A group of visiting governors fell off their eyeballs, such a large operation would require at least hundreds of people to work in the country. When visiting the two grain storage silos of John's house, everyone was not only surprised but simply shocked, at least 3,000 tons of storage capacity, and the electric conveyor rack in front of the warehouse, many governors did not know what this thing was for.

The cultivation of the farm was all done by John, and John signaled that the large crawler tractor behind him was made by Tianfen, and this thing was easily ploughed in his field for thirty acres a day. As long as you need to irrigate, you can call the reservoir and release water from the reservoir, and the water will flow directly from the channel to your own fields, and the grain will be sold and paid by the cube.

Only need to pay a small tax every year, all the harvest is his own, John is going to raise another child this year, everyone can't help but look at John's wife's belly, John said that the child in his wife's belly has been three months.

The governor who visited really admired Hu Wenkai in his heart, and asked them to go to the United States to learn about different living conditions, compare the shortcomings in China, and draw the direction of catching up. It's not something that everyone can do, and the thirty-day tour gives them a full understanding of the best social institutions in the world today.

On the third day after Hu Wenkai left, Jiangxi Province sent a telegram to abolish all checkpoints for commodity circulation in the province with immediate effect, and invited Sun Xiaolan to send people to inspect Jiangxi. Sun Xiaolan chuckled, which could be regarded as convinced, and then called Zhang Hongfang to arrange personnel to implement whether the Jiangxi side would abolish the checkpoints.

Hubei Liu Chengen is a friend of Wu Peifu, this guy followed Yuan Shikai to train the new army at the Tianjin station, Liu Chengen served as the commander of the third battalion of the army's right-wing infantry, and was later promoted to the engineering battalion management band. In April 1898, Liu Chengen assisted Yuan Shikai to establish the Infantry Brigade Battalion Martial Arts Academy, served as the superintendent of the school, and in 1900 he was transferred to the first battalion of the Hubei Wujian Left Banner.

On August 29, 1913, he was promoted to the rank of general. Later, he served as the commander of the army division of the Beiyang Government and the supervisor of the Guangdong Arsenal. He resigned on May 5, 1914 due to illness. On December 12, he assisted in Shaanxi military affairs. In October 1916, he served as the governor of Guangxi Province, and less than a year later, the Southwest Protector Campaign arose, and he abandoned his official position to Beijing.

In 1917, he was appointed governor of Guangdong Province, but was rejected by the Guangdong military government and failed to go south to take office. In the following year, he served as a consolation envoy in Shaanxi. In 1920, Hubei expelled the Hubei governor Wang Zhanyuan movement, Wang was the governor of Hubei Province is the most suitable for the post of Hubei Liu Chengen, the Beiyang government agreed, on March 8 of the following year, appointed Liu as the governor of Hubei Province, and concurrently served as the director of the Hubei Provincial Autonomous Preparatory Office.

During Liu Chengen's reign in Hubei, he destroyed autonomy, undermined education, and disrupted finance, which was opposed by all walks of life in the province. In December, the county autonomous federation and the Beijing Association launched a campaign to expel Liu. In January 1922, Liu and Xiao Yaonan sent a telegram to oppose Premier Liang Shiyi's decision to cut off the right to the Jiaoji Railway and forced him to leave the field.

Liu Chengen insisted that he was a veteran of Beiyang, and ignored Sun Xiaolan's letter stamped with the private seals of Liang Qichao and Hu Wenkai, and said to his subordinates that if we don't collect their taxes, what will we eat? There are also such people in the world who actually sent me a letter asking me to cut off my arm.

Within a few days, these words reached Sun Xiaolan's ears, and Sun Xiaolan immediately rushed to the Tianfen Staff Headquarters and asked the Staff Headquarters to immediately come up with a combat plan to deter Hubei.

Sun Xiaolan rolled up his sleeves and said angrily: "He Liu Chengen is eating leopard gall, a broken governor dares to argue with us, and he can't find his father and mother when he is beaten." ”

"Immediately telegraph to Wu Peifu that our army will hold large-scale military exercises on the Hubei border under the pretext of Daogushi and Xinyang."

Li Manqiang trotted in all the way and dragged Sun Xiaolan out: "Brother Xiaolan, you calm down first, don't engage in large-scale exercises at every turn, I think it's enough to send two warships over to bombard Wuhan." ”

"The bombardment of Wuhan was come up with by you, Li Manqiang? We don't want Wuhan in the future? Are you going to make the people of Wuhan hate the boss? Sun Xiaolan looked at Li Manqiang with a blank expression.

"Sun Xiaolan, if you talk like this, I mean just two shots, you don't know that these guys are fucking soft bones, and they will be paralyzed as soon as the cannon goes off."

"I don't ask, I'm going to kill chickens and monkeys, since Liu Chengen jumped out, I'm going to cut him. Otherwise, Sichuan's will obey us? Sun Xiaolan pushed Li Manqiang away.

As he was talking, the staff officer reported that Wu Peifu called back and said that he was allowed to borrow Xinyang to conduct exercises. Sun Xiaolan patted Li Manqiang on the shoulder and said: "Nima, Wu Peifu is all about you Li Manqiang has a big picture, he at least knows our strategic intentions." ”

Sun Xiaolan walked to the wall where the map was hung and said, "Listen, everyone, the order given to me by the boss can start a small-scale war. ”

This matter is clear in the staff, and Li Manqiang knows the cause and effect, and Sun Xiaolan is fully responsible for this matter ordered by the boss, he is only assisting.

"I ordered Gao Jinchang's Fourth Mixed Brigade to quickly assemble in Xinyang to form a deterrent to Suizhou and Xiaogan, and must arrive at the designated place within three days, otherwise military law will be involved."

"I order, 102 destroyer Wang Jiansheng and three gunboats will start moving to Wuhan tomorrow afternoon to wait for further orders."

"I order that the General Staff Headquarters is now in a wartime state and that I will take full control until Hubei."

With the issuance of one order after another, the staff headquarters is executing the orders in an orderly manner. The phone calls are ringing one after another, hey, hey, this is the Navy's Longwangmiao base, this is the general staff headquarters is now in a wartime state, and it is required that the 102 destroyers in your base converge on the Anqing River and move to Wuhan tomorrow afternoon.

After Gao Jinchang received the task of the Fourth Mixed Brigade to arrive in Xinyang within three days to carry out military exercises, he slapped the table, grabbed his military cap and shouted to the adjutant: "Pass my order, and set off in two hours after the first level of combat readiness." ”

With Gao Jinchang's order, the whistles sounded one after another in the barracks, the doors of the oil depot were opened, and the oil pipes were thrown away, and the oil delivery soldiers shouted: "Refuel in turn according to the number of the tank, and the tanker truck will deliver oil last." ”

The tanks were systematically refueled in front of the oil depot by number, and behind them were lined up with trucks and transport vehicles.

The door of the ammunition depot was opened by the guards, and rows of ammunition inside were loaded onto pallet trucks and pushed out of the warehouse, and the guards shouted loudly that everyone remember that a cart supplies a combat vehicle, and the ammunition carts will come to the warehouse to collect ammunition by themselves.

"Remember, be careful not to mistake the ammunition, there are ten high-explosive shells and four anti-personnel shells and six rounds * on a tank, and remember there are also machine gun ammunition." The cart soldier kindly reminded.

"Nima, Lao Tzu has already prepared this, don't worry about it."

"Kindness is like a donkey's liver and lungs, let's go." The soldier dissatisfiedly pushed the cart out of the ammunition depot.

In the end, it was Hu Wenkai's first trump card powerhouse, and in less than two hours, all the preparations were completed, fuel was added, ammunition was replenished, the front was contacted, the marching distance was planned, and the soldiers' meals were all completed.

The staff officer saluted and reported to Gao Jinchang: "Report to the brigade commander, the fourth mixed brigade is ready, please ask the brigade commander for instructions." ”

Gao Jinchang touched the general's hat: "The Fourth Mixed Brigade will set off as planned, and it must arrive at the designated location of Xinyang within thirty-six hours." ”

Got into a tank and said: "Order to transfer all the situation to the 1024 tank, I am in command in the 1024 tank, go!" ”

The chariot drove out of the camp in smoke, and Gao Jinchang picked up the receiver phone and ordered the light reconnaissance company to move in at full speed to act as the vanguard of the Fourth Mixed Brigade.

Sixteen light chariots rushed out in a puff of smoke and marched along the highway in the direction of Huaibei. The staff officer has already drawn up a good march route, all the way is a built road, the first to Bengbu is a cement road that has been built a long time ago, from Huaibei to Taihe County is a freshly repaired gravel road, the staff officer expects to be able to reach Taihe County at 10 o'clock tonight.

In the brisk gallop of the chariot on the flat road, there was not a trace of bumps in the chariot, and Gao Jinchang fell asleep with his legs crossed and holding the high-resolution map in his hand.

From time to time, the infantry telephone transmitted reports from the reconnaissance company in the front, and the staff officer on the side signaled the soldiers next to him not to wake up Gao Jinchang.

At the same time, Wang Jiansheng of the 102 destroyer was standing at the bow of the ship, and the destroyer was driving at full speed in the Yangtze River, Wang Jiansheng said into the loudspeaker: "Pass my order, advance at full speed tonight, we must reach Nanjing, all soldiers are not allowed to go ashore, arrive in Anqing before noon tomorrow, and arrive on the Wuhan River in the afternoon." ”

Diao Yuanjun was mobilized before the battle at the Longwangmiao Airport, the base camp of the Air Force, and behind him were rows of sparrow bombers, Diao Yuanjun waved his hand and said: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, you are all soldiers piled up with gold by the boss, now the people of the three provinces need us, what should we do?" ”

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win!" More than six hundred pilots roared.

"Okay, just one Hubei, this time we dispatched ten planes to Bengbu, and the rest are on standby at home. I ordered the 3rd Flying Team to transfer to Bengbu and obey the command of the General Staff Headquarters, and all the other planes were on standby to participate in the battle at any time. ”

As Diao Yuanjun's order was issued, the roar of planes sounded at Longwangmiao Airport, and ten planes took off from the cement runway in turn, circled in the sky and flew towards Bengbu.

Sun Xiaolan walked back and forth in the staff headquarters of the Yanyang Military Academy, and said: "You immediately transmit the reaction from the Hubei direction to me in time now, I don't believe that we have a large-scale deployment of troops on our side, and he can't hear any rumors on his side." ”

It's really hard to blame Liu Chengen, Hu Wenkai's troops belong to the modern army, all orders are telegraph and telephone transmission, and the march is all mechanized march. It takes at least ten days for a domestic warlord to mobilize a force.

Liu Chengen had just reacted to rejecting Sun Xiaolan, he thought that it would take at least half a month to move here, and he didn't even send Wu Peifu's telegram. In his mind, he thought that it would take at least a few months to fight before they met.

After Gao Jinchang left Taihe County, he immediately felt different, and there was no flat gravel road and he began to drive on the bumpy dirt road. The teacup in his hand couldn't hold it steady, and the tea overflowed from the teacup.

"This Wu Peifu can't do something good to repair the road, what road is Nima, the upside down Lao Tzu's teacup can't hold it steadily."

"Brigade commander, you will just order, this is also good, if you want to go to Hubei, it is estimated that the chariot will drive in the fields, and there is a good road here." The staff officer on the side said.

Gao Jinchang sighed: "It's still the boss who has the foresight to build roads, you see that you can drive 600 kilometers from the highway in one day to mobilize troops to fight." As soon as a mechanized unit is put in the center, it can arrive within a day if there is a situation. ”

"It's like at least a week ago, and when you arrive, you're tired, how can you have the energy to fight."