Chapter 187 Interference in Tangshan

It reassured Zhao Dongyun to hear that Meng Enyuan had successfully taken over Shanhaiguan from the fourth town. Although he knew that there could not be any problems in Shanhaiguan, Duan Qirui was temporarily an alliance with himself, and Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen's troops were still far away in the capital, so it was impossible to threaten the mountain. Customs.

However, Shanhaiguan and other strategic places are not in control for a day. Zhao Dongyun can't sleep well for a day. If an army suddenly emerges to seize Shanhaiguan, will Zhao Dongyun still not be in the customs?

Now that Meng Enyuan has successfully received Shanhaiguan from the fourth town, it means that he has cleared the last obstacle for his army to enter the capital. Naturally, the rest is to rush to the periphery of the country and meet Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai as soon as possible, and then destroy the two northern traitors, Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen. Well, It also sent the Manqing Dynasty into the garbage heap of history.

"Give General Meng a message, ask him to leave a garrison in the mountain customs, and then continue to go south to the Tangshan area to protect the Fuyuan machine!" Zhao Dongyun has long had a case for the next strategic action.

Although he could not anticipate the possible tactical details after the outbreak of the war, he was still slightly grasped strategically. For his own Wang Duan and Zhao allied forces, because their forces occupied a certain advantage, he did not need to panic like Feng Wang of the capital. He could completely deploy steadily and gather the rear of the three armies. Drums and conquers the capital.

This is also the reason why Wang Yingkai's first town and Duan Qirui's fourth town have been lingering in recent days. This is not that they dare not attack, but waiting for an opportunity for a joint attack. Otherwise, if the three armies are scattered, it is easy to form a gradual oiling tactic, which will lead to be defeated by each.

Although Wang Duan and his two are not as famous as Zhao Dongyun's "proficient in Chinese and foreign military affairs" inside and outside the North Sea, they still have the necessary strategic vision for their old-qualified modern military generals.

So even if he shouted loudly, he had not moved half a step in the past five or six days, just waiting for Zhao Dongyun's Fengjun to come.

Since Wang Duan and Zhao's allied forces agreed on a relatively conservative strategy, and did not say that they would travel thousands of miles to attack the capital, and capture Cixi alive. Therefore, Zhao Dongyun also took stability first to guard the Shanhaiguan, and then sent troops to Tangshan, just to protect Fuyuan Machine Factory. Keep it.

During the war, it goes without saying how important an arsenal factory that can mass-produce various ordnance is to our side. Now Zhao Dongyun and even Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai have the same opinion, that is, let Fuyuan Machinery Factory continue to produce a large number of ordnance.

Since Yuan Shikai was assassinated, under pressure from all parties, Fuyuan Machinery Factory has been forced to start work day and night regardless of cost. The daily production of rifles has exceeded 300, more than twice the normal output. In recent days, these guns and ammunition produced are naturally produced by Duan Qirui. Without hesitation, even Zhao Dongyun can't get a single bullet.

As for the large number of ordnance previously stocked in the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, they were urgently purchased by the Qing Dynasty Army Department in the days of the 6th and 7th, including eight 75mm-tube retreat guns and more than 2,000 Type 88 rifles, as well as hundreds of thousands of bullets and thousands of shells, which were originally used by the Beiyang Army. Ordered products from towns and other provinces in China.

However, the war is approaching, and the court can't care who these firearms are. If it weren't for the too involved in the Fuyuan Machine Factory, the shareholders behind it almost represented the entire northern industrial and commercial class. I'm afraid that the Qing court would have wanted to pull it away directly without giving money, and finally under the pressure of intervention from all parties. Only then was he forced to agree to buy at the market price.

This Fuyuan machine factory actually does not belong to either party. Although Zhao Dongyun's Fuyuan Company owns more than 30% of the shares of Fuyuan machine factory, it still does not have an actual controlling stake. This Fuyuan machine factory actually belongs to the whole northern interest class. As a super-large enterprise with a financing of more than 10 million taels of silver, it has integrated a large number of northern assets into it. Even in addition to the industrial and commercial class, even the Qing nobles own shares in it. Well, for example, Yiqi owns several percentage points of shares in it.

And the intertwining interests of many parties also allows it to avoid destruction and forced requisition in the recent turmoil! It's just that they lost their independent sales rights. When the Qing court controlled Tangshan, they forcibly bought all the ordnance. When Duan Qirui controlled Tangshan, they also forcibly bought all the ordnance, but they didn't dare not pay!

Now he has sent Meng Enyuan to Tangshan, mainly to remind Duan Qirui that this Fuyuan machine factory is not your personal arsenal, but the whole Beiyang arsenal. The ordnance produced by this can't be swallowed by your family alone, otherwise don't blame Zhao for turning against you.

After receiving a telegram from Zhao Dongyun, Meng Enyuan, who was far away from Shanhaiguan, immediately ordered Hua Zhenji to lead his troops to station in Shanhaiguan and wait for Zhao Dongyun's main force to come, while he continued to lead four cavalry battalions south and go straight to Tangshan.

At the same time, in Tangshan, Duan Qirui also received a telegram from Zhao Dongyun. In addition to talking about the military, Zhao Dongyun's telegram this time also said that Fengtian lacked ammunition and medicine, and urgently needed to purchase a batch of bullets and shells from Fuyuan Machine Factory and told Brother Zhiquan to Fu Factory.

Lei Zhenchun, standing next to Duan Qirui, also read the telegram and then looked dissatisfied: "Zhao Ziyang has a good appetite. He wants 500,000 bullets and 5,000 shells in one mouth. We haven't got so many!"

Zhang Yongcheng next to him also said, "I think this is indeed too much. Even if they want to share the ammunition of Runfu Factory, they can't take everything away with one mouth!"

"Well, I knew that Zhao Ziyang was not a kind person. He regarded us as allies and obviously regarded us as his subordinates!" Lu Yongxiang beside him also said with a dissatisfied face.

Duan Qirui did not say anything, but looked at the people in the room. Those in front of him were the main generals of the fourth town, that is, his team of Duan Qirui, Lei Zhenchun, the leader of the Seventh Association, Zhang Yongcheng, the leader of the Eighth Association, Lu Yongxiang, and the fifteenth standard.

Looking at them, Duan Qirui can't help but compare with Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun. Compared with them, Duan Qirui is much inferior in attract talents.

It goes without saying that Wang Yingkai used to be the first person in the first echelon of Beiyang. Yuan Shikai became the heir of the North Sea as soon as he died. Even Xu Shichang, Tang Shaoyi, Zhao Bingjun and other Yuan Shikai's staff have successively chosen to be loyal to him, and more middle and senior generals in Beiyang also obeyed his orders.

It can be said that since Yuan Shikai's death, Wang Yingkai has accepted most of Yuan Shikai's political heritage. If the Qing court does not engage in the trick of splitting and suppressing, it is very likely that he will become the governor of Zhili as the successor of Yuan Shikai and become the leader of the new generation of Beiyang.

Even if the Qing court suppressed Wang Yingkai's differentiation, his prestige in Beiyang is still the strongest. If Zhang Huaizhi had not been pulled over by the Qing court and betrayed Wang Yingkai, then Wang Yingkai could have grasped the two towns and his huge prestige and then complete the cause of unifying the Beiyang.

For many Beiyang people, especially the neutral Beiyang people, such Wang Yingkai is a priority for loyalty.

Although Zhao Dongyun's prestige and qualifications are not obvious, he is very prestigious among the young generation in Beiyang. The Fengtian Wubei School Training Class hosted by him, and dozens of modern military books written and directed by the Third Town Supervision and Training Office are must-see military theory books for every Beiyang officer.

The book "Trench Theory" written by Zhao Dongyun himself was highly praised by the Japanese and Russian armies during the Russo-Japanese War and called it the most contributed military work in modern times.

It can even be said that during the Russo-Japanese War, the officers of Japan and Russia fought with Zhao Dongyun's 'trench theory' in their hands. The war is not over yet. This book has many translated versions such as Britain, Japan, Germany, Russia and France, and has even become a must-read book for military students in various countries, and Lu Shi has directly translated it. As a textbook!

This book is the second military work in China that has been widely translated and adopted by various countries since Sun Zi's Art of War.

In the eyes of many foreign officers, if there is a military strategist in contemporary China, it must be not Yuan Shikai or even Li Hongzhang, but Zhao Dongyun!

The Berlin Military Academy in Germany calls Zhao Dongyun an outstanding achievement of the school's teaching!

Even when domestic international students come to Japan and Germany to study military, they will find that there is Zhao Dongyun's trench theory in what they study.

After returning to China, their first choice is often to defect to Zhao Dongyun. Even if they can't serve in Fengtian for the time being, they often regard themselves as the domestic young strong faction, and who is the leader of the young strong faction? That's Zhao Dongyun!

Therefore, although Zhao Dongyun's prestige and qualifications are slightly shallow, it is difficult to attract those backbone generals in Beiyang, such as a large number of assistants and standards, but he is very attractive to the young generation, especially those young officers who have only graduated in recent years.

After the recent tense situation, many people even resigned from the original army and went to Jinzhou to join Zhao Dongyun's army.

Combining Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun, it can be found that Wang Yingkai has a relatively large appeal to the middle and high-level personnel in the Beiyang system, while Zhao Dongyun has a relatively large appeal to the middle and lower young generation.

And what about Duan Qirui himself? It is much more embarrassing. It is not as attractive as Wang Yingkai for middle and high-level talents, and Zhao Dongyun is not as attractive as low-level talents.