After Gong Baoquan finished his judgment, he began to focus on the military strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Beijing, "The Praetorian Guard said that it was going to build three towns, but we observed that because of the encirclement and suppression of Yanzhou and the insufficient number of Manchu officers, the Praetorian Guard was built slowly, and now the real situation is that only two towns have been trained, only the first town is full, and the second and third towns have only one association, which is similar to the establishment of the Beiyang New Army, the Praetorian Guard has 9,805 fighters per town, 1,718 non-combatants, and a total of 12,523 people in the town. There were twenty-six thousand men and forty-six men in the two towns. In addition, unlike the rest of the new army, the Janissaries were armed with eighteen 150mm Krupp howitzers, which, according to the yellow belts, were ten ordinary guns, but it is not known how. ”

Hearing Gong Baoquan talk about artillery, Bei Shoutong next to him interjected: "The 150mm cannon equipped by the Praetorian Guard is the focus of attention of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the performance of this gun has now been ascertained, it is a Krupp Type 1905 heavy howitzer, 14 times the diameter, the shell weighs 41 kilograms, and it is loaded with 8.85 kilograms of gunpowder and 1,300 pieces of 16-gram shrapnel, and the firing range can reach 7,100 meters when it is loaded with 945 grams of medicine packs." In addition, the weight of this gun on the march reached 2,260 kilograms, and its mobility was poor. In Europe, six horses are needed to tow them, but with China's road conditions, even if the Janissaries introduce European horses, it is estimated that there are not more than ten horses that cannot be towed. ”

The Renaissance Army saw artillery very clearly, that is, only a gun that could maneuver with the army was a good artillery, and now the Second Military Factory imitated the 75mm Krupp Mountain Gun to increase the range of high and low fire from 15 degrees to 38 degrees, and the firing range to 5,500 meters. The commander of the unit did not have much interest in field artillery, even if the shells of the 75mm field guns were one kilogram heavier than those of the mountain guns.

After Pei Shoutong finished speaking, Gong Baoquan went on to introduce the other armed forces in the capital, "The patrol police before Beijing. All under the jurisdiction of the Yamen, the commander of the infantry army, are divided into the left and right wings and five battalions of the infantry army, the left and right wings are specifically responsible for the inner city, the five battalions of the infantry army are responsible for the outer city, and there is also the Shuntianfu robbery camp, which is also divided into five battalions, except for the middle battalion. The other four battalions were responsible for the outskirts of the city. After Gengzi, the patrol was changed to patrol police, and now the infantry commander Yamen exists in name only. It was first replaced by the Patrol Police Department, and now it has become the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the patrol police are still divided into two departments, both internal and external, and both have set up a general patrol police department. The inner city is divided into three halls: left, middle and right. The outer city is divided into two halls, left and right.

According to our preliminary statistics, there are about 5,360 new-style patrols in Beijing, and there are still 23,122 people left in the infantry command yamen, which is the number on the books. There is also the Shuncheon Hunting and Robbery Camp, which originally had 9,000 people. 3,000 horsemen and 3,000 infantry. There were 3,000 guards, but now the guards have been removed, and only 6,000 remain, which is also the number of people who received salaries on the books, and the actual judgment should be about 4,500 people.

The above add up, the number of people is about 28,000 people, in addition to the Eight Banners Guard Battalion, such as the Guard Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, the Tiger Gun Battalion, the Jianrui Battalion, etc., these battalions add up to 20,000 or 30,000 people, but the soldiers are useless, only the Yuanmingyuan Guard Battalion and the Jianrui Battalion may still be able to fight, the former is actually about 5,000 people, the latter has more than 5,000 people, but about half of the soldiers in this battalion have been transferred to the Praetorian Guard, and now there are about 3,000 people left. ”

There were 26,000 Praetorian Guards in front, 28,000 patrol officers, and more than 62,000 people in total, plus the guard battalion and the Jianrui battalion. Yang Rui only wrote down the numbers in his notebook, and Gong Baoquan began to talk about the foreign soldiers in Beijing. "There are many foreign troops in Beijing, and all countries have them, and in addition to being stationed in Beijing, these troops are stationed in Tianjin, Tianjin Machinery Bureau, Military Grain Station, Tanggu, Shanhaiguan, and Qinhuangdao. Among them, Beijing and Tianjin have the most. At present, there are 243 British soldiers, 131 American soldiers, 229 Italian soldiers, 178 Austrian soldiers, 113 Russian soldiers, 324 Japanese soldiers, 256 French soldiers, and 246 German soldiers, totaling 1,717 soldiers.

In addition, Britain had two rear-loading five-inch howitzers, two 12-pound rapid-fire guns, and six 30-inch horse guns; The United States has four 31-inch field guns, one 23-inch field gun, and six 30-inch machine guns; Italy had three 45-inch field guns, three 31-inch field guns, and five machine guns; Austria has seven 66-inch field guns and six 8-inch machine guns; Russia had two 75-inch field guns and two 31-inch guns; Japan has 75 field guns, three machine guns; France had two 37-inch rapid-fire guns and two 80-inch mountain guns; The Germans had three 75-inch field guns, three 37-inch field guns, and six Maxim machine guns. There are a total of 39 mountain artillery and field guns, 20 machine guns, and 6 machine guns. These troops were stationed in the embassy district of the capital to defend the embassy and foreigners everywhere.

In addition, Tianjin is only a four-and-a-half-hour train ride from Beijing, and if something happens in Beijing, the foreign troops from Tianjin and the entire railway inside and outside the Guanxi will have to leave for Beijing, and the total number of these troops will exceed 4,000 people......"

Yang Rui originally wrote it down in his notebook, but when he finally heard that there were so many foreigners piled up in Beijing, he couldn't help but stop writing. He even has the idea that he doesn't want to put the capital in Beijing, even if it is changed to any other place, it will be 10,000 times better than Beijing in terms of security. The navy is weak, the forts are demolished, and the troops are stationed in the capital, no matter how you look at this place, it is extremely unsafe, if tens of thousands of people come from the sea, they can immediately land in Tanggu, and then take a train to the front gate of Beijing in four hours, and then ...... What a fucking bullshit capital!

In the morning, Gong Baoquan introduced all aspects of the situation in Beijing, and then Chen Zhaowen, the representative of Zhili, introduced the situation in Wei County, in general, the capital can be mixed with no more than 1,000 soldiers, but whether there will be a person who causes bad trouble, and those detectives of the Arrest Bureau see the problem, then it is unknown, and then Wei County, although it is far away from the capital, but it cannot be entrenched in too many mountain bandits. It can only occupy the entire Taihang Mountain separately, and the result of the current investigation is that within a hundred kilometers from the capital, it can only occupy ten companies at most. That is, the strength of a regiment, and within a radius of two hundred kilometers, a brigade can be deployed. According to the establishment of the mountain brigade, this is more than 8,000 people, more than 8,000 people against more than 60,000 people, not to mention the distance of 200 miles, it is said that there is no heavy firepower in the capital. I'm afraid it's hard to win.

After Gong Baoquan and Chen Zhaowen reported the situation at the bottom, Yang Rui was completely disappointed with the so-called central flowering strategy, with a maximum of 10,000 people arranged within 200 kilometers of the capital. And there can't be more than 1,000 people in the capital, so it seems that this battle is very difficult to fight. The meeting ended in the morning, and when it was discussed in the afternoon, Gong Baoquan stayed at the end. only stopped Yang Rui.

Gong Baoquan is a senior director of the Military Intelligence Agency. Yang Rui saw that he had something to do, so he just took him to another room and greeted him kindly to sit down, but when he was about to speak, Gong Baoquan wanted to say it but couldn't say it, and trembled all over.

Yang Rui saw him like this. When he was sick and was about to stand up to call the world, he waved his hand again and again, "I'm fine." I'm fine! ”

He spoke not in official language, but in dialects. However, Yang Rui still understood, only poured him a cup of hot water, and then said, "Don't worry, say something slowly." If you have any grievances, you can say it slowly. ”

Gong Baoquan took a sip of hot water and said, "It's a brother, I!" I! I'm excited! I...... I can't help it. As he spoke, he took out something from his arms, and after unfolding it, it was a map of Gyeonggi, and he still said with a little trembling: "I have become a brother, I have finished it...... I finished the exploration outside the capital, and ......" he shook his hand and took out another map and said: "And this is the exploration inside the capital, which was completed by Huanqing." The strategy of flowering in the center of the General Staff can be realized! It's possible!! ”

Gong Baoquan only spoke incoherently, Tao Chengzhang had been instilling the strategy of the center flowering with him earlier, but at that time, the revival meeting was in the accumulation stage, and Yang Rui had no way to support this strategy, and then Tao Chengzhang couldn't wait to leave Beijing and go to Shanghai to promote Hangzhou's affairs, only to throw Beijing's affairs to him. Gong Baoquan only followed what Tao Chengzhang did not finish, and carefully explored the places outside the capital, that is, Miyun, Fangshan, Changping, Tongzhou and other places, and finally came up with a general plan, but this plan has loopholes, because people can enter Beijing, but there is no way to transport weapons in, let alone weapons for tens of thousands of people, but today when he heard the idea of the General Staff, he knew that there was such a thing as an airship.

The load of each airship can reach at least ten tons, a gun is eight catties, and 10,000 is only 40 tons, if according to the idea of the General Staff, eight airships can be landed at one time, and 100 tons of materials can be armed with 15,000 people, and these 15,000 people can completely attack the Nanyuan military camp of the Praetorian Guard overnight, and then seize the weapons of the Praetorian Guard, so that 20,000 can be fully armed, and the cannons of the Praetorian Guard can be obtained. When the 20,000 people are fighting outside the city, the 5,000 people who have mixed in in the city in advance can occupy the key points of the city gate in a very short time, and then let the field army outside enter the city. Thinking of this, Gong Baoquan couldn't help but tremble excitedly.

Gong Baoquan finished his brief thoughts, he was still excited, Yang Rui was also moved when he heard his words, and hurriedly asked Chen Guangshou outside to watch the door, no one was allowed to approach, and he even wanted to cancel the meeting below. But I felt that this was too obvious, and I stopped halfway through the sentence. When he returned to the house, Gong Baoquan seemed to have calmed down a little. Yang Rui looked at him and said, "Weisheng, didn't you just say that only a thousand people can enter the capital, how can you enter five thousand people now?" Besides, we just calculated that we could arrange a maximum of 10,000 people within a 200-kilometer radius of the capital, where are your 20,000 people arranged in advance? ”

Knowing that Yang Rui asked this, Gong Baoquan spread out a map of Beijing and said: "The inner city of the capital is very well fortified, but the outer city does not control the population, there are more homeless people and beggars, most of these people have no fixed livelihood, Huanqing's statistics before the statistics, that is, there are nearly 100,000 people in the entire outer city, they all live in shantytowns, usually only do some small or short-term work, if we take advantage of the temple fair, then within a day there can be 5,000 or even more people into the outer city." ”

Yang Rui understood the temple fair, there were a lot of people, but he asked: "When will there be a temple fair?" ”

"All the time." Gong Baoquan said, and he turned over the map. There are many temple fairs written on it, "There are temple fairs from the first month to November, and the first month is the most." ”

"You mean that the vagrants will enter the outskirts of the city first. And then send these 5,000 people to the outer city by going to the temple fair? Yang Rui asked.

"My idea is that there are a lot of schools in the inner city, and in the name of opening the school, a thousand student troops have infiltrated first, and there are many unemployed and semi-unemployed vagrants in the outer city, some of these people are in the outer city, and some are in the city, so in order not to arouse suspicion, some of them are arranged inside and outside the city. There are about five or six thousand people here, and in the end, 20,000 people can be arranged on the outskirts of Beijing, and these people are the main force to defeat the Praetorian Guard. The Manchu Janissaries were defeated in the midst of the war, and the drills were both seen through, but the training was insufficient. It's all a flower shelf. Gong Baoquan said. This time, he finally made it clear. It's just that Yang Rui still doesn't quite understand, he thought that the 20,000 that Gong Baoquan said was a mountain brigade within 200 kilometers of the capital, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"I understand the students in the inner city, and I understand the five thousand people in the outer city, but where are the two thousand people hiding in the suburbs of your city?" Yang Ruiqi said.

"Here!" Gong Baoquan spread out a map of the suburbs, pointed to a place in the west of Beijing and said: "Mentougou." ”

"Mentougou?" Yang Rui hadn't heard of this place, so he had to ask again.

"That's right! It's the door ditch. Gong Baoquan said. Seeing that Yang Rui was puzzled, he said again: "This is the largest coal mine outside the capital. There are 40,000 or 50,000 coal miners, and there are no less than 20,000 or 30,000 other miners and their families. Before, it was said that a railway would be built here, but Yuan Shikai stepped down, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was not enough, and Sheng Xuanhuai was thoroughly investigating the accounts of the entire railway company, and everyone in the upper echelons of the railway company was panicked, so it was said that it was repaired but it was not repaired, which made the coal transporter also have 20,000 or 30,000 people. There are more than 100,000 people, 20,000 people mixed in, one is a coolie transporting coal, and the other is a coal mine worker, and it will not be discovered at all.

However, for the sake of secrecy, it is best for us to find a well-known person in the capital and a foreigner to partner in Mentougou to buy a mine and open a mine, and slowly become bigger, so that there are naturally more miners in several mines, since they dig coal, then they have to transport coal, and then we can organize a coal transportation team to transport coal to Beijing and Tianjin and other places by mules and horses. In the end, Mentougou is under the jurisdiction of Wanping County, and it is best to arrange your own people to become the county commander here, and the local patrol police will also take over, even if something happens, there is a way to remedy it. ”

In Gong Baoquan's narration, Yang Rui slowly remembered that there was an old news in his memory, saying that he was going to renovate the small coal kiln in western Beijing, but he didn't expect that this coal mine in western Beijing would exist now, and the scale was still so large. But it's precisely because it's so big that so many people can be hidden. Opening a coal mine and installing a county order, Yang Rui, the county order, thought of Xu Xilin for a while, he had been by Enming's side for many years, and it was time to make a move, but this coal mine could not be brought forward by Tianzihao, he asked: "The candidates for the county order can be arranged, but this mine, foreigners are easy to find, who can the local famous people find?" ”

"You can find Huang Siyong." Gong Baoquan said. "He's our informant now."

"Huang Siyong?" Yang Rui remembered this person, who had been a clerk for the Taiping Army in Nanjing for more than ten years, and escaped by hiding in the temple after breaking the city, and then became the champion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in high school. His past is not known, but now it is known by Yang Rui, and under the coercion and bribery, he can be regarded as a peripheral member of the Fuxing Association.

"He used to be in the Ministry of Commerce, and now he has opened the Craft Bureau, and it is not difficult for him to go to Mentougou to run a mine, and the background can completely suppress those coal mines in Mentougou. When the time comes, we will join hands with foreigners, that is, except for those coal mines jointly run by China and foreign countries, other coal mines can be bought, and the coal mines can be expanded to the scale we need within a year. "Gong Baoquan has been in Beijing for many years, and he knows the situation everywhere under careful investigation, and now as soon as the problem of the source of weapons is solved, then the plan for the whole center to blossom will be a matter of course.

"Hmm. It's okay for him to come forward. But Wanping is an important county under the Shuntian Mansion, can our people send it to become a county commander? After Yang Rui confirmed the matter of the coal mine, he asked the county order again.

"In the officialdom of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as long as you have money, you can't do anything. In the past, Prince Qing Yixuan sold officials at a clear price, but now although he stepped down and the power was transferred to Guangxu's side, as long as he contacted Zaifeng's Fujin, she is now also clearly marked with a price, although Wanping is a county, but 50,000 taels can be bought. However, the people sent must be able to gain the trust of the Manchus, so that they can be foolproof. Gong Baoquan said.

"Why Zaifeng's Fujin?" Yang Rui said with a smile.

"Now Guangxu handed over the army to Zaitao, and the navy to Zaixun. The power near Gyeonggi was handed over to Jae-feng, who was afraid of his wife, and Fujin was the daughter of Ronglu. is extremely spicy, although the party has collapsed now, but in Prince Alcohol's Mansion, it is still this woman who has the final say, and she also has the final say in many affairs in Zaifeng's hands. Gong Baoquan said.

The plan is extremely well-developed, the inner city, the outer city, and the suburbs. There is also the mountain brigade near Wei County, which seems to add up to nearly 40,000 people, and these 40,000 people are against the more than 60,000 people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It is even more advantageous to take the first mover, and there is no suspense in defeating these troops. But as soon as Beijing is occupied, other places will be moved at the same time, and the northeast side will immediately occupy the provinces of Mukden. Kannai, on the other hand, has to quickly seize territory. to prevent the peach-picking independence of history. Political work, military officers, science and technology, these aspects of talent must be able to keep up, as well as munitions, military spending must also be prepared, and finally the political and international forms must be accurately grasped.

After Gong Baoquan introduced the whole plan, he thought that Yang Rui would be as happy as him, but he didn't want Yang Rui to be even deeper, a tactical victory could not win a strategic victory, and a military victory could not win a political victory. We cannot adjust strategy for the sake of tactics, nor can we compromise politics for the sake of military affairs. What Yang Ruizhi thinks, Gong Baoquan doesn't understand.

"Weisheng, you better go back first, I'll send someone to assist you, first sort out the whole plan, which ones are really credible? What doesn't necessarily work? We all need to analyze it comprehensively and meticulously. Then there is the fact that no matter whether it is feasible or not, we must send people to investigate on the spot, such as geography, climate, personnel, etc., which must be repeatedly statistically confirmed. We must implement the plan of the center's flowering, but when to execute it is another question, you do a good job of how to execute the work, I am responsible for when to implement the work. Before birth, the victory of the revolution is just around the corner! After Yang Rui finished speaking, he grabbed Gong Baoquan's shoulder and shook it vigorously, very happy.

Gong Baoquan originally thought that Yang Rui did not approve of this plan, but when he heard him say this, let alone that the victory of the revolution was just around the corner, his hanging heart suddenly relaxed, and he said loudly: "Brother Chengcheng, I will definitely do things well and ensure that nothing goes wrong!" ”

Gong Baoquan was in high spirits, and Yang Rui was also infected by it, and said: "You go back first, don't worry, the victory must belong to us!" ”

Yang Rui sent the excited Gong Baoquan away, but he didn't go back to eat, only lit a cigarette in the room, trying to drive the plan of flowering in the center out of his mind - thinking about always staring at one place, it is easy to make the mistake of seeing the trees but not the woods. It's just that when he finished smoking, he still only thought about this matter in his mind, and he was tempted by this plan. Think about it, overnight, the capital changed color, the Yan flag of the Revival Society and the eagle flag of the Revival Army fluttered in that ancient city, hundreds of thousands of Manchus in the city were afraid, and the ministers of various countries were surprised, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed, and China was restored...... There are also those princes, Baylors, big officials and small greed who can't run away, their money can be found out, at least tens of millions, and more may be hundreds of millions, those who have eaten the people's fat and people's ointment, it is time to throw them all into the pot to boil the oil. By the way, there is also the private money of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this huge amount of more than 10 million pounds, if it is collected, then the funds after the founding of the country will be ...... In addition to money, the biggest gain is not afraid of the interference of foreigners, overnight, the Manchu clan from Guangxu to what yellow and red belts, all arrested, they are to support who can not find support, the Japanese, British, French, this time there is nothing to do......

In the claustrophobic room, Yang Rui smoked more and more, thinking more and more chaotically, just as his abusive anger was rising, Chen Guangshou outside knocked on the door and said, "Sir, Madame came to Hotline to ask when you will go back to dinner?" ”

The knock on the door only made Yang Rui's burning head have a clear gap, he only felt that it was not a good thing to be so excited now, madam, madam, madam, was his own woman, just go to Cheng Ying where to free his brain. Yang Rui thought of this, so he opened the door, and went out to the apartment without waiting for Chen Guangshou.

Chen Guangshou saw that Yang Rui's face was flushed, and he didn't say a word, and what was even more terrifying was that he didn't get into the carriage when he went out, and only walked to the apartment on foot, he was busy beckoning the coachman to catch up, but he didn't want Yang Rui to just take off his jacket outside and throw it to him in the carriage, while he ran slowly. Chen Guangshou only felt that Yang Rui's behavior was strange, so as not to attract attention, as long as he let the carriage go first, he also chased after him and ran with him. (To be continued......)