Chapter 48 Section VI

The annual rings of the history of the Republic of China are rolling forward, and the situation where warlords ruled the roost and the whole country is gradually changing.Among so many warlords in the early period of the Republic of China, only Yan Xishan of Shanxi was in charge of Shanxi from 1911, when Shanxi became independent from the Qing Dynasty, to 1949, when the Republic of China ended, for thirty-eight years. It is the most "longevity" local warlord; the next one should belong to Yunnan's Long Yun, from 1927 when Tang Jiyao replaced Tang Jiyao to control Yunnan to 1945 when Chiang Kai-shek forcibly dismissed the chairmanship of Yunnan Province and "upgraded" Chongqing and Nanjing. The local emperor for eight years; other warlords who have dominated one side for more than ten years, in addition to Ma Bufang in Qinghai mentioned above, and Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang-this is also a devilish figure. He ruled from the beginning of 1934 to the end of 1944 Xinjiang has been the "Xinjiang King" for over ten years.

Lu Rongting has been in charge of Guangxi for ten years, with good achievements and a good official reputation. He has a solid foundation in Guangxi Province.The Guangxi army in Guangdong is completely different from their "home" Guangxi. They burned, killed, raped and looted in Guangdong, and did all kinds of evil. , Malpractice.Anti-mainland sentiment in Guangdong Province is rising from bottom to top. In April 1921, Sun Yat-sen was elected the very president of the Republic of China at the extraordinary meeting of the Congress held in Guangzhou, and immediately ordered the crusade against Lu Rongting.Chen Jiongming was electrified on July 6th of the same year and took office as the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces Conquering Guangxi in the five provinces of Guangdong, Hunan, Yunnan, Jiangxi, and Guizhou. The era of Gui Dadi's "King of Guangxi" has come to an end; but he still wants to make a comeback, but the "New Gui Clan" already has the power to step onto the stage of history. In 1924, the remaining troops were defeated by the Guangxi Dinggui Behavior Coalition Forces led by Li Zongren, Huang Shaohong, and Bai Chongxi. In August 1924, Lu Rongting went to the field with electricity and left Guangxi.

The era of Lu Rongting's "King of Guangxi" has officially entered history. This "old man" frequently looked back at Guangxi, which was no longer his own, and moved to live in Shanghai, Suzhou, Tianjin and other places. In eastern China, far away from his homeland, Lu Rongting, an old man of the Republic of China, chewed on his legendary life from orphan, beggar, thief, bandit, clean official to "King of Guangxi" many times. Yan Jiuding's past honor is as fleeting as a cloud of smoke, and in the desolate looking back, it all turned into a deep sigh of him lamenting the vicissitudes of the world and the tricks of the times.

In 1928, Lu Rongting heard that his house in Suzhou had been confiscated by Chiang Kai-shek, so he hurried from Tianjin to Nanjing to negotiate, and Chiang Kai-shek finally returned the house in Suzhou.Lu Rongting got angry for a while because of this, which damaged the old man's body. In November 1928, the 69-year-old former "King of Guangxi" Lu Rongting died in Shanghai, the largest city in the Far East far away from his hometown of Guangxi. Maybe God has eyes in the dark. The "Southern Caomang" Lu Rongting, who did not do much evil and had achievements in governing the province, basically spent his old age in peace after losing power, and got a good death; and this "Northern Caomang" Zhang Zong Chang had been rampant in Shandong for only three years. After being driven out of Shandong, he died at the guns of his political enemies and enemies.

On March 12, 1925, Sun Yat-sen, the great forerunner of China's democratic revolution, died of illness in Beijing. On July 9, 1926, his successor, Chiang Kai-shek, a rising star of the Kuomintang, took office as the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, and swore to the Northern Expedition, launching a full-scale attack on the Beiyang warlords.The Northern Expedition was a rare example in the history of China where "the south went to the north and unified from the south to the north". Zhang Zongchang is in danger.This ignorant and rough warrior attributed the successive victories of the Northern Expedition to the Biyun Temple in Beijing where Sun Yat-sen's coffin was buried, "the place is too good". When he went to Beijing for a meeting in 1927, he suggested to Zhang Zuolin, the head of the Beiyang government at that time, that Sun Yat-sen's remains should be burned "to prevent future troubles."Zhang Zuolin thinks so.Since then, the Feng army has harassed Biyun Temple in Xishan many times. Fortunately, the guards guarding the coffin took great risks to hide the coffin in the Shuiquan cave, and Sun Yat-sen's remains survived.

In the spring of 1927, Zhang Zuolin took advantage of the "Ning-Han split" within the Kuomintang and ordered Zhang Zongchang to lead his army to the Longhai Line to suppress Feng Yuxiang.In October of this year, Zhang Zongchang and Feng Jun fought again in Lankao, Henan.Zhang Zongchang's subordinates used tricks to lure Feng Yuxiang's brigade commander Jiang Mingyu to surrender. Jiang Mingyu led his troops to defect and arrested Zheng Jinsheng, the deputy commander and commander of Feng Jun's Eighth Front Army. Zhang Zongchang was so triumphant that he won, and despite the dissuasion of his staff, he ordered Zheng Jinsheng to be shot.

There's a lot going on here. In the autumn of 1925, in order to expand the sphere of influence, Sun Chuanfang led the army to attack the north, and Shi Congbin, the assistant of Shandong military affairs, intercepted it under the order of Zhang Zongchang, the supervisor of military affairs.Shi Congbin was defeated and captured in Guzhen, northern Anhui. Perhaps it was because Shi Congbin was from Tongcheng, Anhui, the "Cultural Capital". When he was arrested, he said to Sun Chuanfang's soldiers: "Brothers have worked hard." When he was escorted in front of Sun Chuanfang, the gray-haired lieutenant general Shi Congbin raised his hand to Sun Chuanfang. Hand salute.Sun Chuanfang, who was lying on the couch, remained motionless and accepted it calmly, and then immediately ordered Shi Congbin to be beheaded in the field outside Bengbu Station in Anhui.

Shi Congbin had a daughter, who was twenty years old at the time, and she was Shi Jianqiao, who was later known as the "Wonderful Woman of the Republic of China".When Sun Chuanfang triumphantly killed Shi Congbin, he could not have imagined that on November 13, 1933, after he left the field and spent his days chanting Buddha, he was followed and shot dead in the Buddhist hall by Shi Jianqiao, who was determined to avenge his father. History likes to play out the same drama.Zhang Zongchang killed Zheng Jinsheng, just like Sun Chuanfang killed his subordinate Shi Congbin, he also sowed the seeds of death for himself.

By 1928, the internal factions of the Kuomintang and the warlords that had been drawn in had fought openly and covertly, and they had united again to carry out the "second phase of the Northern Expedition."In February of this year, Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren served as the commanders-in-chief of the four group armies, and the four armies worked together to solve Zhang Zongchang in Shandong first. Under the fierce attack of the four major military groups, the Feng army retreated steadily. On April 30, the Northern Expeditionary Army besieged Jinan on three sides.Zhang Zongchang escaped under the escort of the Japanese army, and the domineering time of the "Shandong King" came to an end.

His master, Zhang Zuolin, also felt that Beijing and Tianjin would not be guaranteed, so he took the train back to the northeast of his hometown in order to come to Japan; on June 4, when the car drove to Huanggutun, Zhang Zuolin was blown to pieces by the bombs set in advance by the Japanese army.Zhang Zongchang wore hemp and filial piety, weeping unceasingly, and then asked Zhang Xueliang to take 50,000 remnants out of the customs, but Zhang Xueliang, who had just taken over the Northeast, refused to allow him to leave the customs, and proposed that his troops should either be recruited or dismissed, and he could be hired as a monthly salary of 30,000 military adviser.Zhang Zongchang, who had been the "king of Shandong" for three years, didn't care about the money, so he refused.So Zhang Xueliang sent a secret call to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that Zhang Zongchang's department would let him deal with it.

In September, Bai Chongxi led the Northern Expeditionary Army to Jiaodong and surrounded the remnants of Zhang Zongchang. Zhang Zongchang, who had escaped from Jiangxi, disguised himself as a coachman, fled to Luanzhoukou, and then ran to Luanzhoukou in a small fishing boat. Dalian.Seeing that there was no hope of a comeback, he went into exile in Japan in 1930. In 1932, Zhang Zongchang, who missed the majesty of the former "Shandong King" every day, returned to China.Not long after the "September 18th Incident" happened, Zhang Zongchang, a butcher who returned from Japan at this time, claimed to be "patriotic". He kept meeting reporters and talked about the Anti-Japanese War.Because the tyranny of the three years in Shandong is well known, he said: "I thought about it in the past but didn't do it well, and I feel very ashamed." The meaning of the apology is that he also hopes to have the opportunity to "do well" in Shandong. Zhang Zongchang's swagger after returning to China caused great anxiety among one person, and this person was Han Fuju, the new native emperor of Shandong.Han Fuju felt that this person's attempt to make a comeback in Shandong was a great threat to him. An idiot is an idiot. During a banquet, Zhang Zongchang, who was drunk, boasted to Han Fuju: "Many of my old subordinates are now scattered all over Shandong. I just need to go and say hello, and they can immediately form a team!" Listen After saying this, Han Fuju didn't change his smile on the surface, but took a deep breath in his heart, for he had made up his mind to get rid of Zhang Zongchang. The one who volunteered to undertake this task was Zheng Jicheng, the son of Zheng Jinsheng who was killed by Zhang Zongchang in 1927 (originally a nephew, adopted to Zheng Jinsheng). On September 3, 1932, Zhang Zongchang received a telegram of his mother Zhu's serious illness (sent by Zhang Xueliang's instructing his aunt), and he was very anxious. Han Fuju also seemed anxious and sympathetic, and immediately sent someone to make an appointment for Zhang Zongchang at 5:37 p.m. train ticket.At this time, Zheng Jicheng and Chen Fengshan, who cooperated with him, had already ambushed at the station. In order to be safe, Han Fuju held a large banquet to see him off and poured wine on him. During the banquet, everyone drank twenty bottles of brandy and twenty bottles of beer.Zhang Zongchang's expression remained unchanged. Before boarding the train, he was still talking to the people and reporters who saw him off. His last words were: "Yu admits his mistakes about the past." How much convenience is given, I not only quit, but also resolutely return..." Yunyun. When Zhang Zongchang shook hands with those who saw him off and was about to board the train, Chen Fengshan, who was mixed in the crowd, shouted, jumped forward and shot him.Perhaps Zheng Jicheng wanted to avenge the murder of his father, but Chen Fengshan's bullet jammed.Zhang Zongchang was taken aback and ran away.Zheng Jicheng then fired again and again, hitting Zhang Zongchang on the left back, and the bullets protruded from his chest.After adjusting, Chen Fengshan fired again, and both shots hit Zhang Zongchang's head.Zhang Zongchang, who was full of evil, spattered blood everywhere, and couldn't move after a convulsion. Among the chaotic crowd, Zheng Jicheng stood on the platform and shouted: "My name is Zheng Jicheng, and Zheng Jinsheng is my uncle. I adopted him as my son. I killed Zhang Zongchang, first to honor the revolution, and second, to strive for glory for the party and the country. The third is to eliminate harm for Shandong and the whole country, and the fourth is to avenge my father!" Everyone sighed and admired, and applauded warmly; a young student came over and said excitedly: "Mr. Zheng, you are really a great hero, a great hero!"