The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

When Chinese people fight a war, they always pay attention to "justification" - the so-called "if the name is not right, the words will not flow, and if the words are not flow, then the victory will not be achieved."

Therefore, whenever these warlords started a war, they would stage a big "joint telegram" drama; that is, they would write a long and flowery telegram, which would be sent to all the important people in the Beiyang clique, using a weird thing similar to the eight-legged essay to prove the correctness of launching the war.

Of course, the party that initiates the war will send a telegram, and the party that passively responds to the war will of course also send a telegram "response".

This led to a particularly interesting phenomenon during the period of warlords' fighting in the Republic of China:

In fact, a real hot war only lasts for a few days. Often, the most exciting thing is the "telegraph war" between the warring parties.

"Wait a minute, the tone of voice... doesn't sound like Wu Peifu."

The full text actually said that there was a traitor in the Anhui clique who sold out his humiliation for fame and fortune. He used the name of Duan Zhigui, but sold his daughter to join Jiang Feilan, Zhang Yuting and others.

The current disaster in Shandong and chaos in Jinan are all caused by Duan Zhigui... They want to take on the responsibility of the Anhui faction and come here to clean up the house, etc.

Guo Songling turned his head slightly and stared at the contents of the telegram in Jiang Cheng's hand. His expression quickly changed from astonishment to shock.

Because, as I browsed along, I actually saw the final signature.

It turned out to be Xu Shuzheng.

"Why... is it him?"

It was rare to see such a shocked expression on Guo Guizi's usually indifferent face... Jiang Cheng knew very well that he and his cavalry team had returned from the border between Henan and Shandong, and must have discovered the enemy's traces, and even...

Also, maybe I've already had a fight with them.

No, it must have been a head-on confrontation, otherwise, he would definitely not be so unhappy.

"Why, could it be that you, Maochen, have already met that Jade Marshal?"

Facing his noncommittal yet arrogant and resolute expression, Jiang Cheng lowered his eyebrows and smiled again, "So, Maochen, I, Jiang Feilan, will definitely not say any sanctimonious words--"

"I won't say anything about considering the overall situation and putting ideals first... Since the Zhi and Wan families are here, as the actual controllers of Jinan, we have to do something serious, right?"

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Along with Xu Shuzheng's telegram, Wu Yushuai, who was later known as the "first famous general", also sent a telegram.

"Well, good job... write more, I really like reading it."

After assigning tasks to his brothers, Jiang Cheng picked up the telegrams sent by the two enemy commanders, sat on the armchair with his legs crossed, and read them carefully.

Hai Pingchuan had already left and returned to their respective units to arrange tasks for their superiors.

The only people left in the huge conference hall were the great governor of Jilin and Guo Guizi, whose face looked a little gloomy.

Jiang Cheng yawned loudly, leaned his face to one side and drank coffee while reading lazily.

It was almost five in the morning. He was a little drowsy after staying up all night, and Guo Songling was even more tired after "fighting" for several days in a row.

"The Guard Brigade still has nearly 3,000 troops in Jinan Prefecture, all of whom are the elite of the Fengtian Army... Regardless of whether it is Wu Peifu or Xu Shuzheng, I demand that they fight in the front line."

As if because of Jiang Cheng's lazy look, Guo Songling gathered his tired spirit and immediately stood up and said, "Your tasks didn't involve us at all." "With these 3,000 people, are you planning to leave us in the backfield to watch the fun?"

Hearing the obvious dissatisfaction in his tone, Jiang Cheng didn't even raise his head.

The more Jiang Cheng dealt with him, the more he understood his ending.

I have always felt that the Marshal was unfair to him. He had clearly made contributions and should have been given some tangible benefits. He would not have started an uprising against Feng in 1925.

After getting to know him for a few days, Jiang Cheng completely gave up the idea of ​​winning him over because of this guy's arrogance and his bad habit of not taking those in higher positions seriously.

"Mao Chen, in fact, this Xiao Xu is obviously a talented person!"

Jiang Cheng seemed not to have heard Guo Songling's words of requesting to fight, but continued with his own topic, "Compared to our Fengtian Army generals who came from the outlaws, these ones are all very talented in writing!"

Although he didn't know what he meant, Guo Songling frowned and continued, "Speaking of these generals in the Central Plains, most of them have ancestors from scholarly families—"

"Take Wu and Xu for example. Even if they studied and became officials, they would probably be good at writing some newspaper reports."

Jiang Cheng threw the message in his hand in front of him, then raised his chin with his elbows and looked back at the other person: "You also understand this principle..."

"Compared to these people in the Central Plains who are full of knowledge, think about our Fengtian Army. Every one of them is a 'fuck bastard' - if we were to face each other, wouldn't we have to beat the master to death with random punches?"

Guo Songling was stunned.

He was completely confused by Jiang Cheng's words, but he blinked and was about to speak, but Jiang Cheng said to him again: "The message still needs to be sent, but the war still needs to be fought."

"We have to let these 'old masters' in the Central Plains know that times have changed...Now, just talking big is not enough!"

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At dawn in the morning, Jiang Cheng, who was in Jinan, sent a telegram to various warlords in the name of Duan Zhigui, the garrison commander of Jinan, stating that since Shandong was an official garrison appointed by the Beiyang government, matters within Shandong were merely internal affairs, and that bringing troops to interfere would be tantamount to trying to catch a rat.

In addition, whether it was the Paris Peace Conference or the Treaty of Versailles, foreign powers handed over Shandong's rights and interests to the invaders. The commanders of the various factions within the Beiyang government should put aside their suspicions and unite to fight back against foreign enemies.

However, the Zhili and Anhui armies saw that Shandong was profitable, and took advantage of the westward advance of the great powers to seize territory in the name of "armed intervention" in order to plunder it.

Such shamelessness is totally unworthy of the 400 million Chinese people. At that time, several main brigades of the Fengtian Army were willing to enter the pass to mediate, hoping that the Duan and Xu families would reconcile.

The reason why Jiang Cheng wrote this was that, after all, the nominal leader of the official army in Jinan Prefecture was still Duan Zhigui.

Even Xu Shuzheng, under the pretext of "cleaning up the house", was the first to acknowledge the appointment of him by the capital.

It just mentioned that he was "shameless" for selling out the rights and interests that originally belonged to the Anhui clique to the Fengtian clique, which led to chaos in Shandong and caused the possibility of international support for the Beiyang government to take back Shandong to fall through.

Jiang Cheng's reply to him was to "put aside past grudges" and "unite to fight the enemy"...it was immediately clear who was right and who was wrong.

But in this first round of "telegraph war", the person who was most vulnerable was Wu Peifu.

You know, Jiang Cheng dispatched Guo Xipeng and Huang Yongan this time. The main force of the two plus the escort brigade in Jinan numbered nearly 6,000 people... (End of this chapter)