Beiyang Era Morality Chapter (257): Seven points rely on hard work.
In the ninth year of the Republic of China, the warlords of Zhiwan changed from telegraphic to hot war. The "Xiucai Rebellion" made the "Duan ZhiLao" in the sky look gray. The two major Beiyang warlords in Zhiwan are related to each other, and this time the robe is on the wall, and Wu Peifu can also be regarded as opening the Pandora's box of the "Grass King" call center. However, the victory or defeat of the Zhiwan War also had some occasional factors that played a huge role. In the Zhiwan War, it seems that the Fengzhi warlords sided with the direct warlords, tilting the balance of victory. Although Xu Shuzheng, the number one strategist of the Anhui warlords, was a man of great stature, and as a "northwestern envoy" who passed through several provinces in the northwest, he was like the "king of the northwest" and "hated Zhang Zuolin for his expertise", Zhang Zuolin, who had been cautious all his life, would definitely not rush to fight with the Anhui warlords. In June of that year, Zhang Zuolin first went to Gyeonggi as a transferee to observe the direction of the wind.
Because the swords between the two sides of Zhiwan were fierce, and they were to be paid before the war, one of the regimental commanders of the border defense army under Duan Qirui fled because he had lost 10,000 or 20,000 yuan and could not pay the salary. He went to Beijing to meet Zhang Zuolin and said many bad things about Duan Qirui's men and horses. Zhang learned that the Anhui army was unstable, even the regimental commander had run away, and the defeat had been revealed, so he decided to help Cao, immediately returned from Gyeonggi, mobilized the army, and temporarily concentrated the army on the train at Shanhaiguan, waiting for the opportunity to enter Tianjin. This was only an accidental factor, after the war began, the strength of the two armies in Tianjin Yangcun was very weak, the Zhi army Cao Kui was defeated in Beicang, just at this critical juncture, the Feng army forward guard more than a hundred people arrived, because they spoke the northeast dialect, Duan Jun mistakenly thought that the Feng army had participated in the battle, so it collapsed without fighting, which was another providential coincidence.
At the position on the first line of the Liulihe River in Zhuozhou, the battle situation between the two sides was very tense, and the Anhui army once gained an advantage by virtue of sophisticated equipment. At that time, Wu Peifu was stationed in Gaobeidian, and Yao Xisan, the director of the Gaobeidian Telecommunications Bureau, made good friends with Wu, and the telecommunications bureau and The Liulihe side of Zhuozhou still maintained the last line of talking, and Wu asked Yao: "Can I talk to that side?" Yao said, "Of course you can." At that time, Qi Baoshan, commander of the 30th Brigade of the 15th Division of the Duan Army, and Zhang Guorong, commander of the 29th Brigade, were all former friends of Wu, so with the assistance of the Telecommunications Bureau, Wu spoke to Qi and Zhang successively. Therefore, Qi and Zhang abducted the division commander Liu Qian and defected to the Wu army, and then cooperated with the Surprise of the Wu army, taking Qu Tongfeng, the commander of the Duan Army, on this road and loading them on the train, and drove straight to Gaobeidian to meet Wu Peifu. Therefore, after a series of accidental accumulations, even if a "small fan" like Xu Shuzheng under Duan Qirui's command ended up being the disintegration of the Anhui warlords, leaving a piece of zhejiang's own land and being swallowed by Zhifeng.
In fact, after the Anhui warlords were old men, the earliest leaders of the "Beiyang Group" above the temple were both predestined by heaven, after all, Feng Guozhang and Drunken Weng, who were "thick outside and more lustful in the inside", did not mean Wang Shizhen of the Eunuch Sea, compared to Duan Qirui's prestige, they were still much inferior, and Zhiquan became Zhilao, so it was also a kind of providence. However, the hot war of the Zhiwan War not only showed that the love of the robe was washed away by the chickens and dogs in the temple dispute, but also the Anhui warlords had exhausted their self-imposed arrogance after taking charge of the center. Xu Shuzheng, who is arrogant and proud of his talents, and Duan Qirui, who protects the calves, are far from the new seekers who once raised the eagle, and naturally cannot escape the number of days.
References: "Four Examinations on Wu Peifu", "The True Biography of Wu Peifu", "Historical Tales of the Beiyang Warlords"