Chapter 510 The bloody case caused by the law

Yuan Shikai stretched out a finger and shook it, his eyes were shining, and his face felt a sense of pride. He said, "Xingcheng, Zhiquan, it seems that you haven't understood what I mean. I have seen the disadvantages of our Beiyang Army in the last year's Guangdong War. The journey is long, the supply is long, and the superiors and subordinates are complicated. It is difficult to achieve decent results on the territory of Guangdong. Wu Shaoting is not a fool, he also understands how much he has. In terms of military strength, it is at most a mountain king limited to Guangdong."

Duan Qirui and Yang Shiqi looked at each other at the same time. Although they had always had discord on weekdays, they had to let go of prejudices that should be put down when it was related to the overall interests of Beiyang. Duan Qirui found some clues to understand Yuan Shikai's words from Yang Shiqi's face, and Yang Shiqi was the same. As a result, the two realized that they were all in the dark after looking at each other.

Yuan Shikai continued slowly and said: "If it weren't for this limitation, Wu Shaoting wouldn't have done anything to the National People's Progressive Council. He planned to use political means to compete for national power. Unfortunately, I'm not stupid and would never let him succeed. This time we used the new law to suppress the south, but in fact, it was suppressing a province in Guangdong. You always thought I would take advantage of this incident to fight Guangdong again. Haha, I said just now that it is not easy for us to travel south from the north to the long distance, and Wu Shaoting also entrenched in southern Xinjiang and could not extend north. Since no one is willing to benefit, why do you have to fight head-on."

Duan Qirui said tentatively: "Does... the president meant simply forcing Wu Shaoting?"

Yuan Shikai nodded happily and said proudly: "That's right. I just want to force Wu Shaoting. If I go further, he will definitely go further, but I just force him not to fight. I advance in the name of the Central Committee of the National Government. When can he last? As for Lu Rongting, hum, he is just a chess piece I entered Guangdong. He fired the first shot and it was their south, and it has nothing to do with our Beiyang. By then, Wu Shaoting was almost forced. He couldn't fight with us, he could only fight with Guangxi and Fujian. This is the real good show."

At the end of the day, he couldn't help laughing deeper.

Yang Shiqi didn't understand military strategy and was still thinking for a while, but Duan Qirui immediately understood.

On the surface, if Lu Rongting and Wu Shaoting fight, the tenth *** would still repeat the mistakes of the Guangdong-Guangxi War last year. But this time was not at that time. Last year, Wu Shaoting stood on the stance of the Second Revolution, and had more or less political cover. If Wu Shaoting defeated Lu Rongting again this year, and even more domineeringly expanded his power to the entire Guangxi Province, the power map in the south will undergo earth-shaking changes, and Guizhou, Yunnan and Hunan will definitely be nervous and Wu Shaoting will dominate.

When facing pressure from the Beiyang Group, the southern warlords will unite to fight against each other, with the purpose of worrying about the Beiyang Group becoming bigger and gradually eroding the interests of the southern provinces. The same principle can also be applied to Wu Shaoting's Guangdong power. The reason why the southern warlords advocated and encouraged Wu Shaoting to be the leader of the south was that they hope that Wu Shaoting and Beiyang would restrain each other or wipe each other away.

The leader of the southern world and the overlord are different things. Wu Shaoting can be the nominal leader of the southern world, but it must never destroy the existing division of interests. As long as Lu Rongting's power is annexed by Wu Shaoting this time, other southern warlords will naturally come to the other Wu Shaoting group just like they are dealing with the Beiyang Group.

Duan Qirui sighed deeply and said with praise: "The President is indeed far-sighted. This move is amazing to use force. Instead of our Beiyang to suppress Guangdong, it is better to throw stones from the other side of the river to muddle the water in the south. When the warlords in the south consume almost the same amount, it will be easy for us to rush our troops to unify the whole country."

Yang Shiqi looked depressed on the side, but unexpectedly, Duan Qirui took the lead this time.

Yuan Shikai laughed and said, "Zhiquan, you finally realized it. Just do this, let's just force it not to fight."

A few days later, Yuan Shikai transferred 500,000 yuan of funds through HSBC to Guangxi. A month ago, Lu Rongting was preparing for the Northern Expedition to the Li River. Until today, everything was ready, and the Beiyang government was only waiting for the Beiyang government to fulfill its promise. After receiving the funds, Lu Rongting did not rush to take action, but further observed the situation in Hunan and Guangdong. Although he is rich and has soldiers now, he can start fighting at any time, but after suffering losses, he will always be more careful and must be more sensible.

Tangxiang Ming, Hunan, had received instructions from the Army Department earlier, ordering the Hunan Army to arrange a unit to respond to Guangxi's actions against Guilin's left-behind mansion. Tangxiang Ming was very distressed by this order. Although he was ambitious, he only wanted to stabilize his dominance in Hunan. After all, he had only been under the Hunan Governor for less than a year.

But then again, if he refuses to obey his orders, his status in Hunan will be even more unsafe. If he accepts the order, there are not many troops in his hands that can be obediently mobilized, not to mention that it is too stupid to spend money to fight a war that is useless to him.

After some thought, he decided to bluff and randomly dispatched several troops, claiming to be 20,000 people, stationed in the border areas between Hunan and Guangxi.

The situation in the south suddenly fell into tension.

At 11:00 a.m. on the last day of June, an encrypted emergency telegram was sent to the Guangzhou Governor's Office.

After the on-duty correspondent translated the message, he hurriedly passed it to the attendant in the South Hall. After reading the message, the attendant knew that the situation was in a hurry and had to wake up Wu Shaoting who had just rested.

Wu Shaoting came to the corridor of the South Hall in a short jacket. It was now in the middle of summer. The weather was so hot that he simply didn't go to the office and just stood outdoors while blowing the cool breeze while listening to the telegram.

"On June 28, Yu received a secret telegram from the Nanning Military Government, which was about to invite Lu Shuai to contract to send troops to Guilin. The secret telegram also made a promise. On the day when Guilin broke the city, Lu Shuai was willing to make me accept the commander of Guilin. The matter is very important and dare not negotiate. After thinking about it, he specially sent a special telegram to Guangzhou to send a message to Shuai Ting, asking for consideration. Yang Ximin San." The attendant read out the original text of the telegram.

After hearing this, Wu Shaoting's expression changed slightly and he immediately realized that Lu Rongting was going to take action.

At the same time, he could also see that Lu Rongting was much more cautious this time, and learned to use the divisive strategy to provoke Yang Ximin and Guilin's left-behind mansion to rebel. While weakening the military force north of the Li River, he also won over and win over people's hearts. Of course, he knew why Lu Rongting chose Yang Ximin, because Yang Ximin was a figure in the Yunnan clan. During the Chengdu Incident in Sichuan, the Yunnan clan army remained neutral. It can be seen that the Yunnan military government was in conflict with the north.

As a result, there was another doubt. The Yunnan warlords had already made their position clear. Why did Yang Ximin deliberately forward the incident of Lu Rongting's poaching to Guangzhou?

Although Yang Ximin is one of the members of the National People's Progressive Association, the future of the National People's Progressive Association and Guangdong is uncertain, and Yang Ximin cannot rashly put all the bets here. Since that is the case, he only had one intention to forward the telegram, and was also fanning the flames. He hoped that Guangdong could send troops into Guangxi to fight with Lu Rongting. His small force could just raise his value on both sides.

Wu Shaoting sneered. It seemed that the warlords were indeed unreliable. They either had enough interests or had enough power, otherwise they would be fences.

At this time, the attendant asked tentatively: "Mr. Governor, should you inform the General Staff Headquarters and Military Department first?"

Wu Shaoting thought about it and stopped relaxedly and said, "It's so late, there's no need to mobilize the troops like this. Lu Rongting has been busy dispatching troops in Guangxi for a while, and even a fool can see his intention. Until today, Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang have not sent a telegram for help, but Yang Ximin sent a telegram specifically. Guilin is not in a hurry. What's the point in Guangdong? Go, let's do it today."

The attendant had no choice but to retreat.

Wu Shaoting returned to the official residence along the corridor, while making plans in his mind. As he said just now, Lu Rongting's actions were so obvious, but Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang did not send a telegram to Guangzhou for help from the beginning to the end. It can be seen that Er Liu was determined to **. Since he announced his breakup with the revolutionary party last year, Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang were still interested in Sun Yat-sen, and their relationship with Guangdong had somewhat deteriorated. He would not use a hot face to stick to other people's cold butts. Since Er Liu was determined to hold on, he just wanted to see how Er Liu died after losing Guangdong's aid.

This is not anger. Since the two Lius cannot join Guangdong, why should Guangdong spend unfair thoughts on cultivating them?

Taking advantage of this time, Lu Rongting sent troops to deal with Guilin, he simply used Lu Rongting's hand to eliminate this dissident, so as to save the consequences of the future.
Chapter completed!