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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 170 Balance is an Art

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    Update time: 2012-08-19

    Zhao Ti, the governor of Henan Province, apparently caused a fire at the city gate that affected Chiyu. This guy was a serious local snake in Henan Province. He graduated from the Beiyang Military Preparation School in the late Qing Dynasty and served as the commander-in-chief of the Left Army of Jianggui Military Guard.  During the Revolution of 1911, he was ordered by the Qing court to enter Shaanxi to suppress the revolutionary party.  During the Second Revolution, he led his troops into Henan on the orders of Yuan Shikai, and later pursued and suppressed Bailang's uprising army, and incorporated many bandits, and was known as the "Hongwei Army".

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Ha?????????????]] He was awarded the Henan Army Guards Envoy, and later served as Henan Governor and Provincial Governor. Zhao Ti successively used his trusted generals Bao Dequan, Fang Youtian, and Ding Xiangling as the Guardsmen of East Henan, North Henan, and West Henan.  In 1915, Zhao Si reported to Yuan Shikai for approval to cancel the original patrol battalions in the province, use the funds to establish the provincial defense army, and hold a Henan general training center in Kaifeng to train officers.

    In 1916, the Provincial Defense Force - Hongwei Army began to be established, and was gradually expanded to the 40th battalion. Zhao Ti appointed himself as the commander-in-chief, and later his third brother Zhao Jie as the commander. This army actually became a private armed force of the Zhao family.

    When the Ministry of War ordered him to remove this guy from the post of governor of Henan and his own duties, Zhao Ti immediately jumped up and asked him to surrender this three-acre land in Henan. How could he agree? This guy's Hongwei army was originally a bandit.  Most of the private armies employ their own cronies.

    As a result, Zhao Ti actually dared to rebel in Kaifeng and declared the whole province of Henan to be independent. This was called a self-inflicted crime. The Hongwei Army of the Henan Provincial Defense Force claimed to have 40 battalions, but in fact it only had 15,600 troops at full count.  , and he has always followed Zhao Ti to do all kinds of evil in Henan, and he has long lost the support of the people!  How can it be the opponent of the wolf-like Third Division of the Army?

    Cao Kun's five brigades of the Third Division were defeated in front of the participating armies. This does not mean that the Third Division is not a first-class strong soldier in the Beiyang Army. What's more, a mixed brigade was also equipped with American firearms from the participating armies. 1917  On August 18, 1917, Zhao Ti announced the uprising in Kaifeng, Henan. On August 20, 1917, the leading brigade of Cao Kun's third division reached the city of Kaifeng.

    The whole country's public opinion overwhelmingly supported the central government's opposition to the warlords' selfish rebellion. Several other provinces that Zhao Ti sent with heavy sums of money to lobby, including Fengtian Governor Zhang Zuolin, all refused and reprimanded without exception, demanding that this guy  Cancel the campaign and leave the country to await central review.

    Cao Kun led the third division to attack Zhao Ti in Henan and achieved a comprehensive victory in just ten days. Kaifeng was captured, a small part of the Hongwei army was annihilated, and most of them were captured!  On the third day of the fighting, all counties and cities in Henan Province all defected to support the central government in opposing the revolution!

    The commander of the first division of the Hongwei Army, Zhao Jie, resisted and was killed. The commander of the second division, Bao Dequan, defected and led the remaining troops to surrender and opened the city gate. However, Fang Youtian and Ding Xiangling were originally bandits and saw that the situation was not going well.  At the beginning of the division's march south, he led the rabble under his command and dispersed to continue going up the mountain to become bandits.

    As for Zhao Ti himself, he somehow managed to sneak out of Kaifeng, disguise himself, and go to Zhang Zuolin!

    Cao Kun claimed to be a Beiyang orthodox man, and he really wanted to kill the prisoners of the Hongwei Army who were mostly bandits. Finally, Wang Chengbin stopped him from massacring thousands of prisoners, but if he were to be dismissed like this, he would not be able to do it in the future.  Do you still have to become a bandit and continue to cause harm to the place?  Lao Cao had a change of thought and ordered the prisoners to be taken directly to Anyang Coal Mine to do hard labor digging coal!

    Of course, the reason why Wang Chengbin was able to persuade Cao Kun was actually the Participating Army's military song of "Three Major Disciplines and Nine Points of Attention". The Participating Army sang it well, so why can't our Third Division do it?  Don¡¯t torture prisoners!  I don't know if being sent to the coal mines as hard labor is considered abuse. I didn't think too much about these two!

    Zhang Huaizhi, the governor of Shandong, was removed from the post of governor, and General Jia Fengwei was transferred to the General's Mansion in Beijing. On the surface, he suffered a disaster due to poor flood control and disaster relief, but in fact, he became Zhao Ti's accomplice. Zhang Huaizhi was considered a member of the Anhui clique.  As for the peripheral forces, this guy was transferred from the position of Commander-in-Chief of Chahar to the Shandong Army Governor a year ago, but he was engaged in overt and covert conflicts with Zhang Shuyuan, the Shandong Military Affairs Assistant who led his former fifth division.

    This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to win over Zhao Ti in Henan, Lao Duan, under the advice of Xu Shuzheng and Wang Geng, simply settled the Shandong situation. Zhang Huaizhi was already 57 years old, and General Fengwei also went to Beijing to retire.  It makes sense, but a bowl of water must be balanced. If Xu Shuzheng mentioned Zhang Shuyuan as the governor of Shandong, it would be absolutely unacceptable.

    In the end, they each played 50 big games. Of course, although Zhang Shuyuan did not squeeze out Zhang Huaizhi and was sent to Heilongjiang, he finally made a step forward from assistant to Heilongjiang governor, which makes sense!

    As for Tian Zhongyu, when Meng Enyuan, the governor of Jilin, was ousted by Zhang Zuolin last time, he originally had the opportunity to become the governor of Jilin. Later, because Li Changtai of the Eighth Army Division was transferred from Tianjin Horse Factory, the governor of Jilin was given to Li Changtai.  At this time, Tian Zhongyu took up the post of Shandong Governor. Firstly, it was a step forward. Secondly, it was also a transition. After all, the division commanders who participated in the war were still relatively young, especially Guo Songling's fourth division, which had only been established for a short period of time.

      The vacated Chahar capital is undoubtedly Wang Geng's. Everyone knows that the construction of the Beijing-Suiyuan railway and highway is the top priority of the war supervisors. Giving Chahar to Wang Geng will naturally get twice the result with half the effort.  The best of both worlds!

    As for the hot-button Governor of Zhili, Wang Geng used it as a favor to Xu Shuzheng to balance the obviously unbalanced internal relations within the Anhui clique. Although Xu Shuzheng himself devoted all his energy to organizing the Anfu clique and gaining influence in the parliament, and in organizing the drafting force  At the top of the new constitution, Wang Geng didn't want to be so dominant that he forgot about it.

    In fact, in addition to participating in the war, whether it is Sino-American Petroleum Company, China Airlines or China Insurance, Wang Geng's Ministry of Finance and Bank of China have never forgotten to let Xu Shuzheng's Ministry of Communications and Bank of Communications get a share of the pie!

    The Prime Minister and the two indomitable generals of the New Anhui Clique have obviously found a balanced way of cooperation in the financial and economic fields. The concept of both prosperity and loss has gradually penetrated into the minds of the two factions.

    By the end of August 1917, the Yellow River floods in Henan and Shandong gradually receded, and the fourth batch of US aid arms and equipment arrived in China again.

    The specific list of the fourth batch of US aid arms is as follows:

    1. M1903 Springfield manual rifle: 30,000 pieces

    2. M1917bar Browning squad machine gun: 3,000 pieces

    3. M1917a1 water-cooled Browning heavy machine gun: 2,000 pieces

    4. M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle: 3,000 pieces

    5. Colt caliber automatic pistols: 30,000 (including 9 million rounds of .45 caliber pistol ammunition)

    6, 7 Rifle ammunition: 90 million rounds

    7. 108 Japanese-style 75mm41 mountain cannons (including 15,400 rounds of 75-caliber mountain cannon shells)

    8. 108 Japanese-style 75mm38 field guns (including 15,400 rounds of 75-caliber field gun shells)

    9. 36 Japanese-style 150mm howitzers (including 9,800 rounds of 150-caliber howitzers)

    10. American-made Dodge 1-ton semi-military truck (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 300 units

    11. American-made Ford TT 1-ton utility vehicle (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 500 units

    12. American-made Ford Model T (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 500 units

    Due to the floods in Shandong and Henan provinces, a large number of victims formed a source of troops. The number of new soldiers recruited by the participating armies in August reached 45,000. Including the two previous supplementary brigades, the number of supplementary brigades of the participating armies was more than 10,000.  As many as seven.

    The establishment of the fifth division of the participating armies is imminent. At the same time, diplomatic pressure from the British, American and French ministers is coming one after another. The number of troops armed by China in the name of participating in the war is expected to reach 200,000, but the expeditionary force sent to the European battlefield is only  An advance detachment of five hundred people. I heard that they have now become the Guards Battalion of Commander Pershing of the American Expeditionary Force. This is far from enough. China must take more practical actions to fulfill its promise to participate in the war!

    Wang Geng, like Wang Geng, stepped up the construction of the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway and highways to open a land route to Europe to participate in the war. This is a fantasy and even an individual cannot believe it. Although the construction speed of the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway has set a record in the history of railway construction in China.  , is it possible to build it to be able to connect to the Trans-Siberian Railway? Is that a matter of years and months?

    Although the ground troops sent by the US military to the European battlefield are only two army divisions, there are already more than one million recruits in the US recruit camps!  Of course, they need more training before they are qualified to step out of the boot camp and board a troop transport to fight in Europe!

    "Nah! Don't the Chinese participating troops need more training to cross the ocean and go to Europe to serve as cannon fodder?!" The war supervisor's rhetorical question made the ministers of the five countries panic!
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