The book continues above, since the Northwest Army beat Zhang Zuolin away, due to Chiang Kai-shek's renegation of his word, the fruits of victory were taken away by Yan Xishan, which made Feng Yuxiang feel very unhappy, so he said that he was sick and went to Henan, and for Feng Yuxiang's encounter, Li Zongren, the leader of the Gui clan, was also quite sympathetic to this, and wrote down his feelings at that time in his memoirs: Because the northwestern provinces where Feng Jun was stationed were extremely poor, the local income was not enough to raise heavy troops, and now that Pingjin was restored, the local taxes were abundant, but Feng Jun had found nothing, and he did not complain. It was from this moment that the relationship between Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek underwent a subtle change, and a war between new warlords opened the curtain of history.
At the end of June 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife arrived in Beiping and decided to hold a memorial meeting the following month, but for Chiang Kai-shek's many invitations, Feng Yuxiang always said that he was sick and shirked, and finally It was Li Zongren who came forward to persuade him to "pull" him back to Beiping, which made the narrow-minded Chiang Kai-shek very faceless, and the relationship between the two sides became more and more tense. At the memorial meeting at Nankou, Feng Yuxiang first challenged Chiang Kai-shek on the issue of pensions for fallen soldiers, and then made public all the achievements of the Northern Expedition of the Northwest Army.
After the change of banner in the northeast, Chiang Kai-shek put forward a plan for "disarmament" at a meeting, forcing Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, and others to take the lead in reducing their own troops, which completely infuriated these local powerful figures, because under the special circumstances at that time, once the warlords did not have "private arms," it meant that they would soon be "eliminated." So in order to preserve their political position, the three major warlords (Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, and Yan Xishan) who were the first to "open the knife" chose to use delaying tactics to deal with Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, Feng Yuxiang, the leader of the Northwest Army, also advocated at the meeting that only the "strong," "those with guns," and the "meritorious people" should be left, and the rest could be dismissed; at first glance, this plan was very reliable, but Chiang Kai-shek did not think so, because in the Northern Expedition War, his central army could not compare with these local armies in terms of combat achievements.
In fact, everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek's move is to first reduce the strength of the local army, and then gradually suppress and annex the local forces. After the dispatch meeting, seeing that all the local powerful figures had turned a deaf ear to their orders, Chiang Kai-shek began a plan to slash the domain by force, and pointed the muzzle of the gun first at the Gui clan, and in this way, the Chiang Kai-shek War broke out, and for this great war, Feng Yuxiang played a "two-faced faction", neither supporting Chiang Kai-shek nor sending troops to help Li Zongren, in a vain attempt to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and as a result, when Li Zongren's soldiers were defeated, he offended both the Gui clan and Chiang Kai-shek, and because he over-believed in his own strength, Therefore, Feng Yuxiang only ordered the troops to be ready for war, which also laid the foundation for his future military defeats.
However, just when Feng Yuxiang was actively dispatching troops and preparing to compete with Chiang Kai-shek, the two beloved generals who had followed him for many years, Shi Yousan and Han Fuqu, actually chose to lead troops to chiang kai-shek at this critical moment, so that the northwest army's military operation against Chiang Kai-shek was already bankrupt before it could be launched, but Feng Yuxiang was not willing to lose, and although his side had lost most of his men and horses before the war began, he still decided to unite with Yan Xishan to jointly oppose Chiang. At first, Yan Xishan also expressed support for Feng Yuxiang's co-optation, but when the war broke out, Yan Xishan, who was good at calculation and very shrewd, felt that this "sale" was not worth it, and temporarily withdrew his troops, causing the Northwest Army to fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness, and finally under chiang Kai-shek's powerful offensive, Feng Yuxiang had to return to his hometown.
In April 1930, the former Second, Third and Fourth Armies of the Northern Expedition were dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's weakening of local military power, so they formed an anti-Chiang Kai-shek alliance and elected Yan Xishan as "commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force of the Republic of China", and Feng Yuxiang and Li Zongren as deputy commanders-in-chief. At first, the anti-Chiang Kai-shek army occupied many advantages, but because they did not trust each other, the balance of the war began to tilt to the side of Chiang Kai-shek, but in general, the anti-Chiang kai-shek army at this time still had hope of achieving the final victory, but just when the two sides were fighting inextricably, Zhang Xueliang, who had always remained neutral, suddenly announced that he would join the war and chose to side with Chiang Kai-shek. After hearing the news that the Northeast Army had entered the border, the anti-Chiang Kai-shek alliance, which was already unstable internally, exploded in an instant, and the Jin army in charge of garrisoning in the Pingjin area even withdrew without firing a shot under the order of Yan Xishan, causing the Northwest Army, which had thrown heavy troops into a bitter battle at the front, to immediately fall into a situation of being attacked by the enemy on its back.
Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to him, Feng Yuxiang had no choice but to express his willingness to cease the war, and handed over the remaining troops of the Northwest Army to Lu Zhonglin's command, and immediately announced his resignation. After the war, the Northwest Army lost Shaanxi, Gansu, and other territories, and only a few troops in the entire army, such as Sun Liangcheng and Zhang Zizhong, retreated to Shanxi territory through the Yellow River Iron Bridge, and most of the rest were either killed in battle or surrendered to Chiang Kai-shek, and were reorganized into the 29th Army by the National Government in Nanjing, with Song Zheyuan as the commander.
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