Episode 58 Ming repairs the plank road and secretly crosses Chencang

On the evening of the 29th, the Nanjing Command telegraphed the Ming army in Shanxi to suspend the march.

In fact, even without the order of the Nanjing Command, the Ming army in Shanxi should "suspend the march and fortify in situ" at this time. Because it's very simple, it's getting dark, and it's time to camp for the night. It stands to reason that mechanized troops and motorized units have the ability to work day and night. But that refers to ordinary marching, maneuvering, not attacking. It is very dangerous for mechanized corps to advance at night in the enemy's occupied territory. The roar of the engine, the long string of lights, makes the marching column the best target at night. And once attacked in the dark, it is difficult to fight back.

Although the Ming army now said that it was also "immediately ordering the troops to stop advancing", it was a time difference, which was equivalent to "earning for nothing" the time of the night.

Now, the Ming army is keeping an eye on the Qing side and forcing the Qing side to fulfill its promise.

The Qing side also knew very well that the reason why the Ming side stopped the army first was not to trust the Qing side, but to stop for the night. So Beijing is starting to grind.

Nanjing Wuwang Villa, that night, Xiang Xiaoqiang took a few people, making tea and drinking coffee, he didn't plan to sleep, and he didn't let Yonggui sleep, just stared at him in the conference room, and asked him to keep sending messages to Beijing to urge.

Yonggui drank a lot of wine at dinner, dizzy, yawning, elbows on the table, head fell down one by one, struggling to support.

"Yong-sama!" Xiang Xiaoqiang slapped the table in front of him and shouted, "Wake up!" Wake up! Did your army in Qinling Hanzhong surrender? ”

Yonggui raised his head with a bitter face, leaned back in his chair, and sighed:

"Lord Xiang...... I'm also a negotiating ambassador, what kind of hospitality is this? …… Please arrange a room for me immediately, I woke up, and the Qing army in Qinling surrendered......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang slapped the table again, startling him, and then shouted:

"Come on, make another cup of coffee for Yong-sama! I don't think Lord Yong has woken up! ”

"Lord Xiang......" Yonggui yawned, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Don't worry, our court will not be idle this night, if you don't do anything, you have to arrange for the surrender of the Qing army in Qinling Hanzhong...... Alas, Lord Xiang, although there are not many soldiers, there are tens of thousands of them, scattered in so many places, some places have radio stations, and some places don't even have radio stations, and they have to rely on herald soldiers...... It wasn't a telegram from Beijing, and tens of thousands of people would have surrendered...... My Xiang-sama! ”

"Huh? Can't surrender with a single telegram? Xiang Xiaoqiang glared and said, "Oh, you start saying this now, why don't you say this during the daytime negotiations?" ”

Yonggui is now forced to survive and die, and pleaded:

"My Lord Xiang...... Does this need to be said specifically? You think, there are only tens of thousands of people, and they are still so scattered, all of them are mountains...... Think about it! Not so fast! Xiang Lord, I beg you forever, okay? Let me go to sleep, or I won't be able to negotiate tomorrow!" Something more important is to be delayed! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that he was drowsy again, and slammed the table again, scaring him awake, shouting:

"Can't negotiate? If you can't negotiate, you can't negotiate! I don't care what I talk about tomorrow, I want Qinling and Hanzhong now, and I want it tonight! If you don't negotiate tomorrow, you will have to Qinling and Hanzhong tonight! Master Yong, let me tell you, we can't get Qinling and Hanzhong tonight, so don't even think about sleeping! I won't be able to get it tomorrow morning, and you won't sleep tomorrow morning!" When do we get it, when do you sleep! ”

As if he hadn't heard, Yonggui tilted his head to the side and fell asleep.

"Huh?" Xiang Xiaoqiang was angry, grabbed his shoulders and shook him vigorously, shouting, "Wake up!" Wake up! Send me a telegram to Beijing! Feed! …… Let me tell you, if you can't take Qinling Hanzhong tomorrow, I will order the army to advance as usual, as long as it advances for another day, it will reach Taiyuan! See that your master can spare you? …… If Qinling Hanzhong does not surrender tomorrow, we will launch a fierce bombardment of the Qing army in the Central Plains, killing tens of thousands of people first! Wake up! Wake up! …… We will bomb the Yellow River Bridge tomorrow, and as long as the bridge is blown up, the two million Central Plains Corps will be confessed to the south of the Yellow River! If you still sleep, you can sleep long when you go back! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at Yonggui as before, half-dead, anger rose from his heart, evil was born to the side of the gall, gritted his teeth and said:

"Damn, the dog?"

He turned his face and shouted at the door:

"Come on!"

Xiuxiu came in and persuaded:

"My lord, it's a little bit old, you go to sleep, I'll just keep an eye here."

Wave your hand to Xiaoqiang:

"No, I'm not sleepy! Well, you go to the kitchen and find something refreshing for Yong-sama! Peppers, onions, garlic, pepper, the more powerful the better! ”

Xiuxiu looked at Yonggui's appearance, nodded, and went out.

After a while, Xiuxiu came in with a small bottle. She took a cup of coffee from the table, opened the small bottle, poked a spoonful of paste from the inside and threw it into the coffee, and stirred well.

A pungent smell gradually filled the room.

Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up the small bottle, looked at the label, and understood. He nodded, very satisfied with what Xiuxiu had found.

"Come, come, Yong-sama," he grabbed Yonggui's shoulders, straightened him, and shook his head, "Grab a cup of coffee and refresh yourself!" ”

Saying that, he glanced at Xiuxiu, one of them pinched Yonggui's nose, the other held coffee, and couldn't help but say, "Dong Dong Dong" forcibly poured most of Yonggui's cup.

Yonggui seemed to have been shocked, jumping up and down, choking on coffee in his nose and chin, but he didn't even care about coughing, just howling, squatting on the ground like an orangutan and jumping in place, waving his hands up and down, desperately patting the ground, his face was flushed, tears and snot flowed out a lot, and his cry became more and more miserable, like killing a pig.

Seeing Yonggui's miserable situation, Xiang Xiaoqiang was a little bottomless, he approached Xiuxiu and asked in a low voice:

"Hey, you just put such a spoonful, why did you react so much?"

Xiuxiu was also a little nervous, picked up the bottle again, looked at it and said:

"Well, yes...... It's extra-dense. ”

"Extraordinary? Okay, that's what you want! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at Yonggui, who couldn't survive on the ground, gritted his teeth and said:

"Tell me to a dead dog, damn ......"

After a while, Yonggui got up with tears on his face and snot, and poured it down with a cup of tea on the table. After pouring it, he threw away the teacup, threw himself at the other end of the table, picked up another cup of tea and poured it down.

After pouring down two cups of tea, Yonggui gasped for breath, tears and snot flowed on his face, and he shouted at Xiaoqiang while coughing:

"What did you give me a drink!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang said coldly:

"It's not coffee, it's mustard."

"What? Lonesome? ”

"Yes, it's also called loneliness," Xiang Xiaoqiang made a gesture to ask Xiuxiu to take away the mustard, and then said, "Now let you sober up first, and send me a report to Beijing immediately!" If you don't know each other again, you will not only be lonely when you drink coffee, but also lonely when I let you smoke, drink tea, and eat instant noodles! ”

……

This whole night, Xiang Xiaoqiang, Xiuxiu, and the three people with a stomachache fought with Yonggui Che**, but they didn't let him sleep well, forcing him to keep sending reports to Beijing to inquire and urge, in short, we must let the Qing troops in Qinling and Hanzhong surrender before dawn.

In the telegram, Xiang Xiaoqiang kept repeating the "ultimatum" to Guangwu: as soon as it dawned at six o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the Ming army would send troops to accept Hanzhong and Qinling at the same time. If there was a little resistance, the Ming army would declare the agreement null and void and would order the Shanxi army to advance as usual.

The purpose of the Guangwu peace talks was originally to gain time, so naturally we should seize every opportunity to delay time. He had originally decided to leave it alone tonight, delay it for now, and wait until tomorrow morning to start ceding Hanzhong one after another. It will definitely drag on for a day or two to let out Hanzhong, and it will take another day or two to let go of Qinling. The essence of this is that it is not that I will not give up, but that there is a continuous process. In this way, the Ming army in Shanxi will not advance, nor will it advance if it does not, so in the process of pulling the skin, time will come out.

But no one expected that the high-level of the Ming army would be so serious, that Xiang Xiaoqiang would force Yonggui to send a telegram all night without sleeping, and he must take over the entire Qinling and Hanzhong before dawn. Yonggui had already sent a telegram to Beijing asking for help, saying that he must wake up the emperor, otherwise the slave will not live tomorrow......

Seeing that Lord Yonggui had said this, the officer on duty at the Beijing Command had no choice but to wake up Guangwu.

Guangwu was called up at three o'clock in the morning, furious, after reading several telegrams from Yonggui, he understood the seriousness of the matter, weighed it for a long time, and finally felt that the Ming army was not talking about fun, if they could not get anything practical before dawn, they would really let the Shanxi army continue to advance. In that way, the plan of first stopping the Ming army and then delaying time with negotiations will be aborted. At that time, it would be difficult to stop the Ming army. The Ming army had to occupy most of Shanxi.

He weighed it again, looked at the map under the lamp, and immediately issued an order: send an order to Hanzhong, let the Qing army there lay down their arms, and surrender to the Ming army at dawn. As for the Qing army in Qinling, he still planned to drag it first and prevent them from surrendering for the time being. When the dawn dawns, the Ming army can get Hanzhong, which can be regarded as being able to temporarily fill their mouths. Just taking over the Hanzhong Basin was enough for the Ming army to spend two days. During this period, they would not turn their faces again and let the Ming army in Shanxi continue to advance.

At the same time, Guangwu asked:

"Where are our troops?"

Of course, the staff officer next to him understood which unit the emperor was asking. He replied in a whisper:

"Back to the emperor, I have already entered Shanxi...... Tomorrow night, we will be able to reach Datong......"

"Well," Guangwu nodded, "a night march can be tolerated at a slower pace, but it must be kept secret so that no one in the towns along the way can detect it." ”

"Huh."

"During the day, the troops must pay attention to concealment, and they must all withdraw from the road and camp in the nearby mountains and forests...... The planes of the Ming army could not detect a single soldier. ”

"Huh."

"Alright, stand down. There is something important to call me again. ”

Guangwu rubbed his face, yawned, and sent the staff officer away, lay back on the bed, and turned off the lamp. He thought in his head:

This is called the Ming plank road, and the secret crossing of Chen Cang...... You Nanming is unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. As long as the motorized infantry division of your Ming army cannot march all night, our infantry division of the Qing Dynasty can secretly march at night and camp during the day...... Although the speed is slow, as long as the negotiations last for ten days and eight days, your Shanxi Ming army wakes up, and our Qing army has occupied all the places opposite you......