"Boom!" Without warning, an explosion sounded again, and the rubble flew sideways, adding several wounded again, and one of the unlucky men was hit by a sharp stone that broke the carotid artery in his neck, and the blood flowed so well that he could not survive. Another Qing soldier who had been crushed by a stone fell to the ground www.biquge.info his face was crushed by a stone, screaming "It hurts, my eyes can't see."

The Qing army officer had a gloomy face, looked at the panic at the scene of the explosion, waved his hand weakly, and ordered: "Slow down, search carefully and advance." ”

Despite repeated attacks by modified mines on the march, the Qing army still had to advance and reach their planned camp. Camping in the mountains is extremely dangerous and unimaginable.

Of course, if a mine can be detected by visual observation, there seems to be no other reason than to criticize the miners for their lack of skill and crude behavior. Fortunately, the time was short, and the revolutionary army did not have standard mines, but only used grenades, which was enough to slow down the march of the Qing army.

"In the complex and humid mountains and forests, we are not only fighting the enemy, but also the environment." A Qing officer shook his head in frustration.

Moreover, there were problems with the supply of the Qing army, and when two successive teams carrying supplies were attacked and plundered in the mountains and forests, the Qing army found that the enemy had infiltrated their flanks and rear through forest paths or rain ditches that they did not know about.

Being cut off from supplies in the jungle is undoubtedly devastating for an army. The long and narrow jungle transport lines are not only difficult to secure, but also vulnerable to attack. The officers of the Qing army are now soberly aware of the unfavorable situation, and they do not know how many enemies there are; They don't know the enemy's infiltration passage in the jungle, and it is impossible to fill the jungle with troops.

Moreover, it is not just the enemy who infiltrates that poses a threat. There was also a face-to-face resistance to the danger, which caused the Qing army to pay heavy casualties.

The sudden burst of heavy gunfire indicated that the advance had been blocked, and listening to the familiar click, the heart of the Qing officer tightened again.

Light machine guns are easy to carry and use in complex terrain, and are more flexible and convenient than heavy machine guns. Cleverly concealed fortifications. The sudden outbreak of fierce crossfire killed and wounded a large number of Qing troops in a very short period of time.

Bullets flew sideways, and the two sides were firing fiercely. In the dense jungle, artillery is difficult to bring in, and due to the influence of branches and vines, it cannot be used as powerful. The revolutionary army had preset trenches and fortifications, while the Qing army responded to the battle in a hurry and was difficult to break through.

As the sun sets, a blazing red light reflects the western sky. Like a fire in the sky. A gray twilight followed, and a hazy shadow shrouded the mountains and forests from all directions with a blue mist like night fog.

The gunfire gradually stopped, and the Qing army officers realized that this exchange of fire had made him forget the major event of camping. In fact, he thought that there was no way to break through the enemy's defenses and arrive. Without a suitable campsite, camping overnight in the mountains and forests is an unimaginable thing. Because there are leeches in the sewage. There are grasshoppers on the leaves and poisonous insects in the grass. There are also enemies that sneak in at night...... He now felt danger everywhere and wanted to devour them in the night.

After repeated searches, the Qing army had to retreat and camp in an open field. The fighting on this day was very frequent, all sporadic, not with the explosion of mines. It was three or five enemies who fought and ran, constantly and stubbornly pulling the nerves of the Qing army. After a day of tossing, the Qing soldiers all looked sluggish and tired, and their sweaty, dirty clothes left a white frost after they dried. After arranging the guards and sentinels, this Qing army hastily finished eating, and then fell asleep.

The night was damp. The camp of the Qing army was like a cemetery, dead and silent, only the mobile sentry posts walked back and forth on the edge of the camp, patrolling and guarding. This should have been the norm in infantry drills, but it was not suitable for jungles and mountains. In jungle and mountain warfare, the sentinels should be disguised and concealed so that the enemy cannot see and there is no hole to exploit.

At four or five o'clock in the morning, a thick fog slowly rose from the mountains and forests, like a spit out of the great mouth of the devil, rolling in the jungle, like smoke rising from a fire underground. The breeze slowly pushed it through the jungle, and the sticky particles soaked into the skin, and the black mountains suspended in the thick fog. Everything is dreamlike, weird, blurry, and distorted.

Obviously, this peculiar celestial phenomenon is little known to the Qing army, just like a fisherman who does not understand the tides and does not know how to fish and floods, how can he go to the sea to fish? And under the cover of this thick fog, the soldiers of the revolutionary army had already infiltrated the camp that surrounded the enemy and launched a sudden attack.

The gunshots rang out suddenly, and the soldiers, like monsters suddenly emerging from the fog, opened fire fiercely at the Qing army camp, and the grenades were thrown into the tents of the Qing army one after another, and then burst into dazzling fires with a deafening loud sound.

There were gunshots on all sides, and the figures that flashed were all enemies, and the Qing army was fighting back indiscriminately in a panic and stunning, and the whole camp was shooting and shouting......

At about 7 o'clock in the morning, the fog gradually dissipated, and the Qing army realized that most of them were fighting and killing by mistake in a scuffle. The cunning enemy retreats after a brief fight, and then fires guns all around, adding to their fear and confusion.

But now the Qing army had no time to regret it, too late to retract and rectify, and the revolutionary army launched another attack, fierce and resolute.

The light machine gun spits tongues of fire and rains bullets at the enemy; The grenade constantly smoked and smashed into the enemy, exploding with a bang; The sniper, coldly pulling the trigger in the lurking ground, let one by one kill the target on the spot......

It was a short but exhilarating battle, and the exhausted Qing army only resisted for a while, and then was beaten to pieces by the revolutionary soldiers rushing up from all directions.

Sometimes, suffering pins on greatness, and sacrifice becomes glory. Especially on the battlefield, knowing what to fight for and for whom, resentment is transformed into the courage to see death as home.

From this point of view, in terms of combat will and fighting spirit, even the Hubei New Army is no match for the revolutionary army, let alone the old-style Qing army such as the patrol battalion.

And this victory basically curbed the wishful thinking of the Qing army to attack the revolutionary army in the Gaoping base area. Although the French hinted and acquiesced that the Qing army could enter the border to kill the revolutionary army, the Gaoping area was full of caves, large and small hills, jungles and rivers, and the terrain was extremely complicated. In addition, the revolutionary army was aided by anti-French forces. There were a lot of mobilized personnel and they were well prepared. There were many and hidden firing points, and the trenches and tunnels hidden in the thorns and jungles were staggered, so that the Qing troops attacking the headquarters suffered a heavy blow and had to temporarily retreat.

In the Qing army, the patrol team suffered thousands of casualties. By the way, he also took a battalion of the Hubei New Army. Looking at the losses, they are not too big, but the direct consequence is that the Hubei New Army will no longer be ordered to disperse the battle, and the action must be based on one standard. Because the old Qing army was no longer able to fight, in this way, the Qing army could only fight in two groups, that is, a new army with a patrol team or patrol battalion.

At that time, Xiliang, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, personally rushed to Kunming to supervise the battle. In his opinion, western Yunnan and southwestern Yunnan are located in the middle of nowhere. It doesn't matter yet; The Zuojiang region is located on the border of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and the harassment area is widespread, and the shock and impact are also great. Therefore, after the redeployment, the main direction of attack of the Qing army turned to Guangxi. Southern Yunnan borders Vietnam, and if it is lost, it will not only hinder the appearance of China, but also allow the revolutionary army to open up the transportation pipeline. Heavy troops should also be stationed.

As a result, the 29th Standard of the Hubei New Army was led by Zhang Jingliang. Ten battalions of the Hedian Provincial Patrol Army, eight battalions of the Guizhou Provincial Patrol Army, five battalions of the Guizhou Provincial Patrol Army, and five battalions of the Jiangxi Provincial Patrol Army, totaling more than 10,000 people, besieged the revolutionary army in the Zuojiang area.

The 30th Standard of the Hubei New Army was led by Yang Kaijia, and ten battalions of the Yunnan Provincial Patrol Team guarded southern Yunnan. At the same time, it also formed an east-west attack with the Qing army in Guangdong Province, threatening the revolutionary army in Gaoping and Longzhou. It could not be easily dispatched to support the revolutionary army in the left and right river areas. Moreover, these more than 5,000 Qing troops also blocked the passage of the revolutionary armies in western and southwestern Yunnan to march eastward to participate in the war.

Xiliang did not ignore the revolutionary army in western and southwestern Yunnan, and urgently dispatched various patrol teams in northwest Yunnan to Baoshan to assemble and play the imperial court. The Qing army from Sichuan was dispatched to participate in the war. Xiliang's intention was to stabilize the situation in western and southwestern Yunnan as long as he could, and he did not expect the troops he had drawn to defeat the rebels. When he exterminated the chaotic party in Guangxi, and then went back to clean up western Yunnan, he actually fought one idea after another.

Strategize and win a thousand miles. Looking at the map command, it is inevitable to have this feeling. But the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and the opponent is not a fool, not a dead man, waiting motionlessly for you to put the arrangement in place. And the unexpected is often not paid much attention to, and some neglect.

In western Yunnan and southwest Yunnan, Xiliang thought about the final solution, but it was the revolutionary army here that moved first, taking advantage of the fact that the Qing army had not yet been mobilized in place, assembled in Lincang, and suddenly crossed the Nu River to the east, took Zhenyuan lightly, captured Jingdong, avoided the main force of the Qing army in Baoshan, and set off a wild wave in central Yunnan.

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The rain stopped suddenly.

A ray of sunlight shone obliquely on the waterlogged street, reflecting a dazzling light; Shanghai is draped in a magical color and looks heroic.

The sudden appearance of beautiful scenery made Chen Wenqiang feel relaxed. Yes, there are some things in life that can only be left to their own free and go with the flow. Just like the war of the Southwest Revolutionary Army, no matter how anxious he is, it is of little use, even if he goes to command it personally, how much better can he be than others?

"The power of the gangs, not the government, seems to be keeping Shanghai in China's image. Mr. Chen, do you think that's the case? The British Minister to China, Zhu Erdian, said with a smile: "This sounds a little ironic, but I think it is relatively close to the truth." Thousands of outlaws, forgive me for describing it. But the coolies on the streets, Chinese from all walks of life, are under the control of gangs, and even proud of them. ”

Yes, the flags of thirteen countries flew over Shanghai. The French Concession and the Public Concession are marked by roadblocks. The police, the courts and the city council here also do not recognize these places as Chinese territory. They went their own way, as if in their London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Tokyo. If you don't have rickshaws running everywhere, just look at the street signs and shop fronts, you really think you're in another country!

And, as Zhu Erdian said. Not the government, not the British Taipan, not the Japanese bankers, not the German importers, as long as the gangs entangled Shanghai in the web of terror they weaved, Shanghai still belonged to the Chinese. This assertion is not unreasonable, but Chen Wenqiang disagrees.

"It's one-sided, but I don't want to explain more, and Mr. Minister won't be here for gang business, will he?" Chen Wenqiang said lightly.

"Not exactly, but it's related." Zhu Erdian still couldn't figure out Chen Wenqiang's personality and ideological tendencies, whether it was because he was pro-German and hated Ying, or because he was pro-German, he didn't have a correct judgment, so he said tentatively: "If it weren't for the strength of the gangs, the movement to arrive at Britain would not have risen in the public trial, let alone intensified." I think Mr. Chen knows this, right? ”

"Oh, isn't it the result of the arrogance of the British?" Chen Wenqiang gently pursed the corners of his mouth, with a mocking meaning, "As a Chinese, I don't think I have done anything wrong." As for the gangs, they are also Chinese, and it is understandable to take the means they see fit. ”

"But it hurts British interests in China." Zhu Erdian accentuated his tone slightly, "There is also a series of actions by Mr. Chen, and his attitude towards my country is very unfriendly. ”

Specifically, Britain's so-called interests in China mainly include the following aspects: first, Britain's trade share in the Chinese market, at that time, more than seventy percent of China's imports came from Britain (including Hong Kong), and more than 60 percent of foreign enterprises in China were Britain's or Britain's shares, and since the United States implemented tariff protection in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century, and the European powers followed suit, Britain's export trade has been seriously challenged, so the eastern market is more important to the British Empire; The second was the investment of the British financial community in China, which was China's number one creditor at that time according to its size.

"What kind of kindness do you want from me to a country that uses the evil opium trade as a means of profit?" Chen Wenqiang did not hide his disdain, stretched out a finger and pointed it again and again, as if to emphasize, "If this problem is not solved, you will see my more unfriendly attitude." For me and the majority of the Chinese factories and enterprises, there will be substantial benefits in boycotting any of the great powers and squeezing out the goods of any great power, and all that is lacking is nothing more than an excuse. Hehe, non-violent non-cooperation, this is a good weapon. ”

Zhu Erdian exhaled a heavy breath from his nostrils, tried to suppress the fire, and said: "The opium issue, our country is negotiating with your country, and after reaching an agreement, it will naturally abide by it. If your government uses the eradication of foreign medicine as an excuse to carry out a large-scale development of local medicine, how can we be held responsible? ”

"Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Chen Wenqiang shook his head and said disdainfully: "Is your country free of opium smoking? You know that opium is harmful, but you send it to China in order to make a profit. This alone is despised by people. Others are just excuses for quibbling. Therefore, I still say the same sentence and that purpose, do my best to resist the UK, do my best to introduce German capital and technology, and carry out more in-depth and comprehensive cooperation with Germany. (To be continued.) )