None of the three zeros or nine is missing!

After an hour of continuous bombardment, the Dagukou Fort, which was regarded by the Manchus as the Gyeonggi barrier, was finally opened, and more than 10 shallow-water troop carriers, which had been prepared for a long time, were heading straight for Beijing along the Haihe River with the help of several armed speedboats. (Vertex Hand Hit)

More troop carriers began to dock, and the deep-water docks that had been built under the guise of Zhao Cheng finally came into play, and the ocean-going ships of the navy convoy could easily dock and unload directly at the port.

Cannons were quickly hoisted out of the cabin, pairs of soldiers began to assemble, and the entire harbor was filled with uniformed Army and Marine Corps officers.

In the distance in the city of Tianjin, sporadic gunfire can still be heard, but there was no large-scale battle, without Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army, thousands of Zhili old soldiers could not stop the wolf-like first division, especially the scene of the ruthless and devastating shelling of the Dagu Fort, which dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of the Qing army's defense, so that when the first division landed at the same time from Dagukou, Baishui, and Hangu, it did not even encounter a firefight, and only after entering the city of Tianjin, it was resisted by a small group of Qing troops.

The main battle ended in two hours, and Tianjin, one of the earliest open gateways of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the most important city on the northern coast, finally fell into the hands of Master Li

In fact, from the beginning, Li Mo was most worried that Yuan Shikai would resist to the end, although he later decided to flee Shanxi, but he also left more than 3,000 soldiers in Tianjin, these people were the most feared by him.

It's not that more than 3,000 new troops can resist him, the main thing is that he can't spend so much in Tianjin, because Tianjin is only more than 100 kilometers away from Beijing, although the telephone lines and other facilities were cut off according to the plan before the war, but with fast horses, the news will be transmitted back in two hours at most, so if there is no accident at this moment, Beijing City has already received the news of its landing in Tianjin

Beijing, Tianjin

These are the two most important cities in the north of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they are also the fattest and creamy places, and even if you kidnap the entire Jin merchants in Shanxi, the wealth is less than half of these two cities, and the only ones who can compete are Jiangnan and other places.

What's more, the wealth here is not the same as that in Jiangnan, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not allowed to be infiltrated by foreigners, at least in Zhili, in the two places that have not experienced the First Sino-Japanese Indemnity, eighty percent of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the palace nobles, among which the Manchu royal family, and many princes Baylor are the richest, and of course, there is also the Gonggong Li

Unlike Sheng Huaixuan, Jin Changyuan, and Tian Shunxiang, who were famous and wealthy in the late Qing Dynasty, these people are the real predators, who were rated as the real richest man in the late Qing Dynasty by later generations, and Prince Qing, who has deposited millions of taels in HSBC alone, and Li Lianying, a great eunuch who competes for favor but does not fight for power, is low-key, but has the skill to collect money, these are all big guys with tens of millions of family assets

Take Li Lianying as an example, before he died, he distributed millions of taels of silver to his stepson, stepdaughter and nephews, not including the millions of taels that he could not retrieve before he left the palace, plus mansions, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc., the Ministry of Intelligence estimated that there would always be fifty or sixty million, and the silver in the Daqing Treasury at this time was still relatively valuable, and if it was calculated into pounds, it was as much as seven or eight million

This is just him, according to the estimates of the Ministry of Intelligence, if all the wealth obtained by the two places is concentrated on the heads of the country and the people, it will be at least 30 million pounds

If it is done well, three or five hundred thousand taels of silver is definitely there, according to the calculation of about ten taels of silver in exchange for one pound, that is the wealth of nearly tens of millions of pounds, and these money are all looted people's fat and people's ointment, and confiscated without reason

That's a lot of money

But the biggest problem is that there are no highways in these days, and if they are surrounded by people who can't implement it quickly, and these people flee with huge sums of money, I'm afraid that anyone will regret it for the rest of their lives

Therefore, Li Mo was willing to take the risk and personally came to arrest Yuan Shikai and forced him to surrender and hand over the new army, just to occupy Tianjin as soon as possible and then wave the army to Beijing, so that these people could not get out there

Now that Tianjin is under its control, most of the targets here have been ordered to stay at home and not go out, leaving Beijing alone

In order to achieve the goal of quickly encircling and preventing these people from escaping, this time, when the General Staff put forward the battle plan, it adhered to the word "fast" to attack Shanhaiguan, so that the cavalry division would not be entangled and quickly go south, shelled Dagukou, and quickly went north along the Haihe River with fast boats, and even spread leaflets to cause panic, so that the Manchus mistakenly thought that the army had been killed, and locked the nine gates that had been closed because of the arrest of the Restoration Party more tightly, so that Beijing would become a real stuffy gourd

But this speed is not enough

The old woman in the Forbidden City has a tradition of escaping, so how to attack the outskirts of Beijing faster and make the people inside mistakenly think that she has been surrounded, has become a top priority

So the General Staff thought of the airship.

"Listen, no smoking is allowed after going up, no open flames are allowed, get closer, don't be afraid of shaking, just hold on to the handrail, if anyone is unwell, spit in this bag, don't let the Air Force birdmen say we have soiled the airship"

In the distance, a reconnaissance company commander was handing out large paper bags while talking about precautions, the airship next to him had opened the door of the pod, and several air force soldiers were looking at the army guys with a wicked smile on their lips, betting on how many of them would pee their pants after they went to the sky.

A Hippopotamus-class airship can carry six tons, even after the temporary removal of the ammunition compartment, the space is cramped, the reconnaissance company of 100 people needs to use two and a half airships, and it has to stand crowded, fortunately, it only takes 40 minutes from Tianjin to Beijing, and the endurance will pass.

Li Mo was dressed in military uniform, accompanied by Chen Ping, to see off each of the officers and men of the reconnaissance company who took the airship to attack, although it had been used on a small scale in previous exercises, but it was the first time to put in twenty airships at a time and carry nearly a thousand lightly armed scouts for such a large-scale air transport, so he couldn't help but be a little nervous.

When the command's red light turned green, the ground crew untied the cable of the first airship, and the huge airship slammed into the air like a wild horse.

One, two, three .......

The weapons were temporarily confiscated, and the Beiyang New Army and Yuan Shikai and others who were imprisoned in the barracks could no longer describe the shock in their hearts, although they learned from various sources that Li Mo had a big flying ship in his hand, but after seeing it with their own eyes, they knew how pale that description was compared to the picture in front of them

Yuan Shikai's face was even more pale, there was still a trace of luck before, and the idea that he might be able to struggle again when the new army came back one after another could not make a ripple in the face of such a behemoth.

When the last airship slowly rose into the air under the gaze of Li Mo and the soldiers, a huge airship formation had formed in the air, and it was even impossible to see the sky at all when it raised its head

"Young Master......"

Before Master Li could express his admiration for making such a spectacular scene, he shouted and made him tremble suddenly, and when he looked down, he saw that after the airship left, on the opposite side of the empty school field, Li Enfu had already taken Tang Shaoyi and several other government officials and rushed over angrily.

"Why is he here?"

Young Master Li naturally knew what made Li Enfu so excited, and hurriedly turned his head to ask Chen Ping for help, but at this critical time, he had no righteousness, squeezed his eyes and hurriedly walked away: "Young Master, I'll go and arrange the affairs of the troops, and I'll be back in a while." ”

"Day"

Before Master Li's middle finger was drawn, Li Enfu had already killed him in front of him with "momentum".

"Young master, the son of a daughter can't sit down, don't you understand this truth?"

"Now that you are the only one who cares about the safety of the world, what if there is a mistake, what will we do?"

"Besides, it's just a mere tens of thousands of Beiyang New Army, and I, Li Enfu, am not an unreasonable person, if you really want to expand the army, I gritted my teeth and allocated tens of thousands of special funds."

"And you"

After Li Enfu finished counting, he found that he couldn't really sprinkle his anger on Li Mo's head, so he turned his head and pointed at Du Dazhuang, who was holding back a smile next to him, and shouted: "As the chief of the guard, how can you let the young master take risks?"

"By the way, and Li Qiang? And the captain of the Typhoon, yes, what about Chen Ping? What about the Chief of Staff? Where are you hiding? I saw him just now, and these people are under his control, and he must give me an explanation."

In the face of the angry Li Enfu, who will become the first prime minister in a few days, Young Master Li had to face his spit with a black face, complaining in his heart, of course, it is a good thing to have this kind of prime minister who thinks about himself, but I am afraid that freedom is getting farther and farther away from him.

But his heart was still full of gratitude, he didn't expect Li Enfu to brave the rain of bullets to come to the front line to chase him, but he couldn't blame the other party for being verbose, but this nagging was really stinky and long, he couldn't help but roll his eyes, and quickly changed the topic and said: "Mr. Li is angry, you listen to me, I have no choice but to do it, do you know?" The Ministry of Intelligence gave me a statistic that we can get at least 30 million pounds in Tianjin and Beijing this time, so I came to take the risk to block them, and I can't let these guys escape."

"What 30 million pounds"

Li Enfu's eyes straightened suddenly, although now the Government Council has finally been lifted out of poverty, but the two largest financial bases in the Northeast and Luzon are still net investment, plus Zhili and even Shandong and other places that can be obtained, there is no doubt that they have to increase investment, and they are still a little nervous, so when they hear so much money, their eyes suddenly brighten.

Li Mo lowered his eyebrows and flatteringly took out the information of the Intelligence Department and handed it to Li Enfu, who only glanced twice and jumped up with a roar: "Damn, what about Chen Ping?" What about Zhao Long? Get out of here, what are you doing here? Hurry up, go all, and surround me with Beijing."

"No one is missing"

The Prime Minister's roar is terrible, who let him control the army's money bags, Chief of Staff Chen did not hesitate to transfer his anger to Commander Zhao, Zhao Long immediately ordered the troops that had landed to collect all available means of transportation on the spot, and two hours later packed the first batch of 3,000 people to catch up with the road to Beijing, according to his words, before the time came, several gates of Beijing City must be blocked, or all of them will be confined

In addition to these fast troops, the second batch of the two regiments that had just landed were also directly arranged to drop their heavy equipment first, go north lightly, and be sure to surround Beijing before dawn, and never let those fat sheep escape