It can even be said that during the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese and Russian officers were holding Zhao Dongyun’s "Trench Theory" in their hands, and the war was not over yet. This has already been translated by Britain, Japan, Germany, Russia and France, and it has become a must-read book for all school students, and Japanese Lu Shi has directly translated it as a teaching material!
This is the second time that China has been widely translated and adopted by various countries since the’ Art of War’.
In the eyes of many foreign officials, if there is a military strategist in contemporary China, it is definitely not Yuan Shikai and Li Hongzhang, but Zhao Dongyun!
The Berlin Military Academy in Germany even called Zhao Dongyun the outstanding achievement of the school’s teaching!
Even foreign students will find Zhao Dongyun’s trench theory in their studies when they study military affairs in Japan and Germany.
When they return to China, their first choice is often to go to Zhao Dongyun. Even if they go to work temporarily, they often pretend to be young Chinese. Who is the leader of the young Chinese? That’s Zhao Dongyun!
Although Zhao Dongyun’s prestige and seniority are slightly shallow, it is difficult to attract the backbone generals of Beiyang Department, such as a large number of unified and standardized officers, but it is very attractive to the younger generation, especially those young officers who have just graduated in recent years.
After the recent tense situation, many people resigned from the original army and then went to Jinzhou to join Zhao Dongyun’s army.
Combining Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun, we can find that Wang Yingkai has a greater appeal to the middle and high-level personnel of Beiyang Sports Institute, while Zhao Dongyun has a greater appeal to the middle-level younger generation.
And he Duan Qirui himself? It is much more embarrassing. If it is typical, it is not as attractive to middle-and high-level talents as Wang Yingkai and not as attractive to middle-level talents as Zhao Dongyun rg.
Chapter one hundred The prelude to the war
A few years ago, Duan Qirui’s prestige was not bad, but it failed because of the struggle for right-wing control, and then the struggle for control of the second town was suppressed by Wang Yingkai, Feng Guozhang and others. In addition, it was a greater blow to him. Zhao Dongyun claimed that the Zhao League split unexpectedly, and Duan Qirui was no longer strong in the ugly years. It was not until the eve of the Russo-Japanese War that he mixed into the control of a fourth town.
In this case, regardless of his prestige and qualifications, he can no longer be compared with Wang Yingjie!
Now, whether he is high or low is not as prestigious as Wang Yingjie, and his strength is not as good as Zhao Dongyun’s attraction to talents.
Maybe Zhao Dongyun just saw his weakness and opened his mouth to get so much ordnance! But can you not give it yourself? Can’t!
Now is not the time to turn against Zhao Dongyun. Now Duan Qirui needs to unite with Zhao Dongyun to destroy the Qing court in Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen, which is the biggest threat to everyone. It is Wang Duan who will turn against Zhao Dongyun even if he Duan Qirui fights with Zhao Dongyun at that time, because if Wang Yingjie takes the main position in Beiyang, he will have to join hands with Zhao Dongyun against Wang Yingjie again.
Despite his dissatisfaction with the future planning, Duan Qirui still said, "Don’t even talk about it. I will make my own decision to inform the factory to let them complete our first two orders and then rush the goods to the province!"
Aside, Lu Yongxiang wondered, "How can this be done? There are not many orders in the first two batches, and the amount is so large in the province. I am afraid that we can’t play for half a month. Then we can’t get a bullet these days?"
Duan Qirui said, "Don’t worry, Yang is also a person who takes care of the overall situation. He must have a good idea!"
Like Duan Qirui’s conjecture, Zhao Dongyun just arrived at Shanhai and saw Duan Qirui when he got back to the train. At this time, he was all smiles. "Brother Zhiquan is still a reasonable person. Well, I gave Tangshan a reply. I was a little nervous in the provincial finance. I asked the fourth town if I could invest together to buy this batch of ordnance, and then share it equally with Baoding. Communicate and distribute the output of the factory as soon as possible!"
It is impossible for the three families of Zhao Duan, the king of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, to take possession of a lot of ordnance production. There must be a distribution ratio. This is not only considering the distribution of interests, but also considering that all the joint war families must have ammunition. You are not the only one who monopolized the ordnance production of Fuyuan Machinery Factory. How can you let them fight? Why don’t they finish the ammunition and die?
After all, no one is stupid, whether it’s Duan Qirui or Zhao Dongyun, the head will not dare to monopolize the ordnance output of Fu Factory. Otherwise, both of them will not fight Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen, and they will unite to kill you first!
It is relatively simple to distribute the ordnance output of Fu Factory. Because Wang Yingkai’s first town is a Japanese rifle factory, the output of the first 65 mm ammunition in Fu Factory will naturally be given to Wang Yingkai’s family, while the remaining 792 mm ammunition is occupied by Duan Qirui, accounting for 40% and Zhao Dongyun accounting for 60%. After all, Duan Qirui has a fourth town and Zhao Dong Yunshou has three towns. It is not good to lose ammunition.
For his rifles, artillery, heavy machine guns, all kinds of shells, etc., according to Wang Yingkai’s 30%, Duan Qirui’s 30% and Zhao Dongyun’s 40%, Zhao Dongyun took the big head or because he had more troops.
For other troops, such as the fifth town of Zhang Huaizhi and the second town of Wu Fengling, you can’t get a bullet! If you want to get ammunition and weapons, you have to find another way. You can buy them from three people or directly import them from foreign countries.
And it’s not just Zhang Huaizhi who is looking for foreigners to import weapons. Actually, Zhao Dongyun, Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai, the Qing court, Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen, all of them have found foreign suppliers to buy a lot of ordnance, especially artillery.
Zhao Dongyun, a heavily armed soldier in the third town, has met Andre again in the temporary headquarters.
"We still support the general’s idea of buying heavy machine guns and artillery. As you know, our army has accumulated a large number of weapons and ammunition in the Far East in the past two years. It is not difficult for the general to buy ordnance, but the price is not high!" Andre said and handed over a list.
When I look at this list, Zhao Dongyun just frowns. This Russian is more ruthless than himself. This price is not much lower than what he gave them in those years!
For the same g1 heavy machine gun, the plan from the Russians is at least twice as much as that from the Fuchang factory. Moreover, the only advantage of the Russians is that they can give it directly to the spot. If they have enough money, the Russians can immediately pull out hundreds of active heavy machine guns and millions of bullets for him.
Zhao Dongyun didn’t immediately promise Andre, but found Zhao Dongping and then said, "What happened to your talk with Japanese people? Can you buy their guns? "
Zhao Dongping said, "It has been talked about that the effect is not very few, and there are not many German-style guns in their hands, and the imitation output in their country is relatively high. They are not enough to sell to us with their 30-year-old guns and the price is relatively expensive!"
Japanese 30-year-old 75mm wild artillery mountain gun, which was bought by Beiyang from Japan in those days, is an old-fashioned gun with three firing speeds per minute. The only advantage is that it is cheap. However, when people see that the war in China has started, they immediately sit on the ground and raise the price to four or five thousand two hundred silver. Now they are all withdrawing guns one by one, with more than six thousand two silver!
"If you add a few thousand taels of silver in peacetime, you can buy an advanced tube cannon!" Zhao Dongping is also full of unevenness. "Everyone wants to bite us like a hungry wolf!"
Zhao Dongping complained and then said, "What about the Russians? Although their guns are different in caliber from ours, they should sound good!"
Zhao Dongyun is also gloomy. "The price is not cheap!"
After that, I gave the price list of Andre to Zhao Dongping, who frowned after reading it. "These old hairs are too dark, and it takes 5,200 to retire the old guns one by one!"
Zhao Dongyun is in power. "It’s normal for them to charge a high price at this time, but the artillery output at the Fu factory is too low, and it’s still divided into three parts. We can’t get a few guns from the Fu factory for a month. Now the Fourth Hybrid Association and the Fifth Hybrid Association always have to give them a artillery battalion."
"So you go to Japan first to talk about keeping the price down as much as possible. If the price can’t be kept down, buy Russians!" Although Zhao Dongyun knew that it was not a big deal to buy these old guns, it was not so easy to sell the advanced guns. At that time, Beiyang purchased guns from Germany. However, the 193-type 75 mm wild guns in Germany have already sold out during the KuRusso-Japanese War. However, hundreds of guns of this type were ordered from the Germans in one breath, and orders from other countries were added. It was the earliest time to buy this gun smoothly.
However, if it is delayed until 2008, God knows what the situation will be at that time.
Time waits for no man. Zhao Dongyun naturally tends to buy ready-made second-hand goods. If the performance is worse, it will be more expensive than before, but it is better than nothing!
What’s worse, he is not the only one selling Japanese ordnance. Several of his families have snapped up Japanese old ordnance. Wang Yingkai just ordered 10,000 30-year rifles and more than 30 30-year guns from Japanese in one breath. It seems that he is going to carry out the equipment to the end.
Similarly, Japanese machinery and equipment of the standing army in the seventh town of Feng Guozhang originally came to Beijing Banner, but like the first town, Japanese machinery and equipment were tense this time, and Feng Guozhang also spent a lot of money to purchase arms from Japanese people.
It can be said that this time is really spring for the Japanese army. Second-hand old 30-year rifles and 30-year guns can still be sold at these expensive prices, but they should not be asked for it. This is a great thing for the Japanese army after the war, and they can get valuable funds to change into new three-type rifles and three-type guns.
Relatively speaking, Russian ordnance is easier to buy, but this is mainly because Russians and Zhao Dongyun have always been good. For Russians, they still hope that Zhao Dongyun can move in and take control of the China Dynasty. In the past few years, Zhao Dongyun has actually proved that he is willing to betray the national interests.
If Zhao Dongyun took control of China, perhaps Nicholas II would whisper every day that the Russian plan would really succeed!
Otherwise, Russia is not Japan. There is no large-scale dressing plan in Russia. Their machine guns and artillery can continue until World War I, but there are no extra weapons to sell to the warlords in China.
If Zhao Dongyun wants to buy ordnance from Russia, he can buy Russian active weapons, especially heavy machine guns, which must be directly transferred from Russian Far East troops.
Because of the outbreak of the Beiyang War, the Far East arms market has just subsided for half a year, and it has once again flourished. Arms dealers from all over the world traveled around China to sell arms. At this time, the Beiyang War has been brewing for more than half a month, and finally the first exchange of fire took place.
On October 16th, after Zhao Dongyun led the main force of the third town to Jixian county, the fourth town in Duan Qirui also arrived in Xianghe area and advanced in parallel with Zhao Dongyun’s third town, one north and one south. The next day, the fourth town’s vanguard cavalry troops fought in Tongzhou and the seventh town’s sentry outside the capital.
After a tentative contact between hundreds of cavalry on both sides, their respective retreats. On the evening of that day, Feng Guozhang claimed that his cavalry troops had won a great victory and defeated more than 1,000′ rebels’. Duan Qirui was also not to be outdone, claiming that more than 1,000 people had killed and wounded’ Feng Wang rebels’ and won a great victory in Tongzhou!
Actually, there were more than 300 cavalry on both sides in the exploratory battle. Nearly 100 cavalry in the fourth town had a contact battle with the second cavalry battalion in the seventh town. After more than 10 cavalry in the fourth town were shot, they took the initiative to retreat, while the cavalry in the seventh town did not dare to continue chasing after seven people were killed or injured.