Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Although Zheng Rucheng was only a naval general, his death deeply shocked the Beiyang generals, especially Feng Guozhang and others in the south. They actually felt lonely.This action by Chen Qimei dealt a severe blow to the morale of the Beiyang Army.

After Lei Zhenchun got the news, he decided to take retaliation. The first step in this retaliation was to order the Beijing Military and Political Law Enforcement Office to unconditionally launch the assassination plan against the Tiger Youth Army's supreme commander Wang Zhenyu, and execute it immediately. . .

Chapter 260

Many years later, I will write a story about the assassination of the Republic of China. The assassination of Wang Zhenyu must be a main theme.

However, Yuan Shikai was indeed the mastermind who assassinated Wang Zhenyu for the first time in Zheng'er Bajing, and this time Lao Yuan was not wronged.

This time Wang Zhenyu was assassinated by special agents from the Beiyang Jingshi Military, Political and Law Enforcement Office. They sneaked into Anjiang as businessmen in early February.There are a total of nine people, all of whom are carefully selected talents, including telegraph masters and strange people.Lei Zhenchun used all available wizards, with only one goal, to kill Wang Zhenyu.

It's a pity that Wang Zhenyu didn't know what kind of wind this month, he just didn't even go out for a whole month, and spent every day nestling in Wenlu and the administrative building.As for the entire Anjiang, Wang Zhenyu's residence is the most heavily guarded, and there are more than 300 guards directly under the attendant who are responsible for the defense here.And there are more than 2000 people from a regiment belonging to the Guards Brigade and more than 1000 people from the special brigade of the security detachment stationed in the surrounding area.These 3000 people are not the guards of the governor's yamen of Guangdong and Guangxi in the late Qing Dynasty. They are all officers and soldiers who must have participated in front-line battles and are politically innocent. Therefore, it is impossible to attack 100 people with 3000 people like Huang Xing.

As for lurking in and assassinating, it is even more impossible, because Anjiang is different from other cities in China, residential areas and administrative areas are completely separated.Entering and leaving the administrative area itself is a very troublesome thing. The military and police interrogation is very strict, and almost every non-staff member will be interrogated three times.For fear of being exposed, they went to reconnaissance twice and dared not go again.So sneaking in and sneaking around Wenlu is all nonsense, not to mention the challenging job of going in to kill or kill the boss.

What surprised these people even more was that in Anjiang, they couldn't even find a decent gang, and it was even more difficult to find people who were dissatisfied with Wang Zhenyu.This is too contrary to the general social theorem. Is this Anjiang still in China?

It was a fully employed city with no unemployment, housing for all, and six years of free education for the children.Most of the gang members were recruited and turned into law enforcement officers, and they were treated well and respected, so there was no need for extortion.Of course, human nature is inherently evil, and crimes still exist, but the city's sound judicial system made them quickly give up the idea of ​​getting rich, because the cost is too high for people to bear, and this city is destined to be the only one that can get rich. the rich one.So these nine people had no way of doing anything, and at this time Lei Zhenchun's telegram came, the content was only six words, "My mother is critically ill, return quickly!"

On March 3, nine people met in a teahouse to discuss countermeasures.At this time, He Jian's adjutant Liu Junqiang personally led more than 26 selected members of the special operations team directly under the Military Intelligence Bureau to surround the teahouse. Nine people were caught off guard and were arrested by these members on the spot. It was too late for tricks such as praying mantis legs and white crane wings. use it.Under torture to extract a confession, the nine heroes recruited everything, but unfortunately there was nothing very nutritious, the only thing they knew was that the nine of them were just an advance.

But this is enough. He Jian was rewarded by an order from the attendants for the cracking of this case, and Liu Junqiang, who was in charge of the arrest operation, was personally interviewed by Wang Zhenyu, and was appointed as the deputy station chief of the Guangdong Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau. Guangzhou Station Master.

The assassination operation has come to an end for the time being, because the war has begun to enter a state of chaos.

Because of the accidental death of two generals, the Beiyang Army's attack on Tongling was delayed for three full days.At this time, Tao Zhiyue had built a four-kilometer-long and five-kilometer-deep defense line in Tongling.All kinds of firepower points were set up very reasonably, just waiting for the Beiyang Army to pounce on them.

But at this time, Bai Chongxi's attack on the left obviously did not go as smoothly as expected.

The Yuxi River defense line that Feng Guozhang had placed high hopes on was easily broken through by Bai Chongxi's troops in less than a minute, but Bai Chongxi soon discovered that he had made a mistake in his judgment, that is, Zhang Xun and his Dingwu Army had no intention of Stick to the Yuxi River.

The more than 2 Dingwu troops all retreated to He County, and firmly stuck there, waiting for the arrival of Bai Chongxi's army.

The most embarrassing person at this time is not someone else but Bai Chongxi. At this time, no one can ignore the enemies on both sides of their own and continue to attack regardless. It is meaningless to do so even if Pukou is taken down.Now it is the turn of Bai Chongxi, who boasted about Haikou with Li Zongren, to have a headache. How should he fight? This is a problem?

After thinking for a while, Bai Chongxi suddenly made up his mind. He told Liao Lei very firmly, Li Pinxian said: "No matter how much the price is, take He County within three days and completely defeat the Dingwu Army."

Liao Lei hesitated for a moment and said, "Commander, what if Zhang Huaizhi makes a move at this time?"

Bai Chongxi picked up a copy of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and said with a smile: "Don't underestimate Cheng Qian's fighting spirit, he is in a hurry to find a certificate of merit now?"

But Li Pinxian hesitated for a moment and asked: "Brother Jiansheng, why did we go all out to deal with the Dingwu Army and let the Beiyang Fifth Division go? They are all behind us?"

Bai Chongxi stood up and said: "When commanding a war, you must learn to focus on the primary and secondary. Now there is only one key point in the entire battlefield, and that is Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army. They are stuck in He County, just like a fishbone is stuck in our throats." ... If we don't clean them up, Zhang Huaizhi will stick to our necks together with them. But if we clean them up smoothly, I can put a word here, borrow two guts, he Zhang Huaizhi will not dare to move, even he will Retreat towards Huaibei. In this case, Cheng Qian's division is enough to protect our rear. Hmph, it's already at this time, and Beiyang still doesn't forget the internal factions. Just based on this, I dare to say that he Feng Guozhang will definitely lose this battle, and our army will surely win."

After hearing Bai Chongxi's analysis, everyone immediately felt relieved. . .

In Anjiang, Wang Zhenyu is warmly receiving a group of very important guests, and after this meeting, Wang Zhenyu plans to set up his own camp in Changsha, which can be regarded as the front command.

Wang Zhenyu met four guests before leaving, namely Tan Gen, Zhu Zhuquan, Zhu Zhaohuai and Situ Biru.The four of them have three common characteristics. First, they are all Cantonese. Second, they are all young people in their 20s. Third, they were all assistants of Feng Ru, the father of the Chinese Air Force.

Among the four, Tan Gen is the most famous. This kid is the No.1 seaplane in China.Originally, the four were all in Guangzhou, but after the youth army entered Guangzhou, none of the four could leave, and they were immediately put under house arrest by the youth army.

Before Wang Zhenyu entered Guangdong, he sent the Military Intelligence Bureau to investigate Feng Ru's assistants, because these people did not exist in history textbooks.But for the Military Intelligence Bureau, this is a trivial matter.So after learning that the four were captured, Wang Zhenyu happily ordered them to be kind to these people and their families, and then persuaded them to come to Anjiang to see him as soon as possible.

These four people still have a certain dislike for a big warlord like Wang Zhenyu, but with the gradual stabilization of the Guangzhou market and the vigorous propaganda of various media, after more than a month of hesitation, the four finally decided to go to Anjiang to meet Wang Zhenyu, a reactionary warlord. .You must know that before that, the four of them had already decided to go to Sun Yat-sen.After Wang Zhenyu heard the news, he had to lament that his reputation was not as good as Sun Yat-sen, and he had to continue to work hard.

When it comes to the air force, it has to be a great moment. On December 1903, 12, the Wright brothers of the United States used the technology of repairing bicycles and made the world's first glider on the basis of fruitful improvements to previous gliders. The real aircraft - "Aviator" No. 17.The aircraft is 1 meters long, has a wingspan of 6.43 meters and weighs 12.3 kilograms. It is equipped with a 340-horsepower diesel engine. At 12:10, his younger brother Orwell Wright bravely boarded the plane and became the first person in human history to fly a plane into the sky.Although the flight was not very successful, it marked the dawn of the age of flight and ushered in a new era in aviation.

In 1909, the U.S. Army equipped the world's first military aircraft. On October 1911, 10, Italy used aircraft for the first time when fighting Turkey.Subsequently, military aircraft developed rapidly in European countries such as Germany, Britain, and France.Of course, aircraft were originally used for reconnaissance and communication on the battlefield, but they inevitably encountered enemy aircraft on the battlefield, and the pilots at that time had to use the infantry weapons they carried with them to shoot each other.For this reason, countries have installed more lethal machine guns on aircraft one after another, and this has just appeared the aircraft-fighter that is mainly used in aerial combat, and the bomber that is mainly used in attacking ground target appeared again soon.

From World War I to the present, the role of the Air Force has become more and more important, and Wang Zhenyu's knowledge of the world's military has clearly told him that given China's current status quo, if he wants to make a major breakthrough in the military, he must work hard on the Air Force.

So these four people became his hope for the development of the air force, because Wang Zhenyu knew very well that in the promotion and application of new technologies, one must not trust the sincerity of the big powers, which has been proved by the Westernization Movement.

The meeting was successful and enjoyable, but Wang Zhenyu did not recruit the four people to form an air force, but to serve as engineers for China Airlines, which is about to start construction in Wuhan.

It is necessary to surpass the great powers in aircraft manufacturing technology. Wang Zhenyu even allocated a huge sum of 5 million yuan from the very tight military expenditure to realize this plan. At the same time, he also set up an infantry division code-named 123. To protect the aviation base that will be established in Jiangxia soon.This 123rd Division was later known as the world-famous 123rd Airborne Division. It made many contributions in the war against the Soviet Union, and was personally confirmed by the Supreme Command to be included in the ace hero unit, one of the thirteen permanent systems. This is a later story.

Chapter 261 Mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood ([-])

The world is always full of coincidences and accidents for one reason or another.

On March 3, the decisive battle between the Youth Army and the Beiyang Army, which had been postponed for various reasons, finally started.

The battle actually took place in four places at the same time. In this era when the promotion and use of radios have not yet been popularized, such a coincidence is indeed extremely surprising.This made military scientists who studied this war in later generations feel that it was very informative, but after digging deeper, they realized that it was indeed a coincidence and accident. They had to lament that history is so full of charm.

The historically famous decisive battle in the southeast took place on four battlefields simultaneously. According to the order in which the battles started, they are:

The Chaohu battlefield on the Caohe and Xuwanzi lines, the Hexian battlefield on the Jiecun and Chenxia lines, the Tongling battlefield on the Guanhushan and Tiehuzui lines, and the Nanling battlefield on the Yaoduntou and Yijiang lines.

The youth army invested in the first division Tao Zhiyue, the third division Li Pinxian, the fourth Liao Lei division, the seventh division Bai Chongxi, the ninth division Cheng Qian, and the No.11 Lu Diping division, a total of six main field divisions There are also 16 security troops including He Wenchang and Long Yunfei's two cavalry detachments, a total of [-] troops.

The Beiyang Army invested four main field divisions, including Wang Zhanyuan of the Second Division, Yang Shande of the Fourth Division, Zhang Huaizhi of the Fifth Division, and Lu Yongxiang of the Tenth Division, as well as Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army with 1 troops, Ni Sichong's Anwu Army 19 The first and second divisions of the Jiangsu Army and one division of the Zhejiang Army invested a total of [-] troops.

There is not much difference in the strength of the two sides. It can be said that they are evenly matched. Now the competition is who is more ruthless and who is more fierce!

War is always full of accidents, but some accidents are man-made.For example, the start of the Chaohu battlefield was a man-made accident, which fully reflected Cheng Qian and Cheng Songyun's character.

When Bai Chongxi took Cheng Qian aside and only asked him to monitor the changes of Zhang Huaizhi's Fifth Division, Cheng Qian, who was very dissatisfied with this, began to plan.So on March 3, Cheng Qian naturally did something that made Bai Chongxi extremely angry. He actually launched an attack on Zhang Huaizhi's Beiyang Fifth Division before Bai Chongxi launched a general attack on He County.And without going through him, the commander-in-chief of the left army, he directly reported the situation to the southeast front army headquarters in Tongling and the general staff headquarters in Anjiang.When Bai Chongxi learned about it, he cursed angrily: "Cheng Songyun, you'd better have nothing to fall into my hands, or you will be my favorite."

Cheng Qian is not a good boy, not to mention Bai Chongxi, even if Wang Zhenyu himself came, Cheng Qian would not take it seriously.Since Bai Chongxi didn't give him what he wanted, he went to get it himself.

The Ninth Division can now be said to be the largest division among the eleven field armies of the entire Youth Army.There are [-] troops alone. Almost the Hunan People's Army and some of the Jiangxi People's Army during the Revolution of [-] were included in the Ninth Division. Under the Ninth Division are the four brigades of Tang Shengzhi, Song Hegeng, and Zhang Xiaozhun (he went ashore from Guangzhou to join Cheng Qian before the MIB arrested him in Shanghai) and Ye Kaixin.Relying on the superior strength of the fourth brigade and ten regiments in hand, coupled with the timely allocation of supplies and military pay from Anjiang, especially the equipment of an artillery regiment, although skilled gunners are not easy to train, these big guys who eat people but don't spit out their bones But now Cheng Qian felt that his waist was much thicker.

Therefore, Zhang Huaizhi, who has a military force of less than 2 people, really doesn't pay attention to him. He fought this battle with more confidence than anyone else.And judging from the battle process, his self-confidence is not completely unreasonable.

With a cannon in his hand, Tang Shengzhi naturally wanted to use it, and he bombarded Zhang Huaizhi's position indiscriminately.By convention, the infantry charged after the shelling.Zhang Huaizhi hurriedly drove the troops into the field to resist, but what happened?After another bombardment, Zhang Huaizhi's Fifth Division lost hundreds of people at once.After repeating this several times, the Beiyang military officers drove the soldiers to the battlefield again, but these soldiers were unwilling.

But at this time, Tang Shengzhi led the first independent brigade to take advantage of the emptiness and rushed to the front line, breaking through Zhang Huaizhi's first-line position with ease. Zhang Huaizhi was so angry that he vomited blood and scolded Cheng in front of all the officers of the division. Shameless and obscene, playing cards not according to the rules.

Next, Zhang Huaizhi gathered the two regiments to go all out to counter-attack, and with the support of artillery fire, they launched an attack on the lost position.

Tang Shengzhi withdrew all of them after a little resistance. Before the Beiyang Army had time to be happy, it was another bombardment.

As a result, in one day, Zhang Huaizhi's casualties directly exceeded 400, while Cheng Qian's Ninth Division lost only [-] people.With such a deficit, the morale of the entire Beiyang Fifth Division became low. . .

Compared with Cheng Qian's scheming, Bai Chongxi's fight on the Hexian battlefield was very difficult.The combat effectiveness of Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army has obviously been underestimated a lot, because up to now, the youth army has paid a price of more than 700 people in a full morning, but has not been able to occupy a few positions.Both sides come and go, every inch of land must be fought, so naturally the fight is inextricable.Often, just as the youth army took a position, the Dingwu army over there organized a damn team to take it back. Hundreds of people were killed and wounded on both sides, but they returned to the original point. Thinking about it, both sides felt discouraged.

But Bai Chongxi was not in a hurry, because he didn't let the fourth division launch such an attack to compete with Zhang Xun, that was not his style.The reason why he disregards the lives of soldiers is because he has a principle of obtaining the greatest victory at the least cost, thereby avoiding greater casualties and attrition.And in order to achieve this goal, the smallest price is negligible in his eyes.So Bai Chongxi didn't intend to break through Zhang Xun's position at all, but just wanted to attract the opponent's attention.After this day of bloody fighting, before Zhang Xun had time to praise his subordinates, he discovered that Bai Chongxi had moved the Seventh Division to his rear, and he and the Dingwu Army under his command were defeated by the youth army with three The troops of the division were surrounded by water.Bai Chongxi did not launch an attack overnight, but sent a liaison officer to persuade Zhang Xun to surrender.

As a result, the monster Zhang Xun not only refused to surrender, but also tied up the liaison officer and was about to shoot him.But several generals persuaded him fiercely before they beat up the liaison officer and sent him out.

Bai Chongxi's mood has been extremely bad recently, and he has suffered from severe lack of sleep. He is only in his 20s, and his head has started to lose hair.And Zhang Xun's behavior broke the bottom line of Bai Chongxi's patience, so a crazy plan came out.

"From [-] o'clock in the morning tomorrow, launch an attack across the board and wipe out Zhang Xun's troops as quickly as possible." Then Bai Chongxi left a room full of stunned officers and walked away. . .

But on the right, Nanling was the first to strike.