Chapter 329 Wang Shizhen's Choice 2

On October 17, 1907, a week had passed since the cold dew, and the autumn breeze had brought people comfortable coolness in the morning and evening.

In Jurentang, Zhao Dongyun looked at the telegram sent by the intelligence office in his hand and did not look up at An Yutong for a long time.

This telegram is not long, but only more than 50 words, but the signature cannot be ignored. That's Wang Shizhen's telegram!

This is a telegram sent by Wang Shizhen to Zhao Dongyun himself. The content of the telegram is very simple, that is, Wang Shizhen wants to discuss the overall situation of the republic with Zhao Dongyun.

Although the content of this telegram looks a little non-congenual, Wang Shizhen sent him such a private secret telegram at this critical moment, and the meaning is definitely not what the text on the surface of the telegram can represent.

He wants to be soft!

Zhao Dongyun thought about it and guessed Wang Shizhen's real idea. Now Wang Shizhen's situation in Hubei is very dangerous. If he wants to stop the attack of the Southern Federation, then he must transfer the nearly 30,000 main forces deployed in northern Hubei, such as Wushengguan, to go south, or he alone. With less than 30,000 troops in Yang and Hanyang, it is difficult to resist the attack of more than 100,000 troops of the Southern Federation.

However, outside Wusheng Pass, the 13th Division of the Third Army of the Feng Army was staring at it. Even when Xiaogan lost, Wang Shizhen did not dare to transfer the defenders in Wusheng Pass to the south to reinforce, because he knew that the Feng army was more terrible than the 100,000 troops of the Southern Federation.

However, if he does not change, Wang Shizhen will sooner or later be a dead word. In this case, Wang Shizhen inevitably repeats his behavior after the Feng army conquered Tongzhou during the Beiyang mutiny last year, which is to change his position.

Only last year he chose to cooperate with Wang Yingkai, and today, he intends to give up his alliance with Duan Qirui and choose to cooperate with Zhao Dongyun instead!

Of course, everyone understands that Wang Shizhen did not surrender after being defeated by the Feng army. He is different from Wang Ruxian and Lu Yongxiang. Wang Shizhen wants cooperation, just like the cooperation between Zhao Dongyun and Wu Fengling.

As long as Zhao Dongyun meets his requirements, Wang Shizhen is willing to give up opposing Zhao Dongyun and declare that he recognizes the legitimacy of Zhao Dongyun's presidency and the legitimacy of the central government, and will choose to stand on Zhao Dongyun's side and fight against the Feng army in subsequent domestic wars.

If Wang Shizhen really does this, it means that the Feng army has taken a big step forward in unifying China, and can also get the help of nearly 60,000 troops from the Hubei army. At that time, he will be more confident to deal with Zhang Zhidong's southern federal troops in Hubei, Hunan and other places, and more importantly, Wang Shizhen announced his commitment. Recognizing Zhao Dongyun's presidency, only Duan Qirui insists on opposing Zhao Dongyun among the contemporary Beiyang warlords of China.

Wang Yingkai and Wang Ruxian, both of the others, failed completely and were forced to go out!

Wu Fengling chose to form an alliance with Zhao Dongyun at the beginning. Although Wu Fengling still maintained an independent territory in Shanxi, Shanxi officially recognized the central government led by Zhao Dongyun.

If Wang Shizhen also chooses to turn to Zhao Dongyun's side, the former anti-Feng coalition army has actually been destroyed. In the future, the only enemy that the Feng army needs to face directly is Duan Qirui's family. Well, there is also a disabled Zhang Huaizhi and Lu army.

It can be said that whether from a political or military strategic point of view, if Wang Shizhen can turn to support herself, it will be of great benefit.

It's just that Wang Shizhen expressed her willingness to support Zhao Dongyun, so she will definitely require many conditions!

"What does he want?" Zhao Dongyun saw that Li San'an was a little hesitant with Yutong and immediately said, "Why didn't you say it?"

An Yutong looked at the subsequent secret contact message with Hubei and immediately said cautiously: "Through many secret telegrams, Hubei has made the following requests. The first is to end the hostilities between the two armies. The two sides took Wushengguan as their stronghold to withdraw their troops for hundreds of miles, and Hubei stationed a battalion in Wushengguan. Our army is stationed in a battalion outside the customs.

Zhao Dongyun had already predicted Wang Shizhen's request for the withdrawal of troops from both sides. What is the fundamental purpose of Wang Shizhen's request for peace? It's not to transfer the main force from Wushengguan to the south to reinforce the front line of Hankou and Hanyang. If he still station a large number of troops outside Wushengguan, he dares not transfer troops to the south at all, and he can't pull troops south, then he will definitely not be able to hold on the front lines of Hanyang and Hankou, so peace will be meaningless!

An Yutong continued: "Second, he requested to purchase a batch of ammunition from Fuchang at the original price, with a total price of 1.5 million yuan, but asked us to deliver the first batch of ammunition worth 500,000 yuan within half a month, and the remaining batch must be delivered within a month and a half."

Hearing this, Zhao Dongyun frowned slightly. This ammunition is not easy to solve. He has invested too many resources in northern Jiangsu, and I'm afraid it is difficult to transfer enough ammunition production to sell to Wang Shizhen. However, the reason why Wang Shizhen included this condition in the formal requirements shows that Wang Shizhen's ammunition inventory of the Hubei army has been After the most dangerous situation, if ammunition is no longer replenished, it is estimated that even if Wushengguan's troops are transferred south to reinforce, it is estimated that they will fall into an embarrassing situation without ammunition available.

An Yutong looked at Zhao Dongyun's face and saw that Zhao Dongyun's face was as calm as ever, so he continued: "Third, he asked Hu Guang to keep the current situation unchanged!"

This request is a little vague, but it is also very easy to understand, that is, Wang Shizhen's request for the actual independence of 'political, military and financial' status on his territory during the previous republican government, that is to say, he wants to maintain the previous detached political status.

He wants to continue to be his mountain king, not Zhao Dongyun's subordinate.

Wang Shizhen's sincerity to Zhao Dongyun is very different from Lu Yongxiang's sincerity. Lu Yongxiang's sincerity surrendered when the direct army was completely defeated and the first division was defeated. Lu Yongxiang is just a simple military general. As long as he can continue to lead troops to fight, he will not ask for any place. Plates and so on.

However, Wang Shizhen is one of the real Beiyang bosses. He is originally a warlord, and now he is extremely dangerous by the Southern Federation, but to be honest, they continue to have 50,000 to 60,000 troops in their hands. To put it bad, they can surrender to you Zhao Dongyun, but he can also fight against the Southern Union. Zhang Zhidong of the state is sincere. If Wang Shizhen chooses to be loyal to the Southern Federation, it is estimated that Zhang Zhidong will wake up from his dream.

So it is understandable that Wang Shizhen's request to continue to maintain a de facto independent position.

However, Wang Shizhen can understand, but Zhao Dongyun can't understand. If he can agree to Wang Shizhen, will he agree to Duan Qirui in the future? If he agrees, how can he go south to unify China? Give Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen time to develop slowly and then give yourself a Northern Expedition?

Although An Yutong didn't know much when he was with Zhao Dongyun, he also knew much about the character of the master in front of him. He knew that although Zhao Dongyun in front of him looked calm and indifferent, he was thinking about something that outsiders didn't know. Maybe he was already angry, so he finished speaking. He closed his mouth and stood quietly aside.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun had completely ignored An Yutong. He continued to hold these telegrams with Wang Shizhen's requirements in his hand, and then began to walk back and forth in the room with his back. Then he stood on the huge map of China behind his desk and stared at the huge map of China without saying a word.

An Yutong next to him felt that the atmosphere was a little strange. He originally said that his report was finished, but he didn't have time to leave. Zhao Dongyun did not open his mouth to let him go. He had the intention to leave now, but looking at Zhao Dongyun standing in front of the map thinking, he did not dare to disturb him.

Basically, several high-level generals of the military and the people who often follow him know that Zhao Dongyun has a habit of looking at the map and thinking. At that time, he usually thinks about major events related to the whole domestic situation and even the Far East situation. Many of the major decisions made by Zhao Dongyun are looking at the map. At that time, he even heard that the president stood in front of the map in the middle of the night before Feng Jun decided to enter the customs, and then announced that he was ready to enter the customs the next day.

Needless to say, Zhao Dongyun has already looked at the map to think about the follow-up strategy, and An Yutong dares not disturb Zhao Dongyun at such an important moment.

But it's not good to go out like this, because he doesn't know whether Zhao Dongyun deliberately left him, so he can only stand up and continue to stand as before without saying anything!

Zhao Dongyun has indeed fallen into the process of thinking as he imagined. Now he has considered a lot of things, not only the situation in Hubei, but also the situation in northern Jiangsu, as well as the situation of the whole two rivers, and even the situation of Fujian, Jiangxi and the two-Guangzhou situation, which are temporarily unrelated to the Feng army.

These places seem to be independent, but in fact, the situation in these places is interrelated. For example, after the fiasco of the Southern Federation in the direction of Jiangxi and Fujian, Duan Qirui has not only come to Guangdong, but also can be said that Fujian and Jiangxi have deployed more troops north to fight in northern Jiangsu. For example, if Wang Shizhen is defeated in Hubei, the Southern Federation can restore its rule in Hubei north of the Yangtze River, and then more than 100,000 troops under Zhang Zhidong will go north to Henan, so that the Feng army in Henan will need to bear great pressure.

Even in Liangguang, Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu and other regions far away from the war zone, if something happens to these provinces that are still under the control of the Southern Federation, it will also greatly affect the strength of the Southern Federation, and the strength of the Southern Federation is directly related to the victory or defeat of Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, and these two people It is related to the victory or defeat of Fengjun.

Therefore, the situation in contemporary China seems to be independent of each other, but in fact there are various connections. To analyze the situation in contemporary China, we must consider all the domestic warlords and all the strong forces from the perspective of the whole China. It is inaccurate to consider one or two warlords alone.

Now Zhao Dongyun is like this. Now he is considering not only the victory or defeat of Wang Shizhen in Hubei, but also takes into account almost all the factors that may cause changes in the domestic situation.

Because he wants not only Wang Shizhen's sincerity, but also the unification of the whole China!

After thinking for a long time, he shifted his eyes from the map. When he turned around, he found that An Yu was still standing there. He immediately said, "If you call Hubei again, I can satisfy them with the two items of withdrawal and ammunition, but the third one, talk to them again, you can't say Let's promise anything!"

An Yutong's tone is a little indifferent. This is not the superficial indifference that Zhao Dongyun usually shows, but a real indifference.

And from this tone, An Yutong can already feel Zhao Dongyun's real idea, that is, he doesn't care about agreeing to Wang Shizhen's conditions, but what puzzles An Yutong is how can Zhao Dongyun agree so easily?

The reason why An Yutong is puzzled is that in the final analysis, he still doesn't know enough about Zhao Dongyun. If Li San is here, then when he sees Zhao Dongyun's expression and hears such words, Li 300 percent will be sure: Wang Shizhen is dead!