1078908 Far East Maniac Chapter 30 must win

A.D. Nakou year 8 month, Xiaogan. Xiaogan is located in the heart of Hanyang Mansion in Hubei, since ancient times it is the thoroughfare, during the Taiping War, Xiaogan became the passage of the armies of the two warring sides because of the convenient transportation, the Hunan army had fought with the Taiping army here many times, and later after the rise of the Twist Army, it also plundered Xiaogan.

Due to this geographical innate advantage, when the Qing court explored the Jinghan Railway, it was determined that Xiaogan was the only place for the Jinghan Line, after the Jinghan Line was completed and opened to traffic, Xiaogan Station became the most important traffic transfer station in the whole Hubei Province except for Hankou Station, and the Jinghan Railway made a big turn in Xiaogan. The railway south of Xiaogan goes southeast. The railway north of Xiaogan extends almost straight to the north, reaching Wushengguan at the junction of Hubei and Henan provinces. Further north is Xinyang, Henan.

After the outbreak of the "Wushen Revolution", the Qing court dispatched the Beiyang Army and the new armies of the provinces to form the Second Army. Promoted by the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, he went south along the Jinghan line, preparing to attack Wuhan with the first army coming from the east of the Yangtze River, but before the second army advanced to Xiaogan, Yuan Shikai had already launched a military admonition in the north. Under the banner of "King Qin", he was ready to attack Henan, but because the Beiyang Army had cut off the Jinghan line north of Xinyang, Shengyun's second army was lost, and later Zhao Wei, the commander of the Yi Army, launched a mutiny in Xinyang, besieged the Shengyun headquarters, Shengyun absconded in disguise, and the second army of the Qing army disintegrated, and part of the Henan New Army joined the republican army in Xiaogan. Later, he followed the Qunzhi Society to Henan, but not all the Henan New Army returned to Henan, in fact, during the Northern Expedition of the Qunzhi Society, Zhao Bei specially ordered to leave a battalion of Henan troops to garrison Xiaogan.

The Henan battalion is still stationed in Xiaogan, but they have been reorganized into a railway unit that is responsible for protecting railway lines and helping to coordinate the dispatch of railway stations.

Since the beginning of the "Dawn in the South" military exercise more than 10 days ago, this Xiaogan railway station has become a military railway station, and Xiaogan City has almost become a military city, and the United Front troops who have been continuously transferred to Xiaogan from the south have turned the city into a large barracks, even if you walk on the streets of Xiaogan City, you can see revolutionary soldiers wearing military uniforms of different colors.

The Republican Army troops are gray cloth uniforms, the revolutionary coalition troops in Hunan are dark blue uniforms, and many troops wear the military uniforms of the former Qing patrol battalions, but the general's cap has been replaced by the new army military cap "Now the united front has integrated the troops together, unified command and deployment!" However, this logistical support work was not accomplished overnight. The troops from Hunan and Sichuan rushed to Xiaogan almost non-stop, and this matter of changing military uniforms was indeed not the first place.

However, military uniforms should still be unified, and now the military clothing factories in Wuhan are working overtime to produce the new military uniforms and military hats of the Republican Army, and the original Fourth Bureau of gauze and linen has also resumed work, and all garment factories in Wuhan have also received orders from the military government, and they are also rushing to produce military uniforms for the United Front. Therefore, the production of this new type of military uniform still keeps up with the demand, and the republican military government will send the order money over, and the factory will send the military uniforms over, with one hand of money and one hand of goods, and it is fair to arrive.

The garment factories in Wuhan have been stained with the light of this "military exercise," and the bosses are all smiling from ear to ear, and they are probably the people who are most satisfied with the current situation of confrontation between the north and the south, and they have to expand the scale of production in order to complete the order. and to buy more advanced garment machines from foreign merchants in Hankow, the entire business of Hankou showed a distorted prosperity because of the "Dawn of the South" exercise, and the railway line between Hankou and Xiaogan also ran military trains day and night, officers and soldiers, Fuzhong, military uniforms, mules and horses, and munitions The whole train was pulled to Xiaogan Station. All stations along the line are dispatching at full capacity to ensure the smooth flow of military trains.

With two whistles, another military train spewed billowing black smoke into Xiaogan Station, and stopped at a platform that had just been vacated under the command of the dispatcher, and before the train was completely stopped, all the carriages of the military train were pulled apart, and one or two thousand revolutionary army soldiers who could not distinguish between east and west, north and south jumped out of the carriage for the time being, under the command and reprimand of the officers, it took a few minutes to form a team, and then drove out of the station with backpacks, everything was as usual a few days ago, and the railway staff were also accustomed to it, Even judging from the military uniform, the background of this unit was judged.

This is the unit of the "16th Division of the United Front". This force is the armed forces of the former Communist Progressive Association. Most of the officers and men are from Hunan, but the division commander is a native of Hubei, named Jiang Zuobin, a graduate of the Japanese Army Noncommissioned Officer School, who just graduated from the Internet last summer, and after returning to China, he worked as a teacher at the Baoding Officers' Accelerated School. But before he could get used to life with a whip in hand. The news of the revolution came from Anqing, and the "Wushen Revolution" began.

As a secret member of the League, Jiang Zuobin did not hesitate, immediately packed his bags, said goodbye, went south to Shanghai, looked for revolutionary comrades, and then went to Fujian, participated in the Fujian Liberation War hosted by the League, and was later sent to Hunan by the League to assist the Communist Association in forming a revolutionary grass team, and then stayed in Hunan, has been responsible for commanding the troops of the Communist Association, after the establishment of the "United Front", he was appointed as the commander of the 16th Division, the chief of staff of the division is Tian Yingzhao, and Jiang Zuobin is a classmate of the non-commissioned officer school, But he is from Hunan.

After the 16th Division received an order to dispatch in Shonan. The pledge meeting was immediately held, and on the same day, they marched to Hubei, first by land and then by water, and after arriving in Wuhan, they were immediately loaded onto the train, transferred to Xiaogan Station in batches, and joined the sequence of "exercise troops".

Due to the lack of wagons, the 16th Division could not be transported to Xiaogan at one time, and could only march northward in Danci, Jiang Zuobin, as the division commander, led the rearguard troops, and was the last senior officer in the unit to rush to Xiaogan Station.

The military train that Wang had just driven into Xiaogan Station was Jiang Zuobin's car, but he did not leave the station with the troops, because as soon as he got off the train, he received an order from the military representative stationed at the station, telling him to wait at the station to meet with the new chief of staff of the 16th Division.

Tian Yingzhao, the former chief of staff of the 16 th Division, led the first batch of troops to Xiaogan the day before yesterday, and then received an order to transfer him to the Fourth Division of the United Front as the chief of staff of the division, and the post of chief of staff of the 16 th Division became vacant; in fact, he received a notice yesterday when Jiang Zuobin was still in Hankou that the new chief of staff of the 16 th Division was Wang Jiaju, a classmate of his classmate at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and like Jiang Zuobin, Wang Jiaju was also from Hubei.

After graduating from the non-commissioned officer school, Wang Jiaju was sent to Sichuan and was promoted to the Sichuan New Army Supervision and Training Office. Later, when the Republican Army entered Sichuan, he joined the Republican Army, and then was sent to the Military and Political Academy for further study.

In fact, the transfer of the chief of staff of the 16th Division is not an isolated incident, and many of the senior officers of the United Front units who participated in the "Dawn of the South" operation have been transferred at the same level, which can be seen as an important measure taken by the commander-in-chief to strengthen the "coordination system" of the troops. The commanders of the divisions basically did not move. It has a great impact on the revenge of thousands of troops.

Jiang Zuobin sat in the dispatch room, talking with several military representatives about the actions of the Henan Beiyang Army, and without saying a few words, Wang Jiaju hurried to the station with several adjutants to meet with Jiang Zuobin.

The two are friends in the non-commissioned officer school, although they have not yet reached the level of entering the room, but compared with Tian Yingzhao, Wang Jiaju is more easy-going, and when he sees the face of Master Jiang, he is not as straight as Tian Yingzhao, and he is smiling when he speaks.

"Yuyan, I originally planned to invite you to a restaurant for a light meal, but now the time is in a hurry. I can only change it to invite guests to the restaurant later. Still, I brought you some local produce. Hemp Candy, let's eat and walk, the commander-in-chief is waiting for you to meet him at the headquarters. ”

Wang Jiaju took out a bag of hemp candy from the pocket of his military uniform. Handing it over to Jiang Zuobin, the two left the station and led the adjutants on foot to the headquarters of the "United Front Revolutionary Armed Forces" in Xiaogan City.

When they arrived at the headquarters, the conference room was already full of people, and the arrival of Wang Jiaju and Jiang Zuobin made the atmosphere even more warm, among the senior officers present. Many of them are graduates of non-commissioned officer schools and military training schools, either classmates, seniors, or simply teacher-student relationships, and most of them are very young, but in their twenties or thirties, which is also a unique phenomenon that only appears in the revolutionary army, and it is absolutely impossible to see this kind of scene of young officers gathering together in the Beiyang Army.

Taking advantage of the period before the meeting, everyone exchanged views on the situation between the north and the south, and most of them insisted that the Beiyang Army's large-scale southward march must have been prepared for war, and the united front absolutely should not take it lightly, and that the "dawn of the southern country" this time was definitely not a military exercise, and it depended on the commander-in-chief's arrangement.

While the discussion was in full swing, several guards had entered the room, and an officer stood in the doorway and shouted.

"The Commander-in-Chief has arrived! Rise! ”

The senior officers in the room stood up, facing the door, some of them already raising their right hands in salute.

The figure at the door flickered, Zhao Bei had already walked into the conference room, walked straight to the conference table, glanced at everyone, raised his hand to salute, and some officers who reacted slowly only then remembered to salute the commander-in-chief, but some people had put their hands down, while some people had just raised their hands.

Looking at the somewhat dazzling movements of the people, Zhao Bei was also helpless, the current "united front revolutionary armed forces" have just barely completed the reunification in terms of establishment, and there is still a lot of work to be done, and the integration and digestion of the troops cannot be completed in a short period of time, which requires the joint efforts of all officers. The intrigue of the commander-in-chief is more needed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, some of us arrived a few days ago, I know, and some of us arrived today. I can't name you, so please introduce yourself. Contemptible Zhao Bei, the word Zhenhua. I am now the chairman and commander-in-chief of the United Front, and I am now a member of the United Front. ”

Zhao Bei's opening remarks were simple and clear, and the officers were all straightforward.

"Jiang Zuobin, whose name is Yuyan, used to be a member of the League, and now he is a member of the United Front, serving as the commander of the 16th Division of the United Front."

"Wang Jiaju, who is currently the chief of staff of the 16th Division of the United Front."

Among the officers who came to the meeting, there were officers from the Republican Army, officers from the Communist Association, and even Fenfenduo also had officers present. But now, there is no need to discuss the situation in Henan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please come over today, I was going to discuss with you the movements of the Beiyang Army on the front line of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, but now there is no need for it, just now, I received a telegram from Xinyang. The 3rd and 9th Divisions of the Beiyang Army in Zhengzhou have poured out of their nests and are rapidly advancing south along the Jinghan Line, and their forward has reached Xinzheng, and Xuzhou City is in danger. Xuzhou used to be the military committee of the former Henan branch of the Endeavor Association, and it is still the "United Front." The outpost in southern Henan, but due to the limited number of troops, the Endeavor Society decided to abandon Xuzhou, shrink the defensive line, and retreat south to Xiping County, Runing Province to set up defensive positions, and sent a telegram requesting that "the revolutionary armed forces of the United Front quickly dispatch the main force north into southern Henan, reinforce Xiping, and block the Beiyang Army."

Just now, the General Staff Headquarters has drawn up a plan for the operation in the north, and this time "the dawn of the southern country has dawned, and the military operation has officially shifted from exercises to preparations." Now, in my capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the United Front, I make the following decision! ”

When Zhao Bei said this, he stopped, and an adjutant standing behind him took a step forward, opened an official document, and read it out loud to everyone present.

"Dawn in the South, Fifth Operational Order: First, all the United Front troops that have arrived in Xiaogan are immediately ready to attack, and once the order is issued. The troops boarded the buses and set off in order. Second. As the vanguard force, the 1st Division immediately assembled and rushed to the railway station, and as soon as the military train arrived, it immediately boarded the train and set off for Xinyang. ”

Looking at the subordinates in the conference room who were a little too calm, Zhao Bei was not surprised, in fact, this "Dawn of the Southern Kingdom" operation, from the very beginning, he formulated the battle plan from the actual combat, everything was arranged and deployed according to the needs of the actual battle, as professional soldiers, these officers may have been mentally prepared for war a long time ago.

"Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai, I didn't expect you to be so arrogant, you want to hit my Hankou, but I don't know that I have long wanted to hit your Zhengzhou, since you dare to come, then don't blame me for laying down my pocket and waiting for you to drill." I don't believe that your feudal army can defeat my new revolutionary army. You don't want to fight in Hangzhou, you want to fight in Hubei, and you want to finish the battle, but you don't know that I am also doing the same thing. From the very beginning, I didn't plan to fight you in the southeast district, what I wanted was a decisive battle in the Central Plains! ”

Zhao Bei sighed in his heart, in fact, he really didn't want to break with Yuan Shikai now, but Yuan Shikai had already shown his big sword, so he couldn't back down, after all, now is the time to gather people's hopes and win people's expectations, if he can defeat the Beiyang Army, then his position as the commander-in-chief of the United Front can be regarded as completely secure.

As for what to do next after defeating the Beiyang Army in Henan, Zhao Bei hasn't thought about it yet, because he has too many things to consider, and some things are not negotiable with others.

The battlefield chosen by Zhao Bei is Henan, if Yuan Shikai doesn't plan to turn his face with the commander-in-chief now. If Yuan Shikai really plans to have a showdown with the commander-in-chief now, then the land of Zhongzhou in Henan is the place where the commander-in-chief makes a name for himself.

This battle is not a question of how to win, but a question of having to win, in order to defeat the Beiyang Army, Zhao Bei almost let go, he bet almost all the capital.

If he wins, he will be able to enter the center and unify China in a short time; If he loses, he will be defeated and die.

In this battle, Zhao Bei will win!