Yangshouyuan, a private estate built by Yuan Weiting at a high cost, was still protected by the Overseer Army as Yuan's property after Hongxian's defeat. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoDuring Zhao Fu's supervision, during the New Year's holidays, he also came here to greet the eldest prince, and assigned two companies of guards to be responsible for guarding.

But now, things are not people, and this Yuan family's private residence has become Feng Huanzhang's temporary headquarters. The original intention of the Shaanxi army entering Henan was to expand its territory and improve the disadvantageous situation of its own army. Before Feng Huanzhang set out, he had issued a strict order that the whole army should strictly abide by military discipline and not disturb the people in the slightest, otherwise the law would be corrected on the spot.

The cavalry scattered in the northwest was absorbed and annexed by the huge Shaanxi army, and some of them were pulled out and beheaded to appease the local people's anger, and the looting gains they carried with them also became the spoils of war for the Shaanxi army.

Judging from the current situation, the Shaanxi army has a strong strength and many of its soldiers are skilled fighters, making it the strongest military group in Henan at present. However, the local situation in Henan was far worse than Feng Huanzhang expected, and the first enemy that this strong force with the goal of expanding its territory was not the Lu army, but poverty.

Zhao Fu's talent only lies in gathering and looting, not in construction. Coupled with the drought, Henan's financial situation is not much better than that of Shaanxi, and the major problem facing the troops is the lack of food.

When Sizhaotang ordered the troops, it was agreed that the military rations of the Shaanxi army would be mobilized from Shanxi. Yan Yishan has been supervising Jin for many years since Ge Ming, and in several major turmoil, he has been alone, making Shanxi a world of its own. According to legend, Shanxi's construction has achieved remarkable results in recent years, and its financial situation is good enough to support the expenditure of the Shaanxi army. With the wealth of Shanxi and the courage of Shaanxi, the Jin-Shaanxi coalition army is enough to become the great enemy of the Lu army.

But the problem is that Yan Yishan is a Pixiu character, he has in and out, and he asks for food from his hands, just like snatching food from a tiger's mouth. Since the Shaanxi army entered Henan, the military food and military salaries have not been happy.

Before the start of the war, the Anhui army was paid four months' salaries, and the Zhilu coalition army also paid three months' salaries to boost morale. Feng Huanzhang led the troops to decide on a poor character, he dressed like an old peasant, and his subordinates were also poor, and he had always relied on the equal treatment of officers and soldiers to ensure the loyalty of the troops. The soldiers have no salary, and the chief officer does not have either, and since everyone is poor together, no one can complain. However, no matter how to rely on equality of treatment to gather people's hearts, the army still needs to be paid for military salaries.

Shaanxi's financial resources have dried up, and the military expenditure into Henan is counting on Shanxi, but up to now, the only military salary that the Shaanxi army can receive is Shanxi's provincial banknotes, and it cannot see a piece of the ocean. The military rations are even more seriously insufficient, and the entire Shaanxi army has not had a full meal for a long time.

The width of the track of the Shanxi railway is different from that of the railway in other provinces, resulting in different trains. Shanxi materials must be changed at the station. However, Henan railway workers responded to the call of railway workers in Shandong and Beijing and went on a general strike to support Meng Siyuan's death.

Henan's railway system is basically paralyzed, and all material transportation can only rely on carts. Even with the persuasion of bayonets, the Shaanxi army could get a sufficient number of carts, but the transportation efficiency was not comparable to that of trains. Coupled with the previous destruction of Henan by the Northwest Cavalry, which led to the loss of a large number of livestock, the people fled, and the collection of carts and masters was extremely difficult, and the transportation of military rations became an extremely difficult task.

If the Shaanxi army wants to survive, it can only rely on itself.

Since they started as swordsmen, these Shaanxi army men have actually been accustomed to living in all kinds of harsh environments. Without food and military pay, you can only rely on your own strength to regain a piece of heaven and earth. What's more, the current Shaanxi army is undoubtedly more like an army than the former Shantang swordsmen, and they believe that by their own strength, they will definitely be able to live better than in the past.

The local armed forces loyal to Zhao Fu were vulnerable under the attack of the Shaanxi army, like an anthill in front of the flood, and they were about to collapse. Relying on local seizures, it can barely maintain the army, but if you want to actually control Henan, you have to find a way.

Defeat the Lu army.

In Feng Huanzhang's view, the Lu army in Kaifeng is his biggest supply point. The Lu army has always had a tradition of attaching importance to materials and emphasizing the construction of military stations, and wherever it goes, it will hoard large quantities of food and wages. In addition, Zhao Fu has accumulated a large amount of wealth in Henan, and a large part of it is currently in the hands of the Lu army. And the leading officers of the Lu army are two women...... Woman.

Yang Biao's reputation is quite loud in the Shaanxi army, and he is a well-known ruthless character. But he is only the nominal division commander, and the real head of the family is Zhao Guanhou's personal pet Yang Yuzhu. This Sanqin Guanyin, the popularity is not said, but the leader of the troops is ......

Feng Huanzhang never concealed his resistance to female soldiers, especially female officers, in his opinion, women leading soldiers is child's play. Regardless of Sun Meiyao or Yang Yuzhu, they are not qualified to be generals, and the troops under their command cannot be regarded as opponents at all, just like the lion led by sheep.

If the troops want to work hard, they must first be full, and if they want to be full, they must kill a fat pig, and the Yuan family of Yangshouyuan has become the preferred target. It is a pity that the children of the Yuan family are very shrewd, the soldiers have not arrived, the people have fled, only a few servants are left in the house, the gold and silver are soft and the passbooks are taken away, and the rest is some coarse and clumsy objects, as well as some antiques that are inconvenient to carry. At present, the war is together, and there is no way to realize antiques, and although the Shaanxi army has taken Yangshouyuan, it will not get much benefit.

As soon as the officers of the Shaanxi Army entered the Yangshou Garden, they were dazzled by the carved buildings and the furnishings in the rooms. Those antiques and furnishings that are too late to take away are either bulky or not very valuable objects. But for the poor and frightened officers of the Shaanxi Army, this is already a paradise that cannot be dreamed of in a dream.

Even though Henan is dry and crops are mostly withered, the flowers and plants in the longevity garden still grow vigorously. Smelling the fragrance of flowers, looking at rockeries and strange rocks, and man-made fountains, many officers whispered: "This is the life of people......

But Feng Huanzhang's mood is far from being as good as that of his subordinates. These antique furniture, strange flowers and stones, in his eyes, are worthless waste. They can neither eat nor pay their salaries. On the contrary, they will wear down the fighting spirit of their subordinates, and once these officers begin to like to enjoy, like to play antiques, and are separated from the officers and soldiers, and cannot suffer with the subordinates, then who will follow them all the way to the capital, wipe the dirt off the five-color flag, and establish a real commune?

In two days, he had punished several important generals under him, including several division commanders, who had been whipped in public for stealing antiques or eating beyond the standard. Feng's troops were used, heavy troops and light generals, and these officers were beaten in front of their own subordinates, and there was absolutely no face to talk about.

The problem was not solved because the commander-in-chief was beaten, and the army's food and salary could still not be solved. Even if he broke through the No. 1 big temple in Henan, he got a batch of life-saving food. But the 50,000 Shaanxi army was like locusts, and the savings of a temple were far from enough to meet the expenses. The supply of military rations to the Jin army has always been criticized by the Shaanxi army. After the war, he first sent a batch of corned beef, which was naturally considered a gift to the Shaanxi army to be able to eat meat. But after getting the food, I realized why Lao Xi was so generous.

That terrible corned beef is said to have been purchased from Albion, and Feng Huanzhang knew some Albiang because he studied theology. According to his observation of the beef crates, the beef was produced a few years older than his grandfather.

When he smelled the smell of things, Rao is Feng Huanzhang, who has always taken hardship and hard work as his standard, couldn't help but vomit for a while. In his diary entry for that day, he wrote: "It must have been placed in a barrel from the beginning of God's creation, and when it was boiled, you could smell it like the smell of a dried corpse."

Soon, the Shaanxi army gave it the nickname Salt Bone, because it was salty and hard like bones, and the cooks had to use axes and saws to deal with it. The Shaanxi army found that a piece of corned beef they had obtained was carved into the shape of a three-masted battleship of Taixi, which had been out of service for more than 200 years.

When this batch of beef was wiped out by the Shaanxi army, they found that the new food was not much better. The quartermaster came early in the morning to complain that the newly delivered military rations from Shanxi were 20,000 boxes of military biscuits. These biscuits were purchased from foreigners in the pre-golden era, and due to poor preservation, most of the biscuits have deteriorated and moldy, and no one dares to put them in their mouths when they see those green hairs or spots or even maggots on them. But if you don't eat this, what will you eat?

Feng Huanzhang's expedition this time was not smooth, before leaving, Jing Xiuyue, a general under his command who was bent on avenging his brother Jing Xia Demon, was ready to play eight rounds of mahjong with his wives and concubines. Halfway through the card, Jing Xiuyue made a big name, and in excitement he touched the pistol to the ground, and the pistol misfired, and Jing Xiuyue asked a few times first, "Who did you hit?" No one responded, but then it was discovered that it was himself who was shot.

It is common to be shot on the battlefield, and Jing Xiuyue is far more ashamed than worried about this matter. But he didn't expect anyone to be sent to the hospital, and soon the news came that he was critically ill, and when Feng Huanzhang's brigade set off, there was bad news. This fierce general of the Shaanxi army died so inexplicably before the expedition.

Many superstitious officers thought that this was a bad omen, but Feng Huanzhang felt that it was far more terrible than a bad omen. In the hospital, the killing of a senior general of the Shaanxi army may be another achievement of Shandong's intelligence agency. Since the Battle of Bailang, Shandong has had a large number of chess pieces in Shaanxi, although he has been supervising Shaanxi himself, he has worked hard to find these chess pieces and remove them. But there will always be some people who stay in the ranks and cause damage.

In particular, his plan for the distribution of grain this time will definitely attract the dissatisfaction of a large number of local gentry in Shaanxi, and with their cooperation, those Shandong special trade unions will be more active. This biscuit door, I'm afraid it is also inseparable from the Shandong intelligence agency.

Most of the men in the Shaanxi army are poor children, and few of them have eaten enough. When they are hungry, they eat tree bark, grass roots, Guanyin soil, and they also eat people. Compared with these, moldy biscuits are not an unacceptable food, and now making a fuss about some moldy biscuits, in Feng Huanzhang's mind, there is only one reason: the incitement of the Lu army agents.

The people of Henan have already starved to death on a large scale. Those who have a way to escape the famine, and those who have no way can only wait to die, at this time, it is better to have moldy biscuits than to be hungry. Moreover, it is impossible for the military rations from Shanxi to be transported in a short period of time, and there is only one way out now: to attack quickly and defeat the remnants of the Lu army!

The way to deal with the dissatisfaction of the soldiers was very simple, Feng Huanzhang gathered all the high-ranking officers of the Shaanxi army, and in front of the soldiers, ate a batch of the most moldy compressed biscuits into his stomach. When baking this kind of military biscuit, there is only flour and water, no seasoning is added, and the moldy food, like a knife, is like a knife, poking wildly in the esophagus and stomach. But compared to the battlefield, compared to the suffering of the common people, what is this kind of torture?

Seeing that the handsome man took the lead in eating the moldy biscuits, no one could complain. With tears in his eyes, the soldier devoured the moldy food on his hands, and then led by the commander to Kaifeng. Feng Huanzhang proudly said to the adjutant beside him: "Our officers can eat moldy biscuits with their brothers, but the high-ranking officers of the Lu Army have to eat small stoves." With this as evidence, this victory can be known regardless of whether it is a failure. ”

It's just that that night, the senior officers of the Shaanxi army without exception rushed between the rest room and the toilet, the stream was endless, and all the toilets were overcrowded.

The iron stomach of the man in Guanzhong can't resist the power of the virus. Due to food poisoning, a large number of soldiers were seriously dehydrated, coupled with the drought in Henan, it was difficult to replenish drinking water, so they could only drink sewage, and their illness was further aggravated. Many heroes with great ambitions were killed by the cookies of friendly troops before they had time to fight the Lu army.

Those who ate less, or whose bodies were really strong, survived the torture of moldy food, dragged their sick bodies, and launched a fierce attack on the Lu army. His fierce style of not fearing death, coupled with the results of several years of military training, paid off at this time.

The Tiger Roaring Forest Department bore the brunt of the attack and was attacked by the 1st Brigade of the Shaanxi Army. Looking at the brand-new Lu Mini rifle in the Lu army's hand, the Shaanxi army officer shouted to the unarmed soldiers behind him: "Do you see those good guns on the other side?" Whoever grabs it is whoever, and whoever wants a good gun, rush! ”

Hu Xiaolin once fought Guo Jian, and he asked himself to be an expert in Shaanxi operations, but the performance of the Shaanxi army this time was still far beyond his expectations. After half a day of fierce fighting, he had to abandon his position and retreat, and when he reported to Sun Meiyao afterwards, he also said that he could not hold on for a longer period of time, but if that was the case, the casualties would be difficult to control.

Control casualties. This is the order that Zhao Guanhou gave her before Sun Meiyao came. The purpose of the Henan battlefield was to occupy Henan and Shaanxi provinces in addition to annihilating Feng's troops, and if the troops suffered too large losses, it would be more difficult to control the provinces in the future. Moreover, once the Lu army shows its decline, the Orientals are afraid that they will not be willing to be lonely. Therefore, the retreat of the Tiger Roaring Forest is also reasonable.

In my impression, the courageous and undisciplined Shaanxi Army has now been reborn and has the qualifications to be the opponent of the Lu Army. Moreover, the Shaanxi army, which was supported by the two mixed brigades of Song Banghan and Zhang Dingxun, was greatly strengthened in artillery fire and could engage in a frontal artillery battle with the Lu army.

The gap between the two sides in terms of heavy firepower was not too large, and although the Shaanxi army lacked heavy artillery, it produced a large number of cheap and lame mountain splitting guns. This kind of earthen cannon that costs only eight yuan a piece can only be regarded as a toy in the eyes of Lu Jun. However, with the artillery of the border guards, it was a big headache for the Lu army, and at least a group of gunners should be assigned to suppress the mountain splitting artillery.

In the past two years, the Lu army has set up a large number of staff officers, and Sun Meiyao has also followed a staff group composed of more than 20 high-level students from Shandong Jiangwutang, and several of them are their cousins. After some analysis, everyone came to the conclusion that if the cavalry division fought hard with the other side, it was not without a chance of winning, but it would have to pay a huge price for casualties. And this number will be staggering.

"We have to wait for Yang Yuzhu." Sun Meiyao reluctantly admitted this fact, and in the Fifth Division of the Provincial Army, there are also a large number of Shaanxi people. The two have some origins, she originally didn't trust her, and Yang Yuzhu, a widow, had too many means, like a big enemy in the inner house, and she didn't want her to get credit. But now, in order to reduce the blood of his brothers, he has no choice but to put down his body and beg for this slut.

Yang Yuzhu's reinforcements came extremely fast. The Henan Railway overlord was selective, and the train of the Zhilu coalition army was not within the scope of the boycott, so it arrived at the front line very smoothly. As soon as he got off the train, Yang Yuzhu proudly took Sun Meiyao's hand, "Master Sun, this time, I brought the magic weapon from the master." He agreed, and when the battle against Shaanxi was over, he would let me be the overseer of Shaanxi. This time, our Fifth Division is responsible for fighting Feng Huanzhang, and you are responsible for fighting the two brigades of the Anhui Army. When I finish fighting them, I'll go to Shaanxi to be an overseer. When you come to Shaanxi, I will entertain you to listen to the big drama and eat the dumpling feast! ”

Is this a demonstration?

Sun Meiyao's hateful teeth itched, what qualifications does such a slut have to open a party? If the woman in the family wants to say that she wants to open the house, she must be the first, and no one else can do it! She thought hatefully, but forced a smile on her face, "So, I want to say congratulations." Magic weapon? I don't know what magic weapon is, why don't I know? ”

"Look, aren't all magic weapons on the train behind?"

"That's all the magic weapons you are talking about?"

Looking at the mountains of "magic weapons" on the station, Sun Meiyao was a little dumbfounded. Rice, white flour, mutton, banknotes, cigarettes, and earthy ...... There are hundreds of chefs, and hundreds of lovely-looking girls. Guanhou wants to rely on this, hold Henan, and enter Shaanxi?