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Chapter 626 Beijing Coup

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    The Bohai Fleet, which has been unable to work hard, is also anchored and ready to go.  According to news from the "Feng Intelligence Bureau", fleet commander Wen Shude has loaded up about a brigade of troops, escorted by the main fleet, and is preparing to land in Beidaihe to attack the Feng army's retreat.

    On the one hand, Zhang Hanqing believed that the situation was too difficult to get out of, and there was no other way but to carry it on.  Otherwise, once Fengjun was defeated and retreated, Feng Yuxiang would not dare to do such a self-defeating thing when the Zhili army was at its peak. Instead, he might force Fengjun to withdraw from the border and miss a good political opportunity.  On the other hand, he was a little hesitant, worried that Feng Yuxiang would eventually give up his plan to fight back, and the army would go out this time in vain.

    But now Feng Yuxiang is just waiting for a price. How can he show his devotion to truth, justice, revolution, and the country?

    It is no wonder that in official history, he is the private antagonist of the top leaders of the Communist Party, a "hypocrite" and a person with questionable style. At least Mao Zedong took him with him when he criticized General Peng: "People (Lin Biao) said that you  He is a hypocrite, like Feng Yuxiang" Liu Shaoqi also criticized Mr. Peng with "Wei Yan's bones, Zhukov's party spirit, and Feng Yuxiang's style."

    From this point of view, in front of his wife Liu Dezhen's hospital room that day, he talked to himself about his belief in Sun Yat-sen's "Three Plate Cooking Principles" and formed a secret alliance against straightness, which was just opportunistic.  You can't tell that he looks honest and honest, but in fact he can only be described as a treacherous person.  So in the official history, did he join the revolution because of some other secret?  This has never happened, so I don¡¯t dare to speculate.

    Alas, forget his nickname "General" in history!

    Zhang Hanqing was so angry that his teeth itched.

    "You contact Baohang and ask him to go to Feng's army chaplain in person, tell him his interests and ask him to take action immediately. I will give him a thorough explanation. I will allocate 500,000 yuan and Shandong will be his after the war. Otherwise, he  Just like Wu Peifu, he is the enemy of our Fengjun and the People's Army!" Zhang Hanqing decided to pull out all the stops and force him to express his stance.

    Even if he is his enemy, it is much better than being so ambiguous!

    Baohang is Yan Baohang, and he and Feng Yuxiang are both Christians and have a good relationship.  He went to deliver the message, and Feng Yuxiang could probably weigh it.

    Tianjin and Tangshan have automobile factories and quite a lot of industrial enterprises that are important to Fengjun, while Qinhuangdao has the core of its future military modernization: tank factories, aircraft and ship training schools.  This cannot be thrown away or beaten to pieces.  Spending 500,000 for this is nothing.

    Of course, as for the ownership of Shandong after the war, if Feng Yuxiang dared to ask for it, he would dare to arrange for Zhang Zongchang to beat him to the ground!

    After receiving Zhang Hanqing¡¯s ¡°ultimatum¡± request, Feng Yuxiang became a little timid.  It's okay to speculate once, but if you want him to clarify the boundaries, he really doesn't dare to be tied to a chariot with Zhili.  Because he knew very well that even if Fengjun in Guan Nei was unfortunately defeated, Zhang Zuolin would still have enough strength to make a comeback, and the People's Army could also prevent Fengjun from being defeated too ugly in the south.

    The power of the Feng clique allows it to fail, but the Zhili clique cannot!

    At this point in the war, we should also show our cooperation with the Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen. Otherwise, when the war is over, it will probably be the time when the Northeastern young marshal turns his back, right?  Moreover, people came to tell me that 500,000 yuan would be paid immediately; the Shandong Supervisor had already placed the order.

    Shandong is indeed terra nullius now, and the original acting governor Zhang Zongchang is fighting in Jintang.  If the Zhili clique is defeated, Sun Yat-sen takes control of Beijing, and he echoes in Shandong, he will become a new force in the political arena!  He, Zhang Zhijiang and others thought: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If we don't take advantage of it, it will be too late to regret once Shandong's political power is taken away."

    ¡°We will get whatever we ask from Shenyang, and we will get whatever we ask from Baoding.¡±

    "We will cooperate with whoever has greater power!"

    However, Wu Peifu was still a little wary of him and did not forget to arrange an army on the outskirts of the city to contain him. This made him hesitate again.

    Zhang Hanqing decided to add fuel to his fire. He judged that although Feng Yuxiang had a speculative mentality, the premise was that both sides were evenly matched. He would never sit back and watch Fengjun fail. This would be detrimental to him.  If Fengjun shows signs of retreating on his own initiative, it may be able to break Feng's desire to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.  Otherwise, as Feng Zhinian thought, how could Fengjun gain greater initiative in the subsequent battle for interests with Feng's clique after suffering heavy losses with an exhausted army?

    So Zhang Hanqing sent a secret message to Feng Yuxiang, saying that the situation of Fengjun was critical. If Feng did not make a final decision, Fengjun would have no choice but to withdraw from Tianjin tomorrow and would return to the outside of the pass together with the Jixian army.

    Feng Yuxiang has only been in Beijing for a short period of time and has no idea of ??the extraordinary significance of Tianjin and the Rehe areas on the Beijing-Shenyang line to Zhang Hanqing. He was shocked when he answered the phone. This time it was a big deal!  An urgent call came back saying that the deployment had been completed and a coup would be launched immediately.

    At this timePeifu ordered Chief of Staff Zhang Fangyan to send a telegram to urge all troops to rush to the front line. Zhang sent a telegram to Feng Yuxiang. In order to strengthen the tone, he added a sentence after the telegram: "The situation turned critical in one fell swoop." This was originally an ordinary sentence to strengthen the tone, but  In subtle ways, this sentence becomes problematic.

    Although Feng Yuxiang had secretly communicated with Feng Zhang, he did intend to sit back and watch the success or failure. He would not dare to take action until there were signs of defeat for the Zhili Army.  After Wu Peifu went to the front line, Feng was hesitant.  He was afraid that Wu would win the battle on the front line. As soon as he launched his campaign, Wu would lead his troops back to Beijing to quell the chaos, and he would be finished.  So he was waiting for action. The information he received from the headquarters of the Zhili Army indicated that victory was in sight; the information from the Japanese side said that the Zhili Army was in a disadvantage and the front line was in danger.

    When he received a call from Wu¡¯s chief of staff urging troops to move forward, especially Wu Peifu¡¯s move to transfer garrison troops from the capital, he believed that the possibility of the Zhizhi Army¡¯s failure had increased, so he made up his mind to ¡°change sides.¡±

    He wanted to set a fire in Wu Peifu's rear when he moved the rear army to serve as the front army and returned to Beijing.  On the evening of November 4, Feng Yuxiang led his troops withdrew from the front line, returned to Beijing, and launched the Beijing coup.  Lu Zhonglin, Jiang Yuhong and Sun Yueli of Feng's troops in Beijing joined forces and opened the city gate.

    Lu Zhonglin led his troops into the city first and met with the troops of the 15th Mixed Brigade directly connected to Sun Yue in the city.  Soldiers all wear armbands with blue cloth and white letters, which read "Swear to the death to save the country, do not disturb the people, and truly love the people."  The coup troops divided their troops to guard important intersections, implemented martial law to cut off traffic, and quickly occupied various ministries and offices.

    This "Beijing coup" was a lightning-fast success, and Cao Kun was caught and imprisoned without any prior knowledge.  It's a coincidence that he was ordered to "catch and release Cao" when he first took office. The more he was afraid of being caught and released, he would still be caught and released. It seemed that God's will was hard to violate.

    Wu Peifu was still unaware of the sudden change in the rear. He led his staff to the Western Qing Dynasty to supervise the war. The morale of the Zhili army on the front line improved. The Fengjun offensive was blocked, and the war situation turned around.

    At noon, Wu Peifu's Japanese adviser Masujiro Okano hurried over. He brought two telegrams and said with a slight vibrato: "Commander, I have received the most urgent telegrams from Beijing and Tianjin. The contents are similar. Beijing  There has been a big change in the city!"

    Wu Peifu was shocked. He received the telegram, saying that "Feng Yuxiang, commander of the Third Army of the Rebel Army, withdrew from the battlefield at 6 pm on the 4th, invaded Beijing without a gunfight, and launched a coup. President Cao Kun has lost his freedom, and the situation in Beijing is unknown.  Big changes are brewing.¡±

    The people who participated in the coup listed in the telegram are all direct tycoons, including Feng Yuxiang, Wang Chengbin, Wang Huaiqing, Sun Yue, etc.  After reading Okano's telegram, he immediately believed this possibility because he did not trust Feng Yuxiang.

    That night, Wu Peifu led his senior staff back to the headquarters and immediately convened an emergency military meeting in the commander-in-chief's office, with all senior generals present.  With a sad attitude, Wu announced the Beijing mutiny and the headquarters' retreat plan. In an instant, the situation on the Zhifeng battlefield changed greatly.

    It was decided that General Peng Shouxin would be in charge of the frontline military affairs, stop attacking the Feng army and shift to full-line defense, and Wu Peifu would personally lead the main 3rd Division to return to Beijing at night to quell the chaos.  Until this moment, he thought he had the ability to turn the tide, and was preparing to fight the Feng clan after the chaos was settled.

    At midnight, Wu Wu Peifu himself took a special car from the headquarters and brought a group of guards with about 3,000 people back at full speed at night. With a heavy heart and tired body, he stayed up all night.  The headquarters train left Langfang at 2 a.m., and at 4 a.m. the next day, the train arrived at Tongzhou Station less than 10 miles away.  After encountering a small number of Zhizhi troops that had been defeated from Beijing, he realized that the situation was more critical than he imagined.

    It turns out that on November 5, Feng Yuxiang held a meeting in Beiyuan to discuss how to deal with the current situation in the north.  Present at the meeting were Sun Yue, Huang Yong, Wang Zhengting and others.  At this meeting, Feng Yuxiang was promoted as the commander-in-chief of the National Army and commander of the First Army, and Sun Yue was appointed as deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the Second Army.  Lu Zhonglin entered the city with meritorious service, was promoted to division commander, and served as Beijing garrison commander, stationed in Shuaifu Park, Dongdan.

    In view of the fact that Sun Yixian still had no definite information and Wu Peifu led his army to attack Yangcun, Sun Yue proposed the establishment of a regent cabinet.  In order to express sincerity in welcoming Sun Yat-sen to take office, most of the cabinet members appointed were old revolutionary party members from the south, such as Huang Yong, and Finance Minister Wang Zhengting (the chief of the Fengcun Pan Fu and others were not reinstated, and were replaced by a group of Kuomintang members), who followed Sun Yat-sen.  Li Shucheng, Li Liejun, etc. of the National Army system in Beijing.  The meeting decided to let Cao Kun order a truce, relieve Wu Peifu from holding various posts, and announce his voluntary abdication.

    Using Cao Kun to coerce Wu Peifu was very effective. The frontline troops also knew that the city gate was on fire, and they had no intention of fighting. Wu Peifu had no choice but to declare a truce when the situation was over.

    Prior to this, the Northwest People's Army had conquered the Zhengzhou defense line, advanced into Xinxiang, and since then penetrated directly into Baoding Prefecture, the home base of the Zhili Army.

    I don¡¯t know who got the news and revealed Zhang Hanqing¡¯s expedient plan to make Feng Yuxiang the governor of Shandong. Zhang Zongchang was shocked.

    After the war, the sphere of influence will inevitably need to be re-divided. He knows that he is not the core of the Feng faction, so he first grabs Shandong. I guess both Lao and Xiao Zhang will be embarrassed to ask for it, right?  Therefore, despite having made great contributions to the fight against the Zhili Clan, Zhang Zongchang could not wait to enjoy the fruits of victory. On the pretext of pursuing the remnants of the Zhili Clan, he quickly went south again without waiting for orders and continued to return to Shandong to be his Caotou King.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)As for the core position of the non-Feng clique, we must first seize Shandong in our hands. I guess both Lao and Xiao Zhang will be embarrassed to ask for it, right?  Therefore, despite having made great contributions to the fight against the Zhili Clan, Zhang Zongchang could not wait to enjoy the fruits of victory. On the pretext of pursuing the remnants of the Zhili Clan, he quickly went south again without waiting for orders and continued to return to Shandong to be his Caotou King.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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