The ordinary people had mixed feelings about the fact that Nanjing was occupied by the Northwest Army, but those foreign envoys, especially those from Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, were like a blow to the head, and the envoys of several countries were a little at a loss, and they had just promised the revolutionary party a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and before they could be transported to Nanjing, they would be used to arm these revolutionary party troops, and Nanjing was captured, which was simply a nightmare. What the hell is going on, just after the conditions were negotiated and the support of the revolutionary party was given, Nanjing was captured, is this an April Fool's joke?

In this era, to be able to serve as an envoy in China, you must be familiar with the situation in China, beginning in 1911, the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the strong rise of the northwest, the division of the three worlds, the strength of the three is different, but I don't know whether it is the relationship between the Chinese, or the habit of China, the three forces have a leader, ruling most of the privileges of this force.

Yang Yuanzhao in the northwest, Yuan Shikai in Beiyang, and Sun Dacang in the revolutionary party, according to their calculations, once this leader has problems and cannot control the entire regime, the whole force will be in chaos. Among them, the northwest, where there is relatively little foreign infiltration, may not collapse, the economy is a little more developed, and all aspects are relatively stable, but the revolutionary party and Beiyang, after all, will enter a situation of struggle for power and profit, and at least it will be a crisis to the stability of the regime, and at worst it will collapse.

Now that Nanjing, the capital of the revolutionary party, has been occupied, I don't know how many high-ranking members of the revolutionary party have been captured by the northwest, and if none of them escape, then Britain, France, the United States, and Russia, even if they have more supplies, who can they support, and who and weapons they can support, not everyone will be able to digest.

Even if he runs out, it depends on the status, if Sun Cannon runs out. That's best, for these foreign envoys, Sun Cannon's significance to the revolutionary party is not trivial, as long as it is stabilized anywhere, it can regroup and merge the revolutionary party into a whole. Then their assistance, too, has a direction. But if Sun Cannon didn't run out, a few people such as Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren could do it, but in the worst case, not even a high-level person would run out, in that case, it would be a big trouble.

If they wanted to interfere in southern China, they had to contact the governors everywhere. The division commanders of the army, not to mention whether they can get in touch or not, after all, their previous focus was on the top level, at least the top group of people, and they have no friendship with the bottom, even if they are in contact, the role of decentralized support is not very large. Those greedy local officials will put their support. Most of them are corrupt.

At this point, the envoys who had had simple contact with the revolutionary party and the low-level officers of Beiyang had quite the right to speak, and the corruption at the bottom of these regimes had reached a shocking level, and the money was spent when the time came. If things don't work out, then the gains outweigh the losses.

Nanjing has already been captured, and judging by the speed at which the Northwest Army has captured Nanjing, I am afraid that not many of the top echelons of the revolutionary party have escaped. At this moment, the first thing that came to mind for these diplomatic envoys was to send a telegram to the foreign ministries of various countries to inform them of the situation in Nanjing, and that there were some things that they could not understand at this level and at this time, and if they were handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they would deal with the problem from the perspective of the overall situation, at least it was not their responsibility.

The cable telegrams of the various embassies were cut off yesterday, and they were anxious all night, and after leaving the embassies, consulates, or offices, they went to the place where there was a telegram, and found the telegraph office in Nanjing.

But looking at the door of the British telegraph room is still open, these diplomatic envoys are happy in their hearts first, maybe the northwest, for the situation in Nanjing, the understanding is not perfect, I don't know, there is a small telegraph room here, at this moment, speed is the first, even if this telegraph room is very small, the transmission speed is slow, and even the charge is expensive, no one cares at this moment, the first time to spread the news, is the most important.

However, after seeing the owner of the telegraph room, he found that he was also sad, and after inquiring, he learned that the telegraph here had also been interrupted since last night, and the British telegraph owner even protested against this. It is a pity that the protest is ineffective, the Northwest is not Beiyang, nor is it a revolutionary party, and the Northwest does not have any good attitude towards foreigners at all, and it is worse than ordinary citizens.

There are thousands of reasons you have, in a word, during the war, they were strictly controlled, and all the people were blocked back, these foreigners were anxious, and at this time, under the premise that there was no more way to do it, they directly thought of leaving Nanjing.

On the part of the Third Army, there was no way to prevent these foreigners from leaving the city, and this was already thought about long before the Third Army set off, and from the time of the attack on Nanjing, there was no way to keep secrets, and the huge Nanjing, if you want to pass on the news to the outside world, or to leave a few people, it is too easy, rather than spend more effort on this, it is better to put your efforts on defense, establish a three-dimensional defense for Nanjing, and strive to resist as many revolutionary party troops as possible that may pounce on you.

Since the second half of last night, the follow-up troops took over the city of Nanjing, the first wave of troops, a few hours of rest, although not completely rested, but the construction of fortifications has begun, after Nanjing was taken, those Tibetan locations on the periphery of Nanjing, there is no need to hide, one by one shows an open state, a total of 16 locations, all choose more critical strategic points, based on these permanent reinforced concrete fortifications, build the entire defense network, it will get twice the result with half the effort, The civil engineering that needed to be used required was almost the entire Third Army, and it took more than 10 days of work, and of course, four or five days, to build part of the foundation.

In three days, as long as no more than 500,000 troops did not arrive around Nanjing within three days, when the fortifications were completed, relying on the artillery and munitions left in the past, the Third Army could at least fight with a million or even more troops for more than a month.

In a month, even if the speed of the Northwest Army is slow, it is enough to spread down from Sichuan, Hubei, and even Anhui, as a high-level military officer, Yan Xishan even showed the full strength of the Third Army to the Beiyang, and is qualified to know that Yuan Shikai has deliberately handed over the territory of Beiyang to the Northwest, but it has been delayed because of Japan's actions in Shandong and the actions of the Southern Revolutionary Party.

However, the Japanese army in Tianjin had already begun to move, and with the preparation of the First Army, it would be clear within a month at most, and the follow-up troops in the northwest would pass through Henan, Hubei, and Anhui, and directly attack Hunan and Jiangsu, which were occupied by the revolutionary party.

Foreigners out of the city, destined not to be smooth sailing, originally, located in Nanjing along the Yangtze River, because of the northwest control relationship, can not be used, directly across the river to take the train will not work, in Nanjing the same is not good, they can not even take the carriage out, on foot, may have to go to the nearest town, can be transferred to the carriage, so that if you want to pass the news out, it will take at least 3 days, 3 days, and it is enough for the northwest to make any preparations.

The city of Nanjing is a little chaotic, foreigners and nationals have their own mentality, a variety of beings, and the northwest, the staff headquarters, including Zhang Xiaohuai, have not slept all night, although for Yan Xishan's ability, everyone is quite recognized, and also believe that he is capable, but thousands of miles to attack, direct beheading, after all, is an unprecedented initiative, in the enemy's hinterland, among the countless conditions, even if one condition is not met, or a task is not perfectly executed, it will be a failure.

Therefore, all night, the staff was waiting for news from the front, especially after 12 o'clock, when they heard the news of Sun Cannon's escape, everyone couldn't help but sweat, everyone knew what Sun Dacang represented for the revolutionary party, and the high-level leaders in the northwest were all clear, and Sun Cannon's escape represented a complete failure of the plan.

Fortunately, Yan Xishan made up for his losses and urgently dispatched reconnaissance planes and airborne paratroopers, and finally captured Sun Yat-sen, and the plan to occupy Nanjing was completely completed. After confirming that Nanjing was taken, and Yan Xishan had begun to deploy defenses around Nanjing, the staff headquarters in the northwest could be regarded as a sigh of relief, and a problem was solved, and there was almost no benefit in concealing it, so let's announce it to the outside world.

First announced the battle situation of Wuxi and Zhenjiang, these two battles are like a fake, the huge number of enemy annihilation and the number of prisoners are appalling, people's first reaction to see it, is not to believe, this is not true, but how to say, Wuxi and Zhenjiang, is a node that belongs to the northwest, maybe there is any defense in the node, the northwest has always been known for its strong defense, a few years ago, a war against Russia, is the first to defend, after the defeat of Russia's sharp spirit, this is the successful counterattack.

The victory of the node city is also acceptable, the most terrible is the capture of Nanjing, including Sun Dacang, Huang Xing and other hundreds of revolutionary party military and political high-level, basically captured, which shocked the world, they have asked the envoys in Nanjing, what happened, but unfortunately, so far, Nanjing has not had any answer.

Of course, there can be no reply, at this time the diplomatic envoys, under the obstruction of the Northwest Army, just left Nanjing in a hurry, and are heading to the nearest town, Nanjing is not an ambassadorial-level diplomatic city, at most an office and consulate, there is no military personnel stationed in the martial arts, several ministers are also civilian, the nearest city from Nanjing is almost more than 70 kilometers, if you go on foot, at least one day, maybe two days, at this time, is sweating profusely on the road.

It is estimated that it will take at least a few days for the great powers to get the exact news from Nanjing, and this time difference will not only give the northwest a lot of diplomatic preparation time, but also make the Third Army more secure. (To be continued.) )