What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Many people will definitely think that when the Feng family was at its peak, there were more than 400,000 people, and Guo Songling was only 70,000 people, how could he set off any storms? If you understand the situation of the Feng clan at that time, you will know the status of Guo Songling's 70,000 elites in the Feng clan.
Guo Songling's rebellion against Feng was shortly after the Second Zhifeng War, and all 33,000 people in Jiangsu had already broken down.
At that time, the deployment of Fengzhi's troops was: a total of about 110,000 people and horses remained in the three eastern provinces, including 28,000 in Fengtian, 44,000 in Jilin and 24,000 in Heilongjiang. Li Jinglin has more than 60,000 people in Zhili, Zhang Zongchang has more than 90,000 people in Shandong, and Rehe has 13,000 people.
In addition to these troops, the most elite is Guo Songling's 75,000 troops, stationed in Jingyu, as a mobile unit of the Feng clan, which can support any battlefield from the three eastern provinces to northern China.
Why is it said that Guo Songling's anti-worship will be like a bamboo? In addition to finding a peripheral helper Feng Yuxiang, there is also Li Jinglin inside the Feng clan, in this case, the feng clan's strength in the three eastern provinces of The Heating River is only 120,000, and Guo Songling and Li Jinglin's troop strength even has an advantage.
As for Zhang Zongchang's small 100,000 horses, it should be Guo Songling's most jealous, once Guo Songling steps out of Shanhaiguan, Zhang Zongchang sneaks from behind, it will also make Guo Songling very headache.
However, with the help of Feng Yuxiangguo's nationalist army to intercept Zhang Zongchang, Guo Songling's anti-Feng was the most elite army of the Feng clan, directly attacking Zhang Zuolin's lair, and at that time, Fengtian only had 28,000 people, and it was impossible to confront Guo Songling head-on.
So, such a good deck of cards, why does Guo Songling still fail?
One of the most significant reasons is that Guo Songling's alliance with Feng Yuxiang and Li Jinglin is too fragile to play its due role in the iron triangle.
On November 22, 1925, Guo Feng and Zhang reached an alliance and signed the "Guo Feng Secret Treaty", which stipulated that after the success of the anti-Feng, Guo Songling ruled the northeast, Li Jinglin occupied the area of The Rehe River, and Feng Yuxiang obtained the right to use the tianjin port.
However, the tripartite alliance's agreement on the division of interests did not satisfy all parties, but gave Feng Yuxiang an opportunity, Feng Yuxiang has been coveting Li Jinglin's territory, and he is not willing to just obtain the right to use Tianjin, what he wants is to completely seize Li Jinglin's territory, Guo Songling anti-Feng let him feel that the opportunity has come.
Li Jinglin initially adhered to guo Songling's decision, and has publicly called Zhang Zuolin to ask him to go to the field, and has expressed his position of breaking away from the Feng clan.
Unexpectedly, Guo Songling had just left Shanhaiguan, and Feng Yuxiang's nationalist army drove to Rehe and marched to Tianjin at the same time. Unable to withstand the pressure, Li Jinglin took the lead in talking with Feng Yuxiang about the conditions and asked how to stop the invasion of his own territory, and Feng Yuxiang simply said that there was no room for negotiation, that is, he wanted Li Jinglin to withdraw from his direct subordination and cede the territory to the Nationalist Army.
Li Jinglin was so angry by Lao Feng's treachery that on November 28, Li Jinglin sealed guo Songling's army office in Tianjin, withheld the soldiers' cotton clothes, and cut off Guo Jun's back road.
He immediately formed a "Zhilu Coalition Army" with Zhang Zongchang, who was stationed in Shandong, to resist Feng Yuxiang's nationalist army, and publicly announced a telegram to conquer Feng Yuxiang.
Because of Feng Yuxiang's defection and Li Jinglin's withdrawal, the Triangle Alliance collapsed, giving Zhang Zuolin time to turn around, reinforcements drawn from Heilongjiang and Jilin were able to arrive, and Guo Songling's mighty anti-Feng action was snuffed out.
Of course, the most fundamental part of Guo Songling's failure to oppose feng is actually that morality is not worthy, and many people have bragged about Guo Songling very badly, in fact, it is difficult to hide the fact that Guo Songling's prestige within the Feng family is insufficient.
Guo Songling made a revolution for a long time, but he was repeatedly frustrated, and finally he still entrusted someone to find a relationship to enter the Fengzhi Lecture Martial Hall as an instructor, and Guo Songling's good place was to meet the young marshal, the student, and the relationship between the two people was particularly good, and the young marshal said to everyone, "I am Maochen, and Maochen is me."
The young marshal handed over all the soldiers to his deputy, Guo Songling, who was also the deputy of the young marshal, and when he rebelled, because he was worried about his lack of prestige, Guo Songling successfully confused the controlled troops in the name of the young marshal.
In everyone's view, the young marshal is Zhang Zuolin's son, sooner or later he will be in charge, they are very supportive of the young marshal, and disgusted with the non-commissioned officer faction headed by Yang Yuting, Guo Songling is using the psychology of the soldier.
In the process of Guo Songling's anti-worship, Zhang Zuolin also thought that the young marshal was in charge, and when he opened his mouth, he scolded, and when he understood that Guo Songling had made a ghost, he was not so scared.
At that time, the young marshal always hoped to resolve the matter peacefully, and once wrote a letter to Guo Songling: "Inherit the love of the brother, and embrace liang to come to power... The brother's heart to raise the army, the brother's insight, and if the military can be stopped at that time, it can be put forward for consultation, and it is not difficult to solve."
Guo Songling immediately wrote back, saying that he was opposed to public, not private, in order to politely reject Zhang Xueliang's advice.
On November 27, 1925, Guo Songling informed Zhang Xueliang that if he wanted to make an armistice, he needed to agree to the following conditions.
The first Shandong belonged to Yue Weijun, the second directly subordinate to Feng Yuxiang, the third to Li Jinglin, and the fourth Guo Songling returned to power and ruled the northeast.
Speaking of this, everyone has understood that Guo Songling's anti-worship is actually to seize power for himself, to use soldiers as bandits, and when the young marshal saw that the situation was irreversible, he sent planes to scatter leaflets to tell the soldiers the truth, causing Guo Junjun's heart to waver.
Coupled with the arrival of winter and no way back, Guo Songling's fierce offensive has come to an end.
In addition, the participation of the Japanese at that time also caused great trouble to Guo Songling, because the northeast was the sphere of influence of the Japanese at that time, and it was impossible for Guo Songling to oppose the Japanese without passing through the Japanese.
In the process of Guo Songling's rebellion, the Japanese had already come to the door to negotiate with Guo Songling, and one thing to say was that Guo Songling was still quite bold in this regard, openly declaring that this was Chinese his own affairs and warning the Japanese not to interfere casually.
To this end, Japan could only continue to cooperate with Zhang Zuolin, and at Zhang Zuolin's request, Japan transferred two divisions in the northeast to prepare to support Zhang Zuolin at any time, and demanded that Guo Songling's army not pass through the Japanese South Manchuria Railway annex, which also delayed Zhang Zuolin.
Overall, Guo Songling's anti-strategy was very successful, and the timing was also very good, but the conditions were not very mature, and the wrong alliance with people like Feng Yuxiang and Li Jinglin was also considered to be pitted.