Chapter 214 213. Zhang Zuolin led the army to enter the customs on six routes

Before the Qilu War broke out, Lu Yongxiang sent his son Lu Xiaojia and Yang Minxun, Fengtian's representative in Shanghai, to Fengtian for activities, hoping that Zhang Zuolin would lead his troops into the pass, avenge his defeat and echo Lu.This is very catering to Feng Zhang's selfishness, so Zhang Zuolin responded to the Zhejiang-Russia rebellion military action on September 4, 2013. On the 7th, he invited the consuls of various countries stationed in Fengtian to a banquet, announcing that due to the increase of troops from the Zhi army in Shanhaiguan, he decided to When the troops enter the customs, the consuls of various countries are requested to inform the nationals of various countries to leave Qinhuangdao.

At the same time, Zhang Zuolin issued a military order for the Sixth Army: Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zuolin Jiang Dengxuan, Commander-in-Chief of the First Army Deputy Commander Han Linchun Li Jinglin, Commander-in-Chief of the Second Army Deputy Commander Zhang Zongchang Zhang Xueliang, Commander-in-Chief of the Third Army Deputy Commander Guo Songling Zhang Zuoxiang, Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Army Deputy Commander Ding Chao Wu Junsheng, Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army Deputy Commander Que Chaoxi Xu Lanzhou, Commander-in-Chief of the Sixth Army Deputy Commander Wu Guangxin

The headquarters of the Fengjun Army is located in Jinxian County, and it is divided into three routes. The third army, one division and one brigade will guard Shanhaiguan; the first army and two brigades will be stationed in Suizhong; The fifth and sixth armies used their cavalry to attack Kailu and Chifeng separately; the fourth army concentrated Jin County as the general reserve.Xiang Chaoyang's offensive line is the main offensive, besieging Rehe, and the remaining two lines are on the defensive. In addition to the above-mentioned armies that have been assigned combat missions, there are also the four mixed brigades that have not been mobilized, the Kyrgyz and Black troops, and the Mongolian cavalry who have also decided to go to the Feng army.

In terms of the navy, although Zhang Zuolin has been preparing for several years and has operations in Huludao, most of his warships are river defense ships, and the other part is requisitioned merchant ships equipped with gun emplacements, which cannot be used in official operations. , seems to be inferior to the histogram.Zhang Zuolin originally had a plan to smuggle the army to Dengzhou, Shandong with these warships that cannot be used for formal naval battles, so as to disturb the rear of the Zhijun army. The commander-in-chief, Chi Yunpeng, is the commander-in-chief, responsible for coastal defense, in order to combat Feng's plan to land in Dengzhou.

Fengfang's air force has always been actively developed by Zhang Zuolin, and has been praised by Chinese and foreign people. In Zhang Zuolin's letter to Cao Kun, he is proud of the sentence "live with an airplane".When the Fengjun entered the customs, the foreigners living in Beijing and Tianjin were very nervous and asked the diplomatic corps to negotiate with the Fengjun to prevent Fengfang planes from bombing Beijing and Tianjin. After flying to Beijing and Tianjin for bombing, the hearts of the people barely settled down.The Fengfang Air Force was organized into three brigades, with Huludao as the base of the air force, and moved to Shanhaiguan and Xifengkou. It was very effective in reconnaissance of the military situation, destroying the direct army's railway traffic, disturbing the morale of the direct army and the people in the rear.This was the first aerial activity in the Chinese Civil War.

Since Zhang Zuolin's defeat in the first battle of Zhifeng, in view of the uselessness of veterans and generals, he used young men to train recruits with the aim of revenge. For example, Jiang Dengxuan, Li Jinglin, Zhang Zongchang, Zhang Xueliang, and Guo Songling were all in Fengjun Newcomers, while Zhang Zongchang and Li Jinglin are Hakka generals in the Feng army. Zhang Zongchang took refuge in the Feng family and has not been taken seriously. If it were not for this use of troops, Zhang Zongchang would not have risen. It turned out that after Zhang Zongchang failed in his attack on Hunan, he went west to Luoyang alone.Zhang Zuolin was very indifferent to this family member, and only hired him as a senior consultant of the patrol (reading envoy).Zhang Zongchang's purpose is to lead troops, but the Feng family has a strong xenophobia. For this Shandong man, who is also a defeated general, he will not easily give him military power.

In the first battle of Zhifeng, when the battle was about to start, Wu played a cold game against the Fengjun, and almost got all his efforts.He secretly sent cadres to Heilongjiang with Lanpu to become brothers with Wu Junsheng, the black governor, and asked him to stand still.Gao Shibin was the son-in-law of Meng Enyuan, the commander of the first division in Jilin during the Jilin era when Meng Du Jilin was in charge. Later, Meng was driven away by Zhang Zuolin, and Gao naturally resigned; Stationed in the Suifenhe area on the Sino-Russian border.Gao followed Wu's secret order to land in Harbin and rode into Luying alone. Lu met his old boss and of course obeyed everything. Later, the Fengjun road guards at various stations along the way waited for the wind to fall, and changed their flags one after another to be "thief-seeking army". Zhang Zuolin was shocked.Gao and Lu led their troops to drive by train to Hailin Station near Ningguta. Suddenly they felt that the troops were not enough, so they ordered to stop the advance.It turned out that Gao was not good at using troops. He marched for more than 500 miles and passed through more than ten small stations. There are about ten thousand people left.Lu's basic army originally consisted of only 2,000 people. When the attack was launched, two giant bandits were recruited with more than 5,000 people each, and two or three thousand people were successively recruited into the road protection team, for a total of 15,000 people.When they arrived at Hailin Station, they found out that there was a regiment of Fengjun stationed in Ningguta, which was only 60 miles away from Hailin Station. They were afraid that they would be killed and cut off their way back.In fact, Wu Pai’s mission is in the nature of a ranger, a surprise soldier, not a regular army mission, so they don’t need to step by step, as long as they disturb and surprise them, attack them unprepared, and if they win, they will go to the hole to get their son. If they can attack Harbin with one drum, it will not be difficult. The situation that caused the Quartet to respond.Unexpectedly, Gao and Lu stopped at Hailin Station for two weeks, neither advancing nor retreating, looking forward and hesitating, but this opened up a road to wealth and fame for the dog-meat general Zhang Zongchang.At this time, he was in the rank of idler in the Feng army, while Zhang Zuolin was still dazed in fighting in the pass. Unexpectedly, Xiao Qiang was brought into trouble, and a sudden army rose from his own territory. Zhang Zongchang.

Zhang Zuolin sent Zhang Zongchang to Harbin to recruit troops to defend against Gao and Lu. Zhang Zongchang was an old tourist in Harbin, and his head was very familiar. More than 500 guns.He took these "five hundred swordsmen", ordered a train, closed the doors and windows tightly, to prevent others from knowing the truth, and rushed north in one breath.Zhang Huanxiang laughed secretly, and said in his heart: "This daredevil is really fooling around. He must be impatient to take such an army to the front line."Unexpectedly, the enemy Zhang Zongchang encountered was a fool who knew nothing about soldiers and had no guts. When he saw the military vehicles driving out of Harbin, he actually ordered more than 1,000 militiamen recruited temporarily to fight with the strategy of sacrificing others. The forest guards protect their own headquarters. Those militiamen are all wealthy people. How can they face off against the outlaws led by Zhang Zongchang? , The militia collapsed without a fight, which affected the mountain guards and the bandit army who had not been recruited for security, and collapsed inexplicably.Gao Shiying first retreated to Suifenhe, and then retreated to Dongning County. Finally, Gao and Lu escaped in disguise.Wu Peifu's surprise army disappeared due to improper employment.

Since then, Zhang Zongchang has been admired by Zhang Zuolin. On the eve of the second Zhifeng war, his troops had expanded to 10,000 people, but Fengzhang never wanted to reuse him. . Zhang Zongchang has been in this area for a long time, and he can speak a few words of Russian. At this time, the remnants of the White Russian Seminov troops retreated to Suifenhe. Five or six thousand Belarusians.He had no military pay, so he issued military invoices indiscriminately. The white paper was stamped with the seal of the guard envoy, and filled with five yuan and ten yuan.He is a full-fledged desperado, an expert at fighting indiscriminately, he doesn't know how many military tickets he has issued, and he doesn't know how many messy troops he has. He is completely self-made.But he took advantage. There are many Shandong people outside the customs. He is from Shandong, and everyone in Shandong takes care of each other.He treats his fellow countrymen well, and the fellow villagers in Shandong treat him well, but he takes advantage of many Northeast people in the Northeast.

Feng Zhang has always looked down on this broken army. He values ​​new talents and wants to disband all the miscellaneous troops one by one.First, Zhang Zongchang was transferred to defend the Huinan County area in Fengdong, and he and Li Jinglin were asked to practice autumn exercises across a clam river, and he came to watch the battle in person.Feng Zhang's original intention was to let Li Jinglin's department defeat Zhang Zongchang's department, and then disarm Zhang's department on the grounds that they could not fight.Unexpectedly, during the exercise, Zhang's troops crossed the river in a disorderly manner, and Li's troops retreated steadily.Fengzhang used Zhang Zongchang as the front line, but later Zhang Zongchang was fulfilled. Because of the second Zhifeng war, the Zhijun army was defeated. Since Wu Peifu's subordinates were all from Shandong, after Wu's defeat, the fellow villagers did not fight the fellow villagers. Put into Zhang Zongchang's banner, thus creating Zhang Zongchang's "Zhilu New Line".