What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
At the peak of the Feng clan, it occupied more than six provinces, and after the Second Zhifeng War, Feng Shi ma drank the Yangtze River, in addition to the original three eastern provinces and Rehe provinces, it also occupied eight provinces such as Zhili, Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu.
To say that the unification of the north is still feng Yuxiang's northwest army, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army, and the remnants of the direct lineage, but has sealed the outlet north of the Yangtze River, if it is not Sun Chuanfang to fight back against the Feng clan, the Feng clan unified the north is already just around the corner.
Before the Fengzhi were only a local warlord in the northeast, why was he able to drive straight in after the Second Zhifeng War and drink the water of the Yangtze River?
This is a child without a mother, it is a long story, the earliest to start from the first direct service after the war.
After the First Zhifeng War in 1922, the Zhi clan defeated the Feng clan and reached its peak of power, on the one hand, it drove the Feng clan back to the northeast, on the other hand, it began to turn around and attack the Xiang Army, and finally forced the Xiang Army to negotiate peace with Wu Peifu.
At that time, Wu Peifu arranged for Qi Xieyuan to administer Jiangsu and Xiao Yaonan to administer Hubei, at this time, Fujian and Zhejiang were still in the hands of Anhui warlords, so Wu Peifu decided to send Sun Chuanfang, a subordinate of the former Hubei warlord Wang Zhanyuan, to lead an army to aid Fujian and cut off Zhejiang's contact with the southern revolutionary army.
In fact, before the Second Zhifeng War, it was the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War, and after 1922, the Zhejiang warlord Lu Yongxiang secretly contacted the Feng warlord in order to protect himself, and the Jiangsu warlord Qi Xieyuan on the direct side could not sit still, in order to compete for Shanghai, he joined forces with Sun Chuanfang, who had just sat firmly in Fujian, to attack Lu Yongxiang. Zhang Zuolin entered the customs in the northeast in the name of supporting Lu Yongxiang, which led to the outbreak of the Second Zhifeng War.
However, before Zhang Zuolin could enter the customs, Lu Yongxiang had already been defeated, and Sun Chuanfang sat firmly in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.
However, the result of the Second Zhifeng War was not expected by the warlords in the rear of the zhizhi lineage, and Feng Yuxiang defected in the great war, imprisoning Cao Kun and forcing Wu Peifu to flee to the last piece of territory in Hubei after a major defeat at Shanhaiguan.
That is to say, the Second Zhifeng War had just ended, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan occupied the western part of the north, because the direct non-Cao Kun and Wu Peifu clans did not expect Wu Peifu to be defeated, so there was no preparation for defending the Feng clan, resulting in a huge military vacuum in the northern region.
Li Jinglin, one of the five tiger generals of the Feng clan, took the lead in driving the army into Tianjin, and later served as a military affairs supervisor directly under the command of Feng Yuxiang (a little watery, some of the territory is still in the hands of Feng Yuxiang), in fact, in the Fengjun customs and grab the territory, Zhang Zongchang was the most active, and he was also the first to enter Shandong, but Zhang Zuolin, in order to sell Duan Qirui's face, gave the position of Shandong aftermath supervisor to Zheng Shiqi of the Anhui clan, Zhang Zongchang certainly did not do it, at that time, Jiangsu and Zhejiang were in the hands of Qi Xieyuan and Sun Chuanfang, for this reason, Duan Qirui appointed Lu Yongxiang as the envoy of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Not only to retake Zhejiang, but also to take Back Jiangsu.
Zhang Zuolin, of course, was not accustomed to problems, so he let Zhang Zongchang lead the army to the south, because Zhang Zongchang was an old revolutionary, he had been a division commander in Jiangsu in his early years, and the generals of Jiangsu either surrendered, or gave way, or fled in a hurry, Zhang Zongchang took Jiangsu smoothly, Jiangsu and Anhui were basically connected, and Anhui was also enshrined in the pocket.
Under such circumstances, Zhang Zongchang also had to prepare to attack Zhejiang, which frightened Sun Chuanfang.
Sun Chuanfang was actually not Wu Peifu's concubine, seeing that Jiangsu and Anhui had been taken, naturally did not dare to fight hard with the Fengshi, so he actively approached the Fengshi, and as a result, at this time, Duan Qirui appointed Lu Yongxiang as the military governor of Jiangsu, and Zhang Zongchang fought all the way, and a piece of territory was not grabbed, directly withdrawing the troops from along the Yangtze River and returning Shandong.
Until the outbreak of the Zhejiang-Feng War, it was the peak of the Feng clan, in addition to the three northeastern provinces and Rehe, Li Jinglin controlled Zhili, Zhang Zongchang controlled Shandong, and then Zhang Zuolin directly expelled the Anhui clan, allowing Yang Yuting to serve as the overseer of Jiangsu and Jiang Dengxuan as the overseer of Anhui, controlling a total of eight provinces.
So, how many troops does the Fengzhi have and can control the eight provinces? In fact, the Feng clan left about 110,000 people in the three eastern provinces, and the main troops entering the customs were 75,000 people of the Fengjun clan who belonged to the Headquarters of the Jingyu Garrison, that is, Guo Songling's later anti-Fengshi troops, the ostensible boss was a young marshal, and the back control was Guo Songling.
In addition, there were about 60,000 people in Li Jinglin's department, which was semi-independent of the Feng clan, Zhang Zongchang controlled more than 90,000 people in Shandong, in fact, controlling Shandong was already within the scope of the Feng clan's ability, zhang Zongchang should have had a little unhappiness with Zhang Zuolin after he conquered Anhui and Jiangsu, Zhang Zongchang did not give support in terms of troops, Jiang Deng's election to Anhui did not bring troops, and Yang Yuting only brought two divisions and a brigade of 33,000 people from the Feng clan to Jiangsu, and the rest were the original squad of Anhui and Jiangsu.
That is to say, the Fengzhi department has nearly 400,000 troops, but less than 40,000 troops stationed in Jiangsu and Anhui, not even one-tenth of the troops.
Many people put the responsibility of The Feng family for later abandoning Anhui and Jiangsu to Yang Yuting's body, believing that Yang Yuting was arrogant and domineering, making enemies on all sides, and finally being counterattacked by Sun Chuanfang, which is not entirely correct, in the final analysis, or the Feng family alone can not eat such a large plate, Zhang Zuolin did not dare to stretch the battle line too long, after all, Feng Yuxiang at that time was still doing things in the rear, if the Feng family put the main force on the two Huai line, it would be more than enough to deter Sun Chuanfang, but if Feng Yuxiang cut off the Feng army from the direct subordinate, it would be very dangerous This is also an important reason why the most elite 75,000 troops in Beijing do not dare to move.
Sun Chuanfang also saw this point, secretly contacted the original Jiangsu and Anhui armies, and after co-opting the Jiangxi warlords, Sun Chuanfang directly engaged in a five-province alliance army, with a strength of more than 100,000 troops, and the 20,000 or 30,000 people who wanted to overthrow Yang Yuting were not making a fuss.
When Sun Chuanfang hit Shandong, Zhang Zongchang was also very nervous, and let Guo Songling lead the elite to the south, but at this time, Guo Songling did not move.
In fact, it can also be seen that the Fengzhi team suddenly grew larger, Lao Zhang's influence was not good, among the five tiger generals, Guo Songling and Li Jinglin did not listen to the command, and Zhang Zongchang wanted to establish himself as king.
Sun Chuanfang's anti-Feng is known as the Zhejiang Feng War, and the reason why the word is very cold, many people have not heard it, is because the battle ended after only 24 days, starting on October 15, 1925, and ending on November 8, 1925.
What people did not expect was that Guo Songling announced on the 24th of the same month that he had turned against Feng, leading 70,000 elite feng clans to oppose water, which severely defeated the Feng clan and also marked that the Feng clan had missed the capital to unify the world.
It can be said that although Zhang Zuolin has always advocated entering the Central Plains, but his courage is insufficient, he has never put all the elite studs up, leaving a way back for himself, and when the young marshal comes to power, it is greater than Zhang Zuolin's ambitions, after the Central Plains War, the Northeast Army armed mediation, this is to transfer all the elite into Guannei, the result is that because the Northeast troops are empty, the Japanese took advantage of the void and launched the September 18 Incident.