Chapter 109 War Breaks out

This artillery dispute between Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun is also the first time that Zhao Dongyun has had a dispute with other bigwigs since he stepped into the high-level officials of Beiyang. In the past, he sat and watch the fight between Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai, but today he has to fight with Wang Yingkai in person.

Although this competition is nothing to outsiders, and the process is relatively short, it still makes Zhao Dongyun deeply vigilant, which can also be regarded as experiencing the fierceness of the struggle between Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai a while ago.

If you are a little careless, you will suffer a big loss. If Zhao Dongyun doesn't react in time, or even rush back to Baoding to meet Yuan Shikai urgently from Jinzhou, he may be robbed by Wang Yingkai. In the end, he can only take dozens of old and backward Japanese guns back to Jinzhou.

Under Zhao Dongyun's struggle, Yuan Shikai finally gave all this batch of artillery to the third town according to the original plan, and Zhao Dongyun was afraid of another accident, so he personally escorted this batch of artillery on the train back to Jinzhou.

After Zhao Dongyun left, Wang Yingkai did not look disappointed. On the contrary, he was in a good mood. This time, the competition for a new gun with the third town was just a temporary intention. It was a good thing to win the retreat gun that could be replaced by a barrel retreat gun, but he did not lose anything if the battle failed.

What he cares more about is that he found a very interesting situation in this competition: that is, Duan Qirui did not speak for Zhao Dongyun from beginning to end, and sat down and sat down as Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai fought bitterly.

"Now it seems that Zhao Ziyang has completely broken with Duan Zhiquan!" Wang Yingkai said to Feng Guozhang.

Feng Guozhang, who has recently been close to Wang Yingkai, said, "Last year, we pushed Zhao Ziyang to the position of the third mixed association. If there is no gap between the two of them, who will believe it!"

"And in the competition for the third town at the end of last year, no one was sure that Zhao Dongyun could control the third town, which pushed Zhao Dongyun to take the position of the third town control and the same town control. Even if Zhao Dongyun was a little junior, how could he be willing to be under Duan Qirui!" Wang Yingkai continued, "With such a stroke, this Zhao alliance will naturally not break itself!"

Feng Guozhang said, "It's just a pity that the third town is so strong that the third town is handed over to Zhao Dongyun, a young man, is still difficult to rest assured!"

Wang Yingkai glanced at Feng Guozhang, but faintly showed contemptuous eyes: Humph, he is beyond his ability, and now he still remembers the position of the third town control. He doesn't want to think about who has trained the third town with strong soldiers and strong horses. I really thought that Zhao Dongyun's young people could be pulled down. Speaking of the ability to lay off the old army and train the new army, ten of you, Feng Guozhang, are not as good as Zhao Dongyun. Otherwise, how could the old man let Zhao Dongyun sit in the position of control of the third town?

Although Wang Yingkai has always regarded Zhao Dongyun as an enemy, Wang Yingkai has more contact with Zhao Dongyun and is one of the people who know Zhao Dongyun better. Otherwise, how could he have tried his best to break up the alliance between Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui?

Because of Duan Qirui's huge prestige and influence, coupled with Zhao Dongyun's ability to compile and train the new army, it can almost sweep all factions in the North Sea. In the past two years, Wang Yingkai has suffered a lot. When competing for the Third Association, Wang Yingkai discovered the huge threat of Duan Zhao's alliance, so he struggled to dismantle it. Sanduan Zhao Alliance.

At that time, the situation in Northeast was tense. He did not hesitate to support the third coordination to Jinzhou, and subsequently prevented the fourth association from changing east, successfully breaking Duan Qirui's attempt to become the right mayor, and making Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun create an irreparable gap until the third town was established. He also pushed Zhao Dongyun to the position of third town control.

This is equivalent to pulling Zhao Dongyun into the small circle of Beiyang bosses, and Wang Yingkai knows that once Zhao Dongyun enters this circle and tries to become a faction boss, then it is absolutely impossible for him to continue to follow Duan Qirui's orders.

Not only Zhao Dongyun is unwilling, but also his Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan and others will not allow Zhao Dongyun to continue to bow to Duan Qirui. Whether Zhao Dongyun wants to or not, he will be pushed to the position of Beiyang boss by a group of subordinates around him, and for the interests of the small group in the third town and Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and others clashed.

Even if such a result brings Zhao Dongyun to power, it is a good thing for Wang Yingkai. His biggest enemy is not Zhao Dongyun, who has just got up. Although Zhao Dongyun is already in control of a town, his prestige and influence are still far from enough. Wang Yingkai's real enemy has been Duan Qirui in recent years. Zhao's alliance is equivalent to cutting off Duan Qirui's hand. In the follow-up battle, Wang Yingkai can be much easier.

The fight between several bosses in the Beiyang faction can be said to have directly affected the expansion of the Beiyang New Army. This time, if Zhao Dongyun hadn't personally found Yuan Shikai to plead for mercy, I'm afraid that the third town would have lost dozens of new artillery.

"Now after replacing the new artillery, how to deal with the original 16 Japanese rack guns? Is it really sent back to Baoding? Liu Tinggui had expectations on his face, but he was very looking forward to leaving these 16 Japanese rack guns. Although it was a back gun, at least it was also a field gun. A lower rate of fire does not mean that the range and power were insufficient.

Zhao Dongyun said, "It's impossible to stay in our third town. After this batch of artillery retreated from our third town, there are still a group of people staring behind!"

Since trying the superior performance of the German tube retreat gun, a large group of officers of the Beiyang Standing Army have looked down on the old-fashioned retreat guns. In the future, it is foreseeable that Yuan Shikai will continue to import new tube retreat guns from Germany. As for where the money comes from, that is the question that Yuan Shikai should consider. It has nothing to do with Beiyang generals such as Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai.

However, the Beiyang Standing Army is not equipped with this batch of Japanese artillery, but a large number of other troops still want this batch of artillery, including Zengqi. He wants to buy this batch of Japanese artillery from Yuan Shikai, and then prepare to get a gun battalion for his own Fengtian patrol camp as Fengtianchang in the future. The seeds of artillery for the army.

After he talked to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai immediately said that it was not impossible to sell this batch of artillery to Fengtian. In addition to giving a satisfactory price, there is also a condition that this batch of artillery must be equipped to the Jinzhou patrol camp.

Yuan Shikai's mind is very clear, that this batch of artillery is absolutely impossible to be delivered to other provinces, and although the Jinzhou patrol battalion is nominally a local army of Fengtian Province, the supervision is Zhao Dongyun, a direct officer of the North Sea, that is to say, the Jinzhou patrol battalion actually belongs to the outside of the Beiyang system. The team can barely be counted in the Beiyang system.

Zeng Qi was unwilling at first, but later considered that even if the artillery was sold, the artillery officer did not even have the gunner himself, and he had to rely on Zhao Dongyun to help train. After this was put into the Jinzhou patrol battalion, it is estimated that he would not have to worry about the training.

Another very important reason is that, unlike Yuan Shikai's deliberate intention to increase the army in his hand, Zengqi does not have such an idea. On the contrary, his political status has been unstable in recent years, and he urgently needs political achievements to save his decline, so he trained a Fengtian patrol camp, more It was to pay Zhao Dongyun to train a Jinzhou patrol camp that he could not command.

What he wants is not an army under his command, but only political achievements!

When he had this demand, the success of the Jinzhou patrol battalion was also a great benefit for him.

Immediately, he agreed to Yuan Shikai's request and put forward another request, which was to ask Beiyang to send some officers to Fengtian to assist him in the training of Fengtian's standing army.

After paying for the silver of this batch of artillery, this batch of Japanese guns were transferred from the third town to the Jinzhou patrol camp. Zhao Dongyun did not expect this result at the beginning, because in his opinion, this Jinzhou patrol battalion is also his army. This does not mean that this batch of artillery is still there. In your own hands?

And the funniest thing is that the ownership of this batch of artillery has not changed. It is still in the hands of Zhao Dongyun, but Yuan Shikai took tens of thousands of taels of silver from Zeng Qi!

When Zhao Dongyun was busy training the third town, Jinzhou patrol camp, there was no accidental outbreak of the war between Japan and Russia!

This war is almost inevitable!

In the eyes of many Chinese people, this war is Japan and Russia competing for the interests of Northeast China, but to be honest, this war is just an image, and there are deeper reasons for this war.

The main driving force of this war is not Russia, not Japan, let alone China, but Britain!

Around the year of Gengzi, two points in Britain's global strategy are worth mentioning. The first is to maintain the balance of Europe, that is to say, no continental European country is allowed to unify Europe. The simple understanding is that whoever is awesome will fight!

The second is to suppress Russia's expansion. From Northern Europe to southern Europe, to the Middle East, Central Asia, to the Far East, it can be seen that Britain is unreservedly suppressing Russia's expansion almost everywhere.

Why did the British continuously step into the imperial tomb of Afghanistan in order to prevent Russia from expanding south in Central Asia?

In the Far East, why did he form an alliance with Japan, which they despised in the past, in order to curb Russia's expansion in the Far East?

So it is far from enough to simply understand the Russo-Japanese war as competing for China's interests between Japan and Russia!

In this war, Britain is the chess player behind it. Japan was just a pawn, while the United States followed Britain to pick up cheap hillbilities.

Although Britain before World War I has fallen much more than decades ago, it is still a sunless empire that can be unscrupulous around the world.