The faces of several princes immediately became ugly, and they lowered their heads and fell into deep thought. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Cixi spoke again: "Why don't you speak, the Han people are unreliable, and the only thing that can be relied on in the Great Qing Kingdom is a few of you princes." If you can't do anything, then the Great Qing Kingdom will really not be saved. ”

In Cixi's scolding, a prince finally mustered up the courage to reply: "Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army still has the Three Towns Army left, and there will definitely be no moths in a short period of time." Therefore, Yuan Shikai's court does not have to worry for the time being. As long as he is appeased, Yuan Shikai will not threaten the imperial court for half a year, or even a year. After all, Yuan Shikai only has the Beiyang Army of the Three Towns left in his hands, while we have heavy artillery that neither the Forbidden Army of the Two Towns nor the Beiyang Army is equipped with. ”

Cixi's ugly face finally relaxed a lot, and she replied with a look of approval: "Yes, with the mourning family's understanding of Yuan Shikai, in a short period of time, the Beiyang Army will only do one thing, that is, to expand the army, so that the Beiyang Army can reach the pre-war level in a short period of time." However, it is by no means an easy task to expand from the existing three-town army to the nine-town army, and it is simply impossible to do it without half a year or even longer. ”

"Therefore, what Aiqing said just now is very right, in a short period of time, the imperial court does not need to spend too much energy to deal with Yuan Shikai."

At this time, the other prince quit, maybe he had a grudge against Yuan Shikai, and retorted as soon as he came up: "Let the Beiyang Army expand again, this is absolutely not good." The Queen Mother, the imperial court has been laid out for so long, and it was not easy to inflict heavy losses on the Beiyang Army through the Liaodong Army. If the Beiyang Army expands and then regains its strength, then the imperial court will not have to face two powerful opponents at the same time, the Liaodong Army and the Beiyang Army. ”

At this time, after asking such a question that only a fool could not understand, several other princes immediately showed expressions full of disdain.

Cixi asked with a dissatisfied face: "In this case, the mourning family wants to know, what can Aiqing do to make the imperial court stop the expansion of the Beiyang Army!" ”

Although the Beiyang Army lost nearly two-thirds of its strength, it still had the most elite Three Towns Army after all.

Even if there is a forbidden army in the imperial court, it is impossible to overpower the Beiyang Army in terms of strength.

Moreover, with the current situation of the imperial court, it is impossible to risk being overthrown and resist the Beiyang Army.

Compared with the Liaodong Army, which has officially turned against the imperial court, the Beiyang Army still listens to the imperial court, at least on the surface.

In this case, if the imperial court let the Liaodong Army outside the Guanwai not fight, it will insist on going its own way and resisting the Beiyang Army. Perhaps before the war really started, the imperial court would lose the support of the people, and even put the major governors in the south with heavy troops in danger.

When the time comes, the imperial court will really be finished.

Thinking of this, the prince who was still clamoring for sanctions against Yuan Shikai just now, beads of sweat immediately appeared on his wrinkled forehead.

Faced with Cixi's dissatisfied questioning, he could only lower his head and answer: "The Queen Mother is angry, the old minister is angry for a while, and he has lost his words, please take care of the phoenix body, the Qing Kingdom is inseparable from the Queen Mother." ”

After retracting her gaze, Cixi did not intend to let go of the princes in front of her, and continued to ask: "The Beiyang Army doesn't have to worry about it here for the time being, and the mourning family still has a way to stabilize Yuan Shikai." is about to take the Liaodong Army in the three eastern provinces, and you Aiqing must immediately think of a solution! ”

Perhaps in order to make up for his mistake just now, the prince who was clamoring to sanction Yuan Shikai just now stood up again.

"Queen Mother, I don't know if the 50,000 troops in the five towns transferred by the imperial court from the provinces south of the Yangtze River are still on the way!"

"They are still on the way to Tongliao, as long as the mourning family does not make an order, they will not go back." Cixi nodded in affirmation.

As the only one among several princes who understands military affairs, this time the imperial court set up the two towns forbidden army, Cixi specially asked him to command the two towns of the Janissaline Army, and let Tie Liang serve as his deputy to take charge of the Praetorian Guard together, he is Zaitao who was crowned the title of county king by the imperial court a year earlier than in history.

Hearing Cixi's affirmative answer, Zaitao's eyes immediately lit up.

"Queen Mother, the minister has an idea! As far as the minister knows, the total strength of the Liaodong Army is not much. Before the attack on Mukden, the total number of troops was 60,000 or 70,000. Although Mukden was taken in a short period of time, the casualties were certainly not small. After all, Fengtian City garrisoned the Beiyang Army of the Five Towns, and we all know very well the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army, which is very powerful. ”

"Even if the Liaodong Army loses 10,000 people to take Fengtian, then the Liaodong Army will have a maximum of 60,000 now."

"Now, the fighting in the three eastern provinces is not over, and the Liaodong Army wants to take Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces in a short period of time to ensure the stability of the entire three eastern provinces, and each province must send at least 10,000 people. In this way, there are less than 40,000 people left in the Liaodong army in Mukden. ”

"Don't forget, Liaodong Lushun also stationed nearly 100,000 elite Japanese troops, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong Army is, it must deploy at least 20,000 elites in Liaodong to prevent the Japanese army from taking the opportunity to invade Liaodong. Because, the foundation of the Liaodong Army is in Liaodong, and before the entire three eastern provinces are completely occupied, Liaodong cannot have any accidents. ”

"Tongliao City can eat 15,000 elites of the imperial court in a short time, and the Liaodong Army must have deployed 10,000 people in Tongliao. With the addition of 20,000 people in the direction of Lushun in Liaodong, there are still about 10,000 people left in the Liaodong Army. ”

Seeing that Cixi and several important ministers listened carefully to their analysis, the more he talked, the more confident Zaitao continued to analyze: "Queen Mother, ministers, there are still two places that the Liaodong Army must defend, don't forget. ”

"Fengtian, the Liaodong Army captured tens of thousands of Beiyang troops in Mukden, plus Fengtian is the garrison of the governor's mansion of the three eastern provinces, and the Liaodong Army must send at least 5,000 people to garrison Fengtian."

"There is another place, Shanhaiguan. As another passage where the imperial court may send troops out of the customs, and where it can be directly inserted into Liaozhong, the Liaodong Army will definitely deploy heavy troops. Not to mention too much, 5,000 people must be indispensable. ”

Although Cixi did not understand military affairs, his long-term exposure still allowed him to know some of the most basic military attempts.

As soon as Zaitao finished speaking, Cixi said: "The mourning family understands what you mean. On the surface, there was no problem for the Liaodong Army to take the three eastern provinces. But in fact, the Liaodong Army has reached the point where its forces are stretched thin. ”

"Yes, Queen Mother!" Zaitao nodded in affirmation.

Although she agreed with Zaitao's analysis, Cixi still did not understand the true meaning of Zaitao's words.

Before the words could be spoken, Zai Yi, who was more qualified next to him, asked directly: "Even if the Liaodong Army is overstretched. But they blocked heavy troops on the way out of the imperial army, and unless they fought hard, the imperial army could not even enter the three eastern provinces, let alone fight a decisive battle with the Liaodong army. ”

"No, there's another opening." Zaitao said with a firm face.

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