readx; The Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army were engaged in a scolding war, and Sun Wen and other revolutionaries fanned the flames, but Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting were very calm, and like last time, they watched the situation develop step by step with a cold eye and did not express their position publicly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But secretly, Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting had already sent envoys to Fuzhou one after another, and Chen Jingyun also attached great importance to receiving them in person, and proposed that the southern provinces should speak with one voice and make one voice.

Chen Jingyun even proposed to follow the example of the Southern Coalition Army in the Xinhai period and form the Southern Coalition Army again, but both Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting were fragmented and did not respond. It is just that they want to buy arms, whether it is rifles or bullets or artillery, and they are all paid in cash.

Their pressure is not less than Chen Jingyun, their strength can not be compared with the national army, let alone compared with Beiyang, although there are a lot of troops in these two aspects, but their own family knows their own affairs, how effective they are in their hearts, training and the like, just looking at the number of equipment, it can be seen that the Gui army has a dozen mountain artillery in a division, it is very good, the Yunnan army only has two regular divisions with 24 artillery pieces each, and those mixed brigades are only a few guns. The price of machine guns is not cheap, a heavy machine gun has to be several thousand, not much cheaper than a 57-mm mountain gun, plus they cannot produce their own guns, even rifles have to rely on external purchases, not to mention this heavy machine gun and artillery, all of them are bought from outside, and those few are dead and expensive, and they can't afford to be equipped too much. With their financial capabilities, it is already very difficult to raise such a large number of troops, and it is simply impossible to purchase arms on a large scale. The military budget is insufficient, and many troops have begun to default on their salaries, and many troops who have been delayed in paying their salaries simply loot money directly in their garrisons to supplement their military expenses.

The quality of the personnel is also not very good, and it is naturally impossible to attract too many people to join the army due to the arrears of military salaries, and the lack of funds has led to the training not being able to keep up. The training of personnel is not an empty word, it can be trained if it is said that it can be trained, and if it is to be trained, it will cost a lot of ammunition, and then there is the most realistic and simple problem, that is, the problem of eating. If you want to carry out physical training, you have to let the soldiers eat enough, not to mention big fish and meat, but the basic rice and bread must be enough, if there is no qualified food supplement, those soldiers to carry out high-intensity training is an empty word, if you insist on training, it is estimated that you can train people into skin and bones.

As a result of these circumstances, although the total number of troops of the Dian army and the Gui army was quite large, there was not much confidence. For example, the Yunnan army has nearly 100,000 people, but even if Tang Jiyao is arrogant, he is not sure that he will be able to defeat the Beiyang Army with more than three divisions, and if the ratio of troops can achieve a three-to-one victory, it will be a big victory.

It is this gap that makes the Gui Army and the Dian Army surrender to the Beiyang Army and follow the Beiyang Army to crusade against Sun Wen and others in the second revolution in history, not that they do not want to unite with the revolutionaries to fight against Beiyang, but that they do not have that capital, and they do not talk like Sun Wen, thinking that they can defeat the Beiyang Army by talking. Since they can't fight against Beiyang, they will cooperate with Beiyang, so the second revolution launched by Sun Wen in history is tragic. The temporary submission of the two in history also gave them time, and the Dian army, which had developed in a few years, launched a war to protect the law and protect the country, under the pretext of some constitution and the like.

And now, Tang Jiyao's mind is contradictory, on the one hand, he knows that if he wants to fight against Beiyang, he must unite the people's army, and he can't rely on himself, but on the other hand, he is afraid that the national army will not be able to bear it, and when the national army collapses, he Tang Jiyao will not be better there, so he is waiting, waiting for the national army and the Beiyang army to be separated, if Beiyang is defeated, then Tang Jiyao will not say a word, and immediately form a coalition with Chen Jingyun and even Lu Rongting, and then wave the army to the Northern Expedition to take Sichuan and even Hubei and other places. After occupying most of southwest China, it will also have the capital to compete with the national army. If the national army is defeated, he will honestly squat, temporarily obey the rule of Beiyang, and wait for the opportunity in the future.

Lu Rongting is also as contradictory as Tang Jiyao, the contradiction between the Gui Army and the Nationalist Army in Guangdong is known to everyone, and now Lu Rongting still bears the title of a Guangdong Protector Envoy, but most of Guangdong, including Guangzhou, is under the control of the Nationalist Army, and he Lu Rongting, the Guangdong Protector Envoy, is not worthy of his name.

In the current situation, if the Nationalist Army loses to Beiyang in southern Jiangsu, he Lu Rongting will have to join forces with the Beiyang Army, and then send troops to Guangdong. But if the Nationalist Army is undefeated, and wins the same as last time, then Lu Rongting will have to consider Chen Jingyun's proposal to form a Southern Coalition Army. At that time, the central government of the Nationalist Army, which defeated Beiyang, was already ironclad, and Lu Rongting had to give in, and chose to cooperate with the Nationalist Army for the sake of his own power and the Gui Army, as for Guangdong, then don't have illusions.

Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting both had similar thoughts, that is, wait, wait for the victory or defeat of the National Army and the Beiyang Army! If you say that it sounds good, it is reasonable, and if you say it doesn't sound good, it is the grass on the wall, and the wind is strong here and there is down.

These two men were also the main representatives of the southern warlords, and the others were the only revolutionaries from Hunan and Hubei, as well as from Anhui and Jiangxi. The situation in Hunan is still the same, there is no threat, and it will not have an impact on the domestic situation, and Li Yuanhong on the Hubei side immediately suffered a civil war in Hubei, his vitality was greatly damaged, and his army slowly drifted away, and it was already very difficult for him to control Hubei, plus Yuan Shikai urged him to go north every day, saying that he Li Yuanhong is still the vice president now, and he can't stay in Hubei all the time.

With the completion of the large-scale loan for the aftermath and the gradual merger of the three parties, Yuan Shikai has promised him to serve as the chairman of the newly established Progressive Party, which has a total of more than 300 votes, although it is not as good as the Kuomintang, but it is enough to contain the Kuomintang at home. Li Yuanhong thought that since Hubei was so difficult to control, and his generals were detached, several of them had already received Yuan Shikai's military expenses, so they had to publicly declare their identities and join Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai forced him step by step, so that Li Yuanhong had slowly had no way out, so he gritted his teeth and went to Yanjing, since he relied on the army to take the throne unsuccessfully, then he played parliamentary politics, he is very confident, even if it is bad in the future, but the position of vice president can still be kept, as for Hubei, he doesn't want it, whoever likes to play will play.

Since 24 March, the propaganda offensive of the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army has become more and more intense, and the smell of gunpowder between the two sides has become stronger and stronger.

Unlike the last war in southern Jiangsu, this time there were few people calling for peace between the two sides. People also know that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and there will always be a life-and-death war between the National Army and the Beiyang Army, and if they don't fight today, they will fight tomorrow.

Not only are few people in the country calling for peace or anything like that, but even the powers that mediated the war last time didn't seem to hear it, and they shut up and don't talk about issues such as the Chinese civil war, in fact, it's easy to say, because this war is largely jumped by them, and if there is no loan from the five-nation banking group, Yuan Shikai would not have been able to take out the money to fight the war at all, and it is very likely that he will continue to fight with the Kuomintang in the country, and then slowly transition to parliamentary politics and the domestic situation will maintain the status quo. Moreover, the Western powers were already very dissatisfied with the continued division of China, a united but weak China was what Britain and other countries needed, and the chaos of the divided war not only affected the Chinese people, but also damaged their business interests. And he said, "I also wish that China would have another life-and-death decisive battle, and the more tragic the battle, the better, and it is better to continue fighting, and it is better to continue fighting, and the dialogue policy on this side is also simple to put it bluntly, that is, to provoke war, delay war, and actually split." As for the two sides in the end, regardless of which one wins, they will say, 'Ben will help the one who loses, and then support him to develop, and then there will be another war, and so on several times, it is simply impossible for China to talk about development.'" If China does not develop, it will be much easier to say in the future that when Ben attacks the mainland in a big way.

As a result, for a time the war was raging, and the Beiyang Army had already begun to order the third division of Cao Kun, which had completed its rest, to move to Chuzhou, while the newly established eighth division was stationed in Jinan, Shandong, and the ninth division continued to move south to Xuzhou. For a time, the Beiyang Army deployed up to five divisions and one mixed brigade on the Jinpu line. If we add the half-crippled Eighth Division, the total strength is already equivalent to six divisions.

At the same time, the Ninth Division had already arrived in Hangzhou by sea, and at the same time, the two newly established mixed brigades had not yet been in place, so Chen Jingyun once again ordered the formation of the Third Mixed Brigade, ordering the transfer of two battalions from the Sixth Division stationed in Jinhua, and several battalions from several units stationed in Hangzhou and Ningbo, to form the Third Mixed Brigade of the Nationalist Army and stationed in Quzhou, an important military town in western Zhejiang. These military arrangements were almost always one after the other, and there were not many pauses at all, and the troops that were transferred rushed to the predetermined area almost non-stop.

The military movements of the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army were on a huge scale, and although outsiders did not know the specific situation, they also saw signs that both sides were preparing for the final war.

And in such a turbulent situation, whether it is the people of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces or the people of other provinces, their faces are somewhat nervous and worried, although the city of Fuzhou is as calm as before, but the newspapers say every day how Beiyang betrays the country, so bad, people can also see the tension of the national army and the Beiyang army, although they all have confidence in the national army, but if it is defeated, then what should be done?