Chapter 201 Dramat

The contemporary Beiyang army, whether it is a few towns under Zhao Dongyun or other people's troops, is actually similar in nature. It is a modern feudal army loyal to the leader of the army, which is incomparable to the modern country army armed with national and ethnic beliefs in the Western powers.

This gap is not something that Zhao Dongyun can change personally, but the limitations of contemporary China.

Zhao Dongyun's Fengtian Standing Army is stronger than other domestic warlords. It is not a military belief or ideology, but in terms of equipment and tactical concepts.

So even Zhao Dongyun's troops, when the casualty rate exceeds 10%, it will not actually be much better than Wang Shizhen's sixth town.

But Zhao Dongyun will not let his troops cause such a large number of casualties!

In this month, nearly 1,000 people were killed and injured in the total attack, and the casualty rate was only 5% among more than 20,000 people. Zhao Dongyun can still afford this level.

"Well, can the replenishment of the wounded troops go smoothly? When will it be completed? Zhao Dongyun will not let his army fight less and less. While the war begins on the front line, many recruitment stations in the rear are also conscription, and several new recruit training camps are also training new recruits!

Fang Biyong said: "I have urged Jinzhou, but the latest batch of recruits will have to wait two days to arrive! Most of the previous military sources have been added to two mixed associations!"

Zhao Dongyun frowned: "The speed of troop replenishment is still far from enough. Call Wang Zhanyuan to let him continue to expand the scale of recruitment. Not only in Fengtian Province, but also in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Mongolia should also carry out recruitment work. In addition, the eastern area of Zhili under our control will also carry out corresponding Conscription work!"

It's a wartime, and the more troops, the better. As for whether they can afford to support so many troops, let's talk about it later. Anyway, the more troops the better.

However, the time is still tight now. Because the training of new recruits also takes time, even if it is compressed, it will take at least a month. In this case, Zhao Dongyun should not expect many new recruits to supplement him in at least this month.

If everything goes well, the timetable for the expansion of Zhao Dongyun's army will be one month later, because at that time, the large-scale recruitment of new recruits from the beginning of October will complete basic training one after another, and then replenish each unit, which will greatly increase the number of active troops.

Zhao Dongyun is not doing this military expansion alone. Since Yuan Shikai was assassinated in early October, almost all the generals of the Beiyang system have been doing the same thing, that is, the army expansion. Even the governors in the south have coincidentally expanded their troops, but the scale and speed are not as big as those of the Beiyang generals. It's just an exaggeration.

For example, Zhao Dongyun has newly made two mixed associations, but Wang Yingkai also relies on the standard left in Tianjin Horse Factory, and then intends to expand it into a mixed association, called the first mixed association of the Beiyang Standing Army.

Duan Qirui was also unwilling to show weakness, and also drew a standard as the basis, and then established the so-called Beiyang Standing Army Second Mixed Association.

Even Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang expanded their respective armies. Wang Shizhen came up with a sixth town supplementary association. Although Feng Guozhang did not have the number of the association, he compiled two new reserve bids for the first town, and then began to establish the imperial guard.

However, the expanded troops of these people have not been officially compiled, and even the data on paper is not enough, so at present, it is still the old troops trained by people in the past few years.

However, even relying on the old troops, Zhao Dongyun is confident to enter the capital and then drive Guangxu from the emperor's throne. At present, the smooth progress of the third town in Tongzhou has shown this.

However, what he didn't know was that the performance of his third town in Tongzhou attracted Wang Yingkai's attention!

"It's true that Zhao Dongyun's soldiers can fight. Although it's been a long time, Tongzhou was won by only a thousand casualties, and more people in the sixth town were killed than them!" Wang Yingkai frowned.

Zhao Dongyun seems to be beneficial to himself on the surface, but it is not a good thing for Wang Yingkai, because everyone knows that after the Qing Dynasty, he will always be pushed out to be the president. At that time, Wang Duan and Zhao will have to compete!

"And I heard that his newly edited fourth mixed association has also arrived at Shanhaiguan. If there is something wrong with the customs, I'm afraid this mixed association can also enter the customs at any time!" The people next to me said so.

After listening to it, Wang Yingkai frowned even more!

In today's Beiyang, although it is said that it has the greatest prestige and has also collected many staff and talents in the Yuan Shikai era, Beiyang is not a pure political group, but a system that relies on military power to survive, so the number of troops in hand is a direct reflection of strength.

The force directly controlled by Wang Yingkai is only the first town. Although Zhang Huaizhi still maintains a certain respect for himself, he has been separated from the previous subordinate relationship, at most a political ally. And now Zhang Huaizhi leads the fifth town and the eighth town to stop Li Yuanhong's eighth town and the 29th mixed association from going north, barely saying that he has fulfilled his ally's obligations.

So Wang Yingkai can't say anything, but can only continue to attract Zhang Huaizhi.

However, even with Zhang Huaizhi, even with the addition of the first mixed association of the Beiyang Standing Army, he can only rely on two towns and one association, with more than 30,000 people. However, Zhao Dongyun supported the army in three towns before the war, and now he has established a cavalry association and two mixed associations.

This is the three towns and three associations, and the total strength is at least 50,000 to 60,000.

This force is not as strong as Zhao Dongyun, and his waist is not straight. However, now he hears that Zhao Dongyun's troops are so good at fighting. They took Tongzhou before he and Duan Qirui can't capture Nanyuan, which makes Wang Yingkai more afraid.

Wang Duan and Zhao's alliance is an extremely fragile alliance from beginning to end. It can even be said that Wang Duan and Zhao both know that after the Man Qing will be killed in the future, the internal struggle between the three is inevitable. Now it is inevitable that Wang Yingkai is worried about Zhao Dongyun's strength growth.

"It seems that the pace of our army expansion is not fast enough, and the current first mixed association is far from enough. In this way, you can find the Japanese person and ask if their ordnance can be cheaper!" Wang Yingkai frowned and then gritted his teeth and said, "Let someone go to the fourth town and tell Duan Hefei that I want to meet and talk with him!"

While the situation outside the city is chaotic, the situation in Beijing is also quite bad!

"It's been almost a month. Brothers have been killed and injured. My lord, we can't continue to fight like this, otherwise our sixth town will be sold out!"

In the face of the complaints of the people below, Wang Shizhen also had a black line. He really didn't expect that it would be fine in the first half of the month. Although he did not dare to say that the Tongzhou defense line was solid, he expected that if Zhao Dongyun wanted to take it down, at least 3,000 or 5,000 people would be killed or injured, but what he did not expect was that Zhao Dongyun only used a circuitous. The attack forced him to take the initiative to give up Tongzhou, and after more than half a month, his sixth town was killed and injured.

Together with the deaths and injuries, as well as the capture and disappearance, he lost at least 2,500 people in the sixth town, which is his background. If Wang Shizhen is killed, he will become a bald commander.

The subordinates next to him continued to cry and said, "As it is clear that the court is going to use us, and it doesn't count. How many people have been killed or injured in Feng Guozhang's first town now? They didn't fight much there and the west, and only a few hundred people were killed and injured, but in our sixth town, Zhao Dongyun, go on like this!"

Wang Shizhen also snorted coldly at this time: "That's enough! Is it interesting to say this now?"

However, although he reprimanded his subordinates, many ideas flashed in his mind!

Looking at the current situation, the capital can only be defended. Even if it can be defended in the south and west, the east and north can't be defended by relying on its own sixth town alone. If you are reluctant to defend it, it is estimated that your sixth town will have to fight all, and the biggest possibility is that it has not been won. Before that, these subordinates had to raise the anti-flag to betray themselves.

It's good if you can block it. It's good to be a governor of Zhili, and it is estimated that Yuan Gong's style can be reproduced in a few years.

However, the current situation is much more serious than I expected. I can't continue to fight anymore. I have to find a way to stop the war. Well, but even if this is an armistice, I have to get enough benefits to stop the war!

Thinking of this, he drove out all the generals under his command, then called a confidant and lowered his voice and said, "You will go out of the city tonight and go west to the first town!"

At this time, it is estimated that no one thought that Wang Shizhen had planned to surrender, and interestingly, when Wang Shizhen considered the situation, she did not consider Cixi's feelings at all...

For the Beiyang generals, the Qing court has nothing to do with them!

From the beginning, this battlefield was not a war between Beiyang and the court, but an internal battle of Beiyang, fighting for the position of the lord of Beiyang!

Things in the world are changing so fast. When Zhao Dongyun conquered Tongzhou and was confidently ready to continue to attack and try to take the capital before the arrival of the late winter, the news suddenly came that Wang Shizhen was anyway!

Anyway, it doesn't matter, and he directly cooperated with Wang Yingkai's first town to attack the seventh town, killing Feng Guozhang, who was still in the dark!

On November 24, Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai issued a telegram one after another!

Wang Shizhen disclosed Yuan Gong's last words on the telegram, saying that Yuan Gong had said that he would establish a republic before leaving, and also announced that he would unreservedly implement Yuan Gong's last words and create a republic.

Immediately after that, Wang Yingkai also issued a telegram. He highly praised Wang Shizhen's decision to the country and the nation in the boss's tone, saying that Wang Shizhen's move was a great good of the Chinese republic!

Then, Duan Qirui didn't know why, but also issued a telegram immediately, saying that the republic was imperative, and for the first time, he shouted that he hoped that the emperor could take the initiative to abdicate and return a republic in the world!

On the surface, these electricity seems to be talking about republic, anti-imperialism, asking the emperor to abdicize, etc., but Zhao Dongyun in Tongzhou directly overturned the table after seeing these telegrams.

"They are so bold that they dare to do this to me!" The reason why Zhao Dongyun was so angry and unforgivable is that he didn't know any news before the above three people released the call. What does this represent? This means that Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen have once again established an alliance. Who are the opponents?

Feng Guozhang, one of his former opponents, has fled into the embassy area. His seventh town has been completely defeated on the 23rd. The rest of the department was jointly divided by Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai. He was also forced to issue a telegram, claiming that he would no longer be involved in state affairs in the future.

Zhao Dongyun doesn't care about whether Feng Guozhang is dead or alive. He also doesn't care about the life or death of the Qing royal family. What he cares about is that Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen actually united. In the current situation, who else can they unite to deal with someone except Zhao Dongyun?

Thinking of Zhao Dongyun's series of national curses here, he shouted that Wang Shizhen was a traitor among the traitors. He not only betrayed Beiyang, but now he actually betrayed the Qing court in turn, which is simply Lv Bu at the end of the Qing Dynasty!

After scolding Wang Shizhen, he scolded Duan Qirui, saying that he was shameless and actually united with his former biggest competitor to deal with himself.

Zhao Dongyun lost his temper in the study, which made Li San outside also turn black. When Zhao Dongyun just lost his temper, Li San had quickly kicked out the staff of the outside office to ensure that Zhao Dongyun's emotions were out of control.

After waiting for a long time, he heard that there was no sound inside. Li San carefully pushed open the door of the office and saw that the desk inside had been overturned, and the fragments of vase porcelain were all over the ground. Zhao Dongyun was sitting on his chair at this moment, and the collar of his clothes had also been untied several times.

After being around Zhao Dongyun for so many years, although Li San has seen Zhao Dongyun lose his temper, it is the first time that his emotions are so out of control. If he has seen a movie of the Third Reich, he will find that Zhao Dongyun at that time is very similar to the roaring Hitler.

Zhao Dongyun saw Li San come in and said directly, "Let's have tea!"

This man scolded Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai in the study for a long time, and his voice was a little hoarse.

Li San quickly came in with a teapot. After pouring a cup, Li San asked carefully, "What should we do now?"

Zhao Dongyun snorted coldly and looked ferocious: "If they want war, I will give them war!"