Chapter 337 The New People's Army with a big move

Anqing!

It turned out that after the defeat of Peng Yulin's Yangtze River Naval Division, the New People's Army liberated the counties and prefectures south of the Yangtze River, and received a message from Yang Dongfang on the other side of the ocean, and soon the British and French troops would come east. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Li He's side also actively began to act, striving to dismantle the Xianghan regime as soon as possible, so as to attack the Huai army in an all-round way, so he personally ran to Anqing and began the siege of Xianghan.

The siege was divided into three routes, with the Sanjiang Water Division as the main part of the middle route, attacking Peng Yulin's remnants of the Water Division and containing the Anqing forces.

On the right side, Chiang's 15th Division was the mainstay, crossing the Yangtze River to capture Zongyang County in the east and blockading the east.

On the left side, the 9th Division, with 20,000 men in the second column advancing eastward, attacked from Taihu County to Qianshan County, and finally went around to Huaining County behind Anqing to block the west and north roads of Xianghan.

"Commander! The 15th Division was blocked at Yangqiao Town, and Xianghan used a large number of grenades, and suffered heavy casualties and could not advance. ”

"Commander! The second column was also blocked by the Hunan and Han forces in Yixiu. ”

When Li He heard the news from the front, he was very unhappy and said: "Zeng Guoquan, this guy really plans to be the eighth turtle king, and he really wants to drag Anqing to hell together." ”

"Commander! Good news! The 31st Regiment broke through Peng Yulin's water village from behind, and the Sanjiang Water Division also entered it, and the Yangtze River Water Division was all wiped out, and most of the prisoners surrendered and captured Peng Yulin alive! ”

"Great! Now the Qilihu defense line was opened. Li He stood up excitedly, holding his right hand tightly, secretly saying that he was still the strength of his own lineage, or the old army had a set of wars. At this moment, someone came to report:

"Commander! Mr. Zeng arrived. ”

Then he heard Zeng Jize's voice on the back foot: "Commander Li just heard that General Peng was captured, and the defense line of Qili Lake has been breached, and then the commander's army can be pushed directly to Anqing City." ”

If it was changed to before, with Li He's character, he didn't like Zeng Jize, after all, his father's name was Zeng Guofan, but as the commander of the Middle Route Army, he had been honed for so long, and Yang Dongfang kept telling him in his letters to treat Zeng Jize well, Li He replied calmly:

"Indeed! Mr. Zeng came a little late, and now there is no need to persuade him to surrender, Anqing will be broken in a few days. ”

Zeng Jize chuckled, and said with a trace of sadness: "Commander Li, don't be careless, I know the temper of the fourth uncle, I'm afraid there will be a fierce battle under the city, and it is the people who suffer so much, so I think General Peng can still play a big role, I hope the commander is giving him a chance, and at the same time giving the people and soldiers of Anqing a chance, and of course also giving the soldiers of the marshal a chance." ”

It is naturally good to shed less blood, Li He knew that Zeng Jize was right, according to Zeng Guoquan's crazy appearance now, it is not easy to take this city lightly.

"Then what do you want!" Li He acquiesced, and asked, Zeng Jize had already thought about it and replied: "I'll persuade General Peng, let him set an example, shout to the city to break the fighting spirit in the city, and win the surrender of other generals." ”

In any case, Zeng Jize is a princely figure of the former Xianghan Dynasty, and those generals and soldiers still buy some accounts, but Li He also said: "Yes, I will give you two days, and if you can't do it, I will attack." ”

After sending Zeng Jize away, Li He said to the guards: "Go and invite the commander of the spear company over, before Zeng Guoquan died, Zeng Jize was nothing!" ”

After beating this guy, the 3rd Division will be promoted to the 3rd Army! Hey! Li He secretly thought that he had to stay on the same level as the monk at all times.

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Tongguan!

Recently, more and more soldiers and horses have gathered here, and the last wave has arrived from the 8th Brigade transferred from Sichuan, two Central Sichuan Security Regiments, an engineer regiment, and an artillery brigade, with a total of 15,000 people, all of whom have been reequipped with American-style rifles, 4,000 breech guns, 6,000 breeches, and 120 artillery pieces.

The commander of the 8th Brigade was Ren Tianming, who followed Yang Dongfang in the early years, and after the various units left Sichuan, they had been guarding Sichuan, and then transferred to Hanzhong.

On the one hand, it was transported from Chongqing along the Yangtze River to the Hankou line in Jingzhou, and on the other hand, from Shaanxi to Tongguan, it continued to send more personnel and prepared to start the offensive to the east.

This time, Huang Yongcheng's 11th Brigade in the Jinnan Theater also cooperated with the 8th Brigade, aiming directly at the area of Luoyang, the central capital, and strategically advancing to take Zhengzhou Kaifeng, which was inserted into Liu Changyou's territory in a wedge shape.

Ge Hui's Northwest Independent Division, on the other hand, had an infantry brigade plus a cavalry regiment, three security regiments, two engineer regiments, and an artillery regiment, totaling 16,000 men.

All of them were reequipped with American-style rifles, 5,000 breeches, 5,000 breeches, and 50 artillery pieces, and went straight down to Nanyang from Shangluo to divide the connection between Liu Songshan and Liu Changyou.

On the Shanxi and Jindong sides, the 13th Zhu Huilun Brigade was the main force, supplemented by a security brigade, and an engineer regiment was added, with a total of 12,000 artillery regiments, all of which were equipped with American-style rifles.

Four thousand breech guns, four thousand breeches, 40 guns! Attack Handan to the east and threaten the hinterland of Henan by the Qing army.

The 12th Division of Hu Gan in the Jinzhong Theater was the mainstay, with 2 Security Brigades, an Engineer Brigade, and an Artillery Brigade, totaling 18,000 people, and 6,000 were reloaded with British breech guns (respectively transferred from the 8th, 11th, and 13th Independent Divisions in the Northwest). 6,000 were American-style breech-loading guns, and all 120 artillery pieces were replaced by American-style guns.

From Jingyan, he began to counterattack Liu Mingchuan's troops, attacked Shijiazhuang, strategically moved to Beijing and Tianjin, and was temporarily responsible for containing the main force of the Qing army.

In other respects, the 4th Division of Dai Rufeng in Guizhou, a security brigade, an engineer brigade, and an artillery regiment were transferred out of Guizhou, with a total of 15,000 people, all of whom were equipped with American-style equipment.

6,000 breech guns, 6,000 breech guns, and 100 artillery pieces, entered Hankou, Hubei, and occupied Suizhou, Xiaogan, blocking Liu Songshan on one side, and threatening Xinyang on the east.

A total of 80,000 troops launched an eastward offensive at various points.

At the same time, the Guizhou Military Region was abolished and merged with the Yunnan Military Region to form the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region, with Li Xiongxiong, commander of the Military Region, changing the 7th Division to the 7th Army, and the three divisions under the blind were the 7th, 21st, and 22nd Divisions, and the original Tao Xinchun Division was changed to the 21st Division.

In addition, in Nanjing and Suzhou, Feng Zicai's 18th Division and Song Jingshi's 17th Division were all reequipped with French-style equipment with 6,000 rifles each.

Except for the 3rd Division, the 9th Division, the 15th Division, the 2nd Column of the Eastward Advance, the 2nd Army, the 3rd Column of the Eastward Advance, the 14th Division of Shanghai, and the troops of Xiao Qi in Hanoi, Vietnam, all the troops in other places, including the Security Corps, were replaced with American-style breech guns to guard the place.

Good news for the Xichuan CD boss, the telegraph line to Xuzhou has been completed, and now we can communicate with the southern Sichuan Kuaishu without the help of the big handsome. ”

In his busy schedule, Zeng Shihe was invited to the telegraph room to check and witness the great moment, and just held the second telegram sent from southern Sichuan, and his mood became excited again: "Okay! Zhuge Bai is very capable, Yue Fei Temple has been built, just wait for the handsome to come back and delist the firecrackers. ”

Seeing the benefits of telegraphy, Zeng Shihe immediately said: "Although these foreign devils are very hateful, but there is still some use in this regard, then continue to build a telegraph line to Chongqing, and at the same time to Hanzhong, to Xi'an as soon as possible, and please Mr. Rong Que to be distracted, train more telegraphers, not always use foreign devils." ”

Rong Que, who came with him, waved his hand and said: "I may not be able to help you with this, now that the banks around the country are almost ready, I want to have a good conversation with Qiao Zhiyong of the Shanxi branch, it will be getting busier and busier, and the handsome man has made 50 million taels of silver, I have to plan this money reasonably, and I have a headache." ”

"Dashuai has got so much money again!" Zeng Shihe's eyes lit up, and the eyes of the people in his fellow departments also lit up.

Under the rule of the New People's Army, the territory is getting bigger and bigger, and all kinds of expenses are huge, because it is still in the midst of a continuous war, and all kinds of materials are consumed equally, and all parts of the country are opening mountains, building roads, building bridges or something, which does not cost money.

Rong Que realized that he had leaked his mouth, and everyone looked at him and wanted to use the money in his bank account, so he hurriedly ran away, but he would not tell Yang Dongfang that he still had more than 2,000 tons of gold and almost a billion dollars.

Almost at the same time, the telegraph line was erected much faster in Guangzhou, and at this time, Liu Yongfu could already receive the news from the Taiping side as soon as possible, control the situation at the mouth of the Pearl River, and praise Wang Chengrong.

Therefore, telegraph lines were also erected from the city of Guangzhou to the prefectures, the two most important of which were to lead to Zhaoqing and Jiangmen, the direction of Zhaoqing was to open up contact with Guangxi as soon as possible, and the Jiangmen side was to lead to Yangjiang and then to Leizhou, Gaozhou, to control the Leizhou Peninsula and further strengthen Hainan.

In the south of the Yangtze River, because there were tens of thousands of French prisoners, both labor and technology were not a problem, and the telegraph line quickly led from Shanghai to Suzhou and Nanjing, and Shanghai to Jiaxing and Hangzhou. (To be continued.) )