Chapter 147: Red Expansion

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In 1897, it was a catastrophe for the Song family in Jinzhai County, Dabie Mountain, the young master of Song just pushed a maid, this maid was a family of mud legs maliciously resisted rent at the end of the year, this mud legs simply did not have the king's law, renting land and farming is called rent, it is a matter of course, since ancient times. These people not only did not pay the rent but also wanted to flee to the mountains overnight, and the old man of the Song family used them as a model to let the villagers know what the rules were. As for this maid, she was pulled back from the abyss of death by the eldest young master, and the eldest young master Song felt that he was too kind-hearted this time. In the future, the inheritance of the family business must be corrected. Just as the young master Song sighed for his kindness, the entire Song family compound was in chaos, and I only heard that the bandits had entered the county seat.

That's right, after a year of laying a solid foundation, the Kamakama Society has finally begun to step out into the world outside the mountains. The first battle was Jinzhai County, because the policies of the Sickle Hammer Society in the mountains spread to the outside, a large number of people began to go into the mountains to beg for a living, and the Sickle Hammer Society also began to collect intelligence from the outside world, and all kinds of class contradictions in western Anhui have reached the extreme, and the Qing Dynasty pressed the contradictions to the peak of the explosion in order to repay the reparations. It's time to fight out, Jinzhai County fell in the sound of blasting canisters, and there are also some advanced weapons in the major families, but one or two unconscionable cannons were carried by several sickle and hammer society soldiers to shoot at close range, like the explosives bag with the power of heavy artillery, so that the landlords' compounds know what war is. Then it was to break down the door and arrest these landlords and summarize the spoils. The landlord of the Song family just taught the township what the family rules are in the threshing floor a month ago, and now he is standing again, his mouth is blocked and he can't speak, at this time the criticism meeting began, and the farmers who began to be numb didn't feel anything, and as a few young men who were killed by the Song patriarch cried and complained, these villagers began to remember that the big patriarch in front of him was too bad, and the arrogant and domineering appearance of the Song family was revealed. In the end, driven by the atmosphere, all the local peasants began to scold the patriarch of the Song family, and then the Sickle Hammer Society began to announce the division of land, so that the atmosphere reached **, at this time, a gagged Song old man had no blood on his face, at this time, the Sickle Hammer Society took out the blockage of Song Lao's mouth, and this Song old man said in a voice like killing a pig: "The rebel court will exterminate you." The host of the Sickle Society's criticism meeting said in a mocking tone: "The imperial army? We have been growing in the mountains, and this time we decided to fight against the rotten Qing government. "However, the name of the imperial court still makes these mud legs a little cold. They were not so active in dividing the land, and the Sickle Hammer Society only controlled the place, and it was necessary to completely make this place a base for its own soldiers, and it needed a victory to give the local revolution victory confidence.

At this time, the Sickle Hammer Society dispatched two regiments of 8,000 people, and the Red First Regiment and the Red Second Regiment and the Red Third Regiment were on standby in the Dabie Mountains. At this time, a large number of administrative personnel began to enter the grassroots level of the newly occupied territory, and Cheng Pan was now fighting on two fronts, one sweeping the county seat near the mountainous area of Anhui Province, and the other sweeping from Hubei to the vicinity of Huanggang. Cheng Pan was very contemptuous of the combat effectiveness of the Qing Dynasty troops at this time, and the whole of Hubei in 19o2 will be the 4th battalion of the Wukai Army Infantry Brigade; 4th Battalion of Infantry of the Armed Defense Force; 4th Battalion of Infantry of the Escort Railway Battalion. The 31st Battalion has a total of more than 95oo officers and soldiers, and the number may be a little more now, but there is still the habit of eating empty salaries, and the number of troops in the entire Hubei army is only 25,000, and the troops armed with rifles are only 4,000, and the will to fight is backward, and the most advanced tactics are still the way of advancing in Western formations, as for the Anhui Huai Army, which reached 200 in its heyday, the total number of battalions reached 100,000, but now it has just been beaten by Japan, and there are only more than 10,000 troops left in the entire Anhui, and these numbers are still very watery. Just when Cheng Pan occupied seven or eight county towns around the Dabie Mountains, Hubei Zhangzhidong and Anhui Governor Deng Huaxi began to pay attention to it, and telegraphed to the north, impressively writing "Anhui and Hubei bandits are in chaos."

Anhui and Hubei were very slow to respond, and the troops in the late Qing Dynasty were very strange and needed to allocate money, and the Sickle Hammer Society did not occupy the big cities, so the two provinces did not pay too much attention to it. For the Sickle Hammer Society that came out of the mountains, these feudal officials are really not vigilant. As early as 189o, Yu Dongchen had launched a peasant uprising in the name of anti-foreign religion, and the Qing army, equipped with breech guns, easily suppressed it. In the eyes of these feudal officials, the Sickle Hammer Society was like a peasant uprising with a rudimentary cold weapon. The Qing army's way of fighting for the peasant uprising was to put the guns in a row, and the people who were generally standing were dead after the release, but when they encountered the Japanese army in the First Sino-Japanese period, the Japanese army first lay down and then waited for the end of the fire to start attacking, and the entire Qing army rested.

Due to the fact that the place where the Sickle Hammer Society attacked was relatively close to the important town of Wuhan, and Wuhan was the place of wealth of the imperial court, it was relatively refreshing to allocate fees, and because of the huge bandits, the Hubei army of 15,000 people began to suppress the bandits to the east, and just when the Hubei army moved, the Red First Regiment began to lay out, the Red Third Regiment far away in the Dabie Mountains began to advance in the direction of Hubei, and half of the 2,000 people of the Red Second Regiment in Anhui also began to abandon the equipment and march westward. Cheng Pan decided to defeat the army in Hubei in one fell swoop before the Huai army in Anhui did not react. In the face of the 15,000-strong Qing army, the 10,000-strong troops that the Sickle Hammer Society is about to gather are no problem. The army of the Sickle Hammer Society all had a rifle from the 88 Committee, and only one-third of the Qing army in Hubei had rifles, so Cheng Pan certainly could not use absolute strength to have a hard-fought battle with the Qing army in Wuhan. This is the first time that the Sickle Hammer Society has engaged in regular warfare, and the army brought out by Cheng Pan has a strong smell of turtles, and such a weak opponent is just practicing a sports war.

The operation of the Hubei army was a tragedy, the Hanyang Arsenal had not been in operation for several years, and the guns had not yet accumulated. The annual production of a thousand rifles at the Hanyang Arsenal is simply a tragedy. In the past two years, many workers have been poached by Cheng Pan, and the output has declined. It is said that there are more than 10,000 people and there is no boundary, and this army will be in big trouble when it advances a certain distance.

Landmines were an unpopular weapon in this period, and the original space-time infantry mine was developed by Russia around 19o3. Now Cheng Pan has preemptively figured out that the black powder that this mine technology does not require is completed, and technically the TG guerrillas can handle it. Don't be too powerful to blow up a person at once. Injuries are done. So the Hubei New Army stepped on the minefield halfway through, for this kind of bomb buried in the soil, don't expect the weak will to fight in the Qing Dynasty to use human flesh to open the minefield. If they had this will to fight, Cheng Pan would not have made a revolution. It's a pity that more than 100 Qing soldiers who blew up their soles on the ground wailed on the ground, which completely stopped the Qing army in Hubei. For things like landmines, Cheng Pan has never used them before, because they are not written in the Republic of China through the novel. Of course, those protagonists are afraid of the huge sequelae left by the remnants of the local war, but Cheng Pan is not afraid, he feels that there is no sequelae of mines after the war...... More than 10,000 Qing troops were bound here by fear. In the end, a precious day was delayed, and in this day, the Sickle Hammer Society completed the mobilization of the army, and from Macheng City to Yingshan County, the first regular army field battle of the Sickle Hammer Society began.

The whole battle was a tactical live-fire exercise. The only advantage of the Hubei army is artillery, the tactics adopted by the Qing army in this era are very simple, first with artillery shooting, and then platoon gun shooting, because the army of the Sickle Hammer Society suffered from artillery bombardment for the first time, the heart was greatly affected, and the 100 people broke and fled, and the commander of the Sickle Hammer Society, Zuo Qiang, immediately decided to carry out the battlefield execution of the escapees. Stabilized the position, when the artillery bombardment was completed, the casualties of the soldiers of the Sickle Hammer Society hiding in the trenches were very small, and at this time, the Qing army, which had been trapped for a day and finally found the enemy, rushed up and prepared to shoot with a platoon, but the Qing army commander who was still a little brainy when the army of the Sickle Hammer Society was shooting at the trench ordered the troops to retreat, and the next thing was the attack of the Sickle Hammer Society. The Qing army learned the different forms of tactics of the Sickle Society, the Sickle Society adopted a three-three formation attack, once the opposite side took the form of a platoon of guns to shoot immediately, immediately lay down, the army of the Sickle Hammer Society began to advance, reached the close range, and the grenade was thrown out, announcing the collapse of the Qing army. At this time, the Qing Dynasty was very afraid of things that would explode, and the spirit of the Chinese in later generations who braved artillery fire to advance could not be seen in front of these Qing troops. The 15,000-strong troops were divided and surrounded one by one, eating bite by bite, at first the Sickle Hammer Society was still a little constrained, but later began to fight, and the whole battle process Sickle Hammer Society suffered a total of 678 casualties, and the Qing army lost more than 2,000 casualties.

This war can be said to have completely defeated the last trace of fear of the Qing army by the soldiers of the Sickle Hammer Society, and wiped out most of the Qing army in Hubei. It also made the peasants who had just been allocated land aware of the power of the Sickle Society. The agrarian revolution in the northern part of the Yangtze River in Hubei began, but Cheng Pan did not order to take the Wuhan industrial base by victory, at this time the Yangtze River and Shanghai were floating with foreigners' warships, and the Yangtze River was still an insurmountable natural danger for the Sickle Hammer Society, so there was only the countryside surrounding the city, and as for the industrial center, Cheng Pan had already booked one for the Sickle Hammer Society. Once there is enough shore-based artillery, then it will be the day to completely liberate the whole of Hubei, and the Sickle Hammer Society, which ate most of Hubei, will leave 5,000 people at this time and begin to move towards the Anhui side. At this time, after learning about the combat effectiveness of the Sickle Hammer Society, the rural areas of Hubei were assigned land at the same time, and many people began to join the Sickle Hammer Society in order to defend their land, and the team in Hubei began to grow. However, the grassroots staff began to be insufficient again, and Cheng Pan is still better to use people from the Dabie Mountains in Hubei as basic cadres in Hubei, and it is more cordial to the people as village cadres who speak their hometown dialect. Of course, in the army, the Hubei and Anhui people are scattered and incorporated, and there is absolutely no mountaineering. The civil unrest in Hubei exceeded the imagination of these local real power factions, this was no longer an ordinary peasant uprising, the Qing Dynasty began to pay attention to it, and the Qing army in the northern border of Anhui began to attack the Dabie Mountains.