Based on this consideration, Chen Jingyun directly formed a reading artillery regiment from these 57-mm mountain guns and several 57-mm mountain guns originally stockpiled by the Nationalist Army, and the number was not much, only more than 20 guns, which happened to form a small-scale artillery regiment with a two-battalion system. Not only the original 57-mm mountain artillery of the Seventh Division was arranged in this way, but also the 60-mm rapid-fire mountain artillery equipped by the Fifth and Sixth Divisions was also arranged in this way.

On the one hand, Chen Jingyun wants to make use of all the resources that can be used, and on the other hand, the centralized use of such a two-battalion artillery regiment also avoids the trouble of logistical supply, and on the other hand, such a small-scale artillery regiment can be flexibly mobilized and will not occupy the establishment of various divisions.

In fact, the Seventh Division had just been reequipped not long ago, and the rifles were mainly made in Hanyang, most of which were used by the Zhejiang Army in the past, and a considerable part of them were transferred from the inventory by the Equipment Department of the National Army. Rifles are good to say, the change is not big and the impact is not big, but the impact of artillery is a little great, this artillery is not equipped to form combat effectiveness, artillerymen still need to carry out all kinds of training, running-in, this process to say the least will take a month or two or even longer.

Therefore, although the Seventh Division said that it had completed the ring equipment of the troops and was ready for battle, the actual situation was not optimistic.

However, whether it is Chen Jingyun or Feng Qin, they have never planned to let the Seventh Division take on the main combat mission now, even if the battle is tense and the first and second divisions need reinforcements, it will be the fourth division that will go up first, as long as the situation is really tense, then the seventh division will be put into battle.

And the situation that can allow the Nationalist Army to invest four divisions in the same direction at the same time can only occur when the Beiyang Army moves southward on a large scale.

"Commander, now a regiment of the Fifth Division of Beiyang has set off from Xuzhou, and it seems that it wants to go to Nanjing. You see if we're going to move too! Feng Qin suggested.

However, Chen Jingyun shook his head: "No, our job now is to prepare, as for when to send troops, I am free to advocate!" ”

Feng Qin and even many senior generals of the Nationalist Army were eager to hope that the Nationalist Army could take the initiative to attack and occupy Shanghai and southern Jiangsu in the early stage, so as to form a strategic advantage and avoid all kinds of troubles at that time.

However, Chen Jingyun is thinking about more than this, although there is already a regiment of the Beiyang Army going south, but there is no move to show that Feng Guozhang dares to go south, as long as Feng Guozhang does not take the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division to the south for a day, as long as Feng Guozhang does not go to the city of Nanjing for a day, then he Chen Jingyun will not be able to send troops for a day.

The first is Huang Xing's opposition, and now Huang Xing is not letting Chen Jingyun enter the southern Jiangsu region first to assist in defense, because he is afraid that the national army will not leave when it comes. The fact is that if the Nationalist Army goes to southern Jiangsu now, unless it is beaten back by the Beiyang Army, it is basically impossible to get the Nationalist Army to withdraw from southern Jiangsu.

The system of the National Army is growing, it is still very young, and it urgently needs a large number of enthusiastic young people to devote themselves to it, and a considerable number of grassroots officers of the National Army, especially among the officers who have graduated from the official class of the Fuzhou Military Academy, are mostly enthusiastic young people, and even more than half of them have come from all over the country to apply for the Fuzhou Military Academy to join the National Army. Chen Jingyun must take into account the thoughts of this part of the people.

Otherwise, once the matter turns out to be Chen Jingyun taking the initiative to provoke a civil war and then fighting the Beiyang Army, it is very likely to have a negative impact on the image of the Nationalist Army and Chen Jingyun, and even affect the hearts of these grassroots officers.

In addition, he also had to estimate the minds of the gentry and businessmen in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, in all fairness, no one likes to fight, if the national army fights every day, those massive military expenses will be more and more, to a certain extent, these military expenses are borne by the people of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. It's good for everyone to do business peacefully, why do you have to fight.

So in all respects, Chen Jingyun can't take the initiative to provoke this civil war.

In fact, he himself is not willing to have a life-and-death decisive battle with the Beiyang Army now, although the Beiyang Army has not been able to complete the final preparations because of the problem of large loans for the aftermath, but the National Army itself is not much better, tens of millions of silver dollars have been spent before eight regular divisions have been built, although the follow-up Eighth Division and the Ninth Division have been prepared, and the recruits have slowly been in place, but based on the fact that the artillery ordered from the United States has not yet returned, even if they come back, they will still be trained and so on, so the two divisions can only exist on paper for the time being.

The current strength of the National Army is still too weak, and it is facing the Beiyang Army with peak equipment, to be honest, Chen Jingyun has no bottom in his heart.

For Chen Jingyun, the best thing to do now is for both sides to maintain their current attitude, exercise restraint, and avoid a large-scale war. And this point, it depends on what Yuan Shikai thinks, if Yuan Shikai can endure Chen Jingyun's occupation of Guangzhou and completely control the three southeastern provinces, then there will definitely be no war. But in the future, a fool can think that Chen Jingyun, who has integrated the three southeastern provinces, will definitely continue to expand his army on a large scale, and then use it to dominate the Central Plains.

Yuan Shikai is not a fool, so he is unwilling to let Chen Jingyun occupy Guangzhou, so this is why he supported Long Jiguang in front of him, and even sent the navy to Guangdong to support Long Jiguang, not only that, but he also appointed Feng Guozhang as the commander of the Second Army, so that the Fifth and Eighth Divisions of the Jinpu Line were ready for battle to prevent the situation in the southeast from completely deteriorating.

As for to fight or not to fight! Yuan Shikai himself hasn't thought about it yet.

To fight or not to fight, this is not a simple choice of choice, but involves many trade-offs, Yuan Shikai must take into account, if he rashly starts a war, then how will other forces in the country view him, will they unite against him, in this case, how long will this war last, how long can such a pitiful military expenditure in his hands last, and if the war situation is unfavorable to him in the future, this big loan for the aftermath may not be able to be done, At that time, he Yuan Shikai is estimated to have to hang himself directly.

Therefore, Yuan Shikai also hopes to continue to drag on, but if it continues to drag on, if Chen Jingyun really kills Long Jiguang and occupies Guangzhou, then Chen Jingyun, who controls the three southeastern provinces, will pose a greater threat to Beiyang than the current Chen Jingyun, and Chen Jingyun will not even have to unite Cai Yi and Lu Rongting, and he will be able to compete with the Beiyang Army directly with the National Army under his command, which Yuan Shikai will never want to see.

Since yesterday I learned that the navy's fleet broke down in the middle of the way, and then went to the Mawei shipyard to repair it, there is no need to ask Yuan Shikai to know that this Wen Tinghe is a mutiny, but he doesn't bother to ask anything, the navy has always been so disgusting, the navy was able to defect to the Southern Revolutionary Party, and now it is reasonable to take refuge in Chen Jingyun again, since this navy can't be counted on, then Yuan Shikai was ruthless in his heart, and stopped the remaining funds of the Admiralty, and then connected and replaced several senior officials of the Admiralty.

The navy is unreliable, so the matter of supporting Long Jiguang will naturally be gone, and according to the information obtained during this time, Yuan Shikai also knows that it is a matter of time before Long Jiguang is defeated.

Since Long Jiguang can't control Guangdong if he is useless, then he will change his personal support! Anyway, even if Long Jiguang is not allowed to control Guangdong, it is okay to let others control Guangzhou, anyway, Chen Jingyun cannot be allowed to control Guangdong safely.

"It seems that I have to talk to Lu Rongting!" After Yuan Shikai looked at the forces around Guangdong, he set his sights on where Guangxi was.

Duan Qirui said: "Guangxi Lu Rongting? This person is now Chen Jingyun's ally, and judging by the current posture, they are planning to attack Long Jiguang outside the city of Guangzhou! ”

Yuan Shikai said disapprerovingly: "It's an ally now, but it doesn't mean that it will still be in the future!" Over there in Guangzhou, Long Jiguang probably won't be able to hold on, but if you think about it, after Long Jiguang is finished, Lu Rongting will occupy the western part of Guangdong, and Chen Jingyun will occupy the eastern part of Guangdong, won't this contradiction come, when the time comes, give Lu Rongting the title of governor of Guangdong, I don't believe they can't fight! ”

When Duan Qirui heard this, he said: "The president is wise!" But in his heart, he thought: "This old man is still as old and spicy as ever, some time ago, he got a Long Jiguang to go to Guangzhou and almost made the Nationalist Army suffer from the enemy, and now Long Jiguang is not ready to let Lu Rongting go up." This strategy of killing people with a knife can't be learned by ordinary people at all! ”

This can't be said that Yuan Shikai is old and vicious, he just used very normal ideas and strategies. Since there are troubles in a large-scale war with the Nationalist Army militarily, then continue to muddy the situation in the south a little more, anyway, Chen Jingyun will not be able to live comfortably.

And Yuan Shikai is really not worried that Lu Rongting will not get on his ship, now Yuan Shikai has the authority of the central government, as long as he says a word, then Lu Rongting is the next governor of Guangdong. At that time, Lu Rongting, as the governor of Guangdong, will control Guangxi and western Guangdong, so there will definitely be contradictions with the national army that controls eastern Guangdong.

At that time, even if the two sides can't fight, then at least they will be able to contain the strength of one or two divisions of the Nationalist Army, and to some extent, it will not be worse than Long Jiguang becoming the governor of Guangdong.

After Yuan Shikai had this thought, the Beiyang side quickly got in touch with Lu Rongting, and after several secret telegrams between the two sides, Lu Rongting laughed at the secret telegram in the north.