Nightfall......

The 2,000-mile-long Yuan River rushes all the way to the territory of Yuanzhou, which is already considered to be downstream, and the waters that begin here are wider than those upstream, so the rushing river flow becomes gentle.

All the way to the north, the Yuanjiang River suddenly turned around and flowed eastward in a place called Yangjiawan, and from here, it was the territory of Changde.

This bay is the actual dividing line between the two major shili of Xiangxi and Lizhou.

Although Wang Zhengya is a literati leading soldiers, he knows the art of war very well, and he attaches great importance to these transportation arteries. Although he could not send heavy troops to garrison, he was clear about the reason for setting up a signal police.

Starting from Yangjiawan to Taoyuan, in this section of the 100-mile waterway, the waterway patrol battalion directly under the Lizhou Town Guard Embassy is responsible for the police work. Due to the shortage of troops, Wang Zhengya gave priority to expanding the combat troops, so the construction of this waterway patrol battalion seriously lagged behind.

First of all, there are soldiers, a total of less than 300 people, most of whom are still Tang Xun soldiers in the former Qing Dynasty. The biggest characteristic of these Tang Xunbing soldiers is that they are quite old, their income is quite low, and they are seriously malnourished. And what is even more serious is the corruption inherited from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the gap is serious, saying that it is an establishment of 300 people, but in fact it is less than 100 people.

After Wang Zhengya sent the officers to lead the team took office, he also took great pains to clean up this rotten team, relying on fines imposed on passing merchant ships to make up for the lack of funds, and expanded the whole battalion to more than 200 people. Moreover, a police signal point is set up every five miles, and a five-person police squad is stationed at each point, and each shift is equipped with a fast boat, so as to facilitate the transmission of news.

It can be said that this approach can be regarded as conscientious, but unfortunately, this situation has long been investigated by the military intelligence personnel under He Jian. In addition, the practice of imposing fines on passing merchant ships to generate revenue also led to the unintended effect of driving private boat gangs to a dead end, except for the British-flagged Yuanjiang Shipping Company freighters. The bosses of these boat gangs had no other way but to join the Yuanjiang Shipping, and some of the unemployed even became opponents of Wang Zhengya. And under the instigation of He Shidao and Gu Hu, the two big salt lords in Xiangxi, these people actually became the climate, pulled up a team, and openly pulled up the anti-flag in the area under the jurisdiction of the Lizhou Town Guard, which made Wang Zhengya have a headache.

As for the neighbors to the south, since there has been no conflict between the two sides since the Republic of China, after a long time, even the officers and men of the waterway patrol battalion at the forefront have relaxed psychologically, let alone Wang Zhengya, who is 200 miles away.

The first signal point in Yangjiawan was dark at the moment, and a veteran in his forties, wearing a horse jacket in the signal uniform, walked out of the house with a lantern, and scolded as he walked: "Ge his mother, it's so late, where will there be merchant ships without foreign flags transiting, mosquitoes bite people outside, they will bully Lao Tzu to stand guard, and he will be ...... his mother."

Since Hu Lichun led the engineer regiment to bomb the reef for a year, the safety of the parade boats in the middle of the Yuan River has been greatly improved, and the number of boats walking has also increased. But most of the ships that go at night are the British-flagged ships of the Yuanjiang Shipping Company, and the money for these ships is changed to the town guard, so that the adults themselves dare not accept it. After a long time, these police officers also found the pattern, and there was no oil and water to fish at night, so no one was willing to do the errand on duty at night, and they would generally push the most unlucky person in the class.

The middle-aged police officer had only walked out a dozen steps, just hung up the lantern, and was taking off his pants and preparing to shout. Suddenly, a tall black shadow appeared behind him, and then his head hit him hard, and the person immediately fainted.

Li Dachao, the commander of the special reconnaissance company of the 1st Mountain Brigade, walked over, sniffed his nose, and immediately covered his nose and whispered: "Huang Dehu, you lack great virtue, you can't wait for others to finish urinating before smashing it, look at the people who are all in trouble." ”

Huang Dehu looked at the company commander with a surprised face, he didn't know what to say, but he was kicked as a result: "What a daze, tie up the people for me, there are still four people in the room, try not to shoot, they are all soldiers who eat food, if you can, don't kill indiscriminately." ”

Subsequently, the squad leader who was responsible for the operation of the No. 1 police signal point in Yangjiawan kicked open the door with his six soldiers and rushed in. The muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the four sleepy-eyed police soldiers, and Li Dachao, who was full of smiles, said in a Henan accent: "Brothers, I'm sorry, I'll tie you up for one night, and tomorrow you will be free, right?" I see that you are all in Ha, so tie them all up for me......"

The same scene was staged at 20 police points on the 100-mile Yangtze River, and Wang Zhengya's waterway patrol camp was easily solved.

Huang Dehu, a recruit assigned from the 803 Jingzhou Feishan Recruit Base, was standing on a wooden tower by the river with a horse lantern at the moment, swinging regularly according to the requirements of the squad leader, and after a while, the rumbling motor sounded, the steamer sounded the whistle, and then a huge fleet appeared at the bend......

When Li Zongren's feet landed on the dock in Taoyuan, he was very satisfied that his subordinates were able to complete this long-distance waterway attack mission so efficiently and quickly. Even he was very face-saving and shook hands warmly with the officer who greeted him at the dock, flattering the other party.

In the early hours of this morning, when the officers and men of the First Brigade of the Xiangxi Mountains flying the white tiger flag jumped off the boat, a squad of German soldiers who were patrolling the wharf at night was dumbfounded on the spot.

Is it your own eyes? You read that right, what are these people? Enemy? Do you want to shoot or not?

Just when these Chang De soldiers who were in charge of night patrol were still hesitating and couldn't figure out the situation, the soldiers of the mountain brigade unceremoniously gave away their weapons. Then, according to the operational jihua formulated by the staff office based on the Taoyuan map provided by the military intelligence department, the assembly was completed in an orderly manner, and then rushed towards their respective goals.

In this way, without a single shot, the entire Taoyuan easily fell into the hands of Li Zongren, and the entire long-distance waterway rush Jihua was successfully completed.

Li Zongren then loudly confessed to his adjutant: "Immediately send a report to the General Staff Office that our 1st Brigade has successfully captured Taoyuan, an important town of the enemy, without any casualties......

At six o'clock in the morning on July 27, Wang Zhengya got up on time and played Tai Chi for a while, which he had been accustomed to for many years. As soon as he sat down to enjoy breakfast, he watched his adjutant run in with this telegram: "My lord, something has happened......

Wang Zhengya is different from Wang Zhenyu, although he became a town guard, he always remembered that he was a scholar, so he was not allowed to be called handsome, but continued to use the title of Qianqing, my lord.

Looking at the adjutant's appearance, Wang Zhengya frowned unconsciously: "What's the panic, the sky can't fall, what's the matter, read." ”

The adjutant stopped awkwardly, and then read it according to the order, and the content was actually that Wang Zhenyu, the envoy of Xiangxi, announced that in order to defend the dignity of the constitution of the Republic of China, he openly crusaded against Wang Zhengya, the envoy of Lizhou, who followed the puppet central government in Beijing.

Wang Zhengya's mind was clouded: "This defense of the dignity of the Republic of China Constitution has a fart relationship with the crusade against Lao Tzu." ”

Wang Zhengya took the telegram and took a closer look, and suddenly slapped the table and said: "Damn, this is obviously trying to grab territory, Zhang Xueji, the commander of the Yuan army in Xiangxi appointed by Sun Cannon, didn't have the signature, so he dared to shout to ask Yuan, this kid is obviously going to eat people, hurry, immediately send the order down, and rely on the various departments in the west of Hunan to immediately enter the battle state, let Wang Yuyin immediately pick up the men and horses, and prepare to meet the ......"

In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), Xiong Xiling recommended Xiong Xiling to go east to Japan, entered the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, studied the army, met Sun Yat-sen during the period, and joined the League in 1905. After returning to China, he served as the director of the Guangdong Salt Bureau, and organized the Guangyi Book Company in Shanghai as a secret revolutionary organ. In addition, the "Dajiang Daily" was set up in Hankou. Participated in the revolutionary activities led by Sun Yat-sen. In the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, Hu Ying served as the governor of Shandong, and he served as the chief of staff and the commander of the first mixed brigade. After the Xinhai Revolution, he served as the procurator of Hunan, and was dismissed by Yuan Shikai.

After the outbreak of the Second Revolution, Sun Yat-sen occasionally paid attention to the Xiangxi region, which was a place that was not controlled by Tan Yanhong, the governor of Hunan, in order to integrate the resources of this region. Sun Yat-sen, whose understanding of Xiangxi was still on the map, appointed Zhang Xueji, a native of Xiangxi, as the commander of the Xiangxi Yuan army, and controlled all the armed forces in Xiangxi to fight against Yuan.

Therefore, bureaucracy kills people, and Xiangxi at this moment is not the time when various factions are lined up in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Zhang Xueji came here at the beginning of the year for Song Jiaoren, and he was very surprised by the change in the situation at that time, but firstly, because it was a short-term stay, and secondly, because the Anjiang Model City had not yet taken shape at that time, so he didn't pay much attention to this change. And he didn't see Wang Zhenyu, but he just had a meal with Tian Yingzhao, the deputy envoy of Xiangxi Town, so he left a Kuomintang membership card for Wang Zhenyu and left.

As soon as he came this time, Zhang Xueji knew how far Wang Zhenyu's shili had developed, and in the entire territory of Xiangxi, except for Wang Zhenyu, there was no second armed shili. In this way, the vertical and horizontal strategy will not be used, but how should the task given by Sun Yat-sen be completed?

But there is no need to think about it, Wang Zhenyu directly put him under house arrest, and he was provided with delicious food and drink, but he was not allowed to contact the outside world. Zhang Xueji was not stupid, he immediately knew what the idea of this Wang Dashuai was, and he sighed and settled down with peace of mind.

And here, because Wang Zhengya didn't see Zhang Xueji's signature, he felt that there was no big problem, and there was nothing terrible about a Xiangxi town guard at the same level as himself to crusade against him. Besides, the Changde area under his control is much richer than Xiangxi, so his analysis of Wang Zhenyu's liliang should be limited.

Just as he was trying to comfort himself, he saw his son Wang Yuyin running in in a panic: "Father, something is wrong......

Wang Zhengya was annoyed, and said in a very unpleasant tone: "Bastard, what are you flustered about?" ”

Wang Yuyin tried to breathe a sigh of relief and said: "Taoyuan, it is Taoyuan, let the troops of Wang Zhenyu, the commander of Xiangxi Town, attack it, I just received the news that a thousand brothers of our battalion stationed in Taoyuan were disarmed......"

Wang Zhengya looked at her son angrily, as if she wanted to eat people. Wang Yuyin was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything more, Wang Zhengya suddenly spurted a mouthful of blood and lay down on his back.

Wang Yuyin and the adjutant were so frightened that they hurriedly supported their father, and after a while, Wang Zhengya relieved himself and only said one sentence: "Shameless to the extreme......"