Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun's artillery dispute, it can be regarded as the first time that Zhao Dongyun has had a dispute with other bigwigs since he stepped into the high-level of Beiyang, in the past, he sat back and watched the battle between Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai and others, but today he had to go into battle with Wang Yingkai in person.

Although this time the competition is nothing in the eyes of outsiders, and the process is relatively short, it still makes Zhao Dongyun deeply vigilant, and it can be regarded as experiencing the fierceness of the battle between Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai a while ago.

If Zhao Dongyun did not react in time, and even rushed back to Baoding from Jinzhou to meet Yuan Shikai in an emergency, maybe this batch of German-made new tube guns would be taken away by Wang Yingkai, and in the end he could only take dozens of old and backward Japanese-style guns back to Jinzhou.

Under Zhao Dongyun's efforts, Yuan Shikai finally gave all this batch of artillery to the third town according to the original plan, and Zhao Dongyun was afraid of any more accidents, so he personally escorted this batch of artillery on the train back to Jinzhou.

And after Zhao Dongyun left, Wang Yingkai did not have a disappointed look, on the contrary, he was in a good mood, this time the competition with the third town for the new artillery was just a temporary idea, and it was a good thing to be able to replace the artillery with a tube to withdraw the artillery under his hands, but if the competition failed, it would not lose anything.

What he cares more about is that he found a very interesting situation in this competition: that is, Duan Qirui did not speak for Zhao Dongyun from beginning to end, and sat back and watched Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai fight.

"Now it seems that Zhao Ziyang is afraid that he has completely broken with Duan Zhiquan!" Wang Yingkai said to Feng Guozhang.

Feng Guozhang, who has been close to Wang Yingkai recently, said: "Last year, we pushed Zhao Ziyang to the position of the third mixed association, if the two of them don't have a gap, who will believe it!" ”

"And at the end of last year, the third town was in the competition, and everyone was not sure that Zhao Dongyun would control the third town, and this back and forth pushed Zhao Dongyun to sit in the position of the third town commander, which is also the control of one town, even though Zhao Dongyun's qualifications are shallow, but how can he be willing to be below Duan Qirui!" Wang Yingkai continued: "With such a stroke, this Zhao Alliance will naturally be self-defeating! ”

Feng Guozhang said: "It's just a pity that the third town, such a strong third town is in the hands of Zhao Dongyun, a young man, it is still difficult to rest assured!" ”

Wang Yingkai glanced at Feng Guozhang, but vaguely showed a disdainful look: Hmph, I don't think about myself, I still can't forget the position of the third town, and he doesn't want to think about who trained the third town to be strong. I really thought that Zhao Dongyun could be pulled down by young people with little qualifications, and when it came to the ability to cut out the old army and train the new army, ten of you Feng Guozhang were not as good as one Zhao Dongyun, otherwise how could the old man let Zhao Dongyun sit in the position of the commander of the third town.

Although Wang Yingkai has always regarded Zhao Dongyun as an enemy, Wang Yingkai has more contact with Zhao Dongyun, and he can be regarded as one of the people who know Zhao Dongyun better, otherwise how could he go to great lengths to break up the alliance between Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui.

Because of Duan Qirui's huge prestige and influence and Zhao Dongyun's ability to train a new army, it can almost sweep the Beiyang Yiqiē faction, Wang Yingkai has suffered enough for this in the past two years, and when he was competing for the third association, Wang Yingkai discovered the huge threat of the Duan Zhao Alliance, so he would work hard to break up the Duan Zhao Alliance.

At that time, the situation in the Northeast was tense, and he did not hesitate to support the Third Coordination to Jinzhou, and in the follow-up to prevent the Fourth Association from being transferred to the east, successfully breaking Duan Qirui's attempt to take up the right town as the wing chief, and making Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun have an irreparable gap.

In this way, it is equivalent to pulling Zhao Dongyun into the small circle of Beiyang bigwigs, and Wang Yingkai knows that once Zhao Dongyun enters this circle and tries to stand on his own and become a faction boss, then it is absolutely impossible for him to continue to obey Duan Qirui's orders.

Not only is Zhao Dongyun unwilling, but his subordinates Chen Guangyuan, Meng Enyuan and others will not allow Zhao Dongyun to continue to bow down to Duan Qirui, whether Zhao Dongyun wants to or not, he will be pushed to the position of the Beiyang boss by a group of subordinates around him, and clash with Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and others for the benefit of the small group of the third town.

Even if this result puts Zhao Dongyun on the throne, it is a good thing for Wang Yingkai, his biggest enemy is not Zhao Dongyun who has just gotten up, although Zhao Dongyun is already a town control, but his prestige and influence are still far from enough, Wang Yingkai's real enemy has been Duan Qirui for several years, and dismantling the Duan Zhao Alliance is equivalent to cutting off Duan Qirui's hand, and in the follow-up battle, Wang Yingkai will be able to relax a lot.

The battle between several bigwigs in the Beiyang faction can be said to have directly affected the expansion of the Beiyang New Army's armament warfare, this time if it wasn't for Zhao Dongyun to personally find Yuan Shikai to intercede despite the disgrace, I am afraid that the third town would have lost those dozens of new artillery.

"Now that the new artillery is replaced, what should be done with the original sixteen Japanese-style guns? Is it really sent back to Baoding? Liu Tinggui looked forward to it, he was very much looking forward to being able to leave these sixteen Japanese-style artillery guns, although they were withdrawn guns, but they were also field guns, and the lower rate of fire did not mean that the range and power were insufficient.

Zhao Dongyun said: "It's impossible to stay in our third town, after this batch of artillery retreated from our third town, there is still a group of people staring at it!" ”

Since trying the superior performance of the German-style tube cannon, a large group of officers of the Beiyang Standing Army no longer look down on the original old-fashioned cannons, and it is foreseeable that Yuan Shikai will continue to import new types of cannons from Germany in the future, as for where the money comes from, that is a problem that Yuan Shikai should consider, and Zhao Dongyun, Wang Yingkai These Beiyang generals have nothing to do with it.

However, the Beiyang Standing Army is not equipped with this batch of Japanese-style artillery guns, but a large number of other armies still want this batch of artillery, including Zengqi, who wants to buy this batch of Japanese-style artillery from Yuan Shikai, and then prepares to get an artillery battalion for his own Fengtian patrol battalion as an artillery seed for the Fengtian Standing Army in the future.

After he talked to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai immediately said that it was not impossible for this batch of artillery to be sold to Fengtian, in addition to giving a satisfactory price, there was also a condition, that is, this batch of artillery must be equipped with the Jinzhou patrol battalion.

Yuan Shikai's mind is very clear, that is, it is absolutely impossible for this batch of artillery to be delivered to other provinces, and although the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion is nominally a local army in Fengtian Province, it is supervised by Zhao Dongyun, a Beiyang descendant officer, that is to say, the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion actually belongs to the supernumerary troops of the Beiyang system, and it can barely be counted into the Beiyang system.

Zeng Qi was reluctant at first, but later considered that even if the artillery was sold, the artillery officers and even the gunners themselves would not have to, and they would have to rely on Zhao Dongyun to help with the training, and after this was incorporated into the Jinzhou patrol battalion, it was estimated that the training would not have to worry about themselves.

In addition, there is a very important reason that unlike Yuan Shikai, who is deliberately increasing the army in his hands, Zeng Qi does not have this idea, on the contrary, his political position in recent years has been unstable, and he urgently needs political achievements to recover his decline, so he will train a Fengtian patrol battalion, and even pay Zhao Dongyun to train a Jinzhou patrol battalion that he can't command.

What he wants is not the army he commands, he just wants political achievements!

When he has this kind of demand, then the success of the Jinzhou patrol battalion is also a great benefit to him.

He immediately agreed to Yuan Shikai's request, and put forward another request, that is, to ask Beiyang to send some officers to Fengtian to assist him in the formation and training of the Fengtian Standing Army.

After paying the silver for this batch of artillery, this batch of Japanese-style artillery was transferred from the third town to the Jinzhou patrol battalion, for this result, Zhao Dongyun did not expect it at first, because in his opinion, this Jinzhou patrol battalion is also his troops, so doesn't it mean that this batch of artillery is still in his hands?

And the funniest thing is that the ownership of this batch of artillery has not changed, it is still in the hands of Zhao Dongyun, but Yuan Shikai took tens of thousands of taels of silver from Zengqi!

Just when Zhao Dongyun was busy training the third town and the Jinzhou patrol battalion, the war between Japan and Russia broke out without any accidents!

The occurrence of this war is almost inevitable!

In the eyes of many Chinese people, this war is a struggle between Japan and Russia for the interests of Northeast China, but to be honest, this is just an appearance, and there are deeper reasons for this war.

The main promoter of this war is not Russia, not Japan, not China, but Britain!

Around the year of Gengzi, there are two points in Britain's global strategy that are worth mentioning, the first is to maintain European balance, that is to say, absolutely no European continent country is allowed to unify Europe, the simple understanding is: whoever is bullish will fight whom!

The second is to suppress Russian expansion, from northern Europe to southern Europe, to the Middle East, Central Asia, and then to the Far East, Britain can be seen unreservedly suppressing Russian expansion.

Why did the British continue to step into Afghanistan, the imperial grave, in order to block Russia's southward expansion in Central Asia!

In the Far East, why did he form an alliance with the Japanese, whom they had looked down on in the past, in order to curb Russian expansion in the Far East?

Therefore, it is not enough to simply understand the Russo-Japanese War as a struggle between Japan and Russia for China's interests!

In this war, Britain is the chess player behind it, Japan is just a pawn, and the United States is a hillbilly who wants to pick up a bargain after Britain.

Britain before the First World War, even though it was much more in decline than it was decades ago, was still an empire that could run wild on the whole world.