"The Citi Army wants to fight us for turf?" Zhou Jinguo asked in a very skeptical tone. Not long ago, Zhou Jinguo was sent by the division headquarters to negotiate with the Citi Army, and according to Zhou Jinguo's observations, the Citi Army did not have the ability to fight with the Guangfu Army at all. The Liberation Army now doesn't want to expand the front needlessly, but it doesn't want to do anything to the Citi Army. But the Citi Army is obviously different from what the Liberation Army thinks.

The division commander sneered, "I have already reported to the military headquarters that I will make every effort to sweep away the local armed forces in the near future." The Hunan army resisted stubbornly, and even troops like the Citi Army dared to blow up with us. If they don't use force, they don't know the three eyes of the horse prince. ”

“…… I'll just wait for the commander's order. Zhou Jinguo replied. What he wanted to say was what the military ministry would think. But after thinking about it, even if the military headquarters gives an order, the regiment has to go through the division commander to get the order, so it is better to wait for the order honestly. When the military headquarters holds a meeting, whether or not to ask the cadres in the regiment to participate in it is also a matter for the military department.

The division commander just hummed, but did not say anything more about this matter. Zhou Jinguo returned to the army with the order of the division commander. After waiting in the army for two days, the reinforcements did not wait, but waited for a new order from the division commander. "The central government ordered the formation of the Hunan Provincial Government and the Hunan Military Region, and the troops should not be dispatched at this time for the time being."

This news made the troops stunned, the battle preparations had been completed at this time, and the troops would immediately take Yongxing as soon as they gave an order. As soon as the news of the establishment of the Hunan Provincial Government and the Hunan Military Region arrived, all military operations were frozen. The previous preparations were put on hold here.

At the meeting of the party committee of the regiment, the comrades expressed their incomprehension, and some comrades said in a strange voice: "The luck of the Hunan army in Yongxing is too good." ”

As a political commissar, Zhou Jinguo can only explain this. "My home is just north of Yongxing, and I can go home and see Yongxing after I hit it. Comrades, if you say that you are in a hurry to fight Yongxing, I have been waiting for Yongxing for more than half a year. But we are soldiers, and it is our duty to obey orders. Besides, the establishment of a government is also a good thing, because the government should have stepped forward to engage in economic warfare, but the government was not established in the past, and our troops had to undertake many of the things that the government should have done. When the government is formed, we can concentrate on the war! ”

Zhou Jinguo is trying to convince everyone, and these contents are a bit convincing, and everyone agrees with this statement. I just feel that if I continue to wait like this, I am afraid that the morale of the troops will be affected. The regiment commander said: "Political commissar, let's just apply to the military department, as long as we send us another battalion of reinforcements, even if there is no reinforcement from artillery and balloon troops, we can still take Yongxing." ”

Chief of Staff Qian Liqun's opinion was more conservative, "I think it's better to wait, this is a siege after all." With reinforced artillery battalions and balloon troops, how many fewer people can we die. ”

The day after the meeting, the 2nd Regiment received a new order to send troops to meet the artillery battalion, the balloon unit, and an infantry battalion of the 3rd Regiment sent to help the 2nd Regiment guard the camp.

"What is this tease us?" The regiment leader was furious.

Zhou Jinguo looked at the comrades who were very annoyed, and could only try his best to appease them. After scolding his mother, the regiment commander suddenly laughed, "Political commissar, look at you tossed, I think it's good to have a political commissar now." If the General Staff is so tormented, I can't stand it. ”

Zhou Jinguo didn't know whether this was praise or ridicule, he could only laugh and say, "I think you are praising me." ”

On May 29, exactly one month after the Hunan army ambushed a platoon of the Guangfu Army, the Guangfu Army began to attack Yongxing. The fight was fought very nonsense.

After the balloon unit that was fired as an artillery school was raised, they quickly sent out a message, which was not to guide the artillery, but to inform the infantry unit of the Liberation Army that the Hunan army in the city began to flee. Yongxing is a mountain city, and the troops put their forces in the east of the city, and they heard that the Hunan army began to flee, but the troops could not pursue it directly. Only the siege can begin. The whole battle eventually turned into a chase.

The troops are to attack the city, to occupy the city, to clear the enemy. It is also necessary to arrest and manage the more than 800 Hunan troops who were stupidly thrown in the city. The Hunan army is also accustomed to the mountains, they spread their feet and ran away first, the strength of the recovery army is insufficient, and after dealing with the affairs of Yongxing, they went to chase after it, and only caught one or two hundred Hunan troops who were left behind, and the main force of more than two thousand Hunan troops ran away.

The Hunan army, which remained in the city as a substitute for the dead ghosts, had two battalions, and the battalion officers surrendered obediently when they saw that things were wrong. When Zhou Jinguo interrogated the two, as soon as the two heard Zhou Jinguo's familiar Hunan accent, their feelings immediately diverged. They first pulled their throats and scolded Zhou Yongan, the leader of the Hunan army who escaped, and then looked at Zhou Jinguo, a fellow villager in Hunan, pitifully and said: "This lord, don't you Guangfu Army treat prisoners preferentially and don't kill them." ”

Seeing that the two of them were playing double reeds, Zhou Jinguo was angry, and he replied: "Don't worry, we won't kill prisoners." ”

"Thank you, master, for not killing." The two battalion officers knelt on the ground and said happily.

The regiment commander Yu Tiesheng next to him watched this farce dumbfounded, as an officer of the Liberation Army, Yu Tiesheng couldn't understand how a soldier could be so shameless.

Zhou Jinguo said to the two battalion officers: "We don't kill prisoners, but when we ask you questions, you have to be honest." ”

As soon as the battalion officer saw Zhou Jinguo's expression of "capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes are unforgivable", he immediately replied: "Please give me orders." ”

"Has anyone told you that we are going to attack the city?" Zhou Jinguo asked. That's what worries him the most.

The battalion officer was in tears, looking like a pear blossom with rain, "No one reported to us." A month ago, Zhou Yongan sent troops to attack the master's people. Of the 2,000 people who went out, few of them could come back. At that time, everyone knew that they couldn't beat the master no matter what, so everyone wanted to leave. But Zhou Yongan lied to us that he could hold it, and the old men didn't dare to come to Yongxing. I didn't expect him to run the fastest! If someone had told us the news, wouldn't I have run away long ago? ”

After the interrogation, Zhou Jinguo asked the head of the regiment, Yu Tiesheng, "What do you think of these two people?" ”

Yu Tiesheng sneered: "Two people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

Zhou Jinguo didn't despise the two of them so much, "Not necessarily." I think these two people are full of nonsense and can't believe it. These two men are defending the city, how did you feel when you were besieging the city? ”

"Hmm......" The head of the regiment thought for a moment, his eyes narrowed slightly, "It's not like it's like it's going to collapse at the touch of a button." If it weren't for the guidance of the balloon troops, they would have been scattered by an artillery shot, but I am afraid that they would still be able to block them for a while. ”

After finishing speaking, Yu Tiesheng asked Zhou Jinguo with a little surprise, "How did you see it." ”

Zhou Jinguo replied slowly: "What they said is incoherent. If I am the leader of the Hunan army, I really want to run, and the troops who stay in the city must be able to fight. If there were men left in the city who were faster than me, the enemy would chase them from behind, and I would not be able to escape. Now that so many people have been arrested anyway, whether these two battalion officers are telling the truth or not will be known upon interrogation. ”

After interrogating the captured junior officers and ordinary soldiers, the two cunning battalion officers immediately revealed their true colors. It turned out that these two people were the first figures in the Hunan army to have a tough attitude towards the Guangfu Army, so they were sent to the head of the city to be responsible for defense.

For the diehards of the Hunan army, the Guangfu Army was not polite. The two were thrown into a cell and guarded tightly. The regiment commander admired Zhou Jinguo's eyesight very much, but he said something else, "Political commissar, we have taken Yongxing, you can take the troops to the Shangwan area to clear the remaining Hunan army." ”

"Heh......" Zhou Jin country is in Shangwan, and the so-called liquidation of the remaining Hunan army is just a statement. In fact, the head of the regiment wanted Zhou Jinguo to go home and have a look. According to the news heard from Lu Shangyang, Zhou Jinguo's family fled their hometown a few years ago and have not returned. Zhou Jinguo has always wanted to go home to see, but when he really had this opportunity, he didn't want to go home in his heart.

What do you see when you get home? Ruins? Or someone else has already lived in the old house of Zhou Jinguo? Just thinking of this, Zhou Jinguo felt uncomfortable in his heart. Finally recovering from this uncomfortable state of mind, Zhou Jinguo smiled bitterly: "Send other comrades over there." We have so much to do in Yongxing. ”

The head of the "political commissar ......" didn't expect Zhou Jinguo to have such a "revolutionary consciousness", so he still wanted to persuade him.

Zhou Jinguo waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this first." Yongxing is close to the Benjiang River, and if we can make good use of this waterway, we can save too much effort. Now hurry up and survey the waterway to see if the steamship can sail in the river. ”

The Benjiang River on the edge of Yongxing City is the name of Leishui in this section of Yongxing, Leishui leads directly to Hengyang, if the inland river steamship of the Guangfu Army can sail in Leishui, the difficulty of attacking Hengyang will be greatly reduced. The Guangfu Army had long known about the threat of Yongxing to Hengyang, so it had endured Yongxing for so long. Now that Yongxing has been laid, it is natural that we must begin to consider the needs of future operations.

Without waiting for the arrangement here, the military headquarters asked the regimental political commissar to go to the military headquarters for a meeting, and Zhou Jinguo did not waste time, he took a bamboo raft and went up the river in the direction of Chenzhou.

The river from Yongxing to here is not fully navigable, but the advantage of a bamboo raft is that it can be easily carried away. Zhou Jinguo and the cartographers of the army recorded all the way, and wrote down all kinds of places along the way that could not be navigated. Although it took a little longer, there was finally a preliminary record.

Among those who convened the meeting in Chenzhou were the new provincial governor, former commerce minister Levi, Lei Hu, who was promoted from commander of the Fourth Army to commander of the Hunan Military Region, and Shen Xin, acting secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. The meetings held by the party, government, and military leaders are also very authoritative.

At the meeting, the government departments formally took over civil affairs work, including economic warfare, and the troops were finally liberated from the situation of having to shoulder everything on their shoulders. At the meeting, Shen Xin, acting secretary of the Hunan Party Committee, conveyed Wei Ze's instructions. "In the process of liberating Hunan, our order was to first use the army to clean up the local area, then use commercial personnel to bring the local economy into our control, and then send political personnel to carry out our political propaganda in the local area."

Everyone listened carefully to Governor Weze's instructions, and from time to time some people asked questions.

Because they hadn't read 20 of the books on "colonial history", they didn't know that Weeser had copied something after thinking about it, "first to the army, then to the merchants, and finally to the missionaries." For the interlocking arrangement of Wei Zedudu, everyone was sincerely admired. R1058