Chapter 314 The Battle of the Central Plains

At the end of 1929, there was a small place called Jian'an Village in northwestern China, but this inconspicuous place would soon become the fuse to ignite the war in the Central Plains.

In December 1929, Feng Huanzhang summoned Lu Zhonglin from Tianjin to Jian'an Village where he was under house arrest, and gave Lu a face-to-face message and asked him to return to the position of acting commander-in-chief of Shaanxi. At this time, Feng Huanzhang had been under house arrest by Yan Xishan, and it was difficult for him to escape with a dedicated guard.

When Lu Zhonglin arrived in Xi'an, he immediately put forward the slogan of "supporting the central government and developing the northwest" in accordance with Feng's instructions, and secretly sent representatives to Nanjing to meet He Yingqin. Lu said to the representatives from the ** Party Central Committee: "Jiang Ruiyuan is our enemy, but Yan Xishan is our enemy in history. The enemy can be turned into friends, but the enemy is irreconcilable."

In this way, when Lu Zhonglin sent his representative to meet He Yingqin, he clearly expressed this meaning to He Yingqin, and hoped that the other party would convey the news to Jiang Ruiyuan, chairman of the ** government.

This is actually Feng Huanzhang's plan. From a historical perspective, this person has no character at all. However, his political vision is amazing. Moreover, this person is an extremely devout Christian and has always had a good political reputation in the Western world. This is also one of the greatest capitals for him to gallop in this troubled times of the Republic of China.

In order to win over the Northwest Army to eliminate Yan Xishan, who was separating several provinces, He Yingqin also expressed his affection for Lu Zhonglin, hoping that he would not be deceived by Yan again, and said: "As long as the Northwest Army shows its attitude to attack Yan, it will immediately obtain the central government's support." Since Lu had established relations with Nanjing, he began to plan to join forces with Han Fuju and Shi Yousan to attack Shanxi.

In Lu's opinion, the Jin army was not very powerful, and it was good at defending but short of attacking. When attacking Shanxi, as long as it did not attack the city, it would only be monitored by a few troops and use the main force to directly attack Taiyuan, and the chance of victory was very certain.

Speaking of Feng Huanzhang's troops, they were still very good at this era and could be called a powerful force. Feng Huanzhang grew up in the military since childhood. He knew that it was difficult to train a powerful force in the city to recruit vagrants to form an army. Therefore, his troops never recruited soldiers in the city. Instead, they took advantage of the opportunity when rural China went bankrupt and the remaining laborers had nowhere to find employment, and sent his subordinates to recruit children of poor peasants in remote rural areas in Hebei, Shandong and Henan to join the army.

After the recruits joined the army, Feng Huanzhang would also provide extremely strict military training and Christian spiritual education based on his experience summarizing since childhood. Therefore, the 16th Mixed Brigade soon became famous in the Chinese state of this era for his strict discipline and bravery in combat.

Feng also started his career with the 16th Mixed Brigade, and his organization was expanded every time he fought. In the Battle of Zhi and Anhui, Wu Guangxin's weapons were imposed in Hubei and expanded into the 11th Division. During the first Zhi and Feng war, Zhao Ti was resolved in Henan, and the troops were expanded into one division and three Mixed Brigades. By the second Zhi and Feng war, Feng's troops had grown into a force that could rival the Zhi army, which was the backbone of Wu Peifu's third division.

In 1924, Feng decisively defected to the Soviet Union. With his collusion with Sun Yixian, he launched a coup in Beijing and created a huge military group of the National Army. With Feng's National Army as the main force, the National Army obtained territory such as Jingji, Chahar, Suiyuan, Gansu and other places, and expanded its troops to six divisions and eight brigades, totaling about 90,000 people.

Although the coup ended in dismal due to political reasons, Feng Huanzhang's National Army did not diminish at all in combat, and became a powerful force of powerful troops.

Since Feng's basic troops had five brigades, although they had collected some direct local troops, they could be transformed and digested to maintain the style of the sixteen mixed brigades. Therefore, two years later, Feng and Zhang Zuolin turned against each other, Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin formed a coalition to attack Feng Yuxiang.

The Feng army was still able to defend Nankou for five months, successfully supported the Northern Expedition of the ** Army and restrained the entire north for the ** Party. In that battle, its troops' tenacious and warlike spirit was famous both at home and abroad.

After the Northern Expedition was successful, the Feng army advanced from Tongguan to the east. At this time, Wu Peifu's troops had already collapsed and a large number of Feng army rushed into Henan. In order to support Feng's army's advance from the east, the Wuhan ** Government sent two frontiers to cross Wusheng Pass and the Feng army's main force Zhang Xueliang and Han Linchun's third and fourth frontiers to fight between Xiping and Shangcai.

As a result, the Feng army suffered heavy losses and fled north through the Yellow River. The Tang and Zhang armies conquered Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and the Feng army also defeated the resistance of the Song army in Zhang Zhigongzhen in western Henan. On June 1, he met with Tang Shengzhi's army in Zhengzhou. At that time, the Wuhan government hoped to obtain Feng Yuxiang's support in order to fight against Jiang Ruiyuan's Nanjing government.

For this reason, the Henan territory seized by the Tang and Zhang army was given to Feng Huanzhang. However, after meeting with Jiang Ruiyuan, Bai Chongxi and others in Xuzhou on June 16, Feng was bribed by the wealthy Jiang for a monthly military salary of 2.5 million yuan, and even exchanged the names with the other party as brothers of a different surname. Feng then turned to the Nanjing government, thus accelerating the collapse of the Red Gate of the Two Lakes and the collapse of the Wuhan ** government.

Rather than saying that Jiang Ruiyuan is a good political skill, Feng Huanzhang is a man who is profit-oriented and has no concept of grace in his heart. Originally, the world was invading and heroes were everywhere, and morality was about to die.

But if you are as capricious as Feng Huanzhang, you will have no chance of success. It is not that politicians cannot lie, but it is simply a joke to gain the general trend through lies and deception.

The kind of lord there will be the kind of ministers. The lord has no kindness and is capricious, can the civil and military generals be loyal and righteous?

Governing the country does not take the right path, but depends on speculation. This pattern and tool are too unbearable. The political capital accumulated is turned into a bubble while swaying left and right.

After the Xuzhou meeting, Feng Huanzhang cooperated with Jiang Ruiyuan, Yan Xishan and Bai Chongxi to fight against Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zongchangfeng, and the Lu army, and fought many tough battles in the battlefields of western Shandong, northern Henan and southern Hebei.

Since Zhang Zuolin was killed in June 1928, Zhang Xueliang changed his banner and returned to Jiang. The ** Party quickly achieved superficial unification. Feng Huanzhang and his Northwest Army also gained a lot of benefits. Feng himself went to Nanjing to serve as Vice President and Minister of Military Affairs of the Executive Yuan of the ** Government.

His subordinates Sun Lianzhong, Liu Yufen, Men Zhizhong, Song Zheyuan, Han Fuju, Sun Liangcheng and others were also appointed as the chairman of Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other provinces. The Northwest Army, which was expanded based on the 16th Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army, reached more than 300,000 people at this time, which was majestic.

However, shortly after the Party Army's Northern Expedition was successful, Feng Huanzhang's mind changed again, and he immediately chose to break with Jiang Ruiyuan. In 1929, Feng raised the banner of "protecting the party and saving the country", which was against Jiang Ruiyuan's troops in the Central Plains, which was also related to the uneven distribution of the chassis.

After a simple discussion, the troops participating in the Central Plains War finally gathered together to divide the spoils. Under such circumstances, the entire China north of the Yangtze River was artificially divided into two sharply opposed political and military forces.

Because he was dissatisfied with Jiang Ruiyuan's interest distribution plan, Wang Zhaoming, the left-wing leader of the ** Party who lost power after the Northern Expedition in China, joined forces with the right-leaning Xishan Conference to join forces with the pro-National Party soldiers Yan Xishan, Feng Huanzhang, Bai Chongxi, Zhang Fakui and others to launch a civil war to seize power to challenge Jiang Ruiyuan's central government and the ** Party Central Committee meeting.

In order to achieve the most in-depth cooperation, these people also formed the coalition forces of Jiang, and have a complete organizational system and combat strategy.

Yan Xishan personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Republic of China, Feng Huanzhang and Bai Chongxi were both deputy commanders-in-chiefs respectively, and Liu Ji was the chief of staff.

Bai Chongxi, who was still in Jiangxi, and the Gui army was the First Front Army. Bai Chongxi personally led the troops to Hunan and marched into Wuhan. Because the Yangtze River could be used as a supply transportation line along the way, it was very important for the army's advance.

The Northwest Army shouldered the mission of the Second Front Army, led by Crazy Changchang and served as the combat mission of the Longhai and Pinghan routes in Henan Province, and attacked Xuzhou and Wuhan.

The Jin army was the Third Front Army, led by Yan Xishan, and was responsible for the combat missions of the Jinpu and Jiaoji routes in Shandong Province. They joined forces with the Second Front Army to attack Xuzhou, and then advanced south along the Jinpu line and headed straight to Nanjing.

Shi Yousan was the Fourth Front Army, attacking Jining and Yanzhou with the main force, and attacking Jinan with a unit of the Third Front Army. However, the Northeast Army, which did not attend this meeting, was actually within the scope of everyone's consideration. In order to appease the tiger that was still resting, the Anti-Jiang Alliance appointed Zhang Hanqing as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and planned the Northeast Army as the Fifth Front Army to actively fight against Jiang.

Not only that, because the last anti-Jiang Alliance was easily disintegrated, in order to gather the power of other forces across the country to the greatest extent, the meeting also appointed Liu Wenhui from Sichuan as the Sixth Front Army, He Jian from Hunan as the Seventh Front Army, and Li Wansheng from Hualian as the Eighth Front Army.

In order to encourage generals who are not directly affiliated with the troops, Shi Yousan was appointed as the chairman of Shandong Province, Wan Xuancai was appointed as the chairman of Henan Province, and Sun Dianying was appointed as the chairman of Anhui Province. After that, Fan Zhongxiu was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Ninth Front Army.

In this way, a million troops were gathered. Although there were differences within each other, it was indeed unscrupulous to see their strength. This was the general outbreak of conflicts among the factions within the Party, and it was also a struggle for domestic hegemony. Whether theoretically or in fact, all parties involved in the Central Plains War were at the same level.

Because of this, if we want to establish a unified regime, we must screen it in the form of war. But in fact, except for Feng, Yan and Bai, the other fronts were just coming to make a comeback and did not really participate.

In late March, Feng Huanzhang formed the Deputy General Command of the Army, Navy and Air Force in Tongguan, with Zhang Weixi's troops as the first unit, leaving Jingzi Pass from southern Shaanxi, passing through Neixiang, and entering and leaving Pinghan Line in and out of Lushan.

Sun Liangcheng's troops were the second route and Pang Bingxun's troops were the third route, and they entered and exited Zhengzhou from Longhai Road. Song Zheyuan's troops were the fourth route and Sun Lianzhong's troops were the fifth route, and they marched from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai to Henan one after another.

With Wanxuancai's headquarters as the sixth route, he moved towards Kaifeng along the Longhai Line and Guide. The cavalry of each unit was also organized into a cavalry group army, and Zheng Dazhang was commanded to enter and exit eastern Henan and northern Anhui to cooperate with infantry operations. Liu Yufen was the commander-in-chief of the rear, responsible for all rear affairs in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qing.

At this time, the Northwest Army had more than 260,000 troops. Feng Jue decided to mobilize all to the front line in order to unite all forces to carry out a decisive battle against Jiang Ruiyuan Group.

On April 1, Feng Huanzhang took office as deputy commander-in-chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force in Tongguan, and his good friend Yan Xishan took office as commander-in-chief in Taiyuan on the same day. Lu Zhonglin served as commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army, and entered Zhengzhou to deploy front-line military affairs, and ordered various armies to go east one after another.

First, when Henan Provincial Chairman Han Fuju saw Feng Huanzhang launching a fight against Jiang, Henan would be the first to be the brunt of it. His unlucky child was neither willing nor dared to fight against the Northwest Army, nor did he want to join Feng to attack Jiang. He was in awkward mood when he was added between the two giants.

As a last resort, he asked Jiang Ruiyuan to lead his troops to Shandong to resist the Jin army, which also expressed his helplessness: I don’t want this territory anymore, you can fight whatever you like, I can always make soy sauce in the difference.

Jiang Ruiyuan approved the other party's request with a big stroke, and Han Fuju led his troops to retreat east in late March. When he retreated east, his cavalry division Zhang Deshun's troops took the opportunity to return to the Northwest Army, and the Northwest Army was not polite and was able to successfully occupy important cities such as Luoyang and Zhengzhou without any bloodshed.

Wanxuancai's troops took advantage of the situation to advance eastward, and immediately occupied Kaifeng and Guide, and Wan took over as the chairman of Henan.

In mid-April, the first, second and third sides of the Feng army advanced to Xichuan, Neixiang, Yexian, and Luoyang, the western section of Longhai Road, and Zhengzhou.

Sun Chu, Yang Xiaoou, Guan Fu'an's various troops and most artillery soldiers were commanded by Xu Yongchang and Yang Aiyuan to transfer to the Lanfeng area in eastern Henan via Zhengzhou.

Shi Yousan, Liu Chunrong, Wan Xuancai, Liu Maoen and Sun Dianying, etc., were all under his command. The Jin army on the Jinpu line was commanded by Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Yinwu, and they entered and left Dezhou and Jinan.

The ten-way army, with the striking force of Mount Tai, approached the Nanjing government. As the head of the current government, Jiang Ruiyuan responded quickly.

In the spacious conference room, the stars gathered together. All of these heroes and generals who made great contributions in the Northern Expedition had a serious expression. Based on the situation, they directly confronted by force and had a slim chance of victory. The Fengtian Army was defeated in this situation last year, and now it was the ** Army itself, which is really ironic.

Jiang Ruiyuan's head was completely bald, and his shiny bald head was very eye-catching, but it set off his originally generous and elegant face to make him look solemn. This man has been practicing Buddhism for a long time and still has a good demeanor. In addition, he is in the upper hand, so he naturally develops a momentum of being arrogant without anger.

"Respect me, tell me what's going on now." Jiang Ruiyuan's face was as usual, and the rest of the people present could not tell whether he was in good or bad mood. This unpredictable feeling of kindness and power also made people become more cautious and dare not pass or disobey at all.

"Recipient" stood up and wore a simple Zhongshan suit. He Yingqin's face was generous and kind, but this did not hinder everyone's awe of him. He is the second most powerful figure in the party behind Jiang Ruiyuan.

Then read out the contents of the document, counting the alliances of the nine major fronts and the aggressive situation of the Northwest Army. Faced with such a crisis, the life and death of the ** government was hanging on the front line.

In the end, they couldn't help but talk, and the entire conference room became noisy and panic. Some people began to shake, some people began to look around, and there were also exciting people and loyal people. In this small conference hall, life is now being staged.

Jiang Ruiyuan also saw these different mentalities of his subordinates, but he should not be angry at this time: "What kind of morality is quiet and quiet so noisy? Changqing, tell me."

Since he had been named, Yang Yongtai couldn't continue to remain silent. He bowed his hand and then stood up: "The head of the meeting seems fierce, and our army is hard to match, but in essence, the real battle with our army is Feng Huanzhang, Yan Xishan and Bai Chongxi."

He removed six of the nine fronts at once. Such an understatement did have the style of a top strategist. It was precisely because of these calm words that the people who were already a little panicked gradually calmed down and listened quietly to Yang Yongtai's next words.

"Jiang Guangnai of Fujian Province has always been close to the central government, and can serve as a barrier to the southern part of our army. Hunan and Jiangxi provinces are adjacent to Hualian and restrain each other. Therefore, Bai Chongxi, who is also bluffing and dared not give up all his main force to attack our army. Yan Xishan was short-sighted, and his purpose was always just to be afraid that we would settle the accounts in the future. In this battle, he would definitely not use some strength, and at most pretend."

The indifferent expression pointed at the details inside one by one, making everyone suddenly enlightened. The fact is indeed the case. What the central government needs to face is actually only Feng Huanzhang's main force, while Yan Xishan and Bai Chongxi are mostly cheering.

If this is the case, it would be a battle. This analysis immediately disintegrated the panic and fear caused by the tense situation, making Jiang Ruiyuan the backbone of everyone again. As long as there is hope, how many people are willing to betray the master and change the family?

It is not impossible to step on the leadership, but that is the way for local officials to survive and enterprising. At the real level of military and national politics, such conspiracies and drawing boards across the bridge are always more harmful than good, and they are not worth taking.

Jiang Ruiyuan has always admired Yang Yongtai's talent very much and did not care much about this person's character. It's not that Yang Yongtai is cunning and vicious, but that his resume is not very good. He spent the first half of his life on the opposite side of the party, and even caused a lot of trouble to the late leader Sun Yixian.

With this, many senior members of the party have complained about this, and there are also reasons for their jealousy.

"That's the situation. Let me announce the arrangement of this battle. All the generals will follow the orders." The sound was like a loud bell, and Jiang Ruiyuan's roar also inspired the morale of the military officers present. The lord has courage, so the generals naturally dare to fight.

Since the tone of the war has been decided, the next thing is to allocate the battle situation and tasks, and the prelude to the Central Plains War has officially begun. One million Chinese teams will continue to devote themselves to this war that determines domestic hegemony, and the winner will become the winners in the Central Plains.

And this can be used as a cornerstone to gain the general trend of unifying the country

Chapter 314 The Battle of the Central Plains

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