Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (269): Rat Drill Bellows.
The Xiao general who could fight a hard battle in the late Beiyang period was none other than wu Peifu, the jade marshal of the first generation, and the Third Division under his command was also one of the most elite units of the Beiyang Army, even if the Beiyang Dynasty was weakening day by day, it could still play ten non-existent, but there was no retreat. However, in the early autumn of the seventh year of Beiyang, in Duan Qirui's ambitious plan for the Southern Expedition, Wu Xiucai, who was a rising star and should be a disciple, turned against him, and the autumn wind swept through the southwest with the momentum of the fallen leaves, but he jointly sent a telegram of armistice and peace with the warlords in the southwest, which made Duan Qirui feel cold. Although Wu Peifu was indeed the Qiongtianmu of the Beiyang Army at the front at this time, Duan Zhilao, as the head of the cabinet, personally talked to Wu Ziyu, who was only the commander of the first division, and although he gave him a full name, he transferred the position of Hunan Overseer that Wu Peifu should have been in his pocket to Zhang Jingyao, who was closer to him.
After that, this section of the beam can be regarded as a real knot. Wu Peifu's statement on this open armistice and the previous telegrams actually had too many signs of dissatisfaction. As early as August of that year, he attached a telegram from Li Chun, then the governor of Jiangsu, calling for peace between the north and the south. Later, he compared himself to "contending for a son" and did not hesitate to attack duan Qirui by telegram, claiming that the main peace was modeled on Duan Qirui's practice in Xiaogan. Compared with Duan Qirui's loss of face, Cao Kun, as Wu Peifu's immediate boss at that time, was actually in an embarrassing situation. On the one hand, in Tianjin, Feng Jun is staring at the tiger, and there is also a decisive little fan Xu Shuzheng, these are real threats. To this end, Cao Kun first sent a telegram to reprimand Wu Peifu, and then quickly went south to Baoding, after all, this is his base camp, and safety can be guaranteed.
However, this time, Wu Peifu was no longer limited to telegraphing his position, but had already made up his own mind to truce with the warlords in the southwest. In the content of the joint telegram with the warlords in the southwest, the Beiyang Temple was juxtaposed with the southwest, and Wu Peifu led many generals of the Beiyang Army to be prominently listed, which was also the first time since the beginning of the war between the north and the south that the generals of the north and the south appeared together. Duan Qirui was shocked and then angry, so angry that he could not speak, but the most embarrassing person was actually Cao Kun. Wu Peifu's action this time, the basket of poke is large enough, directly let it be placed in the landless, even if others understand that it is not directed by him, but as a hand-pulled Engong, as a superior, he cannot restrain his subordinates, the prestige sweep is a trivial matter, and for other subordinates, he cannot serve the public, this big brother is really not good. To this end, Cao Kun shot two telegrams in a row, one was to warn Wu Peifu that he must report to himself for his actions, and the other was to express his position to the northern crowd and draw a clear line with this matter.
In the end, Duan Qirui was strongly suppressing anger and did not dare to fight, and it was not the right choice for a temple strongman to use things, the reality was there, after all, the Anhui warlords had no available soldiers, no one was willing to volunteer, and even if someone was willing, defeating this constantly victorious general was also unknown, it would only force Wu Peifu to Liangshan and completely throw himself into the camp of the southwest warlords, and the Beiyang warlords would fall even more apart. And Wu Peifu, as one of the few cultural people among the Beiyang warlords, naturally cherishes feathers more, and in terms of prestige among the Beiyang warlords, isolating them is the best means, duan Qirui pulled up the Beiyang Qunxiong who stood with the Anhui warlords to refute it, and staged a bitter persuasion that actually concealed the killing machine, but the most embarrassing Cao Kun, only sandwiched between the two ends of the angry share.