Chapter 155: Growing Against the Wind
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The battle in Huaibei in 1898 was a farce, one side had a large number of troops, but there was no preparation for war, this Yi army unit just came to accept the steel mill did not continue to fight in the south, this group of Yi army ruffians thinking is to fight whatever money the court gives. The opening fee given this time was to take down Suixi, not to single out the entire southern anti-thief. On the other hand, the well-equipped but pink recruit eggs, the factory guard team of Anhui Iron and Steel basically has a rifle in hand (Cheng Pan brought a large number of simple rifles), as for the 102 mm caliber heavy artillery, a total of 22 75 caliber mountain guns, and almost half of the 5,000 factory guard team surrounds these heavy artillery. Of course, the Qing army that went south also brought more than a dozen mountain artillery guns in order to hold the Suixi Steel Mill. But at the beginning of the artillery battle, Cheng Pan had an urge to tear the flag of the August 1st Army.
The basis of artillery warfare is to give priority to the elimination of the opposite artillery, Cheng Pan felt that the opposite side was very weak artillery power relative to his side, and decided to let his own artillery commander command, this is a basic combat skill, even if you win a hundred battles with a sense of cheating, the problem will not appear, once Cheng Pan is not there sooner or later, you will have to plant a big heel. The artillery of the Guard Corps was well trained, all the artillerymen were proficient in parabolic calculations, and the artillery commander had the correct tactics to open fire on the opposing artillery and then strike at the exposed enemy artillery positions. As a result, the artillery was fired on the opposite side, and Cheng Pan was taught a lesson what is called the veteran is afraid of grabbing the new soldier and being afraid of the artillery, and the village guard team on the front line hid in the trench and held more than 20 heavy machine guns, but the result was a rout under the bombardment of the mountain artillery. Cheng Pan suddenly thought of the loud slogan of swearing to defend the factory in the square a few days ago and not taking a step back. As a result, he went to the battlefield to give himself this play. This made Cheng Pan, a rebel professional, record in his memorandum: "The slogan is shouted loudly, the morale of the parade is strong, and it is not necessarily a strong army, and only iron-blooded discipline and loyalty to the idea of the reunification of the motherland are the guarantee of combat effectiveness." Cheng Pan immediately joined the overseer team to shoot the people who fled back, but this recruit ran forward with a lot of friction - they were also afraid of artillery, but fortunately, their own artillery fired, and the fierce artillery hit the Qing army's position, which immediately caused a greater rout of the Qing army. The artillery of both sides caused both sides to flee at the same time, what a bizarre war. Fortunately, Cheng Pan still has a chip, Cheng Pan immediately ordered his artillery to shoot a signal flare and then stop the artillery fire to prevent accidental injury to teammates, at this time, the army of the Sickle Hammer Society stationed on the side moved, and the form of the Sickle Hammer Society's troops adopted the system of veterans leading new recruits and grassroots military commanders charging on the front line, although this Sickle Hammer Society is a new soldier, it still has the courage to charge at the enemy. The officers of the Qing army tried to reorganize their troops more than ten miles after the rout and escape, but they were attacked by the army of the Sickle Society. After being subjected to heavy artillery fire, in the face of the technical and courageous attack of the Sickle Society, the rout was even more complete. And Cheng Pan arrested the troops who fled at this time. The few people who took the lead in the rout were shot directly, and the remaining deserters were waiting for them in the labor camp.
I didn't expect it before I fled, but after thinking about it, I understood that this unit under my command was not the army that was baptized by the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression after tens of millions of people died in the later generations, and even the Guodang army that was driven to Myanmar after the Liberation War crawled out of the pile of dead, walked out of the circle of war in China, and came to Southeast Asia to beat the local mud monkeys all over the ground to find teeth, and the troubled times made a strong army. The national character of a nation that has experienced the reunification of blood and fire seems to have been thoroughly forged. As for the current China, although the treaties of loss of power and humiliation of the country are one by one, but the whole country has been peaceful for a long time, except for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement 30 years ago, and the Qing Dynasty did not dare to cultivate nationalism to stimulate the blood of the people. The national character of the Qing Dynasty at this time was like this, and there was no spiritual totem for which it could be fought.
The army of the Sickle Hammer Society defeated the Qing army and did not continue to capture the prisoners, and the commander of the Sickle Society, Wang Qiang, stayed a thousand meters away from the factory protection team according to Cheng Pan's instructions, and Cheng Pan had already told Wang Qiang that he was the boss of Anhui Iron and Steel, and Wang Qiang and the other military commanders first reacted when they heard the news with their mouths wide open. This mind jumps so much. But then came the ecstasy, after the actual establishment of the industrial base, all the top management of the Sickle Hammer Society fully realized what the significance of steel to the power of a modern country, and how the peaceful victory of the Suixi Anhui Iron and Steel Industry Group would help the revolutionary cause of the entire Sickle Society, and the two armies met in this way, and under the surprise of all the officers who guarded the factory, the officers of the Sickle Hammer Society saluted their boss: "Report to the Supreme Commander, the Red Fourth Front Army has completed its task."
At first, the entire Anhui Iron and Steel Enterprise felt a little uncomfortable when it heard that it was going to join the anti-thief team of the Sickle Society, and later heard that its boss was the head of the anti-thieves in the entire four provinces. According to the idea of the Anhui steel workers at that time, their owner was an anti-thief leader, and they were definitely inseparable from the court. This kind of feudal Conglong idea Cheng Pan just smiled, these people have just come out of the poor class, and their simple thinking makes them not realize that there are other systems besides the imperial system. Now is not the time for the Cultural Revolution to forcibly correct the ideology, which can be reversed in a generation or two by knocking down the economic foundation of the decadent class and imperceptibly changing the education system.
The whole process of the merger of the two forces is peaceful, the only thing that is a little affectionate is the soldiers of the factory protection team, they originally thought that they were the most important force of Cheng Pan, but now they are not a little lost, plus the entire factory protection team was almost disrupted and reorganized after the war, and all the officers carried out ideological and tactical education again, which made these people feel a little uncomfortable, but they had no reason to object, the first factory protection team was formed by Cheng Pan, and the team was only 5,000 people who ate and drank military salaries from Cheng Pan, and secondly, such good equipment fought such a bad battle, Became a laughing stock in the army of the Scythe Society.
Compared with the army of the Sickle Hammer Society, which protects the factory, there are also shortcomings, and the use of artillery is something to learn from the Tubaozi troops with a low level of Chinese in the mountainous areas. There is no such thing as an undefeated army in the world, only an army that constantly learns lessons.
At the same time as the merger of Anhui Iron and Steel and the Sickle Hammer Society, the Empress Dowager Cixi in the north also began to complete the work of Annei, the hundred days of nonsense ended, Guangxu was put under house arrest, Kang Youwei escaped with the help of the Japanese, and Cixi returned to power and controlled the whole of Beijing. But it was in this short period of more than three months that Cixi took power, and now the whole of China seemed to be out of her expectations, originally ran out of the mountains to occupy part of Anhui, and part of Hubei (in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty rulers, as long as Wuhan, Hefei, Anqing did not lose the Sickle Hammer Society, the occupation of the Sickle Hammer Society is a local area) The Sickle Hammer Society suddenly exploded and swept half of the southern country, Cheng Pan is the leader of the Sickle Hammer Society, this news made Cixi feel angry, she immediately brought a sentence to Li Hongzhang, "Anhui is really a place to produce talents, there is a Li Hongzhang." , also out of Zhu Yuanzhang." Let's not talk about Li Hongzhang's reaction after hearing Cixi's weird inquiry, but when he knew that Cheng Pan was not "defecting" to the Sickle Society, but completely controlling the Sickle Hammer Society, the whole person stayed for an afternoon.
The old Empress Dowager Cixi felt that she could not let the Sickle Hammer Society go on any longer, so she ordered Rong Lu, the Minister of Military Machinery, to be the commander, and to organize the Beiyang armies as the Armed Guards, and Rong Lu wanted to expand the Armed Guards in various parts of Jiangsu by ten battalions, but before the expansion was completed, Cixi hoped that the front surrounding the Sickle Hammer Society would stabilize and focus on defense. And let people try to appease the Sickle Hammer Society and implement a delaying strategy. As for the old soldiers in Beijing, Cixi, who had just been prepared by Guangxu for a military coup, was now extremely insecure, and these Cixi in Beijing refused to let him go south.
It just so happened that the entire Sickle Hammer Society is now maintaining the land reform of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, and there is no strength to expand again, which coincides with the situation that the Qing Dynasty has no money and no soldiers, Wang Zhichun is the messenger of this negotiation, if according to normal history, Wang Zhichun will serve as the governor of Anhui next year, but it is impossible in this plane. He is now serving as the political envoy of Sichuan, and he has just quelled Yu Dongchen's uprising, this guy's hometown is in Hunan, and he has just been taken down by the Sickle Hammer Society. So Wang Zhichun definitely didn't have a good face for Cheng Pan, and the first sentence he saw when he saw Cheng Pan was: "Why should a beautiful woman be a thief" Cheng Pan did not react to Wang Zhichun's ridicule, and asked directly: "What does the Qing Dynasty ask for and what price are you willing to pay?" Wang Zhichun heard Cheng Pan's straightforward words and did not continue to talk on the topic of Cheng Pan being a thief, as a Qing Dynasty defender, Wang Zhichun wanted to say: "The thief quickly evacuates all the cities, and all of them are captured, waiting for the court to fall." But as a pragmatic official, he knew that talking like that wouldn't get things done. Especially when the strength of the imperial court is insufficient, it is even more skillful.
The stage of the negotiations was a confrontation, and the final result was a mutual maintenance of the status quo. The Sickle Hammer Society was forbidden to harass neighboring provinces, and the Qing Dynasty was not allowed to attack the Sickle Society's merchant ships in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Both sides have achieved their goals, and the Qing Dynasty needs a period of relief for a while, and the Sickle Hammer Society needs to continue to accumulate industrial systems and industrial talents.
However, Cheng Pan's good days of buying grain from the United States came to an end, and Britain, France, Japan, and Russia, who had suffered losses in Wuhan, immediately seized the warehouse of the Sickle Hammer Society in Anhui Iron and Steel, but did not get anything, and then announced the blockade of the foreign trade of the Sickle Society. At this time, the Sickle Society is facing a real headwind period, and offending the world's number one power is to be sanctioned.