For this arms procurement, because Wang Yongan wants to be in a hurry to have a large amount of money, and proposed that the price can be raised by two percent, Lihe Foreign Bank also considered that he did not want to cut off the new with the new through this incident. Beach Fortuna business relationship, so the Board of Directors urgently consulted to discuss. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After some discussion, info decided to sell eight Maxim heavy machine guns and 800,000 rounds of Maxim ammunition, but rejected the purchase of Krupp cannons and Mauser K98 rifles. Of course, Lihe & Co. also said that if Wang Yongan had the court's purchase approval, Lihe & Co. could sell without restrictions, and even expressed its willingness to directly transfer the most advanced weapons from the German active army.

For the current German businessmen, the refitting of the German Army can be slowed down - which is more important, the inclusion of the Far East in the German sphere of influence or the refitting of the Army? The Krupp family, who were born into the Junker aristocracy, chose the former, after all, Germany had lost the opportunity to seize the world's colonies, and the Qing Dynasty was their last market hope.

Wang Yongan knew that the Germans were giving themselves enough preferential treatment in terms of money, so he responded, promising that if he had the opportunity to take charge of the army in the future, he hoped to have more in-depth cooperation with Lihe and the Krupp family, and he revealed that as Yuan Shikai's son-in-law, he was very willing to help the Germans fully adopt the German standard in China's arms procurement.

There was no discount at all for this arms purchase, and the price was increased by 20%, and the total cost was 79,000 taels of silver, and the freight was 1,000 taels, totaling 80,000 taels.

The price of a Krupp 75-caliber field gun is 18,000 taels of silver, while the price of each Makqin heavy machine gun is only 1,200 taels. The main reason for this is that the rate of fire of the Maxim is too fast, the rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute means that a Maxim heavy machine gun fires 40 taels of silver in a minute, and in a skirmish, a Maxim uses at least 10,000 taels of silver...... If a battle turns into war, how much silver does a Maxim heavy machine gun cost?

When Li Hongzhang, the minister of the Imperial Mission, was purchasing weapons in Germany, after watching the performance of the Makqin heavy machine gun, although he favored it, he still said: "Good gun, good gun, so expensive, so expensive!" In the end, I only bought three heavy machine guns and brought them back to the Hanyang Arsenal to secretly copy them. (In today's language, it's a copycat)

The price of 80,000 taels of silver was neither high nor low, and within Wang Yongan's budget, Wang Yongan's condition was that the arms must arrive in Yangzhou before sunset on July 7. The Germans said they were guaranteed to deliver, and they were serious, saying they would be able to deliver it before sunset on July 7.

On the evening of July 7, Shao Yongqin and other members of the Blackwater Escort arrived at the Yangzhou wharf with the Germans. Wang Yongan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Li Yao and Wei Wenkang with a smile: "The plan to invite you into the urn can be executed, and now we are just waiting for that Wang Ba to climb in." ”

"We need a decoy, though." Wei Wenkang frowned.

Li Yao said: "This bait must have a good relationship with Huang Bo, and it must also be our talent." ”

Everyone thought about it, but Gong Wuyuan proposed an inconspicuous person, Luo Yinxian, the head of the military affairs department.

Luo Yinxian was previously the head of the Quartermaster Division, graduated from the Beiyang Rapid Military Academy (i.e., the Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer School), and then studied at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School for one year. This person gives Wang Yongan the impression that he is honest and unassuming, but he always feels that there are many secrets in this person.

Wang Yongan was not very relieved about him, but as he was worried, except for Luo Yinxian, the smell of the "Four Princes Faction" in the rest of the people was too strong. So except for Luo Yinxian, the rest of the people really couldn't deceive the cunning Huang Bo. After Wang Yongan found Luo Yinxian to explain that night, Luo Yinxian laughed and said, "Chief Instructor, if I die, can you give my family more benefits?" ”

"What did you say?" Wang Yongan was surprised, "You agreed?" Don't think about it? ”

Luo Yinxian took out a piece of paper, handed it to Wang Yongan, and said: "I must not let the Twenty-Four Mixed Association be handed over to that Huang Bo, even if I die, I will not be a slave to the Tartars." ”

Wang Yongan frowned, he could hear the meaning of Luo Yinxian's words, could it be the identity of this Huang Bo...... Luo Yinxian said in a low voice: "He has privately wooed me, this person was sent by the regent, do you know why Xi Wusheng dared to lead the army back to the base camp to seize the camp, everything has Tartars behind the scenes." Wang Yongan nodded, but what was even more surprising was Luo Yinxian's attitude towards the Manchu royal family, many people in the army sympathized with the revolutionary party, but they would never use the word "Tartar", as far as he knew, the people who liked to use this word were precisely the revolutionary parties such as the League and the Zhongxing Association, could it be this Luo Yinxian......

On the evening of July 8, 1910, a column of troops marched from south to north to the Jingfa Temple barracks in Yangzhou, and they were the 24th mixed left army of the Beiyang New Army.

One red flag is embroidered with the words "The Second Bid of the 24th Mixed Infantry of the Beiyang New Army" and the other red flag is embroidered with the "Fourth Bid of the 24th Mixed Infantry of the Beiyang New Army". Although Wang Yongtai wanted to eliminate Wang Yongan's influence on the army, in addition to military uniforms, there were still many habits that remained, such as the bright red military flag.

There were only more than 900 people left in the two bids, and when they attacked the bandit cottage, they lost a total of more than 300 people, which can be said to be a heavy loss. After the withdrawal of the army and the return to Mengcheng, the left army was subjected to a lot of gossip, and their morale was also a lot low, and now they had been on the road for seven days and seven nights, one by one they were tired and panting, they all carried their guns and lowered their heads, and they staggered, and they saw a big Qing Qinglong flag fluttering on the barracks from a distance, and the soldiers shouted happily.

Homecoming!

thief, finally home!

"Adjutant General, we're here, we're back." As the adjutant Huang Tao's Ma Ben, Zhu Biao, who graduated from the Tianjin Wubei School and studied at the Zhenwu School in Japan for two years, said happily. Zhu Biao is Huang Tao's classmate, and the two had a very good relationship when they were in Japan, because they were both scumbags and they did not pass the Japanese test, so they could not continue to study, so they could only return to the Qing Dynasty in disgrace. If it weren't for Huang Bo's support, Zhu Biao could only go home and honestly take over his father's butcher stall and be a pork maker who bought meat.

To Huang Bo, Zhu Biao is twelve points of loyalty, and full of hope for the future, stuck to the green dragon flag in the distance, Zhu Biao shouted loudly: "Thief, your mother!" We're not going to damn northern Anhui anymore! (To be continued.) )