Chapter 159: Basic Principles (13)
Guangxi enters the rainy season in February and March, and Yunnan enters the rainy season in late May. The Liberation Army was divided into three routes, and the one that set out from Yunnan had to make full use of the current dry season.
The attitude of the Central Military Commission is very clear: There is no need to take care of each other in the three-way march into Chengdu, and each road only needs to manage itself well, and if the enemy does not take the enemy lightly, the enemy will not have the strength to fight back at all. If any of them can attract the enemy's attention, the other two will be able to enter easily. If the Sichuan army resists in three directions, the defense of the enemy with a flat army will be reduced on each side.
The three military regions all know that the purpose of the Central Military Commission is nothing more than to make everyone not to rush in and not to cause unnecessary losses. But where are the soldiers willing to be behind. The operational plan of the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region was not complicated, and it entered Zidadi from the Yunnan-Guizhou border through the Mianning Road, crossed the Dadu River, and went straight to Chengdu. If the plan can be carried out smoothly, the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region will be the first to attack Chengdu and make the first contribution to the liberation of Sichuan.
After receiving the order from the central authorities, the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region did not use only two armies, but mobilized the strength of four armies, two of which did not cross the Dadu River and were responsible for logistics and supply lines. When Yungui was liberated, the two best armies crossed the Dadu River and launched an attack.
Luo Bingzhang will not be unprepared for this, Shi Dakai had a similar battle plan a few years ago, but it was always unsuccessful. When Luo Bingzhang thought that Shi Dakai was about to lose patience and tactically play something to advance, Shi Dakai actually made a detour into Sichuan, not seeking to gain a foothold in Sichuan, but rushed all the way into Hanzhong and merged with the Taiping army that arrived in Shaanxi.
After the Guangfu Army liberated Yungui, Luo Bingzhang knew that the Guangfu Army would attack Sichuan sooner or later. He moved out the previous combat strategy again, preparing to block the pace of the Guangfu Army in the area of the Dadu River.
The boats in the river have long been confiscated, and the rushing river runs through the rivers between the mountains. Even though it was the dry season and the river was not high, the Sichuan army and the Tusi army were convinced that they could hold the river bank and prevent the Guangfu army from crossing the river.
The toasts watched as more and more soldiers of the Liberation Army gathered on the other side of the river, and their hearts became more and more nervous. Can they hold back so many troops? The Liberation Army was so busy that they didn't seem to care what kind of enemy they were on the other side, and they had placed a number of huge things on the banks of the river, which looked like huge flags when unfolded, and there were some strange things under the flags.
This weirdness baffled the toasts, and what happened next was completely beyond the toasts' imagination. Those flags were puffed up under the tinkering of the Liberation Army, and they became an olive-shaped behemoth. Beneath these behemoths hang some huge cages with huge windmills behind them. The windmill turned, and these behemoths floating in mid-air slowly crossed the Dadu River and flew over the positions occupied by the Sichuan army and Tusi.
Where have the Sichuan army and Tusi seen something that can fly in the sky, and the Guangfu army has already taken the cage, which means that they are already on top of the heads of the Sichuan army and Tusi.
The Sichuan army was already very superstitious, and the toasts were even more superstitious. They had originally built a position on the shore condescendingly, ready to give the Liberation Army a head-on attack. This qiē arrangement has come to naught, and it is no longer the Sichuan army and the Tusi coalition army that is condescending, but the Guangfu army.
Many of the Sichuan and Tusi troops had already knelt down and kowtowed, trying to ask their believing gods to bless them from fighting against something like the power of the gods and spirits. Without waiting for the gods to say anything, bombs began to be dropped from the hot air balloons of the Liberation Army. The tail of the whizzing bomb carries a steady dìng propeller. The small propeller rotates rapidly under the resistance of the air, allowing the warhead to fall steadily downwards to the ground.
Although the five-kilogram bomb was not very powerful, the position of the Sichuan army and the Tusi army had no concept of air defense at all, and the bomb exploded in the defensive wall, exploded in the open field, and exploded in the crowd of the Sichuan army and the Tusi army. With the screams, the Sichuan army and the Tusi army scattered from this dangerous place in a hurry.
A large number of wood-bottomed rubber boats have been inflated, and the fighters carry the rubber boats into waist-deep water to lower the rubber boats. Everyone climbed into the rubber boats, talked hard, and headed towards the opposite shore. At this time, the enemy only cares about escaping from the attack range of the airship, where can he still care about the Liberation Army on the river. Without encountering any resistance, the vanguard crossed the Dadu River and gained a foothold on the opposite bank.
The toasts no longer have the ability to control their men, and in the face of weapons that can fly in the sky, these locals only feel that this is an extremely powerful demon and monster, and they are willing to fight it. Luo Bingzhang set up a large network composed of Sichuan troops and Tusi "Yi soldiers" on both sides of the Dadu River. Only on the first day of the battle, this great net was shattered.
The small fleet of the Liberation Army was not idle, they occupied positions and built temporary artillery towers. Some of the Tusi armed forces, who couldn't let go of the high bounty offered by Luo Bingzhang, refused to leave, thinking that they would always have the opportunity to assassinate a few soldiers of the Liberation Army at night by using their familiarity with geography. After experiencing the attack of the airship, the Sichuan army offered a sky-high price of five taels of silver for the head of the Liberation Army. That's a lot of money for toast.
In the evening, the toasts were surprised to find that there were many bright pillars of light on the side of the Liberation Army. Pillars of light swept across the road every once in a while. Many toasts have not seen the airship, and the word of mouth is not enough to stop them from seeking money. These pillars of light are undoubtedly the power that only gods can have, and the pillars of light are so eye-catching in the middle of the night that the toasts they see have no intention of provoking the gods.
The Sichuan army was also frightened enough, and various rumors began to circulate among the toasts, such as that as long as those who were illuminated by the pillar of light would be sucked dry blood and turned into dried corpses. After death, the soul will also be captured and tortured, and it will fall into hell forever. When it comes to the affairs of immortals, the Chinese have always preferred to believe in what they have rather than what they don't have. Even if this rumor came from the side of Toast, the Sichuan army, who has a strong belief in ghosts and gods, is convinced. Perhaps this statement is more believed in the ghosts and gods of the toast, so the Sichuan army believes in this statement even more.
Most of the toasts scattered with their men, and some of them were particularly curious, stationed far away, sneaking closer to see the development during the day, and fleeing back to the camp at night, watching the lights and shadows on the mountains from afar.
The Guangfu Army was in full swing and was busy on both sides of the Dadu River. Some of the Sichuan soldiers who didn't care about it for the sake of heavy rewards could hear some strange sounds over there, like a constant buzz, like some kind of whispering. It's just that the Liberation Army has continuously expanded its positions, and these people can't figure it out.
On the morning of the third day, the Sichuan army was surprised to find that there were several thin lines on the surface of the ferry river occupied by the Guangfu army. These thin lines span the river and connect the two sides. And the soldiers of the Liberation Army laid planks on these thin lines.
The famous Luding Bridge in Sichuan is an iron chain bridge, and it will never be a bamboo lock or a cable that can bear the weight of so many wooden planks, it must be an iron lock. Born in Sichuan and raised in Sichuan, the Sichuan army knew the difficulty of building a bridge, and it took only three days to build a chain bridge, which is really something that only gods can do.
The Sichuan army no longer had the courage to resist, and those who believed in ghosts and gods only wanted to escape from this terrifying realm beyond the limits of their imagination, while those who did not believe in ghosts and gods knew that after the completion of this chain bridge, the Dadu River would no longer be able to stop the pace of the Guangfu army. Their tens of thousands of troops could easily travel between the banks of the Dadu River, and their logistical supplies and reinforcements were unimpeded. What was once a natural hazard has become a smooth road. The Sichuan army all withdrew to Chengdu and refused to stay here.
Tusi's choice this time was different from that of the Sichuan army, when the Guangfu army built a chain bridge over the Dadu River, they firmly believed that the Guangfu army had the help of the gods. For such an army, the toasts chose to defect. If you don't defect to the army with divine powers, the toasts who were born and raised here will be horribly slaughtered.
The Tusi were received by the soldiers of the Chinese nation who had joined the army in Yunnan and Guizhou, and many of them still had local unique tattoos on their bodies, and they warmly greeted them in the local dialect that the Tusi could understand. Airships and searchlights won't let these toasts get close, but it's okay to visit the newly built chain bridge.
I saw that there were many holes in the solid stone mountain, and in these holes were thick steel columns, and long steel chains were tied to the steel pillars leading to the opposite bank. Walking across the undulating wooden bridge deck, the toast leaders easily traveled back and forth on the Dadu River, without a thousand words, and the gang bowed their heads.
Chengdu, Sichuan Governor Yamen. There was a stove in the room, and Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan, sat on the soft collapse, and the only remaining important minister in the southwest of the Manchu Qing Dynasty stared blankly at the drizzle outside the window.
Luo Bingzhang never thought that the death of the country would be so simple, he fought against the Taiping army for many years, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty was defeated repeatedly, the rise of the Taiping army was difficult enough. Especially after the loss of Yang Xiuqing and Wei Ze, the Taiping army, which had expanded violently, gradually declined. But Wei Ze's dazzling rise is really beyond everyone's imagination, whether it is China or foreign countries, Wei Ze has defeated one enemy after another and occupied half of the country.
After Yungui fell into the hands of Wei Ze, Luo Bingzhang knew that Sichuan was the next target of the Guangfu Army. Although he made comprehensive preparations, he did not expect to be able to turn defeat into victory.
The Sichuan army, which fled back to Chengdu, recounted the airship of the Liberation Army and the pillar of light at night to Luo Bingzhang. Luo Bingzhang didn't believe in any witchcraft, he could be sure that this was a new gadget of the Liberation Army. As for the panicked report of his subordinates, the fact that the Liberation Army built a chain bridge in three days should also be true. The Guangfu army has already taken the cannon to the city of Chengdu, and the rumbling cannon sound is enough to prove it.
Retracting his gaze, Luo Bingzhang looked at a few letters on the table. Luo Bingzhang's family is also a big family in Guangdong, and after the Guangfu Army occupied Guangdong, the status of the Luo family plummeted. With Luo Bingzhang, a Manchu feudal official, I want to know what the attitude of the Liberation Army will be towards the Luo family.
Fields were confiscated and family property was dispossessed. The new funeral held by the Guangfu Army the year before last, the Luo family, as the family of the sinner, had to open the ancestral grave like the family of the officials of the Guangfu Army, and the bones were turned into ashes and enshrined in the spiritual pagoda. The Guangfu Army said beautifully, in the Spring and Autumn Period, tombstones and tombs were not erected, and Confucius buried his mother and mother together, and it was only by relying on the guidance of others that he knew where his father was buried. As for the Song Dynasty, it was even more customary to worship ashes. These are all Chinese traditions, and since the Liberation Army wants to recover China, it naturally has to act in accordance with Chinese traditions. Even the Luo family, who had been tossed repeatedly, had to say in the letter that the spiritual pagoda that can accommodate thousands of people is constantly burning incense every day, and it is very beautiful to build.
For more than ten years, Luo Bingzhang can see the resentment of his family in the letter. They also mentioned that after other Cantonese officials fled back to Guangdong, at least the family was no longer treated as a thief. Although the Liberation Army did not hire Manchu officials and old literati, as long as their children went to school honestly, the government still gave them a way to policy. But no matter how hard the thief family tried, it was to no avail.
Luo Bingzhang retracted his gaze, if he could accept surrender, then he would have surrendered a long time ago. After reading the "Letter to Manchu Qing Officials", Luo Bingzhang no longer dared to think about his evaluation behind him, thief bones, dog bones, cheap bones, as long as the new dynasty established by Wei Ze is still one day, this is Luo Bingzhang's posthumous evaluation. Even if Wei Ze's dynasty falls, as long as it is still replaced by the court of the Han people, then this reputation will not be washed away. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, did Qin Hui's reputation change? After the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which claimed to have inherited the Jin State, came to power, they did not rehabilitate Qin Hui.
But even so, as a feudal official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as an old man who was dying of old age, Luo Bingzhang had his own persistence. Luo Bingzhang looked at the surrounding Yiqiqi with a nostalgic gaze, he stood up and walked to the desk, spread out the rice paper, and struggled to write down the four big characters "with a clear conscience". Then blot, stamp, sign the date, and mount.
ordered the servants to hang up the words "clear conscience", and Luo Bingzhang wrote several letters and a concerto. After this toss, Luo Bingzhang was a little out of breath. After looking around again, with tears in his eyes, the 74-year-old governor of Sichuan picked up the tea bowl and drank all the poison inside. Then he lay back on the soft couch. R1058