Arms belong to sensitive materials, can not pass through the Beiyang defense area, the speed of delivery is much slower than before, fortunately, stumbling, after bypassing Wuhan, on the Yangtze River, it is much faster, Baotou before the trade route is not a joke, even if now the entire Hubei is above the name, is under the rule of the Beiyang Army, but a few years of a lot of wealth piled up in the relationship, not a simple occupation can be changed, if it is not for the number of 200,000 rifles is too large, in Wuhan will cause a certain riot, They boarded the ship in Wuhan.

In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River below Wuhan, several 3,000-ton steamboats and 200,000 rifles went down the river, several times faster than before, and directly rushed into Hunan, along the convenient water system in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the water system connected to Changsha, along the Xiangjiang River, into Changsha.

Because of the relationship of the water network, no steamboats were used, but one by one awning boats, looking at a series of endless awning boats, after entering Changsha, Duan Qirui's brows furrowed tightly, it was obvious that Changsha had gained considerable support, either arms or personnel.

Soon, the news about Changsha was reported to Duan Qirui, and sure enough, the batch of arms from the northwest that triggered their attack on the ** party army and started without being completely prepared entered Changsha.

200,000 guns, and a variety of Makqin, even if I don't know how many, but with the cheapness of the price in the northwest that Duan Qirui knows, the other party will not buy less, and there is already a strong line of defense, because of the appearance of Makqin, it has become more impregnable. The Beiyang Army missed the biggest opportunity to annihilate the ** party in one fell swoop, and the new army of about 110,000, and it was a new army that had received simple military training, and there was enough ammunition and a fortified city like Changsha, which was almost impossible to break.

The troops in the northwest who helped escort the arms did not intervene in the Great War of the North and South, and they did not even leave military observers.

The team left, the Beiyang Army also began to attack, Duan Qirui could not just rely on a piece of information, to withdraw the troops, he attacked several times in a row, and found that the defense of Changsha was several times stronger than before, and he did not continue to attack Changsha, he may have worked hard before, or he may be able to occupy Changsha, after Changsha obtained a large number of Makqin, it is unlikely, and he turned to look for other directions.

The Beiyang Army turned quickly, and the new army did not catch up, even if it was the 3 divisions that resisted the 3 towns of the Beiyang Army head-on, it was also clear that they only relied on the position, and it was the Beiyang Army that really occupied the initiative on the battlefield. They are more developed than them, and they move faster, unless they go around through Guò Shanghai, or even by sea, and attack the hinterland, they are unlikely to pose a threat to the south of the Yangtze River, and in this way, the two major military forces are facing each other along the Yangtze River.

A series of battles, because of the relationship on the banks of the Yangtze River, began to gradually calm down, occasionally some firefights, but more and more calm, one side is the strong Beiyang Army, but unfortunately they are not accustomed to the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River, and the combat effectiveness is not the greatest Cheng dù, plus the ** party began to popularize the battlefield layout of the three divisions, although it is only a gourd to draw a scoop, but countless trenches and some fixed defenses, the Yangtze River on several fixed river crossing sites are protected by impermeable, thousands of miles on the bank of the Yangtze River, It's not that there is no breakthrough, but Duan Qirui doesn't dare to break through.

**The party's combat effectiveness is already known, most of the army is not as good as the Beiyang Army, but the three divisions are basically the same level as the Beiyang Army, because of the battle of the Yangtze River, occasionally in the field, if the number of people is more than Beiyang, it will definitely be able to defeat the three divisions, but there are not many real casualties, once it encounters a defensive war, or a preset battlefield, Beiyang is definitely not an opponent.

Other armies, defensive warfare is good to say, basically evenly matched with Beiyang, but the movement war is not good, because of this, even if Beiyang breaks through the Yangtze River defense line, it is impossible to defeat the ** party in one fell swoop, in case it is resisted by three divisions, and the other ** party uses fortifications and other things to encircle, and even three towns will be buried in the south of the Yangtze River.

The situation in front made Yuan Shikai anxious, but he was helpless, and continued to mobilize forces, and mobilized the Beiyang Army in 6 towns to the Yangtze River defense line, concentrating troops to attack, although it gave the ** party huge pressure, but it was only a flickering victory, the Yangtze River defense line, as if it was a very tough spring, can absorb any level of attack, and the battlefield was so anxious.

In fact, the internal party is not as calm as Yuan Shikai thought, although the battlefield is scorching, but the party's losses are still not small, after all, most of them are rabble, to the three divisions to save face for them, not only the strength is not a big loss, but because of the relationship between training and supplementation, gradually expanding, if there is no accident, the three divisions will be the most directly governed force of the party.

In the previous war, the strength shown by Beiyang, only three towns, almost hit the ** party to the ground, after the six suppressions were all pressed, it was even more pressed against the ** party, ** party only 3 divisions can come in handy, the rest can only be a defensive war, under the hard resistance, a little miserable.

Gradually, various voices began to appear, and even within the party, there were more and more statements that the party could not defeat Beiyang, and if Beiyang could force the Qing emperor to abdicate and support the Republic of China, then it was not impossible to make concessions.

There are more and more such tendencies, and even in several meetings of the League, there are more and more such voices, and the momentum is getting louder and louder.

In this way, even Sun Yat-sen could not ignore the call from the bottom to the top, and finally, after the continuous attack in Beiyang and the breakthrough of the Yangtze River defense line in a small area, even Sun Yat-sen could not sit still, and under the pressure of the alliance personnel, he began to contact the Beiyang Army.

As if there was a tacit understanding, after the cease-fire between the two sides, the exchanges between personnel and the back and forth of diplomats were like snowflakes, and the things about the armistice and what to talk about between the North and the South became clearer and clearer in such exchanges.

Perhaps because both sides were concerned about the Northwest, they did not inform the Northwest of the Northwest, but only discussed in their own names, and the figures of the great powers also faintly flashed in it, especially the British.

A fragmented China is not in the interests of the British, and some of Yuan Shikai's practices are more in line with their ideas than those of the Qing court, and even a series of treaties have been recognized and approved by Yuan Shikai and the ** Party, and this series of negotiations has this basis.

Yang Yuanzhao looked coldly at the peace negotiations between the north and the south, with the secret method of the Beiyang Army and the ** party, it can be said that for him, it is an undefended, most of the news can be known in a short period of time, and even some top secrets, just in a small range of information, guess and guess, according to historical facts, now it should be the ** party to Yuan Shikai put forward conditions, and there is a preferential clause for the abdication of the Qing emperor, this clause is almost despised in later generations, but in this era, there is some inevitability.

Sure enough, in 1912, Yuan Shikai suddenly put the conditions of the ** party on the court to discuss, in the Manchu ministers dominated by the members of the Zongshe Party have opposed, the Empress Dowager Yulong agreed to Yuan Shikai's request, with the six-year-old Pu Yi, issued an edict of abdication, China's thousands of years of feudal dynasty rule, finally came to an end.

The process of history has been carried out like this, although there is such a deviation in the northwest, the north and the south have become evenly matched even under the promotion of the northwest, but the ** party still compromised with Yuan Shikai, after Puyi's abdication, the next thing is that Yuan Shikai announced that he became the interim president, Sun Yat-sen resigned as the president, it seems that the aura of democracy began to appear in China, and all kinds of forces feel that national unity and democratic republic are just around the corner, as long as a national election is held, you can truly democratic republic.

In the chaotic hinterland, there are all kinds of forces, and they have only one vision, that is, the first president, the reputation of China's first and the world's second Washington, which makes everyone crazy, and the goal is directly aimed at this position, and even a series of assassinations and undercurrents surge.

The Northwest has also been affected by this trend of thought, and some high-level military and political officials feel that it is time to expand the Northwest's ideology and influence to the whole country, and the position of president seems to be reserved for Yang Yuanzhao.

For this, Yang Yuanzhao just laughed, but only the top political and military leaders, including Liu Shu and Feng Yuxiang, got Yang Yuanzhao's explanation, and after the explanation, all the relevant statements on this aspect stopped, and the situation in the northwest began to stabilize.

Yang Yuanzhao's method of persuading them is very simple, if it is only military strength, the northwest is already the first in China, and even compared with the great powers, it is not much better, but others don't know, not to mention whether Yang Yuanzhao's reputation can get the position of president, even if he gets it, Sun Yat-sen, Yuan Shikai, who is willing to give up this position, only the land under absolute rule really belongs to the northwest, this point, he knows better than anyone else.

The development of the northwest proves Yang Yuanzhao's point of view, Liu Shu and Feng Yuxiang are a little pity, but agree with Yang Yuanzhao's approach, the northwest began to work harder for development, the railway and highway formed a network, logistics and industry formed the blood, the new provinces in the northwest, almost a day, highly concentrated industry and science and technology, promoting the development of the northwest, with each passing day. R1152