The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (323): True and False, False and True.
In the summer of the sixth year of the Republic of China, under the disturbance of the Braid Army and the Overseer Army, the Beiyang Temple, which was already full of chicken feathers, was unable to take care of the old generals of the Beiyang warlords who had been beaten into the cold palace, and some people seized the opportunity to start making waves, including Zhang Jingyao, commander of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army, who was "famous." This person wanted a gun and a gun, but he had always struggled with no territory, led his troops to live in Henan, and had always coveted Zhao Qian's position as the overseer of Henan, but the Yi army under Zhao Qian's command was not so easy to deal with, so he had to look elsewhere. On June 25 of that year, a yan army suddenly arose in the south of Shanxi, led by Jing Weiwen, a small warlord from northern Jin.
At this time, the Shanxi overseer Yan Xishan was still a small warlord, but Yan Xishan's body had both the shrewd inner nature of Jin Shang and the thick appearance of the mountain people, and he was particularly good at dressing up as a pig and eating a tiger, which was very similar to Zhang Zuolin, the king of the northeast, otherwise he would later become the "tumbler" king of Shanxi. Seeing this telegram of revenge against himself, Yan Xishan became interested in the source, and it turned out that the telegram of "seeking Yan Jun" was sent from Shaanxi County, Henan, and soon after the telegram was sent, there were local people in Henan who petitioned Zhang Jingyao, who was stationed in Luoyang, and Zhang Jingyao was "indignant" and reached the Beiyang Temple, willing to lead troops into the Jin kuang to help the chaos. Yan Xishan naturally knew that this was Zhang Jingyao's game, although the Jin army at this time was not necessarily the opponent of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army, but there was no reason not to take the move.
Subsequently, the move between Yan Xishan and Zhang Jingyao was crossed by the 1st Brigade of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army, and the Yan army disguised as Jing Weiwen began. Jing Weiwen personally went to the north bank of the Yellow River to greet him, and the so-called Eight Counties of Hedong in Shanxi Territory came to yan jun in this way, and everything was just a blind spot for Zhang Jingyao to compete for Shanxi territory. Yan Xishan naturally would not sit still, although the Jin army was still relatively weak at this time, the two were fighting over the territory of Shanxi, Yan Xishan thought to himself that he knew how to see the tricks, and for Zhang Jingyao to lead his troops into Jin to help suppress the bandits, Yan Xishan first quietly sent the Jin army to the southern Jin to fortify and besiege a brigade of beiyang troops disguised as "begging the Yan army", and then sent a telegram to the Beiyang Temple, never mentioning the matter of the Seventh Division's Beiyang army pretending to commit jin, but firmly describing the matter of the jinnan banditry as a trivial matter, "I am strong enough to level it". This was a second trick for Yan Xishan's big thing to turn into a small one, so that Zhang Jingyao would no longer have an excuse to enter the Jin Dynasty.
In the end, the Beiyang Center did not allow Zhang Jingyao to enter the Jin Dynasty to "quell the chaos", and at the same time summoned him back to Beijing. Zhang Jingyao did not dare to go to Beijing, so he had to transfer the Beiyang Army of the Seventh Division around the southern Jin Dynasty, and at this time, Yan Xishan quickly telegraphed to the Beiyang Temple: "The area around Yuncheng is quiet, and the bandits have been eliminated." For Yan Xishan, the encirclement and suppression of the Yan army in disguise and the jin is naturally a real bandit, while for Zhang Jingyao, who is pretending to be a jin, the bandit is just a rhetoric to send troops to Shanxi, and it is pretending to be a bandit and fighting for the territory of Shanxi, thus replacing Yan Xishan and seeking the position of the governor of Shanxi. However, it was cleverly resolved by Yan Xishan. Zhang Jingyao, who was gray-headed and dirty-faced, then requested to be moved to Hubei under the pretext of guarding against the warlords in the southwest, and Wang Zhanyuan, the overseer of Hubei, naturally did not want to see this horn with a bad stomach, Zhang Jingyao coveted Shanxi, and the fish did not eat, but provoked a fishy body.