Just as Wang Zhenyu was busy appeasing Liu Guxiang and others in Liuzhou City, and communicating further with the local gentry.

On September 25, in Nanning, the Guangxi Governor's Mansion (all those who supported Yuan Shikai were renamed Overseers, and due to the complicated situation in Guangxi, the titles of Governors and Overseers were used in confusion, but they all referred to Lu Rongting), although there was no clear instruction from the Beijing government, Lu Rongting still held a military conference against the northern Guizhou region.

Since Lu Rongting waved the banner of defending Guangxi and expelling the Hunan army, this meeting was unprecedentedly warm.

Present at the meeting were: Chen Bingkun, commander of the First Division under Lu Rongting, Tan Haoming, commander of the Second Division, and Huang Bangbiao, commander of the Mixed Brigade. and the patrol team, the main leaders of the local armed forces, including Wei Rongchang, the commander of the First Army, Lin Junting, the commander of the Second Army, Long Jinguang, the commander of the Third Army, Song Anshu, the commander of the Fourth Army, Chen Chaozheng, the commander of the Sixth Army, and Mo Rongxin, the governor of Wuzhou.

Lu Rongting, as the overseer of Guangxi or the governor of Guangxi and the initiator of this meeting, was naturally the first to speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, as we all know, Liu Guxiang, the former commander of the Fifth Army, colluded with Sun Wen to rebellious the party and intended to cause rebellion in Guangxi, but it was broken by his subordinate Shen Hongying, and the rebellion was naturally resolved without blood. Originally, this was also a good thing, but I didn't think that this Liu Guxiang was stubborn, and he secretly colluded with Wang Zhenyu and others of the Hunan Rebellion to lure outsiders into Gui and annex us. Tell me, are we really no men in Guangxi? Is our Guangxi really a place where those Hunan Yankees can come whenever they want? ”

Everyone immediately shouted: "Of course not, Lord Overseer, beat those Hunan Yankees fiercely, let them know the power of our Gui Army...... in short, there are all kinds of shouts, and some people who have not read even shouted out the words of killing the disciples and grandchildren of Zeng Guofan to avenge King Hongtian, fortunately this is not the former Qing Dynasty, otherwise this is a capital crime to destroy the door.

When it came to Song Anshu, the commander of the Fourth Army, he raised his own question: "Lord Overseer, how many people are there in the Hunan army that has entered Gui?" ”

Lu Rongting really sent a spy to investigate, but when the spy completed the investigation, the first division of the Xiangxi garrison had not yet arrived in Liuzhou, and the second brigade was stationed in the periphery and had not entered the city, so the number of Hunan troops reported was only 5,000.

When Song Anshu heard that there were no more than 5,000 people, his heart suddenly felt relieved, not only him, but almost everyone present was extremely confident in the combat effectiveness of the Gui army. Since the victory in Zhennanguan in the Sino-French War, the Gui army has been almost invincible, and in the eyes of the Gui army, it has been invincible. Carefully calculated, the total number of people and horses of these families is almost 20,000, among which Lu Rongting's subordinates are the old foundation of the Guangxi New Army.

Song Anshu thought of another question: "Lord Overseer, I don't know what kind of charter President Yuan Da has for us to send troops to Guibei over there?" ”

Lu Rongting was sitting in the first seat like a golden knife at the moment, with his upturned thick eyebrows and a serious expression, full of murderous spirit: "Old Song, don't worry too much, Yuan Gongbao suppressed the chaotic party this time, and our Guangxi Guijun has made great efforts." If it weren't for us to manage the Hunan army and the Guangdong army for him, would his Beiyang Army be able to successfully capture Nanchang? Now that we have done our best, there will always be a small reward for this little reward. So I thought about it, we don't have to wait for Beijing's order. Taking advantage of the fact that the Hunan army has not yet sent reinforcements, we will rely on the force in our hands, add two to five, and expel them in one go. Guangxi can only be the Guangxi of our Guangxi people, Hunan Yankees get out ......"

The crowd applauded again, "Hunan Yankees get out......

Lu Rongting's arrogance is confident, not to mention the 10,000 elite infantry under his command, there are more than 60 mountain cannons produced by the Hanyang Arsenal alone, and more than 30,000 shells.

And with the improvement of his strength and status, Lu Rongting's ambition is also further growing. In this era when soldiers are grass kings, Lu Rongting's mind is also alive. Now he is desperately looting in Guangxi, using all his strength to expand his armed forces. He even has a more explicit expansion jihua than Wang Zhenyu, and the first step is to use the Liuzhou incident to unify all parties in Guangxi and realize the integration of military and political affairs in Guangxi;

The second step is to take the elite of Guangxi into Guangdong and make himself the master of the two regions;

The third step is to seize Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and let the banner of the Lu family be planted all over the south of the Yangtze River;

The fourth step is......

In the end, it is to win the world, and the position of the president Yuan Datou sits, why can't I, Lu Rongting, sit down?

So this time to attack Liuzhou together, Lu Rongting is ambitious and confident. Don't look at the meeting, in fact, many of the people who participated in the conquest have already set off towards the guests, and the so-called meeting is nothing more than a strong momentum and a unified mind.

But Lu Rongting didn't notice that less than fifteen meters away from him, a strange smile suddenly flashed on the face of a young officer. He was still hyped up his offensive jihua: "Chen Bingkun, you go back to Guilin immediately, the team of the first division of the first division of Mo Veteran (Mo Rongxin) will attack Liuzhou from the flank, Tan Haoming will lead the second division to join the mixed brigade of Huang Bangbiao, and the men and horses of Brother Song will attack from the front." The rest of the four armies are attacking from the two flanks, and I request, at most, ten days, that the various units rush to the attack positions and launch an offensive, and then my adjutant will send it to you. In this battle, everyone must work hard and play the prestige of our Gui army. ”

Don't be surprised, the most unprofessional thing in China in this era is the army, when the boss shouts a few words, the younger brother below will only have to break his leg.

Moreover, everyone is not very interested in combat, because now the commanders are more confident than Lu Dujun or Lu Dudu. They are more concerned about the benefits of their troops than they are about victory.

Chen Chaozheng was the first to cry and said: "For the Overseer, you let go of the horse, that is my Chen Chaozheng's blessing, but I think you also know that our difficulties are below." Now the gang of ruffians under my command, if they don't see any benefits, they won't work, and if I'm a little pushed, they will still make a fuss about mutiny. Overseer, I'm hard! ”

Everyone echoed one after another, and one by one they condemned the soldiers and ruffians under them in front of Lu Rongting. And they also said that when this battle is over, they will borrow troops from the army gate and go back, and slaughter all these soldiers and ruffians under their command.

Lu Rongting sneered and looked at the performances of these people, soldiers? I'm afraid it's you!

Fortunately, he had been prepared, Lu Rongting waved his hand, and his son came up with a group of guards carrying a gift plate covered with red cloth. Everyone immediately stopped performing, and without saying a word, their eyes were fixed on these ritual plates.

Lu Rongting smiled: "There are a total of eight ceremonial plates here, each of which is 30,000 oceans, everyone knows that we are a poor province and can't open too many chips, so I can only guarantee two points: first, first lay down Liuzhou, and reward 100,000 oceans; Second, after conquering Liuzhou, I will take everyone to fight Guangzhou. Guangzhou knows, right? Take down there, how much money you want! ”

In the cheers of everyone, there seemed to be a glimmer of light in the eyes of the officer with a strange smile on his face just now.

This officer's name is He Yunzu, a native of Hunan, and he is an adjutant in Lu Rongting's adjutant's office, and he has been following Lu Rongting for more than a year.

But although He Yunzu's name is fake, his identity is very complicated, because he was still a guy in a teahouse in Hongjiang more than a year ago. It was just a very accidental chance that Gong Peng, the head of the Liuzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Department, discovered it, and then became a spy with honor, and since then he has been out of control.

Because of the initial jihua, Wang Zhenyu only wanted the northern Guibei region, and mainly the coal and iron mines of Laibin and Liuzhou. Therefore, the focus of Gong Peng's work at that time fell on Liuzhou, and there was only one thing in Nanning's work, that is, He Yunzu spent 3,000 oceans to bribe the director of Lu Rongting's adjutant office and infiltrate the Lu Mansion.

At that time, it was a partial chess, and due to dialect and other reasons, Gong Peng couldn't open the situation in Liuzhou for a long time, and all he did was to collect some military intelligence, and Gong Peng was transferred to Changde Station to lurk.

As a result, eight months later, when Gong Peng was promoted to colonel of Guangxi Station and came to Nanning, he found that the small chess pieces he had planted had actually entered a very central and critical position. So around this point, Gong Peng established an intelligence transmission channel, and Gui Jun never had any secrets to speak of.

This time, without exception, all the jihua formulated by Lu Rongting, who lacked a sense of confidentiality, were completely sent to Gong Peng.

Gong Peng suddenly felt that everything was very boring, because in this situation of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, the only thing that the commander's army could do was to win.

After a brief analysis, and after checking the authenticity of the information in accordance with the regulations on the work of the intelligence department, all this information was sent out word for word through a dispatcher placed by the Military Intelligence Department in the Nanning City Telegraph Bureau......

Wang Zhenyu has been annoyed recently, and three days after entering Liuzhou, he suddenly found that something was wrong when he originally planned to continue to promote Xiangxi in Liuzhou.

The situation in Guangxi is really different from that in Xiangxi, where commerce is not as developed as in Xiangxi, and as long as interests are established with the merchant class, many things will be easy to do. Almost all parts of Guangxi were controlled by the landlord class. It's nothing, the county people govern the county, who governs or not? Anyway, the civil affairs side does not have enough talent in its own hands, so it can only pay close attention to guns and money bags. But the problem is that these landlords not only have militia groups in their hands, but also have close ties with bandits from 100,000 to 60,000 mountains. Not to mention anything else, Shen Hongying, who fled into the mountains, recently led people to attack the transport detachment of the First Division, and eleven brave soldiers were killed and eighteen were injured.

If he still implements the county people to govern the county here, then there will really be a bunch of small warlords.

On September 26, the weather was not bad, Wang Zhenyu took his fifth brother and Wang Hu and other guards to climb Goose Mountain outside Liuzhou City.

The adjutant of the adjutant office with the army almost at the same time got the information transferred from the Liuzhou branch of the military intelligence department, and immediately caught up with the mountain as soon as he saw the content, Wang Zhenyu had already reached the top of the mountain at this time.

After listening to the adjutant's report, Wang Zhenyu stood on the top of Liuzhou Goose Mountain at an altitude of 1,408 meters with his hands behind his back, quietly looked at the clear Liujiang River under his feet and said: "It seems that our Lu Dadu also thinks that the huge Guangxi can't accommodate two marshals, so don't blame me for not being kind......