Chapter 163 162. The Yunnan Army splits up in Guangdong

As early as the 5th year of the Republic of China, Li Gengen was oppressed by Chen Shufan when he was the governor of Shaanxi Province. After he was forced to leave Shaanxi, he moved to Shanghai. There were two roads in front of him. Participate in law-enforcement government.He is not from the Beiyang family, so of course he would not choose to go north.Guangzhou seduced him because firstly: he was from the Department of Political Science, Guangzhou was very parliamentary, and the Department of Political Science was in the majority; secondly, there was a Yunnan Army in Guangdong, and if he went to Guangdong, he would have a chance to capture the Yunnan Army.

Li Genyuan, whose alias is Yinquan, was born in Tengyue (now Tengchong) in Yunnan Province. He graduated from a Japanese non-commissioned officer with a pockmarked face. He called himself Li Mazi. It is said that his journey from Shanghai to Guangzhou via Hong Kong was very vivid. After he arrived in Guangzhou, he had to work hard on three people, one was Sun Yat-sen, the other was Cen Chunxuan, and the third was Mo Rongxin.He first went to see Cen, who was the chief executive of the military government and the leader of the Department of Political Science.When Li went to see Cen, he was wearing a green shirt and a mandarin jacket, with a pair of shoes on his feet. He looked old-fashioned. When he saw Cen, he knelt down and made a big salute, saying: "The root cause is incomparable, and it is difficult for Shaanxi. This time, I came to Guangdong. I wish to follow suit.” Then he analyzed the general situation, and found that there were three strategies: flattening Fujian, attacking Hunan, and joining forces in the Central Plains, which made Cen Chunxuan happy, and since then Li Gengen has become Cen’s important military adviser.Then he changed into a suit and went to see Sun Yat-sen, and urged Chen himself to join the League and dedicate himself to the revolution. This time he was hit in Shaanxi because he opposed the non-revolutionary warlord Chen Shufan.Sun trusted every comrade, and Li Gengen was no exception.In the end, he put on his military uniform and went to see Mo Rongxin, the governor of Guangdong. He talked about the commanding power of the Yunnan army in Guangdong. Rongxin) is the conductor.Mo Rongxin was right in his heart when he heard this, so he admired this Yunnan native from Shaanxi and became his confidant.

Li Gengen contacted the three presidents of the military government in Guangzhou, and won their favor, especially Mo Rongxin, who was a powerful faction. Soon he announced that Li Gengen was the supervisor of the border defense of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan, and controlled the Yunnan Army in Beijiang. The Dian army was led by Li Liejun to Guangdong in the 5th year of the Republic of China when it was defending the country against Yuan, and has remained in Guangdong since then.After the establishment of the military government, Li Liejun served as the chief of staff and still commanded the Yunnan Army.There are two divisions in this Yunnan army, and the designation is the third division and the fourth division.The commander of the third division is Zhang Kairu, and the commander of the fourth division is Fang Shengtao.The Dian army's defense area was originally drawn in Beijiang. Soon after the establishment of the military government, Fang Shengtao, the commander of the Fourth Division, led his troops to move to Xijiang, and Beijiang only had the third and one divisions. In May 7, Zhang Kairu was inclined to the Kuomintang.He was dismissed by Mo Rongxin, and Tang Jiyao sent Zheng Kaiwen to succeed him as the teacher.

The contradiction of the Yunnan Army is that it has dual leadership, systematically under the command of the Yunnan Governor, but in essence it is under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Governor.Li Liejun was not welcomed by Mo Rongxin because he was a member of the Kuomintang, so Li Gengen's lobbying easily moved Mo Rongxin. When Tang Jiyao heard that Li Gengen was appointed by the Guangdong Governor of Guangxi as the Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan border defense supervisor, Tang Jiyao was very worried. Tang knew Li's methods, and he was afraid that this Yunnan army would become Li's political capital after being controlled by Li.But he could not oppose or stop him, so he added Li Genyuan as the commander of the Sixth Army of the Yasukuni Allied Forces.The Yasukuni Army is different from the National Defense Army. The National Defense Army is to seek yuan, and the Yasukuni Army is to protect the law.On the other hand, Tang secretly informed Zhang Kairu, the division commander of the Dian Army stationed in Beijiang, to be careful with Li Genyuan.

When Li Genyuan went to Shaoguan to take over the task, he assembled the Dian army to speak. On the podium, he slapped himself twice, and then said to the officers and soldiers of the Dian army in a sincere and repentant tone: "Gen Gen is sorry for my hometown, and I am sorry for Sanyi's elders." Brother and brother, I failed in Shaanxi this time, and I have self-criticized. I deeply feel that I was too poor in life and work in the past. He will not mobilize every officer and soldier at will." His words touched every officer and soldier of the Yunnan Army. Everyone was wary of this Li Dazi, but after his words, they were completely relieved, thinking that he had gone through the Shaanxi battle. has changed.

In fact, Li Gengen was trying to capture the Yunnan army step by step. Of course, his actions aroused Li Liejun's disgust. The second Li was a classmate in Japan, and later he was a colleague in Yunnan during the Battle of Protecting the Country. Support the Yunnan Army and turn against it. In the autumn of 8, Zhang Ji, a veteran of the Kuomintang, arrived in Kunming. Zhang Ji supported Li Liejun, so he set fire to Tang Jiyao. Personal political capital.” At that time, Tang Jiyao’s Dian army was in both Sichuan and Guangdong, and they were fighting against the Sichuan army in Sichuan, but the Dian army on the Sichuan battlefield was not strong enough, and Gu Pinzhen, the commander of the Dian army stationed in Sichuan, was not loyal enough to Tang. Suspected that there was a collusion between Gu Pinzhen and Li Gengen, thinking that once the Yunnan army left Yunnan, it would be difficult to control, so it is better to transfer the Yunnan army stationed in Guangdong back to Yunnan.

On February 3, 9, the Guangxi faction started. Guangdong Governor Mo Rongxin ordered Li Gengen to swap Zheng Kaiwen, commander of the Third Division of the Yunnan Army, and Yang Jin, chief of staff of the Sixth Army of the Yasukuni Army.The purpose of this transfer was to transfer the division commander directly appointed by the Yunnan Department from the army, and send a person who had nothing to do with Tang Jiyao to take over the military power.This is obviously the first step for the Guangxi clique to devour the Yunnan army. Mo Rongxin changed the division commander of the Yunnan Army without Tang Jiyao's consent in advance, which made Tang very angry. He issued two orders on February 8 and 10: relieve Li Gengen from the post of commander of the Sixth Army of the Yasukuni Allied Forces , Li was reassigned as a representative of Yunnan to participate in the military government construction conference.At the same time, it is stated that the Yunnan Army stationed in Guangdong is under the direct command of the Yunnan Governor, and it will be managed by Lie Jun, Lie Jun, the Chief of Staff.This is a very wonderful thing. The Yunnan governor supported a Jiangxi surname Li, and opposed the Guangdong governor to support a Yunnan surname Li.

The two factions of Yunnan and Guangxi were separated because of the command of the Yunnan Army stationed in Guangdong. The Dian Army in Beijiang.Originally there were two divisions stationed there, namely the third division and the fourth division.Since Fang Shengtao of the Fourth Division was transferred to Xijiang and reorganized as "Aiding Fujian Army", the Dian Army in Beijiang established a new Fourth Division with Zhu Peide, a native of Yunnan, as the division commander, maintaining the original establishment and designation of the Fourth Division. .Due to historical relations, the generals of the Yunnan Army were more willing to obey Li Liejun, who was from Jiangxi, and opposed Li Gengen, who was from Yunnan.

When Yang Jin took over as the commander of the Third Division on February 11, the generals of the Yunnan Army secretly agreed to oppose the Guangxi faction swallowing the Yunnan army, so they conspired to detain Li Genyuan and openly opposed the Guangxi faction.Just because Zhu Peide was Li Gengen's student (Zhu graduated from the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and Li Gengen was the secretary of the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Party), so he intentionally let go and allowed the teacher to escape back to Guangzhou without being detained. On February 13, Zhu Peide, division commander of the Yunnan Army, Yang Yiqian, Lu Zicai, brigade commander, and others sent a telegram to oppose Mo Rongxin's order to reassign the commander of the third division.At the same time, Zheng Kaiwen, the original commander of the Third Division, Sheng Rongchao and Lu Zicai, the commanders of the 4th Division, and Zhu Peide, the commander of the 4th Division, Zhang Huaixin and Yang Yiqian, the commanders of the 4th Division, jointly sent a telegram, expressing their willingness to follow the order of the Tang governor.

Before Li Yuanyuan returned to Guangzhou, he resigned by telegram as the commander of the Sixth Army of the Yasukuni Allied Forces, and supervised the military affairs of the border defense of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan. After the Dian army resisted the Guangxi clique's order, the military government in Guangzhou was extremely shaken, because the Dian army not only has strong combat capabilities, but also symbolizes Yunnan's support for the military government. Now it is a very serious matter for the military government to openly turn against each other.Especially the Guangxi family thinks that this nail is too big, which seriously affects their dominance in Guangdong.

On February 14th, Mo Rongxin ordered Li Gengen to stay. At the same time, Yang Jin, the new commander of the 3rd Division, Sheng Rongchao, the commander of the 5th Brigade, Zhang Huaixin, the commander of the 7th Brigade, and Yang Yiqian, the commander of the 20th Brigade, sent a telegram to oppose Li Gengen's dismissal. As a matter of fact, this telegram was made by the Guangxi Clan to force the generals of the Yunnan Army to make a name for themselves. For example, Yang Yiqian did not support Li Gengen. Mo Rongxin believed that supporting Li Gengen was to strengthen the status of the Guangxi faction. Now that Li Gengen was forced to leave by the Yunnan Army, he had to support him with actual strength, so he dispatched troops and generals.From February 14th to 16th, the troops of the Guangxi faction went northward one after another, preparing to take a strong threat to the Yunnan army. On the 16th, Mo Rongxin sent a telegram: "All the two divisions of the Dian Army stationed in Beijiang, Guangdong should still be commanded by Governor Li Gengen." The army has always been under the control of this warlord, and it will remain the same in the future." On the 21st, Li Yuanyuan was reinstated by telegram. On the 23rd, Mo Rongxin, in his dual capacity as the governor of Guangdong and the army minister of the military government, ordered the cancellation of the designation of the third and fourth divisions of the Guangdong and Yunnan Army, and reorganized them into three brigades and three independent regiments of the frontier defense army.This approach is simply turning faces with Yunnan. On February 24, Li Liejun, who was full of grievances, found Cen Chunxuan in the military government. Li asked Cen: "Why did the military government agree to the Guangxi clique wanting to swallow up the troops stationed in Guangdong and Yunnan? Mo Rongxin's order is obviously unreasonable. The military government agrees to publish it?" Cen Chunxuan hesitated, and Li Liejun was very dissatisfied with it, so he used an excuse to inspect the defense of Beijiang, left Guangzhou, and prepared to gather the Yunnan army in Beijiang to resist the reorganization. On the same day, Li Genyuan also returned to Shaoguan from Guangzhou with the support of the Guangxi faction, and advised the Yunnan Army to accept the adaptation. On the 26th, Tang Jiyao sent a telegram asking Li Liejun to order officers and soldiers of the Third Division of the Dian Army to arrest the new division commander Yang Jin and execute him on the spot. The Dian Army was split, and some of those who stayed in Shaoguan obeyed Li Gengen's order, and most of them were concentrated from Shaoguan to Shixing, and they accepted Li Liejun's call to resist the Guangxi faction's reorganization order by force.As a result, the situation in Guangzhou became very tense, the Guangxi clique declared martial law, and the trains on Yuehan Road were suspended. On the 28th and 29th, Shen Hongying's Department of the Guangxi Army deployed combat missions on the front lines of Xinjie and Taiping City. Guangdong local soldiers Wei Bangping, Li Fulin and other departments also launched defenses under the strong pressure of the Guangxi faction. The dispute between the two Lis in Beijiang made Cen Chunxuan sleepless and restless, especially Li Liejun's departure, which made him feel that the problem was serious, so he sent Liu Deyu as a representative to chase Li Liejun along the way, and asked Liu Deyu to do everything possible to persuade Li to return to Guangzhou. On the 26th, Li Liejun arrived in Pingshan Town, Hua County, and was about to set off for Yuantan. Liu Deyu, who chased him that day, also arrived in Hua County, but the two could not be contacted. On March 4th, Li Liejun arrived in Maxu, Huaxian County through many difficulties and received a telegram sent by the military government to mediate. Li Liejun immediately expressed his willingness to accept mediation. Since the first ten days of March, the pro-Li Liejun faction and the pro-Li Gengen faction of the Yunnan Army have started small fires between Shaoguan and Shixing.The Yunnan Provincial Council, various organizations in Yunnan, and all military officers in Yunnan have successively sent telegrams to denounce Li Gengen, oppose the adaptation, and express dissatisfaction with Mo Rongxin.The Guangzhou side blamed Li Liejun, and after the shootout, the two sides launched a pen war. Under the mediation of Cen Chunxuan, Mo Rongxin was willing to make concessions and not cancel the name of the Yunnan Army. At the same time, he reassigned Yang Yiqian, who was unwilling to accept the reorganization, as the commander-in-chief of the First Army of the Jingguo Army stationed in Guangdong, and Lu Zicai as the deputy commander. Military pay is still the responsibility of the military government, but it must be under the command of the Army Department of the military government. On March 25, the fighting in Beijiang ceased. On the 27th, Cen Chunxuan went to Shaoguan to meet Li Liejun in person. Li promised to go to Shaoguan from Shixing to meet Cen and return to Guangzhou together. On the 31st, in Shaoguan, Cen heard that Wu Tingfang, one of the presidents of the military government, had left Guangzhou. He was shocked and returned to Guangzhou before waiting for Li Liejun to arrive in Shaoguan. Li Liejun arrived in Guangzhou on April 2. Guangzhou has become a family of Guangxi. The important figures of the Kuomintang, including the members of the Kuomintang, have left Guangzhou. He also used the excuse that Wu Tingfang took away the balance of tariffs and did not honor it. On April 13, Zhao Deyu, commander of the Second Brigade of the Frontier Defense Army (a subordinate of Li Genyuan), surrounded the staff headquarters on the pretext of hunting down deserters, first fired guns to demonstrate, and then searched.On the same day, the captain of the garrison entered the headquarters of the Jiangxi Army to search.These two places were often visited by Li Liejun, so Li Liejun felt that the situation was extremely unsafe, so he went to Haizhu Admiralty to take refuge temporarily. On April 27, he secretly fled to Hong Kong, and from Hong Kong to Shanghai on May 13.