The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Baoding.

Garrison, headquarters.

Wu Peifu was reclining on a bamboo chair...The sunny terrace in a northern city at the end of April was much warmer and more comfortable than the damp house.

At this moment, he was holding a copy of "Strategies of the Warring States" and reading silently. It was a Ming edition that was frayed and yellowed, and it was obvious that he had read it countless times.

"grandfather!"

The adjutant trotted up the corner stairs of the terrace, his expression a little anxious, "Something happened... Huhuhu, all the people you sent to Jilin, are...

It was basically noon of the second day after the mutiny when he learned that all his familiar subordinates who had been stationed in the Northeast had been "annihilated."

Wu Peifu was so stunned that the book in his hand almost fell to the ground.

After cursing a few words like "waste", "good-for-nothing", "a bunch of idiots", etc., the tough guy known as Yu Shuai got up and went to the office.

As he walked, he not only ordered his trusted men to come over, but he also cursed out of anger from time to time.

The adjutant was a little dazed: in his impression, his superior was a scholarly general and rarely behaved in such a way.

This Jiang Cheng is really capable... I remember two years ago, when they chased the 4000 million worth of equipment to Shanhaiguan, Yu Shuai was so angry with him that he was fuming.

At the beginning, I said that Jiang Feilan was definitely not an ordinary person.

Looking at it now, he was right. The sixteen-year-old young general back then has now become one of the famous generals under the Fengtian Army. He has just turned twenty years old... and has been in charge of the Jilin Army for more than two years.

Just as the deputy was daydreaming, several of Wu Peifu's confidants arrived - including Du Changwen, who was in charge of the invasion mission.

Normally this kid is very arrogant, but today in front of his superiors and colleagues, he is like a poor creature, hiding in a corner and not daring to even fart.

In fact, even if the Zhi army did not send spies, Jiang Cheng deliberately "leaked" the news that night to Baoding.

To put it bluntly, he was deliberately mocking them. Even those survivors who fell into Jiang Cheng's hands were basically forced to follow him.

Isn't this telling them clearly: You gave me a "big gift", so I, Jiang Cheng, have to give something back as well!

They took advantage of the chaos of the mutiny to launch a sneak attack on Jiang Cheng... Not only did they shoot a few times from behind, they even found heavy weapons from somewhere and fired mortars into Hai Mansion.

Wu Peifu didn't seem to be very angry at this time. After listening to them explain the whole cause and effect, he slammed the table in anger.

According to his idea, he wanted them to poison and spread infectious diseases among the immigrants, and then create chaos, etc. Then he could sit back and watch the chaos in Jilin.

But these bastard men acted on their own and made such a big fuss!

I don’t want to curse anymore - after all, what’s the point of cursing?

Jiang Cheng even caught the man alive. If he reported this to the capital, he would be in big trouble!

How should I tell Master Cao?

People in Tianjin might have already known about it. After all, Hai Pingchuan, the general of the Jilin Army, is his son-in-law - how could it not be known?

He paced back and forth in the conference room with his hands folded behind his back. While giving a speech, he also told his subordinates one by one about the situations they might face next.

Just as they were nervously discussing countermeasures, Hai Pingchuan had already arrived in Tianjin with the captured prisoners.

Of course, he had nothing nice to say to his father-in-law: He first complained that his granddaughter Roujia fainted when the mortar landed, and Xiaoying still couldn't sleep well...

Add to that a few scattered incidents and it almost caused a big trouble.

Hearing his resentful tone, Cao Kun became furious and yelled at his son-in-law, "What do you mean by these words? Could it be that this was my idea?"
No matter how dumb I am, I can't ruin the future of my daughter and son-in-law.

In fact, Hai Pingchuan knew clearly that it couldn't be his father-in-law's idea.

But now the situation has become serious. If they don't take action... it is very likely that Wu Peifu will be the first to file a complaint.

So Hai Pingchuan simply insisted that except for you, who else could command Wu Yushuai? Everyone in Beiyang knew that he didn't care about anyone else except you, who had been kind to him.

Cao Kun was so angry that he almost jumped up. He wanted to point at his son-in-law's nose and scold him again and again.

But his words were actually not harsh. Cao Kun couldn't find a good excuse for a while, so he turned around and walked to the phone, answered it and started loudly scolding his trusted and beloved general.

Is this not a deliberate act for me?
Compared to two or three years ago, Hai Pingchuan's mental abilities have greatly improved.

In his opinion, Cao Kun was clearly not acting, but was really angry and humiliated.

Before he set out, Jiang Cheng had deliberately instructed: Just as Feng Guozhang had used a strategy of sowing discord between them before, he also wanted Hai Pingchuan to use a strategy of sowing discord between Cao Kun and Wu Peifu.

The Baoding and Luoyang factions had not yet split, but Jiang Cheng had already planned to use this incident to completely catalyze the conflict between the two.

Thus, a tug-of-war in talks representing the different interests of both parties began.

Hai Pingchuan is certain that Wu Peifu has rebellious intentions and has actually taken action - if you, your father-in-law, have not informed him in advance, you will have to be extremely careful about what this old guy does in the future.

Cao Kun could imagine that Jiang Cheng would try every possible means to take revenge after suffering a loss - his son-in-law's words were probably meant to sow discord.

But even if it was a provocation, the future head coach who was known as a "fool" already had some resentment in his heart.

So, thanks to the "efforts" of Hai Pingchuan and others, the turmoil ended with an ending that was almost a farce.

Originally, Wu Peifu wanted to use this incident to highlight the Northeast: to reduce the outflow of talent to the Northeast, to disrupt Jilin's business cooperation, and so on.

But what awaits this scholar is a ban from multiple media outlets.

The newspaper didn't dare to write it at all, and the commander-in-chief outside the Great Wall also told Cao Kun that he was against the Fengtian clique, so there was really no need to drag his own superior into it.

This move was equivalent to letting that little bastard Jiang Cheng take advantage of him again. He killed so many of his men and even turned the tables on him, causing almost all the Zhi troops to laugh at him behind his back.

Although he was angry, he secretly made up his mind to deal with this kid when he got another chance.

However, what he didn't expect was that a big incident happened in Tianjin the next day.

May.

At the Paris Peace Conference, the Western powers, for the sake of their own interests, actually planned to hand over Shandong, a Chinese territory of the victorious country, to the Japanese!

The Chinese representatives argued their case, but it seemed to be of no avail... Almost all the representatives of the victorious countries had no objection to the Treaty of Versailles that was about to be negotiated and completed.

This includes ceding Shandong's sphere of influence to Japan!
In Paris, the Chinese delegation represented by Gu Weijun argued vigorously;
And overseas students...all over the country have also launched various protest movements. (End of this chapter)