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Early the next morning, the National Defense Forces issued a telegram to the outside world, changing the Northeast Marshal's Mansion to the Northern Military Government, and the military government's headquarters was moved from Mukden to Beijing.

At the same time, Yang Xingguo, as the commander of the northern military government, invited Yuan Shikai and the governors of the southern provinces to go to the capital to form a provisional central government and unify the whole country!

While the enormous benefits of being president are tempting, there are also risks involved.

If his presidency is not recognized by the southern provinces and Yuan Shikai, then he and the entire national defense force will become a laughing stock. What's more, no one dares to guarantee that after he becomes president, the southern provinces will not even oppose Yuan Shikai together.

After all, the Beiyang Army in Yuan Shikai's hands is still very powerful, and in terms of the territory occupied, the provinces controlled by the Beiyang Army are not smaller than his own. If you rush to the presidency, there are too many variables that may arise next.

In this case, Yang Xingguo resolutely suppressed his inner impulse and temporarily became the president.

Of course, in order to give an explanation to his hundreds of thousands of brothers, the thoughtful Yang Xingguo finally decided to change the Northeast Marshal's Mansion to the Northern Military Government, so that he could justifiably form a northern government. When the time comes, this northern government will be able to take advantage of the situation and become the government of the whole country.

As soon as the Wehrmacht was electrified, the country was lively.

The revolutionary party, which had just taken over the whole of Hubei, directly formed the Southern Military Government on the basis of the Hubei Military Government.

Because Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army was sandwiched between the Revolutionary Party and the National Defense Army, and he had not yet taken a single southern province, he had no reason to refute it in the face of the successive achievements of the Northern and Southern Military Governments.

However, if the military governments of the north and south are in place, if he cannot immediately give the Beiyang army a name, it will definitely deal a great blow to the morale and development of the Beiyang army.

In this case, Yuan Shikai, who was very ambitious, decisively sent troops to the south and began his own battle to unify the south.

At this time, Yang Xingguo had already arrived in the capital.

When he first arrived in the capital, many people persuaded him to drive the little emperor Fu Yi out of the palace, and then directly put the northern military government residence in the palace.

Although there was a lot of support for this proposal, Yang Xingguo did not agree.

In his opinion, the new China of later generations was so powerful that it did not put the central government in the palace, not to mention that he did not even control half of the country!

As a result, Zhongnanhai, the government seat of later generations, was selected by Yang Xingguo and became the new northern military government station.

Less than two days after arriving at Zhongnanhai, Yang Xingguo received the news that Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army was heading south.

"Yuan Shikai is worthy of being a hero, and he played well in the hand of going south! Now he wants a gun without a gun, and he wants silver without silver. However, as long as he can take one or two provinces in the south, he will have guns and silver! There are old opponents inside, and Yang Xingguo still can't help but admire.

Sun Liechen immediately agreed: "What the marshal said is that Yuan Shikai is too cunning to think of the move of going south. The main force stayed behind to defend us, and sent a detachment of divisions south to feed the war and obtain the silver and weapons that they urgently needed. ”

"In the past few years, we have buried more than 100,000 guns in the southern provinces, and in addition, the southern provinces have money to buy a lot of heavy weapons from abroad. As long as Yuan Shikai can take one province, all kinds of captures are enough for his Beiyang Army to expand the strength of two towns! ”

Speaking of this, Sun Liechen was taken aback by the thoughts that popped up in his head, and then asked Yang Xingguo with a worried face.

"Dashuai, there is such a big gain in winning a province. If Yuan Shikai can take three or even more provinces, then the military strength of the Beiyang Army will not be more than doubled! ”

"No, Dashuai, you have to find a way to stop Yuan Shikai from going south."

Yang Xingguo's brows furrowed and said, "I understand what you said, but if you want to stop Yuan Shikai from going south, it is definitely impossible!" ”

"Don't forget, the main forces in Yuan Shikai's hands are all left behind, as long as we move, these main forces will pounce on us and attack Gyeonggi. It is precisely because of this that I said that Yuan Shikai's move was good! ”

Sun Liechen's face became even more worried, and he retorted unwillingly: "Then we will watch Yuan Shikai unify the south and expand his strength?" ”

Then he stared at Yang Xingguo and asked loudly: "Dashuai, you must have a way!" ”

"Of course there is a way!" Yang Xingguo did not refute and replied with a sneer.

"Yuan Shikai must now think that his Beiyang Army is sandwiched between us and the southern provinces, plus he has arranged sixty or seventy thousand main forces to confront us on the border, we must have no way to take the southern provinces!"

After hearing this, the worry on Sun Liechen's face became even stronger.

The facts that Marshal Yang Xingguo had just analyzed made him more aware of the difficulties faced by the National Defense Forces in all provinces.

Even the troops can't get to the south, how can they stop Yuan Shikai from going south.

At that moment, Sun Liechen also thought of attacking Shandong and Shanxi, forcing Yuan Shikai to give up his plan to go south and return to the Central Plains.

But as soon as the idea appeared in his mind, he was determined by Sun Liechen himself.

Because Yuan Shikai had already thought of this situation and was prepared, the main force of the Beiyang Army of the Six Towns left on the border line may not have the strength to attack, but it is more than enough to defend.

With the main force of the Beiyang Army in the six towns in front of it, even if the Wehrmacht dispatched two armies to launch an attack at a time, it would be impossible to break through the Beiyang Army's defense line in a short time.

And with the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army, even if their troops going south are only a partial division, they are local garrison troops. The recruit units in the South that have not experienced combat are also no opponents.

By that time, the Beiyang Army, a partial division, might have taken one or two provinces in the south.

And with the financial resources and weapons and equipment reinforcements from the south, it will be very difficult for the Wehrmacht to break through the defense line of the Beiyang Army in a short time. Even if there is a breakthrough in the end, the Wehrmacht will suffer heavy losses, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

Just when Sun Liechen was becoming less and less optimistic about how the National Defense Army could block the southward pace of the Beiyang Army, Yang Xingguo changed his words and continued: "However, Yuan Shikai ignored one thing. We really can't stop him from going south, but we can compete with him for territory in the southern provinces! ”

"From land, it will definitely not work for our troops to move south, and there are not many troops to draw from."

"But nearly eighty percent of China's naval strength is in our hands, and we can take the sea route, directly bypass the area controlled by the Beiyang Army by sea, land from Guangdong, and fight for the southern provinces with Yuan Shikai."

The worry on Sun Liechen's face was swept away at once, and then he exclaimed very excitedly: "Handsome and wise!" If we take the sea route, Fujian, Guangdong, and even Guangxi are all under our attack. As long as we take one or two of these provinces, no matter how much Yuan Shikai's strength expands, it will also be within our encirclement. (To be continued.) )