The contemporary Beiyang Army, whether it is a few towns under Zhao Dongyun or other people's troops, is actually similar in nature, and it is a modern feudal army loyal to the army leader, which is incomparable with the modern national army armed with the beliefs of the state and nation in the Western powers.

This gap is not something that Zhao Dongyun can change personally, but the limitations of contemporary China.

Zhao Dongyun's Fengtian Standing Army is stronger than several other domestic warlords, not because of military beliefs or ideology, but in terms of equipment and tactical concepts.

Therefore, even if Zhao Dongyun's troops had a casualty rate of more than ten percent, they would actually not be much better than Wang Shizhen's Sixth Town.

But Zhao Dongyun would not let his troops cause such a large number of casualties!

After the battle in this month, the general attack only killed and wounded nearly 1,000 people, and the casualty rate of more than 20,000 people was only 5 percent.

"Well, the replenishment of the casualties can be smooth? When will I be able to replenish it? "Zhao Dongyun will not let his army fight less and less, at the same time as the war is going on on the front line, many recruiting stations in the rear are also recruiting, and several recruit training camps are also training recruits intensively!

Fang Biyong said: "I have already urged the Jinzhou side, but the latest batch of recruits will have to wait two days to arrive!" Most of the previous sources of troops have been replenished to two hybrid associations! ”

Zhao Dongyun frowned after hearing this: "The speed of replenishment of soldiers is still far from enough, call Wang Zhanyuan and ask him to continue to expand the scale of recruitment, not only in Fengtian Province, but also in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Mongolia, and we must also carry out the corresponding recruitment work in the eastern region of Zhili under our control!" ”

Now is the time of war, the more soldiers, the better, as for whether we can afford to raise so many troops, that will have to be talked about later, anyway, the more troops now, the better.

However, the time is still relatively tight now, because the training of recruits also takes time, even if the time is compressed, it will take at least a month, in this case, at least in the past two months, Zhao Dongyun does not expect many recruits to replenish him.

If it is a qiē shun lì, then the timetable for the great expansion of Zhao Dongyun's army will be a month later, because at that time, the recruits who began to recruit on a large scale in early October will successively complete their basic training and then be added to the various units, which will greatly increase the number of active troops.

Since the assassination of Yuan Shikai in early October, almost all the generals of the Beiyang system have been doing the same thing, that is, expanding the army, and even the governors in the south are also expanding their armies, but the scale and speed are not as exaggerated as the Beiyang generals.

For example, Zhao Dongyun came up with two mixed associations, but Wang Yingkai also relied on the standard left in Tianjin Machang as the basis, and then planned to expand into a mixed association, called the first mixed association of the Beiyang Standing Army.

And Duan Qirui was not to be outdone, and he also transferred a standard as the foundation, and then established the so-called Beiyang Standing Army Second Mixed Association.

Even Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang also expanded their own armies, Wang Shizhen made a Sixth Town Supplementary Association, and although Feng Guozhang did not have the number of the Association, he made up two new reserve standards for the first town, and then began to establish the Praetorian Guard.

However, the troops that these people have expanded have not yet been formally formed, and even the numbers on paper are not enough, so at present, those who can fight are still the old units that they have trained a few years ago.

However, even relying on the old troops in the past, Zhao Dongyun was confident that he would enter the Beijing division and then drive Guangxu off the emperor's throne, as the current progress of the third town in Tongzhou has already shown.

However, what he didn't know was that his third town was on the Tongzhou side, but it had attracted Wang Yingkai's attention!

"It is true that the soldiers under his Zhao Dongyun can fight, although it has taken a long time to fight Tongzhou, but only a thousand casualties have taken Tongzhou, and there are more dead and wounded than them in the sixth town!" Wang Yingkai frowned.

This Zhao Dongyun can fight on the surface It seems to be very beneficial to his own side, but it is not a good thing for Wang Yingkai, because everyone knows that after killing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is always necessary to launch a person to be the president, and then Wang Duan and Zhao will have to compete!

"And I heard that the fourth mixed association he newly compiled has also arrived in Shanhaiguan, if there is something in the customs, I'm afraid this mixed association can also enter the customs at any time!" The person next to him said.

And after hearing this, Wang Yingkai frowned even more!

In today's Beiyang, although he said that he had the greatest prestige on the surface, and he also gathered a lot of staff and talents from the Yuan Shikai era, Beiyang is not a pure political group, but a system that relies on military power to survive, so the number of troops in his hands is a direct reflection of his strength.

He Wang Yingkai directly controls the troops in his hands, which is just a first town, although Zhang Huaizhi still maintains a certain respect for himself, but he has broken away from the previous subordinate relationship, at most he is just an ally of politics. And now Zhang Huaizhi led the fifth town and the eighth town to confront each other, blocking Li Yuanhong's eighth town and the 29th mixed association from going north, which can barely be said to have fulfilled the obligations of allies.

So Wang Yingkai couldn't say anything, so he could only continue to woo Zhang Huaizhi.

However, even if Zhang Huaizhi is added, even if he adds the first mixed association of the Beiyang Standing Army that he has just established, all he can rely on is two towns and one association, and there are more than 30,000 people, but Zhao Dongyun supported the army in three towns before the war, and now he has established a cavalry association and two mixed associations.

This is said to be the three towns and three associations, and the total number of troops is fifty or sixty thousand.

This force is not as many as Zhao Dongyun, and his waist is not straight when he speaks, but now he hears that Zhao Dongyun's troops are so capable of fighting, and they took Tongzhou before he and Duan Qirui failed to conquer Nanyuan, which made Wang Yingkai even more scruples.

The Wang Duan Zhao Alliance is an extremely fragile alliance from beginning to end, and it can even be said that the three of Wang Duan and Zhao know that after the Manchu Qing is killed in the future, then the infighting between the three is inevitable, and now Wang Yingkai is worried about the growth of Zhao Dongyun's strength.

"It seems that the pace of our army expansion is not fast enough, and the current No. 1 Mixed Association is far from enough, so you can go to find the Japanese and ask them if their ordnance can be cheaper!" Wang Yingkai frowned, then gritted his teeth and said: "Let people go to the fourth town again, tell sù that surname Duan Hefei, I want to meet with him and talk!" ”

While the situation outside the city is chaotic, the situation inside the city is also quite bad!

"It's been almost a month since this fought, and the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, my lord, we can't continue to fight like this, otherwise our sixth town will be wiped out!"

In the face of the complaints of the people below, Wang Shizhen also had a black line, he really didn't expect that the first half of the month was fine, although the Tongzhou defense line did not dare to say that it was impregnable, but he expected that if Zhao Dongyun wanted to take it, at least three or five thousand people would have to be killed or injured, but what he didn't expect was that Zhao Dongyun only used a roundabout attack, that is, he forced himself to give up Tongzhou on his own initiative, and after fighting for most of the month, his sixth town was killed and injured heavily.

The dead and wounded, captured and missing combined, he lost at least more than 2,500 people in the sixth town, this is his old bottom, if they all die Wang Shizhen will have to become a bald commander.

The subordinates next to him continued to cry: "Now that the imperial court is clearly trying to use us, and it doesn't count if it is used, look at how many deaths and injuries there are in Feng Guozhang's first town now?" They didn't fight much over there and in the west, and there were only a few hundred dead and wounded before and after, but what about our sixth town, it was Zhao Dongyun who was on the side, and if it went on like this! ”

Wang Shizhen also snorted coldly at this time: "It's enough!" Is it interesting to say that now? ”

However, although he reprimanded his subordinates, many thoughts had already flashed through his mind!

Looking at the current situation, it is hell that the Jingshi can hold it, even if the south and west sides can be held, but the east and north directions alone rely on their own sixth town 10,000 troops is absolutely unable to defend, if you want to defend it reluctantly, it is estimated that your sixth town will have to fight all, and the biggest possibility is that before you fight out, these subordinates will have to raise the anti-flag and betray themselves.

If you can block it, it is good, take a governor of Zhili as a pawn, and it will not take a few years to estimate that you will be able to reproduce the demeanor of Yuan Gong.

However, now the situation is much stricter than I expected, and I can't continue to fight, I have to find a way to stop fighting, well, but even if this is a truce, I have to reap enough benefits to stop fighting!

Thinking of this, he just drove all his generals out, and then called a confidant and personal soldier, and said in a low voice: "You will leave the city tonight and go west to the first town!" ”

At this time, it is estimated that no one expected that Wang Shizhen was already planning to surrender, and what is interesting is that when Wang Shizhen considered the situation, he did not consider Cixi's feelings at all......

For the Beiyang generals, the Qing court's life or death is their business!

From the very beginning, this battlefield was not a war between Beiyang and the imperial court, but an internal battle in Beiyang, fighting for the position of the lord of Beiyang!

Things in this world are changing so fast, when Zhao Dongyun conquered Tongzhou and was full of confidence and ready to continue the attack, striving to take the Jingshi before the arrival of deep winter, but suddenly news came that Wang Shizhen was anyway!

It doesn't matter if he is anyway, he also directly united with Wang Yingkai's first town to attack the seventh town, and killed Feng Guozhang, who was still in the dark, without leaving a piece of armor!

On November 24th, Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai successively released the power!

Wang Shizhen disclosed Yuan Gong's last words for the first time in the telegram, saying that Yuan Gong had said that he would establish a republic before leaving, and at the same time announced that he would implement Yuan Gong's last words without reservation and establish a republic.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Yingkai also issued a telegram, and he highly praised Wang Shizhen's decision to finally the country and the nation in the tone of the boss, saying that Wang Shizhen's move is the great good of the Chinese Republic!

Immediately afterwards, Duan Qirui didn't know why, but he also issued a telegram immediately after, saying that the republic was imperative, and shouted for the first time that he hoped that the emperor could take the initiative to abdicate and return the world to a republic or something!

On the surface, these telegrams seem to be republican, anti-imperialist, demanding the emperor's abdication and the like, but Zhao Dongyun in Tongzhou directly overturned the table after seeing these telegrams.

"They are so bold that they dare to do this to me!" The reason why Zhao Dongyun was so angry was because before the above three people released the power, he didn't know any news, what does this mean? This means that Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen have once again established an alliance, who is the opponent?

Feng Guozhang, one of his former opponents, has fled into the embassy district in disgrace, and his seventh town has been completely defeated on the 23rd, and the rest was divided by Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai, and he was also forced to issue a telegram to Shimono, claiming that he would no longer get involved in state affairs in the future.

Feng Guozhang is dead or alive, Zhao Dongyun doesn't care, he doesn't care about the life or death of the Manchu royal family, he cares about Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, the three of them are united, in today's situation, if they unite to deal with someone, who else can Zhao Dongyun have?

Thinking of Zhao Dongyun's series of national scoldings here, he shouted that Wang Shizhen was a traitor among traitors, not only betrayed Beiyang before, but now he betrayed the Qing court in turn, it is simply Lu Bu at the end of the Qing Dynasty!

After scolding Wang Shizhen, he scolded Duan Qirui again, saying that he was shameless and even joined forces with his biggest competitor in the past to deal with him.

Zhao Dongyun was the first person in the study to go crazy, which made Li San's face black outside, and when Zhao Dongyun was just mad, Li San had already quickly kicked out the staff in the office outside, ensuring that Zhao Dongyun's love was out of control and this kind of thing was not spread.

After waiting for a long time, he heard that there was no sound inside, Li Sancai cautiously pushed open the door of the office, only to see that the desk inside had been overturned, and the fragments of vases and porcelain were all over the ground, only to see Zhao Dongyun sitting on his chair at this moment, and the collar of his clothes had also been untied a few times.

has been by Zhao Dongyun's side for so many years, although Li San has seen Zhao Dongyun angry, but it is the first time that his feelings are so out of control, if he has seen a certain Third Reich movie in later generations, then he will find that Zhao Dongyun at that time is very similar to the roaring Hitler.

Zhao Dongyun saw Li San coming in, and said directly: "Tea!" ”

This person vented in the study for a long time scolding Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai, and his voice was a little dumb.

Li San soon came in with a teapot, and after pouring a cup, Li San asked carefully, "What should we do now?" ”

Zhao Dongyun snorted coldly, his face showed a hideous expression: "If they want war, I will give them war!" ”