Chapter 9 The Soldier's Heart
Hearing Yin Chang's nonsense, Duan Fang raised his eyelids, squinted at the heavily armed Goshha standing at the door, and hummed: "Don't say these useless words, let's think about where we attack first, right?" Now not only is Jiangning empty, but even Hubei does not have many available soldiers, and now in this important place in the south of the Yangtze River, more than 20,000 people are available in our hands, so we have to be careful with our calculations. ”
"Of course, it is to attack Jixian Pass first, and only by winning this pass can we open up the east-west traffic, and the ninth town of Jiangsu can return to Jiangning. However, if the rebels have taken Jixian Pass and put cannons behind the pass, I am afraid it will be a vicious battle. Jixian Pass is not easy to attack, and the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan attacked Changmao back then, but it suffered a loss here. Now, the rebels have occupied Anqing, and the artillery in the city has belonged to them, and the cannonballs are abundant, which should not be underestimated. Yin Chang said, pointing to the map on the table.
Duan Fang closed his eyes and said hatefully: "Zhu Jiabao is a rice bucket!" Not to mention the loss of the provincial wall, I didn't blow up the fire yao depot when I ran, this is the enemy! The gang of people who promoted him as the governor of Anhui at the beginning were really blind! A few days ago, when observing the exercises, he was ashamed to say that his Anqing New Army was no worse than the 'Flying Tiger Army' in Hubei, and these beautiful words were still ringing in his ears, and as a result, he threw the provincial wall to the rebellious party. By the way, who protected him in the first place? ”
"Zhu Jiabao is Yuan Shikai's person, of course Yuan Shikai was promoted. If you want me to say, this new army still has to be handed over to the banner people to train, not only the new army in the south, but even the five towns in Beiyang, the imperial court has to collect it, Yuan Shikai is not a fuel-efficient lamp! Yin Chang knocked on the table, he was very dissatisfied with the arrangement of Duan Fang to let Wang Shizhen, the general of Beiyang, command the thirty-three standards, after all, Wang Shizhen was an old man when Yuan Shikai was training at the small station, in Yin Chang's opinion, this person is not very reliable, and the military power is still better in the hands of the flag man, he is about to use the topic to play, but he saw a figure flashing outside the door, and a Goshha broke in.
"Oh no, my lord! The Jiangsu New Army is making trouble again! Goshha panicked.
"What?" When Duan Fang heard this, he jumped up.
"They shouted that today's food was not delicious, and that today's breakfast was half an hour later than yesterday's, and as a result, hundreds of people gathered together and smashed the pot, and the prison guards sent by the adults were also beaten." Goshha said.
"Good! It's all noisy, it's all noisy! Do you want to rebel? Duan Fang slapped the table and shouted. I don't believe it, just with a bunch of stunned young people who haven't grown all their hair, they can overturn our Great Qing Kingdom! ”
didn't wait for the end side to finish venting, and ran to a person in a panic, but it was Zhang Biao, the commander (division commander) of the eighth town of the Hubei New Army and known as the "Flying Tiger General".
"My lord, the head of the camp under the mark is a little unstable. Just now, a few soldiers of the Jiangsu New Army quietly ran to the side under the mark, and were caught by the mark, and were about to be escorted according to the instructions of the adults, but they were snatched away halfway. Zhang Biao whispered.
"This little thing bothers me too! What is your Goshha for? Could it be that the foreign gun in his hand is carved from wood? Hurry up and get back to the press! Whoever dares to make a mistake will cut off his head! If you are negligent and slack off and live up to the grace of God, the Lord will not be polite to you! Don't think that if you are not the governor of Huguang, you can't help you! Ye is now a Qincha! Holding the banner of the king's life! Duan Fang stepped forward and kicked Zhang Biao with one kick, showing the courage that a flag man should have.
"Your Excellency!" Zhang Biao knelt down with a "porphyr" and burst into tears. "Your Excellency is not in charge of Hubei, and I don't know the situation of the new army in Hubei. A few years ago, Japan and Russia went to war, and long after the war, a 'science cram school' suddenly appeared in the new army in Hubei, and later it became a 'Japanese information society', claiming to study the Japanese military, but in fact it was a rebellion. Only then did I learn that these people were complicit in the chaotic party, and later the provincial constitution ordered the dissolution of the association, and the head of the meeting, Liu Jing'an, was also imprisoned, and the Hubei New Army stopped for a while, but I never thought that some time ago, someone came to report secretly, saying that the army had secretly established a 'group governance society', although it was not clear that they were related to' What does the day inform the society', but dare not slack off, order someone to quietly visit, be sure to collect the list, and eliminate all evil, unexpectedly, the whereabouts of the association are secretive, only the soldiers are involved, and the officers are not allowed to participate, although the mark is to try his best to visit, but he is unable to do it, go to Li Huangpi to discuss, but he does not want to do much. In the past few days, the Qunzhi Society has been quite active, especially after the news of the loss of Anqing came out the day before yesterday, they jumped up and down, marking their worries ......"
"What?" Duan Fang's face changed suddenly, his legs were bent and weak, he almost fell to the ground, sat down slowly on the table, and muttered in his mouth: "Mess with the party, mess with the party...... There are also chaotic parties in the Hubei New Army? ”
"Where are those people now?" Yin Chang was born in the military in the end, and he was much calmer than Duan Fang, so he took a step forward and asked.
"No...... I don't know. Since entering the town, the team under the mark is not easy to bring, as soon as the bullets are collected, the soldiers are angry, the battalion is full of chaos, the battalion has been disrupted, and the people of the group governance society are mostly 21 mixed soldiers, and the standard cannot be restrained. Zhang Biao replied.
The Hubei New Army has made the fastest progress in the formation and training of the Southern New Army, and has now been trained into two units, one is the Eighth Town (Division) and the other is the 21st Mixed Association (Brigade). The Taihu Lake Autumn Exercise is the third large-scale military exercise held since the Qing Dynasty organized the new army, the previous Hejian and Zhangde autumn exercises were held in the northern plains, in order to be familiar with the southern mountain operations, the Taihu Lake Autumn Exercise was held, the troops participating in the autumn exercise are the southern new army, with the Hubei 21st Mixed Association as the backbone, incorporated into the Hubei Eighth Town's part of the troops, reorganized into the mixed 11th Town, is the "Southern Army", and the confrontation is the Jiangsu New Army's Ninth Town, which is mainly combined with the 45th standard of the Soviet infantry team, The 25th target of the Jiangbei Infantry Brigade was mixed into the Ninth Town, which was for the "Northern Army," and together with other troops sent by various provinces to observe the exercise, the total number of new troops participating in the Taihu Autumn Exercise reached 26,000.
The commander of the "Southern Army" is Zhang Biao, the commander of the Eighth Town, and the commander of the "Northern Army" is Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the Ninth Town, and the troops under the command of the two are the elite of the elite, especially the Southern Army, which has mixed a lot of officers and soldiers of the Eighth Town, and the Eighth Town is also known as the "Flying Tiger Army", has participated in the Northern Autumn Exercise, and has conducted confrontation drills with the Beiyang Army, and is really the best in the Southern New Army, however, because it is mixed, Zhang Biao can not fully control the troops, and the backbone of the Southern Army is Li Yuanhong's troops. But he did not arrive with the army, but stayed in Wuchang, commanding the New Army troops left behind in Hubei, and pressing the ground.
"Kill! Kill! Those who dare to plot chaos will be killed! Zhang Biao, this official will give you the king's order flag, you personally bring people to each battalion to suppress it, and those who dare to disobey military orders, regardless of the size of the official position, will be disposed of by you at will! Yin Chang glanced at Duan Fang, but saw that his face was pale and his legs trembled, and he couldn't help sighing. Most of today's banner people are like this, the bigger the official, the less timid he is, if Duan Fang can be as calm and calm as he is Yinchang, this state affairs will not be corrupted to such a point.
"My lord, I'm afraid it's not right." Zhang Biao didn't dare to look up at Yin Chang, still keeping his head down. "The 21st Mixed Association is not a team under the standard, only Li Huangpi can hold it down."
"Fart! What is your team, my team? They are all soldiers of the imperial court! You Zhang Biao don't dare to play the pressure, I'll go! Yin Chang pushed Zhang Biao away, straightened his military uniform, rattled his horse boots, walked out of the hall, stood in front of the hall and called a team of Goshha, raised a machine gun, held the Qinchajie flag and the king's order flag, and walked out of the courtyard with murderous spirit.
"My lord, what should I do?" Zhang Biao glanced at Duanfang, but was surprised to find that this dignified first-class member of the imperial court, the governor of Liangjiang and the minister of the Qincha Proofreading Autumn Exercise, was paralyzed on the Taishi chair, his eyes were closed, his hands were playing with the pearls on his chest, and his mouth was closing one by one, listening attentively, and he was chanting the scriptures.
"Alas. The flag man is noble, not successful. Zhang Biao sighed in his heart, and made a thousand punches at the old monk's settled side, and then turned around and left.
Just when Yin Chang was aggressive and carried a machine gun to the barracks to suppress the new officers and soldiers, on the other side of the Luoma River, on a hill less than two miles away from Huangnigang Town, by a bush, several people in grass-yellow cloaks were crawling in the dry grass, holding binoculars in their hands, carefully observing every detail in Huangnigang Town.
Zhao Bei took out the dried hay japonica that had been chewed out of his mouth, held the binoculars, and said to Wu Zhenhan beside him: "It seems that the structure of the Qing army has been disrupted, the military tent is disorganized, the town is full of soldiers, and the officers seem to be unable to restrain their subordinates. ”
"Strange? Why did you mess up yourself? Even if the Jiangsu New Army is a showmanship, isn't the Hubei New Army known as the 'Flying Tiger Army'? Military discipline has always been strict. Wu Zhenhan was a little puzzled.
"Not surprising. There were also revolutionary organizations in the Hubei New Army, and there were also soldiers who were inclined to revolution, but for the time being, they did not have the strength of the Guangfu Society, and they must have been inspired when they heard the news of the Anqing Uprising. Maybe they are the ones who caused all this. Zhao Bei said with certainty. According to historical records, after the Anqing Horse Artillery Battalion Uprising, the revolutionaries in the Hubei New Army were ready to respond, but because the Anqing Uprising quickly failed, it still failed to launch, but now due to the intervention of Zhao Bei, the Anqing Uprising was successful, and the revolutionaries in the Hubei New Army were likely encouraged to start implementing their plans.
In that period of history that Zhao Bei was familiar with, because the rebel army could not attack Anqing City for a long time, giving the Qing army the opportunity to calmly counterattack, on the third day of the uprising, the new army Qiu Cao troops who rushed to suppress the uprising had arrived in the western suburbs of Anqing, if it was not for the fact that the rebel army had retreated at that time, it was likely to be attacked by the Qing army.
However, now it is different, because the city of Anqing has fallen into the hands of the rebel army, the telegraph line has been cut off, and the command center of the Qing army in Anhui has been completely disrupted, so not only the rebel army has been greatly boosted, but even the Qing army troops participating in the autumn exercise have not received orders to reinforce Anqing. This is the "butterfly effect" brought by the traverser.
This is how history is rewritten little by little, and the wings of that butterfly may be insignificant, but they are enough to incite a storm that will surely sweep away the decay with the power of destroying everything, bringing new breath to this ancient nation and changing this era beyond recognition.
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