At this time, Yuan Shikai once again seized the opportunity and said: "The queen mother is angry, and the old minister has no intention of raising the morale of others to destroy his own prestige. www.biquge.info It's just that Fengtian City is too important to the imperial court, and there must be no accidents. ”

"As long as the imperial army reoccupies Fengtian City, the insults suffered by the imperial court to the Liaodong army may be taken back at any time.

At this time, an important minister who didn't deal with Yuan Shikai suddenly spoke: "The Queen Mother thinks twice, the minister thinks that Lord Yuan is a little too worried!" If he does what he says, the relationship between the Liaodong Army and the imperial court will become worse and worse, and even move towards a confrontational situation. “

"Judging from what the Liaodong Army has done since its formation, the Liaodong Army still has great respect for the imperial court. Lao Chen believes that as long as the Queen Mother makes a holy decree, Lao Chen believes that the Liaodong Army will definitely be ordered to let the Japanese army leave Fengtian! “

Yuan Shikai retorted-for-tat: "No, you are gambling with the face of the court and the queen mother, you have lost the bet, the Liaodong army does not obey the order, where to put the face of the court and the queen mother!" ”

"No matter what the attitude of the Liaodong Army towards the imperial court is, whether it will be ordered or not, in order to ensure that the imperial court smoothly takes over Fengtian City and ensure that the Queen Mother is not disgraced, we must give the Liaodong Army enough benefits to force the Liaodong Army to accept the imperial decree and let the Japanese army leave Fengtian City."

"You're using strong words!" The minister who had just spoken, blushing and continuing to Yuan Shikai with a thick neck.

At this time, Cixi, who had been gloomy face, finally spoke: "Shut up the mourning family!" The mourning family also believes that the Liaodong Army will not do anything rebellious! But what Lord Yuan said is also right, the court and the mourning family can't afford to lose face, so we must be cautious in dealing with this matter to ensure that there will be no mistakes in the middle. ”

Every minister who can come to this hall is extremely smart. As soon as Cixi's words came out, they understood that Yuan Shikai had won the game in front of them.

Sure enough, before more than a dozen ministers could speak, Cixi decided in her old voice: "Spread the decree, reward Yang Xingguo, the commander of the Liaodong Army, as the general of Liaodong, the imperial court is a third-grade general, and the Liaodong Army is officially named the Liaodong Army. ”

"Before the Liaodong Army accepted the reorganization of the imperial court and the military salaries were issued by the imperial court, the government affairs of all the counties occupied by the Liaodong Army were all managed by the Liaodong Army, and the taxes collected were used as the salaries of the Liaodong Army!"

"Finally, tell Yang Xingguo about the negotiation conditions between Japan and the imperial court, and ask Yang Xingguo to unconditionally send the Japanese troops stationed in Mukden through their defense area!"

Fengcheng, which had been occupied by the Liaodong Army for five days, was no longer able to see a single Japanese army in Fengcheng as the main forces of the Japanese army retreated one after another.

At this moment, Fengcheng has turned into a huge military camp.

In addition to the more than 6,000 Liaodong Army that captured Fengcheng at the beginning, the next two regiments of the guard division and nearly 4,000 Liaodong Army elites were entered.

Yang Xingguo, commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, in order to know more directly the gains of the Liaodong Army's anti-encirclement and suppression operations.

There is no doubt that the headquarters was also moved to Fengcheng City, which was full of all kinds of supplies, weapons and ammunition.

Chief of Staff Sun Liechen, looking at the materials and ammunition all over the city, also took over the heavy task of personally counting the seizures because he was happy.

Because there were too many materials hoarded in Fengcheng, it was not until now that Sun Liechen counted all the materials.

Not only that, but the gains of the pursuing troops on the battlefield were all turned into data and collected into Sun Liechen's hands.

"Commander, the materials hoarded by the Japanese army in Fengcheng are divided into three categories: weapons and ammunition, food, and military uniforms!"

"The grain is the amount of 100,000 troops for three months, and it should be 450,000 taels in silver!"

"All the uniforms were prepared by the Japanese army for the coming winter, a total of 130,000 sets!"

"The rest is weapons and ammunition, which are very large, but not very useful to us."

"There are only more than 12,000 heavy artillery shells when they are fully loaded, but in this anti-encirclement and suppression operation, we have used up more than 18,000 shells, and the capture cannot make up for the losses at all!"

"The heavy machine gun bullets that can be used are slightly better, and there are more than 600,000 rounds captured on the battlefield. In this anti-encirclement and suppression operation, we used more than 300,000 rounds. After replenishing the attrition, there are still nearly 300,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition left.

"As for the light machine gun bullets that can be used, they are the same as artillery shells, and capture cannot make up for the loss."

"Because the Japanese army is equipped with a small number of light machine guns, there are not many ammunition reserves!"

"The second is grenades, perhaps because grenades are too cheap, we have captured 150,000 of them in Fengcheng. Together with the Japanese captured on the battlefield, there are more than 250,000 pieces. ”

"Finally, there are rifles and bullets that are basically useless to us. Rifles were basically not captured in Fengcheng, but on the battlefield, we captured more than 80,000 rifles. ”

"There weren't many bullets captured on the battlefield, only six or seven hundred thousand. But in Fengcheng's arsenal, we have captured more than 18.5 million! ”

Yang Xingguo had already expected this result.

In later generations, the Eighth Route Army began to fight bayonets after three shots on the battlefield, and such a cost-saving way of fighting could not guarantee the subsequent development of the troops by relying on the war to nourish the war, not to mention the Liaodong Army's fighting style of not remembering the consumption of ammunition on the battlefield.

After frowning and thinking about it, Yang Xingguo immediately asked, "What about heavy weapons?" In this battle, whether it was a heavy artillery division, a field artillery regiment or a mountain artillery battalion, we suffered heavy losses. If the capture does not compensate for the losses, then our artillery units will have to be reduced! ”

"It's really going to be downsized!" Sun Liechen replied helplessly.

"In addition to capturing a lot of artillery at the beginning, in the next breakthrough battle of the Japanese army, they may know that the artillery will not be able to get it back if it is lost. When they abandoned the artillery, they all blew up the artillery, and many heavy machine guns were blown up before being discarded by the Japanese. “

"If nothing else, the heavy artillery division will be reduced from the current six regiments to four!"

"The establishment of field artillery regiments of each division should also be reduced to a small artillery regiment of thirty-six field guns!"

"The mountain artillery battalion will also be reduced from the current eighteen to twelve!"

"Light and heavy machine guns cannot make up for the losses because of capture, and the number of equipment must be reduced without outsourcing."

"I roughly calculated, according to the current size of the army and the number of light and heavy machine guns, a battalion can only be equipped with three heavy machine guns in a heavy machine gun platoon, and a company can be equipped with three light machine guns in a light machine gun squad."

Yang Xingguo frowned and said: "As the old saying goes, if you kill a thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred. “

"After this battle, my Liaodong Army is broken!"

"As for the purchased weapons, don't think about it for the time being. Not surprisingly, after this battle, the finances of our Liaodong Army should also be about to go bankrupt! ”

9 (To be continued.) )