The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (305): Cat Crying Rat.
In the early spring of the sixteenth year of beiyang, the direct warlords who were trapped in the northern battlefield were no longer alive. On April 3 of that year, the former ally of the Feng clan warlords tore off their masks and attacked Xuchang, and Wu Peifu's general Jin Yunlu launched three consecutive counterattacks, which were repelled by the Feng army, and the division commander Liu Peixu was captured. The direct warlords were gradually defeated in the gap between the north and the south, and the Feng army went down to Xiping and Suiping in mid-to-late April to occupy most of the last territory of the direct warlords in Henan. On April 26, Wu Peifu's Zhensong army in Luoyang was again resisted by local people and horses, and after four days and nights of fierce fighting, the siege of Luoyang was resolved, but the southern army in Wuhan took the opportunity to occupy Madian, Henan, and the Feng army also entered Tongguan on May 7, and the Zhensong army under Wu Peifu's command Liu Zhenhua had to be trapped in Luoyang, isolated and helpless, and finally defected to the Feng army.
Subsequently, Liu Zhenhua's subordinate Zhang Zhigong chose to defect to the Feng warlords to beg for help from the Feng army, and Liu Zhenhua had to flee to Yuncheng, where the Feng army resolutely took advantage of the fire and robbery and continued westward into Gong County, where Wu Peifu was trapped. At this time, Wu Peifu's Tian Weiqin Department had also defected to the Feng army, Wang Weiwei, Wang Weicheng, and Chen Wenzhao's various departments had all collapsed, and the remaining Zhang Xizhen's Third Division, the Fourth Division of Yan Zhitang's Department, and the first brigade of Lou Yunhe of the guards totaled more than 20,000 men and horses, and were stationed around Fenshui, Yanshi, and Gong County, and there was no foothold in the duel against the Feng army. Wu Peifu's aide Zhang Qipeng and others persuaded Wu Peifu to go to Nanyang, where Xuezhong still had a force to fight in a war, but Wu Peifu did not want to leave Gong County, nor did he believe that Fengjun was unsympathetic, so he replied to the crowd: "You go first, don't worry about me." ”
However, on May 12 of that year, the Wu army stationed in Shuishui was disarmed by the Feng army, and Wu Peifu had to withdraw from Gong County with a brigade of guards, and on the way he was ambushed by the local Red Gun Society, and he rushed left and right for two days and nights before he could break out of the siege and retreat to Dengfeng. A week later, Zhang Zuolin summoned Fan Ding, Wu Peifu's representative in Beijing, in Gyeonggi, and staged a bitter love drama, saying emotionally: "How did Second Master Wu get to such a point, to Nanyang or temporarily live in Songshan?" Why not give me a word, not to give you a letter, I believe him, but he always does not believe me! I had planned to go out to Henan to meet him, but the people of Gyeonggi panicked when they heard that I was leaving Beijing, and Zhao Laoshuai suddenly fell ill. In order for this bitter love drama to look more real, Zhang Zuolin immediately ordered the left and right to call to greet Zhao Erxun's condition, in fact, Zhao Erxun's body bones have not been very good.
In the end, Zhang Zuolin also told Fan Ding in a loud voice: "If Second Master Wu goes to Nanyang, I will send a special car to send you back to Henan, and you tell him that I Zhang Zuolin has always cooperated with him Wu Peifu, even if he does not have a man and horse, I will cooperate with him to the end." In fact, how could Fan Ding not understand that with Zhang Zuolin's shrewdness and means, he could not forget whether Wu Peifu would go to Nanyang, because Yu Xuezhong, who was stationed here, was Wu Peifu's old subordinate and fellow countryman, and there was also an elite division under his command, and he also guarded the junction of the three provinces of Yu, Hubei, and Shaanxi, and had a basis for retreat. As for being willing to take time to continue to deal with Wu Peifu, it was hoped that the Wu army would counterattack Xiangfan again and contribute to the Fengjun to contain the southern army. After all, Wu Peifu was robbed by the Feng army when he was in internal and external difficulties, so this bitter love drama was just a false mercy in Wu Yushuai's view.