Chapter 488: Crisis
He Wanquan did not come from the Fengjun system, he was born as a local bandit in Rehe, and he was incorporated during Jiang Guidi's tenure as the commander of Rehe. Later, the Feng army took control of Rehe, but because the main energy of the Feng army was in the three eastern provinces, it neglected to manage Rehe, and old-fashioned figures like He Wanquan have been retained.
But in the last few evaluations, He Wanquan's performance was very poor, and he was at the bottom of the Rehe army, and Sun Liechen already had the heart to win his position as the commander of the regiment. It was only when the Beiyang army invaded the border that Sun Liechen retained his official position and let him behave well, who knew that this guy had already had rebellious thoughts.
Last time Feng Jun entered the customs, he rebelled against Feng Yuxiang and almost took Duan Qirui's life, this time Xu Shuzheng attacked Rehe, and he was also ready to let Feng Jun taste the same hardship, but the real Feng Army's descendants of Beiyang could not be recruited at all, and Xiao Xu would not make any more mistakes last time.
After understanding, he discovered such a weakness as He Wanquan, and was immediately overjoyed, so he sent a lobbyist to encourage He Wanquan.
"That's a good point, but Premier Duan's family has a big business, can he take a fancy to me, what benefits can he give me in the past, if he is still the head of the regiment, I won't do it!"
"Commander He, you are very wrong, Premier Duan and Supervisor Xu both cherish talents, as long as you take refuge in Beiyang, you will immediately be able to rise one step higher and become a brigade commander. Rehe is so big, and there is a lack of effective generals to guard, you will definitely be able to stand alone, and when the time comes, add the name of a garrison commander, you are the emperor of the soil, is there such a haode thing in this world? ”
When He Wanquan heard this, he immediately smiled, his face seemed to be happy, and he said loudly: "Righteousness, Premier Duan is interesting enough." The surname He agreed. ”
"Okay, Commander He is a reasonable person, now that the Beiyang Army has launched an offensive, as long as the time comes, you open the city gate and let the Beiyang army enter the city, you will be a great achievement, sit back and wait for the merit to be rewarded!"
He Wanquan nodded in agreement, and the lobbyist hurriedly went to deliver a letter to Xu Shuzheng, and there was an internal response. It's much easier to break the city. At this time, Sun Liechen was gathering all the officials in the city to discuss the affairs of defense, these people were a group of civilian officials, who were originally small in courage, facing the situation of a large army attacking the city. I didn't have any idea at all.
Chu Mingyuan, the new director of the Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation, suddenly spoke: "Deputy Marshal, although the Beiyang Army is fierce. But we don't need to panic too much. The three eastern provinces have implemented a national defense mobilization system long ago. The combination of military and civilian, in wartime, can play a very important role. Didn't Chief of Staff Yang Yuting rely on the workers and students to resist Guo Songling's rebels, and we can't follow suit, as long as we organize the people of Chengde and cooperate with the army to fight. It is still possible to resist for three or five days. ”
"Director Chu, you are a young man, you don't understand these things!" Liu Shouyong, the chief of civil affairs, shook his white head, sighed and said: "Chengde is different from the three eastern provinces. It was originally the Manchu Palace, where a large number of Manchu and Mongolian princes and nobles lived, and they were the most powerful people in the city. If you want to mobilize them to fight for us, can this work, you must know that this is a national enemy! ”
Chu Mingyuan snorted in his nose and said loudly: "This is the Republic of China, there are no princes and nobles, everyone is an ordinary citizen, and when it is time to fulfill their obligations, they must fulfill their obligations." As an administrative official, you should be bold and shoulder your responsibilities, instead of blindly passing the buck. ”
"The kid is ignorant, the old man was an official in Rehe in the past, you dare to talk like this......"
"There's nothing wrong with talking like that!" Sun Liechen slapped the table heavily and glared at Liu Shouyong fiercely. Sun Liechen is also a character from the green forest who kills people without blinking, although he is a little old now, but once he is powerful, it is still very terrifying.
"Mr. Liu, now that the war is currently in place, can you complete the mobilization work?"
Liu Shouyong was a little hairy by Sun Liechen's sharp eyes, and could only say tremblingly: "Please forgive the old man for being incompetent, and the deputy marshal should not act arbitrarily and arouse public anger." ”
"Say no more!" Sun Liechen waved his hand, and then said: "Mr. Liu, from now on, you will be dismissed, go home and pick up the child." Director Chu, you will take over as the chief of civil affairs, your first mission is to mobilize the people of the whole city and assist the army in defending the city together, can you complete the task? ”
"No problem, don't worry!"
Chu Mingyuan was ordered to be in danger, and he was not ambiguous at all, and immediately borrowed three hundred elite soldiers from Sun Liechen, and gathered all the patrols in the city, Chu Mingyuan faced these patrols and said: "What is the style of the Beiyang Army, I think everyone knows that the prosperous city of Nanjing has suffered a catastrophe. If they enter Chengde, everyone will not end well, only by standing with the Fengjun, working as one, and keeping their homeland, can they have the opportunity to continue to live the current life, and you must make it clear to the people. There is a strong man out of every three families, and they obey the unified arrangement! ”
After Chu Mingyuan explained clearly, these patrol policemen took action one after another, and gradually the ordinary people in the city were mobilized to form a militia team.
At this moment, several patrol officers suddenly ran over, all of them with blue noses and swollen faces, and gray faces. As soon as he saw Chu Mingyuan, he said: "A few of our brothers went to Prince Kulitu's mansion, but before they could open the gate, they were beaten by the evil slaves of the palace, and they almost couldn't come back." ”
Chu Mingyuan looked at these patrol policemen and snorted coldly: "Remember for me, this is the Republic of China, there is no bullshit Mongolian prince, you lead the way in front, I will meet him now!" ”
Several patrol officers had no choice but to honestly lead the way for Chu Mingyuan, and they soon arrived at Kulitu's mansion. This guy is the prince of Mongolia, a hereditary title, and the palace occupies most of the block, which is very luxurious. Although the Manchu dynasty was overthrown for nearly a decade, for these Mongol princes, the difference was not much, and they still enjoyed glory and wealth. Because the emperor was far away, no one cared about them, and they were even more comfortable than the princes of the Eight Banners.
When Chu Mingyuan arrived at the gate of the palace, he found that the door of the mansion was closed, and he couldn't even see a living person, so Chu Mingyuan had a closed door. Chu Mingyuan was not angry, and directly called over the two soldiers and explained two sentences.
The two soldiers quickly rushed to the front of the mansion, stuffed a metal pipe under the mansion gate, and lit it. They ran away. Just twenty seconds later, a loud bang came out, and the entire mansion gate was blown into the sky, and it turned out that Chu Mingyuan directly asked the soldiers to open the door with a blaster.
It was so powerful that not only did the two large wooden doors blow up, but even the surrounding walls collapsed. In fact, there was no one in the house, there was a large group of thugs hiding behind the shadow wall, and as a result, these people were all killed, several people were simply killed by the explosion, and the rest were also injured by the splashing of masonry. The skin is open, and the pain is so painful that my parents scream, and it is a mess.
Chu Ming stayed away, but he also felt a buzzing in his ears: "Damn, why didn't you tell me this thing was so powerful?" I'd better stay away. ”
The soldiers said to themselves, look at you so fiercely. I thought I wasn't afraid of blasters! Anyway, the bomb really worked. The soldiers were respectful to Chu Mingyuan. I know this is a stubble. And those people in the palace are completely out of courage,
Just like the children of the Eight Banners in Manchuria, these princes of Inner Mongolia are also corrupt and degenerate relatively quickly, and they do not have the courage of Genghis Khan's era at all, but they are just bullying others. Now that they have met characters who are more ruthless and horizontal than them, these guys have suddenly softened.
Up and down the palace. was blown up by this, and all of them were numb, and Chu Mingyuan easily took the people and horses to control the entire palace, and there was no waste of effort. A total of four or five hundred people were taken to the open space in front of the palace.
Chu Mingyuan didn't bother with Prince Kulitu at all, but gathered more than 200 thugs in the palace alone, Chu Mingyuan looked at them, and then said, "Do you know how many pastures there are in the palace?" ”
The gang didn't know what he meant, and one by one they lowered their heads and didn't dare to speak.
Chu Mingyuan said with a smile: "As far as I know, there are no less than 20 million mu in total, if you give it to 200 people equally, one person is 100,000 mu, and he is already a medium-sized farmer, and he can live comfortably for a lifetime, and he doesn't have to be a dog for others, I don't know if you are interested?" ”
These thugs didn't understand what was going on at first, but then they all stared at each other, their breathing became short, and everyone's hearts were silently thinking about 100,000 acres of farms, 100,000 acres!
"Don't worry, you heard me right, as long as you do what I instruct, the pasture of the prince of Kulitu is yours, and the Feng army will become your strong backing, and your prince doesn't even want to go back!"
"We did it! Sir, you can let us do whatever we want, as long as we can give us pasture, we will use you as cattle and horses. ”
With a thug leader, more and more people shouted, what bullshit prince, get out of the way! Usually Kulitu is also extremely stingy with everyone, and the little money he earns every year is constantly deducted, and it is not worth his life at all. As long as you can get 100,000 acres of pasture, you can fight for the glory and wealth of the second half of your life, what dare you not do!
Seeing this, Chu Mingyuan finally showed a satisfied smile: "Very good, you will now obey the assignment of the Feng army, carry materials and the wounded, reward you for doing a good job, and if you don't do well, you will deduct the grassland, what to do, you all know in your hearts." ”
As the saying goes, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, Chu Mingyuan took the lead and suppressed them with a blaster, and then threw out the benefits that could not be refused, these people all took the bait obediently, and the Feng army had two hundred more strong men in the blink of an eye, only Prince Kulitu wanted to cry without tears.
Chu Mingyuan continued to carry out his actions, constantly smashing open the gate of the prince in the city, walked down in a circle, gathered more than 1,500 strong men to help, plus other ordinary people, a total of more than 3,000 people were organized, all of them became the people of the Feng army, after Sun Liechen got the report, he was very satisfied, and patted Chu Mingyuan on the shoulder with a smile.
"Well done, at this critical moment, I have to cut through the mess quickly, show me all those princes, and strictly prevent them from colluding with outsiders!"
Sun Liechen immediately sent 1,000 people to Guangrenling to assist Wan Fulin, and left another 2,000 to dig fortifications, carry various materials, and prepare to resist the Beiyang Army.
At this time, Wan Fulin was fighting in Guangrenling, Chengde was surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Wan Fulin with less than 3,000 soldiers, along the peak of Guangrenling to set up defenses, using the mountain cover, and the Beiyang army was so lively.
Da Da Da ...... Da Da Da ......
The machine gun was methodically bursting fire, and just listening to the sound, you knew that this was a full veteran with a lot of combat experience. The soldiers who had just entered the battlefield did not know how to control the machine guns at all, and some of them directly pulled the trigger, and the bullets hit like bursting beans, but the actual effect was very limited.
This veteran was different, shooting methodically, the bullets accurately harvested lives, and the Beiyang Army continued to fall to the ground. His machine gun became a choke-locked Hades, sealing a section of the hillside in front of him, and no one could rush up.
However, the whole front is not so impregnable, in the southern front of the Beiyang Army's artillery just fell on a section of the position, all the mountains and rocks were blown away, and most of the soldiers in charge of defense were wounded, taking advantage of this opportunity, the Beiyang Army rushed up, and more than 20 people were killed.
At this time, Wan Fulin also observed the situation here, and he had no reserves available, so he could only take the guards and pounce like a tiger.
Although one hand was injured, the other hand could still be used, he was holding a pistol, and when he was still about thirty meters away, he continuously struck the trigger, and the two Beiyang troops were immediately hit.
At this distance, the Browning pistol can penetrate a brown bear, let alone the human body, the person who was shot burst out of a ball of blood in the chest, without saying a word, fell directly to the ground, and the other guards also rushed up, and finally eliminated these Beiyang troops, Wan Fulin was like a firefighter, trying his best to maintain the safety of the defense line.
In the face of more and more casualties, Qu Tongfeng was also a little at a loss. Xiao Xu also noticed that there was no breakthrough here, so he could only pin his hopes on other parties.
Chen Wenyun, the commander of the Second Division, had already broken through the outer positions of the southern front and was approaching Chengde step by step, and He Wanquan was responsible for defending the southeast of Chengde at this time.
This guy immediately got in touch with Beiyang and decided to defect.
"Those who know the times are Junjie, I have decided to take refuge in Premier Duan and Xu Supervisor, don't follow Fengjun to mix, all the brothers have followed me for many years, let's fight for glory and wealth."
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"Deputy marshal, He Wanquan surrendered to Beiyang, the southeast portal was opened, and the Beiyang Army was killed in front of him, Chengde is in danger!" (To be continued......)