Chapter 244 Breaking the Dilem with 1

"This is a handwritten letter from my president!" At this time, the secret envoy sent by Wang Yingkai handed Zhao Dongyun a letter.

Zhao Dongyun looked at Shi Guihua, who served as Wang Yingkai's secret envoy, and guessed something in his heart while looking at his look, but the person who could be appointed as a secret envoy by Wang Yingkai was naturally not simple. He looked as plain as water and could not see anything at all.

Zhao Dongyun also withdrew his sight, then opened the envelope and looked at it, but after a moment, his expression changed slightly and muttered in his heart. It seemed that Duan Qirui was really noisy in the south and had begun to make Wang Yingkai difficult to sleep and eat.

Wang Yingkai didn't say much in his letters. Naturally, the first thing was Duan Qirui's threat theory. He said that Duan Qirui is now only in charge of Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui, and has already had 100,000 troops. For example, when the term of office develops, not only the two rivers, but also Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangxi will fall into the hands of Duan Qirui.

To be honest, this is a little scary, and if you think about it carefully, it is really possible. Now Duan Qirui is like a fish in water in the south of the Yangtze River. He not only controls the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, but also collects tens of thousands of southern federal troops. The 100,000 soldiers mentioned in Wang Yingkai's letter refers to the large number of southern surrender troops organized by Duan Qirui. If Duan Qirui is allowed to develop, Duan Qirui will 100% continue to go south to capture southern Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places. It is absolutely impossible to stop Duan Qirui's pace by relying on the remaining troops of the Southern Federation in these provinces.

Once Duan Qirui continues to control the above areas, Duan Qirui will quickly replace Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun as the largest warlord in Beiyang and even in China, which is unacceptable to Wang Yingkai.

This is also the reason why Wang Yingkai sent someone to Shenyang to contact Zhao Dongyun!

In addition to Duan Qirui's threat theory, the second thing in this letter is that the central government intends to set up a Fujian-Zhejiang inspector and ask Zhao Dongyun to recommend a suitable candidate.

The Fujian and Zhejiang inspection envoy mentioned in this second incident is only more than 30 words, but Zhao Dongyun knows that this is the condition proposed by Wang Yingkai.

There is no need to say that everyone knows many things. If you want to suppress Duan Qirui, you must get Zhao Dongyun's approval. Otherwise, Wang Yingkai will send troops south to seize the territory of Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu, and Zhao Dongyun will send troops to attack the Beijing division, you Wang Yingkai can hang himself directly, so Wang Yingkai generously threw out a Fujian-Zhejiang patrol. In other words, after destroying Duan Qirui, the two rivers belonged to Wang Yingkai, and Fujian and Zhejiang returned to Zhao Dongyun.

But these are just Wang Yingkai's wishful thinking. The ancients had a good saying: distant friends and close attack!

Zhao Dongyun doesn't care how powerful Duan Qirui is in the south and will become his biggest opponent in the future. The key to the problem now is that Duan Qirui did not block the pace of his development, but Wang Yingkai blocked it.

If Zhao Dongyun wants to expand his territory, the only way is to enter the customs and take Zhili. If Zhao Dongyun wants to take office, the only way is to kill Wang Yingkai as president. As for Duan Qirui, it is not his turn for him for the time being.

Many people understood these, and Duan Qirui naturally understood, so when he actively expanded his territory in the south, his special envoy in Shenyang also sent a message to Zhao Dongyun.

He is willing to support Zhao Dongyun to become the president and claims that Zhili and Shandong provinces can all belong to Shenyang.

Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai coincidentally sent people to Zhao Dongyun for only one purpose, that is, to attract Zhao Dongyun. And the move to attract Zhao Dongyun also indirectly shows that Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui have completely torn their faces!

"Since they have turned against each other, this is a good thing for us!" At the latest strategic meeting, Xu Bangjie did not hide his radical point of view: "What I want to say, now that Duan Qirui has reacted to Wang Yingkai, we'd better unite with Duan Qirui, and then directly wave our troops into the customs and take Zhili."

However, Lin Yongquan disagreed with his idea: "Although Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division went to the cave, Wang Yingkai's main force is still in Zhili. There are at least more than 40,000 troops in the capital. How many casualties do we need to take down the capital? After we fight to win the capital, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Wang Ruxian, Zhang Huaizhi, Wu Fengling and others go north to the north. What should we do? If you can't stop it at that time, won't you retreat to the mountain customs again?"

Everyone knows that Fengjun dreamed of entering the customs, but on the first day, Zhao Dongyun led the army to enter the customs, and the next day, Wang Ruxian, Zhang Huaizhi, and even Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui and other troops would go north to reinforce Wang Yingkai and form an anti-Feng coalition for the second time. If Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui could watch Zhao Dongyun destroy Wang Ying Kai controlled Zhili, Shandong and other places and was indifferent. Lin Yongquan wrote his name upside down!

They can endure Wang Yingkai's control of the capital and be a nominal president, because Wang Yingkai's direct strength can only be said to be very ordinary. The troops under him that can fight are actually not much different from Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui. A large part of his control of the capital is maintained by prestige.

But if Zhao Dongyun is replaced, the situation will change greatly. If Zhao Dongyun takes Zhili, Shandong and other provinces, he will immediately become the de facto ruler of northern China, the largest warlord in China, and more importantly, Zhao Dongyun's direct forces are far more than those in China at present. Any other warlord.

Zhao Dongyun's field troops already had three divisions and five brigades last year, and recently there has been news that Zhao Dongyun has successively expanded the first division and two brigades, and the field troops have almost reached 100,000. You should know that this 100,000 is not the 100,000 under Duan Qirui's hand. Duan Qirui's 100,000 miles above all, only 40,000 can be pulled to the battlefield. Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai are not so good. The troops that can fight are basically about 30,000, and the rest are basically counted.

Zhao Dongyun's 100,000 units are equipped with a large number of light and heavy weapons and well-trained troops, which cannot be combined with those local troops pulled up in a hurry.

They had already learned Zhao Dongyun's strong military pressure last year. In order to fight against Zhao Dongyun's entry troops, they could not have been blocked by getting a coalition army. Otherwise, Zhao Dongyun's military boots would have set foot on the capital long ago.

So now let Zhao Dongyun, with strong military power, occupy the two provinces of Zhili and Shandong, and then control the center, then they don't have to live and can hang themselves directly.

The current situation is that Duan Qirui is very powerful in the south, so Wang Yingkai can win over Zhang Huaizhi to suppress Duan Qirui. Wang Shizhen and Wang Ruxian and Wu Fengling also turn a blind eye to Wang Yingkai's behavior.

But on the other side, if Zhao Dongyun tries to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the customs, the warlords in the south will not hesitate to stand on Wang Yingkai's side and form another anti-Zhao coalition to shoot Zhao Dongyun back outside the customs. They have done this kind of thing once before, and the second time, and the third time is nothing. Difficult.

In the hearts of several warlords in Beiyang, especially Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, Wang Yingkai is certainly the enemy, but Zhao Dongyun is also the enemy!

"Now we still should not act rashly. The central government asked us to propose a candidate for the Fujian-Zhejiang patrol envoy, and we will mention one!" Everyone knows that the topic of recommending people in Fujian and Zhejiang to select people is just a false name, because unlike Zhang Huaizhi, who was also the governor of Anhui, Zhang Huaizhi first led the troops to capture the northern part of Anhui. After actually controlling the area, Wang Yingkai appointed him as the governor of Anhui.

In the words of the Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoy, now southern Zhejiang and Fujian are still under the control of the southern federal control, and northern Zhejiang are under the control of Duan Qirui. No matter who is sent by the superior to be the Fujian and Zhejiang envoy, they are actually a false puppet. Like the previous appointment of Zhou Fu as the Liangguang patrol envoy, it does not have much practical significance, such as If you don't want to become a puppet, you have to let people take office with the troops, but will Duan Qirui promise to let Zhao Dongyun's troops go to Zhejiang? Well, Wang Yingkai is willing to promise to let Zhao Dongyun send troops south to occupy the land? These are all impossible things!

However, although it is meaningless to be a puppet, it can reveal one meaning, that is, Zhao Dongyun's recommendation of Fujian and Zhejiang inspectors expresses Zhao Dongyun's acquiescence to Wang Yingkai's suppression of Duan Qirui.

"Now it is getting more and more chaotic. No matter how chaotic the customs are, we still need to practice internal skills diligently, so that we can cope with future changes!" After saying that, Zhao Dongyun did not stop the long military meeting.

A large group of generals discussed for more than two hours and put forward various plans, but no one dared to say that they were sure to win the possible coalition forces after entering the customs.

"It seems that force alone cannot solve the problem of customs entry!" Zhao Dongyun looked at Zhao Dongping and said, "Go to the south to have a good talk with Duan Qirui!"

Zhao Dongping said, "Is it true that we are going to join hands with Duan Qirui?"

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "In this situation, no matter what the price is, Zhili must be taken down, otherwise we will be trapped outside the customs. Didn't Duan Qirui want to occupy the southern provinces? Tell him that as long as he agrees to join hands with us, Liangjiang, Fujian, Zhejiang and Liangguang can give it to him."

"Is he willing?" Zhao Dongping is worried!

Zhao Dongyun looked fierce: "Tell him again that if he doesn't join hands with me, I will join hands with Fatty Wang!"

Looking at Zhao Dongyun's look, Zhao Dongping also looked serious and immediately said, "Brother, don't worry, I'll leave tomorrow!"

In the face of the increasingly complex situation in China, Zhao Dongyun's mentality has also gradually changed. Since he can't gain absolute military advantages by expanding his army, he relies on political advantages. Last year, Wang Yingkai could win over Duan Qirui and others to form a coalition to shoot Zhao Dongyun back outside the customs. Now Like him, he can attract Duan Qirui and form a coalition to kill Wang Yingkai.

If Duan Qirui disagrees, then he does not mind putting down his figure and completely turning to Wang Yingkai. Wang Yingkai wants unification, and he will unify him. When Wang Yingkai forms a military alliance, he will clean up Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen and the Southern Federation one by one.

After the real completion of unification, his prestige may not be much worse than that of Wang Yingkai, and he may not be able to compete with Wang Yingkai politically.

Who dares to say that he can't ascend to the presidency and control China?

Modern* is actually not the ancient model of field hegemony. The so-called wide grain accumulation and slow kingship is not feasible. If you want to be the top leader of the previous country, you don't have to train an army of 1.8 million and then sweep the country, but you can also take a circuitous way. Look at Sun Wen, he has a hairy army under him, and he has become the interim president.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun does not plan to farm in the three eastern provinces for decades, and then the enemies are foolishly waiting for your tyrants to enter the customs. Strategically, the three northeastern provinces are a dead place if they do not take Zhili. The longer they stay, the more tragic they will be. Many people will say that the terrain of the Liaoxi Corridor is good, and there will be no one here. Law enters the customs, but in the same way, if people block Shanhaiguan, you can play with your three eastern provinces all your life. Zhang Zuolin is the second. Well, maybe Zhang Xueliang will be the second.

And Zhao Dongyun wants to ascend to the position of president, he wants to control Gyeonggi, and he wants to get rid of the warlords in the south one by one, even if he cooperates with the enemy.