"The young master has worked hard all the way."

Uncle Shan took the coat in person, saluted, and said respectfully.

"Don't, Uncle Shan, I don't want to go like this, I'll just do this little thing myself."

Juri tried several times to retrieve the coat, but was unsuccessful. As a good young man in the 21st century who was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze, Hu Rui really couldn't accept that an old man over half a hundred years old would serve him lowly, and it was all a trivial matter.

"Hehe, the old man has seen Miss Yan, and you have bothered to take care of it along the way."

Uncle Shan smiled kindly, dodged Hu Rui without a trace, and hung his coat on the hanger. has been following Old Man Hu for more than 30 years, and since he entered the gate of the Hu family, Uncle Shan has linked his fate with the main family. The old man has never started a family in his life, and subconsciously has long regarded Hu Rui as his own child, and his love for licking calves is beyond words.

Sanniang blushed and didn't know how to answer. He bowed his head slightly, smiled lightly, and responded to it.

"Salute!"

With a "snap", all the officers in the room stood up and saluted.

The stars twinkled in the small conference room, and all the commanders of the six integrated divisions of the Anhui Army, an independent heavy artillery brigade, and all the commanders of the Admiralty and the logistics department were all present.

"Sit!"

Hu Dashuai returned the salute, very satisfied with the spirit of his troops, waved his hand very imposingly, and said.

"Wow"

With a bang, under the leadership of Berman, the chief of the general staff, a room full of officers who were a combination of the West and the West, sat down in a neat manner. With his waist straight, his hands on his knees, he sat down respectfully around the conference table.

"Without further ado, our army's strategic objectives in the first stage have all been achieved, and we will move our troops north in the near future. The Northern Expedition begins. This Northern Expedition, to put it mildly, is related to the glory and prestige of our Anhui Revolutionary Army as a whole! In a big way, it is directly related to the direction of China's future revolution and the future leadership! Can the days when the Chinese nation was bullied become history, and whether China can once again stand in the forest of the Shijie nation, all in one fell swoop! In that sense, we have no right to fail! ”

Before the official start of the meeting, Hu Rui's eyes were deep and solemnly swept over everyone present. Said excitedly.

"Die to complete the mission!"

As soon as the words fell, a group of officers present stood up with excitement and swore an oath with roars. Dark was excited and eager, and the people present today were all veterans who had been following Hu Rui since the establishment of the teaching camp. Counted from the beginning of taking over the 34th Mixed Association of the Anhui New Army. Lying on the salary to taste the courage, endure the humiliation, and prepare for more than three years! Everything is sad and not easy. For this moment! The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband. Who said that Chinese people are not all sick men of East Asia?! There are bloody men in China!

"Well, I beg your pardon. Your Excellency General, as your Chief of the General Staff, allow me to make a briefing. ”

Berman, who had been promoted to lieutenant general and chief of staff, was fully inspired by the rigor and seriousness of the Germans. As soon as the slogan stopped, he pushed the unilateral eye on the bridge of his nose. stood up and said respectfully.

Hu Rui nodded and gestured.

"Gentlemen, the second round of restructuring has now been preliminarily completed. Our army has been expanded from two integrated divisions, two mixed brigades, and one reinforced heavy artillery regiment to six integrated divisions and one independent heavy artillery brigade. Presently. The reintegration of the units has been preliminarily completed. After the examination of the General Staff, the quality of the soldiers is basically bearable, and they have initially possessed combat effectiveness except for some jishu arms. Among them, the 3rd and 4th integrated divisions, which relied entirely on the 4th batch of cadets of the training battalion and the reservists, were relatively weak in combat effectiveness, and the vast majority of officers had no actual combat experience. Therefore, as the chief of staff, my suggestion is that these two divisions should not participate in the next military operation! In addition, due to the large number of reservists being requisitioned, the local guard regiments, which serve as reserve training institutions in various localities, are seriously understaffed and urgently need to be replenished. Ladies and gentlemen, I have finished my remarks. ”

From the perspective of the chief of staff, Berman fairly appraised the situation of the Anhui Revolutionary Army at the present stage. The commanders of the 4th and 3rd Divisions and others present were about to argue, but after thinking about it, they sat down again. After all, this is the actual situation, when the army wanted to recover Jiangsu and Zhejiang along Shanghai-Nanjing, the fourth batch of trainees of the training camp had not yet graduated, and their family background was thin, and basically few of them had ever fought.

"From the reorganized Second Division and the First Division, an appropriate number of grassroots non-commissioned officers and officer backbones will be transferred to supplement these two divisions. At present, the time for punishment has not yet come, and the results of the war games have not yet come out, and the specific military deployment will be discussed again. ”

Hu Rui thought about it and discussed.

As chief of staff, Berman's worries and judgments were correct. But this does not mean that the situation of China can be suitable for medical treatment, and when it comes to the situation of the rabbit family in later generations during the Great Revolution, how many of the later famous ace teams were fought in bloody battles again and again? In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Red Army, which had experienced a 25,000-mile Long March, was greatly reduced in number and establishment. But that's it, in the Battle of Pingxingguan, at 7 o'clock in the morning on September 25, the Yang Chengwu Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army encountered the Ninth Brigade of the Japanese Itagaki Division in the waist station village of the Laiyuan to Lingqiu Highway! The enemy is outnumbered, and the equipment is at an extreme disadvantage (the main force of the most rabbit family, the 115th Division and other units participating in the battle cannot do a single shot.) Many of the warriors went into battle with ghost-headed knives and locks, counting on the capture of the enemy's weapons. The Independent Regiment attacked first and captured the forward positions of the Japanese army in one fell swoop, blocking the 9th Brigade at Yima Pass. In the afternoon, not only did more than 300 people be killed, but the Japanese Ninth Brigade was beaten out of the Stagecoach Pass, and then returned to Laiyuan City, and Zuihou drove the Ninth Brigade out of the city!

Compared with the predecessors of the rabbit family, the current Anhui army is already happy and can't be happier. It has its own military factory, all Mauser 98 guns, and a large number of machine guns and heavy artillery. But if the equipment is well equipped, the combat effectiveness must be excellent, and the troops who have never seen blood cannot be regarded as a real powerhouse at all!

"Chief instructor, the current output of the Anqing Manufacturing Bureau is 7,000 Mauser 98 rifles, 150 60 and 82 mm mortars, 60 75 mountain guns, 200 ZB30 light machine guns, 60 improved Maxim 1908 heavy machine guns, 15 million new 7.92 mm pointed bullets, and 3,000 shells of various types. In addition to a batch of munitions ordered by the chief instructor from Germany, there are currently 10,000 Mauser 98 rifles and 150,000 improved Commission 1888 rifles in the logistics warehouse, and artillery can also support our army to fight a medium-sized campaign. ”

Xu Congbin, who is in charge of the logistics department, reported as a few family treasures.

Compared with Beiyang, which relies entirely on imports for every gun and bullet, the biggest advantage of the Anhui Revolutionary Army lies in its self-sufficiency in weapons and equipment.

"Go back to Ma'anshan. Look at what happened to steel production. It will take a while for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to resume production, and the logistics supply during the Northern Expedition will all depend on you, so you must be careful! By the way, Uncle Shan, what is the situation in the market at this stage? ”

As he spoke, Hu Dashuai's thoughts drifted to the place again. At present, the Anhui Provisional Military Government has not yet been formally established, and it is all temporarily maintained by the officer system.

"Young master, it's quite stable for the time being, and our army can't make waves on the side. It was the salt merchants and the local gentry who had migrated that were not very stable. I sent things several times, and I wanted a certain position or something. ”

Just as everyone in the conference room opened the chatterbox, the big man who had been guarding outside walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand.

"Old Hu. Look at this. ”

Sanniang glanced at it and whispered with joy.

"The naval fleet stationed on the Wuchang River revolted en masse?!"

Moment. Hu Dashuai, who was still full of various affairs before. Flashed was stunned. To paraphrase the old saying, happiness comes too suddenly, and people are overwhelmed.

Once again, history has changed because of Hu Rui's little butterfly, and in the parallel time and space, the naval fleet, which was supposed to declare an uprising on November 12, has advanced to November 10th!

After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution. On the one hand, he sent the Minister of War Yin Chang to lead the two towns of the Beiyang Army to the south, and on the other hand, he ordered the commander of the naval division, Sa Zhenbing, to lead the Yangtze River and the cruiser fleets to Wuchang. On October 17, thirteen ships, including four Chuzi-class river gunboats (Chuyou, Chutong, Chutai, and Chuyu) and three Haizi-class cruisers (Hairong, Haichou, and Haichen), converged on the Wuhan River.

It stands to reason that the navy and army sent by the Qing court to suppress it are really powerful. However, the navy, which was the main force, had long been infiltrated by the revolutionary party. In the subsequent battle to support the Beiyang Army to recapture Wuchang, the officers and men on the ship deliberately missed a lot of shells, and the treacherous and cunning Yuan Shikai acquiesced in this situation, and even excused and justified the navy in a telegram.

With the recovery of cities along the Yangtze River at the end of October, the situation of the navy became more and more bad. Especially after Hu Rui sent troops to take Jiujiang, Jiangxi, the two fortresses of Hukou and Madang changed hands, and then they were replaced with the latest German long-barreled fortress guns! The anchor Wu Changjiang lest the naval fleet be said to have been cut off from retreating, and then the news came that the Anhui Revolutionary Army had captured the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau! You must know that almost all of the navy's artillery shells are supplied and stored in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and the navy, which has no way out of retreat and is almost in a desperate situation of ammunition and food, is still in a fluctuating mood.

At this time, the intelligence department under the control of Sanniang passed through the naval officers and soldiers of the uprising in a timely manner, and passed on some of the details about the procurement of Jihua and the treatment of the Anhui Revolutionary Army to Tang Qianming's ears of the acting fleet. Subsequently, it went viral in the political construction of the team, and in the face of almost internal and external difficulties, the navy had no other way to go except to revolt!

You said that after the uprising, you will help defend Wuchang, but after the consumption of the previous days, the ammunition consumption of each ship is very large. In addition, the military government of Wuchang, Hubei Province, did not want to see the navy (it is true in history, the civilian army in Wuchang has always believed that the naval shelling was the main culprit that caused the heavy casualties of the revolutionary army. As for when the navy will not be seen in the future, in fact, the navy basically did not contribute much in the battle to recapture Wuchang, and most of the shells were fired into the river. ）。 Under a balance, Tang Qianming gritted his teeth and held the entire fleet as a block, planning to gamble! After the white flags were hoisted by the ships, Wuchang, which was directly beaten to the death, sailed downstream and headed towards Wuhu. (To be continued......)