Cao Kun already knew that whether he could be a pioneer was already a flashpoint in the internal controversy in Beiyang, and no matter how much he argued, it was just a matter of leaving a few days early and leaving a few days late. Although she has married the fourth aunt's wife, it's just that this aunt's wife is Cao Kun and the trend of other Beiyang army leaders, and the female students who got them from the girls' school are pure and literate, but they are far from serving people. Therefore, Cao Kun did not stay at home before the expedition, but went to Bada Hutong with a group of officers under his command to drink flower wine. The profession is different, and the women are snuggled in the arms of Cao Kun and other officers to flirt and scold, and they feel much happier than at home.

An officer next to him had a red face, and his hand reached out from the open placket of the woman next to him to knead it, and the woman let the officer come to him, and he was eating and laughing and raising a glass to feed the officer to drink. The officer did not relax when he saw his spirit, he looked tragic before he died, took the wine glass from the woman's shirt and drank it all, and pushed the woman away from his arms, and then said loudly to Cao Kun: "My lord, this humble battle will definitely serve to death, and we will die, we will never let Wu Peifu underestimate us." ”

"Good!" A circle of officers cheered together.

Someone filled the officer with wine, and some people also began to express their attitude to Cao Kun with the strength of the wine, "My lord, my humble position will never lose the face of our Ninth Army." We must fight to the death against the rebellious party! ”

Cao Kun's face was full of emotion after listening to these words of his subordinates, and he stood up with his wine glass, "Brothers, you are all good brothers who have followed me for many years. We shouldn't say anything sad before the war, but we can sit down and drink together, and we can treat each other with all sincerity. If your brothers have a chance on the battlefield, your brothers' families are my Cao Kun's family, and I will definitely give birth to and die and bury! Come on, come on, dry this wine! ”

The officers got up one after another, some of the clever ones had already pushed the women around them away, and some of them had not been promoted for a long time, and they had not participated in such a happy banquet in the first place, and they always held the girl in their arms and did not let go. This slowness was met with disgruntled glances from colleagues. Cao Kun turned a complete blind eye to this. When everyone got up, he took the lead in drinking the wine. After drinking, Cao Kun smiled and said: "We have already wrapped this half of the layer, everyone must have fun!" Before the war, I can't make everyone unhappy. Brothers, it's time to eat, drink, and play! ”

Beiyang officers like to talk about before the war, and after the battle, they have to face the uncertain future of life and death, and there should not be a hint of death in Cao Kun's words, but these officers are not unhappy. After all, they have to face the People's Party, Duan Zhigui is still dying on the battlefield, and death is no longer a hazy imagination, but a real possibility. Cao Kun's ability to express himself so happily gives people a sense of honesty and reliability.

For normal people, it really doesn't matter except death. Since there was already a consciousness of dying in battle before the war, indulging in pleasure was the most instinctive idea. Cao Kun wanted everyone to eat, drink and play to their heart's content, and everyone sat down to eat, drink and play to their heart's content. If it was in the past, even if the military discipline of Beiyang was not good, a general of Cao Kun's level would not dare to gather such a crowd to do nonsense, but now that he is about to go to war, everyone has no worries, just indulges in playing.

Cao Kun didn't tell nonsense, he covered all half of the floor. After drinking with the officers in this house, Cao Kun went to several other rooms to continue drinking and talking with the crowd. Morale boosting work is really a lot of work.

There are many soldiers who have the same idea as Cao Kun and others, and there are guards standing guard at the gate of the goulan all over the entire Bada Hutong, and when they see guests who are not wearing military uniforms, they will immediately drive them away, and even those wearing military uniforms will ask "which part" it is. The sound of warblers singing and dancing inside the wall is faintly audible, but from the outside, it looks like the eight alleys have been transformed into military camps.

As soon as they drink high, men love to find trouble, let alone soldiers like the Beiyang Army who want to fight. Cao Kun's subordinates first had drunk too much and went to the toilet before coming back and walking through the wrong door, crashing into another room, where several women were already naked, but they were wearing the military caps of the Beiyang Army on their heads, and they looked quite nondescript. The officer looked drunkenly at a group of strange men and women trying to identify them, and after identifying them for a while, he found that he didn't know either men or women, and thought of Cao Kun and said, "We have all wrapped up this floor", the officer asked loudly: "Who are you, what are you doing in our house?" ”

When the people in the house were having a good time, such a person suddenly rushed in from outside, and looked at everyone with a thief-like gaze, which was enough to disappoint the fun. The one who came in from outside didn't think he had gone wrong after going through the wrong door, but asked who the people inside the house were. The Beiyang officers in the room naturally did not explain in a low voice to such unwarranted questions, and some people couldn't help but shout: "Where are you?" Don't know the way, right? ”

The man who was said to have broken in was furious, and he shouted, "What did you say? ”

"Say you don't know the way, you really don't know the way!" The officers in the room also drank a lot of wine, although they were not Cao Kun's subordinates, but the sad and sad mood of these people before going to the battlefield was the same, seeing that someone was playing a thorn, and they had done nothing wrong on their side, the officers stood up and pointed at the officers who broke in and scolded.

At this moment, the other officers who were in the same room outside also went to the toilet and came back, and when they heard someone arguing, they immediately came to see the excitement. Both groups of people were very emotional, and playing with women only alleviated part of their emotions, but the fear of death not only did not disappear, but the stimulation of life was strengthened because of the stimulation of life brought by hugging the amorous woman. Since someone rushed in to find something awkward, this anger turned into an evil fire and gushed out.

So the scolding turned into pointing at the nose and scolding, and the scolding turned into pushing forward, and the pushing turned into a combination of fists and feet. Cao Kun's subordinates were small in number, and in the blink of an eye, they were at a disadvantage. Cao Kun's subordinates didn't all drink the same meat and vegetables as the first one, and the organic spirit no longer continued to resist, but escaped from the storm of fists and feet and ran out of the house, he pushed open the door of the nearest room on the half floor of Cao Kun's package, and shouted loudly, "Our people have been beaten, go and help!" Looking at the stunned expressions of the people in the room, he shouted again, "What are you doing here, go and help!" After shouting, the guy ran to the next room and called for help in the fight.

The most indispensable thing in these Beiyang troops is the guy who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and immediately someone rushed out, and in the woman's scream, he saw someone being beaten out of the house and falling down in the corridor. If you look closely, it is indeed Cao Kun's subordinates. And several other strange officers of the Beiyang Army had already rushed out and continued to punch and kick this person. There was no need to say anything more in this situation, Cao Kun's subordinates shouted and rushed towards the strange Beiyang Army officer who was violent. The situation between the two sides in terms of numbers immediately reversed, and in the blink of an eye, Cao Kun's men beat the other party back into the house.

After rushing into the room, Cao Kun's subordinates saw that there were also those strange Beiyang Army officers in the room who were surrounding a few guys to the end and continued to beat them, and there was also a strange officer at the far end of the table who was watching the excitement with great interest, he laughed heartily while kneading the chest of the woman next to him, who was topless and wearing a Beiyang Army military hat on her head. Although I also wanted to laugh, my chest was clenched very tightly, and the expression on my face was extremely ugly.

Some of Cao's subordinates immediately went to the rescue of their comrades, and one of them was so dissatisfied with the laughing strange officer that he stepped forward and kicked the strange officer with his leg raised. The strange officer is also extremely agile. He pulled the woman beside him over, shielding him like a shield. The woman was still quick to react, even in this sudden situation, she still raised her arms to block it, but her arms couldn't twist her thighs, and she tried her best to block it only slowed down the force of the flying kick, and she was still strong in her chest and abdomen. The woman's face was immediately distorted, because it was firmly held against the shield of the officer behind her, and the woman's whole body was fixed on the ground as if she had made a thunderbolt. The one who did it didn't expect such a change, and he was also stunned. saw the woman roll her eyes, her naked upper body twitched a few times, and then she opened her small mouth and squirted out the wine and vegetables she had just eaten. sprayed the face of the Beiyang officer who had just kicked the woman by mistake.

The officer in the back saw this scene, and saw the officer who was sprayed with dirt on his face, and hurriedly wiped his eyes. He then threw the woman aside, ignoring the woman's stiff convulsions. The officer picked up a stool and joined the warband.

Cao Kun never imagined that things would develop like this, and his subordinates were still drinking and having fun in a friendly manner, and in the blink of an eye, these people began to participate in the brawl like mad dogs. Cao Kun has a bold personality, and he is also a famous "Hun man" in Beiyang, who mixed with Dagukou when he was young, and was nicknamed "Cao San Fool". But after all, he became a soldier at the age of 20, and Yuan Shikai's military discipline was strict, so he could still abide by discipline. In the center of the room is a hall that leads up and down to the second floor, with two stairs leading to the second floor, and there is a fence on the second floor. Cao Kun was stunned to see the four people grab an unlucky guy who was beaten and couldn't move, and threw him from the second floor into the inner hall. There was also a wine table in the hall, and the unlucky guy fell straight on the table, and the cups, plates, and chopsticks were smashed and splashed everywhere.

Fortunately, the people below had already seen the fight from above, and they all got up and watched. Everyone started to duck when they saw people flying over, but no more people were hurt. Seeing that their seats were smashed, the soldiers below scolded while grabbing plates, dishes and chopsticks and smashing them on the second floor. Some of them are violent, and they simply pick up the bench or something, and rush up the stairs.

As the brawl grew, more people joined the warband, and a few moments later, a fight broke out on the first floor. Soon the people on the first floor entered the courtyard from the hall. Then I heard a commotion in the yard, and I went into the street again.

"These bandits!" Cao Kun scolded in his heart. In the era of the six towns of Beiyang, the conscripts were all from good families, and now when Beiyang expands the army, where are there so many good families in the army. Therefore, Beiyang recruited bandits and hooligans everywhere, recruited An, and forcibly arrested them. In general, get enough people together first. Among the people who did it, there was not a single middle and high-ranking officer in Beiyang, and they were all new officers at the middle and low levels, which exposed their original rogue nature.

"My lord, what should I do?" The division commander of the Ninth Army asked anxiously beside him.

"What to do? Call everything we can and go. Cao Kun didn't even have the strength to be angry.

"This ......," the division commander was unconvinced.

"Look, there are three people from the Fourth Army here, who do you want to reason with?" Saying this, Cao Kun laughed angrily.

The division commander took a look, and sure enough, he saw that some acquaintances in the third or fourth army had begun to gather their own people. The number one hundred and ten people were actually divided into seven or eight groups of people. With middle and high-ranking officers pressing the formation, the once chaotic situation finally got better.

"Don't stand stupid, hurry up!" Cao Kun said. asked the officer to go out to rectify the order, Cao Kun called the pro-soldiers in again, and after whispering a few words, the pro-soldiers took the order and left.

The commanders of the various units began to work hard, and after twenty minutes the situation was finally temporarily controlled. The people of each department finally got together, many of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and some of them walked with a limp. Those who were beaten and could not move were also lifted aside for treatment. The tables in the hall have long been overturned, cups, plates, chopsticks, and all kinds of wine and food are all over the floor, and the aroma of all kinds of wine and food in the room is mixed together, and the smell is disgusting. As for the unlucky guy who was thrown down from the second floor and smashed on the table, his face was right on a bowl of plum cabbage buttoned meat, and the thick brown sauce was so thick that he almost suffocated to death. But everyone couldn't see which part of this was for a while, and after some wiping, they recognized it as a battalion commander of the Fifth Army.

In this chaotic war, everyone has their hands on it, and there are conflicts between almost every part of each other. The gang glared at each other like cockfights, but they didn't know who to turn to to to continue the fight.

At this moment, three or four soldiers suddenly rushed in from outside, and they shouted in a panicked voice: "The inspector and the police are about to arrive, everyone hurry up." ”

Even if the military discipline was not strict before the war, the military discipline of the Beiyang Army was not entirely a decoration. There have been a number of recent examples of each unit being beheaded for violating military discipline. The faces of these officers changed color, but they didn't dare to hear this, and after Cao Kun heard this, he shouted to his subordinates: "Are you waiting to be caught by the inspector and beaten with a military stick?" ”

After finishing speaking, Cao Kun took the lead and walked out, with the army commander taking the lead, and the men of the Ninth Army carried the seriously wounded and helped the lightly injured to start moving. The ninth soldier was so powerful that no one dared to stop him. Cao Kun led the Ninth Army to take the lead, and everyone was afraid of supervision. One after another, they began to retreat.

Seeing that the storefront was smashed like this, although he wanted to stop it, how could these officers be stopped by these people. All parts of the group acted collectively, and they pushed down the guys who got in the way, and they all ran clean.

This incident affected seven or eight fields, seriously injured five or six, and no one counted the minor injuries at all. When Yuan Shikai heard the news, he was furious and ordered all troops to rectify military discipline. Wang Shizhen, as the Minister of the War Department, could not refuse such a request. As a result, the Beiyang Army's original plan to send troops in May was postponed for half a month. As the culprit, Cao Kun's department was ruthlessly rectified. The task of taking the lead was given to Wu Peifu.

On June 1, 1915, the Beiyang Army finally joined Wu Peifu of the Fourth Army and Zhang Shaozeng of the Eighth Army, and Duan Qirui was the commander-in-chief of the front, personally commanding the two troops to go south to launch an attack on the People's Party.