To tell the truth, on the Texas front, Japan suffered a lot of losses, but its strength still existed, and after the final group, it was probably a million-level Japanese army, which slowly retreated. This makes the First Army unable to find loopholes, no matter what, the First Army plus the strengthened part, the total is only about 300,000, even if 500,000 Japanese troops are annihilated, the gap is more than three times, in this case, the fixed positional warfare and defensive warfare are okay, but the movement war is not impossible, but the other side is obviously defensive, forming a solid camp, and only walking a distance of twenty or thirty kilometers every day, but he can't start.

When the army gathers, there is no better solution unless the tanks are brought up and the impact of the armored force is used to divide and surround the opponent, so that they can break through the opponent's defenses. In particular, the northwest attaches great importance to human life, and it is impossible to make a frantic attack like the Japanese did and attack Lushun as it did, but it was only monitored from a distance, and when the Japanese army withdrew from the scope of Shandong, it did not continue.

Unlike Shandong, the people on this side of Hebei have not yet retreated, forcing too close, in case the Japanese army becomes brutal, the loss is always the Chinese, Shandong side is the northwest to make preparations in advance, but Hebei, nominally, still belongs to the territory of Beiyang, the northwest has just intervened in Beiyang, and it is not possible to do the same thing as Shandong, unless there is a month.

It's a pity that the battle of Shandong, carried out too fast, the Japanese came violently, on the front line of Texas, bumped into a bloody flow, in addition to the vanguard led by Kawamura Jingming was completely annihilated, the rear troops also suffered huge losses, this series of behaviors, shattered Japan's idea of revenge, and finally let Japan choose to withdraw its troops.

Although said. It's good to keep the enemy out of the country. It will not cause greater losses to Shandong, but the Japanese retreat time is much faster. The retreat plan that was about to reach Hebei could not be carried out at the beginning.

The Japanese slowly retreated, and the Northwest Army maintained a distance of about 30 kilometers from the Japanese army, almost all the whole process, watching the Japanese gradually approach Tianjin, during which Cai Ye also made certain attempts, but the Japanese army was very vigilant, and there was no good opportunity. It's almost the end of the tasting.

Seeing that the Japanese army was about to approach Tianjin, and in 10 days at most, he would be able to reach Tianjin, so he had to send the problem back, hoping to get the support of the General Staff.

In the General Staff, in fact, this issue faced by Cai Ye has been discussed several times. How to do it already has a belly case, but in order to take care of Cai Yi's emotions, there is no direct order from top to bottom.

It's not that Cai Yi's strength is not good. To be able to become the number one general in the northwest, Cai Ye's strength in all aspects is top-notch, he just didn't expect it. As a high-level in the northwest, Yuan Shikai's actions. Cai Ye should have been able to master it, but he has always been on the front line in Shandong. It's just that when I was communicating, I knew a little that Beiyang had the intention of moving closer to the northwest, but it was only an intention, and I didn't know at all that Yuan Shikai had already negotiated with the northwest.

The advice that the staff came up with is actually very simple, and even in advance it is already being prepared, in a few days, even if Cai Ye does not mention it, they will take the initiative to communicate, and now it is very good, Cai Ye took the initiative to come over, and they also logically put forward this plan.

Cai Ye is in the encrypted channel, received the order, even now, Japan and other powers in the world, in the field of radio, just just intervened, there is no in-depth understanding at all, but some key things, but also through the encryption of the radio, the encryption radio is to use a special filter, to add some signals to the radio, it seems to be similar to ordinary radio signals, but can only be translated with a special receiver, can be converted, so it is more secure.

Generally, some important information or it is not suitable to send telegrams through ordinary channels, this will be used to send.

The name Yuan Shikai, at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, is almost a name familiar to most soldiers, from a small station to train soldiers, concentrate on training a strong army, and then on the drill code, a sudden rise of a new army, won unanimous praise including foreign consuls and military attachés, Yuan Shikai began to enter the high-level, ups and downs for decades, almost more than ten years of history at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are traces of Yuan Shikai, his every move, directly affected the course of China, and if you really want to say, the fall of the Manchu Qing was also thanks to Yuan Shikai, although he was for his own purposes.

It is precisely because of Yuan Shikai's reputation, even if he is as strong as Cai Yi, when he came back from Japan, he first chose Beiyang, but the overall situation of Beiyang has been formed, and all the rising channels have been occupied by the old people who train soldiers in small stations, leaving not many upward channels for newcomers.

This is a fairly normal thing in any mature political system, and it is difficult for any person in a position to choose between the old man and the capable person, let alone the old man, who is superior in strength. You don't see, even Feng Yuxiang, one of the founders of the Northwest Army, was just a battalion back then, but Feng Yuxiang is really compared to Wu Peifu, not to mention political and other abilities, purely military, Feng is definitely not Wu's opponent.

Cai Ye is the same, he is younger, no matter how Feng Yuxiang is, he has also stayed in the Wuwei Army for a long time, which is half of Yuan Shikai's lineage, after the gradual development of Beiyang, their descendants who are not small station training have also been promoted, but Cai Ye only returned to China 10 years ago, even if the brand at that time was hard enough, Lu Shi graduated, but he was still just a small officer who did not enter the stream, and he could only manage a dozen people.

Such a gap, which makes the proud Cai Ye a little unacceptable, he went east to Japan in 1899, and became one of the three heroes of Lu Shi, not to enter the Beiyang, to be a petty official who does not enter the stream, or in other words, it is okay to be a petty official temporarily, you should always have an upward channel, without a reasonable upward channel under the premise, he stays and stays, it is a pure waste of time.

Because there was no future, Cai Ye did not enter Beiyang, but entered the Southern New Army, and served in many places, and also burst out of brilliance in his tenure, and finally came to Yunnan in history, laying the foundation of the Yunnan New Army in one fell swoop, and became an influential figure in the Republic of China.

In this era, the appearance of Yang Yuanzhao, under the strong invitation, Cai Ye did not go to Yunnan from Hunan, but came to the northwest, with the help of the northwest than Yunnan in the year, countless times higher platform, in a more formal, more systematic military force, Cai Yi's ability has been perfectly played, his military quality, with the support of strong soldiers and weapons, has achieved outstanding results.

From the confrontation against Beiyang in 1911, to the liberation of Mongolia, the fight against Russia, and even the current battle of Shandong, every time Cai Ye is at the forefront of the battle, at the forefront, he is worthy of strength, and every time he has achieved a complete victory.

Since Beiyang has been incorporated into the northwest, the people who want to come to the northwest have accepted Beiyang, and even armed part of the Beiyang army, in this case, the Japanese will definitely be deceived by Beiyang under the premise of not knowing, and their strength has skyrocketed, and they may not necessarily be worse than Japan.

Looking at the above conditions of the plan, Cai Ye perfected the details again, and soon, the first army of 300,000 people began to divide the troops, about half of the troops were divided from the west side, and the rest continued to follow the Japanese, and the timing of the move was when Beiyang would be able to take Tianjin, when the time came, the west, the south and Tianjin, besieged on three sides, and on the other side, the Bohai Bay, always so that Japan had nowhere to escape.

In the First Battle of Qingdao and the First Battle of Shandong, the Japanese were beaten very badly, and almost lost a million troops in the two wars, especially for the first time, the loss of the standing division was unacceptable to Japan. Therefore, the Japanese attach great importance to every move of the Northwest, because the Northwest gives them powerful damage, and they regard the Northwest as an enemy of the same level, or even higher.

But for Beiyang, the Japanese don't look at it very much, only 75 guns of Beiyang, even the previous Japanese are not opponents, not to mention that now, a large number of Japan, which has received a large number of US military equipment, when Beiyang came to the news, ready to attack the northwest with Japan, the Japanese believed.

In the past, Japan's best idea was to contact Beiyang and the revolutionary party, and then contact Russia, and the four parties joined forces to carve up the northwest, and after the wealth and technology of the northwest were really achieved, Beiyang and the revolutionary party would not be a meal on the plate.

It's a pity that no matter how to contact, Beiyang did not respond, this is not a big deal in the eyes of the Japanese, he didn't even think at all, Beiyang joined the northwest side, in his opinion, Yuan Shikai's desire to control is extremely strong, such a character, it is impossible to be subservient, Beiyang's avoidance of war, in the eyes of the Japanese, may be the result of Beiyang being too close to the northwest.

Geographically, Zhangjiakou, the farthest point in the northwest control area, is only a few hundred kilometers away from Beiyang's Beijing, and according to the marching speed of the Northwest Army, if you go all out, perhaps within a week, you can hit Beijing, Japan's minister in Beijing, bitter words, what lips are cold, coercion and temptation, what should be, what should not be told to Beiyang, but Beiyang is stunned that oil and salt do not enter.

There was no way, the Japanese had no choice but to contact the most ardent revolutionary party, although the organizational structure of the revolutionary party was a little poor, but there were so many people, no matter how much the army of 3 million people piled up, it was quite scary.

Now, Japan was defeated in Shandong, but Beiyang was pasted, the Japanese did not expect that Beiyang was pretending, but they just thought that the fate of the revolutionary party and the defeat of the Japanese made Beiyang see the crisis, and if they did not fight back, I am afraid that the territory would not be theirs, so they posted it, no matter how Beiyang said, it was the army recognized by all countries, and it was a level stronger than the revolutionary party, and his participation greatly relieved the pressure on Japan. (To be continued.) )