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    The People's Army occupied Hefei, that is, it divided its troops and conquered various places.  After the rebellion, Feng Yuxiang had withdrawn his troops in Anhui to the north of the Huaihe River and controlled various places in Huaibei such as Fuyang, Haozhou, Suzhou, Huaibei, Bengbu and other places.  After Zhang Hanqing subdued several of Feng's generals, he took them in as soon as they saw fit, not for his own sake.

    In order to continue to divide the Zhili clique, Prime Minister Jin Yunpeng was sent a counter-mail to re-appoint Feng Yuxiang as the governor of Huaibei, as a buffer against Wu Peifu's tribe in Henan.  Feng Yuxiang thoroughly understood the strength of the People's Army. After taking office, he announced that he would "stop the troops and support the people." He obeyed the Central Committee's military orders and showed favor to Zhang Hanqing. In essence, he split from the direct line.

    Feng Yuxiang¡¯s troops withdrew from Hubei, making Hubei¡¯s autonomy possible.  At this time, Jiang Baili had arrived, and the three giants of the People's Army gathered together to discuss the next battle plan.  At this time, the Zhili clique has been divided into three parts: in the north is the Wu Peifu clique, which is dominated by Zhili and Henan, and in east China is Jiangsu, where Qi Xieyuan is in charge. They are only connected by Xuzhou, or may have exchanges with Tian Zhongyu of Dulu.

    Another direct general, Chen Tiaoyuan of Jiangxi, did not have such good luck. The west and north were Hunan, Hubei, and Anhui controlled by the People's Army respectively. The south was the Guangdong military government that had been clamoring for the "Northern Expedition", and the northeast was controlled by the military government of Guangdong.  Lu Yongxiang, who is affiliated with his old rival Anhui in Zhejiang, is waiting for the enemy on three sides, and the situation is very bad.

    With a strategist's eye, Jiang Baili could see Jiangxi's advantages at a glance: the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, and Jiangxi were united, and Dong Ke could work with the Zhejiang-Anhui faction to conquer Jiangsu and capture the prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River¡ª¡ªAt this time  Due to the discord between Zhi and Feng, Duan Qirui, the leader of the Anhui clique, is ready to make a move. If he can combine the existing strength of the Anhui clique and use the Soviet Union and Shanghai as bait, he can attack Jiangsu and Shanghai in ten days.

    Zhang Hanqing also thought so, and there was no need for strategic vision: Jiangxi was the only place Sun Yat-sen would pass through in his "Northern Expedition".  If Jiangxi is captured, the Cantonese army will not be able to move north once there is peace between the north and the south in the future. Even if Sun Yat-sen takes over Beijing, he will have to rely on the Feng clique to make arrangements for China's political situation. In fact, power will still be in the hands of the Feng clique.

    Originally, he was planning to unite with Sun Yat-sen to establish the Republic of China, but seeing the expansion of his strength, Zhang Hanqing's thoughts also changed - with this group of elite soldiers and generals, he could definitely do something big!  According to historical facts, a coup to oust Sun Yat-sen is about to take place in Guangzhou. If we don¡¯t wait until now to get involved in Gan Province, should we wait for Sun Yat-sen to come back next year?

    After deliberation, it was decided to use Zhang Wensheng and a brigade of the old Anwu Army to guard Hefei and Chuzhou to form the Anhui Security Command.  Ji Yiqiao's deputy Shao Wenkai took over as the commander of the 7th Division. He led his headquarters and Wang Duqing's mixed brigade across the Yangtze River, attacked Jingdezhen from Huangshan, and threatened Nanchang's left wing Poyang County;

    Zhang Hanqing, Yu Xuezhong's 9th Division, and Jin Yun'e's mixed brigade, together with the Army's 8th Division from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Commander Sun Chuanfang, turned from Jiujiang to attack Xingzi and De'an, and attacked Nanchang from the front;

    Ji Yiqiao returned to Hunan and mobilized the 1st and 4th elite divisions of the Central Hunan People's Army to cross the Liuyang River from Changsha to attack Tonggu, and threaten the right wing of Nanchang along the Nanlian River.

    The three-pronged army marched toward Nanchang in a mighty manner, under the slogan of "abolition of supervision and reduction of troops."

    Under the devastating offensive of the People's Army and his troops, Chen Guangyuan's cronies and garrison envoy in northern Jiangxi, Deng Ruzhuo, were defeated like a mountain and had no power to resist.  It only took Zhang Hanqing 7 days to force the Nanchang City, and joined forces with Zhang Chengde of the 4th Division in Anyi.

    Chen Guangyuan successively urged Fang Benren, the garrison envoy in southern Gansu, to come to the rescue as soon as possible. However, Fang Benren had always been inclined to the Guangzhou National Government and had a good impression of Zhang Hanqing, who regarded himself as a "three dishes cooking righteousness". He actually ordered his troops to "strictly maintain neutrality and serve China |  The central government¡¯s orders are the yardstick, and no war can be fought without military orders.¡±

    Zhou Yinren, the commander of another 12th Division stationed in Jiangxi, saw the situation as discordant. In order to preserve his strength, he led his troops to flee into Fujian.

    Chen Guangyuan failed to send reinforcements, and Wu Peifu was beyond his reach. He also knew that there was nothing he could do, so he had to send a telegram to resign from the post of military governor. The speed was much faster than Zhang Hanqing expected.  All areas north of Ji'an and Fuzhou surrendered, and only the garrison envoys of southern Ganxi controlled the three southern areas and were watching.

    Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Anhui are all provinces that pass through the Yangtze River Basin. If there is a large-scale naval force, it will be a big help in controlling these places, including moving west to Chongqing and south to Jianghu in the future.  In Zhang Hanqing's mind, he still needs to build a powerful navy in the future, and now is the time.

    He increased the establishment of the Yangtze River Fleet, recruited elite soldiers from various ministries to enrich the team, and organized a brigade of troops, organized as the 1st Marine Brigade. He established the Yangtze River Defense Fleet with a small number of officers and soldiers who were proficient in water as the core. In the Qinhuangdao Navy  Liu Guangkai, an outstanding student at the Naval Ship School and a former naval general of the Republic of China, was recommended as fleet commander.

    Although he is said to be the commander, he actually only has two old gunboats purchased from the Americans, a small transport ship, and a marine brigade staffed by infantry. This is the entire property of the Yangtze River Defense Fleet.

     The Yangtze River Fleet was established under such circumstances.

    As the commander of the navy regardless of specific affairs, Zhang Hanqing naturally could not "condescend" to serve as the commander of the Northeast Jiang Defense Fleet when he had two nominal Jiang Defense Fleets. He also gave up this position at this time to let Shen Honglie  Went to show off our talents.  He himself focused on how to coordinate the coordinated development of the navy and army in the overall situation. In the words of a great man, he "takes small steps and thinks about some strategic issues."

    The issues he thinks about are deep and broad.

    In order to prepare for a rainy day, he trained naval and air force personnel in advance when warlords from all sides were expanding their armies, and he also steadily expanded the navy's power at the best possible opportunity.  In his opinion, when the country has not yet been unified and the army is still the most urgent force at present, it is not appropriate to spend a large amount of precious financial resources to expand the navy on a large scale.

    The reason is very simple: the gap between China and the naval powers is not a little big. To catch up, we must also pay attention to tricks and overtake in corners. Otherwise, what is the advantage of crossing?  At present, the warships of various countries are almost the same as before World War I, except for the gradual improvement of equipment.  Repeatedly manufacturing such warships, even if capable, is completely unnecessary.

    Recalling the road to the strength of the Chinese navy in later generations, we can learn from it: not pursuing quantity but focusing on cultivating more talents, and preferring people to wait for equipment rather than letting equipment wait for people has proven to be a very suitable development theory.  By concentrating its efforts on the development and improvement of a small number of warships, China will slowly narrow the gap with the navies of major powers. While improving the strength of its shipbuilding industry, it will catch up with other countries and strive to achieve "dumpling-making" when its national strength is strong.

    So he decided to spend a lot of money to build a shipyard in Wuhan for both military and civilian purposes: by building civilian ships to promote transportation and improve the local economy, he also accumulated technical experience and improved supporting enterprises; he would start with replicating small gunboats and pass them when the time is right.  Improve and then achieve self-research, from small tonnage to large tonnage, from the Yangtze River to offshore and then to the ocean.

    These measures can be implemented safely after Jiangxi is pacified, because after Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui are integrated into one, small gunboats are very supportive to the army in these watery areas.

    After the overall situation was decided, Zhang Hanqing reorganized the Central China People's Army.

    A brigade from Jiu'an Wu Army and Wang Duqing's brigade were combined to form the 10th Division of the People's Army, and Zhao Minggao, deputy commander of the 3rd Division of the Lanzhou Military Region, was promoted to commander of the 10th Division.  The 11th Division was newly built with Jin Yun'e's mixed brigade as the core, and Jin was appointed as the division commander.

    After Hubei became autonomous, it was already under the control of the People's Army. In order to facilitate unified military arrangements, the Hubei 1st Division was renamed the 12th Division of the People's Army, and the division commander was still Zhao Ronghua.

    The cunning Sun Chuanfang saw that the generals in various provinces were being reorganized and replaced, and he was afraid that his own division would also be affected, so he took the initiative to ask Zhang Hanqing to be transferred to southern Jiangxi to regain the unrest areas, but in fact he was far away from the "source of disaster".

    Zhang Hanqing had known this man's ambition, and when troops and generals everywhere were reorganized, he did not want to press him too hard at this time and cause him to fall out, so he called him to be the border defense envoy of Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang.

    In October, due to the war in Fujian to expel Fujian governor Li Houji, Sun Chuanfang led the army from Hubei to Fujian via Jiangxi on the order of Zhang Hanqing. On March 19, 1923, he was appointed as the military governor of Fujian. He was temporarily away from Zhang Hanqing's trouble.  .

    Since he personally led the "Anmeng Army" into Outer Mongolia in 1919, Zhang Hanqing has successively conquered Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Hubei, Anhui, Hunan and half of Jiangxi. The People's Army under his jurisdiction has also expanded sharply to 13 reorganized divisions, which has exceeded Fenghuang in terms of number.  10 divisions of the army.

    The only shortcoming is that most of these 13 divisions were formed through reorganization or reorganization of prisoners and recruitment of new troops. The only real elites were Pei Chunsheng's 1st Division and Zhang Chengde's 4th Division.

    The rest of the divisions may be just empty infantry divisions because they have not received heavy equipment, or they may not have time to complete the reorganization of the Kuomintang¡¯s student army, so that their actual strength can only be used as local protection forces, lacking the ability and experience to siege and field operations.

    The People's Army at this time can only be said to be the airs of the People's Army, which is far from the modern army that Zhang Hanqing imagined.

    In this way, a seemingly powerful army and several provinces that have not yet been fully controlled constitute the fact that the foundation of the People's Army is unstable.  This is why Wu Peifu is not afraid of the number of the People's Army and still has the confidence to challenge Fengjun.  Fortunately, although the People's Army was not very good, the opponents they encountered were even worse. After two rounds, they actually achieved the brilliance of the young marshal!

    Zhang Zuolin was very concerned about Naizi's achievements and spent a lot of effort to support them: Central China and Northeast China are far apart, and there are direct lineages in the middle. In order to strengthen Zhang Hanqing's army, he spared no effort to combine newly built cannons with them through the Northwest Corridor.  Machine guns and other heavy equipment were shipped to the People's Army.

    At this time, the 10 divisions of Fengjun have completed standardized configuration. Not only are the divisions equipped with artillery regiments, but the regiments are also equipped with mortar companies.

    It takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Cultivating qualified military and political talents requires a long process.  After experiencing a major expansion of the People's Army, Zhang Hanqing wisely chose to train troops rather than expand further.

    Fortunately, the domestic situation was calm at this time, and Wu Peifu was only silently mobilizing troops.  The People's Army took advantage of this rare period of peace to arrange batches of mid- and senior-level officers to undergo rotation training at the Wuhan Military Academy, with remarkable results.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)Cultivating qualified military and political talents requires a long process.  After experiencing a major expansion of the People's Army, Zhang Hanqing wisely chose to train troops rather than expand further.

    Fortunately, the domestic situation was calm at this time, and Wu Peifu was only silently mobilizing troops.  The People's Army took advantage of this rare period of peace to arrange batches of mid- and senior-level officers to undergo rotation training at the Wuhan Military Academy, with remarkable results.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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