107941908 Far East Madman Chapter 313 Xiping Outpost

Jiang Zuobin was sad, but he didn't wait for the Beiyang Army to go south on its own and say that he wanted to talk about the lamb... The way to "provoke" Wu Peihu and Cao Ling was just after he sent a cavalry company to destroy the cable telegraph office in Gaoqiao Town. He again sent cavalry to attack the Beiyang Army, and this time, he dispatched an entire cavalry battalion.

This cavalry battalion was a unit of the Republican Army. The day before yesterday, the operation of destroying the telegraph office in Gaoqiao Town was very successful, but it failed to achieve the main purpose of mobilizing the Beiyang Army to move south, so Jiang Zuobin decided to take another risk and send out the entire cavalry battalion. But this time, it was not to "provoke" Wu Peihu, but to attack Cao Ling's third division.

Although Cao Feng's Beiyang Third Division left the Zhengzhou assembly area at the same time as Wu Peihu's Beiyang Ninth Division. However, their march route was different, Wu Peihu's troops advanced along the Jinghan line and moved by train, while Cao Key's troops went in circles. After leaving Xinzheng, it moved in a southeasterly direction. Carry out flank outflanking, detour from Chenzhou, try to attack the flank of the Xiping defenders, cut off their retreat, and engage Wu Peihu's troops in a north-south flank.

Because it was a march on foot, Cao Key's troops not only accompanied the army with a large number of mules and horses, but had a large force of cavalry to cover, and the mobility was no worse than Wu Peixiang's Ninth Division, Wu Peihu commanded the troops to occupy Xuzhou on the same day, Cao Key's third division entered and occupied Fugou Town, Chenzhou, and then continued to advance southward, and after occupying Xihua Town, he received Yuan Shikai's order, so he rested his troops in the Xihua area.

Now, the target of Jiang Zuobin's cavalry attack is Xihua.

The straight-line distance between Xihua and Xiping is one hundred and fifty miles, and it is difficult for the cavalry to run long distances, and considering that Cao Ling's army has a large force of Beiyang cavalry, Jiang Zuobin made a painful choice when he sent the cavalry battalion of the Republican Army to attack Xihua. Once the operation fails, then he will lose one of the most mobile troops, although he is only a gesture to defend Xiping, Xiping will definitely be abandoned, but if the cavalry battalion is unfavorable to the battle, then the troops will not be able to carry out effective reconnaissance on the flanks on the way to retreat, and if they are invited by the cavalry of the Beiyang Army, the losses are likely to increase.

But this risk must be taken, otherwise it will not be possible to mobilize the Beiyang Army, unlike Wu Peixiang, Cao Mu is a veteran figure of the Beiyang Army, although it is not as good as Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui's brain status, but compared to Wu Peihu, a rising star in the Beiyang, Cao Ling's arrogance is stronger, Wu Peihu can calm down on the provocation of the United Front, but Cao Ling may not be able to be a turtle with a shrunken head like Wu Peihu.

Since the Ninth Beiyang Division could not be mobilized, then the Third Beiyang Division should be transferred to the south, which was Jiang Zuobin's plan.

The cavalry battalion was dispatched yesterday evening, calculating the time, if the operation went well, they may have completed the task and are on the way back, but so far, the braided team that went out to answer has not sent back the news, which makes Jiang Zuobin a little anxious, and he keeps walking around in the command headquarters, shaking the phone from time to time, and asking the front-line troops for news of the cavalry battalion.

Just as Jiang Zuobin was about to shake the phone again to ask the commander of the front-line troops, the field telephone suddenly rang, and before the staff officer could answer the phone, Jiang Zuobin had already taken a step forward and lifted the microphone.

"Commander, it's not good, the 2,000 people stationed in Wugou Town have mutinied! burned the barracks, pulled out the flag and went north, and now it has left Wugou

On the other end of the phone was Wang Tianzong, the leader of the Southern Henan People's Army. His words made Jiang Zuobin frown.

Wugou Town is located twenty miles north of Xiping. Closer to the Xuzhou Mansion to the north was the outpost of Xiping, where 2,000 troops of the Southern Henan People's Army were stationed, but they were not Wang Tianzong's descendants. Instead, it was cobbled together by several mountain kings in southern Henan, and the equipment was very poor, and it was impossible to count on a war, so Jiang Zuobin sent them to garrison Wugou, that is, to let them serve as outpost guards.

The morale of that unit has always been unstable, and yesterday it was clamoring for a demand for wages, demanding that the United Front increase the "combat allowance" of the troops to five oceans. In order to appease the army, Wang Tianzong rushed to Wugou with a few cronies yesterday, not thinking whether they had retained that force or not, judging from the direction of their march, they obviously planned to defect to the Beiyang Ninth Division in Xuzhou.

"Commander Wang, are you alright?" Jiang Zuobin settled down and asked Wang Tianzong.

"I'm fine. Anyway, I'm an old shelf of the Western Henan People's Army, unless these wives and bastards don't want to mess around in Henan in the future, they will never dare to hurt me. Commander Jiang, what do you say about this? I'm going to chase it?.

"There's no need to chase, it's useless to chase, since they want to leave by themselves, then let them go, the twisted melon is not sweet. However, Commander Wang, you have to keep this matter a secret, and the rabbit has to shake the hearts of the army

Jiang Zuobin hesitated for a moment and decided to let the people's army leave, perhaps, their departure would give the Beiyang Army generals a false impression, which would be helpful to his plan to lure the enemy deeper.

"Don't worry, my Wang family's team doesn't dare to mess around, with me, no one wants to shake the army's heart!"

Wang Tianzong's words made Jiang Zuobin breathe a sigh of relief. He pressed down the microphone and glanced at the military map hanging on the wall. Although his original purpose in commanding the defense of Xiping this time was to feint defeat, but considering the complexity of the battlefield situation, no one dared to guarantee that the feint would not turn into a real defeat.

Jiang Zuobin was a member of the League, and he spent a lot of time in the Communist's Association, and he was very appreciative of Qian's joining the United Front. I also had the same doubts as Sun Wu, Ju Zheng and others in my heart. Worried that the troops would be annexed by Zhao Bei, it was precisely for this reason that although the Communist Association agreed to send troops north, it only sent one division, and the other division stayed in Yunnan under the pretext of being wary of Lu Rongting, and sent Jiang Zuobin to the north. The high-level leaders of the Communist Party of China have repeatedly admonished them. When we go to the north, we must pay attention to maintaining the "independence and organizational integrity" of the 16th Division.

In other words, the idea of the CCP was to preserve its strength, and it wanted to take this opportunity to get some advanced weapons from the Republican Army, because they wanted the horses to run fast and the horses not to eat grass.

But there has never been such a cheap thing in the world, from the moment you set foot on the land of Hubei. Jiang Zuobin felt that the troops were out of control, on the one hand, the chief of staff of the troops was rotated, and on the other hand, it was because of the small "combat allowance".

Zhao Bei announced during the "military exercises". All units participating in the exercises in Hubei and Henan were treated as carrying out combat missions, and each officer and soldier was given an additional combat allowance of two oceans per month, and two months' combat allowance was paid in advance. Even the officers felt that Commander-in-Chief Zhao was considerate of his subordinates, and he was many times better than the Gongjin Society, who only knew how to ask his subordinates to work hard but did not know how to pay them. Almost from that time on, the 16th Division of the United Front was surnamed Zhao.

Not only did the United Front troops who rushed to Hubei and Henan enjoy combat allowances, but even the United Front troops who rushed to Hangzhou to assist in the defense also enjoyed the same treatment.

Jiang Zuobin had no doubt that if Zhao Bei dismissed him from his post on the spot now, most of the officers and men of the 16th Division would not have any objections, and although the Grass Army fought for the sake of the revolution, the purpose of the revolution was in the final analysis for its own interests. Zhao Bei understands this, and the Gongjin Association may not understand. But the difference between the two sides is that Zhao Bei has money in his hands, but the Gongjin Association has no money, so the army's heart has changed.

In addition to military salaries and allowances, another important reason why the 16th Division is rapidly moving closer to Zhaobei is the arrival of political propagandists, although at present each company of the 16th Division can only send one political propagandist, but their way of doing things surprised Jiang Zuobin, because they are not here to attract officers and soldiers to join a certain party, but to unite soldiers and ordinary soldiers.

From this alone, Chiang Zuobin realized the fundamental difference between the Republican Army and other troops.

Whether it is the Beiyang Army or the revolutionary armies of the southern provinces, they follow the same set of practices in the Qing army, the division commander pulls over the brigade commander, the brigade commander pulls the regiment commander, the regiment commander pulls the battalion commander, and the battalion commander pulls the company commander "Relying on factors such as righteousness and friendship, they have formed a pyramid-shaped troop structure step by step; in the words of the republican army, this is called the "feudal army", and the loyalty and unity of this army are based on the personal feelings of the officers, which is unstable.

However, this unit structure of the Republican Army has abolished those middle layers and directly linked the grassroots soldiers with the political propaganda commissar, whose only purpose is to direct operations, and no longer control the rewards and promotions of soldiers, so that the loyalty and unity of this army no longer depend on the personal feelings between the military commanders, and because the political propaganda commissar is directly responsible to the commander-in-chief and accepts the leadership of the commander-in-chief. In such an army, all its grassroots companies are like human fingers, which can accurately carry out activities according to the orders issued by the mind. can be opened or clenched into a fist, and the mind of the small commander's finger is the commander-in-chief, which is Zhao Bei.

Knowing this, Jiang Zuobin understood why the Republican Army claimed to be a "brand-new army." "This army is really very different from the ones that have come before it.

Therefore, the wishful thinking of the Communists was doomed to fail, and from the moment they announced that they would join the United Front and accept the reorganization of the Republican Army, their forces were no longer under their control. Jiang Zuobin was fully convinced that it would not be long before the troops left in Yunnan by the Gongjin Society would also become the "Zhao Family Army" in northern Zhao.

As a member of the League, although Jiang Zuobin is proud of this identity, he is not a rigid person, if he can serve the Republican Army, he has no opinion at all, because he sees the hope of a strong country in this army, perhaps, the army that can save this country in this era can only be such an army with the same desires, so his original fear that the army was annexed by Zhao Bei has completely disappeared, replaced by a strong desire to join the Republican Army collective.

Jiang Zuobin gathered his mind and returned his gaze to the military map on the wall, when a staff officer hurried into the command room.

"Report to the Commander! Just now the General Staff Office received a phone call. The cavalry battalion that attacked Xihua has completed its mission and is now returning to Youfang Town, this sortie, a heavy brigade of the 3rd Beiyang Division was completely wiped out by the cavalry, and the ammunition on it was blown up, in addition. The small granary outside Xihua Town was also conquered by the cavalry battalion, and the stored grain and grass were burned down. ”

"Not bad. The cavalry did a good job.

Jiang Zuobin nodded, and even he himself was surprised by this calmness.

"Will Cao Ling be provoked?" Jiang Zuobin's brows furrowed.