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Chapter 602 Zhang Zongchang governs Lu

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    The military is the continuation of politics.

    While pursuing Tian Zhongyu fiercely in politics, Zhang Hanqing has already set his sights on the whereabouts of this fat piece of Shandong - without him, only by controlling this place can Zhili truly be regarded as the turtle in the urn.

    Relying on Henan and Hebei alone, as long as Zhang Hanqing's strategy does not go wrong and there are no major international policy fluctuations towards China, the Fengcian clique will be able to defeat the Zhili clique in just two or three years. Now the Zhili clique is already on the way.  It's downhill.

    Fengjun, who was stationed in Dezhou, took the opportunity to head south, under the guise of "protecting the country and the people."  It is unbelievable to say that this army is the famous "White Russian Army" of Zhang Zongchang.

    During the two years of "production and construction" in Xinjiang, Zhang Zongchang's army received a major baptism.  The "White Russian Legion", composed of White Russian soldiers who had converted to Chinese nationality, as well as Japanese, Korean, and French soldiers, miraculously survived and enjoyed the purgatory life in the military camp.

    By relying on large households to collect land rent, the land under the name of the Xinjiang Construction Corps has reached a huge scale of 5 million acres in two years, and they are even at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains.  Zhang Hanqing promised not to collect taxes from them, so Zhang Zongchang lived a comfortable life in the past two years: not only did his military strength expand to nearly 20,000 people, he also obtained very advanced aircraft and armored vehicles from Soviet Russia, and formed a flying team and an armored convoy.

    The main reason for the expansion of the number of soldiers was that the Soviet-Russian civil war was coming to an end. The White Russian soldiers who had no hope of seeing the light of day escaped from the Kazakh territory and were taken in by them.  Aircraft and armored vehicles were gifts given by the Construction Corps located on the Sino-Soviet border, which also sold a lot of grain to Soviet Russia in addition to self-sufficiency.

    The Construction Corps has achieved initial results. The Northwest People's Army has no major combat tasks in the short term, so it has gradually taken over the assets of the Construction Corps.  Although Zhang Zongchang's "Belarusian Corps" had some merits, it frightened the middle and upper classes of Xinjiang because of its excessively bloody behavior of preying on large households.  In the long run, it will be detrimental to the country's layout of stabilizing Xinjiang.

    ¡°And he is a rough man. Although he carried out Zhang Hanqing¡¯s orders without compromise, he did nothing to maintain national unity and allow the Xinjiang Construction Corps to rise on its own strength.

    So at the beginning of the year, Zhang Zuolin transferred Zhang Zongchang to the front line of Qingxian County on the pretext that the Fengjun outside the pass was not strong enough. He originally wanted to use him as cannon fodder in the war with the Zhili Clique.

    "It's a pity that the Zhifeng and Feng families never fought, and Zhang Zongchang's reputation for harming the people spread.

    "Perhaps he kept a low profile and suppressed himself for too long in Mongolia and Xinjiang. After arriving in Qingxian County, Zhang Zongchang's true nature was fully revealed: he was addicted to gambling and played with dominoes all day long.  Because the locals in Qingxian County call playing Pai Gow "eating dog meat", Zhang Zongchang is nicknamed "The Dog Meat General", which is not really a harm to domestic dogs.

    Beijing, Tianjin and especially Tianjin are the territory of the Feng Clan. Having such a figure will only damage the image of the Feng Army without adding any points. Therefore, when Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Hanqing wanted to capture Shandong, he was the first person they thought of.

    Strictly speaking, he is not part of the Fengtian army - Zhang Zuolin basically never considered him in terms of organization or supplies, leaving him in a self-destructive situation for a long time.  Zhang Hanqing gave him a way to survive, and gave him the designation of the "White Russian Corps", which also gave him a place to live.

    But everyone with a discerning eye knows that the army of Zhang and his son is either called the Fengjun or the People's Army. What the hell does it mean to have a White Russian Corps hanging above his head?

    This kind of nondescriptness made him gain again.  No matter how weak Cao Kun was, he would not tolerate Fengjun or the People's Army stepping into his Shandong territory.  And Zhang Hanqing finally drove away Tian Zhongyu, because he definitely didn't want to make wedding clothes for his immediate family.

    So the two sides proposed each other¡¯s candidates for the new supervisor, but in the end they rejected each other.

    At this time, Zhang Zongchang came out to find out, because he was not officially a member of the Southern and Northern Feng cliques. Looking back, he also had connections with the Zhili clique.

    And his "foreign soldiers" have all participated in the European War, are proficient in new tactics, and although they have no military discipline, they are good at fighting. The Shandong garrison is no match for him, and Zhili wants to help but is unable to do so.

    Because water from far away cannot quench thirst from near.

    Although Henan and Shandong are adjacent to each other, Tian Zhongyu is considered a member of the Zhili family, but he never joined Wu Peifu's team. At most, he is "counted" as a Zhili member, and the Zhili army has never been able to enter Shandong - in fact  Tian Zhongyu was also "counted" as a member of the Anhui clan during the Duan Qirui era. As for who he was?  God knows.

    Of course Wu Peifu also made some arrangements. He ordered Chen Tiaoyuan to go north to block the passage south of the Yellow River and prevent Zhang Zongchang from crossing the river. He himself also ordered the Henan troops to march towards Shandong at night.  Do the math, if Shandong¡¯s army only needs a little more strengthThe important task of prosperity.  Zhang Zongchang is a big boss. He often calls himself Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, and he likes to call Yang Du Zhang Liang.

    Yang Du once laughed and said: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty can serve the meritorious people, but the Duke can only serve the ears of the meritorious dog. Of course I am not qualified to be Zhang Liang, and the father is not comparable to Han Gao." Zhang Zongchang said: "Then you are the meritorious dog.  ?" Because Yang Du was appointed as counselor, he often called Yang "Counselor of Sheep Tripe", and Yang Du dubbed him "General Dog Meat" to match him, and Zhang Zongchang tolerated it generously.

    During the period when Zhifeng maintained superficial peace, Zhang Zongchang truly became the local emperor of Shandong. His violent nature sprouted and he committed many evil acts.  As Jiang Menglin once wrote in the book "Western Tide": "This notorious warlord is as strong as an ox, as stupid as a pig, and as sexually violent as a tiger. His claws will reach out to anyone he doesn't like at any time.  Or any beautiful woman he covets, her majestic appearance is really intimidating.¡±

    In addition to robbing women, he also worked hard to get money and recruited soldiers. He basically used all his experience in serving in the Construction Corps again, so much so that he was even called the "Three Ignorants" general: "I don't know how many soldiers he has, and he doesn't know how much money he has."  How many, I don¡¯t know how many there are.¡±

    "If Zhang Hanqing hadn't seen his behavior and issued two warnings, the people of Shandong would have suffered countless disasters.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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