What are you kidding, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen are forced or voluntary, but Wang Yingkai asked them to go south to fight to the death with Zhang Zhidong and Duanfang, Zhao Dongyun is also happy to see it, after all, this bit of territory in the north really can't afford to raise four warlords, and now Zhao Dongyun occupies the northeast, Wang Yingkai occupies Zhili, and Wang Ruxian and Zhang Huaizhi are not good at stubble, and it is impossible for them to let Shandong and Henan out, so it is inevitable that Qirui and Wang Shizhen will go south to grab territory.

It's just that these two rivers and Huguang are tempting but also risky, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen ostensibly got the position of the governor of Huguang and the governor of Liangjiang, but they don't know how many subordinates will be killed and injured in the year of the monkey.

However, Shanxi is different, Wang Yingkai also said, Shanxi side of Enshou's new army can fight at most a standard, even if Zhao Dongyun said that he has recruited a lot of new recruits in the past two months, but the combat effectiveness is not much better, according to the combat effectiveness of the old Beiyang troops, let alone send a town over, even if it is a random mixed association, it is also able to take Shanxi down safely.

Shanxi, which can be won without much effort, is a typical fat meat!

And this is not the strategic position of Shanxi, as long as he controls Shanxi, he can threaten Zhili and Henan at any time, if Zhao Dongyun controls Shanxi, he doesn't plan to negotiate with Wang Yingkai.

On the contrary, if Wang Yingkai controls Shanxi, then Zhili and Shanxi will be united, and he will be able to quickly expand his direct sphere of influence, and then he will be able to further win over Wang Ruxian in Henan and Zhang Huaizhi in Shandong, and then completely establish the alliance of the four provinces, and Wang Yingkai will be a veritable boss of Beiyang.

However, will this situation happen to Zhao Dongyun for him to happen? Impossible!

Wang Yingkai heard Zhao Dongyun's objection, although he had expected everything, he still couldn't help frowning: "Oh, what do you mean?" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "The seventh division is not strong, the first division is to be stationed in Gyeonggi, the fourth and sixth divisions, the fifth division and the eighth division are all going south to fight, the second division is to be stationed in Rehe, the third division is to be stationed in Jinzhou, the ninth division is to be stationed in Fengtian, and the other mixed brigades are also new and have no combat power, I think it is better to let the tenth division pass, then Shanxi can also be taken!" ”

In the few words that Zhao Dongyun said, the front is all nonsense, and the last sentence is the point, whose unit is this tenth division? It is the original Fengtian Second Town, his descendant of Zhao Dongyun.

In the face of such a piece of fat meat in Shanxi, who doesn't want to eat it, he Wang Yingkai wants it, but he Zhao Dongyun also wants it!

Sure enough, hearing Zhao Dongyun say so bluntly that he wanted Shanxi, Wang Yingkai's face also changed slightly: "The three eastern provinces are heavily armed with Japanese and Russian, and there is no heavy garrison, so I really don't feel at ease, I think the 10th Division still has to go back to the northeast to garrison!" ”

Zhao Dongyun didn't immediately refute after hearing this, but didn't speak, anyway, without his approval, he Wang Yingkai would never dare to send Wang Zhanyuan's Seventh Division to Shanxi in private, because if he dared to do this under Zhao Dongyun's opposition, the next day he Zhao Dongyun would dare to send troops to Beijing and end him Wang Yingkai's lair.

There will be no answer to this Shanxi issue for a while, and seeing that it is already dark outside, everyone has been talking about it for a day, so Duan Qiruiti adjourned the meeting first, and everyone went back to rest for one night, and then continued to talk the next day!

So, everyone dispersed first, and after returning to the Lishunde Hotel, Zhao Dongyun called Li San: "How is the situation on Yang Debiao's side?" How did you talk to Wu Fengling? ”

Li Sandao: "I just received a telegram from him in the morning, saying that although Wu Fengling spoke in a kind tone, he still didn't accept it!" ”

"I didn't expect it to be a hard bone!" Zhao Dongyun frowned, when he sent someone to win over Wu Fengling, the Southern Federal Empire had not yet been established, and the reason for wooing Wu Fengling at that time was to fight Wang Yingkai together, and even Zhao Dongyun threw out the temptation of the future head of the War Department and even the governor of Zhili.

But it was not only Zhao Dongyun who won over Wu Fengling, Wang Yingkai was not idle, and there were many conditions for taking it out, it is said that the people sent by Wang Yingkai were all Wu Fengling who went directly with gold.

However, Wu Fengling is also a person who understands, knows the importance of preserving strength, and understands that only when Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun fight, he can reflect the greatest value, so in the face of Wang and Zhao's wooing, he has a good appetite, and the five hundred guns sent by Zhao Dongyun were accepted by him, and the gold sent by Wang Yingkai was also accepted, but he was stunned and did not agree to take refuge in any family.

Zhao Dongyun stood up at this time, and then walked to the map temporarily hung on the wall and looked at it!

Even people who don't understand military strategy know that the importance of Shanxi is actually greater than that of Shandong or even Henan, whether it is Wang Yingkai or Zhao Dongyun, whoever controls Shanxi means that whoever controls the initiative in the future can launch a fatal blow to the other party, but everyone knows this, then it means that no one is willing to give in.

The Seventh Division under Wang Yingkai wants to go to Shanxi, Zhao Dongyun does not agree, and the Tenth Division under Zhao Dongyun goes to Shanxi, and he Wang Yingkai does not agree!

As for Wang Ruxian and Wang Shizhen, they wanted to send people to Shanxi, but Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun didn't agree!

But Shanxi can't be empty all the time, if you really let Shanxi's Enshou get tens of thousands of troops, then things will be a big deal!

After pondering for a long time, Zhao Dongyun came to Li Sandao: "Call Yang Deming and ask him to talk to Wu Fengling immediately, as long as he agrees to vote, I will keep him the position of the governor of Shanxi!" ”

Li San naturally didn't know that before Zhao Dongyun said this, he had already made many trade-offs, since Wang Yingkai and himself both allowed the other party to control Shanxi, then they arranged for others to go, and among the people who could choose, Wu Fengling was more suitable.

And once Wu Fengling goes to Shanxi, then Rehe is empty, although there is nothing to do in that place, but it is not a piece of land, and when the time comes, he will compete with Wang Yingkai, and he will be able to get some benefits.

Moreover, a very important point is that as long as Wu Fengling's second town leaves Rehe, it means that Zhao Dongyun's troops entering the customs will be able to obtain the security of the north, and they will not have to guard against Wu Fengling and Wang Yingkai joining forces to cut off their own back road every day as before.

If he can control Rehe, Zhao Dongyun will be able to solve the strategic security problem of his future large-scale entry into the customs!

Rehe, that is, the area under the jurisdiction of the contemporary Rehe Metropolitan Government is the Zhili Chengde Mansion, the Ancient Zhaowuda League of Inner Mongolia, and the Zhuosuo Tu League, which is located in the northwest area of Tangshan, Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou under the actual control of Zhao Dongyun.

From a military strategic point of view, Rehe can easily threaten the front line of Tangshan, Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou, and after controlling this area, for Zhao Dongyun, it means that the strategic security problem in the northwest can be completely solved.

If Zhao Dongyun wants to enter the customs on a large scale in the future, then Rehe definitely needs to be controlled, otherwise the strategic security of the troops entering the customs will not be guaranteed.

However, Rehe is too poor, and if Rehe is obtained, it is equivalent to making the finances of the three eastern provinces have to raise another Rehe, which is undoubtedly a great challenge for the finances of the three eastern provinces, which are already struggling to maintain.

But many things can't just consider the so-called economic or short-term interests, if Zhao Dongyun still wants to live in Beijing one day, the best thing is to be able to get Shanxi in his hands, but if he can take down the Beijing Division, Zhao Dongyun's strategy will change immediately, what are he waiting for if Shanxi is in hand, directly wave the army to Beijing, and then take down Zhili from both sides, and then slowly fight with the federation over there.

But this strategic plan is similar to a daydream, killing Wang Yingkai will not allow Zhao Dongyun's troops to cross Zhili and then take control of Shanxi.

Secondly, it is to adopt a step-by-step approach, first take down Rehe, and then slowly plot Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, and Zhili.

In this case, in order to solve the Shanxi problem and the Rehe problem, it became an inevitable choice for him to promote Wu Fengling to live in Shanxi.

Rehe Chengde, Wu Fengling listened to the Yang Deming in front of him, although his expression was still calm, he was surprised in his heart!

"Are you serious? Is Commander Zhao really willing to support me to enter Shanxi? Wu Fengling didn't believe his ears, he Zhao Dongyun wanted to support him to go to Shanxi, this is completely a pie in the world, this can also be met by himself?

To tell the truth, Wu Fengling has been more tragic in the past two months, when he escaped from Shanhaiguan and was unwilling to participate in the Beiyang Civil War, he seemed to avoid the center of the storm and watched the drama on the sidelines, but in fact, this behavior brought him the consequence of being strict, that is, marginalization!

Two months later, when the world talks about Beiyang, they only know Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun, and occasionally they talk about Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, but who still knows that he Wu Fengling and Zhang Huaizhi, plus the ghost place of Rehe may have great military strategic value for Zhao Dongyun, but for Wu Fengling, this place is worthless.

From the perspective of expansion strategy, the east and south are Zhao Dongyun's three eastern provinces and the area of Zhili Tangshan, and the southwest is Wang Yingkai's Zhili, and he Wu Fengling can only go to the grassland to fight with the Mongols if he wants to expand......

And more importantly, Rehe is a poor place, in the past two months, Zhao Dongyun and several others have been expanding their troops, even Shandong, Zhang Huaizhi and Wang Ruxian of Henan are expanding their troops, but he Wu Fengling has not only not expanded his army, but he is also barely able to raise a second division.

Fortunately in the pre-Qing era, the military expenses of the Beiyang Army were given by the imperial court, and then the rest was Yuan Shikai who pooled money everywhere to solve it, but now the Qing court is finished, and Beiyang is also divided, whether it is Wang Yingkai or Zhao Dongyun or Wu Fengling, they all have to solve the military expenses by themselves.

Zhao Dongyun has the territory of the three eastern provinces, and naturally he can raise several divisions of troops, Shandong and Henan are not bad, Wang Yingkai has a direct li, and Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen turned the Beijing division into the ground, and each of them was full of money, so don't look at Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen now that they don't have actual territory, but people are not short of money now, and they have at least a few million taels of silver in their hands, speaking of this money, they are much more confident than Zhao Dongyun.

Only Wu Fengling, let alone a few million, now he can't even take out the army's salary for next month!

In this case, if you can go to Shanxi and grab the local territory, let alone raise the current second division, it is estimated that you can expand the army by a few more divisions.

Thinking of this, Wu Fengling's eyes began to shine: "Commander Zhao is really willing to support me?" ”

Yang Deming took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and continued: "You also know that the commander of my family, Wu Dashuai, has always said one thing and the other, and the promise never been pulled down!" He said that if he guarantees the future of you as a governor of Shanxi, he will naturally protect the future of a governor of Shanxi! ”

Hearing this affirmative reply, Wu Fengling said: "Okay, as long as your commander does what he does, why not sell my old Wu's life to him?" ”