And Cao Kun is a little sad, he was already under house arrest, since He Zonglian was lucky enough to escape, there are more guards guarding him. In fact, Cao Kun did not think about switching to Feng Guozhang, but to be honest, it was too risky to do so.

Although he does not serve in Fengtian, he is a backbone and high-level general in the Soviet system, and he has a personal experience of the huge Soviet system, except for the three towns of Fengtian on the surface, in fact, many young officers in the towns of Beiyang, especially those who have returned from studying abroad, are mostly oriented to Zhao Dongyun.

Once Zhao Dongyun led his army into the pass, Cao Kun did not think that Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen would be able to stop Wang Duan and Zhao's coalition army.

So if Cao Kun switched to Feng Guozhang at this time, the future outcome would be very bad, even if Wang Duan and the two didn't kill him, Zhao Dongyun would kill him.

And the reputation of the mutiny is not good, the Beiyang people in this era are actually relatively traditional, and the prestige of the senior generals is very important, so they also cherish their reputation very much, if they wear the hat of 'traitor', they don't want to take it off in this life, and don't want to let their subordinates serve themselves.

So after thinking about it a lot, Cao Kun still resolutely refused Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen's solicitation, anyway, the two of them are unlikely to kill him, at most it is house arrest, if Zhao Dongyun enters the Beijing Division in the future, he Cao Kun will be able to immediately change himself, and immediately sit on an equal footing with Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan and others in the Su system. Take 10,000 steps back and say that if Zhao Dongyun is defeated, the Su system will become yesterday's yellow flower. Then he Cao Kun was at most placed under house arrest for a period of time, and then ran to the concession as a duke.

Since there is no danger to his life, he Cao Kun is naturally at ease!

But on the night of the 10th, Cao Kun, who had been asleep, suddenly heard several gunshots outside, and he frowned and got up, and then as soon as he got up, the door of the room was already opened, and he saw a person walking in in the dark, and the man said: "But Commander Cao is in person?" ”

Cao Kun is also a long-time military veteran, although he was slightly panicked, his face remained unchanged and immediately said: "It's me, who are you waiting for?" ”

The person who came breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and then said: "We are from the Fengtian Intelligence Department, and we were ordered to come to rescue Commander Cao!" ”

At the same time in Jinzhou, Zhao Dongyun has already seen He Zonglian, when he first arrived in Jinzhou, He Zonglian can be described as a little tragic, in order to avoid exposing his whereabouts, he was dressed in civilian clothes and pretended to be an ordinary person in Kanto, and when he arrived in Jinzhou, he reported his name to see Zhao Dongyun, and was almost regarded as a liar.

"Chunjiang, it's been hard along the way!" Zhao Dongyun walked up to He Zonglian, who had changed into an officer's uniform, and then greeted him with a smile on his face and held his hand.

He Zonglian saw Zhao Dongyun personally greet him, and the hardships he had suffered in the past few days suddenly disappeared, and he said: "As long as I can come to Jinzhou to serve the adults, my hard work along the way will be worth it!" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "Have a good night's rest, and tomorrow I will take you to meet a group of colleagues!" ”

After saying that, Zhao Dongyun pondered for a while, and then said: "Recently, I am also preparing a mixed association, since you are here, help me first set up this shelf of the fourth mixed association in Fengtian!" ”

Zhao Dongyun knew that this He Zonglian had escaped alone, and he had risked his life to take refuge in himself, if this was not favorable, how could he Zhao Dongyun win over talents!

Besides, He Zonglian is also one of the senior generals in the Beiyang system, if according to the original history, he should be promoted to the position of the commander of the standing army of the Beijing Banner in the past two years, although history has changed now, no matter which side he defects to, at least he is in the position of an assistant commander.

Now that the commander of the infantry association has become the commander of the mixed association, it can be regarded as a half-step promotion, and according to the tradition of the Beiyang army expansion, this mixed association will become a town sooner or later, so in the future, He Zonglian will be inseparable from the control of a town.

"Zong Lian will definitely do her best to live up to the high expectations of the adults!" He Zonglian also didn't expect that as soon as he came to Jinzhou, Zhao Dongyun generously gave a position as the leader of the mixed association, after all, although he was also a member of the Soviet family in the eyes of outsiders, his personal relationship with Zhao Dongyun was far less good than that of Cao Kun and them.

"It's a pity that Zhong Shan, now that he is trapped in Jingshi, it would be nice if he could come to Jinzhou with me!" He Zonglian couldn't help but think of Cao Kun, who was software with him, and thought that he was still under house arrest by Feng Guozhang, so he was naturally embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Dongyun said: "Chunjiang don't worry, if nothing happens, Zhong Shan will be able to arrive in Jinzhou in two days!" ”

He Zonglian was puzzled: "Could it be that Zhong Shan also escaped?" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "I asked someone from the intelligence department to save him!" ”

After this conversation, He Zonglian walked out of Zhao Dongyun's temporary residence with a satisfied face, this time it was really right to come to Jinzhou, looking at Zhao Dongyun's arrangements for himself and sending someone to rescue Cao Kun, this is obviously not to treat them as outsiders, this is a good thing!

Hmph, now that he has arrived in Jinzhou, after a while, he will train this mixed group under his hands, and then he will enter the Beijing Division to find Feng Guozhang and them to take revenge, and the humiliation of house arrest will definitely be repaid to them tenfold and hundredfold.

He Zonglian went back in high spirits, but Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan and a few others on the side had different faces, Chen Guangyuan turned around and whispered to Meng Enyuan: "He is lucky, he is a mixed association leader!" ”

The envy in the words was very obvious.

According to the reason, Chen Guangyuan's qualifications in the Soviet system are in the top three, but now he is still an infantry co-commander, although he knows that Zhao Dongyun cannot always concurrently serve as the commander of the third town of the army, as short as a few months, as long as two years, sooner or later he will have to hand over the position of the commander of the third town to him, but that day has not yet come, so he is still only an assistant commander, and he thinks that he is envious, jealous and hateful of other people's superiors.

Meng Enyuan didn't answer his words, he knew very well that Zhao Dongyun was doing this for others to see, especially for the Beiyang officers in other towns, just to let people know that as long as they came to him Zhao Dongyun, high-ranking officials could get it at their fingertips!

Compared with the envy of Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan and others, Wang Zhanyuan on the side has a lot more inner thoughts!

Why? Because although he is the leader of the Sixth Association of the Third Town, everyone knows that he is Wang Yingkai's person, you must know that there is no place for him in the so-called Su system!

A few days ago, when Zhao Dongyun had not announced that he was going to enter the customs, a group of Soviet generals were guarding him like thieves, so they sent people to put him under house arrest, but fortunately, this situation did not last long, Zhao Dongyun announced that he was going to enter the customs, and then after Wang Duan and Zhao Beiyang's three bigwigs successively issued a telegram, the three parties reached an alliance.

Wang Zhanyuan's life in Jinzhou is better, but Wang Zhanyuan knows that this is just better, and it is impossible to control real power.

He thought about simply learning from He Zonglian and secretly leaving Jinzhou and returning to Baoding!

But now in this situation, he is also reluctant to position now, this time Baoding is easy, but there is no extra co-ordinator position in Baoding to arrange him!

In short, the current mood of Wang Zhanyuan can be described in one word, that is: sorrow!

On the morning of the 11th, Zhao Dongyun once again held a military meeting between senior generals, which was different from the content discussed in the previous military meetings, and today they discussed the official battle plan for entering the customs!

After waiting for the generals to take their seats, Zhao Dongyun spoke first: "You may have all discovered that there is one more person here today, and that is He Zonglian, my Beiyang cadre!" I just arrived in Jinzhou yesterday. ”

Zhao Dongyun said, He Zonglian just stood up: "Zonglian is shallow and talented, and I will ask my colleagues to teach me more in the future!" ”

The rest of the crowd didn't care what they thought in their hearts, but on the surface, they were all smiling and saying welcome, welcome, and something like that.

This can be regarded as being introduced in public, and the next thing is to talk about business, as Zhao Dongyun gave Fang Biyong, the general office of the General Staff Office, a look, Fang Biyong stood up with a report in his hand.

Then he said: "Since many of the departments under the jurisdiction of the Third Town and the departments of the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office are the same, and the personnel and tasks overlap, in order to further improve the efficiency of streamlining, in accordance with the instructions of the adults, from now on, some of the departments in the Third Town and the departments of the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office will be merged, and the new Fengtian Army Headquarters will be established, which will be supervised by the adults.

It consists of the General Staff Department, the Quartermaster Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Ministry of Education, with the General Staff Department in charge of daily training, exercises, operations, intelligence, and communications sections, the Quartermaster Department in charge of food, military husbandry, and construction, and the Ordnance Department in charge of firearms and procurement.

The general offices of the various ministries are as follows: the general office of the General Staff Department is assumed by Fang Biyong, the general office of the Quartermaster Department is assumed by Pu Hongtao, and the general office of the Ministry of Education is assumed by Zhao Dongping, and the Ministry of Education is assumed by Wang Zhanyuan. ”

After Fang Biyong's words fell, most of the people were shocked, what they were surprised was not the reform of the Third Town and the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office, in fact, there were rumors of these reforms before, after all, after Zhao Dongyun served as the general of Shengjing, the Third Town and the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office have always had the same functions and powers, and the tasks overlapped, and Zhao Dongyun's temporary solution was to let the chief officials of the Third Town directly concurrently serve as the position of the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office, but it was not always like this, this time it was to take the opportunity to completely reorganize, It can be regarded as avoiding the embarrassing situation of having two headquarters under Zhao Dongyun's hands.

What everyone was really surprised was that Wang Zhanyuan was transferred to the Ministry of Education as the general office?

Although everyone knows that this general office of the Ministry of Education is a real position of real power, you can only look at Lin Yongquan, the previous general office of the education department, who controls all the recruitment and training of recruits in the three towns of Fengtian, and other towns have to curry favor with Lin Yongquan when they want to replenish recruits.

But if Wang Zhanyuan is replaced, then the situation will be different, because everyone knows that Wang Zhanyuan is Wang Yingkai, and at this critical time, Wang Zhanyuan was transferred from the commander of the Sixth Association of the Third Town to the Ministry of Education as the general office, and it was already clear that he would be completely hollowed out.

Even if he is an outsider and becomes the general office of the Ministry of Education, he cannot have much real power.

Although Wang Zhanyuan's face was flushed and he wanted to say something, but after looking at Zhao Dongyun with a calm face above, he swallowed all his words back, it is better not to resist Zhao Dongyun at this critical moment, otherwise he will be completely driven out of Fengtian.

At the same time, Fang Biyong, who had just changed from the General Office of the General Staff Office to the General Office of the General Staff Department, continued: "Due to the fact that the existing numbers of our army are many different, in order to facilitate management, the third town of the army has been specially changed to the third town of the Fengtian Standing Army, and the Fengtian Cavalry Association has been changed to the First Cavalry Association of the Fengtian Standing Army. The rest of the first and second towns of the Fengtian Standing Army remained as usual.

In addition, in order to cope with the tense situation in the future, the Fourth Mixed Association and the Fifth Mixed Association of the Fengtian Standing Army were specially organized, with He Zonglian as the commander of the Fourth Mixed Association and Cao Kun as the commander of the Fifth Mixed Association! ”

Although Cao Kun had not yet arrived in Jinzhou, Zhao Dongyun had already received news from the intelligence officers in the morning, saying that he had rescued Cao Kun and was currently rushing to Jinzhou, so even if the others had not yet arrived, Zhao Dongyun was still ready to leave this position to him.

In Fang Biyong's series of words, all of them were Zhao Dongyun's adjustment of Fengtian's military, mainly to rectify the command structure, so as to facilitate the future entry battle, as for putting Wang Zhanyuan in the air, it was just a precaution, lest Wang Zhanyuan would defect and hook up with Wang Yingkai before the battle.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun spoke again: "Now that our army is about to enter the customs, Zichun has to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the Ministry of Education, and this Sixth Association can't be left unattended, so Gu Lanyu, you will help me manage this Sixth Association first!" ”

Gu Lanyu, who was below, had never gotten Zhao Dongyun's tone before, and today's play could be regarded as a complete surprise, and he immediately stood up: "The ministry swears to die for the adult!" ”

This sentence can be regarded as a sycophant, although other senior generals are loyal to Zhao Dongyun, but in fact, most of them are still more self-sustaining on weekdays, and Zhao Dongyun also treats them as brothers, peers and the like, which can be seen from their titles.

When Zhao Dongyun called Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan, He Zonglian, Cao Kun and others, he generally shouted the word, and this word was generally addressed among peers, that is to say, Zhao Dongyun deliberately lowered his identity in treating them to show his popularity. Of course, they definitely don't dare to reply to 'Ziyang', there are not many people who can call Zhao Dongyun 'Ziyang' in contemporary times, and a few other bigwigs in Beiyang are qualified, as for the other Xinjiang ministers, they either hold their own identities and call Zhao Dongyun as a junior directly, or they use the word 'Zhao Suqian' instead.

In the Su department, the relationship between Zhao Dongyun and most of his subordinates is generally a relatively normal subordinate relationship, and he usually says, "I don't have high hopes anymore!" It's rare to say something like death directly.

But today, this Gu Lanyu has made this start, won't everyone have to learn in the future?

Not to mention these small details, after these major events were said in the military discussion that day, the follow-up discussion was still based on the detailed plan for entering the customs operation, and three hours later, Zhao Dongyun took a sip of tea to moisten his throat: "Since it is almost discussed, then this matter has been decided, and now the first and fourth towns have begun to act, and we should not delay it too much!" ”

Speaking of this, he looked around and showed a cautious expression: "I order, from now on, the Third Town and the First Cavalry Association will immediately enter the customs with me!" ”