Wang Zhenyu thought for a while and said: "Well, let's go and tell Ma Xicheng that the focus of the Ministry of Armaments is still in the direction of Hubei, and there is no need to go too much to Liangguang, just give a sufficient base for a campaign, and I estimate that Guangdong's demand for ammunition may be less than that of Changde." I feel that the decisive battle of zuihou will take place in the direction of Hubei and Jiangxi, considering the problem of capacity, I decided to take a gamble, Lao Yang, you tell Ma Xicheng this meaning. At the same time, the factories under the Ministry of Armaments are working at full capacity, people are shut down, salaries are doubled, and the security level of the military-industrial system is also improved, and it is likely that they will decide the outcome of the war. ”

Yang Wangui frowned and replied, "Yes, handsome." But is it necessary to make such a big move? The current amount of reserves can definitely support us to lay down half of China. Marshal, our budget for this war is already very high, and if we want to do this, the result of this cost will be amazing! ”

Wang Zhenyu shook his head and said: "Lao Yang, you can't just see how much money is spent, you have to see more things, we have invested so much, if we win, the return will be very amazing." But if you are reluctant to invest a little bit of Zuihou, then once Zuihou loses, all the previous investment will be in vain, and there will be no share of us in this world. Moreover, we must have a sense that once we win a decisive victory in Hubei, Beijing will definitely unite under our strong pressure, and the powers that do not want China's reunification, especially the Japanese, will definitely contribute money and weapons to help Beiyang to fight a decisive battle with us. At that time, the scale of the war will escalate, and we must consider the situation of fighting alone without foreign aid, this is to be taken into account, the military industry is our lifeline, and our combat ideas should also be carried out around this point, and the Ministry of Armaments will set up some task forces to follow the large army to accept minerals and other energy sources in the process of our army's victorious march, and ensure the raw material needs of our military production. ”

In fact, at this time, all the participating troops were still in a state of assembly, and the Beiyang Army, as the opponent, was even more out of the process of issuing orders, and even the assembly had not yet begun, and even if there was an exchange of fire between the two armies, it was estimated that it would be a few days later. But after the telegram was sent, Wang Zhenyu was still a little nervous, after all, the war he had planned for a long time had already bet on his entire net worth, and once he won the bet, his status in China and even Shijie would be different in the future. So Wang Zhenyu didn't dare to sleep at all, he chose to stay in the staff with nothing to do, just to be able to keep abreast of all kinds of news, but it made the staff nervous in advance, and everyone hoped that he could leave a good impression in front of the boss.

"Marshal, His Royal Highness Charlotte Regent from Luxembourg has come down," Huang Shaohong, the head of the chamberlain, walked in and reported.

Wang Zhenyu was a little upset and said: "It seems that the Luxembourgers are frightened by this civil war of ours, okay, I'll go meet her." ”

Wang Zhenyu stood up and said to Yang Wangui: "Old Yang, let everyone not be so nervous, the hard battle is behind." As soon as the battle in front of us began, everyone entered a 24-hour shift state, and I would personally come here to supervise the battle. ”

Yang Wangui and other staff officers watched Wang Zhenyu leave, unlike the grassroots combat units, the staff officers of the staff department still knew more or less about Wang Zhenyu's grand jihua, and knew how much courage it required, so everyone looked at Wang Zhenyu with admiration at this moment......

In Li County, Ma Jizeng, commander of the Sixth Beiyang Division, was holding Yuan Shikai's telegram and worrying. Lao Yuan had already appointed him as the commander of the First Route Army of the Rebel Army, with full responsibility for the war in Xiangxi, but he didn't say that he would send more people to him.

Seriously, in the more than a year that he has been stationed in Li County, Ma Jizeng is person has also gained weight and his waist is thick. He was surprised by the wealth of Li County, just the tax extraction, which is millions of dollars every year. Not only Ma Jizeng, but most of the officers and men of the Sixth Division had made a fortune, carrying smuggled goods, extorting money, and everything else.

The people of Li County have no good impression of this division of the North Yankees, whether it is the army of Wang Zhenya's town guard or the youth army of Wang Zhenyu's patrol envoy, they are all at peace with the local people. It's different from these northern Yankees, as if they were reincarnated as hungry ghosts, they are just scavenging the land, and they can't wait to scrape a copper plate on the ground in Li County into their pockets.

Not only the common people, but even the local gangs and landlords and gentry in Li County have become the targets of extortion by the Sixth Division. A landlord surnamed He in the southern suburbs of Li County was robbed of his home because he did not satisfy the extortion of a regiment commander of the Sixth Division. And the landlord surnamed He had no way out, and Zuihou could only hang himself. After the Sixth Division entered the Lixian area, the public order situation in the vicinity of the garrison area immediately deteriorated, many young girls were raped, and many middle-class families were robbed at home. Now fools know that it was the Sixth Division that these non-human Beiyan did evil things, because Ma Jizeng himself took the lead in raping two students from Lixian Girls' Middle School. The crimes of the Beiyang Sixth Division are too numerous to mention. It is precisely for this reason that every move of Ma Jizeng's department was told to Wang Zhenyu by the local people who hated them.

The common people feel that they can't live anymore, but Ma Jizeng feels that this day is much more nourishing than when he was in Beijing, he is a lieutenant general of the army, and he is facing the army department of the political affairs hall. Whether it is Tang Qianming, the overseer of Hunan, or Wang Zhenyu, the commander of Hunan and Gui, has no jurisdiction over him, which is why Ma Jizeng can be the emperor of this county unscrupulously. It was useless for the local squire to sue Changsha, and no one dared to ask at all, because Ma Jizeng was so bold that he even dared to send the tax that should have been sent to the Changsha provincial government into his own pocket.

People are animals, they can't have a good life, I think that in Wuhan back then, the Sixth Division was also a famous tiger and wolf division, but after being happy in this Li County for more than a year, this combat effectiveness is not easy to say.

Ma Jizeng is not most worried about this, after all, the daily exercise of the Sixth Division is still going on as usual, and what he is really worried about is two points: the first is that Qi Xieyuan's brigade soldiers were transferred to the command of Chen Eun, the commander of the Second Route Army, so that the army in the hands of himself, the commander of the First Route Army, is not even a quarter of the Second Route Army, and this battle is a bit risky. The second is Wang Zhenyu, Ma Jizeng is not an idiot, in the past year or so in Li County, he has also spied on the military situation in Xiangxi many times, and roughly came to the conclusion that the number of troops is less than 30,000 (he didn't know that the spies he sent out were captured by He Jian and rebelled). But for Wang Zhenyu, Ma Jizeng is still a little jealous, he was almost killed by this guy in Yudaimen, and he has palpitations when he thinks about it......