Since the assassination of Yuan Shikai in early October, the situation in China has been volatile, and many things have happened that have taken outsiders by surprise.

First of all, the Qing court appointed Wang Shizhen as the governor of Zhili, Feng Guozhang as the secretary of the War Department, Zhao Dongyun as the governor of the three eastern provinces, Wu Fengling as the governor of Rehe, and Zhang Huaizhi as the governor of Shandong.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui, and Zhao Dongyun successively issued telegrams, demanding that the imperial court correct the law to murder Yuan Shikai's murderer, and used this reason to directly wave troops to Beijing, and then led to the outbreak of the war in Beijing.

Subsequently, in addition to the second town of Wu Fengling, the other six towns of the seven towns of Beiyang hid in Rehe, and the other six towns were more or less involved in the battle, and even the eighth town of Li Yuanhong under the command of Zhang Zhidong in Hubei and the twenty-ninth mixed association of Henan were also involved, and the above troops formed about three battlefields, one is the third town of Zhao Dongyun and the Tongzhou battlefield of the sixth town of Fengtian First Cavalry Association and Wang Shizhen, and the second is the southwestern battlefield of the Beijing Division attacked by Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai. The third is the confrontation between Zhang Huaizhi's fifth and eighth towns and the twenty-ninth mixed association.

However, in the above three battlefields, only the sixth town of Wang Shizhen and the third town of Zhao Dongyun in the direction of Tongzhou really broke out in a large-scale offensive and defensive battle.

But for Zhao Dongyun, this brilliant victory became the fuse for other Beiyang generals to unite against him!

The previous generals were quite estimated at Zhao Dongyun's strength in the three towns, and now it is rumored that his third town is so capable of fighting, he can actually beat the head of the sixth town, which is also a descendant of Beiyang, how can this not make other Beiyang generals frightened, especially Wang Yingkai, who is bent on ascending to the position of the leader of Beiyang, after this battle, he is even more scruples about the army under Zhao Dongyun.

And when Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui, and Wang Shizhen found that they could not confront Zhao Dongyun in military strength alone, then it became a foregone conclusion to join forces to fight against Zhao Dongyun.

Before this, Wang Shizhen did not have hope for the imperial court and Feng Guozhang, and when the sixth town faced great losses, Wang Shizhen decisively turned back, and after reaching an unknown agreement with Wang Yingkai, he united Wang Yingkai's first town to end Feng Guozhang's seventh town.

Feng Guozhang himself had to flee to the embassy district and hid in the French Embassy.

At the same time, Wang Yingkai, Wang Shizhen, and Duan Qirui successively issued a telegram in just one day, that is, on November 24th, and the content of the telegram basically means to follow Yuan Gong's last wish and create a republic Yunyun!

On the surface, these energies are republican, but in the eyes of Zhao Dongyun, who is in Tongzhou, this is a clear signal that Wang Yingkai, Wang Shizhen, and Duan Qirui have formed an alliance.

And in this critical moment when the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to end and Beiyang is moving into Beijing, if the above three people form an alliance, who are they going to deal with?

It can be roughly divided into the following groups!

The first was used to deter the governors of the southern provinces, such as Zhang Zhidong and other Han ministers in Huguang, and it was also used to deter and confront Manchu ministers in other provinces, especially Yinchang, who controlled Jiangbei, and Duanfang, Liangjiang.

The second is to threaten to win over other factions in Beiyang, such as Wu Fengling, the commander of Rehe, who controls the second town, Zhang Huaizhi, the governor of Shandong, who owns the fifth town, and some Beiyang side factions, such as Henan's 29th Mixed Association, Ma Yukun's Wuwei Left Army, Jiang Guidi's Jiang Defense Army, etc.

The third one, needless to say, is naturally to deal with the Su family under Zhao Dongyun.

According to the above three groups, the biggest threat to Wang Yingkai and others is not the Southern Governor, nor several other Beiyang collateral factions, but Zhao Dongyun, one of the Beiyang descendants.

Although Zhao Dongyun has the least qualifications among the several bigwigs in Beiyang, no one can help but admit that Zhao Dongyun is a descendant of Beiyang Orthodoxy, and the world says that he has shallow qualifications, but in fact, compared to Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui, if it is put into the entire Beiyang system, there are not many people who can surpass Zhao Dongyun in terms of qualifications.

Zhao Dongyun joined the army after the middle school to apply for the Tianjin Military Academy, and after graduation, he was transferred to the new army during the training period of the small station, and at that time he was an officer under Yuan Shikai, and then he was sent to Germany to study, and after a few years, he returned to China to teach in the camp school of the right army of the Wuwei Army, and then in the year of Xin Chou, he was promoted to the second battalion of the right wing of the Wuwei Right Army and the supervisor of the new machine gun team, and the following year he went to Guangzong to suppress the civil rebellion, and was promoted to the candidate prefect of the third grade, and then promoted to the new machine gun battalion supervisor and the assistant of the coaching office of the Beiyang Military and Political Division, it didn't take long, He was promoted to the commander of the Third Mixed Association, and then successively served as the commander of the Third Mixed Association, the commander of the third town, the general of Shengjing, and the governor of the three eastern provinces.

Among the high-level generals of the Beiyang Army, there are actually not many people who can have such a rich resume as Zhao Dongyun!

So don't look at Zhao Dongyun's youth, and don't look at people saying that he has little qualifications every day, but in the entire Beiyang interior, except for Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui, who can stabilize him in terms of qualifications, others really don't have this qualification!

Otherwise, why should Zhao Dongyun be the boss of the Soviet system, you must know that Chen Guangyuan, Cao Kun, Meng Enyuan and others under his command are placed in the future generations, but they are all famous warlords, but these people are now in front of Zhao Dongyun, and they can only obediently call themselves the staff, as for those international students who have just gotten up in recent years, one by one they can call themselves juniors, and many people have to call him a teacher, he has been teaching in the Suiying School for nearly a year, and then hosted the Third Town Suiying School for many years. Fengtian Wubei Academy has taught a lot of students!

In the past two years, Zhao Dongyun has been able to lead the Su family and Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui to compete for power and profit within Beiyang, and now he is competing with Wang Duan for the position of the leader of Beiyang, relying not only on the third town under his hands, but also on his prestige and qualifications second only to Wang Duan.

And such a person, even if he can't be compared with Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai in terms of qualifications and prestige for the time being, but Zhao Dongyun has the most troops under him, which undoubtedly increases Zhao Dongyun's prestige.

All of the above add up, which makes Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and others extremely wary of Zhao Dongyun!

So in this case, it is not surprising that Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui, and Wang Shizhen joined forces to deal with Zhao Dongyun.

Zhao Dongyun is still very clear about his situation, and at the same time, he feels a huge threat, and this threat is also the reason why he feels extremely angry.

However, Zhao Dongyun has never been a person who likes to sit still, and since everyone has torn their faces, there is no need for Zhao Dongyun to continue to maintain the current false peace!

The day after Wang Duan and Wang released the power-on, that is, on the 25th, Zhao Dongyun's power-on was also belated!

The content of the telegram seems to be no different from that of several other people, nothing more than a republic or something, and at the same time put on a tone of the boss of Beiyang, inviting all the bigwigs of Beiyang to come to Tongzhou to discuss state affairs!

People who don't understand the truth probably think that Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai and others are still in the same military alliance.

However, people with a sensitive sense of smell can only see from the time of the announcement of this telegram and Zhao Dongyun's invitation to several other companies to Tongzhou to negotiate that Zhao Dongyun has already turned against Wang Yingkai and them!

Everyone knows that this battlefield is a civil war in Beiyang from beginning to end, and everyone can see what this civil war is for!

For the position of the Lord of the North Seas!

However, judging from the multiple telegrams in the past two days, it is obvious that Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun have formed two centers, and everyone wants to compete for the initiative!

Sure enough, as expected by outsiders, Wang Yingkai also quickly issued a telegram inviting all the generals to gather in Baoding to discuss the great cause of the republic!

Then Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, and Zhang Huaizhi quickly issued a telegram, saying that they would arrive in Baoding in the near future to discuss the great cause of the republic!

Even Wang Ruxian, the commander of the 29th Mixed Association, was not far behind, and after the complete fall of his boss Feng Guozhang, he immediately chose to take refuge in Wang Yingkai, and issued a telegram saying that Henan resolutely supports the republic.

Zhao Dongyun looked at the power-on of these people and felt his face crackle!

"Damn!" Zhao Dongyun, who has always maintained his image and rarely said foul language, has been foul spoken frequently in the past two days, and his anger is also very strong, much like Hitler in 1944.

Faced with such a corrupt situation, Zhao Dongyun felt a deep sense of powerlessness for the first time, since he came to this era, he has never felt so helpless as now.

It seems that no matter how hard he tries, several other people have decided that Wang Yingkai is the heir of Beiyang!

Why, when it comes to his reputation at home and abroad, he Wang Yingkai has me Zhao Dongyun? Lao Tzu has been on the front page of the New York Daily News, not to mention that he is a household name in China, but his reputation is much higher than that of you Wang Yingkai, if it weren't for this civil war, how many people would know you Wang Yingkai?

Speaking of strength, Lao Tzu now has three towns and three associations, with an army of more than 60,000 people, and is still continuing to expand the army, it is easy to exceed 100,000 troops at the end of the year, and you Wang Yingkai is at best a first town, and whether Zhang Huaizhi's fifth town can be commanded is still a question, and the others are even more impossible.

But he, Wang Yingkai, was able to win over the other bigwigs in Beiyang one by one, but except for a large number of young Zhuang factions who came to Jinzhou to take refuge in him, there was no other bigwigs with weight!

In the face of this situation, Zhao Dongyun was helpless, and there was always a feeling that he couldn't do it!