On January 4, 1928, on January 4, 17th, the Republic of China, Jiang Guangtou, who was restored at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Second Central Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was officially appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Army. In order to raise his own value and consolidate his dominance within Guo Min's party, Jiang Guangtou raised the banner of "continue the Northern Expedition", intending to dress himself up as the leader who inherited Sun Yat-sen's unfinished career, so as to "reasonably" the command of the world and make all factions of Guo Min's party obey his command.

At this time, the powerful factions such as the Christ General, Yan Laoxiao, and the Guizhou tyrants also had the intention of "Northern Expedition" in order to expand their strength and territory. Therefore, the warlords in Guo Min's party achieved temporary compromise on the basis of mutual use and mutual competition, and unanimously agreed to start a war with the Fengtian warlords.

In early February of the 17th year of the Republic of China, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Second Central Committee of the Communist Party of China passed a resolution to carry out the "Northern Expedition". On February 11, the Guo Min government ordered the Military Commission to "complete the Northern Expedition within a time limit"! Afterwards, Jiang Guangtou reorganized the army in the name of "Northern Expedition".

Jiang Guangtou organized the Northern Expedition army into four armies, and served as the commander-in-chief of the First Army. General Christ, Yan Laoxiao, and the Guangxi master were appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Second, Third, Fourth Army, Commander-in-Chief of the entire army, Jiang Guangtou, and Chief of Staff He Yingqin. After the army was formed, the Northern Expedition Army had more than 40 armies, with about 700,000 people! At that time, the deployment of the Northern Expedition was: the First Army advanced north along the Jinpu Line; the Second Army advanced from western Shandong and Zhishi and Zhishi between the two lines of Jinpu and Beijing-Han to the north; the Third Army captured Shijiazhuang from the Jingsui and Zhengtai Lines eastward, and then turned to the Jinghan Line to advance north; the Fourth Army went north along the Jinghan Line, and then the four routes would attack Beijing and Tianjin. At that time, Zhang Zuolin's Anguo Army had a force of about 400,000 troops participating in the battle, and Zhang Zongchang's troops of the Lu army were about 100,000 troops. A total of about 500,000 troops, but the combat power was only the Anguo Army able to fight, and the combat power of the Lu army was almost negligible.

After Nanjing reorganized the troops, he sharpened his sword! Zhang Zuolin's side was full of battles and responded tensely. The Third Corps under Zhang Xueliang had already gone to the front line to prepare for war at any time! On April 7, 1928, Jiang Guangtou gave the general attack order, and all kinds of wars were launched at the same time! The First Army launched an attack on the southern Shandong and Jinpu lines. On the seventh day, it captured Tancheng on the nineth day, and by the tenth day, the Northern Expedition Army had already captured Taierzhuang, which was guarded by the Lu Army headquarters! By mid-April, the Northern Expedition Army was unstoppable, directly occupying Lincheng, Tengxian, Yanzhou, Qufu and other places. In the late month, it occupied Laiwu, Tai'an, and the troops were in line to conquer Jinan! It was approaching the key point of Zhang Zongchang!

After the Second Army launched an attack, it conquered Handan in the last south of Zhinan, and was later fought against Zhang Xueliang's troops of Anguo Army. Both sides fought hard in the Daming and Zhangde areas. In western Shandong, because the combat strength of the Lu army was too weak, it conquered Yuncheng, Juye, Jining and other places. The Third Army rushed out of Niangzi Pass on April 20 to attack Shijiazhuang. In addition to Handan, the entire Anguo Army defense line was in danger at this time! Water leaks everywhere.

Zhang Zongchang, who was in Jinan, was silently looking at the ditches, trenches and bunker groups in Zhonggong Town outside Jinan City, which were as dense as spider webs. He really couldn't believe that this carefully designed field fortification was actually from the hands of a young man who was only fifteen years old! "If you were sure that you could break this town?!" Zhang Zongchang, the tall and burly, had a glimpse of the extremely beautiful beard like Zhang Zuolin. At this time, he looked at the town not far away and slowly said to Nekayev, the commander of the Belarusian mercenary, beside him. "No,

Commander-in-Chief. Even if all my troops under me go up together, and with your heavy artillery, I am not sure that I can take this place. However, if your troops can attack with me, maybe we can take their periphery positions for about 5,000 to 8,000 casualties." Nekayev thought for a while, then looked at the defense of Zhonggong Town and said, "But if I want to capture this place, I don't know how many people I will lose to capture it. After all, their serial bunker group was built by me when I watched them build it, and it would take too many casualties to take it."

Zhang Zongchang was silent for a long time and walked down the city wall. The guards around him also followed him quickly. When they walked under the city wall, Zhang Zongchang suddenly asked: "If I give them 300 boxes of medicine, 500 machine guns, 6,000 bags of flour, 5,000 bags of rice, and ten heavy artillery pieces, 100 machine guns, 1,000 shells, and 100,000 rounds of bullets?! Can we take them down?!" Nekayev was stunned when he heard Zhang Zongchang's words! Then he shrugged and said directly: "If this is the case, then I think even if all the troops under your command go to us, no matter how much casualties it takes, it will be difficult to take this town. Unless they have no water to drink."

After hearing this, Zhang Zongchang stood on the wall without moving. After a long time, he said, "Then send it to them! His grandma! I can't do it! I'll help them dig wells! I'll send it to them all! Wait! I'll allocate ten heavy machine guns! His grandma is a bear! I can't defend this Jinan city. Since I can't defend it, I won't give it to them! I won't leave it to the Japanese!!" As he said that, Zhang Zongchang got on the horse angrily and went back to his mansion and asked someone to find Tu Qianjun!

In fact, on April 19, Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka reported to the Emperor and decided to send 5,000 troops from the commander of the 6th Division, Lieutenant General Fukutan, to advance to Shandong; and 460 Japanese troops stationed in Tianjin, to advance to Jinan. On the 20th, the Japanese troops from Tianjin arrived in Jinan first, and the Fukutan army is expected to arrive in Jinan one after another after landing in Qingdao on the 25th!

After Japan sent troops, Zhang Zuolin and Nanjing both protested! Zhang Zongchang and Lin Xianzu even asked the Beijing government to protest to the Japanese envoy on the 20th, and the Japanese side sent Japanese acting Consul General Nishida Koichi Nishida to discuss with Zhang Zongchang before the Japanese army arrived in Ji.

The Japanese side asked Zhang Zongchang to pay the rights and interests of Qingdao and Jiaoji Road, and the Japanese sent troops to expel the Southern Army. After the Japanese army arrived in Jinan, the Japanese military police commander Tian Youwang met in person and asked for the Japanese army to be provided quickly! Facing such a dilemma, Zhang Zongchang was actually very complicated. On the one hand, he did not want to be a traitor! After all, he was also from Shandong! He would never be able to raise his head in his life with a stigma on his back!

But on the other hand, the Northern Expedition Army was pressing forward step by step, and the conditions given by the Japanese side really made him moved! At this time, he saw the field fortifications built by Tu Qianjun and others in Zhonggong Town, and his heart was moved! Lao Zhang couldn't stay in Shandong anymore, but he was unwilling to take advantage of the Japanese! He couldn't spare the Northern Expedition Army! So he decided to hand over all this defense to Tu Qianjun!

Tu Qianjun, who was busy digging wells, building command posts and castles, suddenly got the news that Zhang Zongchang was going to summon him. You must know that Zhang Zongchang had never met him for several months since he came to Shandong! At the beginning, he even had heavy troops to defend his troops. If the war was not at the tight end later, the heavy troops defending Tu Qianjun might not have retreated. So at this time, Zhang Zongchang actually wanted to summon him, which surprised Tu Qianjun.

But he didn't say much, and took Shang Dinan and Lin Bao to Jinan City. When Tu Qianjun saw Zhang Zongchang, he was in his mansion. In the study, Tu Qianjun saw Zhang Zongchang with haggard faces. Zhang Zongchang was standing by the window and looking at the scenery outside the window. Seeing Tu Qianjun coming in, he turned around and waved Tu Qianjun to sit down. Tu Qianjun saluted him and sat upright on the chair in front of Zhang Zongchang's desk.
Chapter completed!