The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Huang Yongan almost knelt down to Jiang Cheng on the spot. He knew exactly what his superior meant: "Master Jiang, I, I..."

Hai Pingchuan's forehead was also covered with cold sweat, and he quickly replied: "Yes, we must be more alert from now on; think about it, Yang Yuting is trying to trick us in various ways."

Jiang Cheng looked up at Huang Yongan's expression, waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and then took a deep breath and continued: "Forget it, let's put this matter behind us and not mention it again - in fact, if you think about it carefully, even if the commander doesn't use Old Huang, he can send someone else to kill Guo the devil."

"But this is just a coincidence. I just happened to be looking for you two... so I came to Jilin Prefecture."

Jiang Cheng then told the two of them everything he had said to Zhang Tinglan and his brother that day, and then added: "Although the civil unrest in Feng Province has been quelled, the storm has not yet passed... The Marshal must appease the people, and in addition, he will most likely have to enter the pass."

"We took Luanzhou back, but I am watching the situation in Fengtian with cold eyes... Luanzhou will be a place for garrisoning troops next. You two, switch guards with Wang Zhiyou as soon as possible!"

Hai Pingchuan was stunned for a moment, but then he understood what Jiang Cheng meant.

It seems that the Marshal still has evil intentions towards the Central Plains and still wants to sit on the chair in the capital... But even though Feng Yuxiang and others have been defeated one after another, if they want to march straight in, it will probably be extremely difficult for the Fengtian Army, which is now severely weakened.

In this situation, if the Lu army stayed in Luanzhou, the commander-in-chief might become suspicious and issue an order for them to attack the capital. Should they do it or not?

"I understand, Master Jiang. When Yong'an and I return, we will return to Shandong as soon as possible."

Hai Pingchuan agreed immediately.

"Not only that, there is something else I need you to do."

Looking back at his two loyal subordinates, Jiang Cheng licked his lips and finally said solemnly, "I have another very important decision to make."

"This Northern Expedition Army is going north again. I think the unification of the world is the general trend in the future."

As he spoke, Jiang Cheng asked Feng Qing to bring the letter he had prepared. He flipped through the letter in his hand and sighed, "Although the Marshal will surely be able to capture the capital and then march to Zhili, Shandong is too far away from the Northeast, and there are a large number of Japanese troops stationed there. We can't defend it."

"Please keep this letter. It is written to the two Northern Expedition commanders I met in Shanghai."

Hai Pingchuan took the letter with a look of astonishment and looked back at Jiang Cheng absentmindedly, not understanding what he meant by his words.

Instead, Huang Yongan understood: "Master Jiang, you, you are not asking us to surrender to the Northern Expedition Army!?"

Jiang Cheng nodded: "That's absolutely right - don't be impatient, just listen to me."

"I just said that the world will eventually unite after a long period of division. Think about it, this time the Marshal relied on the Japanese to defeat Guo Guizi... Can those little Japanese give up so easily?"

"They will most likely ask for a huge sum of money - but our commander-in-chief will only advance step by step, feeding them small bites of meat, and help the Fengtian Army take over the capital."

"When that day comes, his fate... will be over. The Northeast will have to change its flag in the future. Instead of doing that, Shandong might as well open the city gates directly to preserve its strength."

Hai Pingchuan and Huang Yongan were both speechless.

The entire study was in complete silence; even the swinging of the grandfather clock could be heard clearly.

After three minutes, Hai Pingchuan stood up and said, "Master Jiang, it's been so long - the Hai family has been here today thanks to you;"

"Don't even mention changing the flag in the future. Even if you ask me to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire, if I, Hai Pingchuan, frown, I will be worse than pigs and dogs! I will listen to you!"

As he spoke, he stood up straight and saluted, knocking his boots against the ground. Jiang Cheng smiled with satisfaction, stood up and hugged him back again; Huang Yongan was a little uneasy: "Master Jiang, I think we should burn this letter right here... The fewer people who know about this, the better!"

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang, for trusting me, Huang Yongan. But no matter who gets this letter, I'm afraid it will cause another disturbance."

Jiang Cheng smiled and said nothing. He actually snatched the envelope from Hai Pingchuan's hand and threw it into the fireplace.

In fact, there were just a few pieces of white paper in the envelope - he took out the letter with the intention of testing her.

Hai Pingchuan is trustworthy, but Huang Yongan is not necessarily trustworthy:

He had never fully figured out that this guy, after receiving completely different orders from the Zhang father and son, did not even ask for instructions from himself or Hai Pingchuan, but just obeyed the order and killed Guo Guizi.

But now it seems that Huang Yongan is just as trustworthy: there is a high probability that there is another hidden reason behind his killing of Guo Guizi.

But it is definitely not a glorious thing for this kid to avoid it until now. So Jiang Cheng also chose to see through it and let it go.

"Master Jiang, actually I killed that devil Guo on purpose."

He chose to avoid the matter, but Huang Yongan chose to get straight to the point. Seeing him lower his head in bitterness, he sighed miserably and said, "Do you still remember when Guo Guizi was studying abroad at the Military Academy?"

Everyone naturally remembers this incident, which was quite tortuous and dangerous. Zhang Xuecheng lost an eye, and Bao Yulin even lost his life...

Huang Yongan swallowed hard, and said with a tight throat that he had been punished by him in Jinzhou, which had injured his body and caused him to suffer from illness, so that he and his two wives had been childless for all these years.

So the Marshal ordered the execution of Guo Guizi and ordered his body to be exposed for three days. He did it without saying a word - he was even a little secretly happy.

"Is there... such a thing?"

Jiang Cheng guessed that the other party must have some unspeakable secrets, but he never expected it to be such a personal vendetta. "Damn it, this Guo Guizi really hurt you a lot! This is karma——"

"But why didn't you tell me earlier? My wife Xinyu's mother's family is the Bai family, a well-known medical family in the Central Plains. I will treat you carefully later, and maybe you will be fine."

Huang Yongan's face turned red after hearing what he said. He kept his head down and almost choked up his stomach. He kept waving his hands and saying things like "no need" and let's talk about it later.

Jiang Cheng shook his head and patted him and laughed, then called Luo Rong and asked him to prepare a banquet and call all the brothers over, as they had to get drunk that night.

The three brothers walked downstairs arm in arm, looking very happy.

But at this time Fengtian was always shrouded in dark clouds.

As Jiang Cheng knew, Guo Songling's rebellion had thrown the entire Fengtian Army into chaos; in order to appease the public's discontent, the Marshal staged a drama of "giving up the throne" and "killing his son" -

Wu Junsheng and Zhang Zuoxiang immediately jumped out to cooperate in the acting. Seeing that the Marshal was so "sincere", everyone no longer brought up the past. They just expressed their loyalty to the Northeast and would follow the Marshal's orders to reorganize the troops in the future.

Zhang Hanqing had been staying in the Marshal's Mansion these days and didn't want to see anyone: his good brother had died, but he wasn't even allowed to collect his body and offer sacrifices...

"From now on, who will take me seriously?" (End of this chapter)