Chapter 13 Beiyang Opportunities

Wang Shizhen, the dragon of the North Ocean, was reprimanded at the exit, even Xu Shuzheng didn't dare to contradict it, so he had to look at Duan Qirui for help. Duan Qirui didn't seem to see it, he just held the teacup and sipped it there, not knowing what he was planning.

Wang Shizhen saw that Duan Qirui gave himself face and didn't speak, and his face eased, unlike Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, he, the dragon of the Beiyang, has no strength, and naturally he doesn't have so many small abacus, so he thinks about the problem completely from the standpoint of the Beiyang system. He also read "Participating in the War and Saving the Country" when he was idle, although he was suspected of talking on paper, but he was really helping Beiyang make suggestions! The starting point is always good, so his impression of Chang Ruiqing and others who proposed this book is actually not bad, after all, these years are all against Beiyang or digging the corners of Beiyang, how many people really want to help Beiyang?

Zhang Xun on the other side didn't speak, what was "Participating in the War to Save the Country", Zhang Pigtail had never heard of it at all. But it's not a good thing to think about! Eh, whenever it comes to saving the country or something, Zhun Bao is not a good person, doesn't the Kuomintang just hang this set of rhetoric on his lips every day? However, Xiao Xu is Duan Qirui's heart after all, and it is better not to be guilty or not, so he is also drinking tea there.

The room was extremely quiet, and after a long time, I heard Duan Qirui cough, nodded at Wang Shizhen, and said with a wry smile: "No, this prime minister doesn't know what the national situation of our China has reached, and the slightest hope for self-improvement has been sealed by the great powers with various treaties, that is, now this European war has given us a chance in Beiyang to open a hole." Saying that, he sneered: "This international matter, over the years, I can understand it, in the final analysis, it is harder than anyone's fist!" And isn't this fist the army? If we in Beiyang can train millions of elite soldiers in the name of participating in the European war! Do those foreign powers still dare to do this to us? As for whether we want to send these million elite soldiers to Europe, we can't help those foreigners, right? ”

A trace of hesitation flashed on Wang Shizhen's face, and he slowly asked: "If we go back on our word, can those powers let us go?" ”

Duan Qirui touched his two little mustaches, and said contemptuously: "We won't say no, just find a way to drag it, let's do it!" If you can't delay it, send tens of thousands of people to Europe to deal with it, and in this way, the European war will almost be over. If Germany wins, the British and French powers don't have the strength to come to us again, if Britain, France and Russia win, we have declared war and sent troops, they can't just send troops to crusade because we are sending troops slowly, right? I have heard that Britain and France are all democratic constitutional governments, and they are systems where the people have the final say, and now the people there have regretted it because of this European war, where will they promise the government to fight endlessly? ”

"That's right, but there are also different opinions among the powers!" Wang Shizhen reminded in a deep voice: "I'm afraid that Japan doesn't want us to train millions of elite soldiers by participating in the war, right?" ”

"Hire the old, the key to this is our Beiyang!" It was Xu Shuzheng who took over this question, and he crossed his fingers and calculated for Wang Shizhen: "Although Japan is known as a great power, their national strength cannot be compared with Britain and France after all, especially their navy, don't look at the Japanese defeated us and the Russian fleet in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, but compared to the navy of the British Empire, it is still vulnerable!" After defeating the German forces in the Battle of Jutland from May 31 to June 1, the British Navy had firmly controlled the sea power in the North Sea and had the spare strength to send a fleet to the east. As long as Britain and France decide to let us send a large army to Europe to participate in the war, Japan will not dare to react excessively, and at most it will make some small moves in private.

Therefore, the key to China's participation in the European war this time is not Japan's opposition, but our own Beiyang's own expression! Whether we can unite and support the war is the key to whether Britain and France will support China's participation in the European war! Because as long as Beiyang is united, the central government has the ability to raise and train a real army! We are also worthy of investment in Britain and France. ”

Saying that, Xu Shuzheng hugged Zhang Xun and said sincerely: "Xuan Shuai (Zhang Xunzi Shaoxuan), you are now the leader of the Seven Provinces Alliance and the leader of our Beiyang system overseers, if you can take the lead in announcing your support for the State Council's proposition of declaring war on Germany, our Beiyang system overseers will surely follow, and then the British and French powers will be able to see our determination to participate in the war!" ”

"Yes, Xuan Shuai, the situation of our Beiyang Zhongxing is in your old hands!"

"As long as Xuan Shuai glares at him, it will inevitably be the world's response, who else has such prestige besides Xuan Shuai?"

As soon as Xu Shuzheng's voice fell, several generals of the Beiyang Army in the room also echoed their words, and they all persuaded Zhang Xun to take the lead in supporting the declaration of war against Germany.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xun's expression also turned cold, and he just looked at Duan Qirui coldly. It turned out that this time Duan Qirui invited him and the Overseers to Beijing for a meeting, and he really wanted to use them, the overseers from other provinces, to suppress Beijing's president, Li Yuanhong, and a Kuomintang legislator who specifically disagreed with the State Council system agreed to participate in the war.

He took a deep breath, the expression on his face returned to normal, and he barely squeezed out a smile: "Thank you for looking down on me Zhang, but the affairs in the provincial federations are not something that I can decide in a word, and I still have to listen to opinions." As for the declaration of war on Germany, I still have to think carefully about it, after all, the matter of participating in the war is not a joke. ”

After saying that, he got up and arched his hand at Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, ignored Xu Shuzheng and others, and swaggered out alone.

……

"Brother Tiezhu, has Ling Tang's illness improved?"

Chang Ruiqing was wearing ordinary soldier clothes, with that kind of hypocritical expression of concern on his face, and he was looking at the queue, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old soldier who was grateful, asking something. Several officers of the model battalion followed behind him, secretly admiring their boss's skill of buying people's hearts with small favors!

In the past few days, as long as Chang Ruiqing has worked hard, he has soaked with hundreds of soldiers in the model battalion, really talking to them one by one, and talking to them with a pleasant face, carefully asking about the situation in their homes, and if the other party is really in difficulty, he will immediately donate generously. Just like this little soldier right now, as soon as our Changda battalion commander heard that there was a bedridden Gao Tang in someone's house, he took out a few yuan and asked him to take it home to buy medicine for the old lady to see a doctor.

Of course, Chang Ruiqing still understands the principle of Wei's kindness, don't look at him at this time, he is kind to the soldiers, and he will train later, but he really wants to be faced, and the corporal punishment of the military stick is also merciless! The battalion commander Chang's military salary of four yuan and eight cents a month is not so easy to earn, as well as the food full of white flour and fat!

As for how to train the recruits of this battalion, which has long been regarded as "personal political capital", Chang Ruiqing has spent a lot of thought. In addition to the necessary queue and physical training, Chang Ruiqing attaches the most importance to stabbing and shooting training. Among them, the stabbing training is particularly strict, and there is no way, if you want to practice shooting, you have to rely on bullet feeding, what artillery step coordination, and multi-arm coordination is not that condition. For the current army of the Republic of China, the most reliable thing is the white-knuckle assault!

Therefore, the training of the model battalion in white-knuckle combat was completely in accordance with the set of standards in the Japanese Army's infantry drill code, and all the officers leading the team had to go down to teach the training skills in person. For recruits who fail to pass the stabbing training, it is a military stick that splits the head and covers the face, and you have no negotiation!

Although our battalion commander already thinks of himself as a red revolutionary, in the army, no matter how you look at it, there is still a bit of a reactionary officer's style.

The recruit in front of him, whose nickname is Tiezhu and whose name is Zhang Tiezhu, was naturally fooled by Chang Ruiqing, and patted his chest and said loudly while holding back tears: "Okay, my mother's illness is all cured, and my mother also asked someone to bring a message, asking me to work hard for the battalion commander and help the battalion commander fight the world!" ”

Fastest update, please.