【176】Galaxy Shadow Shakes the Three Armies (5)

The blizzard has stopped a long time ago, but the temperature in the capital has always been unusually cold, and the Spring Festival has only passed half a month, and there are solidified ice skates hanging under the eaves everywhere. The cold wind from the north has never stopped, whirring and whirring on the land of North China, blowing so that pedestrians on the streets of the capital cannot stick their necks or stretch out their hands.

Qianmen, Dashilar, Sijiu City, Temple of Heaven, this ancient country can see beggars hidden under the snow everywhere, and the corpse trucks escorted by officials carry these lifeless ice sculptures outside the city every day like collecting garbage.

The four-hundred-mile express letter was delivered to Li Hongzhang, to the military aircraft, and to Cixi.

The fire in the West Warm Pavilion of the Heart Cultivation Hall was very hot, but Cixi did not feel warm at all, although she was a face-saving person, but in the face of this second tragic lesson in the military, she couldn't help but be cold, and in the time of quietly waiting for the ministers to enter the palace, Cixi was anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

This Xinuan Pavilion is the place where the emperor usually works to approve and read the chapter, the furnishings in the room are simple and quaint, the wall behind the kang is hung with the horizontal plaque of "diligent government and love the people", and there is a pair of banners on both sides of the banner "Only one person lives in the world, how can it be a person for the world".

Cixi sat on the kang under the plaque of diligence and love for the people, dressed neatly, and Li Lianying combed the Danfeng Chaoyang type for her, with many gorgeous and valuable hairpins on it.

"I'm going to invite you here today to discuss how to deal with that glue thief."

Cixi's voice echoed coldly in the hall, unabashedly revealing the dissatisfaction in her heart.

All the important ministers in this great empire came, and at this moment, they stood on the floor of the Xinuan Pavilion like a flock of grass chickens, not saying a word.

"Why don't you speak? I review the excerpts every day, and I see that you can all speak well, why don't you speak today? Cixi was so angry that her chest rose and fell.

Li Hongzhang's face was withered, and the blow of this defeat to him was like a thunderbolt, and the whole person was scorched.

He stood up a little indifferently and said: "Since the pacification of the long-haired and twisted bandits, the imperial court soldiers and horses have been peaceful for a long time, and the weekday training is sparse, and the ministers are responsible for this and are willing to be punished by the court." ”

Li Hongzhang said this at a high level, and after showing his past achievements, he took the initiative to admit his mistake and embarrassed Cixi.

Cixi is not a fool, where would she punish her as a dependent Huai leader Li Hongzhang at this moment.

"But you can't appease Lao Li as soon as he admits his mistake, right?" She drooped her eyelids and looked down at the ground in front of her, putting on a faint expression, but not speaking.

Prince Gong stepped forward, bowed slightly, bowed slightly, and opened his mouth to excuse Li Hongzhang: "According to the minister's opinion, this defeat is because the glue thief has exhausted the grain, like the hibernating snake out of the hole to find food is the most vicious, the so-called hungry rat eats the cat, desperate and desperate to fight against the water, the heart of grabbing food to survive is very much, and the thief is huge, can not be defeated head-on, should be held by the hard village." This is the leading Zhou Shengchuan who used the soldiers to be unconscious.

This battle of Zhou Shengchuan is very similar to the previous battle of Wang Zhengqi, both of which were defeated by the only leader who abandoned the city to meet the enemy, and had nothing to do with Lord Li. ”

Cixi's face softened slightly, and she nodded: "I called you here to discuss countermeasures, not to ask the teacher to ask for guilt."

You are all important ministers of the military state, the pillar of the Qing Dynasty, and you have worked hard for the court and the emperor, what is the point of losing for a while? When Longhair was in turmoil, Zeng Guofan was about to jump into the river when he lost at first, but with the support of the imperial court, and after repeated defeats and battles, didn't he destroy Longhair?

You only talk about countermeasures here, you don't have to blame yourself, I know that victory and defeat are common things in wars, you just say how to fight next. Lord Li has been loyal to the country for many years, how many things have he done for the court and the royal family? How could I punish him for a mere defeat. ”

Li Hongzhang shook his horseshoe sleeves with a grateful face, knelt down and bowed: "Thank you Empress Dowager Longen." ”

Cixi said: "Get up, in the final analysis, the rebellion of the glue thieves still depends on you, Lord Li, to pacify, you say, what is the best plan at the moment." ”

Li Hongzhang stood up and said: "At present, the glue thieves are newly victorious, the morale is booming, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court have lost too much, there is no other way to think of it except training and defense, we only have to re-recruit the group to practice, and at the same time defend the city passes around the city, and after the army is trained, the glue thieves will be surrounded and annihilated with the oppression of slow advancement." ”

Cixi raised her eyes and looked at Li Hongzhang sadly and said, "Then the land of Jiaodong is making trouble with them now?" ”

Li Hongzhang's head hung lower: "At present, the only way to do this is to stick to the front line of Jinan, so that the rubber thieves cannot spread to the Beijing Division, and the peninsula area east of Jinan can no longer be taken care of." As for Lunan and Jiangsu, the imperial court still has the Ming army and heavy troops, and the glue thieves will definitely not be able to get by. ”

In the following group discussion, all the ministers also echoed Li Hongzhang's opinion, everyone thought that more than 40 battalions of the Ming Army, Wu Yi Army and Qing Army were assembling in the south, but the Zhili in the north was emptied, and Jinan should be defended at this time, and at the same time speed up the northward assembly of the camps on the South Road, so as to put pressure on the rubber thieves, so that he did not dare to leave the old nest and attack north.

Then Cixi ordered to speed up the money printing strategy that had been set before, and pooled money to train a new army.

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When the court was panicked, Yao Fan was not idle, and in the process of cleaning up the battlefield, the People's Liberation Army found Zhou Shengchuan's body in Qingzhou.

"Just bury him in Qingzhou. But don't mess with our martyrs' cemetery. Yao Fan instructed.

In the previous battle, Yao Fan's troops were sacrificed for the first time, and in the pursuit after the victory, although Shouguang, Qingzhou, Linqu, and Linzi were captured, the revolutionary army also sacrificed 17 soldiers, most of whom were sacrificed in the annihilation of the Huai army that fled back to Qingzhou City, and some soldiers were sacrificed in the siege of Linzi.

Yao Fan personally selected 17 good longevity materials from the coffin shop, and presided over the memorial service and the burial ceremony of the martyrs' cemetery.

17 rifles sounded into the sky three times in a row, comforting the warriors' spirits in the sky, Yao Fan stood solemnly in place, struggling in his heart, but soon he made up his mind.

"Liu Jinbao's three regiments were stationed in Qingzhou, Linzi, Guangrao, and Shouguang.

Zhang Ercannon, deputy commander of the 5th Regiment, led the 1st Battalion to the east and attacked Laizhou, Zhaoyuan, Longkou, and Penglai in turn. Battalion commander Yang Ping led the second battalion and the third battalion to attack Qixia and Laiyang after capturing Laizhou, and then directly attacked Yantai.

After the fifth regiment took Yantai and Penglai, it continued to the east, attacking Weihaiwei, Wendeng, and Rongcheng until it captured the entire Jiaodong Peninsula.

The 44th Regiment of Zhou, which is now stationed on the front line of Gaomi, Jiaoxian, and Jimo, sent a battalion to take Haiyang.

In this way, our army completely took the entire Shandong region east of Qingdao, Weifang, and Zibo.

The remaining two battalions of the Fourth Regiment were deployed in the suburbs, Gaomi, and Anqiu, on the front line, to defend against the Qing army's attack on the southern road.

The 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment were stationed in Weixian, and at the same time as the land reform, new units began to be organized and trained, and the new units were no longer equipped with machine guns, and the rest of the equipment was the same as the original troops.

The formation of the new troops is ten regiments! ”

Yao Fan reported his plan in one breath, looked at his cadres and said, "Do you have confidence!" ”

In the face of Yao Fan's war plan, the cadres said in unison: "Yes! ”

Yao Fan finally felt that the expansion of the army and the war should be carried out simultaneously, and in some places, since the Qing army had clearly abandoned the defense, it was really unreasonable for him not to take it down, and it would be more convenient for him to recruit talents after the expansion of the base area.

Yao Fan nodded, turned to Yang Ping, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, and Zhang Ercannon, the deputy commander of the Fifth Regiment, and said: "In this battle plan, it will be a test for your Fifth Regiment, and I will allocate the newly established recoilless artillery battalion in Qingdao to you for a company, a total of nine recoilless guns, to assist you in the attack." After taking Penglai, Yantai, and Weihai, the nine artillery squads equipped with these nine recoilless guns were responsible for the defense of the three ports together with the garrison troops. ”

Yang Ping was one of the first old men to follow Yao Fan, when Yao Fan picked him out of the business to practice bicycles, this young man was not very conspicuous at that time, but with the deepening of military work, Yao Fan now he is more military talent than the regiment commander He Shicheng, training and ideological work are more active.

"Rest assured, Chairman, I will take the east road smoothly and will not add to the burden on the brother troops on the west road and the south side." Yang Ping said firmly.

Yao Fan said: "He Shicheng, the head of the transport regiment, is the old leader of your five regiments, and this time he is responsible for supplying your five regiments all the way in the rear, and you must coordinate well." ”

He Shicheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, Chairman, I will equip each of their battalions with fifty carriages." ”

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After this meeting, the Shandong Commune began to move, and the base camp originally located in Jimo was also relocated to Weifang.

By the beginning of March 1876, the eastward advancing troops had completed the established strategic plan and taken the whole of Dengzhou, so that the Jiaozhou Peninsula was all under Yao Fan's control.

Because the PLA strictly guarded discipline and strictly abided by the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, it did not commit any crimes wherever it went, and mingled with the poor hired peasants, and set up peasant associations in various localities, and grassroots organizations were quickly established, and in the process of land reform, a large number of grassroots cadres emerged, which greatly supplemented the ranks of Yao Fan's administrative cadres.

In the management of each county, Yao Fan adopted the method of combining military management and civilian management, and after executing the officials of the imperial court one by one for corruption, he set up county revolutionary committees in each county. The county revolutionary committees adopt a three-headed system, that is, one demobilized cadre, plus a young cadre trained by the Zaofan cadre training class, plus several representatives of the peasant associations in the townships under the county, to administer the county in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism. The top priority of ordinary work is land reform.

Due to the growing power of Yao Fan, the squires of all walks of life in the base area of the Jiaodong Peninsula were ready to move, and they came to defect one after another, but because the class division of the Shandong Commune was extremely strict, they could not find a way out of the Shandong Commune to become officials, and in desperation, they could only send the young children of their families to the Zaofan Youth Cadre Training Course in Weifang, which was the only way that Yao Fan arranged for them.

There are now more than 300 people in the Zaofan Youth Cadre Training Class, and many of the first batch of graduates have served as instructors, and Huang Jinying and Huang Yuntian from the Jimo Huang family are among the backbone members.

Now there are even foreign teachers in the early sail youth cadre training class, Marx recruited a group of mathematics, physics and chemistry teachers and engineers for Yao Fan from Europe, and these internationalist fighters with ** faith were warmly welcomed by Yao Fan and were appointed by Yao Fan in various positions. The company also recruited and trained a group of German and English translators in Shanghai, and a total of 27 people were sent to Weifang. rg

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