Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Lu Rongting watched these people's performance with a sneer, soldier ruffian?I'm afraid you are talking about yourself!

Fortunately, he was well prepared, Lu Rongting waved his hand, and his son came up with a group of guards carrying a gift tray covered with red cloth.Everyone stopped the performance immediately, and stared at the ceremony plates without saying a word.

Lu Rongting chuckled: "There are eight gift trays here, each worth [-] oceans. Everyone knows that we are a poor province and can't offer too many bargaining chips, so I can only guarantee two points: First, win Liuzhou first, A reward of [-] yuan from Dayang; second, after capturing Liuzhou, I will take everyone to fight in Guangzhou. Do you know about Guangzhou? If you win there, you can have as much money as you want!"

Amidst the applause of the crowd, there seemed to be a gleam of light in the eyes of the officer who had a strange smile on his face just now.

This officer is He Yunzu, a native of Hunan. He is an adjutant of Lu Rongting's adjutant. He has been with Lu Rongting for more than a year. Because of his calmness and ability, he is trusted by Lu Rongting.

However, although He Yunzu's name is fake, his identity is very complicated, because he was a waiter in a teahouse in Hongjiang more than a year ago.It was just a very accidental opportunity that Gong Peng, the head of the Liuzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Department, discovered him, and then became a glorious spy, and it has been out of control ever since.

Due to the original plan, Wang Zhenyu only wanted the northern Guangxi area, and mainly the coal and iron mines in Laibin and Liuzhou.Therefore, the focus of Gong Peng's work at that time fell on Liuzhou, and there was only one thing in Nanning's work, which was to let He Yunzu spend three thousand oceans to buy the director of Lu Rongting's adjutant office and sneak into Lu's residence.

At that time, it was a side game, and due to dialect and other reasons, Gong Peng was unable to start the situation in Liuzhou, and what he did was to collect some military intelligence. In the end, Gong Peng was transferred to Changde Station to lurk.

As a result, eight months later, when Gong Peng was promoted to be the colonel of the Guangxi station and came to Nanning, he found that the little chess piece he had placed had actually entered a very central, very critical position.So around this point, Gong Peng established an information transmission channel, and the Gui army has no more secrets at all.

This time was no exception, all the plans formulated by Lu Rongting and the others, who lacked a sense of secrecy, were completely sent to Gong Peng.

Gong Peng suddenly felt that everything was very boring, because in this situation of knowing oneself and the enemy, the only thing the commander-in-chief's army could do was win.

After a brief analysis, and after checking the authenticity of the information according to the work regulations of the Intelligence Department, all the information was sent out verbatim by a dispatcher stationed in the Nanning Telegraph Bureau by the Military Intelligence Department. . .

Wang Zhenyu has been annoyed recently. Three days after entering Liuzhou, he had planned to continue to promote the Xiangxi set in Liuzhou, and he suddenly found something was wrong.

The situation in Guangxi is really different from that in Xiangxi. The commerce here is not as developed as in Xiangxi. As long as you establish an interest relationship with the merchant class, many things will be easy to handle.Almost all places in Guangxi are controlled by the landlord class.It doesn't matter, the county people rule the county, whoever governs is not governed?Anyway, in terms of civil affairs, I don't have enough talents in my hands, so I can only pay close attention to guns and money bags.But the problem is that these landlords not only have militia groups in their hands, but also have close ties with the bandits in Shiwan Dashan and Liuwan Dashan.Among other things, Shen Hongying, who fled into the mountains, recently led an attack on the transportation unit of the First Division. Eleven brave soldiers died and 18 were injured.

If he is still promoting county rule by people here, then a bunch of small warlords will really emerge.

On September 9, the weather was not bad. Wang Zhenyu took his fifth brother, Wang Hu and other guards to climb the Goose Mountain outside Liuzhou City.

The adjutant at the adjutant's office who accompanied the army got the information transferred from the Liuzhou branch of the Military Intelligence Department almost at the same time. After seeing the content, he immediately chased up the mountain. Wang Zhenyu had already reached the top of the mountain.

After listening to the adjutant's report, Wang Zhenyu stood with his hands behind his back on the top of Eshan Mountain in Liuzhou at an altitude of 1408 meters, quietly looking at the clear Liujiang River at his feet, and said: "It seems that our army governor also thinks that the huge Guangxi cannot accommodate two generals." Well, then don't blame me for being unkind..."

Chapter 139

"Trash, it's all trash!" In the brigade headquarters of the second mountain brigade, Bai Chongxi's roar came from time to time.

The staff officers who came in and out became cautious because of this, and their steps were as light as possible, lest their footsteps be too loud, and it would not be worthwhile to be called in by Brigadier Commander Bai and scolded.

As for those who were scolded inside, everyone can only express their deep sympathy.

It was none other than the company commander Li Dachao, platoon leader Wang Chenhao and Guo Meng of the Second Mountain Brigade's special reconnaissance company who were scolded.

Bai Chongxi's life path in the past year or so has been extremely smooth. Apart from being a beggar in Nanjing for a few months, the rest of his life is from the teaching team as a soldier, to the squad leader, platoon leader, deputy captain, and battalion commander. Commander of the base and head of the independent regiment until the major general brigade commander.This kind of promotion speed is very rare, of course he is not alone, after all, it is a period of great expansion.

But after meeting the opponent Shen Hongying, Bai Chongxi's good mood disappeared.Originally, Shen Hongying wasn't considered an opponent, but our little Zhuge set up three traps in a row when he was defrauding the city, and in the end none of them could catch Shen Hongying, a god-man.Shen Hongying successfully staged a scene of escape from danger, which made Bai Chongxi very embarrassed.

Let alone Zhuge, even Zhuge Liang himself, would he sometimes lose his street pavilion?

However, Shen Hongying was a restless person, so he left his wife, children, and children to his in-laws Mo Rongxin in Wuzhou, and brought a group of relatives back to Liuzhou to pull the team.After all, it is the famous local snake in the vicinity, and it has become popular again in just a few days.

He, Shen Hongying, would not dare to attack Liuzhou City, which had a heavy army stationed there, but it would be no problem to attack a transport convoy.

Looking at the casualty report sent by the Armament Department, Wang Zhenyu didn't say anything, threw the report to Bai Chongxi who was standing in front of him, and left.The meaning of this action is very clear, you get him.

Bai Chongxi felt that he had lost face with the commander-in-chief, and immediately arranged for Shen Hongying to be wiped out after returning, and gave a death order: others can ignore it.

Taking the spy reconnaissance company as the vanguard, the second brigade dispatched a full regiment of troops to start a large-scale bandit suppression operation.Bai Chongxi himself even shouted to keep the heart of a bodhisattva and practice thunderbolt methods.

The first part of the bandit suppression operation was to wipe out the gentry suspected of collaborating with the bandits near the main road. Without these informants, the bandits would become blind and deaf, and the next action would naturally suffer a great loss.Within ten days, the bandits in Liuzhou and Guilin disappeared under the heavy blows of the second mountain brigade, but Shen Hongying still did not subdue them.

What Bai Chongxi wants now is not an improvement in the security situation at all, what he wants is Shen Hongying's head, and these subordinates have done everything, but they didn't bring Shen Hongying's head, damn it. . .

"Okay, brother Jiansheng, the brothers have done their best, so you can save a few words." The first sentence Li Zongren said when he entered the door made Li Dachao and others look grateful.

Seeing Li Zongren's face, Bai Chongxi stopped reprimanding, breathed a sigh of relief, and then waved his hand to signal Li Dachao and others to withdraw. As if Li Dachao and others were granted amnesty, they immediately saluted and left this terrifying place in their view.

"Brother Delin, I'm also in a hurry. You saw how the commander looked that day. If I can't handle this errand, the commander will not be able to pass the test."

Li Zongren patted Bai Chongxi's arm very understandingly: "It's okay, the commander asked me to invite you. I have a new job. Shen Hongying, a habitual bandit, also hurt your muscles and bones this time. I will arrest him later." The police department has an errand, let's go, go to the commander's station..."

At the Liuzhou Marshal's Mansion, a military meeting was being held. Apart from Xu Yuanquan and others under Wang Zhenyu's command, people from Liu Guxiang's side also attended one after another. Many things needed to be finalized openly and honestly today.

"Brother Liu, are you really willing to be a part of my Xiangxi Group?" Wang Zhenyu felt weird when he asked, but at the moment the Chinese National Socialist Party he planned hadn't been released yet, so he could only use the very corporate name of Xiangxi Group as his own. replaced.

Liu Guxiang sat up straight when she heard the words, nodded to Wang Zhenyu and said: "We have thought about it for a long time, and we have also seen what happened this time. All revolutionary comrades are imaginary. Our lives were saved by you, Marshal. Since They are all people who have died once, in the future we will only follow the lead of the commander-in-chief, please take me in and wait for the commander-in-chief."

Seeing the sincerity on Liu Guxiang's face, Wang Zhenyu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Alright, everyone will be brothers who eat in a pot from now on. Then I won't be out of touch. Brother Liu's current injury is not suitable." Now that you have led the army, let’s switch to civilian jobs in the future, as for Zhen Huan, Cheng Fu, and Brother Yue Qing, they will still serve in the army, so it’s a good arrangement.”

Hearing this, the four Lius all got up and cupped their hands, saying: "It's all up to you, Commander-in-Chief, and I will obey."

Wang Zhenyu chuckled, motioned the four of them to sit down, and at the same time made a gesture of reading to his secretary Wang Zhenbang.

Wang Zhenbang immediately opened a document and announced an order in public: "From now on, a total of 3000 people from the First Mountain Brigade, the Second Brigade, and the former Fifth Army Headquarters in Liuzhou will be combined into the Third Division of the Xiangxi Garrison. The first division. Li Zongren served as the commander of the major general of the third division, Liu Zhenhuan served as the deputy commander of the major general, and Bai Chongxi served as the chief of staff of the major general... Commander: King Xiangxi Town Guard, September 27th, [-]nd year of the Republic of China.

Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were very surprised by this appointment, but after only a moment of astonishment, they came back to their senses, what does this mean?I have become the core figure of Xiangxi Group.Looking at Wang Zhenyu who looked at him with a smile on his face, the two stood up excitedly and saluted Wang Zhenyu: "The kindness of the commander-in-chief, the lowly position should be repaid with death."

After hearing this, Wang Zhenyu laughed and said: "You are talking nonsense again. What do I want you to do? I only called you here for one thing. This Nanning boss Lu doesn't like us, so he wants to invite us out of Guangxi. go."

Bai Chongxi quickly expressed his loyalty: "Don't worry, Commander, no matter what tricks Lu Rongting makes, we will take care of him for you. Since he wants to invite us out of Guangxi, then we will simply restore the whole of Guangxi to him."

Wang Zhenyu looked at everyone with a smile, but did not answer.

On the contrary, Xu Yuanquan frowned and said: "Commander, the combat effectiveness of the Gui Army should not be underestimated. In the past 30 years, from Zhennan Pass to Taiwan, the Gui Army has been everywhere. According to information, this time the Guangxi army is besieging from all sides, and the total strength is almost [-]."

Liu Guxiang also nodded and said: "I know Lu Rongting, he is very good at fighting, and the [-] descendants under him are all veterans of the Guangxi Army's new army, and their combat effectiveness and equipment are not bad. They really fight like Shen Hongying's men The recruited bandit soldiers are different, if you are careless, you may suffer a big loss, the commander must be careful about this."

Liu Zhenhuan nodded and said, "Commander, there is one more thing. This time Lu Rongting acted in the name of unifying Guangxi and driving out the Hunan Army. In other words, he can temporarily integrate the power of the towns in Guangxi politically."

This is exactly what Wang Zhenyu is worried about. From Jingzhou to Hongjiang and then to Changde, he has won consecutive battles, but does this prove that his men and horses are invincible?

Wang Zhenyu still has this self-knowledge. It is not so much that his own army is good, it is better to say that the opponent's army is too bad.But Lu Rongting's army will definitely not be so bad. The Gui army belongs to the frontier army in the traditional sense, and its equipment and training are not bad.In history, Lu Rongting also relied on his own force to occupy the territory of Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hunan provinces, and also won the reputation of "North Zhang Nanlu".A person who can be as famous as Zhang Zuolin must not be underestimated in strength, otherwise, he will suffer a big loss.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu tapped the table lightly with his fingers and said, "Kecheng (Xu Yuanquan's word), Delin and Jiansheng! There is no retreat in this road to hegemony. If we want to be the ones who can change the destiny of this country People, this battle must be won. In the previous few battles, everyone fought smoothly, but the Guangxi army is different. Their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of Hongjiang and Changde. I also want to borrow This opportunity allows everyone to have a good look at our domestic first-class army, so when you go back, you must organize a meeting of officers, be careful, and don't underestimate the enemy."

After a pause, Wang Zhenyu said again: "As for the plan to fight against the enemy, I want everyone to discuss it here later, be more thoughtful, and at the same time allow the people below to have room to adapt..."

At Baihualou in Nanning, Wei Rongchang, the commander of the First Guangxi Patrol Army and stationed in Longzhou, was invited by Chen Chaozheng, the commander of the Sixth Army, to drink flower wine.Wei Rongchang yelled loudly when he entered the door: "Brother Chen, what's the matter? You actually want to invite me to drink!"

Chen Chaozheng smiled very indifferently and said, "Look at what you said, big brother, what good is there to ask you for a drink?"

Wei Rongchang laughed: "Then I have to make it clear, I don't dare to drink this unclear wine!"

Chen Chaozheng knew Wei Rongchang's character well, so he immediately got up and grabbed Wei Rongchang's hand and said, "Brother, our brothers are about to face disaster, are you still in the mood to joke?"

Wei Rongchang's expression changed immediately when he heard the words: "Brother Chaozheng, why did you say this? Did you get some rumors? My brother has always treated you well, so you have to tell my brother first?"