"Hurry up, hurry up and pack up the softness."

In the Jiangsu Governor's Mansion, Cheng Dequan was speaking loudly to the subordinates who were packing up the fine and soft items, but beside him, Cheng Dequan's wife twisted her little face and said in horror.

"Master, do we really have to go?"

Hearing his wife ask, Cheng Dequan said with a bitter face while letting his subordinates speed up.

"What else could I do? That Huang Keqiang wanted to please Yuan, and he wanted to elect me as the commander of the Southern Army. Are you saying that Yuan Shikai is so easy to crusade? You must know that Yuan Shikai's Beiyang is several times stronger than Sun and Huang's Yuan Jun, if I don't leave now, when Huang Keqiang's Yuan Jun is defeated, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave when I want to. ”

Cheng Dequan is now more than 50 years old, and he has been up and down in the Huan Sea for many years, and finally even once held the position of Heilongjiang General, whether it is vision or experience, he can be called the word Lao Spicy, so it can be seen that the Alliance is not Yuan Shikai's opponent at all, not to mention that the Yuan Army that stands up now is only a part of the forces in the Alliance, and some are not willing to use force at all. In this case, in Cheng Dequan's view, the chances of winning against Yuan Jun are definitely less than 30%. In this case, the commander of the Southern Army who left to fight Yuan Jun, in Cheng Dequan's opinion, the best result is just to go into exile, and never want to come back for the rest of his life, so there is no other way, Cheng Dequan has no choice but to take his family to prepare to flee to the concession in Shanghai, so that it is naturally the best to win against Yuan Jun, and Yuan Shikai will not blame himself if he loses, after all, he did not go to be the commander of the Southern Army, and after the incident, maybe he can be the governor of Jiangsu. (During the Manchu Dynasty, Han Chinese were not allowed to serve in the Northeast, but this practice was later broken by Cheng Dequan, and throughout the history of the Manchu Dynasty, Cheng Dequan was also the first and only Han general among the 76 Heilongjiang generals.) When the Gengzi Incident occurred, the Russian army invaded China, Cheng Dequan, as a representative of the peace conference, blocked the muzzle of the gun to prevent the Russian army from shelling the city, and later the Russians wanted to set up Cheng Dequan as the general of Heilongjiang and be the puppet of the Russian army. ）

Hearing Cheng Dequan say this, his lady also closed her mouth strangely and said nothing.

After sorting out the soft things that could be taken away, in the middle of the night, Cheng Dequan and his family secretly left Nanjing under the escort of a team of personal soldiers, and when Huang Xing came to discuss with him about Yuan, he found that their newly appointed commander of the Southern Army had run away.

By the time Huang Xing sent people to find the Cheng Dudu back, the ship that Cheng Dequan and his family were traveling on was not far from Shanghai...

Just appointed Cheng Dequan as the commander of the Southern Army, people ran away without giving face, and the impact of this incident can be imagined, especially the matter of promoting Cheng Dequan as the commander of the Southern Army, which has been spread through the newspaper...

Sitting in the headquarters, Huang Xing was still having a headache about Cheng Dequan's affairs, after all, Cheng Dequan's escape was too big a blow to Yuan Jun.

At this time, Yu Youren suddenly walked in from outside, looked up at Yu Youren, and Chen Jinxuan, who was lowering his head just now, said with a wry smile.

"Brother Youren, Kegong and I are having a terrible headache now, do you have any good news to give us relief?"

already knew that Cheng Dequan had run away, Yu Youren also smiled bitterly, but then he cheered up and said.

"The news just came that Bai Wenwei from Anhui, Chen Qimei from Shanghai, Chen Jiongming from Guangdong, Sun Daoren and Xu Chongzhi from Fujian have all announced their reading power..."

In the eyes of others, these may be good news, but Huang Xing and Chen Jinxuan are still bitter, because they have already contacted Bai Wenwei and others, and they have known it for a long time.

Seeing that the expressions of Huang Xing and Chen Jinxuan did not become relaxed, Yu Youren smiled bitterly and continued.

"Also, Zhong Kai has just returned from Sichuan."

Hearing the news, Huang Xing and the others were in good spirits.

Although because of the three million silver dollars provided by Yan Guang, Huang Xing and others are much better financially than in history, but as soon as the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels, and fighting a war is a money-consuming thing after all, and because of the preparation for Yuan Jun's relationship, the three million silver dollars supported by Yan Guang have already been spent, so in the end, Huang Xing had to let Liao Zhongkai go to Sichuan again, hoping that Yan Guang could sponsor some more funds...

"Since Zhong Kai has returned, let him come over quickly."

Understanding the eagerness in Huang Xing's heart, Yu Youren smiled and comforted. "Don't worry, Zhong Kai is coming by carriage at the dock now, and it won't take long to get there."

Hearing Yu Youren say this, Huang Xing also reluctantly quieted himself.

Not long after, someone outside the door came to report that Liao Zhongkai had returned. A few minutes later, Huang Xing heard Liao Zhongkai's laughter.

"Zhong Kai? How's it going? ”

Looking at Liao Zhongkai who walked in, Huang Xing asked anxiously without letting him sit down first.

"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission." has long been accustomed to Huang Xing's straightforward surname, and Liao Zhongkai said indifferently. "Yan Guang has already agreed to the loan, and is willing to secretly lend two million silver dollars to support."

Saying that, Liao Zhongkai took out a check for two million yuan from Citibank from his briefcase, such a check was enough to meet Yuan Jun's needs for at least two months.

"Good, good, good!" After saying hello three times in a row, Huang Xing looked at Liao Zhongkai expectantly. "And what happened to the military support?"

"This..." Hearing Huang Xing ask this question, Liao Zhongkai shook his head gloomily. Sorry, I still didn't say anything about him..."

"So..."

Seeing that the atmosphere in the room fell silent, Chen Jinxuan on the side hurriedly smiled.

"It seems that this Yan Guang really wants to be a fisherman, Kegong, it seems that we can rest assured, since this Yan Guang wants to be a fisherman, he can't let the crane eat the mussels, right?"

Yan Guang's mind of wanting to be a fisherman, not mentioning Huang Xing and others for the time being, even Yuan Shikai had already guessed it. After all, everyone understands the truth of cold lips and teeth, in the current situation where the two sides are about to fight, if Yan Guang does not come to the aid of the weaker side, but continues to abide by neutrality, then in Yuan Shikai's opinion, it will be a strange thing.

Yuan Shikai's reaction to this was that since an all-out war between Beiyang and the Kuomintang was inevitable, it was necessary to defeat Yuan's army in the shortest possible time, before the Kuomintang troops in Sichuan and Guizhou had not been reinforced. And what Huang Xing and others thought was that since this Yan Guang wanted to be a fisherman, then he couldn't sit back and watch himself and others fail, and when Yuan Jun lost, this Yan Guang would definitely stand up, otherwise his Kuomintang would not only not be able to do the fisherman, but I am afraid that he would have to face Yuan Shikai's Beiyang alone.

And then...

Hasn't anyone ever thought that if Yan Guang wanted the two to fight to the death, and then push the two down together?

A real man, just to open a peerless one!

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"It seems that this Yan Guang wants to be a fisherman..."

Holding a document that had just been handed over by his subordinates, Yuan Shikai smiled at Wang Shizhen, Yang Shiqi, Yang Du and others.

Although Yan Guang's assistance to Yuan Jun was secret, and the people from the Military Intelligence Bureau arranged it well along the way, in the end, the matter was revealed to Yuan Shikai by people within the Kuomintang.

"Gong Bao, so far, we can only defeat the Yuan army as soon as possible, at least before the Kuomintang army comes out..." Yang Du once went to Sichuan and visited the Kuomintang troops stationed in Chongqing, so he had the most say among the three. When I was in Sichuan, I visited everywhere and was really impressed, especially those units of the National Socialist Party, although they were not as good as our old Beiyang troops in terms of training, but they were still a step stronger in terms of equipment. ”

Thinking about the Mauser G98 rifles that he saw when he visited the Third Division, as well as the Makqin, Madsen, 75 Mountain and Field Guns, as well as the 105 and 120 caliber guns being manufactured in the arsenal, Yang Du exhaled slowly.

Hearing Yang Du say this, Yuan Shikai also nodded.

Yuan Shikai had a good relationship with the British, especially with the British Minister Zhu Erdian, and correspondingly, the British also provided a lot of information about Sichuan, such as the arms that Yan Guang had purchased at the beginning, and the production equipment he had purchased at the beginning, which could produce those weapons...

"When Huizi went to Sichuan, did he only see 105 and 120 caliber artillery? It seems that they have not yet mastered the technology of 150 and 210 artillery..."Thinking so in his heart, Yuan Shikai remembered the suggestion that Yang Du should add and update the equipment of the Beiyang Machinery Bureau when he returned from Sichuan. "Hanyang is in the hands of Li Yuanhong, and its own machinery is also aging, in this case, let's take out a part of the 25 million pounds obtained from the loan to expand the machine bureau..."

Just when Yuan Shikai was still thinking about the matter of the Machine Bureau, Wang Shizhen on the side coughed twice and spoke.

"The rebel party in Jiangxi has two divisions and one brigade, and the rebel party in Jiangsu has four divisions, of which the first, seventh and ninth divisions are the same as the two divisions and one brigade in Jiangxi, all of which are provincial troops, and only the eighth division is [***], which is still slightly combative. Although Anhui, Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces are all reading ability, they are actually waiting and seeing, as long as we can cleanly solve the rebellion in Jiangxi and Jiangsu, then this time the matter will naturally be..."

Although he was still thinking about the matter of the Machine Bureau, after hearing Wang Shizhen's analysis, Yuan Shikai still nodded.

"That's right, as long as the rebels in these two provinces are defeated with the power of thunder, then the rebels in the other provinces will naturally be self-defeating..." Now it's up to Zhiquan and Huafu, as long as their fight is clean and beautiful, maybe they can turn bad things into good things..."

Wang Shizhen and Yang Du naturally knew what it meant for this bad thing to become a good thing, but they had a question in their hearts, that is, would things really be so easy?

While Yuan Shikai was talking, Li Liejun's Jiangxi army had already started a fierce battle with Li Chun's troops in Beiyang at Shahe Town and Hukou...

(To be continued)