Section 124: Capture Mukden

"Gong Mingde, come over and tell them that everyone should go around Fengtian City and see what the Russians are doing?"

Yang Chao shouted to the young man in the cabin who had just been playing machine guns. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

His surname is Gong, and he is a nephew of Gong Zhaoqing.

On the airship, Yang Chao could receive telegrams from Beijing, but he could not contact other pilots who were nearby.

Luckily, these are experienced seafarers, and they are not the sailors of the past, they are all professionals who have gone to school and know how to drive. The reason why the Fujian Gang can survive in the cracks of foreigners' shipping is by no means the old book, and they have also kept pace with the times. Fujian Shipmaster Academy is the best seafarer training school. This is also the reason why, after the Guangdong Gang, the Shanghai Gang, and even the Hui merchants withdrew from shipping, their Fujian Gang could still live, and the Westernization Movement left them a legacy.

Gong Mingde immediately ran over, danced with two small flags, and responded with small flags, passing them one after another, and finally the ten airships coordinated and flew towards Fengtian City together.

The vicissitudes of the city walls, the dense and low houses in the city, there was no one in the streets, the north gate was open, and several places that seemed to be military camps were in disarray.

"The Russians ran away?"

Yang Chao couldn't help but be so suspicious.

Looking into the distance, there are really Russian troops fleeing to the north, but what about the others? Ran away last night?

Yang Chao wondered in his heart, and carefully observed for a long time, but he did not find a single Russian army, and those Russian troops who ran north, Yang Chao was not interested in chasing.

landed on the ground and told Wu Peifu about the situation, Wu Peifu pondered for a moment, no matter what kind of tricks the Russians played, even if it was an empty city plan, they had to explore it, and immediately sent a company of soldiers to Fengtian City to investigate.

Eight hours later, the soldiers of that company stood on the walls of Mukden and cheered loudly, and one of his companions rode back.

"Maozi, Maozi has run away!"

This result made Yang Chao's heart fall to the ground, and a wave of excitement immediately surged in his heart, and he wanted to tear open his chest and shout loudly.

The Russians really ran away, they really took Mukden, whether the Russians fled in fright, or retreated in an organized manner, this Yang Chao doesn't need to care.

Yang Chao only knew that he had recovered Fengtian City, and the next situation would begin to tilt towards his side.

Gathering troops and stationing in Mukden is very high-profile, Yang Chao secretly recorded these images with his watch, went back and printed them out, and then handed them over to the newspaper for publication, which will definitely be a sensation.

Then there is no need to guide public opinion by yourself, the whole society will surge, the Chinese are still very concerned about politics, during the Russo-Japanese War, newspaper sales can increase several times compared with usual, not to mention that now the army of the motherland is fighting in the northeast.

In fact, what Yang Chao didn't know was that public opinion had already detonated, and Yang Chao himself had become a hero, just because he led his troops out of the customs to fight.

This time to regain the city, I don't know what it will be praised by the newspapers, and if I don't know it, someone will dare to give Yang Chao the title of a famous general through the ages, and blow this recovery of Fengtian into a great victory that has not been encountered in a century.

Yang Chao couldn't control this, so he sent out these news as soon as possible, to Zaifeng, to Zhang Zhidong, and especially to Yuan Shikai, showing off in it, and inducing, he wanted Yuan Shikai to feel that the time to pick peaches had come, and let Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army hurry over.

With the Beiyang Army as the backbone, with these soldiers who have experienced the battle formation, Fengtian City can be considered safe.

Sure enough, the news of Yang Chao's recovery of Mukden spread throughout China within an hour, and Chinese public opinion was boiling, with the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums, and the people's hearts greatly encouraged.

In less than half a day, it spread all over the world, but world public opinion was in an uproar, and Westerners could never have imagined that just a year ago, they had been fighting with the Japanese in Mukden for a year, on a front more than 100 kilometers long, repeatedly fighting with the Japanese, and sacrificing more than 100,000 people without wavering, how could the Russian army, which had not wavered, be captured so easily.

But as the focus of contention between the two sides, Mukden itself has been forgotten.

Mukden is so miserable, the people here are so badly harmed, and every family has women who have been bullied by the Russian army.

However, the people who remained in Mukden were less than one-third of what they were before the war, and most of the people had long since taken refuge in the countryside, and Japan and Russia had been in this generation for a year, and the Russian army was stationed here again after that, so there has been no large-scale return of people to the city.

Through the people here, I learned that not only did they flee last night, but the Russian army began to flee as early as half a month ago, and Wu Peifu had not yet fought at that time, obviously they were not frightened by Wu Peifu, but they didn't want to fight at all, they just wanted to go home.

So the real situation is that Yang Chao picked up a soft persimmon.

But can you say that, no, no matter what the purpose, it must be said that our army, after a hard battle, defeated the Russian army and regained Mukden, most of the Russian army was annihilated, and a small number of routs fled.

"This Yang Chao!"

Zaifeng held the telegram hurriedly sent by the little eunuch in his hand, and the irrepressible joy on his face kept turning in the imperial study.

Soon many ministers asked to see him.

"The old minister has come to say hello to the emperor."

Zaifeng was in a good mood and immediately asked people to take a seat.

"I didn't expect that this Yang Chao is also a good hand at leading troops."

"Emperor Shengming, Lord Yang has won the battle, congratulations!"

"Hahahaha, for this great achievement, it should be rewarded!"

Zaifeng is still in a good mood.

But what to reward, it seems that everything that should be rewarded has been rewarded, and you can't reward another yellow coat for washing?

Or Yixuan knows how to observe words and looks: "Emperor Qiqi, then Yang Chao is still being deprived of his post at this time, it is better to reinstate the official, and there is still a vacancy in Denglai Qingjiao Road." ”

Zaifeng nodded, the removal of Yang Chao was to give an explanation to the Japanese and the British, Zaifeng didn't want to remove Yang Chao in the first place, and now he just took this opportunity to reinstate the official, but only the official reinstatement, he felt too wronged Yang Chao.

If the governor of Shandong did not let Yang Shixiang take over, he could just mention Yang Chao as the governor of Shandong, and there are not many capable ministers like this, so they have to be promoted and reused, and they must be eclectic, regardless of seniority.

Zaifeng was also a little embarrassed for a while.

"According to the old minister's humble opinion, since Yang Chao has restored Fengtian, let him act as the governor of Fengtian. The three eastern provinces were newly established, and there were very large vacancies for officials. ”

This is what Zhang Zhidong said.

Zaifeng agreed: "Pass on the edict and promote Yang Chao to be the governor of Fengtian, and he will take office immediately." ”

How did Yang Chao know at this time that he had been promoted by a group of ministers and the emperor after being discussed.

Yang Chao was busy chasing the north within a range of several kilometers at this time.