Section 120 Troops

"The movements of the Russian army in the northeast are now concentrated in big cities, and they will not come out easily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Lushun has concentrated 100,000 people, Liaoyang and Fengtian have 50,000 each, and the remaining 100,000 people are in Harbin, a total of 300,000."

"As for our situation, we now have one hundred and three hills in our hands, with a total strength of 118,300 men. During the armistice negotiations between Japan and Russia, the Russians launched a general sweep against us, and the losses were heavy at that time. But it has now been replenished. ”

"We stopped sabotaging the railroad a few years ago, and according to the instructions of the adults, we began to contact the various hills, and some of them agreed to act with us. Some people say that we are dreadlocks, and we are not all the way with them. Others have grabbed ground with us. ”

"Our men and horses are mainly distributed near the Liao River, on both sides of the Liao River. Training level, can shoot guns, can walk, can't use cannons. ”

Yang Chao ordered the army to assemble, and was responsible for the German mercenary officers one by one, and even the technical personnel with strong organizational skills of the railway company were brought in, and Yang Chao himself flew to the northeast and met Wu Peifu in a mountain between the Hunhe and Liao rivers.

Wu Peifu made a brief report to Yang Chao.

"Now on, gather our people. Let those heroes who are willing to cooperate with our actions sabotage the Russians' railways and harass and attack the Russians. ”

"If we encircle Liaoyang and cut off the railway between Shenyang and Liaoyang at the same time, will we be able to block the rescue of the Russian army, and for how long?"

Yang Chao gave an order and asked another question.

Wu Peifu frowned and said: "I'm afraid we won't be able to stop it for long, we don't have artillery, and the training is not formal." The large corps had no chance of winning in a frontal battle. ”

This is what Yang Chao is worried about, and it is also the reason why he wants to pull Yuan Shikai to the sea, because only the Beiyang Army can stalemate with the Russian army for a period of time, and then wait until the column stops and forces Russia to negotiate.

Looks like we really need an army.

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh.

"So be it. Concentrate the cavalry and harass them in the rear. You select the most obedient 50,000 people to make a move towards Mukden, bluff the mainstay, step by step, not afraid of delaying time, dig deep trenches, set up multiple machine guns, let the other side attack, just hold on. I will help you solve the problem of artillery. ”

When Yang Chao returned to Shandong, the first batch of soldiers had already taken the train, China's railway had not yet been built to Mukden, the Qing government had long wanted to build the railway from Beijing to Mukden, but it was first interrupted by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and then by the Russo-Japanese War, and the current railway was only to Jinzhou.

Yang Chao's soldiers were to assemble in Jinzhou first, and then march on foot to Mukden.

"If Germany does not support us at this time, this war will not be fought. Besides, we don't need much support from Germany, we just need an artillery regiment. ”

Yang Chao found the Germans with artillery, because the Germans most wanted to see the Qing army fight with the Russian army, so that they could operate in Europe.

But the German governor couldn't make the decision, and helping Yang Chao train the troops had already been criticized, but Yang Chao's road guard regiment was a regimental training declared by the Qing government, and the Germans explained that it was an internal security force, equivalent to a policeman, and a railway police officer who protected the railway.

Therefore, the group of soldiers who took off their uniforms can also be said to be reasonable, and send artillery to the northeast to bombard the Russian army in formation, which may be over the line.

"You told the German Emperor that if the Germans did not dare to come up with the attitude of a great power at the critical moment of striving for national interests, then Germany would never become a world power."

I don't know if this sentence worked, the Kaiser agreed, but asked all soldiers to take off their uniforms, put on Chinese clothes, and do their best to keep it secret, because the Kaiser said that they would retreat at any time if their identities were revealed.

That's enough.

At the same time, he announced to the newspaper that the Shandong Road Protection Regiment had entered the Northeast and would aim to protect the Northeast Railway, hoping that the Russians would give up the cities along the Northeast Railway for the purpose of stationing the Road Protection Regiment.

Then it will depend on the reaction of the Russians and the attitude of the countries.

What was the psychological state of Hitler who ventured into the Rhineland, and what is the psychological state of Yang Chao now.

Anxiety, restlessness, anticipation, panic, it's really torture.

But Yang Chao never urged Yuan Shikai, because he knew that urging was also urging in vain, this person was not leaving, leading backwards, not that he was a donkey, but he was suspicious, the more you urged him, the more he felt that it was not time, when you didn't urge him, he might feel that the time had come, and pounced on it with the attitude of a vicious dog grabbing.

But it is necessary to contact other people, and ask Zhang Zhidong if the self-improvement army in Hubei is willing to fight for the country.

Although Zhang Zhidong is no longer the governor of Liangguang, the Duan Fang who took over is also a practical person, and the self-improvement army in Hubei has not been abandoned in his hands, and still maintains a certain combat effectiveness.

Zhang Zhidong hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to ask Zaifeng for instructions and transfer the Ziqiang army to Beijing to prevent accidents.

As long as mobilization is an attitude, how will the great powers think that they will create a false impression that the Chinese will mobilize the strength of the whole country.

All the power that can be used is used, just like the Japanese fought the Russo-Japanese War, Yang Chao bought European newspapers through the students of the Fumin Society, a powerful country in Europe, to create public opinion in favor of China, anyway, the Russians now have a very poor international image, or have never been better, and public opinion is easy to create.

In the name of recovering the country, it can also win the sympathy of others, the Japanese fight the Russians are supported by so many people, there is no reason why the Great Qing Kingdom is not as good as the Japanese to fight the Russians, the Japanese are fighting to help China recover lost territory and maintain international order, and the Chinese themselves recover lost territory, and the legal rationality is stronger.

Moreover, there were Russia's own people making trouble, Comrade Vladimir, they also began to propagandize, making the tsar an executioner who suppressed the common people at home and a tyrant who expanded excessively abroad, and sure enough, it quickly led to a wave of public opinion, and many newspapers demanded that their own governments intervene and maintain international peace.

The second step in creating international influence is to take advantage of the favorable situation to issue bonds.

This money, of course, can't be Yang Chao to come out, Yang Chao asked Zaifeng for 10 million military pay to deal with this war, with Yang Chao's current image of loyal ministers, Zaifeng is difficult to object, he didn't say a word, and directly asked the customs to allocate 10 million taels of silver to Yang Chao, saying that don't borrow foreign money first, let's spend our own old bottom first.

The tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty has increased in the past two years, and although the factories in various places have let the customs collect taxes, the customs controlled by the British, to put it mildly, are indeed more efficient than the yamen set up by the Qing government itself.

During the Russo-Japanese War, the Qing government's fiscal revenue exceeded 100 million taels of silver for the first time, and now there are 80 million taels of silver.

80 million taels of silver is a lot, but compared to the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese borrowed 110 million pounds of money, which is definitely far from enough, so not only does it not have the military strength to fight a Russo-Japanese War, but it is not even allowed to do it financially.

In mid-March, Wu Peifu finally concentrated the strength in his hands, only 50,000 people, but these 50,000 people are descendants, that is, Wu Peifu and Hua Yonglian's soldiers, who gathered in the victimized villages one by one to hate the good people of foreigners, and the remaining 50,000 people are basically horse bandits who have been wooed, but they have always been more obedient, and they are willing to follow if they promise a few guns.

The horse bandit army had already ridden to Liaoyang, they wanted to cut off the Liaoyang railway, and then block the enemy army in Liaoyang, and Wu Peifu would try to attack Fengtian.

50,000 soldiers are concentrated, it is not a rabble, these people are all undergoing training during the Russo-Japanese War, and they often go out in small teams to attack the Russian army or the Japanese army, regardless of their knowledge level, they are all elite veterans, and their commanders are all Huayong soldiers who have followed Yang Chao for several years, and they have received German-style training.

I don't look at anything else, but I can still bluff people when I look at the march and fight.

The Russian army has not moved, cowering in big cities, perhaps waiting for the tsar's order, because the tsar has not expressed his position, and behind it is now a fierce game between the great powers.

When Wu Peifu led his troops into Fengtian forty miles away, he immediately built fortifications and erected artillery positions and machine-gun positions.

This is to wait for the Russians to attack, Wu Peifu believes that if you defend, relying on favorable terrain, you may be able to defend for a while.

When the fortifications were almost finished and the Russians had not yet arrived, Wu Peifu immediately sent people to ultimatum the Russians in Fengtian City according to Yang Chao's request, demanding that they immediately withdraw from Fengtian.

The Russians refused.

This time, Yang Chao really had no tricks.