Zhang Zongchang, the king of Shandong, who finally defeated the rebel army in his territory, had no heart to appease the fathers and villagers in his jurisdiction at this time, his ambition was not to be a small emperor of Shandong, but to win the Central Plains and dominate the world.

Although the Youth Army established a reputation for being good at fighting in the War to Protect the Country, in the hearts of most people in northern China, including Zhang Zongchang, Beiyang was the strongest army in the world. And the direct army of the first strong army in Beiyang has now made Zhang Zongchang defeat very easily in the Shangqiu area, where is there an army in the world that Zhang Zongchang does not dare to fight? As for the story of the defeat of the Germans in Europe by the Youth Army, in Zhang Zongchang's view, it was just that the Germans were rotten enough rubbish, and he could now be said to have reached a peak of self-confidence after constantly receiving aid from the Japanese. If it weren't for the bandits of the Sun family taking the lead in tossing in the Yimeng Mountain area, he estimated that he would have appeared in Luoyang City with an army. That is really a soldier entering the Central Plains and looking down in all directions, it is all caused by these people, Zhang Zongchang's thinking ability is really good. After coming to such a conclusion, the frenzied Zhang Zongchang ordered the 3,000 Russian deserters in his hands to execute the more than 4,000 "mobs" who had been captured by him.

Later, Zhang Zongchang took out more than 20 boxes of gold, silver and jewelry at the mobilization meeting of the Southern Expedition of the Zhilu Allied Army, boosting the morale of the army under his command: "As long as you monkey cubs do a good job, follow the commander to kill the enemy, and after conquering the south, what awaits you is endless delicacies from the mountains and seas, endless silk and satin, and endless white and tender chicks who can't sleep." As long as you kill all the men on the other side of the Yellow River, or use death to make them kneel in front of you honestly, none of this is a dream. Now tell me loudly, are you sons of bitches willing to follow this handsome across the Yellow River to grab money, grain, and territory? ”

I can't help but say that Zhang Zongchang is a good hand at agitating soldiers, let him agitate like this, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers under the stage have been enthusiastically surging (Wang Zhenyu will definitely be very unhappy if he sees it, the largest military parade he has is only 6,000 people, Zhang Zongchang's pomp and circumstance on this dog day is bigger than himself, hateful), they raised their weapons one after another, and shouted at Zhang Zongchang on the stage: "Grab money, grab food, grab land!" ”

If Dai Jitao could be here and see this scene, he would probably sigh helplessly: "This is much more effective than my political and ideological education." ”

Indeed, the fundamental reason why Zhang Zongchang was able to rise to prominence at the end of Beiyang is here, although he is illiterate, he has successfully inspired the evil in the hearts of his subordinates, and uses the most primitive desires of human beings to drive them to kill and conquer. This point is probably the most difficult breakthrough in the Beiyang system, although in the end it is still difficult to escape the fate of failure, but the dog meat general Zhang Zongchang has indisputably left a strong mark in the history of the Republic of China.

And in this time and space, although there is such a big butterfly as Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Zongchang is still extremely tenacious, and it is several years ahead of the original history. This is something that Wang Zhenyu didn't expect, but it doesn't matter, for Wang Zhenyu, who is bent on changing the fate of the country and the nation, scum like Zhang Zongchang is destined to be eliminated by him, and there is nothing to discuss about this.

All of a sudden, Xuzhou became the focus of attention from all parties in the north and south.

In the teahouse in Beijing, many old and young people even discussed the world's major events: "Tell me, you tell me, what is there to do in this Republic of China?" Yes? In the second year of the Republic of China, Sun Cannon rebelled in the south, and he fought a battle for half a year. It was not easy to put the revolutionary party's group of grandsons to death. You see, in the third year of the Republic of China, the white wolf in Henan rose again. President Yuan Da made a lot of effort to pacify the white wolf, but in the fourth year of the Republic of China, the Orientals went to Qingdao again and occupied Shandong. Our President Yuan Da even signed the 21st Article, and just sent the Japanese away, he himself is thinking about becoming the emperor. As a result, the Republic of China had a bad war for five years...... Immediately following this year's Premier Duan, Cao Dashuai, Zhang Dashuai, and their commotion for a while, you go to Beijing to take a look, it's all scorched earth. Now thinking about it, there is no year for the Republic of China to stop, and there is no year for not tossing. Or our Qing Dynasty was peaceful......"

"Come on, you are similar to the eighth master, the foreigners in the Qing Dynasty are not less noisy, if you want me to say, it is still his Yuan Gongbao who is not in the right position, otherwise he will not let Cai Songpo and Wang Wenzheng, the two little descendants, pick up the ......" With such a bowl of tea, these Eight Banners masters began to brag to pass the time again.

"Second Master Wu, then tell me what the situation of this great country will be in the future? Is it Zhang Dashuai in the north who is powerful, or Wang Dashuai in the south? ”

"Who can protect this? Now that this battle is getting bigger and bigger, I look at this Republic of China, I'm afraid it's really exhaustive......"

"I said a few masters, don't look forward to chaos, the popularity of my teahouse in the past few years is not as good as a year, and if it continues, I am afraid that the business of my three generations can only be closed" It was no one else who spoke, it was Wang Lifa, the shopkeeper of Yutai Teahouse.

"Come on, you class, shopkeeper Wang, don't let us fool anyone. If you want to talk about the teahouse in this front door building, in terms of business, no one has the prosperity of your king's shopkeeper. You count on your fingers, just this year, how many teahouses are left in this Qianmen building? Now that the Qing Kingdom is gone, we are not all banner people, and it is very good that you can still maintain the situation in front of you. ”

"That's it, shopkeeper Wang, don't be ignorant of our way, your business is thriving now, although the front is still a tea shop, but behind this is that, that, what's coming, yes, apartment. With your cleverness, the Republic of China is dead, and your business can continue to be maintained......"

Wang Lifa was the opponent of these Jingyouzi, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Yes, yes, I'll let the guy give my brother a few more glasses of water, whether this Xuzhou is broken or not, this tea still has to be drunk......

As soon as Wang Lifa walked away, several banner people muttered in a low voice: "Have you heard, our emperor of the Qing Dynasty is going to be reinstated?" ”

"What kind of position, seeing that Zhang Zuolin's northeast beard is about to go south to quell the chaos and sit in the country, how did our emperor regain the throne?"

"You don't know what to do, I have a cousin who works as a third-class shrimp in the palace. It is said that recently, this Oriental is interested in letting us return to the country......"

What the flag men didn't notice was that not far from them, two inconspicuous-looking young men were listening to them while silently drinking tea......

In the direction of Xuzhou, Zhang Zongchang is already sharpening his knife to pigs and sheep. The Zhilu coalition army took out all its resources, one Russian mercenary brigade, four elite Fengjun cavalry brigades, plus eighteen elite infantry brigades, and three heavy artillery brigades trained and armed by the Japanese side, all concentrated along the Jinpu line in the direction of Zaozhuang. These brigades were all organized according to the standard of 5,000 people, and Zhang Zongchang mobilized almost 130,000 elites, plus 12 supplementary brigades for a total of 190,000 horses. Xu Kun was appointed by Zhang Zongchang as the commander of Shandong's security, and he alone commanded 60,000 horses to be responsible for stability in the province. Zhang Zongchang organized his 38 brigades with a total of 190,000 horses into three armies, Shi Congbin, commander of the First Army, Cheng Guorui, commander of the Second Army, and Chu Yupu, commander of the Third Army, were all good brothers of Zhang Zongchang.

In Beijing, Huairentang, Zhang Zuolin is holding a meeting of senior generals of the Feng department, as the deputy commander of the Angolan Army and the commander-in-chief of the Zhilu Coalition Army, Zhang Zongchang is naturally also in attendance, after the meeting, he will also go south to direct the attack of the Zhilu Coalition Army on Xuzhou.

"Xiaokun, the one in the south is not a fuel-efficient lamp, this time you go south to Xuzhou, you have to have a bottom in your heart."

"Don't worry, Dashuai, let's kill from my brothers all the way to Shandong from the northeast for this day, no matter what, I, Zhang Zongchang, will take more than 200,000 brothers of the Zhilu coalition army to kill you for a piece of the sky, pick up the youth army in the south, and push you to the emperor's throne." The tall Zhang Zongchang shouted that Zhang Zuolin didn't seem to appreciate it: "Mom, what are you shouting, is there still an emperor now?" Do you dare to have an emperor now? To be honest, our entry into the customs this time was indeed very smooth, and I couldn't believe that it was smooth. But none of you should think that those armies in the south are paper-paste, if you don't believe it, then if we really fight, we will suffer a big loss. You Zhang Xiaokun is full of confidence, I don't believe you are a big man, you give Lao Tzu a thorough explanation, why do you believe that you can win? ”

"Dashuai, why do you bother to grow up others to destroy your own prestige? Even if this dog's youth army defeated President Yuan's army last year, won't President Yuan's army be wiped out like rabbits this year? Even if they could defeat that power in Europe, so what? I don't believe it, I can't defeat the 300,000 tigers and wolves under my command, plus the weapons and equipment given by the Japanese. Dashuai, you don't know how to do it, the heavy artillery of the Oriental people is really not blown, the caliber of 150 is stronger than the 75 mm one, not to mention how good their youth army is at building fortifications, I am afraid that he will not play positional warfare now, as long as he plays, as soon as my heavy artillery sounds, they don't want to play with Lao Tzu. Don't hesitate, old man. If we don't take advantage of the expedition of other people's laborers to pick up people now, and wait for everyone to come back, we will only be picked up. Handsome!? ”