CHAPTER XIV

When the dust settled, everything was back to square one. Time never stops, history is still slowly moving forward along the original track, and Hu Rui's Jihua is also becoming a reality step by step.

It was a turbulent time, and the Qing Dynasty had reached the end of its life. It has been a short 2 years since the demise of Zuihou. The successive anti-Qing uprisings in China, the successive turmoil, natural disasters and exploitation by the cool officials, caused a large number of peasants to lose their land and become homeless. They fled their hometowns with their families and began to flee to those areas where they thought they were wealthy, and some of them were forced to simply do the work of occupying the mountains as kings. The influx of displaced people has further exacerbated the already wide gap between the rich and the poor, and has also brought great challenges to law and order. Hu Rui, who was sitting in Wuhu, received urgent documents from the surrounding counties and counties of Dangtu, Xuancheng, and Nanling for three consecutive days, saying that there had been a riot and that the Jiashi was getting worse and worse. There are more than 400 trainees in the first phase of the training camp, which seems to be quite a lot, but it is immediately overstretched when so many troops are evenly distributed.

After graduating, most of the cadets were added to the two patrol battalions of Xiehe Wuhu and served as grassroots officers. The manufacturing bureau on the Anqing side was related to the future of the entire new army, so it naturally did not dare to be careless, and sent 15 people to form a guard company there. The industrial park on the outskirts of Wuhu is also working day and night, and a company has been left at the construction site to be responsible for guarding and supervising the work. The munitions depots in the mountains also need to be manned. Coupled with the newly formed brigade headquarters staff team, the rest can supply the 10 patrol battalions in the five surrounding counties. There are too many monks and too little porridge, coupled with the strict conscription conditions (especially the literacy one) caused a shortage of soldiers, and these 10 patrol battalions can only set up a rough framework. This time, the riots were menacing, and there was a great tendency to intensify the civil uprising, and the 10 patrol battalions that had just been formed were powerless, so they could only ask for help from Wuhu nearby. Combined with the secret protection of the patrol battalion, Hu Rui finally roughly deduced the ins and outs of the incident. The riot first broke out from several squire's houses on the outskirts of Xuancheng, when the homeless people who had no food and clothing rushed over in droves to "eat big households" (to grab rice and eat from large households) and the families of the nursing homes. The leaders and the injured family members were arrested, and the rest were placed in the suburbs to await arrangements. During this period, the patrol battalion served meals twice a day, and the mood of the displaced people was gradually calmed. But just three days later, the situation changed dramatically, and a wave of more than 3,000 displaced people began to pour in, mixed with many small bandits from the surrounding area. After being instigated by bandits and the Jianghu Society, these people began to storm the county seat desperately, attacking the patrol battalion and local officials. All homes along the route were looted, rich and poor, and there were many cases of rape, wounding, and arson. Then it intensified and spread to the surrounding 4 counties. Seeing the situation, the local ruffians also rushed to join in. At this time, the patrol battalion began to suffer casualties, and due to the lack of troops, it was forced to begin to shrink the defense line and stick to the county seat.

The situation was urgent, and Hu Rui immediately began to make multi-handed preparations. On the one hand, he sent someone to send a report to Zhu Jiabao in Anqing to report the actual situation, and on the other hand, he personally led an infantry standard and an artillery team (artillery company) to support. At the same time, special personnel were dispatched to send the news of the source of a large number of troops of the New Army to the five surrounding counties to cheer up the county magistrates there, and by the way, to appease the local people.

The poignant assembly whistle quickly sounded in the camp of the new army, and the previous training was not in vain, and the new army quickly tied up its armed belt under the leadership of various ministers and came to the playground hill to assemble. This is the first battle after the reorganization of the 34th Mixed Association, and the top and bottom attach great importance to it, Hu Rui very much hopes to test the combat effectiveness of the team through this military operation, after all, it is better to practice than to fight! The arsenal was quickly opened, and the ministries began to collect firearms and ammunition in an orderly manner. Taking advantage of this, Hu Rui gathered all the officers above the platoon level of the infantry and briefly described the combat mission and combat deployment. Ten minutes later, the team started, and Hu Rui took a red horse led by the orderly, gritted his teeth, and rode up. In the Qing Dynasty, the car was a rare thing, and the quality of the car at that meeting was really not flattering, and if there was no train or railway, the army could only go to the horses. In line with the purpose of training, Hu Rui easily took away a 37 artillery company of the patrol battalion, which was equipped with 6 Schneider 37 fast guns, but had 12 artillery crews. The current Hu Rui is not short of money or equipment, but for Jishu-type talents such as artillery, he is indeed looking forward to the autumn water. The brainless guys of the previous League recklessly launched an uprising and almost uprooted the 34th Mixed Artillery Battalion and the Cavalry Battalion, and the gunners were either killed by stray bullets in the chaotic battle under the city of Anqing, or died in the follow-up retaliation of the Qing army, and when they were reorganized, there were less than 30 qualified artillerymen. The first phase of the training battalion mainly recruited German-style infantry officers, and the artillery section accounted for a small proportion. On the one hand, it is because the students selected by Zhu Jiabao for the army middle school do not have a high level of education and lack a suitable source of students. On the other hand, although the chaotic running under Anqing City did not have any impact on Anqing City, it really frightened Zhu Jiabao a lot, and he did not care about the artillery construction of the new army. At that time, the artillery officers in the new army in China were mainly studying in Japanese non-commissioned officer schools, and very few were studying in Europe and the United States. The 18 Rhine rapid-fire guns (imitation of the Skoda 1930 Mountain Gun) of the first 75 artillery battalion sent by Germany had already arrived, but the gunners could only keep them in storage due to lack of operation. This time I finally had the opportunity to fight, Hu Rui naturally would not let it go, and it was true to train people as soon as possible, and we couldn't keep letting equipment wait for people.

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