Chapter 186: Taking Jinling (1)
"Huh"! Zhao Yun dipped some tea on the table with his hand, "What we want is not the whole of Anhui, as long as we can win southern Anhui, there will be room for bargaining." He clicked on the water trail on the table, "This Yangtze River is not something that can be passed casually." If you want to jump over this Yangtze River, you have to go through guò from several ferry crossings. Moreover, it is not easy for an army composed of so many men and horses, including baggage, to cross the Yangtze River, and it will take them at least five times longer to completely cross the Yangtze River than our own fighting teams. ”
"Sounds like a good plan, hehe. But what about afterthought? Wang Dashao didn't have his usual hippie smile at this time, this is a matter of the interests of everyone in southern Anhui, so he can't make friends with Zhao Yun.
"I only want Yixing and a few surrounding counties, not a big city!" Zhao Yun's face was resolute.
Wang Dashao was basically able to confirm at this time that Zhao Yun really wanted to take off the sword of Skodama on his head, and had no other thoughts. I believe that my uncle and other high-level Anhui officials are also willing to pay for this condition.
Wang Dashao asked again, "Brother Xian, I don't know if you can give me a thorough explanation, how many people do you have in total?" ”
Zhao Yunhan said with a smile: "There are about a few thousand people, but the roads in the south of the Yangtze River are in bad condition, and there are many rivers to cross, which are not suitable for large-scale marches, so these people are enough." Of course, in order to make it easier to cross the river, I also prepared a fleet of boats. ”
Speaking of the fleet, Wang Dashao admired Zhao Yun very much, this cement can build houses and fortresses, but no one expected that it could also build ships.
In normal times, Nanjing City does not have to worry about Zhao Yun's thousands of men and horses, but if the defenders of Nanjing City go out of the city to Anhui to fight fires everywhere, then the garrison force in the city will be greatly discounted. In addition, the Qi Overseers want to transfer the field troops to the north, and all the other forces have to be transferred to defend the Zhejiang Overseers in the south, which will make Nanjing City look like an empty shell! It's not vulnerable at all! You know, just to get the defenders to stand on the walls of Nanjing, it will take 20,000 people. However, Zhao Yun's team opened fire inside the defensive line set up by the Qi Overseers.
Wang Dashao thought about it, Zhao Yun's advantage is very obvious at the moment, and the chance of winning this time is very high. If the Anhui system can take this opportunity to turn the tables in one fell swoop, it will be a great achievement, and it will be ...... in the future
As soon as he thought of it, Wang Dashao immediately went to the small courtyard where his godfather was resting, and quickly informed Old Man Deng of the news!
Of course, Zhao Yun, the mastermind, and Wang Dashao also pulled it over together!
The Anhui faction was greatly injured by the joint efforts of Zhifeng, and all the high-level officials were arrested, although a new cabinet came to power and they were all out of prison, but the mental blow was not something that could be healed in a while.
The day before yesterday, he was a master, yesterday he was a prisoner, and today he was freed, which makes many people in Anhui feel that this world is not real.
Old man Deng was one of them, although Zhao Yun rescued him, but he was depressed all day long by the rebellion of the students.
"Godfather, godfather, good news!" Wang Dashao was in a hurry, and went straight into this elegant courtyard full of green plants!
Old man Deng no longer has the sharpness of the past, like an ordinary old man, lying on a free chair and holding a purple clay pot. Although Old Man Deng loves his godson very much, he has never pulled down Wang Yougui's teachings.
Seeing Wang Yougui and Wang Dashao's disheveled appearance, he couldn't help frowning, "Yougui, when Lao Tzu really doesn't dare to whip you, what about your demeanor!" Lao Tzu doesn't often teach you that even if you die, you must pay attention to your appearance. ”
Wang Dashao didn't dare to say anything to the old man about whether he would die or not, so he pulled Zhao Yun and ran into the courtyard, and without waiting for Zhao Yun to greet Old Man Deng, he shook out what Zhao Yun had just said in one breath.
After Wang Yougui finished speaking, Old Man Deng was expressionless and kept staring at Zhao Yun. After a long time, Old Man Deng held back a sentence, "Zhao family boy, is this matter serious?" "Old man Deng is also a military and political officer who guards the town, killing more people than killing chickens, even if he is not in the position now, but the tiger power still exists, and the protégés and former officials are all over the southern Anhui territory. Being targeted by him, Zhao Yun still felt that the temperature around him was instantly lower by more than one degree.
"The story is very long, let's make a long story short," Zhao Yun told the old man Deng completely about what he encountered, "Although the younger generation is not at home to stretch out his hand to eat, but he has never been threatened with the death of others, but this Qi overseer has repeatedly put the younger generation to death, if the younger generation does not do it, then there will be a fierce battle in the future, and there will be more people affected by then." "What Zhao Yun said was from his heart, and the things were true, even if someone from the Anhui Department went to investigate, there would be no problem.
According to Zhao Yun's statement, Old Man Deng believed that it was indeed the greed of the Qi Overseer Army that made Zhao Yun, a pampered guy, be threatened with his life, so he would take such a risk.
As for whether Zhao Yun only has a few thousand troops, Old Man Deng didn't pay attention to it, if you want to hold a big city like Nanjing, it is not possible to have troops alone, but also to have people's hearts and prestige. Otherwise, it will be like Zhang Xun entering Jixian County, and he was blasted out by someone joining forces.
Moreover, this time is indeed a good time for the Anhui system to reverse, and Zhao Yun's asking price is also very low, but it is only a few counties. In big cities like Changzhou and Suzhou, Zhao Yun didn't want any, and he really wouldn't give up too many benefits.
After a little consideration, Old Man Deng nodded and agreed to Zhao Yun's plan.
The preliminary preparations have been made, and Zhao Yun is also ready to go to Nanjing to talk to Qi Overseer. And the Qi Governor's Army, which had long been concerned about Zhao Yun, naturally discovered that something was wrong with Yixing County at the first time, and hurriedly ordered Su Changzhen to guard Zhu Xi to pay attention to Zhao Yun's movements, and at the same time ordered a main force regiment stationed in Heqiao Town, one of the four major towns in the north of Yixing County, to Yixing to prepare to suppress it at any time.
Zhao Yun's big move in Jiangnan began here.
Zhao Yun was not born with a backbone in the back of his head, and inadvertently ran to the chaotic era of the Republic of China, Zhao Yun found that he couldn't go back, and he was also at ease with his encounters, and he had a little requirement for life, but for power, Zhao Yun was not interested in this thing at all.
Everyone says it's good to be an official, but they don't know how hard it is to be an official. If you want to be noble before men, you must suffer later. Petty officials want to accumulate wealth, big officials must be filial, and they must beware of the consequences of the proliferation of guns in such a troubled era of the Republic of China. If you don't keep it, you won't be able to come back if you walk around the street one day.
Now it is still the Beiyang government and the revolutionary party in the south are fighting, maybe there will be a fight at some point, and then there will be a liquidation, what an official! Money! None of them are gone.
Zhao Yun just wanted to make some money here, and did what he wanted to do but couldn't do before. Count the money until your hands cramp, and sleep until you wake up naturally. Realize Zhao Yun's life motto!
Subconsciously, Zhao Yun has already regarded Yixing as the base camp of Jiangnan, and all factories have put on a posture, and the machine is on the horse, and the personnel are getting started. Even the aircraft research and development base is located here.
These advanced and experienced workers are priceless, and they can't be obtained by the ability of the Qi Overseers. Even if these factories were first-class in Europe at this time, they would inevitably cause people to be angry, but Zhao Yun didn't want to fight with anyone, and if he started, it would definitely be a fire at the city gate and affect the fish in the pond. Therefore, Zhao Yun can bear the matter of increasing the protection fee, Zhao Yun can bear it.
Now that Qi Overseer's approach has crossed Zhao Yun's bottom line, Zhao Yun can only give it a go.
Now there are three organized regiments around Zhao Yun, the county garrison regiment (the county garrison plus the local militia regiment), the new second regiment (the troublesome bandit regiment), and the 23rd regiment of the Jiangsu Army, there are seven or eight thousand people.
Zhu Xi, the envoy of Su Changzhen, is also a fierce general under the Qi Governor's army. In his early years, he graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was a classmate with Lu Guangxi, Xu Shuzheng, etc., and after returning to China, he successively served as the new military management belt and standard commander of the Qing Dynasty. In October 1911, the national shape of the country underwent great changes, the Wuchang Uprising was successful, and in November of the same year, Zhu Xi also actively led his troops to revolt in Suzhou, and later participated in the Battle of Yuhuatai in Nanjing, and was promoted to the head of the regiment for his merits. It can be said that he has made outstanding achievements, and then he has been prosperous all the way, serving as the commander of the Ninth Brigade of the Jiangsu Army, and then the commander of the Second Division of the Jiangsu Army, and was awarded the Lieutenant General of the Army by Jixian County.
The name of the Second Division of the Jiangsu Army can be described as very bullish on the boundary of Jiangsu at this time. The First Division of the Jiangsu Army is the descendant unit of the Qi Supervision Army, which is composed of old subordinates who have followed the Qi Supervision Army for many years. It can be said that Zhu Xi's Second Division ranks among the top two in terms of combat effectiveness and personnel among the troops stationed in Jiangnan, and the 23rd Regiment of the Jiangsu Army is subordinate to the Ninth Brigade of the Second Division of the Jiangsu Army, which can be called the descendant of Zhu Xi's subordinates.
As the commander of the Second Division of the Jiangsu Army, Meng Shentong, the commander of the 23rd Regiment, is also an old subordinate who has been following Zhu Xi to fight the country. Since this is a descendant, the money and food are naturally sufficient. So Meng Shentong took advantage of his position to buy a batch of bicycles from Deputy County Magistrate Xu and formed a bicycle team of 200 people.
These two hundred people, all of whom are veterans of more than two years, have extremely high loyalty to Zhu Xi and Meng Shentong. The whole team was equipped with 100 pistols, 50 flower machines, 20 light machine guns, and 100 Russian water beads, and they could get to the outside of Yixing County within an hour of stepping on a bicycle. Well-equipped and fast-moving, it can be described as a rapid reaction force of this era.
The establishment of this team is said to be to prevent law and order in the Taihu Lake area, but it has been stationed in Yixing since its establishment, and the purpose is only informed by Zhu Xi and Meng Shen.