Zhao Dongyun agreed to Wang Shizhen's conditions so lightly, which means that he has not really paid attention to these conditions, and there is only one real reason: that is, expediency.

It's just that An Yutong is not Li San, and not every senior official of the Soviet Department can guess Zhao Dongyun's true thoughts from Zhao Dongyun's words and a small number of facial expressions like Li San.

To tell the truth, when Wang Shizhen asked for an independent political, military and financial status from before, and wanted to continue to be his mountain king, Zhao Dongyun had already made up his mind that his Feng army must march into Hubei and want to be a warlord under him? Don't look at Zhao Dongyun, who he is, he himself is a warlord, and he will never allow any more warlords under his subordinates.

As for the collaborators, he is too much if there is one Wu Fengling, if there are more, how can he unify China? Could it be that in the future, he can only be a nominal president directly under the jurisdiction of several northern provinces, but those provinces in the south are all independent? Wouldn't that be more incompetent than Yuan Shikai in history?

After the Second Revolution, they even unified the southern provinces of China!

He wants a unified China as strong as the Han and Tang Dynasties, not a divided 'China' in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Five Kingdoms era!

So the surviving Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, Zhang Huaizhi, as well as Wu Fengling, and Zhang Zhidong of the Southern Federation have all been wiped out!

The reason why he agreed to Wang Shizhen's conditions was because he needed Wang Shizhen to block Zhang Zhidong's northward pace, anyway, now Hubei is not under his control, first support Wang Shizhen and Zhang Zhidong to fight, and he continues to invest the main resources in the northern Jiangsu region, no matter what, first solve the 70,000 or 80,000 troops of Duan Qirui in the northern Jiangsu region, and then talk about it, and the rest is secondary.

Once he takes northern Jiangsu and Anhui, then he will be able to free up his hands to march into Hubei, and when the time comes, no matter what Wang Shizhen or Zhang Zhidong, he will be eliminated.

But then again, Zhao Dongyun is just an expedient measure now, but why not Wang Shizhen?

Even if he is facing the crisis of complete defeat, he is not willing to completely surrender to Zhao Dongyun, but puts forward a request for a near-armistice agreement, the reason why he has such confidence is because he knows: Zhao Dongyun needs him, at least now!

Wang Shizhen is not stupid, on the contrary, he can become a warlord in this chaotic era, and become one of the few leading warlords in China.

In the early period of Beiyang, that is, during the period of the Wuwei Right Army and the Beiyang Standing Army, the most outstanding Beiyang generals were only four people except Yuan Shikai himself, they were Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Feng Guozhang of the Beiyang Three Heroes, plus a Beiyang hero Zhao Dongyun.

These four people are the four bigwigs of Beiyang in the early and middle stages of Beiyang, and with the death of Liu Yongqing and other high-level bigwigs of the older generation of Beiyang leaders one after another, these four people have become the only four bigwigs left in Beiyang, and their reputation and status are incomparable to Wu Fengling and Zhang Huaizhi, who were both under the control of one town, not to mention the officers of the second echelon who are still in the position of co-unification and standard.

The reason why these four people can become Beiyang bigwigs, naturally all of them are not bad, Wang Shizhen, as one of them, has a better understanding of the situation at home and abroad, even though sometimes it is not as good as Zhao Dongyun, a descendant, but he can still see the situation on the Chinese flag plate today.

Today's Feng army is not the strongest, but even Wang Shizhen, an outsider, can guess that the Feng army has now squeezed out the last trace of potential, and now maintaining an army of 200,000 is already Zhao Dongyun's limit, at least in a short period of time, this fact cannot be changed.

According to the current strength of the Feng army, even if they can maintain a 100,000-strong army to fight in northern Jiangsu, it will also contain most of their energy, and they definitely do not have enough strength to invest enough strength in Henan to fight against Zhang Zhidong's 150,000 army, even if there are enough troops, it is estimated that there is not enough ammunition.

Zhao Dongyun wants Wang Shizhen to resist Zhang Zhidong's northward movement, which Wang Shizhen can also see, and Wang Shizhen himself does not reject this, but if Zhao Dongyun wants to use him to resist Zhang Zhidong, he has to give him benefits, right? That's why he wanted Zhao Dongyun to ask for 'the purchase of ordnance.'

Although it is said that it is purchased at the original price, but now the domestic arms market is extremely tense with the outbreak of the civil war, and the price of imported ordnance is getting higher and higher day by day, and it is impossible to buy ordnance and ammunition at a low price, so Wang Shizhen said that it was purchased at the original price, but in fact, it is also required to purchase at a preferential price, otherwise why should he Wang Shizhen do more, he can buy arms directly from foreigners, but then the price is very different.

He Zhao Dongyun now needs him Wang Shizhen, which is why Wang Shizhen took the initiative to lean up and say that he wanted to surrender!

As long as Zhang Zhidong's 150,000 army is still there, as long as Feng's army has not taken Liangjiang for a day, then it is impossible for Zhao Dongyun to do anything to him, in this case, why didn't Wang Shizhen take the opportunity to put forward his own conditions?

Among the major warlords, all of them have their own little Jiujiu, you think they are using others, but others are not using you!

However, no matter what, in the face of Zhang Zhidong's 150,000 army, although Wang Shizhen and Zhao Dongyun were eager to swallow each other alive, but after some urgent secret negotiations, the two sides soon reached a series of secret agreements that did not see the light of day!

On October 19, Wang Shizhen issued a telegram in Hubei, saying that Zhao Dongyun's succession as president was in line with the constitution, and stressed that tens of thousands of soldiers of the Hubei army in the past and future will resolutely support the central government.

Although this telegram is magnificent, it is a naked expression of the fact that Wang Shizhen has betrayed the anti-Feng alliance and turned to Zhao Dongyun's arms.

The important thing is that this time the presidential palace is the first time in an official occasion to recognize the legitimacy of the Huguang Patrol Embassy, and admit that Wang Shizhen is still the Huguang Patrol Envoy, and this is very important, you must know that since Zhao Dongyun became the president, he has never recognized Duan Qirui's Liangjiang Patrol Envoy, Wang Shizhen's Huguang Patrol Envoy, and Wang Ruxian's Henan Governor. The legitimacy of Zhang Huaizhi's concurrent governor of Shandong as the governor of Anhui is even more denied recognition of Duan Qirui's positions as commander of the First Army of the Central Army, Wang Shizhen's commander of the Second Army of the Central Army, and Zhang Huaizhi as commander of the Third Army of the Central Army.

The previous First Army, Second Army, and Third Army of the Feng Army occupied the numbers of the First, Second, and Third Armies of the Central Army respectively, and the commanders of each army were Meng Enyuan, Xu Bangjie, and Chen Guangyuan.

However, it is interesting that the republican government under Zhao Dongyun still recognizes Duan Qirui as the commander of the Fourth Division of the Central Army, Wang Shizhen as the commander of the Sixth Division of the Central Army, and Zhang Huaizhi as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Central Army.

Now the presidential palace has recognized the legitimacy of the Huguang Patrol Embassy for the first time in the official document, recognized Wang Shizhen and the Huguang Patrol Envoy, coupled with Wang Shizhen's announcement of the legitimacy of recognizing Zhao Dongyun's position as president and supporting the central government, which also shows that Wang Shizhen and Zhao Dongyun have reached some kind of secret agreement that is not known to outsiders.

And this is indeed the case, when Wang Shizhen issued a telegram supporting the central republican government, the main force of nearly 30,000 Hubei troops on the Wusheng Pass side began to go south to Hankou along the Jinghan Railway overnight, and only one infantry battalion was left to garrison the huge Wusheng Pass.

Before this, the 13th Division of the Feng Army stationed outside Wusheng Pass had also retreated to Xinyang to garrison, leaving only one infantry battalion outside Wusheng Pass.

After the two sides retreated, on the same day, a truck left Zhengzhou with a large number of artillery shells, bullets, food, and a small amount of rifles, machine guns and other military supplies and began to go directly south to Hubei.

Wang Shizhen suddenly announced his allegiance to the central republican government, which can be said to be unexpected by many people, because judging from the previous domestic situation, although the anti-Feng coalition army suffered many blows, Wang Yingkai and Wang Ruxian were destroyed one after another, and Zhang Huaizhi's Lu army was hit hard, but there was no news of the rupture of the anti-Feng coalition army, and there was no intention of compromise, which can be seen from the fact that nearly 200,000 troops of the two armies of Fengwan and Anhui in northern Jiangsu were living and dying.

Even if there will be a change in the follow-up, it should be said after the decisive battle of Fengwan in northern Jiangsu is divided, but what I didn't expect is that this northern Jiangsu side is still fighting, although the Feng army is still losing progress, but the Anhui army is still holding Xuzhou, why did Wang Shizhen suddenly rebel?

Even if he wants to defect to Zhao Dongyun, he should wait until Duan Qirui completely fails to surrender!

At this time, it was not only unexpected by ordinary people, but also unexpected by Duan Qirui, he didn't expect that when he was struggling to support himself in northern Jiangsu, Wang Shizhen actually betrayed himself, and then chose to collude with Zhao Dongyun, although he intellectually also knew why Wang Shizhen did this, Hubei's filial piety was lost, and Wang Shizhen was facing a great crisis, but he felt that even if the crisis he faced was bigger, it was a big deal that Wang Shizhen didn't want this northern Hubei, and it was okay to retreat directly to Anhui, well, At that time, he will be able to logically absorb the Hubei army that has lost its territory.

Mistaken!

After Duan Qirui shook his head, if he had known, at the beginning of the month, when Wang Shizhen asked him to buy ammunition, he should have squeezed out some of it to him, but at that time, he was also fighting very hard in northern Jiangsu, and the ammunition was not available, and many troops on the front line did not have enough bullets and shells, so he refused Wang Shizhen's request.

It's just that he didn't expect Zhang Zhidong to have such great courage and even raise more than 100,000 troops to play a counteroffensive, which was completely out of his impression of the Southern Federation army.

However, he was even more disappointed in Wang Shizhen, what kind of goods the army of the Southern Federation was, Duan Qirui still didn't know, he relied on a fourth division to sweep more than 200,000 Southern Federation troops in Liangjiang, and then control Liangjiang, Fujian and Zhejiang all the way, if it wasn't for the sudden entry of the Feng army to disrupt his plan, he would have swept the entire Fujian and Jiangxi, and then marched into Liangguang and Huguang and Hubei, maybe now even Huguang and Liangguang have been taken.

It's hateful that at the critical moment, the Feng army entered the customs, and Wang Yingkai's army of 70,000 or 80,000 was completely annihilated by the Feng army in less than a month!

And what is even more hateful now is that Wang Shizhen has 60,000 troops in Hubei, including the 6th Division of the old Beiyang Army and the remnants of the original 7th Division reorganized into the 8th Mixed Brigade, but it was defeated and retreated by Zhang Zhidong's 100,000 troops!

That's right, Duan Qirui used the word 'mediocre'! In his opinion, if it were his own, Zhang Zhidong's mere 100,000 troops would not be able to stop his southward offensive at all, let alone any counteroffensive, in the final analysis, Wang Shizhen was too weak!

And Wang Shizhen himself is weak, but he also surrendered to Zhao Dongyun, but this Duan Qirui has caused Yan zhòng influence!