Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Xu Shichang vomited blood angrily when he saw Sun Wen's telegram. This central government president is really not a human being.

In Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai, large-scale demonstrations broke out in solidarity with the patriotic students in Beijing.Wang Zhenyu did not order a ban on the parade, but in order to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, he still ordered all members of the military police and security forces to be on standby.At the same time, the Nationalist Government ordered all colleges and universities under its jurisdiction to strictly prohibit students from joining together, allowing them to go north to support the patriotic student movement, but it is strictly forbidden to organize school strikes and market strikes within the Nationalist Government's jurisdiction to disrupt the normal order of social life.For this reason, Xiong Xiling, Prime Minister of the Government Administration Council, delivered a speech at the newly established Nanjing Radio Station. On the Shandong issue, the national government will remain consistent with the patriotic students in Beijing.

At the same time, Wang Zhenyu called meetings of senior generals from this day onwards, and ordered the newly expanded youth army to enter a state of mobilization. With Xuzhou and Zhengzhou as assembly points, a large number of youth army troops and military supplies began to move.

At the same time, Dai Li served as the head of the Shandong Station of the National Security Bureau, and a large number of special agents entered the Shandong area to conduct secondary collection and sorting of the local situation.

The Japanese side also expressed close attention to the riots that broke out in Beijing, and began to put pressure on Zhang Zuolin frequently.

But Zhang Zuolin was obviously unlucky, and lost a lot of money, so he was in a bad mood. If his subordinates hadn't stopped him, he might have ordered all the students caught to be shot.He wasn't some kind of Qiu Ba, he was born as a bandit, and in the eyes of the bandits, intellectuals were worthless stinky old nine.

Yang Yuting was the one who persuaded Zhang Zuolin: "Shuai Yu, those students must not be killed. Once you do it, the popularity we created by taking back the Middle East Road will be lost immediately. We can't sit firmly in Beijing with the support of the Japanese alone." , Look at how the South has expressed its position these two days, and it is consistent with the students in Beijing. If you kill these students, all the popularity will be given to them."

Zhang Zuolin was so angry: "Then according to what you say, I can't help it. Qingdao is there. If those southerners are really patriotic, they will go there themselves. Grandma, who wouldn't sit there and shout patriotism? This bullshit center The government, the tax revenue is not a few cents, and they keep asking me to give money back. The most terrible thing is this shitty sovereignty. Whatever the big powers spare is all on my head. I knew it was the situation today. Back then It's better to stay in the Northeast and let the fucking Sun Wen and Wang Zhenyu sit on the throne in Beijing, now it's up to them to burn their ass..."

After cursing for a while, Zhang Zuolin looked at his subordinates and sighed, "Then you all figure it out, what should I do now? How can I deal with this situation?"

Yang Yuting thought for a while, and came up with an unsolvable solution: "Yu Shuai, for the present plan, we can only release those students first, calm down the situation, and then let people come forward to mediate with the Japanese government, see Can the situation be eased, and at the same time, the Paris Peace Conference will fight for it again, the actions of Britain and France are really forcing us into a pit of fire."

Qian Nengxun, who has already been infamous as a traitor prime minister, said with a wry smile: "Brother Lin Ge is joking, Britain, France and Japan are so easy to get along with each other, among other things, this Shandong problem, when Yu Shuai came to Beijing, that The Nishihara loan was taken over in its entirety, and the loan came with Shandong conditions attached. Now that I’m quitting, can the Japanese agree?”

This time Zhang Zuolin thought of such a thing, slapped his forehead and shouted: "Oh, my mother, I'm in the way of little Japan..."

Chapter 427 Fuse

The political conflicts triggered by the Paris Peace Conference are still escalating. In France, many French bosses suddenly find that the Chinese laborers who have worked hard for more than two years are suddenly not quite right.

In Marseilles, Yu Ba and Xiong Er, two guys who had already put on the cloak of Chinese labor union foremen, called together 12 Chinese laborers working in Marseilles under the instructions of the National Security Bureau: "Brothers, our army and laborers have left their homes to come to Europe to replace them." The French fought and worked, and supported them to win against the Germans. Now that they are done, they have given our Shandong to the Japanese. Everyone said, is there such a bully?"

Although most of the laborers composed of landless peasants from Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi didn’t know where Shandong was, they still responded: “No, never, I’ve had enough of working with the French.”

Xiong Er responded from the audience: "We're going on strike, let's not let the French do it, we're going on strike!"

"Yes, strike, strike..."

Not far away, many French managers chose to play it safe when they were surprised when these usually docile Chinese workers suddenly became violent.

The same scene was staged in France and the United Kingdom. Among the 150 million workers in Europe, 130 million participated in the strike, and the Chinese and overseas Chinese who were originally in Europe also went on strike, and France was in chaos for a while.

The diplomatic delegation is also facing unprecedented pressure. More than 3 international students gathered outside the Palace of Versailles in Paris, France to protest the injustice of Britain and France loudly. They were emotional and had a physical conflict with the French police who maintained order. A French policeman and Three Chinese students were killed in the clashes.

The unprecedented violence of the Chinese caught British Prime Minister Lloyd George and French Prime Minister Clemenceau by surprise. If it was only Chinese students and people who were tossing about in *** or something, it would be no threat to them, but hundreds of Tens of thousands of cheap Chinese laborers are beyond their tolerance. Whether those capitalists who have lost their interests will continue to support themselves in the next general election is only God knows.

Lu Zhengxiang, the foreign minister who originally served as the head of the delegation with the purpose of leaving his name in history, now feels unprecedented pressure. Just outside the station, many overseas students and Chinese associations have expressed that if the delegation dares to carry out Qian Nengxun's order Sign the treaty of the Paris Peace Conference, then they don't mind eliminating thieves for the country.

Now it was Lu Zhengxiang's turn to be in trouble. Strictly speaking, he was an intellectual with a soft personality.He didn't dare to disobey the government's order, but he also didn't want to go against the Communist Party and be infamous through the ages. In desperation, he and several other representatives left Paris under the pretext of being sick, and left all the power of the delegation to the Nationalist Government. The representative of Gu Weijun.

Now it was the turn of Britain and France to be dumbfounded. They did not expect that the Chinese could play such a game. British Prime Minister Lloyd George immediately ordered the British Minister to China, Zhu Erdian, to impose diplomatic pressure on Sun Wen, the supreme leader of the National Government, and Wang Zhenyu, the actual leader. We must urge the government representative Gu Weijun to sign the Paris Peace Treaty.

The pressure went down level by level, and the last one who carried out this order was Wilmots, the British consul in Hankou.This British gentleman usually has a lot of status in Wuhan. It is not difficult to meet Wang Zhenyu, but this time he missed it.Wang Zhenyu's secretary, Chen Bulei, told him with great regret that Marshal Wang was not in Wuhan. He had gone to Meizhou, Guangdong to attend the opening ceremony of the first Chinese Football League, and it was said that he would stay there for a while. Without a telegraph office, we had to send a telegram to Guangzhou first to find him, so Consul Wilmots had no choice but to leave.The Japanese who have been paying attention to the attitude of the Nationalist Government have also obtained accurate information. At this critical moment of the Sino-Japanese conflict, Wang Zhenyu, the actual controller of the Southern China Nationalist Government, was not in Wuhan, and later confirmed that he went to Meizhou, Guangdong to play football. .This performance of not doing business properly led the Japanese government and the military to come to a conclusion that Southern China did not have any preparations for war.

Wang Zhenyu was really not in Wuhan, but after the outbreak of the May 33th Movement, he immediately made deployments, transferred 50 of the 13 standing divisions to Zhengzhou and Xuzhou respectively, and a total of 5 lions pointed to the north.At the same time, Bai Chongxi, Li Liejun, and Tao Zhiyue were appointed as the commander-in-chief. Among them, Bai Chongxi was the chief of staff, Li Liejun was the commander of the East Route Army, and Tao Zhiyue was the commander of the West Route Army.At the same time, after the first anniversary of the construction of new villages in Guangdong Province, it ordered a second round of new village construction in Henan and Jiangxi, where land problems are more serious.Among them, there are a large number of local and fertile armed forces similar to the Red Gun Club in Henan. Wang Zhenyu also instructed Yang Wangui and Hao Bing to transfer elites from various provinces into Henan. A total of 21 troops were formed. A large-scale sweep was carried out on the ground in Henan to pave the way for the construction of new villages in the area.The new rural construction movement in Henan, relying on more than [-] human heads and [-] billion Chinese yuan in investment, finally realized the original idea.

At the same time, Wang Zhenyu has not forgotten the tragic escape from Belarus in history. He ordered Wu Peifu to hoard winter supplies for millions of people in Xinjiang. It is time to prepare to send troops to Central Asia.For this reason, Liu Xing was urgently transferred to the commander of the Central Asian Front Army, and five divisions were deployed under his command to enter the Xinjiang region.

But things in Russia are far from smooth as Wang Zhenyu thought. The National Security Bureau, which has won many victories in the country, seems to be no better than the Japanese for the Russians. Kolchak is still unwilling to believe that the Chinese can help him despite the unfavorable situation. After all, the country itself has not yet achieved substantive unification, and the ability of a local government is really doubtful. Although the army of this local government defeated the Germans in Europe, in Kolchak's view, this is nothing at all, because Canadians did too.Therefore, Kolchak did not consider establishing a cooperative relationship with China. On the contrary, he showed extreme dislike for the Chinese to take back the Middle East Road at the juncture of the Russian Civil War.As for the [-] tons of gold in his hands, when he was preparing to retreat, he deposited [-] tons of it in the account of the French, and deposited the other [-] tons in the account of the Japanese.

Wang Zhenyu finished listening to Zhou Lan's report while packing up his things and preparing to go to Meizhou. He comforted the nervous Zhou Lan and said, "The work that should be done is still to be done. You have to trust my judgment. This stubborn Kolchak will eventually You will still come to us for help. In addition, some elite agents will be dispatched to support, and I hope that you can play the most critical role at the most critical time."

Then Wang Zhenyu ran to Meizhou, um, left his secretary behind, but took his eldest son Wang Jingye away.

Accompanying Wang Zhenyu was Wang Zhengting, chairman of the Chinese Sports Federation and the Chinese Olympic Committee, and other sports officials. They all went to participate in the first Chinese Football League.

This Chinese Football League is a competition organized by the Chinese Football Association. According to Wang Zhenyu's original idea, it is natural to play home and away games like the Chinese Super League in later generations.But soon the first chairman of the Chinese Football Association Wang Zhengting told Wang Zhenyu with a bitter face that this would not work because the country is too large and the means of transportation are backward. If the home and away system is adopted, the teams will basically be on their way.Only then did Wang Zhenyu suddenly realize, so the first Chinese Football League was changed to a tournament system.After that, around 1920, the third Chinese Football League was upgraded to the "Chinese Champions Cup Football Game" and continued to use the tournament system.In the area under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China, a double round-robin football league is organized with the province as the unit, and the champion of the league will participate in the next year's China Champions Cup football match.In the future, it will be organized for the provinces and member states to play the Federation Cup every four years. These are all things to come.

Since the Youth Army has promoted football throughout the army since the Revolution of [-], and even organized various competitions within the army, with the victory of the Youth Army, football has been continuously promoted nationwide as one of the symbols of the Youth Army. .However, in the early Chinese football world, military football has always been in the leading and dominant position.

The first Chinese Football League will last for one month from June 6st to July 1th.Wang Zhenyu not only watched some of these games, but also played a game on behalf of the youth army football team and the Meixian football team. A year-old kid named Li Huitang performed amazingly. He scored three goals in the game.Wang Zhenyu took a photo with the future football star very kindly, and personally awarded him a silver commemorative medal for "hat trick".

Then, without waiting for any results, Wang Zhenyu quietly went to Zhanjiang. Here, the Minister and Commander of the Navy Chen Shaokuan and others have been waiting for a long time, and there are also a large number of German submarine officers who participated in the World War I naval battle and submarine manufacturing. Technical staff.

In a dark dock, Wang Zhenyu turned around and asked Chen Shaokuan: "This is the Chinese Jiaolong submarine you reported?"

In fact, Chen Shaokuan is not interested in submarines. He hopes that Wang Zhenyu can use the money to introduce or manufacture battleships, but Sa Zhenbing’s lesson comes first, so he can only keep this idea in his heart, and then behave himself. Ji reported to Wang Zhenyu: "Yes, Commissioner, this is the Chinese Jiaolong submarine made by imitating the German U-shaped submarine. The current numbering uses the x standard. The code name of this unit is also replaced by x unit, which means unknown. Oh, these two are the commander of this unit, Major General Chen Shiying, and the staff officer, Brigadier General Zeng Yiding."

Chapter 430 The Fuse ([-])

Obviously, it was very unrealistic to play the blitzkrieg of the Germans in World War II in 1919. Wang Zhenyu had to give up this grand and unrealistic idea.After thinking for a long time, it took a lot of effort to call a group of military experts, and finally came up with a plan for a simple armored vehicle.

150 German trucks with the best engine performance were refitted in the first batch. All of them were reinforced with 20 mm thick steel plates, and even the tires were protected twice.These trucks become armored vehicles, which can accommodate 16 people, and are equipped with a 37mm flat-fire gun, a heavy machine gun, and two light machine guns.It is estimated that once it is used for charging, it will have the characteristics of fast speed and fierce firepower.

But the shortcomings are also obvious. The applicability of the tires to the terrain cannot be compared with the tank tracks, and the protection ability is also poor. It is estimated that the Japanese grenade team will suffer a big loss.Therefore, this kind of assault armored vehicle was finally equipped with only 220 vehicles in the first brigade, which could only exist as a deterrent and auxiliary force.

In the following year, Chinese and German military experts finally designed the Shenjia light assault tank according to Wang Zhenyu's requirements. Although the appearance did not change much, its weight dropped to 8 tons, and the number of passengers naturally increased Reduced to 3 people, this light tank that is more in line with actual combat needs can reach a speed of 9 kilometers per hour.In the end, the 28st Armored Brigade was equipped with a tank regiment consisting of 57 light tanks equipped with [-]mm low-velocity guns.

And all of this was secretly carried out in the 401 military industrial base not far from Xuzhou, where the martial law and secrecy measures almost reached the highest level.The Japanese naturally knew nothing about what happened in this base, and they would definitely be surprised if they could enter this base now.

With 28 light tanks as the vanguard, followed by more than 1000 soldiers armed with mp18 submachine guns, they launched an assault towards the predetermined enemy position.After the 220 armored vehicles made a detour and went straight to the enemy's side, the battle lasted only half an hour, and the entire enemy army of a hypothetical division was wiped out.

Wang Zhenyu was very satisfied with the commander-in-chief of this exercise, the German Lieutenant Colonel Guderian shook hands and expressed his gratitude: "Believe me, Mr. Guderian, you are a very good German soldier."

The rigid Guderian didn't seem to care about the praise of the young Chinese commander in front of him. He replied very coldly: "To be honest, General Wang, our current combat thinking comes from your original suggestion. If your The opponents are only Japanese, I guarantee they will be surprised by this kind of attack, but if it is Britain and France, I think you will suffer a lot, first of all, this kind of armored vehicle unit is only suitable for short assaults on open terrain. It will be difficult to march. At the same time, I have to tell you responsibly that the engineering unit under your command is currently not up to the standard of the German Army. I think it is necessary to form another elite engineering unit to cooperate with the armored unit. Especially bridge building and There are three aspects of road paving and emergency repairs, these are not jokes, a single negligence will make all our efforts in vain."

Wang Zhenyu nodded and did not speak, but turned to look at the officers of the First Armored Brigade standing behind Chief of Staff Wan Yaohuang and Minister of Defense Li Zongren.

The brigade commander Gu Zhutong and the chief of staff Chen Jiji were both from the expeditionary army. Wang Zhenyu asked seriously: "Do you have a clear account of how to command and use this army? As officers, will you use these weapons yourself? "

. . . . . .

After answering Wang Zhenyu's question, Gu Zhutong, as the brigade commander, naturally wanted to introduce the officers under him.What surprised Wang Zhenyu was that the head of the First Tank Assault Regiment was Wang Zhenhua, the eldest son of his uncle Wang Longzhong, who was only 23 years old this year.Don't think it's his own face to be the head of this regiment, Wang Zhenyu is a little unhappy, I formed this army to improve the combat effectiveness, not to place private individuals.

But before he got angry, Gu Zhutong, who is good at observing words and expressions, said quickly: "This commander Wang Zhenhua is currently one of the three best officers in the tank assault tactics middle school. The other two are German military officers Rommel and Mann. Stein."

Only then did Wang Zhenyu turn his anger into joy, and encouraged Wang Zhenhua to do a good job, and then walked away. Only then did Wang Zhenhua realize that his back was already covered in sweat.

Jiang Dingwen was the head of the Second Armored Assault Regiment, Qian Dajun was the head of the Third Armored Assault Regiment, and Liu Zhi was the head of the Engineer Regiment.

Only now did Wang Zhenyu come to his senses, co-authoring this is a collection of Chiang's five tiger generals in history. . .

Also on the same day, in Tokyo, Japan, at the official residence of the 19th Prime Minister of Japan Hara Takashi, Japanese Army Minister Tanaka Yoshiichi and Navy Minister Kato Yusaburo were guests at the home of the first civilian prime minister in Japanese history.

Yuan Jing, who was born as a civil servant, has always been very vigilant against the power of the Japanese military. After replacing Terauchi, who was dismissed because of the rice rush, as the prime minister, the first thing Yuan Jing did was to suppress the power of the military. Withdrawing troops from Siberia and maintaining good relations with the United States.

As the first political party cabinet, Yuan Jing was the first to attack the feudal lord forces, which pushed Japan further politically.While attacking the military forces, Yuan Jing also cleverly won the support of the army and navy by establishing a mutual trust relationship with the two veterans of the army and navy, Shan County Youtomo and Togo Heihachiro, otherwise he would follow his method of attacking the military forces He should have stepped down or been punished by heaven.

In addition, Yuan Jing has a gentle personality, always has a smile on his face, listens attentively to other people's opinions, and is very tolerant.Hara was adept at raising the political funds necessary for elections and party operations.On the occasion of the election, if a party member applies for 1 yen in funds, he will give 1 yen; if he applies for 5 yen, he will assist 2 yen, and he also mediates for the interests and rights of party members.At the end of each year, Yuan Jing always stays at home in Tokyo, because he knows that some of the party members are struggling to get through the new year, so he opens the door at home and waits for them to come for help.Every time Yuan Jing has a heated debate with others or criticizes someone, he will definitely send him to the gate and tell him something like "be careful not to catch a cold" and "be careful that there is a big hole on the way back".Yuan Jing has a high prestige and leadership in the Political Friends Association, largely because of his political ability, skills and insight, but also because of his deep friendship with party members, he is considerate of party members in terms of money, and his personality charm makes party members I am sincerely convinced.Even Yuan Jing's opponents admit that he is a man of incorruptibility and asceticism and a simple life.

It should be said that Japanese politics has entered a relatively stable period at this time, which is exactly what Wang Zhenyu does not want.But it doesn't matter, there is someone who wants to create problems sitting in Yuan Jingfu, and this person is Tanaka Yoshiichi.