Back to the Republic of China as a commander

When he saw Cai E again, he was stunned by what he saw.

Cai E's whole body has become like a haggard wood. He was not fat before, but now he is so thin that he is frighteningly thin. He has no energy at all, so he shrinks on the bed. It becomes very difficult to even get up basically, and he coughs endlessly. .

"Brother Songpo, what are you?" Wang Zhenyu no longer regards Cai E as a competitor at this moment. All he has is heartache. What is the reason for this heartache for this generation of famous generals? Cai E, who scolded Fang Qiu for pointing Jiangshan, turned out to be like this.

Cai E could only nod his head in pain and guilt to apologize, but it was difficult to speak in his throat.Jiang Baili, chief of staff of the nurse who accompanied Cai E to Japan for treatment, is also an old acquaintance of Wang Zhenyu, and he met him in Baoding that day.At this moment, Jiang Baili was also very sad: "Since the day when he begged Yuan, Songpo has been handling military affairs day and night. He is often worried because the enemy's army is strong and his army's backup is not coming. Under such circumstances, the pressure to lead troops in combat is so great. After a long time, the disease accumulated. There was a lack of good doctors in the army, and Songpo was worried about military affairs, so he refused to leave the front line and return to Kunming for medical treatment. "

Wang Zhenyu knew about Cai E's difficulties, and he didn't need to place anyone in the Yunnan Army. Zhao Hengti was already serving as a liaison officer in the guard, and Wang Zhenyu was informed of everything big and small.Speaking of it, Tang Jiyao is indeed not a thing. No wonder this man failed to succeed in the Republic of China in the end, and buried [-] Yunnan troops in vain.Tang Jiyao is different from Cai E. He is a native of Yunnan, so he has always been obsessed with Cai E. As the warlord of Yunnan, he originally didn't want to participate in this war to protect the country.But when Cai E appeared in Kunming, he couldn't help Tang Jiyao to participate or not.You must know that the backbone of the so-called Yunnan Army is not all Yunnanese, but is composed of people from Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangxi. Among them, the fellow recruited by Cai E from Baoqing Mansion in Hunan is the backbone of the backbone up.These Baoqing people are notoriously fierce, and they don't recognize any warlords at all, they only recognize Cai E.In addition, Liu Xianshi, the governor of Guizhou, did not sell his account. In this way, if Tang Jiyao didn't follow Cai E to toss around, then his own head would probably be used to sacrifice the flag.It is also for this reason that the first thing Tang Jiyao hastily did after Cai E’s death in history was to disregard the ancient saying that there is no army without Hunan, and sent all the Hunan natives in the Yunnan Army, especially Baoqing (now Shaoyang) officers The five brothers of Wang Zhenyu's great-grandfather in later generations were all working under Cai E's errands. In this case, they could only return to Hunan via Myanmar (at that time, there was a serious banditry on the Yunnan-Guizhou border. In history, Tang Jiyao relied on these bandits to regain the throne of the military governor. Yes, the ferocity of these bandits can be seen), the combat effectiveness of the Yunnan army has plummeted since then, and in the end even the Sichuan army could not do it.These are things for later.

Who is Cai E?He naturally knew about Tang Jiyao's careful thinking, but he didn't care, because his ambition was not a small Yunnan governor, but the whole world.Therefore, Cai E's flexible wrist was reflected at this time, and it was indeed more than a grade higher than Sun Yat-sen and the others. Cai E himself served as the commander of the First Army of the Guardian Army, and Tang Jiyao was still the commander of the Guardian Army and the Governor of Yunnan. .Moreover, Cai E took care of the hard work of fighting the war himself, and Tang Jiyao only needed to be responsible for the food and grass.

But for such a simple job, Tang Jiyao, who was at both ends of the first mouse, still managed it in a mess.Based on the principle of hitting the first bird with a gun, Yuan Shikai mobilized heavy troops into Sichuan, planning to wipe out Cai E's guards in one go.

But at this time Tang Jiyao was frightened and shaken, and he was terrified.What makes people laugh bitterly is that after he was terrified, his head seemed to become unclear.The method he chose was to jam Cai E's neck in logistics. It seems that in this way, in the future, waiting for the soldiers and horses of the imperial court to level Cai E, he can show his merits and see, if I didn't hold back, You still can't eliminate Cai E.In this way, Cai E felt uncomfortable. The battle that could have been fought was unable to be fought due to insufficient supplies, and the offense turned into defense in the end. It was really uncomfortable during those days.But even so, Cai E still accumulated small victories into big victories, and he insisted on getting the situation back bit by bit from Beiyang's most powerful third division.Even Wu Peifu, who was later known as the God of the Beiyang Army, could only stare at the direction of Cai E. The famous general Cai E is really not called for nothing.

As for Tang Jiyao's problem, I don't know how Cai E solved it, but it is said that it was just a letter.As for the content of the letter, it is naturally unknown, but Wang Zhenyu is also a hero now, and he can guess what the content is with his fingers.

The first part is nothing more than reminiscing about the old days. From Cai E’s first meeting with Tang Jiyao, I saw you at a glance when I was among thousands of people, brother. At that time, I found that you have a strong aura of domineering, so . . .

The second part is to emphasize how reactionary Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang warlords are. Brothers, I am doing a righteous cause now. Look at Wang Zhenyu next door and they have also raised the banner of rebellion. Uh, no, it is the banner of protecting the country. It can be seen that we The cause of justice is justice, and it is bound to be victorious. . .

The third part is naturally threats and intimidation, brother, you can't be confused at this time, we are grasshoppers on the same rope, you want to go down now that you are on my thief ship?The boats have reached the center of the river, can they still go down?If I lose, you still have a future. To be honest, following my brother and me and continuing to engage in rebellion, a promising career after all, is the only correct choice in your life, uh.

It is estimated that Tang Jiyao's brain cleared up when he saw this letter, and he figured out his position, so the reinforcements and supplies arrived without saying a word, what a god!

The final result was naturally that Cai E defeated Cao Kun's Beiyang Third Division, but his body also collapsed.

After Yuan Shikai's death, the north and the south reached a partition agreement, and the Southwest Military Government was established later. However, the situation in Sichuan was very complicated, and Cai E had to sit in Chengdu to coordinate the relationship between all parties.

At that time, Sichuan had not yet developed into a warlord melee, and the defense zone system had not yet come out. Yang Sen was still living in the Yunnan Army, Xiong Kewu was still a progressive revolutionary, Duobao Daoist Liu Wenhui was still studying in Baoding, and Liu Xiang, Liu Cunhou and Liu Chengxun have become popular, but they are not as powerful as in history. Naturally, taxes have not been collected in the 80th year of the Republic of China, but this situation has already given Cai E a headache.

The problem first came from the revolutionaries in Sichuan, oh, they should be called National Socialists now.The nine-member regiment (Xiong Kewu, Dan Maoxin, Li Weiru, Yu Peidi, Yu Jitang, Zhang Chong, Wu Bingjun, Liu Guanglie, and Long Guang) headed by Chongqing Town Guard Xiong Kewu belonged to Huang Xing's family.On the other hand, the industrial group headed by acting governor of Sichuan Province Yang Shukan (Shi Qingyang, Lu Chao, Lu Shidi, Yan Deji, Huang Fusheng) belongs to Sun Yat-sen's family, and the founder of the industrial group, Xie Chi, is now in Nanjing. The government is in a mess.These two factions have their own armed forces, and they fought fiercely with each other. Although they did not develop to fight as much as in history, they were not much better, especially after the Beiyang forces were driven away, all the contradictions that were originally covered up disappeared. It has been exposed, and now the two sides are in conflict.If it wasn't for Cai E, a great god, who was pressing down, they would have pulled their teams and put on a fight.Sure enough, it is Brother Pao's family, and he will never loosen his belt.

With such a large group of restless masters, Cai E's health can only get worse and worse.Therefore, the body is the capital of the revolution. Now that Cai E has no capital, the revolution will naturally be impossible to talk about.

It seemed that he had a premonition that he might stop cooking when he went to Japan this time. Cai E seemed to regain his energy when he saw Wang Zhenyu.

"Brother Wenzheng, we are all fellow villagers of Baoqing Mansion. If I leave first, I ask you to take care of my wife and children. My subordinate Tang Jiyao will definitely not be compatible, and I can't do too much for them Thing, if I die in Japan, please give this letter to Liu Xianshi in Guizhou, Luo Peijin in Sichuan and Gu Pinzhen in Yunnan, and ask them to contact Liu Yunfeng, Deng Taizhong, Yang Zhen, Zhao Youxin, Dong Hongxun, He Haiqing and others. Tang Jiyao Short-sighted, narrow-minded, unruly, and intolerant, let the three southwestern provinces be merged into the national government! Songpo is not talented, so he can't lead them to go on. Besides, my classmate Jiang Baili has a great talent, but he just can't help it. At that time, I hoped that Wenzheng's brother Nian would reuse him for his fellow countrymen. I am not very grateful!"

Wang Zhenyu's eyes widened when he saw these words, it was true or false, but thinking about Cai E's body, it is estimated that this is true.Poor Cai E's ambitions, if it weren't for his time traveler and his poor physical condition, maybe he wouldn't have come to this point at all.

However, Wang Zhenyu still set his sights on Cai E, the truly famous general and pillar of the world: "Hand over the foundation that you created by yourself, Brother Songpo, aren't you sad?"

Cai E shook his head and wrote: "Life is too short to turn the head into nothing. The general trend of the world is to divide and reunite, but that's all. I just hope that those brothers who follow me can have a good home! That's all I can do There are too many, in fact, the final outcome of the three southwestern provinces still depends on you, Brother Wenzheng, and this country also counts on you. Songpo hopes that one day, the people will be able to live and work in peace and contentment, and the country will no longer be bullied by foreign powers. Unfortunately, I can’t see it. arrive."

Seeing this passage, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but burst into tears. This is Cai E, who was followed by his great-grandfather and five brothers. With such a heart and such a magnanimity, he actually left in his early thirties. He is really jealous of talents. !

Chapter 305 The Meeting of Wind and Cloud ([-])

After getting off the ship, Wang Zhenyu couldn't calm down for a long time. In his arms, there were secret letters written by Cai E to Gu Pinzhen, Luo Peijin, and Liu Xianshi respectively.Wang Zhenyu thought for a while, but he still asked He Jian to come over. Naturally, it would be better for the secret letter to be handled by the spy chief.

Recently, in order to integrate intelligence resources, the Military Intelligence Bureau established the Navy Military Intelligence Division, and Liu Junqiang served as the colonel's director.At the same time, a semi-open southwestern terminus was set up in Chengdu, and Gong Peng served as the chief of the major general.The intelligence work against the Southwest actually started in May last year, which is the benefit of knowing the direction of history.

Wang Zhenyu looked back at the ship again, Cai E probably won't be able to come back after going.I'd better work harder and fulfill the last wish of this peerless talent!

After returning to his official residence, Secretary Chen Bulei came to report: "Chairman, the Japanese side proposed to meet you in Wuhan through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government. Do you think so?"

Japanese?Hehe, these conceited orientals finally realized their own existence.Wang Zhenyu secretly laughed for a while and said: "I remember that the Japanese seem to have never recognized the independent tariff agreement of the nine southern provinces, as well as our national government. Why do you want to talk to us now. Hehe, make arrangements, not only If you want to see them, you need to make people feel at ease, for example, let them visit the training of our expeditionary force!"

In fact, the Japanese government’s debate on the China issue this time is quite large, which is mainly due to the current intensification of political factional struggles in Japan.

When it comes to Japanese politics in this era, we have to mention the famous Taisho era.

In 1912, Emperor Meiji, who had been repeatedly mythical by the Japanese, finally lost his head.Then his son who suffered from encephalopathy ascended the throne and became Emperor Taisho. It is said that Emperor Taisho once suffered from meningitis and left sequelae. At the age of 40, he suffered from cerebral thrombosis and became mentally ill.When the illness broke out, the emperor often made some ridiculous behaviors in front of the public.For example, when watching a military exercise, he would suddenly run down the reviewing stand, open the soldiers' backpacks and rummage through them.Once, when he was attending the opening ceremony of the Congress, on a whim, while giggling, he rolled up his speech into a cylinder, put it on his eyes, and took careless photos of foreign envoys.

In fact, for the Communist system, it is not necessarily a bad thing for the corrupt to have brain problems. Just look at the emperors of the Ming Dynasty and you will know that some were in business, some were carpenters, and some wanted to be generals, but they were unwilling to do it. emperor.Therefore, a strange phenomenon appeared in the Ming Dynasty. Even if the emperor did not show his face for decades, the whole country could still operate as usual. It was not until the gang of Donglin Party came out to engage in party struggles in order to prioritize political power that the country was completely tossed. .

The Japanese are facing this problem now. Although the former Emperor Meiji was great, the common people did not get half a dime from his great achievements. The poor are still poor, and the rich are getting richer.But now the biggest advantage of the emperor, who is said to be not very good at thinking, is that the political atmosphere has been destroyed overnight because the rioters don't care about things.This is the Taisho era repeatedly praised by historians of later generations, and it is also called the "Taisho era" (meaning very beautiful and on time) by the Japanese people.

In terms of politics alone, the Guiyuan era reached the early days of Taisho, and finally faced disintegration. First, Gongwang Xiyuanji was forced to step down by the feudal lord and became the last elder. And stepped down, and soon died.

In the Taisho Era, it was a golden age when political parties were active. In the mid-term, there was Hara Keiji who formed the cabinet of civilian political parties. In the later period, there were political parties who formed the cabinet of the three factions to protect the constitution. It is related to the regency. Because the Meiji era began, the elders could nominate the prime minister. However, Emperor Taisho was seriously ill, Hirohito was immature and under the respect of the elders. The elders nominated the prime minister, and they were almost sure to win. In the party politics of the Taisho period, the political movement and ideological trend aroused , but changed the term Taisho Demolasi (**). What is more worth mentioning is that the power of the Changzhou faction gradually declined, and the tyranny of the mountain county was related to the Satsuma faction when the crown prince Prince Hirohito married Queen Hisamiya Yoshiko (that is, a major event in the palace) has since declined.

But now the two old guys, Xiyuanji Gongwang and Shanxian Youpeng, are still alive and healthy, and under their influence, in recent years, the Japanese cabinet has also taken turns to sit in the cabinet, and the soldiers and the members of the Constitutional Political Friendship Association have taken turns on stage.The incumbent is first of all Shigenobu Okuma from the Constitutional Seiyukai. This is his second time as the prime minister or the prime minister.However, the countdown to his term of office can start, because the biggest characteristic of the Japanese is that they are always full of endless desires, and the endless desires of the chaebols and the people cannot be satisfied no matter who becomes the prime minister.

Since you can’t be satisfied, let’s take turns to sit in the village, keep throwing hope to the people, and try to make the chaebols richer, so that the balance will be balanced. The Japanese are really geniuses in politics.

However, the result of such a fierce struggle is that when they suddenly stopped to take a breather, they realized that China, which they regarded as their lifeline, had changed in just a few months.This fat pig was actually split in two, and the southern half looked pretty good, and it actually came up with a tariff autonomy without making a sound.

In addition to taking the time to punish those spies who are not good at espionage, the most important thing is to come up with new countermeasures, so a new round of quarrels began again, and many veterans began to miss Emperor Meiji.If His Majesty the old emperor is still there, it will not be everyone's turn to quarrel. He will directly rule, and everyone will carry it out. Anyway, it is God's will that can't be wrong. If it is wrong, the person who executes it is incompetent and blasphemy. The great God Amaterasu.

But now, that person in the palace doesn't seem to worry about these things at all, my god!

The Nationalist Government was a local government anyway, and strictly speaking, the Empire of Japan did not recognize this local government, so there was no consulate in Nanjing.However, this does not prevent them from communicating with the National Government. At least from a non-government level, the nominal leaders of the National Government, Huang Xing, Sun Yat-sen and others are good friends with the Japanese side.Especially Sun Yat-sen, who also has a Japanese wife.

But the Japanese are not fools. They can figure out who is the real power holder of the Nationalist Government after a little experimentation, so they must come to Wuhan.Because the intelligence network that Japan had deployed in the south for more than ten years was completely destroyed due to various reasons, so now the Japanese side urgently needs to clarify a few things:

The first thing is about the intelligence within the youth army, especially key data related to the army's combat effectiveness, equipment, and major military generals. This is what the military department has repeatedly emphasized.

The second thing is about Wang Zhenyu's personal information, the more detailed the better, because the Japanese suddenly found that they did not have any useful information about this powerful person in South China.

The third thing is to find out the scale and purpose of the participating army that the national government is currently training. Whether it is really going to Europe to die, or is it just like Duan Qirui in Beiyang who is dreaming of unification by force under the guise of participating in the war? This will directly determine The strength of the Empire of Japan's support for Beiyang and the action plan in Northern China.

The last one is a subsidiary additional target. Due to the establishment of the customs zone, Japan’s commercial investment and commodity exports in southern China have suffered a heavy blow. Fortunately, this share is not high in terms of the interests of the entire empire in China.But no matter how small a fly is, it is still meat. No matter from which point of view, this is a huge harm to the empire. Therefore, the diplomats sent to South China this time also shoulder the mission of communicating with the national government on this issue. Access to data on South China's economic construction.

As a minister, Koban Youkichi is naturally not suitable for this diplomatic activity. After all, the national government is only a local government, so the Japanese side finally chose a strange combination of four people. First-class counselor Mamoru Shigemitsu It is said that Yosuke Matsuoka, the head of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Japanese Consulate General in Kanto, is a China hand. The deputy military attache of the Japanese Embassy in China, Rensuke Isoya, is also said to be a China hand, and has just been directly appointed by the Japanese military as a The head of the Shanghai Secret Service (known as the Mei Agency in history, 23 years earlier than in history, because the agency was located in a small building called "Plum Blossom Hall" in the Japanese expatriate gathering area in Hongkou, Shanghai, so it was called "Meihuatang" in Japan. "Mei Agency".) Kenji Doihara, this is still a China hand (it seems that Japan's China hands are a bit overflowing), and his public identity is the military attache of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

Their trip to Nanjing obviously didn't yield much. The Nationalist Government seems to be very large, with many institutions and personnel, and it does have money to handle affairs. However, when it comes to the economic construction data of South China, even the ministers of the Executive Yuan have to His face showed embarrassment.After some in-depth exchanges, everyone realized that the economic construction of South Chinana was not entirely managed by the national government. In fact, the Armament Department of the Military Commission and an enterprise named Nakato Development Corporation were in charge. The relevant data are here. In the hands of the two departments, what the national government can manage is only some investment.

Matsuoka Yosuke was very surprised to hear the news and asked back: "Economic construction has been assigned to the Military Commission and the Development Corporation, so what is your national government mainly responsible for?"

Wang Zhengting, who was in charge of the reception, said with a wry smile: "The current job of the government is to carry out patriotic health campaigns, build a new life, take out education, carry out medical treatment, carry out urban construction and transportation construction (only roads, railways have also been developed) The head office took it away)."

Mamoru Shigemitsu, who was sitting on the side, immediately became dumbfounded when he heard this. Isn't this the service-oriented government in the United States?No, the U.S. government at least has the power to fight foreign wars, while the national government is completely in service, and it simply doesn't have any key powers.

Chapter 306 The Meeting of Wind and Cloud ([-])

"The military's political and ideological work must be given top priority. An army without ideas and beliefs has no soul and combat effectiveness." Wang Zhenyu is lecturing the members of the political guidance department to be formed by the Youth Army. After thinking about a problem, it was decided to establish it.

This problem has actually troubled Wang Zhenyu for a long time. Simply put, it is the question of whether the army should be nationalized.

Specifically using the example of later generations, in Wang Zhenyu's original world, the U.S. Army was almost the most powerful existence.When the fighters all over the world heard the news that the American military team appeared in their own territory, they would foam at the mouth nervously and twitched all over their bodies.Because they know that the consequence of the long-term corruption of their regime is that they can no longer unite the people with lies, and without the support of the people, the army that can only rely on it will not be able to do anything against the US military, even if the US military It's useless to be greedy for life and fear of death all the time. These mercenaries are holding the most advanced weapons in the world. I don't know if they were given to them by aliens.

Far away, although the US military is so terrifying, there was still a kind of army in the world at that time that gave Americans headaches.The equipment of this kind of army may not be as good as that of the US military, but they have an advantage that Americans will never be able to surpass, and that is political thought.In this kind of army, there are a large number of political cadres. Their task is not to fight, but to brainwash, er, no, it should be education and agitation.Their work efficiency is much higher than that of the priests accompanying the US army. With their hard work, every ordinary soldier becomes extraordinary. They will firmly believe that they are fighting to liberate all mankind, and they will firmly believe that They are extremely just and honorable, and they will firmly believe that the final victory must belong to themselves and the party.In many cases, they will dedicate their lives to the party without hesitation. They will fight to the last moment of their lives knowing that they must die. They will fight you with their lives, but you still want to fight. After the end, go back and reunite with your wife and children.These political cadres are the most powerful individual weapon in Red Alert—Yuga.

In history, the Soviet Red Army relied on the political commissar system and used the blood of Russian youths to defeat White Russia, the intervention army of the great powers, and the reactionary Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Japan's Northeast Army.Moreover, they also eliminated the Trotskyites who mixed into the revolutionary ranks. This Trotskyites are terrible, more than two-thirds of the Red Army officers are, and they don’t know how the Red Army is with so many traitors. How to defeat the white bandits.What's even more frightening is that after eliminating a large number of Trotskyites, the Soviet Red Army still relied on political commissars who were very amateurish in the military to defeat the Germans who made the whole world tremble. This institutional superiority It is definitely not something that can be described in words. Look at them calling out the blizzard that has never happened in a century.Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu suddenly understood, Ge Laozi, no wonder Laozi encountered an earthquake once in a thousand years and a flood twice in a century. It was his grandmother’s five-year ballot that he never saw. The advantages of the system.

It has to be said that Wang Zhenyu has the shadow of an idealist after all. Although he knows that the party has so many advantages in leading the army, he still refuses to completely turn the youth army into a party-military force.But in fact, the youth army now has all the conditions for party militarization, and Wang Zhenyu still refuses to go against the trend of history.Use Wang Zhenyu's answer to Chen Shao and others who proposed the party's militaryization: "We have no way to predict the future (pretend, others really can't, I'm afraid you will), but if the youth army is completely turned into a party army, then we can be sure of one thing. No matter whether we implement the National Assembly system or not, and allow other political parties to participate in and discuss state affairs, the National Socialist Party will become the only ruling party in perpetuity because it holds the largest armed force, until the absolute revolution caused by its absolute power is completely Rotten until self-destruction. And this is by no means the gospel of the nation, the people, or even the party.”