In August 1932, Han Fuyu said to his subordinates: "Liu Zhennian is occupying Jiaodong, flying and staggering, it is simply a sword in our chest, and if we do not get rid of this beast, we will sleep and eat restlessly." A month later, Han Fuyu mobilized his forces and launched an attack on Liu Zhennian.
The contradiction between Han Fuyu and Liu Zhennian began in the Central Plains War. In this great war in the summer of 1930, Liu Zhennian, the "King of Jiaodong", held 30,000 elite soldiers in his hands, becoming a decisive weight on the balance of this new warlord war between Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan.
As early as the eve of the outbreak of the Central Plains War, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Liu Zhennian in Xuzhou, gave him the title of general of the Seventeenth Army (soon after it was reduced to the 21st Division, but the number and rank of the promised army remained unchanged), and gave the current Dayang 300,000 yuan to let Liu Zhennian stand by in Yantai.
Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang also sent people to Yantai for activities. Through Fu Zuoyi, Yan Xishan gave Liu Zhennian 100 machine guns and 100,000 rounds of ammunition, and awarded Liu Zhennian the title of commander-in-chief of the 21st Road of the Jin Army. Liu Zhen did not refuse, no matter which side's "title", "name", money, guns, and ammunition were all accepted correctly, but for the time being, he did not take a stand and waited and watched for the time being.
In May, Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang issued a general attack order, and soon, the Third Route Army of Han Fuyu of Jiang's army in Jinan was the first to collapse, and more than a thousand remnants of the army retreated to Ludong; the two roads of Feng Yuxi and Zhang Yinwu of Fu Zuoyi of the Yan army advanced rapidly along the jinpu and Jiaoji lines, and the battle situation in Shandong was fierce, and all sides stepped up to win Liu Zhennian over.
Chiang Kai-shek sent several telegrams to Liu Zhennian in succession, asking him to lead his troops to reinforce Han Fuyu. Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang sent a telegram asking Liu Zhennian to lead his troops to cut off Han Fuyu's rear road.
Since victory or defeat had not been divided at that time, Liu Zhennian hesitated, and some of his staff advocated repelling Fu Zuoyi's Zhang Yinwu forces and attacking Jinan with their divisions; some advocated taking advantage of the opportunity to eliminate Han Fuyu, and then advancing into Xu (prefecture) and Hai (prefecture), pointing to Ning (Nanjing) and Han (Wuhan).
Liu Zhennian changed his previous arbitrary style, nodding his head and saying "yes" to both opinions, but in fact he never moved his troops and watched from the sidelines; he not only accepted all the salaries and weapons sent by the two sides, but also instructed the representatives stationed in all sides to constantly ask for them and ask for them again and again.
Liu Zhennian's practice made his middle school and Baoding military academy classmate and representative of the Jin Army zhao Fuchen very angry, and he said to Liu Zhennian: "Serve Qin And Chu, I have no opinion, neutrality is also possible, but we should show our attitude, we should not want this today, tomorrow we should want that. Just asking for money and not doing things, losing faith in others, and if this continues, I dare not go back to Taiyuan again. ”
In the face of the rebuke, Liu Zhennian retorted: "Your words are not right, your will is weak, you must know that Jiang, Feng, and Yan are all warlords, and their money and things are all from the common people, neither the surname Jiang nor the surname of Yan Feng. Of course, sooner or later it will be handed over to us. The 3 of them are very old, do not understand reason, chen bing Zhongyuan for no reason, and regard the national economy and people's livelihood as a child's play. Hurt nature and harm reason, do not do so. Their scuffle is cross street dog bites, and it is disgraceful for either side of us to help. They told me to mobilize the army, what to hang? How could that be! I hope that your deputies in Jin will return to Taiyuan as soon as possible, and the representatives stationed in Beijing will still return to Nanjing and continue to ask them for money and things, the more the better! ”
Liu Zhennian's "high theory" certainly reflects his own "right and wrong" and "theory", but in fact, it is to preserve strength. However, this blindly ambiguous attitude will inevitably arouse the indignation of the warlords on both sides. In particular, Han Fuyu was extremely resentful of Liu Zhennian's heart when he saw that he was in a difficult situation and could not be saved.
Later, after Jiang Jun counterattacked and drove the Jin army out of Shandong, Han Fuyu said to Liu Zhennian's chief of staff: "You thank Liu Junchang on my behalf, when I retreated to Weixian and Fangzi, he wanted to beat me, and I collapsed; thank you for not touching my hand at that time." The resentment was palpable, which was an important reason for the battle between Han and Liu in 1932.
After the End of the Central Plains War, Han Fuyu became the chairman of Shandong Province, and the contradictions between him and Liu Zhennian intensified day by day. Liu Zhennian divided more than a dozen counties in Jiaodong, rejected either directly or covertly the officials appointed by Han Fuyu in the name of the Shandong provincial government, and even assassinated Zhang Jiuxiang, a special inspector sent by Han Fuyu, and many others.
When Han Fuyu first took office, his troops were insufficient, and he mainly used mediation, and he repeatedly sent people to dredge and lobby, demanding that Liu Zhennian obey him, but Liu Zhennian politely and resolutely refused. Han Fuyu did not succeed in colluding with the former warlord Li Jinglin, who had lost power, because many of Liu Zhennian's officials were Li Jinglin's old subordinates.
However, soon after Li Jinglin's men infiltrated Yantai, they were deported after Liu Zhennian noticed them. When Han Fuyu failed to make a plan, he heard that Liu Zhennian himself and his officers at or above the brigade level of the Twenty-first Division were all under Zhang Xian, Li Jinglin's reserve commander at that time, so he invited Zhang Xian to let Zhang Xian divide Liu Zhennian's subordinates.
Although Zhang Xian was active, he had little effect. Liu Zhennian also used his human way to treat his body, sending his deputy He Yisan, chief of staff Han Dong, and others to Jinan to secretly plan with Zhao Lanyan, director of the office in Jinan, to divide and disintegrate Han Fuyu's Third Route Army. This matter was discovered by Han Fuyu's subordinates, who immediately sent someone to Liu Bu's office to arrest He, Han, Zhao and others. Before the arrest, because one of Han Fuyu's battalion commanders leaked secrets, He Yisan and the others were able to escape.
After the arrest failed, Han Fuyu no longer covered up, and he decided to use force to solve Liu Zhennian. Han Fuyu first created public opinion in the newspapers of Ning, Shanghai, Ping, Tianjin, and Ji that "the Jiaodong regime should be unified with the chairman of Shandong Province," and at the same time carried out arms mobilization, and personally consulted Feng Yuxiang, who was "reclusive" in Mount Taishan, for advice from Liu Fangwei.
Feng Yuxiang was angry at liu Zhennian's letter during the Central Plains War, and said to Han Fuyu: "Do you allow others to sleep peacefully next to the bed!" Once something happens in Shandong, Liu Zhennian will still pull your hind legs. ”
On September 17, 1932, Han Fuyu concentrated 50,000 troops and launched a surprise attack on Liu Zhennian. Although Han Fuyu could not eat Liu Zhennian for a while, Chiang Kai-shek did not have a good impression of Liu Zhennian, who sat and watched the success or failure of the Central Plains War, and soon after used this as an excuse to let Liu Zhennian lead his troops to withdraw from Jiaodong. In the dispute between Han and Liu, Han Fuyu laughed to the end.