Guo Songling glanced at the watch in his hand, which was a gift from Chang Ruiqing before he left Fuzhou, a Swiss watch. It was already 4 o'clock in the morning on July 8, 1918. It's summer, and the sky in the northeast is also dawning early, and the eastern sky is already slightly white at this time. With this light, you can also see the high and low hills around Mudanjiang Railway Station. Behind him. It was all the more than 1,000 officers and men of the 1st Division of the Northeast Revolutionary Army of the Red Brigade who were waiting for the order to attack! They set out from Chunyang Town the afternoon before yesterday and marched hundreds of miles to the Mudanjiang Railway Station to wait and lurk. The officers and men were eating raw rice and drinking cold water and had been dormant for nearly 24 hours. is waiting for the arrival of the Russian ** train.

At this time, the Mudanjiang Railway Station has also been controlled by Zhao Sanmei's people, and all the Russian staff on the station have gone to see their Orthodox God! The Chinese employees were anxious to keep the station running under the watchful eye of the female devil, making Yiqiē look the same as usual. However, on the railroad tracks of the incoming station, dozens of kilograms of explosives have been planted by the sappers brought by Guo Songling from Fujian, which can blow up the railway at any time! And more than 1,000 soldiers of the Red Brigade, as well as thousands of fighters of the Korean Liberation Society, will use the explosion as a signal to launch a charge and take down the Russian arms train in one fell swoop! If there is a qiē shun lì, there will be another train with expatriates from Western countries, coming from the other direction, and when the time comes, the trajectory of China's history will probably be changed because of this!

Guanyin Mountain, Guangzhou, the residence of the Military Commission of the National Government.

A small black car stopped at the gate of the Military Commission. Around the open gates. There was already a group of officers waiting for the arrival of this car, and Chang Ruiqing was among them. He strode forward, opened the door of the car, and sat inside was a man in a suit and leather shoes, with a beard on his face, who was Mr. Sun Yat-sen, chairman of the National Government of Guangzhou and chairman of the Military Commission! During this time, he has been inspecting soil improvement in various parts of Guangdong.

The Kuomintang's suppression of the local gentry in Guangdong was far less than Chang Ruiqing's thunderous tactics in Fujian. So. At present, Guangdong's "perpetual tenant and eternal rest" law is not as smooth as Fujian's. In many places, there were even "mass cases" of armed resistance to the local power of the Nationalist Government, and Sun Yat-sen had no choice but to rush to deal with them in person in the name of inspection. In the end, it was often the national government and the local gentry who each made concessions, and the government used the method of paying more "perpetual interest coupons". In exchange for concessions from the landlords, although Guangdong's land reform could still be reluctantly implemented, the cost had greatly increased.

Today, Sun Yat-sen has just returned from an inspection in Huizhou. When I came to Guangzhou City, I did not go back to the chairman's mansion of the "Shimin Tuchang" (that is, the original generalissimo's mansion), but came directly to the military committee at the foot of Guanyin Mountain. Because he received a telegram in Huizhou from the Military Commission to launch a westward expedition! This battle of the Western Expedition will be the first war after the establishment of the Nationalist Government, and the victory or defeat of this battle will be directly related to the prestige of him, Chairman Sun Da!

As soon as Sun Yat-sen got out of the car, he waved his hand without waiting for Chang Ruiqing to salute, and said in a somewhat tired tone: "Excuse me, Yaoru, has the plan to send troops been made?" How many people are you going to send to fight Guangxi? ”

Chang Ruiqing still gave Sun Yat-sen a military salute, and then reported in a low voice: "Sir." We plan to send three armies, a total of 100,000 troops! ”

Sun Yat-sen ignored the other officers who greeted him, and just walked to the compound of the Military Commission with Chang Ruiqing, and asked as he went: "Are there 100,000 people in the three armies?" I remember that our army was only a few thousand people. ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled and explained, "Before this sortie. We plan to carry out a general mobilization in Fujian and Guangdong provinces to mobilize 100,000 reserve officers and soldiers into the army, which is also an opportunity to test our national mobilization system. According to the plan, the mobilization will be completed in two weeks, followed by another two months of training, until the end of September. Our total strength will reach 240,000, and we will have six armies fully manned. ”

Hearing the figure of 240,000, Sun Yat-sen's eyebrows frowned slightly: "What about the salary?" I'm afraid we can't afford to raise so many troops, right? ”

Chang Ruiqing glanced at Sun Yat-sen's somewhat worried face, smiled bitterly and said: "Let's pay the revolutionary salary, the soldiers are five yuan a month, the officers are divided into two levels, the junior officers get 15 yuan, and the middle and senior officers have a family, take 50 yuan." In this way, there is no problem with the finances of Fujian and Guangdong provinces to raise 300,000 soldiers, and if they are expanded, they will have to pull a deficit, but the hole will not be too big, and it will not be a problem when there is more territory. ”

Hearing that Chang Ruiqing was hundreds of thousands of troops as soon as he opened his mouth, Sun Yat-sen let out a helpless wry smile: "Doesn't the art of war say that the military is good at military affairs, and not too much?" How is it the other way around you? ”

Chang Ruiqing shook his head and explained: "Sir, look at the current European war, tens of millions of people in countries with tens of millions of people are wearing military uniforms!" Teenage dolls, dozens of years old men have all gone to the battlefield, and Russia has sent women to the front line, how can it be elite soldiers? And what is the greatest military advantage of our country? It's just a lot of people! China is the most populous country in the world, and most of them are young and middle-aged people, if according to European mobilization standards, tens of thousands of soldiers can also be mobilized! No matter what the enemy, heap them to death with a heap of numbers! Therefore, our idea of army building should not be what elite soldiers are, but quantity! We want to pursue absolute numerical superiority! For this reason, the current national mobilization system of Fujian and Guangdong provinces should be implemented throughout the country in the future, and the people of the whole country should be organized as they are here in Fujian and Guangdong, and then a set of the most basic military industrial production system should be added, and we will not be afraid of any great powers! As long as we are not afraid of the great powers, we will naturally be able to tear up an unequal treaty, and we will be able to make full use of our labor and resource advantages to build our country. ”

His words startled Sun Yat-sen beside him, and "tens of thousands of soldiers" also made people hairy when they heard it! About one-tenth of it was mobilized, and no one dared to bully China, right? It would be nice if I could really do this, and I would never have to worry about the British coming to settle accounts with me in the future, but I always have such nightmares these days. Sometimes I dreamed of the death of the country, and I cried in my dream, which scared Song Qingling enough! If it gets out, the face of this great leader will be lost.

However, Chang Ruiqing didn't know that Sun Yat-sen had been immersed in his own thoughts, and he was still talking there: "Actually, we didn't need 100,000 troops to defeat the Gui army, half of it was enough, but after all, we fought with the Gui army, it was a brotherly fight, this is a civil war!" It is better to surrender without a fight. Just like Mr. Sun's seizure of Guangzhou last year, it would be best if Lu Rongting and the others could be scared away. So the subordinates wanted to bring more people to strengthen their momentum. Scare the Gui army, as well as the Dian army and the Guizhou army. According to the meaning of his subordinates, it is best to take down the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou without blood! ”

Chang Ruiqing's last sentence pulled Sun Yat-sen out of his thoughts, and he stopped. looked at Chang Ruiqing: "Yaoru, do you mean that this time you will not only have to fight Guangxi?" Do you want to take down the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou? ”

"Exactly!" Chang Ruiqing nodded heavily, took a breath, and said, "If possible, it's best to seize Sichuan as well!" And there must be fewer wars and fewer deaths! ”

Sun Yat-sen turned his head to look at Jiang J Shi on the other side: "J Shi, is this also your idea?" ”

Jiang Jishi scratched his head and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Yes, the lowly position also intends to do so." But I'm afraid it's not a small difficulty! After all, Gui, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou have the support of Beiyang behind them, and they don't buy our accounts much, so the people we sent to lobby the generals in Guangxi this time will all be brought back. ”

Sun Yat-sen looked back at Chang Ruiqing: "How are you going to deal with it over there?" I'm afraid they won't watch us take the southwest, right? ”

Chang Ruiqing raised his wrist and looked at the time, and a hint of mockery appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Please rest assured, Mr., they will soon have no energy to care about the affairs of the southwest...... The train laden with munitions. At this moment, it has appeared in front of Guo Songlin on the hillside! Guo Songling felt that time seemed to have slowed down a lot at this moment, it was originally a speeding train, but now it was just slowly crawling towards Mudanjiang Railway Station. Guo Songling took a deep breath and shouted out the order to "detonate"!

A huge explosion rose in the valley east of the Mudanjiang Railway Station, and the orange fire shone on the surrounding hillside into a fiery red, and the air wave of the explosion swept a radius of several hundred meters. The huge oscillation completely distorted a section of railroad tracks for tens of meters.

Probably due to inertia, or perhaps the train driver was completely stupefied by the sight in front of him. After the explosion, the train loaded with munitions did not stop in time, but plunged headlong in the direction of the fire, and the result was naturally the entire derailment, and almost all the wagons and locomotives fell horizontally on the open space on both sides of the tracks! I don't know what was in a few wagons, but there was a raging fire!

Guo Songling and his more than 1,000 officers and men of the Red Brigade, who were waiting on the top of the mountain not far away, were all stunned by the scene in front of them. For a while, he actually forgot to attack, and after a while, he heard Guo Songling shouting at the top of his voice: "Rush!" Come on! What are you doing standing stupidly? Give me all rush! The hoarse roar was repeated over and over again. Only then did the officers and men below react, raised their rifles with bayonets, and launched a charge with shouts. At the same time, the aspirants of the "Korea Liberation Society" who were lying in ambush on another hill also rushed down the hill shouting the slogan "Long live the Republic of Korea"!

Half of the battalion of White Russians on the munitions train were stunned or injured when the train derailed, and most of the rest didn't know what was going on, thinking that the munitions they were carrying had exploded! By the time they reacted, more than 2,000 men on the hills on both sides had already rushed to them, what else could they resist? They all simply raised their hands and surrendered.

For these White Russian prisoners, the Red Brigade did not embarrass them much, except for a few officials who were targeted, almost all the rest were "absorbed"! It turned out that this group of White Russian soldiers was not originally stationed on the Middle East Road, but came from the Vladivostok fortress, where the "Engineer Soviet" had also been formed, but had been destroyed some time earlier by the pro-Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary "counter-revolutionaries". However, in the troops below, there were still some lurking red elements, and when they saw the red flag of the red brigade, they knew that the other party was a Chinese comrade, so they took the lead in mutiny. Well, it's time to take the lead in supporting the world revolution! And the remaining White Russian soldiers, who had done ideological work for a while, also agreed to participate in the Chinese revolution

But that's all for later, the current Red Brigade soldiers, as well as those North Korean comrades who came to help, were divided into two teams under the command of Guo Songling and Kim Zuozhen. One team is on guard, the other is busy carrying munitions and planting explosives! The 1,200 tons of ammunition can't be moved by them anyway.

And on the other end. Wu Shi, who was standing on the roof of the waiting room of the Mudanjiang Railway Station, also saw a slowly moving black smoke through the binoculars -- this was a passenger train from Chita to Vladivostok, and it was also one of the targets of the "Middle East Road Robbery" this time...... Shiba-old! Shiba-old! Wake up! Duan Qirui's sweet sleep was woken up by this rapid and blunt sound. This is the de facto master of the Beiyang system. These days, it's been relatively smooth. Since Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing partnered to establish the Nationalist Government and completely abandoned the legal system of the Republic of China, many forces that followed Sun Yat-sen and the Beiyang Government have switched to Beiyang! Although it is not sincere obedience, on the surface, the territory controlled by the Beiyang government has increased significantly, and the whole of China, that is, Guangdong and Fujian provinces, still hold anti-flags.

Moreover, the latest plan to crusade against Fujian and Guangdong has also been prepared, and it has been decided to use all the participating armies, plus Lu Rongting's Dian army will attack Guangdong! In this way, there is no need to pay too much extra for military salaries. Of course, the loan negotiations with the British continued. Minister Eston was also very helpful, and had already persuaded the representatives of the Macquarie Bank that although HSBC had not relented, tens of millions of dollars could always come down! In this way, three divisions of the Beiyang Army could be mobilized to monitor the Fujian side. Duan Qirui, who was in a good mood, also invited the delegates attending the meeting of the Overseer to play mahjong all night last night, and just fell asleep in the morning. Now is the time for a sweet dream, and someone is so eager to wake up!

Duan Qirui yawned and sat up from the bed, and after dozens of seconds he felt a little more sober, he rubbed his eyes, and saw his henchman Xu Shuzheng and Foreign Minister Cao Rulin standing in front of his couch. Xu Shuzheng's face was already blue, and Cao Rulin was standing there trembling slightly. It seems that something big has happened in diplomacy! Duan Qirui rubbed his temples a little dissatisfied: "Runtian, now that I am the chief of the army, I should discuss diplomatic matters with Premier Wang Pingqing." By the way, what the hell is going on? ”

Cao Rulin gritted his teeth and said with difficulty: "Old Zhi! I rushed from Wang Pinglao's house to hire Lao Lao, and now I have fainted, and it seems that there is no way to preside over the situation! ”

Duan Qirui stood up from the bed and stared at Cao Rulin: "What happened?" ”

Cao Rulin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a sad face: "The new Russian minister just went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest, saying that there was a huge robbery on the Middle East Road this morning!" A section of the railway near Mudanjiang Station on Middle East Road was blown up, and an arms train and a passenger car were hijacked! Among them, the arms train was loaded with weapons and ammunition worth tens of millions of yuan, all of which were lost, and the train was also blown up! There were hundreds of Chinese and foreign passengers on the bus, including more than 30 nationals from Britain, the United States, and France who had been evacuated from Siberia, and were kidnapped! According to the Russian minister, this time it was the Red Brigade that committed the crime! ”

Duan Qirui sat back on the bed with a plop, and his voice trembled: "It's over, it's over, it's all over!" Not only did they rob the arms, but they also kidnapped hostages! These powerful countries will definitely not let us go, they will definitely send troops to China, I heard that the European war is almost over, and now China is really going to die...... Xu Shuzheng stomped his feet on the side and persuaded: "Old Zhi! It's the Red Brigade who committed the crime this time! Now the whole of China thinks that the left people of the Red Brigade are Sun Yat-sen! If the foreigners want to send troops to fight Guangdong, maybe we can take the opportunity to eliminate this scourge! ”

Duan Qirui glanced at Xu Shuzheng and interrupted him: "Are you a fool when you are a foreign devil?" The Red Brigade is in rebellion in the Northeast, and they send troops to fight Guangdong? Besides, let's say that Sun Yat-sen is Zuomin, but Sun Yat-sen and the Red Brigade deny it at both ends! Do you think foreign devils are so easy to fool? As he spoke, he stood up again, clenched his fists and said resolutely: "No! We can't let China end up like this, we must completely exterminate those red elements, and we must rescue the foreign hostages safe and sound! Again, you hurry up and prepare a plan to send troops to the northeast to encircle and suppress the Red Brigade! ”

Xu Shuzheng didn't move, took out a telegram from his pocket and stuffed it to Duan Qirui: "Old Zhi, this is the news of the national mobilization in Fujian and Guangdong, and their national government has ordered that 200,000 young and middle-aged people should be mobilized to enlist in the army within two weeks (in fact, 100,000, but it was exaggerated twice as much when it was announced to the outside world)!" Sun Yat-sen is already determined to fight us to the end! ”

Duan Qirui tore it to shreds when he took the telegram, and glared at Xu Shuzheng again: "Do you believe what news people send?" Mobilize 200,000 troops in two weeks? If he, Sun Yat-sen, had this ability, what else would I be the chief of the army? Just abdicate and let Xian get it! Again, go and send a telegram to the division commanders below and ask them who is willing to go out of the customs to fight the Red Brigade? By the way, hurry up and invite Zhang Yuting to Beijing, Heilongjiang is his territory! (To be continued......) rq

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