Chapter 339 Twelfth Division

Since Fengjun entered the customs, many other factions in Beiyang have taken the lead and defected to the Feng army. Among them, some were forced to surrender after defeat and surrendered, and some took the initiative to surrender. Among them, the most famous are Bao Guiqing, the brigade commander of the First Mixed Brigade, and Lu Yongxiang, the commander of the First Division.

In addition, in the course of the three provinces of Zhili, Henan and Shandong, there were also many generals of the direct army, Lu army, Henan army and Hubei army who chose to surrender or surrender, but the impact was not great. Some of these people announced to leave the field and then left the military, and some continued to serve in the Feng army to be loyal to Zhao Dongyun.

In this case, Zhang Dianru said that he wanted to follow Lu Yongxiang's dedication to the army, which made the conference room silent for a while.

Including Liu Chaolu, many generals present are changing their faces rapidly. After a long time, Liu Chaolu said tentatively, "Your Excellency, have you been in contact with the north?"

Zhang Dianru nodded slightly: "To be honest, people from the northern intelligence office came to me when I was in Suqian, but at that time I refused them, and they came to me again last night!"

When a group of low-down people heard Zhang Dianru's words, they already knew that Zhang Dianru suddenly raised this topic today, which was definitely not a painstaking effort**, but even reached an unknown agreement with the north after detailed consideration.

Zhang Dianru continued: "The north gave me a promise that as long as we are loyal to the central government anyway, they can give us a division number, and then all of you here can continue to retain their existing military ranks. If you don't want to continue to join the army, the north will also be given an appropriate special retirement fee!"

Liu Chaolu said, "The number of a central division? So what about military spending and equipment? What do they say?

Zhang Dianru said, "They promised that if we can do it anyway, then everything will follow the regulations of the First Division and not only give us a number of the Central Division, but also bear our military expenses, equipment and soldiers' supplements."

At this time, someone asked, "I don't know what this special retirement fund is about?"

Not everyone wants to continue to fight in the army. Some are tired of the war or don't have much confidence in themselves, or those who are afraid that Zhao Dongyun will clean up in the future also think that even if they are sincere, then they will take the severance money as a rich man!

Zhang Dianru said, "I think everyone has the intention to look at their conditions. Many of them don't count. Let the people in the north!"

As soon as his words fell, a colonel in the dark blue military uniform of the Anhui army came in the back of the door. However, although this man was wearing the military uniform of the Anhui army, he opened his mouth and said, "I am An Longyun, the third section chief of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff Department under the command."

An Longyun looks about 37 or 18 years old. From his look, it is easy to see that this person is a soldier, not only this person who is a soldier. In fact, as a military agency, the intelligence officers belonging to the Intelligence Department are all active soldiers.

After a simple self-introduction, he ignored the frightened eyes of those people, but said directly: "You all know that our army has always favored colleagues who are willing to abandon the dark, whether it is General Bao or General Lu. After they abandoned the secret, they are now the core high-level generals of our army and are in charge of the army. If you are willing to transfer to our army, then I can guarantee that you will receive the same treatment as General Bao and General Lu.

If you are willing to continue to serve the country and the nation, then the original military rank will be retained!

If you want to return to the field, a large number of special retirement funds will be issued according to different levels. The battalion commander will issue 3,000 yuan, the regiment commander will issue 8,000 yuan, the brigade commander will issue 15,000 yuan, and the division commander will issue 30,000 yuan.

To be honest, this retirement money is very ordinary, because in fact, Zhao Dongyun did not want to recruit a unit, and then the officers of this unit returned to the field with the retirement money. What he wants is that they really switch to the Feng army to work for Zhao Dongyun, so he will not offer a sky-high retirement. Gold.

In fact, the biggest attraction of Fengjun to the senior generals of the surrender force is not money, but the retention of the original title.

Although they all know that once they defect to the army, the army will be included in the Feng army system, and then a large number of middle and low-level officers of the Feng army will be transferred in, and the original middle and low-level officers will be transferred, but the senior generals are generally not moved, that is to say, these people who will continue to serve as new divisions after surrendering to the sincerity. Chief, brigade commander.

I have to say that this condition is very attractive to Zhang Dinlushi and others who are already desperate.

This is also the reason why Zhang Dianru accepted the conditions of the Intelligence Office and took the initiative to help persuade his other generals, because only by persuading these people to surrender together and taking more than 10,000 people from Suining can Zhang Dianru serve as the division commander of the central division after the adaptation, otherwise he will be a light. The head commander ran to Fengjun to surrender, but Zhao Dongyun would not dump him.

Liu, Li Chengbing and others are you to look at me. I look at you. The conference room is silent for a moment. Even if their hearts have been a little shaken, it is still difficult for them to make up their minds. The pressure brought by traitors to defect to the enemy is not what ordinary people can bear.

Seeing that they didn't say anything, An Longyun said again, "You generals also know that the 10th Division of our army has marched westward, and with the cooperation of the first mixed brigade, the noble army in the direction of Xuzhou is difficult to escape. The defeat of the Anhui army is inevitable. Do you really want to fall into eternal disaster with Duan Hefei? The abyss?

Now that our army is in its heyday, after taking the north of the Yangtze River, it will be able to quickly go south to other parts of the two rivers, and the day of unifying China is just around the corner.

Even Marshal Wang in Hubei has put down his prejudency, made his own efforts for the unification of China, and chose to be loyal to the Central Committee. Are you really willing to go north to the curse of national sinners for thousands of years?

These ** and intimidation words said by An Longyun did not really affect the thinking of these senior generals present. For them, verbal threats and ** are of little use. If they can fool others to surrender with one mouth, Zhao Dongyun doesn't have to fight. They all want to fool Duan Qirui directly. That's it.

Zhang Dienru and Liu Chaolu are considering the gains and losses of reality, and they naturally have their own considerations in mind!

So An Longyun can only continue to wait!

After a while, Liu Chaolu looked up at Zhang Dianru: "My old Liu Rongma has never been a traitor in his life, but my old Liu is even more unwilling to be a national sinner. My lord, as long as you decide, no matter what the decision is, I, Lao Liu, will support you!"

It seems that the two sentences don't match, but it has directly shown that he is willing to transfer to Fengjun with Zhang Dianru.

Li Chengbing also gritted his teeth: "For the sake of national unity and the great cause of republic, I, Li Chengbing, am also willing to make all my efforts!"

After these senior generals expressed their position, several other people also spoke and agreed one after another. Several of them must be willing, but looking at the guards outside the conference room, they knew that as long as they said any objection today, they would immediately end up with one person, so he We dare not object.

An Longyun saw this and smiled: "I thank tens of thousands of people for making the right decision!"

More than 13,000 of the remnants of the Fifth Division of the Two Rivers and the Second Mixed Brigade of the Two Rivers in the direction of Suining, under the leadership of the three major senior generals Zhang Dianru, Liu Chaolu and Li Chengbing, officially announced their abandoning their surrender and loyalty to the Northern Republican government.

After learning that the department defected, Zhao Dongyun, who was in Beijing, was in a good mood and specially called Chang'an Yutong of the intelligence department: "Zhixuan, this time Suining's affairs are beautiful. Anyway, Zhang Dianru is enough to greatly hit the morale of the enemies!"

An Yu naturally dares not make contributions: "The president has a good reputation. The intelligence department has these achievements, which are taught well by the president on weekdays."

Zhao Dongyun smiled and said, "You don't have to be restrained. Who is the person who went to Suining? The role of being able to persuade tens of thousands of troops to surrender can be comparable to that of a brigade. You have to reward him well later!"

An Yutong said, "An Longyun, who ventured to go to the third section of the Intelligence Department in Suining, was born in the third phase of the communication department of the Feng Military Academy. He is bold and careful, and has been quite effective since he presided over the military intelligence work in Jiangbei!"

An Yutong knew that it was of great benefit to mention this person's resume to Zhao Dongyun on this occasion. After all, there are two Soviet military and political terms, and there are so many middle and low-level officials and officers. Zhao Dongyun can remember the name of the military. He is a major general or above, and he is also a director or director in the government.

And An Longyun, a subordinate, has outstanding ability. In addition, the two have the same surname and were still a family 500 years ago, so he also has the intention to help this descendant.

Zhao Dongyun said, "This person has good ability, and you have to add another burden to him in the future!"

With Zhao Dongyun's evaluation of 'good ability', then you can take the opportunity to reuse An Longyun.

However, how to reward, it is not Zhao Dongyun's business to reuse it. Naturally, the intelligence department will arrange it, and Zhao Dongyun's current matter is to give Zhang Dianru a new central division number.

It happened that the 12th Division had not been able to recover after the number was revoked, so Zhao Dongyun gave this number to Zhang Dianru's troops, and then officially appointed Zhang Dianru as the division commander, Li Chengbing as the commander of the 23rd Brigade, and Liu Chaolu as the commander of the 24th Brigade. Because this division was still Located on the front line of Suining, northern Jiangsu, Zhao Dongyun did not even have enough time to carry out a large-scale reorganization of the department.

So after only some officers were transferred from northern Jiangsu to replace them, the original officers were basically retained.

After Zhang Dianru obtained the number of the 12th Division and was awarded the rank of army general by the command department, he still looked more excited. You know, although he was also a lieutenant general before, this lieutenant general was only privately awarded by Duan Qirui, at most a lieutenant general of the Liangjiang Army, and he himself was in Beiyang. The rank in the Republic government's military office is actually only a major general.

Once again, although several warlords in Beiyang are still at war, they are not independent from each other. Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen have not declared independence or established a central government. They still recognize the republican government of Beijing as the central government, but they just do not recognize Zhao Dongyun, the president. That's all.

In order to avoid a wave of independence in the southern provinces, Zhao Dongyun has also maintained political restraint to a certain extent. At least so far, he has not revoked the numbers of those central divisions. For example, the fourth division led by Duan Qirui has always maintained the number of the Central Division, while Duan Qirui himself is still The commander-in-chief of the Army Department, the general of the army recognized by the department.

This has to be said to be a more ironic thing!

However, the northern military office only admits the ranks of those influential warlord leaders, but you don't expect Zhao Dongyun to award military ranks to those warlords' subordinates, so the military ranks obtained by the generals of the northern warlords in various provinces were basically awarded by the military rank in Wang Yingkai's era, and Military ranks are generally low.

Although many other warlord division commanders, mixed brigade commanders, and infantry brigade commanders mostly call themselves 'lieutenant generals and major' generals, the official ranks recorded in the narrative are generally one or two levels lower. It's good to have major generals, and many of them are school officers.

For example, Zhang Dianru's rank in the position of general is only a major general, but in the Liangjiang Army, he is a division commander. After Zhao Dongyun took office as president, he was privately awarded the rank of lieutenant general by Duan Qirui. According to reason, the rank of this lieutenant general is countless, but Zhao Dongyun admitted it when he defected.

The army general recognized by the military, this is the real army general, which is not comparable to the lieutenant generals privately granted by those warlords.

Li Chengbing and Liu Chaolu also have the same situation. Their previous record of military ranks in the office is just a colonel officer, and now they have also been awarded a formal major general.

This new 12th Division is organized by the remnants of the 5th Division and the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Liangjiang Army. Although the total strength is not less than 13,000, neither Zhang Dianru himself nor several other senior generals of the Feng army expect this new 12th Division to play any combat effectiveness. It's good to drag your legs.

After the division was transferred to the Second Army, Xu Bangjie ordered the department to rest in place and continue to be stationed in Suining!

However, the 10th Division crossed Suining and continued to enter the northwest. Two days later, the division and Bao Guiqing's first mixed brigade successfully merged, and then continued to advance to the south of Xuzhou.

At this time, Duan Qirui, who realized that he was facing the biggest crisis in his life, once again showed his true character. On the one hand, he ordered the Third Brigade of the Second Division of the Liangjiang Army to continue to resist the westward advance of the 10th Division, and ordered the Second Brigade of the First Division of the Liangjiang Army to launch a counterattack against the Feng army in front of Xuzhou.

However, on the other side, he quietly retreated to the southwest overnight with more than 30,000 people from the 4th Division and the 1st Brigade of the First Division of the Liangjiang Army. Overnight, he withdrew more than 20 kilometers to the south. The next day, the Feng army in the front of Xuzhou launched a routine march. After the attack, it was found that Duan Qirui's main force, especially the direct fourth division, had run away.