The people sent by Ma Long did contact the Han army, but they did not contact the Han army responsible for attacking Taiyuan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Rather, it was the 30th Division and the 32nd Division, which were responsible for the southward movement, and the troops that the messenger saw were also the 32nd Division.

According to the coordination between the troops, after each city is captured, the troops behind will serve as the vanguard, that is to say, this city will be fought by our division, and the next city will be fought by your division, so that everyone can be trained, although the effect of training is minimal, and it does not even play any role in training.

But there is no way, who made the Qing army so ineffective? Not even a bit of decent resistance.

The country has such an army, and it is not a loss at all to be beaten by foreigners and abandon their armor with several times the strength.

Of course, it is no wonder that in history, Yuan Shikai was able to easily send the Qing government into the river of history after only mastering tens of thousands of troops.

So where are the 28th and 39th Divisions responsible for attacking Taiyuan?

They have already entered the Longwang Mountain Area, and they will be able to reach the outskirts of Taiyuan in half a day at the latest.

The tragedy is that the 22nd Division, which was originally arranged to take the northern front, continued to march according to the prescribed route.

However, in order to be in a hurry, the vanguard regiment of the 223rd Regiment changed the marching route without permission, and they had already rushed into Longwang Mountain an hour before the 22nd Division entered Longwang Mountain.

The 223rd Regiment was the third regiment-level unit to arrive at the periphery of Taiyuan in this offensive against Taiyuan.

At this moment, Yuci is an undefended county town at all, and the scale is not large, it can only be regarded as a barrier in the southeast of Taiyuan, and it is also the only way to enter Taiyuan in the east.

Of course, in fact, there is no such thing as a way to go in this world.

The earth is round, as long as you have the mind and guts, there are roads everywhere.

It is said that Yuci is the only way to enter Taiyuan from the east, which is for those caravans and armies. If the troops gave up their baggage and all their vehicles, then Taiyuan could also be entered from the Longwang Mountains.

It's just that there are no baggage troops, even if they arrive in Taiyuan, it will be useless, although the strategic goal can be achieved, but the tactical goal cannot be achieved.

This is also the reason why the two troops sent south separately captured Yuci, which will become one of the important channels for the supply of materials for the Han army.

"What's going on with this Nima?" The troops easily entered the county seat of Yuci, a small county town, without any defensive forces, except for the two explosives bags used to blow up the city gate, the rest of the situation was similar to the attack on Shouyang.

In less than half an hour, the troops of one regiment of the 32nd Division, which was in charge of the attack, took full control of the county seat.

What surprised them even more was that there were defenders in the city.

And the defenders were not idle.

It's just that the busy Yuci defenders are not busy organizing defense, but organizing robbery.

Even the people of Yuci County don't know what happened to those defenders today? I was fine before, why do I feel like I'm suddenly crazy today?

Looting, murdering, and even a lot of defenders who only dare to think about it on weekdays, dragged a beautiful woman into one room after another and tried their best to humiliate her.

"Don't kill me! Please let us go! We have no money, nothing left......" A citizen named Yuci knelt down in front of the Han soldiers who had attacked the city, pleading bitterly.

It's just that the Han soldiers were a little indifferent to the bitter pleas of the people of Yuci.

Not intentionally, but because ......

Which turtle son invented so many dialects? Most of the soldiers who attacked Shanxi this time were from the Shengjing area of Zhili, and the dialect there was slightly better, speaking more slowly, and listening carefully could understand the general meaning.

But the dialect on the Shanxi side was very painful, and the soldiers from the northeast couldn't understand what they were saying.

If it weren't for the pleading action of these people kneeling before them, these soldiers would not even dare to put down their rifles.

In the end, he communicated with the local people in Xiangmian, and then conveyed the situation here to the soldiers of the 32nd Division.

After learning about the specific situation in the city, Li Chongyi, the commander of the 32nd Division, was even more angry, and personally came to Yuci County with the guards, and issued a death order for the 322nd Regiment that had entered Yuci to slaughter.

However, this massacre was not a massacre of civilians, and the Han army had never slaughtered even a single civilian.

As a result, what was supposed to be a serious battle turned into a bandit war.

The people of Yuci also enthusiastically signed up to guide the way for the Han army, and even some people quietly followed the defenders of Yuci who were killed by heaven, and when the Han army appeared, they immediately guided them to the location of the defenders.

And those Yuci defenders can bully the people on weekdays, but once they encounter the regular army units of the Han army that are really armed to the teeth and trained elite, they will instantly become a rabble.

It took less than half an hour for all the Yuci defenders who were still in the city to be captured.

Of course, more than 100 defenders were killed on the spot, and a lot of money was recovered from these defenders.

And those captured defender soldiers, their fate is not so good, and even many people secretly regret it, why didn't they let them die in the first place? In that case, I don't have to suffer this kind of bird anger anymore.

The defenders were tied together, guarded by Han soldiers, and the people could take turns to come forward and dispose of them at will, without any punishment.

You can fight, you can scold, except that you can't use a knife, if you have enough hand strength, it's okay to tear their ears off.

After the people in the city tortured these defenders to the point that the Han army sent them on their last journey.

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Compared with the sudden change in Shanxi, the southern provinces are worried.

As the capital that initiated this domestic upheaval, it is very quiet at this moment, the people in the city perform their duties, what they should do, and business is even more prosperous, even foreigners, and they have to admire Wang Sirui's ability.

The industrial zone located outside the capital is also at full capacity, working in three shifts 24 hours a day to produce all kinds of required materials.

The rise of industry has brought a lot of jobs to the people, and the people's income has been guaranteed, so the consumption level in the city has also risen to a new level.

When the merchants in the city made money, they wanted to do bigger, so the loan business of the Daqing Bank has been busy recently.

Of course, the tax department is not idle.

"My lord, this month's commercial tax revenue in the capital is a total of 90,000 taels of silver, an increase of 20,000 taels of silver from last month, plus other tax items, the total tax revenue in the capital this month is 143,000 taels of silver." The newly established director of the tax department stood in front of Wang Sirui and reported on the tax situation this month.

One month is 143,000 taels of silver, this year is 1.7 million taels of silver, and the total tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty for the whole year is only 80 million taels, and only one city in the capital contributed about one-forty-seventh, which is already a large proportion.

"My lord, this month's total expenditure is more than five million taels of silver, of which nearly four million taels are spent on the military." said the head of the Ministry of Finance.

Because of Wang Sirui's reform of the military system, the pressure on the Ministry of Finance suddenly increased, and the imperial court only needed to be responsible for the military salaries of the central army, and the military salaries of other local armies were naturally responsible for the localities themselves.

But now that Wang Sirui has taken back all the military power, the local government no longer retains any military power, and the military salary of the Han army is very high, so with the current number of Han troops, it will cost more than 3 million taels of silver for a month alone, and the miscellaneous four million taels of silver a month can only live a tight life.

If it weren't for the fact that the Third Army, which attacked Shanxi, was basically self-sufficient, the expenditure for this month would have been about 500,000 yuan more.

And how much money is left on the books of the Ministry of Finance?

The answer is that twenty million taels of silver is less than that, and at this pace, they can only support it for three months and less than four months at most.

Although there is money in the bank, the money is not from the Ministry of Finance, and the war reparations for foreigners must be returned, which makes the Han army, which is already short of money, even more short of money.

In order to save money, now even Wang Sirui only eats two meals a day, two steamed buns and two bowls of porridge, plus half a bowl of Chinese cabbage.

The Han army, which was originally very rich, suddenly became poor with the expansion of its territory and the increase of its army.

The root cause of this situation is that the southern provinces did not send the tax that should have been sent to the capital last year.

Although each region under the rule of the Han army only set aside 20 percent of the tax revenue, and all the rest were sent over, it could not withstand the huge expenses of the Han army, and it was completely beyond its means, and if it continued like this, the Han army would collapse sooner or later.

But Wang Sirui didn't listen to people's advice, and for the development of industry, he still made a large investment, and he had no intention of stopping.

We must make money as soon as possible, otherwise we will be really poor and will not even be able to afford steamed buns. Wang Sirui muttered secretly in his heart.

Although a large amount of money has been spent on industrial development, most of those industries are arranged around strategic resources.

What can really be used for people's livelihood is only the project of the textile factory, but the textile factory is invested in Wang Sirui's own name, and most of the monthly dividends are also deposited in a separate account, and now there are about hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, although the money has not been moved, but even if it is taken out, it is a drop in the bucket.

"Where it shouldn't be saved, it must not be saved, and as for the question of money, I will find a way." Wang Sirui rubbed his head, as a traverser, he was stumped by money, if he said this, he would be laughed to death.

Wang Sirui sighed secretly, and said secretly, "It seems that this is the only way to make a decision." (To be continued.) )