Beiyang reactionaries

"Yes."

What should we do in the future?

Duan Xun has no specific plan.After all, the future is to defect to Sun Yat-sen, become a positive figure according to the textbook, and participate in the Northern Expedition.Or continue to stay in the Beiyang Army, or stand on their own and become the negative textbook of history, the Beiyang warlords.or…….Anyway, Duan Xun doesn't know, because the future is still relatively chaotic for Duan Xun.Duan Xun needs a period of silence and a period of thinking.

But now the time is too short, Duan Xun hasn't figured it out yet.

But Duan Xun knew a little anyway.That is the era of warlords in the future, regardless of whether the warlords are good or bad, the future of China will be when the warlords are in charge.If you want to have a say and a place in China in the future, you must have a gun in your hand.Only when you have a gun in your hand, what you say will have enough weight.

It doesn't matter whether you go to Sun Yat-sen in the future, or you want to be the king and hegemony in the local area, you must first have a gun in your hand.

Therefore, Duan Xun must seize this opportunity.

Now Duan Xun has many conveniences.Duan Qirui, the leader of the Anhui Clan, has risen step by step, and is the leader of the Beiyang Army after Yuan Shikai.Moreover, the Anhui Department will be the head of the Beiyang government in the next ten years. As a member of the Anhui Department, of course I cannot let this opportunity pass by.

And I am the instructor of Baoding Army School, there are a large number of outstanding students here.Most of the students here graduated from the Army Elementary School, the Army Middle School, and then came to Baoding Military Academy.

Many of them even participated in the Revolution of [-], carrying guns and fighting wars.

It's very simple to grab a few students to join your army.

Of course, you can't do too much by yourself.After all, the army I want to form is just a motley army.If all good students are pulled away, others will gossip.

Among Duan Xun's students, Duan Xun's favorite is Li Jishen who is about to graduate.Li Jishen entered Baoding Military Academy in the first year of Xuantong, that is, Army University, and will graduate next year.

It's not because Li Jishen is famous in history.

But Li Jishen's grades are really good.It is the best one among the current batch of students.Duan Xun valued Li Jishen not only for his ability to lead troops to fight, but also for his ability to teach and educate people, as well as his steady personality.

Duan Xun's idea is very simple.

All the successful warlords in history had military academies under their own control.Zhang Zuolin had the Fengtian Army Academy, the Beiyang Army had the Baoding Military Academy, the Yunnan Army had the Yunnan Lecture Hall, and Chiang Kai-shek had the Whampoa Military Academy.

And the warlords without military academies, those who have achieved something, and those with a strong army all have their own officer training regiments.Including Feng Yuxiang and Yang Hucheng, they all set up military schools.Use this method to train your own officers.

Those warlords who don't pay attention to education, but only know how to appoint their own clansmen and fellow villagers, basically can't achieve big things.

So does Duan Xun.

Duan Xun currently does not have the ability to run his own military academy.Therefore, Duan Xun can only follow the path that Feng Yuxiang and Yang Hucheng walked.We must train our own officers and build our own officer training regiment.Li Jishen is a very good instructor, and Baoding Military Academy is actually planning to let Li Jishen stay in school as an instructor.Duan Xun wanted to take Li Jishen away.

"Ren Chao, how are you doing at school?"

"Good."

"You are graduating next year."

"Yes."

Li Jishen was very puzzled.

In fact, Li Jishen is three years older than Duan Xun in terms of age, but because of Zhao Litai, Duan Xun finished Baoding Military Academy even though he was not qualified enough, and then graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy. He became an instructor in Baoding Military Academy at a young age.

Li Jishen had attended Duan Xun's class, he was considered Duan Xun's student, and had a lot of exchanges with him.But the relationship between the two is not close to the present level.

"Ren Chao, I have just been appointed as the commander of bandit suppression in Western Henan, and I want to recruit troops to form a bandit suppression force in Western Henan. Ren Chao, I hope you can go with me, what do you think?"

"But……"

Li Jishen hesitated for a moment, then continued: "I haven't finished my studies yet."

"I can help you apply and graduate early."

Just a diploma.

With the relationship between Duan Xun and Zhao Litai, it couldn't be easier to apply for Li Jishen's early graduation certificate.Qu Tongfeng, the current principal of Baoding Military Academy, was also Duan Xun's teacher when he was in school, and the relationship is quite good.

"I……"

Li Jishen wanted to refuse.

Li Jishen was not very clear about what the Commander of Bandit Suppression in Western Henan was.But Li Jishen knew that the Beiyang Army was expanding its army wantonly to wipe out the Southern Revolutionary Army.Li Jishen was not from the League, but he definitely supported the Revolutionary Party.

In the year of [-], he and his classmates destroyed the Caohe Iron Bridge near Baoding in order to prevent the Beiyang Army from going south.Later, he went south to join Yao Yuping's Guangdong Northern Expedition, and fought with the army.At that time, Yao Yuping spoke very highly of the young Li Jishen, and made Li Jishen the army's staff officer. Most of the battle plans of Yao Yuping's army came from Li Jishen.Originally, Li Jishen could have stayed in the army, but after the Revolution of [-], Li Jishen returned to Baoding Military Academy to continue his studies.

What is the expansion of the Beiyang Army doing now?Li Ji knew it well.

It is to suppress the Kuomintang army in the south.Li Jishen was unwilling to do so.He sympathized with Li Jishen of the Southern Revolutionary Army and supported him in his heart.

"You don't want to go to war against the Southern Army."

Duan Xun understood it at a glance.

When Li Jishen heard Duan Xun's words, he nodded immediately without any denial.In the current Baoding Military Academy, there are not a few students who participated in the Revolution of [-], and there are also many students who sympathize with the southern army.In particular, most of the students who graduated from Wuchang Army Middle School and Nanjing Army Middle School and came to Baoding Military Academy participated in the [-] Revolution.

Duan Xun graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and the students who graduated there have many revolutionary parties, and they are all famous revolutionary parties.Even if they graduate and join the Beiyang Army, they have many revolutionary classmates on the side of the revolutionary party.Just like many of Duan Xun's classmates are well-known revolutionary parties.

So Li Jishen didn't care and nodded directly.

"You don't have to worry about this. I have ten days in Baoding to form an army of several hundred people, and then lead the troops south into the west of Henan. Only when the frontline situation is unfavorable, will we mobilize newly formed troops like ours. But I can tell you Guaranteed, when we finish raising the army, the war in the South will be over."

"Teacher, are you really so pessimistic about the southern army?"

Li Ji heard Duan Xun's voice-over.

"Ren Chao, you are also a military student. You don't need me to say some things, you should understand."

Duan Xun stood up, came to the front of the map, and said: "The military preparations of the Kuomintang this time are in a mess, and even the military operations have not been able to achieve a unified pace. The Kuomintang really wants to raise troops, and May is the best time.

At this time, the President did not have much preparation, and he did not borrow a large loan for the aftermath.At that time, the northern army could not even pay the military salary, and the number of them was not large.At this time, several provinces in the south are acting in unison, and the disarmament work in Nanjing has not been completely completed. It may be possible to organize 10,000+ or ​​20 troops to raise troops.But in July, the President wanted money, people, and sufficient weapons and equipment. The southern army had no hope at all.But it is still a tough army, and there is no unity in several provinces, they can only be defeated one by one. "

"Ren Chao, tell me, which part of the southern army is the most powerful?"

Li Ji thought deeply and said, "It should be the Yunnan Army and the Hubei Army."

"Correct."

Duan Xun nodded and said: "Among the southern armies, Cai E's Yunnan Army and Li Yuanhong's Hubei Army are the most powerful. Down there are Lu Rongting's Guangxi Army, Li Liejun's Gan Army, and many troops after that are mobs. However, among these troops, apart from Li Liejun, the Yunnan Army, the Hubei Army, and the Guangxi Army did not support the Kuomintang's action. Even Cai E's Yunnan Army obeyed the order of the President and went northward to march into Hunan and Sichuan. Hunan Army, Sichuan Army Which one is the opponent of the Yunnan Army? Tell me, is there any chance of the Southern Army winning?"

"I can't say the exact time. But I can guarantee that it will not exceed one month. I estimate that it will take about ten days before the result of this war will emerge. A newly formed army like me will not participate in the war, because there is no necessary."

Li Jishen looked sad.

Li Jishen could not fully judge the various controversies surrounding Song Jiaoren.But as a person who participated in the Revolution of [-] and supported the Revolutionary Party, Li Jishen supported the southern army.

But Duan Xun said it well.

I am also a military student, and some things are obvious.In terms of strength, the southern army was inferior to the northern army, and they were unable to act in unison, so failure was inevitable.