Chapter 134: Yuan Shikai's Choice

July 19o9 B, Tianjin, Duliu Town.

Duliu Town is a thousand-year-old town, which was built in the Song-Liao confrontation period, in the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (14o4 AD), it was built and gradually became a market town. The South Canal, the Ziya River, and the Daqing River meet here, and by the Qing Dynasty, it has become a very prosperous market town. It is also the only way for the Jinpu Railway, and it is the first station of the Jinpu Line after leaving Tianjin.

The Beiyang Army has a military station here, which is also an important stronghold for them, but yesterday, it changed owners. After the People's Liberation Army broke through the Wuqiao defense line, Wu Peifu personally led the team to break the rear in order to let the old superior Cao Kun withdraw, and fought and retreated, but when retreating to Duliu Town, the broken Beiyang Army finally couldn't hold on, and the whole line collapsed.

Wu Peifu sat in the conference room of the military station with a black face, but now he was not as a master, but as a prisoner of war.

"Hmph......" Wu Peifu glared at the PLA guards guarding him around, and he only felt ten thousand unconvinced.

He felt that he had lost too unjustly, and when he was in Wuqiao a few days ago, he didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, and his second town was blown up by a large number of shells. The second town was dominated by new recruits, and it could withstand this overwhelming shelling, and it was broken through by the other side in less than 2 hours. Then he was defeated all the way, until he was caught by the People's Liberation Army, and he didn't understand how he lost.

At this time, a PLA officer walked in with Wen Jiàn in his hand. Wu Peifu understood that he was here for interrogation.

"Come, look at me, and laugh at ......," said an ensign officer, pulling out a strangely shaped camera.

Wu Peifu was immediately solidified, Lao Tzu was captured, and he laughed, laughing at your sister

The second lieutenant didn't care whether he was crying or laughing, he took a picture of him with a "click", and took a picture of him during interrogation?

This battle made Lao Wu stunned. Then, to his astonishment, he immediately spit out a photograph from his camera, which was eight one-inch photographs connected together. According to his understanding, it takes a long time to develop a photo, how can it be so fast?

However, although he was curious, he didn't ask much, after all, he was now a prisoner of war.

"Sir, please cooperate with our investigation and answer our questions......" - The officer sat directly across from him and began his routine questioning.

"Name?" The major in the middle took out a notebook and began to question, and the person on the left picked up a ballpoint pen and began to record.

"I am Wu Peifu...... "Old Wu is also single, and he didn't play any silent tricks. Although I don't understand how to lose, but if I lose, I lose, and now that I am a prisoner, I naturally have to accept defeat. He has made up his mind to say what he can say, and he will not say what he can't say.

"Gender?"

"......" Wu Peifu suddenly froze, glared at them fiercely, touched his beard, and said angrily: "Don't you have long eyes?

"This is the procedure, please answer...... Gender?" said the major in the middle, with a unchanged face.

Wu Peifu replied angrily: "Lao Tzu is a man"

"Age?"

“3......”

"Military rank?"

"Major General of the 6th Army"

Ten minutes later, when the questioning was over, the major handed him a completed form and said, "If there is nothing wrong with it, please sign it......"

Wu Peifu took it and looked at it, it was all the basic personal information he asked just now, what kind of name, place of origin, position and other things, he signed his name with a brush.

After the three officers took back the form, they also signed their names in the fields of questioners and recorders on the form, and cut out a photo of him and pasted it on it. Then I packed up my things and got ready to go.

"Hey, you're done asking?" Wu Peifu couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, we're done. The major who led the team went out without looking back.

What does this mean? Wu Peifu really couldn't figure it out, he was a commander anyway, and they didn't even interrogate some military secrets, but asked a few basic questions

Next, the guards took him to the hospital for a physical examination and a blood test. Then he was asked to sign a medical form. In the end, he was sent back to the prisoner of war camp by the guards.

This time, the prisoners of war in Beiyang were separated from the officers and men, and the prisoner of war camp for senior officers was the original barracks of the military station. Wu Peifu is very familiar with this place, but it is the first time that he has been a prisoner of war here.

It is unknown how he was feeling at the time, but as soon as he entered, he saw several acquaintances chatting in the courtyard. Duan Qirui, Zhang Shaozeng, Xu Shuzheng, Pan Juying, Wei Zonghan, Zhang Huaizhi, Zhang Yongcheng, and several senior officers above the command level of the First Army and the Second Army, except for Feng Guozhang, who was drowned, are basically here.

"Ah, Minister Duan, are you here too?" Wu Peifu stepped forward and gave a military salute.

"Ziyu, you're here too......" Duan Qirui waved his hand, revealing a wry smile: "Hey, even you have been defeated, now the general trend is really gone, and the overall situation has been decided......"

Everyone shook their heads and smiled bitterly.

Wu Peifu said unconvinced: "This PLA will also use heavy artillery to bully people, if we fight in an upright manner, we will not necessarily lose, at least not so ugly."

Duan Qirui said: "That's right, people have this money, do you still play with others with big swords and spears if you have foreign guns and foreign cannons in your hands? They don't need any tactical strategy at all, they just can't stop them with heavy artillery bombardment." Wu Ziyu, don't be unconvinced, you didn't fight hand-to-hand. If you fight them hand-to-hand, you will know that they don't only use heavy artillery...... Not to mention that they all have a pistol, and basically they don't fight you with bayonets. Even if we fight bayonets, we are no match for ......"

Speaking of this, Duan Qirui remembered the battle that night, the Beiyang Army and the People's Liberation Army played a bayonet hand-to-hand combat, and the result was a big defeat, and the Beiyang Army, which was fighting separately, was beaten out by the People's Liberation Army's three-person fighting team.

Everyone sighed after talking for a while, and all the people present were smart people, and now they all saw that Beiyang was at the end of the road.

Wu Peifu said: "When they caught me, they just asked for basic information such as name and position. It's weird......"

Xu Shuzheng smiled: "Hehe, where do they still need to ask you? Our side has long been infiltrated like a sieve by the Science and Technology Socialist Party, and they already know a lot of information that we don't know......

"This ......" Wu Peifu was speechless, he didn't want to mention it again, so he changed the topic and said: "Where is Zhang Xun, isn't this guy here......?"

Now he was all looking at him with strange eyes.

"What's wrong?" asked Old Wu in surprise. Zhang Xun was captured by the People's Liberation Army, he knew about it, but he didn't see anyone here.

"We were talking about this just now, he was tried by the People's Liberation Army in Xuzhou the day before yesterday and has been shot...... Zhang Shaozeng sneered a few times and said: "Hehe, Zhang Xun also found it himself, his military discipline is too poor, and he refuses to rectify, Xuzhou was harmed by them more badly." The People's Liberation Army used their heads to win the hearts of the people......"

Xiao Xu also sneered: "There is also the fact that his subordinates are braided soldiers, and they are clamoring for the restoration of the Manchu Dynasty, which is another taboo against Wen Dehei, who will die if he doesn't die?"

Zhang Xun is not very popular in the Beiyang Army, except for Feng Guozhang and he still have some friendships, others have a very cold and even bad relationship with him. So in the original time and space, he turned his face with Beiyang.

Xiao Xu said again: "The Science and Technology Socialist Party has dispatched a total of 9 divisions this time, and I think Wang Pingqing (Wang Shizhen) may not be able to hold Beijing no matter how great his ability is......

Duan Qirui patted his head and said helplessly: "Now it's up to the old man to do it......

Beijing, Prime Minister's Office.

The Prime Minister's Office in Beiyang is Yuan Shikai's former Beiyang Minister's Residence, and it has changed a brand, except for the addition of some modern supplies, basically nothing has changed.

At this time, Yuan Shikai was in a meeting with a group of henchmen.

At present, the People's Liberation Army is already divided into three routes, the 1O Division plus the 15th Town of the uprising Lantian Wei broke through the Zhangjiakou defense line, and now it has conquered Xuanhua and is marching towards Beijing. After Di Di Pei broke through the Handan defense line, he went north along the Jinghan Railway, and has now reached Zhuozhou (Zhuo County). And the strongest one is one episode and two episodes, a total of 6 divisions, under the personal command of Xin Jie, chief of the General Staff, and now it has arrived in Tianjin.

The several troops that originally went to defend against the PLA were all defeated, and in the Wuqiao defense line, the 2 towns - 10,000 people under the command of Cao Kun fled back to Beijing less than 7o6 people. The 3rd town of Zhang Zhenfang in the Handan defense line was completely wiped out, and the 4th town of Wufengling also lost most of it, and all the heavy weapons were lost, and less than 66 people escaped back, and many even lost their guns. The troops defending Zhangjiakou were the worst, the Shanxi patrol battalion was completely wiped out, and Jiang Guidi was killed. He Zonglian's 1st town only escaped back to one target, and He Zonglian was seriously injured by the cannon and has not woken up yet.

For Beiyang, the current shape is extremely critical, and the complete army is only left with the Guards Town and the Second Heavy Artillery Association under the personal command of Wang Shizhen (in fact, it is only a standard). Combined with the remnants of the defeated soldiers who fled and the temporarily collected troops, the total strength was less than 60,000.

The PLA's troops attacking Beijing this time had nine divisions and a total strength of 10,000. And that's just the number of people, not to mention the gap in equipment.

"Hehe, old man, this is also a dream...... Now the general trend has gone," Yuan Shikai laughed miserably.

Just now, Wu Luzhen, the commander of the Sixth Town stationed in Changchun, Jilin Province, sent a telegram, asking Yuan Shikai to recognize the form and conform to the revolution.

"Prime Minister......" Wang Shizhen wanted to say something, but shut up again. The Beiyang bigwigs were silent, and no one in the entire conference room spoke. There is no way, it is useless to say anything now, because now there are only two ways, one is to surrender, and the other is to be beaten by the People's Liberation Army first and then surrender.

"That's it, the old man can't let this thousand-year-old capital be destroyed by war. Yuan Shikai said to Xu Shichang: "Brother Juren, please contact the Socialist Party about surrender, my request is very simple, that is, to save the lives of my Beiyang people......"

Xu Shichang nodded silently.

After everyone dispersed, Yuan Shikai left his nephew Yuan Naikuan, and then called his eldest son Yuan Keding and whispered orders to them.

Yuan Keding's face changed greatly: "Ah, father, why don't you ask others to do this......" Yuan Naikuan's expression was even more ghostly.

"Stupid, this thing can only be done by our Yuan family, this is to save the future of your brothers, we are clearing a little obstacle for Wen Desi, this kind of thing is not easy for him to do, we can only do it." Yuan Shikai said with a gloomy face: "Hmph, I sold most of my life to them, and now I should use their lives to pave the way for my Yuan family......"

“...... Yes, father, I understand" Yuan Keding and Yuan Naikuan looked at each other, and they both gritted their teeth and agreed.

"It's done on the net point, it's best like an accident...... Recently, the weather has been dry, pay attention to fire prevention......" Yuan Shikai dropped this sentence and turned around and went out.

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