Seeing the most elite troops in the world in this era, Chai Dongliang felt the pressure deeply. The First Brigade of the Anhui Revolutionary Army was already considered to be the top in terms of combat effectiveness in the people's army, and the elite soldiers of the two Huai were almost the consensus of the world at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In terms of the same number, except that the actual command experience of senior officers is inferior to that of the Beiyang Army, it is almost the same as Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army in terms of equipment, training level and fighting spirit. But compared with the Gurkha soldiers, it is simply a world of difference, and the gap in the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is already very large, not to mention the cooperation between soldiers. These Gurkha soldiers, who have served in the British army for five to fifteen years, have a tacit understanding with each other that almost penetrates into the bone marrow, they originally did not belong to the same unit, but as long as they made eye contact, they understood how the following tactical actions cooperated.

Chai Dongliang originally thought that a regiment of the Anhui Revolutionary Army should be able to compete with a battalion of Gurkha soldiers, but now he feels that it is good that two regiments can defeat them. The officers and soldiers of the First Brigade of the Anhui Revolutionary Army are like swords out of the box, with a sharp spirit, while the Gurkha soldiers have already been tempered with heavy swords without a blade, this kind of tenacity and calmness is the temperament that an invincible division should have, in comparison, Lu Kai, Kuang Haishan and others seem much immature.

The gap between the Chinese and the great powers is not only manifested in weapons and equipment, but also in the regularization of the army and the quality of soldiers.

But Suopan's words brought confidence to Chai Dongliang, the British [***] team in the Eight-Nation Alliance, the "Huayong Battalion" that served as the vanguard was composed of some illiterate Weihaiwei fishermen and farmers, and after three years of training by the British, its combat effectiveness was close to that of the elite Gurkha Regiment.

In three years, the British gave them a family-like sense of belonging similar to the MLM organizations of later generations, gave them relatively generous treatment, gave them strict training, and also gave them the same honor as the British army.

For the first time in their lives, these people were well fed and clothed, and for the first time in their lives, they felt their dignity as a human being, and they radiated great courage, charged forward in every battle, and participated in almost all the battles of the British army in China. Shoot bayonets and bullets mercilessly into the chests of your compatriots!

Chai Dongliang lamented for these people, and also despised their behavior, slaughtering compatriots for the interests of foreign races, no matter how many reasons there are, it is extremely shameful!

But Chai Dongliang was also encouraged, and the high military literacy of the Huayong battalion showed that the Chinese are very intelligent, even illiterate people, after a period of high-level training, can also become elite.

The British can give Huayong everything to the camp, but there is one thing they can never give, and that is the instinctive intimacy of being a person to his clansmen!

The Huayong Battalion, like the Gurkha Legion, are all mercenaries, and they only have a sense of belonging to their own legion, and they do not have a sense of belonging to the hired countries and nations, which no one can change!

Love the soldiers, give them dignity, give them the most advanced training and weapons, and at the same time cultivate enough national self-esteem in them??? Chai Dongliang believes that he can also train an invincible iron army in two or three years!

Of the 400 Gurkha troops, Chai Dongliang asked Yu Qiaqing to take 100 people away as the defense force of the newly formed Shanghai Guanghua Company, and the remaining 300 people were organized into a reinforced company as the Anhui Army Advisory Office Guard, that is, Chai Dongliang's personal guard.

After Yu Qiaqing sent the people, he rushed to Wuhu non-stop to prepare for the Jiangnan Industry Persuasion Association, and the foreign Taipan and Chinese managers of various countries in Shanghai and Wuhu had already been notified, and many people with urgent surnames had already gone to Wuhu in advance to wait. After Yang Bangzi came to Nanjing, he plunged into the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, made friends with people from all walks of life, drank flower wine, and got drunk every day, and didn't see him doing anything serious.

"Dudu, something happened to Anqing!" Kuang Haishan walked in from outside, holding a copy of the day's "Declaration" in his hand. Chai Dongliang looked at it and gasped.

The headline was that the Anhui Revolutionary Army made a big fuss about the council, and the parliamentarians protested en masse. The content is even more detailed, He Tianshou tore up the ballots, and then threatened the speaker with a saber, and the soldiers threatened the election of parliamentarians at gunpoint??? According to the description in the newspaper, He Tianshou and others are the demon kings of the mixed world, and the parliamentarians are a group of angry little daughters-in-law.

"Old He bastard, isn't this nonsense!" Chai Dongliang was furious.

Military interference in politics is the most taboo thing for him, and as long as this kind of thing starts, the consequences will be unimaginable??? Once the gun gets out of control, there will be countless warlords, big and small!

Isn't it the House of Representatives impeaching itself? What's the big deal? Listen to the crickets and crickets and don't grow crops anymore?

Chai Dongliang originally planned to be like an official in the late Qing Dynasty, let them scold if the Council wanted to scold people, and he pretended not to hear it, even if he impeached himself, it would not be a big deal, it was a big deal to hand over the power of civil affairs to trustworthy people, and it was enough to grasp the military power by himself. Born in troubled times, a gun is the king of grass!

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a very good atmosphere was formed, and the provincial council bureaus were extremely daring to speak, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials went too far, or they were cool officials and remnants of the people. In the new policy of the last decade of the Qing Dynasty, the corruption of central officials was still there, but the governance of local officials was significantly better.

Compared with those departments in later generations who only knew nonsense, the anti-corruption of the Ziyi Bureau was undoubtedly quite effective, and Chai Dongliang, as the governor of Anhui who grasped the military and government, had a direct impact on the rule of officials. The common people judge the quality of a regime not by listening to what you say, but by what the officials at the grassroots level have done.

The members of the provincial and county council bureaus had a tremendous cleaning effect on the bottomless political circles in the early years of the Republic of China. Chai Dongliang almost took over the bureaucratic system of the original Manchu court, although it has undergone modernization, but the essence of these corrupt officials will not change overnight, and it is absolutely impossible to expect Wang Baosen to become Kong Fansen, without sufficient supervision power.

There is no doubt about the supervisory role of the Council, and the effect is very significant!

"He Tianshou, you bastard, Lao Tzu can't kill you when he goes back to clean up!" Chai Dong jumped on the street angrily and scolded the street!

It is not possible to control corruption by killing people, Wu Zetian and Zhu Yuanzhang killed corrupt officials like mowing grass, but the rule of officials was still the same after a few years.

The Chinese gentry have always been afraid of officials, and it is rare that their character has exploded over the years, and they dare to supervise the officialdom.

However, these councillors were made up of students and gentry, and they were indeed very unsympathetic to the common people, and they turned a blind eye to the starving and homeless people all over the place. Although they very much want China to become rich and strong, the premise is that their vested interests cannot be lost in the slightest.

Land reform, no matter how mild, is unacceptable to them!

"Governor, it's useless to be angry, let's find a way to deal with the aftermath." Kuang Haishan was also a little indignant: "These parliamentarians are really bastards, all of them have a lot of money but no kindness, and the governor is not robbing them of their land, issuing bonds and stocks, they are still not popular, and they dare to take advantage of the gap between the governor and Nanjing to make a fool??? Lao He was rude, but he always gave a good face to these guys, and they didn't know how bad they didn't know if they didn't slap them! ”

Chai Dongliang glanced at him coldly, and said calmly: "As a soldier, it is your duty to protect your family and defend the country, and you should not be involved in civil affairs." ”

After carefully reading the article in the newspaper, Chai Dongliang had an idea, the Council will create public opinion, won't Lao Tzu create it?

Compared with Chai Dongliang, who grew up in the information age in later generations, these members of the Council have a full hundred years of insight into the propaganda offensive!

I can't play with you guys, so I'll stick my head in my crotch from now on!

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Nanjing Yongtai Photo StudioAs the first photo studio opened by Chinese in Nanjing, the owner Wang Ping is still quite proud. After studying in France for three years, others studied politics, military affairs, and industry, but Wang Ping was fascinated by photography and photography. He was fascinated by soaking in the darkroom every day to develop film, especially for films that could leave moving images on celluloid film.

After returning to China, he opened Yongtai Photo Studio, and at the beginning, except for foreigners, there was no business at all. The Chinese regard the camera as a demonic soul hooking spell, it is said that let that thing take a picture, the soul will lose one, then if you dare to take ten photos, won't the three souls and seven souls be hooked away?

With the increasing number of people returning from studying abroad, the number of new-style schools opened by the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty has gradually increased, photography has gradually become the new favorite of fashionable men and women, and Yongtai's business has also improved.

After a long time, after the gunfire of the Wuchang Uprising, the Qing Dynasty collapsed, and more than 100,000 people's troops poured into Nanjing, which disturbed the fat powder of the Six Dynasties prosperously, and Yongtai was also robbed several times by the rebels.

Although the photo studio continues to open, the business has plummeted, and hundreds of thousands of civilian soldiers are wandering the streets every day.

Wang Ping dozed off boredly, and a few guys swept up the dust with feather dusters.

A high-spirited officer walked in, startling the guys, and when they saw the red logo on their arms, they breathed a sigh of relief, these Anhui Revolutionary Army came to maintain law and order in Nanjing, and after they came, there were obviously fewer troublesome people's troops.

"Master Jun, are you here to take pictures? Quick, inside please! The guy greeted warmly.

The officer was none other than Kuang Haishan, and he said with a smile: "Excuse me, can you make movies in your shop?" ”

Wang Ping heard the noise outside, walked out of the back room, and asked politely, "Are you going to make a movie?" ”

Kuang Haishan nodded and said, "I heard that you have a camera in your store, and we all want to make a film." We won't hurt you the price! ”

Wang Pingdeng's eyes lit up, the 16mm film camera he bought back when he returned to China is still left in the store and no one cares about it, except for entertaining himself, he has not used it to make a dime!

"This military master, this film is precious!" Wang Ping asked tentatively.

Kuang Haishan smiled and took out a check from Guanghua Bank: "This 100 yuan is a fixed amount, and there are 200 after the auction, is it enough?" We'll pay for the film. ”

Wang Pingle's heart blossomed, and it has always been his dream to be able to shoot a movie, but the financial resources can't reach it, and no one cooperates. Not to mention that the Anhui Revolutionary Army gave a remuneration of 300 yuan, even if it is a penny, if you can fulfill your dream for many years, you are willing to do it in vain!

"Don't worry, Master Jun, I'll pack up my things and go with you!"

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The rain was pouring down, the sky seemed to leak a hole, and the five thousand Huai Shangjun scolded the thief God while trekking the muddy mountain road. Everyone's body leaned against the mountain wall, grasping the protruding rock with their hands, for fear that one would accidentally fall into the abyss.

From time to time, an animal would fall down under its burden, and would not get up again even if the whip fell on him. Zhang Huitao was wearing a coat, and his glasses were wet from the rain, and he often needed to take them off and wipe them with a cloth.

"Herod"

With a neigh, a war horse slipped under its feet and fell from the mountain road into a bottomless cliff.

"I'm not leaving!"

"Lao Tzu won't leave, and he won't leave if he is killed!"

"I'm going home, I'm going home!"

The soldiers of the Huaishang Army could not endure the long and difficult march, and sat on the mountain road one after another, refusing to move forward a single step. The soldiers in front stood still, while those behind kept squeezing forward, and the narrow mountain road was tightly blocked as if it had an intestinal infarction.

"Get up, get up!" The fifth red flag beat him with a horsewhip, beat one and sat down for two.

"Fifth master, you just beat me to death, it's better to be beaten to death by you than to freeze to death and be tired!"

"Old Five, will you try to move my people again? Lao Tzu and you white knives go in, red knives come out! Lao Tzu will take people back to Tongbai Mountain now, and I won't serve you bastards! ”

The composition of the Huaishang Army is extremely replicable, and the army composed of more than a dozen units of the Hui Party and the heroes of the green forest, although there are also some student troops who have devoted their pen to the ideal, but after all, the number is very small, and most of them are still extremely loose characters in the rivers and lakes.

Although they nominally belong to the second route of the Huaishang Army, no one obeys anyone, and if they are not driven by interests, they will not obey Zhang Huitao's dispatch at all.

"Brothers, give me the fifth face, we have bowed for seventy-two years, and we are still trembling? Fifty miles ahead is Anqing City, lay down Anqing, let's have a good time with a big piece of meat and big wine! "The old five regiments have made a circle.

"Do you take our grandfathers as children, give a candy cube and go to work? Is this Anqing City easy to fight? ”

Lao Wu hurriedly said: "Brothers, the details in the city have been reported, there are less than eight hundred soldiers in Anqing City, we have five thousand people, and we can't win one of the six?" ”

"Fifth brother, my brother gave you face, we sold our lives! But there is one thing, after opening Anqing City, you have to let the brothers live happily for three days according to the rules, and after three days, the brothers will return to the camp separately. ”

Hongqi Lao Wu was a little embarrassed, glanced back at Zhang Huitao, and saw that his back was facing him, as if he hadn't heard a word of what was said here.

"Old five, if this matter is based on our buddies, let's go to Anqing, if not, we will break up, you go to Anqing to eat fragrant and spicy food, we are not uncommon, let's take people back to Tongbai Mountain to drink the wind!"

The Red Flag Old Five stomped his feet and said fiercely: "That's it!" Three days, only three days! ”

Zhang Huitao stood in front, his lip had already bitten out blood, and he wanted to stop this attack on Anqing several times, but finally held back.

If you can't get Anqing, you won't be able to get military pay and food, and the Huaishang army will face a situation of falling apart, which Zhang Huitao can't tolerate.

After the Wuchang Uprising, he had gone from an insignificant middle school teacher to a ruler with heavy troops, and the feeling of controlling the life and death of others was so wonderful that it was more intoxicating than smoking a big cigarette.

Anqing, I am determined to win, even if it is a big price! Zhang Huitao secretly said ruthlessly!

(To be continued)