the People's Army into southern and northern groups, which were in confrontation with the Zhili Army and the Hunan Army.  It is not easy to take the first shot against the Zhili Army, but there is no such scruple in attacking Zhao Hengti.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The two routes in the north and south are in confrontation with the Zhijun Army and the Hunan Army.  It is not easy to take the first shot against the Zhili Army, but there is no such scruple in attacking Zhao Hengti.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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