The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 50: The Arms Race between Yuan Shikai and Jiang Yu

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Yuan Shikai, who joined the negotiation on spn, made Tang Shaoyi pretend to be deaf and dumb. He knew that this was not the time to stand out.

Once there is a military victory like the Sino-French war, but political weakness and failure, it will inevitably arouse huge public anger.

Moreover, with Jiang Yu in control of a powerful public opinion machine, if Yuan Shikai dared to stand up at this time, he would definitely be sprayed to death.

Sun Zhendong proposed during the negotiations that Russia should return the occupied Tannu Ulianghai area and compensate China for a sum of war losses.

The Russian representative refused on the spot. [

Russia is here to save face, not to lose face.

If this is the case, the two sides have been procrastinating in the state of belligerent countries!At least Nicholas II thought so.

But the number of China's coalition forces in Outer Mongolia is increasing. Since Jiangyu easily abused the Russians in the military, the warlords of the provinces saw the sweetness and sent troops to Outer Mongolia.

In particular, Yuan Shikai sent three additional divisions to Outer Mongolia.

The sweetness is great, but all the coalition forces that arrived in Outer Mongolia were replaced with the same individual equipment as the revival army, and Jiang Yu did not take back the equipment of the [-] coalition forces that participated in the war against Russia.

And through the previous battles, the provincial coalition forces discovered that Jiang Yu did not use the provincial coalition forces as cannon fodder when he was in command. In many cases, the provincial coalition forces followed the revival army to beat the Russians.

In addition, the revival army's plan to mobilize 20 troops from the rear is being implemented again, and the number of coalition forces in Outer Mongolia will increase by more than 60 within a month.

At that time, if China launches an attack on Russia, Russia will fight even if it does not want to. At that time, at least 100 million troops will be directly mobilized to the Far East battlefield, and the refueling tactics will not work at all.

This is not in the interests of the Entente countries such as Britain and France.

In order to end the war as soon as possible, Britain had to threaten Jiang Yu, and tried to make Jiang Yu die by giving Jiang Yu some benefits.

"What the cabinet means is that if China does not stop the war against Russia, it will become the enemy of the British Empire. Not only will all those commercial loans be cancelled, but also China's import and export will be sanctioned by the British Empire. If China accepts the armistice, the British Empire can Give China preferential shipping fees for import and export, as well as some preferential tariffs." Zhu Erdian said in a telegram to Jiang Yu, and suggested that Jiang Yu accept mediation, otherwise it would be very difficult for him to be a man.

After Jiang Yu received the telegram, he knew that he would accept the telegram. It was impossible to give face to the Russians, but it was impossible not to give face to the British.

Therefore, Jiang Yu immediately sent a telegram to Zhu Erdian, claiming that the Tangnu Wulianghai dispute could be temporarily put aside and a peace agreement could be reached with Russia. He will not hesitate to fight.

Zhu Erdian then conveyed Jiang Yu's will to the British government.

After consideration, the British cabinet decided that neither China nor Russia should show face to the other, that is, to shake hands and make peace in the current state.

Although Nicholas II was unwilling, he finally accepted the proposal.He also doesn't want to continue this war that has no profit to be taken.

Under the mediation of the United Kingdom, the two sides quickly signed a

On the Russian side, Nicholas II declared to the Russian people that Russia had won the war against China, which was just a fig leaf.

At least politically, it has indeed brought a very reluctant fig leaf to Russia. It is only a gesture to cover up, which is better than nothing, better than nothing!

However, countries around the world felt amazed by the newly established Republic of China during the war. It is very surprising that the Republic of China, which had just been established from a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, was able to defeat Russia militarily.

The Army of the Republic of China has been included in the list of armies with relatively high combat effectiveness by some countries, and the "On the Air Force" published by Jiang Yu to the world through foreign journalists quickly attracted great attention from all countries. This "On the Air Force" explained in depth the The strategic significance of the Air Force and the military tactical functions that the Air Force can perform.

This book was quickly praised by military commentators from various countries, who believed that China was the first to put the air force on the battlefield as an independent arm, which was a huge change in military history.

Jiang Yu was subsequently called the youngest military strategist in history by various countries, and the French even directly called Jiang Yu 'Napoleon of the Far East'.

At least Jiang Yu is well-known internationally. Correspondingly, as long as Jiang Yu still exists, no one dares to underestimate the Chinese Army and Air Force at this time.

At this time, the Chinese Air Force has won the title of the world's largest communist army, not only in terms of scale, but also in pilot training, tactics, and strategic exploration are at the forefront of the world.

After the "Agreement on Armistice" was reached, China and Russia were still in a state of hostility, but military operations were stopped together in accordance with the regulations.

On August 8, Jiang Yu Zhengzhi announced the withdrawal of the provincial coalition forces from Outer Mongolia, and only retained 23 coalition troops in Outer Mongolia. Commander-in-Chief of East China Defense Forces and Northwest Defense Forces.

And Yuan Shikai decided to train model teachers in Beijing. This was Yuan Shikai's means to win over the military power of the Beiyang Army, and Yuan Keding was the commander of the model teachers.

To put it bluntly, this model teacher is a "Yuanjun" for Yuan Shikai to train officers. In the future, Yuan Shikai can use this model teacher to expand and even form an army of millions.

In history, before Yuan Shikai died, he created an army of 120 million, and then he was full of confidence and declared himself emperor.

Yuan Shikai had a good fight with Army Minister Duan Qirui in order to train model teachers. In addition, Yuan Keding never had a good look at Duan Qirui. sabotage.

Knowing that Yuan Keding is unlikely to achieve great things, Jiang Yu expressed support for Yuan Shikai's decision to train model teachers.

"Commander, if Yuan Shikai really relies on the loan we gave to build an army of millions, then what shall we do? Obviously Yuan Shikai is likely to do so." Jiang Fangzhen and others are worried. It is not dominant, but Yuan Shikai occupies the central government after all, so he can justifiably collect taxes, but the Lianghuai Administration in Jiangyu is not justified, and maybe this year's tax revenue will have to be turned over to the central government.

"Don't worry, Yuan Shikai trained his model teachers. We will train our Northwest Production Corps. We claim that these production corps are militias. We can also train millions of production corps. If necessary, we can Turning these production corps into a regular army will at least not be inferior to the Beiyang Army in terms of strength. Furthermore, our regular army can maintain fifteen divisions based on the reason of the Russo-Japanese War, and all of them will be organized according to Type A divisions. , the force will be maintained at 30. First of all, we must train the 30 regular army to become absolutely elite soldiers, and then we must fully armor these fifteen divisions. By then, we will be able to sweep the Beiyang Army with only these fifteen divisions. .” Jiang Yu said calmly.

"However, even if we can fight in the military, we loaned Yuan Shikai money for his military training after all, and we will only lose in the end."

"Hehe! Brother Baili, who do you think can fully inherit the many factions of the Beiyang army after Yuan Shikai's death? No one! But we can. Once Yuan Shikai dies, we can find a way to incorporate the Beiyang army." It is planned that China is now a presidential system, which means that after Yuan Shikai dies, anyone can be the president.

Of course, it is impossible for Jiang Yu to be the president, because he controls the East China Group, and this goal is too big to be on the front stage. [

Because of the expansion of the East China Group's interests, sometimes politicians have to take the blame, and it is impossible for Jiang Yu to let himself take the blame.

Even if you don't become the president, you can control the central government, just turn the president into your own puppet.In addition, it is easy to incorporate the Beiyang Army. At that time, I only need to get a name that can control the military power of the whole country, such as the Minister of the Army, the Minister of Defense, or directly come to the "Marshal of the Land, Sea and Air Force of the Republic of China", directly in the name The Beiyang army will be eaten to death in the first place, and anyone who does not accept the recruitment will be attacked.

"Collection!" Jiang Fangzhen didn't turn the corner for a while, Jiang Yu smiled and said: "We have a conditional loan to Yuan Shikai. Through the loan, we can control local tax revenue, even salt tax and other income. If we can't pay it back at that time Money doesn't matter, if we hand over these rights to Huadong Group, even the right to issue additional banknotes, we will make a lot of money."

Obviously, after the Sino-Russian War, the Beiyang faction headed by Yuan Shikai and the East China faction headed by Jiang Yu are about to start a Chinese version of an arms race.

At the beginning of this arms race, Jiang Yu had already counted into the far future.And Yuan Shikai obviously didn't know how long he could live, which became the most fatal loophole of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Group.

I was so tired today, I fell asleep for an hour when I got home and was woken up by the alarm clock, so I quickly got up to type.

The first one is a little later, students should bear it first!Luo Yu went to have a meal and take a bath first, and the code word will be changed twice today!It just so happens that there is nothing to do in the store tomorrow.

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