The white man disassembled a large section of the steel rail and buried it in the forest, and it was impossible to retrieve it in a short time.Seeing this situation, Huang Gonglue had no choice but to order the train to turn around and pick up Zhou Jianping's large troops, while he led the first regiment towards Orange on foot.

Just when the Orange War was about to break out, there was also a lot of turmoil in the country.After Zhang Xun's restoration was eliminated and Puyi went to Zhongchuan with the paratroopers of the Xite Army, Beihua City became the world of the warlords of the Northern Region.Under Zhao Shouhong's strong military pressure, the Zhiwan and Zhiwan factions of the warlords in the northern region temporarily shook hands to make peace.They intend to join forces to control the national regime, develop the economy and strengthen the military so that they can stand up to the West Army.

In order to achieve this goal, Duan Ruiquan took the initiative to approach the Japanese people in an attempt to borrow a loan as development funds.At this time, because of the defeat of the Huawa War and the loss of the majority rights and interests of Yizhou Island and Hualan, Terauchi Masaki was forced to apologise, and Yuan Jing, a Japanese politician, stepped onto the stage of history in advance.

Chapter 7 and Ten

Hara Takashi, who is over 60 years old, was born in Hongomiya Village, Iwate County. He has rich experience in serving as Minister of Delivery and Minister of Internal Affairs in the Japanese government.Yuan Jing's formation of the cabinet can be described as an epoch-making event in the history of the Wa Kingdom, because he was the first prime minister from a civilian background.

Although the voting rights of Japanese citizens were still limited by the amount of tax paid at that time, so that most of the lower classes did not have the right to vote, this was the first real realization that the leaders of political parties with seats in the House of Representatives composed of national representatives formed a cabinet and served as the government. highest responsibility.

After coming to power, Yuan Jing changed the style of Zhengyi in the temple.He believes that the rise of Hualan is inevitable. Although the Wa Kingdom is also assigned to the Far East as their foothold on the mainland, due to the cold climate and being far away from the central area of ​​the Eastern Continent, the development speed cannot be compared with that of the Hualan Western Special Zone.

Under such circumstances, the only thing that can keep Wa country strong is to support Hualan's domestic forces and let them kill themselves, so as to weaken Hualan's national power.At the same time, Japan can also get enough benefits by selling weapons in the war.

From the use of force on the surface to the game in the dark, the methods of the Wa country can be said to be more than one level.Soon Yuan Jing's representative, Nishihara Kamezo, approached Cao Rulin, the number one diplomat in the Anhui Department. At this time, Duan Ruiquan was worried about the lack of funds. After hearing that people from the Wa Kingdom were willing to give him low-interest loans, the two hit it off.

As an artillery officer who graduated from the Japanese army, Duan Ruiquan has a natural affection for the Japanese country, so after he came to power, he has always been friendly to the Japanese country.Back then, the Japanese cabinet, which was ruled by soldiers, was too tough and always wanted to directly subdue Hualan with the army, so Duan Ruiquan had to fight.Now the Wa country has changed into a friendly country, talking about the common prosperity of China and Japan and the Eastern Continent, which made Duan Ruiquan feel good about them.

Now Nishihara Kamezo has taken the initiative to say that Wakokudong Continental Bank is willing to give him a low-interest loan of no more than 5000 million Japanese yen, and at the same time promises that the interest rate is only one and a half percent without any additional conditions, which makes Duan Ruiquan overjoyed.

Under the auspices of Cao Rulin and others, Huawa and Japan conducted several negotiations, and finally finalized the amount of the loan.The people of Japan obviously intend to do their best to support Duan Ruiquan. This time, under Cao Rulin's efforts, they actually increased the loan by 6000 million Japanese yuan.

6000 million Japanese yuan is not a small amount. Unlike the sharp depreciation of Japanese yuan in later generations, today's Japanese yuan is still very valuable, even more valuable than the newly issued Huayuan.With a 6000 million loan in hand, Duan Ruiquan immediately set about building the Tianfeng City Industrial Zone to strengthen the army's equipment to fight against the Western Special Zone.

The first batch of 500 million loans arrived soon, and Duan Ruiquan first invested the money in the military. The strength of the Anhui Clan increased. The eleven divisions and two brigades under its jurisdiction were soon equipped with domestically produced Phil rifles and a large number of Machine guns and artillery, these equipments were purchased from Guanghai, and the supporting ammunition was also very sufficient.

Because it is very difficult to buy weapons worldwide, and the Japanese weapons are relatively simple, Duan Ruiquan had no choice but to order from the arsenal in the Western Special Zone.In order to control the war capabilities of the Anhui faction, what Zhao Shouhong sold him was actually a Type [-] rifle.This kind of rifle has been modified to a [-]mm caliber. Because the bullet caliber is very unique, Duan Ruiquan can only buy ammunition from the special zone.

Zhao Shouhong didn't pay much attention to the expansion of the strength of the Anhui faction, but it was impossible for the direct branch to ignore it.The strength of the Anhui faction is growing, which makes Feng Guofu, Cao Kun and others feel a sense of crisis, and their relationship with the Anhui faction gradually cracks.

Duan Ruiquan didn't know anything about it. He just focused on developing the economies of various places and training this immature army at the same time.Feng Guofu began to secretly contact the remaining model teachers, drawing these elite troops who were originally loyal to Yuan Kai to his side, so as to expand his strength.Cao Kun also sent many cronies to secretly join the Anhui troops, hoping to understand the progress of their training and prepare for future operations.

Before Zhili launched an attack, Sun Wenhai, who was far away in Guangdong Province, declared war first.It turned out that since Mr. Sun Wenhai presided over the formulation of the "Interim Constitution of the Republic of China" and the first Congress convened accordingly, this law has always been recognized as a symbol of the bourgeois republic.After Sun Wenhai was forced to abdicate power, he has been fighting unremittingly to maintain the constitution and the Congress.

At the end of 1916, when Prime Minister Duan Ruiquan used the military governors to force Congress to accept the declaration of war against the Teutonic state, Sun Wenhai, Zhang Taiyan, Cen Chunxuan, and Tang Shaoyi jointly called Duan Ruiquan and the Senate and House of Representatives, asking them to abide by the contract and respect Congress.

After Duan Ruiquan was dismissed by his successor President Li Yuanhong, he instigated the Northern Warlords to rebel for independence and coerced Li Yuanhong to dissolve the Congress by force.

Two days after Zhang Xunyong's restoration of the Golden Royal Family, Sun Wenhai convened important figures from the Army, Navy and National Congress in Guangdong Province to discuss the plan of supporting the republic and sending troops to fight against the rebellion.Later, this organization decided to convene another congress in the southern provinces to organize a provisional government.

Sun Wenhai called members of the Senate and House of Representatives, calling on them to go south to protect the law.At that time, the Guangdong-Guangdong inspection envoy Lu Rongting, who had already controlled eastern Guangdong, opposed Duan Ruiquan's policy of unification by force in order to secure the territory of Guangdong and Guangdong with the help of the voice of Dharma protectors.

Sun Wenhai, Zhang Taiyan, Zhu Zhixin, Liao Zhongkai, Chen Jiongming and others soon arrived in Guangdong Province.At the welcome meeting of all walks of life in eastern Guangdong, Sun Wenhai made a speech, pointing out that the current turmoil is a struggle between the true republic and the false republic, and the disaster of the false republic is worse than the true restoration. Only by overthrowing the false republic can the construction of a true republic be achieved.

The first to respond to Sun Wenhai's call to protect the law was Li He, the chief of the navy. On the day Sun Wenhai landed in Guangdong Province, he issued a call for thieves, denouncing Zhang Xun's restoration.After Sun Wenhai went south to protect the law, Li He and Lin Baoyi, the commander of the Northern Territory Fleet, jointly sent a telegram ten days later. Arrive in Huangpu in the future.

The loss of the navy made Duan Ruiquan really frustrated, but he also understood that in today's civil war, the navy is at most just a symbolic meaning.Even if he had a navy in his hands, Sun Wenhai couldn't afford to mobilize a large number of transport ships to carry out landing operations, so that the navy's threat to land warfare would lose most of it.After all, Hualan is a continental country, the real confrontation will always be on land, and the navy doesn't even have the ability to block trade routes.

Chapter 7 Eleven: Disadvantages of Unification

When Sun Wenhai announced the launch of the Law Protection Movement to overthrow the rule of the Northern Territory government, Duan Ruiquan and Feng Guofu had in-depth talks.The two brought up the contradictions between the Zhiwan and Anhui departments and discussed them in detail, and they both made concessions to each other.

In the end, the two factions of Zhi and Anhui temporarily reached a cooperation intention. They clearly divided their respective spheres of influence and announced a joint fight against the French Protectorate.After the participating army went to the western continent to fight, Xu Shuzheng, the number one general of the Anhui faction, was not there, so Fu Liangzuo and Jin Yunpeng took on the task of dispatching troops.The four Anhui infantry divisions equipped with special zone weapons were pushed to the front line of Jiangzuo province, and the three divisions of the Zhili lineage also entered Namwon province. The battle between the two sides first broke out on the front line of Longjiang.

When the war between the two sides broke out, Zhao Shouhong was sitting in his office in Shudu, looking at the two telegrams in his hand and laughing.

"What's so funny?" Jiang Fangzhen, who had just entered the door, looked at Zhao Shouhong who was secretly laughing and asked curiously.

"Oh, it's Brother Fang Zhen, sit down quickly, I just read two telegrams." He put the telegrams on the table and asked, "How is the integration of the troops going?"

"I came here precisely for this matter. Now the land area of ​​the special zone has expanded a lot, and we have territories from frigid to tropical. The temperature span is so large, and the population distribution is extremely uneven. We need to do too much work .” Jiang Fangzhen shook his head and said.

"Yes, but I haven't heard of any complaints about too much land." Zhao Shouhong said with a smile: "I have asked the military science department of the research institute to speed up the development of special equipment for tropical and frigid regions. It is estimated that only a few In a month, each unit will be able to replace it with specialized equipment."

"This is good news." Jiang Fangzhen nodded and said, "However, I think that now that the territory has expanded so much, our army has not grown correspondingly, and our defense will be very difficult."

"Oh? Didn't I order the formation of some garrison divisions in various provinces? Why didn't the staff headquarters implement it?" Zhao Shouhong asked curiously.

"Of course the implementation has already begun. With the participation of the militia and the garrison, the progress is very smooth." Jiang Fangzhen changed the subject: "But it is very difficult for these garrisons to defend, and our field troops have to join the defense. Sequence. On the border of Zhaini in the south, the borders of the Far East and the three provinces of Mingbei in the east, and the Ural region in the west, we must station heavy troops for defense to prevent them from being attacked by the opponent. In addition, we must also guard against the country. Now there will be a big war there. I'm afraid it will affect us."

"I don't think it's possible. Take a look at these two telegrams." Zhao Shouhong smiled and handed over the two telegrams.

Jiang Fangzhen took a look and found that the telegram was sent by Sun Wenhai and Duan Ruiquan. The content in it was quite similar, and they were all words of solicitation.The only difference is that what Sun Wenhai talked about was the righteousness of the nation, while Duan Ruiquan was mostly recruited by the appointment of an official to make a wish.

"Brother Fang Zhen, which of the two telegrams has the better conditions?" Zhao Shouhong seemed to be picking fruits and vegetables at the vegetable market.

Jiang Fangzhen said: "In terms of interests, Duan Ruiquan's is naturally more attractive, but we have these things at our fingertips, and there is no need to pray to him at all. Sun Wenhai's telegrams seem to be quite inspiring, but they are all empty words and nothing at all. Practical significance. I don't think the two telegrams are very good, so we simply don't care about him."

"Brother Fang Zhen is right, but I actually plan to ignore it." Zhao Shouhong leaned back in his chair and narrowed his eyes, thinking about his own thoughts.

Jiang Fangzhen said: "I think the time has come for the snipe and clam to compete for the fisherman's profit. While they are beating you to death, it is better to catch them all and completely unify the entire Hualan."

"Unify Hualan?" A gleam flashed in Zhao Shouhong's eyes: "Of course there is no problem, but I don't want to become the target of the big powers now. Now that Hualan is not unified, the threat to the big powers is relatively small. Even if I No matter how much we do, the Western Continent will not pay too much attention to us."

"But now that the Western Continent is at war, they can't pay attention to the Eastern Continent. This is a good opportunity for us to unify the country." Jiang Fangzhen said.

Zhao Shouhong shook his head: "The war will always end. If Hualan has become a unified country at that time, it will be fully suppressed by the Western Continent. They will support the Wa Kingdom to fight against us. This will be a very difficult battle. "

"But if Hualan is not unified, the situation will be even more critical if the Western Continent also deals with us," Jiang Fangzhen said.

Zhao Shouhong smiled: "Have you forgotten the country of Wa? If there is a civil war in Hualan and the country of Wa is too powerful, the Western Continent will only concentrate on dealing with the country of Wa. How could it think of us. Although we have a lot of land now, they are all underdeveloped lands , this poses no threat to the powers of the Western Continent. Wa is different. Their Meiji Restoration has gone through decades, and their national strength has been greatly developed. At the same time, Wa still maintains a strong navy. The country is a big threat."

"That's right, but now the Western Continent is dominated by the Allied Powers. If they win, I'm afraid it will be a different scene. The Navy of the Allied Powers is not strong. Once they win, they can only manage the Western and Southern Continents as best they can in a short period of time. , will not extend its tentacles to the Eastern Ocean. In this way, the Wa Kingdom will lose its restraint. If they support domestic warlords and attack Hualan with all their strength at the same time, our losses will be very great." Jiang Fangzhen said.

"As long as we have a strong submarine force, Japan is not terrible. What's more, according to my opinion, the final winner of this war can only be the Allied Powers." Zhao Shouhong walked two steps in the office with his hands behind his back and said: " The Allied Powers have huge advantages in numbers, industry and navy. They can use these advantages to consume the war potential of the Teutonic people. Although the two countries are powerful, their populations are too small. Ten thousand skilled workers, I am afraid that the military strength of the two countries has begun to be insufficient."

"Even so, the losses of the Allied Powers are great, and I'm afraid they won't last long." Jiang Fangzhen said.

"White Eagle has the world's largest industrial capacity and can manufacture various weapons in large quantities. They also have a population base of nearly [-] million, which is unmatched by the Teutonic country. In the end, the Allies must win. The only question is All that matters is how much they paid, and the current allies are the last crazy." Zhao Shouhong said looking out the window.

Chapter 7 Twelve Landing of the Contributing Army

Jiang Fangzhen nodded: "What you said is very reasonable. This time Hualan has also sent troops. I don't know how Xu Shuzheng's army is doing now."

When Jiang Fangzhen said this, Xu Shuzheng was in the fortifications of the forward position, observing the situation in the distance with a telescope.The participating army trained in the White Eagle Country for a month, and after being completely refitted with White Eagle-style equipment, they were transported by passenger ships to the Gaul Country for landing.

In order to allow these cannon fodder to reach the western continent intact, Saar even sent an unprecedented large fleet to escort, so that the Teutonic submarines could not find a single gap.After the participating army arrived, Xu Shuzheng was received by Foch very quickly.Now the supreme commander of the coalition forces, the chief of the general staff of the Gaul Army, seemed worried, and he had already waited anxiously.

The fall of Paris and the fall of the port of Toulon caused the Allied forces of Saar Gaul to retreat steadily. Today, three-fifths of the territory of the Gaul Kingdom has fallen into the enemy's hands. The trend of surrender is rampant in the country, and the whole country is in chaos.The soldiers of the Teutonic state are slowly being exhausted, and in fact the same is true for the Allies.The three-year war was more tragic than that of another time and space, which also made the losses of all countries even more serious.

The death of more than 600 million soldiers has almost wiped out a generation of young people in Gaul. In today's Gaul army, there are no veterans who joined the army when the war started.The loss of Saar Kingdom is also not small. It has now expanded to an expeditionary force of 35 divisions, and the number is less than half of what it was when it landed.

The White Eagle Country suffered the lightest loss among the three countries, but there were also more than one million White Eagle Country youths who left their lives on the Western Continent.The three countries are exhausted and urgently need new forces to supplement.Fortunately, the same is true for the two countries, which prevented the Allied Powers from breaking through.

Both sides are guarding the front line, unable to launch a large-scale offensive. In the past few months, there have been only sporadic small-scale battles on the thousands of kilometers long front.This situation is obviously the silence before the war. After the [-] Chinese troops landed, they immediately threw themselves into the front line of Clermont-Ferrand without even having time to rest.

"Dear General Xu, I am very glad that the Hualan army arrived in time. Now that the war is urgent, I will not be courteous to you. I need your troops to enter the Clermont-Ferrand area immediately and prepare to launch an attack on the Teutonic Kingdom. Large-scale attack." As soon as Foch came up, he assigned Xu Shuzheng a task.

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