With the slogan of "Guangdong people do not fight against Guangdong people", Chen Jiongming quickly made Mo Rongxin lose his footsteps and became suspicious. The Guangdong soldiers in the Guangxi clan were all suspicious, people's hearts were fluctuating, and their morale was dispersed.

At this time, the situation was already tense on the border between Fujian and Guangdong. Liu Zhilu, who received Mo Rongxin's order to deploy defenses in Chaoshan, Dapu, Raoping and other places, was originally from Meixian, Guangdong, and many of his generals were also Guangdong. He was responsible for blocking the Guangdong army, who claimed to "return to Guangdong and drive Guangxi" and called on the "Guangdong people not to fight against Guangdong" to return to Guangdong. The task was very arduous.

But when Huanggang was in a tight situation, Liu Zeng transferred three battalions from Jieyang to rescue. But at the moment of fierce fighting, Commander Zhang Zhuyun shot his deputy commander Che Weiying. The two battalions of Che were unsuccessful. The soldiers were annihilated by the Guangdong army, and all the rest surrendered. Why Zhang killed the car in front of the formation? Even Liu Zhilu didn't know the truth. Mo Rongxin said: "Zhang Zhuyun suddenly killed Che Weiying in front of the formation. What crime did the car commit? According to Zhang Zhuyun's report, he was not notified before and afterwards." Mo Fu called the car to collude with the enemy, and Zhang shot and executed it on the spot after this secret order.

At this point, Liu was shocked. Liu Yue was also from Gaozhou, Guangdong. The killing of chariots had a great impact. The army was shaken and the team was completely in chaos. At this moment, Guan Chengfang, Lin Liangyi, and Su Li's central subordinates were aroused by the resonance of "Guangdong people do not fight against Guangdong people". Suddenly, the Gui army led by Zhuo Guiting from the Guizhou people in Sanheba was attacked. Zhuo was attacked by the enemy inside and outside and retreated in panic. Dapu and Sanheba soldiers occupied by the Guangdong army. Zhuo led the remnants to Meixian, Fengshun, and Jieyang. The three battalion commanders of the Liu army, Su, Lin, Guan's subordinate Rao, Chen, and Xu were at first. At first, the three battalion commanders of the Liu army still wanted to resist stubbornly, but the situation was hoped. Finally, the fleeing and the surrendered, and the entire line collapsed. At this point, the front line of the middle line collapsed.

At the same time, Deng Ruizheng, He Caijie, Lu Dexiang, Zhou Huifu, Huang Junsan and other troops, who were guarding the Jiaoling line (left wing), were mostly Guangdong people, and they were mostly Guangdong people to welcome Xu Chongzhi's Guangdong army attack and resisted stubbornly, but both the middle and left wings had been defeated. They had been stalemate for several days, and more than 2,000 people were killed or injured. The soldiers could not be supported and retreated.

The three military forces were less than 15 days old. The front line of the Guangxi clique retreated from Raoping, Dapu and Jiaoling, losing about 5,000 troops, accounting for one-fifth of the total force. More than 1,800 rifles and two cannons were lost. After this defeat, not only was the morale depressed, but the officials also lost confidence in fighting. The suspicion between Guizhou and Guangdong generals deepened. Liu Zhilu, Shen Rongguang, Liu Daqing waited for Chenghai (Liu's deputy director Zhong Yiming also served as the county magistrate of Chenghai County) for more than ten days, and inspected from Chenghai to Jieyang, Fengshun, Wuhua and other places, trying to boost the morale of the army and prepare for another battle. Finally, the army was defeated like a mountain, unable to recover the decline, and could not turn around and was completely defeated.

At that time, many of the Gui army secretly asked merchants to buy newspapers published in Hong Kong from Hong Kong, and officers rushed to read them first. The battle situation and other news of the Guangdong and Guangxi armies of Hong Kong were compared with newspapers published in Guangzhou and Shantou, which were only for the Gui army to report victory by fake news. Everyone read the telegrams that Chen Jiongming swore in Zhangzhou on August 12 and all the soldiers of the Guangdong army. Among them, there were sentences such as "Why can the wealth of Guangdong Province be divided into a little bit, and the more the force is deeper, you must be killed and then hurry up." Although they felt that they were "ignorant of the overall situation and not general enough", many officers were moved and thought that they were serving the Guangxi army by fighting, which was very unwise.

The defense battle of Liu Zhilu was first defeated in Chaomeishanjie. He retreated to Fengshun, Jiaoling, Meixian, Xingning, Zijin, Pingyuan and other places. After the planning of containment and reserve forces was adjusted, he had about 6,000 people, led by Zhuo Guiting, Chen Rongguang (both Guidi) and Liu Daqing. He arranged defenses at Liuhuang, Lao Fengshun, Shekeng, Shimaxu, Datuo, Baidu, Songyuan and other places, forming the so-called second line of defense. Liu instructed Zhuo, Chen and Liu to hold on, and Liu Zhilu himself was stationed in Chenghai to dispatch and command. The Guangdong army took advantage of the victory to attack and occupy Meixian, Pingyuan and Fengshun. There were only 2,000 people left in the Shen army, and the Liu and Zhuo troops had a total of 2,500 left in Huilai, Puning, Jieyang, Chao'an and other four counties, and Hepo, Huangpoxu, Wuhua County, and Gangbei.

Seeing the urgent situation, Liu went to Puning to take charge, trying to suppress the situation and respond to Chao'an and Shantou. Soon, he was ordered to defend Wuhua Zhuo, and the two troops of Chen were defeated by the Guangdong army and retreated to Qiling. Mo Rongxin was shocked in Guangzhou and transferred three battalions of the Gui army sent by Guangxi to support him, three battalions of the Gui army, Li Ziqing's three battalions and two battalions of the Lu Debiao's troops, and waited for his appointment in Zhaoqing, Xijiang. It turned out that Mo saw that the defeat in Chaomei area had been completed, and was planning to defend Zengcheng and other places outside Guangzhou. This Guang army had not been involved in the battle. When Mo was forced to leave Guangdong, he fled from Luoding and Silun back to Lingxi and Rongxian in Guangxi.

Seeing that Liu's troops were defeated and could not form an army, Mo Rongxin transferred Lin Hu and Chen Hongying's troops to Huizhou as Liu's support. Liu re-deployed and fought again, and still assigned Zhuo Guiting to defend Zijin, Anliuxu, Hepo and Puning in the middle; Chen Rongguang was responsible for the right wing, Huilai, Lufeng, and Haifeng; Liu Daqing was responsible for the left wing, Heyuan, Longchuan, and Heping Department. The third line had a force of about 10,000. Mo's deployment was aimed at defending Huizhou and seizing Dongjiang.

In October, the Guangdong army successively captured Yangcun, Pingtan, Shuikou, Hengli, Ma'an, Baitang, Haoyi, Pingshan, Sanduozhu, Tamshui and other places, and the Gui army Liu, Ma, Jiang and other units, and retreated. The Guangdong army approached Huizhou City and used cannons to bombard Huicheng. At that time, the Huizhou defenders still had Lin Hu, Chen Hongying and Li Genyuan's sea border troops, a total of about 70,000 people, but they had no fighting spirit. Huicheng Xuan was also captured by the Guangdong army. The Gui army Shen Baofan troops stationed in the Boluo Sect and Shilong and Dongguan, and a whole division of Chen Kunpei's troops, had a total of 10,000 troops, and they could have fought. However, due to the loss of Huicheng, each unit only focused on preserving its strength and retreated to Guangzhou one after another. The Guangdong army followed the army to Zengcheng and Guangzhou. The morale of the Gui army was lost, and the officials fled. Mo Rongxin was exhausted and forced to ionize Guangdong.

Ma Ji, Lin Hu, Chen Hongying and others fled back to Guangxi with their remaining troops. Li Genyuan's troops went to Liangkou north of Zengcheng, passed Wengyuan, Xinfeng, Lianping to Ganbian, Shen Baofan, Liu Zhilu and others, some of the troops were incorporated by the Guangdong army, and some retreated to Guangxi or Gan territory. Li Genyuan, Yang Yongtai and others seemed to have fled to Hong Kong, but Liu Zhilu had indeed slipped to Hong Kong. The situation where the Guangxi regime was in Guangdong ended here.

In Zhong Yang's opinion, there was nothing outstanding about the entire battle. The Guangdong army itself was full of fighting spirit and the morale of the army was gathered. Coupled with the excellent weapons provided by Zhong Yang, the possibility of losing was slim. The Gui army, who was under Mo Rongxin, lived in Guangdong for several years. Although they did not do anything that was angry or resentful, the warlords were warlords after all, and the soldiers under their command were always lacking control. As time went by, they naturally aroused public resentment, and under the instigation of those who were interested, they soon became excited.

The front line encountered failure, and the foundation in the rear was shaken. Whether it was the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce or the Xinghua Chamber of Commerce of Liu Jinyang, they all had secretly communicated with Chen Jiongming. They went on strike, protest, and armed expulsion. The Gui army was attacked from both sides in Guangdong, and the situation was difficult to recover. Mo Rongxin's troops had to retreat to Guangxi.

On November 2, the Guangdong army entered Guangzhou, and the various units of the Gui army had already fled. Guangzhou newspapers reported: "After Commander-in-Chief Chen arrived in the province, the information came, and the citizens were leaping happily and rushing to set off firecrackers. Looking at all the situations, it was true that there were countless people who were happy."

On that day, flowers were paving the road inside and outside the city of Guangzhou, and the people were jubilant. A portrait of Chen Jiongming was hung high at the entrance of the city gate, decorated with ribbons and banners, flags dancing in the air, gongs and drums were clamoring, and a scene of harmony between the military and the civilians.

After more than two months of fighting, Chen Jiongming finally took over Guangdong again and took the first place in Guangzhou. Unlike Mo Rongxin, the major merchant groups in Guangdong sincerely supported Chen Jiongming because everyone has the same interests. Other warlords come and ask for money and people, and they can be said to be a mess in managing the local economy. Although operating brothels, gambling houses and tobacco pipes can make a lot of profits, in the eyes of real big businessmen, the money is not a long-term solution.

Guangzhou is already close to Hong Kong and has frequent trade transactions with European and American countries such as Britain and France. The black income is only 3 million silver dollars per month, and so many people have to compete for it, which is not attractive at all. Take the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce and Xinghua Chamber of Commerce for example. The former is now taking the industrial and commercial industry route, and the monthly gross profit alone reaches 11 million silver dollars. Although this money is the total income of more than a dozen business groups in the Chamber of Commerce, it is definitely much better than operating the pornography, gambling and drug industries, and can gain a good reputation. Why not do it?

Chen Jiongming is indeed an expert in managing regional politics and economy. Whether it is the ban on smoking and drug control in Guangdong or the good political achievements he achieved in Zhangzhou, Fujian, these have made big businesses who really want to engage in industrial and commercial operations have a considerable favor to him. Although Chen Jiongming also asked for money, the money is basically used for local economic construction, and this practice is very recognized by local ethnic capitalists.

In an office building in Tangwei Town, Zhong Yang sat on the sofa in the reception room and chatted happily with Gu Yuejun. The change of the weather in Guangzhou was the most gratifying thing for him. Tangwei Village changed the village to a town at the end of July this year, because both the economy and population had met this requirement.

Looking at Zhong Yang sitting leisurely, Gu Yuejun was a little worried: "Today, Chen Jiongming arrived in Guangzhou, wouldn't you go and see him in person??"

"Haha, let Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang go, I don't have to come forward to such small things." Zhong Yang doesn't like socializing. When encountering such things, Chen Ze or Liu Jinyang usually asks him to come forward to deal with them, while he himself hides behind the scenes and is lazy.

In fact, not only Zhong Yang did not personally come forward to welcome Chen Jiongming, the new owner of Guangzhou City, Duan Yitian, Du Jingnan of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, and Huo Renxuan of the Huo family, but just sent his trusted subordinates to congratulate him. In the eyes of these powerful big merchants, no matter how many owners of Guangzhou City are replaced, they will have little impact on them. The transactions are done as they say, as the saying goes, there is a gun in his hand, and he is not panicked. With his respective merchant armed forces and gentleman status, even warlords dare not act rashly on them.

After such days, the bosses of various chambers of commerce organizations are naturally arrogant. In Guangzhou City, the real owners have always been these big and small business gangs and chambers of commerce. Even those gangs and societies, their main source of funding is related to these big merchants. Even Zhong Yang, who was the first to come, did not follow the customs and pay and weapons to support the development of the Hakka gang.

Zhong Yang's current plan is to wait for Chen Jiongming to enter Guangzhou before starting the transformation plan on a large scale. As long as the operation is done properly, people will not see themselves, but turn their attention to Chen Jiongming. Zhong Yang doesn't want to come forward, so it is better to act in secret. Otherwise, a big tree will attract wind and it will always be a trouble, and public figures always have many concerns. A strong person hiding in the dark can be without any need to take into account reputation and reputation, and there are no taboos.

Zhong Yang hopes to establish a chaebol-like organization that subtly exerts influence on the political, economic, military and culture of the entire country. This sense of accomplishment of manipulating everything in the dark makes him most intoxicated.

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