readx; Now the time has entered the second year of the Republic of China, and about a year and a half have passed since the Wuchang Uprising in Xinhai, and the Manchu Dynasty has been sent to the garbage heap by Sun Wen and other revolutionaries and Yuan Shikai, ending China's thousands of years of monarchy [***] dynasty system. Since Xinhai www.biquge.info several large-scale wars have broken out across the country, as well as various small-scale military conflicts almost every day.

Among them, the Nationalist Army's march into northern Zhejiang, the Nationalist Army and the Gui Army's joint march into Guangdong, and the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army's war in southern Jiangsu are the most eye-catching and largest. This series of battles successfully developed the Nationalist Army from an ordinary local force to the second largest military group in the country, and then promoted the leader of the Nationalist Army, Chen Jingyun, to become a pivotal figure in the country.

In addition to several large-scale battles of the Nationalist Army, several large-scale wars also broke out in other places, such as the Hubei Civil War, in which Li Yuanhong and the revolutionary party forces in Hubei engaged in a brutal infighting, and several divisions of the Hubei army attacked each other, causing tens of thousands of casualties. Tang Jiyao also sent troops into Sichuan, which caused a large-scale melee in Sichuan, and even outsiders couldn't understand which of them was fighting whom, and they couldn't tell how many forces were fighting.

According to common sense, the scale of the war in both Hubei and Sichuan is very large, and it should attract the attention of many people, but whether it is the civil war in Hubei or the turmoil in Sichuan, the time of occurrence is the same time as the war in southern Jiangsu, whether it is ordinary Chinese people or those powerful factions, they are all focused on the war between the national army and the Beiyang army, and even Tang Jiyao himself does not pay much attention to the situation in Sichuan, but always watches the development of the situation in southern Jiangsu.

The large-scale war between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army, the two largest military forces in the country, not only affects themselves, but also affects the future direction of other warlords. For example, after Tang Jiyao learned that the Nationalist Army had won a decisive victory in southern Jiangsu, he immediately did not hesitate to send an additional division to Sichuan, trying to completely capture eastern Sichuan and other regions, and at the same time sent envoys to Chen Jingyun and Lu Rongting, and even the content was similar, that is, to tell the sincerity of the Dian army, and try to reach an alliance with the Gui army and the Nationalist army respectively. However, the hostile objects of this alliance are different, although it is not explicitly stated, but everyone knows that Tang Jiyao wants to reach an alliance agreement with the Nationalist Army, and the enemy is facing the Beiyang Army. But he wanted to form an alliance with the Gui army, but the target was the national army. This way of doing things seems contradictory but very normal, if the Beiyang Army wants to go south, he Tang Jiyao plans to join forces with Chen Jingyun, if the Nationalist Army does not go north but wants to continue to expand its power in the south, such as marching into Guangxi and other places, then Tang Jiyao has to consider joining forces with Lu Rongting to fight against the Nationalist Army.

Not only did Tang Jiyao make frequent moves, but even Lu Rongting sent an envoy to reaffirm the friendship between the Gui army and the Nationalist army and the alliance reached during the war in Guangdong. Then he also took the initiative to retreat part of the distance to the west of Guangzhou, and at the same time sent an additional division to Wuzhou. The intention is obvious, he does not want to fight with the Nationalist Army, at least not now, and also prevents the Nationalist Army from shifting its strategic center of gravity to the south and attacking eastern Guangdong and even Guangxi.

Chen Jingyun did not react much to the reactions of these people, and the strategy of the Nationalist Army would not change because of some actions of these warlords. For the Nationalist Army, the biggest enemy was always the Beiyang Army, and Lu Rongting's Gui Army in Guangxi was only secondary, and there was no fatal conflict between the two sides at present, before the time was ripe, Chen Jingyun felt that it was still necessary for the Nationalist Army to maintain friendly relations with the southern warlords, at least not to fight among themselves until the Beiyang was defeated.

Therefore, Chen Jingyun also successively sent Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting sent envoys, and even said that they could provide ordnance and ammunition in order to show their sincerity, and now the Nationalist Army is gradually replacing the Type 12 rifle, and the Nationalist Army is now equipped with three kinds of rifles, namely Hanyang-made and Type 88 rifles and Type 12 rifles, although the Nationalist Army has decided to gradually replace all Type 12 rifles, first replace Hanyang-made, and then replace Type 88 one by one, but the Nationalist Army now has a large number of troops, The monthly output of the Type 12 rifle in the Fuzhou Arsenal is only about 3,000, and now it has only produced more than 20,000 in total, while the National Army has more than 100,000 people, and it is impossible to complete all the refitting in a few years, and it is foreseeable that the National Army will continue to expand the army, so the Hanyang-made and Type 88 rifles will not be sold for the time being, and even if they are replaced, they will be sealed and stored. However, in addition to these main equipment, the inventory of the national army also has a lot of rifles and manlixia and some other miscellaneous guns, the national army is said to have made 30 years of rifles, only one or two thousand, used to equip the guard brigade before, and later the guard brigade was equipped with 12 rifles after these guns were re-sealed, and in the war in southern Jiangsu, a lot of 30 years of rifles were captured, these rifles are 6.5 mm caliber and the main rifles equipped by the national army are not compatible. Therefore, the national army does not plan to equip it for the time being, but will mothball.

However, this adds up to almost 10,000 guns, and if you don't use it, it's just right to sell it, and the number of this batch is also quite large, and it's enough to equip a full division division. Therefore, when Chen Jingyun just said that there was a batch of second-hand guns, he said, "This gun can be sold, and the price is very low, an empty gun is only 15 yuan, plus other accessories and bullets are not very expensive, this Tang Jiyao immediately sent Chen Jingyun a cashier's check, and bought this batch of guns with bullets and accessories." And Lu Rongting also bought the more than 3,000 Manlixia in the inventory of the National Army at a low price.

The amount of these two batches of ordnance trade is actually not large, Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting are not without a place to buy guns, they can buy any gun if they have money, but they still reached these two transactions, the so-called nature is the political significance contained in them, and this ordnance trade represents the sincerity of the three parties.

Guns and real money are more important than lip service alliance agreements. When this batch of transactions is completed, Chen Jingyun even proposed, is it possible for everyone to meet, sit together and have a good chat, this proposal has almost confirmed Chen Jingyun's desire to unite the southern warlords, Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting can not see it, but they are not children will agree casually, this is not a simple matter to meet Chen Jingyun, if this is transmitted to the Beiyang side, Yuan Shikai will regard the Gui army and the Dian army as enemies, and in the face of the Beiyang army's large-scale southward movement, To be honest, they don't have much strength to resist. At that time, if one of the main national armies of the three parties cannot arrive, won't everyone be finished together?

This kind of thing they naturally have to think about slowly, but Chen Jingyun didn't expect them to agree immediately, anyway, it was just a preliminary proposal, Chen Jingyun never expected that he could really unite the southern warlords to support him, what he wanted was that when the National Army and the Beiyang Army fought a life-and-death battle in the future, Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting would not stab themselves in turn.

These things are not in a hurry for a while, just take your time, and the domestic situation should not change much for a while, and he Chen Jingyun still has time to complete the layout.

While Chen Jingyun and other warlords in the south were eye-to-eye, the peace talks between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army also entered the stage of actual negotiations, and after the previous insincere peace talks, the pressure on both sides was also increasing. Although it is said that both sides of the southern Soviet Union have stopped large-scale military confrontation, it is also extremely expensive to maintain a state of war, and since the war has actually stopped, it is necessary to end the all-out confrontation and carry out real peace talks.

Of course, more importantly, the Western countries expressed serious dissatisfaction with the delay in negotiations between the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army, believing that if the two sides did not end the state of war, the commercial interests of businessmen from various countries would be seriously affected. For this reason, the two sides have carried out negotiations with actual surnames, at this time, the negotiation process is much simpler, everyone knows what the bottom line of both sides is, and more importantly, both sides understand that they cannot get anything by negotiation, and they can only rely on war if they want.

So just a few days later, both sides reached a preliminary agreement, and when Chen Jingyun looked at these agreements, he frowned slightly: there were not many terms in the secret peace talks this time, but there were some terms that made Chen Jingyun look uncomfortable.

For example, Yuan Shikai asked that in the congressional election at the beginning of the year, the parliamentarians of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces should support him and Yuan Shikai was elected president. In other words, the Kuomintang wants the Socialist Party to support Yuan Shikai's election as president in the future Congress. The first parliamentary election has been carried out in advance, and the parliamentarians of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces under the control of the national army are naturally from the National Socialist Party, and Guangdong and Jiangsu also occupy part of the seats. If you want to support Yuan Shikai, plus the other provincial parliamentarians that Yuan Shikai has wooed, there should be no deviation in the position of the president.

The second is that the Nationalist Army must withdraw its troops from Yangzhou and can only station three divisions in southern Jiangsu. In contrast, the Beiyang Army could only station two divisions in the Jiangbei area.

Article 3 is that the provinces under the control of the national army must pay taxes to the central government, and the specific amount of taxes will be negotiated separately. This article is actually a superficial effort, everyone knows that the national army will not give money to Beiyang, but now Beiyang wants a name, even if a province only gives a dime a year, then it means that these provinces are still under the jurisdiction of the central political axe, and they are not in a state of splitting. Chen Jingyun agrees with this, he hasn't announced reading power or anything after fighting with the Beiyang Army for so long, and even the serving officer will send a report to the Yanjing War Department, no matter what the circumstances, there can only be one China, and now the Yanjing political axe is the only legal political axe in China, even if the national army and the Beiyang army fight to death, Chen Jingyun still does not plan to change this, he wants to replace, not read power.

Most of the above seems to be the requirements of the Beiyang Army, but the Nationalist Army also got some things, such as the same important name.