In the battle of Hongshan Bridge Arsenal, Luo Yaoguo's supplementary battalion can be described as a complete victory! Not only did he take 2,000 rifles, 100 machine guns, 12 cannons, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition and more than 1,000 shells from the arsenal, but he also kidnapped Li Houji, the overseer of Fujian. Luo Yaoguo, who had gained a lot, ordered Wu Ziliang to press Li Houji and hundreds of Li Houji's pistol team captives who could still move to go to Changzhou Island to meet Wang Bao first, while he took Li Shunen to stay in the arsenal and wait for the follow-up troops, and by the way, he also did Lu Ming's work.

"What are the plans of Helper Lu in the future?" Luo Yaoguo leaned on the big sofa in the reception room of the arsenal and talked to Lu Ming about the future while sipping the fragrant tea collected by Liu Shiyuan.

"I'm going to go back to Shanghai first, and then," Lu Ming sighed softly, and then where to go? He studied heavy industry, where can there be heavy industry in China now?

"Why don't you go back to Guangdong with us? My uncle is the chief of staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army, how about arranging for you to go to the Shijing Arsenal as an engineer when you return to Guangdong in the future? How much salary do you get in Fujian, we in Guangdong can also give you the corresponding salary. Luo Yaoguo took a sip of tea and moistened his throat and said: "You have also seen these Beiyang warlords, not to mention anything else, it is too ridiculous to start a war, such an army will definitely have no future, instead of following them, it is better to go back to Guangdong with us, and now I will lead a lieutenant colonel staff officer in my army first, what do you think?"

"Well, well." Lu Ming also knew that this Fujian manufacturing plant could not manufacture anything for the time being. This Northern Expeditionary Army is bent on returning to Guangdong, and it will not stay for a long time, and I don't know who will come to Fujian to take charge in the future, rather than waiting here, it is better to be a lieutenant colonel and staff officer first, than to do nothing.

Then the two of them talked about the problems of heavy industry, Lu Ming is a graduate of metallurgy, and there is no problem for him to manage an ordinary steelmaking plant, but it is not possible to engage in military steel, especially gun tube steel, according to Lu Ming, it is not possible to make a Martin furnace for steelmaking in the general steel of cannon tube steel, and it is not possible to use electric arc furnace, large-tonnage extruder, heat treatment equipment and many other key equipment, which are difficult to buy, and there are many special processes and formulas that can not be mastered overnight.

"I estimate that if someone is willing to provide a full set of technology, another tens of millions of funds can be built in five years at the earliest." Lu Ming wrinkled his brows and pondered in his heart for a long time, and finally gave an approximate time.

"It takes tens of millions of dollars for a cannon steel alone for five years, and there are still people who are willing to provide technology, so it seems that there are not hundreds of millions of dollars to establish the most basic national defense industry, and it is impossible to add ten years, right?" Thinking of the war that was about to happen in 1931, Luo Yaoguo's heart was very unhappy, there is no more than ten years now, and China is still torn apart, it seems that he can't change anything as a traveler, who let himself not study heavy industry, nor finance? How do you make money? Heavy industry?

"Report, Commander Qiu's troops have arrived, and Commander Qiu wants us to hand over the military factory to them." Luo Shun, who had been promoted to adjutant, brought the news of Qiu Hongjun's arrival.

"Brother Lu, let's go, someone is coming to take over this arsenal." Luo Yaoguo got up from the sofa, straightened out his military uniform, and took Luo Shun and Lu Ming to greet Qiu Hongjun.

"Hehe, Fuwen is a good method, it looks like I'm going to call you Brigade Commander Luo soon." As soon as they met, Qiu Hongjun, who looked a little honest, asked in a somewhat ridiculous tone: "Do you still have some things for me in this arsenal?" ”

"Look at what you always said, this arsenal is like a big treasure house, do my sesame battalion commanders dare to swallow it alone? I'm just going to drink some soup, keep all the meat for you, 6,000 79 rifles, 30 75 guns, 200 water machine guns, millions of bullets, 3,000 shells, 30,000 grenades, and some raw materials, and there is a smokeless gunpowder factory on the other side of the river, which I haven't even entered. What do you think? It's enough for you to make an army, right? "Luo Yaoguo has an uncle of the chief of staff behind him, so it's no problem to take a little, but the big head still has to stay, and he has done a good job in this regard.

Hearing that there were so many things, Qiu Hongjun couldn't bother to think about how much Luo Yaoguo had gained, and his entire facial expression suddenly changed from cloudy to sunny. "Hehe, okay, Fuwen has made a great contribution this time, I will definitely show it for you in front of Commander Huang, by the way, Fuwen, do you have any thoughts next?"

"Commander Qiu, the lowly supplementary battalion won't enter Fuzhou this time, right? Can you go to Cangshan Town to clear the remnants of the enemy? Luo Yaoguo felt that Qiu Hongjun had the style of an elder, so he made it clear that he wanted to go to Cangshan Town to garrison.

"Okay, I understand what you mean, I'll give you an order right away, and your supplementary battalion will be temporarily moved to Cangshan Town." Qiu Hongjun smiled slightly: "Fuwen, don't worry, as long as Commander Huang doesn't ask, I will definitely not mention you, you have to hurry up, Commander Huang is very shrewd." ”

"Thank you Chief Qiu for your kindness, Yaoguo is very grateful, so he retired first." Luo Yaoguo solemnly saluted the good old man in front of him, and then handed over the arsenal, and left the arsenal with Lu Ming and Li Shunen to garrison Zhongzhou Island.

When Luo Yaoguo's first battalion moved to Cangshan Town on the other side of the Min River, Huang Dawei and Li Fulin of the Northern Expeditionary Army also arrived immediately, and each department first drove into the arsenal to divide up the weapons and ammunition, and then waved the division to attack Fuzhou City.

At the same time that Huang and Li attacked Fuzhou, Xu Chongzhi's Second Army of the Guangdong Army also captured Shuikou, but Xu Chongzhi's troops suffered certain losses in the Battle of Shuikou. The defeated Tang Guomo retreated in the direction of Minqing, and a few days later rushed to Fuzhou City and Shi Tingyang's troops to counterattack Fuzhou, and finally annihilated the whole army under the attack of Huang Dawei, Li Fulin, Xu Chongzhi, Wang Yongquan and the navy. On the second day of Xu Chongzhi's entry into the city, Luo Yiqun quietly came to Cangshan Town on the other side of the river.

A luxury villa built by overseas Chinese in Cangshan Town is now where Luo Yaoguo's supplementary regiment headquarters is located, of course, this supplementary regiment is Luo Yaoguo's self-appointed. At present, the supplementary regiment has 1,000 officers and men, and it is still trying to recruit troops to expand its strength. Except for the original 300 people in the supplementary battalion, most of the 1,000 people were taken into prisoners, and a small number were poor teenagers in the town. The 1,000 people are now divided into four battalions, three infantry companies have been expanded into infantry battalions, and there are more than 100 artillery battalions, the battalion commander is Luo Yaoguo, and the 12 75 fast guns are all incorporated into the artillery battalion.

"Uncle, do you think our team is okay?" Luo Yaoguo, the self-proclaimed head of the regiment, is now full of ambition and wants to make a career.

Luo Yiqun looked at the more than a thousand officers and soldiers who were still in good spirits with his hands behind his back and nodded with satisfaction. "Fuwen, you did a good job this time, especially when you caught Li Houji, I have already met him just now, and he is willing to pay three million to atone for his sins. With these three million, we will be sure of the thieves, Jiang Zhongzheng is about to go to Fuzhou to take up the post of chief of staff of the East Road Thief Army, and the burden of my uncle can finally be put down, I have already agreed with Xu Ruwei and Huang Dawei, and I will be the chief of staff of the Second Army and the commander of the 15th Brigade. This supplementary regiment of yours can be expanded into the 15th Brigade, you will be the deputy brigade commander first, and I will find a way to straighten you up when the thief wins in the future. ”

"Jiang Zhongzheng?" Hearing that the **oss of the Republic of China was coming, Luo Yaoguo suddenly had a new idea in his heart.

"Jiang Zhongzheng has now won the trust of the prime minister, and having him come to our east road to ask for the thief army may be able to cheer up our army, right?" Luo Yiqun and Jiang Zhongzheng were not very familiar with each other in the past, but they heard that this person fought side by side with Sun Yat-sen on the Yongfeng ship, so he also had a good impression of him.

"Although Jiang Zhongzheng is deeply trusted by the prime minister, he is an empty chief of general staff, but he should have some people in his hands, right?" Luo Yaoguo pondered for a while and said: "What I am most worried about is that this time the thieves will not be able to completely eliminate Chen Jiongming's forces, he will inevitably resurrect in the future, and if we want to eliminate Chen Jiongming's forces, we must first make our own forces bigger, uncle, I think we can choose to join forces with Jiang Zhongzheng, we can shoot him and let him send some people, and it is best to pull out a regiment from the Guangdong army and mix with my troops, and expand a division on this basis, so that we may be able to annex some more Chen Jiongming's forces in the process of fighting thieves." ”

Luo Yaoguo doesn't trust the army in his hands very much, because there are too many Li Houji's prisoners in this army, and it would be bad if one mutiny was not careful. If we can dig out a regiment from the Cantonese army and mix it up and expand it, it will be reliable, at least there will be no mutiny.

"So?" Luo Yiqun is still quite interested in expanding a division, but he is still a little worried. "Fuwen, if you want to cooperate with Jiang Zhongzheng, aren't you afraid that the troops will be swallowed by him? He's been trying to get an army all these years. ”

Luo Yaoguo shook his head and smiled bitterly after listening to his uncle's words: "My foundation is too shallow, my rise is too sudden, and there are too many elements of luck. I now have more than 2,000 long guns, more than 1,000 short guns, 100 machine guns, and 12 cannons, but I may only use three or four people, and there are less than 300 credible soldiers, and the other soldiers are all captured by Li Houji's guards, so they are not reliable at all. I didn't dare to enter the city or leave Zhongzhou Island, because I was afraid that the troops would cause chaos as soon as I left. Now if my uncle can join forces with Jiang Zhongzheng, he should be able to get a regiment from Xu Ruwei, Jiang Zhongzheng can always pull out a group of officers, and I will promote a group from among the soldiers, and it will be reliable to break up the reorganized troops in several aspects. Moreover, this new division can be incorporated into Xu Ruwei's Second Army, and he will not suffer a loss in this regard. ”

"Okay, I'll go talk to Jiang Zhongzheng and Xu Ruwei to see if I can bring Wei Lihuang's supplementary regiment, your two supplementary regiments will be broken up and reorganized, and a group of officers will be added, and the troops will be reliable, but what about this division commander? I'm afraid I have to let Jiang Zhongzheng do it. Luo Yiqun was very reluctant to be a brigade commander, but seeing that his nephew insisted, there was no way, who made him have no ability to lead troops at all?