The three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, this is the truth.

Logistics is always the first element of military operations.

Song Biao's previous preparations were mainly to start in October, basically end the large-scale battle by January, take a short break of three months in between, and continue the follow-up finishing operations in April of the following year.

Preparation for autumn and winter is definitely not the same as preparation for summer.

Song Biao didn't sleep all night that night, and after ordering the whole army and the patrol army of the three eastern provinces to be under martial law, before the generals of the other armies came to attend the meeting urgently, Song Biao gathered the main members of the staff of the first and second departments and the military order department of the patrol army, and immediately began to re-plan the military supplies for the summer operation.

In the entire First World War, the U.S. military did the most complete work in logistics, which was also the main factor in the later ability of the U.S. Army to push the German army, and the U.S. military's logistics force was also the most unprecedentedly powerful, so that the 105mm howitzer could be equipped with a regimental level...... Or is it a transoceanic operation!!

Song Biao sometimes feels a certain despair when he thinks about it, the army is strong to a certain extent, and it is very difficult to promote it upward, and in the end, it is the national strength and detailed work in all aspects.

The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a special war, and it is certainly not the same thing to confront part of the US military with the strength of the whole country, not to mention that there is a giant hegemon like the Soviet Union behind it, and even so, the sacrifice paid by the Chinese army and the price paid by the whole country are extremely tragic.

If you really want to start a full-scale war with the US military, especially before the 50s, it is almost unthinkable, and Song Biao will never do such a stupid thing, because it is impossible to defeat the opponent.

Anything can be spelled, only logistics is really not spelled, but logistics can't be spelled, and everything else is impossible to talk about.

The Beiyang Army can be destroyed in a battle, but this battle must definitely pay a lot of efforts, otherwise it will not be killed, and the future will be endless.

The Beiyang Army is not weak, let alone stupid, it is not so strong that a machine gun can sweep thousands of miles, considering the lethality rate of this machine gun during World War I, if you really want to annihilate the opponent, the number of shells and ammunition prepared will be unprecedentedly amazing.

At the time of the Battle of Liaoyang, more than 70 percent of the supplies were seized from the Liaoyang Army, and this time it was a large transportation line of 400 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers, and the plan was wrong, and many materials had to be re-equipped, and emergency procurement was a supplement, and the best way was to transfer the materials of the new army in the northeast and the patrol troops in various places first, and then concentrate on the battlefield, and then rely on emergency procurement and production to supplement, and the shortcomings could only be purchased from abroad.

Which materials are the most important, the supply must be guaranteed, how many quantities, how many levels are classified, which materials can only be bought, whether they can be bought, when they can be delivered, and what to do if they cannot be bought, these are all things that the staff office has to consider.

The area in which the first large-scale decisive battle is most likely to be held, the number of troops that both sides are likely to commit, the intelligence of the other side, the level of the commanders, the training of the troops, the situation in the locality, the detailed military map, the possible weather conditions, the situation of the locals, and possible political biases, all the information must be aggregated to ensure that the most suitable and comprehensive information can be provided to the commanders and fighters at all levels on time.

From 8:35 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. the next day, the military headquarters of the Northeast New Army and the Military Command Department of the Patrol Army of the three eastern provinces issued a total of more than 600 telegram orders to divisions, brigade headquarters, detachments, military reclamation bureaus, material storage areas, and bases.

The Intelligence Service, the Secret Service and the General Liaison Office of the Chinese Revolutionary Association sent secret messages to the provinces and began to contact the members of the Liberation Society and the Forces nouvelles in large numbers to determine a new national uprising plan.

Song Biao didn't sleep all night, and at 5 o'clock a new logistics preparation meeting was urgently held.

At 7 o'clock, he attended the preparatory meeting of the Second Staff Department, and after the meeting, he sent a separate telegram to Xiao Kaigui, ordering Xiao Kaigui to complete the rectification within three days, and the whole division must cross the mouth of the Clarketen Banner valley in five days and be secretly stationed, after which the ability to march 200 kilometers in three days must be guaranteed.

Song Biao had actually been a little worried about Xiao Kaigui's planning in the battle, and he called Chen Qicai to the office before the official regular meeting of the whole army.

Chen Qicai also didn't sleep all night, his eyes were red, but it was rare to be able to show a special excitement, such a momentum spread almost to the entire military headquarters of the Northeast New Army, everyone not only wanted to fight this battle, but also didn't seem to think that the opponent was difficult to defeat.

The gap between the levels of the two sides is too large, and this gap is not in the level of equipment, but in the level of organizational capabilities, in the level of operations.

The Northeast New Army has been following the Russian army for many years, and at the same time, with the help of the German and French advisory groups, it has gradually improved the operation of the military headquarters and the planning and coordination of the general staff, as well as the accounting and deployment capabilities of various operational plans and conventional plans.

This is what the people [***] collectively lacked in the era of the people, and it was not mentioned again until the era of the Whampoa Military Academy, but it is not very clear, and the real large-scale possession of this ability is still the growth process that accompanies the continuous fighting with the army in the War of Resistance against Japan.

Chen Qicai, as the chief adjutant of the secretariat, naturally worked extremely hard this night.

When entering the office, Chen Qicai first saluted very dignified and said, "I've seen the head seat." ”

The more time came to the war, the more excited Song Biao seemed to be, and his true self seemed to suddenly awaken, from a governor official to a soldier.

He hurriedly beckoned Chen Qicai to come in and said, "I won't talk nonsense with you, Xiao Kaigui's side still can't reassure me, I plan to let you go." But there is a problem, you used to be a staff officer for him, not to command him, if you can't grasp this measure, then you'd better not go, I'd rather take a risk and continue to believe in Xiao Kaigui, the bastard. ”

Chen Qicai hurriedly got up and said, "Please rest assured, I will definitely be able to grasp the measure and do a good job as a staff officer for Division Commander Xiao." ”

Song Biao smiled and said, "That's okay, you can go." You know, I know, it's not that I don't trust Xiao Kaigui and Jiang Zhaojian, it's really too important to have a little mistake, don't let me resist it, no matter how hard it is, I have to resist it. ”

Chen Qicai said: "You can rest assured that we will be able to withstand it, and we will definitely live up to the cultivation and trust of the main seat." ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "It's important to say that cultivation is important, the trust is true, my trust this time is not a thousand tons, but a nation is so heavy, a Manchu and Han dispute is so heavy, you are the one who takes on this nation and solves this national dispute." I won't say anything else, we are all very busy now, I will say these two sentences, you will personally bring this to Xiao Kaigui and Jiang Zhaojian, and let them rush to me if they are dead. ”

Chen Qicai saluted solemnly, as if everything was silent.

Song Biao returned the salute and didn't continue to say anything, and asked Chen Qicai to go back to prepare the itinerary and hand over the work to the executive deputy Jiang Zhengyuan and Zhou Jiacheng.

After talking with Chen Qicai, Song Biao immediately went to the conference room to hold the first regular military meeting, and after a night of surprise preparations, the preparations and statistics of various departments have already come out, and it is expected that it will take a few days for which troops will be prepared in advance, and they must be clearly explained at this time.

The most complicated problem now is the recruitment of war horses, fortunately, it is in the agricultural leisure time, because the three eastern provinces are all one-season agriculture, and there are more idle horses, and the military reclamation system can draw out a large amount of horsepower, but it will definitely have a greater impact on next year's production.

At this time, I won't talk about how much it will be affected.

As for Germany's allocation of 1.7 million horsepower in World War I and 1.2 million horsepower in World War II, it can still ensure the needs of agricultural production, which is really a very crazy level of agricultural horse reserves, and Russia is even more powerful in this regard.

The United States also recruited a large number of war horses in World War I, no less than 300,000, but it has begun to use automobiles on a large scale, and World War II is even more powerful.

In addition to the equipment of the new army and the patrol army itself, as well as the number of recruits from the military reclamation system, plus the requisition and purchase of horsepower from all over the country and southern China, the whole army must ensure that 600,000 horsepower is used for cavalry, transportation, and material supply.

In the early stage, 200,000 horses must be urgently recruited within a week, 400,000 horses must be completed within a month, and 600,000 horses must be recruited within two months.

Because Song Biao also had to reserve a certain amount of horsepower to recruit capacity to prevent the division of Outer Mongolia and foreign countries from taking the opportunity to intervene in the three eastern provinces.

In addition to horsepower, manpower must also be raised, and militiamen and men must be recruited on the spot, salaries and wages must be opened, plus food consumption, all of which are counted.

Therefore, the economy determines the war, and without the rapid development of the three eastern provinces in the past five years, Song Biao would not be able to fight a decisive battle with the Manchus according to such a plan today.

Five years is a very short period of time, and there are hardly too many storms in the five years under the market economy, and the planned economy is different, with the frenzied mining of coal and iron ore, the frenzied planting of soybeans and sugar beet, the frenzied reclamation of fields, the large-scale promotion of horse farming, the large-scale purchase of horses, the desperate issuance of banknotes, the desperate production of grain, and the desperate expansion of military factories.

In this way, all the economic data is fake, and Song Biao is actively preparing for the war.

…… The Northeast New Army was officially put under martial law at 2 o'clock in the morning on July 15, 1910, and the patrol army of the three eastern provinces began martial law at 12 o'clock at noon on July 15.

It's like hundreds of thousands of soldiers with bayonets in front of you at the same time.

Death has enveloped the earth.

The Northeast Army, which has been developing at a high speed, has finally begun to start its combat state, and the craziest era is coming.

The Manchu court, as well as knowing this, sent the eighth town of the Wuchang New Army to suppress the Changsha rebels, and two days later, on July 17, Xiao Xingheng finally decided to completely defect to Song Biao and declared an uprising in Hangzhou.

If the previous Changsha Uprising was in an understanding of the Qing political axe, there must have been a large-scale civil unrest in the local area, and the Hangzhou Uprising was purely incomprehensible, and then the 23rd Mixed Association of the New Army in Suzhou had a fierce internal battle because of the uprising and disputes, and finally ended with some officers giving up resistance, and the 23rd Mixed Association declared an uprising.

In conjunction with this uprising, the Liberation Society organized uprisings throughout the country, and the weapons that had been hidden in the country were suddenly exposed, expanding the uprising to the whole country.

Changsha Uprising.

This will be the day destined to be written in the annals of history.

Under the circumstance that the Beiyang New Army could not be transferred, the Qing Zheng axe sent both the Sichuan New Army and the Wuchang New Army out, and the 21st New Army Revolutionary Party of the Mixed Association who remained in Wuchang immediately launched an uprising in Wuchang, resulting in the Wuchang New Army giving up the battle outside Yueyang City, and the two sides began to confront each other outside Yueyang City without firing a single cannon.

The governors of various localities suppressed everywhere, contacted everywhere, promised all kinds of benefits, and demanded that all the controls, co-unifications, and management bands actively suppress the revolution.

Things developed like this, which was really beyond Song Biao's expectations.

In such an environment, even if the Northeast New Army did not express its position, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has fallen into a stormy situation, and the Xinhai Revolution is different, now there is the Northeast New Army to contain the Beiyang Army, and the Qing Zheng Axe will not send the Beiyang Army to suppress various places at all, which has an extremely terrible problem, that is, as long as the local New Army is righteous, the Qing Zheng Axe will not have the strength to suppress it at all.

The Qing government could only promise all kinds of benefits everywhere, because the governors everywhere were Manchus, ostensibly controlling the provinces and the new army of the country, but in fact the new army in all provinces was already very estranged from the Manchu governors, and the Guangfu Society behind the revolutionary uprising contacted everywhere and encouraged the new army to revolt everywhere.

In this short period of one week, even if they did not revolt, the commanders of the new army chose to be neutral as much as possible, and even when they received orders to suppress the rebels, they chose to be passive and sabotage, privately discussing issues such as whether to revolt, or contacting the new armies in other provinces that had already revolted to discuss their official positions and seek their own affairs.

The Qing Dynasty was in turmoil and only had its last breath left.

The eyes of the new army in all provinces of the country are on the body of the Northeast Army, and everyone knows that as long as the Northeast Army is righteous together, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be over, and there is no need to even fight, because the Beiyang Army alone cannot defeat the Northeast Army.

Not to mention that Liangbi is not an opponent, even if Yuan Shikai comes back, it is impossible to beat Song Biao, not to mention that the gap between the two armies is too big.

The Beiyang Army was as afraid as the Manchu Sect, if the Northeast Army also revolted, they would have to fight against the Northeast Army, this thing was really outrageous, and life and death were unpredictable.

Although in peacetime, the generals and officers at all levels of the Beiyang Army who came from the Tianjin Armed Forces Academy did not take the Northeast New Army in their eyes, and when they talked about us, they were nothing more than that, and when it came to working hard, the real confidence would be leaked out.

Fighting the new army of other provinces, the Beiyang Army is really not afraid, fighting the Northeast New Army, this thing is really a bit outrageous.

The world is so terrible, whatever you are afraid of, he will come.

The Qing political axe had no countermeasures at all, and Zaifeng could only think of establishing a domain, wanting to use Song Biao's Northeast Army to suppress the rebels from all walks of life across the country, and personally sent a telegram promising to crown Song Biao as the king of Pingdong, inheriting it from generation to generation, as long as Song Biao was willing to send troops.

Zaifeng even said that Song Biao didn't need to send too many troops, and the soldiers of the two towns could sweep away the rebels from all walks of life, and the imperial court would send soldiers from the two towns to help.

As long as two divisions were sent into the pass to suppress the rebel armies in various places, Song Biao would be able to claim the throne, what a cost-effective deal.

It's a pity that Song Biao's plan is to become emperor.

He has been preparing for this for five years, and the matter has long been unchangeable, and it is definitely not something that can be replaced by a chip of King Pingdong.

(To be continued)