The actions of Baotou and the Qing court center are almost not secret, Baotou is not necessary, the first time, the people's choice and Baotou's response method, again and again, the guò clear code, the whole country, as for the Qing court itself, that is a sieve.

People across the country, for this matter, can be said to be mixed, some celebrities began to call for restraint on both sides, do not fight the lives of the clouds, and the southern ** party is even more indignant, itself, in 1911, is already the climax of the **party**, they have been preparing in the south for so long, but have not achieved much results, although the uprising of several cities, better than the history, but not much prestige, now, Baotou in the north, walking in front of them.

Several giants of the Alliance, seeing this opportunity, also began to prepare to return to China, Zhang Jingjiang, who is far away in the Lion City, also united with some wealthy people who support the Alliance, they use Baotou, with the technical support of Baotou, to earn more money, the most important thing is that with the help of Yang Yuanzhao's channel, you can get a batch of weapons and ammunition through Baotou, especially recently, with the change of AK11, a large number of guns replaced, there needs to be a family, and the ** party has become one of the next homes, You must know that this is a gun that has been used in Baotou for no more than 2 years, although the rifling is a little ruthless, but the machinery of Baotou, especially the electric drilling machine and boring machine, is enough to support the re-engraving of these rifling.

In this era when the imitation guns of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau are in short supply, rifling has been re-described, and the rifles with basic performance are not much different from those imported from Germany, and the price is still relatively low, and everyone will compete for it.

Because of this, the alliance has a greater strength than in history, in the early years through guò Feng Yuxiang trained hundreds of personnel, coupled with the infiltration of the new army in various places, strong financial resources and weapons, and finally formed a strong force, in Beiyang and the Qing court, attracted by Baotou, began to converge to the south.

Not to mention the turbulence in the south, the two armed forces that represent the strong army in the late Qing Dynasty began to approach gradually, Baotou is a little farther away from Zhangjiakou, almost more than 400 kilometers, but the railway of Zhangjiakou in Baotou Road is a heavy rail, and the locomotive is also a high-speed locomotive, in terms of speed, I don't know how much faster than the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway, all kinds of heavy equipment are also loaded on the locomotive, and go to Zhangjiakou.

With the help of the construction of the railway, the influence of Baotou has entered various places along the railway through the guò railway, Suiyuan here, was stationed by the 19th Regiment of the Third Division, became a station, the former Suiyuan general, also became a prisoner, Suiyuan because it is too close to Baotou, affected by Baotou very much, most of the citizens, are inextricably linked with the workers in Baotou, and even some wealthy, directly Baotou investment, joined the Baotou Chamber of Commerce.

Suiyuan was taken at the first time of the army's action, and then the city of Datong, almost in the four directions of Baotou, expanded the territory of Baotou, and as for the most important First Army, it advanced directly to Zhangjiakou.

Zhangjiakou because of the distance is a little farther, by the influence of Baotou, relatively small, Baotou is only close to the Zhangjiakou railway, in the west of Zhangjiakou, built a large-scale station, and then built a separate road, about 10 kilometers of appearance, with ordinary standard cement, connected to the Zhangjiakou railway, here is also one of the farthest influence of the whole Baotou. It is towards the east, towards the capital, and in the other direction, it is Taiyuan, for the time being, there is no effort to take care of it.

It is said that it is a railway station, but in the planning, it is a military fortress, the whole fortress, are reinforced concrete structure, under the reasonable layout, formed a firepower structure, when the first army was stationed, as the division commander Feng Yuxiang immediately ordered to start the earthwork, here is the forefront of the entire Baotou, whether it is the Beiyang Army by train, or on foot, can not bypass, relying on the solid city, Feng Yuxiang expanded the defense circle, layers of trenches, barbed wire, to build some bunkers, With the support of Baotou's strong production capacity, this place has become a large fortress, and all kinds of steel ash and building materials guns and ammunition have come here.

Following the first army to act together, in addition to Wang Jinming and Shi Congyun, Feng Yuxiang specially invited Cai Yi and Zhang Xiaohuai, who were responsible for strengthening the construction of the regiment, the soldiers are all straight, after they met, they gradually understood the ability of the other party, relatively speaking, they are also very familiar, now the real mature equipment has not been developed, the reinforced regiment is just a motorized infantry regiment, there is no tank, armored vehicles such as equipment, self-propelled artillery is not, Cai Yi and the two are just doing the most basic work.

This is more or less wasteful, the establishment of the First Army, and facing Beiyang, needs a perfect staff department, under the approval of Feng Yuxiang, with the approval of Yang Yuanzhao, Cai Ye and Zhang Xiaohuai temporarily served as the heads of this staff department.

"Songpa, it seems that you are not in a hurry at all!" Zhang Xiaohuai entered the war room, saw Cai Yi with a relaxed face, and quipped.

"Are you in a hurry?" Cai Ye asked rhetorically,

Zhang Xiaohuai couldn't help laughing, yes, as early as a month ago, after they came to Baotou, they saw the combat effectiveness of the new army in Baotou, and they knew that a long time ago, the combat effectiveness of the new army had surpassed that of the Beiyang Army, not to mention weapons and equipment, it was comprehensively surpassed in all aspects, a large number of automatic machine guns, all kinds of heavy artillery, and now the first army, because it was a domestic operation, took out a full set of heavy equipment, and even in order to strengthen, the original 12 155 and 36 108 standard configuration of each division were almost strengthened. The heavy firepower of the 4,5th Division and the newly formed 6th Division was all downgraded, which meant that a corps of 3 divisions had a total of 72 155 heavy guns and 216 108 howitzers.

216 108 howitzers and 36 155 heavy guns, this is the nightmare of all armies, in the absence of aircraft and a sufficient number of heavy artillery confrontation, any army facing the king of war, the final result, only defeat, and among the divisional units below, 108 75 guns, or the French 75 miss, such a rate of fire, plus the coverage of artillery fire, will let Beiyang know what is the European level of firepower coverage.

These are just artillery fire, what is even more terrifying is the average of 1,085 Makqin per division, a total of more than 3,000, relying on the reinforced concrete city, how much damage will it bring, emergency earthwork, continue to improve the defense system, the first division of 65,000 people, he is confident that he can block the group attack of at least 3 to 5 towns, besides, what is in front of him is only the sixth and fifth towns, and they are also the old foundations of Beiyang, but they are the towns behind after all, and the training and weapons are not in place. If this is the case, you have to be nervous, and even concentrated, Cai Ye is not worthy of the title of Lu Shi Sanjie.

"Are all the supplies coming up?"

"It's all up, Baotou here, fully responsible for this side, the field hospital is also in place, all the imported medicinal materials, 70 doctors and 150 nurses, this is already more than seventy percent of the entire Baotou." Zhang Xiaohuai said with some excitement.

The field hospital, also after arriving in Baotou, only to see, Cai Ye also found that the new army in Baotou pays attention to training, is the suppression of artillery fire and firepower, for the lives of soldiers, see more than other Chinese armies are more important, this is a good thing, especially Baotou has a strong financial strength, as far as Cai Ye knows, Baotou's current military production, enough to support 5 divisions of the army, continuous combat for more than 10 months, this is only production, Baotou's machine qì is sold to the outside world, but the arms are basically stored, For such a long time, I don't know how much is stored, in short, he can squander it at will, and he doesn't have to worry about ammunition.

Can't personally command such a battle, but can use the staff officer, with the help of the staff department, to assist the chief officer to command, this is also the opinion that makes Cai Ye excited, in short, after coming to Baotou, I have seen countless differences, but for a soldier, do not worry about logistics, do not worry about military salaries, and even do not worry about the morale of the army, just according to the contrast of strength and weakness, arrange troops, which is simply the most comfortable and comfortable opinion thing for the soldiers

Zhang Xiaohuai has been to Germany, even if it is Germany, a division is not so strong, it can even be said that the heavy equipment of the armed teeth, all kinds of artillery fire, more than 150, the average machine gun has one for 20 people, basically popularized to the squad, with the help of semi-permanent and huge geotechnical engineering, build a large battlefield, stick to the other side to attack, this battle did not fight, basically victory, is certain, no wonder Cai Yi is so easy, replaced by Zhang Xiaohuai, it will be equally easy, the current periphery, Except for those in charge of guarding in the permanent fortress, the rest have returned to Zhangjiakou Station, and the rest of the station, except for some people on the railway, have been evacuated, and the remaining rooms are enough to accommodate so many people to rest.

report, a guard walked in and said: "Report to the chief of staff, the headquarters sent a pair of special forces." ”

Special forces, Cai Yi was stunned for a moment, the special forces, was established under the leadership of Yang Yuanzhao, and the first-class soldiers were transferred from various departments, most of them were sharpshooters, and Yang Yuanzhao specially found people and trained them personally, and there were almost 1500 people who entered at the beginning, but after several rounds of elimination, the final personnel were fixed at about 400 people, and the days of coming to Baotou were short, Cai Ye did not pay attention to it, but he asked Feng Yuxiang and others, and they were also vague, obviously, This is a unit that Yang Yuanzhao has high hopes for.

Of course, they still learned about the strength of the special forces from the side, and the personnel who were eliminated by the special forces, even after a month or two of special forces training, returned to the army, they were all very top-notch and prominent, and it was absolutely no problem for a single sharp knife squad and the platoon commander of the reconnaissance platoon. He has always had a strong interest in this special forces, but he didn't expect that this unit was put on the front line, and President Yang, who seemed to be calm, was also a little worried, so he used all the cards. R1152