Chapter 120: The Battle of Suwanlu (Part II)
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June 6, 19o9, Beijing, Yuanfu.
"Bah......" A precious blue and white porcelain was slammed to the ground.
"Bastard, I'm really blind" Dropping a teacup couldn't calm Yuan Shikai's anger, so a jade paperweight was unlucky again.
"Ni Sichong, this bastard, I'm really angry" The big head was so angry that his face turned blue, and he gritted his teeth and scolded Ni Sichong.
Yang Du hurriedly persuaded: "Gong Bao is angry, the Science and Technology Socialist Party wants to add a crime, even if there is no Ni Sichong, they will find an excuse for Zhang Sichong and Li Sichong......"
A group of bigwigs in Beiyang also stepped forward to persuade them, and after a while, the big head calmed down.
The reason why the big head is so popular is that the Science and Technology Socialist Party has made another move, and this time their target is Anhui. Datou has just received news here that Anqing has been conquered by the People's Liberation Army, the -1st town has been completely annihilated, and a total of more than 86 people under the command of Yu Dahong have been captured.
The cause of the incident was that Yuan Shikai had just scolded Ni Sichong Ni Dadu, because this guy had gone too far in Anhui.
In 19o7, after the Ding Wei Revolution and the change of banners in several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, although the uprising of King Yue in Anqing failed, the alliance in northern Anhui also responded. They formed the "Huaishang Army" with Yuan Jiasheng and Wang Qingyun as the head, and launched an uprising in Yingzhou Mansion (Fuyang), where the Qing army was a patrol battalion with a combat strength of less than five, and the rebel army soon controlled parts of Yingzhou Mansion and Fengyang Prefecture.
Because the Anhui New Army was mainly guarding against the south at that time, and because of the Anqing Uprising, half of the people were taken away, and they could only barely hold Anqing, so they could not do anything about this rebel army. And Beiyang's troops were also stretched, coupled with the infighting between the Zongshe Party and Beiyang, they were unable to pay attention to them, so this rebel army miraculously survived the encirclement of the Qing court.
Later, when the CSD and the League turned their faces and questioned the various revolutionary organizations, they also announced that they had drawn a line of separation from the League. When the CSU invited them to join the government in the South, they did not reply. This is because the Huaishang Army is a very complex organization, and although there are revolutionary parties and progressive youths in it, more of them are local powerful and powerful gentry. Because of the "land reform" and other policies of the CSD, they did not have a unified opinion within themselves, and those local tycoons were very hostile to the CSD and were unwilling to join the CSD. After the CSD sent people to talk to each other several times without any result, they did not force it anymore and left it to fend for themselves.
Later, the Socialist Party was taking over the forces in Jiangnan and was about to engage in internal affairs construction, and Beiyang was busy forcing the palace and expanding the army. The two strongest forces didn't have time to pay attention to them, so the Huai Shangjun gang became the emperor of the soil in Yingzhou, and their small life was still quite nourishing.
But the good times didn't last long, the emperor didn't serve for a few days, Yuan Shikai had already built a few towns of new troops, so the Huaishang Army, the weakest "revolutionary army", became the object of the Beiyang Army's might. Datou sent Duan Qirui to take command, led the 2nd, 13th, and 6th towns, and sent troops to Anhui to exterminate the Huaishang army.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Huaishang Army is higher than that of the patrol battalion, it is only five, where is the opponent of the Beiyang Army, as soon as the two sides face each other, they are immediately beaten to the ground, and their old nest Yingchuan Mansion did not hold on for even half a day, and was bombarded by the heavy artillery of the Beiyang Army. The main force of the Huaishang Army was completely annihilated in the first battle, and all the rest ran back to the area of Shou County to hide.
Because Ni Sichong was the governor of Anhui Province, after the Beiyang Army defeated Yingchuan, Duan Qirui went back with the 2nd and 13th towns, leaving his 6th town to continue to clear the remnants of the enemy.
Ni Sichong can't fight this guy, but the ability of fish and meat people to loot small money is first-class. So the powerful gentry in the Yingchuan area were unlucky, and these people had something to do with the Huaishang Army. Ni Sichong used this as an excuse to wantonly hunt down and kill the local powerful gentry in the name of "chasing down the Huaishang army" and "investigating and handling associations and gangs", and even ordinary people were implicated a lot. In order to loot, Ni Sichong has not known how many things have been done in northern Anhui. It made the people of northern Anhui hate it to the bone and called it "Ni Butcher".
During Ni Sichong's reign in Anhui, on the one hand, he relied on the landlords and gentry to brutally oppress the people, extort and extort excessively, and imposed more than three kinds of taxes and miscellaneous taxes, as well as indiscriminately used paper money and public bonds without funds. He deposited a large amount of looted money into the Bank of Japan in Tianjin, so that the Ni family could live a luxurious and decadent life. On the other hand, it also dealt a brutal blow to the revolutionary and progressive forces, and everything related to the Huaishang Army was basically ruined.
At that time, Bengbu's trade was flourishing, and the salt and grain trade was the bulk of the trade. Seeing that the salt industry was profitable, Governor Ni Dadu changed the Huaiyan "diversion bank", moved the Northern Anhui Salt Bureau, which was originally established in Su County, to Bengbu, and established the Fu'an Salt Store, stipulating that the salt originally transported and sold in northern Anhui from Jiangsu was all concentrated in Bengbu, and the power was monopolized. At the same time, Ni also moved the Fengyang Pass (tax customs) to Bengbu to control the tax revenue. However, Ni Sichong does not have the meaning of the so-called "rabbits don't eat the grass by the nest" in Bengbu, for example, when he was in Bengbu in order to build the governor's mansion and training ground, he forcibly requisitioned countless people's fields and sent men to arrest them, and the people were miserable.
Anyway, in such a short period of more than a year, he successfully scraped Anhui three feet high, made the people's resentment boiling, and made his boss Yuan Shikai a mess. Of course, Ni Dadu himself has made a lot of money, and his sleeves are golden.
Later, not only the common people could not bear it, but even the powerful gentry who had opposed the CSD could not bear it.
In the eyes of these powerful gentry, the CSD only wants land, and nothing else, and land is not for nothing, and people also want compensation. As long as there is no blood debt and nothing that hurts nature, there will be no bad ending. But this Ni Dadu Governor is different, this dog not only wants land, money, food, sisters, but also life
The gentry and people in northern Anhui couldn't bear it anymore, so they connected it again, and publicly pushed several bigwigs of the Yuanhuai Shangjun hidden in the countryside to lead, and everyone turned against his mother together
As a result, there was the "Second Huaishang Army Uprising" born on April 3.
This time they finally realized who was a friend and who was an enemy, and secretly contacted the People's Liberation Army in southern Anhui and Hubei before the uprising. And in the uprising, the Huaishang Army asked the People's Liberation Army to go on a northern expedition to "rescue the people of northern Anhui from hanging upside down", and even said things like "like babies looking forward to their parents".
Of course, the PLA did not disappoint them, and an hour after they sent the telegram, the PLA No. 1 Pei stationed in Tongling City (formerly Chizhou Prefecture) sent people to negotiate with the -1st town of Anqing, demanding that they surrender unconditionally and hand over the defense area to the PLA.
Of course the 1st town is not, and if you tell me to surrender, you will surrender, so what is the point?
Although it is said that the people's evaluation of the Qing army at that time was very low, saying that they were "those who misheard and fled were brave, those who fled while looking at the wind were brave, and those who fled when they saw thieves were brave." "But that's just the old army, our new army can still fight a dozen.
Well, since Yu Dahong's -1st town is so confident, then the PLA will also give them this face. If you want to fight, then fight
Therefore, at 2 p.m. on April 3, the Yangtze River Fleet of the People's Navy first opened the prelude to the "Suwanlu Campaign."
The current Yangtze River Fleet is composed of five Chuzi-class river gunboats (Chutai, Chuyou, Chuqian, Chuguan, and Chuyu) of the former Qing Court's Hubei Fleet, a "Liyu-class" inland river gunboat of the former Sichuan People's League, and a newly built "Catfish-class" river gunboat.
The most powerful "catfish-class" river gunboat is equipped with 2丨15m main guns and 2丨75mm secondary guns. First of all, the ten 156 guns and ten 75 guns of this "Catfish" began to shell the Jiangfang battery in Anqing, and then the 2O guns of the Chu character class and the 75 guns of the "Carp" also joined the shelling.
Eighteen river gunboats lined up in a column and rushed down from the upper reaches to cover the Anqing fortress with a battle line. After descending beyond range, they made another circle, and then went up against the current, continuing to bombard the battle line.
Half an hour later, the heavy artillery positions arranged in Jiangnan also began to roar. The PLA 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade sent 3 21o-mm heavy howitzers, 48 156-mm long-range cannons, and 3 156-mm howitzers to the Anqing fortress in Jiangbei without reservation.
At -15:15 p.m., two fighter groups that took off from Wuchang Airport and one fighter group that took off from Nanjing Airport arrived at the sky over Anqing to converge, and immediately began to ravage the remnants of the enemy.
Where can the -1st town block this three-dimensional offensive, and the Jiangfang fortress knelt before half past one o'clock.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the 1st Pei of Tongling began to cross the river under the cover of the Yangtze River fleet. Dipei, who was stationed in Huanggang, had been dispatched an hour earlier, and their troops were divided into two routes, advancing to Yingshan and Susong respectively......
Beijing, Yuanfu.
"What does Wen Deji mean? Didn't they promise a truce between the north and the south, discuss state affairs, and formulate a republic?" Yuan Shikai said indignantly.
Yang Shiqi said: "The ceasefire conditions they put forward are to hand over northern Anhui to them for management, and hand over Ni Sichong and all the officers and soldiers of the 16th town, saying that they will be tried in public and comfort the people ......of northern Anhui."
"How can this really be true, what does this guy take us for?" Duan Zhigui immediately jumped up.
Duan Qirui also said: "That is, although Ni Sichong is a little unreasonable, he can't hand it over like this." Otherwise, we'll all go home and farm......
All the Beiyang generals were indignant, and they all shouted things like "The boss can't be cowardly, fight his mother". To tell the truth, these generals didn't really sympathize with Ni Sichong, but they felt that if the Science and Technology Socialist Party threatened them, they would be instigated, so how could they mess up in the future? Even if they wanted to coax them, they had to fight them first.
Seeing the angry appearance of the generals, Yuan Shikai also quickly made up his mind.
"Okay, since the Socialist Party is so unreasonable, then we can't be so soft, so we have a fight with them" Yuan Shikai stood up and began to give a series of orders.
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