Chapter 168 Secret War in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou (2)

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At the foot of the Ten Thousand Mountains, in the middle of the wilderness ().

Nearly half of the factory shed has collapsed, and more than a dozen rusted iron lumps are exposed, and the corners and fragments have been knocked away for money, and they are bare and cannot be seen in their original appearance. The huge refractory bricks were also stolen by the villagers, and only a few damaged ones were still erected alone in the grass, telling the glory of this place as the most modern iron factory in modern China more than ten years ago.

"Brother Yang, is this the old site of Qingxi Iron Works? Why not rebuild it? Miao Luo jumped out of the carriage, and her beautiful eyes were red from this miserable scene: "I heard that it has only been open for a few months, and the iron mine should still be there." ”

Yang Qiu is not as sentimental as her, from Pan Tianzhu's mouth, he has learned that although there are a lot of iron ore here, the quality is too poor and it is not easy to mine, unlike Daye's exposed iron ore on the surface, there are hundreds of millions of tons, and all of them are high-quality ores with extremely high iron content, and it is better to rebuild this place with money to increase Daye's production, or go to Sichuan to explore new ore sources to meet Chongqing's needs ().

Yang Qiu came out this time to say that he was inspecting Guizhou, so he only brought Jiang Fangzhen and Miao Luo, the former smiled: "It's a pity that Qingxi is deserted, but as the saying goes, the old doesn't go to the new, we have mountain roads all the way, and there is a lack of coking coal here, so it is indeed not suitable for steel plants." ”

"That's a pity, I think we should protect it and follow the example of the United States as a site for future generations to visit." Miao Luo pouted, always feeling that it was a pity to abandon such a good iron factory. Jiang Fangzhen agreed with this sentence and said: "Those who don't know history don't understand that the predecessors paid for the country, and the fathers of Mr. Tianzhu are indeed worthy of respect. ”

Yang Qiu saw that the two of them sang and harmonized, and he had the posture of transforming Qingxi into an industrial tourist resort, and said with a smile: "I said Brother Baili, when did you become so sentimental?" The matter of protecting the ruins can be left to the following, and I invite you to help me develop Guizhou. ”

"Is it just the development of Guizhou?" Jiang Fangzhen squinted his eyes at Wanshan in the distance and said, "Guizhou is not short of money, what is lacking is roads!" Although there are few fields in the 100,000 mountains, there is no shortage of resources. I heard Kuang Jingyang say that after the Third Division recovered the Wanshan Gong Mine, it established the Southwest Mercury Company, which was responsible for the development of the mercury mines in Wanshan and Tongren, and was also preparing to build a mercury factory, which alone would bring millions of profits to Guizhou every year. There are also many coal mines in Zunyi and Shuicheng, which are also a lot of money. You held a meeting before to promote the development of tobacco and sugarcane sugar, and Guizhou is obviously confident, so why do you need me to come to advise. ”

Jiang Fangzhen is still Jiang Fangzhen, and he is not polite at all. Miao Luo listened beautifully, her heart was all on Yang Qiu now, and it was too late for her man to be happy that he had the ability. Only Yang Qiu smiled bitterly: "I really can't hide it from Brother Baili." ”

The three of them chatted while walking towards the Wanshan mercury mine, taking advantage of the action of the people, the thieves and diggers entrenched in Wanshan have all been eliminated, and now this world's second largest mercury mining area, which is now famous in the future, has been handed over to the younger brother of He Xi, the commander of the second division, who co-founded the Southwest Mercury Company with Zhengfu, and in order to protect resources, the National Guard also stationed a company here under the pretext of suppressing bandits.

Jiang Fangzhen had no interest in mining, and after looking at it twice, he changed the topic: "Cai Yi has asked Han Jianfeng to bring a mixed association to Xuanwei, obviously to prevent the Fifth Division from entering Liupanshui, and also to coordinate a Seventh Brigade to Dali and the Sichuan Side from afar. Coupled with Tang Jiyao and Liu Cunhou, who retreated to Duyun, he also gathered 40,000 horses in Guizhou and on the border.

The Fifth Division has trained its troops through a few months of small fights, and has pressed Tang Jiyao's troops to Duyun, so that a big gap is exposed in the direction of Shuicheng in the west! The fighter should be said to have appeared!

What is lacking at the moment is the troops! For the time being, the Eighth Brigade does not have combat effectiveness and can only do reserve work, and the Seventh Brigade enters Yunnan along the river, and the terrain is complicated, and it is too difficult to replenish supplies. The geography of Guizhou is complicated, and it is necessary to leave at least two brigades to contain Tang Jiyao's troops. I suggest that the Third Division transfer another brigade, and it is best to draw one brigade from the First Division and the Second Division, concentrate four brigades to abandon Tang Jiyao's troops, and go to Shuicheng to directly attack Kunming, so that the problem can be quickly solved. Merely. He paused, patted the dust stuck to his military uniform, and said with a smile: "Such a large transfer and troop consumption will cost at least 3 million dollars, and Zhang Wenjing is estimated to be scared to death." ”

Yang Qiu smiled, and asked without answering: "Does Brother Baili know about Guangxi and Lu Rongting?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen guessed that he would not die in Guizhou again, but he didn't expect that he didn't think about hitting Kunming first but turned around and pointed to Guangxi, shaking his head: "The envoy wants to take Guangxi first?" It's a good tactic to break the game. If you take Guangxi, Yunnan will be defeated by the enemy, and you can solve the two provinces in one go, and kill directly to the sea in Guangdong! If it can be realized, it can be said that the first war can lay the entire southwest! But it's hard to fight.

Lu Rongting is a native of Guangxi, and he can be regarded as chivalrous and courageous, and this person is especially righteous, and his good marksmanship has even been praised by the Japanese. These are the basis for the Guangxi people to support him, and the Guangxi New Army has always been on the border, and its strength is no worse than that of the Yunnan Army. More importantly, with Cai Songpo's means, he will never sit idly by and ignore our attack on Guangxi, and when the time comes, the two armies of Guizhou and Yunnan will join forces, on the contrary, we will fight Kunming and Lu Rongting, but we will not necessarily send troops. The deployment of troops is not ripe, the fifth division was blocked by Tang Jiyao in the north of Duyun, the strength of the third division and the sixth brigade in Hunan is sufficient, and the number is also superior, but Guangxi is also in a complex terrain, once the Yunnan Yunnan army can easily enter Guizhou to help, unless you think that the seventh brigade can really hit Dali and coerce Kunming. ”

"The most important thing!" Jiang Fangzhen glanced at Miao Luo, who was leaning on Yang Qiu's side, and said heavily: "We fought Yunnan because the Yunnan army killed innocents indiscriminately, but there is not enough reason to enter Guangxi, if you really start fighting, you will wait for the whole country to condemn the Jiangxi army to go north, don't forget that Li Liejun is not only the hardcore of the Kuomintang, during this period of time, he has been pressing and not moving the troops in the whole country, and there are really 20,000 horses in his hands!" ”

"Let's go, let's also taste the mountain roads of Guizhou." Yang Qiu didn't say anything after hearing this, but climbed a mountain road and stretched out his hand to Miao Luo below, there were so many guards and soldiers around him and Jiang Fangzhen, Miao Luo was also a little shy, but he still pretended to be bold and handed it to him.

Wen Yu started, Yang Qiu smiled slightly, and pulled hard to set foot on the mountain road to Guiyang again. Jiang Fangzhen looked at his back, and always felt that what he said just now should have something to say, did he really want to risk the world's condemnation to forcibly attack Guangxi? This is indeed the best way to solve the Great Southwest in one fell swoop, but the unprovoked offensive pressure is too great! From the beginning of his righteousness to the present, he has always taken into account public opinion and popular sentiment in everything he has done, even if his strength is soaring now, he pays attention to publicizing himself and the justice of the National Defense Force everywhere, how can he rashly attack Lu Rongting, who has a good reputation, without reason?

Does he want to join forces with Wang Zhixiang? That's possible, Wang Zhixiang is known as "Tie Lao", the former deputy governor of Guangxi has some strength in the new army, and the intelligence says that he has brought 2,000 guns to Nandan, but he? Jiang Fangzhen shook his head, Wang Zhixiang is indeed a big hidden danger in Guangxi, but he is far worse than Lu Rongting, and he is by no means a good partner.

So what did he think?

"Principal Jiang? What happened to you? Lei Meng interrupted Jiang Fangzhen's thoughts, carried the newly arrived Type 1912 rifle, and said with a smile: "The commander and Miss Miao have already gone away." "When I go back, I'm afraid you're going to change your name to Mrs. Miao." Jiang Fangzhen laughed, forgot what happened just now, and walked forward jokingly.

On the Yunwu Mountain north of Duyun, a company of Wehrmacht officers and men was searching along the ancient tea road, with several mules and horses behind them, and three 80-mm mortars.

"Made, when will this mountain end? Lao Tzu has climbed the mountain in the past few months. ”

"Tang Jiyao's turtle son, if he doesn't plant, he will run away, let Lao Tzu catch him and pinch out his eggs."

"His eggs are worth a ball, I think you're worried about his aunt, right?"

"Huh."

The soldiers brag and fart to resolve fatigue, and it is a laborious thing to climb the mountains and clear up the mountains every day, especially when the mountain division is reorganized, the combat mode of the troops has undergone major changes, and the troops used to be field battles with battalions and regiments as units, but after encountering the continuous mountainous areas of Guizhou, it has become very difficult for the battalions and regiments to operate in large formations, so they began to experiment with smaller company units to act alone, often several companies scattered in the mountains, supporting each other to clear out the remnants of the enemy (). According to the division commander, this is a small victory into a big victory.

The company commander also smiled, turned his head and asked the instructor next to him, the two have been old friends for many years, and they didn't have so many scruples when they spoke, and asked: "You say, what does it mean that the division commander will let the main force not move, and let us fight evenly?" According to me, I went directly from Shuicheng to the west and entered Yunnan. ”

"yes, I'm confused too." The instructor was also confused, scratched his head and said, "I guess I want to take the whole territory of Guizhou first." ”

"Then it should also hit Yunnan! After taking Kunming, Tang Jiyao's gang became lonely ghosts, and it was easy to clean up. "The company commander couldn't figure it out, but an order is an order, and he could only take the soldiers to move on.

"Company commander."

As soon as the team crossed a tea plantation, the soldiers who had gone out to reconnoiter rushed back and reported: "Yaziling is in front, and the villagers in the mountains say that there is probably a regiment of Dian troops stationed on it. ”

The company commander used to be a native of Sichuan, and when he recovered Chengdu, he made meritorious contributions with the vanguard brigade and was promoted, and after two months in the study class for officers of mountain troops, this time he came out to cooperate with the brother troops to encircle and suppress Yaziling, and strive to open the last barrier to Duyun. Fortunately, he did not forget the disadvantage of his troops, and immediately beckoned people to notify several neighboring companies to help, and he quickly led his troops to Yaziling.

When they arrived at Yaziling, everyone immediately gasped, only to see that the mountain ridge was more than 300 meters high, almost straight up! No wonder the war in Guizhou is so difficult to fight, if you put your own company here, as long as you have ammunition, it is more than enough to block a few regiments!

Fortunately, I have a mountain weapon.

Mortars began to be installed in the accompanying artillery squads, and this new type of artillery, which had recently begun to be prioritized for the Fifth Division, was very popular with soldiers because of its light weight and ability to accompany infantry movements.

"Coordinates 110, elevation adjusted to 78, blasting grenades, six rapid shots!"

The squad leader's soft shouting provoked the idea of Yaziling, and in an instant, there was a commotion on the other side, and the banging gunfire began to sound violently, and the bullets were shooting wildly in this direction. The company commander immediately organized two light machine guns to suppress it, while anxiously waiting for the artillery to open fire.

Three soft bangs sounded quickly, and the shells weighing six catties slipped out of a high parabola under the impetus of gunpowder, and the shells smashed almost vertically on Yaziling, and the Yunnan army's position was suddenly full of fire, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and before they could recover from their senses, the second shell fell again. The mortar rate of fire was extremely fast, and the skilled gunners could even fire 20 shells per minute, except for the unsatisfactory projectile propellant, which caused many shells to be crooked and almost exploded to their own people, more than eighty percent of the shells still accurately hit the position of the Yunnan army.

Seeing that the mortars were suppressing the enemy, the soldiers in the company secretly regretted that they did not bring a few more boxes of shells when they came out.

The Dian army on Yaziling obviously didn't expect the opponent to have artillery, and immediately panicked. Originally, they wanted to defend in danger, but the whistling of shells on the left made them completely panicked. Under the cover of a total of six mortars, two companies launched a fierce attack on the mountain, and the large amount of light machine gun equipment made it almost impossible for the Dian army to stop.

In addition to teaching the regiment to fight a tough battle, the other three brigades have not fought a decent battle since they came to Guizhou, and the officers and soldiers of each unit have undergone a lot of training after the intermediate transformation into a mountain division and are familiar with the fighting methods of mountain warfare. There were more than 1,000 Dian troops in front of them, which really stimulated these Sichuan men, although the terrain was not conducive to attacking, almost everyone gritted their teeth and rushed up.

The Dian army also knew that Yaziling was important, and after passing here, it was the Duyun base camp, so they relied on the geographical advantage and numerical advantage to fight back. The echo of the explosion of the shells drew several nearby companies to it, and the battle entered a fever pitch......

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