Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Compared with Wang Zhenya's seven-hour bloody attack last time, this time Jingzhou's offensive and defensive battle basically consisted of offense and no defense.Although the battle took more than five hours to end, the whole battle was actually only a few minutes. Simply put, the fifth division had a firepower display, and it was over.As for the Fifth Brigade of the Hubei Army, it was really a raging army of soldiers, and there was not even a decent resistance.In the team of 5000 people, in addition to more than 1000 casualties in the shelling, more than 3000 people escaped, and more than 1000 people were executed by the Youth Army, the remaining more than 9000 people were incorporated into labor camps.As for this labor camp, it was an order issued by the Supreme Command that all captured combatants who had not lost their labor force and had non-military supplementary needs were incorporated into the labor camp and served hard labor for three years, specializing in railway, road and urban construction.The monthly salary ranges from one to three yuan, and if they leave without reason, they will be executed immediately.

The existence of this labor camp has also become an important reason for later generations to criticize Wang Zhenyu, but at that time, this labor camp did relieve the huge pressure of labor shortage brought about by large-scale public infrastructure construction and military construction.This labor camp existed throughout the Civil War, reaching a population of 30 at its peak.However, the highest peak occurred during the war against Japan and the Soviet Union, and this number directly exceeded 500 million.And all the files related to the labor camps were later set as the top secret of the Chinese Federation. It was not until WikiLeaks successfully declassified that later people discovered that the labor camps were still very humane compared to the concentration and reform camps of Wang Zhenyu's era. As for the concentration and reform camps What it is, everyone will know in the future.

On February 2, Wang Zhanyuan received three telegrams.

The first letter is the announcement of the results of the youth army. Yesterday, the loyal and brave soldiers of our army fought bloody for an hour to conquer Jingzhou, the important town of Yuan Zejun's army, and wiped out 5000 defenders. It was a great victory in Jingzhou.

One hour?Wang Zhanyuan frowned subconsciously. Although he knew that Xia Douyin was no match for the Youth Army anyway, but he had more than 1 horses in his hands, and he couldn't even defend for a day.

The second telegram, Wang Zhanyuan, made his head twitch when he saw it. It was President Yuan Da of Beijing who telegraphed personally, saying that Li Yuanhong had fled south and asked to set up defenses in Wuhan and wait for an opportunity to arrest him.Wang Zhanyuan was sweating when he saw this, the old man was confused, the Hubei army was almost all Li Fatty's soldiers, if he really dared to arrest them openly, the consequences would be unpredictable.

The third telegram is what Wang Zhanyuan wants to see most now. Feng Guozhang, the inspector of the five provinces of the Yangtze River, replied, ordering the Second Division to withdraw from Hubei Province immediately, and the whole division moved to Wuhu.It's still my elder brother's heartache, it's not in vain for me to follow him for many years, and I don't forget to help my brother at critical times.

Since Wang Zhanyuan made up his mind to escape, he naturally would not carry out the order to arrest Li Yuanhong. On the contrary, he gave a generous gift to each of the generals of the Hubei Army (no one dared to see anyone at this time) , are afraid of black guns).It means that mountains and rivers meet each other, and there is a line of life.The generals of the Hubei Army were also unwilling to fight with the Second Beiyang Division, so they naturally sent him out of the country as a gift.

On February 2, the Second Beiyang Division under Wang Zhanyuan evacuated from Wuhan, Hubei. At this time, Xu Yuanquan's first assault group arrived in Caidian, and Wan Yaohuang's second assault group arrived less than 23 miles away from Wuhan. of Jiang Xia.

The next day, with the support of the former Hubei army, Li Yuanhong sent a telegram to the whole country, announcing Hubei's independence and rebellion against Yuan.

Chapter 234 The Great March ([-])

Unlike Wang Zhanyuan in Hubei who was determined to run, Li Chun in Jiangxi showed a rare fighting spirit and took active actions.Such an attitude has brought a lot of trouble to the youth army's great advance in the Jiangxi area.

Compared with Wang Zhanyuan, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, Li Chun can definitely be regarded as a capable official. During the two years of supervising Jiangxi, he was close to a brigade of his own lineage, and Li Chun easily stabilized the entire province. situation.Not to mention organizing the Gan army into three divisions, they also actively organized and trained local militia groups.Jiangxi is almost the area with the most serious rural conflicts in the southern region, because here the feudal clan power has reached its peak, and the landlords are no longer simple landowners. In order to expand their own interests, they have blatantly embarked on the road of gangsterization .Abandoning all moral and legal principles, emphasizing the principle that the strongest is supreme, or turning personal will into so-called rules.Under such circumstances, Jiangxi's rural social order was very bad. All people were inevitably bullied and humiliated, and there was no way to appeal. It started at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the contradictions naturally piled up.The local officials have always been deaf to this. Whether it is the yamen of the former Qing Dynasty or the later revolutionaries, the attitude towards these landlords who have been upgraded to bullies is that they can not be provoked.

At the beginning of Li Chun's supervision of Jiangxi, he once thought of cracking down on these lawless bullies who were rampant in the countryside.But as time went on, his policy gradually shifted from repression to appeasement.After all, the revolutionary party is the number one enemy of Beiyang, and as long as these landlords and gentry are willing to obey themselves, they can let their evil deeds go unchecked.

Of course, hard work pays off. Li Chun's kindness to these clan bullies got them their loyalty. There is no better warlord than Li Chun.Therefore, as soon as the youth army entered Jiangxi, they were not resisted by the Jiangxi army. Instead, they were repeatedly harassed by the militia armed forces of these landlords and bullies, and their progress was very slow.According to the standards of later generations, the youth army is now caught in the vast ocean of the people's war and cannot extricate itself.

You must know that these Jiangxi landlord militias are not fighting on their own. Hu Hansan, the big landlord in Ji'an, is Li Chun's sworn brother.

This Hu Hansan does have some real skills, Li Chun's support for him is not small, a total of 500 million oceans, 4 rifles, plus the title of commander of the Jiangxi Independent Fourth Division, it just made Hu Hansan pull up a total of 2 Multiplayer team.Hu Hansan was not too polite. The team was divided into two, and they continued to harass the youth army along the two lines of Ganzhou and Xiushui. Now it seems that the results are not bad.From February 16 to February 2, nearly 19 youth army officers and soldiers were injured or killed in the attack (excluding minor injuries). Tao Zhiyue, commander of the third assault group, and Cheng Qian, commander of the fourth assault group, both responded Very annoyed.

Among them, Cheng Qian slapped the table angrily and said: "Turn around, let's go to fight Ji'an, I don't believe it, this group of guys who dare not show their faces and only dare to hide behind their backs will not even want their old nest."

If you really want to solve all the complicated things in the world, you will find that the solution is actually very simple.Cheng Qian was obviously right. No matter how cunning and ruthless Hu Hansan was, he was still a landlord in essence. He could not care about anything, but he definitely would not care about the land and ancestral property of his hometown.So he personally gathered 3 people to Ji'an, and decided that no matter how much the loss was, he would never allow the youth army to step into Ji'an.

So the eyes of the whole Jiangxi surrendered to Ji'an, a small county located in the middle of Jiangxi.

The Zeng Jiwu Department of the Tenth Division under the command of Tao Zhiyue has successfully captured Jiujiang, and the Second Division of the Gan Army guarding Jiujiang turned against him. Li Chun didn't care about this, because before that, Ouyang Wu, who was guarding Ganzhou, had already announced that the Gan Army The first division has joined the nursery school.All Li Chun could do now was to procrastinate. He left the defense of Nanchang to the Third Division of the Jiangxi Army, and moved to Jingdezhen with a brigade of Beiyang soldiers and the looted wealth.On the one hand, it is to see what Ji'an can do in the end, and on the other hand, if he can spend one more day in Jiangxi, it will be good to keep up with his superiors.

All the works of later generations on this war of defending the country have a very obvious tendency towards the war, that is, they can exaggerate the bloody battle in the Sichuan area, and basically avoid the important ones and ignore the minor ones except for the decisive battle in the Nanjing area.The reason is very simple. Compared with Sichuan, Beiyang's war preparations in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi are a mess.

A large number of troops were invested in the Sichuan battlefield to suppress Cai E, who was a young bird. In Hunan, although [-] troops were invested, the composition was complicated, and they were different from each other. up.

So the youth army naturally has no chance to fight the Beiyang army in full swing like the guards. More often, the youth army is more like performing a marching mission.Occasionally, those who do not open their eyes to resist are the farces like Jingzhou, so that the Zhujiaqiao blockade was finally included in the newspaper as a key battle, and there is really nothing to write about.

The Battle of Ji'an was the first large-scale decisive battle that broke out in the Jiangxi area. Unfortunately, it later proved that this was also the last one.

On the way to the south of the commander, Hu Hansan was received again by Li Chun, who was about to flee to the east. Li Chun rewarded Hu Hansan with the entire Nanchang arsenal in one go, and drew another 100 million yuan to boost morale.More importantly, he allocated all the mountain artillery and heavy machine guns and some officers of his personal guard brigade to Hu Hansan. In Li Chun's mind, he could last at least a few more days.As for the possibility of Hu Hansan defeating the youth army, Li Chun never thought about it at all, but he still encouraged Hu Hansan in front of him.

"Brother Li, don't cheer up. Don't worry. I, Hu Hansan, are fighting at home this time. The right time, place and people are all in place. With your officers and equipment, brother, what can the youth army do to me?" Hu Hansan said haha Laughing loudly, at that moment, Hu Hansan felt that he was born to be a general, and he was destined to be famous in history.

In this almost self-paralyzed and self-intoxicated state of mind, Hu Hansan arrived in Ji'an.

Regardless of whether someone has never been to a formal military academy, but the basic understanding is still not lacking, Hu Hansan actually decided to defend the city instead of fighting in the field.This decision relieved the normal-minded regiment leaders below him. After all, no matter how bad the youth army is, it is still a regular army, and no matter how tough they are, they are still a bunch of farmers in essence!

Not only do these regimental leaders who have just become battalion commanders know this well, but Cheng Qian actually thinks of this so-called Fourth Division of the Jiangxi Army in this way.

In the end, it would be a disadvantage if they really fought. Although these people are armed by peasants, it does not mean that their combat effectiveness is not good.In fact, most of the people who can serve as dog legs for landlords and bullies are those who are brave and ruthless, and their long-term life as dog legs has also made them very rich in actual combat experience.In the Jiangxi countryside of this era, it is not uncommon to fight or even draw guns and shoot each other.The Jiangxi old cousin is no less good at fighting than his Hunan cousin, but Cheng Qian didn't consider this, so he suffered a big loss.

The Ninth Division of the Youth Army, which was formed by the merger of the First Division of the Hunan Army and the Hunan Provincial Guards, was only a month old until February 2. During this period, they cooperated with Li Zongren's Third Army to capture Shaoguan. .But after all, the days of joining the army are short and lack standardized training, so the officers are basically retained. The so-called Ninth Division is actually just a signboard, and its real strength cannot meet the requirements of the Youth Army Reorganization Division.

But it is precisely because of this that Cheng Qian, as the division commander, is eager to gain military exploits through the war, and then he can better integrate into the youth army system.

The attack was launched at 2:21 pm on February [-]. According to the command of the division commander, the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Division attacked the positions built by Hu Hansan wave after wave.As a result, Hu Hansan unceremoniously took out his housekeeper's things, lit up all kinds of cannons, and then personally set up a supervisory team to urge his subordinates to fight to the end.

Pieces of officers and soldiers of the Ninth Division fell on the way of charging, and occasionally rushed into the enemy's position several times, but were forced out by the vicious Jiangxi people with big knives.Lu Diping couldn't stand it any longer. He turned around and asked Cheng Qian for instructions: "Commander, should we wait for the Fourth Division to come up before attacking? If we continue to fight like this, our Ninth Division will suffer a lot."

Cheng Qian didn't expect such a little bully like Hu Hansan to be so capable of fighting. After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and said: "Tell the brothers below, if you try your best, you will have to fight for your face with your own life."

When Lu Diping heard this, he naturally knew what Cheng Qian was up to, so he could only let out a long sigh and personally organize the team to charge.

Next, the Ninth Division's attack strength increased significantly, and Hu Hansan took a lot of effort to barely stabilize the entire front without collapsing.

The battle lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, and both sides were exhausted. At this time, the Liao Lei Division of the Fourth Division of the Youth Army came up.

Although he didn't like Cheng Qian very much, Liao Lei gave Cheng Qian a military salute in a polite manner.Cheng Qian had already received the latest casualty report, and more than 3000 people fell on the way to the attack. If the fight continued, the soldiers below would probably not give up their lives.

"Mr. Liao, our Ninth Division is a newly formed team. This battle is a joke for you. Next, we will see your Fourth Division. But when the weather gets dark, I mean to launch an attack tomorrow morning. You see how?"

Liao Lei took a look at the battlefield and said, "Commander Cheng, the brothers of the Ninth Division are actually playing well, but there are some problems with this style of play, and you don't have heavy equipment for tough battles. How about this, let the Ninth Division fight tonight Brothers from the Ninth Division penetrate the enemy's rear from both sides, and our Fourth Division will attack at dawn tomorrow, and our big guys will just wait to catch the prisoners, what do you think?"

Cheng Qian is also a smart person, and immediately understood Liao Lei's meaning, clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "It's so good, it's so good!"

Chapter 235 The Great March ([-])

Withstood the attack of the youth army on the first day, Hu Hansan's heart finally fell to the ground.At the celebration banquet, he told the truth himself. Regardless of his confident appearance, he actually had no idea. After all, the Fourth Division of the Jiangxi Army was improvised, and it was not a regular army.Unexpectedly, after a fierce battle in one day, although they lost 5000 troops, they fought their opponents in the same way.

Now Hu Hansan is really proud, he feels that he can be regarded as an unborn god of war now, and if his father who died early can see his glory today, he must be ashamed to call himself a dude.

"Brothers, the times make heroes. I didn't expect that the youth army that defeated President Yuan Da was nothing more than that. Come on, let's all drink this glass of wine. When my righteous brother arrives tomorrow with those ten thousand brothers, we will fight back across the board. First Drive these Hunan guys out of our Jiangxi, and then join my brother-in-law Li Dashuai's reinforcements to conquer Hunan." Hu Hansan was obviously a little drunk, and everything started to come out of his mouth.

"That is, when President Yuan says what he says, he will give it to the governor of Hunan for our big brother Hu, so that our brothers can follow big brother Hu to be a county magistrate, Daotai or something, everyone said, right?"

All the brothers applauded, but saw Hu Hansan yelled with a livid face: "You kid is wrong."

The person who spoke just now was immediately embarrassed at the scene, and everyone didn't dare to make a fuss anymore and all looked at Hu Hansan.

Hu Hansan suddenly smiled and said, "President Yuan, he will be Emperor Yuan by then. What do you bastards know?"

It turned out that there was a mistake here, and everyone suddenly became happy again. The person just now said quickly: "Yes, I was wrong, what Hunan governor, when the time comes, our big brother Hu will be a great hero in suppressing the thieves. The king of the empire with a different surname..."

Just when Hu Hansan and the others were whimsical and drunk, Liao Lei was arranging tomorrow's combat mission with his subordinates at the fourth division headquarters.

Since the Fourth Division of the Gan Army is a new team, the Jiangxi Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau has no relevant information and information at all, but they did their best to obtain the source of the division's equipment through the people lurking around Li Chun. and quantity of intelligence.

Looking at the information, Liao Lei couldn't help shaking his head and said: "It seems that the Ninth Division is really not very powerful, and it needs to be brought back to Xiangxi to be reheated. Such a small amount of heavy weapons actually blocked more than 2 of them. "

Liu Xuyi, the head of the 401 regiment heard this, got up immediately and said: "Mr. Liao, please give an order. Our 401 regiment promises to beat this group of mobs to pieces in a single charge. They don't even know what their parents' surnames are. In order not to be in the future I personally feel that we can come out and wrestle with our invincible Tiger Youth Army, otherwise how can we fight this battle?"

The other regiment leaders also stood up to fight, expressing to let the [-] mob in front of them know how powerful the main force of the Youth Army is.

Liao Lei nodded and raised his hand to signal everyone to sit down: "There is no need to fight. Tomorrow our division will only have the main attack task. The outflanking has already been handed over to the Ninth Division. You all have a share. All of you troops grab your tongue (go to the enemy's position) Capture officers or soldiers and come back for questioning) I have read all the collected information, and it’s not bad. Basically, I can see the severity of the enemy’s defense. It can be seen that this opponent still has a group of military talents around him, and the fortifications are repaired It's more reasonable, and there is no lack of depth, so don't be careless. As for tomorrow's battle, my plan is that we will attack from the three fronts together. The 402nd and 403rd regiments will attack the two wings, and the 401st and 404th regiments will break through the center. The firepower of the division will be fully used. Come to support you, we will play center breakthrough tomorrow. Everyone remember, this battle is related to the honor of our youth army, so only victory is not allowed. Within an hour, I must see the whole army called Hu San Destroyed, you all go back and prepare, I will have dinner in Ji'an County at noon tomorrow."

All the officers got up immediately and should have left. . .

The battle started at [-] o'clock the next morning. Out of humanitarian considerations, the Youth Army also allowed Hu Hansan's men to have their last breakfast in their lives.