"Let's send a telegram to the top, ask for merit and reward, and equipment." Han Zheng didn't say any more greetings next, and said directly.

When several people heard this, they didn't dare to delay, so they quickly glanced at each other, nodded and sat back at their respective posts.

"Hello Commander Zhang! Since receiving the order from the headquarters, the subordinate has not dared to slack off and has made every effort to arrange a defensive line at the border of the region, so as to prevent the bandits from escaping, endangering one side, and affecting the military prestige of our Beiyang Army and the instructions of the president! ”

"However, the Bozhou defenders are too small and too weak, and the bandits are numerous, threatening the entire northern Anhui region. At this time of crisis, the people were panicked and unsettled, and for a while, the wind in northern Anhui was loud and alarming, and they were shocked three times a day. “

In view of this, the Ministry had no choice but to find an opportunity to resist the bandits, and on the 23rd, it entered the Bozhou area to deploy defenses in advance to prevent the bandits from continuing to penetrate. I was supposed to wait for the army to come like a mountain, and to pacify the bandits in one fell swoop, and to be the prestige of our Beiyang army. However, the bandits were already driven by the commander at this time, and they were deeply afraid, and they wanted to break through from the direction of our department and launch a decisive charge against the Bozhou city that I had just taken over! Our unit carried forward the spirit of our Beiyang Iron Army, fought fiercely with the bandits for two days and two nights, suffered heavy casualties, and repelled six brazen attacks of the bandits. In the end, civil strife broke out in the camp of the bandits in the early morning of the 25th, and our department seized the opportunity to give the bandits the final blow, breaking up most of the bandits, capturing more than 3,000 people and annihilating more than 4,000 people in the whole campaign. ”

Han Zheng finished saying this sentence in one breath and sorted out the causes and consequences.

The telegraph office over there kept dripping sounds, Han Zheng pondered for a while, as if thinking about the wording, and then continued: "However, our department has suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and the losses of ordnance and baggage are large, and it is difficult to replenish the troops, I hope that the above can give some help?????? ”

Because at this time, Han Zheng's department had been under Zhang Xun's jurisdiction of the battle sequence, so this telegram was sent from Zhang Xun, but Han Zheng didn't want to forget it, and after pondering for a while, he drafted a telegram and sent it to Duan Qirui.

April 1913 was not a good day for Yuan Shikai, since Yuan Shikai became president, the southern provinces were still acting on their own, especially the southern revolutionaries, who were always thinking of using various methods to oust themselves from power, which can be described as exhaustive!

In this position, Yuan Shikai did not taste the delicious food he hoped for, but felt a little anxious.

Especially this time, Yuan Shikai has a headache.

First of all, in order to raise war funds to suppress, attack, and eliminate the forces in the southern provinces controlled by the revolutionaries, Yuan Shikai secretly sent his confidant Zhou Ziqi to visit the American, British, German, and French banking groups in China, and in the name of dealing with the aftermath of the Qing government's debts, he planned to change the contract signed by the Qing government with the American capital group, the British HSBC Bank, the German Deutsch-China Bank, and the French Crédit Agricole CIB in the third year of Xuantong to change the contract of 10 million pounds signed by the Qing government to reform the currency system and revitalize the industrial industry, and change it into a "big loan for the aftermath" of the Beiyang government of the Republic of China.

In addition, the Beiyang government promised that the loans would be guaranteed by a salt tax, and listed the banking groups of the four countries as the priority countries for the Beiyang government's loans.

Originally, according to Yuan Shikai's meaning, the more secret this matter is, the better, and once he gets this loan, it will solve all kinds of problems arising from or left over from the revolution.

Yuan Shikai presented himself as the leader of the whole country, eager to solve these problems in order to establish him, the new ruling system and ruling order at this time.

However, what made Yuan Shikai feel most helpless and angry was that when he first raised the loan, he was the most fierce in the south, and then he first proposed this plan.

And Sun Yat-sen was still in his position at that time, but after Sun Yat-sen stepped down, he took over this matter and continued to borrow money for the aftermath, wanting to restore his ideal domestic order as soon as possible.

However, Nanfang turned his head and no longer admitted this matter, and revealed this matter, as a basin of dirty water poured on Yuan Shikai's head!

The areas controlled by the Southern Revolutionary Party have condemned Yuan Shikai's loan matters, and the local powerful factions are even more ready to move, not knowing what they are plotting, those people talk about national righteousness all day long, but is it not a fig leaf on their bodies? !

For this matter, Yuan Shikai had to argue with the south for a long time, coupled with the harsh conditions of various countries, there was even the urge for President Yuan to simply pick on his son and change his seat back to the south, to see what those shameless hypocrites could do, but this matter was just to think about it in the middle of the night when no one was around.

However, just when the aftermath loan was about to be completed, who knew that turmoil broke out in Henan again, which ruined the entire grain land, and countries also took this opportunity to think that Yuan Shikai had not fully controlled the situation in China, so they added a few even more annoying conditions to the terms of the loan, which made Yuan Shikai have the urge to scold his mother.

However, at the end of April, this matter was finally done, and the Bank of the Four Nations had borrowed five million taels of silver from Yuan Shikai in advance, which made Yuan Shikai breathe a sigh of relief, and he was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Then another good news is that the white wolf bandits have been completely extinguished, once again proving to the world that the Beiyang army is powerful.

Although he didn't want to receive any taxes from Henan in the next year, he finally put out the fire in the backyard, and also took time out to argue with the south, in the end, he occupied the side of righteousness, and he had strength in his hands, once the south did it first, he was not afraid, and he could take this opportunity to clean up the south very much, and push his actual control area to the edge of the Yangtze River??????

Yuan Shikai's mood improved, and Duan Qirui and the others also breathed a sigh of relief.

They are all old Beiyang, naturally they know their own affairs, and for those clowns in the south who shout about national righteousness all day long, they can't wait to bury all those people at once, but it is because of the lack of military funds that they can't dismiss those local troops in the south.

This time, I was able to get five million military expenses in advance, which was enough to fight a big battle, someone next to me said.

The transfer of the Beiyang Army for a while also confirmed the speculation of several people, Yuan Shikai seems to be really ready to make a move, but there are also signs of action in the south, so I can see who can't hold it at that time.

On May 6, 13, Yuan Shikai gathered his generals and began to prepare for the civil war, and Han Zheng's telegram also came to Duan Qirui.

During this period of time, the large amount of money that Han Zheng secretly sent to Duan Qirui finally worked at this time, and what Han Zheng said in the letter was exactly what Yuan Shikai had at this time!

Therefore, when Duan Qirui came to Yuan Shikai's mansion on the second day, Duan Qirui also went.

"Zhiquan, is there anything else?" Yuan Shikai was a little tired at this time, after all, he was old, and he had encountered so many things recently, he had just relaxed, and he was thinking about the war with the south, and his voice was a little lazy at this time.

"President, there's something on my side, I don't know if I should say it or not." Duan Qirui pondered for a moment and said in embarrassment.

How could Yuan Shikai not know that his subordinate general, he knew that the other party had something to say, otherwise he would not have come out like this. 、

Thinking of this, Yuan Shikai hooked the corners of his mouth, smiled at Duan Qirui and said, "You, how can you learn the style of the other two, if you have something to say, don't make these twists and turns." ”

There was a knock on the door outside, and a young man with a chuckling face looked at the plaque carefully.

Obviously, in this atmosphere, coming over with a ginseng soup, Duan Qirui hurriedly stepped forward to take the bowl and said to the person: "You go, I'll come." ”

The maid glanced at Yuan Shikai in embarrassment, saw the other party nodding, this is what it should be, went out with her head down, and closed the door again.

Duan Qirui blew on the ginseng soup, as if he was holding a peerless treasure, and personally handed it to Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai glanced at Duan Qirui quite amusedly, and then said: "You, you, just come to this matter, if outsiders see it, they still think that I, Yuan, will treat the generals under my command slowly." ”

Hearing this, Duan Qirui was happy in his heart, knowing that he had done the right thing, and it could be seen from his voice that the Son of Heaven was naturally a little happy today. It seems that I didn't choose the wrong time.

Until this time, Yuan Shikai's mood was not bad.

"I know I can't hide it from the president's eyes, so I'll say it." Duan Qirui saw that the other party took it, and then continued what he had just said.

"Say, old man, I'll listen." Yuan Shikai glanced at Duan Qirui.

"President, don't laugh at me, I'm not very proficient in marching and fighting, I can have such a high position or it depends on the Son of Heaven to take care of the Buddha, a huge China still depends on the president to clean up the situation, if you look old, I can't move." Duan Qirui said.

"You, you, hurry up, if you don't say it, I really won't let you say it."

"Okay, I'll just say." Duan Qirui said in a loud voice, "I just got a piece of news from Anhui, although it is not serious, but for us, it is always in the way." ”

Yuan Shikai's face froze: "Oh? What's going on, haven't we already ploughed the ground in Anhui? Why is there another accident now? ”

Duan Qirui: "Well, there are some signs, from the news from a sign we put over there, a few small places in the north of Anhui are starting to move, quite restless. ”

Then Duan Qirui handed the news from Han Zheng to the other party, and as the other party checked, especially the contact with the revolutionary party in several places around was clear. And in his heart, Han Zheng is really not to be taken lightly.

In this way, the meaning of the words in the letter was that Bai He's attack on Han Zheng was provoked by the south, so he wanted to pull out a nail in Beiyang, and Han Zheng himself said that he loved Beiyang and supported Yuan Shikai. (To be continued.) )