In the middle of the night, the wind in the capital, in the middle of summer, there is a little cool. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn the backyard, Meng Siyuan and Chu Mengxiong were tied up, and they stood against the wall. Chu Mengxiong had a cloth bag on his head, but Meng Siyuan didn't ask for a hood, and faced the rows of soldiers and the rifles in their hands.

Xu Youzheng paced back and forth: "Brother Meng, Shandong is very interesting to you, and actually sent a secret force to rescue you." I admire your character, and I am willing to give you a chance, the inspection department will not increase the number of troops, and it will not be easy to general, and this traitor who has long been won over by you will still serve as the warden, just to give you a chance to escape. But you...... Why not grab it? In life, there is not always a chance, if you give up this opportunity, you will not regret it? ”

Meng Siyuan's face was as usual, unhappy or angry, "Mr. Xu, your trick is just like yours, you are more than smart, and the pattern is insufficient." If Meng really escaped from prison as you thought, wouldn't it be more convenient for you to splash sewage on me now? ”

"Stupid! Do you think that if you are like this, you did not do those crimes? In this world, only force is real, and the rest are all false. I have a gun in my hand, and whoever is guilty is guilty. What is the use of Shandong's luxury lawyers' group, or parliamentarians? What you write can only fool students who don't know the world, and in my opinion, can only be counted as a joke. ”

"In the eyes of the warlords, public opinion is indeed a joke. It is only when the force on which you rely is defeated by the power of the people that you will realize what true power is. I may not see that day, but I believe that day will come. Just like this sky, although it is as dark as ink, tomorrow, the sun will still rise. Light will always triumph over darkness, no matter how powerful it may seem. ”

Xu Youzheng frowned, "No wonder even people like Chu Mengxiong can be rebelled by you, it's really unusual." Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no point. Maybe you still think that the pressure of Shandong can get you out of danger safely. It's a pity that Xu is not one of those incompetent officials in the pre-Jin era, and when he was frightened, he lost his backbone. Therefore, your fate today is all due to your friends, and when you get down, blame them and don't blame me. I believe that soon they will come down to you, so that they may fulfill your vow not to live together, but to die together. ”

Meng Siyuan said: "Since I was in the former Jin Gan Ge Ming, I have been ready to meet this moment. It's nothing more than the Beiyang soldiers of the Commons, replacing the executioners of the former Jin, but in my opinion, there is no difference between you. ”

"Say whatever you want, do you have any last words to leave behind? For the sake of being a good person, when I come to Shandong, I will convey your last words to your family. ”

"Haven't you seen my last words? I hope you will read more of that notebook, and it may be of some help to you. ”

Xu Youzheng no longer asked him, but asked Chu Mengxiong, "Lao Lei brought me a message, saying that for the sake of you saving him, I will give you a chance." As long as you are willing to repent, you can do without dying. You're not him, you don't have to run all the way to the dark, I'll give you a chance to live. ”

Chu Mengxiong's head was covered in a bag, and his speech was a little slurred, and Xu Youzheng took some effort before he vaguely heard him muttering, "Don't be afraid of broken bones, you have to leave your innocence in the world." ”

Xu Youzheng lit a Luzon cigarette and said coldly: "It seems that Chief Meng's methods are more clever than I imagined, and he actually turned Chu Mengxiong into an outlaw." In that case, let's send you on the road together. Get ready! ”

The Beiyang soldiers in charge of the execution raised their rifles, Meng Siyuan looked at the muzzle calmly, and gently hummed a widely sung song during Cape's domestic uprising, "Get up, hungry and cold slaves......

At this moment, an attendant ran towards Xu Youzheng quickly, shouting loudly as he ran: "The general call, you must let the secretary general answer it." ”

Xu Youzheng sneered and waved his hand: "Shoot!" Telephone and so on. ”

The guns were loud, and the singing turned from high to low, and finally died out.

"Explain, how else can this be explained? Tie Shan, you are simply too presumptuous! Who gave you the power to shoot a chief without authorization? You told me at the beginning that the arrest of Meng Siyuan was just one of the means to force Shandong to submit, and it was just a bargaining chip. You have ruined the chips now, how can I talk to Zhao Guanhou! ”

Duan Zhiquan's blood pressure soared again, Venus was surging in front of him, his left hand was numb, and his fingers couldn't help trembling. If it wasn't his confidant in front of him, he would have ordered to pull this person out and shoot him at this time.

Xu Youzheng is very calm, neither humble nor arrogant

"Old Zhi, the student really wanted to use Meng Siyuan as a bargaining chip at the earliest, but now, Shandong is even going to lift the gambling table, what is the use of the chips? Naturally, it is ruined, so as not to cause trouble. Feng Huafu and Meng Siyuan are dead, and everything that is unfavorable to us can be pushed clean. Twenty-one, the golden franc and the railway debt, all of which are easily solved, isn't it very good? Moreover, I have negotiated with Meng Siyuan many times, this person is a die-hard, no matter what we say or do, he will not agree with our philosophy, let alone use it. Releasing him will not do us any good, but will make people think that we are too weak. If a warlord threatens to use force, he can undermine the court's accomplicity, so where is the authority of the government? What about common law? ”

"Now is not the time to say that. With Meng Siyuan here, we still have room for negotiation with Shandong, now, how do you let us negotiate? ”

"Zhi Lao, the student thinks that there is no need to negotiate at all. We have a scalpel ready to get rid of all the tumors at once, how can we give up halfway? What's more, you have also seen the situation of two lines of communication, if you continue to compromise, this cancer of Shandong will suck all our blood dry! On the Shandong issue, the sooner we start, the less we will lose. In the past few years, we have lost too much, and it is time to make up for everything. ”

"Don't think of Shandong as too weak, if we lose, what should we do?"

"Lose? How could it be possible to lose? ”

Xu Youzheng smiled and said:

"From the point of view of the source of soldiers, the sources of troops of the Lu army are mainly the children of good families in the provinces, as well as the prisoners and defeated soldiers absorbed on the battlefield. In the past few years, they have been discharged according to their age, and there has been a large loss of veterans in the army. Its troops put too much emphasis on discipline, and the soldiers did not even dare to fight with the people, and their blood gradually lost. The source of our border guards comes from professional soldiers, herdsmen from Wairouran, and laborers who have gone to work overseas. These workers have been paramilitarily trained overseas and are obedient. Compared with the gentle Lu army, our soldiers are more bloody, and on the battlefield, what is needed is a howling wolf, not a guard dog like the Lu army. The Lu army is capable of mercenary foreign soldiers, and I have also absorbed more than 3,000 Tiele officers and soldiers from the border. In addition, Fusang's advisory group will not be inferior to the Lu army in terms of grassroots command. The Fuso garrison army stationed in Tianjin will send an artillery brigade to change into the uniform of our communist army and assist our army in carrying out the task of surveying the chaos. In terms of weaponry, we have continued to order arms from Shandong in the past two years, which has not only ensured that our army has sufficient weapons, but has also prevented the Lu army from obtaining materials from the arsenal, and its training intensity is high, and the problems of old and damaged weapons are bound to be serious. Growing and losing each other, our weapons level is above the Lu army. Zhi Lao, let's take a look at the sand table again. ”

In Duan Zhiquan's lounge, on the central table, there was a beautifully made sand table, as well as an equally delicate model of soldiers. If Zhao Guanhou is here, he can find that these soldiers and sand tables are copied with reference to the model in the rest room of his Shandong troops.

Xu Youzheng was just a glimpse of the day, and he could copy it as it was, and this memory alone was enough to be called a miracle. It will represent the soldiers of each province and conduct offensive and defensive exercises on the sand table

"Our current border guards, nominally eight divisions, are actually twelve. Among them, including the border guards trained by the students, as well as the model army trained by the Yuan family back then, this army is our hole card, and the Lu army does not know it. These twelve divisions are all trained according to the standard of the six towns of Beiyang, and Yuan Weiting has the elite of the six towns, so he can win the world. Our strength is twice that of Yuan, why can't we unify the universe? We are only one or two divisions, and we may not necessarily be able to defeat the Lu army, but with ten divisions pressing up, with ten enemies and one, even the fifth division, it is flesh and blood, and it is impossible to win so many troops. ”

"Third, fifth, and thirty-seventh......" Duan Zhiquan calculated in a low voice, judging from the troops currently in his hands, even if he was not counted as vassals, the border guards, a descendant force, had an absolute advantage. However, after all, Shandong is a strong soldier who has defeated Fusang, and it is really to the point of going to war with him, and his heart is still bottomless.

Xu Youzheng said: "Its victory over Fusang certainly has the factor of combat effectiveness, but also the terrain, supplies and Fusang's own command errors. Most importantly, it had the support of Albion, and the Fuso people were apparently unprepared for Albion's accession. In the battle of Shandong, the Lu army was better than diplomacy, not purely military. Capet's friend promised to help us convince the people of Albion. After the Tessie War, the great powers tried to avoid a major war, and all nations, without exception, supported peace. As long as we do not harm Albiang's interests in Shandong, the other side will absolutely maintain strict neutrality and will not help the Lu army. At the end of the Battle of Shandong on the same day, a large number of soldiers of the Lu army were discharged, and most of the veterans of a hundred battles were lost. According to the information known to our intelligence personnel, during the period when the troops entered Lianghu two years ago, there was a serious shortage of troops, and four divisions were nominally mobilized, but the actual strength was less than 40,000. Judging from this data, Shandong's military strength is now very thin, and the emergency dispatch of 50,000 troops is already its limit. And our main forces, plus the forces of our allies, can total close to three hundred thousand people. With a six-fold difference in forces, even with the addition of the 3rd Division, it was not enough to turn the tide. ”

"The welfare policy implemented by Shandong buys the hearts of the people with a lot of money, which is nothing more than raising the people as babies. Babies have no strength to resist adult attacks. What's more, this kind of policy, the people of all provinces are dissatisfied, even if the people of Shandong have the same hatred, how can they be the enemy of the people of the world? In the past few years, Shandong has relied on plundering the wealth of the whole country to maintain its high welfare and low prices, so that Shandong people can enjoy the benefits, and it is time for them to pay the price. ”

Duan Zhiquan said: "So, you are already completely sure? ”

"Yes, during the student's trip to Shandong, I talked with Jiang Yanbei, and summed up the magic weapon of Shandong's victory, which is nothing more than military salary, ordnance, and military food. Our army's equipment is not inferior to the Lu army, and as for the salary, it is not inferior to it. The daily ration standard for the Shandong troops is one catty and eight taels, and the rations for our troops are 16 taels, so that the soldiers can maintain their physical strength, and our army's food can be maintained for a longer time than in Shandong. Shandong does not have foreign aid, but we can get support from Fuso. Our troops endured hardships and stood hard work, and the people of Shandong were accustomed to a prosperous life and could not bear to fight hard. The Lu army is the most disciplined, the soldiers are not allowed to eat more and take more, our army is allowed not to seal the sword for three days after the war, the soldiers must have sufficient morale, a battle, can break the Lu army's defense line, how can it lose? ”

Duan Zhiquan said: "Fusang people are so generous this time, I always feel weird. I heard that their economy was not in a good situation, that the country had just finished unrest, and that there were peasants in the countryside who were trying to build their own government, and that Fuso would have to spend a huge amount of money just to maintain law and order in the country. Where did they get so much strength to support us? ”

"They support us, nothing more than borrowing a knife to kill people. It was precisely because the students shot Meng Siyuan and expressed their determination to never compromise with Shandong that they were willing to contribute so much force to help. After all, without Zhao Guanhou, they would not be in chaos like this. In the international market, Lu goods have seized the share of Fuso, which originally belonged to Fusang, and if Shandong does not remove it, it will be difficult for Fusang's economy to revitalize. If their own strength is not enough, they will borrow our hands. And we also happened to use the strength of the Fuso people to accomplish the feat of unifying the north and the south. ”

Under the light, in Xu Youzheng's eyes, there seemed to be two flames burning, "Zhiweng, we were born in the Taiping World, but we may not be able to die in the Taiping World." The humiliation of the pre-Jin era has not been forgotten by everyone. If we want to put an end to the scattered situation, we are destined to experience a big war, and at the cost of bloodshed and sacrifice, the country can be reformed and the whole world can be saved. Just thinking about checking and filling in the gaps and maintaining peace is at best, it is just the reincarnation of Zhang Hefei. As long as we show our strength at the right time and promote some grassroots officers of the Lu army, we can let them fight among themselves and even kill each other. I believe that the Lu army is definitely not monolithic, and the war will not be as tragic as Zhiong imagined. This time, we are crusading against the warlords with the Zhengfu, and we have the reputation of righteousness and sufficient strength. If you don't fight at this time, you will never have a chance to fight again! If Zhi Weng only wants to be a Taiping general, then please hand over Tie Shan to Shandong for disposal, one life is worth one life, and I will return my life to Shandong. If Zhi Lao wants to make a difference, please give an order and meet with Shandong swords and guns! ”