Faced with Chen Jingyun's questioning, Shen Gang explained: "This is just a conservative estimate made by the Operations Division, on the one hand, because Zhu Rui's more than 30,000 people have experience in large-scale battles with Beiyang, plus other miscellaneous words, it is estimated that there are more than 50,000 potential enemy troops in northern Zhejiang. However, our army now has only more than 9,000 people in one division, and it has no experience in large-scale operations for a long time, and it is estimated that a large number of mortars attached to it have not yet been equipped, and there has always been a lack of training. According to the consultant's prediction, according to the current training intensity and equipment level of our army, although it is stronger than that of several other provinces, it is still not up to the level of the Beiyang Army. With one division as the main attack, one division cooperating, and investing about 15,000 people to be able to deal with the enemy's 50,000 people is already very optimistic, if you want to completely defeat Zhu Rui and other miscellaneous armies, then you need about three divisions. ”

Hearing such an explanation, Chen Jingyun's face was slightly relieved. Based on three divisions, that is, about 28,000 people, if such a force can completely defeat the opponent's troops of about 50,000 people, then it can be said that it has already exceeded the level of ordinary warlord troops.

Combat experience and training are not very easy to say, but in terms of equipment alone, no one in the domestic army can compare with the national army except for the Beiyang Army, not to mention that the national army now has only five main divisions, and the number of the national national army is only about 55,000 people, for example, in other provinces, it is much less, but the firepower density of the national army is incomparable with other southern armies.

For example, artillery, Huang Xing collected the elite near Nanjing and formed the Eighth Division, although the artillery has a standard 54 guns, but most of the departments are domestic 57 mm mountain artillery, the army of other provinces can have artillery, it is good, Zhu Rui's second division of more than 30,000 people is only equipped with two battalions of more than 30 guns. Originally, a town in Longjiguang was also full of 54 cannons, but after the expansion of his troops, there were more people and more cannons, but there were not many cannons, so there were about 20 cannons in the 10,000-strong troops.

As for the Nationalist Army, at present, the artillery is 36 guns per regiment, and all of them are 75-millimeter guns, and this kind of firepower configuration is only weaker than Beiyang in the country, but the Nationalist Army is installing a large number of mortars, and these support artillery below the regimental level will greatly strengthen the firepower of the Nationalist Army. In addition, we must also take into account the issue of numbers, a division of the Nationalist Army is only 9,000 people at full strength, but a division in Beiyang is full of about 13,000, if it is distributed to the per capita, the artillery density of the Nationalist Army is not weaker than that of the Beiyang Army.

As for the light and heavy machine guns, the country also installed heavy machine guns in Beiyang on a large scale, before the war was a division of 24, and later the development of heavy machine guns played a major role in the operation, Yuan Shikai urgently ordered a large number of heavy machine guns from foreign countries, but now the Beiyang side is also expanding the army, so the heavy machine guns of each division for a while and a half are estimated to be twenty or thirty like this, as for the southern army, not to mention, occasionally a few divisions are equipped with heavy machine guns, but at present there is no scale. In the case of light machine guns, the army on the Guangzhou side has a small amount of equipment, and the other armies have not yet been equipped on a large scale for the time being.

There are not many grenades equipped in the domestic army, and only the national army is equipped on a large scale.

Mortars, the National Army is the only one in the world, there is no other semicolon!

On the whole, the equipment of the Nationalist Army is much stronger than that of Zhu Rui's Second Division, but on paper, the Nationalist Army has not fought much large-scale war since its founding, so it is difficult to predict the judgment of actual combat effectiveness. According to the training level and equipment level of the national army, the military adviser judged that the national army was only equivalent to about 70 percent of the combat strength of the Beiyang Army, and the staff officers and generals of the national army planned according to this ratio when drawing up combat plans.

As for whether it can really be fought, we have to talk about it later.

Even Chen Jingyun himself has no bottom in his heart, anyway, he has spent tens of millions of dollars to build this army, and if he can fight, that's it, and if he can't, that's it. After all, he is not an immortal, and he can't just open his mouth and turn his troops into heavenly soldiers and gods.

Chen Jingyun tapped lightly on the table with his left hand, pondered for a long time before he said, "What is the situation on the Sixth Division now?" ”

Feng Qin replied: "Now the Sixth Division is still in Wenzhou, and two days ago the General Staff issued an official document asking them to raise their vigilance!" ”

The Sixth Division was just a garrison division, and Chen Jingyun didn't plan to let the Sixth Division go to the front, so he said: "The General Staff will send a telegram to the Sixth Division to let the headquarters of the Sixth Division approach to the north!" ”

This arrangement was intended to allow the 6th Division to be reinforced in time to replenish the battle losses on the front.

After saying that, he set his eyes on Chen Kui and Zhuang Dafu, but he didn't say anything to Chen Kui or Zhuang Dafu, but turned to Feng Qin and said, "I don't know how our army is shipping?" Can you transport a division from the sea to Shaoxing and Ningbo! ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun suddenly talk about shipping, Feng Qin was also slightly stunned, and then he himself looked at his subordinate, the director of the Department of Transportation, the director of the Department of Transportation, who was a little old, and immediately took the initiative to answer: "Because we have never had a navy here, and we have not considered the possible threat of the fleet in Shanghai, so we have not considered the shipping plan, so I am afraid that this large-scale shipping will take a lot of time to prepare." ”

Chen Jingyun is also very clear about Fujian's maritime power, and he has a few old gunboats under his hands, and it is estimated that they can capsize when they go to sea. Alas, now everyone talks about the navy and talks about Fujian, and when they talk about the navy, they talk about Fujian, but it is ridiculous that the national army, which is Fujian itself, does not even have a single warship, let alone destroyers, cruisers, and the like, and even the only three gunboats are old goods from decades ago.

The reason for this situation is that, on the one hand, because during the Xinhai Revolution, the navy either defected to Beiyang or Nanjing, anyway, no one came to take refuge with him Chen Jingyun, and after Nanjing's temporary political axe fell apart, the navy naturally belonged to Yanjing. In fact, taking a step back, even if those Fujian naval generals in the navy belong to Fujian with a large number of warships because they love their hometown, it is estimated that Chen Jingyun will have to die of worry, why, there is no money to raise it, and besides, if you have money, you will not support the navy. I heard that the group of admirals went in and out of Nanjing and Yanjing all day long in order to raise military expenses, but they were still miserable, and the warships could not even afford good coal.

If you can't do it by sea, you have to go by land, but then you have more time to go.

Chen Jingyun thought for a while and said: "Since large-scale shipping is not possible, then we will not go to a division, in this way, Lin Chengkun, transfer an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion, and a machine gun company from your guard division to form a reinforced regiment." Immediately go to Shaoxing by sea! ”

When he said this, he looked at the director of the transportation department: "Give you two days to prepare the relevant matters, if you can't do it, you won't have to see me, just resign!" ”

As soon as Chen Jingyun said this, the director of the Department of Transportation blushed and immediately stood up: "Don't worry, the governor will definitely do it!" ”

It is very difficult to transport a division, but if you only transport a regiment, you can do it in a short time by directly asking a foreign ship to ship it.

Chen Jingyun wants to reinforce Zhejiang, but so far it is unclear what Chen Jingyun is going to do in Zhejiang, whether it is a big march or just to strengthen the defense.

Facing everyone's doubts, Chen Jingyun said: "In the current situation, it is not appropriate to rush into the army, but we can't let Zhu Rui enter Hangzhou without seeing it!" ”

Since Chen Jingyun said so, then this military meeting will not be over, and Chen Jingyun's decision was quickly reported to the Shaoxing side.

Jiang Fangzhen, who was waiting for news in Shaoxing, learned that Chen Jingyun refused to enter Zhejiang, so he immediately left Shaoxing and rushed to Fuzhou, preparing to meet Chen Jingyun in person.

The next day, I don't know who revealed the news, almost a day later, the upper echelons of Zhejiang knew the news that Jiang Fangzhen went to Shaoxing to ask for reinforcements, and almost in the afternoon of the same day, several local officers in Zhejiang asked to see Jiang Zungui, saying that Jiang Zunzhen should be cautious and not lead the wolf into the house.

Faced with such words, Chen Yi snorted: "The entire southern part of Zhejiang has been occupied by Chen Jingyun, are you afraid of luring wolves into the house?" Besides, Chen Jingyun is a member of our alliance, Mr. Sun and Mr. Huang have both publicly praised him, and the national army under him is also a revolutionary army, so what's the harm in coming to Zhejiang? Could it be that someone really regards Zhejiang as his personal property? ”

Chen Yi scolded Zhu Rui directly with such unkind words.

That night, several officers under Zhu Rui also came to see him, and they all said: "He, Jiang Zungui, wants to invite the Fujian army to Hangzhou, and there is still a way for me to live in the future?" ”

"That is, with the National Army in the future, he Jiang Zunwei will be even more unpopular!"

"According to what I said, it's not good to talk about it now, this Jiang Zunwei is just a stone in the pit, smelly and hard. What are you polite to him, as long as the commander you say a word, my second tiger's body will be freed, and I will personally lead the headquarters to attack the city and shoot Jiang Zungui's guy! ”

Seeing that the generals under his command were talking more and more, Zhu Rui had a gloomy face and did not speak.

Zhu Rui is different from the generals under his command, he has participated in the recovery of Zhejiang, attacked Nanjing, and worked with Zhang Xun in Xuzhou several times, in just a few months, Zhu Rui has grown from a middle-level officer to a standard warlord. Thinking that his vision was different, he also noticed that the Nationalist Army in Fujian was different from other troops, and it was better than the reinforcements from the provinces he had seen before.

At least so far, Zhu Rui has not heard of any bad deeds of the National Army, and Zhu Rui does not understand this kind of thing. In these years, there are only two kinds of troops who do not make trouble, one is to have sufficient military salaries to support, and the other is to let his subordinates rob and rob. Zhu Rui didn't understand that with that bird place in Fujian, he could also raise seven divisions? Even if these seven divisions are all in their early 10,000s, it is still 70,000 or 80,000. Where did he Chen Jingyun get so much money to support?