"If Wang Yi hadn't sent more Russian troops to Hokkaido this time, I really couldn't say whether the Northeast would have made a move on us first, or Japan. But no more guessing now! ”

Xu Shichang's eyebrows were tightly locked, pondering what Yuan Shikai's words meant. After all, he was born as a literati, and his understanding of the operation of the army was far less than that of Yuan, who had been in the army for several years.

"If the Northeast really wants to make a move against Japan, it will definitely use the most elite troops. I don't know what the combat power of the Russian army is. However, based on common sense, their sequence in the Northeast insurance team is probably the best one at a mid-range level. If such a force is limited to defending the city, it is naturally competent, and there is no problem, but if it is used to attack the city, it will inevitably underestimate Japan. Moreover, as far as I know, Wang Yi has always planned and then acted with his troops, and Japan is an island country, and if it wants to occupy it, it will inevitably use a landing force. This kind of unit must be trained for a long time, and not any unit can do it. The Northeast leader in this area has a total of two divisions, namely the 8th Division and the 12th Division. They had all taken part in the fight to suppress the South Vietnamese insurgency and had remained there ever since, with no signs of mobilization. ”

"I see!" After Yuan Shikai's explanation, Xu Shichang finally understood the key. However, he doesn't know much about the Northeast Insurance Team, and only knows that Yuan Shikai respects them very much. But then again, according to Xu Shichang's own thoughts, Yuan Shikai is scaring himself! Even if it is true as he said, the Northeast is ready to take action against the Qing court, but the new army he and Yuan Shikai jointly built is not vegetarian! The soldiers are all with one head and two feet, and if you really start to move, who is really much stronger than whom! "Weiting, when my brother's question shouldn't be asked, does the Northeast Insurance Team really have the magic as you say?"

Yuan Shikai showed a wry smile on his face, and then said: "Weapons and equipment, logistics and supplies, and many other unfavorable issues aside, the fact that people are soldiers in a hundred battles is not beyond the reach of our soldiers." Besides, ......" Yuan Shikai said here and paused, then with a hint of anger on his face, he said: "We are loyal to the country, but ...... The shaving head picks are hot, and the above can't believe us at all. ”

As soon as he said this, Xu Shichang also sighed. Yuan Shikai established the military army, which was changed after the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in later history, and a total of six towns in Gyeonggi were established. In the current history, the reason for the establishment of the new army was completely because the Qing court was greatly disappointed in Beiyang and Nanyang, and even suspected that Beiyang and Northeast China were secretly colluding with interests. As for Yuan Shikai's ascension to the throne, it was entirely due to his outstanding performance on the Korean battlefield and the Vietnam battlefield...... followed the Northeast Insurance Team to pick up the leftovers, and the big ones in the middle of the silk were outstanding.

He himself is the second generation of eunuchs, and he is bold enough, so he naturally won the appreciation of some big officials in the Qing court. At the same time, Huaijun's background was also accepted by Li Hongzhang, so he became the leader of the new army. Of course, the most important point, which is also the unannounced point of Lafayette and the courtiers, is that today's Yuan Shikai officials are small and weak, easy to fiddle with, and replaced by other high-ranking officials.

Because of this, after seeing that Yuan Shikai had some results in training at the small station, some people finally began to move their minds. Of the six towns of the new army, only three towns have been established so far! Among them, the first town is the strongest, with a total population of 15,000 people, and it is the only one of the six towns in Gyeonggi that is fully staffed, and the remaining two towns have more than 5,000 people and one has more than 4,000 people. However, at the end of last autumn, the Qing court held a grand exercise of Zhangde, which was designated between Tianjin and Tangshan.

The two sides participating in the exercise were the Northern Army and the Southern Army, the Southern Army was the New Army, the First Town was under the command of Wang Shizhen's Department, and the Northern Army was the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion. The drill was scheduled for one week. The Qing court sent Wulaxi Chong'a, the secretary of the military department, and Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, as the minister of the military parade, Yuan Shikai as the general staff and chief judge of the Central Committee, Feng Guozhang as the chief judge of the Southern Army, and Murcha Tieliang as the chief judge of the Northern Army. This arrangement shows that the Qing court has a deep meaning, and the military parade ministers are one member of each of the Manchu and Han people, and the chief judge of the southern army is a Han Chinese, and the chief judge of the northern army is a Manchu.

The new army achieved an overwhelming advantage in this exercise...... But it also made a group of people suffer from pink eye.

Different from the history of later generations, at this time Rong Lu had come back from the state of illness and retreat, first served as a provincial general for two years, and when Cixi passed his birthday, he went to Beijing to meet him, so he was left in the capital. The Qing court set up a general training office, and Rong Lu was arranged to be in charge of specific affairs, in fact, the real intention was that Lafayette used to balance the figure of Guangxu's own father, Prince Yiyun. At this time, Prince Gong Yi 60 had already jumped off the building in the northeast, and Prince Alcohol was a monopoly in the court, with no one to check and balance, and it happened that Rong Lu and Prince Alcohol had a grudge, and Cixi wanted Rong Lu to be this weight.

Rong Lu's general training department is in charge of Yuan Shikai's new army, and he has no prejudice against Yuan Shikai, on the contrary, he is very serious. But he has a close aide under him, named Murcha Tieliang! Manchuria with a white flag, although it has never fought a battle, but it is a self-proclaimed "knowing soldier", an out-and-out Manchu right-winger, extremely anti-Han!

What kind of background is Tie Liang? In the system, he was incapable of taking the examination, and the path of the imperial examination could not be passed, and then in the process of the rise of the Northeast, he suddenly became interested in the economy and the military, so he took the back door and stole the hole, but the door was not hard enough, and in the end he still did not get the quota sent by the official to study at the Northeast Army Military Academy, which was later changed to a visit...... However, according to his own words, it inexplicably became a study tour. After being plated with a layer of gold in the Northeast, this Tieliang gave himself the title of a knowing soldier, and took the initiative to throw himself into Rong Lu, who came back again, to help him take care of various things, and then gradually became prosperous.

But it is always too slow to go up step by step, so Tie Liang came up with an idea! The time of this era is the decline of the Qing Dynasty, the rise of the Northeast, and the difficulty of sustaining the country. The geographical advantage is that Tie Liang is an official who sits in the latest position in the capital. As for people and ...... The old and young masters in the capital don't want the Han people to seek to seize their own country, and the love of the Han people has surged.

Yuan Shikai is now the minister of military training, and Tie Liang is the minister. Although Yuan Shikai was his boss, he was very dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai's presiding over the construction of the new army, so he united with the Manchu relatives and nobles of the Shaozhuang gang in the capital to try every possible way to seize the military power of the new army!

Tie Liang often made wild statements, demanding that the imperial court expel the Han ministers and abolish all Han military powers. With extremely offensive and insulting remarks, he provoked contradictions between the Han and the Manchurians.

When Wang Yi read the report of the Northeast Intelligence Bureau on Tieliang, his mind reminded him of a big dung fork of the Japanese Kingdom in later generations - the old turtle, Shintaro Ishihara. And it is such a person, the Qing court has issued an order to ask Yuan Shikai to let Tie Liang take command of the first town of the new army.

PS: Today is Christmas Eve, bro I'm happy today...... Our domestic big luck big fat bird has appeared.