Wu Peifu, the "strongest man in China", after the defeat of the soldiers, used the Magic Method to make a comeback?

In the wave of "begging for flattery" in the whole country, Wu Peifu (Shandong, the second person in the former new direct warlord lineage, the leader of the Luo faction) with the support of Sun Chuanfang (a Shandong native, a rising star of the direct warlords, Wang Zhanyuan's old ministry), Wu Peifu ushered in the opportunity to make a comeback, and the whole country gave Wu Peifu, the strongest person in China at that time, high hopes for the comeback, Wu Peifu set up the "Fourteen Provinces Thief Coalition Army Headquarters" in Hankou, which is a very special organization, first of all, he was not appointed by any government department at all. Nominally, he is a military management headquarters jointly elected by the autonomous governors of the various joint provinces, and this principle is actually the same as the principle of Sun Chuanfang's so-called "five-province joint army headquarters", saying that the heavens are all an illegal organization, but this illegal organization is not a non-governmental organization, but a military management department jointly elected by the provincial supervisors appointed by the government. It's a bit like a government agency again. However, how many provinces in the fourteen provinces mentioned by this institution really support it, Wu Peifu has no bottom, so he simply removed the three words "fourteen provinces" and became the "Thief Coalition Command", in fact, this is a military organization independent of the Beijing government, since the headquarters is not an institution appointed by the government, there is no hope of expecting to be regularized in the Republic of China, but there is still a way, we must strive for international recognition, but Wu Peifu he once stated the four principles of "not going abroad, not living in the concession" and so on Therefore, he could only use overseas newspapers to win the approval of European and American countries, in fact, the effect of this was not obvious, but this made Wu Peifu accused of being a warlord who defected to Britain and the United States in later generations.

However, in any case, without government support, the establishment of the institution must be self-funded, after Sun Chuanfang gave Wu Peifu funds, Hankou and Wuhan Chamber of Commerce directly raised four or five million yuan for Wu Peifu's "opening and pulling fees", and Cao Ying, the younger brother of Cao Kun (a direct subordinate, the former leader of the new direct warlords, and the fifth president of the Republic of China), was even more generous, directly to Hankou to send 600,000 yuan of funds to Wu Peifu In fact, Wu Peifu's overseas newspapers also publicized that it was of some use, and the British American Tobacco Company also directly reached an agreement with his former subordinate Kou Yingjie (a Shandong native, Wu Peifu's confidant, one of the military backbones of the thief coalition army) to increase the tobacco tax on British American Tobacco, which is a new tax that can receive one million yuan every year.

Money is available, but the army is not, Wu Peifu's headquarters came together, and the Zhi army or the fallen grass for Kou in the Zhi Army that were absorbed by warlords from all over the country also concentrated on Wu Peifu, such as Kou Yingjie in Hubei, Liu Zhenhua in Henan (Henan, the leader of the Zhensong Army), and even some teams in the Second and Third Armies of the Nationalist Army in northwest Henan, and Zhang Zongchang in Shandong (a Shandong native, one of the Five Tigers of the Fengjun Army, and the leader of the Zhilu Coalition Army) directly let Jin Yunlu (a Shandong person, a Shandong person, From this point of view, Zhang Zongchang of Tuolu already had his own right to speak, and was no longer a pure Northeast Army, and he wanted to be managed by anyone, whether it was the Beijing government, or Zhang Zuolin (Fengtianren, the leader of the Fengzhi warlords), or Wu Peifu, anyway, there was a mother, which was almost equivalent to the tacit acquiescence that the Zhilu coalition army in Shandong was also deployed by Wu Peifu's headquarters, but for Wu Peifu, They all belong to the miscellaneous team.

However, all of Wu Peifu's army was left with Xiao Yaonan (Hubei people, a new warlord general in Hubei), but Xiao Yaonan could not bear Wu Peifu's arbitrary and tough way of fundraising, especially Wu Peifu's forced issuance of military expenses of 20 million yuan, which aroused Xiao Yaonan's dissatisfaction, so Xiao Yaonan openly led the Hubei people to the headquarters to petition, demanding the cancellation of the issuance of military bonds and the increase in salt taxes, wu Peifu's strong bombardment over the years, making Xiao Yaonan ashamed of the Hubei villagers, serious physical and mental exhaustion, and worse and worse health. So suddenly felt the wind and cold, and finally died due to ineffective medical treatment, Wu Peifu's last capable general died violently, and more coincidentally, Cao Kun's younger brother Cao Ying, after attending the funeral of Xiao Yaonan, also died of a sudden heart attack for no reason, which made it very easy to think of Yan Xiangwen (a Shandong native, a new warlord general, who was the governor of Shaanxi), Li Chun (a direct subordinate, the leader of the direct warlords, and the head of the three governors of the Yangtze River), and so on, and soon people attributed the cause of Xiao Yaonan and Cao Ying's death to Wu Peifu But this is another headless public case in the Republic of China, and no one can say it clearly. However, in any case, Wu Peifu still appointed Xiao Yaonan's division commander Chen Jiamo (a direct subordinate, the new warlord general) under Xiao Yaonan in the name of "commander-in-chief of the coalition army" to be promoted to the governor of Hubei, and at this point, Wu Peifu had an army belonging to him.

According to the plan announced by Wu Peifu, the soldiers were divided into two roads, one from Anhui and the other from Henan, first taking Xuzhou and then settling Tianjin. However, there is still a mystery, Xuzhou was occupied by Sun Chuanfang, and Tianjin was occupied by the Nationalist Army, so which faction was it aimed at? Here Wu Peifu played a word game, Wu Peifu's headquarters is called the Thief Headquarters, but who is this thief? Wu Peifu also did not explain, soon Wu Peifu had an army, he proposed to the Henan governor Yue Weijun (Shaanxi, the leader of the Nationalist Second Army) a plan to attack the Fengjun "through the road".

At this time, Yue Weijun of the Nationalist Second Army realized that many of his troops had already been thrown into Wu Peifu, who had risen from Dongshan, and Henan was completely surrounded by the Shandong Zhilu Coalition army and the Hubei Army, and soon Wu Peifu revealed his true face, he sent Kou Yingjie to attack Xinyang, Henan, Yue Weijun realized that the original "thief" was also from Wu Peifu's name, and soon Wu Peifu's other subordinate in Shandong, Jin Yunlu, also proposed to Sun Chuanfang to borrow Xuzhou to attack Henan, and Sun Chuanfang, His original intention was to promote Wu Peifu to come out again to "oppose Feng", but he did not expect that Wu Peifu wanted to "oppose Feng" and oppose the Nationalist Army, which was completely contrary to his original intention of "uniting with Feng and opposing Feng", so he categorically refused to "borrow the road", Jin Yunlu seized the heart of Henan, and took the initiative to explain to Sun Chuanfang that the overall situation was the most important, and Sun Chuanfang was able to reluctantly agree.

Soon Kou Yingjie and Jin Yunlu's two large armies targeted Yue Weijun's headquarters of the Nationalist Second Army, plus Liu Zhenhua of Henan responded at the same time, and Yue Weijun ordered Deng Baoshan (a Gansu native, general of the Nationalist Second Army) to block the attack on the enemy, and soon Deng Baoshan could not hold on, and all 70,000 of his troops were disarmed, yue Weijun fled to Shanxi for refuge, and soon he was also placed under house arrest by Yan Xishan (a Shanxi native, the leader of the Jin army). After the Xinyang Nationalist Army held Xinyang City alone for nearly a month, it was finally unable to resist, Wu Peifu's troops entered Xinyang City and successfully occupied Henan, Kou Yingjie and Jin Yunhu were appointed as governors and governors respectively, and since then Wu Peifu has successfully acquired two territories in Hubei and Henan, and successfully re-emerged from the mountains.