Chen Ze and Zhong Yang left the house and walked to a yard full of plum blossoms. The ground was covered with jade-like pebbles, and the winding paths were quite secluded.

After a winter accumulation, the plum blossoms are nourishing their energy. When spring comes, the sun is warm, the spring breeze blows on the face, the air is moist, and everything sprouts, and the flowers naturally bloom here.

The two walked side by side, chatting while walking. After months of setbacks, Chen Ze finally realized his own political flaws. Although Zhong Yang was not good at this, he was able to calm down and choose to accumulate strength and break the law with strength.

"Yang, why do people in Yang and Liu have such different words and deeds? I had been with them for a while, but I didn't realize that they had such a cruel nature." As he said this, Chen Ze's brows frowned, obviously a little annoyed.

The Yang and Liu in his mouth were Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan. These two people were well-read and well-behaved and treated people with courtesy and manners, and were not cruel and lonely people. They had expectations for the two and even sent a lot of military supplies, including small-caliber infantry field artillery.

But what really made Chen Ze discouraged was Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan. They got information about these two people from Liu Haoran and had personal contact, which led to help.

All arms and food were given, and Chen Ze placed his hope of losing his grandson on these two people. But he didn't know that what happened later made him regret it.

Looking at Chen Zeyu's angry expression, Zhong Yang chuckled softly: "Didn't I tell you before? To make friends, it depends on the person's temperament. But to run a career, it depends on the other party's organizational system."

Seeing the other party's puzzled expression, Zhong Yang knew that the words before were said in vain, so he had no choice but to pat Chen Ze's shoulder and comforted him earnestly: "From the beginning, I will tell you not to pay attention to these two people. Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan are good people in nature. But just by looking at them obeying the orders of the Grand Marshal's Mansion and going to the city to catch the strong men, I know that they have no principles in their hearts."

"It's impossible. I also had contact with Yang Ximin that day. He was very dissatisfied with Sun Yixian's actions and believed that driving the people as a shield was a violent one. "Thinking of this, Chen Ze was also interested in this, so he started working with Yang Ximin to provide strong support. After recalling the situation at that time, he did not see anything wrong.

"Chen Ze, you are already a powerful person. Don't think like ordinary people anymore. You should not look at what he thinks and says, but focus on what he does. Yang Ximin has to take care of the interests of officers and soldiers and the gathering of morale in the Yunnan Army."

Why are there more and more people rebel in troubled times? There are many factors, but one of them is very important. That is, the behavior of the army's pillage of the places has led to the resistance of the people and even joined the ranks of rebellion.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying of "king army", and there is also a writing in "The Art of War". The army that is strict in discipline and does not violate the people is the king's army. Such an army that defends the country can naturally enjoy the treatment of eating and drinking pots of water and being sincerely welcomed.

But the question is, how many times have such a royal master appeared since ancient times?

When Sun Tzu led his troops to attack Wei, he had to eat from the enemy, let alone these soldiers who were not educated or had the ambition to serve the country? Eating from the enemy is a kind of euphemism, which is essentially to collect food and property from the people.

The only difference is that people with some knowledge use this method when fighting against the outside world. The brutal regimes often use this method on their own people.

Many times, this also has a lasting motivation, but it is by no means excuse.

Even Yang Ximin could not stop the officers and soldiers of the Yunnan-Guangdong coalition wanted to make some fortune in the war. The reason was that he did not have a stable and abundant financial system, and often he could not even pay military salaries. In order to maintain the morale of the army, he could only plunder the people.

There are really not many "fools" like Li Zongren who sell guns and exchange wages for money.

From the very beginning, Zhong Yang recognized the essence of Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan. People with kind hearts may not necessarily do good things. The key is whether they have principles. They always do so-called "unnecessary" things for one reason or another. This is essentially no different from Sun Yixian.

Sun Yixian advocated unification, and this strategy is indeed more grand and more realistic than Chen Jiongming's joint provincial autonomy. Zhong Yang also agreed with many of Sun Yixian's propositions. What he opposed was the means of the ** party's actions and fundamental strategic steps.

It is not the right way to not build up your own financial and industrial system first and rely on the alms of the great powers. Such a foundation-free ** will definitely be difficult to last, let alone want to succeed.

Generally speaking, Chen Jiongming's alliance with the provincial autonomy is not in line with national conditions. He does have a good job in internal affairs. This stable approach to consolidating his own foundation is considered the right way to military strategy.

Even if you don’t have much strength, you just want to yell to unify China. This is not called ambition, but a brainless person.

He didn't even understand the principle of being invincible for himself and waiting for the enemy to win, and he still wanted to conquer with force? No wonder Sun Yixian, the president, hadn't really done the dream of President Sun Yixian for a day. Later, Jiang Ruiyuan had not understood this principle and relied closely on the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Consortium, there would be no possibility of becoming the top leader.

What Chen Ze was upset about was that he saw the right person but thought about the wrong thing.

From May 28 to October 27, 1923, Huizhou was besieged by the Yunnan-Guangdong coalition forces for five months. The two commanders in the coalition were Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan. They accepted the orders of the Grand Marshal's Mansion to fight against Chen Jiongming in the east. Chen Ze gave money and arms, with the original intention of letting them control Sun Yixian.

But I knew that I was actually taken to deal with the Chen Yue army who was still in Huizhou.

Sun Yixian used Zang Zhiping and Xu Chongzhi to control the rear of the Guangdong army on the Fujian-Guangdong border, and ordered a general attack on Huizhou in late May. On the 28th, the Gui army Liu Zhenhuan occupied Fei'eling and Huizhou was surrounded. The Guangdong army guarded the city was Lin Lie and Zhong Ziting, two brigades, with about 6,000 people.

In view of Boluo being burned and looted by the enemy, the gentry and merchants in Huizhou were eagerly asked Yang Kunru to stand by and wait for help and agreed to raise food for the army. Yang then decided to defend the death to the death, with two thousand people from Zhong Ziting's brigade guarding Huiyang County, while Yang himself led Lin Lie to guard Huizhou Prefecture. Yang also instructed the county magistrate of nine counties near Huicheng, and each county organized a ** regiment with guerrillas and police. The commander was also the county magistrate, serving as guerrillas near Huicheng, or encircling Sun's army.

Huizhou is surrounded by water on three sides, and the army and people in the city share the same hatred of the enemy. The Yunnan-Guangxi coalition forces failed to capture it again and again. Therefore, Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, who were in front of him, led troops to plunder the people, which made the people in the city very scared.

This time, the Yunnan-Guangxi Army besieged Huizhou by more than 10,000 troops, as well as aircraft and mines on the ground. After more than ten days of attack, it has not been successful. Due to the natural danger of Huizhou, aircraft mines are powerless. Don’t think that the ** Party army only has Xiaomi and rifles and has received assistance from the Soviet Union. Sun Yixian can be said to be ahead of the major warlords in the south in terms of equipment.

At that time, the plane arrived, and at first hovered in the air to observe the situation, followed by leaflets, and later, bombs were thrown, but no soldiers were injured, and seven or eight civilians were injured. Some residents in the city went out of the city to carry water, and were affected by the bomb river thrown, with many casualties.

The mines were loaded with tunnels dug out of the city. However, Huicheng's walls were very thick and extremely strong, and not many injured. The key is that the power of these landmines is really not great, and even a city wall cannot be blown up. The coalition forces drove the villagers' shoulder ladders to enter the city wall because the plane mines were ineffective. They used their old tricks to deal with Chen Hongying, but were repeatedly repelled by the Guangdong army.

Huicheng was surrounded by water on three sides, and every time he attacked, he had to cross the river. When crossing the river, many casualties were killed and injured due to the shooting of the Guangdong army. As a last resort, he led the air ship, but the Guangdong army also noticed it and shot backwards to the various ships. The coalition plan failed again.

The soldiers were ordered to climb the boat and swim over. The Guangdong army caught a glimpse of the empty ships and shot into the water. Many coalition forces died in the water.

When the coalition forces entered Boluo three times, there were only two old women, four or five middle-aged women, and several children in the city. Many of them were caught or killed. In view of this, Huizhou residents were willing to go out to help the Guangdong army.

In late June, the war in Dongjiang became even more intense. Sun Yixian ordered the capture of Huizhou City within three days. The attack began on the 25th. The victory and defeat have not yet been decided, and the casualties were extremely serious. Sun declared that if he could not capture within three days, he would burn Huizhou City and destroy it. According to another report, a large amount of kerosene had been transported to the front line.

In mid-July, Sun Yixian moved two 22-life cannons from the Humen Fort and began to bombard the 13th. He fired from outside the city and adjusted the shooting of the various elements. Therefore, the civilians were injured by accident than the soldiers of the Guangdong Army. However, there were actually no accidental injuries here, because all the people in the city were Sun's mortal enemies.

Based on the information collected by Zhou Hua after the war, Zhong Yang and Chen Ze both learned the truth. Huizhou was able to defend for a long time because of the cruel behavior of the Gui army under Liu Zhenhuan. When the Gui army of the Liu people captured Boluo twice on May 20 and early June, the whole city was destroyed. The residents were not killed, but fled to the four towns and became dead cities. The residents of Huizhou were afraid of the same fate, so they refused to surrender. However, the lack of food in the city had become a famine.

In late September, Sun Yat-sen took a ship to Meihu, Huizhou. After landing, he went to Feieling and the Gui army generals to plan a strategy to attack Huizhou City. He then went to Meihu's heavy artillery position and personally fired six artillery shots to Huizhou City. With Brother Sun's moral sentiment, anyone who works against him, no matter who is the enemy.

It is not new to bombard civilians with cannons.

First, in late July, the Guangdong Army Lin Hu, Hong Zhaolin, Chen Jiongguang, Zhong Jingtang and other troops counterattacked Zang Zhiping's army in southern Fujian. In early August, they occupied Zhangzhou and marched into Xiamen. In late August, they were transferred back to the Dongjiang Front one after another. In late October, the Guangdong Army divided into three routes to counterattack: the right-wing Lin Hu led Huang Yexing, Huang Renhuan, Wang Dinghua, Liu Zhilu and other troops to repel the Long, Puqian, and Guzhu area from Heyuan.

Ye Ju joined forces with Hong Zhaolin, the left wing, and directly lifted the siege of Huizhou. Ye Ju led Chen Jiongguang, Zhong Jingtang, Xiong Lue and other troops to attack the Sun Army surrounded by Baimanghua. Hong Zhaolin led Yin Ji and Li Yunfu's two troops to attack from Sanduozhu to Huiyang. On the 27th, Sun's army was not supported and retreated to Boluo and Zhangmutou.

Yang Kunru's troops also rushed out of Huizhou City and joined the attack. Ye Ju sent a telegram to win, and the siege of Huizhou was finally completely lifted.

What is the price of such a meaningless war?

Because of Chen Ze's funding earlier, the bullets and weapons in Huizhou City were still sufficient, but the food was not large, and the rice prices in the city were high. The Guangdong army often distributed grain by households, and the people vowed to live and die with the city, but they were all in a state of voyage. After the war sank, Chen Ze also went there in person, and saw that all these were noticed.

On September 18, the south gate of Huiyang County was indeed destroyed by the coalition forces for landmines several feet. Until the 27th, more than 200 soldiers and civilians were starved to death. If they were delayed for a few days, they would not be able to support them. It is also a blessing. It has been May that Huicheng was besieged, and only 500 soldiers and civilians in the city were killed or injured, while the coalition forces suffered at least 30,000 casualties.

Sun Yixian was ultimately unable to assess the situation in Guangdong Province, and all Chen Jiongming's achievements in governing eastern Guangdong were burned to death in the war...

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