Chapter 684 Conditions for Withdrawal

Taking a peek at the equipment of the soldiers of the West Special Army, Jin Yunpeng did not slow down, and he was quickly taken outside the court room.After the officer leading the way reported, a familiar voice came from inside: "Let him in."

Jin Yunpeng's expression froze. He felt that the voice was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he heard it in a short time.When he entered the court room and finally saw the other party's face clearly, Jin Yunpeng still couldn't help exclaiming: "Brother Shao Zeng, why is it you."

Sitting on the chair, it was Zhang Shaozeng who smiled and cupped his hands facing Jin Yunpeng.This time, the West Special Army took advantage of the night to deliver Zhang Shaozeng and his paratrooper brigade into the imperial city three times before the rebellious army entered the city.The guards of the imperial city who were not vigilant were disarmed by the paratroopers without bloodshed, and they were detained together, and Puyi and Queen Wanrong were also controlled.

It was precisely because the Paratrooper Brigade entered Beihua City from the air that it caught the Northern Territory Army by surprise.Now facing his former acquaintance Jin Yunpeng, Zhang Shaozeng couldn't help but sigh.Once upon a time, like these members of the Northern Territory Army, his vision was limited to this small place in the country, and he had no idea what the whole world looked like.

Since he joined the Western Special Zone with Wu Luzhen, although he has just become a major general and brigade commander, he knows very well in his heart that a major general and brigade commander of the West Special Army is definitely more valuable than a lieutenant general and division commander of the Northern Territory Army .

It is precisely because of this path that Zhang Shao once blocked the east and the west, made repeated military exploits on the battlefield abroad, and won the first victory in recovering Yizhou.These honors for recovering lost territory and expanding territory for the country were something he could never get in China anyway.Now that Zhang Shaozeng has already given up his heart for the Western Special Zone and the Hualan Pioneer Party, I am afraid that even if Duan Ruiquan gives him the position of Minister of the Army, he will not change his family.

Now Zhang Shao has once again seen his former colleagues, and he already has a huge psychological advantage in his heart, because there is a powerful Western Special Zone behind him.Looking at Jin Yunpeng's surprised expression, Zhang Shaozeng smiled and said, "What? Is Yunpeng surprised to see me?"

"This... yes, why did you come here." Jin Yunpeng finally regained his composure.

"I was ordered to enter the imperial city to prevent Zhang Xun's defeated soldiers from attacking the imperial city and destroying the country's cultural relics." Zhang Shaozeng said with a smile.

"But the Western Special Zone didn't listen to the call and entered Beihua City privately, which seems unreasonable." Jin Yunpeng asked.

Zhang Shaozeng waved his hand: "Yunpeng is too forgetful. Just a few days ago, President Li Yuanhong, who has not yet left office, called on all provinces to send troops to serve the king. Our Western Special Zone is also Hualan territory, so we naturally have to respond to the president's call, so the commander-in-chief Mr. Zhao sent me here."

"This..." Jin Yunpeng rolled his eyes and said, "Now that the overall situation has been settled and Zhang Xun announced his resignation, your army should return to its defense zone."

"This is natural. When your army fully takes over the defense of Beihua City, we will withdraw to the Western Special Zone." Zhang Shaozeng said it very easily, and Jin Yunpeng also heaved a sigh of relief.

"But..." Zhang Shaozeng changed the topic, and Jin Yunpeng's heart became entangled again.Looking at Jin Yunpeng whose expression changed slightly, Zhang Shao said: "However, Mr. General also said that if Pu Yi stays in Beihua City, he will be easily used by others. If there is another restoration, it will be detrimental to the stability of the country's political power. Therefore, the commander-in-chief suggested that the central government move Puyi to live in the capital of Shu, which is conducive to the long-term stability of the country."

"This... I can't make the decision." Jin Yunpeng said: "I'll go back and ask the president and prime minister for instructions before making a decision."

Zhang Shaozeng nodded: "I am waiting for the good news here." Then Zhang Shaozeng waved his hand, signaling the officer next to him to take Jin Yunpeng out of the palace again.

"How's the situation?" Seeing Jin Yunpeng coming back, Duan Ruiquan hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

Jin Yunpeng shook his head and said: "It is indeed the team of the West Special Army, led by Zhang Shaozeng. He told me that the West Special Army has no intention of staying in Beihua City for a long time. They were sent by President Li to enter King Jingqin."

"That's good, that's good." Duan Ruiquan felt relieved when he heard that the West Army would not be stationed for a long time.

"But there is one condition before they retreat." Jin Yunpeng said.

"What condition?" Duan Ruiquan's heart hung up again.

"Shouhong thinks that Puyi will be easily taken advantage of by those who want to stay in Beihua City. Therefore, he thinks that Puyi should be sent to Shudu so that he can monitor him nearby." Jin Yunpeng said.

"What? Could it be that Shouhong intends to narrow down the emperor in order to command the princes? But now that the court is unpopular, it is difficult to restore it." Duan Ruiquan said.

"I can't see what Shouhong is going to do, but I know very well that he will not use Pu Yi's name to do anything, because that would be like digging his own grave." Jin Yunpeng said.

"I think Shouhong doesn't want us to borrow Puyi's name. If we give it to the Japanese, it will easily give the small court established in Mingbei a legal basis." Fu Liangzuo on the side said.When he said that, everyone came to their senses.When the Japanese invaded Fengtian before, they used Shanqi and Liangbi's Zongsha Party to briefly establish a small court in Fengtian, respecting Puyi as emperor.

Although Japan later withdrew from Fengtian Province according to the Huawa Fengtian Treaty, it brought this small court to Korea.Relying on the establishment of the post-Jin small court, their ambition to control Mingbei was fully exposed.Now without the existence of Puyi, this small imperial court would be difficult to achieve. Once there is Puyi, the Japanese kingdom will have an excuse to attack Mingbei, and it will be really difficult to handle in the future.

"In this way, Shou Hong is really dedicated to serving the country." Fu Liangzuo sighed.

"I'm afraid it's more than that simple. Who knows what Zhao Shouhong has in mind. What if he uses Pu Yi as a bargaining chip to exchange benefits from the Japanese country?" Xu Shuzheng asked.

"I think that today's Wa country has nothing to exchange with the Western Special Zone. After obtaining the large territory of the Raksha Kingdom and the industrial zone in the Urals, the heavy industry system of the Western Special Zone has already faintly surpassed the Wa country." Jin Yunpeng obviously has an interest in the international Knowing a lot about the situation, he spoke immediately.

"In any case, we can't make this decision by ourselves. Yunpeng, you and I will go to the presidential palace together and let Feng Huafu make the decision." Duan Ruiquan said.

With Jin Yunpeng, Duan Ruiquan came to the presidential palace for the second time. This time they saw Feng Guofu even faster, obviously the other party was also waiting for news.After Jin Yunpeng told Zhang Shaozeng's request, Feng Guofu frowned.

"We can't be sure of Shou Hong's thoughts. If he does something that is not good for us, it is really unpredictable." Feng Guofu said: "If we don't let Zhang Shaozeng take Puyi away, what do you think?"

Chapter 685 Declaring War

Duan Ruiquan said: "I think the result is hard to predict. After all, the combat effectiveness of the West Special Army is not vegetarian. And the army we gathered in Beihua City is probably only about 5 people."

"The West Special Army has a strong fighting force, and the Inner Huns stationed there are not far from Beihua City. If they use this as an excuse to take Zhangjiakou, and then use the Huazhang Railway to mobilize tens of thousands of troops to Beihua City within three days." Jin Yunpeng carefully reminded Feng and Duan that they nodded repeatedly when they heard this.

"What's more, the meaning of Zhang Shaozeng's words is very clear. If we don't agree to let Puyi go to Zhongchuan, the West Special Army may not withdraw from the imperial city." Jin Yunpeng said: "If they increase their troops again, Beihua City will be in jeopardy."

This situation is what Feng and Duan are most worried about, and now it seems that they have no choice but to accept this condition.Then Feng Guofu notified Zhang Shaozeng in the name of the president, allowing them to take Puyi back to the Western Special Zone, and at the same time asking them to observe military discipline and not destroy things in the imperial city.

Zhang Shao was very cooperative, and the next day he took Pu Yi and Wan Rong, as well as some people who served them, and led the whole team onto the train.The train goes straight to Zhangjiakou along the Huazhang Line, where they will change to a carriage and return to the site of the Western Special Zone.

Seeing that when Zhang Shaozeng led his troops away, there were not many carts accompanying him, Feng Guofu and Duan Ruiquan breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that they did not loot the treasures of the entire palace.But when the Northern Territory Army entered the palace and wanted to count the valuables in it for military expenses, the officers and soldiers of the Northern Territory Army were surprised to find that the palace was as clean as if it had been washed with water.Not to mention rare treasures, not even an ordinary bedding was left.

Zhang Shaozeng's troops did not carry a few large carts, so it was impossible to evacuate all the palace.However, the massive treasures in the palace were indeed lost, and this matter became a major unsolved case in the Republic of China.In fact, as early as when Zhang Shaozeng occupied the palace, a mysterious small team came together.

This small team is led by Zhao Qian, and all members are biochemical guards.Their task is very simple, rely on the paratroopers to collect all the treasures in the palace, and then they will transport them back to Zhongchuan by shuttle at night.So even the paratroopers don't know how these treasures disappeared, but when the paratrooper brigade withdrew, the palace was indeed evacuated.

Zhao Shouhong's dispatch of troops this time actually had these two purposes. It was clearly to send Pu Yi to Zhongchuan for house arrest, so as to prevent it from being used by the Wa people, and to establish a pseudo-empire Jin country like in history.The second purpose is to protect those national treasures from being damaged or lost in the fire of war.

The disappearance of these treasures has become an unsolved case, but the current forces in Beihua City have no time to pay attention to this issue.After the West Special Army withdrew from the defense area, Beihua City became the territory of the Northern Region Army again, but at this time the Northern Region Army was no longer monolithic, but the three warlords of the Zhiwan Feng Dynasty had their own ghosts.

Zhang Zuolin of the Feng Clan is still recuperating in Fengtian Province, and it is difficult to do much in a short period of time. Now it is the Zhi Clan headed by Feng Guofu and the Anhui Clan headed by Duan Ruiquan who are vying for the supremacy of Beihua City.Duan Ruiquan does not intend to restore the disbanded Congress because of deep conflicts with the original Congress.But as the rebuilder of a democratic republic, he couldn't give up the pretense of Congress.So Duan Ruiquan decided to start reforming the Congress for his own use.Duan Ruiquan soon announced that the old Congress had been dissolved and the original legal system no longer existed, so he invited Tang Hualong and other heads of the research department to form a temporary Senate to control the formation of the Congress.

After Zhang Xun stepped down, Duan Ruiquan controlled the actual control of the Overseer Corps. He began to borrow the power of the Overseer Corps, and at the same time relied on the new temporary Senate to review and approve the declaration of war against the Teutonic Kingdom.Because Duan Ruiquan controls both the House of Representatives and the Senate, his proposal can naturally be passed easily.

The declaration of war against the Teutonic state was passed by the Congress under such circumstances, and then Duan Ruiquan took the opportunity to form a participating army and use the money from the treasury to expand private armed forces.In order to win over Zhao Shouhong, he also suggested that Zhao Shouhong send troops to join the army and go to the battlefield of the Western Continent together.

Regarding Duan Ruiquan's temptation, Zhao Shouhong immediately stated that the troops suffered too many casualties in the previous battles, and it was difficult to participate in the war.Of course, in order to express his apology, Zhao Shouhong sent Duan Ruiquan a large group of miscellaneous people as soldiers to form the participating army.Zhao Shouhong's approach was to appease Duan Ruiquan on the one hand, so that they would not be too panicked by the forces of the Western Special Zone, and on the other hand, to throw out the burden in their hands.

It turns out that since taking control of the western part of Nanyuan Province, the West Special Army has sent many small teams to suppress bandits.The western part of Nanyuan Province has always been a place where bandits run rampant. The people there are tough, and the country has carried out many times of governance but to no avail. Therefore, Nanyuan bandits, Qilu thieves, and plateau swordsmen have become Hualan's famous folk armed forces.

However, this time the Nanyuan bandits met their nemesis. The Western Special Administrative Region government directly used local people to form a garrison in Nanyuan Province. At the same time, it was equipped with elite special forces from the Special Warfare Division. Using a combination of special operations and large army encirclement and suppression, they were quickly wiped out. There are many well-known gangs in the local area.

The bandits were weak in fighting, and when they found no way to escape, most of them raised their hands and surrendered. In order to prevent other bandits from desperately resisting, most of these people were treated with leniency.Because of the leniency of the West Special Army to the bandits, many bandits surrendered on the lookout, which also greatly increased the number of prisoners in the special zone. At its peak, there were as many as [-] Nanyuan bandits in the prisoner camp.

Among these bandits, the most heinous ones were quickly tried and sentenced by the court, but those little bandits who did not do many crimes really gave Zhao Shouhong a headache.These people are bandits who are used to drilling in the mountains and forests, and their fighting ability is not weak, but their banditry is so strong that Zhao Shouhong dare not use them.

Just when Duan Ruiquan invited Zhao Shouhong to join the army, he sent the bandit captives to Zhili under the pretext of sending them to Duan Ruiquan for training.After receiving this group of people, Duan Ruiquan originally thought that Zhao Shouhong was tripping him up, but after training, he was surprised to find that these people's combat effectiveness is very strong.

After a short period of training, the [-] Nanyuan bandits had the initial appearance of soldiers. They were organized into six divisions. Together with the two newly formed divisions and two mixed brigades of the Anhui Department, they became part of the battle team. The main force of the army.

At this time, the people of the White Eagle Kingdom could no longer hold on. In just one year of fighting, although the White Eagle Kingdom had also trained an elite army and gradually adapted to the battlefield environment of the Western Continent, the price they paid was extremely high.Millions of young people from the White Eagle Kingdom have already died in the battle, becoming souls of the dead in the war.Although they finally blocked the attack of the Tiao-Austrian coalition forces, the situation is not optimistic.

Chapter 686 The Rise of Siman

The front lines of both sides have basically stabilized on the front lines of Besançon and Toulon. Four-fifths of Gaul's territory fell.Because of the escape of Archduke Ferdinand, the whole country has a stronger cohesion. After three years of war, the Balkans have completely fallen into the hands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Materials from the Western Special Zone were continuously transported into the Balkans through the Middle Continent and the Ottoman Empire.

The materials urgently needed by these allies were continuously supported to the front line through the Baghdad railway line secretly built by the Teutonic state and the railways within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which effectively promoted the development of the industrial capabilities of the Tau-Austria.Now Hualan has more than 200 million migrant workers in Tiaoao. They use Hualan's unique three-shift method to produce guns and ammunition 24 hours a day, so that the front line can obtain sufficient supplies.

The cleverness, studiousness and hard work of the Hualan migrant workers have won unanimous praise from the Teutonic people. These workers who originally worked in downstream industries have gradually spread to key industries including military industry and shipbuilding industry, giving the two countries a strong support. Support, so that they can spare more manpower to join the battle in the Western Continent.

Originally, Hualan's announcement of joining the Allied Powers and preparing to send troops to the Western Continent to join the war should have cut off the material supply route of the Allies.But Zhao Shouhong always pretended to be stupid. He used private exports as an excuse to refuse to block the supply of materials from the Allies, so that the two countries had sufficient supplies.

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