Xu Sijin stood on the tulou and saw this scene, and heard Wu Weiyang's laughter and scolding, as well as the smiles of the generals of the anti-Japanese army around him, so he knew that it was time to express his position.

Now in Beiyang, the situation is very clear.

With the loss of Li Hongzhang's power, a large number of Beiyang generals were dismissed, imprisoned, and fled.

Li Bingheng was in charge of Ludong, Liu Kunyi was in charge of Zhili to control the armies inside and outside Shanhaiguan, and Wang Wenshaogang, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was appointed as the deputy minister of Beiyang affairs.

All this indicates that the imperial court will uproot Li Hongzhang and the Huai system, the influence of Beiyang, Zhili, and even the Qing Dynasty, and even raze them to the ground.

He Changying and his anti-Japanese army are the only special case.

He was born in the Huai department, and under the support of Li Hongzhang, he established the Korean Aid Army with the cadets of the Beiyang Military Academy and the Naval Academy as the backbone.

Then he won the battle all the way, absorbing the soldiers of the Dagu artillery, the Feng army, the Yi army, and the Renzi army, and then ate the Sheng army, annexed the 2 battalions of the Renzi army, and the 2 battalions of the Huaizi army, and ate the Qinqing soldiers in the Lushun 'boom camp', and the Chengzi army of 5,000 people.

Now only the military strength of southern Liaoning has rapidly expanded to the current 17,800 people.

If North Korea is added, the strength of Shanhaiguan has definitely exceeded 20,000, which is the largest one in the Qing Dynasty, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the strongest field mobile corps.

And looking at Chen Shijie's behavior, it is obvious that he wants to integrate the Lushun army.

Then once formed, the strength of the anti-Japanese army will reach a terrifying 30,000 people.

Xu Sijin thought about Li Hongzhang's eldest son, Li Jingfang, who is now the logistics director of the Shanhaiguan Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army, so He Changying's purpose is already self-evident.

- He wants to replace Li Hongzhang and try to form a new generation of the Qing Dynasty power group after Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.

Just thinking about it, Xu Sijin is scalp numbness and his heart is hot.

Xu Sijin is a child of a poor family, who weighed less than four catties when he was born, and almost didn't come back to life.

Until he was fifteen years old, his family was poor, and he barely survived by herding sheep for the landlord.

His father, on a snowy night, came back from a serious illness in order to find the lost goats of the landlord's house for him, and left for the west.

His sister was sold to a bully as a concubine and tortured to death.

It was only a few years ago that his uncle Xu Bangdao mixed up and went back to find relatives, and their family became rich.

But in the face of the intricate landlord officialdom in Fuling Township, he looked at the bully who tortured his sister to death with hatred, continued to be at ease, and continued to do evil.

It's not that there is an old lady at home to support, Xu Sijin has already wiped out the bully's door with a knife in his hand.

From then on, he began to drink heavily, and he was drunk to numb his mind.

Then for many nights, my sister's swollen whip marks and eyes full of tears walked into his dreams.

Xu Sijin was waiting hard, waiting for the old lady to be sent to the end, and he would keep going back to Fuling to take revenge.

So even though he is almost thirty years old, he is still a single, but he is afraid that he will have women and children, so he has to put away his murderous intentions in humiliation.

Therefore, even if he is rich, Xu Sijin still maintains the simple essence of the poor, and is bold and generous, knowing how to repay love and help the poor who are suffering.

This is also the reason why Xu Bangdao has so many relatives, but only took Xu Sijin out of Fuling and focused on cultivation.

In the past month and a half, Xu Sijin has also been listening to Chen Shijie's special lecturer read "The Scream", which made him understand a lot of truths.

- Why do some people want to be powerful and slaughter the people at will?

They are all people living in China, why should they be divided into three, six, nine and so on?

Since the heavens are unfair, what should we do?

Who are we fighting for, and for whom should we fight?

Is it to fight for those landlords and bullies who have done all the bad things, shameless officials who have colluded with officials, and relatives of the emperor who are high above, or is it for the people to live and work in peace and contentment without being bullied?

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In the past month and a half, not only ordinary soldiers, but also the children of small landlords with small and wealthy families, as well as his Xu Sijin's thoughts, have all imperceptibly undergone qualitative changes.

Xu Sijin glanced at Huang Jianxing beside him, saw that Huang Jianxing was looking at him, and nodded at him with certainty.

"Now that the war is coming, I don't know how to arrange troops as an illiterate old man, and I don't know how to calculate the rewards and punishments for military merits, I only know how to fight."

Xu Sijin looked at Wu Weiyang and said with a big grin: "How Zhou Dingchen is organized, how can our Gong Guards be organized." ”

Lushun, Jiang Gui's mansion.

Jiang Guidi, Cheng Yunhe, Jiang Zikang, Pan Jinshan, Jiang Muchen, the five of them sat in the house to roast over the fire, drink wine and eat meat.

At this time, the night outside the door has risen, and the battle report in front has also been delivered, 1003 people have been killed, 163 people have been seriously injured, just looking at these numbers, you can know the tragedy of today's battle.

"Xu Sijin, Zhou Dingchen has already expressed his position today, let the military judges who manage military discipline, as well as the clerks who record military merits, enter their camp."

Jiang Guidi said very vaguely: "Zhongtang said to the old this time, our Huai Department is already a fallen macaque, Liu Kunyi, Wang Wenshao, Li Bingheng, which one is good to get along with?" Especially Li Bingheng, you haven't seen it in Lu Dong's ruthlessness against our Huai system, and Zhongtang was still on stage at that time. ”

"Liu Kunyi and Wang Wenshao just don't have time to free up their hands now; Liu Kunyi may still talk a little bit about the old feelings, but the emperor transferred Wang Wenshao back to Zhili and served as the deputy minister of Beiyang affairs, don't you understand the meaning of this? ”

Jiang Zikang took a sip of sorghum wine and said: "Anyway, as soon as the battle is over, I will go back to my new hometown in Yang, Hubei Province to live for a few years." ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Zikang looked at Pan Jinshan and his nephew Jiang Muchen and said earnestly:

"Jinshan, you and He Changying are both members of the Hefei Township Party, just this sentence, I won't say it anymore; Mu Chen, if you are willing to go back to Feixi to be a landlord, I won't say it, if you still want to work in the camp, you have to think clearly, in the eyes of others, you are also Huai. ”

Listening to Jiang Zikang's words, Pan Jinshan and Jiang Muchen both pinched their wine glasses and pondered speechlessly.

"Because of Zeng Wengong, the Hunan department is still rich and noble, and because of the middle hall, our Huai department has been the same in the past few decades; But the big trees have already fallen, and you don't take precautions in advance, Wei Rugui's fate, hum-"

At this time, in the astonishment of everyone at the wine table, a fat big fat dun came out of the back room.

"Fat Zhao! Why are you here? ”

Jiang Muchen naturally recognized He Changying's group of dogs in Feixi, and stood up in shock and shouted, "You kid eavesdropping!" ”

"Listen to me? Damn, as soon as you interrupt, I forgot the words! ”

Zhao Liuhong, the imperial military advisor of He Changying, the anti-Japanese army, took out a piece of paper with 'idle things' in his mouth, looked at it, looked up and asked, "Where did I carry it just now?" ”

"What is this?"

Cheng Yunhe is not as naïve as a young man in his early thirties like Jiang Muchen, since Zhao Liuhong can appear in Jiang Guidi's house, of course he didn't sneak in through the wall.

"I invited it."

Jiang Guidi admitted calmly.