Chapter 109: Blood Is Thicker Than Water
Lu Kai happily gathered his troops and made preparations for battle. Chai Dongliang gave him two battalions of 1,000 men, as well as more than 100 cavalry he led from Wuhu, which was not much but was better equipped, with more than 20 cannons alone and 20 machine guns. This guy has a natural love of fighting, and he dreams of fighting.
Only Zhang Huitao's student army has combat effectiveness, and the others are all made up, Zhang Xun was beaten by the Soviet and Shanghai coalition forces in Nanjing, and the pigtail army has long been discouraged??? For more than 1,000 people to Lu Kai, plus the assistance of the sailors, it should be enough to sweep away the Huaishang Army and Zhang Xun's Braided Army!
Chai Dongliang brought back a regiment and a training battalion plus 300 Gurkha soldiers from Nanjing, and the Gurkha soldiers brought by Suopan were Chai Dongliang's personal guards, and Chai Dongliang hated foreigners to intervene in the Chinese civil war very much, and absolutely did not allow them to participate in the war. All the units that were able to participate in the battle were only one regiment, a training battalion and a sailor.
A regiment of soldiers took out 600 to Kuang Haishan to attack Jiujiang, and it should not be a problem for these 600 people plus half of the fleet to take Jiujiang, which is empty.
As long as the Madang and Hukou forts are captured, the naval artillery on the river can reinforce the army at any time, and even if the Jiangxi army is dispatched, Kuang Haishan is sure enough to hold Jiujiang.
Kuang Haishan's surname is calm, and he is also Chai Dongliang's most reassuring person. Sure enough, Kuang Haishan soon sent a telegram, Jiujiang was successfully taken, and the soldiers of Hukou and Madang Fort were taken without blood. He was leading people to fight against the remnants of Huang Huanzhang's troops who had fled back to Jiujiang from Anqing. Huang Huanzhang's troops were frightened by Zhong Wuying's police, and along the way, wolves rushed to Jiujiang, thirty or fifty people were a team, and they completely lost their combat ability. Kuang Haishan's troops almost did not fight with them, and simply surrendered.
Kuang Haishan ordered the sailors to land and occupy Jiujiang, and he asked for orders to go north to attack northern Anhui and western Anhui, where the Huaishang army was entrenched. After Chai Dongliang hesitated for a moment, he ordered him to just guard Jiujiang, and he didn't have to participate in the task of attacking the Huaishang army.
Although the combat effectiveness of 4,000 well-equipped soldiers far exceeds that of 20,000 peasants with hoes, after the unification of Anhui, the area under control will be greatly increased, and in any case 4,000 troops will not be able to defend such a vast territory.
The expansion of the army is already imminent.
Chai Dongliang went to Anqing on the front foot, and Nanjing and Yanjing sent a telegram almost at the same time, and the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe sent a telegram to the whole country, condemning the Huaishang army and the Jiangxi army to attack Anqing, claiming that it was a rebellious move to undermine the republic, and Yuan Shikai's telegram was the same content, and called on all parties to the conflict to calm down and not to expand the scale of the civil war.
Anqing has Yuan Shikai's spies!
After seeing Yuan Shikai's telegram, Chai Dongliang's first reaction was this, otherwise it would not be possible to explain why Yuan Shikai's news came so quickly.
In a mournful atmosphere, Wang Ping, who accompanied An from Nanjing, was silently recording everything on film with a 16mm camera.
His eyes were full of dazzling blood, and his ears were full of painful moans, so that his hands trembled unconsciously, and he couldn't find any other words to describe everything in front of him except the word cruelty. He wanted to throw the camera away several times, but professional habits forced him to endure the grief in his heart and continue shooting.
The bullet-riddled city walls, the shop gates chopped by knives and axes, and the people crying and grabbing the ground??? Every scene was ruthlessly recorded by the camera.
Immediately afterward, he saw a group of soldiers with angry flames in their eyes, walking out of Anqing City with neat steps??? The flame of vengeance is about to burn!
Of course, in the midst of the sorrow, there are also very happy things, the soldiers of the southern battalion around the Gurkha soldiers pointed and pointed, and everyone felt very rare for these Gurkhas, whose eyebrows looked like Chinese, but were surprisingly short in black.
On the night of the attack on Anqing, Wu Jintang, who had just received the news, brought his sister Wu Meiqi to Anqing. He Tianshou's wife He Moshi also came to Anqing with his sister Mo Xiaolian, and He Moshi learned that her husband was injured, so he put on the carriage overnight and ran over.
"What are you crying about, Lao Tzu is not dead, people can hear the joke!" As soon as He Tianshou woke up, he scolded in a low voice, He Moshi looked at He Tianshou's body that was missing an arm, and he cried even more desolately, and finally Suo was crying and called all the medical officers. The medic wanted to stop her crying so as not to disturb the other wounded soldiers, but he went up and scratched the medic's face.
At this moment, Chai Dongliang led the guards to comfort the wounded, and ran over when he heard the sound of quarreling inside.
"Du Du, you came just in time, this bastard doctor cut off my old He's arm, Du Du can't spare him!" When He Moshi saw Chai Dongliang, his arrogance suddenly soared.
Chai Dongliang was speechless for a long time, He Tianshou was furious by him, and hurriedly asked for guilt: "Governor, I have betrayed your trust and suffered heavy losses, please punish the governor." ”
Chai Dongliang said coldly: "You recuperate from your injuries first, and talk about big things when your injuries are healed??? This is a hospital, not a place for you to take care of your chores. ”
He Tianshou knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Go out, go out, the old lady has long hair and short knowledge, and there is no medical officer to cut my arm for me, you are a widow now." ”
Chai Dongliang couldn't help but admire, this guy's vitality is really tenacious, one arm was cut off, so much blood was shed, and he just woke up and actually spoke full of anger.
He Moshi didn't dare to spill anymore, and went to the corridor with tears to stew supplements for He Tianshou with a small coal stove. Chai Dongliang asked in a low voice, "Lao He's injury doesn't matter, right?" The medical officer gave him a look, and Chai Dongliang followed. The medical officer said with a bitter face: "Battalion Commander He has lost too much blood, and now it seems that he is fine, but many wounded are like this, and their injuries will suddenly worsen." ”
"Are there many wounded soldiers who have lost too much blood?"
"Many, most of the wounded soldiers are unconscious now, if it drags on for another day or two, I'm afraid it's a worrying fate!" The medical officer's expression was gloomy.
Chai Dongliang said casually: "If you lose too much blood, you will have a blood transfusion, and if you use antibiotics to suppress bacterial infection, won't you be fine?" ”
The medical officer opened his mouth wide, glared at him, and said, "Dudu, blood transfusion is absolutely impossible!" Although there are already blood transfusions from foreigners, when I was studying in France, I saw with my own eyes that more than half of the patients will have blood clotting as long as they are transfused, and their condition will immediately deteriorate??? May I ask the Governor, what is this antibiotic? ”
Chai Dongliang realized that the necessary detection methods of blood transfusion, such as cross-matching, should not have been promoted in this era, and anti-blood coagulation drugs have not been popularized??? Blood clots as soon as it leaves the body, what kind of anticoagulant drugs are there?
In this year, even a trivial injury such as a cut finger is likely to kill you, and most of the wounded soldiers died because of wound infection.
Chai Dongliang has always had a heavy apology for the soldiers and civilians of Anqing, and absolutely cannot bear the unnecessary loss of life of these injured soldiers and civilians because of the lack of medical conditions.
"You go first, I want to figure it out."
Chai Dongliang sent the medical officer away and immediately ran into the heavily guarded signing room. The eight Gurkha soldiers in charge of the guard looked solemn, and immediately saluted when they saw him, and after Chai Dongliang returned the salute perfunctorily, he entered the house.
took out the laptop locked in the safe, plugged it in, and Chai Dongliang entered the book friend group.
"Great, it's been a few days."
"Tangyuan is mighty!"
Seeing Chai Dongliang go online, the book friend group suddenly became lively, Chai Dongliang said eagerly: "Everyone, help me pass the information of blood transfusion and antibiotics to the group to share, please!" ”
Deputy moderator Ma Xiaobraid saw Chai Dongliang and hurriedly said, "Big, are you online?" I have sent the steel information you asked for before to share with the group, and if you have something to do in the future, find someone else, I may not have time to go online recently. ”
Chai Dongliang is a little strange, this guy soaks on the Internet every day, how can he have no time?
"Great, I'm ready to go abroad."
"Oh, why? You are a rich second generation in China, and you don't even count as a fart when you go abroad! Chai Dongliang felt a little incomprehensible.
Ma Xiaobraid said listlessly: "Business is too difficult to do, my father has to guard this broken factory, a few years ago I persuaded him to sell the factory to speculate on the house, you can make tens of millions by speculating in a suite, and it is easy and money to fry ten sets of eight sets??? Now it's good, the policy has suppressed the housing market, the opportunity to speculate on houses has been missed, and the business of the factory is not good, so the old man asked me to go to Canada to study. ”
Chai Dongliang comforted: "It's good to go out and have a look, and see all the evil capitalism." ”
Ma Xiaobraid sent a disdainful avatar, and then said, "You think I want to go?" I can't stand the smell of fox smell on the girl, but there is no way, my factory has always been exporting, according to the export standards, the quality of domestic parts is not good, raw materials and parts have to be imported, and the imported parts are assembled to make very little money, and now the labor costs are also rising, the water and electricity bills are also rising, and the money for the yamen is also increasing, and the factory can't do it at all, forget it, don't say it, say that this affects the mood! ”
Chai Dongliang was a little sad, China's exports all rely on cheap labor, to put it bluntly, it is unlimited squeezing labor, so as to obtain a price advantage, but there is no material industry as a basis, most of the parts need to be imported, even a small high-strength bolt and spring must be imported from this and Europe, otherwise it will not be able to meet the requirements of European and American countries.
As labor costs and other miscellaneous expenses increase, this price advantage is gradually lost. Especially in terms of mechanical and electrical products, the cost of Chinese products is close to the price of exports, while competitors such as Yuben and South Korea can make domestic raw materials, even if the labor cost is several times that of China, it is still profitable.
China claims to be the world's largest manufacturing country, in fact, it is just its own face to put gold, the so-called manufacturing industry is just the processing industry, the real manufacturing base is the material industry, there is no manufacturing industry in the sand to build a tower.
If Chinese workers raise their wages, entrepreneurs will not be willing to work if they are unprofitable, but if they do not raise their wages, they will not be able to survive??? This has almost become an unsolvable knot!
Private enterprises are discriminated against, banks generally do not give them loans, borrowing usury is almost the only way for private enterprises to finance, private entrepreneurs represented by Ma Xiaobraid's father have small profits, and they simply do not have the ability to engage in research and development to improve the industrial level, and have to rely on further squeezing workers to survive, many people simply sell their enterprises to speculate in houses or immigrate, while those large state-owned enterprises that have the ability to engage in basic research and development rely on the high profits brought by monopoly, and live a good life of mixing Moutai in oil. Or simply enter the real estate market to make quick money, where will there be interest in R&D?
Those who are capable and those who are not capable are speculating, what is the way out for the country?
In the event of a war, the manufacturing industry, which relies on the domestic assembly of imported parts, will be vulnerable to attack!
Chai Dongliang is deeply worried about China in another time and space!
(To be continued)