Chapter 163: The State of the Nation
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When I came to Qingdao, I realized that it was really an excellent naval base. There are exactly two pieces of high ground on the upper and lower jaws of the outlet fish mouth of Qingdao Harbor, one is the Cave Mountain and the other is the Langya Terrace, and the forts are erected on these two highlands, which can basically seal the exit of Qingdao Harbor less than ten kilometers. Warships from the outside world can't get in at all. The German occupation was able to meet the Qing army, an extremely incompetent opponent. Japan was able to capture Qingdao not by relying on the navy to come in, but by relying on the 6th World War to bypass from behind. As long as the Chain Hammer Society occupies the whole of Shandong, with a strong 6-battle force to support the entire Qingdao Fortress, this harbor will be an eternal thorn in the Japanese Navy.
The warships inside the Qingdao harbor only lasted three days, and after seeing that the 6th Army was completely wiped out and there was no hope of breaking through, they surrendered en masse. However, these warships can only be temporarily sealed, and first, this naval force is vulnerable in front of the navies of the coalition forces of various countries, so it is better to keep it alive and threaten it. The second is that Cheng Pan really can't find someone who can drive a warship. The 100-year navy is nonsense, but it will take at least 20 years from the training of the navy to the perfection of shipbuilding technology. That's it here in Qingdao.
The second goal of the Chain Hammer Society to continue to advance is Weihaiwei, which is the territory of the British, and the Chain Hammer Society met the Huayong Battalion established by the British in history, the entire army has a total of 600 people, the British really have no troops in this Eight-Nation Coalition War, and his powerful forces are trapped in the Boer battlefield, the Anglo-Japanese alliance has not yet been signed, and the British at this time have no forces that can maintain order in East Asia, at this time, Tsarist Russia has mobilized 180,000 people in the Far East, and swallowed the land north of the Heilongjiang River in a big way. The massacre of Jiangdong 64 Tun 2ooo people was born during this time, so Cheng Pan's mood was not good when the war in Shandong was a qiē shun lì, the invasion of the Russians did not directly affect the British balance in the Far East, he wanted to show his strength and began to borrow troops everywhere, Australia was at this time in response to the call of the motherland to participate in this world military operation, but the British could fight the most capable force, it turned out to be this team of ruffians who were originally Chinese, and the British gave them high military salaries, The British highly praised this unit and ridiculed the Chinese troops formed by the Germans, and the British newspapers praised this unit for its tenacity and strict obedience to orders, but Cheng Pan thought it was a shame, and the British were showing off how to train colonial troops, and the tone was the same as how modern people trained dogs. And the British also boasted that this Huayong battalion fired on their compatriots mercilessly, so Cheng Pan's order to the front line was "When you encounter this traitor army, fight to the death." The battle of Weihaiwei ended very quickly, the secret of the invincibility of the Huayong Battalion in China is discipline, and the army of the Sickle Hammer Society also has discipline, if the Huayong Battalion is a modern army, the Sickle Hammer Society is a modern army, and the army of the Sickle Hammer Society knows what to fight." The famous British First Army was solved within three hours by the Sickle Hammer Society, and the entire Huayong battalion surrendered after a third of the death, and the Sickle Hammer Society did not treat the wounds of this captive unit for the first time, and the reason for the front-line officers was that the medicine was lost, and a series of officers of Cheng Pan and Zuo Qiang ignored it with an "oh", and what was waiting for these traitors to be captured was more than 20 years of labor reform.
In less than fifteen days, the 10,000 troops of the Sickle Hammer Society entered Shandong to eliminate Yuan Shikai's 50,000 troops and took Qingdao, Weihaiwei, the results shocked the whole of China, and also formed a shock in Europe, Wilhelm II had just said in Europe that "let the Chinese not dare to peep at the Germans after a thousand years", but the next day the telegram came Qingdao was gone, and the only colony of the emperor with a broken arm in the Far East was gone. It became the laughing stock of the whole of Europe. The British ridiculed that "the Chinese really can't peep at the Germans for a thousand years, because they can't peep anymore." But a few days later, the British couldn't laugh either, and Weihaiwei was also taken down by the Sickle Society.
At this time, the Eight-Nation Alliance, which had just taken Tianjin, fell into the embarrassment of being about to divide its troops, and the allied forces of various countries in Tianjin began to quarrel and decided to send that force south, first the Germans advocated going south, and their telegram from the neurotic emperor was very harsh. The British also wanted to go south, but the Russians wanted to capture the city of Beijing first, and for the sinister intentions of the Russians, the British had to ensure the survival of the area around Beijing, and in the end the Japanese sent troops up to 20,000 in total, leaving 5,000 in Tianjin, and 15,000 of them went south.
At this time, Cheng Pan has come to Shandong, at this time the battlefield will be concentrated in the coastal areas of Shandong and the northern Hebei area, the general headquarters moved to the north, at the latest military meeting Cheng Pan said: "We must be ready to fight a general war, a protracted war" Next, Cheng Pan announced several strategies: first, to ensure the production and transportation of ammunition, and secondly, to train new soldiers on the spot in Shandong. Normally, recruit training takes three months, but Cheng Pan compressed the training syllabus to one month, and was the first to recruit 100,000 recruits. The source of troops here in Shandong is good, and later generations China set up a separate Shandong Military Region here in Shandong, although it is a strategic consideration, but the good source of troops in Shandong is also a major reason.
At this time, the Japanese still had the impression of the squadron, and the German army thought that the Sickle Hammer Society army they were about to face was still as undisciplined and equipped as the Boxers, relying on a trace of blood and bravery. The two armies were sliding into the pit, and in early August, after receiving the news of the southward movement, the Sickle Hammer Society's Zuoqiang issued an operational order to "let it go in and fight, and eat it in one bite." ”
When Cheng Pan was planning a battle in the Shandong area, the whole of southern China was also very lively. The Southeastern Mutual Insurance has been activated, and several powerful ministers in southern China have not supported the North, and of course they cannot support the entire Sickle Society. When he did not obey the edict, Li Hongzhang did not make anything else like the original history, and Sun Dacang persuaded Li Hongzhang to establish a federal independence similar to the United States in southern China, and the British might promise what kind of support Li Hongzhang would give if he dealt a blow to the four provinces controlled by the Sickle Hammer Society in the south. But this qiē was rejected by Li Hongzhang, on this day Li Hongzhang was sipping tea, while carefully reading the war report from the north, at this time Sheng Huaixuan couldn't help but ask: "My lord, the British are coming." Li Hongzhang didn't take his eyes off the meter, and said, "It's still for the sake of pincerizing the red bandits." Sheng Huaixuan said: "Yes." Li Hongzhang said: "Just say I'm sick and don't see you." Sheng Huaixuan couldn't help but say: "My lord, now is the weakest time for the red bandits, the best time to exterminate them." Li Hongzhang put down the telegram and sighed and said: "Huaixuan, I know that your business in Wuhan, Anhui Province has been robbed by Wei Yan, so you hate him so much that you don't see something" Li Hongzhang gave him a message from ten days ago and said at the same time: "From July 1st to July 6th in the Western calendar, Yuan Gongbao's 50,000 new troops are gone, and I still know about Gongbao's military training." You said that the Sickle Hammer Society is now the weakest, that's right, do you think that as long as the hundreds of thousands of tiger and wolf divisions in Shandong can survive, who around can stop them? Sheng Huaixuan frowned and said: "He offended the foreigners, as soon as Shandong is defeated, he will be finished" Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "Cheng Pan may be defeated in Shandong, but it is absolutely no problem to keep the nest, there is already a factory in the west of Nanjing that is no less than Zhang Nanpi in Hanyang, Hubei, according to my report, the foreigners there who want to do business there have to be inspected by the red bandits, and if there is opium, they are directly shot to death, and the British have not found an excuse to do something, The reason for this was that as early as when the red bandits were heading south, they used the fort to beat away the foreigner warships that came to seek justice. Sheng Huaixuan was silent after hearing this, but after being silent for a long time, a soldier trotted in and said: "Lord Zhongtang, an urgent telegram from Sichuan" Li Zhongtang took a careful look at the telegram and sighed and said, "Huaixuan, someone has already helped us find the way" and then handed the telegram to Sheng Huaixuan, and the telegram wrote the dazzling content "Chongqing is trapped in red bandits."
Li Hongzhang, the old fox, was not used as a gun by the British, but there are always people in this world who can't see clearly, and the governor of Sichuan, Kui Jun, made a plan to recover Jingzhou at the instigation of the French, and more than 6,000 Qing troops just left Sichuan and were informed by the garrison troops stationed in Yichang by the Sickle Hammer Society, and the second-line troops of the Eight Thousand Sickle Hammer Society stationed in northern Hubei were informed, and this second-line army did not have water submachine guns and all kinds of heavy firepower, only simple rifles and 5o grenadiers, It was such a force that quickly crossed Padang to intercept the Sichuan army that was slowly swallowing and advancing, and after the exchange of fire, the six or seven Sichuan troops were quickly divided, this Qing army was not strong in combat, and the wartime commander was on standby after sending a thousand people to escort the prisoners back and waiting for the news of the base camp, Cheng Pan calculated the amount of material production in Hubei and told Huang Luming, the combat commander at that time, to give him so many materials to Chongqing to carry out a retaliatory attack on the Qing Dynasty's military forces, and as a result, the Qing army in Chongqing broke down everywhere as soon as it entered Sichuan, Huang Luming tried to attack Chongqing City directly, but in the night, a few explosive packs blew up the entire Chongqing City and was taken down, Huang Luming did not dare to move forward, he knew that he must not ignore the Chongqing area, this place will consume resources to implement land reform, and this situation has consumed the supply of materials on the front line.
After Cheng Pan got the news that Chongqing was taken, he was very speechless, and at the meeting, he felt sorry for himself and said to Zuo Qiang and others, "Manchu, Manchu, is this how you dragged me back?" ”。 Cheng Pan gritted his teeth and approved Chongqing's land reform and black work, Chongqing's elders' association is a very rampant underworld organization, and when Huang Luming implemented order in Chongqing, he directly cracked down on protection fees, drug trafficking, and casinos, which knocked out the economic foundation of the elders' association in Chongqing. No one would want to be charged protection money, and the work carried out smoothly in Chongqing Sickle Hammer Society has also won the hearts of Chongqing people.
The Republic of China has always been unable to get rid of the underworld, and it can only be eliminated by completely mobilizing the people and relying on the people to dare to fight the underworld. The Brotherhood of the Elders used the friendship between the villagers to exclude foreigners, but in order for any underworld to be maintained, it was necessary to extract the fruits of labor from the people, and the Sickle and Hammer Society won by cutting off the line of the Brotherhood sucking blood from the people. However, the negative effect is that the elders of the whole Sichuan will encourage the public opinion and ideology that the Sichuan people cannot be ruled by people from other provinces, just like Taiwan in later generations. In the future, the Kamakama Society completely entered the river, and faced a little trouble.
The fall of Chongqing also shocked the forces around the Sickle Society, and all the forces knew that the tiger's ass was not something that their small bodies could touch. Throughout the course of the battle between the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Sickle Society, no matter what foreigners say, these local leaders just don't move.