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By the time Song Ziqing arrived at the riverside, he was already looking like he was facing a great enemy, even the newly captured Haqikai machine guns were lifted to a high place by the soldiers, and 10 Jiangnan-made Krupp 75mm field guns were also scattered and deployed behind warehouses and fences, and all the shells had been loaded, and the infantry were all hiding on the spot waiting to meet the bombardment of naval guns.

In a warehouse along the river, Yue Peng scolded while deploying tasks to the officers around him: "What the hell do you say Chen Delong is doing? Don't go to fight Wuchang, but what are you doing here? ”

"Could it be that they discovered the movement here and rushed to suppress it?"

"It's certain to find movement ()." At this time, Song Ziqing had already walked to the side, took Zhang Wenjing's words and analyzed: "But he abandoned the important Wuchang to come to Hankou, in my opinion, there are only two possibilities. ”

"First, Wuchang is finished." Yue Peng nodded and said: "There is no way to continue to support it with three gunboats, so it is better to come to Hankou to fight a few cannons, and it will save you from being punished by the above for not resisting effectively, and secondly, it may be." ”

Song Ziqing and Yue Peng went to study at the German Army Academy together, and after returning to China, they served in a unit, so they cooperated very tacitly, and after taking a look at the mast lights of the warship on the river, they continued: "Ruicheng or Zhang Biao is on the ship, and when they see that Wuchang can't hold it, they are ready to come to Hankou to continue to hold on." ”

"You two have a heart." Zhang Wenjing blinked and smiled mischievously: "If it's the second one, then I suggest not to fight first, pretend to meet and then control it in one fell swoop, and save the soldiers from being injured." ”

"It's a good idea." After Yue Peng finished speaking, he took the telescope from the officer's hand, and when the lens was aimed at the Chu Yu ship at the front, his mouth suddenly opened wide, his eyes straightened, and he looked at the familiar figure, and his brain had stopped.

Seeing his strange appearance, Zhang Wenjing was also taken aback, raised the telescope and waited to see it clearly, his whole body was stiff, and he didn't know how to describe it, as if the opposite side was not a dangerous gunboat, but saw that Guishan had turned back into the mythical old turtle, and stood up and flicked his tail at him.

Song Ziqing was even more confused, and hurriedly grabbed Yue Peng and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Only then did Yue Peng react, the corners of his mouth suddenly collapsed, and he pointed to the gunboat outside the window and said, "See for yourself." After speaking, he stuffed the telescope into his arms, how dare Song Ziqing delay, but after seeing it clearly, he was also in a daze, and only after a while did he stammer: "This, what kind of immortal are you standard?" ”

Lord Biaotong went to Wuchang in person, captured Ruicheng alive, and captured the three gunboats that posed the greatest threat to Hankou ()!

The news spread like a whirlwind in the second and third battalions, and after a while, even Hanyang on the opposite side also knew, everyone was both excited and incredible, and rushed into Wuchang City, where the two armies were fighting with artillery fire, and Ruicheng was arrested without a single bullet! He also brought back three gunboats of Chen Delong and the Navy Division, and lifted the biggest threat to Hankou and Hanyang!

Is this possible? Ruicheng is a little bit of a bag, but Chen Delong is not a cabbage! Not to mention how difficult it is to catch him from the chaos and not alarm outsiders, just finding it will probably kill everyone, right? But look at Lord Biaotong, it doesn't take more than two hours to come and go, and the problem that the party has been doing for several years has not yet been solved! The soldiers became more and more evil, and in the end, even Yang Qiu became an immortal and would come out of the air!

At this moment, Yang Qiu was already sitting in the command post of the second battalion, in addition to Yue Peng and Zhang Wenjing, Hang Zhi and Song Ziqing also sat down, Hang Zhi was an officer who rebelled, and Song Ziqing was finally persuaded by Yue Peng and Zhang Wenjing to stay, Yang Qiu also valued this young adjutant who had the same experience as Yue Peng, and immediately appointed him as the 42nd standard first-class adjutant.

Ruicheng and Chen Delong were temporarily escorted to Hanyang, and the command of the three gunboats was temporarily handed over to the Chu Qian ship with Wang Guangxiong, but because it was a newcomer, Bingwen brought dozens of soldiers to live temporarily, and Wang Guangxiong had no opinion on this, and finally due to the lack of supplies in Hankou, it was not as convenient as the arsenal in Hanyang, so the three ships took the lead in going back there to replenish.

"My lord, this is the list that Lord Xiao has preliminarily counted." Zhang Wenjing handed a list to Yang Qiu, who knew very well what it was, and immediately unfolded it and looked at it.

According to Xiao Anguo's statistics, a total of 3.5 million were dug up in Hankou, of which 1.5 million were made out of the Jin Merchants Association by gold leprosy, 2 million other silver tickets and banknotes, 600,000 in Hanyang, 2.4 million in his arms, and Shen Shukai's side was close to 8 million.

Not to mention the equipment, it takes about 200,000 to feed a town (division) every month including the consumption of arms in training, and if you convert all the money in your hand into pounds, it is not enough to build a dreadnought. Hey, still poor!

"The independent battalion has already controlled the gun factory, and the steel factory has also tried it, but the Japanese have a relatively large power there, so Su Xiaohu only detained a batch of finished materials in the name of military management, and Hanyang and Hankou have also been basically controlled, and the arms supply that you have been worried about has also been temporarily resolved."

"Found the arsenal?" As soon as he heard the news, Yang Qiu immediately pricked up his ears, he was already worried about the matter of munitions, Yue Peng immediately smiled when he saw this: "Actually, the Guishan Fort right under our noses, which was originally the arsenal of the Jiangfang Battalion, we thought that it should be all shells from the Jiangfang Battalion's reserves, but we didn't expect Ruicheng and Zhang Biao to quietly hide the output of the gun factory." ”

"Ji Fucheng has already taken people to count, roughly stating that there are 7,000 Hanyang-made, more than 10,000 shells of various types, and about 5,000 boxes of bullets, in addition, 8 7.7 field guns, 36 5.7 mountain guns, plus a total of 18 75 mm mountain guns, 36 57 mm mountain guns and 4 Haqikaisi machine guns are found here." Zhang Wenjing just handed Yang Qiu the list of ordnance he had made.

"18 Krupp field guns can be formed in accordance with the Beiyang establishment of a special artillery battalion, 36 57 mm mountain guns might as well be allocated to the Guishan Battery, it is best to set up another battery when facing the west, so that the two batteries can completely protect Hanyang, but also cover most of the Hankou Hua District and Wuchang, in addition to the fact that we now have 5 battalions and 3 teams, after dawn all the prisoners will be sent to Hanyang to be reorganized, plus the surrender of troops is estimated to be able to form 2 battalions, so that the artillery battalion and the baggage battalion have 8 battalions. Guns and ammunition are currently sufficient, but they are inferior in heavy firepower, especially machine guns. "Yue Peng, who studied in Germany, values machine guns more than others, so he is most worried about the shortage of machine guns.

"What about Shen Shukai?" Thinking of the machine gun, Yang Qiu hated it so much, Zhang Wenjing immediately said: "I was afraid that something would happen before, so I brought it back to Hanyang with those things for the time being." ”

Yue Peng's expansion plan was similar to what he thought, and after thinking about it, he immediately said: "The expansion will be in accordance with the plan that Yue Peng said, the baggage battalion will be independent, and the newly built artillery battalion and independent battalion will all be reorganized into two regiments. ”

"Regiment? My lord, you want to change the military system! Before he finished speaking, Yue Peng immediately caught a little transparency in his words, and Yang Qiu did not hide it: "Since you have studied at the German Army Academy, you should know that it is a matter of time, and there are some things that we should still put down our mentality and integrate with Europe and the United States ()." ”

"My lord is right, the German Army is the most perfect, and Beiyang has been imitating it, and I think it's time for us to change it." Song Ziqing, who also studied abroad, was also in favor of the reform.

"From town to shed, it was changed to divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, squads, divisions and brigade leaders, and so on, starting with regiments, with each regiment having three infantry battalions and an artillery battalion, plus a baggage company and a teaching company composed of officers and excellent soldiers. Each battalion was divided into three companies and nine squads. In addition, the machine gun that Shen Shukai bought for me must still be in his hands, otherwise he would not dare to return to Hanyang, and after getting this batch of machine guns, each infantry company must be equipped with a heavy machine gun and two light machine guns. ”

After Yang Qiu roughly said how to change it, the four of them also thought that it could be implemented, the only problem was that there was still an artillery battalion missing, but this matter was not in a hurry, but there was another thing that gave him a headache: "The problem now is that our 42 standard and Hang Zhi are both infantry, and there is a lack of qualified artillery in the army, and the officers only have a few guns." ”

These words also made the four of them frown, the surrendered soldiers can be recruited, as long as the military foundation is there, the combat effectiveness can be basically guaranteed after being dispersed and integrated into the battalions, but the officers cannot be trained for a long time, plus the main force of the new army is all in Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankou are basically a blank spot, and it is difficult to win over the officers who support the two regiments at once.

If there is no suitable officer, then the larger the expansion of the troops, the greater the burden, Yue Peng and Zhang Wenjing are also very clear about this, but at present, they don't have many ways, but Song Ziqing next to him thought about it and said: "My lord, at present, Wuchang is chaotic, I have already understood something before crossing the river, most of the people involved are soldiers, and the actual number of officers involved is not much, I think I can think of a way to recruit them." Now that the situation is chaotic, since you have put up a flag here, I think some people are still willing to come. ”

After finishing speaking, he volunteered to Feng Yong: "No one knows about my coming here, and going back will not cause suspicion, if the adults believe it, Ziqing is willing to go back." ”

"That's a good idea, but will they come? I'm here. Yang Qiu said with a smile: "The temple gate is not as glamorous as the party. ”

"My lord said that he laughed, you invited Hu Ruilin not to dinner, with his reputation, the gentry of the two places will definitely follow, and then wait until those Anmin notices are posted, you will be the great hero of the anti-Qing Dynasty and the Tartars. If the newspapers could publicize it, wouldn't the provisional military government of the two towns be up? Zhang Wenjing saw those Anmin notices that had been printed early and knew that Yang Qiu was actually ready, and continued to smile: "At that time, unless you come to recruit An, otherwise the three ships alone can give them a headache." ”

"Okay, I see that you write well, the list is detailed, and you will be the chief logistics officer when the time comes." Yang Qiu picked up the list made by Zhang Wenjing and deliberately joked, and the other three also laughed.

Zhang Wenjing himself is not so embarrassed, he is really not very enthusiastic about fighting, and he does not have the talent of Yue Peng and Song Ziqing, plus he has always served as a secretary, so he is really the chief of logistics, and said with a smile: "My lord, do you want to talk?" ”

"Of course, but you can find a way for me to get the steel mill and Han Yeping into my pocket first."

"Ahh

"Haha."

After making a few jokes, Zhang Wenjing, Yue Peng, and Song Ziqing immediately started to draw up a list of officers who needed to be lobbied, and even Hang Zhi submitted several candidates. Since the first three are all leaders of the younger generation in the army, they are very prestigious among young officers, and they also know that Yang Qiu's set of young people is more acceptable, so they mainly attack those young officers at the grassroots level who have ideals and work hard, and finally Song Ziqing went out as a lobbyist, and sent a few soldiers to protect him for safety.

By the time things were done, a stubborn golden red had already appeared in the sky.

Yang Qiu slowly walked to the window, and a few eyes behind him followed closely, at this moment, everyone understood what they had done in the past day! From the early morning of October 9th to the present, a back figure in Yangxia is quietly rising with this dazzling glow, avoiding the most chaotic Wuchang!