In fact, Zhao Dongyun understands very well why several other companies in Beiyang have united to support Wang Yingkai, which is nothing more than the old routine of pulling the weak and fighting the strong.

In this situation, there are actually only three strong contenders for the Beiyang chieftain, Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and him Zhao Dongyun. And here Duan Qirui is not in tune, the troops are not as many as Zhao Dongyun, and the prestige is not as good as Wang Yingkai, so it is very embarrassing, and it is impossible for him to win.

And Zhao Dongyun's words, there are too many troops, if he becomes the lord of Beiyang, then with his means it must be another Yuan Shikai, it is imperative to unify Beiyang, and if you don't accept it, you will fight!

This is unacceptable for other Beiyang bigwigs!

And Wang Yingkai's words, the prestige is high enough, but his troops are insufficient, if he is made the leader of Beiyang, then the other bigwigs can continue to maintain the current transcendent status, and even talk to Wang Yingkai about the conditions.

The former Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen and Zhang Huaizhi supported Wang Yingkai with all their brains, if Wang Yingkai did not promise anything, it would be a ghost not to believe it.

Based on these, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen chose to support Wang Yingkai instead of the most powerful Zhao Dongyun.

After Zhao Dongyun put down these telegrams, he called Li San in: "Yang Debiao is leaving?" ”

Li Sandao: "I have arranged for someone to escort him north overnight last night, and it is estimated that it will not take long to arrive in Rehe!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded slightly after hearing this, some time ago, after many subordinate institutions of the Third Town and the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office were merged into the Fengtian Army Headquarters, and at that time, the Qing court appointed Zhao Dongyun as the governor of the three eastern provinces, although Zhao Dongyun did not thank him, but it did not mean that he did not accept it.

Anyway, before he entered the customs, he had already sent several patrol police battalions to Heilongjiang and Jilin to take over the local defense, and at the same time changed the Shengjing General's Mansion to the Governor's Mansion of the Three Eastern Provinces.

After the General's Mansion was changed to the Governor's Palace, a series of institutions of the original General's Mansion were naturally relocated to the Governor's Palace, such as the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Agriculture and Forestry Administration, the Finance Bureau, and other bureaus were all changed to the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office.

The above six general bureaus and three major divisions formed the administrative organs of the three eastern provinces under Zhao Dongyun, and the military side was headed by the 'Fengtian Army Command', and Zhao Dongyun concurrently served as the supervision of the headquarters.

In the current sequence of civil power in the three eastern provinces, the Secretariat assists Zhao Dongyun in handling many daily government affairs, coordinates the implementation of various policies by the general bureaus, and also has the power to review and summarize various reports and draft the establishment of various reports.

After all, there are so many affairs in the three provinces of Fengtian, if Zhao Dongyun wants to handle all of them independently, it is not enough to give him forty-eight hours a day, not to mention that now Zhao Dongyun is mainly focused on the military and the domestic situation, but he does not have much mind to deal with the internal affairs of the three eastern provinces, so unless it is an important matter, otherwise the general daily government affairs are given by the secretariat.

And what was this power to view the report and draft the building before? In fact, it is 'vote drafting', and what body does the power of vote proposal belong to? That's for the Cabinet!

So from this secretariat, there are only a few dozen people, but in fact, this secretariat is somewhat similar to the Ming Cabinet and the Qing Military Aircraft Department, except that the secretariat only has the power to refute it.

Therefore, don't look at the first and second secretaries in the secretariat, which sound inconspicuous, but their actual status is not much worse than that of the general offices and conference offices of other general administrations.

Yang Debiao has also been a staff member who has followed Zhao Dongyun for many years, and he was one of the staff members who followed Zhao Dongyun when he was in the new machine gun battalion, and now he is also one of the twelve first-class secretaries in the secretariat.

If he goes to Rehe to see Wu Fengling in this capacity, it is also suitable.

Zhao Dongyun sent people to Rehe to see Wu Fengling, the purpose is self-evident, in order to win over Wu Fengling!

Among the many contemporary factions in Beiyang, Wu Fengling is a typical neutral faction, or the grass on the wall, which can be seen from his previous reluctance to participate in the competition between all parties and lead the army to Rehe, he knows that he has no hope of taking the position, so he waits for the Jingshi side to divide the victory and defeat, and whoever wins will support him!

However, now Zhao Dongyun is facing the crisis of Wang Yingkai and others uniting to deal with him, although it is unlikely that he will win over Wu Fengling, but he still has to give it a try, and it seems that he does not have much sincerity by telegram or letter, so he sent Yang Debiao to be a lobbyist, even if he can't persuade him to take refuge in himself, but he must let him continue to remain neutral, so as not to let Wang Yingkai pull him over.

"On the second side of the town, the variables are still too great, and now our troops in the pass are far from enough!" Zhao Dongyun is well aware of the danger he is in at this moment, he only has a third town and a first cavalry association in the pass, if this fights, he can't stop Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen and Zhang Huaizhi and their coalition forces.

Zhao Dongyun stood up, then looked at the large map hanging on the wall, and only said to Li San beside him after a long time: "You remember it!" ”

After Li San heard it, he knew that Zhao Dongyun had an order to be given, so he immediately took out a pen and paper.

"Call Jinzhou and transfer Wang Zhanyuan, the general office of the Education Department, to be the commander of Jinzhou's urban defense!" The first sentence of Zhao Dongyun's opening was to completely empty Wang Yingkai's backbone henchman Wang Zhanyuan, but this is not over: "Send Lin Yongquan another secret telegram, let him protect Wang Zhanyuan!" ”

This is clearly to set aside and put Wang Zhanyuan under house arrest, well, Feng Guozhang also treated Cao Kun and He Zonglian of the Su family like this before!

The war between himself and Wang Yingkai is about to break out, and it is naturally inappropriate to keep this Wang Zhanyuan again, but Zhao Dongyun will not let Wang Zhanyuan go, he doesn't want Wang Yingkai to get a general like Wang Zhanyuan, since it can't be used by me, then no one else can use it, so he is simply under house arrest!

Zhao Dongyun continued: "The second town of the Fengtian Standing Army was ordered to enter Tangshan on the same day! ”

"The telegram ordered the first town of the Fengtian Standing Army, the first association of the Fengtian Standing Army, and the first battalion of the town's artillery team as a mixed association, and went south to Tangshan on the same day."

Zhao Dongyun said that he was also estimating the strength of the troops in his heart, the situation in the pass was critical, and relying on a third town and the first cavalry association alone could not do the combined forces of other Beiyang generals, and he had to transfer another town and a association into the pass, then not to mention victory, but it should not be a big problem to defend.

If it weren't for the fact that Japan and Russia still have heavy troops on the border outside the Guan, he would probably have exhausted all the troops, but not yet, and now there is a second association and the fifth mixed association of the first town of Fengtian left outside the gate, as well as several patrol police signs, and can barely continue to stabilize the situation.

Now Zhao Dongyun just wants to pull the main force back to the Guannai and fight with Wang Yingkai first, it is easy to say anything if he wins, and if he loses, he will go back to the northeast and close the door to lie down and taste his courage, and then try to enter the customs in the future.

As for saying that he didn't fight a battle, he directly bowed down to Wang Yingkai and then ran back to Fengtian to be the king of the Northeast, not to mention that he Zhao Dongyun was unwilling, and a large number of generals in the Su Department would not be reconciled.

He Zhao Dongyun wants to win the position of the lord of Beiyang and enjoy being a president, and the generals under him all want to be the founding heroes, and many thoughtful people still want to wait for Zhao Dongyun to die and live a presidential addiction.

Therefore, from many angles, Zhao Dongyun can't show weakness to Wang Yingkai, let alone bow down to his subordinates, as for the so-called first run back to the northeast to develop behind closed doors, play the game of accumulating grain, and slowly becoming the king, it will not work at all in contemporary times.

Sometimes the name is very important, why are Cao Kun, Chen Guangyuan, and a large number of Shaozhuang officers loyal to Zhao Dongyun now? And almost every day, many young people come to him from all over the country to join him Zhao Dongyun, who takes a fancy to his reputation as a Beiyang tycoon, hoping that Zhao Dongyun will one day be able to govern Beiyang and then rule China, but on this basis, he will implement his various political or power aspirations.

If you just don't let go of a shot and run back to the gate, how do you let the rest of the people follow you?

In modern politics, the word prestige is very important! Because you want to attract talents, people first look at your prestige, then your real strength, and finally look at your ability, otherwise how can Wang Yingkai attract so many talents, people do not rely on a first town, but the identity of the boss of the first echelon of Beiyang, second only to Yuan Shikai's prestige in the Beiyang system.

If Zhao Dongyun doesn't fight such a game and retreats directly to the Guannei, it will undoubtedly make many people lose confidence in him or even leave him!

So even if he wants to go back to Guanwai, he has to fight first, the victory is the best, and it is not too late to go back after defeat, so that those Soviet civil officials and military generals who follow Zhao Dongyun will not leave Zhao Dongyun directly, but most of them will lie down with Zhao Dongyun with grief and indignation.

So now Zhao Dongyun has three choices, the first is to turn around directly and be a shrinking turtle outside the gate, in this way, let alone the follow-up hegemony, it is estimated that this decision will not be able to rebel immediately, you Zhao Dongyun is willing to be a shrinking turtle, but it does not mean that other generals of the Su family are also willing, Cao Kun, Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan These people are all arrogant, you let them admit defeat without fighting, it is impossible at all!

And the second is to fight, the most ideal of which is naturally Zhao Dongyun's Feng army is powerful, directly put down the coalition led by Wang Yingkai, and then Zhao Dongyun is the president, and other Soviet generals are the founding heroes, hello, hello, everyone!

And the third possibility is to lose, in this case, Zhao Dongyun can only be forced to retreat outside the pass, and then defend Shanhaiguan!

With the strength and equipment level of the Feng army, he may not be able to defeat the coalition forces of other generals in Beiyang, but if he wants to defend a Shanhaiguan, he can't beat Wang Yingkai with 100,000 people, and finally everyone starts to play meditation, Zhao Dongyun has been lying in the northeast for a few years or even ten or twenty years, and he has been waiting until the situation in the customs has changed before trying to enter the customs.

In fact, Zhao Dongyun also has other options, such as accepting the title of king of the Qing court, and then continuing to carry the banner of the Qing court to fight with the Beiyang armies, and it is estimated that Zhang Zhidong, Duanfang and Yinchang will become his allies at that time, but this plan will not only cause irreparable damage to his reputation, but also the risk is too great, the total number of new armies in the south that are still loyal to the Qing court is not much, and the combat effectiveness is very different from Beiyang, To put it bluntly, Zhang Huaizhi's fifth town is enough to block the Jiangbei Mixed Association and the Eighth Town, not to mention that Wang Ruxian's 29th Mixed Association has also joined Wang Yingkai's alliance sequence, although Jiang Guidi's Jiangfang Army is not very effective in combat, but it is also enough to contain Yinchang's Jiangbei Mixed Association and the Ninth Town.

The above three departments are obviously thrown into Wang Yingkai's Beiyang lineage and side army, and it is estimated that it is difficult to sweep the southern provinces together, but it is not a problem to stabilize the situation in the south, otherwise Zhang Zhidong would have raised the banner and entered the army, why is it still on the edge of Zhili Province now, and he can't move forward in half a step.

Therefore, an alliance with the Qing court, or an alliance with the southern governor, could not bring any benefit to Zhao Dongyun.

You have to rely on yourself for everything, and your allies in these years are generally used to trap people!

The news that Zhao Dongyun transferred Fengtian No. 1 Mixed into Concord No. 2 Town was not concealed, and almost on the same day, Wang Yingkai received a secret telegram, saying that Jinzhou Fengjun had begun to move, and the purpose was very clear, that is, to get on the train and enter the customs!

"Hmph, this Zhao Dongyun is really unwilling!" Wang Yingkai snorted coldly, but he was not the previous Wang Shizhen or Feng Guozhang, he didn't feel much surprise or fear in the face of Zhao Dongyun's abnormal movements, and even faintly looked forward to it: "As long as I gather the army to defeat the Feng army, then who else in the world can stop me from taking the throne?" ”