Chapter 219 218. Feng Yuxiang and the National Army

Feng Yuxiang "revolted after the battle" and returned to Beijing, causing a disastrous defeat for the direct line. Some people called it "reversal", but he called it "capital revolution".It is a big event in the history of the Republic of China. Feng Yuxiang was originally from Chao County, Anhui Province. He joined the army when he was young and lived in Baoding for a long time, so he speaks Baoding dialect; Feng Zhijun has his own unique technique.There are three key points to Feng's military training: first, his source of troops is to select the strong men from Zhi, Lu, and Henan provinces. Yanzhaogu has many generous and tragic soldiers, and their physical strength is better than that of the southerners. They are simple and unpretentious, and easy to control. .Second, after soldiers enlist in the army, each soldier is taught 200 words of literacy. In this way, the superficial orders or lectures given to Feng can be integrated and achieved effective results.Third, heavy skill training, such as shooting, broadsword, wooden horse, iron bar and other operations.Feng's usual clothes are the same as those of soldiers. He wears the military uniform of a second-class soldier and does not wear a general's collar badge.I often go to the playground at dawn every day, first compete with the staff to jump over obstacles, and then gather all the officers and soldiers for running and equipment exercises.About an hour later, he went to the altar to give a lecture.

He believed in Christianity, and his subordinate Zhang Zhijiang once printed 10,000 copies of the Old and New Testaments at his own expense and distributed them to comrades in the army. Feng Yuxiang called him the archbishop.Zhang once built a cathedral, preached in it every Sunday, practiced "military religion doctrine", and called himself the "True Salvation Army".The armbands of the Northwest Army, with the word "true" as the head, read "really save the country, truly love the people". The name "National Army" seems to have originated from this.The "Bible" printed by Zhang Zhijiang has an inscription on the cover: "This is the great scripture of the world", with brilliant gold letters, and his name is personally signed on it.

Feng Jun's organization looks simple on the surface, but in fact it is quite complicated. There are gang members mixed in, and the leader is Feng Yuxiang's eldest brother Feng Jidao.This person is an elder of the Methodist Church, a member of the Green Gang and a big brother of the Red Gang all in one. In the gang organization, Zhang Zhijiang's seniority was also higher than Feng Yuxiang's. He was one year older than Feng Yuxiang. In addition to Wang Tieshan and Xu Jilong who were guest ministers in the Northwest Army, Zhang Zhijiang should be the oldest.In the early Feng Clan, apart from Wang Jinming and Shi Congyun who were martyred in the Luanzhou Uprising of the Revolution of 1911, there were only Feng, Li Mingzhong and Zhang Zhijiang.Li Mingzhong is called a blessed general, while Zhang Zhijiang is called a warrior. Half of Feng's world is called by him.Although Zhang is old and has made great contributions, Feng has to control even the trivial matters of his concubine.

Feng Yuxiang's strength increased greatly after the second Zhifeng War. On November 24, 2013, a meeting was held in Nanyuan, Beijing to formally organize the National Army. Feng Yuxiang was the commander-in-chief of the National Army and the commander of the First Army of the National Army, and Hu Jingyi was the leader. Deputy Commander and Commander of the Second Army, and Sun Yue as Deputy Commander and Commander of the Third Army. Hu Jingyi, a native of Fuping, Shaanxi Province, named Liseng, also named Lisheng, a member of the Tongmenghui. In the early years of the Republic of China, he belonged to the Chen Shufan Department of Shaanxi Governor. In the battle of protecting the law, Hu organized the Yasukuni Army in Sanyuan to support the revolutionary government in Guangzhou. He lured and banned Chen Shufan until 9 years ago. freed. In 10 years, Yan Xiangwen supervised Shaanxi, and Hu was the commander of the first division of the Shaanxi Army. In the first war of Zhifeng in 11 years, Hu followed Feng Jun out of Shaanxi to participate in the war. In September 2013, during the Second War of Zhifeng, Hu was the commander of the Second Route Reinforcement Army.After returning to Beijing, Feng sent Hu to Henan to supervise the aftermath of military affairs.

Sun Yue is a native of Gaoyang, Hebei. Before the war, Sun served as the commander of the 15th Mixed Brigade and the guardian envoy of daimyo. That is to say, Kaesong welcomes in, and when Hu Jingyi supervised Henan, Sun served as the governor of Henan. In January 2014, Duan Qirui appointed Sun as the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu and Gansu bandits. In August, he also served as the supervisor of Shaanxi. Feng and Sun Yue have a very close relationship. Feng Zun calls Sun the second elder brother, while Sun Ze directly calls Feng "Huanzhang's brother".