"That's a pity!" Gu Naibin showed a little disappointed. After this close-up field investigation, he deeply felt a sense of awe for the mysterious brigade of Zhenguo Army, and sincerely admired the powerful combat power of Zhenguo Army, and really wanted to continue to understand the roots of this mysterious force in depth.

Due to the urgency of time, Gu Naibin hurried back to the new army camp with a complicated mood after only one day in the Zhenguo Army, and then conveyed the results of the visit to the backbone of the revolutionary party. The revolutionaries were very shocked by the mysterious power of the Zhenguo Army. Then the revolutionaries began to change and their attitude towards cooperation with the Zhenguo Army was significantly different. Most people believed that fighting with such a powerful force would be an extremely stupid act, which was to some extent equivalent to self-destruction.

Although this exercise to show strength to the Zhejiang revolutionaries was quite successful and psychologically caused a certain deterrence to the other party, a major problem also arose during the exercise. Of course, Zhang Tiewu deliberately concealed the truth and did not let Gu Naibin know.

Just after the exercise, a helicopter suddenly broke down over the woods, and an abnormal sound suddenly occurred in the rotor twist of the propeller. After discovering the problem, the pilot immediately returned to the rear. After careful inspection, he found that a crack about 0.3 cm long appeared inside the rotor twist, which could no longer be used reliably. The rotor twist with a design life of 1,000 hours was severely damaged in less than 50 hours. It is estimated that it is a technical defect caused by insufficient control of material technology and parts accuracy.

After learning about this, Li Tiancheng immediately ordered the four helicopters to be temporarily grounded for comprehensive maintenance and inspection of hidden dangers and defects. In addition, the allocation for helicopter projects has not increased. With the development of the war, the Zhenguo Army consumed more and more ammunition and military pay, and the finances were already a little tight, so many aspects will be affected to varying degrees in the future.

There are still many new weapons projects that the army needs to develop, such as the construction of tanks and mechanized infantry, which requires a lot of manpower and financial investment. Therefore, Li Tiancheng decided that the following research focus will be shifted to the research of military vehicles and other weapons and equipment, including the development and development of light tanks, armored command vehicles, personnel transport vehicles, communication vehicles and other equipment, focusing on the development of army equipment, and air force equipment focuses on the development of fighter jets and bombers.

Then Tong Baoxuan, Zhu Rui, Gu Naibin and others held another secret meeting in Baiyun Temple, Hangzhou. At the meeting, the voices of opposing cooperation with the Zhenguo Army gradually became weaker, and were almost covered up by the voices of cooperation. Everyone agreed that it was unwise to choose to fight with such a powerful opponent, and the revolutionary purpose of the CPP was almost the same as that of the Tongmenghui. At present, the biggest enemy of both sides was the Qing government, so the meeting raised its hands to vote and passed the decision to cooperate with the Zhenguo Army to revolt.

But an embarrassing scene appeared at the meeting, that is, when the meeting voted, the question of who would be the leader of the Hangzhou New Army Uprising. Surprisingly, no one took the initiative to lead the way, and no one recommended others to take the lead, and most of them almost remained silent in a consistent manner.

In fact, this kind of situation is not very surprising, because at this time, for the uprising army, it is difficult to judge the future victory or defeat if it wants to confront the powerful Qing government. If we only compare strength, although the powerful Zhenguo army helped the uprising, the number of the new army and Zhenguo army was limited after all, the Qing government had a total of more than 500,000 new and old troops in various provinces. If it could be integrated into the battlefield in East China, it would obviously be a relatively difficult force to defeat.

However, since the new troops in various places may refuse to be dispatched by the Qing government, they will cooperate with the uncertain factors of the uprising. Therefore, once localities respond to the uprising, the situation will soon develop towards the benefit of the uprising army.

Because Li Tiancheng understood the specific process of the Wuchang Uprising in history, he dared to assert that the Qing government could be overthrown in a few months. However, no one expected that after the Wuchang Uprising, the Qing government would really fall in just a few months. Compared to Hong Xiuquan's war in Jintian Uprising in Guangxi for more than ten years, he still failed to overthrow the Qing government. The speed was many times faster. This situation of overthrowing the powerful feudal regime in a short period of time does not exist in Chinese history. Therefore, the new army was mentally prepared for a long-term battle. No one dared to say that they could win the national revolution quickly. Some even proposed a long-term combat policy of defeating the Qing government in ten to twenty years. Most people thought this was a relatively reasonable strategy. Only Li Tiancheng knew in his heart that their ideas were too conservative.

This kind of mistake in judging the situation is also normal. In the later Liberation War, the People's Liberation Army was weaker in the early stage than the National Army, so it had been prepared for a long battle for more than eight years, but later it took only three years to defeat the Kuomintang army, and this speed was quite unexpected.

Therefore, the development of history to this day has been very different from the feudal dynasty period in the past dynasties. Now the Qing court is in internal and external troubles, especially among the young people in this period, the modern revolutionary thought that is widely miscarried is far different from hundreds of years ago. After each feudal dynasty was overthrown, the same feudal dynasty was re-established almost without exception. Now, a brand new democratic political thought is prevalent in the world, and the call for establishing a democratic regime is very high in all parts of China. Therefore, the complexity of the situation today is incomparable to any historical period, which is also one of the reasons for the rapid collapse of the Qing government.

During the fall of the Qing government, the Beiyang Army led by Yuan Shikai gave up its efforts to support the Qing government, which was a major factor in the rapid overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. Before the uprising, no one could guarantee that Yuan Shikai would tend to cooperate with the uprising army. Therefore, the Wuchang Uprising has not yet broken out, and Tong Baoxuan and others have little confidence in the uprising. Everyone understands the principle of shooting the first bird, and no one is willing to stand up as the leader.

During the Wuchang Uprising, Li Yuanhong, the commander of the Hubei New Army, was also worried that the uprising would fail and would be sent to the guillotine by the Qing government and refused to serve as the leader of the uprising army. It was because everyone unanimously recommended and persuaded that Li Yuanhong barely stepped forward to become the leader of the uprising army. At this time, the situation of the Zhejiang New Army was the same.

Everyone refused to stand up, and the uprising lost the core of the leadership. After a moment of silence at the venue, Tong Baoxuan, the captain of the new army military police, volunteered to recommend him. When everyone saw someone standing up, they certainly couldn't ask for it. They immediately accepted it happily and decided to use Tong Baoxuan as the leader of the uprising army. The most important part of the meeting was settled.

After Tong Baoxuan was willing to make a comeback, the subsequent matters became easier. The meeting immediately made a decision and sent a delegation represented by Gu Naibin and Ge Jingen to the Zhenguo Army Camp in Jiaxing to visit the Zhenguo Army Commander Ma Chaoyun and other important generals of the Zhenguo Army. The two sides began to discuss the details of the Zhejiang uprising.

The two sides held a three-day secret meeting. During the process, the two sides had differences on the leadership of the uprising. The representatives of the new army believed that the uprising was carried out in Zhejiang. The new army should be the main body and leadership force of the uprising, and the Zhenguo Army as the auxiliary offensive force. However, Ma Chaoyun believed that the purpose of the Zhenguo Army's southward travel was to attack Jiaxing, Hangzhou and other places. The Zhenguo Army had an elite force of 8,000 people, which was more than twice as many as the more than 3,000 new army in Hangzhou that were currently revolting, so the leadership of the uprising should belong to the Zhenguo Army.

This is also what Li Tiancheng meant, but Li Tiancheng also flexibly put forward a suggestion, that is, the issue of division and governance. Li Tiancheng considered that if the new army led by the Tongmenghui was brought to the Zhenguo Army, the Tongmenghui would obviously not be willing. So after he repeatedly considered it, he could propose to implement dual leadership with the new army. Both sides formed a coalition in name, but the army of both sides was led by their own side and was not interfered by the other side. This was where Li Tiancheng preliminarily explained that Ma Chaoyun could make concessions, which also made the cooperation between the two sides flexible and would not be too different due to some issues, which would cause the cooperation to abort in the middle.

Finally, Ma Chaoyun came up with the plan for Li Tiancheng's division. After considering it, Gu Naibin and others accepted the most reasonable suggestions at present. The two sides reached an agreement and decided to form a coalition force between the reigning army and the new army to jointly attack Hangzhou and Zhejiang provinces. The new army in Hangzhou will actively contact the new army in various parts of Zhejiang to encourage them to cooperate with the uprising, at least to keep them neutral and remain unmoved during the uprising process. Both sides have the obligation to jointly attack the Qing soldiers who were fighting stubbornly.

The agreement stipulates that the Zhengguo Army and the New Army maintain the independence of military leadership, but before taking major military actions, both sides must notify the other party in advance. When both sides need to take military actions at the same time, the two sides must communicate in advance and negotiate and decide how to cooperate with each other.

After conquering Hangzhou and Zhejiang provinces, there were also differences in interests on how to manage Zhejiang Province. In order to take into account the general situation, the two sides reached an agreement. After the Zhejiang New Army Uprising, they retreated to the southern region of Zhejiang. Jiaxing, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Jinhua and Quzhou in northern Zhejiang were controlled by Zhenguo Army, and Taizhou, Wenzhou and Lishui in the southern region were controlled by the new army. In this way, the Zhenguo Army was connected in East China, and the Revolutionary Army also gained a foothold in southern Zhejiang.

The people of the Tongmenghui did not want to get the northern part of Zhejiang, but if they wanted to occupy the rich city of Hangzhou, they had to give up part of the southern Zhejiang area to the Zhenguo Army. In this way, the new army controlled area would be sandwiched between the Zhenguo Army, which was quite unfavorable to them. Therefore, they chose to get the southern Zhejiang area. The terrain between the southern Zhejiang area and Fujian was steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Qing troops in Fujian were difficult to go north. The northern part maintained temporary stability and unity with the Zhenguo Army, and a relatively stable sphere of influence emerged.

Although the two sides reached a military alliance in name, the overall combat power of the new army was obviously not as strong as that of the Zhenguo Army. Li Tiancheng actually had other considerations in his mind. At this time, he only adopted a delaying strategy. The battle to capture Zhejiang was smoother, so as to avoid the Zhenguo Army losing too much troops and losing generals, and delaying the war too long. Moreover, quickly occupying Zhejiang in this way could prevent the Qing soldiers from taking advantage of the emptiness of the Zhenguo Army to the south and launching a large-scale attack. The Zhenguo Army's sphere of influence could quickly extend to the south, making the Qing soldiers more afraid of the Zhenguo Army and become a force that they really should not be underestimated.

The foundation of this alliance agreement is not solid, the strength of both sides is not in a symmetrical state at this time, and it is difficult to achieve true balance. Sooner or later, one side will annex the other.
Chapter completed!