Back to the Republic of China as a commander

This morning, Longxia went out for exercises according to the usual practice. More than 400 strong Tibetan men wore new British military uniforms, British belts, and soldiers wearing Tibetan hats. The soldiers stood fairly neatly. This army is the XIII* *The security regiment of Tibet, the first regiment of the Tibetan Army, is called Kadang Maga in Tibetan.According to the plan, this force was to be formed with 1000 people, but in fact only 40.00% of the formation task was completed, which was a huge gap.Here we might as well talk about the establishment of the Tibetan army: the designation name of the Tibetan army is "Maga", which means "barracks" and "barracks", which is equivalent to a regiment. The largest number of "Maga" is 1500, the slightly larger one is 1000, and most of them are 500.In the beginning, there were only ten regiments. According to the order of the [-] Tibetan letters, the various divisions of the Tibetan army were called:

Kadam Maga - the first regiment; Kadam Maga - the second regiment; Kadam Maga - the third regiment; Jaidang Maga - the fourth regiment;

Jiadang Maga - the fifth regiment; appropriate Maga - the sixth regiment; Jiadang Maga - the seventh regiment; Jadang Maga - the eighth regiment;

Dadang Maga - Ninth Regiment; Didang Maga - Tenth Regiment;

历史上藏军部队番号出现最多时,是在1950年秋冬的昌都战役前后,藏政府大肆扩军之际,曾经扩编到16个团“玛噶”。既增加了11、13、14、15、16、17团，因为藏语里12是病的意思，不吉利，所以没有12团的编制。

And their duties also refer to the standards of the new army:

Maga (Tibetan means barracks, regiment), the chief officer is Daiben-Tibetan means archer officer or archer commander (equivalent to regiment leader) Ruka (Tibetan means team, battalion), the chief officer is Ruben-Tibetan means Troop commander (equivalent to battalion commander) Jiaxiao (Tibetan means a unit of hundreds of people), the chief officer is Jiaben-Tibetan means Baijichang (equivalent to company commander) Dingxiao, Xieao (Tibetan means a small unit), the chief is The final version—Tibetan means sub-team leader (equivalent to platoon leader) Jiuxiao (Tibetan means unit of ten people), chief officer is Jiuben—Tibetan means ten-member leader (equivalent to squad leader) A Xiao (Tibetan means unit of five people) , the chief is Aben—Tibetan means Wuchangchang (equivalent to the team leader) Maji (commander-in-chief) on behalf of Ben, who has two Ruben 499 under his jurisdiction; Ruben, has two Jiaben under his jurisdiction with 249 people; There are 3 people under the jurisdiction of 124 fixed books; 4 people under the jurisdiction of 41 nine books under the jurisdiction of fixed books; 2 people under the jurisdiction of 10 A books in Jiuben;

According to Emperor Qianlong's imperial approval, the Tibetan army should have 3000 people, of which 1000 are stationed in Lhasa (actually it should be the police camp), 1000 people are stationed in Rikeze (actually it should be the Panchen security camp), and the remaining 500 people are stationed in Gyantse. 500 people are stationed daily.The weapons equipped at that time were very sophisticated, "five tenths of them used muskets, three tenths used bows and arrows, and two tenths used knives and shields".In addition, 14 mountain-splitting cannons were dispatched, 12 were given to the Qianzang Army, and 2 were given to the Houzang Panchen Lama.

But in fact, the number of Tibetan troops under the name of ** has reached about 6000, which is a very astonishing number.More importantly, such a Tibetan army is currently equipped with 1500 British Lee Metford rifles and 40 "Lewis" type light machine guns.Strictly speaking, this kind of portable light machine gun is the heavy firepower of the Tibetan army. Bell originally planned to get some cannons for the Tibetan army, but the difficulty of transportation was too great, so he had to give up.

Long Xia is now almost commanded by the personal guard army of the thirteenth Dalai Lama Buddha. In fact, the training of this personal guard army is still very good, but for Long Xia who has seen the market, it is just not bad.Among other things, this equipment is really not enough to look at. Long Xia has been to France, and the shock of the earth-shattering bombardment on the battlefield in Europe has always come to mind.However, the entire Tibetan army is not even equipped with the most basic 75mm mountain guns. Longxia really can't imagine whether such an army can really carry the Buddha's dream of establishing a great Tibet.

Just as he was thinking about it, Jiansai Tudeng Gongpei, a young lama next to the Buddha, ran over from a distance: "Longsha Zidai, Longsha Zidai, the Buddha invites you to meet him in the Potala Palace."

Long Xia took a look at the young lama in front of him. Although he was only in his teens, he was very much favored by the Buddha.He smiled and said to him: "It's Jiansai, what's the matter with the Buddha? Who else was summoned by the Buddha besides me?"

After all, he was still a child, and Tudeng Gongpei spoke honestly one by one: "In addition to Zi Dai, there are Xia Zha Kalun and several other Buddhas!"

Long Xia nodded politely: "Understood, you go to Jiansai first, and I will come later..."

When Long Xia walked into the West Sunlight Hall where Grandma was, Grandpa Buddha was losing his temper at Xia Zha who was kneeling on the ground, and the atmosphere at the scene was very depressing.

Seeing Long Xia walk in, the thirteenth emperor calmed down a little, sat back on the throne, and then signaled Tudeng Gongpei to pass the telegram in his hand to Long Xia.

Long Xia didn't look at it, but he was shocked when he saw it: "What, Lord Buddha, the [-] Han army has already entered Tibet."

The thirteenth emperor obviously didn't want to see his subordinates panic like this, so he gave a displeased glance at Long Xia, who in his opinion had seen the world, but he didn't reprimand him.

Looking at the shocking crowd, the Thirteenth Emperor couldn't help but sighed and said, "Everyone talk about it, what should we do? According to the news sent by people in Chengdu, it is said that the person who entered Tibet this time is Liu Xiang, the rebel army who betrayed Wang Zhenyu, was originally a tiger general of the Sichuan Army, and this time he raised the banner of obeying the Beijing government."

Long Xia couldn't help sneering when he heard this, don't look at these Living Buddhas, Karon, etc., they are usually very dignified and wise in front of the common people.In fact, there are not many people with real skills, but if they are really capable, it is estimated that ** Buddha would not dare to use them.Xia Zha, who was kneeling on the ground, was the first to raise his head and said: "Lord Buddha, there is no need to panic about this matter. Let's follow the method we used to deal with the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army a few years ago, and ask the British to come forward and let Beijing issue an order to let these Han people The army should retreat."

Several other Buddhas naturally said yes, the thirteenth grandma thought it could only be like this, and was about to let Xia Zha stand up, but heard Long Xia say something wrong.The thirteenth emperor hurriedly asked: "Longsha, what's wrong?"

Long Xia thought for a while, then bowed very respectfully and said, "Lord Buddha, this matter seems a bit strange no matter how small it is? If this army betrayed Wang Zhenyu's army, then what they should do is to attack Chengdu instead of Running to our snow-covered plateau, does he expect Wang Zhenyu to send troops to chase him down and be dragged down by him? Here we need soldiers but no soldiers, and supplies but no supplies, so I have only one explanation for the actions of this Han general , He is here to rob us of Lhasa, it is very likely that his rebellion is just an illusion, in order to invalidate your method, Xia Zha."

Hearing this, Xia Zha was immediately unconvinced and said: "Invalidation, why ineffectiveness, do you know how strong the British are? Even Beijing is afraid of them. I don't believe that no matter how strong a little Wang Zhenyu is, he can be stronger than the Beijing government?"

Long Xia shook his head and said, "The problem now is not the strength of the Han people at all, but the weakness of our British friends. Didn't I talk about it when I came back? In Europe, the British are fighting with the Germans. People are fighting and bleeding, can’t you feel the changes in the British over the past few years? At the beginning, when we were given weapons, did we ever ask for money and supplies?”

One word awakened the dreamer, and the thirteenth emperor, Xia Zha and others immediately became dumbfounded when they heard this. . .

Chapter 363

Beijing, Dongjiaomin Lane, British Legation, Mr. Zhu Erdian, Minister of the British Empire to China, is losing his temper very ungentlemanly.

"These damned Chinese are all dishonest guys! They are a bunch of thieves and robbers." Minister Mr. Zhu Erdian probably forgot when he scolded others for being thieves and robbers. The empire seems to be the biggest thief and robber in the world, otherwise how was the empire on which the sun never sets established?

However, we can’t blame Zhu Erdian for losing his temper. A week ago, due to the excellent performance of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Verdun counterattack, the Whitehall side praised Minister Zhu Erdian who proposed to let China send troops, and planned to send the troops stationed there as soon as possible. The Chinese embassy was upgraded to an embassy in China, and the consulates in Nanjing and Wuhan were upgraded to consulate generals.Our Mr. Zhu Erdian hadn't come to enjoy his diplomatic achievements in a hurry. As a result, the news of the Chinese marching into Tibet made him so sick that he couldn't eat for a day.Minister Zhu Erdian went to the Beijing government to lodge a protest almost as soon as he got the news, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs Lu Zongyu who was in charge of receiving him told him very helplessly that the rebel general Liu Xiang who declared his support for the Beijing government so far has not Have made any contact with the Beijing government.To use the jargon of the stock market, people are probably playing a trick of backdoor listing now.Now Zhu Erdian was dumbfounded. This incident was obviously the result of manipulation by the emerging strongman in Wuhan.And the British Empire, which was mired in the quagmire of the European War, obviously did not have the power to control the booming national government. What's more, in the northern region that could still be controlled, the direct line and the Anhui line that originally belonged to the Beiyang had already started to fight. I have made up my mind, and the nasty Japanese dwarf is also trying to play tricks here.Minister Zhu Erdian felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, how, this made him explain to Whitehall?

Zhu Erdian is troubled here in Dongjiaomin Lane, and Duan Qirui in Iron Lion Alley is not much better. Li Yuanhong is destined to be a short-lived president. The president's special fee of 400 million silver dollars per year is still unable to compete with Duan Qirui, the latest boss of the Beiyang family.

So on the day of the mutiny, Li Yuanhong hid in the Dutch legation, and then sent a telegram in the name of the president to remove Duan Qirui from the post of Prime Minister, and called on the whole country to discuss it.

Naturally, the direct lineage of Cao Kun as the new boss announced that they would respond to President Li Yuanhong's name to openly discuss the matter with force, and the Zhiwan War inevitably broke out. . .

On May 5, when the Chinese European Expeditionary Force and the German Army were fighting to the death, Wu Peifu, the immediate leader, led the 21rd Division, Wang Chengbin, Yan Xiangwen, Xiao Yaonan's 3 mixed brigades and Feng Yuxiang's 3th Division to withdraw from Henan. Arrived in Zhengzhou on the 11st.Then, Wu Peifu and Feng Yuxiang stationed troops in Zhumadian, Xuchang, Zhengzhou, Xinxiang and other places along the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway.Cao Kun also sent troops to monitor the Dezhou arsenal, and used Dezhou as an outpost for the right wing of the direct army. On June 31, Wu Peifu went to Baoding, and together with representatives of Jiangsu, Fengtian and other provinces, participated in a secret military meeting called by Cao Kun. On July 6, Duan Qirui also established the "Dingjiao" General Headquarters in Tuanhe. The commander of the road and the commander of the former enemy, Wei Zonghan was the commander of the third road, and announced the order to punish Cao Kun, Wu Peifu and others in the name of the prime minister.On the same day, Duan traveled from Tuanhe to Beijing, convened a joint meeting of all cabinet members and military and political personnel in the general's mansion, and decided to "crusade" Cao and Wu with troops.At the same time, Wu Peifu's troops stationed in Henan began to march north; Cao Kun's troops marched from Baoding to Gaobeidian.

Compared with the first straight-anhui war in history, the time was fully five years earlier, so the result was not what Wang Zhenyu, who was far away in Wuhan, could have expected.

Looking at the calendar on his desk, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "I'm sorry, History, I've muddied your pool of water."

Individual abilities won't change much, but the gap in strength is obvious.The first is the military power of Cao Kun and Wu Peifu. In the War of National Defense last year, the third division and the No.11 division all suffered heavy losses.After that, I didn't get even a little bit of supplement from Duan Qirui, but this seems to be a fundamental factor for Cao Wu's determination to oppose Duan. You treat me as an outsider, and I regard you as an enemy.However, this is not the biggest gap between the two warring parties, because the direct army has received a large amount of military aid from the south, especially in terms of weapons and funds, otherwise they would not dare to attack on their Henan territory anyway, and they would have obtained the strength of the Xiyuan loan Duan Qirui, who has become unprecedentedly powerful.

Since Duan Qirui received the Japanese loan in July last year, he quickly turned the Japanese loan into equipment for the participating troops. The 7 participating troops were quickly recruited, and they quickly formed an army under the training of Japanese instructors.

This is why even though Cao Kun has been receiving aid from the Southern Nationalist Government since last year, he is still hesitant to launch a dispute.

Wu Peifu didn't have so many worries. He was thinking more about military issues. In his opinion, now is the best time to discuss Duan. Once Duan Qirui's new army is trained, its combat effectiveness will be formed.Then the gap between direct relationship and pity will become more obvious. Wu Ziyu, who is good at leading troops, knows the essence of the army very clearly.Once the officers of the Anhui Faction matured, it would be bullshit to try to win more with less, and any strategy in front of absolute strength would be nothing.

So no matter how much Cao Kun was worried, Wu Peifu insisted on launching a discussion without hesitation: "Brother, now we have to make a move. If we miss this opportunity to make a big difference with a small one, there will be no place for you and my brother in China in the future." gone."

Cao Kun thought about it and did it. . .

On Duan Qirui's side, some changes have taken place. The first change is that the support of the Japanese has been strengthened compared to history, due to the effect of Wang Zhenyu, a big butterfly.The Japanese government has reached a new consensus on the issue of China, that is, to use all means to attack the unified South China government. After all, the current policy direction of the Great Japanese Empire is doomed. Five years later, their steel output will only be 200 million tons. Left and right, this item alone, Nanzhi surpassed the whole of Japan (you don’t even look at how big your big Japan is), although the militarists emphasized that the imperial warriors could defeat the Chinese army even with bamboo spears.But these lies are just used to fool the common people, and the decision-makers of the empire will naturally not believe the lies they fabricated.Therefore, after the formulation of the three policies for attacking Southern China, all Japanese institutions in China were mobilized.

And the first of the three policies that was heavily instigated by the Japanese military and diplomats was to arm Duan Qirui's Beiyang Army and then provoke a civil war in China. In this way, no matter what the outcome is, even if the National Government of South Chinana does not collapse, their industry will It is estimated that the plan will also come to a standstill, so that the empire's mainland plan will continue to be implemented smoothly.

As for whether Wang Zhenyu will take advantage of the trend to unify the country, the Japanese side has also been worried about this, so not only Duan Qirui, they have also increased their support for Zhang Zuolin's Feng family in Shenyang.The Northeast Arsenal also entered the stage of history in advance, and the Japanese military even formulated a plan to let the Kwantung Army wear the uniform of the Fengjun and enter the customs with the Fengjun when necessary.

But no matter how perfect the plan was, it couldn't keep up with the pace of change, and the Zhiwan War inevitably broke out.When Cao Kun and Wu Ziyu first fled from Sichuan to Henan, the Japanese also had contact with them as usual, but Wu Ziyu was a dead-headed person, from south to north, no matter which powers from Britain, France, the United States and Japan came to win him over. Ignore them all.In history, the Soviet Union also wooed Wu Peifu, but it turned out that Wu Peifu ordered the suppression of communist and labor movements.Because in Wu Peifu's view, anyone who supports foreigners must be a traitor, and since he is a traitor, he, Wu Peifu, a patriotic thief (defined by the Soviet Union), must have trouble with him.Wu Ziyu is not Wang Zhenyu, this is a real warlord, if he gets angry, he will really kill someone.

Secondly, Cao Kun, Wu Peifu, and Feng Yuxiang's troops are insignificant in the eyes of the Japanese. In addition, most of their biggest backers in Beijing, Feng Guozhang, and others have already fallen, so the empire finally faced The direct line also took a pessimistic attitude. In their plan, the final outcome of these people is nothing more than being subdued by Duan Qirui.

But the operation of the matter finally made a huge joke with the Japanese. This army, which the Japanese regarded as doomed to perish, openly challenged the Duan Qirui government, which was being vigorously supported by the Empire of Japan. This was really a very troublesome trouble.Originally, according to the plan of the Ministry of Military Affairs, about 30 troops of Duan Qirui's government, which had almost formed an army, could go south to attack Nanjing and Wuhan by about the middle of the seventh year of the Republic of China.Even though Wang Zhenyu has hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, although there is not enough intelligence to provide data support, the report analysis of the Japanese Special High School clearly pointed out that although the army in South China has won enough international reputation in Europe, the South China Now it is precisely at the weakest time. First, the elite expedition is outside, and the interior must be empty. Second, the actual control area is too wide. It is impossible to form a concentrated use of troops during strategic defense. Third, as long as the imperial fleet appears in Zhejiang , Fujian, and the coastal areas of Guangdong, Wang Zhenyu's youth army will inevitably divide its troops for defense.

The author of this report seems to be a China hand, especially at the end of the report, he added a sentence: "Now China is almost the era when King Wu defeated Zhou. Duan Qirui is King Wu, and Nanzhi is King Zhou. One hit is enough to defeat."

The Japanese are always used to thinking of things too beautifully, so it is a tragedy. It is not yet known whether Duan Qirui, the king of Wu, can defeat Zhou, and he himself will be defeated first.

Chapter 364 The Northern War ([-])

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Zuolin, who was originally the commander of Beiyang 27th Division, has become the Fengtian Governor at least two years earlier with the support of the Japanese.Now he has Wu Junsheng, Sun Liechen, Tang Linyu, Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Jinghui, five Japanese armorers and five mixed brigades under him.It can be said that with the support of the Japanese, the power of this little man from the north and the south minister swelled up like a balloon.

In fact, the Japanese love and hate Zhang Zuolin, because this person looks silly, but in fact he is slippery.Takeo Kikuchi, who was in charge of negotiating between the Empire of Japan and Zhang Zuolin, felt the most deeply about this point: "This bluffing Chinese seems to be very talkative. When you make a request, he can do that, and that's fine. But when When you asked him to implement it, he would start blowing his beard and staring at his eyes, pushing and resisting until he completely refused. If you have not dealt with him directly, you can't imagine that Zhang Zuolin's words are so barbaric and unreasonable in the world. You can talk about it. Several times, I planned to kill this hateful guy with the Kwantung Army gang."

In fact, on the issue of Manchuria and Mongolia, the Japanese have not been able to form a unified opinion on whether to support the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty or to support Zhang Zuolin.However, after Wang Zhenyu's rapid rise, all parties in Japan in Manchuria and Mongolia finally reached an agreement on this point, and went all out to support Zhang Zuolin's group, hoping that it could have the power to confront other forces in China and maintain China's continued split state.

Although he hates Zhang Zuolin very much, Adviser Juchi had no choice but to bite the bullet and come to find this rogue warlord, because the military department gave the latest instructions, asking Juchi and other advisers working in the Fengjun to instigate Zhang Zuolin's Fengjun to enter the customs and join the war. As for the result That's not the military's concern.The military think tanks have one goal now. Since Cao Kun and Wu Peifu have already muddied the water, Japan doesn’t mind making the muddy water even more muddy, because only in this way, Southern China will not dare to easily enter the Northern China. Muddy waters, and once Southern China chooses to wade into muddy waters, its industrial construction will naturally slow down.

"Marshal, the time has come for you to establish a foundation for all eternity." Ju Chi walked into Zhang Zuolin's study and the first sentence made Zhang Zuolin's forehead bloodshot and his whole body hot.Not only Zhang Zuolin, but the chief of staff Yang Yuting beside him also looked pleasantly surprised.

Even so, Zhang Zuolin answered calmly: "Advisor Juchi, you are making fun of me, Lao Zhang again! Now it's a two-hero club, and both Prime Minister Duan from Beijing and Chairman Sun from Nanjing are qualified to win the world. Only I Lao Zhang doesn't have the qualifications, at best he just guards Fengtian's family business, and he doesn't dare to do anything else."

Wufu Juchi was well aware of Zhang Zuolin's little thoughts, so he would not believe his nonsense. He bowed and said, "Commander, your country can be said to be in a situation where heroes are Zhuolu, and it is the birth of a hero." Great timing. As long as the commander-in-chief enters the customs, this great river and mountain will be within your reach!"

After hearing this, Zhang Zuolin waved his hands quickly and said, "Advisor Juchi, don't lie to me. With the power of our Fengjun, let alone the youth army in the south, the participating army in the hands of Prime Minister Duan alone can kill me. It's settled. At this time, you asked me to bring the army into the customs, didn't you ask me to find a chip? I won't do it."

Kikuchi Takeo smiled and said: "Commander, you misunderstood. Of course, we are not foolish to grab the territory. Can we take advantage of the situation? Thinking back to more than a year ago, the youth army who now controls more than a dozen provinces in the south. At that time, the territory and the army were not as good as the commander-in-chief, how could you have more you? It was just taking advantage of the opportunity of President Yuan Da to transfer the main force to Sichuan to fight against Cai E, and to occupy the nine southern provinces."

Yang Yuting interjected: "That's right, now there are not only nine provinces, but also twelve provinces in the Southwest. We might really have a hard time finding it if we go in now."