The night in Beijing is cold, even if a thick cotton blanket is hung on the curtain to block the wind, the brazier has not been broken in Baofu during this time.

Yuan Shikai tightened the fox fur coat on his body, and the snow-white fur fur wrapped him tightly. Those who are familiar with it know that he likes this coat very much, because the fox skin used in this coat was hunted by his own hands when he was in North Korea, so he was reluctant to change it after wearing it for decades, even if he was only one step away from that seat now, he still turned it out after the cold. [.]

"The nostalgia of adults makes Shiqi feel a lot." Yang Shiqi walked in and saw this coat, and said with a smile: "Those unsympathetic people in the south are really one in front of adults. Nothing. ”

After being assassinated that day, Yuan Shikai felt as if he was starting to be afraid of the cold, so he turned out this coat, but he didn't expect Yang Shiqi to use it to talk about a few words, and said with a smile: "It's a pity that Xingcheng doesn't become a diplomat, but your mouth can make the dead cry ()." ”

It can be seen that Yuan Shikai has been in a very good mood these days, in fact, he has been in a much better mood since Liangbi was eliminated, not to mention that the Qing court will abdicate in a few days, and he has returned to his previous calm appearance. Yang Shiqi was also happy for him, and said: "Shiqi doesn't mean to compliment adults. Let's talk about Yang Qiu first, when his career was first completed, he won over Tang Hualong and Hu Ruilin, and he also pretended to volunteer to be Li Yuanhong's biggest foreign aid to protect him as a Taiping governor, but now after using it, he kicked them all away, and at this moment, he simply launched a rebellion and slaughtered the three provinces. Speaking of Nanjing, Sun Wen kept saying that he wanted to learn from the United States, but when it was his turn, he kicked Song Jiaoren away, and relied on the support of Huang Keqiang and Chen Qimei to start the presidential system and monopolize power! I don't want to think he's just temporary. But that's fine, when adults become big presidents, this presidential system can make you feel a lot less fetters. ”

"What a big president, you can't count, you can't count." Yuan Shikai narrowed his eyes and waved his hand again and again, but the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't be stopped.

He's good at everything in his life, so the older he gets, the more he loves to be pretentious... Fortunately, Yang Shiqi knows his current thoughts, and he is finally coming out of the mountain after holding back for so long, and he is happy for him. Just as he was about to say a few more words, Wang Yitang suddenly opened the door and walked in... accidentally opened the door curtain wider, causing the north wind to wrap up snow flakes and sprinkle in, which made Yuan Shikai, who was caught off guard, feel cold, and his face became cold, and asked, "Shenwu, when did you panic?" ”

Wang Yitang didn't pay attention to Yuan Shikai's gods, although he thought he was a confidant... But for many years in Japan and Northeast China, he didn't understand his thoughts as Yang Shiqi and others, and said with a big grin: "Gong Bao, Tang Jueton is here and wants to see you." ”

Yang Shiqi saw that he was still calling the palace guard when he opened his mouth and closed his mouth, and snorted coldly in his heart and secretly scolded him for having no rules. He doesn't like this person, he has been searching countless times outside, not to mention that he has also become addicted to smoking, and after returning to Beijing, he always relies on Yuan Shikai's favor and trust, regardless of dignity and inferiority. Yuan Shikai also frowned... But now is the time to employ people, so I turned a blind eye to his rash intrusion, and asked, "Tang Jueton?" That Tonjueton? ”

Yang Shiqi explained: "Have you forgotten? Didn't Liang Qichao write to you a few days ago to nominate someone? ”

Yuan Shikai patted the light of the head... smiled: "I'm old, and I'm bad ()." It is recommended by Liang Qichao, who claims that he has the heart and gallbladder to reach the truth, and the talent of governing things is ten times higher than him, specializing in the economy, and the bank currency is particularly specialized, and the whole country is afraid that there is less talent than the one on the right? Didn't you say it wouldn't arrive until next month? Why did you suddenly come early? ”

Yang Shiqi was very disdainful of Liang Qichao's boasting of Tang Juedun as unparalleled in the world in his letter, but he was not the kind of person who put everything on his face, so he thought about it and said: "I think it may have something to do with Guizhou!" ”

Wang Yitang also said: "The day before yesterday, Cai Yi just sent a national telegram saying that he would send the Yunnan army into Guizhou... Yang Qiu immediately said that the National Defense Army was also going to suppress bandits, and the two lines of electricity were only one hour apart, so Guizhou was definitely going to fight, and this Tang Jueton suddenly returned to China ahead of schedule, probably for this matter.

Yuan Shikai didn't know about the recent things in the southwest, but he didn't have the heart to ask at all. Standing on his side, he still wished that Cai Songpo and Yang Qiu would be pinched in Guizhou... There are high mountains and dense forests, there are many bandits, and the people are poor and have many kinds of opium, so just taking Guiyang and controlling Guizhou are completely different things, and the chaotic fighting cannot be stopped in a few months, so they deliberately ignore it.

But he didn't ask others to come to the door, patted his knee and said: "It must be Cai Songpo who complained to Zhuo Ru, and he came to disturb my old man to rest in the middle of the night, you go and tell him that I have fallen asleep, let's talk about it tomorrow." With that, he got up and walked into the inner room.

Wang Yitang looked at his back and was slightly stunned, this is a good opportunity to meddle in the southwest, just let it go in vain? hurriedly asked Yang Shiqi: "Xingcheng, what does Gong Bao mean by this?" At this time, there is only one breath left in the south, and it is a good opportunity to meddle in the southwest. ”

"Can there be a good person recommended by Liang Qichao? He thinks everyone else is stupid, and he doesn't know how careful he is! Cai Songpo? It's just a chess piece of his, and he wants to borrow the hands of the Yunnan army to take Guizhou, Sichuan, and Gui into his hands! How? It's not that he wants to use the southwest to blackmail the central government in the future, protect his little emperor, and try in vain to restore the Qing Dynasty! Yang Shiqi glanced at him and continued: "These people are available, but they can't be sustained, and they can't be moved!" We want to keep them to give the emperor and the queen mother a peace of mind. As for the Southwest. Shingo, do you really think adults don't want to care? But what do we do now? The southwest is separated by 108,000 miles, and Wusheng Pass is about to be returned to Yang Qiu, and it is an empty word if the troops can't be sent over. ”

Wang Yitang is not a waste after all, and he is puzzled: "The army is not going over, but it can still be done with some support." There are many people in the mountains of Guizhou, bandits are rampant, even if Yang Qiu takes Guiyang, the Dian army may not give up, this battle will not be fought in a few months, you might as well provide some ordnance to Tang Jueton, let him send it to Cai Yi, don't let them free their hands. ”

"Shingo's words are good, but where do we have extra ordnance to give away now?! The adults are already ready to let Duan Zhigui recruit 250 battalions to be used, and the loan promised by the foreigners has not yet arrived, so we still have money in hand? ”

Wang Yitang smiled: "We don't have any foreigners?" The Hanchuan Railway was made into a SI construction by Yang Qiu, and there was a voice of support from the three provinces, and we couldn't move it. The Guangdong-Hanzhou line is too involved and the British are watching, but isn't there a Yunnan-Shu Tengyue Railway Company? ̈. You might as well send someone to hint at Tang Jueton, and simply sell this company to the Japanese, and it is still possible to get two or three million. ”

Yang Shiqi heard that he was Japanese again in the end, and he was dissatisfied: "Shenwu should pay more attention to government affairs, seeing that the Qing room is about to abdicate, it is better to prepare for the matter of adults taking over as president as soon as possible, but don't let Nanmian take advantage of the loopholes." After finishing speaking, he also left, but left Wang Yitang who came to report in the room, and spat fiercely at the back: "What's the matter, what's wrong with the Japanese?" The Japanese have money, and they seem to be so rich! When Yang Qiu becomes the king of the southwest, you can cry! ”

When the Northern Falcon had no choice but to control the southwest, the battle for Guiyang also entered the most critical stage.

In the early morning, the city scene of Guiyang sèméngméng, everywhere is the traces of the fierce battle, the cannonballs ignited the wooden houses, the charred black wood and ashes are everywhere, the night of chaos makes people completely annihilated, especially after the red-eyed Dian army enters the city, it is killed, burned, looted and wantonly destroyed. The streets were littered with corpses, and in addition to the soldiers, there were many ordinary people, many men and women, naked, and they looked like they had been humiliated and died.

In the breached gap in the east of the city, the corpses of several Wehrmacht soldiers lay there, blood stained the rubble beneath them red along the stones, and there were many corpses of the Dian army around them. A temporary position covered by stones and houses became the last line of defense of the training battalion, and the one-night fierce battle reduced the training camp by nearly one-third, and there were less than 400 Guizhou troops left, most of whom took advantage of the chaos to escape secretly last night. The Makqin heavy machine gun sticks out of the barrel from the gap, the machine gun and everyone are checking the bullets, and when they come out, they don't have much to carry, and the consumption is almost bottoming out overnight.

", surrender as soon as possible!"

"Brother opposite, you can't escape, disarm Lao Tzu won't kill you!"

The Yunnan troops who were facing each other hundreds of meters away hid in their bunkers and shouted, seemingly proud, but in fact they were afraid of machine gun fire, especially the Wehrmacht's Ting Makqin, which was a problem that could not be solved at all.

"It's coming!"

Qiu Wenbin stuffed the frozen steamed bun into his mouth and pointed to the distance. Following his fingers, he vaguely saw two 57mm mountain cannons dragged by dozens of Dian troops in the fog, and he was angry when he saw the cannon, because this kind of cannon was still made by the Hanyang factory!

"Shelling, be careful." No sooner had the shouts sounded than two flames flashed in the distance. The rumbling explosions rang out, and the shells began to fall incessantly, and the flames and smoke filled the air, and the shrapnel flew in all directions wreaking havoc among the crowd, like a scythe for cutting wheat grazing the top of the soldiers' heads, and the unlucky ones were thrown high by direct hits.

Because the distance was too far, the machine gun was just a waste of bullets, so that the soldiers of the teaching battalion were fed up with the suffering of no artillery, so they could only hold the gun and wait for the Dian army to rush up, but this time the opponent also learned to be obedient, and he didn't come up for a long time and let the cannon do it alone. After running a few hundred meters and climbing up to a bungalow, the machine gunner immediately pressed the magazine into the chamber.

The sound of machine guns startled the surrounding Dian troops, and they immediately organized to shoot at the guard squad, and the artillery quickly hid in the houses, so that the machine gunners who had lost their horns vented all their anger on the infantry. Seeing that the surrounding Yunnan army was getting more and more, Qiu Wenbin was just about to give the order to withdraw, when he saw a sudden agitation in the Yunnan army, and then began to run to the southwest as if he was dead.

"Squad leader, look!"

In the midst of the warrior's shouting, a brilliant flying tiger flag appeared in the distance...