Chapter Twenty-Seven ends

The war in Hebei dragged on for months, and everyone thought they were just showing each other's muscles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Then before the snow fell, the largest modern war broke out in the Far East.

A total of more than 400,000 soldiers on both sides launched an unprecedented artillery bombardment on the short front from Liaocheng to Dezhou, and more shells were fired in a few days than in several months last year. Such a war situation has completely stepped out of the influence of the Napoleonic era.

Heavy machine guns and rapid-fire guns dominated the battlefield, but the vast size of China made the cavalry still have a strong assault force. It will remain indispensable until there is a new class to replace cavalry.

The Beiyang Army collapsed so quickly that the surrounding powers were too late to intervene. Who would have thought that the hundreds of thousands of Beiyang Army, which looked mighty and majestic before, would be able to completely herd sheep in ten days?

There is a grapevine that a big man said after the war, "Even if you have 200,000 pigs, you can't catch them in ten days."

No one knows whether the matter is true or not, but at this point, it is a person who can see that in the north, there is no longer the strength to challenge the two in Handan City.

However, the British are not very worried about this, they are experts in playing with power. For hundreds of years in Europe, they united the French, the Russians, and the Germans........ Oh, it was still Prussia at that time, and they fought together in the dark, and it took years to kill Napoleon.

Until then, they had also killed the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden in the same way........ They believed that with the same means, they could play with this ancient kingdom in the palm of their hands.

The British Far East Fleet had already stopped at Tianjin, and the Japanese also sent several warships to Tianjin in accordance with the treaty of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, preparing for a battle to defend Tianjin. Feng Guozhang, who was far away in Xuzhou, also received a large number of friendly people to help him defend against a possible attack from the north.

However, the two people in Handan City are by no means the same as the people in this world. After defeating the Wang Shizhen cluster in front of him, he did not rush to kill the Beiyang Army. Their army controlled all parts of Hebei, but instead of sending troops to attack Tianjin and Beijing, they carried Li Hongzhang, who was already waiting for death, out to clean up the mess.

This sudden hand not only stunned foreigners, but also many people in China were about to drop their jaws to the ground. But if you think about it, such a choice, although unexpected, is reasonable.

Except for Li Hongzhang, probably no one can suppress those princes up and down the country, even if it is nominally. However, such a move made Zhang Zhidong very angry, and he was against Li Hongzhang at the beginning. Although both of them can be regarded as reformers, one is in the north and the other is in the south, each with its own territory and army, and it is normal for them to dislike each other.

And now what do these people mean by Li Hongzhang, a guy who has already been angry, too much? Could that old guy still be the first person in China? The position of the great president was the emperor in the past.

However, when the news came that he had been summoned to Beijing to be vice president, he hesitated again. In Zhang Zhidong's life, although he also loves power, he prefers fame. He, like his predecessor Zeng Guofan, did not have the courage to rebel, but when he had the opportunity to be the titular vice president, he still could not resist the temptation.

Later, the second president and the first vice president of the republic were announced. Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, the old guys who had been fighting all their lives, happily went to the capital to be the representatives of the country.

Li Hongzhang had already seen through the world, the collapse of the Beiyang Fleet, the defeat of the Beiyang Army in the First Sino-Japanese War, and the fact that he had to bend the knee to Japan and sue for peace, all of which made him have no other ideas. Although he is happy to be the president of the previous term, he is very clear about his positioning, which is a rubber stamp.

Zhang Zhidong still has some ideas, and he wants to shine at the end of his life, so as to leave something worth writing a few sentences in history. However, Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu have long known that he is a high-eyed and low-level person, where can they leave any real power for them? What they can do now is to receive foreign friends on behalf of the country.

But they can't sign any treaties now, and even if they do, it's useless, because if Handan doesn't nod, this jump will be just a dead letter.

The current Handan army is like the Chu army after the Battle of Julu. There are 100,000 hanging divisions, and the swords are pointing in all directions, and the princes are all terrified. However, after the Beiyang Army on the land of Hebei was absorbed, they did not launch a larger military operation, but only took Shandong by chance, and then stopped.

Feng Guozhang, who was fighting in Xuzhou, originally wanted to fight to the death with the invading enemy, but when he saw this situation, he died down. He is not stupid, now even the boss Yuan Shikai has admitted it, and he is still going to make a fuss. As long as he doesn't take away the territory in his hands, other things will be fine.

Zhang Zhidong also saw that Handan did not use force to unify the world, so he happily led people to Beijing. Otherwise, it would not be easy to get him out of Wuhan's base camp.

Although the war has subsided, the aftermath of the war is still a myriad of things. How much hundreds of thousands of Beiyang Army were dismantled, and the division of territory was .......... Wait, wait.

But at this time, it is already December, and there is a big thing, and I have to make way for God. The first heavy snow of the winter has finally fallen. Just like last year, after the heavy snowfall, the war quickly subsided.

The valiant and the vile, the upright, everything is hidden under the snow, just like the ambition of the Japanese.

"What a pity, don't you say?" After receiving the news of the end of the Chinese Civil War, Oyama Yan said to Ito Hirobumi with regret: "In this way, it seems that Handan will soon be able to unify China." ”

Ito Hirofumi straightened his chest, knelt on the tatami mat, put down the teacup in his hand when he heard this, and said lightly: "It's okay, as long as the northern army goes south, it will inevitably be a big battle." ”

"But judging from the combat effectiveness shown by the Handan army, those armies in the south may not be opponents."

"Why do you think Handan Jun accepted it when he saw it?" Ito's face was full of calmness, "Of course, they can't fight anymore." Although the war lasted only ten days, more ammunition was consumed during those ten days than it had been in previous years. ”

"Oh, that's the case?" Dashanyan said regretfully: "In the middle of the year, I knew that my country's exports to China had increased significantly, but most of them were raw materials for arms. ”

"Do you still think about the good things that the snipe and the clam are fighting for?" Hirobumi Ito smiled dumbly, "Is there anything in this world that is not earned?" If you want something, then go and take it with dignity! (To be continued.) )