Chapter 200 199. Triangular Struggle in Fujian

After Chen Jiongming's rebellion occurred in Guangzhou, problems also occurred in Fujian. What happened in Fujian?Half of it is related to the retreat of part of the Northern Expeditionary Army (Xu Chongzhi and other departments) to Fujian, and the other half is related to Xu Shuzheng's intervention.Now let’s first describe the relationship between Fujian and these two aspects: Xu Chongzhi has a deep relationship with Fujian. As early as the 2nd year of the Republic of China, he was stationed in Fujian as the commander of the 14th Division. During the Second Revolution, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Dispute Yuan Army, but was dismissed. In December 6, he was stationed in Zhangzhou with Chen Jiongming (commander-in-chief of the Fujian-Guangdong Army) until August 9, during which he got along very well with Fujian Governor Li Houji.

As for Li Houji?He is an uncompromising member of the Anhui Department. In November 2020, he was also the commander of the seventh brigade of the Fourth Division (with Yang Shande as the commander), and led his troops to Fuzhou with Liu Guanxiong. In July 3rd, he served as the Fujian Army Guard, and in March 5th, he served as the supervisor of military affairs (that is, the supervisor). In May 6, the Overseer Group held a meeting in Beijing and entertained members twice, and he delivered speeches on behalf of them.After the Zhiwan War, he and Lu Yongxiang of Zhejiang were regarded as the two remnants of the Anhui Clique.

In the south, he secretly expressed his friendship with Sun Yat-sen, and also had a relationship with Xu Chongzhi. There are two forces under Li Houji, one is Zang Zhiping, the commander of the Second Division and the guardian of Tingzhang, and the other is Wang Yongquan, the commander of the 24th Mixed Brigade.Wang was cultivated by Xu Shuzheng's Northwest War Army.As early as September 7, Wang Yongquan, in the name of "Fengjun Supplementary Brigade", actually went south from Luoyang under the command of Xiao Xu, passed through Bengbu and Pukou, and transferred to Jianxin and Fuzhou to Fujian.

Zang Zhiping and Wang Yongquan were not Li Houji's direct subordinates, and they had always been arrogant towards Li Houji. Of course, Li regarded them as thorns in his eyes. After the Zhifeng War, the Feng faction was defeated, and Sun Yat-sen also left Guangdong due to Chen Jiongming's rebellion in the south. Therefore, Li Houji, who was originally from the Anhui faction, tried his best to flatter Wu Peifu in order to preserve his position.Wu was out of reach because Fujian was near the sea, so he just used Li as his minion to divide the Anhui faction and deal with Guangdong.With Wu's support, Li attacked Zang Zhiping first. On June 5, 2011, he suddenly went to Zhangzhou to release Zang Zhiping from his part-time position as the second division commander, and replaced him with a part-time job, making Zang full-time the guardian of Tingzhang.Then he asked the Beijing government to remove Wang Yongquan, so people from the Anhui Department called Li ungrateful.

Li's betrayal of the Anhui faction was just a way to survive, but he seemed to have gone too far.He and Xu Shuzheng are cousins ​​and fellow villagers. As early as the spring of 2010, Xu Zeng secretly went to Fuzhou to persuade Li to cooperate loyally with Lu Yongxiang, and asked Li to send a secret telegram to Chen Shufan on his behalf. Li received the telegram and did not send it for him. Xiao Xu's attitude is also very cold. On August 18, 2011, when Xu Shuzheng was in Shanghai, he sent a letter to Wu Peifu, urging him to support Sun and Duan to seek reunification. Of course, Wu would not listen.Xiao Xu also sent a letter to Fuzhou to see Li Houji, but Li refused to see him.Some people couldn't help but said to Li: "You are close relatives, isn't it too much to do this?" Li Jing said loudly: "What's too much, he is a person who is used to making troubles, I can't afford to provoke him, so I should keep in touch so as not to Right and wrong."

On October 2, Xu Shuzheng sneaked across Xianxialing from Zhejiang to Wang Yongquan's army in Yanping with 800,000 yuan in sports expenses. Along with Xiao Xu were former brigade commander Yin Tongyu, former regiment commander Qi Annong and Sun Xiangzhen, and Wang Mou, who was the battalion commander.Because it had been negotiated in advance, on the day Xiao Xu arrived in Yanping, he set up the "Jianguo Military Government Administration" by telegram, claiming to be in charge of the establishment of the Jianguo Military Government Administration, and swore to "with sincerity and respect, to respect General Qi Duan of Hefei." Mr. Rui and Mr. Zhongshan Sun are the fundamental people who lead the country. When you see these two elders exercising their dignity together and issuing orders, Shuzheng will be defeated immediately to listen to interrogations." This is a nondescript organization, according to Xu Shuzheng The book "Jianguo Quanzhen" was established.

On the 3rd, Xiao Xu sent a telegram to persuade Li Houji to resign and leave Fujian, and he was limited to reply before the 5th.On the same day, Wang Yongquan and Xu Chongzhi decided to jointly attack Fuzhou.Xu Bu was on the left to attack Gutian from Jian'ou, and Wang Bu was on the right to attack Shuikou from Zhanghuban. Fuzhou was greatly shaken.Li Houji ordered the chamber of commerce to raise a salary of 500,000 yuan, and a run-off broke out in Fuzhou. Officials and their families took refuge and left Fuzhou. On the 6th, Xu Chongzhi's troops occupied Gutian, joined Wang Yongquan's brigade to attack Shuikou, and sent Huang Dawei and Li Fulin's two troops to advance from Gutian to Fuzhou via Dahu.Sun Benrong's brigade advanced from Dahu to Baisha, outflanked the rear of Shuikou, and cut off the communication line between Shuikou and Fuzhou. On the 9th, Li sent his cousin, Police Commissioner Shi Tingyang, to lead the provincial troops to Shuikou for reinforcements. On the 12th, Xu and Wang's ministries occupied Shuikou, and Tang Guomo's brigade on the Fujian side retreated to Fu'an and Minqing.Li Fulin and Huang Dawei took advantage of the situation and entered from Ganyuanli to Hongshan Bridge. The vanguard was led by Wang Maogong, and Qingqi entered Fuzhou. Li Houji's troops had no time to resist. Li Houji first ran to the Bank of Taiwan, and then fled to the naval warship.Under the command of Sa Zhenbing, the navy ordered Li to disarm, put Li Houji under house arrest on the Mawei naval ship, and forced Li to hand over the wealth he had found in Fuzhou.

On the 13th, Fujian Shi Tingyang's troops retreated from Baisha and launched a counterattack against Fuzhou City. Li and Huang's troops retreated hastily due to their small numbers. Fortunately, Sun Benrong's troops pursued Shi Tingyang from Baisha. Shi Tingyang encountered the enemy, and more than 3,000 men under his command disarmed and surrendered. After Li Houji's downfall, groups in Fuzhou put forward the slogan of "Fujian people rule Fujian", elected Sa Zhenbing as the interim governor, and sent a telegram to reject the "guest soldier Fujian" to prevent the northern and southern armies from fighting in Fujian.

Sa Zhenbing and the Navy were originally on the side of the Beijing government, but they helped the Northern Expeditionary Army in the south in this war to expel Li. On October 15, Sa Zhenbing was appointed governor of Fujian.Therefore, the governor of Fujian was not only elected by various groups in Fuzhou, but also appointed by the Beijing government. When Sa Zhenbing sent a telegram to Beijing, he described the detention of Li Houji as "protection", while Wu Peifu asked Sa to send a warship to escort Li Houji to Xiamen to land. The change of flag in Fuzhou was a gap made by the Sun, Duan and Zhang Triangular Alliance during the heyday of the Zhili line. The Northern Expeditionary Army also found a foothold. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin sent Han Linchun, the supervisor of the Fengtian Arsenal, to Shanghai to persuade Sun Yat-sen to send troops to Jiangxi and Hunan, and made an appointment Lu Yongxiang attacked Jiangsu, and the Feng army entered the pass to counterattack.The Kuomintang members also telegraphed Sun Yat-sen to organize a government in Fuzhou.Since Xu Shuzheng already had an organization, Sun was unwilling to join it.Sun's main purpose is to crusade against Chen Jiongming, recover Guangdong, and eliminate future troubles before he can send troops to the Northern Expedition.Lu Yongxiang did not take Xiao Xu's government seriously, so he refused to follow him blindly.

On October 17, when Xu Shuzheng, Xu Chongzhi, and Wang Yongquan entered Fuzhou, Xu Shuzheng appointed Wang Yongquan as the "General Governor of Fujian" in the name of the chief of the "Zhizhifu" to take charge of both military and civilian affairs; he also appointed Wang Yongquan, Xu Chongzhi, Zang Zhiping, Li Fulin and Huang Dawei were the commanders of the First to Fifth Armies of the Founding Army.Prior to this, Sun Yat-sen had appointed Xu Chongzhi as the commander-in-chief of the East Road Behavior Army, with three armies under it, with Huang, Xu, and Li as the army commanders. From January 28th, it was renamed "Thief Behavior Army".

Sa Zhenbing took office as the interim governor on October 15. It stands to reason that the so-called governor of Fujian should have the nature of a military governor and governor, but Wang Yongquan, Xu Chongzhi and others do not deny Sa's status as governor. Participate in the banquet held by Sa to welcome them, so Fujian during this period became an area where the three forces of the Sun, Anhui and Beijing governments coexisted peacefully. On October 24, the Beijing government ordered the crusade against Xu Shuzheng, appointed Li Houji and Sa Zhenbing as the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and Gao Quanzhong as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian army.This order was issued only after repeated urging by Wu Peifu.The Northern Expeditionary Army should have been included in the crusade, but because Wang Chonghui's cabinet did not want to be an enemy of the Kuomintang, the target of the crusade was only concentrated on Xu Shuzheng. The wonderful thing is that the deputy commander-in-chief of the rebellion army appointed by Beijing was living peacefully with the people being crusaded in Fuzhou at this time, while the commander-in-chief was a prisoner who had lost his freedom. What's even more absurd is that on October 18, the Beijing Shenlu Office sent Chang Desheng as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian-aid army, so now Beijing has sent two commander-in-chiefs to Fujian, one is the commander-in-chief of the aid to Fujian, and the other is to discuss The commander-in-chief of the thief, the two are not related.Although Li Houji was captured, his direct troops Wang Xianchen's brigade was in Shanghang, Zhang Qingru's brigade was in Quanzhou, and Gao Quanzhong's division was in Xiamen, so Wu Peifu still attached great importance to him.In addition, Wu also mobilized various troops, including the Zhang Keyao Brigade of the Lu Army stationed in Wuxue, Kou Yingjie of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Hubei Army stationed in Chongyang and Tongcheng, Hu Nianxian of the Second Mixed Brigade of Beiyang, and the naval fleet of Du Xigui, as well as those in Jiangxi. The two divisions of Zhou Yinren and Chang Desheng.Chang Shi arrived at Shanguan from Nancheng on October 18.The Yin Ji Brigade of the Guangdong Army arrived in Pinghe and planned to advance towards Longyan. Yin went to Shanghang on October 16 to discuss the battle plan with Wang Xianchen. According to the arrangement, Wu Peifu was unwilling to hand over the command of the Northern Army to Chen, so Chen's attitude became negative and he refused to attack alone. Xu Shuzheng's surprise attack on Fujian shocked the whole country, but I don't know what he thought, and organized a nondescript strange government. The name was not right, and the words were not right, which aroused the disgust of all parties.In particular, the so-called "general governor" is even more grotesque, resembling the governor and governor of the Qing Dynasty. It is stipulated in the official chapter of "True". On October 30, the Jianguo Army and the Thieves Fighting Army held a joint meeting, and elected Lin Sen, a Fujian-born Kuomintang member and the chairman of the Guangzhou National Assembly, as the governor of Fujian. In the name of the army, he was renamed the commander of the Fujian First Army.Xu Shuzheng said that the functions and powers of "building the nation's military and political system to the government", similar to the State Council, will be moved to other places with the progress of the military, and will not be located in Fujian for a long time.This statement still could not be forgiven, and Xu planned to cancel the establishment of the government and change his name to the commander-in-chief of the Jianguo Army. On November 1, Xu Shuzheng sent a telegram and proposed to welcome Duan Qirui to Shanghai to meet with Sun Yat-sen, and hold a joint provincial meeting in Shanghai to solve the problem of organizing the government and provinces to jointly send troops to crusade against the Zhili.However, no one responded to Xu's telegram. At this time, Duan Qirui sent Wang Zhilong to Fuzhou to persuade Xiao Xu to abolish the system and set up a mansion and leave Fuzhou.At this time, Wang Yongquan was also unwilling to have a nondescript Supreme Emperor. He was already the master of Fujian, so he tried to drive Xiao Xu away.Xu Chongzhi and others believed that this was a dispute between the Anhui faction and they were unwilling to intervene.Under such circumstances, Xu Shuzheng had no choice but to leave Fuzhou sadly, and went to Shanghai by ship on November 2. The establishment of the Jianguo military government system was short-lived and ended suddenly. On November 3, all walks of life in Fuzhou held a meeting, announcing that "Fujian people should determine their own affairs in Fujian" and prevent all parties from entering Fujian.Lin Sen announced his appointment as the governor of Fujian, and Sa Zhenbing canceled the name of interim governor. Wang Yongquan sent electricity to the Beijing government on November 6, but he still perfunctory with the Kuomintang in secret. Li Houji's mother sent a "ransom" from Shanghai, so Li Sui was released by the navy. On October 30, Li took the Jing'an ship to Nanjing to meet with Qi Xieyuan and Du Xigui to discuss the plan to counterattack Fuzhou. On November 5, Li arrived in Xiamen by ship, and he couldn't help being surprised when he saw Zang Zhiping and Gao Quanzhong welcoming them on the pier.It turned out that Zang had already arrived in Xiamen from Shanghai, so Gao recommended Zang as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Army.Zang told Li that this trip was to appease his subordinates and protect the local area, and he did not oppose the Beijing government. At this time, both Cao and Wu sent telegrams to Xiamen to summon Zang to go north, so Li Houji advised Zang to go, and Zang also agreed.Unexpectedly, on November 7, Zang encouraged the officers and soldiers of the Second Division to ask Li for military pay. Li and Gao were so frightened that they fled to Gulangyu Island for a public trial. On the 8th, Zang You sent a telegram to Chen Jiongming: "Li Dujun came to Xiamen on the 5th, and went to pay a visit to Ping. He took off his shoulders and went north as soon as there was a replacement. Commander, let him go. It was time for Zhiping to wait for the ship on Gulangyu Island, and it was impossible to save him. Xiamen gentry merchants asked Zhiping to maintain local law and order. non-violation treaty).” On the 11th, they called the Beijing government to report Li and Gao's departure from Xiamen, and said they "obey the central government." On the issue of Fujian, the Beijing government was also inconsistent. On November 9, the Beijing government sent Liu Guanxiong, the former chief of the navy, as an envoy to comfort Fujian, and asked him to appease the navy stationed in Fujian. On the 11th, Li Houji went to Shantou to ask Chen Jiongming for help. Some people in the Kuomintang advocated not to force Chen Jiongming to completely fall to the north, and at the same time prevent Chen Jiongming from helping Li Houji to aid Fujian. Therefore, it was Wang Zhaoming and others who made Sun Yat-sen and Chen Jiongming reconcile.But Sun insisted that Chen Jiongming write a letter of repentance so that he could let go of the past. Therefore, Xu Shaozhen was sent to Guangzhou to persuade Chen Jiongming to stop "aiding Fujian" military, but Chen Jiongming refused to write a letter of repentance, and the mediation failed. Fujian has become a chaotic situation where heroes compete for the throne. Cao and Wu dispatched the regular division of the Henan Army to occupy Guangze, Shaowu, Jianning, Jiangle and other counties successively in mid-November. The Yin Brigade of the Guangdong Army occupied Shanghang, Longyan, Yongding and other counties. On November 29, Li Houji went to Shanghang to hold a military meeting with Yin Ji and others, and appointed Zhang Qingru and Wang Xianchen as the commanders of the first and second divisions, planning to join the Guangdong army in a large-scale counterattack against Zhangzhou.Zang Zhiping wanted to monopolize one side, and originally refused the "thief hunting army" to enter southern Fujian. Due to pressure from both sides, he turned to cooperate with the hunting thief army and the civilian army. On December 16, the two groups joined forces in Quanzhou. The Fifth Battalion disarmed and surrendered; Wang Yongquan's troops marched to northern Fujian to resist the Chang Division. In mid-December, Jiangle, Yanning, and Shaowu were recovered one after another, and the Chang Division retreated to Shanguan and Lichuan in Jiangxi.Only then did the situation in Fujian stabilize. The scene of Xu Shuzheng's "opening the mansion in Yanping" was a failure. Although he succeeded by surprise and drove away Li Houji, Wang Yongquan did not listen to him and did not benefit the Anhui faction at all.However, the situation in Fujian was an important development for Sun Yat-sen, because the "Northern Expeditionary Army" retreated from Wengyuan to the border of Fujian, and was short of pay and ammunition. ), Jiangxi (Zhou Yinren's First Division) was in danger of being besieged on three sides.If you can't make a way out in Fujian, you will be in a difficult situation. After arriving in Fujian, the number of troops has doubled and morale has fully recovered. Both the Anhui and Feng factions advocated the triangular alliance of Sun, Duan and Zhang, and used the base in Fujian to besiege the Zhili at the same time. However, Sun Yat-sen disagreed. It is impossible to destroy Chen Ni first, because you must have Guangdong to be able to map the Yangtze River, otherwise you will be attacked by the enemy." As early as October 18, Sun Yat-sen ordered the reorganization of the armies entering Fujian into the East Road Thieves Army, appointed Xu Chongzhi as the commander-in-chief of the East Road Army, Huang Dawei as the commander of the first army, and Xu Chongzhi as the second army. Army commander, Li Fulin is the commander of the third army, and Jiang Zhongzheng is the chief of staff of the headquarters, and he is preparing to return to Guangdong.At the same time, Zou Lu was sent as the special commissioner in Hong Kong, and Deng Zeru was stationed in Hong Kong as a financial manager. They launched military rebellion in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces to flank Chen Ni. On October 31, Zou Lu and Li Wenfan arrived in Hong Kong, and invited Deng Zeru, Lin Zhimian, Lin Shuwei, Hu Yisheng, etc. to discuss matters.Generals Yang Ximin, Liu Zhenhuan, and Jiang Guangliang of the Yunnan and Guangxi armies all sent representatives to Hong Kong to negotiate. On November 8, Sun Yat-sen sent generals Zhang Kairu and Yang Ximin of the Dian Army to seize the opportunity and make a quick map of Guangdong. At that time, the Guangdong Army in Fujian could be regarded as Sun Yat-sen's direct troops.Especially Xu Chongzhi's army is the most loyal to Sun's army. In terms of military talents, Sun Yat-sen valued Jiang Zhongzheng the most, so when Xu Chongzhi and others opened up the situation in Fujian, Sun appointed Xu as the commander-in-chief of the East Road Thieves Army, and appointed Jiang Zhongzheng as the chief of staff, urging him to go to Fujian as soon as possible to plan recovery. Guangdong matters. On October 22, Jiang Zhongzheng went to Fuzhou, that is to say, to work in the Second Army Headquarters, and on behalf of Sun Wei, he comforted the generals of the bandit army.At that time, the Cantonese army was living in Fuzhou, and there were many difficulties. Huang Dawei had a conflict with Xu Chongzhi because of the reorganization. Jiang Zhongzheng sent a letter to his sun, intending to leave Fuzhou. Sun received the letter and rushed to stop him, saying: "Brother Jieshi learned: I was very surprised to receive the letter. I took the heavy responsibility of returning to Guangdong to ask for thieves, and entrusted you as my brother. No matter how difficult it is, you must complete the task before you can let go. Don't take it lightly, so that you will be troubled. If there is any The resistance should be relieved at any time. Zhong Kai is here to help. Sun Wen. Hao." On November 24th, Liao Zhongkai went to Fuzhou, met with Jiang Zhongzheng, and handed Sun Yat-sen a letter of condolence: "Brother Jieshi's lesson: I saw brother Zhizhantang, Ji Xinshu, there are such words as 'If there is no progress within ten days, there is nothing to do'. Huh! What are you saying? I can't come to Fujian in person, but I asked my brother to use it The task of begging for thieves, brother, how can you suddenly quit your ambition like this! Husbands in the world, those who are unsatisfactory, are always ten to nine, and they can always be patient and patient, and they will not avoid labor and complaints, but they can expect to be successful. If ten days If we don’t make progress, we don’t want to do it, and we can’t achieve anything....Even if we don’t make progress, the enemy will regress every day; just as the enemy’s soldiers are awakened every day, the enemy’s group is disintegrated every day. The hatred of the people's hearts is increasing day by day, and thinking about me is getting deeper and deeper. This is the invisible progress day by day. From this point of view, if I can persevere, I will wait for progress. Therefore, brother Wang, don't retreat a little, and you will surely reach extinction Chen's purpose can be achieved in the future. If it is not the case, nothing will be accomplished.... If it is possible to go on to destroy the thieves in Guangzhou, it is good. If it is not possible, it will be an improvement to keep Fuzhou and persist. If I date Fuzhou, I will have one day's support, diplomatic and internal support, all of which can be used as a background. If this is not included, then I am just an exiled guest in a concession, and it is very important! So brother can replace me in the army. One day, my credit can be increased by one more day. Therefore, brother Wang, stay for me, and don't leave without making progress. Brother, forget about the time when you were in the boat in the white goose lake! The only day is sleeping, eating and watching the news. At that time, there was no progress at all, but how it affected the world! Today, I am active outside, and my brother is in Fuzhou, who is my backing. With this backing, my plans and measures are making progress day by day. , or you don’t have to wait for my brother to restore Guangzhou. I don’t know if my plan has reached the final success. Therefore, no matter how hard your brother is, you must stay in the army and fight with me outside. ...In short, for more than ten years, today is an excellent opportunity. We must fight separately, and we must not rest for a while. We will live up to the sacrifices of the martyrs. The expectations of the people of the country are also known by everyone."