Strong military momentum, strong confidence, replaced a few months ago, Yuan Shikai expanded the army is still sneaky, in fact, after annexing the entire Northeast, Hebei, Shandong and Henan armies, the amount of the Beiyang Army swelled to 250,000, these guns, after the replacement of the old six towns, the rest of the supplement to the new 12 mixed associations. \

The old six towns, now expanded to 150,000 people, basically each town is 25,000 to 30,000 people, is worthy of the name of the strong soldiers, the rest of the mixed association, it is much simpler, basically ordinary infantry association plus some machine guns and artillery, each association is more than 8,000 people, in terms of strength, and the town can not be compared, but it is also more perfect and strong than the ordinary new army.

Like the Beiyang Army, the mixed association is equipped with Baotou, the committee 1888, as for the guns that were replaced, they were not wasted, and they were directly given to the militia groups in various places.

Mixed into the Concord militia group, will be stationed in various places, to help the Beiyang Army stabilize all places, only really control the localities, there is a steady stream of resources to buy arms, the original six towns, used as mobile troops, now one, two, three, four, almost all stationed in Henan and Shandong, once there is an order, will be overwhelming, rushing to Hubei and Anhui, facing the revolutionary party, unified the world.

It is estimated that the Beiyang Army has already been arranged, and those revolutionary parties are still in the process of fighting for power and profit, and few of them have even seen that the current lack of armament seems to be insufficient, and it seems that there are quite a few new troops in various places, and the total number of people is also hundreds of thousands, but how many people can really come in handy.

Turban. Every day, information about Beiyang and the revolutionary party was gathered at the General Headquarters for the first time. Regarding Yuan Shikai's movements, there is information from all sides. All kinds of information, after the aggregation of the General Staff, has formed a unified resolution, and all the messages, without exception, point to the south.

Now Beiyang has basically stabilized its territory, the strongest six towns have begun to dispatch, and the third town has begun to enter Anhui, accompanied by the fourth and fifth towns. They are all the best among the six towns in Beiyang, as long as Yuan Shikai gives an order, the army of nearly 80,000 in the three towns will directly wave the army south, sweeping the entire Jiangnan, and the revolutionary party will not be able to resist it at all.

It was a new day, and in the war room, the flags of the Beiyang Army had been posted on the sand table little by little, and the staff officer in charge of the commentary also sighed and said: "I really don't know the revolutionary party in the south. In the end, there is no military common sense, the fourth town in Hubei has already passed Wuhan, and they are among all the Beiyang troops going south. The fastest speed, because of the relationship between the Beijing-Guangzhou line, enters the territory of Anhui. It is less than 150 kilometers away from Hefei, three days at most. The soldiers will cross Hefei. ”

A few of them in the war room couldn't help but have a wry smile on their faces. The fire burned the eyebrows, the Beiyang Army came with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, Hefei will definitely not be able to resist Duan Qirui's footsteps, as long as Hefei is a moment, the entire south will be shaken, and when the time comes, the revolutionary party will definitely be in a hurry.

"By the way, I heard that Sun Yat-sen didn't buy arms from the Japanese, do you want us to get in touch." Jiang Baili said that as one of the few high-ranking military leaders who had a clear strategy for the northwest, Jiang Baili had heard Sun Yat-sen's name, but he was not very interested in his set, and took the initiative to mention it.

Others also looked at Yang Yuanzhao, they all knew Yang Yuanzhao's purpose, but in the northwest, he didn't have much friendship with Sun Yat-sen, so he went rashly, he was afraid that it would be self-defeating, but now his eyebrows are burning, and it is a bit hypocritical to think about it so much.

Yang Yuanzhao is also a little embarrassed, does he really need this, he has many channels, and he can even talk to Sun Yat-sen and others directly, but if he says this, will the other party pay attention?

The sound of knocking on the door from outside the door, because it was just a study of the situation in the south, was not a secret, but what could be found at this time must be urgent, everyone looked at Yang Yuanzhao, Yang Yuanzhao nodded and said, "Come in!" ”

The one who came in was a young man in a straight military uniform, he was from the information group, in charge of the radio station, holding a record book, and said in a straight voice: "President, leaders, I have received an urgent report that Huang Xing has arrived in the northwest. ”

"Huang Xing is here!" Yang Yuanzhao's eyes lit up, Huang Xing, he is the second only person to Sun Yat-sen in the Alliance, in historical facts, he was the commander-in-chief of the Beiyang Army in Wuhan, but he lost the battle at that time and was driven straight into by the commander of the Beiyang Army.

But now, Huang Xing is considered to be in the alliance, he is more military-minded, and he is currently in charge of the entire military command, so he can be said to be the first person in the military.

"Is there anything else in the report? Do you know why he came to Baotou? ”

"According to the intelligence, I knew about the transaction between the Beiyang Army and Baotou and came to buy arms."

Finally came, everyone at the scene, including Yang Yuanzhao, breathed a sigh of relief, no need to rush to the door, Yang Yuanzhao thought for a while and said, "Continue monitoring!" ”

Huang Xing just entered the northwest range, with Baotou pervasive network, Huang Xing's every move could not escape, and did not directly enter Baotou, Yang Yuanzhao thought about it, and said to Liu Shu: "Brother Zelin, you receive him, I won't go to see him!" Pay attention to proportion, the south is already worse than the north, and the weapons can make a part of the profit, and even lower than the price of Mr. Jingjiang before, so that they can buy more equipment. ”

Yang Yuanzhao said that the profit, that is, to let the profit to a certain Cheng dù, one or two percent, that is to say, the original 25 yuan rifle, can make a profit to about 20 yuan, this is a huge drop, one or two is not inconspicuous, when the number is 10,000, the profit is tens of thousands, the unit of silver dollars, don't look at the tens of thousands, converted into ordinary rice and flour grains and the like, enough for many families to live for a year, this number, is very moving.

Liu Shu wanted to say something, but he saw Yang Yuanzhao's firm gaze, and after thinking about it, he didn't say anything more, weapons or something, the cost of Baotou is extremely low, especially the committee 1888, after having the production of machine tools and assembly lines, the price of a single committee 1888 will not exceed 7 yuan, which is still the result of Baotou's extremely high wages and labor costs occupying a certain share of them, and the simple material cost is even lower.

It can be seen that the windfall profits of arms, even in the United States, Britain and Germany, are still the same, but most of the profits are occupied by taxes and others.

Huang Xing did not come to Baotou alone, accompanied by a huge team, saying that the revolutionary party was busy fighting for power and profit, and some wronged them, they had to earn, the organization of the revolutionary party was the alliance, which was a relatively loose alliance, and the relationship was complicated, there were many elders, and there was no clear commander, so the fight was more fierce, but now the Beiyang Army was pressing, even if they were caught in the struggle for power and profit, they also knew that at this critical moment, weapons were the only way to protect them.

Sun Yat-sen has contacted Japan with weapons, but the Japanese pretended to be confused, and the arms they promised to support before are now avoiding talking about it, obviously, the Japanese also want China to be chaotic, because the strength has been hit by a huge blow, and they dare not disobey the joint resolution of Britain, France and Russia, and now Zhu Erdian, headed by the British, has established that Yuan Shikai is the one who is being fostered, and the future ruler of China must be the military group of Beiyang, Japan has a close relationship with the Alliance, but it can only support a small amount of arms, as for the rest, Need real money to buy, normal business activities, no problem.

That's right, the revolutionary party didn't think so much, they just thought that this might be a practical phenomenon, they didn't think that this was the Japanese wanted to make a big profit, the new army in the south, at least 10 divisions of equipment, even if half of it was eaten, there were millions or even tens of millions, and this money could make up for Japan's previous losses in China.

In fact, they almost succeeded, Sun Yat-sen was already ready to take out a part of the funds for the purchase of arms, and got a news from within Beiyang that the northwest was providing Beiyang arms, and the price was extremely low, which was the fundamental reason for the great increase in Beiyang's strength.

The revolutionary party knew about the northwest, and Sun Yat-sen also knew, but those were only hearsay and what they saw in the newspapers, many things of the Chinese were somewhat exaggerated, the railway may be carried out with the support of the great powers, blocking the Beiyang Army, maybe it is only geographically, they do not believe very much, the northwest has the ability to produce munitions, just take him as a rumor, passed.

However, in a routine consultation, I unexpectedly got a message from Zhang Jingjiang that in the previous three years, the special funds provided by Zhang Jingjiang to the League came from the arms business of Germany and the United States, and most of them were produced in the northwest, and the military training plan was also thanks to Yang Yuanzhao's suggestion.

Yang Yuanzhao and Zhang Jingjiang can be regarded as having a friendship, no matter what the future development is, what he promised Zhang Jingjiang before has always been fulfilled, the arms business, about 800,000 yuan per year, the military training plan, for the League to train a group of officers with military literacy, these officers and the League under the propaganda offensive, the League easily occupied Nanjing, and now controls Jiangsu, other places also echo, forming a revolutionary tide.

Not to mention that Huang Xing came to the northwest and saw the strength of the northwest, according to Zhang Jingjiang's guidance and the help of some fellow villagers who came to the northwest, they found the Northwest Chamber of Commerce by the way, and thought they would be warmly welcomed, but unfortunately it was just a young scholar who met them, but they did not see Yang Yuanzhao. (To be continued......) R527