June 7, 1892. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A summer rainstorm came down suddenly, and this summer rain came and fell hard. The rain was so strong that the river rose in the blink of an eye, and everything in heaven and earth was drowned in the rain.

And on this black earth, which was almost completely submerged by heavy rain, looking at the past in the past, there was no longer a clear figure in the rain curtain from a distance of dozens of meters, and everything in the sky and earth was white and foggy. And in this foggy rain curtain, there was a deafening sound echoing, which was not at all covered by the sound of water and rain.

It was in this land that a revolution was beginning on him.

In this sudden heavy rain, groups of officers and soldiers, carrying banners and weapons, continued to pass outside Jinzhou City. The fall of this important place in the Kanto region seems to verify a truth -- the so-called coastal defense is simply a joke. The Third Regiment of the New Army stationed in Korea came from the sea, took more than 10 aircraft and ships from the sea to land, and entered the Xiaoling River by boat, and approached Jinzhou, which had no vigilance at all, and easily captured the city. Even now, the people of Jinzhou City, who have been under the notice of the people for three or four days, have not adapted to this change.

The official road, which was originally covered with floating soil by the scorching summer sun, will be poured like this torrential rain, and it will become a quagmire in an instant. On the official road that has become a quagmire, the officers and men are struggling to move forward in the mire in the heavy rain, and everyone is already drenched.

On weekdays, in weather like this, my soldiers in the Qing Dynasty would never go out to fight. You must know that the green camp of "I Daqing" was famous for not being able to fight in wind, rain, heat and cold. Although the current military training is much better. But let them line up to camp in this weather. When entering the field battle, the officer leading the team was probably more worried about whether the battalion would be blown up.

But today is different from the past, the Yi Army, the Fengtian Training Army, and the remnants of the various battalions of the Zhili Training Army, no matter which battalion they are, from officers to soldiers, are struggling to move forward in the rain and cement.

On the muddy road, the horses towing the Krupp camp cannon and the gun wagon neighed loudly. Spitting white gas, desperately pulling the gun carriage, while the soldiers followed the side of the gun carriage, desperately pushing the gun carriage with all their strength, all over the body like a mud monkey, even if they fell in the mud pool, they would also roll and crawl to stand up quickly.

But even if he fell into the mud and was covered in mud, no one dared to slack off, and even looked nervously to the left and right. As if he was afraid that others would think he was lazy.

Compared with the artillery team struggling in the quagmire, the infantry team on the side seemed brisker. But it's not much better than the artillery team struggling in the quagmire, and after a few steps, you might fall headlong into the mud. When the shoes got stuck in the mud, they simply moved forward barefoot. In the past, those soldiers who were well-dressed and showed off their might and might, they would all walk honestly, marching towards the official hall on this official road that had become a quagmire, not only did no one dare to say that they were lazy and slippery, and they did not dare to take a breath even with the atmosphere.

In addition to being overwhelmed by the sudden arrival of the troops stationed in North Korea, what is more important is that they were chilled -- they forcibly captured the city of Jinzhou, which was defended by 10,000 people, and after half a day of fierce fighting, the officials fled and died, leaving behind all those who raised their hands and surrendered.

Up to now, there are still thousands of corpses lying inside and outside the city of Jinzhou, and the casualties of the garrison army are less than 200. And this is not the reason why these "anyway soldiers" have become "very docile" now, the reason why they are extremely obedient, in addition to being disrupted and reorganized, more importantly, on the walls of Jinzhou City, the heads of hundreds of officials at all levels are still hanging on the hundreds of ropes that have been dropped!

After the fall of Jinzhou City, the garrison army did not blink an eye when they killed people, and the official who caught it did not care about it twice, only asked whether to cut the braids, and answered a little later, and was immediately executed.

Such a thunderbolt-like means. In the next lobbying and persuasion, they still dared to have different intentions, but they just asked a word, and immediately "volunteered" to oppose the positive, although it was said that it was reversed, but the military discipline of the North Korean army was extremely strict, and even when marching, a little slackness was also a disaster, and such a harsh military law made people dare not take a breath more!

If you dare to kill, it's nothing. However, the problem is that the troops stationed in the DPRK not only dare to kill people, but they also have real ability -- they have the ability to attack thousands of miles in 13 days, from the Yalu River to Jinzhou City, and no one can beat them along the way, and no one can regret their bravery.

Just over an hour ago, the news that Yulu, the general of Nashengjing, had signed the "Fengtian Jiaodi Charter" spread among the newly attached armies. Even this Shengjing general obediently handed over the land, they are big soldiers, what kind of martial arts are they talking about, the grain of the Great Qing Kingdom is grain, and the grain of his Tang Lord is also grain.

Those who are grain are not just men who eat grain for the sake of food, grain, grain, and soldiers who eat food! Whose food is not eaten?

Having said that, the officials who cut off their braids and were beaten into big-headed soldiers couldn't help but admire Tang Haoran's courage in their hearts, this person was so bold. The court asked him to hand over the "chaotic ministers and thieves", as a courtier, he dared to disobey the order, electrify the world, and the court was chaotic, and his old man naturally did not accept it! Not only is it not acceptable, but it is also necessary to "clear the monarch's side".

This is good, the entire situation of the Qing Dynasty was completely stirred into a pool of muddy water by him alone!

At this time, these people who had finally rushed to Jinzhou City from Guannei, and before they could take a breath, they obediently became prisoners, who would dare to disobey his Tang Lord's wishes? More precisely, how can it reverse the intention of the knife that kills without blinking.

People are always like this, when they are forced to have no way out, they only have their eyes closed and their teeth bitten, people die and birds face the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years, and it is just a matter of fighting this life with the court! Maybe, in the end, you can spell out a founding hero!

Spell out a founding hero!

Not only do these newly annexed armies think like this, but also for many generals of the new army stationed in Korea, this is not the case.

Just in those who just cut off their braids. Even the former training officers and soldiers who just tied a strip of red cloth around their necks. Full of thoughts of "fighting for a founding hero". When contending with the muddy road and the heavy rain overhead, on the high side of the official road, the officer in a raincoat watched coldly the army struggling in the mud in front of him move forward.

Fourth Division......

Looking at the team in the mud, Wang Shizhen, who had just been promoted to the commander of the Fourth Brigade, looked very calm, and did not feel the slightest joy because he became the commander of the fourth division of the New Army. However, in reality, the New Army has only two divisions and less than 35,000 troops, of which the Second Division was only recruited and reorganized just a few years ago, and the First Division has been organized for just over a year.

Because of this, the 1st and 3rd divisions will become two sharp knives, all the way to the north and all the way to the south. Attacking the city and grabbing the land all the way, it can be said that it is invincible. As for the 2nd Division, it only followed their butts to pick up the remnants of the enemy and expand the gains, and with the might of the two armies, the 2nd Division hardly encountered any resistance along the way.

In contrast, the Fourth Division, which consisted of a mobile police brigade as the backbone and more than 10,000 prisoners, was undoubtedly the least combat-effective unit. Even Wang Shizhen, as the commander of the division, became the commander of the Fourth Division by chance, and Wang Shizhen, as the chief of staff of the First Division, was one of the officers recruited when the adults hired the guard camp in Dagu.

After the establishment of the police department, he has been serving in the police department, and was later appointed as the chief of the Hamjing Provincial Police Department and the captain of the 5th Mobile Brigade.

As the chief of staff of the 1st Division, after accepting the task of attacking the Kwantung region and advancing the Beijing Division, in addition to organizing and implementing the attack on the Kwantung region as planned, he proposed a complete set of strategies for the division commander Shang Dequan to occupy the Kwantung region: to first persuade the Qing army to take prisoners, and then to use force to threaten each other. If they still do not comply, they will be killed again and taken prisoners. Because of the lack of troops, Wang Shizhen's suggestion was adopted, and the Unified Supervision Office directly appointed Wang Shizhen as the commander of the Fourth Division, and the backbone of the Fourth Division was the 13th Regiment of the New Army, which was the Fifth Police Brigade he was familiar with.

This means that he needs to use a thousand people to suppress ten thousand people, how can he drive these ten thousand people to swear to the death, and force each other to die, but it is only a temporary emergency, and in addition to this, he must rely on the same military salary to collect his heart, as for the rest...... What's the use of worrying?

"Sir, do you think these people can come in handy?"

Looking at the muddy officers and soldiers on the official road, the corners of Chen Guangyuan's lips were slightly raised, and his face was full of contempt, and it was no wonder that he looked down on these "former Qing officers and soldiers", Jinzhou, which originally gathered a large army, was regarded as a "hard bone" that was difficult to gnaw, but who would have thought that the third regiment would easily end the battle in only half a day at the cost of less than 200 casualties.

Along the way, whether it was the first division of the main land and sea attack, or the second division that swept in the rear, and the third division that went north from the Xianjing Road, they did not encounter stubborn resistance, and most of the resistance of the Qing army was crushed at the first touch, which completely exceeded their expectations.

And now the fatal thing is that the Fourth Division is completely composed of prisoners, which cannot but make Chen Guangyuan, the division chief of staff who is only 20 years old, feel emotional, for fear that these people will drag down the Fourth Division. To be precise, it dragged him down, but on the other hand, he also understood that the biggest weakness of the Korean garrison was the lack of troops, and it became natural to recruit these prisoners.

"If the pie will come in handy, I don't know for the time being!"

Shaking his head, Wang Shizhen looked at Chen Guangyuan beside him, he was also from the adult guard back then, when he was in Xianjing Dao, the two were superiors and subordinates, until last year after he entered the martial arts hall, he never thought that now the two of them have set up a team again, although it is only a grass platform team, but no matter what, this team must be set up first.

"But the most important thing is that on the way south, there are still more than 4,000 captives waiting for us to receive, plus more than 26,000 captives from Shengjing, Lushun and other places, we have at least five divisions in name, isn't this an army of 100,000!"

Turning his face to Chen Guangyuan and smiling, Wang Shizhen's eyes looked south, as if he wanted to see through the rain curtain and see the mountains and rivers in the pass.

"For the imperial court, they didn't see the difference between the fourth division, the fifth division, or even the sixth division and the first division, they only saw tens of thousands of soldiers pointing directly at the Beijing division, Xiufeng, what do you say the imperial court will do then?"

This is the most critical thing, the corners of Wang Shizhen's lips raised slightly.

"For the imperial court, there is nothing they see that they do not take prisoners, as long as we give them a military uniform of the garrison army, they are naturally the garrison army, that is, the elite of our garrison army, why did our second division fight smoothly, isn't it because the first division first defeated the courage of the Qing army? When the Qing army saw those wearing black uniforms, they died first before they were angry, what else did they fight? ”

Fighting, sometimes in the final analysis, depends on that breath, as long as you have that breath, even if you can't win, you can fight for a draw, but the problem is that some people don't even have that breath.

"Sir, having said that, if we are severely damaged by the Qing army on the battlefield...... At that time, don't they think that the elite of the garrison army is just like this, and at that time, if these prisoners are rebellious, how should we suppress them? ”

Chen Guangyuan's rhetorical question made Wang Shizhen's brows suddenly lock, this is exactly what he is most worried about, the reason why he wants to absorb these prisoners is to strengthen his momentum and strength, but this is just a paper paste of military might, if it is pierced...... It is very likely that the new army's hard-fought military might fall short.

"After all, these people are not the same as us, Commander!"

It's not like us!

The chief of staff's question only made Wang Shizhen's bottom worry even stronger, isn't it, they are not as good as the new army in terms of training, not to mention their courage, sending such a person to the battlefield, maybe, maybe it will only drag down the big guy.

"It's different!"

At this moment, there was a voice next to him, it was the instructor who had been silent.

"It's no different, we are Chinese, they are also Chinese, the key depends on how to use them, with Green guns in the back, who dares to escape?" As long as they don't dare to escape, as long as they dare to rush forward, then for the imperial court, they are the elite of the Korean army, and no one dares to stand in front of them! ”

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