Yuan Zhai, Yang Du excitedly rushed into Yuan Shikai's study, and said excitedly: "Dong Weng, great joy, the center sent an urgent call, Dong Weng can recover!" ”

In fact, as early as a week ago, Yuan Shikai received a telegram from Duan Qirui and Xu Shichang, and after replying to Duan Qirui to let him stabilize, he was waiting for the reaction of the center. 《X.

Yuan Shikai is an ambitious person, otherwise, he would not have chosen the Empress Dowager Cixi and betrayed Guangxu, who has always supported him, because he knows who is the real ruler.

Now that the recovery is in front of him, he is a little undecided, Yuan Shikai touched the head of the light, if it was replaced by a year ago, to be exact, it was ** months ago, he immediately accepted this and took control of the Beiyang Army, after this powerful armament, he will immediately become, the most powerful in the whole of China, and it is even possible to win the highest position, but now, a Baotou, let his Beiyang Army gnaw down, at this time to sit in the position of the governor of Zhili, wouldn't it be self-inflicted, and the rolling trend of the south, It's a mess.

"Yang Du, do you think I have to recover!" Yuan Shikai said with some uncertainty.

"Dong Weng's words are wrong, no matter what, this is an opportunity, I see what Baotou has done, basically, has not taken the initiative to attack, that is to say, Baotou believes that this is their sphere of influence, light yì will not take a step, now in the southeast, many revolutionary parties are in chaos, they are all fighting for power and profit, at this time. If Dong Weng doesn't turn the tide, who can clean up the mess? Yang Du said excitedly. In one sentence, he said to the bottom of Yuan Shikai's heart. Yuan Shikai touched his head and said, "Is this really the case?" ”

"In this way, Dong Weng might as well let the four towns retreat 50 kilometers back and withdraw from Zhangjiakou to see how they react, so as to determine what we should do next."

Yuan Shikai thought for a moment and said, "This is a way, then do it, you can draft a message." ”

The message soon reached the guò secret channel. After sending it out, Duan Qirui received the telegram, slightly puzzled, but still carried out Yuan Shikai's order, retreated 50 kilometers, and almost withdrew from Zhangjiakou, temporarily camping at a small station east of Zhangjiakou. Of course, it is not all withdrawn at once, and it is classified in batches. The whole retreat took 4 days, and fortunately, the other side did not catch up.

Cai Ye has always paid attention to the situation here, to be honest. He now has a division of almost 20,000 people, plus new recruits who are temporarily here for battlefield training. A total of more than 40,000, in terms of strength. It's good to get up and down with each other, and a few months of rigorous training. Let him have a considerable amount of capital, if he really has a head-on confrontation, relying on the advantage of firepower to break through the opponent's defense, there should not be much of a problem.

But in this way, the casualties cannot be guaranteed, Baotou here, compared with other cities in China, and even the army, there are very different people, the death of a person's pension, is too huge, almost a dead person, at least in the short term, will pay more than 800 yuan, in the long term, may be more than one or two thousand yuan, this is 10 to the price of Makqin, so, without complete certainty, Cai Ye is not ready for a field battle.

However, Duan Qirui's initiative to retreat still made him see an opportunity, no matter what, this is a good opportunity to annihilate the Beiyang Army, during this time, a group of heavy trucks supported by Baotou have been simply processed, and the Makqin heavy machine gun is set up to pursue the best.

Cai Ye hesitated a little, but still sent a telegram to the headquarters, he understood the meaning of Baotou a little, for the time being, first run Shanxi and Mongolia, once these are integrated into one, there is the current state of development of Baotou, annexation of the surroundings, almost logical.

The telegram was quickly replied, whether it was Baotou or the First Army, they had been paying attention to the front line in Zhangjiakou, it was they who resisted the Beiyang Army on the front line, and they were able to successfully develop in the back, and now the railways and highways have been started, some cities between Baotou and Taiyuan, the pace of construction is accelerating, far south of Baotou City, the transportation network is also under intensive construction, the evidence is stable, the government's income has increased more than 10 times compared with before, and industry and commerce and industry are also very prosperous.

Yang Yuanzhao especially explained in the telegram why he did not pursue the Beiyang Army, on the one hand, Baotou has not yet eaten the whole of China, to be exact, it is the strength of the entire north of China, no matter how strong Baotou is, it is only in so many years that it has been developed, the foundation is insufficient, and the cultivated talents are already reluctant to eat Mongolia and Shanxi, and at most they will expand westward, and after the Beiyang Army is annihilated, there will be a vacuum in northern China, which is not conducive to the next development.

Cai Ye is not a visionless person, he read between the lines, clearly saw the purpose of Baotou, swept the world, now Baotou in the military, already has this ability, but in the political and economic aspects, has not been thoroughly prepared, 3 years, let Baotou swept the two provinces, the foundation has been laid, the future development will be smoother, and the expansion will be stable and solid.

Therefore, Cai Ye did not care about the Beiyang Army, and still guarded the place according to the order, and even the pursuing artillery fire and special forces were withdrawn.

After steadily retreating, relying on this small station, he set up a strong camp, and after waiting for three days, seeing that the Northwest Army did not have any reaction at all, he immediately sent a secret telegram to Yuan Shikai.

When Duan Qirui sent the secret telegram, Baotou's side also began to discuss the current situation, and many military and political experts began to discuss the current situation, the form of the Beiyang Army, which was very strange, retreating a distance of 50 kilometers, which means that the two sides are not in contact, there is a buffer zone, and no one has moved one more step.

"It seems that Yuan Shikai is going to Beijing!" Jiang Baili said confidently.

Yang Yuanzhao looked at Jiang Baili in surprise, he knew very well that in 1911, it was the Xinhai Revolution, and now the first shot of the first uprising was in Nanjing, not in Wuhan, and the whole history was completely chaotic, because the Qing court set its sights on Baotou, and did not take back the Sichuan Railway to the state, and the large-scale road protection movement did not appear, and the new army in Hubei did not move to Sichuan. On the Hubei side, the new army still revolted, but did not achieve final success, they were suppressed by Li Yuanhong, who had been prepared, almost a river of blood, Li Yuanhong, who was once promoted to the governor of Hubei after the uprising, became the executioner of the suppression of the uprising.

The whole uprising and **, out of Shanxi, the rest are in the south, forming a situation opposite to the north and the south, this complex situation, the Qing court has no way to grasp, to deal with the complex situation, there is only one, that is to let Yuan Shikai march, his crossing, the butterfly effect, has begun to show, the Beiyang Army did not go to destroy the revolutionary party, but in Zhangjiakou, the first battle, hard to come down, the losses are a little big, and even the troops of 4 towns have been nailed here, Let the Southern Revolutionary Party occupy an absolute advantage,

"Yuan Shikai stays in Beijing, and next, the end of the Qing court will definitely come." Yang Yuanzhao said leisurely.

Although Jiang Baili knew that the Qing court's luck would not be long, but it was the first time he heard it as sure as Yang Yuanzhao, and he even couldn't hold it back.

"So what do we do next?"

"Demarcate a separation zone with Beiyang, we don't take the initiative to take action, and go to the west." Yang Yuanzhao put one hand on the map, and said with a rainbow that in the range of his palm, it was Shaanxi.

"Shaanxi,?"

"Yes, first in Shaanxi, and then all the way west."

"All the way west?"

Although Jiang Baili knew that Yang Yuanzhao was very angry, he didn't expect that Yang Yuanzhao's heart would be so big, all the way to the west, not Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, or even Xinjiang, such a large territory, almost the entire northwest, or a place with a vast land and sparsely populated people, it is not easy to control it.

But looking back, these places are barren and vast places, not easy to arouse the reaction of the Central Plains, but like a blank piece of paper, easy to build, what Baotou was like three years ago, what is Baotou like now, a piece of Gobi desert and vast land, can be completed, what a result.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time, Shaanxi is definitely going to occupy, this is the center of the entire northwest, as for Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu and even Xinjiang, after occupying Shanxi and Shaanxi, these places can't escape."

Knowing Yang Yuanzhao's purpose, next, is a separate military, Shaanxi is different from Ningxia and Gansu, these places, densely populated, and the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, once in 1900, Cixi fled to Xi'an for refuge, to take it down the military is no problem, the key is to eat smoothly and completely, which requires planning and action.

In a few months, Baotou has more troops, although these troops cannot be compared with the previous First Army, or even the Second Army, but the entire Shanxi Mongolia has been basically stabilized, with them to guard the place, the first army and the second army are transferred back, the railway and highway network in the northwest, so that such a transfer will not consume much strength, but use people in the right position.

A few hours later, the plan was thoroughly formulated, and the telegram quickly contacted the garrisons in various places, in the northwest interior, the transfers began to be frequent, this qiē, the Beiyang Army did not know at all, Duan Qirui, who was stationed 50 kilometers away from Zhangjiakou, he received the Governor of Shanxi and General Suiyuan, these two officers were captured as soon as possible after Baotou **, and also as the first batch of Qing court officials released, with them, there was also a prisoner of the Beiyang Army, although it was only a battalion, But it brought news from Baotou. (To be continued......) R640