How many people who dare to rebel with their heads are willing to obey others unconditionally? In addition, it played a key role in the Huangnigang Uprising, and now the Qunzhi Society is permeated with a kind of "who else in the world will I be", some of the taste of domineering, forming gangs, excluding dissidents, in this regard, Jiangsu, Anhui and even some Hubei officers are dissatisfied, and react to Zhao Bei, but Zhao Bei can only be with the mud, no way, now the strength of the descendants is insufficient, before fully mastering the troops, he can only pinch his nose and endure, besides, the reason why the Qunzhi Society drew up the list of officers, It's just to make them jump, and the more they dance, the more opponents they have.

Now that the Qunzhi Society is using the "Electricity" incident, it is obviously because he feels that he is full-fledged. However, this obviously also gave Zhao Bei a chance to test the current influence of the Qunzhi Society.

Zhao Bei put his hands behind his back, pondered for a moment, and said, "I have nothing to say about electricity. I can only tell you one thing now, that is, Yuan Shikai is definitely not a loyal minister of the Qing court! In the future, it will be this person who will deal a fatal blow to the Qing court! I sent a telegram just to separate Yuan Shikai from the puppet Qing court, not to confront Yuan Shikai, you must understand this. ”

"How can this be convincing?" Yang Wangpeng did not relent. "Please also ask the commander-in-chief to seriously answer our questions."

Zhao Bei said: "Since you have to get to the bottom of it, I'll tell you." Now you think the revolutionary situation is really good? If you do, you're wrong! Not counting the patrol battalions in various places, there are now a total of 120,000 people in the new army of the Qing court, and Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army accounts for more than sixty percent of them! Compared with the Beiyang Army, our Southern New Army is obviously at a disadvantage in terms of training and equipment, take artillery as an example, the Hubei New Army has participated in the Zhangde Autumn Exercise, you should have seen the Beiyang Army's artillery, which are the most sophisticated weapons, and then look at our Southern New Army, most of the artillery is old-fashioned rack artillery, which is the tattered that the Beiyang Army does not want, and a small number of new tube artillery caliber is too small, and there are few shells, and many shells are still filled with black fire. If the Qing court mobilizes the Beiyang army to the south, supplemented by the naval fleet, do you think that our revolutionary courage will be able to stop the offensive of the Beiyang army? I sent that telegram just to drive a wedge between Yuan Shikai and the Qing court, so that they would be suspicious of each other, this was a conspiracy, not a conspiracy. If everything goes well, either Yuan Shikai will kill the Manchus, or the Manchus will kill Yuan Shikai, and the Beiyang Army will be centrifuged up and down, and everyone will be in danger. ”

Yang Wangpeng and others looked at each other, they didn't expect Zhao Bei to answer like this, but calm down and think about it carefully, this is not unreasonable, Yuan Shikai's meritorious work is high, but anyone with a little knowledge can see it, plus he has a strong Beiyang team, his protégés are all over the world, he has high prestige, deep qualifications, and he is favored by foreigners. It's just that everyone still can't understand why Zhao Bei is so sure that Yuan Shikai will definitely betray the Qing court?

Since ancient times, none of the powerful ministers who have achieved high merit have had a good end, even the Manchu regent Dolgon did not escape the suspicion of the monarch, even the prince was treated like this, Yuan Shikai is a Hanchen, and he is indeed not qualified to win the trust of the Qing court, but he really has the courage and confidence to fight against the Qing court? Could it be that Commander-in-Chief Zhao can pinch and calculate?

Deng Gang, who was beside Yang Wangpeng, stood up and said: "The commander-in-chief has a 'Beiyang Army is powerful', and the department is a little confused, and the commander-in-chief has never confronted the Beiyang Army head-on, why is it so sure that the Southern New Army can't beat the Beiyang New Army?" ”

Does this need to be asked? This is a real example of war in history! In the Xinhai Revolution, if it weren't for Yuan Shikai's bent desire to sit and watch the tiger fight and gain the benefits of the fishermen, not to mention the three towns of Wuhan, even Nanjing and Shanghai, could also be conquered by the Beiyang Army.

Of course, these words can't be said, and no one will believe them when they say them, and Zhao Bei wants to run away.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Zhao Bei tried his best to say in a calm tone: "Comrade, do you really think that a bayonet can beat a cannon?" Do you really think that flesh and blood can withstand the bullets? ”

"During the Russo-Japanese War a few years ago, the Japanese army defeated the Russian ** team with the tactics of 'meat bullets', and the bayonet charge was the only way to win the victory." Deng Gang's words made Zhao Bei go berserk again.

"Where did you hear that?" Zhao Bei glanced at Deng Gang. "That's Japanese bragging! Take the battle for the 203 heights as an example, the Japanese initially charged with bayonets, but ended up with heavy casualties, and later transferred the fortress artillery to carry out the barrage Xu Advance to cover the infantry charge, and the shells exploded in front of their own infantry, so as to take the high ground. During the Russo-Japanese War, Russia was at a disadvantage in terms of strength and firepower, and in addition, Russia's logistics and transportation lines were too long, supplies could not keep up, and a revolution broke out in the country, so the Japanese were asked to pick up the cheap, and if this war was fought in Europe, Japan would be defeated. ”

Zhao Bei was a little helpless, the group of people in the Qunzhi Society had enough revolutionary enthusiasm, but their military literacy was too poor, which seemed to explain why the Wuhan Revolutionary Army could not defeat the Beiyang Army during the Xinhai Revolution, and the hardware could not keep up, and the software could not do it. But this can't be all blamed on them, after all, they did not receive formal military education before joining the army, either illiterate or unambitious talents, and the few who have studied in Japan have mostly not spent their minds on studying.

Seeing that Deng Gang seemed to want to entangle on this topic, Zhao Bei waved his hand and said: "Modern warfare is not only fought by the will of soldiers, but also by firepower and logistics!" Don't think that the soldiers of the revolutionary army are braver than the soldiers of the Beiyang Army, revolutionary enthusiasm cannot replace the fear of death! The lives of soldiers are also precious and must not be wasted on senseless attacks! The spirit of the bayonet is certainly commendable, and in some cases it can even play a key role, but if you have to fight with artillery and machine guns, you will only end up hitting your head and bleeding, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

"The commander-in-chief is right, now is the era of cannons talking, and the era of lining up and firing guns has passed! The weapons and equipment of the Beiyang Army are much better than ours, if we can avoid a head-on confrontation with the Beiyang Army, we will try to avoid it, now our strength is still very weak, the arsenal can't take it, and we don't even have a place to replenish the bullets. If we can separate Yuan Shikai from the Manchu court, our revolutionary cause will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort. Xiong Bingkun stood up and supported Zhao Bei with a clear banner. According to the new troop establishment, he is now the regiment commander, responsible for commanding the Republican Army Engineer Corps, as soon as he took the lead, several Hubei officers also stood up to express their support for Zhao Bei, most of them were soldiers from the eighth town of the former New Army, and they had conducted a real confrontation drill with the Beiyang New Army in the north, and they were deeply impressed by the firepower superiority of the Beiyang Army.

"You are defeatism! Grow others to destroy their own prestige! How can you be afraid of death if you do revolution? Deng Gang criticized mercilessly. In the past, in Huangnigang, you insisted that Anqing could not be defended, and that was also defeatism! ”

But before he could continue to criticize, Bai Wenwei, a member of the alliance who was sitting in the front row, stood up, turned his head and scolded: "Deng Gang, you are talking to the commander-in-chief like this? And is there any discipline? ”

Several Anhui and Jiangsu officers also stood up and loudly rebuked Deng Gang, and the leaders of a gang of party leaders also followed suit, seeing that a military meeting was about to turn into a criticism meeting.

Obviously, the influence of the Qunzhi Society in the army is limited, and Zhao Bei is relieved.

Zhao Bei raised his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said loudly: "Afraid of death? If you are afraid of death, you will not participate in the revolution! None of you are afraid of death! Deng Gang, your remarks have seriously hurt comrades, and since you are attending a high-level military meeting for the first time, I will not care about it this time, and will only give you a major demerit. I need to remind you that although the military conference of the Republican Army emphasizes freedom of speech, this does not mean that the subordinates can slander the superiors! Soldiers, obey orders as their duty! Discipline with respect for superiors! If everyone is like you, and can casually point at the head of a comrade and pick his nose and eyes, I think that our Republican Army should disperse as soon as possible, so as not to eat the black guns of their own people on the battlefield! …… Defeatism? I don't see any defeatism here, but I do see some people with loose discipline! Without discipline, what kind of battle is there to fight? ”

It was the first time to see the commander-in-chief make such a big fury, and all the officers present were all in a daze, and some of the people who had planned to stand up and play a round immediately closed their mouths.