Chapter 225 Wind and rain will be Hongcheng

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"On the Shaanxi side, the 11th Brigade has crossed Hanzhong and marched towards Baoji, the 18th Brigade cannot be contacted, their task needs to cross the main vein of the Qinling Mountains into Weinan, the radio is very poor, but the rest of the troops are very fast, morale is high, and the Beiyang Army in Shaanxi will collapse at the touch of a button and cannot stop us at all."

In the Wuchang apartment, Kong Qinggui, the new military secretary who succeeded Chen Guofu, stood in front of the map to explain the current battle situation to Yang Qiu, he was a student of Nanjing Lu Elementary School, and after the uprising, he joined the death squad with Xu Shaozhen's ninth town to participate in the battle against Nanjing, after the north-south peace talks, Wang Zhuo and Chen Guofu, who joined the national defense army in the Wusheng Pass fire line, wrote to them These people came to Wuchang to continue to study at the National Defense University, when he saw the chaos in Nanjing, so he packed his bags and went north to bring many classmates to join the national defense army, He is still a student of the Artillery Command Department of the National Defense University, and because senior officers have been busy recently, he was transferred to a part-time military secretary.

Even if it is a part-time job, Kong Qinggui is still very happy to get this job, the special spirit of military uniform care, the report is particularly detailed: "Here in Hubei, after Major General Yue Peng used the advantage of artillery to tear up the gap, he led his troops to break through the first line of defense of the Beiyang garrison in the north of Wusheng Pass, and is currently pressing the attack in Xinyang from three directions, of which the 4th Brigade is the fastest, and has crossed the junction of Xinyang and Xinye to Fangcheng, and the rest of the departments are also progressing smoothly, we have a clear advantage, and it is expected that the peripheral clearance work can be completed within ten days." ”

"The southern front is still unclear, the 121st Regiment was attacked by two regiments of the Beiyang Third Division on the night it arrived in Bengbu, and the battle is still ongoing. Huai'an is more troublesome, and the 101st Brigade needs to be transported by boat, and it will arrive at least tomorrow morning. Stationed there is the 12th Infantry Division, that is, the original Eighth Division of the Jiangsu Army, the old foundation is the Jiangsu Zhen Army, but the previous attack on Nanjing consumed a lot, and the troops have not been able to recover from the lack of funds and equipment for more than a year, and at present they are facing Li Chun's Beiyang Fourth Division, and the battle has begun, according to the telegram of the division commander Leng Yuqiu, the fight is relatively hard, and it can be seen that there are problems with the combat effectiveness of the troops. ”

The current Kong Qinggui is not the artillery commander who is known for his calm and steady Anti-Japanese War in Songhu, and the report is full of many self-talking comments such as high morale and poor troops, so while listening to the report and making records, he secretly wants to knock on this good seedling (). Lei Meng beside him didn't hear anything wrong, as long as the troops were victorious, he was excited, especially after the three battlefields were fully opened, he hated to kill himself, but it was a pity that his elm head was not open to military command, and this time he didn't get the position of commander of the guard division, so he could only continue to serve as Yang Qiu's adjutant and captain of the guard.

Fortunately, he didn't have much interest in making meritorious contributions, but enjoyed being an adjutant, and it felt good that so many officials nodded to himself every day.

"You can tear through the line in a day, do you know why?" Yang Qiu looked at the 22-year-old secretary, stopped his pen and asked rhetorically.

Kong Qinggui didn't expect to ask him back, and after thinking about it, he said: "I think General Yue Peng is a good commander and a brave soldier." Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Yang Qiu with one hand, and said with a little reproach: "Don't learn those useless whiskers, you don't have to behave here if you want to join the first division." Down-to-earth and study hard Wang Zhuo, although he didn't have his turn to go to Germany, he is now the commander of the 102nd Brigade of the Guard Division. What soldiers are brave and brave, this is all false. The real reason is that we have become stronger, but you must remember that Beiyang is not our goal, their little belongings are not worth mentioning at all, and your future is a world powerhouse! ”

Kong Qinggui blushed a little after saying this, and hurriedly nodded and escaped.

Seeing this, Raymond scratched his head and asked, "Commander, this kid is actually not bad." ”

"I know he's good, otherwise Jiang Baili wouldn't have recommended him to me. But he was a little proud, so he added a lot of modifiers to himself! A soldier must be arrogant, but not excessive, it is better to beat me now than to be beaten by the enemy on the battlefield in the future. "Yang Qiu knows that he is good, and the current students of the National Defense Force are good, but good does not mean that it is very good, now in front of him is just Beiyang, which is in an all-round backward technology, and when he encounters the 150, 210 and other heavy artillery of the Japanese army, can Yue Peng break through so smoothly without artillery advantage?

So he can't condone the behavior of cocking his tail after a few small battles, just at this time Miao Luo walked in with coffee, waved his hand and said: "Okay, you go and prepare for going to Jiangxi tomorrow, and by the way, go outside to talk to him, you don't need those exaggerated words for the briefing in the future, the military only needs to be detailed and numerical ()." ”

After seeing Lei Meng leave, Miao Luo put the coffee on the table and took out a telegram to him: "Hao Yu came here just now, seeing that you are listening to the briefing, let me hand this over to you." ”

"What is it?" Yang Qiu was sorting out the notes just now and circled the main points in them, so he casually asked Miao Luo to read them to him.

"It was a telegram from the hunter saying that he had met the 103rd Brigade and that the capture had been counted. There were 217 gold bars, 350,000 pounds in cash, 2,700,000 yen, 4,700,000 in various bills, cheques and deposit slips, and about 15,000,000 in land and real estate title deeds, which they captured and a captive could withdraw. Miao Luo was also taken aback by this set of numbers after reading it, she hadn't seen the money, Yang Qiu had already handed over the assets under her name to her for management, but it was the first time she heard that a hunter could get so much money, and asked, "Brother Yang, who is this hunter?" Where did you get that much money? ”

Yang Qiu put down his pen, took the telegram and sighed: "I'll tell you about the hunter later, as for the money, it was copied from Ni Sichong's house." ”

"Ni Sichong? Is that the butcher of northern Anhui? Miao Luo blinked his beautiful eyes in surprise, he never thought that an ordinary Beiyang official who was not even the governor of a province would have so much money.

Yang Qiu arrived at no accident, in the parallel world, Ni Sichong had accumulated a huge fortune of 80 million in a short period of time, according to the national defense army's annual maintenance of a standard division of 3.5 million, it was enough to feed 22 divisions for a year, and 20 guard divisions could be formed just by purchasing ordnance! Therefore, it is fake to say that there is no money in Beiyang, the money has been swallowed by the people below, if Ni Sichong, Cao Kun, Zhang Xun and Jiang Guidi and other people are willing to work together to come up with money to tide over the difficulties, it is really unrealistic to win this battle.

In the future, the land will still have to be returned to those who have been robbed or used to build national farms, gold is used for reserves, and other money can be directly collected into the treasury, plus An Guoliang's seizure in Henan, nearly 20 million funds have been obtained during this time, and the funds that have become increasingly tight due to the war have finally been slightly relieved. But this is not a formal channel after all, and distributing one's own country's war money is always an act of drinking to quench one's thirst, so it is necessary to find a way to find new income ().

"Alright, don't talk about these chores." Yang Qiu didn't like to have too many political and military things in front of Miao Luo, so he pushed away the telegrams and documents, picked up the coffee, pulled her to sit beside him, and asked, "By the way, Grandpa, hasn't he come back from Sichuan yet?" ”

Hearing that he took the initiative not to mention political affairs, Miao Luo was very happy, and said with a white eye: "You still remember." ”

Mr. Miao made a special trip to China for the wedding of the two during the New Year, but because Yang Qiu couldn't get away from Nanjing at that time, he simply took Miao Yuan and the old man who came back together to inspect the customs of the southwest and other places, who knew that this investigation was actually out of the spectrum, not only after visiting Hubei and Hunan, but now also going to Sichuan, it is said that he will also go to the three southwestern provinces, if it is not for the plateau factor, he may also want to go to Xikang and Tibet.

Yang Qiu smiled on his face, but he felt a little sorry for her in his heart, not to mention that he had promised him to get married during the New Year, but now he had to delay for a while because of the war, and he did something sorry for her in Tianjin last time, he always felt very guilty in his heart, put down the coffee and held her hand and said: "Luo'er, I have worked hard for you during this time, our marriage." ”

Although Miao Luo also had some resentment about the postponement of the marriage in his heart, he knew that he had to do big things first, so he snuggled up to his shoulder and said quietly: "I know you are busy, and grandpa also agreed, so if it doesn't work, I will postpone it until the reunification of the country." ”

"Then don't wait for our Luo'er in a hurry." Yang Qiu naughtily scratched her nose and said with a smile: "When I come back from Jiangxi, I will do things, and when I count the days, grandpa and they should also come back from Sichuan." ”

Miao Luo listened to it with a sweet heart, and said with a smile: "That's not necessarily, grandpa they had a good time in Sichuan, and they also inspected a lot of projects, and they are going to Nanyang and the Chinese circle in the United States to publicize after they go back, so that they can return to China to invest in light industry." ”

Investing in light industry?

Yang Qiu's surprise, Miao Luo said the original words of the old man Miao, although the southwest is being developed, in the construction of his grandson-in-law, heavy industry and metal processing and other industries are particularly gratifying, but the development of light industry is still not very developed in the eyes of the old man who has lived in the United States for a long time, so he wants to go to Singapore and the United States in the name of the court to hold an investment conference, including textile, sugar, daily chemicals and other light industries to return to China, which can be regarded as a favor to help his grandson-in-law.

Hearing this, Yang Qiu also secretly admired, and said: "This matter must be done, you ask grandpa what he lacks, and I can help him find a way." ”

"I haven't skimmed the eight characters yet, what's the hurry." Miao Luo smiled when he saw him, but when he thought of his brother, he was a little sad and said, "Grandpa's side is fine, it's my brother." ”

Miao Yuan was indeed in a bad mood during this time, mainly because of Song Jiaoren's affairs. The last time Song Jiaoren went to Tianjin, he learned that the old man Miao Yuantu of Zhigongtang had returned to China, so he asked Miao Yuan to wait in Shanghai to greet him, and he himself agreed because he hadn't seen his grandfather for a long time, who would have thought that Miao Yuantu hadn't arrived yet, and the news of Song Jiaoren's assassination had reached Shanghai, so he always thought that it was because of his dereliction of duty that the tragedy occurred, and Miao Yuantu also severely punished him for this incident.

So during this time, he became disheartened, although he was still running around with the old man, but from time to time he showed the idea of returning to the United States to avoid seclusion. Yang Qiu also knew about this, Miao Yuan was Miao Luo's brother after all, and thought about it and said: "Tell your brother, let him manage the affairs of the Southwest Rubber Plantation, the seeds of the gum tree have been bought back and are being raised, and the technicians must also protect them so as not to cause trouble, in addition, I already plan to build another shipyard on the side of Qinzhou Bay, and the technicians over there in Shanghai are already in place, so I will send a person in charge to let him manage it." ”

Miao Luo knew that Yang Qiu had the intention to expand the industry, but he didn't expect that he would persist in the war now, but it was good to find something to distract Miao Yuan, but just as she was about to thank him, the knock on the door rang again, so frightened that she hurriedly slapped Yang Qiu's hand away.

As soon as they got up, Zhang Xiaozhun and Murong Han hurriedly walked in, and even Miao Luo didn't shy away from saying in a hurry: "Commander, something happened in Guangdong!" ”

Yang Qiu suddenly got up and snatched the telegram.

The telegram was sent by Cai Jimin, but Long Jiguang still did not resist the temptation of Yuan Shikai's inspection envoys to Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, and took advantage of the arrival of Chen Jiongming and Hu Hanmin's ships in Guangzhou to launch a coup d'état, not only arresting hundreds of KMT personnel, including the two people, but also proclaiming himself the governor of Guangdong, and quickly taking control of the entire territory of Guangdong with the help of the scum of the Cantonese army who had defected to him ().

Because the telegram to Guangxi was deliberately cut off, so the third division got the news two days late, so that Long Jiguang was very stable to control the situation, at present he not only captured the remnants of the Kuomintang in Guangdong, but also integrated the two divisions and began to advance in the direction of Wuzhou and Zhanjiang, fortunately, Cai Jimin had already guarded against him, so after getting the news, he immediately sent Xiong Bingkun's 9th Brigade to cross Wuzhou to attack instead of defending.

The forwards of the two armies have already encountered in Yunfu, and the battle is currently underway.

Long Jiguang's coup d'état did not deviate from his prediction and that of the General Staff, and he also played this hand in the parallel world, and now the whole territory of Guangdong is under his control, and the 3rd Division and the 16th Brigade can ensure that he is defeated, but he must be prevented from escaping into southern Fujian.

Zhang Xiaozhun saw Yang Qiu's concern, walked to the map and pointed to Guangdong: "After Long Jiguang's hand, we must prevent him from entering Fujian, the Fujian army claims to be a division, but there is only one mixed brigade or so, and they will definitely not be able to go north after Guangdong is occupied, and I think they can't stop Long Jiguang at the critical moment, so the best way is to mobilize troops from Jiangxi, so that we can attack him from Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangxi." ”

"I think we should send a telegram to General Sa Zhenbing first, he is a native of Fujian, and he is very influential in the local area, as long as he ascends to the heights, it is almost ironclad to call the Fujian army to return, and at the same time, he can send the navy south to Guangdong immediately to prevent Long Jiguang from jumping over the wall." Murong Han also said his thoughts.

"Just do what you say." Yang Qiu returned the telegram to Zhang Xiaozhun, no matter how much trouble Long Jiguang made, he couldn't turn the sky upside down, so he didn't worry about Guangzhou, the biggest problem was Jiangxi! As long as Li Liejun is recovered, the southern problem will be solved.

"The 22nd and 23rd Brigades were ordered to enter Jiangxi via the Zhuping Railway, the 22nd Brigade to advance to Xinyu Armed Forces, and the 23rd Brigade to advance to southern Jiangnan. Tell them that they can decide for themselves whether or not to fire back when they encounter resistance. The Hubei Guard Regiment was ordered to go south from Jin Chun to Jiujiang to control the Jinjipo Fort, send a telegram to General Sa, and dispatch the four ship groups of Hairong, Chuyu, Chuguan, and Haijing to the north and enter Poyang Lake to stand by. ”

After Yang Qiu finished speaking, he glanced at Miao Luo, who was worried about him next to him, and said with a smile: "You two go and prepare, let's go and meet Li Liejun together tomorrow morning, I hope he can make the right choice!" ”