Chapter 28 of the fourth part: New, old Beiyang

"Why?" The person who asked was Yu Xiu! His face was very calm, as if he was asking an irrelevant question. Chen Congyun, the opposite side, also had a calm face. From the moment the power was powered on the whole country, Chen Congyun knew that this question would be in front of him.

"If I say, I want to be the emperor, do you believe it?" Chen Congyun smiled and stared at Yuxiu's calm face.

Yuxiu shook her head gently and said, "I don't believe it! Your ambition is not that great. It's not something you can do just by saying that you can do it."

Chen Congyun nodded and smiled, "Fortunately, you know me quite well. Before I answer your question, I want to ask you a question first. What kind of mentality do you Manchus treat Han people?"

"All the world is the imperial land, the shores of the land, and the kingly ministers. The world is the Aisin Jueluo family, and the people of the world are naturally also the people and servants of Aisin Jueluo! When the people of Manchu entered the pass, there were only hundreds of thousands, and there were more Han people than us. In the end, the world still sat down, which means that this was God's will." Yu Xiu answered very simply, and a hint of excitement gradually appeared on his face.

"It's very good, I'm talking about the point. Haha, slave! It's this word that exposes the Manchus' mentality of ruling the Central Plains. It's this word that exposes my great and great country of China. In the past two hundred years, it has completely fallen behind the world's powers, and has fallen to the fate of being passively beaten and broken mountains and rivers today. You are not asking me why? I'm telling you now that I'm starting a northern expedition to completely get rid of the fate of being a slave and let the Chinese nation stand again at the highest point of the world's nations. To do this, you Manchus can't do it, because I don't need a slave." Chen Congyun was a little excited as he said, and he held the pen on his hand tightly, and with a click, the pen's head broke.

"Thank you for telling me the truth, I feel at ease." Yu Xiu made a gesture of greeting Chen Congyun and slowly retreated.

Soon after, a scream suddenly came from the door. After a turmoil, when Chen Congyun rushed out of the study, a bloody Yuxiu was lying on the floor, and a piece of paper was still holding on his hand.

Chen Congyun couldn't help but feel ache in his heart, squatted down, gently pried open Yuxiu's hand, and picked up the paper.

"Life! Even if you have no face to face the queen mother's kindness, you have no face to serve the king, only death. Ten miles of flat lakes are full of frost, and inch of black hair is sad in the year of me. Looking at each other alone in the moon shape, I only envy the mandarin ducks and not the immortals. I have been with you for ten years, and I will have no regrets in this life!"

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"Why are you sad? For her, this may be the best destination. For you, if you want to fight for the world, you will definitely lose a lot of things, including feelings. Haven't you seen the long history books, brothers are tragically killed and fathers are tragically killed? Have they ever been sad?"

Zi Yu said softly, and his movements were still gracefully servicing the tea set in front of him. Chen Congyun stood on the balcony, and when the river breeze blew, he was confused.

"Ziyu, don't comfort me. Actually, I had already expected this ending at the beginning. The situation ahead has changed. I will set off to the front line tomorrow."

"Do you bring a sister? You can't help but have no one around you."

"No need, the soldiers are fighting in front of me. Why do I feel so good about Hong Jucui? I have ruined my morale."

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Small station!

After more than 500 casualties were reported, Zhang Guangming knocked his head in pain. Using cavalry to fight against the tough battle was indeed not a wise choice. What’s even more annoying is that after Feng Guozhang got reinforcements, he did not intend to attack, but instead stood firm in the village and acted as if he would not go out.

At this time, Wang Shizhen, who was in the small station, sent troops from the two associations to slowly press up from the front. This move was quite skillful, and Zhang Guangming was not fighting or retreating.

"The division seat, the Beiyang soldiers are forcing me up. The damn Feng Guozhang will never come out." Dai Xiaolou cursed angrily, without any help.

"What are you excited about? Our mission is to delay the Beiyang soldiers. Now we have basically completed the task. Let's continue to inform the whole team and retreat slowly." Although Zhang Guangming was unwilling to give up, he still gave the order to retreat helplessly.

The two Beiyang soldiers who came to reinforce the two associations met Feng Guozhang in the village and slowly retreated decisively. Although Zhang Guangming was willing to pursue, the Beiyang soldiers showed their well-trained side at this time. The three associations' forces alternately covered and retreated. Duan Qirui also sent a battalion of artillery teams to reinforce. If Zhang Guangming chased after him, it would be unnecessary to mention the loss of the roulette roulette. He wanted to keep a distance, but he was blown over by a 75mm battalion shell.

"The three heroes of Beiyang are really amazing!" Zhang Guangming was so angry that his teeth were itchy, but he had no choice but to witness the orderly retreat of the Beiyang soldiers towards Tianjin.

Wang Shizhen rescued Feng Guozhang, stood at a high place and looked at Zhang Guangming's cavalry division with a telescope, and couldn't help but sigh to Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang beside him, "Shen Congyun is a hero, a new army in the South China Sea, a tiger and a wolf. Such a large number of cavalry consumed is not a small amount of fodder every day. Have you noticed that even under my artillery fire, the South China Sea cavalry refused to step into the wheat fields on both sides of the road. It can be seen that Shen Congyun's strict governance of the army shows that we are enemies with him, and our future is worrying."

"Hmph! The new Nanyang Army is powerful. A mere cavalry division is equipped with dozens of light artillery. However, my Beiyang soldiers are not vegetarians. My shells will not blow up others, so they can overturn their horses?" Duan Qirui snorted dissatisfied. Feng Guozhang, who was personally in charge of the rear-end, also sighed at this time: "Zhiquan, although you must not be ambitious to others, let Nanyang use thousands of cavalry to attack my fortress, which delays our army retreating for two hours. Strategically, they are the winners. Let's go, it's almost dark! If you don't go to Tianjin, you may not even have time to build fortifications."

As the three of them commanded the army to retreat slowly, suddenly a violent explosion came from the direction behind them.

Soon, a messenger ran to the front panting and said, "Military Gate, something big is wrong, the artillery association...the running association..."

Yang Jun was very dissatisfied with Zhang Guangming's bias. Why could Dai Xiaolou fight the main attack? He had to take a regiment of cavalry to attack the enemy behind. Didn't Dai Xiaolou graduate from Tianjin Martial Arts School? Is it just a bad place in our Shanghai Martial Arts School? Why did you say that you could just pretend to scare the Beiyang soldiers?

Yang Jun was not easy to say this, so he had to take a regiment of cavalry for two hours, circled a big circle, and finally got behind the Beiyang Army. But what could a regiment of cavalry do? Any infantry was arranged in a square formation, and the camp cannons were mounted. Maxim, the cavalry of this regiment dared to charge, just a dish.

Yang Jun also wanted to do some side jobs, so he did not show up immediately. Instead, he hid behind a sloping grave, aiming at the Beiyang soldiers retreating on the road from afar.

While the bored Yang Jun was lying on the grass and basking in the sun, the regiment commander Zhao Li ran over happily.

"Travel!Travel, the transaction is coming."

"Call me, just a few hundred people, you still want to be the mountain king." Yang Jun cursed unhappily. Zhao Li was not angry. He smiled and leaned forward and said, "Horseman, you can get up and take a look."

Yang Jun stood up suspiciously, climbed up to Gaochao and looked on the road with a telescope, and was stunned.

"Be good! There are many artillery, at least an artillery soldier. What's going on? There is no infantry cover?" Yang Jun saw the problem, and looked at Zhao Li, and the kid was nodding excitedly. No wonder this kid was so excited?

"Hehe, this place is only five miles away from Tianjin City. When the guns and cannons in front of me, it is estimated that the division was fighting fiercely. The Beiyang soldiers thought that it was safe to arrive in Tianjin, so the infantry left alternate covers to retreat. Unexpectedly, we were waiting here."

"What are you waiting for? Let's continue to order, everyone gets on their horses, runs at a constant speed, and prepares for attack."

When the dense horse hooves came from the earth, seven or eight hundred cavalry suddenly appeared behind the grave where there were no ghosts. The Beiyang Cannon Association, which was retreating on the road, was completely disorganized. The temporary square formation composed of artillery soldiers, and sporadic gunfire could not stop the cavalry from advancing. This was because Duan Qirui was well trained, otherwise these soldiers would have probably run away long ago.

The excited Yang Jun waved his saber and rushed to the front.

"Kill!"

A distance of one thousand meters, the cavalry arrived in a blink of an eye. After paying the price of more than a dozen people, the cavalry regiment rushed onto the main road. In front of a cold sabre, the Beiyang soldiers fled in scattered.

After chasing for more than ten minutes, Yang Jun ordered the pursuit to stop the Beiyang soldiers. Looking at the cannon trucks all over the ground, Yang Jun shivered with grief: "Grandma, what a good cannon, all German goods, I can't take it away."

Zhao Li ran over and said anxiously: 'Closer, retreat quickly, or if the Beiyang reinforcements come, they will have to leave something behind."

"What should I do with these cannons? Forget it, let the brothers greet them with cluster grenades, and they all exploded."

When Duan Qirui learned that the two artillery teams were attacked by cavalry, he immediately came with a cavalry and rushed to reinforce. When he arrived at the place, the cannons that had been blown up and the detonated artillery shells were bombarded everywhere. Duan Qirui was so distressed that he almost fell off his horse.

"What is Nie Shicheng doing for? He has clearly notified him to come and pick him up. There is no artillery team, so what can we use to guard Tianjin?" Duan Qirui shouted at Wang Shizhen with anger.

Wang Shizhen also had a dark face and did not speak. Looking at the scrap iron all over the ground, Wang Shizhen bit her tightly and sneered: "I must let Lord Yuan ginseng a book."

Feng Guozhang, who had no expression, stepped forward and sneered, "Forget it, the enemy is in front of him, unity is important. But then again, the court treats old Beiyang like this and Nie Shicheng is willing to guard in Tianjin, which is already very proud of the court. Haven't you seen that there are still a few people and guns left in the old Beiyang now?" Feng Guozhang was once Nie Shicheng's old subordinate, Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui were also from old Beiyang? As soon as these words were said, both of them were silent.

After a long time, Wang Shizhen sighed to the sky: "When will the Qing Dynasty stop the internal strife between one's own people?"

The artillery team was almost wiped out, and the plan to retreat to Tianjin for a year and a half was suddenly very slim. The Zhili Admiral Nie Shicheng was Li Hongzhang's close friend and confidant. The three of them knew in their hearts that it was strange that it was strange that Yuan Shikai betrayed Li Hongzhang, who promoted him. After Ronglu came to power, the old Beiyang could still look a little, and it was Wu Yi's army. Isn't Nie Shicheng the position of the Zhili Admiral Nie Shicheng a means of balance? Using the old Beiyang to restrain the New Beiyang, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty seemed to be very interested in the internal fighting between the ministers.

At the end of Tianjin city, Nie Shicheng looked at the smoke-filled road from afar, his face full of gloom.

"Military Gate, our army has never sent troops to greet you. I wonder if Yuan Shikai will?"

"I can't care about those things anymore, let's go out of the city to welcome them." Nie Shicheng sneered lazily and slowly walked down the city.

The sky gradually became dark, and the main force led by Liu Yongfu finally arrived at the small station, but the main force of the Beiyang soldiers of the small station retreated into the Tianjin urban area.

Chen Congyun had no doubts about whether he could conquer Beijing. When the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing, how many people were there? There were only 50,000 people in total. At that time, Yuan Shikai refused to serve the king in Shandong, and the Qing army in Shanhaiguan refused to go south. It can be seen how poor the Qing government had control over the bigwigs who held military power in various places.

"A joke, I still hope that the governors of various provinces will serve the kings? They probably are thinking about how to protect their own land. As long as Li Yaozu set me off on Guangzhou, the governors of other provinces will stay honestly on their territory. Who is willing to do the things that cause fire to burn themselves?" Chen Congyun threw the telegram on the table with disdain. On the Mercedes-Benz train, the dark earth outside the window swept through in an instant, the lights in the carriage were brightly lit, and a huge map was placed on the big table in the middle.

"The problem now is that in the offensive and defensive battle in Tianjin City, the Beiyang soldiers at the small station retreated to Tianjin. This is a very troublesome thing." Ke Ze frowned, and was a little dissatisfied with Chen Congyun's opposition to sneak attacks.

"This is not a problem. Tianjin City has only 60,000 or 70,000 troops now. Unfortunately, there is a conflict between them. As long as we concentrate our troops to fight Nie Shicheng, Yuan Shikai's will not dare to fight with us with his old capital. Nie Shicheng's troops are not bad, but the entire Wuyi army has only equipped two Maxiqins. With this little firepower, I want to defend the territory, and there is no gate. Don't look at what my new Nanyang army is equipped with? Besides, the biggest problem of Wuyi army is that the training methods are backward and the tactical guiding ideology is outdated. Our army has entered the field of emphasizing the coordinated operation of infantry and artillery. What about them? The soldiers couldn't even shoot the guns, right?" Chen Congyun's words did not mean to slander Nie Shicheng. When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, Nie Shicheng was indeed brave in Tianjin, but what was the result? The Wu Yi Army, equipped with a large number of new weapons, relied on the combat power condensed by Nie Shicheng's personal charm. Once the officer died in battle, the soldiers who lost command would be even worse than a group of ducks and scattered. This phenomenon of the old Chinese army continued until the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation. Otherwise, how could the National Army be destroyed for hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands?

"Yes, the problem is that communication methods are still very troublesome now. It would be great if there was a way to communicate quickly from a long distance." Keze was also quite moved. Since the day of the founding of the army, Chen Congyun repeatedly emphasized the coordinated combat between various troops, especially the coordinated combat between infantry and artillery, and carried out a lot of practice in training. As a regular German soldier with a professional background, Keze also felt very magical. Chen Congyun often had some magical suggestions, and these suggestions did have a good effect through practice.

For example, before launching the attack, the commando hiding near the enemy's position, advocated launching a battle before dawn, emphasizing the importance of night wars, etc. These views were successfully verified in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and accumulated a lot of experience. Especially the large number of mortars equipped in the army had a magical effect when knocking out some Japanese firepower points. Although Keze couldn't understand where Chen Congyun came from, as a rigorous soldier, after verifying the effect of these tactics on the battlefield, Keze changed some of the opinions put forward by Chen Congyun from the initial skepticism to strong support.

"I don't know what the situation is going on at sea? On the Shandong Peninsula, the landing battle will be launched tomorrow morning as planned, right?" Chen Congyun lay on the map, asking without raising his head.

Keze also leaned over and pointed to the map and said: "Calmondo and François have considerable landing combat experience. With the cooperation of the Nanyang Navy, as long as the Beiyang Navy's departure route is suppressed, there is no problem with landing combat. The soldiers under the Shandong Governor can only be called farmers."

Shandong Governor Li Bingheng, this kid was killed shortly after the Japanese soldiers landed during the Sino-Japanese War. He probably had to surrender under Cao Yi's sneak attack? This time he had no place to run away.

"Haha, when you arrive in Jiangning, everything has an answer. I want the Beiyang Navy to be complete. I even think that landing on the Shandu Peninsula can be omitted, just log in from Shanhaiguan."

Keze listened and pondered for a while, "This is very likely. If Cao Yi takes Jinan as fast as possible and quickly rushes to Weihai, the Shandong troops will lose command. Once Weihai takes it, the Beiyang Navy will be in his pocket."

Chen Congyun smiled and said, "When formulating a combat plan, the General Staff always makes the worst plans. It is recommended that when crossing the river in Nanjing, they should telegraph Shandong. If the situation of the war is as we expected, they can ignore the landing operation on the Shandong Peninsula and land directly from Shanhaiguan to threaten Beijing."

Everything was done in Jinan City at this time. Almost on the afternoon of the day when Chen Congyun powered on the whole country, Li Bingheng was surrendered. The one who took him was Sun Wanling. When Cao Yi led his army to the death, Sun Wanling opened the city gate to welcome the new army. Coincidentally, the Telegraph Bureau broke down and it was only repaired until dark. At this time, Cao Yi had already led his army to Weihai.

When Liu Yongfu was the admiral in Shandong, Chen Congyun made full use of this position and sent a large number of political workers to Shandong. Coupled with the strict discipline of the new army, the new army had a high reputation in Shandong. Sun Wanling was a faction that supported the reform. When he learned that Chen Congyun raised an army to serve the king, he immediately took action and took Li Bingheng.

Cao Yi went east, and the defenders of various prefectures and counties were invincible, and he successfully won Zibo in one day.

The train arrived in Jinling in the middle of the night. As soon as I got off the train, the new army officials who had been waiting here sent a stack of telegrams.

A telegram sent by Zhang Zhidong from Huguang said: "I am eager to return to the savior, but this is the family affairs of the emperor. It seems inappropriate to intervene. Brother thought it should stop fighting and be the name of the two rivers." What does Zhang Zhidong mean? I advised Chen Congyun not to fight, so as not to be accused of being a traitor.

Li Hongzhang's call was more helpless and said, "I was shocked to hear that Zi Gui raised his troops. I was heartbroken and thought it would not be the case. The following soldiers violated the power of heaven, and they are really unwise. Now the Empress Dowager has said that if you return, you will be in charge of the military service and will be the most powerful minister." Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong meant the same thing, but they had an extra wish to enthrone the official. These were all within Shen Congyun's expectations. After seeing it, Chen Congyun threw the telegram into the wind with disdain.

"Reply! Zhang and Li are now covered in dust, and the harem is in chaos. My son returns to follow the Tang Dynasty's Duke Zhang and use his troops to correct him." Chen Congyun's reply borrows the allusion of Zhang Jianzhi of the Tang Dynasty, comparing Cixi to Wu Zetian.

Liu Kunyi's tone became more tough, and he directly called the whole country and said: "Chen Congyun is a traitor, I am going to raise an army to attack him!" Seeing this telegram, Chen Congyun frowned and said: "Liu Kun only has a few guns under him? Can the old Hunan Army still fight now?"

Keze thought for a while and said, "I have asked Clawson to lead a brigade to guard Jiaxing. Liu Kunyi is now in Fuzhou. Even if he has 30,000 troops in Zhejiang, he may not be able to pass Jiading."

Chen Congyun sneered and said, "I called back to Liu Kunyi and said I was waiting for him to fight. By the way, I informed Wang Chao and sent a brigade to attack and advance towards Zhejiang. I informed Clawson not to stay in Jiading. Just hit me Hangzhou. I want to see who will hit whom."

Unexpectedly, the fourth telegram that Chen Congyun read was actually Tan Zhonglin's mercy telegram. Li Yaozu, as the admiral of Guangxi, left Guangdong, and no one dared to stop him. Tan Zhonglin called: "The change of Wuxu is the family affairs of the emperor, what are the affairs of the ministers? Guangdong, Guangxi and Liangjiang, the well water does not violate the rivers, why did Shen raise an army to attack?"
Chapter completed!