Beiyang reactionaries

"Damn."

It's a bad feeling.

Obviously it is in our own country, but because the railway was built by foreigners, the Chinese government can't intervene.The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was built by the French and is currently operated by the French.Using the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, the French are very powerful in Yunnan.

Now Duan Xun is not strong enough.

When Duan Xun has enough strength, he will definitely take back all these foreign-controlled railways.

"Any clues?"

"Yes. And some French businessmen have been targeted, and the Yunnan and Guangxi opium merchants who cooperated with them have also been targeted. But those people are French, so Li Youxun has never dared to arrest them."

"kindness."

French.

Li Youxun was still very cautious.After all, those people were French businessmen, so it was easy to catch them, but it was much more difficult to deal with the following matters.So Li Youxun only collected information and checked their backgrounds, but he didn't arrest them.

The report has already been sent to Yang Wei, so Yang Yongtai also knows about it.Duan Xun looked up at Yang Yongtai, and asked with a smile: "Brother Changqing means, give these French businessmen..."

Duan Xun made a throat-cutting motion.

"Yes."

Yang Yongtai nodded.

Then he said: "General, in fact, Europe, America and Japan are powerful countries. Their so-called protection of their own citizens is just to keep us intimidated. Let a country like China see their strength and dare not resist them. In fact, a few people died, they They don’t really care about it. They are just worried that we will make us look down on them in China. So as long as we make a quick cut, they will protest at most and will not turn against us. And Li Youxun’s side We did some research on these businessmen in France, and we started looking for small businessmen with no foundation. Businessmen with some strength and background will not touch them."

"What about it?"

"Let Li Youxun send the police to encircle these French businessmen. These people have always been arrogant in China and look down on us in China. I don't think they will accept the order of the police station obediently, and shoot them directly when the time comes. Everyone is dead, France Can we completely break up with us because of a few small businessmen? France uses the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway every year, but it takes away a lot of resources from us. Now these resources are under our control, and the French will not go to war."

"kindness."

Among the foreign businessmen doing business in China, there are indeed quite a few powerful ones.Just like Edward Dowood, who is currently cooperating with Duan Xun, and Swire Pacific, they are all quite powerful.Even if they return to the UK, they belong to the rich in the UK.Especially the strength of Taikoo Matheson Co., Ltd., they are all the richest people in the UK.

But in fact, most of them are not such rich people.

Most of the so-called foreigners currently doing business in China just rely on their identities as British and French to show off their might in China.In fact, in the UK and France, there are only small traders with little strength.They just came to China and pretended to be wolves with big tails.

"General, this kind of thing is actually a small thing. But as long as we operate it well, it will be a big thing. It is definitely a big thing in our country. At this time when nationalism is soaring, killing a French businessman because of opium, One push will push the general up. Of course, general, this move also has risks. Because it is easy to go up and difficult to come down, the general is likely to be kidnapped by public opinion."

Yang Yongtai finished what he wanted to say.

Just wait for Duan Xun to decide.

"The French businessman asked Li Youxun to stare at him first, don't do anything for now, let's see the situation before we talk about it. The first two things are urgent. Xinyuan (Bai Jianwu)."

"General."

"You are the person in charge of the Propaganda Department of my Border Defense Supervision Agency, and I will leave these matters to you. You must control the direction of public opinion."

"Yes."

Although he knew that the French businessmen were smuggling opium, Duan Xun didn't want to arrest them yet.After all, Duan Xun is not those hot-headed students who would arrest them if they knew they were selling opium.That's what kids do.

If the French businessman is really caught, what will happen next.Duan Xun will only do it after making all the preparations, and now is not the time.

But the issue of public opinion must be implemented quickly.

"Xinyuan, I'll give you whatever you want, as long as you don't point the finger at us."

"Yes."

215 War of Guangdong and Guangxi

"How about it?"

"Father, Duan Xun's troops still haven't retreated. The No.30 Fourth Division stationed in Baoning has not moved at all. On the contrary, they don't know what to do there these days. There are a large number of supplies coming in and out. Duan Xun stationed in the southwest of Guizhou The same goes for the troops of the [-]st Division of the Border Guards.”

"Where are the troops in Xiangxi?"

"It's also standing still."

Listening to Ma Ji's report, Lu Rongting's face was very ugly.

Although when Lu Rongting told Tan Haoming, he vowed that Duan Xun accused him of planting and selling opium, only to support Chen Jiongming, and would not really break into Guangxi.However, Duan Xun stationed tens of thousands of troops in Yunnan, Guizhou, and western Hunan. How could Lu Rongting be relieved.

Although Lu Rongting claims to have 10 soldiers, there are more than 1 troops stationed in Guangdong and Yunnan, Shen Hongying has nearly [-] troops, and Tang Jiyao and Liu Xianshi have [-] troops combined.The remaining troops are Lu Rongting's troops.

And this time, in order to encircle and suppress the Cantonese army of Chen Jiongming and Xu Chongzhi, Lu Rongting transferred many troops from Guangxi.At present, the troops left in Guangxi are about 3 people.It is impossible to face Duan Xun without pressure.

What if Duan Xun's troops raided Guangxi?Of course, Lu Rongting judged that it was impossible for Duan Xun to start a war with him.Now that the relationship between the straight and Anhui factions in the north is getting more and more tense, how could Duan Xun, a general of the Anhui faction, start a war with him.At this time, Duan Xun should have mobilized heavy troops to go north to support Duan Qirui.

But as the saying goes, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

So after the troops came to Guangdong, Lu Rongting did not dare to act rashly.

Let's see the situation.

But the situation in the north is already very tense, and Wu Peifu's main force has all withdrawn from Hengyang.At this time, Duan Xun still hasn't withdrawn his troops, what is he thinking.Is he really going to fight himself to the death?

It doesn't make sense.

"Is there any news about Duan Xun's other troops?"

"Nearly a month ago, Duan Xun's senior generals held a meeting in Xi'an. After the meeting, Duan Xun's troops stationed in Chengdu marched towards Shaanxi. I guess his troops should pass through Shaanxi and enter Henan. And Duan Xun's troops were stationed For the troops in Chongqing, some vanguard troops have already entered Hubei by boat. Duan Xun's troops in the Changli area and Yuezhou area also show signs of mobilization."

"Looks like Duan Xun can't sit still anymore. Troops from Chengdu and Chongqing are starting to move into the north. Judging by Duan Xun's current troop mobilization, it must be to attack Wang Zhanyuan's Hubei with heavy troops, and to send heavy troops into Henan. Good, very good .”

This is good news.

Lu Rongting finally breathed a sigh of relief.Lu Rongting thought that Duan Xun was really only staring at his own territory, only at himself.Now it seems that Duan Xun has begun to mobilize troops to go north to fight.

That's it.

As long as Duan Xun's heavy troops go north, then anything can be said.

Duan Xun must have been worried about himself and guarded against himself when he stayed in the army.It is certain to be on guard against yourself, and you are not also guarding against him.But as long as Duan Xun's troops went north to participate in the Zhiwan War, it would be useless to defend themselves no matter how much they tried.Because of the Zhiwan War, it was a melee of hundreds of thousands of troops.Duan Qirui's Anhui faction can gather 30 troops, and direct troops such as Feng Guozhang and Cao Kun can also gather more than 20 troops.

As long as Duan Xun gets involved in such a big battle, he will definitely be involuntary.

At that time, the large forces will definitely go north.

"How is Chen Jiongming?"

"Xu Chongzhi's Second Cantonese Army has come to Zhangzhou to join Chen Jiongming. They have been training recruits these days. Yifu, we can't wait any longer. If we wait any longer, we will attack them when their recruits are trained. There will be difficulties. Now is the best opportunity, their recruits have not been fully trained, and we wiped them out in one go."