As once said, Yan Shao had been preparing to deal with the problem of the white wolf since a long time ago. It's not that he has any bad feelings towards the peasant rebels, it's just that many of the so-called rebels are actually rogues, wandering around and harming the people, and in fact they haven't done much useful things, which is the case with the team led by the white wolf.

At the beginning, in order to effectively support the white wolf, Yan Shao had supported it with a lot of weapons and ammunition through smuggling, which were obviously two or three grades higher than the weapons equipped by the white wolf department.

As for the original ......... used Although he was a little reluctant, it was inconvenient to carry so many weapons for mobile combat after all, so the white wolf found some people to hide all these weapons in a safe place, leaving only the weapons supported by Yan Shao...

The problem is that in today's China, the weapons used by the National Social Army are absolutely unique, whether it is the advanced degree of the weapons or the caliber of the weapons. In other words, if the white wolf accepts the weapon given by Yan Shao, at least in terms of ammunition, he can only rely on Yan Shao...

That way, the rest is simple...

At that time, Hebei was still within the scope of Feng Guozhang's power, and Yan Shao could only support the white wolf through smuggling. The problem is that the scale of ammunition support for smuggling must not be too large, otherwise it will easily arouse the suspicion of the Beiyang Army, so even if the Special Affairs Bureau has bought a lot of people in the Beiyang Army, it will become very troublesome, so the amount of ammunition supported each time is actually very limited...

Of course. This is also what Yan Shao did on purpose, but smuggling or something is a good excuse, so the white wolf and the others did not suspect it.

And it is precisely because of this ice cream-style support method. As a result, the white wolf's ammo is usually only enough for him to fight two or three battles or a little more.

In modern warfare, if the weapons in your hands run out of ammunition, no matter how expensive they were at the beginning, they may not be as good as a burning stick in actual combat, and I believe many people know this.

As long as Yan Shao interrupted his ammunition support for the white wolf, the rest of the matter would naturally be simple.

However, the rogue is already good at rogue warfare, and if he really wants to run, Yan Shao may not be able to catch up with them, and if he wants to encircle and suppress a rogue army. It is not enough to have two or three times the number of troops, so Yan Shao will let Fu Xiuming secretly provide weapons and ammunition to Beiyang, and at the same time ask Beiyang to send troops together with the National Social Army...

Beiyang was able to lose so badly this time because of the relationship between the white wolf. If you ask Beiyang to help, Yan Shao doesn't have to worry about them releasing water halfway. And the amount of ammunition given to Feng Guozhang is not very large, so there is no need to worry about being bitten by Beiyang in the process of encirclement and suppression...

If they do that, it's definitely 'if you don't die, you won't die'...

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"Commander, Miyaho-sama's telegram to you..."

Shandong Dezhou. Feng Guozhang's temporary residence. An officer walked into the headquarters with a brisk pace, still holding a telegram that had just arrived.

Although the peace talks have been reached, after all, there are still many details that have not been completed, and the north also needs to have such a person who can control the situation, so there are still many orders that need to be conveyed through Yuan Shikai for the time being.

"Kung Pao's telegram?"

Standing up from his seat, Feng Guozhang looked much haggard than before.

Although many people know that the defeat of Beiyang is almost inevitable, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, Beiyang was buried in his hands after all. One can imagine how much pressure this Beiyang dog is under on weekdays, not to mention that he has also been given such a high position as vice minister of defense in the peace talks. This naturally made many old people in Beiyang feel angry, and even Feng Guozhang himself felt a little ashamed while being happy.

"Yes, the telegram from Lord Gong Bao, it seems that there is something important..."The officer was not very clear about the content of the telegram, but he could still understand the word urgency on it, so he hurriedly stuffed the telegram into Feng Guozhang's hand and turned around to leave.

On the other side, after signaling that he could retreat, Feng Guozhang also opened the telegram and looked at it carefully.

The content of it is very simple, the general meaning is that it will not be long before a unit of the National Socialist Army will arrive in Texas, on the surface the task of this force is to take over the defense of Texas from Feng Guozhang's hands, in fact, to provide ammunition support to Feng Guozhang who lacks ammunition, and then the two armies will join the National Socialist Army in Henan to launch an encirclement and suppression of the white wolf rogue that is raging in Henan.

It's that simple...

"White wolf..."Looking at the contents of the telegram, Feng Guozhang's eyes showed deep hatred.

Although he also knew very well that Beiyang was almost certain to lose this battle, if it weren't for the white wolf cutting off the Jinghan Railway in the back, he could have retained more strength for Beiyang, and also allowed Yuan Shikai and others to occupy a more advantageous position in the negotiations—————— in fact, this is also the reason why there are so many people in Beiyang who are not angry with Feng Guozhang.

"Someone!"

As soon as Feng Guozhang's voice fell, several guards standing outside the door had already run in. "Commander!"

"Pass my order, call all the officers over, and say that there is an urgent mission..."

"Yes!"

Soon, a large number of officers and soldiers of the headquarters rushed to gambling stalls, kilns and other places, and pulled out the Beiyang officers who were drunk and dreaming there.

Since Feng Guozhang was defeated and retreated to Texas, because he didn't know when the Nationalist Army would fight, these officers who participated in the army lived a drunken life in the gambling stalls or kilns in Texas, and spent a lot of silver dollars on Sister Yao—————— if they wanted to enjoy it before they died.

Although the North-South peace talks were later successful, the war could no longer be fought. But they could not get used to this drunken life, and many officers simply left their troops and went to the kiln to enjoy themselves.

At first, Feng Guozhang didn't care much about this kind of thing, after all, there was the responsibility for defeat. Feng Guozhang will inevitably be a little ashamed when he looks at those subordinates, but now...

"Even if I can't defeat the National Social Army, can't I still defeat a bunch of bandits?" Feng Guozhang gritted his teeth.

It seems that he is planning to vent all the pressure of this time on the white wolf...

But then again, although some remnants of the knowledge in Texas are now defeated, they still have some ability to survive the battlefield after all. Just like Feng Guozhang said, if you can't win the National Social Army, can't you still win a group of bandits?

Feng Guozhang also plans to take this opportunity to sort out the morale of the army, so as not to be looked down upon by the National Social Army in the future.

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was pulled out of the kiln or gambling stall, after listening to Feng Guozhang's words. The officers, who had been almost hollowed out by the color of wine, had finally regained some of their morale.

In fact, at this time, it was not only these officers who were drunk and dreaming in Texas City, but those ordinary soldiers were actually the same, but it ——————was very tragic that their money was not as much as that of those officers...

Therefore, many soldiers had to go to some cheaper kilns. Or buy some wine from the restaurant in the city and go back to the barracks to drink, and if the money is gone, they will eat in the barracks and wait for death.

However, it is precisely because they do not have as much money as the officers that their combat effectiveness has recovered relatively quickly. Before the troops of the National Socialist Army marching north arrived in Texas. The officers and soldiers of Beiyang can be regarded as visible under the organization of Feng Guozhang and other officers

By the way, this time it was the Second Division led by Bai Runshan who was responsible for going north to meet Feng Guozhang, and he also brought a lot of sharp weapons in his hands that could boost morale—————— silver dollars.

It is very important to buy people's hearts at any time, not to mention that Yan Shao and they can also imagine what the morale of these Beiyang troops will be after they are defeated again. So when he went north, Bai Runshan also brought hundreds of thousands of silver dollars as a gift, anyway, he had already given a lot of Beiyang troops before, and it was not bad for these hundreds of thousands...

It turned out to be a good hand, at least when you saw the pockets full of silver dollars. The vast majority of Beiyang officers and men only changed their positions in an instant—————— both superficially and psychologically.

Even a small number of people who are more nostalgic for Beiyang are not as resistant to the National Social Army as they used to be. These can't help but make Bai Runshan and Feng Guozhang sigh that wealth can be channeled.

On the other hand, since the white wolf's eyeliner is limited to Henan, and the external intelligence depends on the Special Affairs Bureau, so at this time, he doesn't know that Yan Shao has teamed up with Beiyang to deal with him—————— so it seems that Beiyang can also be called his own person now, but now Beiyang has not officially awarded the number and so on, so it will be called Beiyang for the time being.

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After the peace talks, Yan Shao and Duan Qirui announced the content of the peace talks.

Roughly, most of the content in it did not surprise everyone, and the additional compensation for Yuan Shikai was not written into it. After all, that was the condition that Yan Shao had reached with Yuan Shikai in private, and it was impossible to say it on the surface.

And if it is really announced, won't there be many more twists and turns?

So it's better to hide this matter for the time being, and wait until fifty or a hundred years later to decrypt it...

Cough...

Getting back to business...

The agreement reached between Yan Shao and Duan Qirui was generally not too unexpected for others, except for one thing...

The new capital is still Beijing, not Nanjing, as people speculated...

It is not surprising that in the eyes of the confrontation between the north and the south since the liberation, although the relationship between Yan Shao and the Kuomintang is very bad, it is still regarded as the south by the world, so it is natural for Yan Shao to choose Nanjing as the country.

What's more, Yan Shao had just ended the war with Yuan Shikai, so he directly chose to set the capital in Beijing, isn't Yan Shao afraid that the old people in Beiyang will be unfavorable to him?

Therefore, almost everyone thought that Yan Shao would choose Nanjing instead of Beijing, and Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, was even ready to give up Nanjing to Yan Shao as the capital.

As a result, as soon as Yan Shao's decision came out, it was really unexpected by the world...

In fact, there is a great deal of disagreement even within the Kuomintang Socialist Party, with many people feeling that Nanjing should be chosen as the capital, and some even suggesting that one should be chosen from Anqing or Wuhu altogether—————— two cities are not doing well anyway, although they are not as prosperous as Beijing or Nanjing. But at least the gap is not too big, and it is still his own territory, but Yan Shao still insisted on his own ideas after the most reluctance.

Yan Shao never considered the statement related to feng shui. After all, it belongs to the category of feudal superstition—————— then again, which one is the longest-lived in the dynasty of Nanjing Dingdu?

As for geography, Beijing is indeed more suitable than Nanjing.

Nanjing aside, Beijing has Weihai and other military ports, across the Bohai Strait and the Liaodong Peninsula Lushun mouth into a horn, a total of the Bohai Sea lock key, guarding the Beijing-Tianjin sea gateway. Moreover, at the entrance to Bohai Bay, there is also Changdao County, forming a chain of islands. As long as the successor is not as bastard as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is basically no need to worry about the security of the Beijing-Tianjin area.

Even if the navy does not give strength, let the enemy break through the Bohai Bay. Yan Shao or his successor can still form a land defense line in Tianjin, and Nanjing...

Probably it is necessary to find a place to sink the ship, just like the shipwreck in the Yangtze River in the past, so that the enemy does not go down the river...

Ultimately. After all, China's navy is still too weak. And if you want to catch up and surpass Japan, it will not be possible in 1, 20 or even 2 or 30 years. After all, the navy is different from other arms, such as the army or the air force, whether it is the training of soldiers or the manufacture of equipment, it can be completed in a short time—————— the use of aircraft in this period is relatively simple, and even in later generations it is simpler than the navy.

On the other hand, in the Navy, even if it is ordinary, the manufacturing cycle of a large warship will take at least one year, in addition to outfitting and sea trials, etc. In addition, there is the training of officers and soldiers. The navy is a very troublesome branch of the army, and it takes a lot of time for the officers and men on the warship to develop combat effectiveness.

And on the basis of the current Chinese Navy. Even if Yan Shao spent money to buy a large number of warships from Britain or Germany, he didn't have so many people to drive the ships...

At this time, a 10,000-ton cruiser needs 7 or 800 people, and this level of warship is not big in this era, 20,000-ton battleships or battle cruisers dare not say that they abound, but all add up to hundreds of them...

After all, even Japan had more than a dozen battleships and battle cruisers during World War I, and it was almost impossible to surpass Japan in the navy within 10 years, but the possibility of conflict between China and Japan was the greatest.

And then the most important point...

For geographical reasons, Shanghai can be said to be the economic and financial center of China, and no one should doubt this. It is precisely because of this that it would be a little inappropriate to place the capital south of the Yangtze River, after all, Nanjing and Shanghai are too close to each other, and they will overlap with each other to some extent.

cough, but there are still too few people who can understand Yan Shao's painstaking efforts after all, so Yan Shao still arbitrarily promoted this move. And for this, Beiyang can be said to be the most welcome, after all, they don't have to move, and Yan Shao's attitude can also be regarded as an emphasis on them to a certain extent.

As for security? This can be said to be the least worrying thing for Yan Shao.

Because in the process of going north, Yan Shao was not alone, but went north with tens of thousands of troops, and the one who was one step ahead of Yan Shao was the Special Affairs Bureau.

Since a long time ago, the Special Affairs Bureau has begun to deploy in the north, but because of the connection of the Gyeonggi Military and Political Law Enforcement Department, it has to be somewhat cautious. Now that peace has been negotiated between the north and the south, Caterina naturally has nothing to worry about.

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"However, the climate in Beijing will be very different from here..."

Remembering the past few times she had been to the North, Elano spoke as she sorted out the materials she had at hand.

"Yes..."Hearing Elano such a club, Yan Shao also laughed. This is especially true in the winter, but the climate in the north is very dry, so as long as you wear something warm, you will not be a problem..."

Yan Shao is not very worried about whether Elenor and the others can adapt to life in the north, after all, France and Spain also belong to the northern hemisphere countries, so there is no need to worry about this aspect at all, the same is true for Kaoru Otsuki and Fumiko, what really worries Yan Shao is Lu Ying, after all, she was born in Anhui, and except for a trip to Japan, she has basically never been out of Anhui, it is difficult to say whether she can adapt to the environment in the north.

However, in any case, Beijing is going after all...

It is only after arriving in Beijing that the follow-up plan can be continued...

"But Beijing......... I haven't been there in a long time..."

Just when Yan Shao sighed like this, Wu Qianqiu's voice came from outside.

"Come in..."

With Yan Shao's permission, Wu Qianqiu walked in from outside, still holding a telegram in his hand.

"The telegram just came back from Suzhou, Minister Fu and Vice Minister Feng are ready, ready to do it at any time..."

"In addition, Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Zhang Fenghui in Shaanxi, and Li Yuanhong in Hubei have also promised that as long as our side makes a move, they will immediately mobilize troops to blockade the border, and never let a single rogue escape from Henan..."

Now those local emperors are worried that they don't have a chance to get closer to Yan Shao, so they naturally won't let go of this opportunity, and they have also heard about some of the white wolf's actions in Henan, and they are not willing to let such a group of rogues run into their rule.

"Very good..."Hearing Wu Qianqiu say this, Yan Shao nodded with satisfaction. Tell Fu Xiuming that he must not let go of a rogue..."

"Yes!" (To be continued......)