All of a sudden, everyone's eyes on Yang Xingguo were different. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because, Cixi's words directly told everyone that Yang Xingguo was trusted by him again and became a loyal minister in her eyes.

You must know that the general army plus the patrol of the government, to put it more directly, is to get on the horse to manage the army, and get off the horse to manage the people.

If it weren't for the fact that Liaodong was too small and didn't have much population, Yang Xingguo would be a local prince like the governor of Lianghu, holding the military and political power of Liaodong and becoming a veritable king of Liaodong.

At the end of the court, many people came to congratulate Yang Xingguo on how he was reused, and he will definitely have a bright future in the future. Even if he bought 20,000 rifles from Yang Xingguo at a very cheap price, Yuan Shikai still had a gloomy face, with a few henchmen, and left in a hurry as soon as the court meeting was over.

As soon as he returned to his yamen, Yuan Shikai told his staff what happened in the court.

Soon, one of the staff members affirmed to Yuan Shikai: "My lord, the lower officials are sure, this Yang Xingguo is definitely an ambitious person. Not surprisingly, this Yang Xingguo will definitely become the biggest enemy of our Beiyang New Army in the future! ”

"Xia Guan thinks so too! didn't get rid of him this time, with the strength that Yang Xingguo has exposed in the past few years, it will definitely be very difficult to suppress him and eliminate him in the future! Another staff member agreed.

Yuan Shikai, who was already in a bad mood when he came down from the court meeting, was even worse when he heard these words.

frowned, and said very dissatisfied to a few staff: "What I want is a solution, not your afterthought!" ”

A staff member who did not speak hurriedly replied: "Before there is no evidence that can suppress Yang Xingguo, it is almost impossible to change the Queen Mother's opinion of Yang Xingguo." After all, when Yang Xingguo treated the Queen Mother, he saved money for the Queen Mother and sent weapons to the Queen Mother! To put it more bluntly, the Queen Mother now owes Yang Xingguo a favor, and for a long time, the Queen Mother will miss Yang Xingguo's goodness. Unless the Queen Mother suddenly found out that Yang Xingguo, whom she trusted, had deceived her. “

Yuan Shikai's eyes lit up and said, "I understand! The most important reason why Yang Xingguo was able to dispel the Queen Mother's scruples about him was that the Japanese were still living in Lushun. However, this is all Yang Xingguo's words. If we find out that this is fake, then the Queen Mother will definitely be furious. ”

"Either way, it's an opportunity for us! Lord Zhang, you immediately send someone to enter Lushun through the Liaodong Military Defense Zone, and see if Lushun has really gathered tens of thousands of Japanese troops and may attack Liaodong at any time! ”

As soon as the staff who had been ordered by himself left, Yuan Shikai continued to order: "As the old saying goes, you have to be hard to strike iron. Regardless of whether the reconnaissance will produce the results we want, only by improving the strength and combat effectiveness of our Beiyang New Army will we not be afraid of anyone. Therefore, our next priority is to train and expand the army! ”

"This time, I brought back 20,000 rifles, and at the same time, with the permission of the imperial court, the Beiyang New Army expanded by two more towns, reaching the size of five towns. After you go down, you must perform your own duties, and within two months, the two towns of the newly expanded army will reach full strength! ”

After the court meeting, Yang Xingguo also returned to the house he had temporarily purchased in the city.

It is certain that today's thrilling court meeting will benefit the most. It not only solved the crisis of confidence in the Liaodong Army of the imperial court, but also bought a lot of time for the development of the Liaodong Army. also got the silver urgently needed by the Liaodong Army from the imperial court and an official position that he could better control Liaodong, which can be described as a full harvest.

However, Yang Xingguo was still not satisfied.

Just when he began to think about how else he could get more out of the capital.

Wang Hong, who rushed to the capital one step ahead of him, appeared in front of Yang Xingguo with a mysterious and solemn expression.

"Commander, according to the deputy commander's explanation, we must focus on Yuan Shikai after we enter Beijing. Our team members lurking in Yuan Shikai's mansion just sent back the news, and as soon as Yuan Shikai returned, he gathered all his staff together to discuss what to secretly discuss? ”

"His carefully planned conspiracy has failed, and the reasons must be summed up well!" Yang Xingguo replied as a matter of course.

Seeing that the worried expression on Wang Hong's face did not weaken in any way, Yang Xingguo continued: "No surprise, they will also discuss how to calculate me next!" ”

"Thinking about it, only the Lushun enemy situation that I reported to the court may become Yuan Shikai's handle to suppress me. However, Liaodong is the territory of my Liaodong Army, even if he personally sends people to Liaodong to investigate, what he sees is what my Liaodong Army wants them to see! ”

"You immediately ask people to go back to Liaodong and tell the deputy commander and chief of staff that there is only one way for us to deal with Yuan Shikai and the imperial court, and to raise Kou and respect himself. As for how to operate it, they will do it themselves! ”

"Also, let the deputy commander and chief of staff count the heavy machine guns and artillery of the whole army!"

"After forming six main divisions, one guard division, and thirty garrison regiments according to the standard of reducing the heavy firepower of the troops, how many heavy machine guns will be left in the whole army!"

"In this anti-encirclement and suppression operation, although we did not capture many intact light and heavy machine guns, we also lost a lot of light and heavy machine guns. However, many damaged heavy machine guns can be repaired and refurbished, so let the deputy commander also give me a count of the refurbished heavy machine guns. ”

The Liaodong Army's own speed of message transmission was definitely faster than that of Yuan Shikai's scouts.

When Zhou Zhongju and Sun Liechen received the news, the scouts sent by Yuan Shikai had just come out of the customs.

"This Yuan Shikai is really not a good thing! Deputy commander, you said, how should we raise our self-respect and deceive Yuan Shikai's scouts. Sun Liechen asked Zhou Zhongju with a dissatisfied face.

Zhou Zhongju thought about it and replied: "According to intelligence, it is a fact that Lushun has gathered nearly 100,000 Japanese troops. For this, we have nothing to fool! ”

"The only thing that needs to be seen by the scouts of the Beiyang New Army is the tension between us and the Japanese army, so that they can see that the Japanese army with heavy troops may attack us at any time!"

Sun Liechen's eyes lit up and replied: "If that's the case, then it's easy to do!" Now it is Li Zhilong's fourth division that is facing off against the Japanese army. As long as I transfer two more divisions over, I will put on a posture of attacking Lushun. The nearly 100,000 Japanese troops stationed in Lushun will definitely get nervous and be ready to fight at any time! ”

"That's it! That's it! Zhou Zhongju affirmed without thinking about it.

As soon as the Liaodong Army moved, the Japanese army also moved. The Japanese troops of three divisions stood in front of the Liaodong Army, with a tense posture.

Because there were a large number of Japanese troops and Liaodong Army scouts active around the battlefield, the people sent by Yuan Shikai could not get close to the battlefield to reconnoitre.

But from a distance, they were still sure that the nearly 100,000 troops on the battlefield were in a tense confrontation, and a battle could break out at any time. (To be continued.) )