Chapter 164: Lu Rongting's Ambition

Jiangxi's Li Junlie is Sun Wen's die-hard loyalist, and basically he will say whatever Sun Wen says. The governor of Jiangsu is an empty shelf, so don't mention it. Anhui side, the governor Bai Wenwei is a Kuomintang person, Anhui has always been considered one of the Kuomintang's spheres of influence, but the two divisions in Anhui can listen to who I don't know, but at present, Anhui is still Bai Wenwei as the governor, so he obeyed Sun Wen's will and supported Chen Jingyun to send troops to quell the Guangzhou mutiny.

Then Sichuan is still in a mess, and it doesn't care about the outside world and can't care about it, and then Hunan and Hubei have maintained a so-called neutrality, just calling on everyone to refrain and not mess around.

As for Cai Yi and Tang Jirao, their attitudes are a little ambiguous, and they have not expressed their stance much after the Guangzhou incident for many days, and they will say that Chen Jingyun should be restrained and not to disturb the overall situation of national peace, but on the other hand, they say that the political situation in Guangdong should be decided by Guangdong itself, and it is not good for the central government to send Long Jiguang to Guangzhou casually. In fact, Yungui is also its own contradictions, Cai Ye is still worried about the peaceful reunification of the country, and has made several public that he will go north at the beginning of next year, and said that he will resign as the governor of Yunnan, Cai Ye's attitude makes the warlords in the south quite dissatisfied, especially Chen Jingyun. Earlier, Chen Jingyun also admired Cai Jie's plan to resign from the military to meet the peaceful reunification, but now at this time, the domestic situation is becoming more and more tense, and people with a discerning eye know that the Beiyang Army will go south in the near future, but at this juncture, Cai Yi also went to Yanjing to try to make the country peacefully reunified, and I have to say that his idea is very good and naΓ―ve.

Cai Yi himself wants to go north, Chen Jingyun doesn't care much, the key is that Cai Yi controls the Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in his hands, in case Cai Yi goes north, by the way, the territory of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces is also handed over to Beiyang, then the overall situation in the south will be completely ruined, without the containment of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, Chen Jingyun can not resist the full attack of Beiyang only by relying on Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.

Therefore, Chen Jingyun personally sent several private letters to Cai Yi, telling about the risks of Cai Yi going north, and even more saying that if Cai Yi went north, then it would be the time for Beiyang to go south. Seeing that Cai Ye was leaving, Chen Jingyun was also preparing other ways to deal with it, and the easiest thing was to contact Tang Jirao.

Although Tang Jirao, who is now the governor of Guizhou, was nothing before Cai Ye left, but after Cai Ye left, as the second person in the Yunnan military system, it was natural for Tang Jirao to take over the Yunnan army.

Based on this reason, Chen Jingyun has been in contact with Tang Jirao, in order to build a good relationship Chen Jingyun even sent Tang Jirao two thousand miscellaneous rifles, these miscellaneous rifles are part of the national army's inventory of miscellaneous guns, after the national army controlled Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, after the reorganization and defeat of Zhu Rui, a lot of miscellaneous guns were seized, such as said, such as Manlixia, such as Shui Lianzhu and so on. At present, the units of the Nationalist Army are mainly equipped with three types of guns, the 1888 Committee rifle purchased from Germany, the Hanyang-made rifle collected from Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and then the 12-year-old rifle manufactured by the Fuzhou Arsenal. Although these three models are different, the bullets used can all be 79 round bullets, and the 12-year rifle can be 79 round bullets, and 79 pointed bullets can also be used, so it will not cause too much trouble in the logistics of the bullets. As for some miscellaneous guns, in principle, they are no longer used, but now the national army is continuing to expand, although the Fuzhou arsenal started work overnight, but the production of rifles to supply regular field divisions is not enough, where is there a surplus supply of local garrison troops, so some local garrison troops can only be equipped with miscellaneous guns, among which a large number of Manlixia, these two guns are used to equip local garrison troops, but the national army has captured a lot of miscellaneous guns, other models, and even American goods, British goods, France, Italy, Russia have guns, these models of messy guns are extremely troublesome to use, Fuzhou Arsenal is impossible to set up a special bullet production line for these small number of guns, so simply send these miscellaneous guns and the remaining bullets.

Chen Jingyun sent Tang Jirao a firearm to show his goodwill, Tang Jirao was not a fool, so he naturally understood what Chen Jingyun was thinking. As for Tang Jirao himself, he hopes that Cai Yi will go north, because only if Cai Yi goes north, he will be able to control the Yunnan army, and when the time comes, he will be known as Cai Yi in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, and the whole country will pay attention to every move.

To a certain extent, Tang Jirao and Cai Ye have been in a state of slow rupture, and it is the internal contradictions between Yunnan and Guizhou that have made Yunnan and Guizhou provinces have different voices in the Guangzhou Incident.

As for Guangxi, it's a little interesting, Lu Rongting was born as a bandit, it is rumored that the name of the rivers and lakes in the early years was not small, and the marksmanship was also very accurate, but this is an old thing that I don't know how many years, the current Lu Rongting is a standard warlord with an army of 30,000 people, when the three big warlords Yuan Shikai, Chen Jingyun, and Cai Yi unscrupulously expanded their army, he Lu Rongting was not idle, although Guangxi was poor, but he was ruthless. After more than ten years of collecting taxes in the Republic of China, he can still make up a large amount of money to buy ordnance and serve as military salaries.

Although Lu Rongting could also think of expanding the army by more than a dozen divisions and pulling up more than 100,000 troops as casually as Chen Jingyun and Cai Yi, Guangxi was indeed poor, and Lu Rongting only expanded four divisions after a year of looting. However, the establishment of the Gui army is a bit strange, it is said that it is a division, the number is only seven or eight thousand, and it is said that it is a brigade, and the number is too much, so the total number of these four divisions is only more than 30,000 people, and the number is not much stronger than Zhu Rui, who committed suicide after being defeated before, but the Gui army has been recuperating for a year, and has been suppressing bandits in the territory on a large scale, and the training is not bad. At least on the surface, it seems that the combat effectiveness should be okay.

However, Guangxi is not a good place around, Yungui in the west doesn't have to think about it, the Dian army doesn't come to fight him, it's good, and Tan Yanmin in Hunan in the north has no knowledge and can't get along with the revolutionaries, but that person also knows that the Gui army should be guarded, so nearly half of the troops in Hunan are deployed in the Yongzhou area, which is obviously to prevent the Gui army from going north. As for the east, this made Lu Rongting depressed, at the beginning of the year, Yuan Shikai in order to preserve Long Jiguang's strength, Wuzhou was assigned to Long Jiguang, although Lu Rongting at that time made it clear that he was opposed, but at that time Lu Rongting's strength was small, and no one listened to what he said, plus the Gui army had not yet formed an army at that time, and the strength of only two divisions under his command was not even as good as Long Jiguang, so he could only break his teeth and swallow it.

Now that the Gui army has expanded its army to more than 30,000 people in four divisions, Lu Rongting is thinking of a way to recapture Wuzhou. Now that the matter in Guangzhou has happened, Long Jiguang wants to mobilize troops to attack Guangzhou, which almost makes Lu Rongting wake up laughing when he falls asleep. What is this called, this is called a good opportunity from heaven. As long as Long Jiguang transferred a large army to attack Guangzhou, then he, Lu Rongting, would not hesitate to move his army eastward and seize Wuzhou. As for the development of things later, either Long Jiguang couldn't defeat Guangzhou and lost Wuzhou, and his demise was imminent, or Long Jiguang took Guangzhou to control Guangdong, and then formed a hostile relationship with Guangxi.

Lu Rongting was bound to Wuzhou, so as soon as he learned that Long Jiguang's troops were marching to Guangzhou, he also secretly mobilized two divisions of troops to the Wuzhou area, preparing to capture Wuzhou in one fell swoop.

When he secretly dispatched troops, Lu Rongting did not forget Chen Jingyun in Fujian. From now on, Lu Rongting and Chen Jingyun both have a common enemy, Long Jiguang. And if these two people can carry out strategic cooperation, then it is completely possible to completely strangle Long Jiguang under the city of Guangzhou.

For this reason, Lu Rongting sent a secret telegram to Chen Jingyun, and sent his nephew to Fuzhou on a foreign high-speed passenger ship with his handwritten letter, intending to find a strategic cooperation between the two.

When Lu Rongting's nephew was still on a passenger ship at sea, Chen Jingyun had already received a secret telegram from Lu Rongting.

"I didn't expect this Lu Rongting to still have a lot of ambitions!" Feng Qin looked at the telegram in his hand and sighed a little: "Before, we focused on Dian Jun and Cai Yi, so that we neglected this person. If we had contacted him earlier, perhaps with Gui Jun's containment, Long Jiguang would not have been able to get out of Wuzhou at all! ”

Chen Jingyun said: "How could he, Lu Rongting, contain Long Jiguang, what he wants is for Long Jiguang to leave Wuzhou, otherwise if Long Jiguang's main force stays in Wuzhou, how can he recapture Wuzhou!" ”

Feng Qin smiled when he heard this: "It seems that I want to be bad." But Commander, what about Lu Rongting's suggestion, can we accept it? ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Why don't you accept it, he Lu Rongting wants Wuzhou, and our National Army wants Guangzhou, which is not a target of conflict." At least for now, we have no conflict of interest with Lu Rongting, and we can be good partners! ”

Chen Jingyun read the message carefully again and said: "You use my name to send a secret telegram back to Lu Rongting, saying that cooperation is okay, but both sides must show sincerity. After the Gui army seized Wuzhou, it had to continue its eastward march and threaten Long Jiguang's troops from behind. As for the return, we can provide him with guns and ammunition, and even military expenses! ”

Since the troops on the Guangdong side are insufficient, then please send reinforcements. In these days, there are many ways to do it, and it is not limited to one city and one place.

"He Chen Jingyun is so generous!" After Lu Rongting received Chen Jingyun's reply, his smile was more than joyful: "With 3,000 guns and 100,000 yuan in military expenses, he Chen Jingyun is rich!" ”

"Zhejiang is a rich province, and it is close to Shanghai, and it is rumored that the bonds of the National Army are very easy to sell in Shanghai, so it is strange that Chen Jingyun has no money." Tan Haoming also said: "If we had so much money, we would have pulled up an army of more than 100,000 a long time ago." ”

Lu Rongting also said: "If we really have so much money and hundreds of thousands of troops, President Yuan Da in the north also has to guard against Chen Jingyun and Cai Yi, and he has to guard against us every day!" ”

"It's not a good ......thing to be valued by the north," Tan Haoming quipped

Lu Rongting laughed out loud after hearing this.