The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (304): The Tiger Dies Without Falling.
In the winter of the fifteenth year of Beiyang, Wu Peifu's state of mind was like the weather in the north, gloomy and cold, and the Zhensong army of Liu Zhenhuabu stationed in Shaanxi was defeated, and the Jin army chose to watch from the sidelines, and the Feng army let the Wu army give up the Beijing-Han line in the name of chi aid, and Wu Peifu's garrison in Henan was already surrounded by the Feng army, the Lu army, the Feng army, and the southern army on all sides. In view of this situation, Wu Peifu once again convened a meeting to raise the issue of counter-attacking Tongguan. Although Wu Peifu, who was the age of "Knowing the Mandate of Heaven", burst into tears, a group of subordinates were relatively speechless like wooden people. Wu Peifu had no choice but to say that he personally went out to fight Tongguan, and a group of subordinates reluctantly asked him to give orders. However, after the order was issued, the armies could not march on the grounds of "paying and armed".
Subsequently, Jin Yunlu, who was sitting under Wu Peifu's command and had the men and horses of the Fourth Division, published his secret letter to Wu, exposing the various situations of the Wu army at this time that "the hungry army could not cope with the battle."Wu Peifu believed that this move was undoubtedly to demagogue the hearts of the army, so on December 25 of that year, he convened Kou Yingjie, Tian Weiqin, and others to hold a meeting. After this unexpected order was issued, although Jin Yunlu was still very kind to his old boss Wu Peifu, his men and horses rebelled. Among the troops were Gao Rutong, Yan Yueren, Xu Shouchun, and Ren Yingqi's four divisions; Liu Peixu, the brigade commander under Gao Rutong, sent a telegram against Wu, and Ren Yingqi took a division of men and horses to the south. At the same time, only Kou Yingjie and Tian Weiqin were still in real contact with Wu Peifu, who was in cahoots with him, and Tian Weiqin's campaign against the anti-Wu Liu Peixu from Runan was unsuccessful.
However, at this time, the Warlords of the Feng Clan also followed the good inducements and tested Wu Peifu's bottom line step by step, after all, they were also worried that Wu Peifu would lead the Wu army under his command to defeat Liangshan. In view of the fact that Wu Peifu had deposed Jin Yunlu but could not restrain his troops, Zhang Zuolin told Wu Peifu that he could send his son to the south and accept the dispatch of his predecessors to help Wu Peifu solve all disobediences. Wu Peifu categorically refused to compromise with the Feng army, but Zhang Zuolin could not wait to chase after the Central Plains, and the superior Feng army and the Lu army drove straight in and marched to Kaifeng, Henan. Although Wu Peifu's men and horses have already collapsed, they still divide Jin Yunhu's anti-feng and Kou Yingjie's surrender attitudes, and after Kou Yingjie's surrender, Wu Peifu can also be regarded as losing another arm.
Immediately after that, Zhang Zuolin appointed Wu Peifu's old rival, Zhao Qian, who had been the overseer of Henan, as an envoy to Henan, and accompanied the army to surrender the Yu army. In Zhang Zuolin's incendiary telegram that "Wuhan is not defended, the disaster will prolong the river, and only Yuzhong will be the place where Wu Yushuai will be stationed, and he will repeatedly consult and admit that he is counterattacking", Feng Jun first disarmed the guards of Qi Xieyuan, the old predecessor of the warlord directly under Zhangde, and then disbanded the direct warlord Wang Weiwei in Xinxiang, and Wu Peifu, who retreated to Luoyang, began to shake hands with Jin Yunlu and make peace, Jin Yunlu reorganized the Wu army into sixteen people and horses to garrison Zhengzhou in the name of Wu Peifu, and the superior Feng army attacked under the cover of aircraft, and occupied Zhengzhou after four days of fierce fighting. Wu Peifu had to lead the guards to retreat to Gong County.
In the end, Zhang Zuolin threw an olive branch again, and sent three telegrams in a row to ask Wu Peifu to go to Beijing for negotiations, "since the flag was hung to welcome", or Wu Peifu returned to Zhengzhou, and the Feng army that entered Yu was assigned to Wu Peifu's dispatch, Wu Peifu again refused to compromise, and Jin Yunlu led his troops to take advantage of the situation to counterattack along zhongmu and Kaifeng, fengjun's former enemy commanded Yu Zhen and Xuanwei made Zhao Qian seize the road and flee, Wu army captured Kaifeng and Zhongmu and counterattacked Zhengzhou, and Gao Rutong, commander of the 14th Division, who personally counterattacked with ironclad vehicles. After being hit by Fengjun shells near the Yufeng Spinning Factory, the bones were gone, and the Wu army's counterattack was only contained.