On December 12, after finishing all the affairs of Shaanxi and Gansu, and explaining to Xu Jian and Xiang Zilong the military development plan for a long time in the future, Wang Jundao finally decided to return to Beijing.

The six major legions of the Dragon and Tiger Army began to attack Shanxi, so far, three months of fighting, although with excellent command, elite soldiers, advanced weapons, so that the losses of each legion are not large, but each legion also paid the price of nearly 10,000 deaths, there are more than 500 lifelong disabilities, and the rest of the seriously injured and lightly injured are not less than 10,000 people, if it is not for Wang Jundao is now able to produce antibiotics on a large scale, I am afraid that many wounded soldiers will die of injuries.

In particular, in the battle by the Hanshui River, there were heavy casualties, and almost all the cavalry regiments under the six legions of the Dragon and Tiger Army were disabled.

Now the rest of the six cavalry regiments did not return to Beijing with Wang Jundao's division, but all stayed in Longxi, and the elite cavalry recruited from the captives of the Gan army and the Shaanxi army were all replenished, and the six cavalry regiments were all expanded into cavalry brigades, each cavalry brigade with 5,000 cavalry, forming a cavalry army! Both the Second and Fifth Legions would fully support the formation of the Cavalry Corps.

The insufficient cavalry soldiers were recruited from Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, and the horses were all selected from excellent Hequ horses.

Of course, this era is not called Hequ horse, called Nanfan horse, this kind of horse is produced in the junction of Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan provinces, and ranks among the three famous horses in China together with the Ili horse and the Mongolian horse.

Therefore, the Gannan region, where the cavalry army is located, is located on the plateau, and along the Yellow River, with abundant water and grass, and a large grassland pasture, which is most suitable for raising horses and training cavalry, and can attack Qinghai to the west and Sichuan to the south, which is a strategic place.

Wang Jundao personally named this cavalry army as the Iron Cavalry Army, which was a reading force and was directly under his command, originally Wang Jundao planned to let Cao Futian serve as the commander, but Cao Futian refused, first, he is now seriously injured, and second, he is not good at leading a large cavalry force to fight.

Therefore, now that the Iron-blooded Cavalry Army has no commander, only Xu Jian and Xiang Zilong are jointly responsible for guidance, Wang Jundao already has a suitable candidate for the commander, that is, Ma Qi, who has now studied in the military academy, and the Iron-blooded Cavalry Army will become the main force to unify the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the future.

Those who returned to Beijing with the divisions of the three major combat corps also included the baggage corps, the engineering corps, and the logistics corps, but now the three corps each have only 15,000 people, because Wang Jundao left a baggage brigade, an engineering brigade, and a logistics brigade in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces respectively, and was responsible for preparing for the establishment of the baggage, engineering, and logistics teams of the armies of the three provinces.

The purpose of the large army was to deter the Hubei army stationed in the north of Hubei and the Anhui army in the north of Anhui.

The news that the Dragon and Tiger Army had captured Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces within three months gradually spread throughout the southern provinces with the division of the Dragon and Tiger Army.

Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, was shaken, and the Hubei, Anhui, Soviet, and Hunan armies under Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi were shocked.

Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, rushed to Hubei non-stop, communicated with Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, an ally, to discuss a solution, and finally decided to unite Kui Jun, the governor of Sichuan, and Wei Guangtao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, in the west, and Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Li Jingxi, the acting governor of Liangguang (Li Hongzhang was dead at this time, and Li Jingxi, the son of Li Hongzhang, acted as the governor of Liangguang), and elected an alliance leader to lead the southern forces to jointly fight against Wang Jundao.

Coincidentally, Kui Jun, the governor of Sichuan, who took in Songfan, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, also quickly contacted Wei Guangtao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and sent an invitation to Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi to form an alliance.

However, to the embarrassment of several governors, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Xu Yingqi, had an ambiguous attitude, neither opposing the alliance nor denouncing Wang Jundao, who was dominating the north.

As for Li Jingxi, he directly took Li Hongzhang's death as an excuse, and threatened that his father had just died, and it was not appropriate to make a big move, and that peace should be the priority, not to mention keeping filial piety for his father for three years, at least for more than three months.

In fact, Li Jingxi had already joined Wang Jundao as early as when Wang Jundao was in control of Yanjing, after seeing Wang Jundao's resolute and resolute iron hand and the new policy of strengthening the country and enriching the people, but he did not make it public, but openly 'escaped' from the capital, and then transferred to Shanghai, joined Li Hongzhang who went north, and returned to Liangguang in the south.

When Li Jingxi told Li Hongzhang everything he saw and heard in the capital, after a long period of weighing, as well as many investigations and analyses of Wang Jundao, Li Hongzhang decided to let Li Jingxi follow Wang Jundao, and Li Jingxi also confessed to Li Hongzhang that he had actually been loyal to Wang Jundao.

As soon as the two fathers and sons planned, they immediately eliminated dissidents, and placed all their henchmen in the main military and political posts in Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, and completely controlled the military and political affairs of Guangxi and Guangxi in more than half a year.

Before he died, Li Hongzhang pointed out to Li Jingxi the way for the Li family to take in the future, that is, try not to let the southern governors form an alliance, even if the alliance of the southern provinces is unstoppable, we must try to delay as much as possible to win time for Wang Jundao, and then pretend to join the Southern Alliance, but at a critical time, I will fight with Wang Jundao in the north and south, jointly defeat the Southern Alliance, hand over a letter of nomination that satisfies Wang Jundao, and also win a huge future for the Li family.

I have to say that Li Hongzhang is far-sighted, even if he wants to die, he also pointed out a road to heaven for the Li family, Li Jingxi naturally wants to complete his will, and fight for the Li family for a future, and now Wang Jundao only took three months, and completely occupied Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, so that Li Jingxi was relieved, and he had no worries about the failure of Wang Jundao, and he resolutely decided to follow Wang Jundao in his heart.

He knew that Wang Jundao had just captured the three provinces and would need at least half a year or so to rest and consolidate, so he decided to use his father's death as an excuse to delay the alliance of the southern governors as much as possible.

Xu Yingqi originally fought this idea, after all, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, Guangxi, unlike Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces, directly bordered by the area occupied by Wang Jundao, there is no need to worry about Wang Jundao's attack in a short time, anyway, if Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi, Kuijun and others can't do it, he can surrender Wang Jundao again, or stab Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi in the back, if Wang Jundao can't do it, he doesn't mind icing on the cake, help Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi and others, after all, it's a corner of the southeast, He does not have the foundation to unify the world, he is old, and his children and grandchildren do not have particularly outstanding people, and he has no ambition to unify the world, so he just wants to maintain his current position, or make a little progress.

After receiving the secret letter from Li Jingxi, he was naturally happy to agree, and the two hit it off, and finally decided to implement the procrastination trick together, let's take a look first.

If Li Jingxi and Xu Yingqi did not nod, it would be difficult for Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi, Kui Jun, Song Fan, Wei Guangtao and others to form an alliance, because once Li Jingxi and Xu Yingqi attacked them from the south when they were at war with Wang Jundao, then they would be attacked from the back, and the result could be imagined, they had no chance of winning.

Therefore, although Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi, Kui Jun, Song Fan, and Wei Guangtao formed an alliance to advance and retreat together, no one dared to lead their troops north to fight against Wang Jundao, first, Wang Jundao's Dragon and Tiger Army's combat effectiveness and weapons were too terrifying, and second, the positions of Li Jingxi and Xu Yingqi were not clear. Therefore, Zhang Zhidong and others decided to persuade Li Jingxi and Xu Yingqi as soon as possible.

As a result, although the situation between the north and the south was like fire and water, only a confrontation was formed, and no war broke out.

Wang Jundao did not rush to continue to go south, with his current strength, eating Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu provinces are already 'full', need to 'digest', if the greed is insufficient, then it is likely to die, when the internal is not pacified, the foreign enemy will come to look around, it will be a great danger.

The road has to be walked step by step, and the rice has to be eaten one bite at a time, Wang Jundao knows this truth very well.

When the army crossed Henan, Wang Jundao left the Sixth Army Corps in Henan, and sent the Fourth Army Corps to garrison Shandong, and the Tiger Lie Division originally stationed in Henan and the Tiger Roar Division stationed in Shandong were transferred to Yanjing.

Now more than 200,000 elites drawn from the martial arts regiment have undergone four months of modern military arduous training in Yanjing, plus the military training of the martial regiment for more than half a year before, and the army is about to become an army.

Wang Jundao decided to establish the Guards Legion based on the Tiger Ben Guard! (To be continued.) )