After the Fuzhou military conference, many generals who were originally gathered in Fuzhou also hurried to various places to take up their posts, such as Yuan Fang went to Shaoxing, Li Lianyang went to Wenzhou, Li Jimin went to Chaozhou, Lin Feitai went to Yanping, and Ma Cheng was waiting for the main force of his troops to go south in Fuzhou, and now the two main forces under the jurisdiction of the Second Division are still in Yanping, and they will not be able to go south to Fuzhou until one of the main forces of the Fourth Division goes north to take over, and then Ma Cheng will take the main force of the two regiments and part of the artillery force assigned to the Second Division to Zhejiang.

In this large-scale reorganization plan, except for the artillery units, which have changed the specific establishment of artillery because they have to change to a company and a four-gun system, the remaining infantry regiments have not been specifically adjusted; although a mortar company and a battalion-affiliated machine gun company have been added to the establishment, the mortars of the Fuzhou Arsenal are still in the stage of trial production and cannot be equipped on a large scale in a short period of time, so the establishment of the infantry regiment has not changed much at present.

However, there has not been much change in the specific establishment of the infantry regiment, but the large-scale movement of the regiment is going on at the same time.

For example, after the two regiments of the Second Brigade originally stationed in Yanping were changed to the 21st and 22nd Regiments of the Second Division, Chen Jingyun ordered the two regiments to arrive in Fuzhou for training and then go to Zhejiang to join the 23rd Regiment (formerly the 10th Regiment of the Fifth Brigade), and then the Second Division was stationed on the front line of Jinhua, Zhejiang. At the same time, the Fifth Division (Fujian Garrison Division and the 14th Division of the Central Army) stationed the division headquarters in Yanping to undertake the defense of the entire western region of Fujian, including Shaowu, Jianning, and Tingzhou.

The 33rd Regiment (12th Regiment) under the jurisdiction of the 3rd Division was originally stationed in Fuzhou and trained together with the former 4th Brigade and Guard Brigade, but now after being incorporated into the 3rd Division, Chen Jingyun transferred this regiment to Xiamen and Zhangzhou.

The 61st Regiment (one of the four garrison regiments in Fujian Province) under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Division (Zhejiang Garrison Division, the Sixth Division of the Central Army) was originally stationed in Fuding, but the task of the Sixth Division was to garrison the southeast coast of Zhejiang, plus Fuding also had a 43rd Regiment (11th Regiment) of the Fourth Division, so this 61st Regiment would also be transferred to Wenzhou.

At first glance, this seems to be a big transfer, but what is of practical significance is that the transfer of the Second Division to Zhejiang is worth paying attention to, and the rest of the transfer is only a slight adjustment of the structure and defense area.

Judging from the transfer of the Second Division to Zhejiang, many people are speculating about the significance of Chen Jingyun's actions, whether he planned to use force against northern Zhejiang.

But these are basically too much to think about, Chen Jingyun's transfer of the second division to Zhejiang is more of a precautionary factor, and the object of precaution is the Beiyang Army. Although he said that he knew that the north-south peace talks had been successful in history, but now Chen Jingyun has received the news that both sides cannot hold on, and the peace talks have been going on for a month and a half since the beginning of December and now in mid-January, but there has been no progress at all, and sometimes Chen Jingyun wonders if his arrival has affected history.

Under such worries, Chen Jingyun was naturally worried that if the north-south peace talks failed, the Beiyang Army would move south, and if the situation really deteriorated, if Nanjing could not be stopped, he Chen Jingyun would suffer, so one division in Zhejiang was not enough, and a second division had to be added, as for the sixth division, Chen Jingyun never intended to be used as a combat force, and the two newly formed garrison divisions were used to fight bandits and garrison places, and it was not reliable to rely on them to fight night battles. You must know that these garrisons are equipped with old rifles, even single-shot Mausers.

And if there are two divisions, but in terms of strength and equipment, it has surpassed a town in Beiyang, even if the training combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Beiyang Army, but it should always be possible to fight more and use less defense, right? Even if he can't beat it, Chen Jingyun still has a back hand, the fourth division is his strategic reserve, and if there is a problem there, he will be sent there, even if the fourth division is not enough, he still has a guard division in his hand to save his life. If the Beiyang Army really wants to go south, it will have to take the guard division to the front.

Chen Jingyun was afraid that he would disturb history, and Nanjing was also the same, and in just half a month, it had already made the princes of Nanjing's temporary political axe complain, especially in terms of military spending.

In this short period of half a month, the temporary political axe has spent all the millions of funds it has raised, and no results have been seen; although the various people's armies near Nanjing have been reorganized into more than 20 divisions of the Fourth Route Army, this has not changed the reality that they are asking for military salaries, and without military salaries and military expenses, these armies will not be able to move at all.

Sun Wen and others also asked Huang Xing to integrate the army to prepare for the Northern Expedition, but Huang Xing could not do anything about it at all, the order of military mobilization was easy to say, and the strategic planning was also easy to say, but the temporary political axe did not pay the divisions military salaries, replenish guns and ammunition, and they could not be allowed to fight before the line at all. Huang Xing asked Lin Shuqing, the governor of Zhenjiang, to serve as the commander-in-chief of Linhuai, and led his troops north to compress the Xuzhou line, but the supply of military supplies was difficult, and there was a shortage of guns and ammunition, so he couldn't move at all and could only continue to stand by in the Linhuai and Qingjiang areas.

In this way, a very interesting situation was created, the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe Army Department reorganized the troops around Nanjing into more than 20 divisions, but only a few could get military salaries, and only the 11th and 12th divisions under Huang Xing really obeyed the order and got supplies, and the rest were either short of ordnance or short of personnel.

If in the past, Huang Xing had the idea of peace talks because he saw that the southern army was too weak to go on the Northern Expedition, then now Huang Xing still holds the same reason. When Sun Wen had just returned to China to serve as the provisional president, it can be said that he was high-spirited and bent on the Northern Expedition, and even completely ignored the opposition of Tao Chengzhang and other people of the Restoration Society, which caused the contradiction between the Alliance and the Restoration Society to increase, so that the two sides completely broke up.

And when Sun Wen became the provisional president for more than half a month, in the face of the staff of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, diplomats and gentry from various countries, although the smile on his face was still the same, the deep exhaustion was always expressing his powerlessness against the situation.

The financial problems of Nanjing's provisional political axe are like a sharp sword, which is slowly inserted into the heart, and as time passes, the sharp sword gets closer and closer to the heart, and finally triggers a complete collapse.

Under such tremendous pressure, Sun Wen finally admitted that the revolution needed not only spirit, but also money. For the sake of money, he did not hesitate to borrow money, and even borrowed money in the name of a private person. At this time, according to the agent plan, on the one hand, Chen Jingyun was given support, and on the other hand, the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe was supported, although there was no optimism towards Nanjing, but the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe was still provided with nearly 10 million loans in the name of business contacts and other private names.

The reason for this is that although the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe is ostensibly recognized by the provinces, it is actually just a representative meeting, including Cai Yi, Lu Rongting, and even Chen Jiongming of Guangdong, who have little confidence and sense of identity in this Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, including Chen Jingyun, the tax revenues of the various provinces are basically withheld for their own use, and they are also training their own provincial troops. Except for sending a few telegrams to express its concern for the North-South peace talks, there was basically no follow-up to Nanjing.

In terms of actual surnames, the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe is only a superficial political axe pushed out by the southern provinces, and it is only a nominal unified political axe, which has no practical significance, and in the eyes of the real governors of the southern provinces, the temporary political axe is used for peace talks between the north and the south. In the army, Chen Jingyun and Cai Yi and even Chen Jiongming in Guangdong did not think about relying on Nanjing, but trained their own soldiers. The actual authority of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe was limited to a radius of 100 li from Nanjing, perhaps less than 100 li.

In this way, under the actual situation, a famous Nanjing Provisional Political Axe simply does not have enough strength to fight against Beiyang.

Huang Xing had already understood this question, the people of the Restoration Society had already understood it, and Sun Wen had also understood it later.

By the end of January, the princes in the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, including Sun Wen, had reached an agreement. That is peace talks. And it is a real peace talk, no longer called procrastination, as it was some time ago. Of course, in order to create momentum for the peace talks, and at the same time to prepare for Yuan Shikai's refusal to agree to the peace talks, the preparations for the Northern Expedition still had to be continued.

When the Nanjing gang understood, Tao Chengzhang died!

Tao Chengzhang and Sun Wen contradictions have been a long time, it is not a matter of one day or two, there have been many quarrels in the early years, after Xinhai returned to China, due to the overall situation of the republic, the orthodox dispute between the Restoration Society and the League has reached the most intense level, in the political Restoration Society elected Zhang Binglin to replace Sun Wen, with the intention of seeking the presidency, in the military and other positions of real power, Tao Chengzhang mobilized various forces in the early stage to prepare to overthrow Chen Qimei's position as the governor of Shanghai, and later competed with Chen Qimei for the position of the governor of Zhejiang.

Because of Tao Chengzhang's discordant relationship with Sun Wen, and at the same time threatening Chen Qimei to seek a governor of Zhejiang, coupled with the fierce partisan struggle between the Restoration Society and the Alliance, Chen Qimei finally couldn't help but send a killer to assassinate Tao Chengzhang, trying to fundamentally solve the dispute between the governor of Zhejiang.

As early as the 14th, Tao Chengzhang was assassinated by the assassins, but that time Tao Chengzhang was fatal, only his arm was injured, and two assassins were also killed on the spot, one of them was Jiang Zhiqing, and the other was Wang Zhuqing. The failed assassination also caused an uproar, and even Chen Jingyun, who was far away in Fuzhou, felt incredible after seeing the newspaper saying that Tao Chengzhang had been assassinated.

This Tao Chengzhang is the leader of the Restoration Society, and among the people who want to assassinate him is still a member of the Alliance, and the powder keg was detonated almost instantly. The Liberation Society and the Alliance began to scold, not only in the newspapers, but also in reality, and often saw the outbreak of such things.

That's not all, just when this powder keg was triggered, Tao Chengzhang was assassinated again on the 22nd! This time Tao Chengzhang didn't have the good luck of last time, the assassin shot Tao Chengzhang in the head with one shot and one bullet, and more importantly, he even let the assassin run away, this kind of thing is simply a realistic version of the Romance of the Assassin.

The contradiction between the League and the Restoration Society immediately broke out, and the Restoration Society even officially announced that it would break with the Alliance, and that it would form a political party by itself, and resolutely oppose Sun Wen as the president.