Chapter 190 In 189, Feng Yuxiang marched into Henan

As soon as the Zhifeng War came to an end, war broke out in Henan again. Henan is Wu Peifu's base, and there is a discord between him and Zhao Ti, the governor of Henan.After the Zhiwan War, there was a story between Wu and Zhao. It has been explained earlier, that is, Wu and Zhao became political brothers, and Wu and Zhao’s two wives also became sworn sisters. However, all these could not stand the test . Zhao Ti is a native of Ruyang County, Henan Province. He is proficient in arts and sciences. He joined Ma Yukun's subordinates in the Yi Army in the late Qing Dynasty and was promoted by Jiang Guiti.In Yuan Shikai's era, he obtained Henan territory by chasing Bai Lang, and he was like a local emperor in Henan. In the winter of 2010, his seven-year-old son contracted typhoid fever and was sent to Nanguan for treatment. He tried to imitate Yuan Shu in the Three Kingdoms period to borrow his life. Taking the leading role, I would like to lend ten years of life to my beloved son. Together with the life borrowed by officials of all sizes, this precious son should be able to live to 300 years old and more.After the merit of borrowing birthdays was successfully completed, Zhao Dushuai's "Mrs. Westinghouse" celebrated the twentieth. Che Yun, the head of Huangchuan County, presented a pair of red embroidered satin shoes. "

Zhao Ti's brother, Zhao Jie, nicknamed Zhao Sanmazi, did all kinds of evil, and Zhao Ti appointed him as the commander of the Hongwei Army.Wu Peifu once mobilized the Hongwei Army to attack Hunan. Zhao Jie did not perform any meritorious service on the front line, but he was promoted to the commander of the First Division of the Provisional Henan Division.So he recruited soldiers from all over Henan, and the soldiers he recruited were all opium-sucking and flour-smoking rascals who were domineering and forced to eat for free on credit.One of his subordinates was stationed in Linru. They were officers and soldiers in the daytime and bandits in the evening. , Zeng said indignantly: "Zhao Ti has a precious brother Zhao Jie, just like Zhang Jingyao has Zhang Jingtang, it really shines successively."

In the spring of 2011, Wu Peifu denounced Liang's cabinet and invited warlords from all provinces to respond.Zhao Ti is Wu's fake brother and relative, of course he wants to follow Wu's footsteps on the surface, but he is afraid of offending Zhang Zuolin, so he plays Tai Chi against Wu and refuses to send electricity to express his position.Wu Strictly urged him, so he reluctantly sent a mild telegram, but at the same time secretly sent a secret telegram to Zhang Zuolin, explaining his last resort and forced situation to Feng Zhang.Zhang Zuolin received Zhao Ti's telegram, and immediately forwarded it to Cao Kun, with a note saying: "Your subordinates force others to telegraph against me. If you can't stop it, I will stop it on your behalf." Cao Kun received it After receiving Zhang's questioning telegram, he forwarded it to Wu Peifu, telling him not to cause trouble.Wu Peifu saw Zhao's telegram to Zhang, only then did he know that Zhao Ti secretly communicated with the Feng family, and he was a duplicity. He sent someone to Kaifeng to question Zhao. Joint signature or response, you are willing to do as you like, how can it be considered as forcing you?" Zhao Ti was very embarrassed by this, so he had to say to the person sent by Wu: "I was tricked by others. , I wanted to resign a long time ago, but because of my brother's love, he wanted to keep me, and I will be the only one who will obey my brother Ziyu's order!"

Wu Peifu didn't want to cause trouble in Henan before going to war with the Feng faction, so he still tolerated Zhao Ti, and only wrote a letter asking Zhao to quickly raise 3 million yuan in military pay for atonement. Zhao Ti received a letter from Wu Peifu, asking him to raise 3 million military pay, but he discussed with his confidants Zhao Jie and Bao Dequan, and they all disagreed.On the one hand, he was reluctant to take out the money that had been looted, and at the same time, his military salary had been owed for several months. If he took out the money to send to Luoyang, how would he explain to his army.At the same time, if he completely obeys Wu this time, how will he deal with it in the future if he does not know how many conditions Wu will raise one after another?Therefore, he decided to reject Wu Peifu's request, and at the same time released rumors that someone was going to assassinate the Zhao brothers, so martial law was declared in Kaifeng, and three lines of defense were arranged in Zhengzhou, Zhongmou, and Kaifeng.And established a three-province offensive and defensive alliance with Zhang Wensheng in Anhui and Tian Zhongyu in Shandong.

The emergence of the offensive and defensive alliance of Henan, Shandong, and Anhui provinces seemed to be a power group other than Zhifeng. The governor of Jiangsu, Qi Xieyuan, also automatically asked to join, so the "three" became four, and the offensive and defensive alliance of the four provinces became stronger.However, Qi Xieyuan is directly related, so while Qi participated, he reported the actual situation to Wu Peifu. Wu Peifu was dissatisfied with Zhao Tiyi when he learned the inside story, so he decided to send Wang Chengbin to succeed him as the governor of Henan.Zhao Ti panicked when he heard the news, so he had to dig into his pockets and send 400,000 yuan to Luoyang.

In order to actively prepare for the use of troops against the Feng Faction, Wu Peifu had to ask for military pay everywhere, not only extorting from the Zhao brothers, but also Tian Zhongyu and Li Houji who did not cooperate with the Zhili Clan. On April 3, warlords from various provinces came to Luoyang to congratulate Wu Peifu on his ninth birthday in Lent.Although Zhao Ti is not a direct descendant, but he is close at hand, and "righteous" married Jinlan, so he had to express his birthday, so he sent Zhao Jie to celebrate his birthday.Zhao Jie was afraid of meeting Wu Peifu's nails. When he got into the car, he said he was sick and refused to leave. He sent troops to guard Zhongmou for defense.As a result, Wu had to be on guard, so he transferred the 47th Brigade of the 24th Division (brigade commander Wang Weiwei) from Yuezhou to Zhengzhou, and let the 3rd Division control the Longhai Road. On April 11, the Beijing-Han Road bus stopped.Seeing that the situation was not right, Zhao Ti softened again. He admitted that he sent Ma Zhimin's brigade in northern Henan to participate in the war against Feng, and then withdrew the troops stationed in Zhongmu to Kaifeng. The Jinghan Road was not opened to traffic until the 13th.

Before Wu Peifu left Luoyang for Baoding on April 25, he hoped that Zhao Ti would come to Zhengzhou for a face-to-face talk.Zhao did not dare not go after receiving the telegram.Before he got in the car, he said to the people who saw him off: "I am going to the Hongmen Banquet. I am afraid that I will never see you again in this life." He shed "tears of heroes" as he said this. The student tried to persuade him to get out of the car.At this time, Wu sent another telegram to call Zhao Jie's army to the front to help in the battle. How could Zhao Jie be willing to fight, and of course he didn't want to be called.

At this time, Wu Peifu was determined to transfer the Zhao brothers away from Henan. He planned to exchange Feng Yuxiang, the governor of Shaanxi, with Zhao Ti, the governor of Henan, or transfer Zhao Jie's army away from Henan, so that the two brothers would not hinder him. It will not harm Henan, and I have an explanation for the petitioners in Henan. However, the Zhao brothers were all hard and soft, and they just refused to leave Henan. Therefore, Wu Peifu concluded that the Zhao brothers wanted to be enemies with him, so he urgently dispatched Feng Yuxiang to Luoyang to monitor the actions of Kaifeng, so as to consolidate the security of the rear.

On April 26, Feng Yuxiang led the 11th Division, Hu Jingyi of the First Division of the Shaanxi Army, and Zhang Xiyuan of the Fourth Mixed Brigade to Luoyang.Brothers Feng and Zhao Ti had feuds. After the Zhiwan War, Feng Yuxiang was still a brigade commander and was stationed in Zhumadian, Henan. He had conflicts with Zhao Ti's Hongwei Army. Zhumadian attacked and robbed Hongwei's guns. Feng also accused Zhao Ti of sending troops to attack the Queshan defense line first, so he fought back.After this conflict, Feng and Zhao became incompatible, and Zhang Xiyuan had been impeached by Zhao Ti before, and now Zhao's two enemies entered Henan together, which made Zhao Ti understand Wu Peifu's dissatisfaction with Henan. He has good intentions, so he is determined to cooperate with Fengjun. He wants to take advantage of Fengzhijun to beat you to death.

After the outbreak of the Zhifeng War, Fengjun initially had the upper hand on the eastern front and the east side of Jinghan Road. In order to cope with the situation on the battlefield, Wu Peifu desperately mobilized the rear troops to support the frontline. The 11th Division and the 21st Brigade ( Brigade Commander Li Mingzhong) and a regiment of the 22nd Brigade (Brigade Commander Zhang Zhijiang) were both transferred.Except for the 1st Division of the Shaanxi Army which remained unmoved in Luoyang, in Zhengzhou there are only Wang Weiwei's 1st Brigade of the 24th Division, Zhang Zhijiang's regiment of the 11th Division, and Jin Yun'e's regiment of the Eighth Mixed Brigade (Le's other Mission in Xinyang).At this time, Zhang Zuolin's victory telegrams were flying everywhere. Zhang Xun, the old boss of Anhui Governor Zhang Wensheng, repeatedly urged Anhui to launch a response to the Feng army, and Zhang Wensheng secretly asked Zhao Ti to attack Zhengzhou at the same time. On May 4th, Zhang Zuolin sent another telegram of the complete victory. Even better, Zhao Ti sent military agents in Beijing to send Zhao a secret telegram saying: "Wu Peifu has been killed in battle." So Zhao Ti thought that the Zhijun had indeed died. After being defeated in the war, the Henan Provincial Council and various groups were instructed to send a joint telegram denouncing Wu Peifu for occupying Luoyang, interfering in the administration of personnel, and imposing local taxes. This time, he forced Henan to send troops and pay for the army, and Feng Yuxiang previously intercepted military pay in Xinyang , looting ordnance, and now sending troops to invade Henan for no reason.Then, on the same day, "armed neutrality" was announced. All guest troops who joined the battle, whether passing through Henan or staying in Henan, must be disarmed.

On May 6, Bao Dequan, the guard envoy of Guide and temporary commander of the Second Division, Zhao Jie, commander of the temporary first division, Chang Desheng, commander-in-chief of the Yi Army in Henan and Anhui, Ding Xiangling, the guard envoy of Western Henan, Li Zhiyun, the guard envoy of Nanyang, and Beizheng Ma Zhimin and others jointly issued a telegram denouncing Wu Peifu and Feng Yuxiang.Power cloud: "Wu Peifu took control of Luoyang, divided his troops into Xu Zheng, robbed salaries and seized weapons, violated rights and intervened in politics, extorted business money, and exploited people's anointment. On the one hand, he assigned our army to be a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and on the other hand, he ordered the governor of Shaanxi to be a conspiracy to destroy Guo through false means. The King of E can be replaced, so why not leave the Zhao Kingdom? Feng Yuxiang robbed wages and seized weapons in Xinyang, violated rights and intervened in politics, just like Wu Peifu did in Luoyang. This time, I don’t know who ordered him to leave the customs without any reason, destroying neutrality. ..." Zhao Ti and others are really not well-informed, because when he entered Zhengzhou, it was the time when Wu Peifu broke Feng's army in Changxindian. On May 5, Zhao Jie led the 20th Battalion and Baodequan led the 10th Battalion to blow up the bridge in Fengle Town, Jinghan Road, and demolished a section of railway in Zhangde to prevent the troops from the north, that is, to Zhengzhou. In a sneak attack, the two hostile armies opened fire at the ancient city five miles away from Zhengzhou Station, and the Zhi army was defeated due to being outnumbered.The Zhengzhou garrison general recommended Jin Yun'e as the commander of the city, and sent Xinyang Jin army to help. However, the Jin army who came to help was defeated by the Henan army at Heshang Bridge near Zhumadian, and he gave up Xinyang and retreated to Wusheng Pass.The Yu army also tore down the railways in Lijiazhai and Liulin to prevent the Hubei army from the south. On the 6th, the situation in Zhengzhou became even more critical. Baode all detoured to the south bank of the Yellow River to launch an offensive. Fortunately, Hu Jingyi led the Yue Weijun Division of the Second Brigade of the First Division of the Shaanxi Army to rush from Luoyang, and hurriedly dismounted to resist, and the Henan Army was repelled. On the 7th, Feng Yuxiang himself commanded the Fifth Brigade of the Third Division, the Third Route of the Zhensong Army, a part of the Tenth Division, and the First, Second, and Fourth Mixed Brigades to come to aid, and the siege of Zhengzhou was lifted.On this day, Wu Peifu sent an urgent telegram, thinking that Zhao Jie did the attack on Zhengzhou and had nothing to do with Zhao Ti. Zhao Jie should be disarmed and there is no need to get involved. On the same day, Tian Zhongyu, Chen Guangyuan, Zhang Wensheng, and Qi Xieyuan jointly sent a telegram to mediate the battle in Henan. It turned out that Zhang Wensheng had ordered martial law when the Henan army launched, and was ready to perform the task of attacking and defending the alliance.Tian Zhongyu and Qi Xieyuan are allies of Zhang Wensheng, and they also invited Chen Guangyuan to participate in the mediation, with the aim of saving Zhao Ti's position as a military governor.Wu Peifu was unwilling to expand the dispute in Henan at this time, and also agreed to temporarily maintain the Henan Bureau. Zhao Ti issued a truce order on the 8th, and found Wu Peifu's old boss Pei Qixun in Kaifeng, organized a mediation team with Chinese and foreign people, and held a mediation meeting in Zhengzhou on the 10th. On the 9th, Xu Shichang issued an order in the name of the President, saying: "According to Cao Kun, the patrol envoy of Zhilu and Henan, telegram: According to reports from the brigade commander Jin Yun'e and Wang Weiwei stationed in Zhengzhou, Zhao Jie, the commander of the Henan First Division, led his troops to attack Zhengzhou, and the brigade had no choice but to resist. Check the situation. Zheng Fangxiang was stationed by the two brigades, but Zhao Jie dared to say that he would be expelled and went ahead to attack. He has already called the brigade commander and others to stick to the original defense and not to advance lightly. Please seize Zhao Jie's official honor and remove him Concurrent with various positions, handed over to the Henan Governor for interrogation according to the law, etc. Henan Province is an important place, the division commander Zhao Jie, as a general, how can he allow himself to be arbitrarily called a soldier, disrupting the defense, and immediately deprived of his official position, and awarded the medals, and handed over to the Henan Governor Zhao Ti, interrogate and handle according to law, so as to suppress military discipline. This order." Wu Peifu agreed to this solution, but when Feng Yuxiang led the army to leave Shaanxi, he declared that he would never return to his post. Now that he has made great contributions to Wu Peifu, Wu has to give him a reward.He ignored the truce order. On the 10th, Feng Jun still attacked Zhongmou, and Yu Jun retreated to Kaifeng. On the 11th, the Beijing government transferred Feng Yuxiang to be the governor of Henan, and Zhao Ti was dismissed for investigation, and Liu Zhenhua was temporarily appointed as the governor of Shaanxi. Zhao Ti was deceived by the false information, knowing that a catastrophe had been caused. On the 11th, he ordered Bao Dequan to maintain the law and order in Kaifeng and not to resist the guest army. , And recommended Bao to serve as Assistant Military Affairs Officer in Henan.Zhao Jie had already heard the news and fled first. On the 11th, Bao closed the city gate of Kaifeng and did not allow the defeated soldiers of the first division to enter the city.Zhao Ti left Feng to Guide on the evening of the 12th. On the 14th, Baodequan went to the station to meet Feng Yuxiang. On the 15th, Feng Yuxiang killed Bao Dequan and disbanded his Second Division.