Chapter 434: Entering Beijing (1)
Qin Zheng got off the warrior car, looked up at the tall Tiananmen Tower in front of him, which was both familiar and unfamiliar, and couldn't help but feel a lot in his heart, if Beijing is the heart of China, then this Tiananmen Square is undoubtedly the heart of Beijing, at least in the old time and space, its significance and value even exceed the back of the palace, and in this era, Tiananmen is not so big symbolic significance, just the main gate of the imperial city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, Qin Zheng also heard the guards and soldiers around him whispering: "This is the palace!" "The emperor lives here." "Good boy, it's developed now, and it's going to blow it when you go back." ”
Qin Zheng is no stranger to the Tiananmen Tower and the Imperial Palace, in the old time and space, he has visited here many times, and the Tiananmen Tower has also been up several times, but at that time, the palace in this city gate is no longer a place where the emperor lives, but has become the Palace Museum, just a place to play by people, at most it is to express his feelings about history. In this era, the center of Beijing is the imperial palace at the back rather than the city tower in front of you, and in the minds of local warriors, the imperial palace is still a place full of mystery and majesty, after all, although the emperor has run away, it still exists, so at this time it also behaved quite a bit of sincere fear.
Qin Zheng smiled, his guards and soldiers were all selected from the Benshi soldiers, so he was very clear about the psychological condition of these soldiers, and this kind of emotion could not be eliminated in a short period of time.
The day after the People's Army fully occupied Beijing, Qin Zheng led a huge team of troops, administrative personnel, medical personnel, and media personnel to Beijing by train from Tianjin, and brought two warrior cars with him in the afternoon.
The army that came to Beijing with Qin Zheng this time had two regiments, the Sixth Regiment and the Ninth Regiment, of which the Ninth Regiment was a new regiment just formed by the People's Army, and strictly speaking, the soldiers of this regiment were basically recruits who were undergoing trial training, but they had not yet passed the qualification examination for enlistment. It is only because of the current shortage of troops in the People's Army that these trial soldiers were organized into a regiment and sent to Beijing to assist other armies in managing Beijing, while continuing to train recruits in Beijing, after all, Beijing has now concentrated the elite of the People's Army, and the main task of the Ninth Regiment in Beijing is to maintain order in Beijing, but they do not need to participate in the battle, in fact, only officers above the platoon level in the Ninth Regiment are equipped with weapons, while the other soldiers are only issued with a wooden imitation rifle and a bayonet.
First, it is only to maintain order, and there is really no need to use weapons; second, at present, the KPA has only enough weapons to equip six regiments, and only the first and second regiments are equipped with artillery battalions; and only the first, second, and fifth regiments are equipped with fire support battalions. The other three regiments simply equipped the soldiers with rifles.
At present, the weapons used by the People's Army are basically captured from the previous battles, and a total of about 20,000 rifles of various kinds have been captured, but the varieties of guns are very chaotic, as many as nine kinds, and only four can be guaranteed to assemble a regiment, the German-made Mauser Type 98 rifle, the Japanese-style Type 30 Murata rifle, the Russian-made Mosin Nagant Type 1891 rifle, and the Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle. The rest can only be used as training guns.
Since the crossing group now has the Qingdao Arsenal, which can produce Mauser Type 98 rifles and bombs, the army is equipped with this type of rifle the most, with a total of three regiments, while the Type 30 Murata rifle, the Mosin Nagant Type 1891 rifle, and the Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle are each equipped with one regiment. It is not that these three types of rifles are only assembled in the number of one regiment, and the crossing group does not have the ability to produce these three types of rifles and bullets, so it cannot be assembled too much, and some parts must be left for accessories. In this battle in Beijing, the People's Army captured a lot of Type 30 Murata rifles and Mosin Nagant Type 1891 rifles, but the captured ammunition was not much, and it still could not assemble more troops, and at most it could only be used for training in the Ninth Regiment. At present, the output of the Qingdao Arsenal is also very good, and it cannot be produced in large quantities, so that the whole army can use German-made rifles uniformly.
Since its formation, the cavalry company has been training in Tianjin, and the cavalry training base on Yangma Island in Shandong is still under construction, and the cavalry company has basically been equipped with a certain combat capability after more than two months of training, and the war horses have also recovered seven or eight points, so the Military Commission decided to join the cavalry company into the troops entering Beijing after soliciting the opinions of Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun, the commanders of the cavalry company. There is still an irreplaceable role in transmitting information, and the KPA cannot always rely on drone combat site reconnaissance, which is also to add some practical experience to the cavalry company. In addition, the People's Army also seized a large number of war horses and livestock in Beijing, which could be handed over to the cavalry company for management.
In terms of the management team, it was Li Songchen who led the team, accompanied by more than 300 traversers, including all the leaders of the Tianjin Administrative Region that Li Songchen had determined, and more than 500 local personnel. In the coming period, they will take over the administrative affairs and day-to-day management of Beijing, so that the army can free up its hands to deal with the southward offensive of the Russian army. At the same time, it is also to accumulate experience in urban management, and in the future, the administrative personnel of Tianjin and Qingdao will be selected from these people.
Of course, the employment of the crossing group will not only look at whether the politics are reliable, but also pay attention to ability, so what kind of development these local personnel will have in the future depends on their own efforts, but the crossing group will give them enough opportunities, and this time bringing them to Beijing is to provide them with a platform for performance. In fact, not only the locals, but also the traversers, and the traversers who are incapable will not have his place in the future traversal group.
And although there is now a medical team in the city of Beijing and the establishment of a position hospital, the number is not large, only more than 20 people, including only 6 people who cross the city, and can only be responsible for the treatment of the army. This time, the medical team that came to Beijing was a huge team of more than 70 people, with as many as 17 traversers, led by Qin Zheng's wife Zhou Ping, and Qin Zheng's daughter Zhou Weiying also came with the team, and Luo Yue had already arrived in Beijing first, so before leaving, Xia Bohai and Xiao Jianjun both laughed and said that this trip to Beijing was a publicly-funded trip of Qin Zheng's family of four.
In fact, Zhou Ping is one of the main leaders of the medical staff in the entire crossing group, not only with high rank, deep qualifications, but also very good medical skills; if it were not for Qin Zheng's wife, she would probably have served as the minister of health. The medical personnel who came to Beijing this time were not only facing the army, but also the residents of Beijing, which was one of the means to appease the people and win the hearts and minds of the people, so only Zhou Ping was qualified to lead the team. Zhou Weiying is also the backbone of the medical staff who currently cross the group, and she also serves as the work of teaching local personnel and training medical personnel, and more than 20 of the local medical staff who entered Beijing this time are students she brings, and this time it is also for them to accumulate clinical experience and strive to work independently as soon as possible.
The media personnel were the smallest group in Beijing this time, with only six people, but the weight of this group was not low at all, because in less than a month, the circulation of the [New China News] issued by the travelers had reached 2,500 copies, and in China in this era, this circulation was a very staggering number, and only a few large newspapers had such a circulation, while the vast majority of newspapers had only a few hundred copies of circulation.
The circulation of "New China News" was able to reach 2,500 copies in a short period of time, mainly because it was distributed in Shanghai. It turned out that the Shanghai negotiations broke down the most, but the crossing group still set up an office in Shanghai and had a foothold in Shanghai. However, Jiang Huanwu, the editor-in-chief of the [New China Daily], had an idea at this time to use the foothold of Shanghai to distribute the [New China Daily] to Shanghai. So he immediately applied to the Executive Committee.
And Jiang Huanwu's suggestion is also in line with the plan of the Executive Committee, because during the Shanghai negotiations, the Traveler successfully caused a huge impact in Shanghai, and now that the Shanghai negotiations have broken down, the Traveler still needs to continue to expand its influence in Shanghai, and the newspaper is undoubtedly one of the best furniture.
So the executive committee immediately approved Jiang Huanwu's proposal. At this time, the People's Army launched the Beijing Raid and occupied the Tongzhou Railway Station in the first battle, which was undoubtedly a blockbuster news, and with the influence of this news, the first 300 copies of the [New China Daily] officially issued in Shanghai were sold out in less than two hours.
In addition to the news effect of the People's Army's occupation of the Tongzhou Railway Station, there is also the aftermath of the sensational effect caused by overseas Chinese in Shanghai, and more importantly, this is a newspaper founded by overseas Chinese, and people from all walks of life in Shanghai hope to learn more about the situation of overseas Chinese through this newspaper. In addition, the content form of [New China News] is quite different from the newspapers of this era, but it is more readable and effective, and Shanghai is the most open and fashionable area in China in this era, so it is not surprising that [New China News] sells well in Shanghai.
Seeing that the sales of [New China News] were so hot, Jiang Huanwu was also very happy, because the more vigorous the sales of [New China News], the more stable his position in the crossing group was, and the greater his right to speak, so Jiang Huanwu immediately decided to increase the second [New China News] issued in Shanghai to 600 copies, but the result was still sold out in a short period of time.
Of course, Jiang Huanwu was full of confidence in the outcome of this battle, believing that the People's Army would definitely be able to capture Beijing, and he should make full use of this opportunity to push the circulation of the [New China Daily] to a new level. Because the [New China Daily] and the People's Army can be regarded as their own people, it is naturally easy to do things, so whether it is battlefield interviews, secret war reports, character interviews, etc., [New China News] has the natural advantage that other newspapers do not have.
As a result, Jiang Huanwu also decided to increase the circulation of the [New China Daily] in Shanghai to 1,500 copies, while the circulation in Tianjin was only 1,000 copies, and the circulation in Qingdao was only 500 copies. In this way, the circulation of [New China News] in Shanghai climbed to the first place at a rocket-like speed.