Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (287): The fortress is the easiest to break from the inside.
In the autumn of the thirteenth year of Beiyang, the Second Zhifeng War broke out, and hundreds of thousands of horses and horses on both sides of Zhifeng were fighting in the northern land, and it was on October 15 that Zhang Zuolin sent a secret telegram to Lu Yongxiang: "There will be anti-Aggression within the other side. Four days later, Feng received an urgent telegram from the front-line command of the direct warlord, in which "the overall situation has turned the crisis into an ann in one fell swoop", believing that the Zhi army will be defeated and the time has come to turn against him, but he does not know that at this time Wu Peifu personally came to the line of fire to supervise the battle, the Third Division of the Yan clan has no retreat, and the Feng army position at the ninth gate of Fu Ke, as long as Feng Jun attacks at this time, it is inevitable to drive the Feng army back to Guanwai. However, Feng Jun turned from the rear to the front, returned to Gyeonggi, cut off the power line along the way, cut off the telegram, and quietly sneaked back to the Beijing Division at a speed of seventy kilometers a day and night. When Cao Kun got the news, he asked the bystander where his son Yu Was, and Sun Yue, who was involved in the rebellion, had already personally come to the door as a lobbyist.
Later, as a direct warlord backbone of Cao Kun's hand, Sun Yue promised to ensure Cao Kun's safety and would give Wu Peifu a decent explanation of his downfall. As a result, Wu Peifu was relieved of his post as inspector of Zhilu Yu and the commander of the Third Division, and was replaced by the Inspector of Reclamation in Qinghai, and Cao Kun could only stamp it while sighing: "I am so sorry for Ziyu." For this defection crisis in the Zhifeng War, Wu Peifu actively dispatched troops to deal with it. First, he personally led more than 7,000 people from his family to return to the Beijing Division, and then sent a telegram to the warlords directly under the provinces to reinforce. Because Wu Peifu's prestige has always been, and the situation of the battle on the front line is unknown, Xiao Yaonan, the governor of Hubei, Qi Xieyuan, the overseer of Jiangsu, and Sun Chuanfang, the overseer of Fujian, have sent telegrams of support, and even the Sichuan warlords in the land of Bashu, such as Liu Cunhou, have also waved their flags to help, and then Hubei, Jiangsu, Fujian, Anhui and other provinces have successively sent two divisions and four brigades to reinforce Wu Peifu from Jinpu and Jinghan roads to the north.
However, when the reinforcements were mobilized, the Zhi army finally collapsed on the Yuguan front line due to military instability, yuguan and Qinhuangdao alone were captured more than 30,000 guns, and Wu Peifu, who was trapped in Tianjin, also lost Yangcun and Beicang positions one after another under the siege of the superior Feng army, and the Shandong reinforcements who came to reinforcements, Pan Hongjun, the brigade commander of the Lu army, were captured. However, as long as the reinforcements arrived, the Remnants of the Wu Army still had the strength to fight, as long as Wu Peifu could control the Jinpu Line. The warlords of Henan, Jiangsu, and the southeastern provinces will certainly be able to join forces, attack or attack, retreat or defend, and thus resolve this defection crisis. But the most crucial link was the attitude of Zheng Shiqi, the governor of Shandong at the time, who if he remained neutral and did not borrow the road, Wu Peifu, who was trapped in Tianjin, also entered a dead end.
Finally, on November 1 of that year, Zheng Shiqi not only declared that he remained neutral, but also stationed his division along Cangzhou and Machang, cutting off Wu Peifu's retreat. In addition, the Hanzhuang Railway on the Jinpu Line was blown up to prevent the passage of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army, and Wu Peifu's long-awaited reinforcements were no longer hopeless, and the vision of a desperate counterattack was also lost. For a temperamental person like Wu Peifu, it is natural to wonder why Zheng Shiqi would side with the Warlord of the Feng clan at the critical moment, although Zheng Shiqi is a warlord of the Anhui clan, but Wu Peifu has always treated him not thinly, and the Warlord of the Anhui Clan still let him take charge of a side of the territory after losing the battle, and it should be known that the former Tanaka Yu sat on the position of the governor of Shandong, because he was Cao Kun's brother- Zheng Shiqi's fate was also a big surprise, Zhang Zuolin arranged for Zhang Zongchang to succeed him as the overseer of Shandong after the Fengjun entered the customs, and the promised Overseer of Anhui was not there before he arrived, and the grass on the wall was empty of bamboo baskets.