June 6, 19o8 (34th year of Guangxu), Kunming, Yunnan.

Because of the pressure of Ding Wei's revolution, the Sixth Military Department of the Qing court appointed Cui Xiangkui as the commander last year, and brought more than 100 graduates of the Beiyang Military Academy to Yunnan, supplementing military spending and baggage, and expanding the Yunnan New Army into a "town" with the number "19th town of the Sixth Army." Under the jurisdiction of 37, 38 two associations, each association two standards, each standard 3 battalions, each battalion of officers and soldiers 536 people, plus the 19th artillery standard, horse standard, engineering battalion, baggage battalion, machine gun battalion, 6 army police battalion, military band, etc., the town officers and soldiers 1. 30,000 people (the original time and space was 1.) o 90,000 people).

To be fair, the 19th town is still very combative, not much worse than the six towns of Beiyang. When Xiliang was in Sichuan, he was bombarded with Xingke's information for a long time, and his horizons expanded a lot, and he was stimulated by the advanced equipment of Kyodo News. Therefore, when Lao Xi was training the new army in Yunnan last year, he set up a special machine gun battalion, equipped with more than 5o Makqin heavy machine guns, which is more advanced than Beiyang.

But Cui Xiangkui, the commander of the system, is an officer of the Beiyang faction and a close confidant of the big head. He was self-assured and despised the officers of Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan, and noble nationality in the army, resulting in factional discord and contradictions within the 19 towns. And after Li Jingxi became the governor of Yungui, Brother Kui didn't take him seriously, and the relationship between the two was extremely poor.

However, no matter how bad their relationship is, it is also an internal contradiction in the Qing court, under the premise that the Science and Socialist Party next door is called, they still do not pull each other's back, but that's all, it is absolutely impossible for them to sacrifice themselves for others. For example, at the end of last year, in order to prevent the revolutionary party in Hunan from attacking Guizhou, Li Jingxi was ready to mobilize a target, but Kui Ge did not agree because he believed that Guizhou did not belong to his defense area. Fortunately, Hunan was later seized by the much more moderate constitutionalists, otherwise Guizhou might have been in danger long ago.

When the Socialist Party attacked Hunan, Li Jingxi brought up the old matter again, and he knew very well that the Socialist Party was not as gentle as the constitutionalists, and if it didn't do well, it would be blown up. But Brother Kui still disagreed, and the two took the lawsuit to Beijing, and before they could separate the ugly Yinmao, Wen Desi rebelled in Sichuan again. Before they could discuss a solution, the rebel army in Sichuan had already liberated most of Sichuan and divided its troops to attack Yunnan and Guizhou.

In a blink of an eye, Guiyang and Zunyi fell, and the First Front Army of the Revolutionary Army responded from Hunan and conquered Sizhou Mansion (Cen Gong), Tongren Mansion, Zhenyuan Mansion and Liping. Dongchuan (Huize) and Wuding in the direction of Yunnan were also captured, and the vanguard of the revolutionary army was only more than 1oo kilometers away from Kunming. Judging from the current situation, Guizhou is basically hopeless, and Cui Xiangkui does not dare to divide his troops, and plans to concentrate his forces to hold Kunming.

In a certain way, it is really not the right time for the revolutionary army to fight at this time, and most of the revolutionary progressive officers who participated in the 19 town uprising in the original time and space are not there at this time, and they are either in other places, such as Cai Yi is still working in Guangxi, the first standard standard commander of the Guangxi Xinlian Standing Army, and the general office of the primary school hall of the Guangxi 6th Army and the general office of the Guangxi Military Garrison Department. or still studying abroad, such as Luo Peijin, Li Gengen, Tang Jiyao, Huang Yuying, Li Hongxiang, Xie Ruyi, etc., have not yet graduated.

If these people were here, 19 Towns would have revolted long ago. Although there are also some revolutionary progressive officers in 19 towns, they do not occupy the mainstream, and the Beiyang officers brought by Cui Xiangkui occupy many important positions, and most of the revolutionaries are small roles, or they have no real power, and their power is very difficult. In addition, the new troops in several provinces were the main forces of the rebellion, and Li Jingxi and Kui Ge were even more strict in guarding the 19 towns, which gave them no chance to make a move.

However, this was all the same as before, and now because of the pressure of the CSD troops, Kui Ge has transferred many of his cronies to the front. He only dares to believe the cronies he brought from Beiyang now, and he can't believe the officers from Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan, and your nationality, Xingke Company has infiltrated these provinces, and if they are sent to the front, God knows if they will defect. As a result, the guards against the revolutionaries were not so strict.

In the west of Kunming City, there is a luxurious mansion, which is an annex of the Wang family. Wang Fei, the contemporary head of the family, will be a well-known dog in Yunnan, a big landowner, a big comprador and a big capitalist. The Wang family was originally a generation of business, the previous generations relied on the resale of Myanmar's jadeite to make a fortune, from the previous generation, and as a comprador, engaged in import and export intermediaries, to Wang Feijiang's generation, and played industry again, engaged in mines, set up factories.

Wang Feijiang himself also has the title of alternate Dao, but he feels that this is not safe, and there are too many eyes on his family. He thought about it for a long time and felt that it was safest to have a gun in his hand, so he ruthlessly sent his baby son Wang Qiu, who had been passed down from three generations, to study at the Japanese Military Academy. After graduating from Tokyo Zhenwu School in 19o2, he stayed in Japan's 6th Army Non-commissioned Officer School for more than a year, and he felt that Japan's level was not good, and in 19o4 he went to France, known as the "number one power of the 6th Army", to study.

Last year, Wang Qiu returned to China after graduating from the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, and Boss Wang went to the bigwigs to give Wang Qiu a position in the army. The first thing he looked for was Cui Xiangkui, the commander of the 19th town, but Brother Kui originally looked down on the officers from Yunnan, not to mention that he was still a hairy boy who had just graduated. When Boss Wang came to ask his son for an official, he was only willing to give a few team-level deputy positions (deputy company level), and he was not a soldier.

Boss Wang left angrily, turned around and found Li Jingxi's house, he had a good relationship with Lao Li, if it weren't for the fact that his son wanted to go to the new army the most, he would be the first person he would look for. Governor Li was really interesting enough, and without saying a word, he directly gave a pipe band, although it was not from the new army, but it must be the real power of the troops. There's no way, he can't arrange the position of the new army, Brother Kui is fighting with him in the ring, how can he give him this face?

It stands to reason that it should be very rebellious to be a powerful battalion commander just after graduation. But Wang Qiu was very angry, because this pipe band was not from the regular army, but from the Kunming patrol battalion, well, according to the words of later generations, it was equivalent to the captain of the Kunming City Management Brigade and the Captain of the Armed Police Brigade and the Fire Brigade (at that time, the patrol battalions in many places had the work of urban management, patrol police, armed police and even fire brigades at the same time).

However, Boss Wang was very satisfied: This position is good, he has mastered the barrel of a gun, and he is close to home to take care of his family, so what's wrong? Stinky boy knows a fart, where is the New Army good? That is to fight with the Wu Bandits, the Wu Bandits are so powerful that even the famous Hubei New Army is not enough for them to fight, so if they fight with them on the material of the Yunnan New Army, aren't they sent to death? What is going to happen to you, and to whom is Lao Tzu's great business passed on? Do you think that the patrol battalion is not well equipped and the quality of the soldiers is not good? Phew, Lao Tzu has nothing else, it's just a lot of money, what equipment do you want to buy with money, who do you want to recruit, take 2oo to go first, it's not enough to find your father and I want to ......

Now that my father has talked about this, classmate Wang Qiu has no choice but to admit it. is also dedicated to training his chengguan brigade, oh, it's a patrol battalion. Since the Wang family was willing to pay for the training of the patrol battalion by himself, the governor Li Jingxi was naturally happy, and it happened that Brother Kui did not deal with him, and pulling up the patrol battalion could be regarded as a containment of the 19 towns. Governor Li also had the heart to support the patrol battalion, as his own capital, not only gave the green light to Wang Qiu's reorganization action, but also sent 3o thousand taels to the treasury to let Wang Qiu concentrate on it.

And Brother Kui was completely dismissive of Wang Qiu's approach, he thought that this was completely a loser burning money to play, a milky boy who knew how to train soldiers. Besides, just the few green onions in the patrol battalion, no matter how much you toss it, it won't become a big deal. He often told it as a joke to his cronies.

Well, Brother Kui's idea can't be wrong, if there is only Wang Qiu alone, he will definitely not be able to toss any fame, no matter how talented he is, he is just a newly graduated military academy, and it is enough for him to be busy with the veterans of the patrol battalion. But he forgot one thing, Wang Qiu had classmates. And there is another more important thing, not only does Brother Kui not know, but even General Wang Fei does not know, that is, Wang Qiu is still a revolutionary party! That is to say, he still has many accomplices.

The most important thing is that the revolutionary party he joined was not the kind of war scum of the League, but the most powerful force in China today -- the Chinese Scientific Socialism Party!

It is true that Comrade Wang Qiu is now a member of the Chinese Youth League of Scientific Socialism, a peripheral organization of the Chinese Science and Technology Society, and an active member of the party. When he was studying at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, he saw the book "Materialist China", and since then he has become a brain-dead fan of Wendesi. came into contact with the group of international students sent by Xingke Company, and it didn't take long for him to be probationed. After some study and investigation, he was officially absorbed as a member of the organization by the Paris branch of Xingke.

The predecessor of the Chinese Scientific Socialism Youth League, called the "Materialist China" Reading Club, is a salon-nature club formed by Xingke Group to consciously absorb progressive youth. After nearly a year of exhibition, it was gradually formalized and tightened, and after the official listing of the Science and Technology Socialist Party, this organization naturally became a peripheral organization.

After Wang Qiu graduated, his superiors, taking into account the actual situation of his family, did not let him report directly to the revolutionary army, and arranged for him to temporarily lurk in Kunming to organize underground. Although he regretted that he did not infiltrate the new army, the CSD did not care. The patrol battalion is also an army, and the Qing court bureaucrats don't look down on it and don't pay attention to it, which is just convenient for Wang Qiu to act.

As a result, not long after the Kunming patrol battalion began to recruit people, many people came to sign up, many of whom were military cadets, and they all claimed to be Wang Qiu's classmates. After all, Wang Qiu has spent time in military academies in Asia and Europe, and it is very logical to have more students. Besides, at that time, many military cadets, especially those from outside Germany and Japan, did not mix well in the Qing army, and it was normal for them to come to their classmates.

The higher-level organization not only provided Wang Qiu with a large number of advanced weapons, but also sent a political commissar named Li Keze to "enlist" with more than 1oo non-commissioned officers. Of course, they all came under the banner of "refugees". Li Keze's group of people were all cyborgs, all of whom had superb combat skills and good discipline, and soon became the backbone of the patrol battalion.

After more than half a year of reorganization, the current Kunming patrol battalion has completely changed, and is divided into seven infantry companies, one machine gun company, two artillery companies, one combat engineer company, and one baggage company, as well as medical platoons, reconnaissance platoons, and other units directly under the battalion headquarters, with a number of more than 24oo people. The weapons are the advanced equipment of Yishui, the Springfield MK1 rifle, the M19O6 pistol, the Cobra machine gun, the Maxim machine gun, and the artillery is equipped with the 19O7 75mm infantry gun (the upgraded and improved version of the original space-time Japanese 92 infantry gun).

The current patrol battalion is not only well-equipped, but also has a completely new mental outlook, and the original soldiers have either been dismissed or completely reformed, and during this period, political commissar Li Keze and several political work cadres have played the most important role.

At this time, Wang Qiu was holding a meeting with the backbone of the patrol battalion in this mansion to discuss how to respond to the attack of friendly forces.

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