Under such circumstances, it was difficult for Chen Jingyun to openly support Hu Hanmin to continue to serve as the governor of Guangdong, but before he could find a suitable candidate to be the governor of Guangdong, Yuan Shikai had already preemptively announced the appointment of Lu Rongting as the governor of Guangdong. As soon as this power came out, the angry Chen Jingyun almost scolded his mother.

"This Yuan Datou, his mind is very ruthless!" Chen Jingyun hated this, but his wife and children did not openly oppose Yuan Shikai's appointment, on the one hand, even if Chen Jingyun objected, Yuan Shikai was unlikely to let the person he supported serve as the governor of Guangdong. On the other hand, if he opposes Lu Rongting as the governor of Guangdong, then it means that the Nationalist Army and the Gui Army will completely turn their faces. This kind of period is what Yuan Shikai wants to see, and it is also what Chen Jingyun does not want to see.

Now the main strength of the national army needs to be used in the direction of northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, and there is not much spare power to be used in the direction of Guangdong, after fighting here in Guangzhou for half a month, the logistics department of the national army has rushed to great pressure, if the war continues to break out in the direction of Guangdong, and it is still a battle with the Gui army with a solid rear, then it will be more than worth the loss, and may even be dragged to death.

In such a situation, Chen Jingyun could only pinch his nose and support Lu Rongting as the governor of Guangdong. However, unexpectedly, although Lu Rongting accepted the appointment of the governor of Guangdong, he said that he was not in good health, so he did not go to Guangzhou to take office, but stayed in Guilin to take office, and at the same time recommended his subordinate Tan Haoming to serve as the governor of Guangxi, and Yuan Shikai approved it very happily.

In fact, Lu Rongting became the governor of Liangguang. It's just that these two governors of Guangzhou are not complete, not only the eastern part of Guangdong is occupied by the Nationalist Army, but even the city of Guangzhou is occupied by the Nationalist Army. Although Guangdong is a large financial province, Guangdong's main financial income is concentrated in the Pearl River Delta, especially in Guangzhou, and the remote western Guangdong region has no oil and water at all.

Not only that, that Long Jiguang didn't know how to escape, and went straight to western Guangdong along the way, although Lu Rongting had a lot of troops under him, but in the face of this small 10,000 like bandits, Long Jiguang's department was also a big headache, and he was already ready to transfer about two divisions of troops to encircle and suppress.

But this Long Jiguang's troops were specially released by Chen Jingyun, and they were originally used to contain Lu Rongting, so as soon as the matter of Guangzhou City was over, Chen Jingyun immediately sent someone to contact Long Jiguang, saying that it was one thing for us to fight in Guangzhou before, and now it is another matter, as long as you contain Lu Rongting, I, Chen Jingyun, will send you guns and ammunition supplies every year, and even send military expenses.

The warlord melee in the early years of the Republic of China was so funny, he was still fighting to the death a few days ago, and in a few days, Long Jiguang immediately didn't care about the things in Guangzhou City, and cooperated with the National Army, as for Yuan Shikai, people didn't care about Long Jiguang.

Long Jiguang, who received the aid of the Nationalist Army, can be regarded as slowly taking root in western Guangdong, and fought several battles with Lu Rongting's troops, with casualties among each other, which is not to be mentioned later.

Let's say that this Guangzhou and Guangdong, because Chen Jingyun is now almost torn with Yuan Shikai, so Chen Jingyun can't take care of too many scruples and the like, and directly took over the power in eastern Guangdong, and then a large number of political axe workers sent by the Fujian military and political axe began to accept the political power and carry out tax reform, and the military aspect, also let the Third Division send troops to take over Shaoguan and other areas, and set up a relevant garrison regiment to be responsible for garrisoning places.

Compared with Guangdong in the south, a third division can almost control the situation, mainly because there is not much threat and opponent near Guangdong, even if there is a big battle with Lu Rongting or something, the third division can also carry out defensive operations and wait for reinforcements. However, now that Lu Rongting is being restrained by Long Jiguang in western Guangdong, it is estimated that he will not be able to spare time for a while.

However, it controlled most of Guangdong at once, and occupied the Pearl River Delta and the vicinity of Guangzhou, which was indeed a wealthy place, so the Nationalist Army also needed enough troops to defend it. Therefore, in addition to the garrison regiments in important areas, Chen Jingyun also asked the staff to plan to set up the 10th Division.

This 10th Division is different from the 8th and 9th Divisions that are being prepared, the 8th and 9th Divisions are expected to use American-made artillery, and the planned equipment is all light and heavy machine guns, and the rifles are also the latest Type 12 rifles.

And the words of this 10th Division, there is some emergency flavor in it, the infantry is okay to say, these are basically no major obstacles, there are a large number of recruits in the major recruit battalions under the General Staff of the Fuzhou Headquarters, just pull them out, and then the equipment is poor, ready to use some captured Hanyang made, and then supplement a considerable part of the Type 12 rifles, light and heavy machine guns can only be used for training in small quantities for the time being, and mortars are too, after all, these things are not fully equipped in the other divisions of the National Army now, In particular, there is a shortage of mortars, not to mention that there is an eighth division and a ninth division behind them, and now even the seventh and sixth divisions have not yet been fully equipped.

As for the artillery regiment, now the national army has no plan to continue to purchase artillery for the time being, or there is no money to buy it, this is millions to buy an artillery regiment, as for those cheap German second-hand goods, people have clearly told Chen Jingyun that there are still goods, but they are expensive, and they are not much cheaper than brand new, it is better to buy new ones directly, although Chen Jingyun still has some in his hands, they are all ready to be used as military expenses, and it is impossible to continue to purchase a large number of artillery without restrictions. Although the 14-caliber 75-mm mountain cannon is imitated, the output is too low due to technical conditions, and there are no dozens of guns a year according to the current output.

There was no choice but to use a small-caliber Reading Artillery Regiment to keep an eye on it, so Chen Jingyun transferred the Third Reading Artillery Regiment to the 10th Division, equipped with 24 60mm rapid-fire mountain guns.

Due to the serious shortage of equipment and the lack of combat effectiveness, Chen Jingyun actually did not expect to use this division in the north, but in the southern Guangdong region. Due to the low requirements, this division was even faster than the Eighth and Ninth Divisions, which had been preparing for a long time. Within half a month of the order, this division had already begun to march from Fuzhou to Guangdong, and at this time the Eighth and Ninth Divisions had not yet formed an army.

At the same time, in order to cope with the increasingly serious situation in northern Zhejiang, Chen Jingyun ordered the reinforced regiment of the guard division to be transferred back from Guangdong, and the 53rd regiment, which had already arrived in Chaozhou, would also return to Fuzhou. In order to quickly transport the reinforced regiment of the guard division back, the Fuzhou fleet organized the Haiqi, Haichou, Feiying, Fu'an, and several gunboats to escort them, and it took a large number of transport ships to transport the reinforced regiment of the guard division back from Guangzhou.

When Chen Jingyun was busy integrating Guangdong affairs, the domestic situation did not stop, when Long Jiguang was defeated and went to Guangzhou, although Yuan Shikai had expected this situation, but he still felt a little uncomfortable, but the first time was to appoint Lu Rongting as the governor of Guangdong, in an attempt to increase the contradictions between Lu Rongting and Chen Jingyun, and continue to muddy the situation in the south, at the same time, Feng Guozhang also made the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division move frequently according to Yuan Shikai's orders, During this period, there were also many skirmishes with Huang Xing's troops.

However, on the whole, a kind of calm was still maintained, and under this calm, Cao Kun, the third division of Shandong, had already received an order from Yuan Shikai to leave for Xuzhou, if the second army obeyed Feng Guozhang's orders in the sequence.

However, Yuan Shikai asked the 7th Division of the Beiyang Army to go to Shandong, and this posture was completely ready for war.

Yuan Shikai put on a posture, and Huang Xing in Nanjing was not frightened, and the three divisions under his command were already ready, ready to meet the Beiyang Army's southward march at any time.

Chen Jingyun didn't care about any influence at this time, and announced on October 10 that he would go to Hangzhou to inspect the Nationalist Army in a few days, and he would be accompanied by the guard division.

The war seems to be about to break out, the situation in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu is indeed so tense, many discerning people can see it, and the newspapers also talk about the war between the north and the south every day, and more people are calling on both sides to exercise restraint every day, not only Chen Jingyun to maintain restraint, but also Yuan Shikai to maintain restraint.

At this time, Cai Yi of the Yunnan Army, another important military group in China, issued a telegram on the second day after Chen Jingyun announced that he would go to Hangzhou, saying that he would go north in half a month, and accepted Yuan Shikai's proposal to take up the post of army chief.

Chen Jingyun didn't know what Cai Ye was thinking, and he didn't know if Cai Ye had made any deal with Yuan Shikai, but Cai Ye's move made Chen Jingyun extremely passive.

The domestic situation suddenly became chaotic again, and after urgently sending a telegram to Cai Ye to ask whether the matter was true, Chen Jingyun received the news that it was positive, and Cai Ye had already decided to go north half a month later, that is, in early November, two months earlier than the beginning of the year he had promised to the press, which was almost unexpected. While scolding Cai Ye in his heart for not knowing whether he is alive or dead, he is also thinking of various ways to break the dilemma in front of him.

If Cai Yi goes north, even if the Dian army is led by Tang Jirao, it is unlikely that it will pose any threat to Yuan Shikai in a short period of time, and it will not be able to spare any strength to go to Hunan, Sichuan or even Hubei. Then Chen Jingyun's national army will have to face the huge pressure of the Beiyang Army alone. Whether this can resist Chen Jingyun is uncertain, and the generals of the National Army are somewhat pessimistic.