Chapter 159: This is the Good Man
"Extra! Extra! Sun Wen officially sent a telegram to the outside world, apologizing to all the officers and men of the Zhengnan Army and the people under Wang Lin's rule, saying that he mistakenly regarded Wang Lin as his comrade because of his eagerness. ”
On the streets of all parts of the country that had been occupied by the Zhengnan Army, the newsboys were holding a thick pile of newspapers in their hands, and there were still many newspapers in their bags, standing on the streets shouting loudly, all the newspapers about the Zhengnan Army and Wang Lin had been selling very fast recently, which also increased the income of these newsboys a lot.
Wang Lin accepted Sun Wen's apology on behalf of all the officers and men of the Zhengnan Army and the people under his rule, and was willing to provide 50,000 yuan of Xinhua yuan to the League every year to support the normal operation of the League.
Wang Lin's move came out, but also won a lot of praise in the people, in the face of the enemy who forced himself to have no way out, since Wang Lin can be so magnanimous and forgive the other party, and is also willing to provide 50,000 yuan of funds to the other party, what is the concept of 50,000 yuan of Xinhua yuan? It means that you can start a large or medium-sized factory, four or five small factories, how much energy does it take to do this?
Wang Lin is willing to provide funds for his own development, this matter is very good for Sun Wen, Wang Lin is willing to give him money, which means that Sun Wen will not sign any traitorous treaties with him to borrow money as long as he has enough from now on, which also means that the alliance has been gradually accepted by Wang Lin, and can walk in the open face of the country, at least there is no need to worry about being arrested by the Zhengnan army.
Although this incident has brought huge losses to Sun Wen, he also feels that these losses are still worth it, at least he can no longer betray the country, as for whether the 50,000 yuan of Xinhua yuan is enough for a year, Sun Wen is not sure, but he can be sure that he believes that under his supervision and governance, the 50,000 yuan of Xinhua yuan should be enough.
Just after being slapped hard by Wang Lin, the other party threw over another candy, which made Sun Wen feel a little surprised, and admired Wang Lin's bearing, but limited to the current situation, in the end, Sun Wen still had the courage to send a secret telegram to Wang Lin, asking Wang Lin to provide the League with some weapons and ammunition, so that the League could be used to revolt on the territory of the Qing court.
However, Sun Wen's proposal was finally rejected by Wang Lin, for no other reason, the matter of attacking the city and marching to the south of the country can be completed, and there is no need for the alliance to go to various places to revolt, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties.
Sun Wen saw Wang Lin's straightforward refusal, but he was embarrassed to ask him what he wanted again, after all, the handprint of the slap just now was still deeply imprinted on his face, and at this time Sun Wen also understood one thing, in front of Wang Lin, he should be cheap and obedient, and he must not get an inch, otherwise it will only make it more difficult for him to move forward.
And Sun Wen's current predicament is mostly because he has no army in his hands, and the top priority at the moment is to quickly set up a secret army, Taoguang Yanghui is quite familiar with him, otherwise he would not have lived until now, as for the issue of weapons and equipment, if it is really not good, he will buy it from himself, although the German weapons are good, but they will not sell them to themselves, the weapons of the Qing soldiers are also good, and they are also a gun, and the surname can or something is not very bad, but their asking price is too high, and the funds of 50,000 yuan a year are not enough for him to buy a battalion of equipment.
The war between Sun and Wang has come to an end, Sun Wen seems to have lowered his profile a lot since he apologized, and the morale of the members of the alliance has also been much lower, and the members of the alliance who were still silent in their fantasies thought that they could finally ride on the head of the Zhengnan army and finally raise their eyebrows, but they were slapped hard, this slap not only woke them up, but also made them understand a truth, it turned out that it was so difficult to get something for nothing.
When the battle between Sun and Wang was raging, the 127th Division of the 45th Army had successfully invaded the two towns of Hanyang and Hankou, and successfully controlled the Hanyang Iron Works, tens of thousands of Qing troops were killed and wounded, and tens of thousands of surrenders were surrendered, which also means that most of Hubei has been controlled by the Zhengnan Army, and a heavy base of the Manchu Qing in the south was successfully defeated by the Zhengnan Army, the siege took seven days, and the battle was completely resolved in only one day, and then the attack on Hankou and Hanyang towns took only one day to be controlled by the Zhengnan Army.
One is because the Zhengnan army fought very fiercely in Wuchang, as long as it is news, there is no impermeable wall, although the Zhengnan army is tightly guarded, but the news there still spread to the two towns of Hankou and Hanyang through some channels, the Qing soldiers have already been frightened out of their courage, except for a few foolish loyalists still made a strong resistance, but in the end it was solved by a charge of the Zhengnan army, and tens of thousands of Qing troops could only surrender.
Foolish and loyal are only the superiors, the soldiers below are still very sober, no one will be willing to sacrifice their lives for a dynasty that is up and down [***], has reached the end of the road, especially the Manchu Qing, this people who regard the Han people in the world as slaves, the Han people only hate them, if it wasn't for the previous to eat a bite of food, they didn't bother to join the Qing army to resist the Zhengnan army.
After completing the attack on the three towns of Wuhan, the main task of the 45th Army was to enter the territory of Henan, and the main force only had to attack the capital Kaifeng with all its might, and as for other places, there would be people to clean up, and the momentum of the Zhengnan Army in Hubei had already spread throughout the country, and the troops everywhere were all panicked, and many troops were already ready to mutiny, and they only waited for the Zhengnan Army to raise their flags and surrender as soon as they arrived in front of them.
At present, the New Eighteenth Army has also successfully occupied most of Anhui with the cooperation of the New Eleventh Army, and the main task at present is to pause for a while, continue to make every effort to take the entire territory of Anhui, and then wait for the 34th Army to set off from Fujian, and then encircle the situation up and down, and take Hangzhou and Nanjing in one fell swoop.
And the navy is not idle, at this time the navy is wandering overseas in Shanghai, prohibiting any ships from entering and leaving, of course, the great powers are also shouting to leave, how the Zhengnan army treated those foreigners when they were in Guangzhou They have also heard, now the Zhengnan army will soon hit Shanghai, and the local people in Shanghai are not in a hurry at all, all the people who are anxious are foreigners.
Eventually, the ships flying the flags of the great powers were detained, and the people on board were transferred to several other large fishing boats, which would take them to Guangzhou, where they would board and return to their respective homes. The reason why they kept their ships was because these people had been in China for a long time, and they had more or less robbed some treasures, and it was not Wang Lin's style to let them take the treasures away like this, and it would have been Wang Lin's mercy to let them go back.
At the time of the hot fight in the country, Tsarist Russia and the two countries were also very busy, these two countries were not worried about the northeast for a day or two, and now Wang Lin's army in the south was advancing rapidly like a bamboo, and almost only the capital would have some resistance in every province, and the rest were basically surrendered, seeing that the Qing Kingdom was swallowed up by Wang Lin little by little.
If you don't make a move, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to make a move in the future. Therefore, in the recent period, Tsarist Russia has also been sending troops to the Far East from all parts of the country, and it is not far behind to send troops from the mainland to the Korean Peninsula. Judging from this indication, in order to accelerate the invasion and occupation of the northeast, Russia and Russia have silently accelerated their preparations for war, and the scale of troops invested by both sides in history, which has reached more than one million people, now seems to be only more than this, not less.
At this time, Wang Lin was worried about this matter, in the face of the imminent Russo-Russian war, what should Wang Lin do? How? But the current situation seems to be out of their control, and according to the speed of their preparations, they only have a few months to prepare, and the only way to prevent this war is to take over all of China before they start a war.
But this seems to have a lot of difficulty, just to go to Xinjiang Province and other places, relying on infantry marching alone for a few months is simply not passable, the road is far away, all the way to the desert Gobi, not to mention the logistical pressure, at the moment Wang Lin does not have the strength to conquer Xinjiang Province, this is also Wang Lin's most worrying problem, he is afraid that Tsarist Russia will not go down in the Far East and make trouble in Xinjiang Province and other places, if this is the case, Wang Lin will have to fight.
Thinking of this, Wang Lin still decided to deploy plans in the northeast and other places first, so as to avoid emergencies, but he was unable to deal with it.
"Report!" Long Yuhui stood in front of Wang Lin's office.
"Come in." Wang Lin said lightly.
The 56th Armored Division controlled by Long Yuhui was not announced before, which was also related to the subsequent Russo-Russian War and its own encirclement and suppression plan, so before the encirclement and suppression plan was completed, the 56th Division was kept secret for the time being.
"How's this time going? How did you master the combat skills of the armored forces? Wang Lin asked two questions in a row, because this armored unit is not only the most advanced armored force at present, but also a unit that Wang Lin can only rely on for a period of time in the future.
"It feels okay, it's just that it's too stuffy to stay in the station for a long time, if only I could go to the battlefield and fight." Long Yuhui smiled.
"Don't think about going to the battlefield in the near future, train the troops well, let the soldiers become proficient in the various skills of the tank as soon as possible, from now on all the soldiers of the 56th Division must stay in the tank, eat, drink and sleep inside, and the reserve soldiers are responsible for rotating the vigilance around, I will send troops to practice with you, the time is one month." Wang Lin looked at Long Yuhui and said lightly.
If you want to deploy the army in the northeast in advance, you must strengthen their patience training, otherwise it is impossible to complete the task of long-term lurking, and the specific time of the war is not very certain, they may have to stay in it for a month, two months or more, without this training it will be difficult for the soldiers to endure it.
"Yes, the 56th Division will definitely complete the exercise task." Long Yuhui replied frankly, he had confidence in the 56th Division.
(To be continued)