Chapter 90: The Prologue of the Great War
Since Wang Jundao took control of the Forbidden City, all the eunuchs and miscellaneous personnel of the Forbidden City were gathered in the West Kush Church to watch them, and all the palace maids were also gathered in one palace for unified training.
Wang Jundao did not believe in Buddhism, and moved all the Buddhist monks and Buddhist objects in the imperial city and the Forbidden City to other Buddhist temples in Yanjing City outside the imperial city.
As for those Buddhists who did not believe in Buddhism well, but used Buddhism as an excuse to mislead the public, Wang Jundao did not hesitate to throw them all into the gathering place where the old soldiers of the Eight Banners and the families of the Manchu princes and nobles who were copied away.
These people will become free labor and contribute to the development and construction of China.
And those Buddhist monks who were moved outside the imperial city, Wang Jundao would not let them enjoy them for free, and those who were willing to accept his training and become all kinds of talents would not refuse those who came, and those who were unwilling to accept them would not be supported by him.
As for the incense money offered by the people, Wang Jundao also clearly stipulated that the total amount of incense money that each person should pay no more than 100 taels of silver, otherwise once discovered, his family property will be confiscated, and all the men in the family will be allocated to work as free coolies for several years.
As for the long-occupied Kunning Palace, what shamanic sects and shamanic religions that have brought disaster to the country and the people but are useless, Wang Jundao has resolutely destroyed them, and many inexplicable, ghostly things have been directly destroyed by him, and those in the shamanism who do not obey the discipline have been killed by him with iron and blood, and the obedient will also become free labor.
All the things used for sacrifice in the Forbidden City were gathered in a place in the imperial city outside the Forbidden City, and Wang Jundao did not destroy these useless things, but sealed them up, and left them for future generations to admire and enjoy after the establishment of the Royal Museum in the future.
And in the Imperial City and the Forbidden City, not only religious people, but all the people who are useless in the development of the country, especially those Manchu royal children who come to stretch out their hands and eat to open their mouths, no matter whether they have harmed the people before, Wang Jundao will take them all into custody.
Wang Jundao is happy to let these people who only know how to enjoy the fruits of other people's labor and do not produce them, of course, for free, and he wants these people to know that labor is glorious.
In this way, the Forbidden City was given a rare peace, all kinds of feudal superstitions were cleaned up by him, and all the things that looked uncomfortable were also removed by him.
Because of this, the Forbidden City and the Imperial City are much more deserted than before.
Of course, Wang Jundao would not let such a thing happen, in order to deter the young people who were not dead in ambition and were ready to move, he divided the four divisions of the Tiger Ben Guard Army into four parts, and each took turns to enter the imperial city for training.
Every morning before dawn, there will be more than 20,000 troops from Nanyuan to the imperial city with a load, and in the evening from the imperial city to Nanyuan.
Therefore, the entire Imperial City and the surrounding area spent every day in the loud military songs, training horns and deafening gunfire of the Tiger Ben Guard.
Wang Jundao's move is to make the entire Yanjing City feel the majesty of the Tiger Ben Guard, and let the entire Yanjing City awaken in the military songs and gunshots.
Except for one division that had to rush to the imperial city for training, Wang Jundao placed the remaining three divisions in Nanyuan to train in the south of Yanjing City.
Nanyuan used to be the garrison of the Wuwei Chinese army, and it is also the royal safari place, with a radius of dozens of miles, dense jungles, various terrains staggered and horizontal, and a large number of open plains, which are suitable for training infantry and cavalry, Wang Jundao also put the artillery battalion in Nanyuan.
As for the Dragon Tiger Guard, Phoenix Guard, Pistol Battalion, Machine Gun Battalion, Assault Battalion, Women's Battalion, etc., they are all trained in the Imperial City and sit in the Forbidden City.
The training base of the special operations battalion is in the Taihang Mountains dozens of miles away to the west of Nanyuan, with the training base of the special operations battalion as the center, within a radius of 50 miles, and now it is being opened up into a new training base for the army, because this area is an open plain in the east, dense and steep mountains in the west, dense forests, and it extends into the Taihang Mountains to the west, which is the best army training base.
Time flies, and more than a month has passed since Wang Jundao occupied Yanjing City.
On September 25, more than 15,000 people of the first division of the Huben Army, under the leadership of Yang Poyu, wore a strict light green camouflage uniform, set off from Nanyuan majestically, slowly drove into the Yongding Gate in the south of Yanjing City, and then passed through the Zhengyang Gate, and finally entered the imperial city.
Subsequently, the Tiger Roar Division and the Tiger Roar Division of the Tiger Ben Guard Army neatly drove out from [***], and then went south, out of the Yongding Gate, and met with the Tiger Wei Division and the Tiger and Leopard Division outside the Yongding Gate, and held a swearing-in ceremony outside the Yongding Gate.
At noon, there were more than 90,000 members of the Tiger Guard Division, the Tiger Roar Division, the Tiger Roar Division, and the Tiger and Leopard Division, more than 2,000 people from the Artillery Regiment, more than 3,000 from the Pistol Regiment, more than 2,000 from the Machine Gun Regiment, more than 2,000 from the Assault Regiment, more than 5,000 from the Baggage Engineering Regiment, more than 5,000 from the Logistics Regiment, more than 500 from the Guidance Battalion, and more than 500 from the Communications Battalion...... An army of more than 110,000 people set off from the martial arts arena outside Yongding Gate and marched towards Langfang, a frontier strategic point that had been controlled by Wang Jundao.
The army went all the way non-stop, until in the early hours of the morning, the main force had arrived in Langfang.
A few decades ago, Langfang was just a small village in the middle of nowhere.
Three years ago, the Jingshan Railway was completed and opened to traffic, and a station was set up in Langfang, and Langfang gradually became a town.
A few months ago, the Boxers launched the Battle of Langfang here, and won a great victory in Langfang, resulting in the defeat of the coalition led by Seymour and retreating to Tianjin, and the name of Langfang completely resounded all over the world.
Half a month ago, Wang Jundao ordered Zhang Decheng to recover Langfang.
In less than half a month, under the deliberate arrangement of Wang Jundao, a large number of military supplies were transported from Yanjing to Langfang by train, and Langfang developed into an important strategic military town.
At this time, when the main force of the Dragon and Tiger Army arrived in Langfang, the vanguard of the Dragon and Tiger Army, 15,000 tiger and leopard cavalry, had arrived at a hidden place twenty miles north of Wuqing County under the personal leadership of Wang Jundao.
Since the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Tianjin, Wuqing County fell into the hands of the Eight-Nation Alliance, because Wuqing County is the hub between Yanjing and Tianjin, even if the Eight-Nation Coalition Army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Yanjing, it did not give up Wuqing County, the northwest barrier of Tianjin, so it has been arranging more than 6,000 defenders in Wuqing County.
At the same time, the Eight-Nation Coalition also presided over the repair of the railway from Wuqing County to Tianjin, which had been damaged by the Boxers.
Three days earlier, more than 10,000 members of the German expeditionary force had arrived in Tianjin from the mainland, and the allied forces had sent an additional 3,000 troops to increase the number of troops in Wuqing County, and at the same time brought a large number of sophisticated weapons.
After the tiger and leopard cavalry rested for half an hour, Leng Feng rushed to the temporary command post of the tiger and leopard cavalry battalion, because as early as last night, Leng Feng led the special combat personnel to Wuqing County.
After entering the command post, Leng Feng reported directly to Wang Jundao: "Commander, the soldiers of the special operations battalion have clearly investigated the situation of foreign soldiers in Wuqing County, and the morning before yesterday, a group of more than 3,000 foreign soldiers rushed from Tianjin to Wuqing County, together with the original foreign soldiers in Wuqing County, and now there are nearly 10,000 foreign soldiers in Wuqing County, and this is the deployment map of foreign soldiers in Wuqing County. ”
Leng Feng said and unfolded a simple map, pointing to the map and introducing: "The 10,000 foreign soldiers in Wuqing County took Wuqing County as the core and arranged three lines of defense, the first line of defense is on the road from Wuqing County to Yanjing, and the coalition army has deployed more than 3,000 people ten miles away from Wuqing County, and they have built hundreds of firepower points mainly with heavy machine guns relying on favorable terrain such as the Longhe River. ”
"The second line of defense is between the first line of defense and Wuqing County, only five miles away from Wuqing County, this line of defense is dominated by artillery, mainly to support the first line of defense with artillery, we have quietly investigated, there are forty-four cannons on the foreign artillery position, artillery and defensive infantry together, about 2,000 people."
"The third line of defense is the defense line of Wuqing County, the foreigners have built strong fortifications in Wuqing County without city walls, and at the same time, relying on the alleys in the city, more than 20 defensive firepower points have been arranged."
Wang Jundao thought for a while, but didn't speak, he had already thought of the method of warfare, and he asked: "Did the foreigners arrange defenses on the road to Tianjin in the southeast of Wuqing County?" ”
Leng Feng shook his head and said, "No." ”
Long Zhan was slightly stunned, he had already guessed Wang Jundao's intentions, and couldn't help but say: "Commander, there is the Yongding River in the southwest of Wuqing County, and the northeast is surrounded by the Longfeng River, and the only few bridges have been blocked or blown up by foreign soldiers. ”
Wang Jundao said with a smile: "Don't forget that many people in our army are Boxer soldiers, many of them are from Wuqing County, and they know the terrain of Wuqing County well, the Longfeng River is not a big river, there are always some places that can be crossed without boats, don't forget that we are cavalry now, as long as it is not a big river like the Yongding River or the Haihe River, the general surname will not stop us." ”
Long Zhan was slightly stunned, and instantly understood, and said, "The commander means that we will attack from the south of Wuqing County?" ”
Wang Jundao nodded, said: "If we attack from the north, then it is fulfilling the wish of the foreigners, their heavy machine guns and artillery will greet us, if we attack from the south and capture Wuqing County first, then the heavy machine gun fire points and artillery positions of the foreigners will be completely useless, we are cavalry, win with speed, 15,000 cavalry is afraid that it will not be long before they can sweep their three lines of defense from behind the foreign soldiers, don't forget, the three lines of defense of the foreigners are only ten miles away." ”
Long Zhan thought about it and knew that it was impossible to resist the frontal firepower of the foreign soldiers with the firepower of the tiger and leopard cavalry, so it was definitely impossible to attack directly from the north.
At this time, Wang Jundao said again: "However, in order to prevent the foreign soldiers from fleeing to the north and scattering the people, we must leave 3,000 horsemen here, just in case, and in order to prevent the reinforcements from coming after a long battle, we must first cut off the telegraph line and railway supply line from Wuqing County to Tianjin." ”
Long Zhan nodded and said, "Commander, I suggest leaving five thousand cavalry here, once the battle in Wuqing County starts and the back of the foreign defense line is attacked, they are likely to retreat to the back, and then the cavalry here will be able to join the cavalry in Wuqing County." ”
Wang Jundao glanced at Long Zhan appreciatively and said, "Okay, according to your words, you will lead 5,000 horsemen here to wait for the opportunity, and I will personally lead 10,000 horsemen to attack from the south." ”
Long Zhan hurriedly said: "Commander, you are now the commander of an army, how can you risk your life?" I'll lead the troops, and you wait here. ”
Wang Jundao shook his head with a smile and said, "It's okay, you still don't worry about me?" ”
Long Zhan shook his head and said, "Still can't do it......"
"Alright, stop the ink, it's an order."
Wang Jundao waved his hand and gave a direct order, Long Zhan was helpless, so he could only accept his order with a wry smile.