Chapter 275: The Last Battle Against the Manchus II

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After arranging the overall process of the campaign, Lin Haijiang decided to personally sit in Nanjing this time to dispatch and command, and Lin Haijiang couldn't think of anyone else who could control the army except for Seng Lingqin? It seems that Monk Lingqin will once again become his opponent? For this prince of the Qing court, who has survived several times, Lin Haijiang is not bitterly hateful, at least he is also very unambiguous when resisting foreign humiliation, try to look at people to see the so-called advantages! In this battle, Lin Haijiang took out all the military forces that the empire could use, which can be said to be a surname, in order to completely destroy the luck psychology of the Qing court and crush them mentally!

Lin Haijiang set the date of the attack at dawn on May 27, 1863, the first army of the empire Zhang Zhengsuo troops along the Yangzhou to attack, Nantong, Yancheng, Linyi after the attack on the important town of Tai'an, Shandong, and then with the main force of two divisions from the west to attack the west of Jinan, with the strength of one division to the north of Jinan, ready to arrange a front in Gaozhuang to block, the empire allocated all eight artillery brigades to the six regiments of the front-line operation, and the remaining two heavy artillery brigades were directly controlled by the supreme command, Among them, the 8th Artillery Brigade is equipped with a battalion of 12 150-mm howitzers, and the purpose of this unit with the experimental surname is to test the problems that the surname of the 150-mm howitzers are prone to in actual combat, and to make basic preparations for its transformation in the next step. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lin Haijiang is most concerned about the second army Liu Quansi's department, because the main force of the second army will attack along Nanjing to Xuzhou and the first army will attack Jinan, in Lin Haijiang's plan, Jinan and Shijiazhuang as the two preset battlefields of this campaign, but in fact, it is Xuzhou that is most likely to break out of fierce battles, so once the second corps attacks, it must be quickly conquered Xuzhou and march quickly, so that the Qing court's idea of trying to resist in Xuzhou will be completely reimbursed.

In terms of time, the Third Army Corps advanced from Hefei to Zhoukou and Kaifeng, directly threatening Zhengzhou, and the Fourth Army Corps advanced from Wuhan to attack and attack Zhengzhou through Xinyang and Zhumadian. Lin Haijiang tried his best to give his future generals their own space to play.

The main forces of the Fifth and Sixth Army Corps set out from Wuhan and attacked Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi, through Xinyang and Nanyang, while the First and Second Corps of the Mountain Infantry entered Sichuan by two routes, taking Guiyang and Chengdu respectively, and the River Gunboat Corps would send all their hulls to cover the first Marine Brigade and the mountain infantry going up the river one step at a time. Shake the determination and will of the Qing court to resist to the end.

In the strategic center of the Nanjing Supreme Command, Lin Haijiang was quietly thinking about the globe, and almost all the staff officers knew that as soon as the head of state touched the globe, he would definitely make a new big move, so no one dared to come forward to disturb Lin Haijiang's thinking, and there were still 22 hours before the general attack on the whole line began, and Lin Haijiang had an inexplicable restlessness in his heart, or he could say that his expectations for the future were more appropriate.

However, before and after the war, Lin Haijiang usually slept for a day, before the war was to recuperate, and after the war was exhausted, you must know that due to the inconvenience of communication, so more often as the supreme commander, he had to do a variety of worst-case plans and responses.

In the morning, Lin Haijiang learned from Li Anmin that there are five large refugee camps and training centers near Nanjing, and in addition to relieving the refugees who have fled from the war zone, most of them are engaged in training work, so that these ragged refugees can quickly find employment and find a livelihood, which is very important for stabilizing the refugee camps and refugee resettlement work, and is even more important for effectively stabilizing the social order in the recovery area. Because once the resettlement agency is notified, I am afraid that there will be a ten-mile-long street to welcome the story of refugees eating dumplings every day!

After all, any policy has its negative effects, and the final result of a policy administration mainly depends on whether the negative effects of the policy itself are greater than its original purpose, and Lin Haijiang believes that it is still very necessary to carry out the political training work and the work of purging and rectifying the government, but in the process of implementation, it is necessary to give a considerable supervision mechanism, and some people with ulterior motives cannot use it as a means to eliminate dissidents.

In the carriage, Lin Haijiang's thoughts barely paused for a moment, and his most headache was the individual weapon development plan of the Imperial Scientific Research Administration, which was proposed by Dai Xin, that is, to design and produce a weapon that is more powerful than the Mauser pistol, has a long range, and has high accuracy, and can fire in bursts like a light machine gun, but the weight of a single weapon is lighter.

Lin Haijiang knows that if he does not approve, it will inevitably affect the following research and development of the positive surname, and the research and development work itself is a long-term unlimited investment but it is difficult to have results and returns in the short term, but if the investment in research and development is uncontrolled, the empire's finances are unbearable, and now for Lin Haijiang, many research and development projects can only grit their teeth and tighten their belts and squeeze out money everywhere, but he also found that the General Administration of Scientific Research has recently been affected by the empire's industrial construction and agricultural water conservancy restoration construction. It seems that the working attitude is also a little exaggerated, and there is a posture of becoming a fat man in one bite, such as the so-called human-machine efficacy theory proposed this time, these can be said to be the world's top weapon designers, such as Marcindale, Daisin, and Digo are often in contact with the researchers of the German Mauser Brothers, and the concept of the so-called weapon to adapt to the needs of individual combat even in the 21st century is still being perfected by the US military, which is not just a simple matter of making submachine guns or assault rifles, Moreover, Lin Haijiang did not think that with the current metallurgical level and precision machining technology of the empire, it would be possible to manufacture automatic weapons with excellent and stable surnames?

Although the Dai light machine gun was successful, only Lin Haijiang knew very well how much support force the empire had to invest in maintaining the number of Dai light machine guns in the front-line combat troops. As a result, the second-line garrison troops have not been able to equip light machine guns so far, the reason is that because the problem of metal metallurgy has not yet been completely overcome, about 1,200 to 1,500 rounds of firing, the barrel, gunshot, receiver and other important parts of Dai's light machine guns have basically exceeded the scrapping standard, and the cost of its replacement can be imagined, so the military expenditure of the Chinese Empire is simply not enough to manufacture automatic weapons with a very short assembly life and a high failure rate. The only possibility is the successful development of a new type of ordnance steel independently developed by Haigang's German aid technology.

However, in the question of whether people should adapt to weapons, or let weapons adapt to people, Lin Haijiang has been leading the former on this issue, because the dominant military thinking of the Chinese Empire has always believed that talent is the decisive factor for victory, so it puts people in a priority position for consideration, but this also brings a more difficult problem, that is, we must pay attention to the training of soldiers before the war and the implementation of iron discipline, and the army's strong and powerful command system is based on absolute obedience to orders. Subordinates can only strictly fulfill and obey any orders of their superiors, and under this kind of thinking, all-round transformation is carried out, and it is only a simple task to adapt people to weapons.

Lin Haijiang has never been critical of the so-called specific development route, because he knows that only the one that suits the current national conditions and his own actual situation is the best route, and the firepower composition of the Chinese Empire in terms of land force can be said to be unique in the world at this moment, and no leader of any country or regime eats the same meals as soldiers, sleeps in tents, does not have specific luxury palaces and villas, and uses 75 percent of the country's total income for military development. In this regard, Lin Haijiang can only sigh that the Chinese people are so good, as long as they are fed and clothed, they will be grateful to you, Lin Haijiang doesn't understand very much? Why did the rulers of the feudal dynasties turn a blind eye to these lowest voices? Especially the kings who established their power by rebelling against the peasants?

The so-called picturesque rivers and mountains are just the rhapsodies of careerists, and the real rivers and mountains are in the hearts of the common people! Lin Haijiang looked at the gate of the refugee camp not far away and stepped out of the carriage, today Lin Haijiang wore a set of camouflage combat uniforms used by ordinary mountain infantry in the empire for field battles, with the colonel's military academy hanging on the collar, and walked into the refugee camp with a cadre of guards from the imperial head of state.

It can be said that the refugee camp is not as dirty and messy as Lin Haijiang imagined, it may be under the nose of the Führer, so the nerves of officials at all levels of the empire are relatively tight, right? After walking a few tent streets, Lin Haijiang clearly felt the so-called face project, probably because the tents are not enough, many refugees are living in the shacks they have built, and only more than half of the road has been built, if Lin Haijiang came to inspect, I believe that he would have been led into the so-called model area by the officials, and many refugees set up some stalls on the roadside to sell some items that they fled with them at that time, and the refugees basking in the sun on the roadside had many vegetables on their faces, and their expressions looked very depressed. At the top of the recruitment and training list, there are about a few hundred people concentrated and seem to be waiting for something?

At this moment, more than a dozen people dressed in the clothes of the employees of the Imperial Relief Office suddenly appeared at the corner of the street, and suddenly the vendors who set up stalls in the street ran around like frightened birds and beasts, and at this time, more than a dozen employees of the Public Relief Office began to beat the stall owners with wooden sticks, and some of the staff of the Office of the Commissioner who pushed the cart took the opportunity to load the things on the stalls that they looked at on the carts, and shouted at you not to pay the business management fee while loading!

Some inexplicable Lin Haijiang seems to have returned to the afterlife, and saw the paramilitary combat force that is known as the most combat-effective in Chinese history, and is also an integral part of China's armed forces, and like nuclear weapons, it belongs to the forces that China promised not to be the first to use!

But soon, Lin Haijiang realized that the uniforms of these relief office personnel seemed to be very irregular, and they did not wear the badges of the unified administrators of the empire?

When an old man dragging calligraphy and paintings was kicked to the ground, a little girl was beaten away with half of the black-faced steamed bun in her hand, Lin Haijiang's anger had reached its peak, and the guards on the side got the approval of the Führer, they suddenly burst out, crackling and knocking more than a dozen so-called relief office personnel to the ground, and one seemed to take the lead and scolded Lin Haijiang, shouting that you dare to beat me, so that you can't eat and walk around and so on. But before he could scream, he was stepped into the mud by the guards!

Have these Relief Office personnel suffered this loss? So several people who fled in panic obviously tended to move troops, and Lin Haijiang also waved his hand, and a brigade of the armed gendarmerie special forces that followed from a distance immediately flashed into the tents and shacks on the side, Lin Haijiang wanted to see what kind of guy he was, and he didn't even pay attention to the colonel of the Imperial Army? And Lin Haijiang believed that what he saw was just the tip of the iceberg, and these people dared to do evil in the imperial refugee camp under their noses? It seems that he is too underestimated to be greedy for some Jean!

After a while, about a hundred people ran over panting with a fat man, and the words Ma Wencai, the management director of the No. 2 Battalion of the Imperial Relief Administration, were written on the badge on the fat man's chest, and the fat man looked at Lin Haijiang with a shaky body and sneered: "Who didn't button your crotch and dropped you out today?" Dare to make trouble on the master's territory? Do you know whose land this is? Next to Old Lady Huang's ground, just rely on a few of you stinky fish and rotten shrimp? A little colonel takes it seriously? This is not a military control zone, and you are not good soldiers! ”

Lin Haijiang looked at Ma Wencai with a smile, just like looking at a dead man, Lin Haijiang knew that the deputy director of the Imperial Relief Administration was called Huang Biao, who had made a lot of contributions to the reconstruction of Nanjing, and personally donated more than one million imperial silver dollars to resettle refugees, so he was appointed as the deputy director of the Imperial Relief Administration.

Lin Haijiang said with disdain: "Isn't it just a Huang Biao?" Shouting what? I said that if I picked his official skin, I picked his official skin, do you believe it or not? ”

Lin Haijiang's words made Ma Wencai suddenly shocked in his heart, he is a colonel at such a young age, and he actually has some scruples, so he raised Huang Biao's name at the beginning, wanting to scare the other party away, these five major refugee resettlement centers are too fat, and the centralized management of refugees is inevitable, but what kind of items can be brought out is worthless? Antiques, jewelry, women almost want anything, so he organized this temporary patrol, which is called patrolling the camp, but in fact it is a disguised plunder, an open fire to carry out the war, today it seems that Ma Wencai kicked the iron plate, and the refugees who came in and were oppressed surrounded one after another!

Seeing this, Ma Wencai hurriedly shouted: "Don't you want to live anymore? Lin Haijiang's head of state gave an order, and all of you had to fall to the ground, don't you know your own identity? You are fugitives from the Qing court, and you were killed in vain before your identity was confirmed! ”

As soon as Lin Haijiang heard that Ma Wencai dared to ruin his reputation like this, he simply waved his hand, and the military police special forces poured out, and the muzzle of the flat end was aimed at Ma Wencai and others. Could it be that something is wrong with it? So he shouted in despair: "You are sabotaging local government affairs, and soldiers are not allowed to interfere in politics!" ”

Lin Haijiang looked at Ma Wencai with a slight smile and said, "It's true that a soldier can't do it, but what about the head of the empire?" After Huang Biao arrives after a while, I will let you choose a way to die! ”

Lin Haijiang immediately ignored the obstruction of the guards beside him and walked onto the big platform that usually announced the recruitment, and there were more and more refugees below, and everyone wanted to know what was going on? And Lin Haijiang handed a bag of pastries to the little girl who had just been beaten off the black-faced steamed buns, the little girl's mother stood in the audience and didn't know what to do, in the process of chatting with the little girl, Lin Haijiang learned about the real living conditions of some refugees.

Soon, Huang Biao was brought over by members of the armed gendarmerie special forces, and when Huang Biao saw Ma Wencai and others kneeling in a row, he immediately collapsed to the ground with his face like ashes when he saw the head of the empire on the platform.

Lin Haijiang stood on the stage and glared at Huang Biao, Ma Wencai and others: "As imperial officials, you secretly collected money and hurt the people, and hurt these people who defected to my Chinese empire with hope? Have you fed all your consciences to the dogs? Do we pay such a high price, blood, and lives so that you can become a substitute for the Manchus and continue to ride on the heads of the people as a prestige? So what is the point of us overthrowing the corrupt rule of the Manchus? If you don't kill people, it's not enough to make the people angry, and it's not enough to make the martyrs who died fighting for the unification of the empire close their eyes! ”

Lin Haijiang paused and said sonorously to the refugees in the audience: "I am Lin Haijiang, the head of the empire, and I am sorry for everyone who has suffered from my negligence and dereliction of duty in my work!" From the afternoon, everything will be restored to the standard supply stipulated by the empire, and the looted items can be registered in the newly established military administration area of the camp, and after verification, they will be returned to everyone, and for Huang Biao, Ma Wencai and others, after all the verification and trial, they will be executed at the gate of the resettlement camp! ”

In the thunderous applause and cheers, Lin Haijiang stepped off the stage, although Lin Haijiang was smiling, but his mood was extremely heavy!

(To be continued)