The Harbin section of the South Manchurian Railway has now been completely suspended, and it seems that the Russians have heard some rumors, and announced the suspension of the railway before the two divisions of Wu Peifu and Wang Tingzhen arrived in Harbin, and arranged a defensive line on the front line of Wanggang Town in the south of Harbin City, blocking 26,700 Beiyang soldiers outside Harbin.

Xu Shuzheng and Wu Peifu stood on a small hill near Wanggang Town, holding binoculars to observe the Russian positions hastily arranged on the opposite side.

Xu Shuzheng wiped the sweat on his face, and smiled bitterly at Wu Peifu: "Harbin is all in sight, how can you let Lao Maozi notice that something is wrong?" What bad luck! I don't know which of the eight lambs leaked the rumors! ”

Wu Peifu calculated the comparison of the forces of the two sides in his heart, and muttered: "The position on the opposite side is arranged in a hurry, Lao Mao's 205th Middle Road War Six Harbin Incident Incident should have just gotten the news, and it will definitely be too late to mobilize troops from Chita and Vladivostok, and the troops of the Middle Road Road Protector Army will not be able to stop us!" Again, give the order to attack! In 12 hours at most, my third division will be able to take Harbin! ”

In fact, Xu Shuzheng also knows that Harbin is not difficult to fight, but it doesn't seem to be the same thing to fight a positional war like this and launch an incident, right? If Harbin is captured in this way, what will be the reaction of the Provisional Government of Belarus? I really want to fight! But where is the possibility of turning back? If you can't take the Middle East Road to mortgage and borrow from Little Japan, the country of Beiyang will be almost finished.

He said to Wu Peifu with a forced smile: "Brother Ziyu, the arrow is on the string, and I have to send it." This Middle East Road War is fought, no matter what the outcome is. You and I are national heroes after all, and we can live forever! Let's go! ”

Wu Peifu said coldly: "If you win, you are a national hero, if you can't win, you will be a brother, this is the place where we are buried!" I hope that after the Nationalist Government wins the world, it will still remember those of us who sacrificed their lives to recover the Middle East Road! ”

Xu Shuzheng smiled at the 205th Middle Road War and the Harbin Incident, and didn't say anything more, just raised the telescope. Watching intently at the Russian army on the opposite side arranging their positions in a chaotic manner, it seems that the other party is also scared!

Wu Peifu had a calm face and ordered the people around him: "Order the artillery regiment to fire." Target the position of the Russian army in Wanggang Town, implement covered shooting! The shelling lasted ten minutes. Sue Zhang Fulai and give him two hours. Take Wanggang Town for me and open the south gate of Harbin! ”

The artillery positions of the Third Division had already been arranged, and as soon as Wu Peifu gave the order, the entire position suddenly felt like a strong wind, and a cloud of white smoke suddenly rose above the position, and then there was the sound of continuous artillery discharge! The White Russian infantry on the opposite Russian position felt the ground begin to tremble, and then there was the screaming sound of artillery shells cutting through the air and the sound of huge explosions! Rows of columns of smoke and fireballs flooded the entire Russian position in an instant, and shrapnel whistled and flew in all directions, harvesting the lives of panicked White Russian officers and soldiers! For these invaders who have been rampant on Chinese soil for so many years, today's encounter is definitely something they never dreamed of!

There is, of course, no doubt about the end of the White Russian army. Because they didn't expect the squadron to really dare to fire at them! Originally, their commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Horvat, did not have any doubts about the arrival of the squadron, he had been rampant in China for more than ten years, and he had long seen through the cowardice and incompetence of those high-level Chinese bureaucrats, especially after the Beiyang government tore up the "Sino-Russian New Treaty" signed with the Bolsheviks and severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet government. He felt even more at ease. If the Japanese consul in Harbin had not personally informed him that the Chinese side was attempting to seize the Middle East Road, he would not have ordered his troops to deploy on the front line of Wanggang Town.

Even if he ordered the army part, ordered the railway to stop, and gave a mobilization order to the Russian expatriates in Harbin, but this old Tsarist nobleman with a lot of beard still did not think that the Chinese really dared to attack in his opinion. The Japanese consul's warning is more like a conspiracy! Although Japan is now the main supporter of the Belarusian side, Horvat, who participated in the Russo-Japanese War, is still an outright anti-Japanese element!

So when Colonel Livyev, chief of staff of the Central East Road Guard, broke open the door of the commander's room in a rage, Lord Horvat was still in his dressing gown, sitting on a French chaise longue, drinking coffee while reading a telegram he had just received in the name of Admiral Kolchak, the supreme consul of the Provisional Government. In his telegram, Kolchak ordered him to procure arms, especially ammunition, from Japan by all means!

Since 1,200 tons of ammunition were blown up in the previous "Middle East Road Robbery", now there is a shortage of ammunition in the White Russian army on the front, and if it is not replenished, the Provisional Government side may lose the war! As for the cost of purchasing weapons and ammunition, Kolchak told Horvat not to worry, he could first embezzle the funds of the Middle East Railway Administration and the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank, and it would not be long before a batch of gold would be shipped to Vladivostok, and the deficit would be made up at that time.

After reading this telegram, Commander-in-Chief Horvat's heart was finally relieved after hanging for a while, and the ruling lord did not blame himself, the commander-in-chief of the Middle East Road Escort Army, because of the "Middle East Road Robbery", and it seems that his position in the future Russian Imperial Government is still very guaranteed!

It was at this moment that Horvat heard Peng's voice, and then saw the face of a somewhat distorted white man appear before his eyes, and he struggled for a moment to identify it, only to realize that the other person was the elegant Colonel Livyev, who did not look like a Russian.

"Your Excellency, something is wrong, the Chinese, the Chinese army is shelling our troops in Wanggang Town!" Without waiting for Horvat to ask, Liviev jumped to his feet and began to report.

With a bang, Lieutenant General Horvath jumped up from his chaise longue and accidentally knocked down the small table in front of him where the coffee was placed, and the coffee pot and coffee cup shattered to the ground. However, the lieutenant general no longer had the heart to consider how precious these broken porcelain were, and he raised his right hand and pointed at Liviev, his face pale. Can't say a word.

"Your Excellency, Major Aliksayev's battalion will not be able to resist much time at all, please move immediately, Harbin immediately!" Liviev hurriedly picked up his military uniform from the hanger next to him and handed it to Horvat, then pulled the commander and walked out.

Horvat didn't react for a while, he was dragged by Liviev and hurriedly asked, "Colonel." What is the situation at the front? Can you hold out until reinforcements from Vladivostok come? ”

Livyev stamped his feet: "Lieutenant General! The Chinese have two divisions with a minimum of 20,000 men, and our troops in Harbin are less than a thousand. Half of them are still elderly people and underage children, and we can't keep Harbin's ...... Horvat also knew that his chief of staff was telling the truth, and that his commander-in-chief of the Escort Army was almost a bare-bones commander. There are not a few soldiers under his command at all, and most of them are scattered along the Middle East Road Railway, and the little troops left in Harbin may not be able to hold out for even a few hours! So after he took the uniform, he followed Leviev downstairs.

In the courtyard of his headquarters, several small black cars were already waiting there. Liviev ran over and opened the door of one of them, and said to Horvat: "Your Excellency, I have asked the China Eastern Railway Administration to prepare a temporary train to Manchuria, let's go there first, and then mobilize troops to counterattack!" ”

Horvat gritted his teeth and nodded his head: "Yes! We must come back from the counterattack, and let these yellow-skinned monkeys know how powerful the Russian Empire is! He turned back as he spoke. After glancing at the luxurious building of his headquarters, he got into the car and drove away!

Wu Peifu was still standing on the top of that hill, watching the soldiers of the first elite of Beiyang and his third division rushing towards the small position held by the White Russian army. The fire of thirty-six 75mm mountain guns and field guns, as well as dozens of Maxine machine guns, completely overwhelmed the opposing position. But even with such fire support, the first attack of the Beiyang Army actually failed! He never underestimated the combat effectiveness of the White Russian army, although they are now demoralized and demoralized, but many of them have been baptized by the European war after all. How difficult the kind of veteran who survived a hundred battles is, Wu Peifu knows very well. Rao was like this, and he was still taken aback by the combat effectiveness of the White Russian infantry battalion in front of him.

His henchman brigade commander Zhang Fulai was complaining in front of him: "These old hairy men are so cunning, our people don't show their heads when they are far away, and they don't shoot guns, and the brothers below think that they have let the cannons be bombarded into slag!" When the brother got close to about a white meter, he suddenly opened fire, and his marksmanship was accurate, and he also specially asked our officers and machine gunners to fight! I died two company commanders and four platoon commanders in one charge, all of them backbones!

And these hairy people are more powerful than us when they fight bayonets, and they are all long and powerful! Our people are not opponents at all, and they can't fight a few times, so they have to retreat first! Commander, it's all my incompetence, you punish me! ”

Wu Peifu's face was cold, and after listening to Zhang Fulai's report, he didn't speak, and Xu Shuzheng on the side snorted and reprimanded.

"What the hell! You are the first elite of our Beiyang, why can't you even beat Lao Maozi's road guard? Your firepower and strength are overwhelming! This can't be defeated, what if Lao Maozi mobilizes the main force from China in the future? ”

Zhang Fulai's face was ashamed, tears were about to fall, and he said to Wu Peifu: "Division commander, give me another chance, I will personally lead the troops to attack, if I can't defeat it, I will die on the position, and I will never disgrace you!" ”

Wu Peifu said coldly: "What's not ashamed?" People are veterans of the European War, if there are not a few brushes that can survive until now? It's nothing for us to suffer a little loss under the hands of others, the key is to have a long memory! Learn a little bit of their skills, and see how people arrange their troops and how they fight, which are all summed up in the sea of blood in the European war, and you can't learn it in books! ”

Saying that, Wu Peifu put down the binoculars and said lightly: "Fulai, this place will be handed over to your Sixth Brigade, you have a lot of people, surround them and fight slowly, don't worry." I took the 5th Brigade around to fight Harbin. He glanced back at Xu Shuzheng: "Youzheng, you are waiting for my good news here!" After saying that, he beckoned the guards to bring his war horse, then turned over and rode up, and galloped towards the brigade headquarters of the Fifth Brigade behind...... Chang Ruiqing was in his own temporary headquarters in Wuzhou at this time, and he was busy doing errands and meeting guests. Xu Tingyao and Chen Jiji both sat beside him with tea cups. Let's talk with a few local celebrities and gentry in Guangxi who came to pay a visit. Most of these celebrities are not local to Wuzhou, but from Guilin, Hechi, Bai, Liuzhou and other places, who are the people behind them, they can guess without saying Chang Ruiqing.

Everyone talked about the fact that now the Gui Army is already the general trend, and Bai Chongxi's Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army has been advancing all the way after not occupying Wuzhou, which is very invincible. In just a few days, the vanguard had captured Laibin County, an important town in central Guizhou, cutting off the connection between Nanning and Liuzhou. And the Third Army under the command of General Deng Keng has captured most of the county towns around Nanning, turning Nanning, Lu Rongting's old nest, into an isolated city! It appears that Guangxi became the third province under the control of the Nationalist Government. It is already the trend of the times, and for such a result, the parents and villagers in Guangxi are of course very happy to see it. I just hope that I can suffer less from the army. The Nationalist Government can also give Guangxi's soldiers a chance to serve the country, and Guangxi is narrow and poor, and it has always been unable to provide for self-sufficiency, let alone take money out to suppress the Nationalist Government, so the gentry in Guangxi hope that they can exercise autonomy in a certain way, and the financial problems will be solved by Guangxi Province itself, and there will be no trouble for the national government, and Guangxi's land reform will also be solved by the local government. As for the governor of Guangxi Province, these gentry unanimously elected the Kuomintang veteran, Mr. Ma Junwu, who is now the Minister of Armaments of the Nationalist Government, to the post.

But Chang Ruiqing's answer. But these gentry and celebrities were a little mixed: "Gentlemen, rest assured, Mr. Sun has never regarded Gui Jun as an outsider, and our National Revolutionary Army has always opened its door to the children of Bagui!" General Bai Jiansheng, who is now commanding the Second Army, is a native of Guangxi! and the general Ma Handong (Ma Xiaojun) next to his brother has just taken refuge in the Gui army, and his position in the Gui army is only a battalion commander. In our National Revolutionary Army, he is the major general and deputy chief of staff of the Western Expeditionary Army! There are also the original battalion commanders and company commanders of the Gui Army, Li Delin, Huang Xuchu, Huang Jikuan and others, who are now all brigade commanders and regiment commanders of our National Revolutionary Army!

For veteran generals like Lin Yinqing, Tan Haoming, Shen Hongying, and Ma Ji, as long as they are willing to take refuge in them, how can Mr. Sun not be reused? When you return, you can speak clearly to them. As long as they are willing to go to Guangzhou to admit their mistakes, there will always be positions for division commanders and brigade commanders, and their old units can continue to be under their command, and not only will they not be downsized, but will be expanded.

As for Guangxi's autonomy, then I can't do anything about it. Brothers are soldiers, and soldiers do not interfere in politics, this is the principle of our national government! How can a brother, as the deputy chairman of the military council, take the lead in violating it? And now our national government is practicing military politics! What is military politics? That is, to use military law, to govern localities with the army, to govern self-government, or something, so don't mention it again! The policies that Guangdong and Fujian are now implementing will soon be implemented in Guangxi, including land reform! ”

One of them, a man in a suit with a somewhat foreign appearance, was probably the representative of Tan Haoming, the current overseer of Guangxi, and the leader of this group of gentry. He looked left and right, exchanged glances with a few people, and arched his hand at Chang Ruiqing: "Commander Chang, General Yuebo (Tan Haoming) has always been loved by our Guilin businessmen, I don't know if I can ask General Yuebo to stay as the town guard of Guilin?" ”

Chang Ruiqing shook his hand and smiled: "It's not a secret, there is no town guard in our National Revolutionary Army, and with the arrangement of local officials, my brother and I, the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, cannot be the master." However, about the incorporation of the army, the brothers can talk about it, I heard that General Yuebo was born in the green forest, and he also has a status in the rivers and lakes of Guangxi. Why don't you gather the local armed forces near Guilin, make the team bigger, and find a way to say a word for General Yuebo in front of Mr. Sun, how about giving General Yuebo a general? ”

A few "lobbyists" with gentry signs exchanged glances with each other, and it seemed that the territory could not be saved, but there was still something to be done on the issue of army incorporation! In this year, if you don't have a gun, you're the king of grass! As long as you have a large number of troops in your hands, are you afraid that you will not have a chance to make a comeback? Whose world these two Guang finally arrived at, let's take a slow walk and see!

After a few more words, Chang Ruiqing got up and sent these "gentry and celebrities" out of the door, before he had time to sit down. Chen Jiji sent an urgent telegram he had just received. Chang Ruiqing took the newspaper and looked at it, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Okay!" What a Wu Ziyu actually captured the Russian Concession in Harbin! It's a time when it's getting more and more interesting. ”

Xu Tingyao's face was very solemn: "Brother Yaoru, should we move faster?" In case of a situation of national resistance against Russia, our civil war will not be able to continue! Chang Ruiqing shook his head: "Don't be in a hurry, can't be in a hurry, the bandits in Guangxi are also famous!" Hundreds of thousands, I'm afraid, right? Now let Tan Haoming and Shen Hongying try their best to absorb some of them, so as to save them from continuing to cause trouble in the future. ”

"But these people are in our National Revolutionary Army," Xu Tingyao said hesitantly with frowns.

Chang Ruiqing shook his head indifferently: "That's all the trouble of Jiang Jshi, the commander-in-chief of the anti-Russian army, let him worry about it." (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )rv！！！