Chapter 48 Chapter 8

The relationship between Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai went to two extremes. At first, Duan Qirui was all to blame, but later, Yuan Shikai was more and more to blame. The so-called beginning refers to Jiang Fangzhen's suicide.On the surface, this case was a small conflict between military expert Jiang Fangzhen and military science director Wei Zonghan and section chief Ding Jin, but in fact it was the first power struggle between Yuan Shikai and his general Duan Qirui. The battlefield is in the presidential palace. Speaking of Jiang Fangzhen, he is actually the number one person with a unique strategic vision in China.He studied in Japan when he was a teenager, and he had a clear understanding of Japan's ambition to annex China, and he accurately analyzed the strength comparison between China and Japan.Jiang Fangzhen knows that China is definitely not Japan's opponent, and the more it develops, the more it will be left behind by Japan. If China, a weak and ancient agricultural country, wants to gain the right to survive in front of Japan, a powerful industrialized country, it must not count on it. The world depends on the first battle, and we must fight a protracted war.

The protracted war was first proposed by Mr. Jiang Fangzhen. Mr. Jiang Fangzhen's military thoughts are broad and profound, and protracted warfare is only one of them.He found that the Beiyang new army had lost its vigor and was depressed, so he put forward the strategic idea of ​​reforming the new army. The proposal of this strategic thinking is to deal with Japan's approaching invasion of China. In short, China must always retain a powerful army to maintain the balance of power between China and Japan.But this balance is too fragile, and it always tilts against China. Therefore, in order to avoid the deterioration of the situation, the Beiyang New Army must start to reform.

This is Jiang Fangzhen's idea of ​​reforming the new army. This idea immediately attracted Yuan Shikai's attention. Yuan Shikai was a confidant of the Japanese and had always paid close attention to the transformation of the army. Therefore, after he discovered Jiang Fangzhen, he couldn't wait to appoint him as the principal of Baoding Military Academy to promote Chiang Kai-shek's military training. The new army transformation plan. But Duan Qirui disagreed with Jiang Fangzhen's new army transformation plan. Why did Duan Qirui disagree with this plan?Could it be that he wears a pair of pants with the Japanese?

No, Duan Qirui also regards Japan as a confidant.But the problem is that the ass determines the head, and a person's thinking depends on his specific position in society.You must know that Duan Qirui is the chief of the army, the highest officer in the military, and is responsible for specific tasks. In his eyes, Beiyang, the first problem is obedience. An army that refuses to obey orders and cannot command is definitely not a good support. army. It is obvious that the officers trained by Jiang Fangzhen will not obey Duan Qirui's orders. Therefore, Duan Qirui felt strongly dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai's "unauthorized" bypassing him and directly appointing Jiang Fangzhen as the principal of Baoding Military Academy.But the problem is that Yuan Shikai is the president, no matter how dissatisfied he is, he can't find trouble with Yuan Shikai, he can only find trouble with Jiang Fangzhen and add trouble to Jiang Fangzhen.

Therefore, Jiang Fangzhen went to Baoding Military Academy and found that the work was difficult to carry out, so he called the students together on the playground, scolded Wei Zonghan, the chief of military science, and Ding Jin, the chief of the section, for making trouble, and then shot himself. She saved her life, but things have already caused a lot of trouble.The two guys, Wei Zonghan and Ding Jin, also became popular quickly as the despicable villains who dragged their legs, and everyone knew it. But it didn't take long for these two live treasures to be popular, and people discovered that the reason why these two little-known little people dared to talk nonsense with Jiang Fangzhen, the most military-minded military strategist in China, was because they had backers and backers.

This background backer is Duan Qirui, Chief of the Army.