The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (296): The phoenix that falls into the water is not as good as the chicken.
In the early summer of the fifteenth year of Beiyang, the two giants of the Beiyang warlords officially met under the imposing pomp and circumstance, seemingly abandoning the previous suspicions and agreeing with the outside world. Zhang Zuolin, who is scheming and calculating, is only in the name of Wu Peifu's ability to fight a hard battle, and it is his real concern to take the crucial South Exit of the famous fortress of the Great Wall. However, the coalition forces under Wu Peifu's command defected on the front line three times in succession, and the results of the scrambled settlement of their own people could only be gray-headed, and in the end, it was the Feng army and the Zhilu coalition army that cooperated to take the nankou fortress under the cover of heavy artillery, and Feng Jun retreated to Gansu, and the overall situation of the northern war was determined since then. Therefore, a generation of jade marshals fell face in the Battle of Nankou in this way, but Wu Peifu still acted in a sloppy manner, after capturing Nankou, although he was shy in his pocket, he still spent 20,000 yuan to reward the soldiers, and the Beiyang Hub also added 40,000 yuan, but Zhang Zuolin, who was rich and powerful, was 200,000 yuan in one shot.
After that, Wu Peifu did not perceive anything wrong, and it seemed that Zhang Zuolin had to compete with Wu Peifu on these issues, and what he wanted was to overwhelm Wu and win a face. Wu Peifu saw that the situation in the north under the direct alliance was already clear, as long as he freed his hands to clean up the mountains and rivers in the south, he naturally wanted to reward the meritorious soldiers who attacked the south mouth before that. As the commander of the various armies who commanded the Battle of Nankou, who was elected by the warlords of the Feng clan, Wu Peifu did not protect the short, and the poor performance of the combined forces of the direct warlords should naturally not be rewarded, and the warlords of the Feng clan who had made military achievements were greatly rewarded, with Zhang Zongchang as the general of Yiwei and Chu Yupu as the general of Puwei. In order to curry favor with the two major warlords of Zhifeng, the Beiyang Hub also awarded Han Linchun and five other people as "Wei" generals, three of whom belonged to the Fengzhi warlords and the other two were Wu Peifu's subordinates.
However, in the original case, there was also Jiafeng Wei Yisan as a general of Yiwei, and Wu Peifu knew that this person had once defected to the Warlord of the Feng Clan, so in order to take into account Zhang Zuolin's affection, Wu Peifu deliberately removed this person from the list, thinking that this would be considered thoroughly considered. However, just after Wu Peifu issued this "protection case" of asking for merit and reward for the warlords of the Feng clan, only Zhang Zongchang joyfully accepted the commendation, claiming to be the general of Yiwei, and then realized that the wind was not right, because the Fengzhi warlords Han Linchun, Yu Zhen, Wang Dong, and others all sent telegrams refusing to accept the reward, and in the telegram, "On the merits and deeds must be detailed by the commander of the Zhenwei Army, the battle achievements of each army must be listed in detail, and there can be no road rumors, and the light pseudonymous instrument" made Zhang Zongchang inevitably hit a stir.
In the end, Zhang Zongchang immediately drew a picture of the gourd and sent a telegram that he refused to accept, after which Zhang Zuolin sent a telegram to the warlords of the Feng clan: "It is not the time to receive the award. Zhang Zongchang was also complacent about his timely remedy. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that Zhang Zuolin's general Zhenwei is a veritable golden signboard, and while he is in charge of the three eastern provinces, he also has jurisdiction over both Zhili and Shandong, and he cannot tolerate his subordinate Zhang Zongchang and himself to go hand in hand, while Wu Peifu is kind enough to ask for merit and reward for the warlords of the Feng clan, but did not communicate with them beforehand, which has become a manifestation of the warlords of the Huihui clan digging corners, and Zhang Zuolin naturally does not appreciate it. In addition, Zhang Zongchang had delivered a protégé's post to Wu Peifu as early as the meeting between Wu and Zhang, when people said that Wu Peifu was arrogant, but Wu returned the post and replaced it with a lan spectrum, and Zhang Zongchang worshiped as a brother, relying on the old and selling the old Zhang Zuolin naturally also caused displeasure, when the smell of gunpowder between the two warlords of Zhifeng gradually became stronger, and the southern half of the wall also began to rise.