1089908 Far Eastern madman

The railway station is heavily guarded, with three steps and one post. Five steps and one sentry, unless you are not allowed to enter, even those reporters who are invited to come to interview can only wait outside the train station to enter the station for interviews. But no one can tell.

Such strict vigilance measures were incomparable to the Manchu royal family going to the imperial tomb to worship their ancestors. After all, it is not an ordinary person who is about to rush to the railway station, and the safety of this person is directly related to the future of the country, and even the balance of power in the Far East as a whole.

Therefore, not only the Beiyang Army was guarding the railway station, but even the embassy guards of various countries in Dongjiaomin Lane also sent a small number of troops to help maintain order. The police in and out of the city have also been largely emptied. The air in the city seemed to be tense.

Can you not be nervous? The person who is about to take a special train to Beijing's Daqianmen Railway Station is none other than Zhao Bei, president of the Republic of China, and as the head of state finally elected by this republic, he can't do anything here, otherwise, he is afraid that there will be another melee between the north and the south, and after the war, it is difficult to say whether this small country can still maintain formal unity.

Since the republic, the country has been in a state of de facto chaos, with the rise of local powerhouses evident in the history books, when the old central power collapsed. And before the new central power has established a dominant position, that is the era of warlord melee, which is the situation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, and now. The country is facing the same situation.

The center is declining, the local is rising, and now the country can only rely on strongmen to suppress the situation, relying on Yuan Shikai before, and now Yuan Shikai is dead. Xu Shichang also went into hiding, so he could only pin all his hopes on Zhao Zhenhua, who was about to rule the country.

Knowing this, it is also understood why the reporters waiting outside the train station are so nervous.

Like the reporters, Duan Qirui is also very nervous now, constantly walking around the waiting room. and rubbing his hands from time to time, his colleagues standing beside him were all senior generals of the Beiyang Army.

In addition to being nervous, Duan Qirui is still annoyed with some regrets, because the direct reason for Zhao Bei's visit to Beijing this time is a draft of a telegram he personally drafted, on which the deputy minister of the War Department of the Republic of China government very "enthusiastically" invited Zhao Bei, the president of the Republic of China, Zhao Zhenhua, to Beijing to take up his post and complete the final transfer of central power.

In fact, the reason why Duan Qirui sent this telegram. The main purpose is not to let Zhao Bei come to Beijing to be the president, but to take the other party's army out of a bad breath, Duan Qirui and others' wishful thinking is that as soon as Beijing and Tianjin take away the basis of the Beiyang forces, Zhao Bei will not dare to come, in that case. The world will see the cowardice of Chairman Zhao. If not to weaken his strength, but to reduce his prestige.

However, to the surprise of Duan Qirui's group of Beiyang generals, Zhao Bei actually agreed to their request, and arranged the schedule almost immediately, as a result, on the fifth day after the national telegram that invited President Zhao Da to visit the national capital, Zhao Bei rushed to Beijing by train, and before that, the section of the Jinghan Railway from Baoding to Beijing was basically still in a state of destruction, but now, it has been repaired by the RUF troops. This allowed the Beiyang Army to once again see the combat effectiveness of the engineering units of the Southern Revolutionary Army.

Of course, Zhao Bei didn't come alone, when he came, he brought two infantry brigades, plus the accompanying engineering troops and railway workers, he brought a total of nearly 10,000 troops to Beijing, and only the locomotive used more than 20 units.

Either you don't do it, or you can do it vigorously, so that the world admires you and follows you, and this is how Commander-in-Chief Zhao stepped up to the peak of power step by step.

But in this way, Duan Qirui was nervous. I also regret that now there is a revolutionary army of nearly 10,000 people approaching the Beijing-Tianjin area step by step, but the Beiyang Army has no excuse to intercept it, and can only watch the other side get closer and closer to the national capital.

This Beiyang has always been faint lately, and it really has a bit of a taste of twilight.

However, other Beiyang generals can't complain about Duan Qirui, this "invitation." Zhao Bei's decision to visit the national capital was originally made by everyone, and Duan Qirui was just presiding over the meeting. Now, there is indeed no one who has enough prestige to suppress Beiyang, Xu Shichang is actually no longer the leader of Beiyang, and no one dares to sit in the hot chair of Beiyang, as a result, all major policies can only be decided by collective meeting discussion.

This method is not efficient at all, and everyone is carrying their own thoughts, so this strength cannot be used together, and mistakes will inevitably occur in the decisions made, which is the decision to "invite" Zhao Bei to visit the national capital.

But it's useless to say anything now, according to the telegram just now, Zhao Bei has arrived in Changxindian. In a few hours, he will be able to enter the city of Beijing as a victor

As a group of martial artists, of course, some people suggested that "the plan will be calculated" and simply take advantage of Zhao Bei's "self-throwing net" to kill him, and it may be possible to reverse Beiyang's current disadvantage, but this proposal was strongly opposed by Duan Qirui and Duan Zhigui.

Let's not talk about whether the Beiyang Army can beat the nearly 10,000 revolutionary troops brought by Zhao Bei, even if it can beat it, what can it do? As soon as this battle starts, it will definitely be chaos, and whether the Beiyang Army can catch Zhao Bei is another matter. Beiyang alone cannot afford this moral responsibility, when the time comes, the place will be eroded, Beiyang will lose the support of the people, whether it can continue to rely on this Beijing-Tianjin territory, but it is not easy to say, now that the first army of Beiyang southward has reached the United Front, the previous plan to move the capital to Nanjing can not be implemented, and now, the Beijing-Tianjin, Zhili area is the last territory of Beiyang, even Shandong, now it is also "neutralized".

What's more, the "invitation" to Zhao Bei to visit the national capital this time was discussed with diplomats from various countries, and the envoys of Germany, the United States, Italy, and Austria-Hungary in China jointly signed a guarantee, patted their chests and said to President Zhao Da, "Come on, no one dares to harm you" This is not only a telegram, but also published in the newspaper. Then this matter is not only an internal affair, it involves diplomacy and diplomatic relations, and now Beiyang is supported by foreigners, and offending foreigners is far more serious than offending the local people.

Therefore, Duan Qirui and Duan Zhigui both strongly opposed fighting with Zhao Bei, and the "old Duan Buduan" jointly opposed, and no one dared to mention it anymore, so Zhao Bei rushed to Beijing with his troops so smoothly. became his president of the Republic of China.

However, Zhao Bei came over, how to receive him after coming over, and how to bargain with him, this is worrying.

Since the news of Wu Peihu's shooting of the joint piece line came out, the Beiyang generals have been panicking. And with the news that Meng Enyuan defected to the United Front and became a general councilor, it was confirmed by the newspapers. This Beiyang is becoming more and more centrifugal and detached, and there were catties before. Xu Shichang is a spiritual idol and worships everyone, but now Xu Shichang has also left Beiyang alone, and the people in Beiyang have basically become a big loser, and they all want to find a new master as soon as possible.

Who to look for? Everyone looked around and was surprised to find that they had no choice but to go to the United Front.

Moreover, the United Front also extended an olive branch to Beiyang, suggesting that the Beiyang Army accept the national reorganization, be integrated into the National Defense Force together with the armed forces of the United Front, and accept the unified command of the country. There is no Beiyang Army, all the soldiers are soldiers of the country and serve the country. They all take the military salary issued by the state.

This catty, the proposal was approved by some Beiyang generals, but it was also opposed by another part of the people, and everyone has been in the Beiyang Army for so many years. It is true that it is impossible to accept the reality of the demise of the Beiyang Army for a while, and when the Southern Alliance was dissolved, wasn't it also opposed by many members?

People all have feelings, and soldiers also have feelings. The Beiyang Army really could not accept the reality of being annexed by the Republican Army, so the United Front did not mention the Republican Army at all, and the national army after this merger was called the "National Defense Force" This is also to avoid stimulating the Beiyang soldiers as much as possible.

The senior generals of Beiyang held a meeting to discuss the matter of this joint organization, and although the debate was fierce, as desperate people, they finally accepted the proposal of the United Front and agreed to reorganize into the National Defense Force, but there was one condition, that is, Duan Qirui was appointed as the chief of the War Department, and the original head of the War Department, Cai Guo, was reappointed as the deputy director of the War Department.

The United Front agreed in one go. To be precise, it was Zhao Bei who agreed, so. The Beiyang Army became the National Defense Army, and Zhao Bei also came to Beijing to inspect the matter.

"Woohoo"

With a few long whistles, a train finally entered the station, but this was not the train brought by Zhao Bei, but a special train sent out by Beiyang to meet President Zhao Da in the morning, and it was a "small section" Duan Zhigui, but Duan Zhigui was not in the train now, but followed by President Zhao Da on the same train.

However, the second train that entered Beijing's Daqianmen Railway Station was not President Zhao's special train, but an armored train draped all over its body, which was the armored train that had repeatedly made meritorious contributions in the Henan Campaign and the Northern Expedition.

It was this duck cart that made the Beiyang Army suffer a big loss, and Duan Qirui had long hated this car. At this time, I heard that the armored train had entered the railway station, so I hurriedly led a group of people to see how majestic the train was.

In the face of such an iron-armored monster, not to mention that Feng Guozhang could deal with it alone, even if the "Three Heroes of Beiyang" went into battle, the Beiyang Army could not resist it.

Perhaps, the slogan painted on the iron armor on the side of the front of the armored train best explains the reason for the defeat of the Beiyang Army:

"Firepower, speed, armor! On the battlefield, I am the only one! ”