"Is this the ironclad car?"

Zhang Zuolin looked at the creaking tanks, he was different from those curious men who ran up to the horses, got up from the horses and climbed up the tanks, he secretly wondered in his heart. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing the track rolling forward, Zhang Zuolin understood that it was the same as a wheel, an iron pipe in the rear spit out black eyes, Zhang Zuolin knew that it was the exhaust of the engine, the tight and impermeable iron shell, sticking out a 50 mm iron barrel, this is definitely a cannon, and the 12 mm barrel sticking out under the muzzle is a large-caliber machine gun.

Knowing these because Zhang Zuolin has seen tractors, tractors in the Northeast are not uncommon, and Zhang Zuolin will go home for vacation twice a year, so he is common.

But how this iron guy fights, Zhang Zuolin doesn't know, look at the speed of the march, faster than a person, slower than a horse, that is, the speed of jogging, with Zhang Zuolin's understanding, the iron box of the fleeing Cossack can't catch up.

"Commander Zhang?"

A team of guards saw Zhang Zuolin in the crowd and recognized the army commander's epaulettes worn by Zhang Zuolin.

At present, the National Defense Force is organized into one army and three divisions, and the average army is 30,000 people, and Zhang Zuolin is the commander of the cavalry corps, which has only 20,000 people.

"I'm Zhang Zuolin, what do you call this little brother?"

"In Ha Long Jiguo, he is the captain of Chief Cai's guard."

The person who came reported his or her name.

"Chief Cai has arrived in Manchuria?"

Zhang Zuolin asked.

Long Jiguo said: "The front foot has just arrived, waiting for Commander Zhang, please ask Commander Zhang to go to the staff with me." And your subordinates find someone to settle down, the military camp west of the city is yours. ”

Zhang Zuolin nodded, turned around and shouted: "Yang Yuting has settled the brothers." I'll meet Cai Songpo! ”

After saying that, he rode straight forward without dismounting, he felt that he didn't need to dismount in front of Cai Yi's guard captain.

But soon he got into trouble: "What a Zhang Yuting, such a great majesty, riding a horse in front of the General Staff, why don't you ride in directly?" ”

A thin man with a hard complexion, as if he never smiled, appeared in front of Zhang Zuolin and walked out of the tiled house with the sign of the General Staff Department.

Zhang Zuolin didn't dare to hold it up, jumped off the horse all of a sudden, and fell in front of him all of a sudden.

"Yuting, meet Master Duan!"

The person who came was Duan Qirui.

pulled Zhang Zuolin up: "It's not popular to kneel in the army." After that, salute is done. ”

Zhang Zuolin said with a smile: "The old chief has the grace of promoting Yuting, and he deserves to be worshiped by Yuting." ”

Duan Qirui sighed: "Okay, come in." Everyone is waiting for you. ”

Zhang Zuolin walked into the staff headquarters and saw that there was a group of people waiting, sitting around a long table.

The electric lights were dim inside, and the map on the wall was a little yellow, and the diminutive man in front of the map was contemplating the map, and the light brushed his shadow against the wall, as if it had pinned him.

"Songpo, the rain pavilion is here."

The man turned his head, Cai Ye was actually a thin person, and he didn't look as jade as people imagined.

"Commander Zhang, I've been looking up for a long time!"

Cai Yi walked over with a smile and stretched out his hand early, but Zhang Zuolin didn't wait for him to come over, and gave a military salute first.

Cai Ye could only return the salute, and the two did not shake hands.

"Our army attacked Chita this time, so as to be quick and thunderous. The General Staff was deployed, with the 7th, 10th, 11th and 26th Corps as the assault forward, and advanced frontally. The 2nd, 3rd, and 5th armies made a detour on the right flank, with the 31st, 33rd, and 39th armies in reserve, ready to support. ”

Soon Cai Ye began to deploy the battle plan.

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhang Zuolin: "The cavalry army is divided into pieces, enter the area controlled by the Japanese army, cut off the railway line east of Chita, and block the rescue enemy." ”

Zhang Zuolin suddenly shouted: "Our cavalry is not bandits, it's okay to charge into battle, harass and sneak attack and find someone else, Lao Tzu doesn't wait." ”

Cai Ye couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Duan Qirui slapped the table with a cold face: "Zhang Zuolin!" ”

Zhang Zuolin hugged his fists at Duan Qirui: "Lord Duan, forgive Yuting for being rude, Yuting has 20,000 tigers, how can he do these things of stealing chickens and touching dogs." Our army should be the striker! ”

Duan Qirui snorted coldly and stopped talking, he was actually not familiar with Zhang Zuolin, six or seven years ago, Zhang Zuolin was just a small bandit recruited by Duan Qirui, and he didn't take it to heart at all, and later Yang Chao wanted to send him to the Mongolian steppe to deal with the Cossacks going south, he didn't care anymore, he was not familiar with Zhang Zuolin, why was this Zhang Zuolin so rude to Cai Ng, this is even more strange, because Zhang Zuolin can't have anything to do with Cai Og.

"Let's talk about it, adjourn the meeting!"

Cai Ye is not a good-tempered person, he is a casual person, joy and anger are written on his face, of course, he has to play conspiracy and tricks, such as deceiving Yuan Shikai, but it is precisely because he is a person with joy and anger written on his face that he can deceive Yuan Shikai, the old fox, because Yuan Shikai will not suspect him.

Under normal circumstances, Cai Ye is a person who laughs when he is happy and angry when he is unhappy.

If he didn't get angry on the spot today, he was already patient, if he was in the Dian army back then, he would have been pulled out to fight with military sticks.

"What kind of striker does the big brother play!"

Yang Yuting muttered while peeling peanuts and eating a little wine.

Zhang Zuolin had a meeting, and when he came back, he discussed it with their henchmen.

But his subordinates disagreed.

"Let me say, it's better to go to the rear, maybe you can make a little money. Even if you can't get money, it's not bad to get a few Japanese girls. ”

Zhang Zuoxiang thought so.

Zhang Zuolin shook his head: "I always feel that there is a problem in this battle this time, if we go to Harbin, let us go to Hailan Bubble, Lao Tzu will not say a word." But playing Chita, this thing is strange, I'm afraid I can't fight, so I still fight for this striker. ”

"Can't fight?"

Yang Yuting and Zhang Zuoxiang didn't believe it.

Zhang Zuolin said: "I'm just guessing. It stands to reason that the Russians should fight Chita, and we are going to fight Hailan Pao and Boli. But let's come to Manchuria above and say that it is to beat Chita, so what about the Russians? What kind of good person do you think Lord Yang is? Be kind and help the Russians? ”

Zhang Zuolin couldn't guess Yang Chao's intentions, but he believed that Yang Chao was not a good bird, and he would never do this kind of bargaining business.

"Then you shouldn't offend that Cai Yi. Cai Ye is such a big name, why bother to provoke him. ”

Zhang Zuoxiang said, he has always liked to be peaceful, but Yang Yuting doesn't have that mind, and he peels peanuts and eats them.

Zhang Zuolin smiled and said, "Is it famous?" It's just a paper tiger, the Dian army has been absorbed by Lord Yang, and he only has a big name left. He is not famous, and Lao Tzu can't provoke him. If you provoke a local dog, who will know about me Zhang Zuolin, but if you provoke Cai Yi, I am afraid that there will be more people who know me. ”

Yang Chao's formation of the National Defense Army, which was regarded by Zhang Zuolin as a co-optation, of course, also has a certain truth, although the Beiyang Army, the Dian Army and other officers are still in their original positions, and even continue to lead the troops, but like the Northeast Army, the army is paid by special financial personnel, as well as the propagandists sent by Yang Chao.

But Yang Chao himself has never thought of it that way.

"The tank troops have been assembled in place, and I believe they can give the world a big surprise."

Yang Chao thought to himself after receiving the report from the front.

The first appearance of tanks was at the Battle of the Somme, which frightened the Germans, and a dozen tanks achieved a strategic advantage that could not be achieved by tens of thousands of casualties, and occupied the impregnable German trenches.

It's just that Yang Chao is now one step ahead of the British, and let the British's shell-breaking tank fall behind as soon as it appears.

Yang Chao believed that the British did not know about his tank, not because the Americans had such a strong sense of secrecy, but because no one cared much about this kind of thing, and the British were the first to realize that it was Churchill who had a unique vision who ordered the development of tanks.

Although this guy's military ability is not very good, but the development of military equipment is a little vicious, for example, it was under his strong operation that the British began to use oil-coal mixed boilers, and developed faster super-dreadnoughts, and in the Battle of Jutland that ended last year, Britain's super-dreadnought speed advantage was very significant, and it has proved its strength.

However, Churchill didn't think that Yang Chao also valued tanks, he thought that only he and Britain cared about tanks, so the research and development of the British had always been carried out in secret, and the Americans did not know that the British cared about the tank problem, so they naturally had no leisure to tell the British that American engineers were helping Yang Chao develop tanks.

What's more, the Americans don't know the value of tanks, they think that Yang Chao just needs a heavy armored car, armored vehicles have appeared a long time ago, the value is not very large, heavy armored vehicles have also appeared, but in the past, they only relied on railways, it was ironclad trains, and there were no heavy armored vehicles in Pingdi Mountain.

Moreover, Yang Chao also emphasized that it should be kept secret, the Americans could not offend Yang Chao for this matter, and if Yang Chao did not purchase it, they would not develop it in vain.

How do they know that not only will it not be developed in vain, but there will be a big market.

After Yang Chao unveiled the tank in the northeast, the British would immediately use the tank to scare the Germans, and then the whole world knew that there was such a thing that could deal with trenches, how could there be no interest? Even the British would be interested in Yang Chao's tanks, because their tanks were so bad, 48 of them went to the battlefield, and only 18 of them could drive to the front line, and after a few battles, they were all broken.

After the British tasted the sweetness of the tank breaking through the trenches, they would definitely like the better performance tank developed by Yang Chao, and they would definitely purchase it at a high price. It was transported by airship, and Yang Chao also transported it to them.

At the same time as the news of the deployment of the tanks arrived, there was also a request from Zhang Zuolin of Cai Yifa to let the cavalry fight the vanguard.

"Cavalry plus tanks? You can try it. (To be continued.) )