Chapter 38 got it

Yuan Shikai has not had a very good life in the past two years, it is very bad, because his enemies have been getting stronger, but the forces in Beiyang have not developed much. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Battle of Hebei, the Beiyang Army collapsed in ten days, and he could only play the trick of retreating into advance. Originally, he thought that young people like Chen Cheng and Lin Meng, who were born in the rivers and lakes recklessly, would definitely make a big mess of the country.

Even if they can stabilize the situation in the north, the warlords in the south will not be convinced. Besides, Feng Guozhang still has 70,000 or 80,000 troops intact in Jiangsu, as long as the century comes, he Yuan Shikai will be able to make a comeback!

Who knew that Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu didn't follow his script at all, and directly lifted Li Hongzhang's hole out. In this way, neither the South nor the North will have anything to say. As soon as these two people came out, the guys who were eager to try it all died down.

In the whole country, only Sun Yat-sen, who seized Guangzhou, was clamoring for the Beijing government to be illegal and that the Northern Expedition must bring down the warlord Yunyun. But no one in Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi is interested. In the end, Sun Yat-sen still went on the Northern Expedition, but he stopped just when he was about to leave Guangdong.

This kind of behavior, called the Northern Expedition, was actually an act of seizing the whole of Guangdong, and a considerable number of people's glasses were shattered. However, Sun Wen has a lot of reasons, he is not well prepared, the time has not come, anyway, people have two skins, no matter how they say it, it is reasonable.

When he first went to the wilderness, Yuan Shikai also said that he was going abroad for investigation as agreed. But he just went around Japan, then went around Nanyang, and went directly back to his hometown in Henan. Then, he watched how the Northwest Town Guard gradually settled down the place, and then began to build and develop industry in a violent manner.

Henan is on the edge of Hebei, and Hebei is the old nest of the Black Dragon Society before, and many situations over there can easily be transmitted to Henan. Yuan Shikai, who was in Xiangcheng, didn't need much effort to get the information over there.

During the Gengzi years, the Black Dragon Society was still uncapable. At the end of the war, a bunch of shoddy guns came out. At the most critical moment, even the workers were completely mobilized, and one of them was dragged to Beijing with a large knife and a few grenades.

Fortunately, in the end, he relied on compromising with the British and ceding a lot of power, which fooled things over. And a year later, the cannon of the Black Dragon Society shattered the dream of the Beiyang Army to dominate the world.

Two years later, with the completion or near-completion of the Tongpu Railway, the Shiji Railway, and the railway from Handan to Taiyuan, the Northwest Town Guard's control over the local area became stronger. The rebellion that swirled and extinguished was almost extinct, and in front of the machine guns and cannons, the local tyrants who made trouble were very miserable.

Then, the power of the Northwest Town Guard Mansion began to slowly spread around. And the first to bear the brunt is Henan, which is known as the Central Plains of the world. Henan is well-connected in all directions, the land is flat, and the population is large, if you want to control the north, it is a link that cannot be bypassed.

A few years ago, the Black Dragon Society was not strong enough and could only farm in their hometown, but now it is very different. Thanks to the railway, the transportation of people and materials is much faster and easier. In just a few days, the troops from Shandong and Shanxi can be transferred.

Feng Guozhang's troops, which occupied the entire Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan, were already overwhelmed by such pressure. Although the army was also expanded to 200,000, Feng Guozhang took a large amount of pounds and dollars, and looted these places three feet high.

The local people, including the landlords and merchants, were miserable. Where is the army of 200,000 so easy to raise? Not to mention weapons and equipment, training costs at times, and clothing expenses, just eating will make Feng Guozhang poor.

He also once wanted to go west to Henan or simply seize the whole of Anhui (he didn't have the courage to attack Shandong for the time being), and then because Yuan Shikai returned to Xiangcheng, he plunged headlong into the whirlpool of Henan.

The old Beiyang Army was naturally well-trained and well-equipped, and the armies that Feng Guozhang expanded later were not very capable of fighting. The local forces in Henan were still beaten by the Beiyang Army at first, but when the guns and cannons purchased from Handan arrived, things were completely reversed.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, Henan has been a place of bandits. Although Liu Zhenhua later went to Shaanxi, there were still many heroes who stayed. These people took the "monkey version" weapon they bought, refused to accept the king, occupied the land as the king, and did not give Feng Guozhang face at all.

The Beiyang Army came over, that is, they wanted to scavenge the land fiercely, where would they be polite to these heroes? The two sides fought first in small fights, then in big fights, and finally in the dark.

Although it is a monkey version of the weapon, it is also a rifle that can kill people. Except that these guns could not be equipped with bayonets and the rifling was almost flattened, they were still very useful, at least much more powerful than large blades and earthen guns.

On the one hand, Feng Guozhang wanted to keep the army to watch his hometown, and on the other hand, he also had to put elite troops on the border to prevent Cao Degui from killing him from Shandong, and the second-rate troops sent to Henan were equipped with weapons exchanged by the British.

These people have not undergone much training, and their technical and tactical level is not much higher than that of those heroes in Henan. Even if there are some victories, they are mostly defeating battles, not annihilation battles. After fighting for a period of time, after the experience of those Henan people was also played, the two sides have been fighting a bad battle in Henan.

After the war entered this point, Feng Guozhang also thought about sending more troops over and directly killing those heroes in Henan. But those forces on the side have all transferred their troops one after another, and they are eyeing the border.

No matter who it is, as long as there is an expansion move, his neighbors must be extremely vigilant. What's more, Feng Guozhang is not a person who can put down his body to play with power, and those people around him are afraid that he will continue to expand after annexing Henan.

Even if Yuan Shikai came forward, he couldn't dispel this concern.

Therefore, Feng Guozhang could only stop at the western part of Henan.

Feng Guozhang's expansion is over, and he is in a very bad mood, and Yuan Shikai behind him is not in a good mood.

Now, after getting the news that Duan Qirui wants to invest in the northwest, Yuan Datou's mood has become even worse. But he couldn't say anything yet, because in the name of fighting the Japanese, he couldn't object.

Therefore, in the end, he also sent a telegram of "got it" to Duan Qirui. (To be continued.) )

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