Chapter 6 Chapter Six The White Guards Become Zhang Zongchang's Pillar

Zhang Zuolin's three northeastern provinces are not monolithic and harmonious families. They did not attack others, but they also attacked themselves.Let’s just talk about Jilin Province, Zhang Zuolin saw it as a “heart sick” place, and Chaosi dreamed of “remedial” them. It turned out that Meng Enyuan, the governor of Jilin Province, was a member of the orthodox Beiyang family who started from Yuan Shikai's training at Tianjin Xiaozhan, and he was not from the same family as Zhang Zuolin's Green Forest Department.Zhang Zuolin is worried that such a character is in Jilin.Meng Enyuan's caring army is the Gao Shibrigade, and Gao Shibang has expanded his troops again and again, which arouses Zhang Zuolin's suspicion. "Gao Shibin is Meng Enyuan's nephew. The nephew's expansion of troops is of course protecting his old uncle!" After thinking about it, Zhang Zuolin still took measures to withdraw Meng Enyuan's warlord and replace it with his own people. .

Meng Enyuan knew that it was Zhang Zuolin who squeezed him.So she pulled her nephew to her side and said to him: "Brandmaid, Red Beard (the Northeast people call the Green Forest Bandit Red Beard) attacked first, and the attack was very fierce. First squeeze me away, and then destroy your army. You have to be prepared to deal with him!" With elite soldiers and strong generals, he doesn't buy Zhang Zuolin's account.He said to the old uncle: "Uncle, you can move to a place to rest for a few days, and you will come back after I have taught Zhang Zuolin a lesson." Meng Enyuan left.

Although Gao Shibin is a domineering and arrogant person, he knows that a brigade of troops may not be able to stabilize the situation in Jilin Province, so why should he fight Zhang Zuolin again! Hu bandit Lu Yonggui joined forces with soldiers and horses, and then went to fight Zhang Zuolin. The civil war in the three northeastern provinces has begun, and the borders of Jilin and Liaoning have opened up the battle line.At the beginning of the war, Zhang Zuolin's team retreated steadily. Not only did Jilin have no other territory, but Fengtian, the province, was also in danger. Most of Zhang Zuolin's heavy troops were placed on the Great Wall to prevent the invasion of the powerful Zhiwan enemy, and Jilin's defense was unable to support it.Although they were defeated steadily, they did not dare to underestimate the soldiers of the Great Wall.When there were no soldiers to send, I suddenly thought of Zhang Zongchang. "Yes, Zhang Zongchang used to be a division commander, let him lead the team to support Jilin, and then allocate 200 Beelie shotguns for shooting lead balls, expand the number of troops, and it will be considered a large team. "

Zhang Zuolin found Zhang Zongchang, and after explaining the situation in Jilin, he said to him: "Gao Shibin is too outrageous. Ping An is making trouble and wants to rebel. Xiao Kun, you know, my attention is on the Great Wall, and Jilin's safety can only be entrusted to you. Our life and death is only a matter of one action, please Your Excellency , I hope you will do your best!" Zhang Zongchang knew that Meng Enyuan and Gao Shibin were old Beiyang people who had grown up from childhood like Cao Kun and Wu Peifu. He hated them in his heart and wanted to avenge the eight golden immortals.So he puffed out his stomach and said:

"Don't worry, Marshal, I will definitely succeed in no time!" Zhang Zongchang reorganized the team, added more soldiers, and set off for Jilin.Zhang Zuolin came to see him off in person, held Zhang Zongchang's hand, and said: "Xiao Kun, I was supposed to go to the front with you, but I was afraid that the Great Wall would be dangerous, so I had to ask you. I am waiting for the good news of victory in Fengtian. On the day of triumph, I will meet you outside the city." Zhang Zongchang also said: "Please rest assured, Commander, if you don't win a complete victory, you will never withdraw your troops!"

Zhang Zongchang led Xu Kun and the team to the front in a hurry, arranged the team to stay, and sent sentries to inquire about the enemy's situation. He was bored in the room, thinking about how the battle was fought. After Jiangxi's defeat, Zhang Zongchang learned smartly.He knew that war requires not only military force, but also resourcefulness; Baoding's cold reception, he also understood the truth that being a man can't be straightforward.He started to use his brain to think about the problem, otherwise, he couldn't bear to be the battalion commander as a teacher.That day, after listening to Xu Kun's advice, he thought: "Jiangxi has lost its soldiers, and I'm a poor man again. It's the same as when I went to the Guandong. I have done all the gold panning and coal mine digging. Being a battalion commander is heaven. Is there anything that can’t be lost? Zhang Liang and Han Xin got through other people’s crotch and went down the river to pick up shoes for them when they were frustrated. Didn’t they become princes later on?” Zhang Zongchang didn’t dare Dreaming of being a vassal, he only understands that he must use his brain to do things, and that a man must be able to grow or be short.Zhang Zongchang wants to show his ability in this battle in Jilin. "The one who should use the army should use the time and plan, how can you win and do it!"

The outpost scout came back and reported to him that besides Gao Shibing's officers and soldiers, there were also Lu Yonggui's people.Zhang Zongchang asked: "Who is Lu Yonggui?" "It's a horse bandit from the deep mountains and old forests." "Hu bandit?!" Zhang Zongchang's heart moved. "Yes, it's a horse bandit." The sentinel said, "Gao Shibin promised him that if he wins the battle, he will give it to an official." Dangdang, and rewards. " "Okay, after you take a break, you can inquire again." After the sentry left, Zhang Zongchang went to find Xu Kun.As soon as they met, he happily said: "Stargate, Stargate, we are victorious, we are victorious!"

"How do you know you've won the battle before it's fought?" "No need to use guns, I'll take Lu Yonggui's soldiers and pay Lu Yonggui's guys!" Xu Kun shook his head and smiled. "That Lu Yonggui is a desperado, his subordinates are all bandits, he has a big reward, but he doesn't want his life." "Bandits? Hey..." Zhang Zongchang shook his head and laughed. "You see, I am a big bandit. Back then in the deep mountains and old forests, except for never breaking the imperial bar, I never had a good time with my wife. I never did bad things.

No, I became your friend today!" Xu Kun knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and lowered his head in embarrassment.Zhang Zongchang patted him on the shoulder and said: "Just kidding, don't take it to heart. Tomorrow, you watch the team and stand still. Don't open fire based on how much movement there is. I'll go for a walk and talk about it." "Where to?" Xu Kun asked. "Go to Lu Yonggui." "It's dangerous! We need to bring more brothers." "What are you doing with your brothers? You don't want to fight." "Be careful."

"I can't die! I'm living carefully." On the second day, Zhang Zongchang changed his clothes and dressed up as a man who was going through the Guandong. He carried his horse saddle on his shoulders, swaggered across the forward position, and walked towards the enemy camp. The words have to be said far away, this is not a story without a coincidence, it is a true story. Zhang Zongchang was a horse bandit. Many of the horse bandits in the camp were from Shandong, and some of them came out together; , because of the fellowship, I also feel close, not to mention that Zhang Zongchang is still a character. "If you enter the enemy camp, can't you find a few fellow villagers and make a few new friends?" Based on this, Zhang Zongchang dared to enter the enemy camp alone.

Into the enemy area, Zhang Zongchang quickly found out that among the bandits, there was a regiment leader named Cheng Yushan, who was from Huang County, just across the river from his hometown of Ye County.Now it is Lu Yonggui's strong army, the front line of the soldiers.Zhang Zongchang made up his mind: "Okay, let's find Cheng Yushan!" Zhang Zongchang looked for Cheng Yushan by name, and Cheng Yushan came out to meet him. "You looking for me?" Cheng Yushan looked at him, but didn't recognize him: "Where are you from?" "It's really called 'The Dragon King Temple was flooded by the flood—one family doesn't recognize one family, mile." Zhang Zongchang walked into the barracks, sat down carelessly, took out the old dry pipe, pretended to ignite and inhale himself, and exhaled a burst of smoke. He also said: "You don't know me? You are only a regiment commander. If you become a division commander or army commander, I'm afraid even Shandong and even the ancestors will not recognize me!" Cheng Yushan's tone eased when he heard the authentic native language.Quickly asked: "Excuse me, are you..." "I'm about to report to my family!" Zhang Zongchang knocked on his cigarette bag, raised his face, and said, "I, Ye County, Zhujia Village, my name is Zhang Zongchang!" Cheng Yushan_ Hearing it was Zhang Zongchang, he couldn't help shouting: "My lord, didn't you follow Marshal Zhang, why did you come here?" "It was Marshal Zhang," Zhang Zongchang said, "You just came here today." "What's the matter?" "Come and clean up yours!" "Are you at war?" "It's better not to call." "What are you looking for?" "Look at what you said!" Zhang Zongchang smiled. "Aren't you and I from the same land? If Shandong people beat Shandong people, I, Zhang Zongchang, will not do it. "What on earth did you come for?" "I came to negotiate with you." Zhang Zongchang said: "When you fight, you have to die. Your people have to die, and my people have to die. In the end, one wins and one loses. In that case, it's better to negotiate first." " What are you talking about?" Cheng Yushan asked. "See if I surrender to you, or you surrender to me?" "This..." Cheng Yushan was not mentally prepared. He didn't know how to deal with the question raised by this fellow enemy? He frowned. "Don't frown," Zhang Zongchang stood up, and stood in front of Cheng Yushan instead, and said, "Let me make it clear, that Lu Yonggui is not a decent person, and Gao Shibing is not a good guy. With just a few soldiers, Cheng No big climate. Sooner or later, the three eastern provinces have to be surnamed Zhang. How powerful is Zhang Zuolin!? How can Lu Yonggui beat him, not to mention Gao Shibang, how about the governor Meng Enyuan? Why don’t we pack our bags and get out! Besides, we can’t fight him I have lived outside the pass for a long time. The fallen leaves return to their roots, and I can’t return to Shandong after a while. What do we do here for them? What do you think?” Cheng Yushan was moved. ——Although Cheng Yushan became the head of the bandits, he felt that he was a mob and didn't come and go much.No matter how prosperous the horse bandits are, they have no roots or trees.His father and mother are all in Shandong, and the fallen leaves have to return to Shandong. No matter how rich the white mountains and black waters are, that is not the place for him to stay for a long time. Cheng Yushan stood up, took Zhang Zongchang's hand, and said: "Brother Zhang, you stay here for one more day. I'll call all our fellow villagers in Shandong, and you can have a good chat with them. I think, if we want to leave, let's all go and follow you, how about it?" "Okay, okay! I'll wait for you." Most of the people who went through the Guandong and dragged the bandits were poor and looking for a bowl of food.There are not many people who get promoted and get rich by this way.The same is true for Cheng Yushan.Zhang Zongchang's reputation is very famous among the horse bandits, and most of them know that he went from the horse bandits to the officialdom.Now, Zhang Zongchang has come to mobilize them, and none of you still loves to fight, so they all expressed "willing to return to the right with the fellow".Cheng Yushan told Zhang Zongchang that Zhang Zongchang met several leaders and discussed the adaptation method in detail, and those leaders who wanted to be officials would be officials.In this way, Lu Yonggui's horse bandits returned to Zhang Zongchang in all likelihood without firing a single shot, and the rest could not form an army, so they fled back to the mountains with Lu Yonggui.Lu Yonggui's army was defeated, and Gao Shibin was unable to support himself, so he also fled in the dark.In Jilin, everything was calm. du8.com copyright Zhang Zongchang had a scheming plan, and took advantage of the opportunity of recruiting the bandits to expand his team, and at once increased the strength of the three regiments. He appointed his confidants Xu Kun, Zhu Yupu, and Cheng Guorui, who went to the Guandong together, as the regiment leaders.After everything had become a fact, Zhang Zongchang led a few cronies to Shenyang to announce the good news. It was heard that Zhang Zongchang won a complete victory in Jilin, and Zhang Zuolin recovered from all his heart problems.He really welcomed Zhang Zongchang to the outside of the city, and set up a colorful shed in the Governor's Mansion to celebrate Zhang Zongchang's achievements! When Zhang Zuolin knew that Zhang Zongchang persuaded the horse bandits to surrender by virtue of his resourcefulness and bravery, he said to him very happily: "Xiaokun, you are a qualified general, and you are brave enough to achieve both goals. You have made great contributions to the Fengjun army and the common people in the three northeastern provinces!" Three regiments, let him be the battalion commander again.It won't work to take back his team.Zhang Zuolin had no choice but to give him a favor. He said at the welcome meeting: "Zhang Zongchang has a good command and is brave in battle. Now he has been promoted to be the commander of the third brigade of the Jilin Provincial Defense Army. He is also the guardian of Suining and stationed in Jilin! " From battalion commander to brigade commander, Zhang Zongchang was promoted three ranks in a row, very proud.Then he walked up to Zhang Zuolin, puffed out his stomach and said: "Zhang Xiaokun is grateful for his promotion and reuse! The troops under Zhang Xiaokun will always be loyal to Zhang Dashuai, guarding his home and soil for him like a dog! Never change his mind!" After Zhang Zongchang stationed troops in Jilin, he was delighted for a while, and felt that Zhang Zuolin was playing with him, so he hurriedly brought Xu Kun and others to him, and said: "Our troops stationed in Jilin have been fooled, so we have to settle the score with Marshal Zhang." "What did we fall for?" Everyone asked. Zhang Zongchang took out a handful of Fengtian coins and said: "We are stationed in Jilin, but the military pay is sent by Fengtian. One yuan is only used as 80 cents in silver dollars; in Jilin, the Fengtian is only used as 60 cents, with 30% off and 50% off. How can we eat? After listening to this account, and then looking at real life, everyone really feels that it is a bit foolish.However, they all felt that they could not make a fuss, and Zhang Zuolin had no choice but to depreciate Fengtian notes in Jilin; he could not do it for a while if he asked him to increase the military salary and raise the military salary standard.Xu Kun said: "Brigadier, don't make trouble. Let's think about it for ourselves and see if there is any other way to make up for it?" "Is there any way?" Zhang Zongchang said: "Money is a hard thing, and we can't grab it. I think it's difficult." Chu Yupu also said: "Dashuai Zhang also has the same difficulties as Dashuai Zhang. His people are developing so fast, and there is not much money in the curry. Although he is a tour envoy in three provinces, Heilongjiang and Jilin are still not close. The devaluation of the ticket in Jilin is an example. As the saying goes Okay, onions that won’t die in the sun, soldiers that won’t die from starvation, let’s think about the way out right here?” After listening to everyone's persuasion, Zhang Zongchang made sense after thinking about it.Make said: "Okay then, everyone thinks about the way out, as long as God doesn't starve to death." The army is in turmoil, and wars are frequent. What can be done? Merchants are also cut off, and they can't do business.With nowhere to go, Zhang Zongchang remembered the incidental activity in the wilderness - planting opium tobacco.So, he arranged a team of people to plant smoke in a quiet place in the jurisdiction.With this method, a lot of difficulties were indeed solved, and he was able to gain a foothold in Jilin. China is in chaos, and foreign countries are also in chaos. China's northern neighbor to the Soviet Union is also where the civil war started.A group of people who hated the nascent Soviet regime organized a self-defense army, mainly reactionary military officers from Tsarist Russia. With the support of foreign armed forces, they colluded with Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries and launched a campaign to overthrow the Soviet Union. Egyptian regime's civil war.Although it once occupied important agricultural areas and border areas such as the Don River, Kuban, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, Turkestan, and Siberia, in the end, it was completely wiped out by the Red Army. The White Guards no longer had a foothold in the Soviet Union, and a group operating in Siberia sneaked to Northeast China. The White Guards were driven to China, and no one in China cared about their food and drink, so their lives were in difficulty. More than 10,000 self-defense troops came to Jilin Wuzhan, with many guns and horses.The commander of this defeated army was Nachayev. He couldn't bear the death of this army from freezing and starving, so he wanted to hand it over to the Chinese army.Send someone to see Zhang Zongchang.Zhang Zongchang had learned a few words of Russian on the North Manchurian Railway in his early years, and he felt very cordial when talking with him.Khechayev says: "My army has no territory, so I came to China to take refuge. How about leaving it to your army without a date of return?" Zhang Zongchang asked him: "How many men and guns do you have? Any other requests?" "There is no other request, I just ask you to accept them." Khechayev said: "My team has a total of 10,000 people, with 8,000 rifles, more than 50 machine guns, 18 land cannons, and armored vehicles. They are all given to you with the army, I just ask you to recruit them and feed them. They are all brave fighters!" As soon as he heard that the Self-Defense Forces had tens of thousands of men and thousands of guns, Zhang Zongchang's forehead suddenly became hot: "I had this group of people back then, how dare Wu Peifu accept my weapons?" Little, you still look down on me so far, it’s not because my soldiers are not strong and my horses are not strong. I have this group of white guards, who dares to look down on me!?” "Okay, I'll accept you." Zhang Zongchang said: "You tell your troops to follow my command from now on." "Follow your command, there is no problem." Nishayev said: "In order to command this army well, I leave my lieutenant general Minov as your advisor. Is that okay?" Zhang Zongchang nodded again and again: "Yes, yes. Welcome, welcome!" With this batch of White Guards, Zhang Zongchang swelled up all of a sudden. He organized skilled people among them into an engineering team, drove armored vehicles onto the railway, and organized artillery into formations into armored vehicles.Since then, it has created a history of armored vehicle artillery in the Chinese army.The sphere of influence has also gradually expanded from Jilin to Heilongjiang, and to the three northeastern provinces.So far, Zhang Zuolin had no choice but to treat him as one of his own.Zhang Zongchang finally had a foothold.