In the Xinhai year, a Wuchang uprising detonated the tide of the whole China, in this context, Chen Jingyun naturally could not avoid vulgarity, and like other powerful generals in the southern provinces, he was the self-proclaimed governor after hanging the title of the revolutionary party, and then opened his eyes to pay attention to the situation between the north and the south, and at the same time, he also stared at the surrounding areas with naked eyes.

At the time when the peace talks between the north and the south were not concluded, most of the governors in the south had not yet given birth to the idea of winning Kyushu, and they mostly thought about expanding their strength and hoping to have their own position in this great change through the ages, and the most was to occupy territory and expand the army.

This kind of thinking is not unique to Chen Jingyun, all the real power figures in the country are basically the same model, but some people are more ambitious, some are less timid, some just want to keep their existing power, and some are eager to get more. Although the warlords in various parts of the country have not yet appeared on the stage of China's history as political groups, they have already begun to take shape, such as Cai Yi in Yunnan, Lu Rongting in Guangxi, and Chen Jingyun in Fujian. Among these three people, Chen Jingyun sent troops to the south and north, sending troops to Chaozhou and southern Zhejiang, while after Yunnan Cai Yi led the army to read the power, he first sent Xie Ruji and Li Hongxiang to lead the division to Sichuan, forcing the governor of Sichuan, Zhao Erfeng, to announce the reading force due to the situation; Ling Luo Peijin and Kang Engu led an army to the south, and Li Gengen led an army to patrol Yunnan Province westward, and then sent Tang Jiyao to march into Guizhou, which was much more than Chen Jingyun's, and it was Cai Yi's early series of military actions that enabled the Yunnan army to control the southwest in a short period of time, and achieved the foundation of the Yunnan army's subsequent several expeditions against Yuan Northern Expedition to dominate the Central Plains.

Compared with Chen Jingyun and Cai Yi's big moves, Guangxi Lu Tingrong is much more obscure, although he also sent troops everywhere, but they were all concentrated in Guangxi, and after he integrated Guangxi, he had already found that there was no direction of expansion. Because in the east is Hu Hanmin and Long Jiguang in Guangdong, in the west is Cai Yi in Yunnan, and Guizhou in the northwest has almost been taken by Tang Jiyao, although Hunan in the northeast has experienced a military rebellion, but Tan Yanmin is not an idle person, relying on the support of a large number of constitutional gentry and military officers, Tan Yanmin will soon control the situation in Hunan. As a result, Guangxi's path of development in all directions has been cut off, and it can only stay in Guangxi to train troops and wait for the opportunity.

In addition to these three provinces, among the other southern provinces, Guangdong is engaged in endless internal fighting because of the dispute between Hu Hanmin and Long Jiguang, and there is a third brigade of the Nationalist Army in the east, and there is also a Lu Rongting in the west who is ready to show his fangs at any time, so it can be said that there is no force to affect the situation in the whole country in a short period of time. Now Jiangxi is also in chaos, Jiujiang, Nanchang, Ganzhou are all successively recovered and each push the governor, although there is a Jiangxi military and political axe on the surface, but the internal situation is still unstable, for a while and a half is estimated to be busy with infighting. In addition, the status of Anhui is a little embarrassing, although the time of recovery is not too late, but it is sandwiched between Wuchang and Nanjing, and at this time Anwei does not have a large-scale army, several people in the military and political axe are busy fighting and at the same time are also subservient to Nanjing, and they have already lost the first hand. Needless to say, Sichuan is now the confrontation between the two military and political axes of Yucheng and Sichuan, and there is a Cai Yi next to him fanning the flames, and the two sides have begun to break out small-scale battles, which can be regarded as the era of hundreds of warlords in Sichuan.

The remaining Hubei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang are the front lines against Beiyang, and Hubei is controlled by Li Yuanhong, but most of them have been lost, and there is no chance from a military point of view. Jiangsu is more complicated, Nanjing has Huang Xing, and it is the base camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the revolutionaries, Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu has Zhang Xun's Jiang Defense Army, and the fifth town is stationed, which is the most fierce area in the whole [***] affairs, and the Jiangsu military and political axe is basically an empty shelf, which cannot be counted.

The situation in Zhejiang is not simple, before the recovery of Zhejiang, Chen Jingyun has sent troops north to Wenzhou, and then it is through the name of the southern coalition army all the way north, the reorganization of the old army in Zhejiang, the current national army in Zhejiang has deployed two mixed brigades, an artillery regiment, two local garrison brigades, if there is a war, the national army can continue to send troops north to reinforce, although on the surface the local political axe of the prefectures and counties is still dominated by Hangzhou, but from a military point of view, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, south of Jinhua has basically been controlled by the national army, Although he has not yet accepted the political axe from various places, Chen Jingyun has secretly used the name of the National Army Headquarters to collect military salaries from various prefectures and counties. As for the situation in northern Zhejiang, it is also unclear, when the military and political axes were established, the alliance and the Guangfu Association in Zhejiang competed with each other for power, and no one obeyed anyone, and in the end they had to elect Tang Shouqian, a famous man in Zhejiang, to be the governor, and the real power was held by the revolutionary party, and Tang Shouqian once laughed at himself that the decree issued by the governor's office had been abolished before the ink was dry. In addition, Zhejiang's main new army was originally sent to Nanjing to join the Southern Coalition Army, and was finally absorbed by Huang Xing, so that there was no effective military force in northern Zhejiang, and more than 10,000 troops near Hangzhou were newly recruited, and they could only watch and not fight.

If we analyze it carefully, we will find that on the surface it is a peace talk between the north and the south, and the southern provinces seem to be huddled together, but in fact they are doing their own thing, and no one has good intentions. Comparatively speaking, although the generals of all parties in Beiyang have all kinds of careful thoughts, but with Yuan Shikai, the big guy, such as Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun and other real power factions have to squat honestly, Lao Yuan said to the east, they will never dare to go west, the previous example of Luanzhou military advice, Yuan Shikai killed those senior officers who participated in the mutiny with a telegram order, and after Feng Guozhang did not listen to Yuan Shikai's hint and insisted on taking Hanyang, Yuan Shikai transferred him back to Yanjing on the same day, And Feng Guozhang didn't dare to put a fart, so he could only return to Beijing immediately! Historically, the decline of Beiyang had to be that after Yuan Shikai died, Beiyang was divided into several families, and Zhi, Anhui, and Feng came to several Central Plains wars, and it was completely declined after more than ten years of internal fighting, but even if it was defeated by the Northern Expeditionary Army, there were still Yan Xishan and Zhang Zuolin in the Beiyang system!

If it weren't for Yuan Shikai's single-minded belief in the position of the president, Beiyang would have leveled the southern provinces a long time ago, and there would be a waste of time and talks!

It is precisely because of this sense of urgency that Chen Jingyun has worked hard to expand his strength, and the Sixth Brigade has not yet been officially formed, and Chen Jingyun has secretly planned the expansion plan of the division level in the future.

If we talk about expanding the army, it is also simple, and it is enough to directly expand the existing brigades into divisions, as long as there is money, ordnance, and people, the expansion of the army is a matter of one sentence.

But Chen Jingyun is now short of money and ordnance, so what he told Lin Chengkun and others about expanding the guard brigade into a division in the future is just lip service, which can be regarded as giving them a thought, and on the other hand, he also hopes to tie them to his chariot and let them support their expansion. We have to let them know that if they want to be promoted to division commander, army commander, or so on, they have to expand the troops, and the expanded troops have to be supported by territory, and if they want to have territory, they have to expand outward.

After giving Lin Chengkun another idea, Chen Jingyun proposed some tactics of matching barbed wire, trenches and heavy machine guns, this standard tactics of World War I have not yet been formed, although the machine guns have shone in the Russo-Russian War a few years ago, but the tactical system of trench warfare has not yet fully matured, at least all the officers present here are vague, Chen Jingyun can only draw pictures and explain them by hand.

Half an hour later, Lin Chengkun said: "If this barbed wire can be of great use, then it should be purchased on a large scale immediately!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "I am free to arrange this, and when the time comes, I will ask Ouyang Tian of the Equipment Department to send you a batch of them, you will try them first, and then summarize the key points so that they can be promoted to the whole army." ”

Lin Chengkun said: "Don't worry, the governor will live up to the governor's expectations!" ”

"Good!"

After inspecting the guard brigade, Chen Jingyun passed by Huaxiang on the way back to the Governor's Mansion, so he went to the Lin Mansion nearby.

Seeing Chen Jingyun coming, the people of the Lin Mansion quickly greeted him, and this time Mrs. Lin was also there, Chen Jingyun had to accompany her to say a few words, maybe she had met a few times, Mrs. Lin was not too restrained when talking to him now, although she was still very cautious in speaking, but there was no need for Chen Jingyun to find something to provoke to talk. After talking for a while, Lin Yun came to the front hall.

Just like when I first saw her, she was wearing Hanfu, not the placket that women often wear nowadays, with a fox skin shawl draped over her shoulders.

Mrs. Lin is an interesting person, and she knows that Chen Jingyun is a governor, so she naturally took the time to come to the Lin Mansion when she was so busy, not to talk to her, an old lady, but to see Lin Yun.

So he also smiled and beckoned Lin Yun to come over, and said: "As soon as the governor comes, look at you with a smile on your face!" After that, he also lamented: "Alas, the female university is not left! ”

"Mother......" Lin Yun couldn't hear that her mother was making fun of her, so she immediately shook Mrs. Lin's arm, and even lowered her gaze when she originally looked at Chen Jingyun, for fear that her mother would say something embarrassing.

"Alright, alright! You young people speak for yourselves, and I'll go to the back hall to worship the Buddha! Mrs. Lin stood up with a smile and went out, leaving Lin Yun and Chen Jingyun alone.

Seeing that Lin Yun was still lowering his head, Chen Jingyun took two steps closer and said, "I went to inspect the barracks just now, and I happened to pass by here when I went back, so I stopped by!" ”

After speaking, Chen Jingyun felt that his words seemed to be explaining why he came, which was a little inappropriate.

Lin Yun raised his head again at this time: "Oh! It's cold outside! ”

"It's fine!" Chen Jingyun and Lin Yun sat down again, and continued while lifting the teapot on the table and pouring tea for Lin Yun: "It's all in the city, and it's not that you don't have clothes to wear, so you can't keep me cold!" ”

Watching him pick up the teapot, Lin Yun was still a little puzzled at first, but when he poured tea for himself, there was a hint of sweetness in his heart, he took the teacup, his red lips opened slightly, and he took a small sip, feeling that this tea was more fragrant than Pingyue.