Yan Shao didn't know about the letter, it was Kaoru Otsuki who asked Lu Ying to do it.

Thanks to the efforts of the junta, more than a dozen regiments arrived in Dangtu one after another.

Along with the troops, there was also a considerable amount of ammunition, equipment and supplies.

"Thank you, Mr. Wales..."When Tu was at a wharf, looking at the things that the workers were carrying, Fu Xiuming smiled and shook hands with Wales.

"Where..." Seeing Fu Xiuming so polite, Wales also laughed. Mr. Yan is already our largest customer in China, so it is only natural that he should do so..."

Hearing Wales say this, Fu Xiuming smiled and didn't say anything more.

As he spoke, the workers on the docks had almost finished moving.

On the wharf, 12 75mm caliber mountain guns are neatly placed in a row, counting the original 6 75mm caliber guns of the Anhui Military Government, it can just be made into an artillery battalion—————— although there is still a big gap compared with Beiyang (Beiyang is a regiment), but compared with only one company in the past, it has undoubtedly been greatly improved.

What's more, this time their opponent may not even have an artillery battalion.

And next to the 12 cannons, a large group of people were looking at the cannons like a pervert seeing a naked woman, and they almost had to saliva come out, which made Fu Xiuming feel very embarrassed. These people are the artillerymen of the 1st Artillery Regiment of the 1st Division.

At present, the Anhui Revolutionary Army has a total of three artillery regiments, of which the artillery of the first division is inherited from the original Anhui New Army, and the quality is naturally the best. The remaining two artillery regiments are still in the learning stage, and there is basically no need to count on anything else, except for the two procedures of loading and firing guns, which are very proficient.

So this time I got 12 75mm guns from a foreign foreign company. There will also be some subsequent heavy equipment that will be assigned to a regiment. And the 2nd and 3rd regiments will carry rifles and make reserves in the rear ...

Now there are not so many artillery, and the situation is critical, so they can only be infantry.

After the people under his hand confirmed the quality and quantity of the equipment, Fu Xiuming shook hands with Wales, and then took out a check from the Bank of England from his arms.

"It's a pleasure to work with."

Glancing at the check. After checking the above number, a smile appeared on Wales' face. "It's a pleasure to work with..."

This time, the foreign foreign trade association was willing to help Yan Shao, except because Yan Shao used to be their largest trading partner. The most important point is that because this time Yan Shao paid three times the price to buy heavy equipment, for these profit-chasing businessmen, there is nothing more tempting than this...

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After the deal with Wales, more than a dozen trucks soon arrived on the docks. These are all Xiangshan mines. The cars that were originally used to haul coal, ore, and steel have now been temporarily closed down because of the need to fight, and these cars have become useless, so they have been diverted to the front line by the Ministry of Military Affairs to pull heavy equipment such as logistics ammunition supplies and artillery.

Towed by trucks, 12 guns were pulled to the Cihu River, more than 20 miles away, where several artillery fortifications had already been built. And they will enter one of them, and then it will be up to Bai Wenwei's troops to choose which direction to land from.

On the other hand. With the acquiescence and support of the provisional government, Bai Wenwei's reorganization of the 'Yan Army' is about to end—————— Yan Army is the new name of the 8 or 90,000 troops under Bai Wenwei...

As the name suggests, the ostensible slogan of this unit is to crusade against Yan Shao, a warlord who harmed Anhui, and naturally, this slogan has not yet been shouted, after all, the army has not yet completely completed its preparations. Although Bai Wenwei knew very well that Yan Shao had already known his purpose at this time, he still planned to wait until the end of the reorganization of the army before shouting this slogan...

As for the more than 20,000 Anhui revolutionary troops deployed in Cihu River, Bai Wenwei didn't pay attention to them at all, after all, he now has nearly 100,000 troops under his hands...

It's just that during the period when Bai Wenwei was preparing, another incident happened in Nanjing...

In the Governor's Mansion in Anqing, Yan Shao, who had just finished his business, closed his eyes and pondered something in his heart, when the door of the office was suddenly knocked on, and then without waiting for Yan Shao to respond, someone had already pushed the door open and walked in.

"This is the intelligence that has just come from Nanjing, and the Nanjing side has just passed the 'Provisional Treaty of the Republic of China'..."Caterina shook her head with some disdain as she spoke, and at the same time threw the things in her hand onto Yan Shao's table.

looked down at it, and after a while, Yan Shao also shook his head. "Boring..."

After the success of the Xinhai Revolution, the Outline of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China was the first constitutional document of the Republic of China, which was adopted by the Federation of Provincial Governors on December 3, 1911, and signed by a total of 22 representatives from 10 provinces. It stipulates the method of organization of the provisional government of the Republic of China, the powers of the provisional president, etc.

And the "Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China" has naturally become the second part, but this second constitution fell in Yan Shao's eyes, but only the word boring remained...

"He, Sun Yat-sen, has been competing with Song Jiaoren on the issue of the presidential system and the cabinet system, but now he is promoting the cabinet system to restrict Yuan Shikai's power, which is really boring..."

Leaving aside whether Yuan Shikai had the ambition to become emperor later, China at this time was indeed more suitable for a more centralized government. After all, the situation in China at this time is very complicated, and the responsible cabinet system is indeed very unsuitable.

Moreover, Sun Yat-sen has always insisted on the presidential system, but now it is Yuan Shikai's turn to be the president, but it has been changed to a responsible cabinet system, which is also a bit unorthodox in the eyes of others...

On top of that, it's a bit naïve.

The passage of this treaty was made entirely because of the fact that of the 43 senators of the Nanjing Provisional Senate, the organ that formulated the "Provisional Covenant," 33 were members of the League. There were only eight members of the constitutionalists, and there was not a single representative of Yuan Shikai, who represented the powerful Beiyang warlords who represented the most powerful political bloc.

How could Yuan Shikai be satisfied with the law passed in this case? Later, it became a matter of course that Yuan Shikai would overthrow him...

Put the telegram aside. Yan Shao said helplessly. "You came to me on purpose, didn't you just do it for this..."

After all, such a law has nothing to do with Yan Shao, and now Yan Shao is not concerned about this matter. And now the hottest one is probably Yuan Shikai, not him Yan Shao.

In fact, long before the provisional constitution was passed, Yan Shao had already learned about this constitution. It's just that in Yan Shao's opinion, this constitution is really boring, so he didn't expect it to be passed at all...

"Of course it won't be just for this matter..."Seeing that Yan Shao had already finished reading the contents of the telegram. Caterina wasn't saying anything more, either. She, like Yan Shao, doesn't care much about this constitution. Because she has always believed that in this world, strength is what can really determine everything...

The League tried in vain to limit Yuan Shikai's actions by adopting a constitution. It seemed to her like trying to tie down a beast with a rope that wasn't strong enough.

Cats, rabbits, or whatever, this kind of rope can't even be leashed by a slightly larger dog, let alone a tiger? Although this tiger has now entered its twilight years, its whole body is already full of twilight aura...

"Just got the news. Li Guojun is preparing to hold a press conference in Shanghai. Officially condemn you..."A chill flashed in Katerina's eyes as she said this.

"That guy..."Hearing Caterina talk about Li Guoyun, Yan Shao exhaled softly.

"Do you want me to get rid of him?" Caterina asked, she would never be soft on this kind of person who betrayed Yan Shao.

"Not yet, it's too cheap for him to do this." Of course, Yan Shao believed that Caterina could do it, and killing a Li Guoyun was too simple for Caterina. But that was too easy for Li Guoyun. "I think he seems to be Yuan Shikai from the north, although I don't know how he got mixed up with the Alliance. But I'm going to kill him after I make him desperate..."Speaking of this, Yan Shao clenched his fists. "I'm going to destroy Beiyang and the Alliance in front of him, so that he can understand how stupid he really is."

Speaking of this, Yan Shao looked sideways at Katarina. "Speaking of which, I have a plan, it's not feasible for you to listen to it..."Saying that, Yan Shao told Caterina a plan that he accidentally remembered a few days ago, and after listening to Yan Shao's words, Caterina's eyes lit up.

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As the time entered March, seeing that Bai Wenwei's movements were becoming more and more obvious, the Anhui representatives in Nanjing questioned the provisional government what Bai Wenwei wanted to do when he became a gathering of nearly 100,000 troops in Nanjing.

However, in response to the questioning of the Anhui deputies, the provisional government pretended to be deaf and dumb.

On the other hand, after the complete reorganization of the troops of the Yan Army, the first division of Bai Wenwei's First Army also drove directly to the junction of Anhui and Nanjing, followed by the two newly reorganized divisions.

In Shanghai, Li Guoyun held a press conference, at which he denounced Yan Shao's various 'atrocities', believing that he was the public enemy of the Anhui people and was not worthy of being the governor of Anhui at all.

Yan Shao's reaction to this was also very direct, and after a meeting, he announced that Li Guoyun would be expelled from the party and that he would be removed from his post as deputy governor of the Anhui Military Government.

However, when Li Guoyun held a press conference in Shanghai, there was also a little episode, a little episode that made him very embarrassed.

At the press conference, when Li Guoyun stood on the stage and kept denouncing Yan Shao's various atrocities in Anhui, some people stood up and cited many things that happened in Anhui, and asked Li Guoyun, as the deputy governor of Anhui, whether he knew about these things and why he wanted to stand up for those scum? He was very unkind to Li Guoyun in his words, and later many reporters and gentry from Anhui came out to support Yan Shao, which made Li Guoyun speechless, and the onlookers laughed, and the so-called press conference had to end early only halfway through.

After leaving the press conference, Li Guoyun, who thought that those people were arranged by Yan Shao, secretly hated in his heart, after all, he was a big disgrace in front of many people just now, but the conscience of heaven and earth. Although Yan Shao did arrange people at the press conference and was ready to embarrass Li Guoyun, those people were not arranged by Yan Shao—————— since they wanted to embarrass Li Guoyun. Yan Shao can't find someone from Anhui, right?

What happened in Shanghai Bai Wenwei is naturally clear, but Bai Wenwei is not interested in caring about Li Guoyun's fragile self-esteem at all. Now that Li Guoyun has held a press conference in Shanghai to denounce Yan Shao, the reasons that Bai Wenwei needs are also in hand.

Therefore, the second hour after the press conference ended, Bai Wenwei, who had learned of the situation from the telegram, announced the establishment of a Yan army under the city of Nanjing, vowing to overthrow the independent government in Anhui and expel Yan Shao, a warlord who 'bullied' the people, from Anhui.

The Yuan Army consisted of the former First Army and the Second Army of the Republic of China, as well as the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 15th Divisions of the newly reorganized Yuan Army, with a total of more than 87,000 people.

At the moment when Bai Wenwei announced the establishment of the Yuan Army. The 1st Army and the 13th and 15th Divisions, which had already arrived at the junction of Anhui and Nanjing, drove directly into Anhui, and a cavalry company in the vanguard of the cavalry and the reconnaissance company of the Anhui Revolutionary Army engaged in a skirmish, and both sides suffered mutual damage...

At this time, the infantry regiment stationed in Dangtu had two regiments of the 1st Division. The three regiments of the Second Division, the entire strength of the First and Third Divisions, totaled more than 18,000 men. There were also three artillery regiments and cavalry regiments, of which the artillery regiment of the 1st Division was stationed inside and outside the fortifications along the Cihu River. The remaining five regiments remained in Wuhu. and more than 3,000 reserve troops that have just been called up as reserves.

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After the news of Bai Wenwei's announcement of the establishment of the Yan Army in Nanjing spread, it immediately set off a heated discussion throughout the country, and many people even denounced Bai Wenwei, after all, such a blatant attack on a province is the first time since the abdication of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that Yan Shao is by no means the kind of tyrannical criminal, and his reputation at home and abroad is far greater than Bai Wenwei's.

Soon the military governments sent telegrams hoping that the two sides would exercise restraint. However, in some of these messages, there were also some hopes that the two sides would exercise restraint. At the same time, we must not have a conflict, but also 'secretly persuade' Yan Shao to resign from the post of governor, so as to make the people angry.

Needless to say, these were naturally telegrams from those provinces controlled by the Alliance, and Yuan Shikai in the north also hurriedly sent a telegram after seeing that the plan was going well. However, in addition to persuading the two parties to refrain from restraint, President Yuan did nothing else, and put on a clear posture of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

These messages are all nonsense to Bai Wenwei, things have come to this point, how could he stop, so he didn't even look at those messages, and threw them all into the wastebasket.

Naturally, there are also many gentry and celebrities who hope that Nanjing can stand up and stop Bai Wenwei's behavior, after all, Bai Wenwei is a member of the Alliance, and the nine divisions under him are also the troops of the Alliance.

It's just that the Nanjing government basically didn't take any action except for sending some telegrams asking Bai Wenwei to stop immediately, and the acquiescence was very obvious.

On the other hand, after learning that Bai Wenwei announced the establishment of the Yan Army, Yan Shao also went to Dangtu by boat.

Before arriving in Dangtu, Yan Shao's biggest concern was not that Bai Wenwei had almost three times more troops than Yan Shao. That's right, Bai Wenwei's troops are indeed a lot, but most of them are rabble, even if they fight a good fight, I'm afraid they can't stand a slightly harder battle.

What's more, although the number of people on Bai Wenwei's side is almost three times more than Yan Shao's, the firepower on Yan Shao's side is almost a hundred times stronger than Bai Wenwei's more than 80,000 people, and more than 1,000 machine guns are placed in a row, even if Bai Wenwei's more than 80,000 people are dead, they can't attack the defense line on the periphery of Dangtu.

The problem is that Yan Shao knows the power of the machine gun, and it doesn't mean that the soldiers below are also like this, after all, they don't know that the battle of the Somme and the battle of the Marne took place a few years later.

So before arriving in Dangtu, Yan Shao was most worried about the morale of the officers and soldiers...

It was only when he arrived at the front line of Dangtu that he found that he was too worried, although the enemy's more than three times more troops did make many soldiers nervous, but in addition to nervousness, the eyes of these soldiers were more resolute...

Because in their eyes, this is more than just a simple battle...

After the recovery of Anhui, the local gentry colluded with the government to make the people miserable.

Because of this, when Yan Shao ordered all the gentry and officials in the more than 30 counties and towns to be arrested, the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army who supported this order the most were the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.

If Bai Wenwei brought troops this time, it was just a simple attack on Yan Shao, maybe those officers and soldiers didn't have anything, but now Bai Wenwei is flying the banner to uphold justice for those arrested officials and gentry...

Preside over justice, preside over what justice? When those scum and brutes forced the people to sell their sons and daughters, why didn't they see Bai Wenwei standing up for the people to uphold justice? Now that Yan Shao has just cleaned them up, Bai Wenwei has stood up for those guys...

The officers and soldiers in the revolutionary army didn't understand that Bai Wenwei was just trying to find an excuse to attack Yan Shao, for them, Bai Wenwei, the guy who stood out for those beasts, was their enemy, and this war was no longer just a war between two warlords, but more like a class war...

Yan Shao represents the common people, while Bai Wenwei and Li Guoyun represent those brutal and unkind gentry officials...

Before the war began, Bai Wenwei and others had lost the hearts of the people of Anhui, which was probably unexpected by Bai Wenwei or Li Guoyun... (To be continued......)