The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (303): The Great Husband Can Flex and Stretch.
At the end of the fifteenth year of Beiyang, although the Fengzhi warlords sat in the north, they were also in a state of great wind. The Feng army returned to Shaanxi from Gansu, and Wu Peifu, a generation of "jade marshals" who rushed south to rescue them, were defeated, and sun Chuanfang, the indispensable "king of the southeast", also retreated from Jiangxi, and at this time, the Beiyang warlords were left with only a single army of Fengjun. This seemed to be a kind of loneliness of seeking defeat alone, so Zhang Zuolin chose the eleventh day of November of that year to summon the warlords of the Feng clan in Tianjin to discuss countermeasures. Zhang Zongchang, who arrived two days later, urged Sun and Wu to go hand in hand. A meeting was held the next day in Cai Yuan, with Chi Yunpeng under Wu Peifu, Tian Yinghuang under Yan Xishan, and Yang Wenkai under Sun Chuanfang all attending. Zhang Zuolin first said bluntly that he only wanted to unite within the Beiyang Group, and was determined to cooperate with Wu Shuai and Sun Shuai in the south and Yan Shuai in the northwest, saving people is also "saving oneself".
But the action plan reached next can see the shrewdness of Zhang Zuolin's layout. "Aiding Sun" was led by Zhang Zongchang's Lu army, which was responsible for taking over the Jinpu Road as the backing of Sun Jun, and Sun Chuanfang was responsible for leading the rest of the army to restore Jiujiang and Nanchang. Wu Peifu should first draw out his men and horses to aid Shaanxi, and the war on the Beijing-Han front and the counter-attack on Wuhan should be handed over to the Feng army to complete. Chi Yunpeng said that Wu Yushuai had called him to ask for money and weapons, and the question of sending reinforcements would have to go back to ask for instructions before he could answer. Zhang Zuolin stared at him and said, "You can't represent Wu Yushuai, so please ask Wu Yushuai to send someone who can represent him." And Yang Wenkai, who was sent by Sun Chuanfang to attend the meeting, although he did not open his mouth, but the purpose was the same as Chi Yunpeng, but that night Zhang Zuolin asked him how much sun Shuai's strength was left, and Yang Wenkai replied with a laugh, adding the strength of Chen Qiaoyuan and Chen Yi and others, there were more than fifty thousand people. Zhang Zuolin pointed out sharply: "What I am asking is Xinyuan's own direct subordinate units. Yang Wenkai was speechless for a moment.
Subsequently, Zhang Zuolin asked Yang Wenkai to send a telegram to Sun Chuanfang, and if he was willing to support the Zhilu army to the south, please specify a route so that he could quickly come to the rescue. Sun Chuanfang knew in his heart that all reinforcements were enemies with smiling faces, and this kind of friend was even more terrifying than the enemy, not to mention that Fengjun was originally his enemy, so naturally he would not come with good intentions. On November 19 of that year, the Cai Yuan meeting was still in progress, and Zhang Zuolin suddenly received a business card handed in by the guards, took a look at it in his hand, and couldn't help asking: "Is it really him?" Hurry up and please come in! Then came a man with a long face and different ears, this person is Sun Chuanfang, who has always insisted on anti-worship, and has been the "King of the Southeast" for a while. However, Sun Chuanfang's personal visit to the door to hand down the table made it clear that he was going to fool the warlords of the Feng clan. After seeing Yang Kaiwen's telegram, he knew that it was impossible to stop the Feng army from going south, and Zhang Zongchang, the wolf of the bed, had long coveted it.
In the end, Sun Chuanfang was not as "smelly and hard" as Wu Peifu, so he changed his name and makeup to take the ordinary train to secretly go north, he knew his current price, and he also found out Zhang Zuolin's temper, loved his name and cherished talent, so he first pretended that he would never return to his post and was willing to hand over the only remaining three provinces in the southeast. When Zhang Zuolin heard this, he really crashed into Sun Chuanfang's radical technique, stood up and slapped the table and said loudly: "We are all bright and honest husbands, how can we take advantage of the danger of others to seize other people's territory!" Seeing that Zhang Zuolin had already expressed his position, Zhang Zongchang also stood up and said bluntly: "Don't treat me Zhang Zongchang as an unreasonable villain, after my army reaches Pukou, it will change ships and drive forward, never passing through Nanjing!" Sun Chuanfang's hanging heart temporarily landed, and the southeast territory was temporarily preserved, but the jade marshal Wu Peifu won the posthumous name before his death, and what he gained was not just a lingering.