Just as Zhao Dongyun was holding his last military meeting in Jinzhou, that is, on the morning of October 11, Wang Yingkai, who was in Baoding, once again issued a telegram, saying that it was the Manchu imperial family that assassinated Yuan Gong, and the purpose was to block the implementation of the constitutional monarchy.

Then he sent a telegram asking the Qing court to bring many murderers to justice, in order to comfort the sorrow of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Beiyang and the pain of trillions of people!

In this list of murderers, many powerful people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are impressively listed, such as Guangxu's imperial brother Zaifeng, well, this person is the father of the future Emperor Xuantong and the regent of the Xuantong Dynasty; Then there is the future Minister of the Navy of the Xuantong Dynasty, the leader of the plan to rebuild the navy in the late Qing Dynasty, Zaixun, well, this person is also Guangxu's younger brother.

In the list of murderers listed by Wang Yingkai, the first two are the core people of the contemporary royal family, not to mention that there are five or six more famous Manchu magnates in the back, such as Zai Ze, Tie Liang, Duan Fang and others who were the main ones who killed Yuan Shikai in the front court struggle.

This list of murderers almost wiped out several important ministers in the contemporary Manchu aristocracy, and if Cixi really dealt with them according to Wang Yingkai's telegram, it is estimated that the Manchu Dynasty would not have to be overthrown, and she would not have lasted three months at first.

So this list is very obvious, and no one expects the imperial court to agree, so it's just an excuse for war!

In the face of Wang Yingkai's accusations, the imperial court will naturally not do nothing, so that it will have to fight for the hearts of the people in the world, and when the time comes, when Beiyang raises troops, it will be able to call on many other provinces to enter Beijing and Qinwang.

Of course, it was difficult for the Manchu royal family to defend themselves directly, so Feng Guozhang came forward to issue a telegram, saying that the War Department had set up an investigation committee with the patrol police department and other yamen, and had launched an investigation into the identity of the assassin and a comprehensive search for him, which would inevitably give the world a truth.

At the same time, they also took advantage of Yuan Shikai's body in their hands, and immediately organized Yuan Shikai's funeral, and various rituals had been done, and Cixi also competed for the hearts of the people, and specially ordered that Yuan Gong's funeral could be used under the prince's system.

Let the Han ministers enjoy the funeral of the prince's specifications, this is also the first time since the founding of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and no courtier has enjoyed this kind of royal prince's posthumous glory before.

But the actions of the imperial court and Feng Guozhang will naturally not dispel the idea of the three major Beiyang tycoons, Wang Yingkai endured it after learning that Feng Guozhang was in Beijing for the funeral of Yuan Gong without authorization, Wang Yingkai, who has always regarded himself as the heir of Beiyang, endured it!

Although the loss of Yuan Shikai is nominally a private matter of the Yuan family, it has become a political incident at this time, and who can do this is very important for the subsequent struggle for the righteous name, but there is no way to be dissatisfied, after all, Feng Guozhang is in Beijing and he Wang Yingkai is in Baoding, and he Wang Yingkai can not make a fake body of Yuan Shikai in Baoding to do the funeral.

Wang Yingkai is already too lazy to fight a war of words, in the past so many days, Wang Yingkai's first town, Duan Qirui's fourth town, Zhao Dongyun's third town, and the first cavalry association are already ready for war, and waiting is an excuse.

Therefore, he once again issued a telegram, saying that he would not stop until the murderer of Yuan Gong was brought to justice, and declared that he would personally go to Beijing to investigate the assassination case, and telegraphed the generals of Beiyang to enter Beijing with him!

Later, Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun quickly issued a telegram, and the general meaning was similar, that is, they would also go to Beijing to preside over the investigation of the assassination case in the future.

Of course, they'll all take their troops with them!

At this time, in fact, the three major Beiyang bosses have already issued a declaration of official troops!

Although many people had expected this to happen before, the determination of Wang Duan and Zhao was obviously more resolute than they imagined.

For a time, the domestic electricity was flying all over the sky, and as the leader of the southern governor, Zhang Zhidong once again issued a telegram asking the Beiyang generals to exercise restraint!

And Duanfang, who had just been urgently appointed by Cixi as the governor of Liangjiang, had not yet reached Jiangning, that is, he issued a telegram, declaring that Liangjiang absolutely did not agree with the Beiyang generals to enter the Beijing Division, and at the same time announced that he would send the ninth town of Liangjiang, the 27th mixed association of Jiangxi, and the 31st mixed association of Anhui to enter the king of Jingqin.

However, the land of the two rivers has always been unstable, and there are many revolutionaries, and Duan Fang has just arrived in office, and if he wants to settle the situation of all forces gathering the new army to go north to Qinwang, it is estimated that it will not be able to start without three or five months of effort.

Moreover, Zhang Zhidong issued a telegram again, claiming that the southern provinces should maintain restraint and not be lightly involved in the Beiyang civil fighting, so the governors in the south, especially those Han governors and new army commanders, few are willing to go north to King Qin, because this time Duan Zhao San, the king of Beiyang, rebelled, and raised it to avenge Yuan Shikai, well, there are also banners such as constitutional will, and if you don't do it well, you will be ruined.

And more importantly, if you want to be Qinwang, it means that you have to take the army to fight with Beiyang, even those civil servants and governors who don't understand military affairs know that the new army in their own province and the seven towns of Beiyang are not the same concept, and it is estimated that they have not yet entered Zhili, and they were killed by Zhang Huaizhi's fifth town.

To be honest, the Southern New Army in this year is much worse than the Beiyang Army, and the most complete establishment is the Eighth Town under Zhang Zhidong and the Ninth Town of Liangjiang, but these two towns are full, and the rifles are also equipped with Type 88 rifles from the Hanyang Factory or the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but other technical equipment cannot be compared with the Beiyang Seven Towns and the two towns of Fengtian.

For example, artillery, the new army stipulates that 75 mm guns should be used, and the Beiyang New Army even uses the latest 75 mm guns. And what about the eighth and ninth towns, not to mention the latest tube guns, they don't even have many 75 mm guns, most of them are still 57 mm mountain guns, or back guns!

Another example is the heavy machine gun, the equipment level of the heavy machine gun in Beiyang is much higher than in history, the rated establishment is 30, but in fact, the towns are more or less overnumbered, for example, Zhao Dongguoyun's third town heavy machine gun has reached more than 70, and the other towns are generally 30 to 50.

As for the Southern New Army, although the Eighth Town also trained a heavy machine gun team, it was only a dozen or so strong, and the Ninth Town was even less.

The level of equipment is also counted, and the more critical thing is the level of training and the officers who are suzhì. The contemporary Beiyang New Army is an army with a complete system, with a large number of qualified officers, and the soldiers are also trained in live ammunition all year round. The officers of the Southern New Army are also supported by those few non-commissioned officers and students who have studied in Japan, and there are no large number of qualified officers at all, and there is even less such a thing as live-fire training.

Therefore, in the past two years, the gap between the Southern New Army and the Beiyang New Army is huge.

Some people say that the Beiyang era in 1911 was the peak state, but in fact, now in 1906, Beiyang is at the peak of the state, brand new equipment, good training, the officer class as a whole is young and motivated, the promotion system is not rigid, real talents can easily get the top position, coupled with the previous sufficient financial security, these are the Beiyang Army in 1906 is at the peak of the state.

In the face of such a Beiyang Army, to be honest, those southern governors are a little weak in their legs!

In addition, this time it seems that this time it seems that Beiyang made the Qing court's opposite, but people with a discerning eye know that this is Beiyang's own internal fighting, so it is better for the monarchs to move the bench to watch the play first, and wait for the vitality of Beiyang's internal fighting to be greatly damaged, and then come to pick the fruits of victory.

What is the reaction of the southern governors, to be honest, it can't affect the current situation, because even if all the southern governors send troops to Qin Wang, it won't affect the overall situation, and the core of this battle is always between Wang Duan and Zhao and Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang.

And to distinguish the winner from the loser, there is no other way than to fight!

On the morning of the 12th, the school field of Jinzhou Daughter Township has gathered more than 10,000 people at this moment, and on the high platform next to it, Zhao Dongyun is taking a group of senior Soviet generals down, before Zhao Dongyun has made a speech before departure, mainly to boost morale, to promote the correctness of his own troops to Beijing, and let the soldiers know that they went to Beijing this time to avenge Yuan Shikai, so that the constitution can be implemented smoothly.

After all, it is not good to directly use the banner of rebellion!

After stepping off the high platform, Zhao Dongyun took the reins of the war horse brought by the guards, and then turned over and got on the horse's back!

At this time, Zhao Dongyun was wearing a full set of generals' winter dresses, but unlike when he wore regular clothes in the past, this time he did not wear leather shoes, but wore long riding boots, plus the command knife at his waist, at this time he was in a posture of the commander of the first army.

Immediately after Zhao Dongyun, other senior generals such as Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan, He Zonglian, and Lin Yongquan also turned over their horses, and the horses they rode were not the Mongolian horses that were widely used in the army, nor the Don Hippopotamus that was gradually introduced and bred in the past two years, but the Anglo-Arabian horses that Zhao Dongyun successively purchased and introduced from Japan in the later period of the Russo-Japanese War.

Although this hybrid horse from France is not the world's top military horse, it is still superior in all aspects compared to other existing riding horses in East Asia, but the price is also more expensive than Mongolian horses and Don hippos and even Anglo-Norman horses.

After all, when high-ranking generals travel on horseback, there is still a big gap between riding a Mongolian horse that is only more than 1.4 meters and riding an Anglo-Arab image that is more than 1.6 meters!

After a large number of high-ranking generals got on their horses one after another, Zhao Dongyun lightly clamped the horse's belly, and then urged the batch of jujube-red war horses under him to trot forward, and more than ten senior generals behind him also followed.

After riding the horse from the side of the high platform, Zhao Dongyun and his party crossed the infantry phalanx under the high platform, he controlled the horse with one hand at this time, and drew his command knife with the other hand, and then pointed to the west, shouting: "Go!" ”