On July 10, on the seashore in the early morning, the blue sky and white clouds were rolling.

Xie Niancheng and Yang Yuwei sat on a rock, waiting for the red sun to rise above the sea level.

Yang Yuwei's eyes are still a little swollen, in the past two days, she has also participated in the treatment of the wounded, watching young lives pass away one by one, she always can't stop her tears with a good heart.

"Nian Cheng, you say, why do you want to fight? Isn't it good for everyone to be happy? ”

Why war?

It's not something that can be said in a few words!

Xie Niancheng expressed his understanding: "The purpose of fighting a war is to not fight. If everyone was well fed, warmly clothed, and housed to live in, who would want to go to war? If you think about it, many people are now struggling to earn food and clothing, while some people can eat and clothe without doing anything, is this fair? ”

"Without war, will those who have earned nothing give up their wealth and power in their hands?"

Yang Yuwei is just kind-hearted, and there is no problem with IQ, so she naturally knows that Xie Niancheng has a point.

"Well, I wish I could see the new world you described sooner, where everyone can live a good life on their own!"

"Yuwei, you still don't want to go to the battlefield in the future, the battlefield is too cruel, so many dead people, so much blood, girls better not look at these things."

"Do I not see the dead and the blood, and there is no death, no bloodshed?"

Yang Yuwei's words from the bottom of her heart did not come out. "Don't you know? If you go to war and make me scared somewhere else, that's the cruelest thing. ”

"The sun is out, look!"

Yang Yuwei let go of her worries and clapped her hands and screamed.

Looking along Yang Yuwei's slender jade fingers, the golden sunlight shone on the sea, sparkling and beautiful.

……

On the ninth day, Zhang Linfu and Chen Qin were sent away, and Xie Niancheng led his troops to the beach, and after letting the water ghosts transfer away the wounded in the troops, the troops camped on the beach and did nothing for a whole day, just to discuss the gains and losses of the battle and clean up personal hygiene.

After breakfast, several officers around him handed over the various tactical gains and losses after yesterday's sorting to Xie Niancheng, sat on the box and began to discuss the macro gains and losses.

There is no doubt that the victory in Tamsui has played a role in turning the tide for the Chinese Revolutionary Army in a critical situation.

It is inevitable that Liu Ximin, Yang Zhenhuan, and Lin Hu of the northern front will be demoralized after learning the news, and there will be no suspense about the victory of the Chinese Revolutionary Army on the northern front.

Hong Zhaolin and Lin Ju fled back to Huizhou, even if they collected the defeated troops, the defeat of the 10,000 remnants of the army was no longer a concern.

Zhang Chengyue followed Xie Niancheng for the longest time, "Captain, in this battle, we have broken our old book, we have suffered so many brothers and wounded so many brothers, and the troops have lost their vitality." ”

Su Huaiyu disagreed with this view: "Battalion Commander Zhang, I think that after this battle, the troops have withstood the test, and most of the wounded can be returned to the team after recovery. ”

From a military point of view, Su Huaiyu's thinking is more correct.

There are veterans of brutal battles in a unit, and the combat effectiveness is definitely much stronger than that of a recruit unit. And Zhang Chengyue's thoughts are more out of an emotional point of view, and the subordinates who have been with him for a few months have turned into ashes, and it is impossible to feel uncomfortable in his heart.

When it comes to the issue of troop casualties, Peng De strongly agrees with Xie Niancheng's method of resettlement of casualties, but he also expressed concern:

"The battalion commander, the dead and seriously wounded brothers are each given a settling-in allowance of two hundred oceans, and the seriously injured and disabled brothers have a monthly living allowance of eight oceans, which is much higher than that of other troops...... Is there so much money to pay? ”

"If money can buy people back, I am willing to pay more money." Xie Niancheng sighed.

Seeing that the atmosphere of the conversation was about to develop in a sad direction, Xu Geng asked a question that everyone wanted to know the answer to very much: "Battalion commander, what are we camping here now?" ”

Xu Geng discussed this issue for a long time yesterday.

Xie Niancheng has the heart to test them, so tell me, why did we stay here?

Su Huaiyu pondered the most about military matters: "Battalion commander, I thought about it for a day, but I still can't figure it out...... If you want to go back to Guangzhou, you can go by land with Commander Zhang and them, or you can go by boat with the wounded, why stay here? If we talk about keeping an eye on the direction of Huizhou, we are now at the beach, and we can't keep an eye on it! ”

"The battalion commander probably doesn't want to enter Tamsui City, right?"

Wu Yongqiang is in charge of baggage, so he naturally knows the difficulty of taking care of the wounded soldiers: "There are so many wounded soldiers in Tamsui City who 'save the Guangdong Army', we are going to go, and it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's better to drive to the beach to rest." If Huizhou dares to send troops out again, we will ambush halfway? ”

"I think that the battalion commander let the troops stay here, it should be out of political considerations, with the great victory in Tamsui, our troops are famous, if we go back to Guangzhou, this little bit of people will not play a role in the battle situation on the northern front, stay on the south road, it can be said that we have single-handedly supported the battle situation on the southern front."

Su Wei has been thinking about politics for a few years, and his vision is indeed a little higher than others.

A few other people said it to the same point. These people didn't know about Xia Na, so they couldn't guess Xie Niancheng's true intentions.

Everyone spoke, and Xie Niancheng spoke: "In this battle of Tamsui, our army has suffered a lot of losses, and I, Xie Niancheng, have never done loss-making transactions. The wounded and wounded brothers asked for money, recruited new soldiers, and bought weapons and equipment, and I didn't believe that the Guangzhou government could give us much money, so we had to rely on ourselves to recover the losses. ”

Hearing that they made money to make up for their losses, everyone came to the spirit.

"Okay, battalion commander, do you have any clever plan to take down Huizhou? Say it. "Xu Geng's mind is the most flexible.

"Impossible, hundreds of us are going to fight Huizhou?" Wen Deyun, who has always been very bold, couldn't believe it.

"Who said you were going to fight Huizhou?" Xie Niancheng said strangely.

"If you don't fight Huizhou, where will you make up for the loss?" Pender asked.

"Chaozhou!"

Xie Niancheng spit out two words from his mouth.

Chaozhou is Chen Tongming's hometown, which has been in business for many years and has never been hit by war, so there should be a lot of food and ammunition hoarded.

At the same time, the homes of most of the senior officers of the Chen Department are also in Chaozhou, and if Chaozhou can be conquered, not only will there be huge gains economically, but militarily, as long as the news that Chaozhou has fallen into the hands of the Chinese Revolutionary Army spreads, the Guangdong Salvation Army will collapse immediately.

"Chaozhou? Battalion commander, but Chaozhou is more than 700 miles away from here. ”

Zhang Chengyue blurted out, and immediately reacted and patted his head fiercely, "No wonder the battalion commander let us stay at the beach, it turned out that we were going to Chaozhou by boat." ”

"Battalion commander, if we are going to fight Chaozhou, why don't we call Regiment Commander Zhang and them together? Although the main forces of Chen Tongming's troops are on the front line, there are still some people in Chaozhou City, and there are hundreds of people on our side to fight Chaozhou. ”

Xie Niancheng hated iron a little: "Chief of Staff Huang, going to Chaozhou is not to guard the West Mountain, to guard the West Mountain is to gnaw hard bones, to go to Chaozhou is to eat meat, can you ask them to go together to eat meat?" And you look at the appearance of Captain Zhang, and said that he would 'borrow' our flower mechanism, and now that the war is over, did he mention it? ”

"You can rest assured, just our people will go and conquer Chaozhou, there will be no problem...... You all go back and get ready, get some rest, and set off in the afternoon! ”

"Yes."

Xie Niancheng has absolute authority in this army, once he makes up his mind, others will no longer talk about it, just implement it.

The officers went back separately to organize the troops, and Xie Niancheng entered the tent of the communication squad and asked Yang Yuwei: "Yuwei, did Xia Na and Lolita call?" ”

"I just came, the fleet has set off, and it is expected to arrive here at about three o'clock in the afternoon, a total of 26 boats, more than 1,200 people, of which we have 330 people, bringing ten empty transport ships, which can pull 6,000 tons of supplies."

"Good, good."

If you can take Chaozhou as you wish, no matter how you calculate this account, you won't lose money.

……

Before three o'clock in the afternoon, Xana and Lolita arrived in a small runabout.

Knowing that Xie Niancheng was eager to understand the military situation, Xia Na jumped off the speedboat and ran to Xie Niancheng.

Seeing that Xia Na's face was a little haggard, it was not difficult to imagine how much hard work she had put in in the past few days, Xie Niancheng took a bowl of water and handed it over: "Don't worry, don't worry, drink saliva first." ”

Xiana took the bowl in Xie Niancheng's hand and took a few big sips.

wiped his mouth and said, "Big brother, the twenty-six boats have arrived, the transport ship is slow, and the water ghosts are behind it, now arrange for them to go ashore?" ”

Xie Niancheng shook his head: "No, don't come down, drive the boat over some, prepare a small boat, and pull all the troops on the shore to the boat...... Also, you call all the leaders of the people who came to help us to our boat, and we will meet first. ”

Shana nodded, and turned back to the speedboat.

Lolita came over slowly, curious, "Big brother, where are we going?" ”

"Big brother will take you to collect the bills."

"Oh."

Lolita didn't understand what Xie Niancheng meant, and nodded subconsciously.

Sixteen small steamers drove to a stop where they were about to run aground, put down dozens of small boats, and stopped to the shore under the control of dark-skinned pirates.

In less than two hours, all the more than 500 officers and men of the third battalion boarded the ship.

After Xie Niancheng came to the leading ship, he gave an order to Xia Na, "Let's go, go to Chaozhou." ”

Xia Na naturally understood what kind of place Chaozhou was, and instructed a guard beside her, "Sue Captain Sù, go to Chaozhou." ”

The mast of the eight-hundred-ton steamer raised a signal flag, which means "Follow my ship." ”

Twenty-six boats lined up in a "one" shape, and smoke billowed from the chimneys, heading towards Chaozhou at full speed.

There are more than 700 miles of waterway from Tamsui to Chaozhou, and for these small steamers that can reach a speed of about 15 knots, the estimated time to reach the urban area of Chaozhou is 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day.

According to the information provided by the Confidential Bureau, after Hong Zhaolin led the main force of the Guangdong Salvation Army, which was originally stationed in the Chaozhou area, to the west, there was no regular army in the city of Chaozhou, only a few hundred policemen.

How could Xie Niancheng miss such an opportunity?

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