Winter in Beijing came unusually early this year, with snowflakes falling in November. The cold weather made the streets much less crowded, but because the general election was imminent, all kinds of slogans and banners were plastered all over the streets, and even beggars were mobilized to expand their influence in order to campaign.

Chen Eun avoided a few supporters of the United Party who distributed leaflets, saying that he had no interest in Yuan Shikai in this party at all, and he had already seen that the one in the north did not understand what a party was, but it was Song Jiaoren who made the Kuomintang hot in Shanghai, not only did not refuse to come, but also absorbed all the three religions and nine streams into the Kuomintang, and the momentum had already overwhelmed the north. The Republican Party of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Constitutionalists is not bad, as for the territory of the Southwest National Socialist Party, let alone the north, even the Kuomintang has fled, and if Yunnan is lost this time, Liang Qichao's Progressive Party will also be finished!

According to the "Provisional Covenant", the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Republic of China will have 870 seats, 596 in the House of Representatives, and 274 in the Senate. In this way, there are 120 seats in the six southwestern provinces, and Xikang and ** add up to 15. Now that these two places are blocked by the southwest, sooner or later it will be his territory, that is, there is no need to build momentum at all, and after the war, the National Socialist Party will automatically get 135 seats in the House of Representatives!

The Senate is elected though. However, hundreds of millions of people in southwest China can get sixty or seventy seats no matter how they say it, not to mention that Zhang Taiyan and Tang Shaoyi have been building momentum for the Kuomintang recently, and Yang Qiu has basically handed over the election campaign to the two of them, and even the idle "vice president" in Nanjing is said to have written hundreds of letters within three months to attract people to join the party, and it is very likely that he will get 30 percent of the seats.

A battle won nearly a quarter of the seats in parliament. The looming threat is the KMT, which has developed for more than a decade and has only been integrated with great difficulty. What could be more cost-effective than this deal?

Looking at the Beiyang side, in addition to the decent army, there is already too much backwardness in party building. Sooner or later, this will be hollowed out by the Kuomintang and the National Socialist Party. Thinking of this, he faintly felt that it seemed wrong to promise Yuan Shikai to help this time. But it doesn't seem like to regret it now. I had to sigh quietly and hold the army expansion document and prepare to enter the door, but as soon as I crossed the threshold, I was pulled by Zhao Bingjun who rushed out of it: "Er'an, listen to me, don't go in today." ”

Chen Huan raised his eyebrows, and also lowered his voice: "Guangxi's matter? ”

"Who's to say it isn't! Even Xingcheng was scolded and didn't dare to speak. Zhao Bingjun didn't have any worry on his face, he has been prosperous recently, because of this southwest incident, it is said that Yuan Shikai is not used to Lu Zhengxiang, and is ready to let him form a cabinet to become the prime minister, so he is proud. He rubbed his hands together and said, "This is also evil." What is Tang Jiyao doing in Guangxi if he has nothing to do? Now it's okay, it's true, this time Guangxi can't be saved. Just now, our new prime minister also went to send a telegram to Cai Songpo and Long Jiguang, and now he is counting on the two of them to send troops to protect each other's southwest. ”

Chen Eun shook his head: "I know Cai Songpo's temper, and I will definitely not send troops after hearing that Tang Jiyao has done evil." Long Jiguang is possible, but if Yang Qiu is quick and solves it before the entry of the Yue army, he will not hold on to it (). ”

"Hell knows." Zhao Bingjun sniffed and suddenly asked, "By the way, the list of provincial titles that the old man asked you to do was changed." Wasn't Yang Qiu designated as a lieutenant general? You changed him to a major general. ”

"Change to Major General?" Chen Yan was surprised: "What are you kidding!" Song Ziqing, Yue Peng, and Jiang Fangzhen are all awarded the title of major general this time, he is a tour of three provinces, and the commander-in-chief of the five divisions and three brigades of the National Defense Force, maybe three or four divisions will be added in a month! It is already low to lieutenant general, and it would not be out of proportion to demote to major general. ”

Zhao Bingjun didn't care, squinted and smiled: "It's just to mess around." If you think about it, give him a major general, and give him a major general below, everyone will always jump out of the same height in the future. ”

This kind of thinking really makes Chen Yan feel ridiculous, if Yang Qiu can be troubled by this kind of pediatric trick and lose his military power, it will really be ridiculous and generous. So he didn't believe that this was Yuan Shikai's idea, and asked, "Is this what the president meant?" ”

"The president hates to push him to the end, how can he care about this. It was me and Duan Zhigui's idea, and Liang Shiyi and Wang Yitang also agreed. Zhao Bingjun was triumphant, but Chen Huan sighed in his heart, and even took out this kind of bad idea, which shows that when the Wehrmacht put on an aggressive posture in the southwest, these old Beiyang were already panicking. But what can you do even if you masturbate it to the end? Yang Qiu may not look down on this kind of title at all.

Chen Yan didn't speak, he walked back with the document, and before he took a few steps, Zhao Bingjun chased after him again, slapped his head before getting into the carriage, and lowered his voice: "By the way, Er'an, your War Department may be busy recently." Duan Qirui had already asked Cao Kun to go to Xinyang, and he also brought the kid who played well in Xuzhou with him. ”

"Eleven bids? Wu Peifu! Chen Huan's eyes widened in surprise: "Crazy! Now do it, does the president know? ”

Zhao Bingjun shook his head: "Who dares to say it!" This is the idea of Duan Qirui and Cao Kun, and they are going to make a fuss, if they have the opportunity, they will simply leave that council behind, and we will do it alone in Beiyang. "Go it alone! What's the use of remembering it now? Chen Yan turned his head to look at the presidential palace behind him, and couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad.

Wusheng Pass is mottled everywhere, and the scars left by the last war cannot be erased after a year (). Although I didn't see with my own eyes how powerful the commander was to summon back the carbine, the broken boulders can prove how badly Beiyang has suffered here. Since this place is still being renovated, the originally narrow three passes cannot accommodate so many people, so the brigades of the Second Division are stationed in rotation. After the former brigade commander He Xifan was transferred to the post of chief of staff of the Third Division, Chu Nan, who had risen to the fore in the Xiaogan Campaign, took over the post of commander of the Fifth Field Brigade.

At the same time that the Fifth Division was changed to a mountain division, the First Division and the Second Division were also quietly changed to a field division; before, he did not understand the difference between a field division and an infantry division and a mountain division, but after studying at the National Defense University for so long, he also had a deep understanding of the three different types of troops. Of course, the current two field divisions are just shelves, and special field training and tactics are being carried out.

"Brigadier Commander, look at this." The new staff officer trotted all the way over, saluted and handed the reconnaissance report of the past few days to Chu Nan, who was a cadet of the third phase of the crash course for officers and a former student of the Sichuan Army Primary School, who was able to serve at the brigade level and was a staff officer of the second ace division, which showed that his ability was recognized by the General Staff and President Jiang.

Since Beiyang still stationed a large number of troops in Xinyang, especially after the start of the war in the southwest, there have been rumors that the north will take the opportunity to attack Wushengguan again and force the Wehrmacht to withdraw its troops, so the previous reconnaissance every two days has been changed to a daily normal reconnaissance, and all reconnaissance situations must be written into a report and sent to the General Staff for analysis. The report was very detailed, recording the number of training and transfers of the Beiyang Army in Xinyang, and even the small number of Beiyang Third Towns that had recently arrived.

"During this time, Beiyang sent a regular train pick-up department every day, originally we thought it was a normal change of guard, but five days ago, when the scouts counted and found more, less came, they didn't pay attention at first, because there was only a gap of two or three hundred people each time, but this morning the gap between the arrival of the train suddenly increased to five hundred!" The young staff officer shook his head in surprise: "This is unreasonable, if the intelligence of the General Staff is correct, Beiyang should have more and less if it wants to deal with us, why do you take the initiative to reduce the Xinyang garrison?" ”

Chu Nan is no longer the fledgling officer of the Hubei High Military Academy a year ago, and after listening to the analysis, he immediately understood what the staff officer meant, either the direction of the wind in the north has changed and he is not ready to exert pressure, or there is a force that has quietly left his sight! He asked, "Can you figure out how much difference?" ”

"According to the Beiyang establishment, about four battalions or so ()."

A battalion in Beiyang has a full strength of 659 officers, and four battalions, that is, nearly 3,000 people, have been quietly transferred from Xinyang. If they go back to the north, it's okay, but if they get into Hubei, the threat will be too great! Therefore, Chu Nan almost immediately made a decision: "Order all regiments to enter the position on alert, call the division commander to report the situation, and immediately send a telegram to the fraternal troops in Xiangyang and Macheng, asking them to cooperate and pay attention to the various roads from Henan to our Hubei." As soon as the staff officer was about to leave, Chu Nan suddenly thought that the aviation team had two planes conducting tests nearby in the past few days, so he grabbed it and said: "Ask the division headquarters if you can let the aviation team also cooperate, the foreigners used planes to reconnoiter when they were fighting." ”

At the same time that the rapid telephone rang at the Wuchang General Staff, on the bank of the Baihe River in Nanyang, Henan, thousands of soldiers sat on the ground to rest and wait, and Wu Peifu, who was dressed in military uniform, rolled up his sleeves high and was washing his beloved war horse. His horse has a history, it was bred from a Russian war horse captured when he was an intelligence officer in the Russo-Japanese War, and it is more than one head taller than the ancient horse, and even likes it.

Standing next to him is Peng Shouxin, the famous thorn head in the three towns, because of that big mouth, I don't know how many people he offended, even Cao Kun had a headache when he saw him, but he was very brave in the battle, so everyone gave him the nickname "Thorn Peng". and Wu Peifu, who is not good at words but arrogant, and even looks down on his brother troops, is called the three towns and the two hob meats. When hob meat meets hob meat, it becomes a good friend, and after Cao Kun learned about it, he simply took the two of them to the eleventh standard, one as the standard system and the other as the deputy standard system.

"Ziyu, what the hell do you say the three fools are doing with Duan Zhiquan this time? Don't you really think that if we fight, the old man will go out with the whole army to fight to the death, and Yang Qiu will force him to return to his division and give up Guangxi, right? Peng Shouxin didn't accumulate virtue on his lips, and he was the only one in the entire three towns who dared to call Cao Kun three fools, even Wu Peifu admired it and shook his head: "How is it possible!" Yang Qiu deployed carefully this time, and mobilized seven brigades at once, unless Cai Songpo entered Gui immediately, otherwise Tang Jiyao could block it for three days, even if he burned high incense! We can't win the Wusheng Pass in three days, why do we fight to hold him back? ”

"Then why did they let us come? You're still on this mission? ”

Wu Peifu put down his sleeves and looked at the direction of Xiangyang in the south, raising his eyebrows and blazing eyes: "Why did you come?" Isn't it clear to you? The old man can't control the overall situation anymore! As for me, I didn't have it, I just came to tell Yang Qiu that Wang Zhanyuan does not represent Beiyang! Don't think that everything will be fine if you occupy Wusheng Pass! ”！。